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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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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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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
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DIANA ROSEN Looking Left
school in a parallel universe where you need to regularly apply for your right to exist.” Receiving three retweets and twelve likes, the message clearly resonated with
many students. The downsides to Yale’s selective majors begin even before applications are filed. Although there are no formal requirements for either major, many students feel that taking courses in the major is a necessary component of a competitive application. Beyond finding themselves struggling to choose a major once rejected, these students may end up regretting the time they spent fulfilling introductory requirements for the major instead of exploring other subjects. Princeton’s undergraduate program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a program similar to Yale’s Global Affairs, recently chose to drop its application process. When the directors of EP&E and Global Affairs were asked by the News if they planned to do the same, both responded that they did not. The main reason cited by the departments made sense — small numbers of students are required to maintain the seminar requirements of both majors. Still, the University should allocate more funds towards hiring additional faculty for the popular majors instead of limiting the number of students who are able to participate. Perhaps most pressingly, Yale should seriously consider the effects of the two new residential colleges on the majors. All of Yale’s selective programs and classes are bound to become even more competitive with 200 additional students per class. It is clear that an oversupply of students already exists for much of what Yale has to offer, and this has been the case for years. Yale plans on hiring more faculty members to accommodate the influx of students with the new colleges, but it appears that it could benefit from larger numbers of faculty in some areas already. We should conduct reviews of our selective majors, and perhaps other selective programs as well, as we put our plans to expand the Yale College class size into action. DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Her columns run on Mondays. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu .
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“When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.” LYNDON B. JOHNSON 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
SOM building opens on Whitney BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Today, students at the Yale School of Management will find their seats for the first time in the classrooms of Edward P. Evans Hall, SOM’s brand new 242,000 square-foot glass building on Whitney Avenue. After over two years of construction, the new state-ofthe-art building opened Thursday for a celebratory conference on business leadership. Roughly 650 people attended the threeday conference — 150 were students and the rest were faculty, alumni and influential figures from the world of management. Among the panelists and speakers were Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Robert Shiller, Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, New Haven mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78and Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy. After an opening address from Evans Hall architect Norman Foster, the conference offered a series of panels focused on the nexus between business and society, a theme that SOM Dean Edward Snyder said is in line with the school’s central philosophy. Snyder said the conference offered a unique opportunity to achieve multiple aims — to show that SOM is constantly modernizing and globalizing, that the school has a strong community of students, faculty, alumni and supporters, and that it now has a facility that will connect this community. “I think of this as a high point event in the school’s history,”
Snyder said. “High point events give an institution a sense of what it is and what it can be.” Beyond serving as a ribboncutting ceremony, the conference was an occasion to feature the thoughts, leadership and ideas of the SOM community, SOM Associate Dean David Bach said. SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain echoed this sentiment, adding that the new building, though essential to the conference, receded into the background of the conference’s real focus. “The conference is truly about celebrating the intellectual ideas that the school has been at the forefront of, the new building just gave us the space, venue and moment at which to host it,” Jain said. But Jain also said that beyond the conference, the new building will be important in improving the academic environment and interaction between faculty and students. Jain said that the experience both inside and outside of the classroom will improve dramatically. Everyone will now be under the same roof, he said, and they will see each other much more often. Likewise, Bach said that the building’s structure both reflects and enables the fulfillment of the school’s mission. “One of the things that Dean Snyder talks about is that managers need an extended line of sight — well, the building actually has an extended line of sight. You can actually see [in] the building through glass,” Bach said. Frances Symes SOM ’14, one of the SOM students who attended and helped organize the confer-
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A state-of-the-art Edward P. Evans Hall at the Yale School of Management opened Thursday after two years of construction. ence, said that she anticipates having more casual interactions with professors in the new building. The new building will have a cafeteria where professors and students can eat together, whereas the old campus did not, she said. Symes said she was impressed by the exchanges that took place at the conference. Alumni and visitors were surprisingly willing to talk to students and displayed
great passion for SOM’s mission, she said. “Something that comes up as we grow and change with the school is an occasional angst about whether we are meeting that mission.” Symes said. “At the conference you could see the way the early graduates have fulfilled and enacted that mission across many different industries.” Jain said that while other business schools have been stagnant
Harp inaugurated BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Toni Harp ARC ’78 took office on Jan. 1 as New Haven’s 50th mayor — the city’s first female chief executive in its 375-year history. Harp, an 11-term state senator, succeeds John DeStefano Jr., whose two decades in the mayor’s office have left an indelible mark on the city he governed. In an assertive, 33-minute inaugural address, Harp rebutted the notion that New Haven is a city in decline, emphasizing its diverse strengths as a bedrock of progress. “With all due respect for New Haven’s extraordinary history … I am more excited about New Haven and its prospects for the next two years,” Harp told roughly 750 people crowded into the auditorium of Hill Regional Career High School. “Our collective potential is positively inspiring.” Harp was officially sworn in as mayor by retired Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Lubbie Harper Jr. City Clerk Michael Smart and the 29 members of the Board of Alders — six of whom began their first term in office Jan. 1 — also took their oaths of office at the noon ceremony. Jackie James, former Ward 3 alder, resigned from the Board in order to take a job in City Hall as Harp’s deputy community services administrator. Promising renewed prosperity for the city she has represented in Hartford since 1993, Harp said that New Haven has the potential to become a statewide — and even national — model if it invests in burgeoning sectors of the economy, such as biotechnology and healthcare, and ensures that city residents get jobs in those fields. She said her administration will strive to end the drain of existing business out of New Haven while working to encourage new ventures that promise to put city residents to work. While endorsing intra-city hiring, she said New Haven should look outward in harnessing the economic potential of the regional northeast and seek to enter markets that wind their way through New York City and other hubs of economic activity. The linchpin of the city’s economic development strategy, she said, is promoting a “safe, enjoyable, livable city,” a vision she spent the majority of her remarks outlining. Crime prevention, healthcare and nutrition, STEM-focused education improvements and infrastructure developments will govern her agenda as mayor, Harp forecasted. Among a slew of policy priorities, Harp specifically pledged to rebuild the sagging Pardee Seawall along the East Shore, which protects waterfront
properties from the Long Island Sound. Harp also extolled the virtues of community policing — saying she and New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman both put “crime prevention on equal footing with law enforcement” — and encouraged empathy for individuals who make choices that contravene the law. “No first-grade student, when asked what he or she wants to be when grown up, answers embezzler, drug dealer, or murderer,” Harp said. “I’m confident that the vast majority of those who commit crimes do so out of desperation, not as a career destination.” Sworn in as mayor the same day that more than 34,000 Connecticut residents became eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Harp said she would seek to further the goals of preventative care and early treatment in New Haven. She called it an “egregious moral failure” that city residents would be denied care by “one of the world’s foremost medical centers,” referring to YaleNew Haven Hospital. Harp also promised a brighter future for the malnourished; 20 percent of Greater New Haven residents said they did not have enough money to buy food in fall 2012, according to a 2013 community index report by the nonprofit DataHaven. She said the government has a role to play in ensuring no neighborhood becomes a “food desert,” left without adequate nutritional resources. She paid brief homage to DeStefano’s 20-year tenure, promising to build on his accomplishments at the city’s helm. She also gave a nod to her legislative counterpart, congratulating the newly elected alders, a majority of whom backed her campaign, and saying she was “glad to have fallen in step with you for this next term.” The inaugural ceremonies were directed by Karen DuBois-Walton, chief of the New Haven Housing Authority. The event featured remarks by members of New Haven’s federal and state delegation, as well as multi-faith prayers and performances by local musical groups. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy praised Harp as a compassionate and effective leader, saying she was known as the “conscience of the state senate.” Malloy promised cooperation on redevelopment plans such as the Coliseum project and the revitalization of Union Station. City and state leaders were joined by high-level members of the Yale administration in celebrating Harp’s inauguration, including University President Peter Salovey and Vice President of New Haven and State
or declining in applications, SOM has enjoyed a steady growth over recent years. Snyder said that last year only, there was a slightly more than 10 percent increase in applications. But both Jain and Snyder said that while some of this growth is certainly attributable to the new campus transition, it is difficult to isolate the motivations for this increase in applications and to predict future developments.
