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CROSS CAMPUS Pro tip. What we learned about

a certain Westport hedge fund last night: Bridgewater reads Cross Campus. And so should you, if you want to be a buyside gladiator.

And now, we wait. App

deadlines for the other, perhaps tamer internship opportunities at firms like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Bain & Company passed yesterday. Question: How many ping-pong balls can you fit inside SSS 114 during a Corporate Finance lecture?

Harvard’s so popular. Some

hard-hitting investigative reporting by Quartz ranked the Ivy League schools by the number of Twitter users following their respective alumni page. @HarvardAlumni topped the list with 21,600, dwarfing @Yale_Alumni’s last-place yield of 889. Sorry, friends. Looks like Harvard really is the better school.

SCORE! BO HINES JOINS YALE FOOTBALL

GENTRIFICATION

MEDIA STUDIES

New Haven developer seeks to revitalize Dixwell neighborhood,

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Shabba! A$AP Ferg and YG.

Tonight at Toad’s. Quite the turnaround from Wednesday’s Corey Smith concert. Isn’t Toad’s great?

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Johnson ’54 accused of $150 million fraud

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER Charles Johnson ’54, former chairman of the mutual fund Franklin Resources and the largest single-gift donor in Yale’s history, has been accused of helping to defraud the heir of one of Franklin Resources’ earliest investors of $150 million, The New York Times reported Wednesday afternoon.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco by Anthony P. Miele III

places Johnson at the center of an alleged scheme to conceal shares of Franklin Resources now worth $130 million from Miele. According to the complaint, as reported by The Times, Miele was bestowed with Franklin stock after his father’s death over 40 years ago, worth $16,000 at the time. The complaint alleges that Johnson concealed the shares from Miele. Since then, Miele’s 4,000 Franklin shares have turned into 2,531,250 shares, with a total value of

$130 million, plus $20 million in uncashed dividends, according to The Times.

The lawsuit specifically accuses Johnson of breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, fraudulent concealment and negligent prevention of assistance, and makes similar accusations against Franklin Resources. The Times reported that Johnson denied the accusations, though he did cooperate for a limited time with the plaintiff’s inquiry into the stock but then stopped.

“We have not been served with a copy of the filed complaint, and we have no comment at this time,” Head of Corporate Communications for the Americas at Franklin Resources Stacey Coleman said in an email.

Johnson, who retired from Franklin Resources in June 2013, told The Times that he was not aware of the lawsuit but said that he thought the “Mieles are on a fishing expedition for their own negligence.”

In September 2013, John-

Music Hall to open on College Street

son donated $250 million to the University to support the building of two new residential colleges, moving Yale towards its total fundraising goal of $500 million for the project and dramatically accelerating the construction of the colleges. Johnson had previously funded Yale programs such as the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy.

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Med School plans diversity measures

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER

Hann-y time. Yale College Democrats President Tyler Blackmon ’16 appeared on last night’s broadcast of “Hannity” on Fox News. We’re going to guess that Blackmon, also a News staff columnist, blended right in down there.

Where’s the pork? Chipotle restaurants across the nation — including the one on Chapel Street — have temporarily stopped selling carnitas after finding its supplier to be in violation of company standards. Maybe give the sofritas a shot, instead.

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which has been closed for 12 years.

“The Palace was the place to be when I was young,” New Haven Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism Andrew Wolf said. “[The music hall] will be a place for residents, espe-

The Yale School of Medicine’s new policies addressing faculty diversity are set to be released at the end of the week, days later than previously planned, in order to incorporate faculty feedback presented at town hall meetings.

The school has been developing the initiatives since early November, when the Gender Equity Task Force first convened following a sexual misconduct case involving the school’s former chief of cardiology. Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern presented a draft of the diversity initiatives to faculty members at town halls Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. While feedback at those meetings was largely positive, faculty members made recurring calls for improved communication and stricter accountability, both of which Alpern said will be included in the final draft of the policy proposal.

“When we came up with our ideas, the task force and chairs modified them,” said Alpern.

“But now, the feedback from faculty will lead us to modify them further.”

Following the removal of Chief of Cardi-

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Mayor Toni Harp joined a press conference announcing the planned opening of the College Street Music Hall.

BY CAROLINE HART AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS By the time spring arrives, Toad’s Place will no longer be the sole music venue in New Haven.

City officials announced at a press conference yesterday that the old

Palace Theater on 238 College St. will reopen as the College Street Music Hall. The New Haven Center for Performing Arts, a non-profit organization that owns the property, located directly across from the Shubert Theater, is spearheading and fully funding the effort to renovate the site

Varga! Canadian sports news

network TSN gave an update on the man, the myth, the legend Tyler Varga ’15, who’s in Bradenton, Florida, these days training for the NFL draft and everything that comes with it.

The piece highlighted Varga’s speed as something oftoverlooked about the running back … we’ve always thought he was pretty fast.

Arco’s new arena. The

Pittsburgh Penguins picked up Mark Arcobello ’10 yesterday, meaning the former Eli will be playing home games on the same ice that his old teammates won the 2013 National Championship on.

Heart-stopping fun. PULSE

Happy Hour is tonight at The Study. If you’re looking to get your young professional on, mosey on down Chapel Street at 6 p.m. Dress code encompasses “sparkly jewels” and tuxedos.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1934 The application process for baseball team student manager opens. “The work is attractive, and typewriting is not required of the competitors,” a posting read.

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YCC, Women’s Center assess One year in, Bagley suit misconduct resources awaiting resolution

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Amid ongoing national dialogue about sexual violence on college campuses, the Yale College Council and Yale Women’s Center are collaborating to assess the University’s sexual misconduct reporting resources.

On Wednesday, the two organizations released a survey to the student body, asking for input on the mechanisms currently in place to address complaints of sexual misconduct.

The survey’s results, collected anonymously, will be used by the Women’s Center and YCC Task Force on Sexual Health to compile a report, which will eventually be presented to the administration and the campus as a whole.

The survey aims to engage a broader cross-section of student opinion, said task force member Emma Goldberg ’16, a former Opinion editor for the News.

“We’re hoping to reach all sorts of students, not just students who have had personal experiences with Yale’s system of addressing sexual misconduct,” Goldberg said. “Our hope in doing this survey is to get all sorts of new information that the administration doesn’t already have.”

For example, she said, the survey aims to discover why some students who have experienced sexual misconduct may have chosen not to report it, and to understand what may be the

perceived obstacles to reporting.

The YCC Task Force on Sexual Health formed last September, and it began partnering with the Women’s Center midway through the semester in an attempt to combine the Center’s expertise with the YCC’s broader reach, Goldberg said.

We’re hoping to reach all sorts of students, not just students who have had personal experiences with Yale’s system of addressing sexual misconduct.

EMMA GOLDBERG ’16 The collaboration also included the University Title IX Office and the Office of Institutional Research, and both offices helped write the survey questions. Still, the survey is being administered by the task force and the Women’s Center, rather than the administration, because the groups want to emphasize that this is a stuSEE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT PAGE 6

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS More than a year after former School of Management professor Constance Bagley filed suit against the University alleging gender and age discrimination, her case is steadily inching towards trial.

On Dec. 12, Senior United States District Judge Charles Haight denied Bagley’s motion for a preliminary injunction, which would have required the SOM to employ Bagley after her term on the Yale faculty expired at the end of 2014. The denial came after a Nov. 14 motion, filed

by Bagley, claiming that the expiration of her contract would cause irreparable harm to her reputation and family, even after her contract was extended by Yale for 18 months. The University responded to that motion on Dec. 3, arguing that Bagley could not justifiably demonstrate irreparable harm and that she was not likely to succeed on the merits of her case.

The University maintains no assurance that Bagley’s contract would be renewed was ever made, and that the nonrenewal was not a violation of her employment contract.

The denied motion also comes four months after Judge Haight dismissed four of the 18 counts against the University in Bagley’s original complaint. In March 2014, however, Haight denied a motion filed by Yale to dismiss all of the counts.

Bagley — who is currently a senior research scholar at Yale Law School — filed her case against the Univer-

sity claiming her professorship was not renewed in May 2012 as the result of age discrimination and gender bias. The SOM Dean Edward Synder, the SOM Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick and Bagley’s colleague, professor Douglas Rae, with whom Bagley co-taught a course, were also named as defendants.

University spokesman Tom Conroy maintained that there is not a climate of discrimination at the SOM, which was described as a “chilly environment for women” by the Harte Committee, appointed by then-provost Peter Salovey to review Bagley’s grievance. “[The] SOM does not discriminate on the basis of gender and age and did not discriminate against Bagley,” Conroy said.

He added that the University still believes the lawsuit to be without merit.

Laura Studen, one of Bagley’s lawyers, said that previous setbacks in court, such as Bagley’s denied preliminary injunction, do not affect the integrity of Bagley’s complaint.

