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Welcome back. Whether you
spent break in the sun or the snow, the daily grind begins anew today, here in wintry New Haven. May the seniors choose their final classes wisely, may the freshmen learn from the mistakes they inevitably made last fall and may we all make it to May 6 whole, warm and sane.
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YCC calls for financial aid reform REPORT, PRESENTED TO ADMIN ON JAN. 9, FOCUSES ON STUDENT INCOME CONTRIBUTION BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER
’Til you drop. The spring
shopping period tends to be more eventful than the fall’s — last year, we saw some questionable maneuvering for a spot in Business Ethics and a lot of self-promotion to get into Humility. We’re banking on the 100-student cap for Structure of Networks as a principal cause for some of this year’s fireworks. Trophy Yalies. Last night’s
Golden Globes (i.e., what most of campus watched in a final act of procrastination), showcased a couple of Yale film fixtures, including Claire Danes and Meryl Streep DRA ’75. Though Danes came up short in her bid for Best Actress in a TV Series, Streep shone in her presentation of Best Motion Picture — Drama to “Boyhood.” Cold cash. Still, Yale has managed to paint Wall Street even bluer than Hollywood. The Eli lineup in Saturday’s Yale-Harvard alumni hockey game — staged in conjunction with the Rivalry on Ice matchup at Madison Square Garden — featured employees from JPMorgan and KKR, among other favorites, and was profiled in a Business Insider piece on Friday. Gourmet Purgatory. For a few
days this break, blacked-out windows fueled speculation that Gourmet Heaven had prematurely closed its doors for good. But the deli has restarted operations since, temporarily fighting off death before actually meeting its inevitable, grim fate.
In all its glory. Yale’s crown jewel, the Sterling Memorial Library, shone brightly in a prominent New York Times article published over break. “A Piece of Yale’s Library Is Brought Back to Life” did justice to both Sterling’s postrenovation grandeur and the campus-wide relief that the scaffolding is finally down. Cast Away Lavarnway. Former
Eli Ryan Lavarnway ’09 had a chaotic December. The catcher bounced from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Chicago Cubs and then to the Baltimore Orioles after being released by the Boston Red Sox, who paired Lavarnway with pitcher Craig Breslow ’02 in the first all-Yale MLB battery since 1883.
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For the second-straight year, the Bulldogs routed the Crimson in Madison Square Garden for the Rivalry on Ice matchup. Four goals and twice as many shots as Harvard led Yale to victory. PAGE B1 SPORTS
Acting on student feedback, the Yale College Council is calling on the Yale Corporation and Office of Financial Aid to reform the University’s financial aid policies. The YCC presented its suggestions to the administration in a 25-page report on Jan. 9, after approving the recommendations in a Dec. 7 vote. Among the recommendations were greater clarity in financial aid award letters and a short-term freeze on the student effort portion of aid, which is made up of term-time student employment and a summertime savings contribution, called the student income contribution. Eventually, the YCC would like to see student effort completely eliminated, said YCC representative and report co-author Tyler Blackmon ’16, who is also a staff columnist for the News. SEE YCC PAGE 4
ROBERT REED 1938-2014
Advocate for undergrad art program dies at 76 BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER Yale School of Art professor Robert Reed ’60 ART ’62, a renowned painter who taught at Yale for almost 50 years, died on Dec. 26 in New Haven following a long battle with cancer. He was 76.
Born in Virginia in 1938, Reed attended Morgan State College, where he received a B.S. in 1958. After subsequent degrees from Yale, he joined the faculty in 1969 as a professor of painting and printmaking. He also served as director of undergraduate studies in art and director of graduate studies in painting.
White House drafts college rating system BY TYLER FOGGATT AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS The Obama administration’s first draft of a federally backed college performance rating system was released Dec. 19, but the Department of Education admitted that limited data and the project’s complexity mean there is still work to be done. In August 2013, President Barack Obama announced a new system to review colleges on issues like accessibility to low income students, employment rates for graduates and affordability. The administration also plans to link federal student aid to these rankings, meaning that schools that score highly will receive more funding. Despite general support for Obama’s focus on increasing college accessibility for lowincome students, the idea of such a rating system has not been universally embraced. Associate Vice President for Federal and State Relations Richard Jacob said the program draft proves how difficult it is to develop an effective college rating system. “The department acknowledges that the existing data
At the time of his death, Reed was the only fully tenured African-American professor at the School of Art. Reed’s work has been exhibited across the nation and Europe, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
in Washington, D.C. “He had a signal role in diversifying the upper echelons of the University and providing a model for the many students of color who have graduated since the 1960s,” Dean of the School of Art Robert Storr said in an email. In the summer of 1960, Reed
was a student at the Yale School of Art and Music in Norfolk. He went on to teach there and served as director of the program from 1970 to 1974. Reed later founded and directed the Institute for Studio Studies in Auvillar, France, which is assoSEE OBITUARY PAGE 6
Residents petition Anchor closure
are limited, and that many of the statistics are available only for students who receive federal financial aid, which raises questions about whether measures based on those sources will be representative,” Jacob said. “The Department notes that it is not sure how to group schools for purposes of comparison.”
The [Department of Education] acknowledges that the existing data are limited. RICHARD JACOB Associate Vice President, Federal and State Relations Jacob added that higher education experts have wondered whether developing formulas to compute scores for institutions would be an improvement over existing resources. For example, the College Scorecard — a tool used by the Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center — simply presents staSEE EDUCATION PAGE 6
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University Properties closed the Anchor Bar after months of sporadic rent payments. BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER A week after the Anchor served its last drink, New Haven residents are still petitioning the closure of the bar, located on College Street. Yale University Properties declined to renew the bar’s lease after months of
unpaid rent. On Jan. 5, Jesse Richards, a local filmmaker, set up a petition against the bar’s closure on Change.org. The petition not only protests Yale’s decision to close a bar that has been open for over 50 years but also aims to raise awareness about residents’ dissatisfaction with University Properties’ choice of tenants. The
petition claims that Yale has inflicted “cultural damage” on New Haven, closing down local establishments in favor of trendier chain stores that students might prefer. In less than a week, the petition garnered more than 1,100 signatures. “The Anchor Bar and SEE ANCHOR PAGE 4
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ore than two millennia ago, Aristotle stressed the importance of education in developing ethical character. For the ancients, virtue was an activity that could — and should — be taught. A recent column in the News (“Forgetting our roots,” Nov. 12, 2014) echoed Aristotle’s sentiments, proposing Yale institute a theology requirement as a way of providing students with a moral education. Though this last recommendation is unlikely to come to fruition, amoral pedagogy is ahistorical. It is difficult if not impossible to separate the study of the liberal arts from some notion of “the good” or “the right.” Even those who view the end of education as high earnings or technological innovation must eventually ask, what does it mean to live a good life? (They are alive after all.) The popularity of courses like “Life” demonstrates the ubiquitous appeal of this question. Yale students and most thinkers throughout history have certainly been interested in finding the answer.
A TRUE MORAL EDUCATION CONCERNS NOT ONLY HOW WE THINK, BUT HOW WE ACT. But, the complete lack of consensus among the men and women who have sought to give an account of what makes life meaningful raises a further question: How ought Yale to go about instilling moral virtue when there’s no agreement about what moral virtue is (or whether it exists at all)? Philosophy class is not enough. We put up with endless permutations of the trolley problem for intellectual stimulation, but most of us would prefer to live, not just know, the good. Moral education, then, transcends the study of Korsgaard and Parfit. A true moral education forces us to question every choice, habit and custom of daily life. In short, it concerns not only how we think, but how we act. To its credit, Yale does make a few efforts to get students thinking about practical ethical dilemmas, most notably the “fro-yo” workshop on navigating the minefield of college relationships. But it would be a grave mistake to call this exercise a serious instance of moral education. For one thing, most students already know, at least on a cognitive level, what consent is and why it matters. Some psychological factoids and statistics give these
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wo rks h o ps the veneer of instruction, but most of the conversation ends up reinforcing norms that AARON all agree SIBARIUM we upon. The entire enterThe prise, in fact, Moderator only makes sense with the assumption that students already agree with its conclusion — no one could seriously think that an hour-long session would be sufficient to instill a new and binding morality. There’s a deeper problem, though, that belies Yale’s façade of ethical tutelage. The consent workshops, the admonitory emails before every major event, the Camp Yale remarks on mutual respect and good choices — none of them makes any attempt to disguise their preconceived moral minimalism. As long as you consent and don’t end up at Yale Health, the administration ostensibly cares little about your day-to-day decisions. The programming of opening days seems to hinge more or less on a single axiom: There’s no use in judging or even questioning the choices and lifestyles of college students. As far as the powers that be are concerned, they have fulfilled whatever obligations they might have to our moral and spiritual wellbeing by making sure we can do whatever we want without obviously damaging anything or anyone. I do not want to dismiss this view. It could (maybe) prove correct. But promulgating any ethic as gospel is antithetical to the objective of moral education. The predominance of social progressivism crowds out real discussion about the best way(s) to live, a serious problem in light of how complex life can be. Yale should not try to habituate us to any one paradigm of the good. If the history of philosophy has shown us anything, it is the difficulty of such a task. But the expectation that Yale provoke a real discussion about how we live our lives, beyond the obvious prohibitions, is not unreasonable. Why not include a post fro-yo addendum on sexual ethics beyond consent? Or, for that matter, a discussion on the moral status of pursuing a consulting job? A school that considers itself a leader amongst universities should not have as its main project the reification of the status quo. True innovation — material and moral — comes from dialogue, not dogma. AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. His columns run on alternate Mondays. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .