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Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65. Salovey said he particularly appreciated Harp’s focus on economic development and community policing, citing the issues as areas where the city and University can collaborate. Despite the pomp and optimism present at the inaugural ceremonies, Harp’s first weeks and months in office will likely revolve around the more nitty-gritty matters of filling out her administration and grappling with the city’s budget, which is due by March. Harp told the News she is still interviewing candidates — both local and national aspirants — for the position of chief administrative officer and community services administrator; deputies are currently filling in on an acting basis. Harp spent much of her first hours in office in the city’s underground Emergency Operations Center preparing for last weekend’s snowstorm. She said the storm — which saw about seven inches of snow and subzero temperatures — revealed the city’s preparedness and ability to marshal area police forces, energy services and city departments to withstand the weather and keep vulnerable citizens safe. Harp said she is interested in setting up an office tasked with writing grants for outside resources — namely from nonprofit groups and the federal government. “We’ve struggled in providing the kind of services at the level that we want to provide them,” Harp said. A week and a half into the job, she said she was surprised the city lacks a grant-writing mechanism to boost its own financial position. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu.
Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .
Faculty senate approved BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER
Toni Harp ARC ’78, New Haven’s 50th and first female mayor, was sworn in on Jan. 1.
In the meantime, current students will enjoy their own small inauguration ritual on Thursday — when they will bring a symbolic lock from the old campus to the new one and ring a ceremonial bell at Evans Hall. Evans Hall is at the northern end of Yale’s campus, at 165 Whitney Ave.
After months of discussion, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to overhaul the way it provides input on University decision-making. On Dec. 9, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted 49–7, with four abstentions, in favor of creating a faculty senate, which will serve as an elected representative body for tenured and tenure-track professors. The vote was brought forward by the Faculty Input Committee — an ad-hoc committee convened last spring to evaluate faculty governance at the University. Going forward, University President Peter Salovey will appoint a committee to discuss the senate’s structure and rules and make recommendations to the FAS no later than December 2014. Professors interviewed said the approval of the senate marks a significant moment in the relationship between the administration and faculty members. Currently, the University holds monthly Yale College faculty meetings with pre-set agendas, meetings of the FAS Joint Board of Permanent Officers and occasional meetings of the whole Faculty of Arts and Sciences. However, the Faculty Input Committee found that some professors feel these existing structures do not efficiently channel faculty input. “[The creation of a senate] is an important step to reform a structure which has been under a lot of pressure in recent years and which has made a considerable number of Yale faculty unhappy and alienated in their own institution,” said philosophy and political science professor Seyla Benhabib. The issue of faculty governance reached a tipping point in 2012 when Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore in the creation of the liberal arts college, Yale-NUS, sparked controversy among some professors over the alleged lack of faculty input in University decision-making. After a year of holding experimental “faculty forums” twice per semester, some of which attracted only a handful of professors, Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak formed the Committee on FAS Input last spring with the goal of “better understanding the mechanisms in place for faculty input at other institutions and considering the possible approaches that could be effective here.” The committee released its 18-page report in November. “Our committee was a diverse one, but we were all persuaded that a senate can help here at Yale, as it has elsewhere, in providing a forum for regular, two way communication between FAS faculty and the administration,” said political science professor Steven Wilkinson, who
chaired the Faculty Input Committee. Though the report recommended the creation of a faculty senate, it noted that other faculty bodies and committees may need to be reduced to make room for the new structure. Professors interviewed all said the idea of a senate stemmed from a need for greater communication between faculty members and the administration. The faculty senate, which will be composed of elected representatives, was approved because it provided an alternative to the current, primarily “top-down” governance structure, Benhabib said. The majority of faculty who serve in administrative roles are appointed by the Central Administration, she added. “A lot of us felt that crises of the last few years such as the vote over YaleNUS, the disagreements around ‘shared services,’ implementation of online courses, and other issues became worse because there were no faculty representatives independently elected by and responsive primarily to their colleagues’ points of view,” Benhabib said. Still, whether the elected body and the administration develop a healthy relationship remains to be seen, Jonathan Holloway said. Morse College Master Amy Hungerford said the importance of the faculty senate will be linked to the amount of respect professors have for the elected members. Salovey said he believes the new committee will provide a helpful plan to outline how the faculty senate will be structured. “Yale is a place where essential administration — deans, provost, president — is composed of faculty members, and we therefore should be adept at communicating with each other,” Salovey said. Salovey and Wilkinson stressed that the Salovey-appointed committee will also consider the possibility of non-ladder faculty representation on the faculty senate. Stanford and Berkeley have fullscale faculty senates, while Harvard and Princeton have smaller elected bodies. Of the nine research institutions studied by the Faculty Input Committee, only MIT “had a process as weak as the monthly Yale College faculty meetings,” Benhabib said. The review process found Yale to be an outlier in this respect, she added. Salovey said he will announce the new committee overseeing the development of the faculty senate early this semester. In an email to faculty, he welcomed nominations for the committee, including self-nominations. Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .
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“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.” GEORGE HERBERT ENGLISH POET
Early admission Prof alleges discrimination numbers rise SOM LAWSUIT FROM PAGE 1
ADMISSION FROM PAGE 1 the highest increases in applications. Cornell led the Ivies with an impressive 13.6 percent hike in applications, from 4,204 for the Class of 2017 to 4,775 this year. UPenn’s early decision numbers increased by 6.7 percent, from 4,817 applications last year to 5,133 for the prospective Class of 2018, while Brown’s application numbers grew by about 2 percent and Columbia’s by about 5 percent. David Petersam, president of Virginia-based higher education consulting group AdmissionsConsultants, said that Yale’s growth was particularly impressive this year when compared to Princeton and Harvard, the only other Ivy League schools that have non-binding early action programs. Harvard was the only Ivy League institution that saw a drop in the number of applications it received, from 4,845 last year to 4,692 this year, while Princeton reported negligible growth, from 3,810 applications last year to 3,831 this year. “The slight decrease in the number of applications Harvard received last year suggests that we might finally be reaching the ceiling of applications that these top schools receive,” Petersam said, adding that Yale’s impressive growth in comparison to its peers suggests that the University is doing a better job of reaching out to students who do not traditionally apply to selective East Coast colleges in the early action round. But he said that there are better ways for prospective students and parents to assess a university’s excellence than application numbers, citing a college’s faculty-to-student ratio or the university’s endowment per student as two better metrics. Gregory Hosono, a high school senior from Palo Alto., Calif., said that he applied to Yale early to show the University that Yale was his first
choice. Hosono said that although the rise in applications Yale receives each year may seem daunting to some applicants, applicants cannot control anything beyond how they present themselves to schools. Michael Goran, the director of California-based private education consulting firm IvySelect, said that he has seen a consistent increase in the number of his clients who apply early action to selective universities over the last ten years. “Students think, whether rightly or wrongly, that applying early will make them a stronger candidate,” he said, adding that universities such as Yale have become better at communicating their affordability to students who may have previously felt intimidated by the prospect of applying to private universities. All five high school students interviewed who were accepted by Yale early action expressed disbelief and ecstasy upon hearing of their decision. “When I heard the singing bulldog, I jumped out of my chair and ran around the house screaming for 15 minutes,” said Alyssa Chen, a high school senior from Michigan. Chen added that she will likely attend Yale but may choose another school if Yale adopts a grade deflation policy in the coming months, or if she receives a better financial aid package elsewhere. Mikaela Rabb, a high school senior from Tennessee who studies at Phillips Academy Andover, said that her family did not believe that she was accepted to Yale until “they forced [her] to screenshot the letter.” Accepted applicants have until May 1 to make a final decision and can apply to other colleges in regular admissions rounds. Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .
to examine the process through which she was not reappointed. “I did this as a last resort,” Bagley told the News. Snyder, Metrick and Rae all declined to comment on the lawsuit. University spokespeople, however, deny that gender or age discrimination played a role in the decision not to reappoint Bagley and appear poised to mount a full legal defense against the professor. “Yale believes the lawsuit to be without merit and will vigorously defend itself and the individuals named,” University Spokesman Tom Conroy told the News. “The decision by the School of Management not to renew Professor Bagley’s appointment as Professor in the Practice was made following comprehensive review.”
