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WOMEN’S TENNIS PLAYERS CALL NEW COACH ACE

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WELCOME TO YALE

Athletes reveal unique challenges, trajectory in freshman survey.

COMPUTER SCIENCE HIRES TWO NEW PROFESSORS.

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Imagining the Schwarzman Center

So you want to be a Newsie?

Tonight at 10 p.m., the News will open its doors at 202 York St. to freshmen interested in coming aboard. Heed the call and find out how you can contribute to the Oldest College Daily.

Nerd at heart. Apparently still in disbelief that a Yalie is holding his own in the NFL, the Indianapolis Colts profiled Tyler Varga ’15 yesterday.

When asked about the best skill he developed at Yale, the former Eli cited his ability to take good notes as surprisingly important, far away as he is from SSS 114 these days.

Yale Health does little to promote PrEP

from private equity magnate Stephen Schwarzman ’69. Other plans include repurposing the area outside the second-floor President’s Room and a reclamation of the domed third-floor room where the Yale Banner, the University yearbook, has historically operated.

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But wait — there’s more!

as the weather was in late August, the humidity seems to have picked up a decent amount these past few days.

Now, imagine how that feels under a helmet and pads. The thought inspired head football coach Tony Reno to surprise his players with an ice cream truck at the end of practice yesterday.

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Roughly six months after Yale Health began offering a daily pill that prevents those exposed to HIV from getting the disease, Yale Health still has not begun any large-scale outreach effort to inform students that it is available. Campus leaders in the LGBTQ community are now calling on Yale Health to be more proactive in spreading the word about the drug’s accessibility.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a daily prescription pill that reduces the risk of getting HIV by up to 92 percent post-exposure, if taken consistently. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends PrEP only to those who are at significant risk of being exposed to the HIV virus: sex workers, people with HIV-positive sexual partners and those who engage in risky sexual practices such as unprotected anal sex, among others.

For others, the CDC recommends against the drug, as side effects, which include decreased kidney function and bone density, can be quite severe. Not all gay men are at a high enough risk of HIV to be good candidates for PrEP, but the CDC mainly

Harvard fashion, CS50 was anything but subtle during its inaugural lecture yesterday.

We’d recommend joining the News’ web development team if you’re just looking to work on exciting coding projects without the frills.

Throw the ’dogs a bone. Nice

After loss in first game, women’s soccer looks ahead to a new season.

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER

This is how they do. In classic

That’s not to say, though, that traditional Yale courses aren’t without their own quirks. We’ve noticed that more and more professors feel the need to play salesperson and appease shoppers with overly nostalgic, ultimately tangential messages in the middle of lecture. Don’t worry: We were planning on taking “Natural Disasters,” even before the spiel.

UP AND AWAY

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Commons at the Schwarzman Center will continue to serve as a dining hall after renovations are completed.

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER In the basement of the newly renamed Schwarzman Center, which currently hosts “totally hideous” storage rooms and the occasional cockroach, a much different future is being imagined: a naturally lit space suited for studying, social-

izing and even nursing a drink at an underground pub.

Kimberly Goff-Crews, University secretary and vice president for student life, enumerated those possibilities on a recent tour of the space.

The basement’s facelift is just one element of the pending renovation of Commons and Memorial Hall made possible by a $150 million gift

Blumenthal still undecided on Iran deal

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Mere weeks before the Senate votes on President Barack Obama’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran, Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 remains one of 10 remaining Democrats in the Senate undecided on the deal.

Other than Blumenthal, all six other members of Connecticut’s Washington delegation, including Sen. Chris Murphy,

have spoken out in favor of the deal. Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski joined them Wednesday, enabling Obama to secure the 34 votes needed to ensure that a resolution against the deal does not withstand a veto.

Blumenthal told the News on Monday, before the deal was safe, that he would be announcing his decision within several weeks. He added that he was still asking the Obama administration questions about

the issues of verification and enforcement, the strength of the agreement after 10 to 15 years and other concerns regarding the use and amount of money flowing through Iran as a result of lifting sanctions.

“This vote for me will be of conscience and conviction ...

I have been speaking to diplomatic and scientific experts, administration officials as well as opponents, and listening to the people of Connecticut,” Blu-

menthal said. “And I’m going to analyze the potential defects and downsides of this agreement and assess whether there is a better alternative that is possible and feasible.”

Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said these 34 votes give Blumenthal some leeway, opening up the option of voting against the deal in order to placate constituents — especially

his Jewish ones — even if Blumenthal himself is personally in support of it.

Other Jewish Democrats who back the plan, including New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, have faced severe backlash from their peers, prompting other Jewish members of the House and Senate to release statements on their behalf, according to a New York Times report from last week.

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Are there that many?

Yesterday, Forbes Magazine published an interview with Chris LoPresti ’12 discussing his new book, “Insights: Reflections from 101 of Yale’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs.” Given that it’s mainly iced tea tycoons, not Silicon Valley superstars, telling their stories to LoPresti, we remember why importing CS50 made sense.

The “Anti-Trump.” Such is the

nickname that The New York Times’ Andrew Rosenthal bestowed upon Ben Carson ’73 yesterday. Rosenthal called the neurosurgeon-turnedpolitician “quieter, more thoughtful, more intellectual” than leading Republican candidate Donald Trump. You hear that, Wharton?

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1986 A fact-finding delegation chosen by the Yale Corporation returns from an eight-day trip to South Africa made to evaluate the University’s investments in the segregated nation. The 10 delegates return with divided views on the matter, initially preventing a majority vote for divestment.

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Sig Ep suit shows lack of regulations

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER On a given Friday or Saturday night, few rules govern the festivities within the countless fraternity houses that define the social experience of many American college students.

Similarly murky, it turns out, are the rules that govern how the individual chapters populating these houses relate to their host universities and national Greek organizations — a confusion illustrated by the protracted lawsuit against former members of Yale’s chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, as well as the national fraternity, stemming from a fatal incident at a 2011 football tailgate.

At a time when fraternities are under increasing scrutiny — including from lawmakers and the national media — for hazing, sexual misconduct, alcohol and personal injury, the case sheds light on this ill-defined legal landscape and the consequences for Greek activity.

Brendan Ross ’13, a former brother of Sig Ep, was driving a U-Haul truck at the fraternity’s tailgate at the Harvard-Yale game when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a crowd of people, killing one woman and

injuring two. One of the injured women, Sarah Short SOM ’13, as well as attorneys for the estate of the deceased woman sued not only Ross, but also the Yale chapter of Sig Ep, the national fraternity, U-Haul and Yale University.

The lawsuit claimed that the national organization was vicariously liable for the accident because Ross was acting as an agent of the fraternity. The claim against the University was that it had been negligent in allowing motor vehicles in the tailgating area.

In April of this year, Short settled with the University on undisclosed terms, according to Eric Smith, an attorney with Faxon Law Group, the firm representing Short. The question of the fraternity’s responsibility, however, is still unresolved, as a judge denied the national organization’s request for summary judgment — which would have allowed the judge to make a preliminary determination about liability — and ordered it to proceed to jury trial, scheduled for December.

No matter the outcome of the trial, experts in higher education law said the case illumiSEE SIG EP PAGE 6

The YCBA, renewed

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER In 1977, an American Studies doctoral candidate named Amy Meyers arrived on Yale’s campus, just as the Yale Center for British Art opened its doors to the public for the first time.

UPCLOSE Nearly 40 years later, Meyers is the center’s director, spearheading a Building Conservation Project committed to restoring architect Louis Kahn’s seminal work of museum architecture and in the process, reexamining the YCBA’s overall direction.

The Conservation Project, currently in its third and final phase, focuses on the restoration of the building’s gallery spaces and lecture hall, guided by a conservation plan developed by architects Peter Inskip and Stephen Gee from renowned British firm Inskip + Jenkins, in concert with the center’s deputy director, Constance Clement, who oversees the Building Conservation Project. In order to complete the project’s third phase, the center has been closed to the public since January 2015, and is set to reopen in March 2016.

While the project has made

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or its Building Conservation Project, the Yale Center for British Art has had to close its building. While the project seeks to restore the building’s architectural legacy, the center has to cope with ever-changing demands from Yale and the surrounding communities. Can the center preserve its architect’s original vision while adapting its facility to distinctly 21st-century challenges? SARA JONES reports. much of the center’s collection inaccessible to the public, the closure has also given the YCBA’s staff time to reflect upon and refine the way the museum carries out various aspects of its mission as an institution for the display, study and promotion of British art and culture.

“It gives a museum, any museum, an opportunity to rethink what is their mission, who are their audiences, and how we communicate what it is that we want the public to learn and understand about the collection,” said Linda Friedlaender, the center’s senior curator of education.

While the project presents numerous opportunities to bring major improvements

to particular elements of the building — such as improving accessibility for disabled visitors and implementing a suite of important mechanical systems upgrades, including security and fire suppression — many are skeptical about such an ambitious construction project when it involves a work of architecture of this status.

“To the ears of those who hear that it’s being renovated, there’s sometimes a sense of alarm that the building might lose some of the formal qualities and details that are [its] signature,” said George Knight of Knight Architecture LLC, the firm responsible for transSEE YCBA PAGE 8

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OPINION

.COMMENT “If he ends up not making the team, can he come back and play for us yaledailynews.com/opinion

We don’t have to be nice I

started Yale on a literal high.

I was on steroids because of an allergic reaction on my FOOT trip. Bees stung me on our first day in the Berkshires, and my leaders gave me Benadryl. Less than two days later, my eyelids swelled to the size of golf balls. My lips puffed up.

The doctor at the mountainside clinic informed me that I was actually allergic to the Benadryl. As a result, I had to take steroids for two weeks. She told me that my body would be weak but sometimes experience unusual peaks of energy. She said to pace myself, but I wasn’t very good at listening. Like many other frosh, I hardly slept at the beginning of Camp Yale. I was restless and voracious and way too eager to be liked.

It’s easy to overextend ourselves during this time of the year. Since the semester hasn’t really begun, we often burn ourselves out juggling extracurriculars and shopping. As we try to get into seminars and audition for performance groups, it’s tempting to try very hard to be nice. In the process of trying to belong, we become overeager to please those around us. So, we become very good at talking about how amazing Yalies are — and Yale by extension.

Deans and other faculty give us all inspiring speeches about how we are all smart, wonderful, talented, caring, wonderful, kind human beings. We are the exclusive, chosen few. It’s pleasant to hear such praise, but I fear that the overemphasis on Yalies’ brilliance can inhibit us from being critical of one another. We also avoid confronting the reality of the immense privileges that make Yale a lot easier to navigate for some members of this community.

I started this weekly column for a lot of reasons. I wanted to have a voice, and I wanted motivation to consistently put my thoughts out in the world.

This publication has given me a unique platform to share my thoughts, and while I’m grateful for this opportunity, I’m afraid of not being honest enough.

I’m afraid of glazing over what needs to be said. I’m afraid of being too nicely complacent in a place that needs to be challenged. As much as I love things about Yale and its people, there is so much work to be done. To the best of my abilities, I want to incite dialogue about how to make this place better. For everyone.

Yale is an institution of higher learning that caters to the world’s academic elite. Most of the professors here are white, cisgender men, and about half of the student body comes from upper-class American households. This institution is built on a foundation of immense socioeconomic, racial and cultural privilege — something that I’ve struggled with as long as I’ve been here.

As a Latina and survivor of sexual violence, I’m well aware

of the fact that this place was not built for a person like me. Though I was admitted and welADRIANA comed, I’ve had radically MIELE different life experiences Check than the majority of yourself people who have ever taught at or attended this institution. While the support and resources that I’ve encountered in the past three years amaze me, I am tired of saying thank you without acknowledging the complexity of my gratitude.