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The Emporium DNA Prize
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love to read. I love books and bookstores and reading and writing and that feeling of cracking the unbroken spine of a hardback for the first time. I even write a regular column of book reviews for the News (mind the shameless self-promotion). But I’m writing today about one aspect of book culture at Yale that strikes me as just a little weird: the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize. My former suitemate, Matthew Glover ’15, first called my attention to the prize earlier this year, after he noticed a flyer for it hanging outside the Branford Dining Hall. He told me, in no uncertain terms, that I should write a column about it. “It’s like them having a prize for the person with the best Emporium DNA wardrobe,” he told me. To be fair, the prize presents itself as, continuing with that metaphor, more for the person with the best overall wardrobe, particular brands aside. But I think the larger point is well taken: It takes money to win the Van Sinderen Prize. According to the prize’s website, it was established in 1957 “to encourage undergraduates to collect books, build their own libraries and read for pleasure and education.” $1,000 is given to the winning senior, while $700 is given to the winning sophomore. The website claims that the prize rewards “neither
the number of books nor their monetary value,” but rather the “discrimination and judgment in the selection of SCOTT titles related STERN to the contestant’s interA Stern est.” This prize Perspective would be a lot more problematic if it did indeed reward the value and quantity of books. Instead, it claims to reward some sort of subjective thematic unity. But it still takes money to build up a private library. And then there are the specific criteria. “Rare editions and fine bindings, though desirable luxuries, will receive equal but not extra consideration,” the prize’s website claims. Right off the bat, then, students with the income to spare for rare or fancy books are at an advantage, as these things merit some consideration. Indeed, one of the past winning collections, according to the website, includes first editions of William Burroughs’s books, a collection it surely took means to acquire. Students without enough money must build collections that merit consideration for other reasons. The website continues,
“Paperbacks are acceptable if there is evidence of some worthwhile thought and purpose.” That sounds to me as if hardbacks are the expectation, while paperbacks need to meet someone’s definition of “worthwhile” in order to qualify. Finally, “collections of books acquired solely for courses are not acceptable.” In other words, students should “build their own libraries,” but these can’t just be books they bought for class. It seems to me that if the prize did not want to give a huge advantage to kids with money, it would not give any weight to the rarity or quality of the books, it would not privilege hardbacks over paperbacks and it would not mandate that collections be extracurricular. These rules seem irrelevant to the “overall purpose of the competition,” which, according to the website, is “to encourage students to build collections characterized by unity of field or subject.” Why not reward collections “characterized by unity of field or subject,” even if this includes substantial numbers of paperbacks and books that are bought for class? I study the history of venereal disease, and, over the course of my time at Yale, I have acquired many books on this rather esoteric topic; why can’t these count as a worthwhile collection, even though many of these were purchased for class?
Why on earth is any consideration given for the edition or binding, if the purpose is just to build up a collection and inspire a love of reading? The prize is giving away thousands of dollars using what strike me as subtly discriminatory rules. I don’t mean to pick on the Van Sinderen Prize, per se. But a discussion of the prize allows us to discuss donations to Yale more broadly. If Adrian Van Sinderen, class of 1910, just wanted to stimulate reading, surely the money he used to establish this prize should have gone to the library or for students on financial aid to be able to buy their own books. In other words, I believe this money could have been better spent. Obviously, it wasn’t mine to spend, but Yale administrators should actively encourage donors to give to more worthwhile causes within the University. Money is better spent helping with cancer research than rewarding a student with the best collection of private cancer research equipment, right? And in the meantime, the Van Sinderen Prize should change its rules to ensure that no advantage at all is given to students based on wealth. SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .
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ARTHUR HOWE JR.; 1921-2014 CORRECTIONS MONDAY, OCT. 27
A previous version of the article “With center opening, Yale expands footprint to China” incorrectly states the title of YCB Managing Director Carol Li Rafferty. TUESDAY, DEC. 2
A previous version of the article “A little bit of wine may not be bad for baby” misstated the position of the surgeon general on prenatal alcohol consumption. A previous version of the article “SOM makes progress on gender balance” misstated some views of Susannah Harris SOM ’16 and SOM Professor Amandine Ody-Brasier. The article has been modified to reflect their statements more accurately. FRIDAY, DEC. 5
A previous version of the article “Access Health CT expands enrollment assistance” misspelled the name of Yolanda Caldera-Durant, senior program officer of the Connecticut Health Foundation.
New MOOCs begin today BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER When political science professor Ian Shapiro recorded an online class for Open Yale Courses five years ago, he simply had his regular lectures in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium filmed. But this winter, in creating his first massive open online course, or MOOC, Shapiro was able to experiment with several options in an advanced film studio before settling on a new, experimental method: a Socratic-style dialogue between Shapiro and two hired “students,” who respond to his questions during the filmed lectures. Three of Yale’s five spring 2015 MOOCs — Shapiro’s “Moral Foundations of Politics,” music professor Craig Wright’s “Introduction to Classical Music” and Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84’s “America’s Unwritten Constitution” — begin today, marking a continued expansion of the University’s online course offerings. Art history professor Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture” MOOC is slated to begin this February, and School of Management Professor Barry Nalebuff’s “Introduction to Negotiation” will likely start in March. While “Roman Architecture” and a version of “America’s Unwritten Constitution” have been offered before, the other three MOOCs are new this semester. “One trend that we are really excited about is that when we run a course a second time, we see a much more engaged audience registering for the course,” Executive Director of the Office of Digital Dissemination and Online Education Lucas Swineford said. Audiences for Yale’s courses continue to grow, Wright said. The number of students who elected the Signature Track — a paid version of a course that provides students with certification — for economics professor Robert Shiller’s “Financial Markets” course nearly doubled the second time the MOOC was offered, Swineford said. Professors said they enjoy
teaching MOOCs because the online courses provide an opportunity to share course material with interested students all over the world. Students can opt to take the courses, which are offered on the online platform Coursera, for free, or via the Signature Track.
[MOOCs are] a 21st-century version of a public library. AKHIL AMAR Professor, Yale Law School “[MOOCs are] a 21st-century version of a public library,” Amar said. However, adapting a traditionally taught lecture or seminar into a MOOC requires adjustments in both teaching and class assignments, professors said. Nalebuff has hired several Yale School of Drama students to act out negotiation scenarios in the videos. He said teaching this MOOC will also change the way he teaches the live version of the course, as much of the material he covers will already be available online. Amar said that he focuses more on images in his MOOC than he would in a traditional classroom setting, as the online version is a far more visual medium. Wright said the challenge is to create questions that involve deep critical thinking but are clear enough that a computer can grade them. Machine grading is necessary given the tens of thousands of students taking the courses, he said, but it is not yet clear whether computers work as well as professors in assessing student work. “We don’t know if something is lost,” Wright said. “What we as educators have to put more emphasis on, I think, is evaluating the success of the teaching we do.” Coursera currently offers 892 courses from 117 partner institutions. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .
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Three new massive open online courses (MOOCs), posted by Yale on Coursera, begin today, including “Introduction to Classical Music.”
