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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 122 · yaledailynews.com

Harassment at SAE and its fallout

BY NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER The pledges of Yale University’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or SAE, are required to wear a uniform of a blazer, button-down and tie — conspicuous garb for teenagers on a college campus, though they wear it proudly. The night of Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, was no exception.

Twenty-two men clamored into the fraternity’s off-campus house at 35 High St. The inside was dark. The pledges were greeted by the boisterous shouts of roughly 30 older members sitting on couches lined against the walls, decorated with framed photo composites of past fraternity classes dating back decades.

Soon, the new pledge class’s yearbook-worthy smiles would hang beside them. But first, they had to undergo initiation, their inaugural act as SAE brothers.

Traditionally, the SAE president recounts fraternity lore.

Pledges recite an oath. Two senior “chaplains,” elected by their brothers for their entertainment value, give a presentation dressed in ridiculous clothes. The presentation is usually a mythological story about Minerva, the Roman goddess and patron saint of SAE, and the dirty details of her sexual encounters.

It is lewd, but tongue-in-cheek in spirit.

For the spring 2014 pledge class, however, the chaplains typed a speech about a different set of characters, who were not

fictional. Among them was Zoe, a 20-year-old Yale sophomore they identified by name, but whose name has been changed for this story in an effort to protect her identity. In the six months before the ceremony, Zoe had engaged in sexual acts with five members of the fraternity — including the two chaplains. The title of the speech, as it has come to be known and discussed around campus, used her name in association with “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the best-selling novel-turned-film focusing on a sadomasochistic relationship.

These events were described to the News by two individuals who were present and by a third to whom the activities were later recounted in detail. The SAE brothers cited in this story spoke under the condition of anonymity. Aspects of the ceremony were also corroborated by documents pertaining to a University investigation that examined the events of that evening and its aftermath.

These documents — as well as interviews with Zoe and several SAE brothers and the statements of University administrators who dealt with the case — show how members of a Yale fraternity made a female classmate and her sexual experiences the butt of a public joke consecrating membership in their ranks.

Further, they outline the victim’s months long battle to get the University to hold the fraternity accountable in a public forum, to announce to students what had been a private conclu-

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Yale’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is located at 35 High St. On Feb. 12, 2014, an initiation there featured a roast targeting a female student. sion of a confidential disciplinary proceeding about a matter that had already leaked into the campus rumor mill.

When the University did make an announcement, a full year after the event itself, it offered an incomplete picture of the case, foregrounding the fraternity’s positive reforms and casting the incident as a teaching moment for the campus. What was touted by the University as evidence of its transparent approach to handling sexual misconduct was rather the result of Zoe’s pro-

tracted effort to move Yale to action. When Yale did act publicly, it shut her out of the process altogether.

THE ROAST

Zoe’s relationships with the five SAE brothers described in the speech occurred from September 2013 to the following February. Her involvement with two of the men lasted from September to December, and the other three occurred in quick succession in January. She described these encounters as

“consensual, casual relations.”

Following her involvement with the men, Zoe commented on some of their sexual performances in conversation with the fraternity president, a junior at the time. He was one of the five fraternity brothers with whom she had sexual relations, but she had come to regard him as a friend. Zoe said she felt they had come to trust each other. As they were both sharing details about their sex lives over the course of multiple conversations, Zoe told him that one brother climaxed

quickly, another was enthusiastic about giving oral sex and a third enjoyed cuddling. He later passed along those comments to the group of the other four brothers, according to the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct panel’s report.

Zoe’s comments spread “like wildfire,” one of the chaplains later told an independent factfinder assigned to investigate the incident. “She had provided SEE SAE PAGE 4

TIMELINE FROM SAE INITIATION TO UWC CASE Feb. 12, 2014

Feb. 14, 2014

Feb. 26, 2014

April 21, 2014

SAE initiation, where chaplains deliver roast

Zoe is “aggressively pursued” at Box 63

Zoe meets with the SAE president

Zoe files a formal complaint with the UWC

July 7, 2014

July 14, 2014

Dec. 4, 2014

Feb. 13, 2015

UWC panel holds hearing

Panel finds three brothers responsible and recommends sanctions

SAE hosts Après Ski party

Holloway sends email informing the Yale community

Smith joins mayoral race

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Former City Clerk and Newhallville Alder Ron Smith plans to challenge Mayor Toni Harp this November, according to city officials.

Smith recently began the process of entering the mayoral race by filing papers at the City Clerk’s Office.

Currently, Smith is collecting signatures to secure a spot on the Nov. 3 ballot as a petitioning candidate, meaning that he will run as an independent in the general election. If he successfully collects the requisite number of signatures, Smith will become Harp’s second opponent in the race, joining plumber and fellow Newhallville resident Sundiata Keitazulu, who entered the race in late March. Keitazulu will challenge Harp in the Democratic primary in September.

“I hope we can persuade [Smith] to come over to our side,” said Bitsie Clark, Harp’s campaign treasurer and former Downtown alder. “He’s a wonderful speaker that can make people feel excited about themSEE HARP PAGE 6

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Students rally behind Hudak

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS

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Mayor Toni Harp, who is seeking re-election this November, faces a potential challenge from former City Clerk and Newhallville Alder Ron Smith.

Swab to save. Today, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., individuals in the Yale athletics community will hold the Mandi Schwartz ’10 Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Commons. Passersby can have their cheeks swabbed to join the 4,538 potential donors from previous Yale drives on the Be The Match Registry.

Getting good vibes. Bringing

together some of Yale’s finest professors from across the graduate and professional schools, InspiringYale takes place this evening in Evans Hall. Invited speakers — such as Robert Shiller and Amy Chua — have prepared uplifting messages for all to enjoy.

Inspired by Yale. In a piece for The New York Observer, author Joyce Maynard wrote fondly about a recent visit to campus and her own time as a Yale student, brief as it was.

All these years later, Maynard said she has found both purpose and joy in helping young writers apply to colleges they, too, will grow fond of.

Saybrook College Master Paul Hudak is in critical condition due to side effects from a stem cell transplant in 2010.

At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Saybrook students were informed by an email from Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway that Hudak is in critical condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Hudak, who has leukemia and received a stem cell transplant to ameliorate his condition in 2010, suffered a “sudden and serious” setback to his recovery due to side effects from his treatment. Though little is known about his condition besides the fact that it is serious, Saybrook students have been quick to rally behind Hudak’s family members, who have come to New Haven to support him.

“Even when he isn’t in Saybrook or is away recovering, we

Hello, old friend. Ivy Noodle

has risen from the dead, if under a new name: “Ivy Wok.” The Elm Street restaurant reopened after closing down earlier this semester — in the subsequent weeks, various notes on its doors promised a return, and it’s finally here.

Now, all that remains to be seen is if “Wok” catches on.

always know and feel that he is watching out for us and really cares for us,” Araba Koomson ’17 said. “There hasn’t been a point this year where I didn’t feel supported by Master Hudak and the Master’s Office, which I think is a pretty selfless feat for someone who is sick and suffering to achieve.”

Hudak was diagnosed with leukemia during his second year as Saybrook master. He received a stem cell transplant that year, but experienced bothersome and persistent side effects following the procedure. This resulted in Hudak informing his college that he would be stepping down from his position at the end of this academic year.

Though the exact timing of Hudak’s decline in health is still unknown, Saybrook Associate Master Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 made the decision to inform Saybrook that he has been taken SEE HUDAK PAGE 6

Need some cash? Donna Dubinsky ’77, CEO and co-founder of Numenta, will be at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s offices today to discuss the $10,000 Numenta Startup Prize — all it takes is a great big idea. Easy enough.

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'THEANTIYALE' ON 'WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON?'

A moral responsibility A

few months ago, I wrote a pair of columns, “Selling Your Soul, Parts I and II,” lamenting that so many of my classmates were, well, selling their souls. After all, nearly 25 percent of my classmates will likely work for Wall Street or in management consulting.

I got a fair amount of feedback from friends and acquaintances. Some objected to my assertion that these students “have forfeited the right to be proud of what [they] do.

[They] are doing harm.” Some applauded such rhetoric. But one narrative came up over and over: the bootstraps narrative, wherein an enterprising young person from a low-income background who, because she must support her struggling family, pulls herself up by her bootstraps by taking the bestpaying job she can find — this job is always in finance or consulting.

What about these people, my friends would ask. Do I object to their working in these industries too?

Simply put, yes. They are still working for industries that contribute to poverty and oppression. They are still working for firms that help market cigarettes to children or launder money for narcoterrorists or — I could go on. They are still concretizing brutal, unregulated capitalism.

Besides, the bootstraps narrative is largely a myth. The people entering finance and consulting are disproportionately wealthy, in large part because these industries recruit so heavily from schools like Yale that have far wealthier students than your average college. Furthermore, according to one study, 65 percent of first-year Wall Street analysts are white — blacks and Hispanics comprise just six percent.

Still, I just don’t feel comfortable telling a poor kid trying to help her family what to do. In an abstract sense, the bootstraps kid’s decision is not a good one. It still does real harm. It’s certainly not a decision I would ever make. Yet my ability to willingly take a lowerpaying job is indelibly linked to my privilege.

Let’s talk about privilege.

By going to Yale, we have been given an extraordinary gift, one that will keep on giving for the rest of our lives. It is a gift none of us fully deserves. The Admissions Office repeatedly stresses that it could fill a Yale class several times over with equally qualified students. We are here because we worked hard, but also because we were lucky. Many of us are here because of incredible support systems back home.

Our time at Yale gives us not so much a superior education as it gives us a superior credential. To be sure, the professors here are among the best in the

world, the resources unmatched and the opportunities virtually limitless.

But you can find stelSCOTT lar teaching, STERN resources and opporA Stern tunities at Perspective many other colleges.

The Yale diploma, though, is a golden ticket. It provides us with an entrée into virtually any field we want, a leg-up in applying to grad school and access to a network of powerful people that can do amazing things for us.

Because we have been given this gift, without fully deserving it, we have a duty to give back. We have a moral responsibility to do the most good we can reasonably do for the world around us. For many people, this mandate translates to careers in public interest or public service. Yet for others, it might mean a career in research, medicine, education or any number of other fields.

Different people are suited for different things. For no one does it mean finance or consulting, at least in their current form.

We must ask ourselves this: By taking a given job, am I doing the most good I can reasonably do? I’ve included the word “reasonably” because circumstances differ. But if the answer to this question is anything but yes, we have a moral responsibility to work somewhere else.

This duty might sound an awful lot like paternalism. But it isn’t. We have a responsibility to give back not because we are better than anyone else, but because of this gift we have been given, which we did not deserve. Our Yale degrees give us untold advantages. The system of elite education that we’re a part of is a terrible one because it perpetuates privilege and excludes so many people. For some of us, then, it is our responsibility to attempt to fundamentally alter this system. For the rest, it is our responsibility to help those without all these undeserved advantages we take for granted.

Far too often, Yalies take jobs because of greed or laziness.

This must stop.

Let me expand on what I wrote in a previous column: If you enter finance or consulting, without an absolute financial necessity, you have not merely surrendered the right to be proud of what you do; you have surrendered something of your humanity.

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

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Policy, not polls

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t’s always fun to talk about a presidential election. 2016 is sure to bring drama, political intrigue and plenty of gaffes from the usual cast of presidential hopefuls. (I personally can’t wait to hear what Vice President Joe Biden cooks up this time around.)

At the same time, I can’t help but feel as though discussion surrounding 2016 right now is silly.

Take the Democratic primary, for example. It’s rather boring — so boring, in fact, that discussing it with other Democrats around campus is almost unnecessary.

Virtually nobody is seriously considering anybody other than Hillary Clinton LAW '73; the “Yale for Hillary” Facebook page popped up in my news feed mere minutes after her announcement. We’ve clearly been “Ready for Hillary” for months — and for good reason. Biden has turned into little more than a caricature of a politician, continually providing fodder for internet memes by making ridiculous public statements and acting in a questionable manner around women.

The rest of the field is mediocre at best, if not entirely non-existent. Poor Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland is trying — effectively jumping up and down and begging for any column space at all. Liberal icon Elizabeth Warren has refused to run so often that it’s not even worth asking her at this point.

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Self-proclaimed Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders and a pair of New York politicians, Andrew Cuomo and SHREYAS GilTIRUMALA Kirsten librand, exist but cerRhyme and too, tainly aren’t Reason mentioned in the same breath as Clinton or Warren. The New York Times appears to have completely given up on searching for other candidates too. The country's leading newspaper has resorted to running tongue-incheek pieces scrutinizing Clinton’s Chipotle preferences with a level of attention that exceeds anything O'Malley has received from them.

So it seems we're left with Clinton. I actually think she’d make a great president, but it concerns me how lazy the coverage surrounding her candidacy has gotten. Somehow, over the course of this still-nascent election cycle, Clinton has already turned into a progressive icon. I almost fell out of my chair laughing after watching her announce her candidacy.