I will spend the rest of my life making meaning from the opportunities that this campus has afforded me. However, I think that because we are afforded such privilege through our association with Yale, we need to get better at challenging one another. Because Yale gives us so much, we have a responsibility to make this place better, to hold it accountable for its contributions to society.

I’m sure plenty of people will read this column and wonder what I mean by “responsibility.”

We need to think about how different students experience Yale and how they are represented on campus. I want to draw attention to the fact that I’m the only woman of color with a column in the most widely read publication at my Ivy League university. I’m angry that the Yale Herald recently published a satirical article reducing the appeal of the cultural centers to “dope ethnic food.” I’m frustrated that most people on this campus would scoff if I asked them to tell me their preferred gender pronouns.

We need to stop assuming that everybody here feels safe, or that everyone here had to overcome the same obstacles.

Four out of every 10 members of the class of 2019 attended private high schools. Legacies have a 20 to 25 percent admittance rate, making them three to four times more likely to be admitted than the average applicant. I understand that the world is unfair, and it always will be, but I’m angry that we don’t try hard enough to acknowledge its injustices.

Audre Lorde, acclaimed feminist writer and academic, once wrote, “I was going to die, if not sooner than later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself.

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”

Between now and graduation, I aim to write about our silences. I don’t intend to be nice.

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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RESPONSE TO FRESHMAN ASSEMBLY

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A rigged conversation

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s we filed into Woolsey Hall for the freshman address, I had a sneaking suspicion about what President Peter Salovey might say that day. I was ready for a longoverdue conversation on racist structures at Yale, yet a speech I naively thought might reach a “Black Lives Matter” crescendo instead stumbled into nothing more than a subtle attempt to rebrand preserving the status quo as an intellectual virtue.

Unfortunately, that deliberate framing went largely unnoticed.

In the immediate aftermath of the address, I asked a few of my friends their thoughts. Though most agreed the name Calhoun should go, many praised Salovey for coming at the issue from a neutral standpoint and framing the debate in a productive way.

But, of course, he didn’t.

Viewing the speech as rational and impartial dangerously ignores a crucial paragraph near the end of his address that sought to undermine voices of dissent. In this section about how he wanted the conversation to take place, Salovey dismissed “competing petitions or protests, anonymous blogging or social media intimidation,” and encouraged us to engage only in “rational, open discourse that characterizes an intellectual community.”

Though such framing might have seemed reasonable to the freshmen in the room, the seniors knew he simply did not want students to speak up in the ways through which we have previously been successful.

Constraining the rules of debate is not, in fact, impartial, for the way in which we communicate is every bit as political as the words we speak. Students at Yale are angry. Anger is a valid emotion. And protest is a powerful expression of that emotion. Any attempt to delegitimize such anger silences the voices of those most affected by maintaining the status quo.

Petitions, protests and social media can leverage the collective power of the many against the entrenched power of the few. Restricting debate by taking away that power from us or even casting doubt about their legitimacy is itself a political decision on Salovey’s part and betrays his own bias.

Typically, in anything from financial aid to divesting from fossil fuels, students are forced to bring knives to a gun fight when going up against the Yale Corporation. But now we have been told that even our knives are no longer fair play.

The absurd irony of Salovey’s insistence on respectability politics is that without the very unpleasant tactics he dismissed, he would never have felt compelled to address the debate in the first place. #BlackLivesMatter, which has empowered the voices of black people in spaces typically dominated by elites, gave an undeniable fuel to the recent felling of Confederate symbols

across the South. And yet, what has now become a full-fledged social movement with concrete TYLER proBLACKMON policy posals did not start as Back to an academic paper or as Blackmon a well-polished speech on the Senate floor. Rather, it started as a trending hashtag on Twitter and spilled into the streets of cities across the country.

“Social media intimidation” and “protests” — two apparently illegitimate forms of expression according to Salovey’s “intellectual community” standards.

Indeed, it’s hard to imagine many of the students Salovey addressed on Saturday would have even been in that hall had activists been barred from leveraging the political power of protests, sit-ins and boycotts so many decades ago.

But Salovey knows this. He knows where the majority of students stand on the issue of Calhoun College, and he also knows the tactics that otherwise powerless students have previously had to deploy in order to make the Yale Corporation pay attention.

Salovey’s preemptive strike against what he considers unpleasant politics makes sense only if we view it as a deliberate decision to favor a certain outcome. By shaping the debate in such a way that encourages an implicit bias against protests, petitions and social media in the minds of the Yale community early on, he purposively undermines the voices of marginalized students who might otherwise finally be heard.

We cannot be fooled by such faux impartiality.

In calling for “an open conversation” about John Calhoun’s legacy at Yale, Salovey wanted to appear balanced. He claimed he was simply establishing rules of order and then letting the best arguments win. But, in fact, the game is rigged. And the decision to preserve the status quo — which administrators will deceptively tell our community was the result of an objective contest — has already been made.

I welcome Salovey’s overdue invitation to a conversation on Calhoun’s stain on this University, and I look forward to the debate. But we cannot accept his terms. We will protest. We will petition. And we will blog.

Because, as the writer Audre Lorde put it best, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”

TYLER BLACKMON is a senior in Jonathan Edward College. His column usually runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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A haunted University I

n his speech Saturday to the freshman class, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway reflected on the clash between the imperialist and slave-driven “history we inherit” and the magnanimous “future we aspire to create.”

To be a Yalie is to be an engaged citizen — of the University and the world — so these are questions that we need to think through together: What should we do with the artifacts of a past that now offends us? Do we leave them in view to haunt us?

In order for Yale students to be engaged in the present, the first step is to stop pretending that the only history that haunts Yale is in the past.

Even though Yale hasn’t opened its books for public scrutiny, one can piece together that, through its capital and new investments, Yale continues to uphold the tradition of profiting from the exploitation of black communities. To a substantial extent, the recent success of Yale’s investment portfolio, and therefore Yale as an institution, grew from the same roots as the foreclosure crisis, a crisis which has disproportionately affected African Americans.

In the years leading up to the 2007–’08 foreclosure crisis, the Yale endowment received approximately a fifth of its revenue from direct or indirect ownership shares in land or from land speculation. It allocated as much investment to real estate as it could while still meeting its own criteria for a balanced portfolio. This meant that Yale had an interest in rising land prices, and therefore profited from the housing boom that inflated land prices in U.S. cities. One real estate firm that managed Yale’s money, the Shorenstein Company, has properties in Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and L.A. — reflecting an investment in urban development across the U.S. At the same time, Chief Investment Officer David Swensen also bet against the mortgage market, which is, in a sense, a bet on the bubble bursting, on a foreclosure crisis, on a devaluation of home values and on vacant houses.

Skeptical that real estate prices could rise indefinitely, Swenson asked an outside manager to make “what Swensen calls a ‘supersize’ bet against subprime-mortgage-backed securities, which paid off when the real estate market collapsed,” as a 2009 article in the Upstart Business Journal put it. Or, in the more official terminology of the 2013 Endowment Report, “Yale’s active outperformance is due to successful exploitation of market inefficiencies and timely pursuit of contrarian investment strategies,” which allowed for that 7.2 percent annualized return during an

especially rocky decade in the real estate market. This is significant because it means that Swensen continued to seek profits from the growing speculation on urban and suburban land prices, while still realizing that such speculation would not last and would likely end in a bursting bubble and massive waves of foreclosures.

Through Swensen’s investments, Yale had a speculative interest in increasing land value, a speculative interest in plummeting housing prices and a wall of cash to protect itself from the foreseeable consequences of that speculation: mass foreclosures, evictions and displacement.

Furthermore, thanks to this absentee-owner land speculation, Yale could also speculate on local land and encourage gentrification in New Haven. Yale did this indirectly through investment in the Yale campus, and directly through off-campus investment policies.

Despite Holloway’s plea for civic engagement, Yale’s corporate goals are specifically undermining the critical reflection he is encouraging. In a report released in 2011, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization wrote that Yale has “a corporate model that prioritizes arbitrary benchmarks and ‘results,’ and sets constraining limits on the type of research that can be performed.” As a result of this corporate model, Stephanie Greenlea, former co-chair of GESO, described how relatively newer departments like African-American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies which “have not amassed the sort of alumni donation pool, or endowment, or extra resources,” are under threat of increased cuts, as opposed to more traditional departments like political science and economics. Yale’s budgeting threatens to force out some of those academic disciplines that would be able to critically analyze a foreclosure crisis that has overwhelmingly affected AfricanAmericans and women.

As a university, each of Yale’s buildings can only honor the name of one racist oppressor at a time; but as an investment corporation, Yale has helped raise the banner of “foreclosed” across millions of homes in urban communities in New Haven and throughout the U.S., carrying on a legacy of landlessness and racist appropriation.

Holloway portrays this as Yale’s ancient history when, in fact, the haunting artifacts of Yale’s past offenses have barely gathered dust. What do you call a person haunted by the living? HannaBarbera called them Scooby Doo. Marx called them the bourgeoisie.

Holloway calls them a Yalie.

SIMON SWARTZMAN is a 2010 graduate of Ezra Stiles College and an anti-foreclosure advocate based in Chicago. Contact him at simon.swartzman@gmail.com .

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Poetic numbers came / spontaneously to clothe in priestly robe / a renovated spirit singled out, / such hope was mine, for holy services.” WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ENGLISH POET

CORRECTION WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2

A previous version of the article “Local lawmakers back Stark at rally on Green” incorrectly stated that the Democratic primary is on Sept. 9. It is on Sept. 16. A previous version of this article also incorrectly stated that Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 has not campaigned on campus this year, when she has in fact had a limited campaign presence.

Yield drops, diversity increases

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER After receiving 30,237 applications to the class of 2019, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions accepted 1,962 students — 1,364 of which matriculated to the University. This marks a 69.5 percent yield, which is slightly lower than the record yield for the class of 2018, but still marks the second-highest rate the University has seen in recent years.

Last year’s yield of 71.7 percent was the highest in Yale’s history — a significant increase from the 68.3 percent yield recorded for the class of 2017. And while this year’s yield took a slight downturn, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan have described the class of 2019 as the most diverse class ever to enroll in Yale College.

“Yield is hard to predict from year to year,” Quinlan said. “An admissions office can admit for yield: It can accept students who have a higher rate of yielding. But Yale does not do that. We continue to reach for the best students.”

In contrast, Harvard recorded an 81 percent yield for its class of 2019, dropping one percent from last year’s yield. Princeton’s yield also decreased slightly, falling from 69.2 to 68.6 percent.

Brian Taylor, director of The Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said slight decreases in yield from one year to the next are extremely common, and not something that colleges should necessarily look into.

“There’s a lot of things to worry about in this world,” Taylor said. “A two-percent drop in yield is not one of them.”

Director of Outreach and Recruitment for the Admissions Office Mark Dunn ’07 said that it would be impossible to attribute this year’s yield to a particular outreach or recruitment strategy, since there are “many moving pieces,” and each class is different. He noted that, although the Admissions Office made no significant changes to Bulldog Days, the most recent iteration of the admitted students’ event had one of the highest attendance rates that the office has ever seen, with 77 percent of attendees matriculating into the class of 2019.

According to Taylor, small factors like whether or not it rains during Bulldog Days can have an impact on yield. If a student visits New Haven and the weather is gloomy, he said, they might be more impressed by Stanford or another school located in a warmer region.