HOSTILITY IN THE CLASSROOM
In the complaint, Bagley writes that she was victim of repeated gender hostility at SOM, which one report — commissioned by the University to examine Bagley’s case — described as a “chilly environment for women.” The complaint alleges that in 2012, Rae began making repeated derogatory comments about Bagley and treating her “with open hostility and disrespect both inside and outside the classroom.” Rae’s comments about Bagley came in addition to other actions betraying a gender animus described in the complaint. After Rae told the “State and Society” class that he had good hearing except when it came to the “shrill, high-pitched voice of his wife,” one student, in a written evaluation, complained, “[we] are not in the 1950s teaching to an exclusively male audience anymore.”
Bagley asserts that Rae’s actions indicate a broader cultural problem at the School of Management, where less than 10 percent of tenured faculty is women and no senior women sit on any faculty committees. The last woman to receive tenure at SOM did so in 2002. “Professor Bagley became the object of gender stereotyping,” the complaint reads. “She didn’t fit the Yale vision of the young male SOM professor or the more passive subordinate female professor who would bend to their will.” At least some of the discrimination, according to the complaint, stemmed from her central role as an advocate for women at the University. As a member of the University-Wide Committee for Sexual Misconduct (UWC), she was one of the primary framers of a new University policy on the issue. In the spring of 2012, Bagley voiced concerns to UWC Chair Michael Della Rocca that her efforts were a cause of the gender animus she faced at SOM. Furthermore, she expressed concern that her advocacy might negatively impact her reappointment to her professorship, but Della Rocca took no action. Della Rocca declined to comment for this article.
CONFLICTING REPORTS
The complaint asserts that the instances of discrimination came to a head in May 2012, when Bagley’s reappointment for her professorship came up for review before SOM’s Board of Permanent Officers (BPO). The BPO was responsible for reviewing the recommendation of a committee, formed in October 2011 and chaired by professor Paul Bracken, charged with examining Bagley’s work since her first appointment in 2007. The Bracken
Committee report unanimously recommended that Bagley be reappointed. Furthermore, according to Bagley, she had previously been assured by Metrick that her contract would be renewed for at least five years. The BPO’s eventual decision, though, did not line up with the Bracken Committee’s recommendations — a result that Bagley’s suit ascribes to two reasons. First, Bagley claims, some faculty on the BPO regarded her as too aggressive because of her efforts in early 2012 to apply for the Nierenberg Chair of Corporate Governance. The suit claims that after Snyder rejected her for the chair, he said he would “bring in someone who would ‘dominate’ her if she continued to pursue the chair.” Second, Bagley claims, Rae falsely suggested to members of the BPO that there were problems with Bagley’s teaching in the “State and Society” course. Snyder’s notification that the BPO had voted against reappointment came as a complete surprise to Bagley, whom the report claims “had never been advised of any deficiencies in her teaching, scholarship or commitment before the vote.” After the decision, Bagley was replaced in the “State and Society” course by professor Ian Shapiro and senior lecturer David Bach. Rae also continued teaching the course.
MONTHS OF REVIEW
Over the next 18 months, the case was reviewed by several faculty committees after Bagley challenged the BPO’s initial decision. The third committee to review the case, the Harte Committee, appointed by then-Provost Peter Salovey in mid-2012, found that Bagley had been subjected
to “inappropriate comments and behaviors based on gender.” Furthermore, the committee found that SOM had violated promises made in 2008 — when Bagley was told that her reappointment would be based solely on her performance — by then-SOM Dean Joel Podolny. The Harte Committee further found that had the same standards used to evaluate Bagley in 2008 been used in 2012, she likely would have been reappointed. Those findings led Salovey, in an April 2013 letter, to tell Bagley that the standards used to review her reappointment were not sufficiently clear, and that further review of her teaching in the “State and Society” course would be required. That note led to another committee, chaired by Professor Edieal Pinker, purposed with examining Bagley’s teaching. Although the findings of that report remain confidential, Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler told Bagley that the report found her teaching and other efforts at the University to be “exemplary.” Nevertheless, after examining the relevant information, on Oct. 21, 2013, the BPO voted again not to reappoint Bagley. Bagley said that although she is prepared to litigate her case in court, she is also willing to considering settling with the University and the other defendants. Because of the extensive review process, Bagley will remain at Yale through the end of 2014. Despite her ongoing dispute with the University, she will be teaching a course titled “Managing Legal and Regulatory Complexity” this term. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER AND POET
Elm St. bar opens anew BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER Yale students returning to campus can add another bar to their late night repertoire. Two former Rudy’s patrons have opened up a new bar called Three Sheets at 372 Elm St., the former home of Rudy’s Restaurant and Bar. In 2010, the Chan Family, which owns the property at 372 Elm St., forced Rudy’s to relocate after 76 years in business for unknown reasons that were not financial, according to an article in the New Haven Independent in 2010. This past fall, the property, which had a three-year stint as the Elm Bar, was put on the market again, sparking the interest of two local fishermen: Rick Seiden and Ed Thurschmann. The longtime friends were searching for another fishing boat when they found the listing on a brokerage site. The two bought the business and signed a 10-year lease to rent the space, completing the move into the property just before Christmas. The bar’s name originates from the sailor’s phrase “three sheets to the wind,” which means “drunk.” “We want customers to feel they know exactly where they are when they walk in that front door,” Seiden said. “We want this to be a place where you can feel comfortable sitting at the bar and getting rowdy with people or sitting in the back, writing a book.” Seiden and Thurschmann, who used to frequent the old Rudy’s, said New Haven residents were worried about potential changes to the place during the management shift. The duo does not want to change the “working-class, dive-bar feel,” adding they would like to marry the atmosphere of the original Rudy’s with barstyle food. Seiden added that he plans to expand the restaurant’s menu to include clams, oysters, and other shellfish selections his fishing company catches. The new owners hope to make the place more available to the New Haven arts community, including local musicians. “No one group can really call it their own,” Seiden said. “I think it’s the most
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Three Sheets, at 372 Elm St., hopes to be a “high-end dive bar” that will attract Yalies. eclectic group of people you can find in New Haven.” In opening the new bar, Seiden said he sees an opportunity to bring back a neighborhood gathering spot. He said Three Sheets is evolving every day, and hopes that when Yale alumni return to New Haven, they recognize the location as as a place they used to spend Friday and Saturday nights decades ago. Andrew Cole, Three Sheets’ chef who met Seiden on Craigslist and was also a fisherman, said he hopes to make the restaurant into a high-end dive bar with quality food. Previously, Cole owned a food truck in the New Haven and Branford area and has worked in New Orleans and Aspen. “It’s cool, because we have the freedom to do a lot here,” he said. “I like to mix it up — there’s New Orleans food but then also the Thai Asian skewers and vegan chili.” Cole believes Yalies and other college
students in the area could be attracted to the place because of these “funky” menu options, including braised cow’s head. He added that all food served is of local origin, and that the business plans to make most of the ingredients in-house, including smoked tomato ketchup. Though Cole believes the restaurant will be appealing to Yalies, none of the six Yalies interviewed had been to the Elm Bar. Natalina Lopez ’16, who lived across the street from 372 Elm St. this past summer, said that the old Elm Bar did not seem like was not a place where a lot of Yale students would go. “It seemed like the bar’s crowd was mostly adults from New Haven residents and maybe a few graduate students,” she said. Rudy’s was founded in 1934. Contact J.R REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .
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The Yale College Council finalized reports on the preregistration system, the weight of final exams and departmental advising over the break. BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER While many Yale students spent winter break resting and preparing for the new semester, members of the Yale College Council worked to finalize several recommendations to the administration on academic changes. The three reports — which were released in a Jan. 13 email to the undergraduate student body — recommended that Yale College administrators implement a standardized course preregistration system, a cap on how much final exams can be worth relative to overall class grades and a “department ambassadors” program for upperclassmen to advise freshmen on prospective majors. These proposals were formulated from the findings of a fall 2013 survey that collected 1,600 responses, though not all participants answered every question. Though the survey contained questions pertaining to eight separate YCC initiatives on academic affairs, YCC Academics Chair David Lawrence ’15 said that the other five initiatives — including a report on secondary concentrations — have not yet been publicized, because they are either still being debated within the YCC or incomplete. “We have a lot of respect for the administrators who have set things as they are, so we want to we understand why things are the way they are before we pose the small changes that we have,” Lawrence said. “We want to make sure they’re things that actually have a purpose.” YCC member Kevin Kory ’15, who managed the report on preregistration, said students have expressed dissatisfaction at having to deal with too many class preregistration deadlines, some of which are very early in the year or underpublicized. The report found that 48 percent of students surveyed have missed a preregistration deadline in the past, and 36 percent of these students said the experience negatively affected their academic careers. In other words, Lawrence said, nearly one-fifth of all Yale undergraduates felt that their Yale experiences had been adversely impacted by a missing a preregistration deadline. According to Kory, potential options for reforming the preregistration process include creating a centralized website — which is already in the works, though it currently only links to other departments’ pages and does not provide details beyond that — or standardizing preregistration deadlines. “The vast majority of students … believe that we can make [the preregistration process] more efficient for everybody and more equitable,” Kory said. The second YCC report, helmed by YCC member Michael Leopold ’16, proposed to create a program in which select upperclassmen in various majors
are made available to freshmen to answer questions on major requirements, prerequisites and differences between majors. Leopold said he came up with the project after noticing during his freshman year that many students expressed frustration with their randomly assigned faculty advisers. He was approached to establish a program in which students are present at the academic fair to answer questions, he said, but decided to take the project one step further. The YCC’s academic survey showed support for Leopold’s idea, with 83 percent of respondents stating that they would find such a program useful. The third recommendation, which began under the YCC in the 2012-’13 academic year according to YCC member Mason Ji ’16, proposed to create a provision in the Yale Faculty Handbook stipulating that no final exam can be worth more than 50 percent of a student’s overall grade in the course, unless it will improve the student’s grade. The report found that many students have been subject to such grading policies — 55 percent of seniors who responded to the survey said they have had a final exam that was worth more than 50 percent of their grade before — and also that 79 percent of respondents believe courses with heavily weighed finals are more stressful than others. “[A course with a heavily weighted final exam] adds a lot of stress, so in that sense, it’s a health concern,” Lawrence said. “One really bad day shouldn’t cost as much as it does in some of these courses.” Lawrence, Kory, Leopold and Ji all said they do not expect any immediate changes to be made for the spring 2014 semester, but are optimistic that progress can be made before fall 2014. Lawrence said the department ambassadors program could be immediately actionable, provided that it gains support from directors of undergraduate studies across multiple majors. Kory said the short-term goal for his preregistration reform project is to update the website so that all deadlines and information can be posted in one centralized location before the fall semester. Although these projects took inspiration from peer universities that have implemented similar policy changes or programs, Ji and Lawrence said Yale could be the first university in the Ivy League to implement a percentage cap on the worth of final exams. “It would be good for Yale to be a leader on academic reform,” Lawrence said. The three reports total 23 pages, including data from the survey results and the YCC’s written recommendations. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them.” LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD AMERICAN AUTHOR
Uncertainty around See’s death continues DEATH FROM PAGE 1 write-up that See’s family provided to the News. See’s blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation and pulse were all reported as normal. See was treated at the hospital for a cut above his left eye sustained during his arrest on Nov. 23, a Saturday. Flanagan, who lives in Bakersfield, Calif., had called the police to her brother’s home to separate him from his husband, Sunder Ganglani, a former student at the Yale School of Drama. The two men had mutual protective orders against each other, the result of a falling out in September 2013 after their marriage in May. Ganglani said he continued to live with See at 324 St. John St. through the autumn of 2013. Flanagan said otherwise, calling the couple’s interactions “intermittent” and saying her brother had called the police on Ganglani when he returned to the house on Friday, Nov. 22. After leaving voluntarily, Ganglani came back to See’s house on Saturday, Flanagan said, at which point she called the police. When police arrived at See’s home, they verified the protective orders and moved to arrest both men for violating the directives designed to keep them apart. See resisted arrest and threatened police on the scene — yelling “I will kill you … I will destroy you” — according to statements from the New Haven Police Department. See “fell,” according to the NHPD, and sustained a cut above his left eye. Ganglani said he did not hear his husband threaten the police. He said See yelled “police brutality” as four officers threw him, handcuffed, against his bedroom wall, bloodying his face. Following treatment at YaleNew Haven Hospital for his cut, See was detained in NHPD lockup at 1 Union Ave., a detention facility administered by state judicial marshals. He was found unresponsive in his cell shortly
after 6 a.m. the next morning, Sunday Nov. 24. Spokespeople from the NHPD and the state judicial branch declined comment Friday. Both the police department and the state are conducting internal investigations into the circumstances of See’s death — including a review of video recordings from the detention facility. A spokesperson for the state Attorney General’s office declined to comment on a potential wrongful death claim. See’s cause of death is listed as “acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication with recent myocardial infarct,” according to the toxicology report concluded on Jan. 6. The designation of acute intoxication suggests that drugs were traceable in the system of the deceased person at the time of death, according to Chief State Medical Examiner James Gill, who did not refer specifically to See’s case but offered general comment on how methamphetamines can constrict blood flow and arrest the beating of the heart. Recent “myocardial infarct,” or heart attack, “means there’s evidence of damage to the heart that happened in the order of days before the death,” Gill added. Drug abuse can stretch back for months prior to the death, he said, contributing to long-term tissue damage that may suddenly cause “an irregular rhythm and death” — often set off by stress or acute drug intake. The toxicology report cannot determine the precise quantity of drugs consumed, Gill said, nor can it detect the manner of consumption. Gill said meth can be injected, smoked, swallowed or snorted. The results of an independent autopsy See’s family undertook are forthcoming, Flanagan said. If See were under the influence of drugs when he received medical treatment 10 hours before his death, the effects of those substances did not reveal them-
selves in routine tests undergone at the hospital — in examinations of his cardiovascular, pulmonary and neurological functions all detailed on documents from See’s medical exam at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The hospital write-up states that See had a normal heart rate and regular breathing rhythms — and that his eyes, mouth, nose, neck and abdomen showed no signs of distress — concluding: “His behavior is normal.” No drug test was administered, according to the documents. “I talked to him up until the police came. I talked to him in the ambulance. He was calm,” Flanagan said. “I know my brother. He can be dramatic. But he wasn’t at all dramatic that day. He was calming me down when he was in the ambulance.” Once he was transported to the detention facility, he spoke on the phone with his mother until almost 10 p.m., Flanagan said, the record of which the family has maintained on a cell phone. After that phone conversation, See’s family heard nothing of him until 6 a.m., when officials from the police department called Flanagan to tell her See had been found lifeless in his cell. “They said they didn’t know the last time he was alive,” Flanagan said, refuting comment from the state judicial branch that marshals check up on inmates every 15 minutes. “If he did overdose, it’s on the marshals.” A professor at the Yale School of Medicine declined to comment due to a potential conflict of interest stemming from See’s treatment at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Werner U. Spitz, former chief medical examiner in Detroit, said there seemed to be a “bizarre” mismatch between the toxicology report and the events preceding See’s death in custody. Spitz said he has conducted more than 150 autopsies for deaths in police custody. “Methamphetamine is a strong stimulant, which increases the blood pressure, increases the
blood flow, increases breathing. It increases the pulse. It increases the work that the heart has to perform,” Spitz said. If See had been on drugs at the time of his arrest, Spitz added, the stimulants would have dissipated by 6 a.m. the next morning, as meth has a half-life of between six and 15 hours. “If he died of acute intoxication, he would have died much closer to the time of the arrest,” Spitz said. “He died of something else: that something else might have been aggravated by an existing heart disease or by leftover meth, but I wouldn’t have written a death certificate like that. I would have first inquired about what really went on in jail.” Lewis S. Nelson, a toxicologist at the New York University School of Medicine, said there are other potential explanations: that See had the drugs in his pocket and took them in jail or that the meth was “wrapped in his intestines and then it leaked after he was put in jail.” The drugs could also have persisted in See’s blood stream even after the effects of the stimulant wore off, Nelson said, contributing to heart damage. “Most wouldn’t call that acute intoxication,” Nelson said, but he said it was hard to know more without seeing what See looked like at the time of death. Ganglani — who was kept in a separate cell 15 feet from See — said his husband went unfed in jail. He said that See was a vegetarian, and only meat was offered to him. His husband asked “kindly and incessantly” for juice and was “ignored repeatedly,” Ganglani said. He added that marshals only interact with inmates every four to six hours when they distribute food. State judicial branch spokesperson Rhonda Stearley-Hebert told the News in an email after See’s death that marshals check on inmates “at least every 15 minutes.” Those rounds are cursory and do not involve officials actually verify-