In response to Yale’s claim that Bagley’s termination came in part as a result of poor student reviews, Studen said that relative to other professors, Bagley’s student evaluations were actually strong.

“There is no professor that has not suffered criticism from student evaluations at [the] SOM,” Studen said. “She also had glowing, amazing responses and letters that she received over the course of years about what an amazing job she was doing, SEE BAGLEY PAGE 6

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his semester, a handful of Yale students will have an extraordinary opportunity usually reserved for intrepid journalists, international jurists and human rights activists: the ability to challenge government officials who have been central to some of the most illicit episodes in U.S. foreign policy.

That’s because the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs has once again invited retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal and former Ambassador John Negroponte to lead seminars.

U.S. officials never face the kind of prosecutorial scrutiny that would reveal the full breadth of their deeds, buried beneath layers of classification. But enough evidence exists to raise serious concerns about McChrystal and Negroponte’s participation in hugely destructive policies that would be considered criminal under existing international law.

From 2003 to 2008, McChrystal ran the Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq, a covert unit tasked with killing or capturing hundreds of men labeled terrorists or insurgents. McChrystal oversaw JSOC’s growth into an “almost industrial scale counterterrorism killing machine,” according to retired Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl. McChrystal later expanded JSOC’s mission in Afghanistan, dramatically increasing night raids on the homes of suspected Taliban fighters and leading to scores of civilian deaths, including the killing of two pregnant women in Gardez in 2010, which the military attempted to hide. JSOC now operates in dozens of countries outside any legally declared battlefield.

Under McChrystal’s reign, JSOC also ran a secret prison in Baghdad called Camp NAMA, where detainees, dubiously defined as “unlawful combatants,” were subject to “beatings, exposure to extreme cold, threats of death, humiliation and various forms of psychological abuse or torture,” according to Human Rights Watch. One prisoner “said he was made to strip, was punched repeatedly in the spine until he fainted, was doused with cold water and forced to stand in front of the air-conditioner and kicked in the stomach until he vomited,” writes investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Others reported being sodomized, subjected to extreme dietary manipulation and struck in the face with rifle butts.

McChrystal may not have commissioned these specific acts. But it’s hard to believe he didn’t know about them.

According to a Human Rights Watch report entitled “No Blood, No Foul” — Camp NAMA’s often ignored motto for treating detainees — McChrystal visited

the facility regularly. One former interrogator claimed McChrystal banned the Red Cross from monitoring the prison, a violation of the Geneva Convention and a green light to abusive guards.

Negroponte’s record is even more sordid. As ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, he played a key role in coordinating U.S. support and training of the right-wing “Contra” army in their brutal war on the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua, where they targeted and tortured civilians. He also backed Battalion 316, a secret U.S.-trained Honduran military intelligence unit responsible for disappearing hundreds of government opponents, including college student leaders. “Time and again during his tour of duty,” the Baltimore Sun wrote in a 1995 investigation, “Negroponte was confronted with evidence that a Honduran army intelligence unit, trained by the CIA, was stalking, kidnapping, torturing and killing suspected subversives.” He nevertheless oversaw a dramatic increase in U.S. military aid from $4 million to $77 million a year and maintained a close personal relationship with General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, chief commander of the Honduran armed forces.

In 2001, Negroponte was appointed ambassador to the United Nations, where he worked to grease the wheels for the Bush administration’s planned invasion of Iraq, premised on fabricated or misleading evidence.

As Iraq continues to cope with the chaos wrought by an invasion, occupation and civil war that claimed the lives of nearly half a million, key architects of the war, perhaps the greatest crime of the twenty-first century, have faced virtually no accountability. Instead, they get posts at Ivy League universities.

Several years into their teaching duties, it would be too much to expect administrators to suddenly remove McChrystal and Negroponte from the classroom.

After all, the frequent (and sometimes secret) visits by Henry Kissinger make clear this campus is welcoming to alleged war criminals.

But students don’t need to be as congenial. Classrooms, we’re often told, are spaces for critical dialogue and discussion, where students are encouraged to challenge professors. So if you’re one of the lucky few selected to learn from these paragons of U.S. foreign policy, study their records.

Read the work of journalists and human rights organizations. And ask tough questions. You’ll not only enrich your educational experience — you may even get some answers.

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The value of amateurism

GUEST COLUMNIST ANDREW BARD EPSTEIN

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n Jan. 6, the NCAA announced that it would begin to pay families of athletes competing in the Final Four semifinal basketball games up to $3,000 and families of athletes who made the championship game up to $4,000. The money will go to hotel, travel and meal expenses for the families, allowing them to celebrate and support their loved ones.

This announcement comes after years of mounting pressure from critics for the NCAA to compensate student athletes for their efforts on the field. Highly successful football and basketball programs bring in millions of dollars in revenue and donations to their parent institutions and to the NCAA. The increasing professionalization of collegiate athletics has made a mockery of the term “student athlete.” Scandals like the fake classes at UNC-Chapel Hill have highlighted how even well-respected institutions are sacrificing academic integrity in pursuit of athletic glory (and the money it brings).

As a result, there is mounting pressure for schools to appropriately compensate their athletes. Players on the Northwestern University football team even voted on whether to form a union last spring, although the outcome of the vote is not yet known. The NCAA has long opposed these calls, insisting on the importance

ISA QASIM The Passerby

of maintaining the amateur status of the student athletes. To the NCAA’s critics, amateurism is a shibboleth, held on to as a convenient facade to secure the income generated by colle-

giate athletics.

I am by no means an expert on college sports — far from it, in fact — and I do not know how to properly resolve the complicated web of competing interests at the heart of this problem. However, I do feel that my experience as an athlete and a student at Yale gives me the perspective to comment on one aspect of this debate: the importance of amateurism.

Amateurism is somewhat out of fashion in our society, but it is fundamental to what makes a college athletic career rewarding. This is because sports, by and large, are not about entertainment. The vast majority of student athletes never appear on the television and no one but their family and close friends pay much attention to their effort. If they go to watch a game, it is often just as much out of a sense of obligation as genuine enthusiasm.

Nor is it about money. I am

certain that I have not generated a dollar for Yale in my time here and that is true for a large majority of athletes in schools across the country. Rather, the primary benefit of athletics lies in the personal development it engenders in the participants and that is then brought to the larger community.

Amateurism ingrains the ability to work very hard to achieve a distant goal with no expectation of external recompense. It gives us the ability to think in terms beyond material rewards to a higher self-justification. It pushes us to meld into a team and to act without ego. In a world where the value of things is boiled down to dollars and cents, amateurism reaffirms that some things cannot be so reduced. The beauty of athletic striving cannot be put merely in terms of television deals or ticket sales.

It is a shame, then, when amateurism is reduced on our college campuses. Outside of a select few schools such as Yale, athletes of all types are essentially cordoned off from the rest of the school. They have their own cafeterias, tutors and culture. Even the scholarship system, which directly links performance on the field to financial security, reduces the power of amateurism as an ennobling force.

Increasingly, non-revenue generating sports are being squeezed out so that more money can be devoted to football and bas-

ketball. For many schools, sports are no longer an end in themselves but rather a tool for money. And in that world, it becomes incredibly hard to justify having a track or swimming team. By turning our student athletes into professionals in everything but name, we lose out on what make college athletics so special.

Of course, amateurism is also a luxury. If a person could be making money much-needed by themselves and their family, it would be absurd and cruel to say that some abstract ideal should prevent that from happening. It is an unfortunate artifact of history that, unlike in Europe, the development of professional athletes in this country is outsourced to our colleges.

Some sort of arrangement must be reached to allow for de facto professional athletes to be paid for their work. But at the same time, we should not simply declare amateurism dead. In doing so, we would be killing a proud tradition that has meaningfully improved the lives of countless people, myself included. I do not know if the NCAA actually cares about amateurism or not, but I do, and so should anyone who cares about the true value of college sports.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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ANDREW BARD EPSTEIN is a Ph.D. student in history. Contact him at andrew.epstein@yale.edu .

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ave you ever written an angry letter that you never sent?

That was me after reading a column in the News last spring (“You can’t make Yale care,” March 26, 2014). The author argued, in short, that trying to motivate a “student body that is largely apathetic towards New Haven is, and will continue to be, a fruitless endeavor.” I had my online comment all ready to go, pointing out how active Yale students are in the Elm City, but friends (wisely) convinced me to seek a better venue for a rebuttal. Instead, I decided to wait for Yalies to prove me right over the next semester.

I think most would agree that students have long been involved in New Haven through service organizations in Dwight Hall, doing incredibly valuable work.

At issue here, though, is whether Yalies are willing and able to take direct action in politics or activism in the Elm City. So, a semester later, here’s how it went.

