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CROSS CAMPUS

ART IS HERE AT YALE, IN NEW HAVEN TOO

THE NEXT JOHNSON?

NOTORIOUS DIGS

Senior Class Gift gets going, but some boycott over mental health.

DOCTORS, POLICE, LAWYERS JOIN V-BALL LEAGUE

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GESO, GSA spar over credit for funding

The Game(s). They’re not football games and they aren’t at Madison Square Garden, but this weekend’s HarvardYale matchups in hockey and basketball are generating quite a buzz around campus. If you managed to get your tickets in time, you’re expected to use them well: Here’s to hearing a lot of “Harvard Sucks” and “Bulldog, bulldog” this weekend. See you there.

Beware the angry mob. The

unexpected (temporary) closing of Ivy Noodle has triggered quite a stir on campus. Numerous students, perplexed by an ambiguous note on the restaurant’s door, have expressed discontent that it remains shuttered, roughly a week in. Next time you’re out late, craving Chinese food, take the gang to Main Garden.

“Radical honesty.” Yesterday, PBS NewsHour’s Making Sen$e did something that very few people on this campus have managed to do: Get close to Business Ethics professor Vikram Mansharamani, who described the extensive gymnastics students put themselves through to get into his EP&E seminar this (and every other) semester.

a thing at Yale. This weekend, Yale’s polo team takes on Princeton, which doesn’t really matter on a weekend when so many other teams are playing Harvard. But our squad members (and horses) do. Be there, or be but a peasant.

Should’ve carded him.

North Haven Police reported yesterday that they had arrested a man from New Haven after he opened several credit accounts in the name of an elderly woman, whose identity he’d stolen. The Box bouncers would’ve figured out that the ID was probably fake.

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Misconduct complaints stay steady

BY JED FINLEY AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS

Pollard said, adding that GESO had “absolutely totally nothing to do with it.”

The funding, which was announced to Ph.D. candidates on Dec. 15 by Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley, guarantees graduate students in the humanities and social sciences one more year of funding, bringing the total to six.

Within three weeks of two alleged sexual assaults on campus, the University’s seventh biannual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, released Thursday afternoon, showed little change in the prevalence of sexual misconduct in the second half of 2014.

According to the report, which details all complaints brought to the attention of University officials between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2014, 62 new complaints were filed in the six-month period. In the previous reporting period, from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2014, that number was 64.

Of the 62 complaints — five of which were arbitrated in a formal University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct proceeding and 15 of which were handled by the Yale Police Department, among a handful of potential venues — one resulted in an expulsion.

Another resulted in suspension. Meanwhile, 13 cases are pending and six cases are still being investigated by the Yale Police Department.

While the total number of complaints did not significantly change between the two reporting periods, the number of reported sexual assaults dropped from 29 in the first half

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GESO, an unrecognized graduate student union, claims responsibility for obtaining a sixth year of funding for graduates.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER After decades of conflict between the University and GESO — the unrecognized graduate student union — a new battle can be added to the list: Who gets credit for a sixth year of funding for graduate students.

The narratives are clear. In one, the Yale administration bowed to

pressure from the GESO after two massive protests by the group on the steps of Woodbridge Hall last year.

In the other, the story is less dramatic: After years of considering the issue and working with the Graduate Student Assembly, the administration decided to add the extra year of funding.

“This was a chronic problem that needed to be addressed,” former Graduate School Dean Thomas

At town hall, medical faculty remain divided

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER

_____ Space. In honor of National Signing Day, the New York Times-profiled Georgia native Chris Lewis and his odd choice to attend Harvard, rather than other, more basketball-savvy programs. Presented as a feature titled “Test Yourself | Choosing the Ivy League,” the piece challenged readers by embedding SAT-style fill-in-the-blank questions throughout the story’s text.

Hey, Marco. Of course polo is

Elis, on a roll at 4–0, take on Dartmouth and Harvard at home.

62 COMPLAINTS FILED IN LAST SIX MONTHS OF 2014

First sign of spring. With

college applicants across the country now counting down to Ivy Day, the Undergraduate Admissions Team sent out an email last night to solicit Bulldog Days hosts. Weird to think that it’s already that time of year, but at least this means that sunshine is somewhere in the not-too-terribly-distant future.

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Some faculty at the School of Medicine question the administrations commitment to minority students.

Dartmouth hard alcohol ban criticized

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER A week after Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon announced a ban on hard alcohol on the Hanover, New Hampshire campus, students at Yale have cast doubt on whether the new policy will be effective.

The ban is part of a sweeping effort to promote healthier drinking habits and improve campus culture. It will take effect this spring, and it was announced along with a slew of other initiatives, including a new housing system reminiscent of Yale’s, a rule requiring bartenders and bouncers at all social events and a mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education course for all students.

“All this will do is push the consumption of hard alcohol into more private confined

spaces that will force students to drink more and more quickly in a really unhealthy way,” Haley Adams ’16 said. She added that she was wary of Hanlon’s decision to announce the hard alcohol ban at the same time as the sexual violence prevention course because it promotes the idea that alcohol is the cause of sexual assault.

“Vodka doesn’t sexually assault people: People do,” she said.

However, Darcy Tuttle ’16 said hard liquor is easily abused by people who are inexperienced with drinking, and that it is the substance that most often leads to alcohol poisoning and blackout situations leading to sexual assault.

Still, she said such a ban would only be worthwhile if it were well implemented and if it SEE DARTMOUTH PAGE 6

After a packed town hall meeting in Harkness Auditorium, medical school faculty walked away with mixed views on University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak’s handling of diversity issues at the School of Medicine.

During the meeting, some faculty at the School of Medicine voiced reservations about Salovey and Polak’s willingness to improve the environment for minorities and women at the School of Medicine, while others commended the two administrators for their efforts.

The town hall marks the first time Salovey and Polak have

spoken publicly before the medical school faculty about these issues. It provided faculty members with an opportunity to respond to the Gender Equity Committee’s recommendations, released in December, and the strategies from the Medical School Dean’s Office, announced in January, to improve the climate for women and minorities at the medical school, Salovey said. After a sexual misconduct case involving former Cardiology Chief Michael Simons MED ’84 surfaced in news reports, the dean’s office formulated a series of initiatives to tackle concerns that minorities and women were not SEE TOWN HALL PAGE 6

Police union, admin rift opens

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER The University’s reaction after a Yale Police Department officer forced Tahj Blow ’16 to the ground at gunpoint has caused friction between YPD officers and the administration.

Two days after the Jan. 24 incident, University President Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins sent an email to the Yale community promising a thorough investigation into the incident. Moreover, the email stated that “what happened on Cross Campus on Saturday is not a replay of what happened in Ferguson; Staten Island; Cleveland; or so many other places in our time and over time in the United States.”

On Thursday, the Yale Police Benevolent Association — an independent union the represents YPD officers

— condemned the administration’s response, saying that it created a presumption of guilt. References to incidences where unarmed men were killed by police officers was disproportional, and had “no place” in a discussion of a simple burglary investigation, the statement said.

Yale needs to unequivocally support its police offers when their actions are reasonable.

YPBA Official statement Defending the actions of the police officer who drew his weapon, the YPBA argued that the administration’s reac-

tion “has a chilling effect on officer safety and may yield a consequence that results in the death or serious physical injury of one of our officers.”

“We completely support our officer in his actions,” a statement from the YPBA read. “Yale needs to unequivocally support its police officers when their actions are reasonable and appropriate; not sacrifice them for political expediency.”

YPBA Executive President Eric Reed could not be reached for comment Thursday evening. Salovey, Higgins and Holloway also did not respond to requests for comment.

The statement further noted that the officer’s decision to draw his gun was in fact in line with the “reasonable officer standard of review.”

The University’s investigation into the event, it suggested, should therefore find the offiSEE YPD PAGE 4

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UNEXPECTED BURDEN: MONEY

GUEST COLUMNIST DARA ELIACIN

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Let’s talk at Yale

here were you when you heard about the death of Luchang Wang? I was sitting at home chewing on a pen and counting my Prozac milligrams, writing down my progress in a marble notebook for my psychiatrist and trying to decide what to do with myself.

I am not unfamiliar with what it is like to be at Yale while battling depression, and to describe such an experience as “difficult” isn’t enough — it is nearly impossible.

Months before I decided to take a voluntary leave of absence, I had already been quite distraught over the system established for mental health at the University.

The bottom line is that there is simply not enough time to thoroughly treat mental illness while juggling Yale’s workload.

MY STORY ISN'T OVER YET, SO THIS IS NOT A TALE OF WOE. THIS IS A CRY FOR CHANGE I tried: I saw a psychiatrist at Yale, I played around with my medication during shopping period, I went home for a few weekends to see another psychiatrist. But, as indicated by the fact that I’m writing this column on my mom’s computer, this didn’t work for me. Therapy takes time, medication adjustment takes time and progress takes time. When I made the choice to take a leave of absence, I wanted nothing more than to return and to tell my story as soon as I could.

But my story isn’t over yet, so this is not a tale of woe.

This is a cry for change.

The news of Luchang Wang and the immediate reactions convinced me that my experience was not an isolated incident. As vital as it is to change public opinion on depression and emphasize the importance of seeking help, neither is enough. Universities must launch initiatives to do everything they can to help students who are in need.

Yale would do well to consider “Let’s Talk,” an initiative started by Cornell University. “Let’s Talk” provides students with easy access to direct help. During certain hours, from Monday to Friday, students at Cornell can walk in without an appointment to

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talk to a certified counselor.

The consultation is confidential and anyone is eligible to see a counselor without being turned away. It is not the silver bullet for mental illness, but “Let’s Talk” could provide time: Easy weekday availability to talk to someone would be an enormous step toward enhancing the accessibility of counseling and could do wonders to cure the “I just don’t have time” problem that is so often voiced at Yale and other high-pressured institutions.

Yale should introduce its own version of “Let’s Talk,” because one of the most problematic symptoms of mental illness is a feeling of isolation. Through my experiences I have seen that this feeling of isolation can make seeking help feel incredibly daunting.

The genius of “Let’s Talk” is that it is not a psychiatric visit: It is simply a session where you are free to talk about whatever concerns you have. These concerns can range from simply needing to talk to somebody that day to more deep-seated issues such as the fear of going on medication. Access to an expert opinion every day of the school week would be revolutionary at Yale, a place where it’s not a secret that getting an appointment at Yale Health can take weeks.

There will always be a need for conversation and openminded communities, but right now that’s not enough.

Institutional reform is needed more urgently. It is now more essential than ever to demand tangible initiatives that can truly change the way the University provides for students who are battling mental illnesses. No one should have to suffer through this particular battle blindly.

I’ll quote Carl Jung: “I am not what happened to me, I am who I choose to become.”

But Carl Jung, bless him, doesn’t mention that choosing who to become is incredibly difficult to do alone — I would not have been able to choose to become a healthier person without the help of the administration and my loved ones. Similarly, I cannot change policy just by telling my story. So while I write this last thought down in my former “Media and Medicine” notebook, I am asking for help, from those on campus or not, to bring about real changes towards a healthier Yale.