ing that inmates are alive, Ganglani alleged. Flanagan did not deny that her brother used drugs. See had tested positive for drugs during a stay at the hospital the weekend before his death, she said. “My brother wasn’t a saint, but he was by no means an addict or a druggie,” she said. As for online evidence suggesting that See worked as a male escort, Flanagan said messages advertising her brother’s sexual services could not have been written by him. “I saw the wording, and that’s not him. It’s not the way he speaks,” Flanagan said of a nowdisabled escort profile and Twitter and Facebook pages under the name “Ryan Cochran” that listed See’s home address and phone number, displayed lewd images and stated: “I’m a professional, well-educated, sexually limitless escort working out of New Haven.” Flanagan said she thinks others created the alias without her brother’s knowledge. Still, Flanagan said she had been worried about her brother — and had bought him a oneway ticket home to California on Nov. 25, the Monday following his death. She wanted to check in with him after a turbulent 10 months in New Haven. See learned that he had contracted HIV in January, Flanagan said, and went on medical leave from Yale, unable to “focus because all he could think about was that he was dying.” He said he was bipolar and began having hallucinations, she added. English Professor Katie Trumpener said she learned in April that See had entered a mental hospital. When Trumpener saw See in September, he told her his stay in the psych ward had been “excruciating” but that he was doing better — that hallucinations he had been having as a byproduct of “a small stroke” had stopped. He invited her over for tea to meet his husband, she said. But See was worried about his own mental state, concerned that
he was “going to injure Sunder in his sleep, like having a post-traumatic stress dream,” Trumpener said. A correspondence with See in mid-October, by which time See was on unpaid leave from Yale, left Trumpener wondering about her colleague’s ability to “tell what was real and what wasn’t.” “Oh God, I miss Sam,” concluded Trumpener, expressing what more than a dozen colleagues and friends have reiterated: that See was a gifted scholar and compassionate teacher who displayed a depth of understanding in his relationships with others. “There was a quality of contact with Sam that was striking and beautiful,” said Dominika Laster, the director of undergraduate studies for the Theater Studies department. See’s very vulnerabilities made him radically accepting of those around him, Trumpener said. Flanagan said she has come to accept her brother’s death; she flew to Hartford to have him cremated following the autopsy at the end of December. But the pieces still do not add up in her mind. She, along with See’s two brothers and parents, are looking for more answers. “Things are too suspicious for me to just let that be that,” Flanagan said. “We have to find out if we have grounds for a lawsuit. I imagine we do.” Yale Law School professor David Rosen LAW ’69 is representing See’s family. He declined comment on the nature of a potential lawsuit, saying only that he is helping See’s family “find out whatever we can about Sam’s death.” A remembrance for See is scheduled for Jan. 25 in Battell Chapel. Marek Ramilo contributed reporting Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
TIMELINE SEE’S INVESTIGATION 5:15 p.m.
6:00 a.m.
New Haven Police officers respond to a call to service at See’s home, to which his husband had returned in violation of mutual protective orders.
See found unresponsive by state marshals administering the jail.
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See pronounced dead by emergency services personnel.
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See was transported to a detention facility at 1 Union Ave., following treatment at Yale-New Haven Hospital for a cut above his left eye.
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Trauma from the cut above See’s eye ruled out as the cause of death.
See’s cause of death declared a heart attack, induced by meth intoxication, following a toxicology report.
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Christie aide used personal email BY JACK GILLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Traffic crosses the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, N.J. on Jan. 11.
WASHINGTON — Personal emails at the center of the brewing scandal for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have remained secret, had the public and press relied solely on the state’s open records law. Emails disclosed this past week show a top Christie aide asking the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to shut down three lanes on the busy George Washington Bridge, resulting in major backups for days last September. Those emails were leaked to reporters last week, even though one newspaper requested them nearly a month ago, only to be told they didn’t exist. The use of private emails adds Christie, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, to a growing list of administrations that use private email accounts and other digital services to conduct official business. In turn, state and federal officials, regardless of political party, have sidestepped public records laws meant to keep government activities transparent. The Record of Bergen, N.J., said it filed an open-records request last month asking for emails related to the Port Authority’s decision to close the bridge lanes. The request specifically sought emails between David Wildstein, a Christie-appointed Port Authority official, and employees in the governor’s office. The newspaper received a response from Christie’s office 10 days later, stating that the office “reviewed its records” but did not find any responsive emails. Weeks later, however, emails similar to what The Record asked for were made public after being obtained under subpoena by state Assembly Democrats. It’s unclear why the governor’s office didn’t turn over apparently responsive emails from the Yahoo Mail account of Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget
Anne Kelly. She used the service to send messages to Wildstein, who ordered the bridge lanes closed. Representatives in Christie’s office did not immediately return messages seeking comment Friday. Public records laws, which can vary widely from state to state, govern how officials’ documents and correspondence should be stored and released. But those laws largely have been slow to catch up to the digital age. The result creates a gray area for how state and federal employees can use electronic services, such as personal email accounts and phone text messages, to conduct their business. It also creates murkiness for how those records should be disclosed to an inquisitive public. For instance, The Associated Press found last year that some of President Barack Obama’s political appointees, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, used secret, unpublished email accounts at work. Officials said the emails are still searchable under the federal Freedom of Information Act, although the AP was unable to confirm that practice. Christie’s Democratic predecessor, Jon Corzine, had fought to keep secret emails he exchanged with his ex-girlfriend, a former union leader. The state’s highest court ruled in 2009 he could keep those messages private. Across the Hudson River, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to a month-old AP request under the state’s Freedom of Information Law by saying the governor has never written an email - state or personal - for public business. Instead, he uses an untraceable Blackberry message system. Cuomo, a Democrat, later called it a way to prevent hacking. His office didn’t immediately reply when asked Friday if he still uses that approach. Across the nation, judges have been left to interpret how nascent
technology fits into public records laws, often written before the dawn of the Internet. In October 2012, the Alaska Supreme Court said state employees can use private emails, but that they must be preserved under records laws. The decision stemmed from the practice of former Gov. Sarah Palin’s use of private emails in government. When Palin was the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008, journalists fought for and received thousands of personal emails she initially claimed were exempt from disclosure. During the 2012 presidential campaign, GOP nominee Mitt Romney confirmed news reports that when he stepped down as Massachusetts governor in 2007, he authorized top aides to buy and remove computer hard drives containing key data about his administration. The AP submitted a records request for his emails, but learned Romney and top aides had used private email accounts to conduct state business during his stint as governor. Massachusetts officials said any Romney administration private emails used for state business belonged in Massachusetts archives. But Romney campaign officials refused to make the material public, citing a state court ruling that said Massachusetts governors retained full access over administration records. The highest court in Arizona, a state with comparably expansive public records laws, said only private emails that have a “substantial nexus” with government activity can be released to the public. That stemmed from the Arizona Republic newspaper’s 2005 request for emails from a county official who later went to prison for felony theft and fraud. New Jersey law says officials can be disciplined and fined up to $5,000 for violating the openrecords act, and that agencies have to reimburse a requestor’s attorney fees if the state loses an open-records lawsuit.
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fter exams concluded in December, Yalies departed New Haven for hometowns and vacations across the globe. EMMA HAMMARLUND, JACOB GEIGER, HENRY EHRENBERG, WILL
FREEDBERG and BLAIR SEIDEMAN report.
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MEG GILL ’07 FORBES 30 UNDER 30 Gill, who competed as a Yale varsity swimmer until her graduation in 2007, was named to Forbes’s 30 under 30 list in the Food & Wine category. The Chester, Va. native co-founded Golden Road Brewing, a brewery based in Los Angeles, Calif.
“I think it is cool that a company is sponsoring the Ivy League such as JP Crickets, but I am not a loafer wearer.” MICHAEL QUINN ’16 YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, JANUARY 13 , 2013 · yaledailynews.com
Dominance on ice
Elis top Harvard
MEN’S HOCKEY
BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team continued to show its competitiveness in the ECAC over break, winning two and losing two in the team’s first games of 2014.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The men’s ice hockey team defeated Harvard on Saturday in the inaugural Rivalry on Ice game. BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER The first ever Yale-Harvard ice hockey game was played in New York City in 1900, with the Bulldogs pulling out the 5–4 victory. The archrivals returned to New York City 238 matchups later, and Yale once again emerged victorious.