“If you track the relationship between yield and weather at Bulldog Days, and at Dartmouth’s visiting days too, the rain defi-

nitely has an effect,” Taylor said, referring partly to this year’s Bulldog Days, which were plagued by rain.

This year’s freshman class comprises students from 49 states and 60 countries, with 11 percent of the class attending Yale as international students. Additionally, 41 percent of the class identify as members of a minority racial or ethnic group, with a record number of African-American, Hispanic and Latino freshmen. Though diversity can be quantified in many ways, Quinlan said, the class of 2019 is the most diverse class Yale has seen in terms of race and socioeconomics.

Another notable change is the increase in freshmen who are eligible for Pell Grants — financial aid awards given to low-income undergraduates by the federal government that do not need to be repaid. Over 18.5 percent of domestic students in the class of 2019 qualified for a Pell Grant, which marks a 43 percent increase from the number of Pell-eligible students in the class of 2017.

In addition, over 14 percent of the freshman class are firstgenerational college students, a 22-percent increase in comparison to the class of 2017.

“I’m very excited and proud of the work that’s been done at the University over the last two years to create the changes we have seen,” Quinlan said. “This is the second-highest yield in a few years, and is a little above the fiveyear average. Over the last five to seven years, it’s still been a very strong number, and a great indication of how students want to come to Yale and choose Yale over a lot of institutions.”

The diversity of the class also extends to academic interests, with 25 percent of the freshmen indicating plans to major in social sciences, 20 percent planning to study the arts and humanities, 28 percent interested in a physical science or engineering major and 16 percent hoping to major in the life sciences. Quinlan said the number of students planning to study in the humanities is slightly higher than in recentyears, with the numbers for STEM students staying relatively steady.

Despite the slight drop in yield for the class of 2019, Dunn said the Admissions Office does not plan to change the way in which it approaches students and advertises Yale.

“We are not planning any significant changes in our outreach or recruitment strategies based on this year’s yield rate,” Dunn said. “We are, of course, thrilled with the incoming class and are excited that they are so diverse in so many ways.”

2019 by the numbers: On, and off, the field

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n Aug. 12, the News sent all incoming freshmen a survey with questions running the gamut from family life to postgraduate plans. This is the third in a four-part series on the results.

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE and EMMA PLATOFF report.

A mile-and-a-half from campus, where seminars press on and libraries begin to fill up, Eminem blares onto Frank Field.

“One on one,” a coach yells, scattering over 100 navy and white-clad bodies into tackling drills. The drills eventually give way to wind sprints, and then to strength exercises — push-ups, sit-ups and jumping jacks.

On Wednesday afternoon, while most of their suitemates were still shopping chemistry labs and history lectures, the 29 freshman members of Yale’s varsity football team slogged through practice, which went on for more than two hours, before being surprised by an ice cream truck, courtesy of their coaches. As varsity athletes, their schedules are largely dictated by their sport — in the fall, for example, football players can only take classes from 9 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. so as to keep afternoons and evenings free for team meetings and practices.

Still, the tight window does not prevent some from squeezing in an extra “walk-in” lift in the weightroom.

But the time commitment demanded of a student-athlete affects more than his or her daily routine, bearing a similarly strong influence on academic and social expectations, survey results show. Even just after the first day of shopping period, the unique challenges that recruited athletes and hopeful varsity walk-ons face have already begun to manifest clearly.

BECOMING BULLDOGS

On Dec. 16, 438 survey respondents were admitted to Yale. On that same winter day, 70 athletes — 76 percent of the

recruits surveyed — already knew where they would be spending their next four years.

These athletes are fairly homogenous in background: Of 92 recruited athletes who responded to the survey, 82 identified as white. And the discrepancy magnifies when examined against non-athletes.

Eleven percent of the incoming freshman class is AfricanAmerican, but only 7 percent of recruited athletes identified as such. Only one student-athlete identified as South Asian.

While the freshman athlete population had similar educational backgrounds to the rest of the class of 2019, the income distribution was much more disparate. Only 6 percent of incoming varsity athletes fell in the below-$40,000 annual income bracket, compared to 13 percent of all freshmen surveyed. On the other end of the spectrum, 42 percent of student-athletes come from families earning over $250,000, compared to 33 percent across the whole class.

OFF THE FIELD

The behavior of Ivy League athletes has come under scrutiny as of late, with two major cheating scandals in four years rocking the Ancient Eight.

This past winter, 64 Dartmouth students were issued sanctions for their involvement a cheating scandal in a class called “Sports, Ethics and Religion.” Varsity athletes made up nearly 70 percent of the 272-person class, in which at least two-thirds of the college’s 36 varsity teams were represented.

In 2012, 125 Harvard students were investigated after allega-

tions of cheating in an introductory government class. The co-captains of the men’s basketball team were part of a larger student-athlete community implicated in the scandal.

Many students were placed on academic probation, and others were forced to withdraw from the college.

Within the Yale class of 2019, survey results revealed a difference in past incidents of cheating for student-athletes and non-athletes. Forty-three percent of varsity athletes and hopeful walk-ons reported having cheated in an academic context before Yale, while 24 percent of non-athletes said the same. In total, one in four respondents to the survey had cheated at some point, whether on a paper or an examination.

[Time management] is definitely one of my biggest concerns, especially because everything here is new.

JAKE LEFFEW ’19 Yale golf team According to a poll conducted by the Harvard Crimson this summer, the numbers proved less steep for Harvard freshmen.

Twenty-one percent reported some prior incident of cheating; that percentage increased to 25 percent for recruited athletes and hopeful walk-ons.

Even facing such pressures, Yale athletes continue to engage a wide variety of academic pursuits. Compared with 52 percent of non-athlete respondents, only 21 percent of recruited athletes plan to pursue a double major. Of those athletes only selecting one major, the most popular area of study was the sciences, which drew 34 percent.

Outside the classroom, most student-athletes surveyed acknowledged that they may not have the opportunity to do

much beyond their sport. Only four of the 194 freshmen who indicated an interest in performing arts were student-athletes, and the numbers were comparable elsewhere. Of the 101 students expressing interest in student government, only one was also on a varsity team.

The only extracurricular activity showing a different trend was Greek life, with 75 percent of interested freshmen also playing on varsity sports teams. “[Time management] is definitely one of my biggest concerns, especially because everything here is new,” said Jake Leffew ’19, a recruited golf player. “I did that pretty well in high school, but it’s a whole new level.”

Because Yale is unable to offer athletic scholarships, athletes on financial aid may also dedicate time to part-time jobs.

However, this problem does not affect much of the student-athlete population, for 61 percent of student-athletes in the class of 2019 do not receive any financial aid from Yale. Within the group of athletes that receives at least some financial aid, only 12 percent said they believe that students should be expected to work a job to fill their student contribution requirement compared to 32 percent of all freshmen receiving financial aid.

The role of a student-athlete presents unique challenges; however, it does offer its set of distinct advantages. Whereas most freshmen may turn to their Freshman Counselors for advice regarding course selection and the general transition to life in college, student-athletes interviewed reported turning to upperclass teammates for such support.

“A lot of older girls helped us out,” said Brittany Simpson ’19, a defender on the women’s soccer team. “It was definitely hard to figure out on our own.”

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu.

ATHLETIC RECRUITMENT HARVARD VS YALE

Harvard 12%

Hopeful walk-ons 8%

80%

Yale

Recruited athletes 4%

11%

No intended varsity athletic involvement

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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Blocker, longtime music school dean, reappointed to fifth term

BY IVONA IACOB AND ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTERS In an email to the Yale community Wednesday morning, University President Peter Salovey announced that Robert Blocker will continue in his fifth term as Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of the School of Music.

Blocker first assumed the deanship in 1995. He will begin his fifth term as dean in July 2016. Appointment terms in the School of Music last five years, after which period a University committee reviews a given staff member’s performance and decides whether to retain him or her in that position. In the announcement, Salovey noted that Blocker’s continued work as a performing pianist is particu-

larly inspiring to students, many of whom see him as a role model.

“I have now, and have always been, humbled to serve the School of Music and Yale,” Blocker said. “It is a great privilege to work with faculty, staff, administration and most of all, incredible students.”

Blocker’s tenure has seen a large growth in fundraising and an expansion of faculty at the school. Salovey noted that Blocker’s leadership extends beyond the University into the international music community.

According to Blocker, 40 percent of students in the School of Music hail from abroad — a statistic that has held steady since the 1970s.

As a result, Blocker sees international opportunities as neces-

sary for the creative growth and networking of students. He cited the “Cultural Olympiad,” a festival cosponsored by the Yale School of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as the biggest project the school has done on an international level.

Looking forward, Blocker said prominent issues facing the School of Music involve the changing opportunities for young artists as well as incorporating the redesigned Hendrie Hall into campus. The center has been renamed the Adams Center for Musical Arts after Stephen Adams ’59, who donated $100 million to the school in 2005 as well as an additional $10 million toward the renovation in 2013 .

More specifically, he noted

that the school is rethinking how to prepare students for professional careers, adding that traditional music venues have changed and that the public’s musical interests have shifted.

Blocker also noted that he wants to engage faculty in a conversation about the dissemination and accessibility of music through performances and interactive lectures.

Blocker emphasized that his musicianship sustains his role as dean and motivates his continued involvement in the school.

He added that his three roles — a performer, a teacher and an administrator — work in tandem with one another.

“I’m a pianist, and I would say that being a musician really feeds me to do this as work,” he

said. “Being so involved in music brings me incredible joy, and I’m still learning from students, faculty, and colleagues.”

I have now, and have always been, humbled to serve the School of Music and Yale.

ROBERT BLOCKER Henry and Lucy Moses Dean, School of Music Associate Dean Michael Yaffe added that the relationship between the teacher and the student is extremely important in a

school that teaches music composition, and that Blocker has done a great job in choosing faculty. He added that he believes Blocker’s time as dean has transformed the school through fundraising and musical programs.

Both students and faculty in the school reacted positively to Blocker’s reappointment.

Stephanie Tubiolo MUS ’16 said Blocker’s music and personal involvement in the school make him a highly regarded dean.

Blocker was preceded in his role by Ezra Laderman, who served from 1989 to 1995.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu and ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH PLAYWRIGHT

PrEP not well-advertised to Yale community, students say PREP FROM PAGE 1 recommends the drug to this population. Only yesterday, Kaiser Permanente — a health insurance provider in San Francisco — announced that not a single one of its 657 PrEP users, most of them gay men, has been diagnosed with HIV over the past two years.

PrEP’s arrival to campus came with little fanfare. In fact, many student leaders in the LGBTQ community say Yale Health is not doing enough to inform the campus population about HIV prevention methods available locally.

“It’s difficult for people to take a drug that they don’t know about,” said Yale College Council President Joe English ’17, who identifies as gay. “A great barrier right now is a lack of information.”

While PrEP was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012, Yale Health began offering it late last semester. Students with Yale Health’s Prescription and Specialty Coverage plan can get the medication with a roughly $30 monthly copay. Those who are not on the

full plan may have the drug’s cost be partially subsidized by other insurance providers; otherwise, they must pay the full $12,000 annual cost. In order to obtain the drug, students must make an appointment at Yale Health and answer several questions about their sexual history so that the clinician can determine if they are at a high enough risk of HIV to be prescribed PrEP. Students who are uninsured can also apply directly to Gilead Sciences, the only company that produces PrEP, to declare their extenuating circumstances and request to have the drug for free.

IS PREP FOR EVERYONE?

In line with the FDA recommendations, not every Yalie who wants PrEP can obtain a prescription. Students who qualify for PrEP must commit to taking the pill every day and attend regular blood tests that screen for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and check their kidney function.