In September, student activism led to a great victory for labor rights at Gourmet Heaven. While there is surely more work to be done, Yalies played a huge role in the progress made so far. In a col-

umn in the News, Megan Fountain '07, an organizer with Unidad Latina en Acción, gave credit to the student-organized boycott as a critical part of the movement for wage fairness. According to Evelyn Nuñez ’15, moderator of El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), the weekly GHeav protests drew crowds of up to 50 students. At stake was not some national issue or federal law, but rather the livelihood of local community members many of us have come to know.

Yale students cared enough to get successfully involved in a New Haven cause.

In October, College Street was thronged with students and workers from across the city standing for graduate students’ right to a union. Yalies of all stripes — from committed organizers to first-time participants — took action on an issue of local labor fairness, as discussion of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization’s rally and movement spread across campus. Again, Yale undergraduates made their voices heard on an issue that only indirectly affected them, but which they knew was of great importance to members of the New Haven community.

In November, even without a big-ticket presidential race, over a thousand Yalies voted in New Haven. While the simple act of voting is only the first step toward caring about one’s community, it’s still telling that so many Yalies felt connected enough to local Connecticut issues to cast a ballot. In fact, a hundred or so students gave up part or all of their day to volunteer to get voters to the polls — not even counting the many more who volunteered in the months beforehand.

These canvassers, who worked not only on campus but also in Dixwell, Dwight and downtown, were just as likely to cite local issues, like New Haven’s Q House or Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, as big, national issues.

In December, hundreds rallied in protest of police brutality right here in New Haven. Of course, the news from Ferguson and Staten Island spurred many to take action on what is truly a national problem. But look what happened after the walkout on Cross Campus: Students marched to City Hall in order to protest New Haven’s “Surge” program of police intimidation.

At a demonstration on the Green

later that week, many students joined with community activists and local youth to express anger over cases of injustice close to home, like Jewu Richardson’s.

And even in the middle of finals period, I was proud to have joined a group of students who testified for greater police accountability before the Board of Alders’ Public Safety Committee.

Yalies have thus been active in city affairs like never before.

Of course, this is all just the beginning of how Yalies can get involved in New Haven. With municipal elections coming up in November, I expect the trend of student involvement in the Elm City to continue further.

Still, I’m under no misconceptions that every single person on campus will be marching or volunteering or voting to make New Haven a better place. Nonetheless, the past semester proves that it’s not just a “small segment of campus” that cares about this city, as the column I read last year claimed. In 2014, Yale did care.

Let’s keep it up in 2015.

JACOB WASSERMAN is a junior in Saybrook College and a Ward 1 co-chair. Contact him at jacob.wasserman@yale.edu .

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“Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.”

RICHARD DAWKINS ENGLISH EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, JAN. 13

A previous version of the article “ConnCAN urges Malloy to improve education” misrepresented ConnCAN’s views on the Malloy administration’s actions on education.

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A previous version of the article “Szefer aims to spice up EENG 201” misstated the title of Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Vincent Wilcynski.

A previous version of the article “Yale censorship controversy resurfaces” omitted the words “to know” in a quote attributed the Jytte Klausen.

A previous version of the article “‘Side Show’ celebrates carnival history, culture” misstated the number of artists in the exhibition.

Students condemn Charlie Hebdo attacks

BY HANNAH YANG STAFF REPORTER In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Yale student groups and faculty have reacted in solidarity with Parisian demonstrators.

On Wednesday night, La Société Française, an undergraduate organization primarily dedicated to celebrating French culture, held a remembrance for the Charlie Hebdo victims in front of Sterling Memorial Library.

Roughly 60 students gathered for a picture inside the Sterling nave, holding up pens, pencils and posters saying “Je Suis Charlie.”

Additionally, there have been no changes to any of Yale’s France study abroad programs. The Center for International and Professional Experience is currently supporting one year-long student in Paris, and an additional 10 students are scheduled to go to Paris this semester.

“We have policies for responding to events abroad, and committees that convene as needed,” said CIPE Dean Jane Edwards.

She added that there are no plans to change any of the programs.

Other members of the Yale community have declared that the attacks in Paris assailed broader principles central to the University’s liberal arts education.

“The attacks in Paris were an attack on all of us,” said political science professor David Cameron. The defense of the freedom of speech should transcend nationality, he added.

Cordelia de Brosses ’16, presi-

dent of La Société Française, said there has been discussion about organizing an exhibition of drawings, paintings and caricatures to commemorate Charlie Hebdo’s victims. The idea is currently pending approval from residential college administrators.

Other Yale students have been vocal in responding to the situation, including multiple student groups representing the French community.

“Although I did not know any of the victims personally, I have felt my personal liberties and values being attacked,” said Victoire Courtenay ’16, current president of Yale European Undergraduates, a cultural and political organization of international European students.

Hélène Lavau ’16, an international student from Paris, said that she feared that demands for French unity could lead to more violence. These attacks will only feed an already existing and growing Islamophobia, she said.

According to Courtenay, the other French students in the YEU, including several on the executive board, have also been deeply shaken by the attacks. However, she added that they have also found hope in the compassion and solidarity demonstrated both on campus and worldwide in the aftermath of these events.

“In the face of violence it is far too easy to respond with more hate, which is why I am so moved by the responses of solidarity and defense of each other and our common rights,” she said.

Contact HANNAH YANG at hannah.yang@yale.edu .

Univ. scraps old Biology Building plans

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Nearly seven years after the global financial crisis put a halt to construction on a new Yale Biology Building, the University has scrapped previous plans for the building — along with the millions of dollars already spent in architectural designs and site preparation — and opted to move the building to another location.

For a decade, construction on the YBB, slated to replace the 50-year-old Kline Biology Tower, has been mired in a series of delays and false-starts.

Formal plans for a new biology building were first approved in 2007, but in early 2008, roughly two weeks before breaking ground on a revised YBB structure on the Whitney Avenue Lot 22 parking lot, the University postponed construction due to the international financial crisis.

Instead, the building, set to be completed in August 2019, will likely be constructed in the footprint of the soon-to-be demolished Gibbs Laboratory on Science Hill.

The changes to the proposed location and design of the longdelayed building, which were announced at a faculty meeting last month, have been heralded by the administration as an improvement that moves the building closer to other science departments. But the new plans have also spurred debate, with some faculty remaining in favor of the original 2007 plan.

“We always knew we would put down the Gibbs building, so it is crazy not to do it now, and it is particularly crazy to not do it now since constructing a building in the [Lot 22] parking lot and then pulling down the Gibbs building afterwards would be very difficult,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “There are other reasons for doing this, but that, itself, would have been enough of a reason.”

Constructed in 1955, Gibbs Laboratory has been slated for demolition for some time because of its aging infrastructure. It currently houses physics laboratories and the astronomy department.

Associate Provost for Sciences and Technology Jim Slattery confirmed that it is “highly unlikely” that the University would return to the 2007 plan.

Still, some faculty have expressed support for the prerecession location and design.

Former chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Building Commit-

tee Thomas Pollard — who also served as dean of the Graduate School from 2010 until last summer — said while the new plans had advantages, the 2007 plan included a flexible design that was ideal for MCDB, and a clear outline for relocating different departments across the University. These characteristics have yet to be formally outlined in the new site.

Pollard said he was not involved in the decision to construct the new building on the Gibbs site in place of the 2007 plan, which he said he and his colleagues spent roughly five years designing. He added that the new design has yet to incorporate assessments of faculty members’ current and future needs, as was done in 2007, since the new project is still at a “conceptual stage.”

“I have encouraged individuals from Yale planning, and the Provost’s Office to take a careful look at the [2007] YBB plan before making a final decision about the Gibbs [Laboratory plan],” Pollard wrote in an email.

“According to what I know, YBB has the capacity for most of what has been proposed for the Gibbs site.”

However, MCDB professor Joel Rosenbaum said that he doubted the current scheduled completion date of 2019 could be met if the University pursued the new project, since the YBB plans for the Gibbs site are still in the preliminary stages.

Polak’s decision to scrap the 2007 plan was not conducted in a transparent way and without the consultation of the faculty, Rosenbaum added, calling the decision by the Provost’s Office “arrogant.”

“They should keep Pollard’s [2007] plan,” Rosenbaum said.

“It was situated correctly. [The administration] spent a minimum of $15 million on two sets of plans — and a huge amount of time.”

Still, the provost and other members of the MCDB department argued the updated plans carry unique advantages.

“There is a concern it may have been faster to just go with the old design and build it on the parking lot, but I do think having [YBB] more integrated into Science Hill is better for the department and ambiance on Science Hill,” MCDB professor Scott Holley, who also serves on the YBB building committee, said. “I think the everyone is happy with the updated plan.

We mainly just want the building to be built.”

Despite his support for the

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Yale scraps plans for the new biology building, moving it to a new location. new project, Holley confirmed that even the building committee, comprised of 10 members of the science faculty, was not consulted in the initial decision to move the site since it was made at a “higher level.”

MCDB Chair Ronald Breaker said the new location will promote greater collaboration among the sciences because it is in closer proximity with other departments on Science Hill.