’m a FroCo. Even more than that, I’m a head FroCo. I’m supposed to lead a team of eight freshmen counselors who are supposed to collectively oversee the wellbeing of 122 freshmen. I’m supposed to be a “livein” model student. I’m supposed to get decent grades and show leadership in extracurriculars. I’m supposed to give advice and help those in need and handle myself well under stress. In many ways, I am first response damage control and the groundlevel mouthpiece of the administration.

Not today.

The past couple of weeks have been rough for Yale, to say the least. Recent headlines include an allegedly violent case of sexual assault, perceived improper conduct on the part of the Yale Police Department and the death of a student. Even more has happened beneath the headlines that my FroCo contract forbids me to speak of — things that I could not comprehend the first time I heard them, and things I still have a hard time believing are true.

I want to think that these weeks have been an anomaly for Yale. That our school is usually a pretty happy place, and that it’s rare for the students around me to grieve for their friends. But looking back on my three-anda-half years at Yale, I’m not completely convinced. Off the top of my head, I can recall a freshman year acquaintance taking his life, calming down a friend who’d been harassed by a police officer, chalking over swastikas on the sidewalks of Old Campus, long walks to visit friends in the inpatient psych ward, consoling a suitemate after a sexual assault and reading YDN op-eds about eating disorders, depression, anxiety, alcoholism, sexism and racism.

Thinking more, I recall my own experiences enduring panic attacks, crying myself to sleep and skipping out on meals. Creating a “mean at midnight” forum with friends to vent about all the ways in which Yale and the people around us had failed us. A senior telling me during my Bulldog Days visit that the worst

thing about Yale was feeling like he needed to pretend to be happy all the time.

The more I try to recall, the more and more I realize how common it is for Yalies to struggle and how quick we are to cover it up. How easy it is to write headlines off as a rarity, to claim that most issues only affect a small subset of students, to defend Yale as thoroughly and passionately as possible just so we can leave this place with the same Ivory Tower idealization that we came in with.

Dated Sept. 7, 2013, a question sits in my journal staring back at me. In small innocuous print, between lengthier and more eyecatching paragraphs, I ask: “Do I lie to myself to be happy?”

Looking back, I know that my answer at the time would have been yes. Knowing what I know now, my next question is: “Why?” Yale College is just that: a college. It’s where we live — leaky faucets and faulty wiring. It’s where we attend classes — expensive textbooks and difficult midterms. It’s where eat

— under-spiced food and drafty dining halls. It’s where we socialize — bad parties and forced smiles. It’s where we date — bitter heartbreaks and unfulfilling hookups.

It’s where thousands of 17 to 22-year-old human beings will try to figure out who they are and hundreds of (equally human) adults will try to help them get there — mistakes expected and failure imminent.

So again, why? Why can’t we accept that we will fail and that Yale will fail along with us? Why can’t we acknowledge that these failures will occur more regularly and run more deeply than we’d hope? Why do we think that the correct response to failure is to cover it up?

Why does no one realize that the more people with whom we share our failures, the more people there will be to join in and help us succeed? Why can’t we just let Yale fail?

DARA ELIACIN is a senior in Branford College. Contact her at dara.eliacin@yale.edu .

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hen I was first asked to help with the Senior Class Gift, I was hesitant. I didn’t know if I wanted to donate, much less be an active voice in asking others to do the same. Many objections came to mind: I had given money, time and energy to a University that continually made choices I believed were harmful for campus culture and student wellbeing. The flawed way in which the University handles issues of mental health was only one of several burdens I considered as I determined what my financial and emotional relationship with my alma mater should be.

I firmly believe that those who do not adequately manage what they have should not be given more. After considering the recent fiscal success of the Yale Investments Office, I felt absolved from any moral obligation to give to the University. If I did choose to give, it would be to my college, the architecture department or my campus ministry — to people who had given to me and whom I trusted to give responsibly in the future.

When I learned more about

the Senior Class Gift and the Yale Alumni Fund, I was surprised by how independent their joint effort is from the endowment.

I did not know that only 5 percent of donations to the endowment goes towards current students. The rest is rendered inaccessible to present endeavors.

Meanwhile, the Alumni Fund, which includes the SCG, covers what we students experience in the day to day. Every donation to the Alumni Fund is used within one year.

My own perspective on the SCG shifted when I discovered that this communal effort helps support deep community at Yale.

Aspects of residential college life that are highlighted in every brochure (from Master’s Teas to study breaks) are funded independently from the fees we pay each semester. They receive their funding from the Alumni Fund. The colleges are advertised as a means for students to have “cohesiveness and intimacy” and to experience “a sense of community” at Yale.

For most, though certainly not all, this is true to experience.

Though my time at Yale has been equally divided between LDub and Pierson proper, my college is (in the words of my former master) “so much more than a building made of bricks and mortar and stone; for it is above all a place that makes you feel good as well as decent and that compels you to love those around you and do what you can for them and for others.” It was my first home away from home, and the people and opportunities afforded by residential college life have been among my favorite aspects of Yale.

When my uncle died very suddenly last year, it was in Pierson — through conversations with my master, dean, suitemates and friends — that I processed that tragedy. I am not suggesting that the colleges are a replacement for a fully functioning Mental Health & Counseling Department or that coping with a family death is comparable to depression; I cannot begin to comprehend the frustration that my friends and freshmen have experienced in the current, broken system.

But I can say that those whom I

love have found resources outside the walls of Yale Health.

Some of these resources (FroCos, Peer Liaisons, clubs and organizations) are funded by the SCG. These are the aspects of Yale that our friends and classmates hate to lose when they are forced to take a leave of absence, and these that will be waiting for them upon their return. These are the resources that convinced me to give to the SCG because without them, I can’t imagine life at Yale.

To those who are petitioning for reform, I stand by you. It is unacceptable that friends and loved ones have to fear asking for help. It is unacceptable that they are sometimes exiled from Yale, where there is community that can provide support. But it is important to remember why we all chose Yale in the first place, and by boycotting the SCG, we will hinder that which makes Yale a place where community thrives.

MAGGIE INHOFE is a senior in Pierson College and an agent for the Senior Class Gift. Contact her at katherine.inhofe@yale.edu .

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VICTOR HUGO “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

GUEST COLUMNIST HALEY ADAMS

For God, for country, for progress

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love Yale’s traditions. I love Mory’s and hating Harvard and that the most popular game day apparel is a “Y”-embroidered sweater straight out of a Fitzgerald novel.

I love being part of a community that embraces its history and makes the effort to maintain what are objectively outdated practices (YPU hissing notwithstanding).

As Yale historian George Pierson put it, “Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.”

The Yale administration loves this quote. They have made it the University’s tagline, plastering it all over campus and the admissions website.

While Pierson’s description may be accurate, I find it troubling that the administration chose these specific words to portray the Yale experience.

YALE IS TOO BUSY CURATING ITS PAST TO CULTIVATE A NEW FUTURE This quote evokes a specific portrait of Yale — an early 20th century Yale filled with only white men wearing these “Y” sweaters. But this emphasis on the past is emblematic of Yale’s mindset in general.

The University relies on its history to stay relevant. It seems to believe that progress should be slow and carefully monitored, that we should be suspicious of change. This results in outdated mindsets driving outdated policies.

Since I’ve been a student here, I’ve often wondered what the administration could have possibly been thinking. Sometimes Yale operates as if the old white men in the portraits hanging on the walls of Woodbridge Hall are the ones actually making the decisions.

Like when the administration made it clear to the country that being found guilty of sexual harassment wasn’t necessarily a careerender. Or when Yale failed to prioritize mental health reform. Or when the University’s expressed commitment to diversity was more rhetoric than reality. Looking at these policies, there’s no reason to believe that the University prioritizes progress.

Last week, in the wake of a Yale Police officer holding an AfricanAmerican student at gunpoint, University President Peter Salovey sent the student body an email. In his message, he wrote, “These are not just someone else’s issues, located somewhere else; they are America’s issues, and they are our issues.” Certainly, they are America’s issues, and Yale, being part of the United States, should take responsibility for them.

I don’t find it comforting that the challenges that Yale is facing today — whether sexual misconduct or inadequate access to mental health

care — are challenges that the rest of the country is also grappling with.

The University should be finding solutions, not contributing to broader problems. Yale exceptionalism aside, our University has the resources and logistic capacity to be a vehicle for change. But Yale is too busy curating its past to cultivate a new future.

I find myself apologizing for the school fairly often. In part, because I love Yale and am proud to be a student here. But also because I have come to regard Yale like one of my older, out-of-touch relatives (It’s okay, we can forgive so-and-so’s borderline offensive and politically incorrect perspectives — he’s just from a different era).

After reading The Economist’s piece on the “new aristocracy,” I talked about the article with a group of students. We agreed that the University should be doing more to make Yale available to students of all backgrounds. But there was also an agreement that Yale deserved some recognition for what it had already done. “After all,” someone quipped, “I’m here and I went to public school and have ovaries.”

We were applauding Yale for admitting women — in 2015. We should be embarrassed by how long it took the University to admit women in the first place. It deserves no gold stars for having finally achieved gender “equality” 300 years after its founding, at least in terms of the number of undergraduate students — let’s not even get

started on graduate schools, the faculty and more qualitative aspects of women’s experiences at Yale. But Yale students have come to expect a glacial rate of progress. We hold our University to lower standards than we should.

Some students even contribute to this backward-looking culture. Far too many of our classmates have an anachronistic obsession with elitism, with good 'ol boys clubs, with tradition for the sake of tradition.

But the University as an institution does nothing to discourage this attitude. In fact, it seems to implicitly support it.

To be fair, I do think that the administration is trying. They are working to address the issues that students care about most. And I agree that Yale’s history is impressive and worth celebrating.

But valuing tradition over progress harms students. Yale’s policies create scenarios on campus that are unfair, and sometimes even unsafe. I have faith that the University can find a balance between tradition and progress. In fact, it has a moral responsibility to do so. And if social progress is insufficient motivation, the administration should at least consider Yale’s reputation.

After a few more New York Times' front page stories, 300 years of history won’t be enough to entice the best and the brightest.

HALEY ADAMS is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at haley.adams@yale.edu .

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incerity could be passion’s gentler little sister. Passion implies force, drive and mission. Sincerity implies eye contact.

For most people here, passion comes naturally. Whether it’s a painting we’re working on, a business we’re launching or a play we’re directing, we’re accustomed to throwing our entire selves into what we do.

Yet, I’ve sensed a sincerity deficit: Propelled by passion alone, we’ve ended up talking past each other, skimming through conversations, running down the clock during section. The whirlwind of the first few weeks of school always prompts a bit of soul-searching for me, casting doubt on the things I want to do and the things I think I want to do. Of course it’s important to figure out how I sincerely want to be spending my time, but more than that, I crave this sincerity from my friends and my peers. And not just in a quiet moment tucked away in the corner of a party or over coffee, but in daily interactions and in academic discourse.

While last semester I had professors who wanted reading responses printed out and handed in, this term, I’ve been posting to forums. I’d forgotten how public and competitive this format feels. After a semes-

ter of writing in private, now in writing for the Internet I’m suddenly exposed and intimidated (strange for an opinion columI know). I CAROLINE nist, fret over word SYDNEY count, over redundancy, over Selfrevealing some little misunderabsorbed standing of the reading that’s perfectly clear to everyone else.