Robert Heimer GRD ’88, professor of epidemiology and director of the Emerging Infections Program at the School

of Public Health, said Truvada, PrEP’s brand name, was invented because researchers realized that behavioral changes alone, such as wearing a condom, cannot stem the tide of HIV. Trials conducted among high risk populations across the world suggest that the drug is only effective for those who consistently take the drug, he said.

Yale Health Medical Director Michael Rigsby MED ’88 declined to share any information about the benefits or risks of PrEP with the News.

“We encourage anyone concerned about sexually transmitted infections to speak to a clinician at Yale Health,” he wrote in a Sunday email.

But every student interviewed said the passive approach that Yale Health has taken is misguided because the people at highest risk of contracting HIV are generally not in frequent contact with health providers.

“People who would go to the doctor and say ‘put me on PrEP’ tend to be pretty risk averse anyway,” said Max Goldberg ’17, a peer liaison with the Office of

LGBTQ Resources.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Alex Borsa ’16, who spent the past summer researching PrEP, said that after conducting roughly 28 interviews with public health providers, health professionals and people at risk of HIV, including some gay men, he was taken aback by how few people knew about the drug. He added that Yale Health’s failure to actively publicize the availability of the drug in the queer community was adding to the problem.

Borsa said that while some view the HIV epidemic as a relic of the 1980s, there is still a salient fear of the virus among the gay community at Yale.

“The specter of HIV still haunts sexuality in a lot of ways,” he said. “Even people who statistically and epidemiologically are not at great risk , according to their practices, still go on [Truvada] to escape the shackles of fearing HIV.” He said he would like to see Yale Health do more to give students the option of not living in fear of contracting HIV, but acknowledged that Yale offer-

ing the drug at all puts it ahead of many universities.

Goldberg said he does not know why it took Yale Health so long to roll out the drug. But he acknowledged that nationwide, PrEP is shrouded with stigma, as some, including members of the gay community, think that those who take PrEP are having a lot of risky sex — the term “Truvada-Whore” arose as a way to shame people on PrEP. There are also people who see PrEP as a perfect preventative treatment, and do not know about its side effects, he said.

Goldberg said such perceptions have arisen because there is not a campus-wide discussion about PrEP. While some people within queer social circles talk about PrEP with their friends and peers, not all gay men on campus are active in those circles.

CAN YALE HEALTH DO BETTER?

English said the onus should not solely be on the LGBTQ community to reach out and raise awareness about PrEP. Rather, he thinks it is part of Yale Health’s duty to reach out to the student body

and educate them on their sexual health.

“I would like Yale Health to explain to all students, regardless of their [sexual] orientation, that it is available, how effective it is and how to access it,” he said. “A full student body-wide email would go a long way.”

Maria Trumpler, director of the Office of LGBTQ Resources, said Yale Health did not inform her when they began offering the drug.

Kyle Ranieri ’18, a PL with the Office of LGBTQ Resources, only heard about PrEP before the start of this semester during PL training at Yale Health. He said the administrators present at the training, including Chief of Student Health and Athletic Medicine Andrew Gotlin, seemed to support broader awareness of the drug among students. But Ranieri said Yale Health has not communicated this encouragement to anyone besides the PLs. “They are well-intentioned, but they could do more,” he said.

Truvada is the most effective preventative HIV pill on the market.

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

Univ. imagines possibilities for Schwarzman Center SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 In total, 87,000 square feet are available for renovation, although some of the space may be off-limits for mechanical reasons.

The plans are provisional, subject to a several-month process of brainstorming, forming recommendations and acquiring administrative approval.

The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee will seek student input on the center’s design over the next month and will then present a report of recommendations to University President Peter Salovey by Thanksgiving. The Yale Corporation has final say over the physical changes.

The basement will likely see the most change. It is currently used for food storage and preparation for Commons dining hall, and much space has been left empty by the transfer of Yale Bakery and Catering — which used to operate in the basement as well — to the Culinary Support Center and other facilities. Many rooms are unfinished. Parts of the floor are damaged by pipes that run underneath, and cockroaches scuttle in some of the darker corners.

“It looks like a dungeon,” Director of Residential Dining Operations Bob Sullivan said on the tour, pointing to the pockmarked walls.

Possibilities Goff-Crews mentioned for the refurbished basement include constructing an underground pub or enclosing an area in glass windows to allow natural light to illuminate a cafestyle setup.

Commons will remain a dining hall — a source of relief for the many students who have worried that the beloved lunch spot will be a casualty of the large-scale renovations. But GoffCrews noted that the buffet model of serving food may change to a more grab-and-go model like that of Bass Cafe, as the original kitchens were built

with a plate-service model in mind and are not well-suited to buffets.

The dining space will also likely be multifunctional, with tables cleared out at times to create performance space.

Large screens may be installed to allow for movie screenings and televised presentations.

Some of the improvements will be aesthetic. Cleaning the windows in Commons, for example, will allow for improved lighting and appreciation of the detailed woodwork and architecture, Goff-Crews said.

On the second floor, the President’s Room — one of the only air-conditioned rooms in the building — will likely be retained for administrative purposes but may incorporate other programming as well. On the third floor, the high-ceilinged room historically used by the Yale Banner will be reclaimed for general use.

Open space is a recurring theme in plans for the Center, as students have voiced their desire for more rehearsal and performance spaces, Goff-Crews said.

The plans will become clearer over the course of the next month as the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee holds a series of open meetings with various constituencies across the University, including students, extracurricular organizations, administrators and alumni. September will be “the most aggressive moment” of soliciting feedback, according to Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. “[The Center will be a] beautiful example of how form can fit function,” said Skyler Ross ’16, one of four undergraduates on the committee. “As we identify function, the goal is to develop a space that’s actually useful to this community.”

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

WA LIU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee will hold a series of meetings to determine how best to renovate the facility’s spaces.

Blumenthal yet to commit on Iran deal BLUMENTHAL FROM PAGE 1

YALE DAILY NEWS

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, center, has not revealed whether he will support President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

“It wasn’t that [Blumenthal] was on the fence figuring it out,” Rose said. “I think he was waiting out the vote.”

Political Science Professor Jolyon Howorth, who teaches seminars on U.S. relations with the Middle East and Europe, said the choice that Blumenthal faces is not so much between offending pro-Israel lobbyists and constituents versus upsetting the president and their party — but rather between the deal and a hypothetical alternative. Howorth added that the alternative would be no deal, allowing Iran complete freedom on the nuclear front.

Blumenthal’s silence has done little to quell proponents and opponents of the agreement from urging the senator to vote one way or the other.

Last Wednesday, members of Move On, a national liberal activist organization advocating for the deal, met with Blumenthal outside of his office in Hartford. The certainty of the deal’s implementation has not changed Move On’s tactics in placing pressure on undecided senators, according to the

group’s electoral field director Matt Blizek.

Supporters of Move On will be protesting in Stamford today, Blizek added. The “SchumerMobile,” a mobile billboard that has spent the past couple of days in New York calling out Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing the deal, will spend the day in Connecticut in hopes of encouraging Blumenthal to vote in favor of the agreement.

Several ads against the agreement, funded by special interest groups such as the American Security Initiative and Citizens for a Nuclear-Free Iran, have also run in the state, according to CT News Junkie.

Economist and conservative radio talk show host Larry Kudlow also announced on his show last week that, should Blumenthal vote in favor of the deal, Kudlow himself would run against Blumenthal, who is up for reelection in 2016.

Congress is currently scheduled to vote on the deal by Sept. 17.

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

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“A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

GEORGE SANTAYANA SPANISH-BORN PHILOSOPHER

Survey probes community health in New Haven

COURTESY OF MICHAEL GREENWOOD

The surveyors above belong to the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, which plans to gain greater insights into the health and wellbeing of New Haven residents.

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER On Monday, a team of 20 New Haven residents armed with tablets and surveys walked down local streets and started knocking on doors, beginning an effort to assemble a snapshot of the health and wellbeing of New Haven residents.

These surveyors are carrying out the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement’s 2015 New Haven Health Survey, with the goal of continuing to work toward understanding chronic disease and associated risk factors in New Haven neighborhoods. From Aug. 31 through October, surveyors will visit randomly selected households to interview approximately 1,300 adults in six designated neighborhoods: Dixwell, West River/ Dwight, Fair Haven, Hill North, Newhallville and West Rock.

The survey questions address chronic disease, as well as asso-

ciated risk factors such as diet, exercise, environmental factors and access to health care. After completing the 20-minute survey, participants receive a $10 Stop and Shop gift card and are entered into a lottery for a $500 cash prize.

“We’ve taken what we’ve learned to bring evidence to action,” said Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE. “We’re here because we want to know what has worked and what has not worked.”

The survey, which takes place every three years, was previously conducted in 2009 and 2012.

Previous survey results indicated that New Haven residents were affected by chronic diseases at higher rates than the national average, and the 2012 survey directed researchers’ attention to the risk factors of hunger, smoking and neighborhood safety as areas of particular concern.

“It’s really difficult to think about individual health and

behavior change when people don’t feel safe going out in their communities and don’t have enough to eat,” said Alycia Santilli, director of community initiatives at CARE, whose work specifically addresses health issues in New Haven.

In response to the 2012 survey, CARE and its partners implemented new health initiatives, including community gardens, farmers’ markets, walking trails and exercise classes.

This year, the survey questions will mostly remain the same so that the new results can be compared to those of past years in order to measure improvement over time, said Ickovics. One notable addition this year is a new section on community violence, which was included partly in response to the results of previous surveys, she added.

Additionally, new questions will try to discern the change in health care coverage since the introduction of the Affordable

Comp Sci Dept begins expansion

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER While CS50 students experienced their first day of the incredibly popular, Harvard-imported class, one new CS hire taught his first-ever Yale course yesterday.

After decades of stagnant growth, the Computer Science Department announced this summer the hires of two new faculty members: professor Mahesh Balakrishnan, who officially started on July 1, and professor Mariana Raykova, who starts on Jan. 1, 2016. The hires were in part facilitated by the two anonymous donations totaling $20 million given to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this past spring, a development that also included moving the Computer Science Department under the SEAS umbrella. Raykova and Balakrishnan both said the donations critically influenced their choice to teach at Yale. They said the donations show a commitment by the department and the University to improve the computer science program, and they believed this was an opportunity to come in on “the ground floor” of something new.

“The recent changes show commitment to expanding the faculty body, which I interpret as a sign of recognition of the importance of computer science in the educational curriculum and as a research field,” Raykova said.

She said she thinks joining at this early stage of expansion would allow her to actively participate in the hiring process of new faculty and shape the future culture and curriculum of the department.

According to Balakrishnan, other universities higher new faculty much more frequently, which allows tenured professors to collaborate with new hires on projects, generating new ideas.

“The moment you stop hiring, the institution becomes stagnant.

You don’t have fresh blood coming into a department,” Balakrishnan said.

Balakrishnan, who spent six years working at tech companies such as Microsoft, said he was drawn to academia because he wants to have a role in shaping students’ perceptions of computer science.

Raykova specializes in cryptography and its applications to security, areas that are becoming increasingly important. She will be teaching new introductory and advanced computer science classes in cryptography, privacy and security.

Similarly, Balakrishnan’s specialty in distributed systems will allow him to teach courses that previously were not offered in the department.

According to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler, Raykova and Balakrishnan were hired from an international pool of candidates, the best of whom were brought to campus to teach a lecture and meet with faculty and students.

“The new faculty that computer science brought to us this year are exceptionally gifted scholars and teachers, and I am confident that the additional faculty that they add as the result of searches over the next few years will also be researchers and teachers of the highest caliber,”

Gendler said in an email.

Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum said the department is “gearing up for a vigorous recruiting campaign this year,” adding that she hopes to have hired more professors by the end of spring 2016.

After hiring Balakrishnan — who replaces the position vacated by former professor Bryan Ford — and Raykova, the department will still have at least four spots to fill: two new ladder faculty in the department and two joint endowed professorships with SEAS. But the department is still waiting to hear back on an offer they made last year to a “target of special eminence,” an official Yale term used to refer to special outreaches, Feigenbaum said. She added that the candidate is choosing among “multiple great offers.”

While both Raykova and Balakrishnan say that the recent growth in the Yale Computer Science Department factored into their decision, Feigenbaum struck a cautionary note, emphasizing that it is important to not be satisfied with just this “good first step.”

“Unless the administration authorizes substantially more growth, Yale will never have the big and great CS Department that it needs to maintain its elite status in the 21st century. Remember that Harvard’s CS Department is slated to grow to 36 [professors].”

Yale’s Computer Science Department is slated to grow from 20 to 26 ladder faculty within the next three years.

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

Care Act. The survey is partly funded by Yale-New Haven Hospital and will satisfy the ACA’s requirement that nonprofit hospitals carry out a community health needs assessment.

Latasha Comfort, one of the surveyors, is returning for her second year after working with CARE on the 2012 New Haven Health Survey. As a resident of West Rock, she is familiar with the challenges faced by inner city New Haven residents, she said.

Even informal conversations can be informative because respondents will often unintentionally mention details about their diet and exercise habits, she said. But responses varied across the neighborhoods: In her own mixed-income West Rock neighborhood, participants would often invite her into their homes, while residents of the Dwight-Kensington neighborhood would initially assume that she was from Social Services.

“I’ve learned a lot,” Comfort

said. “It’s taught me to be more compassionate.”

Many of the surveyors were recruited through New Haven Works, a community organization that encourages University hiring of New Haven residents by pre-screening and training a qualified applicant pool.

Shenell Rogers, who was recruited through New Haven Works, has strong ties to New Haven — her family is from the city, and she has lived in Newhallville and Hill. When her father died of a heart attack, she started to think about the importance of healthy choices and affordable health care. He made several different unhealthy choices, she said, but had no health care to pay for the resulting medical expenses.

The surveyors went through a three-day training, in which they received basic training on the epidemiology of chronic disease and research methods and ethics. They also carried out mock

interviews where they practiced asking the survey questions and using tablets to record responses.

In addition to making doorto-door visits, surveyors will be doing additional outreach to ensure participation, including sending letters ahead of time to selected households, making preliminary visits to leave brochures and visiting houses during evening and weekend hours when people tend to be at home, Ickovics said. The survey had around a 75 percent participation rate in both 2009 and 2012, a particularly high percentage compared to similar surveys, Ickovics added.

“We are dedicated not because it is our job but because it’s our home,” Ickovics. “We care about New Haven, we care about our city, and we care about our neighbors.”

CARE was founded in 2007.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

Local 34 makes endorsements

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER While Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Fish Stark ’17 prepare to square off in the Ward 1 Democratic primary, candidates in seven other wards are campaigning for primaries across the city.

Eight of the 30 New Haven wards — including wards 1 (Yale), 11 (Fair Haven Heights), 12 (Quinnipiac Meadows), 14 (Fair Haven), 18 (Morris Cove), 20 (Newhallville), 28 (Beaver Hills) and 30 (West Rock) — will have primaries on Sept. 16. Last week, UNITE HERE Local 34, Yale’s technical and office workers’ union, endorsed candidates for six of the eight primaries, excluding Ward 1 and West Rock. Although most alders on the current board were elected after receiving endorsements from Local 34, candidates who did not receive the endorsement said they do not expect the lack of union support to hurt their campaigns.

“I’ve won without an endorsement before, and I will win without an endorsement again,” Beaver Hills Alder Claudette RobinsonThorpe said.

Robinson-Thorpe said she was not surprised by the union’s decision to not endorse her because her challenger, Jill Marks, is married to the organizing director at UNITE HERE. She added that she believes her

commitment to bolstering youth services in Beaver Hills will win her votes.

Quinnipiac Meadows incumbent Richard Spears, who also did not receive the endorsement from Local 34, was similarly unconcerned when Local 34 backed his challenger, Gerald Atunes, who has previously held the alder position.

“I’m not going to be persuaded or bullied by special interests,” Spears said. “And when you take endorsements like that, that’s usually the case.”

He added that endorsements from neighborhood groups such as block watches — with an investment in the community — are still valuable.

Spears said his campaign focuses on ensuring that the concerns of his constituents are heard in board meetings.

He said some residents do not have faith in the city government because there is no transparency on where tax dollars are spent in particular neighborhoods.

Incumbent Carlton Staggers is challenged by Robert J. Anderson Jr. in West Rock, a ward where Local 34 chose not to make an endorsement. Staggers said he was not bothered by the lack of endorsement.

The New Haven Independent reported that neither Stark nor Eidelson sought out a union endorsement in Ward 1.

Overall, Local 34 supported the incumbent candidates in Fair Haven Heights, Fair Haven, Morris Cove and Newhallville and the challengers in Quinnipiac Meadows and Beaver Hills. Local 34 could not be reached for comment following their endorsements.

Two candidates who did not receive endorsements are affiliated with UNITE HERE. Eidelson works in graphic design and communications for the union, and Teresa Hines, who is challenging Newhallville alder Delphine Clyburn, is a member of the organization.

Along with Local 34, several alders who are not up for reelection this year have been making their own endorsements. In Ward 1, Stark has received public endorsements from five alders, and Eidelson has received a statement of support from Hill Alder Dolores Colon ’91.

Colon said she generally chooses to support the incumbent candidate and that she supports Eidelson because she has demonstrated strong leadership in youth services through her role as chair of the committee.

The winners of the eight Democratic primaries will participate in the general election on Nov. 4.

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

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“Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.”

HJALMAR BRANTING SWEDISH STATESMAN

Between frats and universities, a murky relationship SIG EP FROM PAGE 1 nates the changing relationship between fraternities, both local and national, and the universities where they set down roots.

Doug Fierberg, an attorney who represents plaintiffs in fraternity misconduct cases, challenged the argument of Brian Warren Jr., the national fraternity’s chief executive officer, that national fraternities have no knowledge of local chapters’ activities — an argument Warren laid out in an October 2013 deposition provided to the News by Faxon Law Group.

Because national fraternities establish detailed bylaws to govern their constituent chapters, including rules regarding risk management, Fierberg said, they bear responsibility when local chapters run afoul of those rules. He added that while many national fraternities have successfully argued against this agency relationship in the past, lawyers and courts have started to realize that “their claims of disconnect … are a charade.”

But Peter Lake, director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy, disagreed that national fraternities are increasingly to blame for the missteps of local chapters. He said national organizations have successfully demonstrated that they are far removed from daily operations.

Whether those organizations should exert more control over local activities, Lake said, is another question.

More interesting, he said, is the relationship schools maintain with fraternities, though they ultimately do not answer to the college administration. Although the Sig Ep lawsuit did not claim that Yale was responsible for the fraternity’s actions, but rather that it had been negligent in its own tailgate regulations, many lawsuits have emerged over the years that try to hold universities accountable for fraternity hazing or alcohol-related injuries. For example, in the 2012 case Yost v. Wabash College, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that

Wabash College, along with the school’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, held no responsibility for the injuries of Brian Yost, who suffered physical and mental injuries after a pledging ritual that forced him to withdraw from school.

When asked how Yale views its relationship to the fraternities on campus, Karen Peart, Yale’s deputy press secretary, said that “although the University doesn’t supervise or govern unregistered fraternities or sororities, it expects students who belong to them to comply with the Undergraduate Regulations, which apply to all students in Yale College.” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway has described the college’s authority over Greek organizations as “limited.”

But as individuals in the organization, they are still Yale students.

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

Currently, Lake said, there are few regulations governing the relationship between universities and fraternities. But as Greek life comes under greater scrutiny, he expects that to change.

“We’re absolutely moving toward a place with more regularized standards,” he said. “Usually a demand for accountability leads to a period of finger pointing, [which eventually] leads to some kind of constructive business relationship.

But while people are still in court pointing fingers at each other, students are still waiting for resolutions.”

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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The protracted lawsuit against former members of Sig Ep reveals a dearth of regulations governing individual fraternity chapters.

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“Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.” ALAN DUNDES AMERICAN FOLKLORIST

Yale Dining to pilot “street foods” initiative

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER This year, the University’s dining halls are adopting a “street foods” concept program based on the offerings of local food trucks.

Yale Dining staff chose 12 items, which will rotate on Tuesday and Thursday nights, over the summer through tastings, drawing inspiration from popular food trucks on campus. They settled on dishes that include four pastas, a French dip sandwich, chicken skewers and fish tacos. Yale Dining employees classified as “cook’s helpers” will prepare them using sautée pans on newly installed stovetops, replacing all of the char broilers, the grills previously used to cook items like burgers. Some cooks have expressed concern about the safety and limitations of stovetops, but Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke said the program represents a win-win for both students and dining hall workers.

“On street food days, students can enjoy dishes prepared in front of them,” she said.

“Our cook’s helpers usually do grilling, but one of the messages we’ve been hearing is they want to do more cooking to prepare for more advanced positions. And now they can.”

Van Dyke added that all cook’s helpers received training last week in preparation for their more advanced roles, and Director of Culinary Excellence Ron DeSantis said the workers have remained enthusiastic throughout the development process.

Kia Reed, a cook’s helper for Davenport College, said she is excited about the concept program. It provides a change of pace, she said, and allows for students to try new dishes.

But Audrey Martineau, a cook’s helper for Berkeley College, said that because the specialty dishes will be prepared by pan — which accommodates less food than the char broilers — students would face substantial wait times. Though she expects students to ultimately benefit from the new street foods program, she added that the char broiler served a valuable purpose each day. Further, she said the newly installed stovetops are somewhat dangerous.

“Today was my first time using the new equipment and I almost caught on fire because the oil and the chicken just flamed

up,” she said. “And right now we don’t have more than two pans for the stove, so that’s challenging — fitting as much as we can into two pans.”

Yale Dining staff said char broilers were removed both to facilitate this change and to increase energy efficiency. According to DeSantis, the char broilers consumed large amounts of energy, tended to reach high temperatures and were difficult to clean.

Silliman chef Stu Comen said he did not find the char broilers to be particularly useful, adding that they created accumulations of grease that were expensive to remove. “[Char broilers] are basically super energy hogs,” Van Dyke said. “To get them up to temperature, they’re running constantly, and they keep running with two burgers or no burgers. In terms of culinary equipment, the stovetops are much more flexible, and in terms of energy savings: huge.”

DeSantis said the new street foods concept program should create memorable dining experiences for students — the mission of Yale Dining. He added that the inflexible char broilers had to be replaced in order to make that possible, because they do not have the flexibility needed to create a wide range of menu items.

All 13 students surveyed said they were excited to try the street foods, though more than half said they would not be willing to wait on long lines to receive them.

Monica McDonough ’19 said the concept appeals to her and that she enjoys food trucks, adding that as a freshman, she was impressed the dining staff would take the time and initiative to try something new.

But while Kate Flanders ’18 said the street foods concept sounds good in theory, she worried it might prove to be a disappointment to students.

“I like the idea and it’s great that they want to shake up the menu, but with the amount of people that just want to go in for a quick meal, I don’t know if they’ll be willing to wait for made to order items,” she said. “I probably wouldn’t wait if there is a significant line, because after crew practice I’m always trying to eat quickly.”