Arthur Howe Jr., prescient on coeducation, dies at 93 BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Arthur Howe Jr. ’47, the first Yale admissions dean to publicly advocate for a co-ed student body, died on Dec. 16. The cause of death was bone marrow disease, according to his son Tom Howe. Arthur Howe served as dean from 1956 to 1964, and was described as “an aggressive liberal reformer whose mandate was to open up Yale’s student body and nationalize it,” in “The Big Test: The Secret History of American Meritocracy” by Nicholas Lemann. According to Howe’s family and friends, he was a modest and diplomatic man with an oftentimes self-deprecatory sense of humor. Tom Howe said his father was constantly thinking, analyzing and writing. “Reference any eulogy, be mindful that nothing people might say about me could reflect adequately the kindness that countless individuals in various relationships have shown me throughout a long and privileged life,” Arthur Howe wrote on a scrap of paper before his death. “I’ve been allowed to soar on the wings of privileges derived from wonderful people, places, programs and purposes.” Howe’s granddaughter Beth Lowenstein said Howe was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and played rugby during his time as a student at the University. Although Howe is classified as a member of the class of 1943, he did not actually receive his degree until 1947, due to intervening wartime service, according to his son. Howe, who described himself as a pacifist, left his studies in 1941 to enlist in the American Field Service, an organization of volunteer ambulance drivers in combat zones, through
which he commanded 120 ambulances and 200 men, Lowenstein said. He returned to the University to complete his degree in education after World War II. Howe joined the Yale administration in 1951, four years after finishing his degree. He accepted a position managing a new admissions and scholarship program supported by the Ford Foundation’s Fund for Advancement of Education, and his titles and duties shifted over the next half decade until he was named dean of admissions, his son said. Serving under then-University President A. Whitney Griswold, Howe pushed for new admissions policies in response to the influx of applications throughout the early 1960s, according to The Washington Post. Sociologist James Karabel noted in his 2005 book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton” that throughout Griswold’s tenure, Yale often rejected highachieving Jews and minorities in favor of “well-rounded” applicants who had graduated from elite boarding schools. But as admissions dean, Howe worked to downplay reliance on figures such as SAT scores and grades, and increase the use of other sources of information about an applicant’s character and potential, Tom Howe said. According to Karabel’s “The Chosen,” Howe said in a 1961 interview that he worried about the University “taking a lot of brainy kids who are too egocentric ever to contribute much to society,” and he was reported by The Post to have played a role in altering policy to increase the likelihood of children of Yale alumni receiving offers of admission. “If high academic ability were the only criterion, we would have to eliminate quite a few future
presidents of the country,” Howe said to The New Yorker in 1960. Howe was also an open advocate of admitting women to Yale College. Though the University had begun admitting female graduate students in 1869, Yale’s undergraduate program was still entirely male when Howe served as dean of admissions. Tom Howe and Lowenstein said Arthur Howe was influenced by strong women such as his maternal grandmother, his mother, his wife and his daughter. According to Peggy Howe, his wife, Arthur Howe originally pitched the idea of admitting female undergraduate students during a confidential faculty meeting in 1956, and received a standing ovation from his fellow staff members. This information was leaked to the press and criticized by the public, but Howe continued to push for coeducation and speak out against what he described in 1964 as Yale’s practice of “endlessly excluding one-half of the population.” The success of his efforts was seen in 1969, five years after Howe left the University, when the first group of female undergraduate students arrived at Yale. Howe was also responsible for the initiation of Yale’s Summer High School Program, an experimental project for high school students who were educationally deprived but showed exceptional potential, according to his son. Howe left his deanship in 1964 to serve as president of the AFS. The organization, which transformed into a student-exchange program once its ambulance services finished at the end of WWII, expanded to 13,000 exchanges of high school students per year during Howe’s presidency. Additionally, Tom Howe said his father initiated the practice of multinational exchanges between for-
eign countries, as all exchanges prior to that point had involved the U.S. “He also worked to place women, volunteers and foreigners into positions of greater programmatic responsibility throughout this structurally complex organization, with its nationally managed offices in 60 countries across the globe,” he said. He added that the extensive travel and long flights demanded by the presidency took a toll on Arthur Howe’s health, leading to his retirement in 1972. However, Howe continued volunteering for AFS from his retirement until his death, and became a Life Trustee. Tsugiko Scullion, who served on the AFS Board of Trustees with Howe, said he was a man of strong principles and compassion who will be dearly missed by the organization. Howe’s commitment to expanding horizons for those with a desire to learn and his policy of building bridges instead of walls are the types of legacies he left behind, she said. “It’s a sad time for us right now, but it’s also a time for AFS as an organization to celebrate the enormous contributions [Howe] made to us,” Scullion said. Howe, a Connecticut native, was born in July of 1921. In addition to AFS, he served on the boards of numerous other educational, religious, civic and conservation organizations, such as the Hotchkiss School, Hampton Institute and the Institute of World Affairs, according to his son. Howe is survived by his wife, brother and four children, plus 10 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren who knew him as “Poppy,” according to Lowenstein. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .
Grad school extends funding BY EMMA PLATOFF AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will soon provide Ph.D candidates in the humanities and social sciences with a sixth year of funding, a welcome change for students pressed to complete their research within six years and find teaching positions. But debate continues as to whether the new policy goes far enough. The funding, which will be provided through teaching positions or an equivalent stipend, will begin in the 2015–16 academic year. Previously, funding packages in the humanities and social sciences only covered five years, though many graduate programs typically take up to six years to complete, with some students continuing for even longer. “We have learned from our students in the humanities and social sciences in particular that the increasingly competitive job market favors students who have had more teaching experience than we have been able to provide,” Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley wrote in an email to Ph.D candidates on Dec. 15. “The sixth year of guaranteed funding will enable eligible students to develop teaching portfolios of more depth and to plan ahead for their sixth year with more certainty.” Students in the sciences and engineering will continue to be funded according to their programmatic financial aid packages for the number of years it takes to complete their degrees, the email said. Chair of the Graduate Student Assembly Joori Park GRD ’17 said the policy change comes after nearly five years of negotiations between the GSA and the University. Park said the policy change will remove significant stress from sixth-year students who rely on teaching opportunities to financially support themselves. “The number of teaching spots fluctuates each year based on enrollment, and as a result [graduate] students … may or may not get funding,” Park said. “There’s a lot of stress and anxiety that comes with that for students finishing their dissertations that need to stay in New Haven.” Yale is the only Ivy League school to currently offer such a
package for sixth-year students, Park added. Brian Dunican GRD ’15, the 2013—14 GSA chair who was involved in previous conversations with the University about the policy change, said not having to hunt for sixth-year funding will help students who may have required seven years to complete their Ph.Ds to do so in six. Dunican said the issue of sixthyear funding has been raised for years in department meetings and school-wide surveys, adding that the policy change would make the Graduate School more attractive for future applicants. The announcement comes less than two months after over 1,000 supporters of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization protested for GESO to be recognized as a student union. Since the protest, which was the second in six months, the University has shown no sign of negotiating with GESO. “We welcome the University’s actions to recognize the value of our teaching work, but only by negotiating a contract can we fully address the issue of job security for graduate employees in our upper years and especially in the sciences,” GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 wrote in an email to the News. Cooley said this improvement in the funding package comes as the result of work begun several months ago by former Yale College Dean Mary Miller and former Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard, and has nothing to do with GESO. However, several graduate students interviewed differed on whether the policy goes far enough. “Yale is making a push to shorten Ph.Ds, and while graduating in five years was often not realistic, this policy change may incentivize students to graduate in six years rather than seven,” said William Gray GRD ’18, GSA’s current Academics and Professional Development Committee chair. “For students that do take seven years I think we will go back to the old system of stress and uncertainty and hopefully we can work with the administration to alleviate this issue in the future.” But economics graduate student Chiara Margaria GRD ’17 said she believes funding a sixth year is enough, explaining that in
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Graduate students in the humanities and social sciences interviewed said that a sixth year of guaranteed funding would reduce stress. her field, taking longer to finish the degree program diminishes a student’s job prospects. Currently, the median numbers of years required for students to complete their Ph.Ds varies widely, such as 5.7 for economics and 7.3 for history. Cooley said she does not expect funding to be expanded to support graduate students in a seventh year of study. With the resources available to them, she added, graduate students should be aiming to finish in six years at most. Past experiences at Yale and peer institutions indicate that more funding can encourage students to take longer with their degrees, she explained. Further, Cooley said she hopes faculty will advise students to undertake dissertations that can be completed within the six-year time frame, as hiring departments often “look askance” at candidates who take a long time to complete their studies. Graduate School Senior Associate Dean Pamela Schirmeister, who chaired the working group that put forth the new policy, said seventh year students will still be able to teach, though positions will not be guaranteed. This does not represent a change in policy, she added. Three history graduate students said they frequently have to seek teaching opportunities in other departments, while two economics graduate students reported that it is not difficult to find teaching positions in the department. Margaria said that uncertainty about sixth-year funding has never been felt in her department, where it is easy to find teaching or research assis-
tant positions. Still, many administrators and graduate students extolled the virtues of the policy shift, explaining that the new funding plan may make Yale a more attractive destination for prospective graduate students and a less stressful work environment for current ones. “The anxiety about financial support for the sixth year had weighed heavily on doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences for years,” Pollard said. “This new plan should allow them to focus on their work and help them finish their dissertations rather than worrying about financial support.” Professor of English and American Studies Wai Chee Dimock said the existing graduate financial package was already noteworthy compared to Yale’s peer institutions. However, the creation of sixth-year funding is a show of support for the University’s graduate education, she added. The policy change would be especially welcomed by philosophy students, said philosophy professor Stephen Darwall, as many struggle to complete their dissertations within six years. Darwall, who previously taught at the University of Michigan, said guaranteed sixth-year funding had existed there for the past decade. As of fall 2014, 2,643 students are enrolled in the Graduate School. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” JOHN LOCKE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER
YCC pushes for freeze in student effort contribution YCC FROM PAGE 1 “The YCC chose to focus on financial aid this year because students are at a crisis point,” Blackmon said. “Despite Yale’s promises to meet 100 percent of demonstrated need, the incessant increases in the cost of a Yale education [are] forcing more and more students to take on student loans or take second, third or even fourth jobs just to survive.” The recommendations were the product of months of work by the YCC Financial Aid Task Force, said YCC president Michael Herbert ’16. In order to gauge student opinion on the topic, the task force had distributed a student-wide survey and hosted a town hall with Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi.