This week, however, I read a post by a classmate that was thoughtful and engaging, yes, but really could be best described as sincere. Rather than a summary of his thoughts on the reading, I felt as though I was thinking through his thoughts alongside him. I didn’t feel intimidated; I felt trusted.

This post reminded me that the blog post format is not merely intended to facilitate debate and comparison, but openness. I used to write like that for classes, I thought as I read. I used to tell stories and ask questions that were less than 60 percent rhetorical. I used to be excited when a classmate wrote a

response. Somehow my approach had changed and reading something in this voice made me nostalgic for the way I once did work. Which felt strange because shouldn’t years of reading responses have made me a better responder? I think I’d forgotten what I thought made a good response, and had failed to realize how much of myself I’d been editing out. I wondered when sincerity left the seminar room, and how I could bring it back. It turned out that in college writing, I needed a little bit more of that pull that inspired my private Tumblr in middle school.

I WONDER WHEN SINCERITY LEFT THE SEMINAR ROOM Even private life, however, has a coating of insincerity. At dinner last night, a friend clarified that even though she had spoken in her sarcastic voice, she meant what she had said earnestly. It was mostly funny, but also kind of sad, as if there’s inherent irony attached to even approaching sincerity. To me,

earnestness feels kind of like a saccharine version of sincerity. It’s a bit cloying, a bit self-conscious, a bit in need of self-assurance. I don’t think she meant it that way, but by the same token, she also didn’t choose the word “sincere.”

For a while, we passed “earnest” around in conversation. It felt formal, maybe Victorian. It was neither an accurate descriptor nor something we truly wanted to be.

I thought about eye contact and the things that you start to say and then sigh and stop saying and then don’t finish. This sigh is like a form of self-censorship that’s the roadblock to sincerity, not a lie by omission but a refusal of access, a preemptive dismissal of the self before a friend or an acquaintance even has the chance to respond. Perhaps by targeting these moments, these decision points in conversation, we can reintroduce sincerity not as something surprising or ironic, but as something expected. In sincerity I should feel the most myself, and that should be the person I most often want to be.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a junior in Silliman College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

Serious fun A

s I get older, I feel growing pressure to take things seriously: my future, my relationships, myself. It’s a big world with high stakes and a lot of bad stuff. Class divisions and microaggressions, mental illness and sexual assault — levity sometimes seems like a luxury I can’t afford.

But at 11:30 p.m., I look up from my work and turn away from my worries. On NBC there’s a sharp guy in a crisp suit with a killer band, and he tells me zingers and makes fools out of famous people. When I watch "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon, the concerning stuff doesn’t go away, but for an hour it’s held at bay.

I need reminding that being an adult doesn’t always mean you have to act your age. Striding out from behind the curtain, Fallon bows and then grins, fist pumping and clapping, childish with delight. He’s just happy to be there. His energy is infectious, both to his viewers in the studio and at home. The crowd screams and whoops. “Thank you for being here!” he cries back. I can’t help but think he means it.

Fallon’s jokes are easy and they make me laugh. There’s little new or insightful about them, but his excitement and delivery are mag-

netic. He’s like a kid with something to show and tell. I want to pay attention.

That’s more than I can say of a lot of things these days. I NATHAN to keep up KOHRMAN try with all the latest injustices, At the seam but I’ve only got so much attention. Some of it I have to use selfishly — on my own complicated, grown-up realities.

It’s not that I don’t care about the big world’s bad stuff. It’s that sometimes I can’t. I can’t always read the new, insightful articles about what is wrong with the world. I can’t raise my awareness any higher.

THERE'S ALWAYS A FUNNY SIDE TO THINGS "The Tonight Show" is a release from that, whether you’re watch-

ing at home or a guest on the show.

Everyone becomes a kid. When Bill Gates was a guest, he slapped a philanthropy sticker over the Apple logo on Fallon’s MacBook. Jennifer Lopez got competitive playing Catch Phrase. Fallon teased Bob Costas about getting pink eye in Sochi, and teased himself about being a bad actor. He always asks his guests about their Instagram photos and their awkward dates. For an hour those are all the stories that matter.

Fallon broaches other, more serious matters, but with an irreverent touch. Of the measles outbreak: “A lot of people never got any shots — or, as Kobe’s people put it: ‘been there.’”

It’s easy to write off this kind of commentary. But seeing it as frivolous is missing the point. Our news cycle is dominated by the ominous.

In October, during the height of the Ebola hysteria, the humor writer Andy Borowitz suggested CNN change its official slogan to “Holy Crap, We’re All Gonna Die.” Even fake news programs like Jon Stewart’s "The Daily Show" and John Oliver’s "Last Week Tonight" go on scared and outraged tirades. Fallon’s show is different. It’s uncircumspect, unambivalent fun. Neither a guilty pleasure nor a rational-

ized indulgence, the show squeezes out the concerns that surround me over the course of the day. It gives me a chance to lounge and laugh.

Recently, I’ve needed that more than I’ve needed the news.

We can try to carry the weight of every frustration — every bad first draft, every unrequited text, every unforced fumble, every microaggression, every measles outbreak, every loss, every lie — or we can choose to laugh them off, and pick them up another day. Levity isn’t a luxury for me. Without it I couldn’t get out of bed. I wouldn’t have the stamina for seriousness.

So I guess that’s why I like "The Tonight Show" — for the message it sends. There is a time for seriousness, but not all the time. Adulthood is rarely simple, but its complexity means there’s a funny side to things.

It’s a choice to see what’s funny — to see both sides of tragicomedy. Even though we do not have studio audiences or a room full of writers crafting jokes, we have that choice. Not every column has to be solemn. We can be serious about our fun.

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a junior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST NAT H A N ST E I N B E R G

Exporting charity O

riginally built in 1924, the Dixwell Community house, or “Q house,” received a $1 million donation from the state last May to renovate its decrepit interior. On Jan. 15, the News reported that Q House repairs stalled after a lack of funds. Nonetheless, Ward 22 co-chair Jeanette Morrison remains optimistic that the historic community center will soon make a comeback.

The opening of the Q House promises to offer a new opportunity for Yale students to serve New Haven. But before Dwight Hall begins to brainstorm how to bring Yalies to Dixwell, it seems an appropriate time to recall the true definition of charity and how we too often fall short of its standards.

Charity is selfless — you donate your time because you have a deep sense of service for your community. But many students donate their time with a patronizing mindset. Too frequently, Yalies serve the community with other motives in mind. The recipients of their work can often come away feeling insulted or dehumanized. Charity must not be paternalistic. Despite our place of privilege, we are equals to those we serve. Though they may benefit from your service, they are not dependent on you.

Last spring, I sat in on a Ward 22 committee meeting. The committee, which includes both Yale students and Dixwell residents, addresses local issues and politics. It was a peculiar arrangement. Yale students, many of whom sported expensively priced university apparel, sat on one side. Facing them across the table, the Dixwell locals appeared stone-faced. The meeting quickly grew contentious after one Dixwell committee member expressed that students should not have a stake in neighborhood affairs since they are not permanent residents. His sentiment hints at a larger problem in the city of New Haven: weak connections between temporary and permanent residents.

CHARITY MUST BE GENUINE, NOT RESUME PADDING For its part, the University has long recognized the importance of cooperating with the city. Dwight Hall, founded in 1886, is the primary liaison between Yale students interested in service and the broader community. Every year, more than 3,500 students work through Dwight Hall on projects that range from eradicating homelessness to improving education in the Elm City, according to the organization's website. But despite the large numbers of students who participate through Dwight Hall, I question whether it is truly heartfelt service.

The nature of charity has partially changed as a result of the incentives that engender it.

These days, it’s expected for most college students to give. Thumb through the application brochure for the Yale Law School.

There’s a whole page on how law students have the opportunity to interact with the community. It makes sense, then, that candidates would insert a list of charitable ventures to their application to get a foot in the door to graduate schools. Employers are correct in recognizing that service is a testament to the candidate’s virtue, diligence and other soft skills such as teamwork or leadership. As such, it grows harder every year to distinguish between those who give for the sake of giving and those whose philanthropy stems from other motives.

I see no fault in taking pride in service, but it saddens me to see heartfelt work translate into resume padding for ambitious Yalies. Not only can intentions be disingenuous, but I believe it feeds into the paternalism that is too often characteristic of community service in New Haven. It’s understandable that many residents voice the same frustrations that I witnessed in last spring’s Ward 22 meeting. The Dixwell resident at that meeting spoke to the feeling of being talked down to by well-meaning Yale students. Think about the wealth divide between the neighborhood of Dixwell and the Yale campus. With our Gothic spires and Barbour jackets, it’s easy to differentiate between Yalies and locals, even when we might brush shoulders while walking down Elm Street. While we accept our diplomas and move on to life’s next chapter, they stay, often as needy as when we first set foot on campus.

The next generation of Yale students will then staff the deserted community service positions.

Of course, improved town-gown relations is not an overnight change. Charitable work is one of the best steps individual Yale students can take to enhance the University image.

That being said, charity must be genuine. It must come from an understanding that compassion and altruism are the most essential ingredients of service. One should come home from a long day of community service and think not of it as “giving hours” but as gratifying work.

NATHAN STEINBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at nathan.steinberg@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

The question on sixth-year funding: Who gets credit?

TIMELINE GESO FUNDING Ad hoc committee put together by then-Dean of the Graduate School Tom Pollard December 2013

2013

GESO delivers 1,000 signatures to Woodbridge Hall April 30, 2014

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February 2014 Pollard begins to direct more attention to Teaching Fellows Program and sixth-year funding

Sixth-year funding will take effect Fall 2015

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Oct. 21, 2014 1,000 GESO supporters protest in the streets and march to Woodbridge Hall

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GESO students staged large protests that, they believe, were behind recent administrative changes. The University also claims to have made the changes independent of these protests.

GESO FROM PAGE 1 Cooley’s announcement came less than two months after roughly 1,000 GESO supporters gathered on Beinecke Plaza, and just under eight months after hundreds of rain-soaked protesters delivered a petition bearing over 1,000 signatures to Woodbridge Hall.

“I think the thing that’s so exciting about six-year funding is that we view it as an official response to our actions, and we look forward to sitting down and negotiating with the administration,” said GESO Chair Aaron

Greenberg GRD ’18.

But at both protests, the rallying cry was not sixth-year funding. Instead, the protests were a continuation of GESO’s decadeslong effort to be recognized by the University, and therefore gain a seat at the negotiating table. What is more, GESO leaders and Graduate School administrators have not met since the protests.

Brian Dunican GRD ’15, who served as chair of the Graduate Student Assembly during the 2013–14 year, said GESO’s efforts had no impact on the decision.

The timeline for the change, he

said, does not line up with Greenberg’s assertion — discussion, he noted, about a sixth year of funding officially began in December 2013, five months before the first GESO protest. At the time, Pollard put together an ad hoc committee to address the issue, according to Dunican.

Pollard echoed Dunican’s assessment, noting that there had been talk about extending funding even before he became dean in 2010. According to the former dean, who stepped down last July, he first addressed the issue of funding sixth-year studies along

with the Teaching Fellows Program — an initiative to improve the teaching skills of graduate students under faculty guidance — in discussions with the GSA in February 2014.