“Millions of dollars were spent on the previous plan, and while the expenditure for no gain is regrettable, we shouldn’t accept a poorer outcome for Science Hill simply to make good on the expenditure,” Breaker said.

“It is a painful decision for many but sets a course for Science Hill that is better for Science Hill.”

Polak said that even with the sunk costs, he is believed that the new building design — including a potential “common cafeteria” for the sciences built on the KBT plaza — will actually be less expensive than the previously proposed project.

He added he was optimistic that the new building could still be constructed in time for the original 2019 completion date.

“The sciences change, so being able to redesign the building allowed a new group of scientists here now to be involved,” Polak said. “Even though we hadn’t planned to do it this way, it’s turned out to be kind of a good thing.””

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

Developer moves forward on Dixwell project

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER A half-mile northwest of the construction site for Yale’s two new residential colleges, three empty buildings stand as a monument to Dixwell and Newhallville’s decline in the 1990s. A sign for the Red Café Ultra keeps alive the memory of an establishment that neighbors might want to forget, a bar that in 2012 hosted a birthday party that culminated in a non-fatal shooting just outside. A block east, the gleaming facades of Science Park buildings and the new Winchester Lofts are evidence of revitalization that has yet to affect the trio of structures at the intersection of Henry, Munson and Ashmun Streets.

Now, a New Haven developer wants to change that. Juan SalasRomer of NHR Properties plans to construct eight apartments and an outpost of G Café, a bakery and coffee shop, at the vacant buildings. He has purchased two of the buildings and is in the final stages of buying the third — a vacant church — from the city, according to a Jan. 8 story in the New Haven Independent. In an interview with the News, he said he hopes to begin construction by the end of February and open the property by May. He added that the buildings’ location adjacent to Science Park and the Farmington Canal Trail, within a neighborhood on the rise, made them an attractive project site.

“It’s close to an area that is developing,” Salas-Romer said.

“It’s abandoned. It’s not new construction. In a six-month period of time we could really create a

good impact in the community.”

Eventually, he hopes, the area could look something like Cambridge, Mass., where residents enjoy recreation along the Charles River and can stop at shops and restaurants nearby. Salas-Romer said the two and three-bedroom apartments, starting at $1,600 a month, will cater to middle-class families. Meanwhile, most existing two-bedroom apartments in Dixwell currently listed on the website RentJungle.com cost less than $1,000 a month.

The project is another sign of slow but steady change in the area.

Renters are starting to occupy the 158 units in Winchester Lofts, a project that will transform a former gun factory in Science Park into an apartment complex with rents averaging $1,800 a month.

In addition, in August 2017, Yale’s new colleges will fill with students who will find the G Café in Salas-Romer’s development just a bit farther from their dorm rooms than the Blue State on Wall Street.

Alexander Melton Jr., 67, spent most of his childhood in a home on Henry Street just across from the trio of abandoned buildings.

After leaving New Haven in 1977, he returned to the home to care for his aging father in 2000. He has been there ever since, witnessing the neighborhood’s decline and recent renewal.

“I stood right here and watched someone get shot,” he said, gesturing towards his front door.

“Now I can go outside at nine on a summer night and no one’s outside. It’s a lot calmer.”

When he learned of SalasRomer’s plan, Melton said he was excited that the building would

include a coffee shop instead of another club — he has called the police to report excessive noise at the Red Club Ultra several times.

But he was less enthusiastic about the price of the new construction.

“That’s crazy for this neighborhood,” he said.

Though the apartments are less affordable than many existing residences in the neighborhood, Salas-Romer said he is conscious of the potential for gentrification. He hopes to employ neighborhood residents in the construction project and eventually in the coffee shop. And he worked closely with Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison throughout the planning process, which began in earnest about six months ago.

In a six-month period of time we could really create a good impact in the community.

JUAN SALAS-ROMER NHR Properties Morrison said she is excited about Salas-Romer’s plans and has found him respectful and genuinely interested in working with the existing community.

“He wanted to know how could we best have people in the community involved in the project’s anticipated development and going forward,” Morrison said.

“He has been a very good potential neighbor in regards to his communication with me.”

Salas-Romer has discussed his

plans with members of the Dixwell Community Management Team, a group of residents who gather monthly to discuss neighborhood concerns.

He developed his plans for revitalization in anticipation of further development of Science Park, which was first founded in 1982 as a collaboration between Yale and New Haven. Yale has invested millions of dollars in the area, which now houses research labs, technology start-ups and biotech companies.

According to Morrison, both Salas-Romer and Yale’s approach is not shared by all developers, some of whom have seemed exclusively interested in profit.

She praised the Office of New Haven and State Affairs for communicating with Dixwell residents and seeking ways to involve local construction workers in the building of the new colleges.

George Clarke, president of the Greater New Haven Business & Professional Association, Inc., a Dixwell-based nonprofit that works to empower minority business owners, said that over the course of his 30 years at the non-profit, Yale has become more conscientious about working with residents of the neighborhoods that surround it.

“Lately it seems that the change has escalated to the point where Yale is sitting down meeting with community leaders of all types and saying, ‘How can we help?’ and ‘How can we do things better?’” Clarke said.

As Yale has poured money into Science Park, Vincent Yik, who owns Vinnie’s Food Store on Winchester Avenue, about two blocks from Salas-Romer’s

new development, has reaped the benefits.

Since 2000, when he opened his convenience store, the neighborhood has transformed and his business has improved.

“I’m here everyday,” he said.

“I can see the change. More people come from the Science Park offices.”

Yik said he was happy to hear of Salas-Romer’s plans — competition could strengthen his business, and attract more people to the neighborhood.

Even so, Melton described an attitude of anxiety among residents regarding the possibility that they could be displaced through large development projects catering to wealthier people.

As an example, Melton recalled that a few years ago, his neighbors whispered a rumor that Yale

planned to buy up their homes on Henry Street.

Salas-Romer hopes his development will appeal both to members of the Yale community, including graduate students and researchers at Science Park and neighbors with no Yale affiliation.

“One of the things that we like about the project in Ashmun, Munson and Henry is that it kind of closes [the gap between Yale and neighbors],” Salas-Romer said. “It’s like the center of this whole community that is being revitalized.”

Salas-Romer is also known for developing the Palladium Building at 139 Orange St., where one of his tenants is a branch of the G Cafe.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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Developer Juan Salas-Romer plans to construct eight apartments and a café at the Dixwell site.

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“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.” ARTHUR MILLER AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT

Faculty provide feedback on Med School policies MED SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 ology Michael Simons MED ’84 amid charges of sexual misconduct, the medical school has made efforts to improve the climate for female and minority faculty, Alpern said.

The task force was charged with assessing existing reports on equity in promotions, compensation and resource allocation. Since the controversy surroumding the Simons case, the school has put a number of gender equity initiatives up for discussion and collected feedback via town halls like the ones held Tuesday and Wednesday night.

“The town halls have allowed [Alpern] to hear concerns and suggestions for improvement directly from the [medical school] community,” said Linda Bockenstedt, associate dean of faculty development and diversity and the chair of the Gender Equity Task Force. “These have been very helpful.”

Four medical school town halls have been held thus far.

According to feedback presented at Wednesday evening’s town hall, faculty members are largely supportive of Alpern’s plans. Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribisecas commended efforts to improve leadership training for senior faculty members, including division chiefs and chairs.

While the school already hosts retreats and other activities to improve leadership skills, Bribiescas highlighted the benefits of Alpern’s proposed initiatives, including plans to review division chiefs, who currently do not get reviewed at all.

Faculty members are optimistic about Alpern’s plans to speak more with junior faculty and to create a Faculty Advisory Council. The proposed FAC would be an elected faculty group that represents diversity in gender and race and includes junior faculty. The group would address concerns from faculty that they are disconnected from the medical school administration. The group would meet with the dean and department heads on a regular basis and serve as a liaision between faculty and the administration.

However, faculty interviewed emphasized that the initiatives need to include some sort of accountability system. One faculty member who spoke during the town hall said that the proposed initiatives need to go further.

“I think data tell us that when you put a couple of diversity spaces in, not much happens,” she said.

“It’s a good first step, but I’d be interested to see what the second step is.”

Bockenstedt agreed, noting that there needs to be more accountability and monitoring to ensure the policies, once implemented, are working. Medical students interviewed expressed similar concerns.

“I definitely think such approaches bring about a fear of tokenism,” Herbert Castillo Valladeres MED ’18 said.

While he said he understands that the school’s initiatives are still in the drafting stage, Castillo Valladeres added that it is important to avoid quota systems that could make people think that a faculty member is in a leading position simply because of his or her minority status. When Castillo Valladeres is thinking about residency in three years, he will strongly consider how open an institution is to diversity, a factor that would not favor the medical school, he said.

“They haven’t made it explicit to us that they are trying to increase diversity,” he said.

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

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The Yale School of Medicine’s new policies regarding faculty diversity are set to be released at the end of the week.