An Ivy League-educated career politician — a figure who rakes in over $200,000 per speaking

Directed Studies is diverse An article in the News (“Diversity in academic programs nebulous,” April 9) offered the misleading impression that the student body in Directed Studies is all or mostly white. The statistics that the Admissions Office has provided for the 2014-15 DS cohort are as follows: Nine percent of DS students self-identify as Hispanic/Latino, while 10 percent of the entire Yale College Class of 2018 identifies themselves that way. Sixteen percent of DS students self-identify as Asian, and 16 percent of the whole class identifies that way. Five percent of the DS cohort self-identifies as black or African-American, while nine percent of the whole class identifies themselves that way. And 50 percent of DS students self-identify as white, while 45 percent of the whole class identifies themselves that way. International students are 16 percent of the DS cohort and 11 percent of the whole class. In addition, 47 percent of DS students come from public high schools, and 53 percent from private or religious high schools.

Earlier this year, the DUS of Directed Studies and I began a new concerted effort to ensure that first-generation college students feel welcome to join DS. We are deeply committed to a diverse student body in DS classrooms.

Next week, DS students will read W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic, “The Souls of Black Folk,” in which Du Bois wrote about why an education modeled on the New England college experience was valuable for a new population of students: “In actual formal content their curriculum was doubtless old-fashioned, but in educational power it was supreme, for it was the contact of living souls.” Du Bois went on to write what could be a motto for DS: “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all gra-

engagement — is seriously trying to position herself as a “champion” for “everyday Americans.”

This seems disingenuous. It’s fine that she makes money; it’s not fine that she makes money and simultaneously suggests that she understands the struggles of everyday Americans. Last year, she claimed she and her husband were "dead broke" after his presidency ended. But in the aftermath of her drawn-out announcement, it's her campaign logo, not her dubious connections to foreign donors and questionable affinity for secrecy, that has borne the brunt of the media attention.

Both the scandals surrounding Benghazi and her email account have just sort of fizzled out. Few even recall her vote on the Iraq War, much less her hawkish history on foreign policy. From fracking to the Patriot Act, there are a number of issues where Clinton diverges from the progressive platform. Why are we not using these primaries to shape her inevitable stump speech come the general election?

I'm not quite sure why Clinton's candidacy has escaped skepticism. One compelling argument is that there are no titans in the field. Without Clinton, the Democratic field pales in comparison to some of the heavyweights that the GOP is considering. From the formidable Jeb Bush juggernaut to

the youthful dynamism of Marco Rubio to the undeniable intellect of Ted Cruz, the Republican primary promises to be a gladiatorial contest. But I also think our collective obsession with poll data compounds the perception of Clinton's inevitability.

Rather than poke and prod, we read the daily Gallup numbers revealing Clinton's recordbreaking lead among the Democratic contenders and shrug our shoulders. We're nine months out from Iowa, and most candidates haven't formally announced their intention to run. I'm of the belief that the proliferation of quantitatively fluent institutions such as FiveThirtyEight and UpShot is a net positive for our media ecosystem. But in this case, their excessive focus on polling data rather than political principles is hugely problematic.

We owe it to ourselves to make this race far more meaningful. We should be challenging Clinton’s views on policy — not letting her casually stroll into the Oval Office.

It's time to put down the polling numbers and pick up a policy brief. It’s time to make the discussion about 2016 far more worthwhile.

ciously with no scorn nor condescension.” Interested students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds will find that they can summon the authors we study in Directed Studies in just this way, and that those authors will still come, just as graciously.

come with the shift to veganism seem hardly like insurmountable obstacles considering the price paid by animals, the planet and humans alike.

Bryniarski argues that our eating vegan will have no measurable effect. First, if every individual abstains from taking action for the reason that only widespread adoption is meaningful, there can simply be no change. Second, if this is truly an urgent collective problem, then it is the definitive choice to leave animals’ bodies off our plates that sends a clear message that pushes for collective action, not their continued exploitation, regardless of our intellectual stance. Third, to the victims of our forks and knives — the individual chickens, pigs, cows, salmon, turkeys — our choices make an immeasurable difference.

Cultural veganism, while a poetic notion, can only be, as Bryniarski writes, a “starting point,” as are initiatives such as "Meatless Mondays" and "Vegan Before 6" — milestones, rather than the endpoint of our efforts.

But ultimately, beyond “observing” veganism, we must speak up, take action and disrupt the social norms that permit such violence. There are now rapidly expanding grassroots networks, such as Direct Action Everywhere, united in the belief, not unlike Bryniarski’s, that this atrocious system must come to an end. I urge Bryniarski and like-minded people to contribute to this movement. To be the change we want to see in the world, we must agitate.

BRYAN GARSTEN APRIL 10 The writer is a professor of political science and humanities. He is chair of the Humanities Department, which oversees Directed Studies.

Beyond cultural veganism In light of recent trends in mainstream media leading people to question the problematic nature of animal consumption, it is understandable that one might seek a way to embrace a vegan diet in principle but not in practice, as Austin Bryniarski ’16 advises us to do in a recent piece (“For cultural veganism,” April 10). But Bryniarski’s recipe for “cultural veganism” misses the mark in several ways.

From a position of privilege, it is very easy to ponder morality and not act on it. While comforting, Bryniarski’s view that “It’s okay not to radically change my diet, so long as I think reflexively and critically about what I do eat” is akin to telling someone in famine-stricken Kenya, “I have played a role in your starvation, but it is okay that I continue to do so as long as I think about it,” or telling a terrified chicken destined for slaughter that it is okay to mutilate, torture, murder her and feast on her corpse so long as you ponder the philosophy of it. The “anxieties” cited by Bryniarski that

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a freshman in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

HANH NGUYEN APRIL 13 The writer is a sophomore in Morse College.

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“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”

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CORRECTION

Faculty move toward gender parity, racial diversity

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

A previous version of the article “YPU debates rape adjudication” incorrectly stated that Jenna McGuire ’18 is a member of the Conservative Party. In fact, she is a member of the Party of the Right.

Parents of kidnapped students visit Yale

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER In September of last year, 43 students at a rural college in Guerrero, Mexico, disappeared.

Seven months later, the parents of some of the allegedly kidnapped students are making a three-day stop in the Elm City as part of their northeast tour to raise awareness of the students’ disappearance and the U.S. government’s alleged indirect role.

The students, who were studying to become teachers, were kidnapped last September after they clashed with the police. Believing that American aid to Mexico unnecessarily strengthened the police, three groups of the kidnapped students’ parents, now collectively known as Caravana 43, are touring different regions of the United States throughout April, said Gabriela Rodriguez, leader of the Mexican Solidarity Committee, a New Haven-based advocacy organization that organized the visit to New Haven. The three-parent group whose tour is on the East Coast chose to stop first in New Haven in order to protest in front of Betts House on Prospect Street, which houses the office of Ernesto Zedillo, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, Rodriguez said. Zedillo is currently the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

Today, the parents, along with the MSC and activist group Unidad Latina en Accion, are holding a prayer vigil and protest at noon outside Zedillo’s office. Members of the group contend that Zedillo perpetuated systemic corruption and violence in Mexico, according to both Rodriguez and ULA leader John Lugo.

“Ernesto Zedillo represents the bad things that happened in Mexico, the worst of the worst,” Lugo said. “Zedillo is a symbol of the Mexican corruption.”

Rodriguez added that Zedillo has been accused of instigating a 1997 massacre of indigenous Mexicans. Lugo said he believes paramilitary groups were created under Zedillo’s tenure, only adding to the violence in Mexico.

However, Zedillo said in an email that the Mexican federal government under his tenure neither created nor tolerated paramilitary groups. Additionally, Zedillo wrote that during his six years as president and in the time since he left office, there have not been any accusations of corruption brought against him or members of his cabinet.

“Fortunately, during the almost 15 years since my term as president ended, there have been a number of serious, wellresearched analyses of my presidency,” Zedillo wrote. “I am confident that you can access them and confirm that those calumnious allegations are inconsistent with the historical records.”

Zedillo said he is no longer affiliated with the Mexican government and could not speak

on behalf of them with regard to their response to the kidnappings. The Mexican consulate in New York did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

Zedillo added that neither the parents nor the activist groups supporting them had reached out to him before or after making their accusations.

“I do not know at all what is their real agenda when they make offensive and calumnious accusations against me,” Zedillo wrote.

Rubi Macias ’18, who frequently visits Mexico, where her family is originally from, said that while she believes there was government corruption during Zedillo’s tenure, corruption and lack of government accountability have been pervasive problems in Mexico for decades.

Macias added that she supports the family members’ tours throughout the United States because there is an alarming lack of media coverage on human rights violations in Mexico. The Mexican government has also been unresponsive to protests and search efforts for the kidnapped students, she said, speculating that this unresponsiveness is likely due to the fact that the kidnapped students were critical of the government.

“Back when the kidnapping happened, my suitemates didn’t even know that it was going on,” Macias said. “The students were kidnapped and a lot of people were protesting in Mexico, but no one else knew. The word didn’t get out, and there wasn’t much effort to find the students.”

According to MSC press releases, the three parents visiting New Haven are Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval, Maria de Jesus Tlatempa Bello and Clemente Rodriguez Moreno. Sandoval was a professor at the school where the students were kidnapped, Bello works as a bilingual secretary in Mexico and Moreno, currently unemployed, was a water vendor at the time of the kidnappings.

The parents arrived in the Elm City on Tuesday to march with the Malik Jones protest against police brutality and to have dinner with students at the AfroAmerican Cultural Center. On Wednesday, the parents traveled to Hartford to participate in a community discussion and to hold a press conference at the Legislative Office Building, Megan Fountain ’07 said in an email. They will also be reaching out to Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Rep. Rosa DeLauro to discuss their concerns about American aid to the Mexican government. The group will be leaving for Boston on Friday, Lugo added.

The three groups will be touring their respective regions before meeting in New York on April 26 for a rally in front of the United Nations building.

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BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS With peer institutions making demonstrable strides towards increasing faculty diversity, some Yale faculty members are hoping the University will keep up.

In the 2014–15 school year, Harvard reached gender parity in its junior hires for the university — 31 of 62 new hires were female.

Brown University announced in the fall that it aims to double its percentage of underrepresented minority faculty members from 8.5 percent of the faculty to 17 percent by 2025.

In the fall, Yale appointed anthropology professor Richard Bribiescas to a new position as deputy provost for faculty development and diversity.

But Bribiescas has not publicly specified any numerical targets for increasing faculty diversity.

Last February, an external review found Yale to be lacking in faculty and administrative diversity. The report gave the University 16 recommendations — one of which was the creation of Bribiescas’s role. But over a year after the review, many faculty members are still dissatisfied with gender and racial diversity among faculty.

Still, Bribiescas said “many crucial conversations” both on

campus and with peer institutions have taken place.

“Our strategy is still evolving but will be shared with the campus in the coming months,” Bribiescas wrote in an email.

This academic year, Yale women represent only 196 of the 675 ladder faculty in Arts and Sciences, just under 30 percent of the total. In some departments, this difference is particularly stark — there are 15 tenured male professors to one female professor in the Geology and Geophysics Department, and 10 tenured men to zero women in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Racial diversity among faculty is similarly lacking. Currently, only 16.1 percent of Yale’s FAS ladder faculty are racial minorities. In the 2004–05 school year, that number was 13.8 percent.

Still, while 10 professors interviewed said Yale’s diversity levels are far from ideal, many added that Yale is no worse than peer institutions.

On this specific issue, it may be getting even better. Among the 10 junior faculty who have accepted positions at Yale in the FAS for the coming year, seven are women. Still, roughly eight junior searches have not yet been completed, FAS Dean Tamar Gendler said.

However, according to some

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experts, naming specific targets is not always the best way to approach faculty diversity.

Anita Allen, vice provost for faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, told Inside Higher Ed last week that among other reasons, it is important to think carefully about numerical targets for diversity because falling short of a specific target can make even very successful diversity efforts appear as failures.

While acknowledging that there remains much to be done, several professors said the University’s efforts so far are good first steps.

“There have been positions created with an aim to diversify the department,” physics professor Meg Urry said. “There is a positive pressure to get departments to look twice at who they are hiring and remind us about our natural biases.”

She added that there are currently five women and one African-American man in the Physics Department, an improvement from the all-male department she found when she first arrived at Yale in 2001.

Other professors also noted the University’s concrete efforts towards diversifying the faculty body.

Chemistry professor Patrick Holland said recent efforts — such as diversity hiring policies

— demonstrate that the University is doing more than just paying lip service.

One department that appears ahead of the curve in terms of diversity is the Astronomy Department, where nine out of 18 non-emeritus faculty are women or minorities, astronomy and physics professor and Inaugural Dean of Faculty of Yale-NUS Charles Bailyn said.

This unusual diversity for a science, technology, engineering or mathematics department is the result of a concerted effort over the course of more than a decade, Bailyn said, adding that this diversity has increased the quality of the department.

Nevertheless, all faculty interviewed agreed that the University is far from reaching gender parity. Music associate professor Gundula Kreuzer said her department has an unusual gender imbalance for the humanities, adding that next year there will only be one female out of nine senior positions.

In 1952, Bessie Lee Gambrill, a professor in the former Department of Education, became the first woman to receive tenure at Yale.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Harvard Faculty 2014–15

39.5% Women 28% 22.5%

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McDougal Center to relocate

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER During the renovation of the Hall of Graduate Studies, the current location of the McDougal Center will be temporarily closed down. While the center will continue operating elsewhere, it is unclear whether it will return to its original location once the renovations are completed.