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Youth Services Committee observes progress in Fair Haven

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders’ Youth Services Committee left vacant its traditional City Hall meeting space yesterday. Instead, the group convened at a community center in Fair Haven in order to observe firsthand its progress in improving youth resources in New Haven.

The meeting was the culmination of the group’s long-term project to strengthen the network of youth services in the city. Last year, the committee, chaired by Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12, distributed nearly half a million dollars in city grant money to four community organizations across New Haven so that those organizations could make necessary building improvements and renovations. A quarter of that money went to the Farnam Community, a center that runs afterschool programs, a summer day camp and a popular youth basketball league. In addition to the grant to the Farnam Community, the committee has also funded renovations at the Boys & Girls Club and LEAP; negotiations with the YMCA are ongoing.

In the second-floor boardroom of the Farnam Community, seven alders on the committee sat alongside five neighborhood residents — three of them teenagers from the area — as Bob Lane, president of Farnam Community, and Operations Director Frank Redente detailed the renovations they have made with the committee’s grant.

We get money from the Board of Alders, that means a lot for us, and we really appreciate it.

BOB LANE President, Farnam Community Chief among the renovations, Lane said, is the installation of a gas-based heating system, a switch from the oil system the building previously used. Redente said the oil system cost the organization about $12,000 a year; he expects that the gas system will cut the bill in half.

“In this economy, it’s tough to get money,” Lane said. “So we get money from the Board of Alders, that means a lot for us, and we really appreciate it.”

In addition to the heating system, Farnam Community has also installed a new security system, which Redente pointed out as he led meeting attendees on a tour of the building. He said the need for an updated security

system became apparent after what Redente called a “violent incident” occurred on the organization’s property a few years ago.

The updates include 24-hour cameras on all sides of the building, improved exterior lighting in the side parking lot and a fingerprint-operated lock system.

Alders at the meeting said they hoped the renovations facilitated by the grant would allow the Farnam Community — called the Farnam Neighborhoood House until a recent rebranding — to meet the needs of the community.

Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate was particularly outspoken in his support. He played basketball in the organization’s Biddy League as a child and teenager. Now that he is older, he said he has noticed that his friends have begun to enroll their children in the league and after-school programs.

But the Farnam Community is not yet finished with its renovations. Redente and Lane said the next priority for the organization will be the paving of the side parking lot, which is currently just dry dirt. The project is expected to cost at least $100,000, which will largely come from state grant money, they said.

Redente also wants to install a roof over a stair leading to the basement from the parking lot. Currently, he said, rain pours down the walls and forms a “lake” in the stairwell, which periodically leaks into the building’s game room.

Eidelson said holding the meeting in the Farnam Community gave committee members an opportunity to see the physical impact of the work that it has accomplished.

“It’s really wonderful to see the money the committee has fought to get into our budget to do things like this is going to such important things,” she said.

Youth issues have been a focal point in the race for the Ward 1 seat, contested between Eidelson, fellow Democrat Fish Stark ’17 and Republican Ugonna Eze ’16. With the Democratic primary only two weeks away, Stark has made youth policy a prominent part of his campaign. Last month, he launched the #NHVYouth4Fish campaign to highlight youth support across the city.

In her capacity as chair of the Youth Services Committee, Eidelson has fought to reopen the Q House in Dixwell, organized the first student elections to the Board of Education and led the creation of the New Haven Youth Map, a website on which users can find youth programs across the city.

The Democratic primary will take place on Sept. 16.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Programs welcome int’l grad students

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Incoming international graduate students will have access to programs that will hopefully ease their transition.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER To ease the transition for incoming international graduate students, the Office of International Students and Scholars has organized, for the first time, programs that introduce life in the Elm City.

The OISS has planned four panels, scheduled to span four weeks, on topics that include resume building, Yale’s learning environment and dating in America. The first session, held this past Tuesday and attended by roughly 30 incoming graduate students, focused on typical first-year experiences for international graduate Yalies. Contrary to past orientations for international graduate students, which only included immigration information and a brief introduction to Yale, these four new panels offer a greater variety of student experience and advice, said Assistant Director for Programs at OISS Maria Gutierrez GRD ’16.

These programs were all created by orientation assistants, who are current international graduate students, based on their own time at Yale. Gutierrez said

the assistants will be involved in all aspects of the orientation panels, from ice breakers to helping students file their taxes.

“Sometimes international students experience things differently than a faculty member would think we do,” orientation assistant Elizabeth Lang GRD ’16 said. Lang, who came from Canada, added, “we have different problems than what they might think so I’m hoping it could help the new students troubleshoot things in a new country.”

Kirkland Williams DIV ’16, who is originally from Jamaica and developed the first panel, said he designed the program based on his own experience because he had needed someone to explain the “nuts and bolts” of Yale during his first year. The six panelists discussed topics ranging from effective methods for balancing academic and social life to advice for dating in America.

“When adjusting to life at Yale and American culture, international students have to learn about the space on their own, through observation and inquiries, and it’s not so easy at times,” Williams said.

Andrew Shim GRD ’21 said many of the graduate orientation programs, in addition to the panels, were helpful and also allowed him to meet a variety of other graduate students. Jae Lee GRD ’21 agreed, but added that he would have liked to have a program centered around the topic of what current students would want to change about their first year.

Cristian Saavedra SPH ’16, a Chilean orientation assistant, said that adapting to the American class structure was one of the main challenges he faced during the beginning of his time at Yale.

He said the hardest part was trying to improve his English so that he could get the most out of his classes.

“The idea behind all of these events is that we’ve been through these experiences, and we want to share our experiences right from the beginning,” said Huiyan Jin GRD ’17, an orientation assistant from China. “If the new incoming students have been exposed to these problems beforehand, they’re more likely to not panic.”

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”

EDMUND BURKE IRISH STATESMAN

While looking to the future, YCBA attempts to preserve the past

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The gallery’s wall and floor coverings were all elements from the original building that the restoration firm, Knight Architecture LLC, was able to replicate exactly.

YCBA FROM PAGE 1 lating the conservation plan into a feasible architectural project. “I would want them to be assured that this is going to be a most respectful renovation that’s deeply informed by research of the original building and that painstaking measures are being taken to sustain [its] glorious qualities.”

PRESERVING WHILE MODERNIZING

Meyers’ directorship began in 2002 and the conservation plan quickly became one of its central initiatives, signaling a shift in the center’s relationship with its building. Although the YCBA had always acknowledged the building’s architectural significance, making the leap from passive recognition to active stewardship was an important step.

“The most important thing is that this is a conservation project—not a refurbishment or a renovation project,” Meyers explained. “It’s about bringing back things that may have drifted a bit, that have moved away from their original purposes.”

The center began work on its conservation plan in 2002, embarking on a process that would involve almost a decade of research spent sifting through various kinds of historic documentation, culminating in the plan’s completion and its publication by Yale University Press in 2011. Although such plans are widely used to inform the restoration of historic structures in the United Kingdom, they are rarely made for buildings in the United States, Meyers noted, making the center’s choice to complete one particularly unique.

“The plan endeavored to identify the critical, culturally significant aspects of the building design, and to ensure that those survived and were conserved,” Knight said.

Regarding any changes to the building, Clement said, the conservation plan should seek to ensure that any possible modifications reflect Kahn’s singular vision for the center.

The conservation plan began partly as a way to deal with

issues of architectural drift — a phenomenon in which certain aspects of a building move away from their original design.

“There were just very subtle things, small things — a door handle would be taken off and put back on upside-down; an elevator panel would be changed … but these subtle things started to accumulate,” Clement said. “So we just wanted to be more aware of the features that make the building so special that we want to retain.”

To avoid potential future maintenance and conservation issues, Meyers added, the need for a conservation plan became apparent.

Knight said that while certain features – such as security systems and sprinklers – had not been explicitly mentioned in the conservation plan, other aspects of the building were taken directly from it. He noted, for example, that the galleries’ wall and floor coverings were all elements from the original building that his firm was able to replicate exactly, procuring materials such as Belgian linen and wool carpet from their original sources.

The building conservation project has also restored several YCBA spaces to the uses originally proposed by Kahn, Knight said. For example, a pair of glass doors in the center’s auditorium that had served as an emergency exit, but were actually meant to lead into the building’s Lower Court, will now be used as Kahn intended.

Other restorations include the creation of a “Long Gallery” on the center’s fourth floor, Knight said. Scott Wilcox, the center’s deputy director of collections, explained that the gallery will take the form of an exhibition space that runs nearly the entire length of the building.

The collection’s reinstallation in the refurbished gallery spaces will seek to respond to new trends in the scholarship of British Art as well as concerns that various Yale faculty members have raised, Wilcox noted.

“One of the things that will be more apparent in this display is a concern with issues of empire.

In the displays at the YCBA in

the past, we have devoted certain areas to smaller displays on India and so forth,” Wilcox said. “We are trying to incorporate more of this material, which presents the history of British art as a more ‘global’ enterprise than has been apparent in the past.”

COLLABORATORS NEAR AND FAR

Art Gallery Director Jock Reynolds said the YCBA and the YUAG have collaborated in the past, frequently lending works between their collections.

But Meyers noted that the two institutions had never jointly organized an exhibition until “The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860,” which opened this past March. The idea for the exhibition was conceived partly as a way of keeping many of the YCBA’s iconic works on view through the center’s closure, said Laurence Kanter, the YUAG’s chief curator. Reynolds said he believes that the show marked an important moment in the YUAG and YCBA relationship.

“It set us on a path of real collaboration into the future, to the enormous benefit of Yale undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, research fellows and for the broader publics who visit both museums so actively on a daily basis,” Meyers said of the exhibition.

Kanter explained that he “hand-selected” seven YCBA works to hang in the European galleries across the street alongside pieces from the YUAG’s permanent collection. The display marks the first time that works from the center’s collection have been incorporated into the YUAG’s European paintings galleries, Meyers noted. “[The incorporation of YCBA works into YUAG collections] benefits all of us when we see our works incorporated into the much broader context of European art,” Meyers said.

Kanter said that after the “Critique of Reason” exhibition closed, many of the works displayed were taken to form a second exhibition in the gallery, that will be on display through Nov. 29, when the pieces will be sent back to be reinstalled in prepara-

tion for the center’s re-opening in the spring of 2016.

The center has also engaged in other collaborative projects that have allowed it to keep works from its collection on display throughout the closure. Meyers cited an exhibition currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago titled “Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 16901840,” for which the center was the largest institutional lender.

In addition, the YCBA is collaborating with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on an exhibition of George Stubbs paintings from the Center’s collection, eight of which will be on display in the English gallery of the Met’s European Paintings wing through Nov. 8.

Katharine Baetjer, the curator of European Art at the Met who negotiated the loan on the museum’s behalf, explained that the paintings helped fill gaps in the Met’s own collection of British art.

“The collection of 18th-century British paintings at the MMA is almost exclusively portraits, as with most American museums,” Baetjer said. “Paul Mellon’s holding of sporting art and of Stubbs, which he presented chiefly to the YCBA, is the finest anywhere.”

Baetjer added that while the two institutions have collaborated in the past, this venture marks the first time that an exhibition at the Met has been composed entirely of works from the center’s collection.

ART BEYOND THE MUSEUM

The collaborative spirit that the YCBA has cultivated with its museum partners has also extended into the center’s role as an educational institution. The YCBA has used the closure as an opportunity to work with groups in the Yale and New Haven communities focused on fostering literacy and professional development for teachers.