Palace Theater to be renovated

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cially Yale students, to enjoy and experience New Haven’s culture.”

Although the old Palace Theater closed in 2003, an agreement between the University and the city in 1999 ensured that the site would be preserved as an arts and performance venue, NHCPA President Elissa Getto said. Though the University owns the majority of properties surrounding the hall on College Street, the theater is owned by the NHCPA.

A city’s arts and cultural offerings express the heart and soul of that community.

TONI HARP Mayor of New Haven “One of the things that makes [the new music hall] possible is that, back in the late nineties, when all of the property was changing hands along this street, Yale University made sure that this building remained under the control of [the NHCPA],” said New Haven Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81. “They could have owned this building.”

The NHCPA will collaborate with Keith Mahler, president of Premier Concerts — a Connecticut based music promoter — to oversee the hall’s operations.

Mahler, who is in charge of booking acts to perform at the venue, said he has already been speaking to interested artists and will announce the opening schedule of performances later this winter.

The hall, which will seat around 650 and have standing room for around 2,000 audience members, will attract more prominent artists, who are looking to perform in larger venues than Toad’s Place, according to Nemerson.

Dean of the School of Drama James Bundy DRA ‘95 added that the theater will bring in musicians who are not currently heard live in New Haven.

The hall is within close proximity to other performance venues such as the Yale Repertory Theater and the OffBroadway Theater. Adding another arts venues may bring more traffic to the city and necessitate additional parking spots, according to Nemerson.

“We have to make sure there’s enough parking, ” Nemerson said. “We don’t want to ever have people say, ‘we can’t go to New Haven. It’s too crowded.’”

Nemerson said that the city would work to renovate the Crown Street garage and arrange for additional parking areas for the music hall if necessary.

At the press conference, Mayor Toni Harp emphasized the renovations as “another deliberate step toward redefining the city.” Earlier this month, plans were announced to renovate buildings in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood to create a revitalized area with apartments and restaurants.

“A city’s arts and cultural offerings express the heart and soul of that community,” Harp said. “In New Haven, we are rich in that regard, and, with this additional evidence today, we are adding value to that portfolio.”

The Palace Theater was built in 1926.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Colleges donor accused of fraud JOHNSON FROM PAGE 1 University President Peter Salovey said he did not know specifics about the case beyond what had been reported by the media, and that the University has no plans to issue a formal statement regarding the case.

“I have no reason to think the issue would have any bearing on Mr. Johnson’s donation to Yale,” Salovey said.

Johnson took over what became Franklin Resources from his father in 1957 and later took the firm public in 1971 through an initial public offering underwritten by Mayflower Securities Company. Franklin Resources later acquired the asset-management company Winfield & Company, but rapidly declining business pushed Johnson to turn to the owner of Mayflower, Eugene Mulvihill, to seek a loan.

It was then that Mulvihill went to a former Lehigh University classmate, Anthony Miele Jr., the plaintiff’s father, for help securing the loan. The complaint, according to The Times, claims the father agreed to lend Johnson $100,000. The complaint goes on to suggest that “no documentation of that loan appears to exist,” although

Johnson claimed it “was documented with a promissory note and listed on the public books and records of Franklin as part of its capital structure.”

The complaint states that 4,000 shares of Franklin stock were subsequently given to Miele’s father as a bonus for providing the loan and that the stock certificate was issued to a trust established for Miele, the plaintiff, who was three years old when his father died suddenly of a heart attack at age 39.

The complaint states that Miele was never informed of the existing trust.

When Johnson said he learned of Miele’s death nearly 20 years later, Johnson delegated the responsibility of making sure the stock was delivered from Miele to Mulvihill, the complaint states. Mulvihill then told Johnson that “he would take care of it.”

It was only in the summer of 2012 that Miele learned of the stock coincidentally from the book, “A Life in Full Sail,” an autobiography published by Anson Beard Jr., a Morgan Stanley executive, The Times, citing the complaint, reported. A particu-

lar photograph in the book prompted Johnson to call Beard and ask whether one of the people in the photograph was the plaintiff’s sister, Veronica Miele, who was also Beard’s daughter-in-law. It was then that Johnson said he hoped the Miele children had received the Franklin stock.

Still, The Times reported that Miele alleges that Johnson and others attempted to obstruct Miele’s attempts to claim ownership of the shares bestowed to him by his father.

Despite the allegations, experts suggested that Franklin Resources’ standing, with a market value of roughly $34 billion, will likely remain strong.

“One thing that I can tell you with absolute certainty is that Franklin Resources is an exemplary company with a well-deserved reputation for upholding the highest ethical standards,” said Yale School of Management professor Jonathan Macey.

“It is among the most trusted and respected brands in finance.”

Johnson is estimated to have a networth of $6.6 billion.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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Board votes to expand medical marijuana coverage

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER In its first official decision, the Connecticut Medical Marijuana Program Board of Physicians voted yesterday to expand the list of conditions treated legally through medical marijuana. The three new treatable conditions are sickle cell disease, psoriasis arthritis and Post-Laminectomy Syndrome.

Members of the public as interested parties have the right to petition the board for new conditions to be included for legal prescription of medical marijuana in the state of Connecticut. During the Dec. 3 meeting, the board heard testimony petitioning for the recognition of sickle cell disease, Tourette Syndrome, psoriasis arthritis and Post-Lami-

nectomy Syndrome as treatable conditions. The December meeting ended with the proposal left unresolved. During yesterday’s meeting, however, the board voted to approve the use of marijuana for three of the four proposed conditions — excluding Tourette Syndrome — lengthening the list of conditions eligible for medical cannabis from 11 to 14.

Board member and Yale psychiatry professor Deepak D’Souza personally opposed the board’s decision to expand medical marijuana coverage because, he said, there is no clinical evidence of marijuana’s supposed medicinal properties.

D’Souza said, furthermore, that there is no scientific explanation as to why one medication would work for four sepa-

rate conditions with no common pathology.

“There is nothing in common between sickle-cell and psoriasis, and I find it difficult to believe that one drug could herb heal conditions so drastically dissimilar,” he said after the meeting.

D’Souza cited a letter from the Connecticut State Medical Society that urged caution in expanding medical marijuana coverage considering the lack of highquality data.

The letter warned against expanding the list based on public sentiment instead of data on dosage, side effects and drug interactions.

Although some experts have questioned the expansion given the lack of clinical data, board member Godfrey Pearlson noted that marijuana’s illegal status

complicates the ability of physicians to test it under properly structured clinical conditions.

John Roberts, medical director of the Adult Sickle Cell Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, testified during the December meeting on behalf of his patients, many of whom claimed that cannabis helped alleviate their pain.

However, he acknowledged that there is a lack of clinical evidence to support the drug’s medicinal properties.

Kris Hermes, media specialist for Americans for Safe Access, a grassroots medical marijuana advocacy organization, said that he believes that cannabis is an herbal medicine and should be regulated as such. To market herbs as medicine, manufacturers are not legally required to clinically demonstrate their effi-

Q House project at standstill

BY EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER Four months have passed since the unveiling of a preliminary blueprint for the new Dixwell Q House, but community leaders and city officials have made little headway on the project.

The lack of progress on the renovation of the beloved Dixwell community center appears to have stemmed primarily from a lack of communication between the Q House building committee and the Mayor’s Office, who offered different accounts of the project’s timeline and status. The Q House shut down in 2003 mainly due to a lack of sufficient funding, and the new center looks to combine a variety of public service centers including the Stetson Branch Library, Dixwell/Newhalville Senior Center and the Cornell ScottHill Health Center Dixwell branch.

Through this arrangement, these three organizations would help share the financial burden of maintaining the center.

Despite the lack of progress on the initiative in the first few months since the unveiling, both sides said they still believe that the project will move forward.

“Right now, we have to find money,” said Jeanette Morrison, cochair of the building committee and alder for Ward 22, which includes the Dixwell neighborhood. “We’ve been working on this for three years.

We’ve done all the work that is necessary to be able to present to get the funding that we need in order to forge ahead. Now, it’s just a point of the Mayor’s Office doing whatever those steps are to apply for bonding funds and look at contributions from the city itself.”

The state has already funded more

than $1 million to produce a feasibility study and preliminary planning for the project, which the study predicts will cost $14 million to $15 million.

Morrison said that, following the September meeting, the building committee incorporated suggestions from community members into the site plan. The architects have partially completed the site plan, which was forwarded to the Mayor’s Office.

Morrison added that she has told the Mayor’s Office that the building committee would like to begin demolition in the spring or summer 2015. She said she is relying on the Mayor’s Office and Board of Alders to find funding sources.

There are no rigid deadlines, and the process is in process … the project is moving forward.

LAURENCE GROTHEER Director of Communications, Mayor’s Office However, the Mayor’s Office Director of Communications Laurence Grotheer said that he has not heard from anyone that the conversations have moved beyond approving a blueprint design for the Q House.