The center, which promotes student life and professional development for graduate students at Yale, offers meeting and music practice rooms, a common space for quiet studying, a printing station and resources for graduate student families. Moreover, it is centrally located in HGS. Students interviewed said they feel that the center is functional as it is, and that it serves an important social role by bringing together students from across the University.

“It should be kept as it is. I think it’s lovely, beautiful and antique,” Hasan Alsulami GRD ’15 said. “I don’t think they should renovate it or add something to it.”

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Director of the McDougal Center Lisa Brandes said the center will continue to carry out its functions during the renovations, albeit in a different location. She added that she is currently working with Provost Benjamin Polak to find a new space. Whether the center will return to the same space after the renovation is unclear.

The renovation project — which will likely transform HGS into a central space for the humanities at Yale — will take several years to complete and will involve student input, Brandes said.

McDougal Graduate Student Life, the group of students and

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As part of the renovation of HGS, the current location of the McDougal Center will be closed temporarily. staff who organize and provide the services of the center, hosts more than 140 events every year, many of which take place in the McDougal main common space and adjoining meeting rooms in HGS. In the 2012–13 year, events held by the McDougal Center drew 8,500 graduate and professional student participants, Brandes said.

Plans for the current McDougal Center began in 1996 and were led by psychology professor and current University President Peter Salovey. The HGS common room and basement spaces were converted into what now constitute the McDougal Center. The decorative interior of the common space was also restored to its original 1932 appearance.

A monthly event called “First Friday at Five” offers free food and drinks for 4,000 graduate students every year. Students interviewed said the event was

the most widely attended and popular one sponsored by the McDougal Center.

First Friday at Five is also an easy way to meet other graduate students, said Alice Eccles GRD ’15, who has attended the event in the past. But several graduate students also said that social events are only one part of the important functions of the common space. “[The McDougal Center] is quite nice because it is an area where you can work but also chat,” Eccles said. Graduate students are often isolated from one another because of the nature of their work, and the McDougal Center helps them interact with each other, said Alsulami.

The McDougal Center also houses the Blue Dog Cafe, which sells coffee, drinks and pastries to over 100 students every day.

The Blue Dog Cafe is convenient because prices are lower than at

other New Haven coffee shops, Eccles said.

Students also said they are satisfied with McDougal Center’s current appearance, describing the space as both functional and attractive.

“It would be a shame to get rid of any of the wood paneling,” Nikita Bernardi GRD ’16 said.

However, she added that the space does need some improvements — the floor needs repairing, for instance, and many of the electrical outlets in the wall do not work.

Bernardi also said the space has an “old-world feeling,” something she said she hopes will be preserved during the renovations.

The McDougal Center was dedicated in 1997 after a monetary gift from Alfred McDougal ’53.

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

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FROM THE FRONT How Yale punished sexual misconduct at SAE SAE FROM PAGE 1 intimate and private details about these encounters to others,” he wrote in a statement to the UWC last April. “Our encounters had become public knowledge to many in the Yale community.” Embarrassed that multiple peers had teased them about their sexual performances, the chaplains decided to address the comments publicly. Their roast became their platform.

Inside the fraternity house, the chaplains spoke in mock Spanish and Arabic accents, introducing Zoe as someone who had engaged in sexual relations with five members of the fraternity. The names of those members were listed, followed by description of their sexual performances based on the comments allegedly made by Zoe. Some of the comments mentioned in the speech were fabricated, according to Zoe, including remarks about the pubic hair of one brother.

Though the brothers had previously gossiped about her ratings, many of the freshman pledges had not heard her name before, according to SAE brothers present. Meanwhile, some of the older members who knew her sat in the back, presiding over the soon-to-be new brothers lined up in the middle of the room. No one interrupted.

The speech was a “ridiculous five minutes,” the SAE president told the fact-finder. By the end of the night, SAE had initiated 22 new members.

THE RUMORS

Zoe went to Box 63 with some friends on the Friday night after initiation. It was Valentine’s Day. Undergraduates flooded the dark dance floor, clustering around the bar and waving credit cards to pay for beer and hard liquor served in plastic cups. Amid the crowd, a freshman SAE pledge slipped his arm around Zoe and went in for a kiss. According to the UWC’s report, she pushed him away, but he continued flirting: “I know you like SAE boys.”

Zoe withdrew from his embrace and rejoined her friends on the dance floor. But another group of young men approached her, dancing close to her and trying to touch her. “We know you like SAE boys,” at least one of them said before an older member of SAE told them to back off.

She had never indicated interest in them.

Zoe was never meant to find out why she was suddenly attracting so much attention — chapter rituals are supposed to be secret. But, on Feb. 24, her roommate sat down on her bed to recount the rumors that had been swirling around campus — about her sex life and its role in the SAE initiation.

In that moment, however, Zoe did not grasp how those rumors would consume her life at Yale over the next year.

On Feb. 26, Zoe texted the SAE president to ask to meet with him. At Wall Street Pizza, he recounted what occurred at the initiation. He had no role in the creation of the speech, nor did he approve it in advance, he told her. He downplayed its contents, saying the remarks about

her were brief. The purpose of the speech was to poke fun at the brothers and be self-deprecating, not to publicly shame her, he said — reasoning that the chaplains later echoed in conversations with her.

The discussion inside the pizza joint turned to the president’s advice for her. When Zoe told him that her friends had urged her to alert University officials, the president warned her to lay low: bringing the event to the administration’s attention would hurt her already damaged reputation, as well as that of the fraternity. So, too, would continuing to drink and hook up tarnish her image on campus.

She could expect phone calls for hookups in the middle of the night, but none to ask her out on a date, he told her. “I gave her my honest opinion and said that I thought that this would not be the best course of action,” the president wrote about the conversation in a statement to the UWC last April. “I did this in good faith, acting as a friend to whom she had come for advice …

I in no way intended to threaten her.”

I either report it and get blacklisted by SAE and have a lot of people hate me, or I do nothing and let them get away with it and have people judge me for letting them take advantage of me. It’s such a lose lose.

ZOE It was after this conversation that Zoe realized she had lost control of the situation.

“If I had found out about these boys talking about me and stuff that they had done with me and things that I had allegedly said about them in the comfort of their own homes, I would not have been surprised,’” she said.

“Of course they’re going to talk about me. Girls talk about this all the time. Guys talk about this all the time. That in itself would not have bothered me.” The fact that this was an official initiation event in front of almost two dozen freshman boys, as well as many male classmates she considered friends, was what scared her.

Zoe struggled with the decision to file a complaint. She spoke with her sisters, several of her close friends and the dean of her residential college. “It occupied my mind, every single minute of the day,” she said.

She suddenly had the feeling that everyone knew who she was and that they were talking about her. She was simultaneously disturbed by what they knew, but also anxious that all the gossip had twisted the truth of what had actually occurred.

Throughout the spring, she was acutely aware of encounters with SAE members around campus, doing her best to avoid the

five men featured in the speech, including one who was in her residential college. She stopped going to classes and going out on weekends. She lost sight of her academic work.

She lost sleep. Her appetite seemed to diminish. She texted her sister in March: “I either report it and get blacklisted by SAE and have a lot of people hate me, or I do nothing and let them get away with it and have people judge me for letting them take advantage of me. It’s such a lose lose.”

But finally, she resolved not to take the president’s advice. She would make a complaint.

THE INVESTIGATION

On April 21, roughly nine weeks after the initiation event, Zoe filed a formal complaint with the UWC against the fraternity president and the two chaplains.

She cited not only the pledge event itself, but also what she considered to be ensuing sexual harassment — from her runin with fraternity members at Box 63 to her conversation with the SAE president at Wall Street Pizza following the initiation.

The UWC formally charged the members on April 25.

Over the course of one week, the News sought comment from the three brothers, but they did not respond. Yale SAE as an organization declined to comment on the events of initiation to abide by a confidentiality agreement governing UWC proceedings.

According to UWC procedures, the committee responds to a formal complaint by requesting a report from an independent fact-finder and conducting at least one hearing. A five-person panel selected from within the UWC then judges whether or not the respondent has violated University policy. If the panel finds the respondent responsible, it prescribes punishments, which are subject to the approval and modifications of a “final decision-maker,” in this case the dean of Yale College.

Over the course of about a month, the independent factfinder, Miriam Berkman LAW ’82, interviewed Zoe, her friends, the three accused brothers and other members of the fraternity.

As a supervisor at the Yale Child Study Center’s Trauma Section, Berkman is not formally independent from the University, as UWC regulations state factfinders must be.

Her investigation was impeded by SAE members’ repeated attempts to shape the account of the events she was seeking to retrace. According to the documents, the two chaplains claimed they had no electronic or paper access to the original speech to submit to Berkman, who then asked one of them to hand over his laptop to Yale Police to see if the document could be recovered from the hard drive. The chaplain replied that he could not do so — he was on a train to New York and flying out of the country the following morning.

The president also advised fraternity members about “sticking to the same story” when talking to Berkman to avoid putting the fraternity at risk,

THE SPEECH THE FACT-FINDER’S REPORT DESCRIBES THE CHAPLAINS’ REMARKS

AT BOX 63 THE FACT-FINDER’S REPORT DESCRIBES ENSUING SEXUAL HARASSMENT

according to the panel report. He maintained that his comment was in reference to the chapter’s violation of SAE’s March 2014 national ban on pledging, but the UWC panel also wrote that it stemmed from an encouragement to lie to the fact-finder.

The panel found that “fraternity members were likely to interpret [the president’s] statement as advice intended to dissuade them from being forthcoming and honest ... as President of the fraternity, [he] failed to make it clear to members that they were free to cooperate with the UWC investigation and that doing so would not impact their standing in the fraternity.”

“Taken together, these passive refusals to participate in the UWC investigation process indicate at least that members of the fraternity are reluctant or afraid to talk about matters related to the activities of the fraternity,” Berkman stated in her June 11, 2014 report.

To encourage SAE members to cooperate with her investigation, the fact-finder did not disclose the identities of four freshmen interviewed who were present at the initiation event, deviating from standard UWC practice of naming witnesses in reports.

“I am trying to find a way for them to testify without being specifically named in my report and I believe I have worked this out with the Counsel’s office,” she wrote in an email to Zoe dated May 21, 2014. If a critical mass of brothers came forward, she said, “it will keep any one individual from being singled out for retribution” by other members of the fraternity.

By contrast, a witness vouching for Zoe was named in the report, which left the individual vulnerable to retaliation by members of SAE, Zoe said. When contacted by the News, Berkman declined to comment on this disparity, citing confidentiality of UWC cases.

The UWC panel held the hearing on July 7. Zoe and the three brothers delivered pre-written opening statements, which were provided to the News. One of the chaplains said the speech was “meant to be self-deprecating and light-hearted” and conceded that he had since come to recognize the “unintended consequences of a thoughtless action.” The other chaplain emphasized his “acute sense that a very large group of people, many of whom I did not know, knew of these mortifying and embarrassing details of my sexual relationship with [Zoe]” and that the speech was a means of coping with his “mortification.”

Taken together, these passive refusals to participate in the UWC investigation process indicate at least that members of the fraternity are reluctant or afraid to talk about matters related to the activities of the fraternity.

MIRIAM BERKMAN LAW ’82 Independent fact-finder In his statement before the panel, the president defended his conversation with Zoe at Wall Street Pizza, citing the “disconnect between [Zoe’s] impressions and my intentions” as a challenge to the accusation that he threatened her. He denied that he placed “any pressure on anyone to make a misleading statement” to the fact-finder. And further, he claimed she “bore

some responsibility for fueling gossip about her private life by choosing to discuss details of her sexual encounters with friends.”

The panel’s report is timestamped July 14. It concluded that the president and the two chaplains had violated Yale’s sexual misconduct policy by engaging in sexual harassment — the two chaplains in their speech and the president in his failure to stop it, as well as in his subsequent behavior. The president had impeded the investigation, and though he had not threatened Zoe, his remarks to her had the effect of perpetuating a hostile climate based on her gender, the panel found.

“In general, [the president’s] actions after the ... event were focused on protecting ... the fraternity and on shielding it from any responsibility for the speech in February rather than on stopping or repairing the damage caused by it,” the panel wrote in its report.

All three brothers were put on probation, which was noted on their academic records. The two chaplains, who graduated that spring, would receive their diplomas, but their probation would remain on their academic records. The panel recommended the president receive “training on leadership and sexual harassment.”

Further, the University was to implement sanctions against the fraternity as a whole. These included a ban on on-campus activities, a ban on communication via Yale email systems and bulletin boards and a prohibition on the use of the SAE name in connection with Yale for a period of two years, ending August 2016. The panel also recommended that the SAE national headquarters “take appropriate disciplinary action — beyond the action already taken by Yale — against the local chapter.”

SEE SAE CONT. PAGE 5

CODE OF CONDUCT THE FACT-FINDER’S REPORT DESCRIBES FRATERNITY SECRECY

PASSIVE REFUSAL THE FACT-FINDER’S REPORT DESCRIBES EFFORTS TO GET BROTHERS TO TALK

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On Feb. 14, Zoe went to Box 63 on Elm Street. Men approached her, saying, “We know you like SAE boys.”