Storlazzi declined to comment on the proposed changes. According to the YCC report, students’ complaints with current financial aid procedures fell into three categories: clarity of information, student employment and student financial contributions. Students felt that the University did not provide enough information about outside scholarships and was not sufficiently clear about details of their award packages, such as the increased student effort expectation for upperclassmen. In addition, some students called the financial aid office’s terminology confusing, finding it difficult to distinguish between terms such as term-time contribution and student income contribution. Students were also frustrated
by the availability and execution of student employment opportunities, with 56 percent of survey participants claiming that long working hours negatively affected their college experiences. Among the YCC’s recommendations in this area were an increase in the campus minimum wage and a more streamlined job application process. While students interviewed disagreed about whether or not full elimination of the student effort requirement is feasible, they agreed that being required to work several hours per week could detract from their ability to pursue academic and extracurricular interests. “The idea is that [students] contribute something to their education, not that they con-
tribute their lives to the point that it actually impedes on their education,” Michelle Kelrikh ’17 said. Ivonne Gonzalez ’16, who founded the student group Undergraduate First Generation Low-Income Partnership, said the student effort requirement further accentuates class differences between students on campus. Gonzalez added that while Yale markets itself as a place where all students have equal opportunity, the Office of Financial Aid simultaneously espouses a belief that requiring aid recipients to work makes them more invested in their educations — a philosophy that the YCC report also pointed out as troubling. “Why don’t we expect that
from all students, and not [just] students on aid?” Gonzalez said. “I’m grateful to be the recipient of Yale’s generous financial aid, but I hate it when more affluent people require that I be grateful.” Finally, the report noted the 22.4 percent increase in the student effort expectation over the past years, from $2,600 in the 2009–10 academic year to its current $3,350. In addition to the YCC’s long-term recommendation that Yale fully eliminate the student effort contribution, it also proposed that the University develop a program that would guarantee low-income students a paid summer position. Herbert acknowledged that University budgetary constraints might pose challenges in implementing the recommendations
but said that they are not outside the realm of possibility. Given the improving economy and the University’s recent financial stability, Blackmon said, a freeze in the student effort contribution is a reasonable expectation. “While we certainly don’t expect the University to take immediate action on all of our recommendations, we are optimistic that we can use this report as the basis for a meaningful conversation about the declining affordability of a Yale education,” Blackmon said. In the 2014–15 school year, just over 50 percent of undergraduates received some form of financial aid. Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .
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The Yale College Council presented its recommendations on financial aid reform in a 25-page report to the administration. Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi, left, declined to comment on the proposed changes.
Anchor closing spurs criticism of Univ. Properties ANCHOR FROM PAGE 1 Restaurant has been one of the few remaining and well-loved local establishments in New Haven, and a place that most of us thought was safe from the slow homogenization/gentrification that Yale University has been imposing on our hometown,” the petition reads. Richards said he anticipates taking his petition to UP when it reaches 2,000 signatures. Even though he thinks UP will not take significant action, he said he does not believe they can “shrug off” such a large response. While Richards said he does not hold an “anti-Yale” stance and has enjoyed the thriving arts scene Yale brings to the city, he said he does feel that Yale has had a “devastating” impact on local busi-
nesses. “When a place closes where there is good community — good ideas and culture being shared — it’s really hard to reclaim that,” he said. However, New Haven resident Victor Fabine, who frequented the bar, said Yale was justified in closing the bar down since it was not paying rent. He added that before Yale began investing in the city, areas of downtown New Haven were dilapidated and economic development was limited. Many people who are most upset with Anchor’s closure have not been to the bar in years or are not considering Yale’s responsibility as a landlord, he said. He added that their memories of the bar may not be an accurate reflection of the Anchor in its current state. While the building
had a unique charm, “the kitchens sucked, the bartenders sucked and the waitresses were horrible,” he said.
When a place closes where there is a good community … it’s really hard to reclaim that. JESSE RICHARDS Local filmmaker Karen Peart, a spokesperson for the Yale Office of Public Affairs, said in an email last week that UP made every effort to allow the business to remain open, but DWN Enterprises, the indepen-
dent management company that had been operating the bar since 2012, had failed to meet the agreements set out by the lease since the shift in management. “University Properties made many accommodations for DWN Enterprises since their rent payments became sporadic starting in early 2013,” Peart said. Even after entering into a court agreement in mid-2014 that would have allowed Anchor to remain open, DWN once again failed to uphold the agreements laid out, according to Peart. John Pollard, a real estate advisor for UP, said that while he is sorry to see the Anchor close, it is important to remember that UP cannot give away space for free. Gabriel Levine ’14, who frequented the bar as an undergraduate, said he hopes UP thinks
carefully about how they replace the property. Recent developments on Broadway have not had the most positive reaction from Yale students either, he said, noting students’ distaste of international retailer Kiko Milano at 1 Broadway. “If New Haveners without Yale affiliations are upset with UP, and if Yale students are upset with UP, then I’m not sure who UP is serving,” he said. However, currently, the future of the property previously occupied by the Anchor remains unclear. UP has not decided how the property will be filled, Pollard said. Charlie Moore, whose family owned Anchor and hired DWN in 2012, confirmed he has no intentions to continue with the business. “[Anchor] is a chapter in a book,
and it’s time to turn the page to bigger and better things,” he said. Both Richards’ petition and Fabine, despite their differing opinions on UP, said they would rather the Anchor be replaced with a local business, as opposed another chain store. “Both locals and Yale [affiliates] loved the places that we lost,” Richards said. “I think most people appreciate living in a place that has some individuality and local character, and it’s time that Yale as an entity learns to respect and foster that.” In 2014, Esquire, a national men’s magazine, named the Anchor one of the best 25 bars in America. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .
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“In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do.” ROWAN WILLIAMS ANGLICAN BISHOP
Interfaith movement at Yale mirrors national trend BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER Though young Americans are increasingly reporting no religious affiliation, the interfaith movement at Yale is growing. A 2012 Pew Research Report showed that a third of young Americans report no religious affiliation, up from 18 percent in 2007. However, college campuses are home to a growing interfaith movement, according to Pete de Kock, the vice president of operations and communications for Interfaith Youth Corps. Interfaith dialogue is defined by a positive and purposeful interaction between people who practice different religious, spiritual and humanistic traditions to foster acceptance and understanding of different belief systems. In parallel with this trend, the University Chaplain’s Office founded the Interfaith Forum at Yale in 2013. The group “seeks to promote religious literacy to the wider Yale community by modeling a willingness to be countercultural in how we interact with one another.” Prior to IFFY, there was no official platform for multifaith conversation. Students interviewed from across religious backgrounds agreed that IFFY occupies an important space in Yale’s religious community. “I love interfaith work because it’s genuine — it’s bringing yourself and your history to the table and asking honestly about how
others engage with faith and life,” said Sasha Stern ’17, former education chair of the Yale Hillel. “And the understanding that comes from that questioning allows you to step into others’ shoes and experience a different perspective on the same wondrously difficult world.” IFFY was created because more people are interested in being part of interreligious conversation, University Chaplain Sharon Kugler said. She has noticed an increase in the demand for interfaith dialogue, though Kugler said it is difficult to measure religious activity and attribute it to trends. Indeed, the Pew report explains that religious identity is complex and hard to quantify because it is difficult to indicate religiosity if an individual does not practice in the traditional sense. Still, young Americans are likely to question their faith, Kugler said. She emphasized that college is often a time of religious exploration. For some, the college experience increases their observance of the faith they came practicing. And others might try out another faith, try practicing outside of a group setting, or abandon it completely, she added. Seven sources interviewed noted that students are increasingly coming from interfaith families, a contributing factor to the call for interfaith activity. “I think students are seeking answers, both from religious traditions and to learn from their neighbors,” Assistant Chap-
lain for Special Programs Maytal Saltiel said. “And they’re trying to achieve that across religion.” Maytal explained that IFFY creates an environment where cross-religious relationships can form. Facilitating interfaith dialogue and new relationships is an integral part of the college experience, she said. More generally, interfaith organizations exist because people want to know how to engage with people of different faiths, de Kock added. “We overwhelmingly find that people want to participate in these conversations,” de Kock said. Because of this demand, de Kock added that universities can no longer ignore the call for organizations like IFFY. He added that IFFY’s establishment is a sign of Yale listening to what its community needs. De Kock said that in a diverse democracy, interfaith understanding is essential. He added religion is a bridge for cooperation and interfaith organizations help build religious pluralism. “Interfaith work is the natural expression of one if the central tenets of my faith, that each person is created in the image of God.” Stern said. “There’s a kind of essential human connection that’s created when we ask each other how we see the world, a type of understanding that is hard to build without it.” Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .
Alders debate accepting federal justice assistance grant
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The growth of the interfaith movement at Yale mirrors a national trend on college campuses.