“We want to make our collection as accessible and useful for as many different teaching purposes as it can be used for, while still being true to the art history of the objects,” said Cyra Levenson, associate curator of education at the center. “So it’s more

like we’re ‘inviting’ our educator colleagues to use the center as a resource, but we’re not producing the content and delivering it to them — we’re really working with them so they can develop it themselves.”

Despite the closure, the center’s Education Department has continued offering two of its major programs for educators, which provide professional development opportunities for teachers and generate dialogue about ways the center can improve its educational programming.

The Summer Teacher Institute, a weeklong program held annually at the end of June, works with teachers to help them understand how visual art can support a variety of content areas in their curricula.

Levenson said that because those leading the program were unable to access the YCBA’s collection, they were forced to shift their focus and take a new approach, ultimately deciding to focus on drawing as a form of multisensory learning. Even after the building reopens, Levenson said she thinks it is likely the new approach will be integrated into the center’s regular Summer Teacher Institute.

The center’s “Visual Literacy Consortium” meetings have continued as well, bringing together K-12 educators on a bimonthly basis throughout the closure, Friedlaender said. Although the meetings have always taken the form of an open dialogue between members of the center’s Education Department and the teachers who attend, Friedlaender noted that during the closure in particular, they have become an opportunity to solicit feedback from teachers on how they use the center’s resources and how those resources could be adapted to better fit their educational and curricular needs.

Responding to feedback from its partners, the reopened YCBA will expand a number of its existing programs by adding opportunities for students to utilize the new facilities that the conservation project will bring.

The center’s “Out to Art” program began in 2009 as an effort

to bring members of the special needs community into the museum. Working with Chapel Haven — a New Haven-based residential school and transition program for adults with cognitive disabilities — the program uses the YCBA’s collection and sensory learning strategies to develop communication and interpersonal skills, said Justine Menchetti, a teacher at Chapel Haven who co-leads the program with Friedlaender.

Menchetti added that after the center’s reopening, the traditional “Out to Art” program will be expanded to allow Chapel Haven students to participate in the center’s daily operations by working as volunteers.

An additional collaboration between the YCBA’s Education Department and the Yale Child Study Center’s Initiative for Girls and Women with Autism Spectrum Disorders will bring young women on the autism spectrum into the center’s galleries for a program that uses art-making as a way to improve verbal expression skills, said Kathy Koenig, the initiative’s director.

The program, which began shortly after the center’s closure last spring, has been held in a room at the Child Study Center during the Conservation Project, Koenig noted. Although the program has enjoyed a fair degree of success thus far, Koenig envisions an expanded program when the art classes begin meeting in the center’s refurbished gallery and classroom spaces in the fall. She said she thinks that meeting at the YCBA will offer direct engagement with the artwork and a chance for the young women in her program to get out into the community.

“We’ve been talking very much to our key partners about how to make the best of what we’ve learned,” Levenson said.

“We really used this opportunity as time and space to think about how to keep moving forward with what we do best — that is to say, to help empower our constituents to use art objects to meet their own goals.”

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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Some of the alterations to the gallery are reversions to the uses originally proposed by its architect, Louis Kahn, who also designed sections of the Yale University Art Gallery.

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“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” SOPHOCLES GREEK TRAGEDIAN

Yale receives $11mm for lung cancer research

New faculty acclimate to teaching at Yale

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER

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The National Cancer Institute gave an $11 million grant to the Yale Cancer Center and the Smilow Cancer Hospital.

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale Cancer Center and the YaleNew Haven Smilow Cancer Hospital have received an $11 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to support their work in lung cancer research.

The five-year grant will fund a Specialized Program of Research Excellence that will bring together a cross-disciplinary team of researchers. The idea is to develop more effective treatments for lung cancer, which causes over 150,000 deaths each year and is the leading cause of cancer-related death both in the United States and worldwide.

“The goal of the SPORE is to bridge the gap between the lab and the clinic,” said Roy Herbst, chief of medical oncology at Yale University and Smilow Cancer Hospital and the main principal investigator on the grant. “It can take a long time to translate the science into clinical treatments, and this program helps us accelerate the process by bringing together a diverse team of scientists and clinicians,” he added.

Researchers at Yale have made progress in improving the efficacy of lung cancer treatments, said Lieping Chen, director of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Yale Cancer Center and co-PI

of the grant. He said that while no effective treatment existed five years ago, the advent of immunotherapy and precision medicine means that now up to 50 percent of patients respond to these treatments.

The new program will support lung cancer work on multiple fronts, said Katerina Politi, who co-leads one of the projects and serves as assistant professor of pathology and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. The researchers will work on immunotherapy, in which scientists stimulate the body’s own immune cells to target tumor cells, as well as on targeted therapies — drugs that block the function of molecules required for tumor growth and survival. The research involves understanding how cancer cells in particular individuals become resistant to treatment and tailoring therapies for each individual.

The team is also trying to identify scientific ways to help individuals give up smoking, Chen said.

“By the time we show patients that they have developed lung cancer, it is too late,” he explained. “If we can identify biomarkers that show people early on how they are progressing towards lung cancer, we make the doctor’s job [of convincing these smokers] that much easier.”

The money will also be used to bring

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new investigators into lung cancer research, said Politi. According to Chen, each year, the Yale SPORE will award four to six grants of $50,000 each to help new researchers get started in the field. In addition, part of the grant will be used to support established investigators, allowing them to stay in the field.

Studies by researchers at Yale and at the other lung cancer SPOREs in the country have translated into major improvements in the standard of care for lung cancer, Tony Hecht, associate director of the NCI’s Translational Research Program, wrote in a Wednesday email. Noting the highly competitive nature of this grant, he added that the NCI is excited to support the team of highly qualified investigators in addressing the most pressing questions in lung cancer research.

“This is one big step for lung cancer research at Yale,” said Herbst. “People are coming to Yale and people are coming to the Smilow Cancer Hospital because by having the top research, we can give top clinical care.”

The new SPORE in lung cancer joins the existing one in skin cancer as the second SPORE at the Yale Cancer Center.

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

A week before their classes began, the University’s newest faculty members received a new crash course in the unique aspects of teaching at Yale.

In a four-day orientation held in late August, the latest additions to the faculty were introduced to the University by interacting with top administrators and attending informational workshops. Mixing work with play, the orientation included family events such as pizza making and barbeques, as well as educational workshops about grant opportunities and tenure track at Yale. The Center for Teaching and Learning also hosted its inaugural Faculty Teaching Academy, a full-day seminar that highlighted the culture and expectation of teaching at Yale.

“The purpose [of the orientation] was to not only provide new faculty with important bits of information, but to allow the Yale leadership to personally welcome the faculty and their families to the Yale community,” Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas said.

While the Provost’s Office informed more than 40 new faculty members about the University’s administrative structure and research opportunities, the Teaching Academy touched upon more pedagogical topics such as engaging students in lectures and handling the Yale-specific shopping period structure. The CTL also invited both senior faculty members and undergraduate students to share their experiences.

“We want to make teaching more public and we want faculty to care about teaching,” CTL Executive Director Jennifer Frederick said. “We also want to showcase the teaching resources available for faculty.”

During the workshop, new faculty members were divided into cohorts, which will meet later in the year to share their teaching experience and techniques. In addition to providing

new faculty members with an overview of the teaching culture at Yale, the Teaching Academy will continue to offer workshops and discussion opportunities throughout the year, Frederick said.

The new faculty members, who come from a range of teaching backgrounds, said they were impressed by different aspects of the Teaching Academy.

Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry professor Nikhil Malvankar said the Teaching Academy helped him understand how Yale’s expectation of teaching is different from other institutions. Malvankar, who previously taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said he is used to teaching in a lecture style, but is considering other approaches after the workshops.

“I need to challenge and engage Yale students,” he said. “In order to do that, you may need a flipped classroom approach with more discussions in class.”

Several other new faculty members said they were excited and intrigued about shopping period, something that many of them had never encountered before.

History professor Jennifer Allen said she is nervous about how many students will shop her classes and how many of them will choose to enroll, but appreciates the “intellectual opportunity” shopping provides.

Yale Divinity School professor Felicity Harley-McGowan said she was impressed with the positive teaching culture at Yale, reinforced throughout the orientation and Teaching Academy. She added that the CTL seems to be very encouraging of cross-departmental connections.

“Interdisciplinarity in teaching is not just rhetoric at Yale, it seems to be a reality,” she said. “That is very exciting.”

The Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2014.

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

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“My motto was always to keep swinging.

Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” HANK AARON 25-TIME MLB ALL-STAR

Season afoot for Bulldogs W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 Ivy play begins in late September this year. By then, Meredith hopes that his team will have worked out any major kinks in their game in order to compete for the championship title.

“I would like to see us get better each week,” Meredith said.

The Yale women’s soccer team graduated seven seniors after the 2014 season. After the end of their 16 regular season games, several of those players earned prestigious distinctions.

Captain Meredith Speck ’15 became a three-time first team All-Ivy selection, goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, forward Melissa Gavin ’15 was an All-Ivy second team selection and midfielder Muriel Battaglia ’15 was an AllIvy first team selection.

Eight freshmen will replace the senior class in an effort to repeat the Elis’ previous successes.

“Since we have a relatively young lineup, we are expecting to see a ton of improvement as the players become more and more experienced,” forward Paula Hagopian ’16 said.

Meredith mentioned two returners, captain and defender Ally Grossman ’16 and goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16, as players who will bring experience to the field this season.

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The senior class is composed of seven players, each bringing their own talents and skill sets to the field with a common goal in mind.

“With the talent we currently have on the team, I think we all are expecting to win an Ivy League Championship and will be disappointed with anything short of that,” Hagopian said.

Since Meredith became the head coach of the Elis in 1995, he has become the winningest coach in Yale history.

With 196 victories under his belt, he plans to lead the Bulldogs to another NCAA College Cup appearance — a feat he accomplished in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Throughout practice this week, the Elis are preparing against perennial foe Hofstra — a team the Bulldogs defeated last season 2–1. The team is looking to improve its performance from last Friday’s loss against Arkansas.

“The key factor that will set us apart from other teams this year is our work ethic,” said forward Karina Kovacik ’17.

“We have really stepped up our game, and trust each other to give everything to win the game.”

The Yale Women’s soccer team will be playing Hofstra on Friday at Reese Stadium at 7:30 p.m.

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

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The women’s soccer program added eight freshmen to its roster this season.

the Elis in digs in each of the past four years.

“Maddie and Mollie are both unbelievable players and are definitely missed,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said.

“However, we have been working to fill their positions since the spring.

Our team is very deep and there are people competing for every position.”

In order to prepare for its challenging Ivy League slate, Yale begins the season with a similarly challenging nonconference schedule. The Bulldogs welcome Rhode Island, UC Santa Barbara and Rice to New Haven for their annual invitational this weekend, after which they will travel to Colgate and San Francisco for tournaments in the next two weeks.

Following their warmup tournaments, Yale will enter the 14-game Ancient Eight schedule, hosting three consecutive games before going on the road for games at Dartmouth and Harvard. After the conclusion of the Ivy slate, the Bulldogs will travel to Hartford for one final matchup that will potentially serve as NCAA Tournament preparation.

Yale welcomes a touted recruiting class to help defend its conference title, bringing in the Ivy League’s highest-rated group of incoming players.

“The five freshmen are all extremely talented and bring a lot to the team,” libero Christine Wu ’16 said. “Practice has been really fun and competitive.”

In particular, the Bulldogs welcome libero Kate Swanson ’19, a 2014 Under Armour first-team All-American from Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Swanson and four others will look to support a talented returning core of Yale veterans.