A 3:06 stretch during the second period proved to be the nail in the coffin for Harvard (5–8–3, 2–6–3 ECAC), as the Bulldogs (8–3–4, 3–2–3) scored three times in that span on their way to a 5–1 victory in front of 15,524 at Madison Square Garden. “We had a lull in the second period and [Yale] made us pay
for it,” Harvard forward Jimmy Vesey said. “That’s what good teams do.” The bright lights of the Garden seemed not to bother the Bulldogs, who punched home the first score of the game just 4:23 into the action. Forward Mike Doherty ’17 helped force a Harvard turnover in its defensive zone and scored
off an assist from forward Stu Wilson ’16. But Harvard answered right back on a power play caused by a Kenny Agostino ’14 tripping penalty. Crimson center Luke Esposito, nephew of Rivalry On Ice ambassador and Hockey Hall of Famer Mark SEE RIVALRY ON ICE PAGE B3
The vacation culminated in a key 2–0 victory at No. 4/5 Harvard (12–2–2, 8–2–1) on Saturday, marking the first time since 2005 that the Bulldogs have beaten the Crimson, and the first time since 1981 that they have done so on their rival’s home ice. “It was the best feeling, knowing how much it means to everyone on the team, how much it meant to our coaches,” defenseman Kate Martini ’16 said. “The fact that they’re top five in the country made it that much greater of a feeling.” Yale is 4–3 in its last seven games after beginning the season with five straight losses. Players on the team said that the improvement shows the Bull-
dogs playing to their true potential. “When we play well, we’re capable of beating any team in this league, but our performance has been inconsistent thus far,” defender and captain Tara Tomimoto ’14 said. Yale tallied 12 goals over the four games, despite playing without leading scorer Phoebe Staenz ’17 for the first two. Staenz was in Germany playing for Team Switzerland in the Nations Cup during the Elis’ 6–4 win over Colgate and 3–0 loss to No. 3 Cornell. Forward Jackie Raines ’15 returned to play for the first time since the 2011–2012 season, when she led the Bulldogs in scoring as a sophomore. An injury kept her out of hockey for all of last season and the first half of this one, but she returned to the ice just as dangerous as she left it with two goals and two assists through the four games. “Jackie has always been a great player, and she came back in shape and ready to go,” TomiSEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2
Bulldogs batter Baruch BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER With another strenuous Yale semester about to commence, the men’s basketball team managed to keep stress levels at a minimum by coasting to an 88–49 victory over Baruch College on Saturday.
MEN’S BASKETBALL The much-needed Saturday afternoon victory for Yale at Payne Whitney Gymnasium not
only snapped a four-game losing skid, it also capped off the difficult non-conference portion of the Bulldogs’ schedule. Baruch (7–7, 4–2 City University of New York Athletic Conference), a Division III opponent, kept close to the Bulldogs early on thanks to a combination of hot shooting and some careless play by Yale (6–8, 0–0 Ivy). However, a 14–13 Bearcat advantage was soon erased by the Elis. A three-pointer by guard Isaiah Salafia ’14 put Yale ahead and also sparked a 42–10 run for the
Bulldogs. At the half, Yale led 55–24 and the Elis’ sixth victory was practically in the books. Keying the explosive half for Yale was some scorching perimeter offense, as the Bulldogs connected on seven of eight three-point attempts to widen their lead. The scoring was balanced across the roster, with 10 Elis scoring at least three points in the first 20 minutes of play. The second half played out much the same way as the first SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B2
Yale undefeated over break
WA LIU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
No. 22 Justin Sears ’16 scored a career-high 31 points against Providence Dec. 17.
Basketball set for Ivy play
BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 10 men’s hockey team continued its success out of conference over winter break, going undefeated in three games. The Bulldogs beat the Russian Red Stars 6–3 and Holy Cross 4–1 on Dec. 27 and 29, respectively, before tying the University of Vermont 3–3 on January 4. Yale (8–3–4, 3–2–3 ECAC) has lost only one game outside the ECAC this season, a 4–1 defeat to Dartmouth in a nonconference game at the Liberty Invitational on Oct. 25.
JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The women’s basketball team posted a record of 2–4 between Dec. 7 and Jan. 7.
MEN’S HOCKEY “I think we played really well over break,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “Coming back and regrouping after Christmas is always difficult but we came back and had great practices which set us up well for the remainder of the season.” The Bulldogs played the RusSEE M. HOCKEY BREAK PAGE B3
BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team finished its nonconference schedule this past week, concluding a six-game stretch between Dec. 7 and Jan. 7 during which it posted a 2–4 mark.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The men’s hockey team went undefeated over winter break.
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“I think we all wish there were a few more games,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said in an
email. “But it is time to jump into Ivy play and ready or not, here we come.” Prior to exams, the Elis (6–8, 0–0 Ivy) hosted Army, losing 68–56, and Georgetown, falling 66–65. Against the Black Knights (11–4, 3–1 Patriot), Yale started off strong, leading 12–11 with just under 12 minutes to play in the first half. Army, however, closed the half on a 23–7 run that put Yale in a 34–19 hole at the break. SEE W.BASKETBALL PAGE B3
GOALS SCORED BY THE YALE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM IN THE SECOND PERIOD OF SATURDAY’S 5–1 WIN OVER HARVARD. Playing in front of more than 15,000 fans at Madison Square Garden in the inaugural Rivalry on Ice game, the Elis outshot Harvard 34–24 overall.
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SPORTS
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ALEX RODRIGUEZ The former All-Star third baseman must sit out the 2014 regular season after an independent arbitrator upheld 162 games from the original 211-game suspension handed down to him by Major League Baseball for using performance enhancing drugs.
Elis end non-conference play
MEN’S ICE HOCKEY ECAC
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L
T
PTS
W L
T
%
1
Quinnipiac
8
2
3
19
17
3
5
0.780
M.BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1
2
Union
9
2
0
18
13
4
3
0.725
half, with Yale getting solid three-point production once again and Baruch unable to find the firepower to answer. Yale shot 55.9 percent for the game compared to Baruch’s 30.8 percent. The Elis also dominated the boards with their largest rebounding edge of the season, grabbing 44 rebounds to the Bearcats’ 23. With the lopsided victory, head coach James Jones was able to utilize his entire roster and allow some players to gain valuable game time experience. Once the demanding conference schedule begins this upcoming Saturday at home against Brown (8–6, 0–0 Ivy), Jones will have a better understanding of what some of his less experienced players can bring to the table. “I always think we do get something out of games like this,” Jones said. “You get a chance to have guys that don’t normally have an opportunity to play, and you can mix some matchups here-andthere.”