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PROVIDED TO THE YALE DAILY NEWS

This photograph captures the backyard of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on April 26, 2014, during a party on the day of Spring Fling. It does not depict events specifically described in the text of this story. This image was captured before the University sanctioned the fraternity as a result of the case outlined in this story.

SAE CONT. FROM PAGE 4 The president and one of the chaplains filed appeals with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, the final decision-maker in the case, protesting the UWC’s findings and requesting that he reduce the recommended sanctions. But Holloway endorsed the panel’s recommendations on July 22.

On July 30, Zoe was informed that the president had appealed Holloway’s decision to Provost Benjamin Polak. On Aug. 18, Polak rejected his appeal.

Meanwhile, SAE national headquarters did not receive notification of the incident until administrators contacted them in August 2014, roughly five months after Zoe filed the formal complaint, at which point they launched an investigation to learn more details about what may have happened, said Brandon Weghorst, a spokesman for SAE national. “We cannot validate what may have been said between various members or between members and nonmembers,” he wrote in an email.

“Regardless, we absolutely expect our brothers to act as gentlemen at all times and do not condone demeaning or derogatory language. The headquarters imposed a number of sanctions on the chapter.” He did not respond to subsequent inquiries seeking specific details of the sanctions.

But as it would become clear in the fall semester, those measures — in addition to the sanctions imposed by the University — did not carry much weight.

THE SANCTIONS: IN “LETTER,” BUT NOT IN “SPIRIT”

It was 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday night, Dec. 4, 2014, almost 10 months after SAE initiation.

It was cold enough to warrant a ski jacket. The houses of High Street, Yale’s equivalent of “Fraternity Row,” pulsated with the beats of dance music. At SAE, a pair of brothers wearing ski masks sat on the stoop, guarding the door above which their letters hang. After passing an ID inspection, guests were directed through the house to the backyard, the source of the music.

Students lined up to take shots from an ice luge, then arranged shot glasses on a ski to take a round as a group. Paper snowflakes hung from string across the patio. A bubble machine overhead created a snowfall effect. The theme was “Après Ski.” Hundreds of Yale students had received a Facebook invitation to

the event reading, “après-ski / verb/ (Turkish: getting drunk before reading week, after skiing): going out, having a good time, dancing and socializing after skiing … Skiing experience optional, ski attire, required.”

The Yale European Undergraduates, Yale Arab Student Association and the “brothers of SAE” were hosting, according to a screenshot of the event invitation. The event was typical frat bacchanalia, nothing out of the ordinary. SAE traditionally throws “Late Night” parties on Thursdays, offering beer from kegs and punch to anyone with a Yale ID. The event was later deleted from Facebook.

Administrators were unaware of the event at the time, only later learning of it when Zoe brought it to their attention as a violation of the terms of the University’s sanctions against SAE — they were co-hosting an event with Yale organizations, failing to comply with restrictions on using their name in conjunction with the Yale brand. SAE said they did not know it was a breach. “We were not aware it constituted a violation of the sanctions,” the brothers said in an emailed statement to the News. “The Apres Ski party was financed and planned entirely by the [Yale European Undergraduates]. It was merely held on our property.”

The News could not find evidence of any concrete measures taken by the University to monitor SAE’s compliance with the terms of their probation, which had minor effects on the everyday operations of the fraternity. “The punishment was a slap on the wrist,” said a student who was a brother at the time.

Because SAE’s house is off-campus, the on-campus ban had virtually no impact, like imposing rules on residents of one state and expecting them to apply to residents across the border. SAE could advertise its functions via Facebook or Gmail rather than Yale email. On the day after the sanctions were handed down, some of the brothers created a map with locations of where SAE could host parties and events because they could not do so on Yale’s campus or Universityowned properties, according to two students who were SAE brothers at the time. “They were not accepting the spirit of the punishment,” a former brother said. “Just the letter of the punishment.”

Meanwhile, the administration tried to implement cultural reform within the fraternity to varying degrees of success, reflecting a history of

fraught relations. Holloway said the administration has continuously questioned keeping Greek life as a whole — nine fraternities and three sororities — at arm’s length. “Some say we really need to strengthen our ties because then we can control them better,” he said in an interview about how the University interacts with Greek organizations. “Others say we don’t want this risk.

This is out of control. They are a liability. I don’t think Yale has really made a firm commitment.”

Indeed, Holloway said the power of the University to regulate an off-campus group with Yale affiliation, such as Greek organizations, is “limited.”

“But as individuals in the organization, they are still Yale students,” he added. “So if a Yale student is found in violation, we have the full power of the University.”

Hannah Peck DIV ’11, director of student affairs and Yale’s designated Greek life liaison, had engaged fraternity leadership in ongoing conversations throughout the fall 2014 semester, “trying to build trust amongst the organizations,” as Holloway explained. The brothers confirmed in an email that they “have been in constant contact with the administration, both to ensure that the sanctions are being followed and to assist ... in moving past the incident of last spring.”

But the purpose of these discussions was not to emphasize SAE’s punishment; it was to ensure members were making strides in creating a more positive sexual environment. The intent was “educative,” as Holloway put it. With no clear sense of how violations would be punished, however, the fraternity was given little motivation to follow the letter of their restrictions. They pushed its limits. “It is an us-against-them mentality with the administration,” the former brother said.

When contacted for further comment about the University’s dealing in this specific case, Holloway said in an email that he “simply cannot comment on this now that your story has taken this turn.”

Some fraternity members attempted to lead an internal push for reform in the wake of the sanctions, which roiled the fraternity despite their limited effect on day-to-day operations. Some of the brothers learned only in the fall that the president at the time of the spring initiation had told Zoe to keep her head down and ride out the rumors. His stance did not reflect the views of the fraternity

TRUTHFUL ACCOUNTS THE PANEL CONCLUDES THAT DECEPTION WAS ENCOURAGED

OBJECTIVELY OFFENSIVE THE PANEL FINDS THAT THE SPEECH WAS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Yale’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity faces sanctions pertaining to a Feb. 12, 2014 initation ceremony and ensuing actions that the UWC found constituted sexual misconduct.

as a whole; rather, other members condemned how he had handled the conversation with her, according a student who was an SAE brother at the time.

How would the University have reacted if this event had been caught on tape and released on the Internet?

ZOE Some members of the fraternity met on Sept. 2 to discuss the events of initiation, how Zoe was treated thereafter and how it was unacceptable behavior. They saw SAE’s reputation for sexual misconduct as connected to their “demeaning” initiation process.

“People did not understand that link,” the former brother said.

“The process is all about telling freshmen, ‘You’re worthless, you’re not good enough, you need to be refashioned, you’re not valuable.’ It’s just a trial, an ordeal.” New members internalize those dehumanizing experiences and project them outward in other social contexts, including how they treat women, the brother argued.

Certain brothers petitioned to eliminate certain traditions, but they were unsuccessful due to significant resistance from senior members, several brothers said. An email from a brother outlining changes was initially met with approval before it encountered stiff opposition from others, who demanded a meeting. Older members threatened to leave the fraternity if change came too quickly. A deal was struck: The tradition would take place once more but then never again.

Splintered among their ranks, SAE would face an arduous process of rebuilding.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONFIDENCE

Meanwhile, Zoe continued to push the administration to uphold, as well as to publicize, the terms of the sanctions against the fraternity. She corresponded with administrators on seven different email threads in the fall semester and met with University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler to address the aftermath of the hearing. In fact, it was only weeks after the hearing that Zoe suggested in a meeting with UWC chair David Post that SAE write an open letter to the student body apologizing for the incident of sexual misconduct.

But during the fall semester, administrators instead encouraged her to meet with Melanie Boyd, assistant dean of student affairs and the director of the Communication and Consent Educators, peer educators who runs workshops on sexual consent. As a result of conversations with Boyd, Zoe made a presentation to a group of CCEs explaining the process of filing a UWC complaint and describing the details of her story in confidence.

On Dec. 3, she pressed administrators to elaborate on their efforts to enforce the sanctions against SAE. “I strongly feel that my peers should know that the SAE suspension has been imposed, let alone what the fraternity members did to warrant such a punishment,” she wrote in an email to Post and Dean of

Student Affairs Marichal Gentry.

She wrote again on Dec. 11, emphasizing a formal letter’s importance in informing the student body that the fraternity had been sanctioned for sexual misconduct. Post replied later that day: “We have not finalize [sic] the final wording but we will considered [sic] both a ‘violation of undergraduate regulations’ and ‘a violation of sexual misconduct policy’ ... I understand your point of view and concerns but we have additional privacy concerns we have to balance.”

In further emails, administrators promised to send the letter at the beginning of the spring semester. It was on Feb. 13, 2015, that Holloway finally addressed the Yale community in an email, prefacing a letter of apology signed by “The Brothers of SAE.” A full year had passed since the SAE initiation event. Zoe had no advance warning and was shocked to find the letter in her email inbox when she awoke that morning.

Post offered this explanation of the decision to send a campuswide email: “At times, when the sanctions in a particular case affect the way that an individual or organization interacts with the community, the University may share information about those sanctions with the affected community.”

He added in reference to the revelation of details of a UWC case, “I am deeply disturbed by this breach of confidentiality.

Confidentiality protects the parties and the process. Publishing the details of cases discourages reliance on the UWC and undermines the ability of the UWC to provide a fair and thorough review of very serious matters.”

Holloway’s campuswide email marked the first time the University had brought public attention to the case. The account included sparse information, as dictated by the University’s confidentiality requirement for UWC proceedings. According to the UWC’s statement on confidentiality, “The purpose of confidentiality is to encourage parties and witnesses to participate in UWC proceedings and share all the information they have to offer, which is essential to reaching a fair outcome.”

The message described the event as “a presentation that was found to be in violation of the University’s policy on sexual misconduct” and revealed that members had made “attempts to impede the investigation.” The brothers outlined their reform efforts: They had adjusted their new member initiation process to “more clearly reflect the values of our organization” and had initiated meetings with the CCEs. The brothers had received professional guidance on “promoting good citizenship and creating a more positive sexual climate.” They had used chapter funds to send three officers to national leadership training last fall. Finally, they had met with an institutional psychologist who emphasized culture change.

“We believe we have made significant progress in this area,” the brothers said in the statement emailed to the News.

The Yale Women’s Center praised the decision to notify the student body but questioned the underlying logic of confidentiality as applied to SAE, “not an individual but an influential organization,” according to a statement provided to the News in February.

Able to impart only a few details, the email appeared

strong-handed against sexual misconduct while suggesting that the fraternity had learned its lesson. The perception in some corners of the media was that the University had been forceful, indeed perhaps unduly so, in reaction to the misdeeds.

“Total Frat Move,” a humor site catering to Greek life audiences nationwide, published a story with the headline: “Yale Just Dicked Its SAE Chapter Because Of Comments Made A Year Ago By Graduated Members.” The story, quoting SAE national officials who expressed shock that Yale would punish the entire fraternity for the actions of the few who made “nothing but a few ‘inappropriate comments,’” argued that “Collegeaged males are comprised of alcohol and a ravenous sexual appetite. What the fuck do universities think these guys are going to discuss?”

Rather than bringing attention to the issue of sexual misconduct, the administration appeared to come down hard on a couple of bantering boys. Confidentiality protected the identities of the individuals involved, but it hindered the administration in providing a timely and accurate portrayal of what happened as a means of educating the Yale community, Zoe said.

Zoe also felt that the fraternity had not upheld its end of the confidentiality agreement. The more than 50 members who had attended initiation were free to circulate rumors about what had happened, she said. Meanwhile, she was silenced by UWC confidentiality, unable to clarify the truth. She compared her case to SAE’s racist chants at the University of Oklahoma last month.

“How would the University have reacted if this event had been caught on tape and released on the Internet?” she asked.

THE AFTERMATH

Zoe has struggled to move on, but so has the fraternity. Since the sanctions, the brothers of SAE have renewed their focus on ensuring that fraternity members conduct themselves with respect in all interactions, they said. “We recognize that the incident last spring was wrong, and we sincerely apologize,” they wrote in an email. “We want SAE to be a positive social outlet and a safe place for everyone. We do not believe that productive conversations addressing last spring’s incident hinder progress. We are trying to move on and improve, making sure no similar incidents arise in the future.”

Nevertheless, the UWC case has come to define Zoe’s years at Yale. After the UWC case concluded, her parents raised the possibility of her transferring to another university for junior year. They knew the toll the case and its aftermath had taken on her and wanted her to get a fresh start. She rejected the idea — she wanted to see her education through.

This spring, the last of the SAE brothers found responsible in the UWC case will graduate. But Zoe still has senior year ahead of her. The case will continue to affect her in ways large and small. In the library or around a seminar table, she wonders who has heard the nastier strains of the rumors.

“This entire thing has forever changed the way I interact with the student body,” she said.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

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“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”

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Hudak in critical condition

Yale-NUS cohort declares majors

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER By now, almost every member of Yale-NUS’s inaugural class has declared their major — and among four fields to choose from, the social sciences have been most favored.

According to data published by The Octant, Yale-NUS’s student newspaper, 52 percent of sophomore majors will specialize in the social sciences. The humanities, meanwhile, attracted 26 percent of declared majors. Fourteen percent of sophomores chose the sciences, while 8 percent are majoring in environmental studies.

Yale-NUS will also offer academic minors, which students will be able to declare at a later date.