Most notably, Yale returns firstteam All-Ivy setter Johnson, who finished second behind Rogers with 3.1 kills per set last season. Additionally, middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16 and setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 will look to build on their second-team All-Ivy performances from 2014.

The Bulldogs host Rhode Island on Friday night in the first game of the Yale Invitational. The game begins at 7 p.m.

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

Crimson star tears ACL BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Crimson sorely lacking experience, as the captain started the first 64 games of his career and has started 90 of 92 possible games in his time in Cambridge. The returning roster has started a combined 48 games across their respective careers.

Chambers’ injury paired with the loss of graduated seniors leaves Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker tasked with an enormous amount of production to replace.

More than half of Harvard’s offensive output from a year ago has graduated, highlighted by the departures of former Player of the Year Wesley Saunders and Steve Moundou-Missi, who knocked down the game-winning shot in last year’s Ivy League Playoff.

Incorporating the loss of Chambers’ 9.9 points per game leaves Amaker with a roster responsible for just 30.7 percent of Harvard’s 2014–15 scoring.

While the loss of an all-conference player is not something that a coach can easily replace, he said that what matters is the team’s depth in that area. Jones referred to the Bulldogs’ own situation in which 47.8 percent of last year’s scoring and 48 percent of last year’s rebounding totals graduated.

“It all depends on how light you are at that position when you lose a starter, and then how far away is the guy that fills in for him in terms of ability,” Jones said. “If you lose Matt Townsend [’15] and replace him with Brandon Sherrod [’16], you’re not really losing much, or vice versa, because they’re similar in levels of ability.” The immediate question for Harvard becomes which player, or which combination of players, will step in to fill the void left by Chambers. Of the returning crop of players, senior Corbin Miller is the only true guard to average more than 10 minutes a game last season, but he rarely orchestrated the offense and served primarily as a threat from three-point range.

Junior Matt Fraschilla will likely compete for the starting job, though he has seen limited playing time and production in his first two years. Amaker could also turn to his most heralded freshman guard, Tommy McCarthy, a three-star recruit according to ESPN

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In the 2014 regular season, the Bulldogs went 0–2 against Harvard, but 12–0 against the six other Ivy League schools.

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Captain Ree Ree Li ’16 has recorded winning records in singles in each of her three years at Yale.

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In his junior campaign, guard Siyani Chambers led the Crimson in minutes per game with 34.5. who received interest from schools such as Brigham Young and San Diego.

This is not the first time in recent history that Harvard basketball has had to deal with a sudden loss of talent. In 2012, the cheating scandal that involved 125 students resulted in a pair of implicated senior co-captains, Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry, who withdrew for the school year and left the team for a season.

Remarkably, the 2012–13 Crimson persisted to capture its second consecutive Ivy League championship, in large part thanks to the Rookie of the Year campaign by Chambers.

Chambers himself is thus an example of how an unexpected star can step up, even as a freshman, and contribute to a championship level team.

Yale has also been the beneficiary of surprising guard play, as captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 demonstrated a similar breakout last year.

After averaging just 3.5 points a game in his sophomore year, Montague

erupted for more than double that mark last season while leading the Ivy League in three-point percentage.

“My confidence not only in myself but the confidence I get from the coaches and my play helped me make my big jump,” Montague said. “I wouldn’t necessarily say I’ve gotten exponentially better, but my confidence and mindset going into games and practices allowed me to play better.”

Whoever fills Chambers’ sneakers will need the confidence to lead a team with a championship pedigree and NCAA tournament aspirations in the same way as Chambers has done so proficiently for three seasons.

Already a member of the coveted 1,000-point club, Chambers was also a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award given annually to the nation’s most prolific point guard.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

from 2011 to 2014. During his time there, Zlatkovic was responsible for coordinating fitness and weight-training sessions as well as providing strategic advice during match play.

“In the beginning of the spring, we’re going to physically work a lot so that we get stronger and faster,” Zlatkovic said.

“All of this is going to bring success. We can add in the mental part. [The players] are going to make good decisions in important moments.”

One of Zlatkovic’s major differences between his style and Bertrand’s, according to Li, is that Zlatkovic understands the balance that Yale students strive for between playing a sport and studying hard for school.

Carol Finke ’18 added that even before the official announcement, Zlatkovic had transitioned seamlessly into the head coaching role last spring and proved that he was capable of leading the team. “[Zlatkovic’s] encouraging style is appreciated by the whole team,” Finke said. “He understands the unique nature of Yale student-athletes and works with each of us so that we can excel on and off the court.”

Li added that Zlatkovic is a great coach in terms of understanding the game, communicating with players and giving advice on tactical skills. Finke

agreed that Zlatkovic understands both the mental and the tactical challenges of women’s tennis. “[Zlatkovic] is a great asset on the court,” Finke said. “His positive approach makes him a great motivator.”

Additionally, Zlatkovic has experience coaching professional tennis players. He served as a traveling coach, tactical adviser and hitting partner for Slovenian professional women’s tennis player Polona Hercog, who was ranked as high as No. 35 in the world in singles.

At the Women’s Tennis Association Slovenian Open, Zlatkovic also served as a hitting partner for top professional players such as former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion Amelie Mauresmo.

That experience from the professional circuit is very valuable to the Bulldogs, Finke noted.

“I think everyone else is excited [to have Zlatkovic] as well,” Li said. “We all really trust him, and I know a lot of people coming into our team are excited to have him as the new head coach.”

Director of Athletics Tom Beckett could not be reached for comment.

The Elis will play their first game of the fall season on Friday, Sept. 18 at the Harvard Fall Invitational in Cambridge.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu and JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

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Elis set up for sixth straight title

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER After claiming a fifth consecutive Ivy League championship last year, the Yale women’s volleyball team enters the season looking not only to return to the NCAA Tournament, but also to advance past the first round for the first time since 2008.

In order to do so, however, Yale must first continue its recent domination of the Ancient Eight. Last season, the Bulldogs were forced into a one-game playoff against Harvard for the NCAA berth after dropping both regular season matchups against the Crimson.

Outside of Harvard, however, the rest of the Ivy League was no match for the Elis last season. Yale went 12–0 against the other six Ivy schools, dropping a total of three sets in those 12 matches.

And while they fell twice to the Crimson in the regular season, the Bulldogs avenged those defeats with a 3–0 road victory in last November’s onegame playoff.

“The previous championships give us a general confidence about the capability of our team and program,” middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 said. “But we definitely do not think about it on a daily basis.

This is a whole new group, and we haven’t proven anything yet.”

In order to return to their spot atop the Ivy League, Yale will have to contend with a number of major losses from last year’s team. The Bulldogs graduated captain outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 and libero Maddie Rudnick ’15, both key ingredients in the recipe for the past four Ivy-winning seasons.

Rogers, a first-team AllIvy selection in all four sea-

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Zlatkovic in as head coach

BY GREG CAMERON AND JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTERS After less than one year at the helm of the Yale women’s tennis program, Taka Bertrand departed as head coach this past summer and was replaced, on an interim basis, by assistant coach Matej Zlatkovic.

WOMEN’S TENNIS The Eli team that Bertrand inherited in the fall of 2014 had won the Ivy League title and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament in three of the previous four years. But in her lone season as head coach, Bertrand guided the team to a 9–11 overall record, including a 3–4 conference mark.

It was the first time since 2008 that Yale had not finished in the year-end top-50 rankings from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

“The main thing last year is [Bertrand] was not the best fit for Yale,” captain Ree Ree Li ’16 said.

“She had come from a scholarship school and I don’t think she fully understood what it takes to be a student athlete at Yale.”

Bertrand came to Yale from St. John’s, where she spent two years as the head coach. The Red Storm found success under Bertrand, improving from just six wins to 11 in her first season and featuring two All-Big East players in those two years.

Zlatkovic said it was “a bit of a surprise” when he was named interim head coach, which was officially announced on June 12, but that he was not informed of the specific circumstances regarding Bertrand’s departure. He also said he was still in the process of finalizing his full coaching staff, though former Queens College head men’s tennis coach Patrick Letson will be on staff as a volunteer assistant coach.

Prior to joining Yale, Zlatkovic served as an assistant coach for the Illinois State’s men’s tennis team SEE W. TENNIS PAGE 10

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The Bulldogs won their fifth straight Ivy League title by defeating Harvard in a one-game playoff. sons, was awarded the 2014 Ivy League Player of the Year award for her efforts and left Yale with her name near the

top of the Bulldogs’ all-time leaderboards as the sixth player in program history with at least 1,000 kills and 1,000

Bulldogs seek first Ivy title in 10 years In 1992 and 2005, the Yale women’s soccer team brought home rings for winning the Ivy League championship.

The 2015 season has already begun, marking the 10th anniversary since the program last stood at number one in the Ancient Eight.

Harvard’s Chambers out with ACL injury

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New head coach Matej Zlatkovic served as an assistant coach at Yale last year before being named interim head coach in June.

Harvard’s pursuit of a fifth consecutive Ivy League basketball championship took a critical blow yesterday when the team announced that star point guard Siyani Chambers will not be with the Crimson this season due to injury.

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The Elis have plunged into a competitive schedule that began with Arkansas last week, and continues with Hofstra this Friday. Both of these opponents were previously ranked in the top-50 out of nearly 300 Division Ixz programs for the 2014 season, with Arkansas coming in at No. 42 and Hofstra at No. 43. Yale, meanwhile, finished the season in the No. 108 spot of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Ratings Percentage Index.

Head coach Rudy Meredith said he sets his team up against high-level programs so that he can analyze how his offensive and defensive lines fair against the competition through each match.

digs. Rudnick also made multiple All-Ivy teams, leading

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The last time the Bulldogs won an Ivy League title was in 2005.

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The three-time All-Ivy selection will take a voluntary leave of absence for the 2015–16 school year as a result of a torn ACL in his left knee suffered during summer workouts. The decision to withdraw enables Chambers to maintain one remaining year of Ivy League eligibility, assuming a healthy return for the 2016–17 year. The Harvard coaching staff could not be reached for further comment regarding the injury and its impact on the team’s title defense.

Yale head coach James Jones experienced a similar dilemma two seasons ago, when, during the 2013–14 campaign, point guard Javier Duren ’15 injured his ankle late in the year.

Jones said his initial reaction was disbelief.

“You just don’t think that that’s going to happen to anybody,” Jones said. “It’s not great for our league to have one of its best players go down,

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Last season, Harvard guard Siyani Chambers averaged 9.9 points per game, the second-most on the team behind Wesley Saunders. but he’ll be back, and I’m certain that Harvard will be a better team because of it in the long run.”

With Chambers sidelined, Harvard’s chances at extending its dominant run at the top of the Ancient Eight appears to be in jeopardy as coIvy League champion Yale returns a solid veteran core led by reigning Player of the Year Justin Sears ’16.

Columbia, no stranger to devastating season-ending injuries, will also contend for the league crown. The Lions bring back former first-team All-Ivy recipient Alex Rosenberg, who sat out last year following a preseason foot

fracture, to join last season’s scoring champion, Maodo Lo. Sears acknowledged that while the injury may increase Yale’s title chances on paper, the team’s focus cannot waver.

“This puts a little less pressure on us but anything can happen,” Sears said. “Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, etc., they can all make a huge jump so we just have to go out there and worry about ourselves, and take care of business one day at a time.”

The loss of Chambers leaves the SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 10

THE PERCENTAGE OF OFFENSIVE PRODUCTION REMAINING ON THE HARVARD BASKETBALL ROSTER. Between Wesley Saunders, Siyani Chambers, Steve Moundou-Missi and other graduated seniors, the Crimson lost 69.3 percent of last season’s offensive output.