3
Clarkson
6
2
0
12
13
7
2
0.636
4
Colgate
5
3
1
11
9
9
3
0.500
5
Cornell
4
3
2
10
8
4
3
0.633
6
Yale
3
2
3
9
8
3
4
0.667
Rensselaer
3
5
3
9
8
10
4
0.417
Brown
3
4
1
7
6
6
3
0.500
Harvard
2
6
3
7
5
8
3
0.406
St. Lawrence
2
4
2
6
8
10
2
0.450
Princeton
3
9
0
6
4
15
0
0.211
Dartmouth
2
8
0
4
3
12
2
0.235
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MATT TOWNSEND ’15 Forward, Men’s basketball team Point guard Jack Montague ’16 took advantage of his time on the court. The sophomore got hot from beyond the arc, hitting on all four of his three-point attempts, to pace the Elis with a careerhigh 15 points and six assists. Montague’s effort certainly did not go unnoticed by Jones. “[Montague] did a great job finding his teammates and knocking down shots,” Jones said. “He played with a great deal of confidence and I think that that’s one of the things that’s missing from us at times.” The only other Bulldog in double figures was forward Matt Townsend ’15, who racked up 10 points in addition to five rebounds in just 15 minutes of play. Townsend, who made his third consecutive start, has seen an uptick in his production the past few games. Townsend said whether or not he starts does not have too much of an impact on his game. “I don’t think being in the starting lineup or not has had a big psychological impact on me,” Townsend said. “Every time I go out, I just try to play 100 percent and give it my all. That’s been my approach at every game.” Yale saw impressive performances all around as seven players scored at least five points and four players grabbed at least four rebounds. Point guard Javier Duren ’15, who registered six points, seven rebounds and six assists in limited playing time, said the team saw a big step up in their play offensively. “Pretty much all season, we’ve struggled to find each other on offense,” Duren said. “With today’s game, I thought we did an excellent job of trying to make the play for others, being selfless, making the extra pass, and I think our offense flowed a little bit better.” If the Bulldogs ever needed a relatively easy win, it was on Saturday. Until the win over Baruch, Yale had been held winless
SCHOOL
W L
T
PTS
W L
T
%
Cornell
8
0
2
18
13
1
3
0.853
Quinnipiac
7
3
4
18
16
3
5
0.771
3
Harvard
8
2
1
17
12
2
2
0.813
4
Princeton
6
6
2
14
9
8
3
0.525
5
Clarkson
6
2
1
13
16
4
2
0.773
6
St. Lawrence
5
3
1
11
6
13
1
0.325
7
Rensselaer
4
5
1
9
8
11
2
0.450
Yale
4
5
1
9
6
10
1
0.382
9
Dartmouth
3
7
1
7
4
12
1
0.265
10
Union
3
7
0
6
8
13
1
0.386
11
Colgate
2
8
0
4
5
14
2
0.286
12
Brown
0
8
2
2
1
12
4
0.176
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I don’t think being in the starting lineup or not has had a big psychological impact on me.
WA LIU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
No. 42 Matt Townsend ’15 scored 10 points in just 15 minutes against Baruch.
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over winter break, dropping four contests to four strong opponents. Each of the four teams that beat Yale over the break reached the postseason last year. After a nine-day layoff for final exams, Yale’s winter break schedule began in heartbreaking fashion, as the Bulldogs were just barely edged out by Providence (11–5, 1–2 Big East) 76–74 on Dec. 17. The loss came in spite of a magnificent performance from forward Justin Sears ’16, whose 31 points were the most by a Bulldog since a 35-point effort from center Greg Mangano ’12 in 2012. In the Elis’ next effort on Dec. 20, another career performance was overshadowed by a loss, as Duren’s 26 points were not enough to defeat Albany (8–8, 2–1 America East). The Bulldogs shot just 31.6 percent from the field in the 70–62 defeat. The Midwest proved to be even less kind to the Bulldogs, as a talented Saint Louis (15–2, 2–0 A-10) squad spoiled the homecomings of Duren and center Will Childs-Klein ’15 on Jan. 4. The Billikens outworked the Bulldogs on the glass and scored 28 points off turnovers as they beat Yale 75–55. To make matters worse, the Elis were stranded in Saint Louis an extra two days after nearly a foot of snow halted any transportation out of the city. Upon returning home, the friendly confines of John J. Lee Amphitheater did not end the
Bulldogs’ losing ways. In just their fourth home game in 13 contests, the Bulldogs fell short against Vermont (8–8, 2–0 AEC) by a final tally of 67–59. Townsend led the way with 11 points and Duren tacked on 10 of his own. An unexpected bright spot for Yale was the play of guard Anthony Dallier ’17, whose 10 points were the most thus far during his young career as a Bulldog. After returning to the win column against Baruch, the Elis head into conference play with renewed confidence and excitement as the team has a chance to prove itself as a worthy contender for the Ivy crown. “I think we’re moving in the right direction,” Duren said. “I thought [the win] was a huge step up. It was just what we needed, especially heading into Ivy League play.” Conference action will tip off on Saturday when Yale hosts Brown at 2:00 p.m. The Bears finished in fourth place in the Ivy League last year, one spot behind Yale.
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7
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55
33
88
BARUCH
24
25
49
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W
L
%
Harvard
1
0
1.000
14
2
0.875
Penn
1
0
1.000
3
10
0.231
Yale
0
0
0.000
6
8
0.429
Brown
0
0
0.000
8
6
0.571
Columbia
0
0
0.000
11
6
0.647
Cornell
0
0
0.000
1
13
0.071
Princeton
0
1
0.000
11
3
0.786
Dartmouth
0
1
0.000
7
7
0.500
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OVERALL
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W
L
%
Harvard
1
0
1.000
10
4
0.714
Princeton
1
0
1.000
10
5
0.667
Cornell
0
0
0.000
8
6
0.571
Brown
0
0
0.000
6
8
0.429
Yale
0
0
0.000
6
8
0.429
Columbia
0
0
0.000
3
11
0.214
Penn
0
1
0.000
8
3
0.727
Dartmouth
0
1
0.000
2
12
0.143
Women’s hockey tops Harvard W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1
JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The Elis have gone 4–3–0 in their last seven games.
moto said. “I think she’s going to be a great player for us throughout the rest of the season.” Against Colgate (5–14–2, 2–8–0) on Jan. 3, five Bulldogs contributed goals in the offensive battle. All of these goals would prove necessary, as Yale had only a 5–4 lead late in the third period until forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 scored her second goal of the game with an emptynetter. The Elis proceeded to be shut out by Cornell (13–1–3, 8–0–2) the next day, despite tallying almost as many shots as they had the previous game. Yale had scored six goals on only 20 shots the day before but could not manage any on 16 shots at Big Red goalie Paula Voorheis. “We’ve always tended to have fewer shots than the other team, but I think in the games we win, we have more quality chances,” Tomimoto said. “We can get shots, but a lot of times they’ll be from the outside, so I think it really comes down to the amount of quality shots, and the quantity of shots doesn’t tell you that.” The next weekend, the Bulldogs’ offense heated up again at Dartmouth (4–12–1, 3–7–1). The Big Green took a 1–0 lead early on, but
the lead would change several times throughout the game. Yale scored twice, then Dartmouth scored twice before Yale scored another two to take a 4–3 lead midway through the third period. But the Big Green got the final word with both an equalizer later in the period and a game winning goal with just 38 seconds left on the clock. Goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 got the start against Dartmouth, allowing three goals before Jaimie Leonoff ’15 came in halfway through the game. Tomimoto tallied three points during the contest, her most this season, with one goal and two assists. The Bulldogs then headed southeast to Cambridge, playing their rival on the same day that their male counterparts were also taking on the Crimson at Madison Square Garden. Like the men’s team, Yale came away with a decisive victory. This one was more of an upset, however, as Harvard had entered the game with only one loss all season. Raines gave the Bulldogs an early lead with a one-timer goal in the first period. Forward Hanna Astrom ’16 and a Harvard defender both went for a pass by Raines in front of the net, but the puck got popped
into the air, and Raines flew in from the corner to finish the play that she started. In the second period, Yale got some insurance from Martini, as she intercepted a Harvard pass at the top of the zone and sniped a goal from the blue line. Leonoff went on to complete her shutout of a dumbfounded Crimson squad, and Yale improved to 4–5–1 in the ECAC. The shutout showed a defensive improvement over the 12 goals allowed in the Elis’ previous three games. “Defensively, we made a commitment to play tough in the defensive zone, pick up sticks, clear people from in front of the net and keep a tighter gap in the neutral zone,” Martini said. “All those things combined with a lot of hard work made a big difference.” Yale will face No. 6 Clarkson at home this Friday evening. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
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“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.” ALEX RODRIGUEZ PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER
Yale shines at MSG
Bulldogs beat Maine on buzzer-beater
BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Guard Janna Graf ’14 is second on the team with a 10.4 points per game average this season. W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1
HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The Bulldogs rode a three-goal second period to victory over Harvard on Saturday. RIVALRY ON ICE FROM PAGE B1 Messier, took control behind the net and passed to Vesey, who streaked in and one-timed the puck past Yale goaltender Alex Lyon ’17. The goal was Vesey’s 10th of the season and tied the score with 9:09 left in the first period. Heading into the second period tied at one, the Bulldogs put the game away with three quick goals, the first coming 2:35 into the frame. Rivalry on Ice MVP Cody Learned ’16 earned his stripes with two of the three goals, but his first goal was something of an accident, coming off a long shot that deflected off Harvard goalie Raphael Girard’s pads and into the net. “I was a little surprised [that it went in],” Learned said. “[But] Coach always tells us just get shots on net.” A few minutes later, defenseman Gus Young ’14 stretched the Yale lead to 3–1. Doherty found some space across the Harvard blue line and lasered a cross-ice pass to Young, who fired it into the upper left corner of the net. Before the crowd had settled
down, the Elis netted another goal just 25 seconds later. Defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 took a shot that Girard blocked, but failed to cover up, and Learned knocked home the rebound for his second goal. The goal was also the last action Girard would see all game, as Harvard coach Ted Donato pulled him immediately after Learned lit the lamp.