Because this is the first year of major selection at Yale-NUS and it is difficult to discern trends from one data set, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Tan Tai Yong said curricular changes will not be made on the basis of the results.

“It is unlikely that we will be making alterations to our existing curriculum based on this first year of data, but we will keep an eye on the statistics to see how we can best meet student needs as our curriculum matures,” Yong said.

Yong said 147 sophomores had declared their majors, out of 148 total students in the class. There are 14 majors available to YaleNUS students, including anthropology, economics, global affairs,

politics, philosophy and economics, psychology and urban studies in the social sciences; and arts and humanities, history, literature and philosophy under the humanities classification. The science division also has three majors: life sciences, mathematical, computational and statistical sciences and physical sciences.

In reflecting on their decisions, students interviewed generally expressed satisfaction with the resources Yale-NUS provides for their respective departments.

However, they also expressed a desire to see these departments continue to grow and add resources for students.

Zhiwen Yap YNUS ’17, who is majoring in arts and humanities, said that although the support for visual arts is substantial at YaleNUS, she thinks the number of faculty in the arts needs to increase.

“As a young college, the Art Department currently still needs to hire more professors in the various art disciplines, especially the performance and studio art aspect,” Yap said. “Hiring in these areas is in the works, and I hope these efforts will come to fruition soon so more practical courses can be offered.”

Randy Yeo YNUS ’17, a philosophy major, decided on his major after taking philosophy classes as part of Yale-NUS’s liberal arts core curriculum. Yeo said that while he believes the department’s resources to be relatively strong, the college would do well to add

more faculty members. “[The] bulk of the team is required to teach the introductory philosophy modules for the incoming freshmen, so that means [fewer] resources for the upperclassmen,” Yeo said.

Yeo said Yale-NUS will only offer two philosophy courses next semester. Although students interested in philosophy will be able to take an expanded range of classes at the National University of Singapore, Yeo said that increasing these opportunities at Yale-NUS would be beneficial for students.

Michael Anthony YNUS ’17, who will be majoring in math, said Yale-NUS has good resources for students interested in pursuing the field, including quality professors and a large amount of literature on mathematical topics. However, he said it would be helpful if the college purchased mathematical computer programs — such as Maple, a computer algebra system — to help students explore the discipline in more depth. Anthony also added that even though undergraduate research in math is less common than in the sciences, Yale-NUS could do more to expose students to what mathematical research is like, perhaps through offering the opportunity to pursue independent research.

In the 2013–14 academic year, 41 percent of Yale juniors and seniors majored in the social sciences.

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

MAJOR DECLARATION RESULTS BY DIVISION Of the Yale-NUS class of 2017, 52% declared as Social Science majors, 26% as Humanities majors, 14% as Science majors and 8% as Environmental Studies majors.

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Saybrook College Master Paul Hudak is in critical condition due to side effects from a stem cell transplant in 2010.

HUDAK FROM PAGE 1 into critical condition yesterday evening, Holloway said in his email.

According to Holloway’s email and an additional message sent by Senior Fellow Robert Levine, Hudak’s family has come to the hospital to support him during this recent challenge. Levine and Holloway welcomed notes of encouragement from the Yale community and Saybrook students — and many individuals have already answered these calls for support.

Magdalena Zielonka ’17 said the response to Holloway’s email has been “immediate and profound,” and that she encourages the whole Saybrook community to support one another during this tough time.

“I can without a doubt say that Master Hudak has had a tremendous impact on all Saybrugians, and the extent to which his absence over these past few months has been felt is a testament to his incredible person and work in Saybrook,” she said.

Jordan Coley ’17 said it is unfortunate that

Hudak has been sick for most of Coley’s time at the University. Coley said he has heard stories from juniors, seniors and Hudak himself about the master suiting up for club lacrosse and playing intramural basketball, among other activities. Hudak is a lighthearted, caring individual with a wonderful sense of humor, Coley said.

Yale College Council President Michael Herbert ’16, also a member of Saybrook, noted that Hudak has always gone out of his way to be visible to students, adding that his thoughts and prayers are with Hudak’s family as they support Hudak in his recovery.

“When the new master for Saybrook was announced, Salovey acknowledged Hudak’s service and there was an extended standing ovation,” Herbert said.

Hudak became the ninth master of Saybrook College on July 1, 2009.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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Second challenger to Harp enters race HARP FROM PAGE 1 selves and the city. He could be a great asset.”

Smith, who could not be reached for comment Wednesday, served as city clerk while Clark sat on the Board of Alders. He was unseated after 10 years in office by current City Clerk Michael Smart, who was elected in 2013 after an endorsement from the Democratic Town Committee.

Keitazulu said he believes Smith should not run for mayor as an independent.

“It’s not a smart decision,” he said, “because no independent has ever become mayor in New Haven.”

But, Democracy Fund Administrator Alyson Heimer said, Smith’s status as an independent candidate does not prohibit him from utilizing the fund, the city’s public campaign financing program that offers grants and matching funds to candidates who agree not to accept personal donations exceeding $370. Heimer said that while she has spoken to Keitazulu about his interest in the fund, she has not yet met with Smith or Harp.

As Smith starts his path toward entering the race, the other two candidates have already made headway on the campaign trail.

Clark said the Harp campaign is continuing to raise funds, adding that

she is excited to collaborate with Harp’s new campaign manager, Rick Melita. Clark said Melita will be valuable to the campaign due to his extensive experience at the state level. In 2006, he worked on the primary campaign of Ned Lamont’s SOM ’80 for U.S. Senate, and, since then, he has worked as a policy director for former state House Majority Leader Chris Donovan.

Keitazulu has also selected his campaign manager. Wendy Hamilton, a retired nurse and Wooster Square resident, will run Keitazulu’s campaign.

Keitazulu said he chose Hamilton because she is passionate about the key issues on his platform, namely job creation and education reform.

“Year after year, new politicians come in, but everything stays the same,” Keitazulu said. “I’m trying to finally implement some change, and I’m going all the way to November.”

Meanwhile, Clark said, in Harp’s camp, she is working with Melita to continue organizing fundraising events. The campaign released an internal report on April 1 that showed encouraging levels of funds, she said.

Harp’s campaign will have a fundraising event on April 29 at Park Place East restaurant in the East Rock neighborhood.

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

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Mayor Toni Harp is organizing a variety of fundraising events as part of her bid for re-election this November.

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“Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.”

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Alders discuss police, fire department budgets

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As the Board of Alders moved toward approving a budget for the coming fiscal year at a Wednesday night Finance Committee meeting, overtime costs and hiring levels at the police and fire departments rose to the forefront of discussion.

At the meeting in City Hall, city administrators and the alders discussed the finances of the two departments, as laid out in the draft of the city budget for fiscal year 2016. Chief among the alders’ concerns were overtime expenditures and the creation of new positions in the police and fire departments. Last night’s hearing was the fourth of the alders’ series of five budget workshops, which have been held since Mayor Toni Harp announced the provisional city budget in February.

New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman said the police department is endorsing

the budget, which will allow for the hiring of new officers. Esserman said these hirings will reduce overtime expenditures.

“I think we’re moving in the right direction,” Esserman said.

“For the last four years, since before I got here, we lost more officers than we hired every year.

But we finally caught up, and the way we did that was with [the alders’] help.”

Esserman said the department has so far graduated 60 officers from its two academies since December 2014, and 34 more will graduate in July. As a result of the new hires, overtime expenditures have fallen from $4.5 million to $4 million this fiscal year, and for the coming fiscal year, the department is requesting only $3 million from the city.

Additionally, at least 75 officers — the majority of recently graduated officers — will serve on walking beats, Esserman said. That decision is part of the department’s effort to expand commu-

nity policing throughout the city.

Ward 17 Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr. expressed concern over the number of retirements and resignations the police force might see in coming months. In response, Esserman said that while 48 officers are eligible for retirement this year, he expects only roughly 24 officers to retire by the end of this fiscal year. Resignations are less common than retirements from the police force, but some officers do leave to join higher-paying police departments in the region, Esserman said.

Paolillo noted the police department is currently running a $500,000 deficit, and overtime expenditures now stand at $75,000 per week. But this year’s budget accounts for an average of $60,000 per week in overtime — in order balance the budget, the department will need to limit overtime spending to $50,000 for the next 12 weeks.

One of the 25 new positions the police department is requesting is

a community outreach coordinator. That position will work with the public to distribute information about the department, especially through social media.

The fire department is facing many of the same concerns as the police department: a high deficit, overtime costs and a history of stagnant hiring. Before this year, no recruit class had graduated since 2008, and no promotion ceremony had been held in 14 years, said New Haven Fire Department Chief Allyn Wright.

But Wright said the fire department is making progress: One class of recruits graduated earlier this year, and two more will graduate later in the year, on May 15 and in July respectively. The department hopes to graduate a fourth group later in the year.

Those graduations mean that the department, which had only 234 firefighters last July, could have up to 357 by next year, a level not seen since 2004.

Wright expressed optimism

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Together with its neighboring states, Connecticut is at the forefront of addressing issues of economic and racial inequality in public school classrooms, according to the findings of a recent report.

In the 10th of a series of 12 reports conducted by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, which documents changes in the demographics of public school classrooms across northeast and midAtlantic states, Connecticut was pinpointed as a state showing significant improvements in diversifying its school districts. The study primarily examined the concentration of minority students in Connecticut public schools, paying close attention to the differences in racial makeups between urban and suburban schools.

Jongyeon Ee, one of two authors of the study, said that although the state has made significant strides to diversify its classrooms, there is still work to do.

“The Bridgeport district and the New Haven district have a great number of black and Latino students who go to intensely segregated schools,” she said in an email.

In these intensely segregated schools, minority students comprise anywhere between 90 and 100 percent of the student population, according to the report.

The study found that urban schools in the state had the highest concentrations of minority students. Ee noted that one of the key factors driving up these numbers is that a growing population of minority students is enrolling in public schools.

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At the same, the study found that, while racial and economic isolation continue to exist in New Haven and other urban areas in the state, substantial progress has been made since the 1990s. According to Ee, the 1996 Sheff v. O’Neill state Supreme Court case became the driving force behind the improvement in racial and economic diversity in Connecticut public schools over the last decade.

This case brought forward evidence accusing the state of denying minority students their fundamental rights to equal education under state law. The prosecutors further argued that the state provided fewer monetary resources to primarily minority-populated schools in comparison to white-dominated schools in Hartford.

John Humphries, the outreach coordinator for the Sheff movement, echoed the importance of the case in promoting diversity in Connecticut’s local public schools. The Sheff movement works to promote quality, integrated education for all students through outreach, advocacy and community engagement, according to its website.

“The results that have been achieved here in Hartford have definitely served as inspiration for the rest of the state,” he said.

Humphries described the structure of the current magnet school system, which developed in the wake of the case, as one of the most important ways to diversify classrooms in Connecticut. Educational choice programs such as Open Choice in Hartford, he said, allow urban youth to attend suburban magnet schools with

4.8%

Asian free transportation, enticing students to move across school district lines using specialized academic programs in a public school setting.

“This remedy neither merged the districts nor mandated that students or teachers transfer across district lines to achieve integration, but relied almost completely on choice programs, which enabled some city students to transfer to suburban schools,” he said.

Sherri Davis-Googe, director of choice and enrollment for New Haven Public Schools, said the main purpose of magnet schools is to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation. School Choice is New Haven’s own educational choice program that helps local families choose neighborhood, magnet and charter school options that best fit their educational needs. Davis-Googe said she thinks that magnet schools benefit their students by offering specialized and innovated curricula, small learning environments and a diverse population of students.

“The outcome of these benefits is the development of a community of learners who are truly engaged in learning based on a shared interest,” Davis-Googe said in an email. “The dynamic works to help all students rise to their potential.”

She added that New Haven is proud of its portfolio of magnet school programs and believes they meet the needs of a diverse student body.

New Haven County has 17 magnet schools.

Contact ALEC HERNANDEZ at alec.hernandez@yale.edu .

per week.

Carter said this cut may be possible once the third class of recruits graduates, assuming the number of retirees stays low — Carter only expects around a dozen.

Paolillo cast some doubt on the ability of the fire department to stay within its financial constraints. The department’s deficit stands at $4 million, a figure that might limit the department’s actions.

“You can hire all the classes that you want, but if you don’t plan appropriately, you’re just running backwards on a treadmill,” he said.

Like Esserman, Wright has requested the hiring of a community relations staffer. At present, Wright himself does much of the department’s community relations — he estimated that he attends at least 90 events per year.

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

YEI launches new prize with tech firm Numenta

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER

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about the financial future of the department.

“We have a great training division, and that’s actually training our recruits right now,” he said.

“I’m going to bring back diversity training, and I want to look into physical fitness and make sure our firefighters are in shape.”

But some dark spots might loom on the department’s horizon. Both Wright and Ward 4 Alder Andrea Jackson-Brooks remarked on the poor physical condition of many firehouses across the city, some of which are in “dire straits,” according to Wright. Chief Administrative Officer Mike Carter said the city’s engineering department is currently working with the fire department on a capital projects “master plan” to improve fire infrastructure.