Pollard emphasized that the process that led up to the decision to finance a sixth year of studies was not a negotiation, but instead an example of a close collaboration between the GSA and the administration to resolve a problem.

Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Yale College, the Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Pamela Schirmeister also negated Greenberg’s assertion, adding that GESO did not influence the decision. Schirmeister said the GSA was instrumental in voicing students’ concerns.

Still, students interviewed were divided on which story — Greenberg’s or the administration’s — rang true.

“If there hadn’t been parades in the streets, this wouldn’t have gotten done,” said a graduate student who, fearing retribution, spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Justin Mendoza GRD ’15 agreed,

saying he did not see the funding as the product of the GSA’s efforts.

But Megan Eckerle GRD ’15, along with five other students, attributed the added funding to the GSA. Dunican, meanwhile, said that he sees the GSA as a more effective tool for creating change than GESO, as it can bring more specific issues to the attention of the administration.

Yale is the only Ivy League school to guarantee funding to sixth-year graduate students.

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

Admin response put officers at risk, police union says YPD FROM PAGE 1 cer’s actions justified.

In condemning the administration’s reaction, the YPBA’s statement argued that the University responded to the incident in the way it did because of public optics.

Blow’s case sparked national interest when his father, New York Times columnist Charles Blow, tweeted that his son had been “accosted” by the officer, adding the hashtags #ICantBreathe and #BlackLivesMatter, ones typically linked to movements against racial profiling and police brutality.

“Would Yale be as concerned if, instead of the son of an influential newspaper columnist and television commentator, the suspect was a young man who lived in New Haven housing project and whose father had a menial job? We doubt it,” the statement said.

They made a huge mistake, and to say [the officer was acting reasonably] is way off.

CHADD COSEE ’17 Karen Peart, Yale’s deputy press secretary, said in a Thursday email to the News that the administration was aware of the YPBA’s statement, which had been posted in YPD headquarters early this week and had been shared within the department, Peart said.

While Peart said the administration stands behind the YPBA’s right to freedom of expression, she denied the YPBA’s claim the administration was comparing the incident to the events of Ferguson, Staten Island and Cleveland.

“The University’s message made clear that Yale does not agree with [these comparisons],” Peart said, adding that the email from University officials made its support of the police department well known.

Peart said further comment about the incident would be “inappropriate” before the investigation of the events is complete.

Even though University officials still have faith in the police department, Chadd Cosse ’17, a member of Yale’s Black Men’s Union, said the YPBA’s argument that the officer was acting reasonably is difficult to comprehend.

“They need to be apologizing to Yale, to him and to his family,” he said. “They made a huge mistake, and to say [the officer was acting reasonably] is way off.”

YALE DAILY NEWS

The University Police Department has faced controversy in the way it handled a recent incident with Yale student Tahj Blow ’16.

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

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NEWS

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

ELIE WIESEL ROMANIAN-AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

CORRECTIONS

GHeav prices up, months before closing

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4

A previous version of the article “Breaking down Yale Athletics’ budget” mistook the word “auspices” for the word “hospices” in a quote attributed to Tom Beckett. It has been revised accordingly.

THURSDAY, FEB. 5

A previous version of the article “Salad shop opens branch on Whalley” incorrectly stated that the new branch is on Whalley Avenue. It is, in fact, on Whitney Avenue.

Dem. alder to be minority leader

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER A member of the all-Democratic Board of Alders will may soon have the power to fill positions that were originally reserved for the non-Democratic minority leader.

At its meeting last night, the Aldermanic Affairs Committee voted unanimously and without discussion to recommend an amendment that allows a Democrat to fill the role of minority leader. The Board of Alders will vote on whether or not to approve the amendment, which would allow the Board to elect a minority leader.

Several alders interviewed said they were unsure why it took so long to recommend the amendment. Perez cited the slow government process and a lack of urgency as potential drivers of the delay. He added that there was “no harm done” by leaving the positions unfilled.

In previous years, the Board has always had at least one nonDemocratic representative — either a member of the Republican Party or a member of the Green Party — who served as the minority leader and served on these commissions, according to committee chair and Ward 13 Alder Rosa Santana.

However, because the current Board of Alders is entirely Democratic, new rules had to be passed in order to account for those positions, said Director of Legislative Services Al Lucas. The passage of the new amendment would allow for the appointed Democratic representative to head the various commissions, committees and boards that would normally need to be filled by a member of a different political party. The committee did not specify a date when the minority leader would be elected.

Santana noted that having an all-Democratic board has not

produced a distinct change in aldermanic discourse.

“There’s always a shift in discussion with new members,” she said. “Each person has a different set of values in that the way they view things is different than the way anybody else views them.”

Santana said she believes that one’s political affiliation does not directly correlate with their stance on city issues, and that it therefore does not make sense to reserve positions to the minority party.

BY JIAHUI HU AND MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTERS Rising prices at Gourmet Heaven have sparked new questions surrounding the market’s future in the final months of its lease.

Prices at Gourmet Heaven have risen by an average of 50 cents in the past two weeks, according to Adam Juarez, who has worked at the market since its opening in 2001. A pack of gum costs about 25 cents more, he added, and the price of a steak, egg and cheese sandwich has increased by 75 cents.

Chung Cho, the owner of Gourmet Heaven, was unavailable for comment Wednesday, but Juarez said that the product costs have risen in response to the increased price of the lease.

In addition, with Yale set to terminate the market’s lease in June 2015, Juarez said that Gourmet Heaven hopes to renew the lease despite the rise in rental prices.

He added that representatives from UP and Gourmet Heaven are meeting in the next cou-

ple of weeks to discuss the lease renewal.

According to several business owners, the costs of leases for University-owned properties have been increasing over the past couple of years. The reason for the increase in rental prices, however, may just be due to inflation — an adjustment common in regular business practice.

While she did not comment directly on Juarez’s claims, Associate Vice President for University Properties and New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker said rental prices of Yale-owned properties often face regular contractual increases to account for inflation.

“We do tend to do inflation adjustments in our leases so perhaps that is what they are referring to,” Zucker wrote in an email.

Local business owners Matt Feiner and Claire Criscuolo both confirmed that an increase to account for inflation in rent is automatically built into leases with University Properties.

Feiner is the owner of Devil’s Gear Bike Shop on Orange Street

and rented his second location on Chapel Street from UP until 2008, while Criscuolo is the owner of Claire’s Corner Copia.

However, several business owners and managers said rising prices from UP make owning local businesses around Yale more difficult and makes the locations more viable for chain stores.

Feiner said UP has worked to make Broadway a more successful business location by attracting more chain stores to the area rather than locally owned businesses. But Juarez said this approach to recruiting new businesses has put strain on relationships between business owners and UP. “Rental prices on Broadway are going up because [UP is] looking for chain stores that can operate off other chain stores,” Feiner said. “They have a vision and they seem to be going ahead with it, [but] it’s kind of frustrating because they’ve priced out some stores.”

While Broadway and Chapel rental rates have steadily increased more than other loca-

tions in New Haven, UP has also helped attract significant foot traffic to these areas around campus, Feiner said.

Crisculo said UP has helped her business grow. By paying a fee to have Claire’s be a part of the “The Shops at Yale,” a group which Gourmet Heaven is not a part of, Crisculo said she benefits from UP’s marketing program, which can reach out to more potential customers than she could herself.

Further, Criscuolo said that while rental prices have been steadily increasing throughout the area and that she would naturally prefer to have cheaper rental prices, renting solely to locally owned businesses would be a strategically unwise decision for University Properties.

“Small businesses have higher turnovers,” she said. “Corporations have more resources to ensure stability and funds for promotion and rent.”

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

There’s always a shift in discussion with new members [on the Board of Alders].

ROSA SANTANA Alderwoman, New Haven Ward 13 The Republican party has always had a limited presence in New Haven. Data compiled by the New Haven Registrar of Voters indicates that there were over 50,000 registered Democrats as of February 2014, but just over 2,500 registered Republicans.

There are an additional 19,000 unaffiliated voters.

On its website, the New Haven Republican Town Committee currently advertises itself as “New Haven’s Other Political Party” and reassures its members that “Yes, there is such a group.” At the last New Haven Republican Town Committee, GOP Town Chairman Richter Elser referred to the meeting as “a biennial chance to celebrate the fact that there is, in fact, a Republican Party in New Haven.”

New Haven’s last Republican mayor, William Celentano, was elected in 1945.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

HENRY EHRENBERG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Although Gourmet Heaven is set to closed in June, prices have risen slightly, which some have attributed to increased leasing costs.

Despite protests, senior class gift begins

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER

NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

An amendment recommended by the Aldermanic Affairs Committee would allow Democrats to fill positions originally reserved for non-Democrats.

If the Yale Office of Development hopes that alumni donations end grandly — think Harkness Tower or the new residential colleges — then they appear to start humbly, that is, at Shake Shack.

The three-week long Senior Class Gift fundraising campaign officially began on Wednesday night with a class-wide event held at Shake Shack, where attendees had the option of donating to the gift. The Senior Class Gift, which is a part of the Yale Alumni Fund, provides the University with immediate funds that are independent of the endowment. While a group of seniors have initiated a boycott of the campaign in protest of the University’s mental health policies, most seniors interviewed remain enthusiastic about contributing to the gift.

“This campaign aims to educate us about how Yale is impacting its students and to get seniors thinking about giving back to the school,” said Denzil Bernard ’15, co-chair of the campaign. “We want to give back by refueling for the next batch of incoming students and to help them have the same experience we enjoyed.”

The Senior Class Gift has reached over 95 percent participation rate every one of the last four years and raised roughly $30,000 in each of the last three years. The campaign is led by four co-chairs, who were elected by their peers in the senior class.

In addition, the campaign has roughly 150 fundraising volunteers from across the 12 residen-

tial colleges. The campaign will feature individual college events, including Morse’s “Sangria and Chocolate” and Trumbull’s mixology class, as well as an intercollege competition in three categories: highest participation rate, most dollars raised per participant and most overall dollars raised. $10,000 scholarships for incoming Yale undergraduates will be named after any residential college that reaches 95 percent participation as well as to the residential colleges that come in first place in the other two categories.

In addition, Chad Hoitink ’96, who has made donations to the University, has agreed to match the senior class’s overall donation amount dollar for dollar. Seniors in Jonathan Edwards College will also have their donations matched dollar for dollar by various JE alumni if their participation rate exceeds 97 percent.

Despite the various competitions and financial incentives to donate, the co-chairs said that the campaign’s mission is not to coerce seniors into participating, but rather to cultivate a culture of giving back.

“Although there are competitions and outside incentives, we are not trying to make this feel like a competition,” co-chair Schuyler Arakawa ’15 said. “We want them to feel like they are giving back to Yale’s future.”

The Class of 2014 raised $33,387 for its Class Gift and saw 96.6 percent student participation.

Seniors who donate to the gift will be given the choice of directing their donations to one of six categories within the

Yale Alumni Fund: financial aid, facilities, faculty support, library resources, undergraduate life and “unrestricted,” which indicates that the University can choose where to spend the student’s contribution. According to Lynn Andrewsen, managing director of the Yale Alumni Fund, the financial aid and unrestricted categories are typically the most popular among seniors, making up around 70 percent of all donations.

We want to give back by refueling for the next batch of incoming students.