“There’s some concern that if there is a gap between the construction costs and the state’s contribution to the project, then how would the city bridge that gap? … There are no rigid deadlines, and the process is in process, ” Grotheer said.

“These meetings are happening and the project is moving forward. It is a

thorough and deliberate process that will take time, and things have to roll out sequentially.”

Grotheer added that the state will contribute the majority of the money going toward the Q House.

Curlena McDonald, the other cochair of the building committee, said the committee met a few times after the site plan unveiling in September but has not met for roughly two or three months.

Optimistic that the project will move forward, Morrison said she will be meeting with the mayor very soon to talk about the funding issues and should have information in a month or two.

Despite the current standstill, Q House advocates have not wavered in their efforts. According to New Elm City Dream’s Youth Coordinator Lisa Bergmann, the youth organization — which advocates for more jobs for at-risk youth jobs and community centers as part of the solution to ending violence in New Haven — is planning a march for late February in which the Q House will be brought up again. Two members of New Elm City Dream sit on the project’s building committee.

In addition to other initiatives, New Elm City Dream has conducted a march to raise awareness for the Q House and campaigned intensely for the election of Gov. Dannel Malloy, who is a supporter of the Q House.

The planned march this February will coincide with Black History Month, which is significant because the Q House was a source of pride in the African-American community before it closed in 2003, according to Bergmann.

The Q House was built in 1924.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

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Community leaders and city officials have made little headway on the Q House project.

cacy and safety.

I find it difficult to believe that one drug could herb heal conditions so drastically dissimilar.

DEEPAK D’SOUZA Board member and Yale psychology professor Connecticut became the 17th state to legalize medical marijuana in 2012 through a statute that protects registered patients from arrest when using or possessing up to a one-month supply of medical cannabis. Patients and caregivers registered with

the Department of Consumer Protection may purchase medical cannabis from state-licensed dispensaries. However, no personal cultivation is allowed.

Americans for Safe Access allots grades to states concerning the stringency of marijuana regulation, with an ‘A’ indicating looser policies. The state of Connecticut has a D+ due to restrictions on the lists of conditions for which medical marijuana can be prescribed, the illegality of personal cultivation, restrictions on caretakers and minors and the amount of marijuana supplied to patients at dispensaries.

The first licensed Medical Marijuana Dispensary Facility opened on Aug. 20, 2014.

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

CT to receive senior food program funding

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER This year, new federal funding will allow senior citizens in Connecticut to have access to more nutritious food.

Connecticut is one of seven previously excluded states to receive funding for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, a federal initiative created in 1968 to improve nutrition among low-income senior citizens.

This funding will support programs that provide packages of healthy food and encourage nutritional awareness among senior citizens.

“Unfortunately, we have found that food insecurity among seniors is on the rise,” said Carrie Calvert, director of tax and commodity policy at Feeding America. “So the expansion of the CSFP into Connecticut could not have come at a more opportune time.”

Congress allocated funding for CFSP, a discretionary program, in its Omnibus Appropriations Bill for 2015.

Under the bill, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, Idaho, Hawaii and Florida will begin receiving CSFP funding.

Through the CSFP, Connecticut will receive food shipments to provide senior citizens with supplemental food packages and $132,803 to cover administrative costs. These boxes are “survival packs for seniors,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 at a press conference announcing the program. The packages, which seniors receive every month, include 50 dollars’ worth of nutritious, shelf-stable foods, including cereal, canned vegetables and evaporated milk.

These foods are often tailored specifically to seniors’ nutritional needs, accommodating diets low in sodium and high in protein, Calvert said.

Seniors will also receive nutritional education along with their packages.

Connecticut was first approved for the CSFP program in 2010, when it submitted its written plan to the United States Department of Agriculture, which administers the program.

At the time, the state did not receive the necessary funding, and the cause was temporarily abandoned due to a lack of coordinated activism between advocacy groups, said Billy Bromage, a community organizer at the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement and a member of the food assistance working group of the New Haven Food Policy Council. In 2010, the federal government also lacked sufficient funds to support additional states.

The NHFPC took on the task of advocating for funding with Bromage leading the push. Partners included CARE, Foodshare, the Connecticut Food Bank and End Hunger CT, which reached out to the Connecticut congressional delegation to advocate for the cause.

Part of the appeal of the cause was its potential for success, Bromage said, adding that the start of the movement to obtain CSFP funding coincided with impending cuts to SNAP. “We were losing a lot on the federal level,” Bromage said. “This is something we thought we could win and actually bring some money back to Connecticut for food.”

Ten percent of the Connecticut Food Bank’s clients are seniors, a number that has risen proportionally to the total number of clients they serve.

New Haven, in particular, lacks easy access to healthy food because there are few full service supermarkets in low income neighborhoods, Bromage said.

Changes in the economy in recent years have also contributed to seniors’ food insecurities, especially the rising

costs of medication and food, Calvert said.

“All these things that families struggle with are worse for seniors on a fixed income,” Calvert said.

In Connecticut, seniors have access to programs such as Meals on Wheels, SNAP, food pantries and mobile pantries at senior centers. However, seniors are statistically less likely to use these services, Bromage said, since they feel stigmatized using food stamp cards or waiting in line at a food pantry.

The CSFP may be able to overcome this obstacle by distributing food at senior centers, Bromage said, which might normalize the experience. “[The CSFP] is a less stigmatizing way to get emergency food than other things available to seniors,” Bromage said. “They can get food [at places where they are] already going and trust.”

The funding will be received by the Connecticut Department of Social Services, and the program will be implemented by local food banks, which will receive bulk shipments of food to be divided amongst the packages. Foodshare will manage distribution in Hartford and Tolland counties, while the Connecticut Food Bank will manage the other counties.

Unfortunately, we have found that food insecurity among seniors is on the rise.

CARRIE CALVERT Director of tax and commodity policy at Feeding America Despite the fact that Connecticut will be receiving funding for the first time, food advocates worry that it may not be enough. The program is underfunded nationwide, Calvert said, and the number of food insecure seniors is much higher than the number enrolled in the program.

Connecticut will only receive enough funds to take on a caseload of 2,400 senior citizens, said Tracy Helin, member services director at the Connecticut Food Bank. Foodshare will distribute to 800 people while the Connecticut Food Bank will distribute to the remaining 1,600. However, the number of eligible seniors far exceeds that — the Connecticut Food Bank alone serves approximately 50,000 seniors, which does not fully capture the number of food insecure seniors in the counties that it serves.

The Connecticut Food Bank is still determining the best way to decide who will be included in the program, Helin said. He noted that, due to the paperwork and guidelines required for the CSFP, the food banks will most likely partner with agencies who already have an intake and application process for their clients.

“It is a small number of seniors compared to the need in the state,” Bromage said. “But the people it impacts, it impacts a lot, and our work absolutely continues.”

Once the size of the waitlist is determined, a coalition of food advocates and senior citizen representatives will be convened to continue pushing for more funding, Bromage said. Helin added that state discussions with the federal government could result in more funding in the future.

In 2013, over 579,000 people participated in the CSFP each month.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Bagley suit inches to trial BAGLEY FROM PAGE 1 so there is ample evidence in the record [that] there was nothing unusual in her teaching except that she was excellent and probably exceeded others.”

Further, Studen said the positive testimony of former SOM Dean Joel Podolny, who hired Bagley, is encouraging for the plaintiff’s case.

Liz Smith Mao, a friend of Bagley’s who is also a lawyer and has served as an advisor throughout the legal proceedings, said Yale has disproportionally weighted Bagley’s few negative student evaluations in its defense.

“That was one class of reviews,” she said. “I have been in [Bagley’s] class with Professor Rae when it is filled with students and the admissions department who sent students to her class because she was one of the best teachers at [the] SOM.”.

Snyder said the ongoing case has not affected the way issues of gender and age discrimination are addressed at the SOM. Rae and Metrick declined to comment.

“These issues have been important all along. I’ve been here three and a half years and the issues of diversity broadly defined have been at the forefront of decision-making and various fronts in terms of student recruitment, faculty hiring, staff hiring and how we conduct ourselves within the school on a day to day basis,” he JOEY YE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER said. “But that hasn’t been driven by the case.”

Former SOM professor Constance Bagley’s case against the University is slowly inching toward trial.

Studen said that given the current state of evidence, she expects the jury trial to be held at the end Studen said Bagley’s legal team Nina Pirrotti, a partner at the “There are ways in which we will be engaged in paper discov- Connecticut-based law firm Gar- can prove discrimination without of 2015.

Bagley said ultimately she is ery, consisting of email correspon- rison, Levin-Epstein, Richardson, the words actually being uttered,” hopeful that a trial will yield a dences and other documents rela- Fitzgerald & Pirrotti, said it can she said. result in her favor. tive to Bagley’s time at the SOM. be difficult for a plaintiff to find “I certainly expect the judge to Studen said in the coming months, direct evidence of discrimination, Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN require Yale to honor its obliga- Yale administrators, including but circumstantial evidence, such at tions in a prompt and appropriate Salovey and chief SOM adminis- as looking at whom else a firm has phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and trators, will also give depositions recently terminated or hired, can manner,” she said.