Additionally, overtime costs are still a concern. The department has averaged $160,000 per week in overtime costs for the last several months, and Carter said he plans to cut that figure to $50,000

The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute is launching a $10,000 prize in partnership with Silicon Valley-based company Numenta, which works on machine intelligence.

Buoyed by the success of its Internet of Things Prize, which was awarded this February, the YEI has entered into its second prize-giving partnership with external companies. With the launch of the Numenta Startup Prize, Yale students, faculty and alumni who propose to start a business taking advantage of Numenta’s machine-learning technology will have a chance to obtain financial, technological and business support.

“We are bringing the broader world to Yale,” said YEI Deputy Director Erika Smith.

Such partnerships add to the pool of ideas that Yale students and faculty already have and also represent an opportunity to create scalable innovation, Smith said.

YEI Communications Officer Brita Belli said the prize will showcase not only innovation at Yale, but also the remarkable work of Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky ’77. Dubinsky played a key role in developing the personal digital assistant, which includes devices such as the Palm Pilot. She also sits on the Yale Corporation.

Numenta has modeled its machinelearning system on the human brain, Dubinsky said. The software takes in streaming data and learns to recognize normal sequences. This equips the system to recognize abnormalities, such as unusual server activity indicating

impending computer crashes and deviations of ships off of their normal paths, she said.

“We want to enable others to build their applications on top of our technology,” said Dubinsky. “The Yale contest is an experiment for us. We believe that if you give a bunch of smart people the platform, they’re going to come up with all kinds of interesting ideas that we haven’t thought of.”

The appeal of the Internet of Things Prize, which drew 18 applications and awarded money to two winning teams, makes the group optimistic that the Numenta Prize will attract interest across the University, Belli said.

Machine-learning technology has great potential in any industry that deals with a lot of data, she added, citing healthcare and the environmental sciences as two fields which would likely be especially interested.

Numenta’s software is already being used to monitor server activity, safeguard against rogue employee behavior and track shipments geospatially, Dubinsky said. The technology was able to detect failure in computer networks two hours before conventional methods in trials conducted by Amazon, Dubinsky added.

“I believe that this is the next generation of computing. We’re at the end of the road of classic computing and the problems that they can solve,” Dubinsky said.

The Numenta Startup Prize info session will be held at the YEI Thursday evening.

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

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City doubles NHPD Traffic Enforcement Division

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER The Traffic Enforcement Division of the New Haven Police Department will double in size, city officials announced Wednesday morning.

Standing alongside Mayor Toni Harp on the steps of City Hall, NHPD Chief Dean Esserman told a small crowd at a press conference that the department is doubling the number of motor officers and also purchasing new motorcycles. The division, which currently operates seven motorcycles with six motor officers, will be adding six additional motor officers.

Harp, who introduced Esserman, said the measure aims to not only enforce penalties on those who violate motor vehicle laws, but also raise awareness of traffic safety procedures and call attention to the risks street traffic poses in the city.

“It all sounds great until all those walkers, runners, bike riders and pedestrians start mixing it up with cars and trucks on our streets, sidewalks and crosswalks,” Harp said at the press conference. “It’s clear to me we must do all we can to separate the cars and trucks from all those other vulnerable users. Because in almost every single case, if a vulnerable user comes in contact with a car or truck, the vulnerable user will lose.”

Esserman said the employee and equipment increase in the division, which entails adding another work shift for officers, will lead to more motor officers working in more neighborhoods throughout the city. He also said two bicycle officers will be working in each of New Haven’s 10 districts.

“We’ll have 30 to 40 bikes in the city now for the first time,” Esserman said.

City officials stressed that the measure seeks to improve the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and drivers alike in the city.

Ward 8 Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said the expansion is an important first step for improving traffic safety, an issue of concern in many Elm City neighborhoods. Last fall, an 81-year-old woman was killed in a fatal accident while crossing the intersection of Olive and Greene Streets in Wooster Square.

Director of Transportation for New Haven Doug Hausladen ’04 said there has been consistent demand for the increase of traffic enforcement since 2008, when the New Haven Safe Streets coalition garnered over 2,000 signatures on a petition. He also said the division staff additions are consistent with Esserman’s recent increase in police training classes.

Hausladen cited the relatively high number of New Haven residents without cars as evidence for the need for the division expansion. He said that, according to a recent report, 30 percent of New Haven homes do not have access to cars.

“That means that over 30 percent of our workers are trying to get to work outside of a vehicle, and these measures are all about improving safety on our streets for all our users,” Hausladen said.

“As the mayor said, our streets are shared and sacred spaces for all of us to share equally and enjoy.”

Hausladen also said the press conference was timed for April to highlight Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and that the Department of Transportation will be working jointly with the Department of Parks and Recreation to educate cyclists.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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Mayor Toni Harp joined NHPD Chief Dean Esserman in announcing that the Traffic Enforcement Division of the NHPD will add six new motor officers.

With rediscovery of dinosaur species, Peabody renames skeleton

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER The Brontosaurus is back.

On Tuesday at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, three-year-old Jessica Dinan learned to pronounce the name of the massive dinosaur skeleton in front of her. Unlike the thousands of children who had frequented the museum before her, she will refer to the specimen by its proper name — the Brontosaurus.

On April 7, paleontologist Emanuel Tschopp, a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, released a 298-page paper explaining that, contrary to past scientific consensus, the Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are of different genera. Just a week after the paper’s release, the Peabody was the world’s first museum to hold a renaming ceremony for their own Brontosaurus skeleton, the single most complete specimen of any Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus currently known.

“Finally, we are able to return Brontosaurus to its rightful name,” said David Heiser, head of outreach at the Peabody, pointing to the over-60-foot skeleton above him. “People who walk into this room drop to their knees.”

Although the Brontosaurus is a worldwide paleontological fascination, the history of the Brontosaurus is closely tied with the Peabody itself.

In the late 1800s, Yale professor and Peabody curator O.C. Marsh, who was the nephew of the museum’s namesake, George Peabody, analyzed and named the bones of both the Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus. But in 1903, paleontologist Elmer Riggs proposed that the specimen classified separately as Apatosaurus was really a young Brontosaurus. In other words, they were the same animal. Because the Apatosaurus had been discovered first, its name was kept, and the name Brontosaurus was discarded. The renaming ceremony brings back the once-discarded name.

While it took Peabody curators nearly a century to change the label from Brontosaurus — which means “Thunder Lizard” — to Apatosaurus after the first name change in 1903, it took just days, once the most recent study

was published, to change the label back to its original title, said Jacques Gauthier, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Peabody and professor of geology and geophysics.

“Having the original Brontosaurus skeleton, we wanted to be the first museum to rename it,” said Richard Kissel, director of public programs at the Peabody. “Brontosaurus was named at Yale. We wanted to bring back the name at Yale. We didn’t want any other museum to beat us.”

A day after the paper was released, Kissel and other Peabody staff formed a small team to pull off the renaming event quickly. Kissel said he is unsure whether other museums with Brontosauri will follow suit. More research will likely be conducted

on the topic, he said, adding that the most recent paper’s hypothesis is “re-rewriting the book on dinosaurs.”

The large specimen is actually a mix between the two genera. Because researchers believed that the Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were the same animal, the head is that of an Apatosaurus and the bottom that of a Brontosaurus, making the skeleton a combination of two animals.

According to Kissel, there are currently no existing Brontosaurus skulls in good condition.

The Apatosaurus head then will remain for the time being until the discovery of a full Brontosaurus skull, he added.

At the ceremony, Gauthier also mentioned the Peabody’s plans for renovating the home of the

Brontosaurus, the Great Hall of Dinosaurs. Those plans have been in the works for the past several years.

With the upcoming renovation, curators will correct some inaccuracies in the skeleton by adding a few bones to the neck and raising the tail above the ground, which paleontological research suggests would have been the actual position of the tail. The skeletons will also interact with one another in “dynamic and modern pose[s],” Gauthier said.

The museum still needs to raise the money, though. The remounting of the Brontosaurus alone will cost $1.8 million, Gauthier said.

Nearly 200 guests, young and old, were in attendance. Victo-

ria DePalma, whose father was responsible for helping to mount the skeleton in the 1930s, has considered the specimen to be her “dinosaur since the day [she] was born.” She added that she was delighted to see the number of people who came to celebrate the renaming, an indicator to her of how many lives her father’s constructed dinosaur has touched. DePalma has established a gift annuity to help fund the Great Hall renovation project.

According to David Heiser, head of education and outreach at the Peabody, the Peabody Brontosaurus has been seen by more than two million school children and 10 million museum visitors.

The label unveiling ceremony was strategically placed on Fam-

ily Day at the Peabody, Kissel said. Along with cake and a rendition of “Happy Birthday,” families and children partook in activities and arts and crafts related to museum programming.

The naming ceremony concluded with a slideshow about the history of the Brontosaurus and a recording of the song “Dinosaur Stomp.”

“The Land Before Time,” the animated film about dinosaurs that was released in 1988 when the Brontosaurus was no longer considered a separate genus, still features the Brontosaurus in the character Little Foot, whose mother dies in the first five minutes of the first installation.

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

WA LIU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The name of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Brontosaurus has been restored.

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City launches first Bike Month

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER The month of May will feature nearly 100 different biking activities as part of New Haven’s first Bike Month, organizers announced at a launch party last night.

Although the events will not take place for a couple weeks, Bike Month organizers Caroline Smith ’14 and Karolina Ksiazek ’15 hosted a launch party last night to increase awareness of the upcoming events. Smith and Ksiazek teamed up with the New Haven Department of Transportation and Elm City Cycling — a nonprofit organization that aims to make New Haven more bikefriendly — to create a series of events that would improve New Haven’s biking culture.

“Our mission is, through bike education, maintenance clinics, advocacy and celebration, to motivate more folks from all New Haven neighborhoods to feel comfortable, safe and excited to integrate riding their bikes into their everyday lives,” Smith said.

In 2014, the League of American Bicyclists gave New Haven a Bronze Award for being a cyclingfriendly community. One of the recommendations from the league, a nonprofit organization that promotes cycling, was that New Haven declare an official bike month to celebrate cycling, said New Haven Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04.

When community members coincidentally approached the transportation department with that exact interest, city officials were excited to participate in the project, Hausladen said.

After canvassing and talking with residents, the organizers identified the main issues that prevent residents from making cycling a part of their daily lives, Smith said. He noted a lack of access to bikes and knowledge of bike repairs, as well as dangerous streets, as some of the critical issues.

Scheduled events include organized trail rides, bicycle repair clinics and “bike to work breakfasts,” in which riders are invited to a free breakfast and can later commute to work on their

bikes.

“It’ll help people be more aware of the bicycle culture, especially those that just moved to town, and it can expose them to the greatness of the New Haven bike community,” said Matthew Feiner, owner of The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop, which is sponsoring Bike Month.

Throughout the month, Feiner will organize the biking breakfasts and provide repair clinics for those who do not know how to fix their bikes.

Although events will cease after one month, organizers are confident that its effects will be long-lasting.

“The question we ask at every meeting with an individual or group is: How can we be sure New Haven Bike Month in May can be a launching pad for what you do? We want to be sure that New Haven Bike Month is catering to as many groups and neighborhoods as possible,” Smith said.

She added that fundraising and publicity for the event has been successful thus far.

Last week, organizers of New Haven Bike Month held an event where community members were invited to help clean up the Mill River Trail in order to ultimately build a bike and pedestrian path.

Members of the Yale College Democrats and Conservation Yale both attended the event.

Dems Vice President Jacob Wasserman ’16 said he thinks New Haven Bike Month is a great initiative, and he is impressed with the number of events planned. He added that he hopes it becomes an annual event and that Yalies choose to take part in it.

“One of our primary goals is to create a more active and healthier New Haven community, and New Haven Bike Month is an awesome initiative focused on doing just that,” said Christopher Bowman ’16, co-president of Conservation Yale.

According to the League of American Bicyclists, Connecticut is the 21st most bicyclefriendly state.

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

WA LIU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The month of May will feature nearly 100 different biking activities as part of New Haven’s first Bike Month.

Summer tour guide position still desirable

BY VICTORIO CABRERA AND PATRICK PEOPLES CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS As thousands of Yalies leave New Haven over the summer to pursue internships and study abroad programs elsewhere, a few will remain behind to welcome the thousands more arriving to tour the University.

These students, the 2015 class of summer tour guides, were formally selected this Monday by the Yale Admissions Office and University Visitor Center. While the summer tour guides often guide a higher vol-

ume of visitors than do regular tour guides, their tenure only lasts from May through August.

Selected candidates described the application process as lacking in rigor — they only had to write a brief application and lead a short sample tour. While some of the summer tour guides said they applied because they wanted another job over the summer, others cited the experience of welcoming visitors to Yale.

“I’ve had my ups and downs, but I love this place. I wanted to take a summer to be here before I say goodbye,” said Bethany

Goodhue ’16, a tour guide who said this summer would be her last in New Haven.

Many of the tour guides interviewed will be doing research over the summer and cited the job’s flexible hours as a benefit.

Lelina Chang ’18, who will be a tour guide this summer, said she will probably take more shifts during the weekend, which will allow her to focus on her research during the week.

Ben Lerude ’17, who is on the swim team, said the job’s hours work well with his demanding summer schedule, which includes frequent practices and

meets in locations from California to Texas.