DENZIL BERNARD ’15 Co-chair, Senior Class Gift Lincoln Mitchell ’15 said he chose to give to the financial aid category because he himself is a financial aid recipient and wanted to give back to the University in a similar way.

While Liz Rodriguez-Florido ’15 expressed interest in financial aid, she ultimately decided to give to the unrestricted category as she believed a concentration of donations for financial aid may leave other aspects of the university neglected.

But this year, seven seniors have co-authored a pledge to boycott the fundraising campaign in hopes of pressuring the University to make decisive changes to its mental health policies. The boycott comes as

a direct response to the suicide of Luchang Wang ’17 late last month. The boycott was conceived by one of her friends, Geoffrey Smith ‘15.

Smith said that because the Senior Class Gift is a campaign that the Yale administration takes seriously, the boycott is a major opportunity for students to communicate to administrators and alumni that there are problems at the University that are in need of attention. He added that he thinks the gift represents a symbolic endorsement of the University from the senior class — a feeling that he does not share in as a result of his displeasure with Yale’s mental health policy.

Roughly 50 seniors have joined the pledge. All six seniors interviewed at the event expressed awareness of the boycott, but several of them noted that contributions to the gift are aimed at supporting the student body, not the administration.

“I think what is important to understand is that you are not necessarily giving back to the Yale administration, you are giving back to students who are coming behind you, if you so choose to give,” Mitchell said.

Andrewsen said the Alumni Fund is aware of the boycott but noted that it is not the fund’s role to advise students on how to express their concerns. The cochairs of the campaign declined to comment on the subject.

Seniors can donate to the Senior Class Gift online or through a contribution card.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Actually, I didn’t like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.”

RACHEL DRATCH AMERICAN COMEDIENNE

Students, faculty criticize Dartmouth policy

One expelled for misconduct, report says SEXUAL MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Dartmouth’s ban on hard liquor has elicited criticism among some Yale students, who believe the ban will encourage more secretive use of alcohol.

DARTMOUTH FROM PAGE 1 had a positive impact on the wellbeing of the student body.

“I think it depends on what the punishments are, and what the incentives are,” Tuttle said. “Otherwise they risk the danger of just driving it underground into more dangerous situations than would occur.”

Aaron Berman ’16, a former resident of the Saybrook 12-Pack — a popular site for parties on campus — agreed with Adams and Tuttle that a ban on hard liquor might push students to use it more secretively. If a ban were implemented at Yale, Berman said, party hosts would be more concerned about not being caught with alcohol than about the well-being of their

guests.

Branford College Master and School of Public Health professor Elizabeth Bradley said she believes the ban is not feasible.

“I’m shocked by it,” Bradley said.

“I think it’s going to be impossible to implement, but I’m also really eager to see what happens. I’m glad they’re doing it because we can learn a lot from it, but I’m really wondering how they’re going to pull it off.”

Adams said it would be very difficult to implement a hard alcohol ban at Yale because of Yale’s location in New Haven. Unlike Yale’s urban setting, Dartmouth is situated in rural New Hampshire.

“It’s even harder to limit hard alcohol consumption when everybody who lives in New Haven is

allowed to have it,” she said.

Yale revised its alcohol policy last May, when the Yale College Dean’s Office clarified an existing rule that alcohol-related medical emergencies would not be treated as disciplinary matters and that students treated for alcohol incidents would have to undergo mandatory health counseling.

Adams said she agreed with Yale’s stance on alcohol as a medical rather than disciplinary issue.

She said that though there is external pressure on Yale to match the approaches of peer schools with more disciplinary approaches to alcohol, she does not believe that Yale would take Dartmouth’s approach.

Adams added that she believes the hard alcohol ban was an attempt

to cut back on Dartmouth’s reputation for having a school culture dominated by Greek life and drinking.

In addition to the hard alcohol ban, next fall Dartmouth freshmen will also be housed in one of six residential communities, in order to create a campus that is more inclusive and cohesive, Hanlon said in his address to the school community.

Dartmouth has a much larger Greek presence on campus than Yale, with 30 fraternities and sororities compared to Yale’s 13.

According to Dartmouth’s website, 51 percent of students are involved in Greek life.

of the year to 13.

However, the report noted it is difficult to infer trends from the data.

“It remains challenging to identify meaningful statistical trends from the information in the reports,” the report read. “The reports capture information only about complaints that have been brought forward; without additional information about unreported incidents of sexual misconduct on our campus, it is challenging to draw conclusions about patterns and trends.”

According to Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd, undergraduate reports are usually higher in the spring because students often wait until the end of the academic year to report.

Boyd added that consistency between the total number of complaints, however, demonstrates a high sexual misconduct reporting rate at the University. She added that compared to the national average of 2 to 3 percent, the University’s reporting rate is much better, likely demonstrating a healthier campus climate surrounding these issues. However, Boyd could not provide a specific reporting rate at Yale.

The most recent report indicates that 41 reports of sexual misconduct were handled by the Title IX coordinator. According to UWC procedures, if the complainant decides against pursuing their complaint through the UWC, the case is then handled informally by the Title IX coordinator. In these instances, complainants work with University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler to decide upon the best resolution between the complainant and respondent, including but not limited to no-contact orders.

Spangler explained that Title IX Coordinators provide many services, including conducting investigations, filing formal complaints, pursuing resolutions and arranging for no-contact orders.

Boyd added that complainants have every option in pursuing formal or informal complaints through the UWC or informal options through the Title IX coordinator. Students can also report instances of sexual misconduct to law enforcement.

Some complaints that appear identical in the report ultimately receive different punishments.

For example, in one case of non-consensual intercourse, a student was expelled, while in a different case, the respondent was placed on probation. But, Boyd explained, because the report aims to protect students’ privacy, cases that are in fact very different may fall under the umbrella designation of sexual assault.

In one case, the UWC found that a respondent was violating a no-contact order, for which he was given a written reprimand, a second restriction from contacting the complainant and a referral for training on sexual consent.

However, Spangler said while no-contact orders are issued frequently, the reports contain very few complaints of these orders being violated.

Eight of 10 students interviewed said they had not read the report carefully. However, students interviewed were divided on whether the University is sufficiently transparent in its handling of cases of sexual misconduct.

While Sarah Armstrong ’18 said she appreciates how transparent Yale is in disseminating information like this, other students disagreed.

“There needs to be more transparency so that we know how the University is handling this,” Michael Aguero-Sanclair ’18 said. “[There should be] more transparency on the side of how to file a [complaint], and knowing what the University sees and how they go through the process of deliberating a case.”

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

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Polak at YSM: “I wasn’t sufficiently focused ... I am now.”

TOWN HALL FROM PAGE 1 being treated fairly at the school.

“Obviously there is residual frustration about the [Simons] case,” said Neuropathology Section Chief Laura Manuelidis MED ’67 after the meeting. “But in sum, it was terrific that the president came, and a cause for hope.”

Manuelidis said Salovey was receptive and committed at the town hall, and added that one of Polak’s comments about diversity — “an excellent faculty has to be a diverse faculty” — were particularly welcome.

In his opening speech to the faculty at the town hall, Polak said he had seen first hand the pressures put on women, sometimes deliberately, to discourage them from going into science.

But he said having two daughters led him to realize the importance of having female role models in science.

Still, not all attendees were impressed with the University’s efforts. One female faculty member, who did not identify herself when she stood up to speak during the Town Hall, asked for an

apology from the provost for his decisions in previous sexual misconduct cases. She said admitting the University “screwed up” in handling some cases would go a long way.

“I wasn’t sufficiently focused on how important these issues at the medical school are — I am now,” Polak said, in response to her request.

Another attendee, immunology professor Philip Askenase MED ’65, said Salovey and Polak had avoided answering questions about how the medical school can ensure accountability. While Askenase acknowledged that federal laws, state laws and University policy prevent administrators from disclosing certain details of disciplinary proceedings, he expressed concern that it will be difficult for faculty members to monitor if the administration stays true to its promises.

“There are elephants in this room,” Askenase said, addressing Salovey and Polak. “People have asked specific questions that you have avoided.”

The University is bound by federal and Connecticut state law to keep information such as

the financial details of misconduct cases confidential, Polak and Salovey said. The University also prohibits the UniversityWide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, which adjudicates sexual misconduct cases within the University, from sharing the full details of claimant and respondent statements.

While Polak said the definition of a good faculty member must extend beyond being able to produce high quality research, Askenase noted to everyone at the town hall that there is talk within the medical school about certain faculty members who were hired despite leaving their previous institutions for reasons that may have been related to their professional conduct.

REFORMS ON THE HORIZON?

Currently, Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas oversees diversity issues at all of the University’s constituent schools.

Bribiescas’s position was created this past December. Before that, diversity issues were handled by other administrators.

Members of the Status of

Women in Medicine, a Yale committee that advocates for more female faculty in medicine, argue that the medical school should have its own diversity officer because it is so large, comprising 18 clinical departments and 10 basic science departments. That recommendation was included in a December message from the Gender Equity Task Force to the medical school community and was reiterated at Thursday’s town hall by radiology professor Joann Sweasy.

Sweasy also said SWIM is advocating for increasing the number of women on the search committees responsible for picking medical school leadership.

“If you look at the composition of search committees, you wouldn’t be surprised by the composition of leadership,” Sweasy said, adding that Alpern appears receptive to SWIM’s recommendations.

Alpern, who agreed that the town hall was particularly important because faculty had expressed interest in providing feedback directly to the president, said he thought the meeting had gone well and that the

questions posed to Salovey and Polak were both well crafted and well answered.

Salovey and Polak also used the town hall to clarify what they said were misconceptions about how the University deals with sexual misconduct. Polak said that contrary to popular opinion, financial considerations do not play a part in UWC proceedings.

“I do not get any financial information about cases,” he said. “I am religiously strict about this.”

Polak also addressed concerns surrounding the compensation faculty members receive when they are suspended for misconduct. Some members of the community, he said, are convinced that suspended faculty are essentially on paid sabbatical — a notion that confidentiality clauses prevent him from discussing. While Polak did not comment on whether suspended faculty members get paid, he said during the town hall that he is “not interested in sending people on paid sabbaticals.”

Polak and Salovey also shed light on future discussions about misconduct that may take place.

In Polak’s introduction to the town hall, he said there is concern surrounding whether or not there should be a single decision maker in sexual misconduct cases. Currently, only the provost has the ability to alter sanctions issued to faculty respondents that are decided upon by the UWC, but Polak acknowledged that this may not be the best structure.

“I’m not wedded to the idea of a single decision maker,” he said.

Polak acknowledged that the UWC has been “unearthing bad behavior that goes beyond sexual misconduct” that its current procedure is unable to tackle, referring to workplace bullying.

The new Code of Faculty Conduct was designed to mitigate this issue and wider concerns about the school’s climate, he said.

But, he said, there is still some way to go.

“We try to be as transparent as we can, even though that might seem comical to some of you,” Salovey said.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.” NEWT GINGRICH AMERICAN POLITICIAN

Volleyball league creates community, makes history

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER The fluorescent halls of Nathan Hale School were eerily empty on a cold Tuesday night.

But the gym was filled with music, footsteps and the relentless sound of flesh hitting rubber as a dozen adults sought athletic glory in a coed New Haven Volleyball League game.