Esserman’s conduct questioned BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER
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Both law enforcement and political officials have thrown their support behind community policing. BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After New Haven received a million-dollar federal Byrne Grant last fall aimed at reducing crime in Newhallville, community leaders are pushing to improve ties between police and residents in the neighborhood and across the city as part of its ongoing community policing strategy. During a time of tension between police forces and communities nationwide, city officials are still deliberating whether or not to accept the grant and will vote on Jan. 20 to make the official decision. At a board meeting last December, Newhallville residents raised concerns about the community policing model that the NHPD uses, and, at a public panel last week, residents also suggested that the NHPD engages in racial profiling. Since New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman began his second stint as police chief in 2011, the NHPD has employed community policing, which aims to create relationships between police and residents. As part of community policing, officers walk their beats, instead of patrolling in cars. Former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. favored this approach, and brought Esserman from Providence, Rhode Island to help outline a community policing strategy for the NHPD. Since 2011, when there were 34 homicides, crime in New Haven has decreased significantly. In 2014, there were only 12 homicides in the city. Community policing has largely been popular among New Haven residents, said Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate, who chairs the Public Safety Committee. But he said that work still needs to be done, and that the NHPD needs to become more integrated with the
communities it serves. “You have a lot of cops that aren’t from New Haven,” he said. “They don’t see themselves as community-based; they see this as a job — punch in, punch out. What we want to see is stronger ties to the community all around.” State Senator Gary HolderWinfield said he partially agreed with Wingate. He said that the police district commanders are typically well-integrated with the community, but the officers below them still have work to do. Not all of the money from the Byrne Grant will go to the NHPD. Instead, the city will allocate the money to various community agencies, in an attempt to create a collaborative, communitybased method of crime reduction, Wingate said. The Byrne Grant will likely be used to further community policing, said Jonathan Allen Kringen, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven and the chief evaluator for the Byrne Grant. One condition of the grant is that the city set aside $80,000 for evaluation and research of the project; Kringen will lead that evaluation effort. But, echoing Wingate’s remarks, he said that the police will not be the only focus of the grant. Instead, Kringen said that the city will use the Byrne Grant to involve all relevant community organizations in an effort to make the police force an active part of the community. He added that community policing tends to improve perceptions of police in neighborhoods and makes residents more likely to cooperate with police investigations. But not everyone is happy with that strategy. At the meeting in December, Latoya Agnew, a Newhallville resident, said that neither the police nor the com-
munity know how to interact with the other, and that the relationship between the two groups needs improvement. She believes that the money instead should be spent training police officers to improve community policing efforts. Holder-Winfield expressed a similar sentiment. “The problem has been that, when [police officers] walk through the community, they don’t always engage with the community.” Some community members at the Alder meeting last December, including Roger Williams, Clifton Graves, Shirley Lawrence and Holder-Winfield, said that racial profiling remains an issue in New Haven. Holder-Winfield said he does not believe racial profiling to be a common practice among the NHPD, but that it does occur in New Haven. Oftentimes, he said, police seem to profile suspects based only on race, and his constituents have suggested that racial profiling has been an issue, especially at the meeting. With a city government and police chief largely supportive of the community policing strategy over the past four years, it seems the NHPD will likely continue with the strategy. Kringen, Wingate and Holder-Winfield all agreed that the model of community policing is likely the right way forward for the NHPD, and they hope to see its expansion and improvement in New Haven. “We are most definitely in favor of community policing,” said Wingate, speaking on behalf of the Board of Alders’ Public Safety Committee. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
Following allegations that NHPD Chief Dean Esserman verbally harassed an usher at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, several New Haven alders are seeking to address Esserman’s apparent misbehavior at a Board of Police Commission meeting planned for Tuesday. On Dec. 11, Dan Weinberger, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, wrote a letter to the Board of Alders claiming that Esserman verbally harassed an usher after the usher asked to see his tickets during the Yale-Army game. In his letter, a copy of which was published in the New Haven Independent, Weinberger said Esserman refused to show the usher his ticket, claiming he had an “all-access pass” as police chief. Esserman then began to yell at the usher after the usher mentioned privately to Weinberger and his wife that Esserman was a “‘jerk (or something to that effect),” the letter states. In response, seven alders signed a letter on Dec. 22 addressed to Mayor Toni Harp and Police Commission Chair Tony Dawson that expressed concern about the chief’s conduct. Esserman has since apologized for the incident, but the Board of Alders plans to follow up on the issue at the Board of Police Commission meeting on Tuesday. “Everyone makes mistakes,” Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate said. “I think the chief made a mistake, and he needs to be held accountable like everybody else.” Wingate was one of the seven people who signed onto the letter of criticism, written by Ward 7 Alder Abigail Roth. The letter stressed that Esserman’s behavior was concerning because it was “an example of unnecessarily
escalating conflict” and “harm[ed] the trust people have in the police.” Roth also wrote that Esserman, as a role model for the NHPD, should be especially aware of his conduct. The letter said that, in addition to the seven signers, several other alders expressed concern regarding the chief’s behavior, citing personal encounters or complaints they heard from constituents during his term. The alders seek to address “a broader pattern of arrogant behavior” at the Jan. 13 police commission meeting, Roth wrote. The alders’ letter referenced a similar incident during Esserman’s position as police chief in Providence in which he was accused of verbally harassing a subordinate officer. In that case, Esserman was suspended. The letter stated that Esserman also apologized in that case but does not seem to have changed his behavior. Wingate said that although the alders believe the chief’s behavior should be watched for the remainder of his term, their goal is not to have Esserman fired. “I don’t think the man should lose his job,” Wingate said. “I think he needs to learn from this mistake.” City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said the mayor and the chief have already addressed the incident. Harp wrote a letter of reprimand to the chief in response to Weinberger’s complaint. Grotheer added that because the Board of Alders operates independently of the mayor, their views do not reflect those of the mayor. Esserman has served as New Haven Police Chief since 2011. Prior to that, he served as chief of the Metro North police force. Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
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NHPD Police Chief Dean Esserman has come under fire from New Haven alders following allegations of verbal harassment at the Yale-Army football game this fall.
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“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” MARK VAN DOREN AMERICAN POET
White House ratings system draws criticism EDUCATION FROM PAGE 1
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Applicants not focused on cost effectiveness may default to the U.S. News rankings and not the DOE system.
tistics such as net price, graduation rate and loan default rate, Jacob said. According to the Department of Education press release, the college ratings will be broken up into three categories based on performance, with most colleges falling in the middle grouping, somewhere between high-performing and lowperforming. The press release also noted that the first version of these ratings will largely rely on federal administrative data collections. The Department said it is currently weighing the available metrics, such as the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants, the number of first-generation college students and average net price of each university, for use in the new rankings. But many colleges and higher education associations are questioning whether the government is equipped to compare schools that appear vastly different on paper. In a January 2013 letter addressed to Richard Reeves, a program director at the National Center for Education Statistics, the Association of American Universities blatantly stated that it did not endorse the new rating system. The letter said Obama’s rating system would likely draw most of its data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, an existent data source initially developed to track trends in higher education. “Over the years [IPEDS] has become a tool for enforcing institutional compliance and assessing institutional effectiveness, with mixed results,” the letter said, adding that any new rating system would have to find ways to deal with missing or limited data. “Overall, while IPEDS
data can be informative for parents and students, they not provide the whole picture, and require contextualization to be most useful.” Barry Toiv, the AAU’s vice president for public affairs, said Congress did not specifically provide funds for the Obama administration to implement a rating system when it passed the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015 in December. “Whether [members of Congress] will act to prevent the Administration from moving forward, whether in the appropriations process or in a bill reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, which could be taken up this year, is hard to know at this time,” Toiv said. Another gap in existing data is the transfer and graduation rates among college students. The AAU letter indicated that graduation rates may make sense for some institutions but not for others, noting that in 2011, only 27 percent of four-year institutions reported transfer-out students to IPEDS. Bev Taylor, the founder of The Ivy Coach — a New Yorkbased college consulting firm — said that even if the Department of Education were to produce accurate ratings, it is unlikely that they would have a significant effect on the college choices of certain groups of students. “There’s always going to be students and parents who look at the prestige of a university, and not the cost,” Taylor said. “And so if a school is going to be more highly rated because it has a lower sticker price, it’s not going to matter to this group of applicants.” Taylor added that applicants not focused on cost effectiveness will probably default to using the U.S. News and World Report college rankings as a resource, since the U.S. News rankings
are currently the most widely read. Additionally, despite questions about the fundamental data, some are asking whether the government is in any position to rate American colleges to begin with. Robert Kelchen, assistant professor in the Department of Education Leadership, Management and Policy at Seton Hall University, told the News that intense opposition to the new system may mean the ratings are doomed even before they come out. In a Dec. 18 op-ed for Politico Magazine, Kelchen pointed to a 2013 poll released by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed which found that only 16 percent of 675 surveyed college presidents said the Department of Education’s rating system was a good idea, compared to 65 percent who said they were against it. Even the American Council on Education, which represents much of the nonprofit higher education community, released a statement earlier this year saying “most believe it is nearly impossible for the federal government [to rate colleges] with any degree of reliability or validity.” Kelchen said the first step in improving the rating system would be improving the data it is founded upon. He added that the current data makes it impossible to rate most colleges at the department of program level, but that even with new metrics and reexamined data, it would be hard to produce ratings by this fall. “Releasing ratings by fall 2016 seems more feasible, but that gets into an election year, and the likelihood of actions like these becomes less likely,” Kelchen said. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
Reed “treated each person like an artist” OBITUARY FROM PAGE 1 ciated with Yale Summer Session. Throughout his life, Reed received numerous accolades for his work. He was a Yaddo Fellow and a board member for the McDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. He received the national award from the National Council of Art Administrators in 2000 and the Distinguished Teaching of Art award from the College Art Association in 2004. At Yale, Reed was perhaps best known for his unwavering commitment to undergraduates, many of whom were not art majors. He wished that the art program would become better integrated into the greater Yale community and even told the News in 2006 that “every self-respecting Yale undergraduate should take at least one visual arts class [before graduation].” Associate Dean of the School of Art Samuel Messer ART ’81 said he was overwhelmed by the number of non-majors who remember Reed’s class as a pivotal point in their undergraduate career. He added that students “just worshipped [Reed].” Storr echoed these sentiments, noting that Reed possessed a unique gift in undergraduate teaching. Among the classes Reed taught at Yale were Introduction to Painting and Basic Drawing, the latter of which attracted many students with no prior art experience. Even though the course was held at 8:25 a.m., Reed was a stickler for punctuality and forbade students from taking the class if they arrived late. He was well known across the University for his “tough love” teaching style. According to Josephine Massey ’15, who took Reed’s Basic Drawing course, his strict nature coincided with a paternal concern for student well-being and improvement, as well as a desire to instill confidence. “I don’t think you could’ve taken a class with [Reed] and not cried or thought about crying,” said Carolyn Forrester ’15, who took Introduction to Paint-
ing. “But it came from a place of knowing and believing, and he made me realize I could be a painter if I worked and believed enough.” Students also noted that Reed was nondiscriminatory in his approach — he expected the same from all students, regardless of their artistic backgrounds. According to Forrester, Reed expected commitment unparalleled in any other class at Yale and once assigned six paintings due the same day. “What he expected from us we didn’t even think was possible,” Massey said. “You’d do something and think it was the best thing, and he’d tell us all the things we could fix. [His class] was a constant attempt at improvement.” “He treated each person like an artist,” Forrester added. “He made me see painting in a way I hadn’t seen it before.” Despite battling cancer for several years, Reed still retained a passion for teaching and continued to teach at Yale and during the Summer Session in France. In 2014, he received the William Clyde DeVane Medal for distinguished teaching and scholarship in the college, an award that students and faculty members said he fully deserved. Professor of painting and printmaking Rochelle Feinstein said that despite physical weakness, Reed was active in the department in his last months, and that “his conviction and respect for his position was unflagging.” Forrester agreed, adding that though Reed was quite ill, he would come in early every morning to review each student’s studio, and his attention to detail remained as sharp as ever. “The man was in the hospital twice a week and could tell if you changed the tiniest shade of red,” she said. Reed is survived by his wife, two children and three grandchildren. A memorial honoring Reed will be held at the School of Art in April, and his work will be shown in an exhibit in the school in the fall. Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .
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rom birding to bars, Yalies found a wide array of ways to relax over winter break. These photographers captured moments from their travels across the country. ANNELISA LEINBACH, SARAH ECKINGER, WILLIAM FREEDBERG AND ZACHARY PAGE report.
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NFL Seahawks 31 Panthers 17
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DICK JAURON ’73 COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME The former standout running back — and NFL defensive back — was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame on Jan. 9. He was a three-time All-American at Yale, setting a school record with 2,947 rushing yards in his three years on the varsity squad.
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JACK MONTAGUE ’16 SPORTSCENTER TOP 10 Montague made the shot of the year for Yale when he hit a three-pointer with 1.7 seconds left to topple UConn on Dec. 5, the defending national champion. His shot was No. 1 on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays of the night, an honor most players can only dream of.
“We want to beat Harvard every time we play them in everything we do.” MITCH WITEK ’16 MEN’S HOCKEY YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 · yaledailynews.com
Elis Dominate Cantabs in 2nd Rivalry on Ice BY DREW MEGERIAN AND ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Backstopped by goalkeeper Alex Lyon’s ’17 dominant 20-save performance and a 42-shot, fourgoal-offensive outpouring, the Yale Bulldogs defeated their century-old rival — the Harvard Crimson — officially opening up a Rivalry on Ice win streak of two. Since their first meeting in New York in 1900, Yale and Harvard have established themselves as two of the most dominant teams in collegiate men’s ice hockey. Both teams count an NCAA tournament title among their accomplishments — Yale most recently in 2013 — and the two squads have claimed a total of 10 ECAC championships since the league’s inception in 1961. Yale and Harvard’s storied tradition consists of 245 games in eight different cities, a series Harvard has taken 140–86–19. But almost none of those games have seen a national stage comparable to number the 246th matchup. At 8 p.m. last Saturday, Yale and Harvard faced off in the 2015 Rivalry on Ice, a game hosted at Madison Square Garden. Last year, in the inaugural Rivalry on Ice, Yale took the game decisively, clinching a 5–1 win. Early in the first period, both Yale and Harvard seemed to be firing blanks. Crimson goalten-
der Michalek made some big saves early, highlighted by a huge backdoor stop near the five-minute mark. Lyon held on to what few shots were sent his way. Part of Lyon’s success in the first period can be attributed by his early ability to control rebounds, a theme that resounded throughout the rest of the game. This stalemate was broken midway through the first, however, as forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 put one past Michalek on a pointblank blast assisted by defender Adam Larkin ’18. The goal marked Izmirlian’s second of the season and was followed up a little over three minutes later by another Eli goal scored by Charles Orzetti ’16 off of a rebound from Michalek’s pads. Despite initially being called back on a late offsides ruling, the referees later reinstated the goal, ruling that the puck was put back into play by a Harvard attempt to clear the zone. The Bulldogs dominated the remainder of the first and racked up a 16–5 shot advantage against the Cantabs heading into the second frame. Yale seemed to be pulling away early in the second after forward Matt Killian ’15 notched a goal off of his own rebound, his second of the season. Yale’s poise early in the second and its ability to grab a third goal reflected not only team SEE RIVALRY ON ICE PAGE B3
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While Harvard took 40 face-offs to Yale’s 37, the Bulldogs doubled the Crimson’s shots on goal effort 42–21.
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Near-perfect break for Elis on the ice BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Winter break was anything but for the men’s ice hockey team, as the Bulldogs faced competitors not just in and out of conference play, but from across the globe as well.
MEN’S HOCKEY On Dec. 27, Yale (9–4–2, 4–3–1 ECAC) took on Russia’s premier athletes from its Junior Hockey League when the Elis faced the Russian Red Stars at Ingalls Rink. Despite three weeks off from competition, the Bulldogs came away with a 2–1 victory.
Both Alex Lyon ’17 and Patrick Spano ’17 saw action in net, combining for a total of 23 saves. Yale drew first blood midway through the second period on a shorthanded goal by forward Mike Doherty ’17. The Red Stars fought back early in the third, putting one past Spano, but forward Stu Wilson ’16 made the eventual game-winner with a wrister when there was just under five minutes remaining. Captain Tommy Fallen ’15 said that the team benefits from playing against the Russian All-Star team each season, especially coming off a fairly long break. SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3
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The women’s basketball program went 3–4 over winter break, including a three-game losing streak on which the Elis fell to Bucknell, Arizona St. and Oklahoma. BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though the Yale women’s basketball team won just three of its seven games played over break, the Bulldogs experienced a few major highlights, including guard Tamara Simpson’s ’18 last-minute game-winning layup against Maine and head coach Chris Gobrecht’s program-record 108th victory in a win over Wagner.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL “It was a cool experience,” Simpson said of the Wagner game. “She’s the winningest coach at Washington and now at Yale too. It shows how amazing of a coach she is. I’m happy
to be a part of her success.” The Elis kicked off reading week with a win against Boston University at home on Dec. 6. Thanks to captain Sarah Halejian’s ’15 nine-point scoring run in the last two minutes of regulation, the Bulldogs put the Patriot League school away, eventually winning by seven points. Halejian currently ranks seventh in the Ivy League in points per game, averaging 14.9 points. One key to the game was the turnover margin — Yale committed only nine turnovers while the Terriers gave the ball away 21 times. Following the victory, the Bulldogs hit the road for five games. The stretch opened with a loss to University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
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Despite a team-best 17 points from forward Katie Werner ’17, the Bulldogs’ defense proved fallible, as UMass-Lowell shot 17 of 31 from the field in the second half en route to an eight-point victory. But after a nine-day break for final exams, the Bulldogs rebounded to defeat Wagner College by 25 points. The win against Wagner was significant not only because of the margin; it also made Gobrecht Yale’s alltime winningest women’s basketball coach, passing Cecilia DeMarco, who coached in New Haven from 1990– 1999. “She’s a coach that never lets up. When she believes that we can do SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B3
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The Men’s hockey team went 4–1 over winter break, defeating the Russian Red Stars, Holy Cross, Vermont and Harvard while falling to Northeastern 3–2.
THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE GAMES AGAINST HARVARD THE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM HAS REMAINED UNDEFEATED. In the last nine matchups, the Elis are 8–0–1.