Though the application process for summer tour guide position is shorter than for the academic year guides, the training is equally intense, said Ben Kronengold ’18, the head tour guide for the summer.

Edwin Edem ’18, a regular tour guide, said the tours done by both types of guides are very similar. Edem added that most visitors come to Yale during the summer months, and the application process for summer tour guides is more consolidated simply because there is less

demand for the job.

“Guiding over the summer does not qualify you to be a guide over the year, but it is helpful for you to have that background if you choose to apply for the campus guiding position,” said Aviva Abusch ’18, who leads tours during the school year.

Mark Dunn ’07, director of outreach and recruitment for the Admissions Office, declined to comment.

Chang said she would like to be a tour guide during the school year but doesn’t have enough time, so being a tour guide dur-

ing the summer is a way of having some of the experience.

Alicia Alvarez ’17 said she would feel like she were missing out on a “Yale experience” if she did not guide tours at least once.

“It seems like a very American thing to do,” said Alvarez, who is from Madrid.

Roughly 8 to 10 percent of applicants are accepted to be regular tour guides during the academic year.

Contact VICTORIO CABRERA at victorio.cabrera@yale.edu and PATRICK PEOPLES at patrick.peoples@yale.edu .

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The 2015 summer tour guides were selected this Monday by the Admissions Office and Yale University Visitor Center.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.”

RALPH ABERNATHY LEADER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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Courses fail to give textbook prices

Divestment protests continue

BY CHRISTINE NELSON According to a recent Columbia Spectator analysis of undergraduate courses for the fall 2015 semester, 57 percent of the courses for the 15 most popular majors at Columbia College do not comply with a federal law mandating that textbook information be made available for students on the University’s course schedule used for preregistration and registration purposes.

The Textbook Information Provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which went into effect in July 2010, mandates that higher education institutions receiving federal funding for financial aid must list the International Standard Book Number and the retail price information of required and recommended college textbooks and supplemental materials for offered courses.

The provision states that its intention is “to ensure that students have access to affordable course materials by decreasing costs to students and enhancing transparency and disclosure with respect to the selection, purchase, sale and use of course materials.”

According to textbook information collected by Spectator last Friday, for the top 15 CC majors — which encompassed more than 75 percent of students for CC’s class of 2014 — there is a general compliance rate of 43 percent.

Although the collected data does not account for textbooks listed on syllabi or for courses that do not require textbooks, professors are provided with a tool on CourseWorks for entering in textbook information. The tool also allows professors to indicate whether or not the course has required textbooks.

Within the set of top 15 CC majors, the five least compliant majors are political science,

music, English, anthropology and sustainable development.

T h e COLUMBIA mathematics major had the highest compliance rate, with over 83 percent of courses displaying textbook information on CourseWorks. Computer science was the next most compliant CC major, with more than 63 percent of classes listing a textbook.

The political science major, however, had the highest percentage of courses that don’t list a textbook at 90 percent.

For the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the department least compliant with the federal law was civil engineering. In this department, only one of 35 courses listed textbook information. The next least compliant SEAS department was biomedical engineering, which lists textbook information for two out of 21 courses.

After Spectator reported that over 65 percent of spring 2015 undergraduate classes in the 10 most popular majors did not provide textbook information on CourseWorks earlier this semester, the University has created a new protocol to remind faculty every semester to provide textbook information for their courses, according to a University spokesperson.

Melissa Begg, vice provost for educational programs, posted an announcement to faculty on Jan. 28 with a reminder to submit textbook information for the spring 2015 semester.

“Federal law requires that the University provide students with information on the textbooks their instructors expect or recommend that they purchase. The infor-

mation must be posted online in time to help students choose the courses for which they will register,” Begg said in the notice.

Despite the new protocol, Spectator’s data shows that a majority of courses still do not adhere to this federally mandated law.

Robert Lipshitz, the director of calculus for the math department, said that the quantity of textbooks required for courses might have an effect on whether or not professors would provide the information.

“Specifying textbooks is probably easier for the math department than some other departments: Most courses only have a single textbook, and the material taught in most undergraduate subjects has not changed substantially in more than a hundred years, so textbooks also change comparatively slowly,” Lipshitz said in an email.

For example, students taking Calculus I this semester were only required to purchase one textbook, whereas students taking this semester’s Introduction to American Politics, a political science course, were required to purchase eight different textbooks.

Anna Ghurbanyan, associate instructor in the chemistry department, said that professors were reminded to post textbook information during department meetings.

“Usually that information we try to post in advance for the students to have access early on to plan their summer stipends and academic expenditure accordingly,” Ghurbanyan said.

“If it’s a legal requirement, obviously they have to do it. But it’s also a legal requirement not to go above 60 miles per hour on the highway and some people do it,” Sunil Gulati, senior lecturer in economics, said.

BY MARIEL KLEIN After a nearly two-day sitin that spanned Monday and Tuesday nights, protesters calling for Harvard to divest its endowment from fossil fuels left the Harvard Alumni Association at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, unsuccessful in their attempt to meet with alumni office leadership to discuss divestment during their occupation.

Alumni supporters of environmental activist group Divest Harvard, which has also staged a planned blockade of Massachusetts Hall as part of its “Heat Week” protest, took to HAA headquarters on Mt. Auburn Street beginning on Monday at 2 p.m. to demand a meeting with the organization’s leaders.

About a dozen protesters stayed overnight on Monday and Tuesday.

At the sit-in, alumni signed pledge cards for a fossil-free fund, an alternative to donating to the University’s endowment, that stipulates Harvard will only receive the donations if it pub-

licly commits to divestment

by Dec. 31, 2025. They presented around 60 pledge HARVARD cards with donations up to $5,000 to Shannon Gerah, the human resources director for Alumni Affairs and Development, and plan to present another 40 to HAA that have been filled out at Massachusetts Hall, according to Collin Rees, a coordinator for environmental activist organization 350.org.

Philip Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, wrote in an email that the protesters did not try to set up a meeting prior to occupying the offices on Monday, though he or one of his colleagues generally meet with those alumni who request meetings in advance. He has offered to schedule a meeting with demonstrators later in the month at a mutually convenient time.

“The alumni protesters were very civil and good guests,” wrote Lovejoy, who brought donuts for the alumni occupying his office Tuesday morning.

“They vacuumed before they left this morning.”

Board chair of 350.org KC Golden, who camped out in the office on both nights, said the alumni do plan to meet with Lovejoy per his offer, but added he was disappointed that they did not get a meeting during the sit-in. Still, Golden said the protesters gave it “a good college try.”

“We played out our best effort to generate a serious discussion,” he said. “Ten minutes of those 44 hours could have been mutually convenient.”

Meanwhile, protesters continued to blockade Massachusetts Hall on Wednesday, rallying outside the building.

Harvard President Drew Faust, whose office is located in Massachusetts Hall, has repeatedly argued against divestment as a means to address climate change.

THE HARVARD CRIMSON

Protesters attend a “Faith Day” rally in front of Harvard’s Massachusetts Hall. The event took place Wednesday morning as part of Divest Harvard’s “Harvard Heat Week.”

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Chafee may challenge Clinton

BY AGNES CHAN Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced Thursday that he has formed an exploratory committee to consider a 2016 presidential run.

His potential bid is not anticipated to gain much traction in a race for the Democratic nomination that would pit him against frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who launched her campaign Sunday.

Chafee’s announcement video emphasized his hopes of mending the United States’ relationship with other nations through improved foreign policy, while also providing stability and safety for Americans. “As we look to the future in this age of nuclear weapons, I am alarmed about the international instability, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. I don’t like where this is going,” Chafee said in the video.

“This may simply be an effort to promote his image — and sell a few books along the way,” wrote Philip Bump, a writer for the Washington Post’s daily political blog, The Fix, Thursday. An advertisement to buy Chafee’s book, “Against the Tide,” which was published in 2008, is prominently placed on his website, Chafee2016.com, Bump noted.

Chafee began his career in state politics as a delegate to the Rhode Island State Constitutional Convention in 1985 before being appointed to his father John Chafee’s U.S. Senate seat upon his death in 1999.

Chafee won the same Senate seat as a Republican in the 2000 election, though he lost to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in 2006. After being elected governor of Rhode Island as an independent in 2010, Chafee declined to run for reelection in what promised to be a competitive primary battle in the Democratic party, which Chafee joined during his term.

Despite Chafee’s longstanding involvement in state politics, his announcement came as a surprise to many. “I was completely shocked,” said Bob Plain, editor and publisher of the political blog RI Future.

“Last year, I i n te rviewed [Chafee] … and asked him if he had any other BROWN political ambitions, and it never occurred to me to ask if he considered running for president or not.”

“I guess what he’s thinking is that there is a vacuum, that Hillary Clinton has no opposition on the Democratic side yet, and … he sees an opening,” said Richard Arenberg, adjunct lecturer in public policy and political science.

Chafee’s multiple switches in party affiliation also mark a controversial aspect of his career. He left the Republican Party in 2007 and joined the Democrats in 2013. This may make it difficult for Chafee to “convince Democratic primary electorates to vote for him,” especially when paired with an apparent lack of popularity, Arenberg said.

Chafee’s approval ratings hovered around 25 percent during his final year as governor.

“He really hasn’t earned his stripes in the Democratic Party yet,” Arenberg said.

But some argue that despite his move across the political spectrum, Chafee’s values have not really changed. “I think the beauty of how Linc Chafee has

changed his affiliations over the years is that he did so without ever changing his principles,” Plain said. “It’s not hard to lay out the case for how the Republican Party left Linc Chafee more than Linc Chafee left the Republican Party.”

In response to Chafee’s announcement, several students formed Brown Students for Chafee last week with the goal of spreading “Chafee’s message of good governance and rational foreign policy around campus,” group members wrote in an email to The Brown Herald. If Chafee proceeds with his run for president, the group intends to “serve as a conduit between his campaign and students” and will meet Chafee in “Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond to help get out the vote,” group members wrote.

Chafee took a strong stance against the Iraq War in 2002 and cited this decision in his video as evidence of his ability to make good judgments in high-pressure situations. In an interview Sunday with CNN, Chafee sharply criticized Clinton, who voted in favor of the Iraq War, for her lack of insight on international policy issues.

“She didn’t do her homework,” he said, adding, “You may say that’s 12 years ago — that’s a big motivator for me running. If you show a lack of judgment … then what can we expect in the future?”

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Lincoln Chafee, who was elected governor of Rhode Island as an independent in 2010, had a 25 percent approval rating when he left office.

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SPORTS

“Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.”

DEREK JETER 14-TIME MLB ALL-STAR

Daniggelis’s steady return to the top W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 an offensive attack going toward the goal in last spring’s game against Harvard and her shoulder was long overdue for repair.

Daniggelis said her shoulder feels much better after the surgery. Her knee, however, caused her more worry — this is the second time that she tore the same meniscus.

“They weren’t sure if the repair was successful,” said Daniggelis.

“But recently, it has been feeling great.”

Generally, it takes four to five months for a meniscus tear to heal after surgery, which is about the same amount of time for a torn labrum to heal.

Lacrosse depends heavily on quick cuts and strong pivots. Daniggelis is using physical training and modified playing strategies in order to slowly get back into the game.

“Throughout her injury, and currently, Nicole is always looking for ways to get better,” said defender Ashley Perselay ’17. “If her knees are bothering her, she is doing stationary wall-ball and shooting. When her knees feel a little better, she is biking and doing ladders and sprints to help

her get back into shape.”

According to assistant coach Ashley Casiano, making sure Daniggelis remained patient for her comeback was critical. When draw controls were all that Daniggelis could do, her teammates came together to help her with those repetitions.

Phillips stated that the coaching staff works with Daniggelis and her injury by limiting her play in games throughout this season, as the team continues to challenge for a spot in the Ivy League tournament.

“Although Nicole hasn’t been playing as much in the past due to her injuries, whenever she steps onto the field in games or in practice, that transition is seamless,” said Perselay.

Even with minimal time on the field, each week Daniggelis has seen progress in her game. According to Casiano, Daniggelis is the type of player that goes hard every time she steps on the field.

Appearance-wise, Daniggelis may make it seem like her injuries have not phased her mentally or physically, but she admits that the injuries have had an impact on her as a player.

“These injuries have affected my game, but I don’t think they have in a negative way,” Daniggelis said. “This

year has been a slow progress of getting back to where I was.”

With only two games remaining in the season, not only is Daniggelis hoping for her team to get a spot in the Ivy League tournament, but she is also preparing for her healing time to subside in time for her final season as a Yale Bulldog next year.

Phillips said she can see Daniggelis breaking her own records once she is healthy.

“The only goals I have for Nicole is to become better than she ever thought she could be,” Casiano said.

“Beating her own records, beating her own best.”

High hopes and aspirations ride on Daniggelis for her comeback in the 2015–16 season.

“These injuries have made me realize that you are lucky if you get to play four years of college athletics and that anything can be taken away from you at any time,” Daniggelis said. “This has really made me appreciate every opportunity that I get to go out and wear Yale across my chest and have fun with my teammates.”

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

NICOLE WELLS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

During her freshman and sophomore years at Yale, attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 ranked sixth and fourth in the country, respectively, in draw controls.