The league’s founder, Oswald Hernandez Carrero, known by everyone as Ozzie, watched from the sidelines in an orange t-shirt and blue sweatpants, greeting players walking into the gym in English or Spanish. Tonight, the Notorious DIGs, a team composed mostly of faculty and staff affiliated with Career High School, were taking on the undefeated Vinotinto, named for the Venezuelan national soccer team. The players differed in age, national origin, fitness level and socioeconomic status.

“It’s amazing,” Carrero said, gesturing across the gym. “He’s an illegal immigrant playing with doctors, lawyers, police officers.”

Carrero grew up playing volleyball in Puerto Rico before attending Eli Whitney High School in Hamden. He founded the league three years ago with the sponsorship of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees. It now boasts 20 teams and over 135 players — most of whom live in the New Haven area.

Each team pays $100 for the season, which lasts from November through April, creating one of the best volleyball bargains in the state, according to Carrero. Other recreational leagues in cities such as Wallingford, Woodbridge and West Haven, for example, charge teams at least $200 and as much as $500 for three months of play.

According to Felicia Shashinka, community recreation coordinator at the department, the league may also be among the most affordable tools in the city’s fight against obesity. A 2013 survey of adults in six New Haven neighborhoods, conducted by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, found that 70 percent reported being overweight or obese. A report published by DataHaven that year found that half of Elm City middle school students did not meet healthy weight guidelines, compared to one third of children between the ages of two and 19 nationwide. The volleyball league provides cheap and fun exercise,

and the participation fee means “it’s a wash” for the city’s coffers, Shashinka said.

On Tuesday, a few players had brought their children to the gym to watch the games. They threw volleyballs at the wall and ran along the sidelines as their parents played. Shashinka said that’s a sign of the program’s multiple benefits.

“If you see your parent do it, your tendencies are better to start being fit and start exercising at a younger age,” Shashinka said.

The city provides the League with space, some equipment and an employee who observes the game and keeps score. The Department also helps advertise, publishing flyers and occasional updates about the league in its newsletter. The backbone of the program, however, is Carrero himself, according to many players interviewed.

Shashinka said he approached her three years ago with his plan for the League. West Haven runs a beach volleyball program in the summer, and Carrero wanted New Haven to offer an indoor league in the winter months.

Shashinka told him to go for it.

During the League’s season, he is at Nathan Hale five days a week from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m after he leaves his job as a claims representative at the social security administration on Church Street.

There are typically three games per day and about a half hour of open play.

In the fall, Carrero, who also plays on a team called the Volley Llamas, runs team registration and hosts a few days of open play, during which unaffiliated players have the chance to show off their skills. Teams in search of new members show up, sit on the sidelines and scout.

Volkan Gok, who works as a client advisor for BMW in Bridgeport, was recruited to join team Vinotinto more informally. One Sunday during the summer of 2013, he was on the way to a soccer game on his motorcycle when he passed a game of beach volleyball in West Haven. Gok played volleyball in college in Istanbul, so he stopped to see how the team was playing.

“They said, ‘Hey would you want to come next Sunday? We’re here every Sunday.’ So the following week I joined them,” Gok said.

In the fall, they invited him to join their indoor volleyball team.

They are currently the strongest team in the league, and Gok,

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The New Haven Volleyball League hosts games that draw students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. who does crossfit three or four times a week, is a major contributor to their success. For Gok and most other players, including Rosa Ayala ’09, a math teacher at Career High School, the competition is fun, but not the main point of playing.

Instead, Gok cited the sense of community that develops among players in the league as a main driver in his decision to play.

Although teams are set, anyone can show up on any night and expect to play, since teams often need substitute players at the last minute. That means players have the chance to meet almost everyone in the League.

“Once you get out of your childhood, teen years, you don’t always find these things,” Gok said. “You have to find communities.”

Though the League is a par-

ticularly unique opportunity for adults, Carrero’s work has also spurred a new opportunity for New Haven high school students: the first-ever city-sponsored youth club team. The team started when Carrero’s niece, Kiana Hernandez ’18, started attending League games with fellow Wilbur Cross High School women’s volleyball players. Carrero encouraged her to enlist more players to form a team, and last year they began traveling to tournaments across the northeast. After a few tournaments, officials from the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees then decided to sponsor the team, so Carrero hired a former Albertus Magnus College coach, Omar Ramirez, to bring the New Haven Bulldogs up to par with club teams across the region. The Bulldogs are the first club team in

the city traveling and representing New Haven across the northeast.

Hernandez, who still practices with the club team, said the players — who mostly come from Wilbur Cross but are looking to expand the number of schools involved — have improved significantly this year. Two of her cousins on the team hope to play well enough to join college teams.

Shashinka said hope represents part of the logic behind funding the club team.

“If the skills get set, there’s an opportunity for them to get scholarships and continue education,” Shashinka said.

Carrero said he recently had a conversation with Shashinka in which she explained why the city has been so supportive — in addition to paying the salary for the club coach, the city pays Carrero

a salary of $10 an hour.

“Her thing is, ‘You work with the youth, you get the adults going, and you really don’t bother me,’” Carrero joked.

Carrero said he hopes the new club team can expand its reach beyond its own players. In the spring, the women will lead a volleyball clinic for elementary school students, passing along their passion to the next generation of players.

Hernandez said she thinks Carrero’s passion for volleyball started because of the sport’s popularity in Puerto Rico and within their family. Her parents and cousins play as well.

“It started off as a family affair and now he wants to spread his love to the city,” Hernandez said.

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State, local reps propose amendments

BY EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER

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Connecticut representatives and residents debated proposals to amend affordable housing law at a public hearing this Thursday.

During a public hearing that ran for longer than four hours Thursday evening, 14 state and local representatives and 33 Connecticut residents stepped up to the podium to debate proposed bills amending a current affordable housing law.

Law 8-30g, which allows affordable housing developers to appeal when a local zoning board rejects their proposal, has inspired state legislators to enact 32 bills this year. The recommendations in the bills range from regulating the height of affordable housing units to repealing 8-30g outright. Eighteen state representatives made the trip to New Haven to either preside over the hearing, organized by the Connecticut Housing Committee, or to testify.

“The statute is designed to produce a situation where, if the town cannot make a compelling decision for why they had to say no [to an affordable housing proposal], then the developer gets to go ahead and build,” said Raphael Podolsky, staff attorney for the Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut, a public policy advocacy organization.

Of the 169 towns in Connecticut, 31, including New Haven, have been declared exempt from 8-30g because they offer at least 10 percent of their housing units as affordable housing units.

In the towns not exempt from this law, approximately two thirds of the appeals made by affordable housing developers have been sustained, overturning local zoning board decisions.

But many testified that 8-30g is used too often for decisions that are not supported by the local community, or in towns that are proactively trying to increase affordable housing but just are not able to reach the expectations of 8-30g.

David Fink, policy director for the Partnership for Strong Communities —

a non-profit policy advocacy organization focused on eliminating homelessness across the state — said he does not buy into the argument made by towns that say they do not have additional real estate space to increase affordable housing. He added that towns can find ways to do so by rezoning buildings.

“In the city, they knock down old warehouses to create housing, you take old factories and make lofts out of them ... you can do it, but it takes some will,” Fink said.

Matthew Mandell, a Westport, Conn. legislative representative, testified that some developers in his town take advantage of 8-30g by building developments that are too dense. These developments are often multi-story complexes that are architecturally distinct from their surrounding buildings.

He advocated for affordable housing but not within the current regulations of 8-30g, from which he believes developers profit. He specifically said the height of some of these complexes should be addressed.

Housing Committee members and those who testified during the hearing focused on the inaccessibility of a four-year moratorium from the law.

To incentivize those towns not exempt from 8-30g based on the number of affordable housing units in the area, they can qualify for a four-year moratorium under certain criteria, but many believe these criteria are unreasonable to achieve.

Many of those who testified and a few members of the Housing Committee questioned the regulation that only affordable housing units created after 1990 count towards the moratorium.

Others argued that counting those units created after 1990 — 8-30g was adopted in 1989 — accurately shows a town’s commitment to increasing affordable housing, not just sitting on existing units.

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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

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Bus lines to dominate transit agenda

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

in many years, taken a look at the current bus services to see whether or not they have been adapting and are still sufficient for residents and businesses’ needs, he said. The study has two parts — finding out who needs to be served and the best way of doing so.

“Seventy percent of jobs in the New Haven area take over 90 minutes to commute one way on bus,” Hausladen said.

“That’s three hours a day to get to and from a job that most likely is not paying very much.

Of seven commuters interviewed Thursday morning, five said it takes them at least one hour every day to arrive at their jobs.

City Hall Spokesman Laurence Grotheer said Harp’s commitment to transportation has been unwavering, echoing the lofty language the mayor used in her state of the city address last year.

“The mayor really sees transportation in New Haven as a civil rights issue,” Grotheer said. “It’s about civil rights and giving all residents the ability to get around effectively.”

Transportation departments at both the city and state level are currently in the process of deciding the scope of the services the study will examine, according to Hausladen. He said he hopes the final version of the study will be released in June.

Once the study is released, city officials will be able to present a concrete plan to the state for rerouting and expanding bus lines, Hausladen said.

“We can’t give residents a better job, but we can give them better access to existing jobs,” Hausladen said.

Eighty-four percent of participants in the DataHaven report cited transportation as their main barrier to work.

Yale seeks crowdsourcing expansion

With transportation still at the top of City Hall’s agenda, Mayor Toni Harp will use the midterm to hone in on the twin issues of transit and unemployment.

While her professed commitment to improving city transit dates back to her first state of the city address a full year ago, Harp has only now begun to make good on incremental steps taken over the course of her first year in office. Chief among them was the acquisition of a grant for $1 million that will focus efforts on the specific bus routes that move people around the city and out into the suburbs. The grant — sponsored by Federal Transportation Administration, the state Department of Transportation and the Board of Alders — covers the costs of an extensive study that will identify the central barriers to effective and exhaustive bus routes. Though the grant was approved by Harp and the Board of Alders in late 2014, the early stages of the study, such as setting up a working plan and beginning data collection, are just now getting underway.

“This is a study that will tell us, if we were to start from scratch and knowing what we know about where people need to go, how we should configure a bus system in New Haven,” Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Redeker said.

The study comes at an opportune moment, Redeker added. Connecticut has not,

A recent report co-authored by the Greater New Haven Job Access and the Transportation Working Group, produced by the data non-profit DataHaven, indicated that nearly one quarter of households do not have access to a car. The report revealed that many heads of families were unemployed not because they could not find a job, but because they could not get to their jobs. According to Doug Hausladen ’04, transit director for the city of New Haven, the most efficient way of tackling this issue would be to reroute and expand bus routes.

Hausladen added that although New Haven has 100 percent transit penetration — everyone has access to the buses — it often takes too long for people to get to where they need to go, rendering buses ineffective.

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[Transportation is] about civil rights and giving all residents the ability to get around effectively.

LAURENCE GROTHEER Spokesperson, New Haven City Hall

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BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Colorful lab coats, cardboard desks and an eco-friendly treehouse tell the story of Yale’s successful venture into crowdfunding.

Since fall 2014, the University has created a Kickstarter page that displays entrepreneurial projects led by Yale students, ranging from mobile applications to clothing design.