Any time you get to play at a venue like this, it’s pretty cool. CODY LEARNED ’16 Forward, Men’s hockey team The only other tally of the game came in the third period. Young was involved again, but this time as a facilitator. Following a Harvard deflection, Young redirected the puck from behind the goal to off the goaltender’s pads, and Agostino found the back of the net. After the game, players and coaches alike praised the inau-
gural Rivalry on Ice event. “Any time you get to play at a venue like this, it’s pretty cool,” Learned said. Captain Jesse Root ’14 agreed, citing the support from the crowd as a factor in the Bulldogs’ victory. Another crucial component of Yale’s victory was the strong play from Lyon between the pipes. The freshman netminder had 23 saves, including a number of important stops near the end of the first period when the game was still knotted at one. “Alex did a fantastic job for us tonight,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “He grew as the game went on.” Yale takes a road trip to New York next weekend to face No. 11 Clarkson and St. Lawrence. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
YALE 5, HARVARD 1 YALE
1
3
1
5
HARVARD
1
0
0
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The Elis outscored the Black Knights 16–4 over the last 3:42, but the lead proved too daunting for the Bulldogs to overcome, bringing the final score to 68–56. Facing the Hoyas (7–9, 1–3 Big East), guard Sarah Halejian ’15 had a big night, finishing with a season-high 27 points. She and guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 carried the Elis, scoring 25 of Yale’s 26 points in the first half as the Bulldogs trailed 32–26. Georgetown extended the lead to 52–40 with 10 minutes remaining in the contest. But the Elis rallied to come to within three with 55 seconds left after a three pointer made by captain and guard Janna Graf ’14. Halejian was fouled on a three-point attempt with two seconds left in the game, but was only able to convert two of the three free throws, resulting in the final score 66–65.
Our tough nonconference schedule has set us up well for the competitive Ivy League games we will have. SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 Guard, Women’s basketball team On Dec. 19, the Bulldogs closed their home stand with a dominating win against Saint Peter’s (2–12, 1–4 MAAC), defeating the Peacocks 66–35. Ten different players scored for the Elis, who used a balanced attack to overwhelm Saint Peter’s, forcing the team into 26 turnovers, off of which Yale scored 35 points. Following a brief holiday break, the Bulldogs returned to action against Kansas (8–8, 1–2 Big 12) to begin a four-game road swing. Graf, returning to her home state, scored her 1,000th career point for the Elis, the 18th player to do so in Yale women’s basketball history. The Bulldogs shot a season high 57.1 percent from three-point range, but that figure was still short of the 57.7 percent shoot-
ing performance from the Jayhawks. Kansas led the Elis from the start and were relentless, jumping out to a 45–26 lead at halftime. The Bulldogs came to within 11 points with 5:07 remaining in the game, trailing 67–56 following a Graf three pointer, but Kansas pulled away again to hold on for a 79–63 win. “The Georgetown and Kansas games showed that we are capable of playing with anyone,” Halejian said in an email. The Elis returned to the court to face Maine (8–8, 2–1 America East) on Jan. 5, defeating the Black Bears 86–85 on a buzzer-beater by Sarju. Yale led at the half, 47–41, and the Bulldogs continued to lead throughout the second half until the waning minutes. The Black Bears tied the game at 81 with 2:41 remaining and took the lead on a layup with 14 seconds left in the game. But despite relinquishing the lead, the Elis’ late deficit served only to set up Sarju’s game-winning layup as time expired. The Elis finished their nonconference schedule against New Hampshire (7–7, 1–0 America East) on Tuesday. The Bulldogs fell to the Wildcats 58–53 following a slow start, trailing 33–18 at the half. Yale was never able to crawl all the way back, despite narrowing the gap to 55–53 with 11 seconds remaining. “Our tough nonconference schedule has set us up well for the competitive Ivy League games we will have,” Halejian said. “Each game was a learning experience that will increase our chances of being successful in the next 14 games.” The Elis finished the first half of their season at 6–8 and will now move on to Ivy League play. Yale will face Brown to open its conference schedule this Friday in Providence, R.I. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .
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Elis undefeated over break M. HOCKEY BREAK FROM PAGE B1 sian Red Stars, a touring team made up of Russian players, in an exhibition game just two days after Christmas, coming out firing with three goals in the first period. In Yale’s first game in almost three weeks, forward Carson Cooper ’16 lit the lamp early on before a pair of freshmen tallied goals. Defenseman Dan O’Keefe ’17 scored his first goal in Yale colors, and forward John Hayden ’17 added a goal to widen the Bulldogs’ advantage. In the second period, center Stu Wilson ’16 scored the eventual game-winner; he would later add an assist on defenseman Rob O’Gara’s ’16 powerplay goal in the third frame. The power-play goal was the Elis’ first since Nov. 22 against Colgate. Forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 finished off the scoring 11 minutes into the final period. All healthy skaters participated in the 6–3 win, including all three Yale goalies. Two days later, the Elis played Holy Cross (4–15–2, 3–9–2 AHA) on Youth Day at Ingalls Rink. Yale’s senior forwards combined to open the scoring, when captain Jesse Root ’14 found Kenny Agostino ’14 for a slap shot just inside the blue line that nestled in the back of the
net. In the second frame, forward Anthony Day ’15 scored his first goal since being injured in November. Sophomore forwards Cody Learned ’16 and Stu Wilson ’16 scored in the third period to finish off the scoring. Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 stopped 21 of 22 shots in the 4–1 home victory to conclude the Elis’ 2013 action. After the buzzer sounded, the Bulldogs came up to the concourse to sign
I think we played really well over break. RYAN OBUCHOWSKI ’16 Defenseman, Men’s hockey team
team photos for fans. “The Holy Cross game was a really good showing for the whole team,” defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 said. “Our work rate was great across the board and it was a nice way to end the calendar year.” On Jan. 4, the Elis travelled to Vermont to face the No. 20 Catamounts (11–7–3, 4–5–0 HEA) in Burlington. Agostino again opened the scoring, putting home a rebound off of an Obuchowski shot from the point.
Vermont tied the game at 1 four minutes later, but Hayden scored his first official collegiate goal with just over a minute remaining in the first period to regain the lead. Hayden’s prior three goals came in exhibition games. Halfway through the third, the Catamounts again tied the game, scoring on an odd-man rush up the ice. Agostino then notched his second of the game on a breakaway to give Yale the lead with just under six minutes left to play. The Flames’ prospect has been red-hot of late, scoring seven goals since the beginning of December. But the Bulldogs again surrendered the lead with 53 seconds left in the game, when Vermont scored after pulling its goaltender for the man advantage. Lyon made two of his 32 saves in a scoreless overtime to end the game at a 3–3 tie. “The Vermont game was a good test for us against a tough opponent,” Obuchowski said. “We were disappointed to give up three leads but we did a lot of good thing that we can build off for our upcoming games.” The Bulldogs will continue their season this Friday at Clarkson. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
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The Bulldogs topped the Russian Red Stars, Holy Cross and Harvard during the break.
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RIVALRY ON ICE
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classic rivalry took on a new twist this past Saturday, as the Harvard and Yale hockey teams descended upon the hallowed grounds of Madison Square Garden for the “Rivalry on Ice.” Yale won, 5–1 in the 239th meeting between the two hockey teams. HENRY EHRENBERG AND KEN YANAGISAWA reports.
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Broncos, Patriots, advance to AFC Championship For the 15th time in their careers, quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Tom Brady will play against each other in an NFL game. Brady’s Patriots defeated the Colts 43–22 on Saturday, then Manning and the Broncos outlasted the Chargers 24–17 on Sunday to set up a showdown in the AFC Championship game. Brady leads the all-time headto-head 10–4, including a 2–1 record in the playoffs.