RACHEL SIEGEL at Over the next several months, in relation to the case. be useful. rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life.”

JOHNNY BALL ENGLISH TELEVISION PERSONALITY

Sexual misconduct survey sent to students SEXUAL MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1 dent-driven project, said YCC president Michael Herbert ’16.

“We want to communicate that this is a student effort,” Herbert said. “One of our goals for YCC this year is to make substantive contributions regarding the most important issues on campus, and sexual climate is perhaps the most important issue of all. We felt it was important that we specifically do something on this because of how essential it is to students.”

All of the survey data will be analyzed and reported by students, Goldberg said.

Both Goldberg and Herbert said that while they believe the administration has made great strides in addressing sexual misconduct, this survey will simply provide another avenue for the student body to engage with the administration.

Alexa Derman ’18, public relations coordinator for the Women’s Center, also acknowledged the availability of resources on campus but said it is equally important that students are able to provide feedback about those resources.

“While we recognize and respect the many administrative and official avenues for complaint on campus, we also feel that it is crucial that students are able to hold the system accountable,” Derman said. “Student input, ideas and activism have consistently been important and productive forces in moving our community forward on issues of sexual misconduct.”

But of six students interviewed, none had completed the survey, and three had not even opened it. While the students who had opened it agreed that sexual misconduct is an important issue and said that they intend to complete the survey soon, they gave various reasons for not having done so yet, from being too busy to the email’s lengthiness.

“I think it’s good that YCC is keeping these types of thoughts on our radar, but I’m not sure if people will take the time to respond to them,” said Joel Bervell ’17.

Paul Steffan ’16 said that the survey assumed that students were familiar with current sexual misconduct procedures, and that in order to complete the survey he would have to read up on procedures first — something he knew he should do, he added, but that he didn’t know if many people actually would.

The report is expected to be published next month.

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

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“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, “No, I went to films.”

QUENTIN TARANTINO AMERICAN FILM DIRECTOR

Seeking reform, alders suspend Civilian Review Board

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER At a time of significant nationwide protests in the wake of controversial jury decisions in Ferguson and New York, the meetings of the New Haven Civilian Review Board have been suspended.

The board hears complaints made by civilians relating to unprofessional police conduct and recommends revisions to police departmental policies.

Established by an executive order from former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2001, the board last met in September and will not meet again until the Board of Alders drafts and passes an ordi-

nance creating a new version of the board.

In the past, community activists including Emma Jones — whose son was killed by East Haven police in Fair Haven in 1997 after he was involved in a car chase — have criticized the board for lacking real power over the actions of police officers. New Haven Chief Administrative Officer Michael Carter said that the coordinator of the board originally held a full-time position, but the city had to cut the position to part-time due to budget cuts. By law, the board cannot have subpoena power, Carter said, but it can review cases concerning the police and provide an outlet for residents to

raise complaints.

“I’m interested in a board that is responsive and can help improve relations between the police and our community,” said Ward 9 Alder and Chair of the Legislative Committee Jessica Holmes who, along with Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate, is spearheading the effort to create a new iteration of the board.

“It’s very important that people who feel like their rights have been violated by the police have a means of remedying that and of addressing their concerns.”

The alders were given the authority to redesign the board as part of the charter revisions approved by voters in November 2013. Holmes did not comment

on when this new iteration could potentially be formed.

City spokesman Laurence Grotheer agreed with Holmes on the importance of the board.

He said that, although it was established under the DeStefano administration, Mayor Toni Harp has embraced the board’s role. Establishing solid community relations between the police and residents remains a priority, he said, and the board can serve as a way of ensuring stability and providing needed public relations for the New Haven Police Department.

When considering the structure of the new board, alders will take into account public input and work to ensure that

the board has sufficient funding, while also accurately representing the New Haven population, Carter said.

Holmes said she wants to see a board more engaged with police and the community than the previous one, and a space where residents can bring and address their complaints against police actions. In an earlier interview with the News, community leaders, including State Senator Gary Holder-Winfield, said that tensions between the police and residents do exist in New Haven.

Grotheer said that Mayor Harp was pleased with the NHPD’s response to Fergusonrelated protests that occurred in the city late last year.

In the coming months, the city will work with the Board of Alders to create the new board, said Carter, adding that the board is needed to ensure good relations between the police and the communities they patrol.

“We need to get it going again and make it more functional and operational, and make it a gobetween so that we have better community relations,” he said.

A public workshop will be held on Jan. 29 as a chance for the alders and other public officials to receive input from the public on the future of the board.

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

Facebooks safe from Admissions Film Studies major renamed

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Students applying to Yale need not worry about censoring their social media profiles before they receive their admissions decision.

According to a survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep in November 2014, 35 percent of college admissions officers across the country reported visiting an applicant’s social media page in order to learn more about them. This is the highest figure since Kaplan began tracking this trend in 2008, when only one in 10 admissions officers admitted to looking at applicant social media pages.

However, despite this practice’s increasing prevalence in admissions offices across the country, Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said the Office of Undergraduate Admissions does not look at the social media pages of applicants to Yale College. He added that information easily found via Google is also not taken into consideration during the admissions process.

“Unless an applicant or a recommender directs us in his or her application to information available online, our officers are not in the habit of trying to dig up information on applicants via the web,” Dunn said.

In a separate Kaplan survey of 500 high school students, 58 percent of those surveyed described their social networking pages as “fair game” for admissions officers. Likewise, although Yale is not a university that utilizes social media to learn more about applicants, six of 10 Yale students interviewed by the News said they made changes to their social media profiles when they applied to the Uni-

versity.

Hannah Sachs ’17 said she, along with most of the seniors at her high school, changed her name on Facebook when applying to colleges.

But Sachs said that her classmates generally changed their Facebook names to something humorous, and that the practice became more of a joke that people participated in, rather than an actual attempt to conceal their social media accounts.

Our officers are not in the habit of trying to dig up information on applicants via the web.

MARK DUNN ’07 Director of outreach and recruitment, Office of Undergraduate Admissions “I didn’t do too much to my social media accounts when I was applying to college,” Jordan Coley ’17 said. “But I did untag myself from a couple of photos in the winter, when colleges were reviewing my application.”

The Admissions Office is nonetheless active on social media — albeit in different ways. Officers interviewed said they use social networking platforms mainly to communicate with applicants and admitted students. The Admissions Office’s ocial media accounts, Dunn added, are used to provide prospective students with a gateway to existing web content, such as campus news stories, Yale’s virtual tour and student blogs. By putting this information on students’ social media feeds, students

immediately gain access to great content without having to navigate through various Yale web pages, he said.

Assistant Director of Admissions John Yi ’12 said the office views social media as a way for prospective students to get to know Yale as a place for ample undergraduate opportunities.

“Our social media platforms certainly do function at times as a news source and a forum, but we mainly utilize our presence to showcase the vibrant and engaging undergraduate life we have here on campus,” Yi said.

Dunn said that in the same way that the University does not track campus visits or contact with admissions officers before a student applies, the Admissions Office does not make note of a student’s online interactions with a Yale social media account before or after they apply.

Though it is difficult to speculate about the impact of the Admissions Office’s social media presence on application numbers or admitted student yield, Dunn said, their overall strategy in social media is to produce engaging original content that connects prospective students with an inside look at the Yale undergraduate experience.

“Our basic philosophy can be summed up this way — we know our target audiences are active in these digital spaces, and we’d like to be part of the conversation that’s happening there,” he said.

The Yale Undergraduate Admissions Facebook page has nearly 10,000 likes, and the Yale Admissions Instagram account has roughly 2,000 followers.

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

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER After a recent name change to their program, students in Yale’s Film and Media Studies major expect to market themselves to a broader professional audience.

The program’s name was officially changed from Film Studies at the end of last semester. The change originates from the recommendations of an external review board from roughly five years ago. Film and Media Studies chair John MacKay said the name change marks a reflection of the interdisciplinary elements that already that characterize studies within the program, as well as a sign of constantly evolving media forms in today’s world.

“The most significant difference here is in our public profile,” he said. “This shows what we are not only open to doing, but what we are announcing ourselves as capable of doing.”

The program’s director of undergraduate studies, J.D. Connor, said that marketing and accuracy were the primary reasons for the change.

In terms of marketing, he explained, the new name is intended to boost undergraduate and graduate student résumés in the job market. The change will make clear that the department does not focus solely on the film medium, Connor noted, adding that the change aims to more accurately reflect the already interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum. He pointed out that most Film and Media Studies faculty members are also appointed in other departments, such as Art History, Slavic Studies and English.