Having helped the first 10 of these projects reach and exceed their targeted funding levels, Yale is currently exploring other avenues for supporting crowdfunding efforts in the community. Associate professor of Medicine Lynn Fiellin, who launched the page in 2014, has been collaborating with the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and the Provost’s Office to further solidify Yale’s presence on Kickstarter and, more recently, to expand the school’s crowdfunding platforms.

“The [Kickstarter] page is a small part of a much bigger initiative: to bring crowdfunding to Yale,” she said. “The idea is to explore and establish novel and engaging methods of raising funds here.”

The page currently features several YEI startup companies, including Chairigami, a furniture company that designs cardboard standing desks; LabCandy, a venture offering girl-friendly lab gear and storybooks; and Tuckerman & Co., a designer of organic dress shirts. All three projects raised more than 150 percent of their target figure, pulling in anywhere from $30,000 to more than $50,000.

Given the success of this initial collaboration, Fiellin has led conversations with other crowdfunding sites — such as Experiment and Benefunder — to establish more Yale platforms. And since green-lighting the collaboration into existence, the Provost’s Office has continued to play an active role in advancing it beyond Kickstarter, according to Deputy Provost for Science and Technology Steve Girvin.

“We are currently looking into different sites that are more geared towards research projects,” he said. “Crowdfunding seems to be good for small projects that don’t require large amounts of funding.”

The initiative signals a shift from traditional, low-tech fundraising strategies that the Office of Development uses. The office does not collaborate with outside services, instead relying on the strong personal connection alumni share with the University for its fundraising campaigns, Associate Vice President for Development Eugenie Gentry said. While the Yale Kickstarter page does not specifically target Yale alumni for fundraising, it may give them insight into entrepreneurship projects at the University, Fiellin said.

“Hopefully [the page] raises their awareness of all the amazing creative work coming out of Yale and might make them more interested in contributing to a Kickstarter project or to Yale in general,” she said, adding that alumni may also use the page for their own projects.

Entrepreneurs behind the products on the page praised the collaboration for its impact.

LabCandy founder Olivia Pavco-Giaccia ’16 said the page symbolizes Yale’s commitment to entrepreneurship, adding that she appreciates the backing of the school. Greg Bryda GRD ’16, whose art history application, Wolff, is currently featured on the page, noted the benefits of having a community at Yale that has shown excitement for these products.

“The University community is set up for entrepreneurship opportunities and is useful for reaching the Kickstarter goal,” Bryda said.

Kickstarter has successfully funded more than 78,000 projects and has received more than $1.5 billion in pledges, according to its website.

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

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Univ. to require sexual respect education

BY CAROLINE KELLY For the first time in Brown University history, the Corporation’s February meeting this weekend will feature small group discussions with undergraduates about campus issues, in addition to the normal vote on the budget and tuition and fees, said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey.

Undergraduate Council of Students President Maahika Srinivasan and Alex Drechsler will also present proposals to the Corporation Friday on how to increase its engagement with the student body, Srinivasan and Drechsler said.

The Corporation meets three times a year: in February, October and May. Its February meeting will kick off Thursday with committee meetings, continue Friday with more committee meetings and the presentation by Srinivasan and Drechsler and conclude Saturday.

The opportunity for Srinivasan and Drechsler to speak arose after Drechsler called for the Corporation to add a voting undergraduate representative as part of the Student Power Initiative. “That was not something the Corporation was comfortable with right now, so we spent a couple months thinking about what are different interim steps that we could take to increase communication ‌ between students and the Corporation,â€?

Drechsler said.

Srinivasan, along with other UCS members, helped draft a proposal in

November to identify three potential alternatives to having a student representative that would still facilitate stuBROWN dent engagement in Corporation affairs. “We wanted to make a proposal for measures that would really build trusting relationships between the student body and Corporation members,� she said.

The first alternative was to make small group discussions between students and Corporation members a permanent part of the Corporation meeting schedule, she said. The first of these focus groups will be piloted Thursday. One meeting will focus on issues of sexual assault and the other on mental health, with each group featuring about 10 students and 14 Corporation members, Srinivasan said. Sign-ups will be sent out in Morning Mail and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis, she added.

The second alternative, which has not been implemented, was to have student representatives from University committees sit in on Corporation committee meetings, Drechsler said. “Having students who are ‌ already held to high standards of professionalism and confidentiality ‌ in our committee meetings is very important,â€? he said. This proposal will ideally be piloted at the next Corporation meeting in May, he added.

The third alternative involves formalizing approval of the young alumni position on the Corporation, Drechsler said. Alison Cohen, whose term is set to expire in May, currently occupies the three-year position. Though it might be a longterm goal, Srinivasan and Drechsler will express to Corporation members “that the young alumni position is important, that it needs to be codified and that it needs to involve students,� Drechsler said.

To ensure student input in selection of the young alumni trustee, applicants could be drawn from the President’s Leadership Council, Srinivasan said. UCS officials currently appoint an undergraduate who will soon graduate to serve on the PLC the following year, and the young alumni trustee could be selected from those appointees to “create a pipeline� of candidates for the position, Srinivasan said. Young alumni trustees chosen through this process would likely possess relevant experience and “be more connected to the student body,� she said.

Student engagement will be a major part of the meeting, Carey said. At past February Corporation meetings, the Corporation’s Committee on Campus Life has held meetings centered on campus issues with undergraduates over breakfast, he said. But at this weekend’s meeting, the Corporation will play a more “proactive� role in trying to respond to priorities identified by UCS and the student body, he said.

BY GIULIA OLSSON Columbia students from each undergraduate and graduate school will be required to complete a sexual respect education program or face diploma or registration holds, multiple resident advisers briefed on this program have confirmed to Spectator. Barnard students will not be required to participate.

The program—which will be officially announced on Monday as the University’s first community citizenship initiative— was announced by Dean of Undergraduate Student Life Cristen Kromm and graduate hall directors in meetings with the staff of each residential area over the past two weeks.

Students must complete the requirement by March 13. Residential hall councils and student groups will be encouraged to host workshops before the deadline.

Students will be allowed to choose one of four options, including participating in an hour-long workshop, watching and discussing short films and submitting anonymous reflection pieces on two separate TED talks. Students may also reflect creatively by producing a piece of art or poetry, which could potentially be displayed at an exhibit later in the semester.

RAs, who requested anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the press, have said that options like the TED talk reflection and the art project will allow students to work on their own schedule. “[Administrators] want to be very effec-

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While stuCOLUMBIA dents may fulfill the requirement with any of these options, they will be encouraged to participate in a workshop, which will focus on one of a few topics such as healthy relationships and bystander intervention.

No Red Tape prevention coordinator Michela Weihl, said that while the program should offer choices to students, these options should not differ in how much work they require or how much information they convey. “A lot of the options being offered are pretty visibly less effort, and when you offer students a choice ‌ unless they’re deeply invested already, they’re going to choose what’s going to take them less time,â€? Weihl said.

Resident advisers who met with Kromm last week were told the program would not be mandatory. As a result, a second RA, who met with Kromm last week, said that many RAs in the meeting expressed concerns about enforcing student participation without requiring it. “The sentiment wasn’t that we, RAs, wanted to add it as a requirement,� the second RA said. “We thought that students might not partake if there might not be follow up.�

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“How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?” JACQUES PLANTE NHL GOALTENDER

Elis face Harvard, Dartmouth MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 stymie Harvard’s normally dynamic offense all year, limiting the Crimson to two goals in two games while producing six scores offensively.

Unfortunately for the Elis, Harvard’s star forward, Jimmy Vesey is producing points at a blistering pace, having notched 18 goals and 16 assists in just 20 games. Shutting down Vesey will be key for Yale to apply their typical brand of punishing defense, especially given that Vesey and the Crimson offense have had two previous opportunities to modify their scoring strategy against the Bulldogs this season. However, given Yale’s recent track record against Harvard, the Bulldogs are slight favorites to win this Ivy League standoff.

Dartmouth has been enjoying consistent play lately, producing three straight close wins over ECAC opponents, including the defending national champions, Union College. Though the Big Green sit in eighth place, their table position is a poor reflection of the team’s strength relative to top-ranked ECAC talent, given how few points separate Dartmouth from the conference’s leading squads. In a highly competitive

ECAC, teams like the Big Green cannot be overlooked, even by top-ranked teams. Dartmouth’s dynamic offensive trio of Eric Neiley, Eric Robinson and Tyler Sikura will test the Eli defense.

The three forwards have combined efforts for 52 points over the course of 21 games, and all have reached doubledigit assist statistics, meaning that any of these three could prove decisive in the matchup against Yale.

“The boys are excited and ready to go,” Mike Doherty ’17 said. “It’s another opportunity for us to get better as we face two big Ivy League and ECAC games. We’re looking forward to playing our game and preparing the way we always do.

Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 echoed Doherty’s view that the team is preparing the way they always do. The star netminder stated that this weekend is just another one for the team to “get business done.”

This weekend is Yale’s last home stretch until the weekend of Feb. 27, when the Elis take on Colgate and Cornell.

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On Saturday the Bulldogs will take on Dartmouth, which is on a three-game winning streak.

Ivy heavyweights face off M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 the Bulldogs, so the team must do a good job of stopping the Big Green’s offensive system and prevent it from beating the Elis in one-on-one play.

With the Ivy League’s grueling “14-game tournament,” featuring a back-to-back format most weekends, the Bulldogs face a short turnaround, welcoming Harvard (13–5, 3–1) to Payne Whitney Gymnasium Saturday night.

The Crimson swept its pair of games last weekend, fending off a Princeton rally to win 75–72 and dominating a weak Penn team in a 63–38 blowout. But the reigning Ivy League champion and preseason top 25 team has looked vulnerable at times this season, with a 76–27 loss to then-No. 6 Virginia and a neutral court loss to Holy Cross in November.

Harvard carries a streak of 10 consecutive road wins to New Haven, led by last season’s Ivy League Player of the Year, guard Wesley Saunders, who is averaging 15.3 points per game, third best in the league.

“Wesley is a great player,” Duren said. “He’s very effective around the basket, so we’ve stressed how important it is to try to keep him out of the lane … If we do a good job containing Wesley and their other role players, we’ll have a good shot at winning.”

The return of guard Corbin Miller from his two-year mission trip has provided a much-needed offensive spark for the Crimson off the bench.

Miller has shot 39.0 percent from long range so far this season, seventh best in the conference.

Jones agreed that Miller is a player to watch. He also singled out Siyani Chambers, Harvard’s point guard and third-leading scorer, as “the little engine that makes them go.”

Though Harvard just barely registers as a top-four offense in the Ancient Eight, its stout defense has given opponents trouble all year long.

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In ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s most recent projected NCAA Tournament bracket, the Bulldogs are a No. 13 seed.

The Crimson allows just 56.9 points per game and forces a league-best 13.2 turnovers per game.

The best defense in the league will face the best offense in the conference. The Bulldogs remain the top scoring offense, averaging 69.4 points per game thanks to 14.1 assists per game and a +6.6 rebounding margin.

“Getting to the free throw line is a big part of the offense,” Jones said.

“Justin is a great talent [and] we have to get touches down [low] to result in free throws.”