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Dartmouth win a highlight for Yale WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 just nine saves, and goalkeeper Hanna Mandl ’16 made her fifth appearance this season. But Mandl could not stop Princeton’s freshman forward Taylar Cianfarano, who completed a hat trick halfway through the third period. The losses came at the hands of some of the toughest competition in the conference and in the league. Quinnipiac and Harvard, in addition to being two of the highest-ranked teams in the nation, top the ECAC. Princeton, meanwhile, is not far behind, coming in fourth in the conference. “The ECAC has been getting stronger and stronger, and the high pace of the last few games among the top teams has been great to play in,” forward Gretchen Tarrant ’17 said. “These matchups against top-ranked teams are the kind of games that help us to see
Squash men go 2–1, women 3–0
where we need to improve as a team and are definitely important in our development during the second half of the season.” However, the break was not without success. The Bulldogs’ game against Dartmouth proved to be an easy win for the Elis, who topped the Big Green 5–1 on the strength of goals from four different Bulldogs. Forward Hanna Åström ’16 led the charge with two scores, including one shorthanded goal, adding to Yale’s secondbest conference total of shorthanded goals. Åström just returned from the 4 Nations Tournament, where she represented Sweden. Yale will have its first chance to snap its losing streak this Friday when the team hosts Cornell. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
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The men’s squash team lost its only game of the season 5–4 to Columbia over the break. SQUASH FROM PAGE B4
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After a three-game ECAC winning streak, Yale lost to Harvard, Princeton and Quinnipiac in its last three matches.
ders said. The next day the teams traveled north to Ithaca, New York, where the men and women beat Cornell 7–2 and 6–3 respectively. Earlier in the season the men lost Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and Zac Leman ’16 due to injuries. “As disappointing as our result was against Columbia I think it was a valiant effort, as playing without your number two and three is very tough, and to still make the match competitive with five freshmen in the lineup is incredible,” Saunders said. “With every match out freshmen gain experience, and this makes us confident that we can reverse our losses and succeed at the national
[championships].” The Big Red women’s and men’s teams are ranked sixth and seventh in the nation, respectively. The men’s win keeps the Bulldogs in the race for the Ivy title. “I thought that the team as a whole did well this weekend keeping up morale after disappointing loss,” Broadwater said. The women’s win over a relatively strong team gives them confidence going forward. The Bulldogs won at the number two, three, four, five, eight and nine positions. Next weekend the women look to replicate their three-win week, hosting No. 7 ranked Stanford, No. 16 ranked Middlebury and No. 20 ranked St. Lawrence. The men will have a challenging
weekend, facing the No. 4 and No. 1 ranked Rochester and St. Lawrence squads. The month of January will test the Bulldogs, as both teams will play eight matches, followed by two more in early February. “It’ll just be five weeks of intense squash and it’ll be over.” Says Shiyuan Mao ’17. “This year it’s really competitive; Princeton, Penn, Harvard and Trinity all have really strong teams but we are definitely capable of taking them on as long as we continue to work as we are doing now.” The first of these matches will take place on Jan. 17 in the Brady Squash Center at Payne Whitney Gym. Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .
Basketball bounces between wins, losses M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 points against the Catamounts, and four other players added eight points or more to aid the Bulldogs’ balanced attack. With only a couple of days to rest, Yale then fell short against Albany (8–7, 3–0 America East), dropping a close contest 64–60. The Elis were able to get back on the right track against Sacred Heart (7–10, 1–3 Northeast), as three players scored in double figures, including guard Javier Duren ’15, who led all scorers with 22 points. The Bulldogs’ ability to move the ball and create good looks resulted in 16 assists and 47.8 percent shooting. With 9:18 remaining in the first half, Sears also notched his 1,000th career point for Yale, the 26th player to do so in school history. “It’s a nice accolade,” Sears said. “Yale has had some good players and it’s nice to be included on the list, but a lot of the success comes back to the coaches working with me and my teammates being supportive.” The Elis put up another admirable performance against Vanderbilt (11–4, 1–1 Southeastern), coming up just short in double overtime, 79–74. The two teams seemed to be evenly matched, but Yale committed five more turnovers than the Commodores. Four players scored in double figures for the Bulldogs, who executed well against Vanderbilt’s half-court defense, and the experience will prove valuable during conference play. Yale is not the only team with a signature win this season, as the New Jersey Institute of Technology (9–9) defeated Michigan 72–70 on Dec. 6. When the Elis faced NJIT, they played most of the game without Sears, who suffered an injury early in the first half, and could not overcome this loss, losing 78–71. Three players scored in double digits, with Duren tallying 21. Guard Makai Mason ’18 added a career-high 17 points off the bench and forward
Greg Kelley ’15 stepped up in place of Sears to score 16. “The story pretty much all season has been our depth,” Duren said. “It shows how dangerous of a team we can be because it’s really hard to guard a team that can have four or five guys in double figures.” The Bulldogs closed its non-
conference schedule on a high note, dismantling division three opponent Daniel Webster (3–6, 0–1 New England Collegiate) 102– 47. Again without Sears, six players scored in double figures, with Kelley the leading scorer, totaling 14 points. As the Elis emptied the bench, 12 of the 13 players who
entered the game scored. Ironically enough, it was Duren, the team’s leading scorer at 13.1 points per game, who was the sole Bulldog to play who did not register any points. The point guard did rack up five assists with no turnovers in limited action. “Those types of games are
really good because it gives the guys who don’t really get a chance to play a lot an opportunity to play,” Duren said. “They have a better feeling of being a part of the team so it’s good to finish on that note for our non-conference schedule.” With the most overall wins in
school history prior to its conference schedule, the team has built momentum and will face Brown in Providence on Saturday at 2 p.m. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu and ASHLEY WU at and ashley.e.we@yale.edu .
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On Saturday, 12 of 13 players that saw time against Daniel Webster put up at least two points, bringing the Bulldogs a whopping 102–47 victory.
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“It’s usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can’t grow a good mustache, so I guess it’s just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there.” ANDREW LUCK INDIANAPOLIS COLTS QUARTERBACK
Elis defeat Crimson 4–1 at MSG RIVALRY ON ICE FROM PAGE B1 cohesion but also the necessity of maintaining pressure and winning the little battles against a dangerous opponent. “We want to beat Harvard every time we play them in everything we do,” Mitch Witek ’16 said. “We come out hard when we play here and every time we play them.” By the midpoint of the second period, Yale was dominating the shot count by a staggering 20–5 margin. Yet Harvard fought back, led by none other than one of the nation’s most lethal forwards, Jimmy Vesey. Property of the Nashville Predators, Vesey cradled an odd man rush back-door pass across the crease and around Lyon, sliding the puck into the open net to make the game 3–1. The momentum seemed to swing Harvard’s way, as it began to match Yale shot for shot after going nearly 10 minutes without registering an attempt. Two Yale penalties — both for hooking — fed into this changing of tides and left Yale short-handed against a team with a 28.6 percent power play conversion rate, the third-best in the country. However, Yale was able to maintain their composure, and much of that had to do with Lyon. “I turned to Lyon [after Vesey’s goal] and he just gave me like a little shake of the head, a calming look, and [I think] that carries over, he’s one of the leaders on our team, and that calming presence helps a lot,” Killian said. Four minutes of five-on-four later, the score was held at 3–1. And just as quickly as it had come, Harvard’s momentum swing had passed. Minutes later in the second, Harvard added an interference penalty. Likewise, however, Yale was unable to convert. The second period ended
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Finishing off the first period 2–0 gave the Bulldogs the momentum they needed to carry them to a 4–1 win over Harvard on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. 3–1, with shots 31–12. After two, Yale looked to be in control. While intermissions can often swing a game, known to often kill momentum and allow the losing team to regroup, the second intermission did no such thing. The Bulldogs jumped out early, applying deep pressure on Michalek, a goalie worn by
upward of 40 shots. The aggressive forecheck quickly paid off, as Yale capitalized a few minutes into the period off of a deep wrist shot from Witek — his first goal of the season — that extended the Bulldogs’ lead to three. And while Harvard’s offensive efforts were rewarded with a power play, they were yet again unable to con-
vert against a Yale squad backstopped by a hot Lyon. Yale finished the game dominantly, with a score line very similar to that of last year’s Rivalry on Ice contest. The shot count, however, that was very different. All shots tallied, the count was 42–21. “We preach team first, and we play as a unit,” Izmirlian said
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after the game. He later added, “And I think that shows when we play Harvard.” The Bulldog’s next matchup is at Brown on Friday. Jan. 16.