Elis split mid-week games BASEBALL FROM PAGE 14 Potomac, Maryland faced no more than four hitters in each of the next six innings he pitched, finishing his outing with one walk and seven strikeouts on 107 pitches.

“It was good to get a win for the team after we struggled this weekend,” Brodkowitz said. “For me, it really felt like any other start. I was effective when I concentrated, and the start reinforced that I need to keep focusing on getting the ball down [in the strike zone].”

Yale’s offense managed to score six runs on just five hits thanks to control problems from the Bantam pitching staff: Trinity pitchers had four walks, four hit by pitches and seven wild pitches. Eight of the nine starters reached base for the Bulldogs against the inconsistent Trinity hurlers.

The wildness of the opposing pitchers was apparent as early as the first inning, as leadoff hitter Green Campbell ’15 reached base despite striking out thanks to a wild pitch on strike three. In fact, the Elis were able to load the bases with no outs without a single hit, as left fielder Eric Hsieh ’15 and shortstop Richard Slenker ’17 reached base on a hit by pitch and walk, respectively.

“He was throwing all curveballs and all cutters. He was effectively wild,” Campbell said. “[He threw] a lot of balls, [with] not a lot of strikes, and it was really keeping our hitters off balance … I don’t think he threw a single fastball.”

Right fielder David Toups ’15 helped the Bulldogs tie the game in the bottom of the first before first baseman Robert Baldwin ’15 followed with a groundout to drive in a run and put the Elis up 2–1 at the end of the frame.

A similar scenario followed in the seventh inning, when pinch hitter Derek Brown ’17 expanded the lead with a tworun single after Yale loaded the bases for a second time without putting the ball in play, using instead two hit-by-pitches and a walk.

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Centerfielder Green Campbell ’15 went 1–3 against Sacred Heart with two runs in Yale’s 9–4 loss.

“My approach during my at-bat was to stay short to the ball and challenge the defense by hitting something hard the other way,” Brown said.

The Bulldogs scored just three runs on hits, as two runs were tacked on when runners scored on wild pitches. Despite being outhit, the Eli offense remained disciplined at the plate and took advantage of timely hits and defensive miscues to outscore Trinity, according to Brown.

On Wednesday afternoon, pitcher Drew Scott ’18 experienced similar struggles as Brodkowitz early on, allowing four runs to Sacred Heart in the first two frames, which were the only runs he would allow over 6.1 innings.

Though the Elis contained the Pioneers through the middle innings, the Sacred Heart offense broke open a tight contest in the eighth with two runs and tacked on three unearned runs in the final frame.

Perhaps the biggest bugaboo for the Yale pitching staff was its propensity to allow baserunners. The Pioneers totaled 15 hits and three bases on balls, in addition to one hit-by-pitch, putting runners on base in

eight of nine innings.

Yale’s offense warmed up with the weather, as the Elis notched 10 hits, but could not break through against Sacred Heart’s pitching-by-committee strategy.

The Bulldogs pulled to within one run, 4–3, in the seventh inning following a two-run single by Baldwin, but ultimately fell 9–4.

“It’s honestly pretty tough when you go from facing 90 mile-per-hour arms in all four games against Dartmouth to facing 70 mile-per-hour range arms in Trinity and Sacred Heart,” Campbell said. “Not that we should use that as an excuse, but … we didn’t really have a practice where we worked on sitting back and using the opposite field type approach. We were kind of pressing a little bit.”

The Bulldogs hit the road this weekend, traveling north to Cambridge for a fourgame set against Harvard beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

James Badas contributed reporting.

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

Yale readies for Harvard TENNIS FROM PAGE 14

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The men’s tennis team takes on Harvard for the second time this spring, having lost to the Crimson in February.

Ivy League competition.

The Elis are coming off of consecutive losses to Columbia and Cornell last weekend, dropping their conference record to 1–3.

However, Dorato believes that those tough road matches will help his team moving forward, especially in the match with Harvard on Friday. Yale is currently tied for sixth in the Ivy League, and a win over second-place Harvard is crucial if the Elis want to finish in the top half of the ladder.

“Regardless of how we finish in the Ivy League, we would love to beat Harvard,” Faierman said.

“Everyone is super excited and motivated for this match.”

The rivalry and excitement surrounding the Crimson match also has members of the women’s team eager to take the courts. The women will travel to Cambridge to face the Crimson (7–9, 0–4) in their first matchup of the spring.

Last weekend, the Elis (8–9, 2–2) lost a 6–1 decision to Columbia before beating Cornell at home 4–3, and a victory on Friday would push the Bulldogs out of a mess

in the middle of the conference standings, where five teams are separated by just half a game.

“Playing against Harvard is always particularly emotional, as [it is] our biggest rival,” Madeleine Hamilton ’16 said. “We will certainly be looking to make an exceptionally strong statement in our match.”

In last year’s matchup, Yale emerged victorious by a score of 5–2. The focus for the Bulldogs this time around will be taking advantage of key moments in singles competition, according to Hamilton. At the top of the lineup, captain Hanna Yu ’15 is having another solid season as she is currently 2–2 in singles conference play. There is also a trio of juniors who look to lead the Bulldogs in Hamilton, Ree Ree Li ’16 and Courtney Amos ’16.

“When we have the opportunity to win, we have to make sure to take it and do everything that we can to win the match,” Li said.

The women will begin competition at 2 p.m., while the men play at 1 p.m. in New Haven.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

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The Yale golf course is ranked the No. 1 university course in America.

GOLF FROM PAGE 14 our home turf is an advantage, and it definitely will give us an edge as we try to take down some of the best teams in the nation this week.”

Opened in 1926 and designed by architect Charles Blair MacDonald, the course is par 70.6850 and rated the top university course in America.

The tournament will be a 54-hole tournament, with 36 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday. Pairings on Sunday will be based on Saturday’s results.

“Playing at home is always an exciting opportunity,” Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 said. “We all have great knowledge of the course and hopefully we will have some friends and family out there cheering us on.”

Few of Yale’s Ivy League competitors will be present on the field this weekend — only Brown and Harvard are making the trip down to New Haven. Harvard not only is the defending team champion, but also holds the defending medalist.

Greenhalgh said there will be many strong teams playing this week, notably Wake Forest, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Duke.

Davenport, however, is confident in the Bulldogs. He said any Yale player is capable of stepping up and playing superior golf.

“Our goal is the same every week: win,” Davenport said.

“That will be a tall order given the strength of this field, but these Bulldogs are more than capable of bringing home the trophy, especially in our own house.”

While the men’s team is focused on performing at home, the women’s team is taking the

next several days to prepare for their Ivy League Championship.

Elisabeth Bernabe ’17, who tied for first place during the Brown Bear Invitational last weekend, said she is feeling very confident after her win. She added that everyone on the team has been playing well lately, and that the consistency of this year’s team is what has made it so strong.

“Winning Brown I think definitely helped to increase our team confidence and momentum going into Ivies,” Jennifer Peng ’18 said.

“I think the success we’ve had so far has been a combination of everyone’s efforts.”

Captain Marika Liu ’15 said the team atmosphere has been great since the win at Brown and that players are taking advantage of the nice weather to practice more varied and dynamic shots. This has been a fantastic season so far for the Bulldogs, with four victories in seven tournaments — noticeably better than previous years, Liu said.

This will also be the last Ivy Championship and tournament for the senior players on the golf team. In addition to Liu, there are two other seniors on the team — Shreya Ghei ’15 and Caroline Rouse ’15.

“I’m definitely nostalgic to be playing in my last Ivies but at the same time am really excited to lead my team and see what these brilliant women can accomplish on the course,” Liu said.

In 1988, Golf Magazine ranked the Yale Golf Course 71st among the 100 most difficult courses in the world.

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

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10:00 AM Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive.

In recognition of the impact her courageous battle with cancer has had on efforts to save lives through marrow donor registration drives, the Yale athletics department will once again hold a drive in memory of women’s ice hockey placer Mandi Schwartz ’10. Yale’s six previous drives had added 4,538 potential donors to the Be The Match Registry, and at least 28 life-saving donor matches for patients in need have been located through the Bulldogs’ efforts.

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HANNAH BRENNAN ‘15 IVY LEAGUE HONOR ROLL The senior third baseman from the Pacific Northwest sported a nifty 0.375 average in six games last week en route to being named to the Ivy League Honor Roll. Brennan added a pair of doubles and seven runs batted in.

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JACK MONTAGUE ‘16 NEW CAPTAIN Following the impending graduation of current Yale men’s basketball captain Greg Kelley ’15, the Elis have elected sharpshooter Jack Montague ’16 as their newest captain. The Brentwood, Tennessee native led the Ivy League in threepoint shooting percentage last season.

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“Our goal is the same every week: win ... These Bulldogs are more than capable of bringing home the trophy.”

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BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The Yale baseball team allowed early runs to a pair of Connecticut opponents, overcoming an early deficit against Trinity College but not against Sacred Heart to split its midweek matchups.

The Bulldogs (10–19, 2–10 Ivy) defeated Division III opponent Trinity College (10–11, 2–4 New England Small College Athletic) on Tuesday 6–2 before falling to fellow in-state rival Sacred Heart (9–18–1, 3–1 Northeast) the following afternoon 9–4.

In the first start for pitcher Eric Brodkowitz ’18 since the April 4 game against Columbia — in which he allowed nine earned runs over four innings — he scattered seven hits by the Bantams to allow just two runs over eight innings.

But Brodkowitz was shaky early, needing a pair of innings to settle in as Trinity opened the scoring in the first inning and followed with a run in the second. From then on, however, the freshman from SEE BASEBALL PAGE 12

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Attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 has spent the season recovering from surgeries on her left shoulder and left knee.

BY NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two injuries and two surgeries later, Nicole Daniggelis ’16 sees progress in her game on the lacrosse field.

In the summer of 2014, Daniggelis experienced two separate pains in her left knee and left shoulder. However, Daniggelis was no stranger to injury — she had torn her left anterior cruciate ligament and

meniscus in her sophomore year of high school. But the pain did not cease, and upon arrival at the doctor’s office, Daniggelis was again diagnosed with some serious injuries: She had torn her left meniscus and the labrum in her left shoulder.

“Nicole is one of the top players in the league, and without her at 100 percent this year, it has had a rather large impact on our team in two key areas: draw control and scoring,”

said head coach Anne Phillips. “When you take 104 draw controls and 39 points out of a team’s offense, you have a completely different offense.”

During her freshman and sophomore years as a Bulldog, Daniggelis was ranked sixth and fourth in the country in draw controls per game, set and broke draw control records within Yale, received All-Ivy First Team recognition, led the team in goals, and received sec-

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ond team IWLCA All-Northeast Region recognition.

The first half of Daniggelis’ division one career proves to be exemplary and shows only a positive trajectory for the remainder of her time as an athlete at Yale. However, the setback caused by the two injuries has limited her during her third season as a Bulldog.

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The Bulldogs’ pitchers allowed 15 hits and walked three batters in their nine-inning affair against the Pioneers.

Elis take on Harvard

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It is rivalry week for the men’s and women’s tennis teams as the Bulldogs look to gain ground in the Ivy League standings in matches against Harvard this Friday.

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the Elis have the advantage of playing on their home turf here at the recently opened Yale Golf Course. The women’s team also won their most recent tournament — the last one before entering Ivy play. Although the Elis will get this weekend off from competing, they are already preparing for the Ivy Championship, which will take place across the threeday span of April 24 to April 26.

“Our team feels confident and prepared going into the Spring Invite,” captain Will Davenport ’15 said. “Playing on

The Yale men’s team (11–9, 1–3 Ivy) will host the No. 34 ranked Crimson (17–6, 3–1) at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. It will be the second matchup of the spring between the two schools, as they previously met in February at the ECAC Indoor Championship. Although several individual matches were tight on that day, Harvard emerged victorious 4–0. In matches that were not completed, Tyler Lu ’17 and Harvard senior captain Denis Nguyen were battling in a close 6–3, 2–6 contest, while Daniel Faierman ’15 was storming back against Harvard’s Brian Yeung 3–6, 5–4.

“We played Harvard early in the year and we lost 4–0, but we were very close,” head coach Alex Dorato said. “I believe that we are in a stronger position now than we were when we played Harvard back in February.”

One of those newfound strengths is the play of Stefan Doehler ’18. Doehler has teamed up with fellow rookie Fedor Andrienko ’18 to create a formidable doubles pair, as evidenced by their 6–1 shellacking of Penn’s top doubles combo in the Bulldogs’ lone conference victory. Doehler has also emerged as a strong singles player to complement Lu and Martin Svenning ’16 at the top of the Eli lineup.

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Several seniors noted a bittersweet feeling regarding playing in the final Ivy tournament of their Yale careers.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Despite winning their tournaments this past weekend, both the men’s and women’s golf teams are already looking ahead to their next challenges.

GOLF The men’s team, fresh off a victory at the Princeton Invitational, is getting ready to host the Yale Spring Invitational this Saturday and Sunday. This time,

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The doubles pair of Ree Ree Li ’16 and Madeleine Hamilton ’16 split its games last weekend.

THE NUMBER OF GOALS ATTACKER NICOLE DANIGGELIS ’16 SCORED IN HER SOPHOMORE SEASON. In addition to her team-leading tally in the goals column, Daniggelis recorded 51 points — enough for second-best on the Bulldog squad.