Yale will seek revenge for last season’s loss to the Crimson at home, 70–58, after defeating Harvard at Lavietes Pavilion earlier in the season.

The Bulldogs will look to strengthen their case for best team in the Ivy League, as a win against Harvard would set the Crimson two back of the Elis in the standings, assuming wins for both teams Friday night.

“We have some veteran leaders on the team, and we’ve all played in big games, so at the end of the day, we are going to treat it like any other game,” Duren said.

Both Friday’s and Saturday’s games tip off at the John J. Lee Amphitheater at 7 p.m.

Tamara Simpson ’18 has stepped up to help fill the void opened by Halejian’s unfortunate injury. She has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week two times in the last three weeks and has averaged 12.7 points per game during the Bulldogs’ past six games.

Friday’s matchup against the Big Green features the Ivy League’s leading scorer, Fanni Szabo. In this contest between two 10–8 teams, the Bulldogs look to maintain a presence on both sides of the court.

“Something to look forward to is our team’s pressure defense. Dartmouth and Harvard are two tough teams that we can pressure so they are extremely uncomfortable on offense,” Meredith Boardman ’16 said.

The Elis’ average 8.4 steals per game and look to pick the pockets of the Dartmouth ladies, who average 16.9 turnovers per game. However, the Bulldogs cannot afford to sleep on the Big Green defense. It will test the Bulldogs’ offensive versatility, as they have four players who average at least one steal per game. According to Boardman, the Bulldogs must keep up the defensive intensity in their quest for their seventh straight win.

On Saturday, the Elis travel to Cambridge, Mass. to square off against Harvard. The Crimson are deadly

from behind the arc, ranking in the top three of the Ivy League for three point percentage, three pointers made per game and points per game. The Crimson are led by a group of four seniors.

Temi Fagbenle, in particular, averages a double-double with 14.5 points per game and 10.4 rebounds per game and will pose a threat to Yale on both sides of the ball. In order to adjust, Yale will look to create threats from all players. “[We should continue] to have every offensive player on the court be a threat to score and [look] for ways to get each other open,” Katie Werner ’17 said.

Meanwhile, the Bulldogs will look to pressure the Harvard women to keep the scoring threats at bay.

Both games feature opposing teams that pack a combination of prolific offenses and stout defenses, but according to Simpson , the Bulldogs look forward to working hard to continue the streak.

The balanced offensive and defensive contributions are a strength of this year’s program. But, the road games will test the Elis’ fortitude.

The Bulldogs sit alongside the No. 18 Princeton as the only teams still undefeated in Ivy League and seek to keep the streak alive this Friday and Saturday night.

Contact RAYMOND ROBINSON at raymond.robinson@yale.edu .

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu and JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

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“This Friday at Harvard we get to play for a piece of the Ivy title,” Pierson Broadwater ’18 said. “It was our goal from the beginning of the season to make it to this point. With such a young team, especially after the injuries we sustained in the fall from Kah Wah [Cheong ’17] and Zack [Leman ’16], I’m really proud of how we were able to continue to play and not lose hope.”

The Yale women currently stand two games behind undefeated Penn, meaning that a conference title is highly unlikely.

The Harvard women’s team has been dominant throughout the year. Its only loss came in the first week of the season when it took on Penn. Harvard has not yet played No. 1 Trinity, however.

“It’s going to be a tough match, but everyone in our league is so close that really anything can happen,” Harrison said. “As long as we all show up and each play the best squash we can, I’m confident that we can win this one.”

The final match of the season will take place on Sunday, as the team trav-

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The men’s and women’s teams lost five games combined in their victories over Brown on Wednesday. els back home to take on Dartmouth.

The Dartmouth men (4–6, 1–4 Ivy) and women (4–6, 0–5 Ivy) are ranked 11th and ninth in the nation, respectively.

The Harvard match will take place at

6 p.m. at the Murr Squash Center, and it will be televised on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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The Bulldogs and the Princeton Tigers remain the only teams undefeated in the Ivy League.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 10:00 PM Yale University Housing Fair. The Yale Housing Office will be hosting its first annual Housing Fair to inform our graduate students, faculty and staff about the latest housing options in the greater New Haven area. The event features a drawing for raffle prizes, a free T-shirt for the first 200 visitors, free refreshments and hot popcorn, a photo booth, as well as vendors. Woolsey Hall (500 Commons St.) 7:00 PM Flute Studio Recital. The flute studio at the Yale School of Music will present their annual Studio Recital. This fun program will feature music of Ginastera, Roussel, Bach, Taffanel, Takemitsu, Chaminade and — potentially — a little dash of Verdi to end a fantastic evening! Admission is free. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Recital Hall.

7:00 PM Film Screening: Gattaca (1997). Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman star in this futuristic science-fiction thriller, screened as part of the Bioethics Film Festival. Followed by a post-screening discussion with Stephen Latham, Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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BY RAYMOND ROBINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend is a chance for the Yale women’s basketball team to tie the longest winning streak in program history.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL While riding a six-game win streak, the team will head north to face Dartmouth and Harvard this Friday and Saturday. The Bulldogs have been successful despite losing team captain and leading scorer Sarah Halejian ’15 for the

rest of the season. In the Dec. 30 game against the Oklahoma Sooners, Halejian went down with a torn ACL, which closed the book on her Yale career. As a result, the Elis have adapted.

“Different people have stepped up on different nights, which has made us hard to beat,” Halejian said. “We have been playing solid team basketball.”

The distribution of scoring is indeed wide, as there are three Eli players on the cusp of averaging 10 points per game.

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This weekend the Bulldogs face Harvard, who they have taken down twice — once at Harvard and once at MSG.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER With just eight conference matchups left in their regular season slate, the Yale Bulldogs face two critical opponents this coming weekend. The men’s hockey squad will square off against their bitter rivals, the Harvard Crimson, and the No. 8 team in the ECAC, the Dartmouth Big Green.

Yale, the fourth-ranked team in the ECAC, sits just two points below Harvard’s third-place spot, and the

Elis will have an opportunity to leapfrog the Crimson with strong play.

However, if Yale falters this weekend, the eighth-place Big Green are just two points behind the Bulldogs, raising the stakes in Yale’s penultimate two-game stretch at Ingalls rink this season.

“It’s always a privilege to step onto the ice at Ingalls but even more so when you have two huge Ivy League games in a weekend,” forward Frank DiChiara ’17 said. “Playing a top ranked opponent like Harvard will

be a huge test for us. Even though we’ve had some success against them we need to prepare for it just like we would any other game.”

Against Harvard, the Elis have achieved sterling results this season. Yale has won both matches against their Ancient Eight rivals, an away contest in Cambridge and the annual Rivalry on Ice hosted at Madison Square Garden. The Elis’ strong, imposing defense has managed to

The Yale women’s basketball team is currently on a six-game winning streak.

Bulldogs play for Ivy title

Elis face Harvard

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BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday, Yale’s squash teams decisively swept both of Brown’s squash teams, but this weekend poses a stiffer challenge, with the Bulldogs traveling to face national heavyweight Harvard today and hosting Dartmouth in New Haven on Sunday.

A pivotal weekend looms ahead for the conferenceleading Yale men’s basketball team, which returns home to face Dartmouth and secondplace Harvard with an opportunity to separate itself from the rest of the Ivy League.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (15–6, 4–0 Ivy) is off to its best start since the 1961– 62 season, which was also the last time the Elis reached the NCAA Tournament. A win on Friday night would propel the Bulldogs to their first 5–0 start since the official beginning of Ivy play in 1956–57.

“Starting out 4–0 has been huge for us as a team,” forward Matt Townsend ’15 said. “But we know there’s a lot of season left ahead of us, so we have to keep bringing it every night if we want to win this league.”

The first test of the weekend comes Friday night from Dartmouth (8–10, 1–3), a dangerous team that has the potential to knock off the Bulldogs even after being swept last weekend

by Penn and Princeton.

The Big Green defeated both Bryant and the New Jersey Institute of Technology earlier this season, two teams that played Yale closely and — in the case of NJIT — even defeated the Bulldogs. Even more impressive may be Dartmouth’s 70–61 win at Harvard

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 is fourth in the Ivy League in both points and rebounds per game. two weekends ago, when the Big Green went on a 26–2 run to overcome a 14-point deficit, its first win against the Crimson in six years.

“We understand that at this point of the season, every game is important,” point guard Javier Duren ’15 said.

“We try to approach and prepare for each game with the same focus and intensity.”

The Elis will have their hands full with Dartmouth’s leading scorer, guard Alex Mitola, who last season dropped 29 points on the Bulldogs in the two teams’ final matchup, won by the Big Green 69–61. Though Mitola averages 13.3 points per game, eighth-best in the conference, Dartmouth is last in the

Ancient Eight with 61.3 points per contest. Mitola is also the ninth-best three-point shooter in the Ivy League with a 38.5 percent mark from behind the arc.

Center Gabas Maldunas, returning from a torn ACL last season, also figures to make an impact against Yale. Averaging 6.2 boards per game on the season, Maldunas will battle forward Justin Sears ’16 for control of the paint.

“We have a bigger backcourt, so hopefully that will help give us a good rebounding edge,” Duren said.

Head coach James Jones added that Dartmouth has multiple players who can hurt SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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The women’s team (9–3, 3–2 Ivy) beat No. 11 Brown (13–8, 0–7) 9–0, with the players collectively losing just three games in the entire match. But the men (9–3, 4–1) lost only two games among the players’ nine matches en route to a 9–0 victory over the No. 13 Bears (5–6, 0–5).

“Brown is always a great match for us,” captain Anna Harrison ’15

said. “It was especially helpful in preparing for this weekend.”

The heavily favored Bulldogs performed as expected: Seven of the women’s nine matches were won in only three games, and Jocelyn Lehman ’18 and Annie Ballaine ’16 played games in which they did not drop a single point to their opponent.

The win was the women’s seventh 9–0 sweep of the season, and ended a two game Ivy losing streak.

The men won all matches in three games, with the exception of T.J. Dembinski ’17 and Edward Columbia ’18, who both won in four games.

The men’s win was their fourth consecutive Ivy win since they opened conference play with a loss to Columbia. The win was also the men’s fifth in a row. “[The match] was a great

opportunity for us to prepare for the big match against Harvard on Friday,” Max Martin ’18 said.

Tonight’s match shapes up as the biggest of the season for Yale.

The Bulldogs travel north to take on their archrival Crimson counterparts. The Harvard men (6–2, 5–0 Ivy) and women (8–1, 4–1 Ivy) are ranked sixth and third in the nation, respectively.

In addition to the usual intensity of playing a rival, the Bulldogs have an opportunity to play for a share of the Ivy title. If the Yale men’s squad beats Harvard and then trumps Dartmouth, whom the Bulldogs are heavily favored to defeat, they will share the Ivy title with Harvard and Columbia.

Should the Lions lose to Penn or Princeton — which is unlikely to happen — the title will belong to SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

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Both Yale squash teams swept Brown on Wednesday, as both the men and women beat the Bears 9–0.

THE NUMBER OF GOALS CRIMSON FORWARD JIMMY VESEY HAS THIS SEASON. Vesey’s season totals are higher than the second highest career scoring totals for the Bulldogs. He has added another 16 assists for 34 points in 20 games.