The Bulldogs earned their second shutout victory of the season over Holy Cross on Dec. 30, defeating the Crusaders 3–0. MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 “The Russian game is something that Yale does every year. Although it is an exhibition game, it is still important for our team’s growth,” Fallen said. “It really doesn’t feel any different than league play.” Meanwhile, forward and Chicago Blackhawks draft pick John Hayden ’17 was busy with the U.S. National Junior Team at the IIHF World Junior Championships in Canada. As an alternate captain, Hayden helped the United States squad into the quarterfinals with a goal against Slovakia in the third round. In the quarterfinal match against Russia, Hayden was named MVP despite the team’s loss. The forward is no stranger to international competition, having been a part of the U-18 team in 2013 that claimed the world championships silver medal. Three days after the game against the Red Stars, Yale returned to regular-season play against Holy Cross (8–8–5, 7–3–5 Atlantic Hockey) and came away with a 3–0 win on the road. The shutout was Lyon’s first of the season and he managed to fend off 21 attempts on net by the Crusaders. The Bulldogs jumped out to an early lead after forward Trent Ruffolo ’15 crashed the net on a rebound off the
Holy Cross netminder, and Wilson and Doherty were both able to convert on Yale power plays midway through the second. The Bulldogs carried this momentum into their matchup against No. 9 Vermont (14–5–1, 7–3–1 Hockey East) on Jan. 3, coming away with a 3–1 victory that cemented their status as one of the top 20 teams in the nation. Yale slightly edged out Vermont in shots on goal, 27–21, and Lyon was solid against the relatively few threats he faced. Much of the action took place in the first — when Vermont struck less than three minutes in — and Yale fought back towards the end of the period with goals from forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 and Ruffolo. Doherty scored his third goal in three games midway through the second, and the Bulldogs’ defense was able to shut down the Catamounts’ offensive efforts for the rest of the night. Forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 noted that the team is unfazed by the national rankings because it prefers to stick to the same plan regardless of the opponent. “We don’t really focus on PairWise or any of the rankings,” Izmirlian said. “We just want to play a team game everyday and we don’t really care about anyone else … We just care
about what’s in our locker room and [our] 20 or so guys.” It wasn’t until Jan. 6 that Yale’s winning streak was finally snapped in a game against Northeastern (7–11–3, 3–7–2 HEA) where the Bulldogs were unable to hold on to an early lead. Forward Cody Learned ’16 and Ruffolo both put the puck in the net two minutes apart in the first, yet Northeastern bounced back with two of its own towards the end of the second. The Huskies completed their comeback effort with a power play goal with less than four minutes remaining after a tripping call on defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 put the Bulldogs a man down. “I think you’re going to have your ups and downs in any season,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said of the loss. “We talked about some of the things we thought we did well and some of the things we didn’t do well and we moved on.” After their win against Harvard on Saturday night, the Bulldogs now sit at seventh place in the ECAC standings. Yale’s next matchup takes place this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Providence against the Brown Bears. Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
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something, she’s going to get it out of us,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said. “She’s a very hard-nosed coach, and she displays the toughness that she asks of her players. That’s allowed her to have the success she has had.” The team then traveled to Bucknell University. Although the Elis forced 12 turnovers, their strong defense was unable to hold off the Bison, who made seven of eight free throws in the final two minutes to put the game out of reach and secure a 73–66 victory. Leaving Pennsylvania for the Sun Belt, the team headed across the country to face then-No. 25 Arizona State. The Sun Devils’ strong defense held the Bulldogs to 35.5 percent shooting from the field. Yale’s Ivy League-leading average of 15.6 offensive rebounds per game dropped as the team only managed 11 against the Sun Devils. Though the Bulldogs forced 17 turnovers and scored 22 points off the bench, Arizona State led Yale by 25 at halftime and won by 18. “We played one of our most solid games, and although we didn’t win, I know Coach Gobrecht was pleased with our performance,” Simpson said. “I feel like it helped us prepare for the Ivy League season.” Despite a 17–6 run in the second half of the Bulldogs’ next game against Oklahoma, bringing the Elis within
just two, the Sooners ultimately pulled away and won by a 17-point margin. Offensive struggles doomed Yale, as the team collectively made 32.2 percent of its field goals, a trend that has continued all season. The Bulldogs rank last in the Ivy League and 281st in the nation in shooting at 36.6 percent. Yale ended the seven-game series at home on a high note, as Simpson sunk a game-winning layup with 10 seconds left in the game to knock off Maine 57–55. While guard Sarju led the team with 18 points, it was Simpson’s final two points that drew attention. The Bulldogs snapped their three game losing streak without their highest scorer; team leader Halejian sat out with an injury. “Everyone had to step up [without Halejian], so we just got after it and competed, and it showed when we played Maine,” Sarju said. “They’re a good team, but we kept fighting and never let up. When they were tired, we weren’t. That was the biggest difference.” Simpson added that her layup came on a broken play, saying that she read the defense and found herself open. Yale heads back on the road in the new year, taking on St. Peter’s at 7 p.m. on Jan. 13 before conference play begins on Friday against Brown. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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In captain Sarah Halejian’s ’15 absence in the 57–55 win over Maine, guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 led the team in scoring with 12 points.
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“I’m the best Manning.” PEYTON MANNING DENVER BRONCOS QUARTERBACK
Longest losing streak of year for Elis WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Bulldogs play final 8 non-Ivy contests BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS The men’s basketball team showcased its many weapons during its eight-game holiday stretch with four different leading scorers. Now in the early days of 2015, the Elis closed out the non-conference portion of the schedule with an 11–6 record.
MEN’S BASKETBALL “Everyone knows their spots on the floor where they feel comfortable, and when someone’s in a groove, we’re going to get them the ball,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “That’s definitely going to help us out in the Ivy play when it comes to back-to-back games.” Following a difficult early stretch with 10 games in three weeks, capped by a dramatic win against the defending national champions Connecticut, the Bulldogs (11–6, 0–0 Ivy) faced another test against Florida (9–6, 2–0 Southeastern), falling 85–47 on Dec. 8. The Gators, coming off back-to-back losses, found their stride against the Elis, shooting 63.8 percent from the field and 52.6 percent from behind the arc. Yale, on the other hand, managed just 34 percent shooting, with only Sears scoring in double-digits with 15 points on the night.
The Bulldogs then played in a series of five close games, with no contest decided by more than seven points, including a onepoint 57–56 win against Vermont (7–8, 3–0 America East). Following a steal by guard Jack Montague ’16, forward Matt Townsend ’15 provided the heroics, scoring the game-winner with five seconds left on the clock.
The team has had a bunch more of those gamewinners, but for me that shot definitely ranks near the top for my most exciting shots. MATT TOWNSEND ’15 “It’s a lot of fun to be in that position to decide the game and in your team’s favor,” Townsend said. “The team has had a bunch more of those game-winners, but for me that shot definitely ranks near the top for my most exciting shots.” Montague led the Elis with 12 SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B2
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The Bulldogs won just one of their four games over break, beating Dartmouth 4–1 on Jan. 2. BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After a promising first game of the new year against Dartmouth, the Yale women’s hockey team had a disappointing end to its winter break. With three consecutive losses to conference opponents, the Bulldogs have now dropped below the 0.500 mark and are ranked eighth in the ECAC. Yale (7–9–1, 4–6–0 ECAC) suffered tough losses to Harvard, Princeton and Quinnipiac over the break. In each of those three matches, the Elis were limited to just one goal in spite of an average of 3.06 goals per game this season. “The break was a good time to regroup as a team and focus on our game,” captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. The Bulldogs’ game against No. 6 Harvard got off to a good start, with forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 scoring just 4:10 into the match on a slap shot off a pass
from defenseman Kate Martini ’16. But two Cantab goals in the last 33 seconds of the first period gave Harvard a lead it never relinquished. Harvard netminder Emerance Maschmeyer, last year’s ECAC Goaltender of the Year, made 23 saves on 24 shots to shut the Bulldogs down and lead Harvard to a 3–1 win.
The break was a good time to regroup as a team and focus on our game. AURORA KENNEDY ’15 “Harvard was the most difficult game because they are a fast paced and physical team, but we matched that well with our speed and work ethic,” Kennedy said. “Unfortunately, a poorly played minute
at the end of the second put a damper on the game, but we know we can beat them come next time.” On Friday, the Elis traveled to New Jersey to take on the Princeton Tigers. Despite out-shooting Princeton 32–31, the Bulldogs fell 4–1 after allowing a pair of first-period goals. One strength of the team this year has been its ability to take advantage of opposing penalties. Yale currently ranks third in the ECAC in power play percentage, having converted 13 of 59 chances. But the Tigers did not let the Elis get an opportunity with an advantage, however, as they committed zero penalties all game. Goalkeeper Jamie Leonoff ’15 saved 102 shots in the past four games, bringing her season total to 412. In Saturday’s game against No. 5 Quinnipiac, however, Leonoff came out after recording SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2
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The men’s basketball program split eight games over the break, going 4–4 across two home and six away contests.
Squash begins difficult January with success BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER During winter break, the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams faced Williams, Columbia and Cornell, and the women’s team maintained its undefeated, 4–0 record.
SQUASH Both teams routed their Purple Cow foes 9–0. The wins came as no surprise, as the Williams men’s and women’s teams are ranked 15th and 12th in the nation, respectively, whereas the Bulldogs rank third and fourth in the nation. “The Williams match was a good test of where we stood after break and a good match to use to get back in the competitive mindset,” associate head coach Pamela Saunders said in an email. “It gave the coaches a baseline to know where we stood and how to structure practices.” After a week of training — which included pressure sessions, match play and tactical drills — the teams began their New York road trip by traveling to Columbia this past Saturday. The women’s team achieved their third consecutive 9–0 rout, sweeping the No. 9 ranked
Columbia team for their first Ivy League match of the season.
With every match our freshmen gain experience and this makes us confident that we can reverse our losses and succeed at the national. PAMELA SAUNDERS The men’s team, however, was upset by the No. 6 ranked Columbia adversaries in a close 5–4 match. Wins by Thomas Kingshott ’18, Max Martin ’18, Pierson Broadwater ’18 and Arjun Kochhar ’18 at the number five, six, eight and nine positions gave the Bulldogs a chance to win, but a close 12–10, 11–8, 11–7 match between Columbia’s Arhum Saleem and Yale’s Joseph Roberts ’15 clinched the match for the Lions. “The loss to Columbia yesterday was heart breaking, but a good learning experience,” SaunSEE SQUASH PAGE B2
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The squash program defeated Ivy League competitor Cornell 7–2 yesterday for its third win of the season and second win of 2015.