According to Connor, the external review board report stated that the name change would make the program match up with programs at peer institutions, most of which included some form of “media studies” in their title.

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ple, is called “Film and Visual Studies,” while University of Chicago’s is “Cinema and Media Studies.”

“We needed our name to catch up with where the discipline already was,” Connor said.

Joseph Kuperschmidt ’17, a Film and Media Studies major, said the name’s broader connotation would allow for greater academic flexibility for those students that wanted it.

But, he added, he thought it would also be possible for others to continue to focus solely on film studies without delving into other forms of media.

We needed our name to catch up with where the discipline already was.

J.D. CONNOR DUS, Film and Media Studies Students and faculty members interviewed said that the change would be beneficial in the professional world. Henry Zatarain ’18, a prospective Film and Media Studies major, said that he believes the new name will sound more attractive to a potential employer.

“A lot of companies today are based entirely on different kinds of media,” he said, referring to social media networks like Facebook. “They might want you to produce a film, but they might want you to produce other kinds of media as part of your job description.”

Connor and MacKay said the types of media that will be covered in the curriculum will include television, or even more condensed media forms such as tape recorders or YouTube videos.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said that the change reflected the technological and cultural shifts in modern society.

“At places like Yale, it’s always important to balance studying things that have survived the test of time — things

that have been important to human beings for a long time — and to always pay attention to what’s happening now, and what might happen in the future,” Holloway said.

He added that while some groups criticize schools like Yale where professors may teach courses about pop culture and social media, such topics can address broader cultural issues such as the merging of capitalism and iconography.

Pawel Pawelczak, an independent filmmaker spending a year auditing a series of courses at Yale to enrich a post-graduate education, said the change was a doubleedged sword.

“When film is commingled with anything else, I think its own weight is diminished,” Pawelczak said. “On the other hand, since I’ve gotten to Yale, I’ve realized that understanding film in the context of general art is really important, and probably how it’s supposed to be taught and appreciated.”

The medium of film itself, Connor noted, is a multidisciplinary endeavor that involves the visuals of fine arts, a literary script and sound in addition to the screen. At the same time, he said, the Film Studies program and the committee that approved the name change — the Working Group on Humanities and the Arts, a group under the Committee on Yale College Education — were in agreement about refraining from covering too many forms of media in the program.

“Essentially, they said, ‘You know all media don’t belong in Film Studies,’ and we said, ‘Thank goodness,’” Connor said.

MacKay agreed with this sentiment, saying that “maintaining coherence and focus” was and would remain an active concern as the program broadens its scope.

The Film Studies major was established in 1985.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

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“I’ve never seen a freshman wide receiver play like that. He had a huge impact, making big plays, especially his first touchdown on the first play of the game against Florida State. He scored a touchdown, 54 yards.” JAKE LANGE ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR OF THE NC STATE TECHNICIAN

Elis hopeful with Hines

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Transfer Bo Hines and quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 have previously thrown together, and the quarterback was helpful in Hines’s decision to commit to Yale.

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BO’S BEGINNINGS

Hines was born into a football family. His father, Todd Hines, suited up as a wide receiver in both the NFL and the Canadian Football League, for the Detroit Lions and the Hamilton TigerCats, respectively. He started playing football in second grade and took snaps from under center for seven years before switching to receiver in high school.

“I thought the best opportunity to play at the next level was to be a receiver, since I didn’t have the super height that a lot of these quarterbacks have,” Hines said.

Hines did eventually return to quarterback when, during his senior year at Charlotte Christian High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, his starting quarterback went down with an injury halfway through the season. From the backfield, Hines threw for 525 passing yards and eight touchdowns.

The gridiron star also excelled in other sports. The fastest recruit invited to the Best of the Midwest combine in 2013, Hines was a three-time state champion in track. He won the 200 meter dash, posting a time of 22.07 seconds, and also participated on the first-place 4x100 meter and 4x200 meter relay teams.

These stats are consistent with Hines’s 40-yard dash time of 4.41 seconds.

But for Hines, track was an off-season sport that kept him in shape for football.

“I played baseball too, although I decided that track would help me with football more, so I started running track when I was a freshman,” Hines said. “I did that all the way through my high school career, except I couldn’t participate in senior year track season because I graduated early.”

This situation arose partially because Hines committed to NC State in April of his junior year, choosing the local school over Harvard, Nebraska and Appalachian State. He cited the Raleigh school’s proximity to Charlotte and the ability to represent his home state as factors in his decision.

NC State, a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, is also a school in the Football Bowl Subdivision — the most competitive division in collegiate football.

“I’d be playing the highest level of football. I really wanted to prove to myself that I could play against the top athletes in the country. There’s something about representing your home state that drew me to the school,” Hines said.

LEAVING HOME

Hines moved to Raleigh in the spring of his senior year, splitting time between class and offseason training. He was one of only nine freshmen to join the Wolfpack in January, according to NC State.

I really want to come in and be a top contributor. That’s how I’ve always spelled it out. I’m always confident in my ability to make plays.

I feel like no matter what level I play at, I can do that.

BO HINES With several months of preparation underneath his belt, there was no need for Hines to redshirt. He played in all 13 of the Wolfpack’s games, including a victory in the Bitcoin Bowl against the University of Central Florida, a game in which Hines caught three passes for 79 yards.

While there, the wideout racked up yards, including 108 against the defending champions and then-No. 1 Florida State Seminoles. NC State finished 8–5 on the year, good enough for fifth in their bracket.

“I’ve never seen a freshman wide receiver play like that,” said Jake Lange, associate sports editor of the NC State newspaper, the Technician. “He had a huge impact, making big plays, especially his first touchdown on the first play of the game against Florida State. He scored a touchdown, 54 yards.”

By the time the season ended, Hines had a full year of school under his belt. After talking with his family, Hines said, he made the difficult to decision to leave NC State.

“I put a lot of thought and prayer into it,” Hines said. “I thought it was the best decision for me. Once I made that deci-

sion, I started reaching out to schools.”

Hines said he knew he wanted to attend an Ivy League institution. A prospective political science major with aspirations of attending law school, Hines wanted a university that would allow him to continue to play football at a high level while also offering a different academic experience.

“Looking back on it, I kind of wish I had considered more options,” Hines said of his recruitment process out of high school. “I don’t regret my experiences I had at NC State. I’m a better player and a better person, so I don’t think I would second-guess my initial decision, but I’m glad to be where I am now.”

Once the decision was made, Hines reached out to an old acquaintance: Morgan Roberts ’16.

TIES TO YALE

Prior to the 2013 season, Roberts transferred from fellow ACC member Clemson to Yale, where he broke multiple school records this past season. But before embarking on a college football career, Roberts played under center at Charlotte Country Day School, a private high school whose rival is Hines’s alma mater, Charlotte Christian.

The community in Charlotte is tight knit, Roberts said, and even though the parochial schools are technically all rivals, friendships spanning different teams are common. There was a lot of communication between players in the conference, according to Roberts.

Roberts and Hines have even played together before. Roberts was friendly with the older receivers on Hines’s team, so when he went to visit them, he often saw Hines.

“I had thrown with [Hines] over the summer a time or two,” Roberts said. “I’d go over to his high school, throw with him and [throw] with some other players.”

So when Hines began looking at the Ivy League, he contacted Roberts. The two met over winter break, before Hines had settled on Yale, and threw the ball together.

According to Roberts, he advised Hines to take a step back and understand his original decision before selecting a new school.

“When he contacted me and asked me about the process, I was very open about it,” Roberts said. “Coming from my conference, I was excited about it, not initially for him to play at Yale, just for him to play in the Ivy League.”

Hines considered transferring to other schools in the Ivy League, including Harvard.

When it came time to choose between the two Ancient Eight rivals, Hines examined the schools’ academics.

“Obviously both schools have extraordinary academics, however, I feel as if Yale is the best fit for me and what I would like to study,” Hines said.

Following his official visit to Yale over the weekend of Jan. 9, Hines announced his decision.

Impressed by the coaches, team members and administrators he met on his overnight, Hines said he felt very welcomed and called the visit “a great experience.”

It was the first time he saw the University.

But Hines is not officially a Bulldog quite yet. Although he announced his intent to transfer to Yale and committed verbally to the school, the Yale admissions committee has not yet looked at transfer applications.

Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan explained that Hines has not yet committed to Yale, but rather to the admissions process.

“This office won’t start reviewing transfer applications until the middle of March,” Quinlan said. “We have about 1,000 transfer applications a year, and we only admit somewhere between 20 and 30 transfer students a year. Our goal is to get about 24 transfer students, or two transfers for each college. A small handful of those students every year are recruited athletes.”

According to the Ivy League recruitment policies, “Coaches may make a commitment to support a prospective student athlete’s application. However only the Admissions Office at each Ivy League school has the authority to admit an applicant and to notify an applicant of admission.”

While on campus, he had the chance to meet with head coach Tony Reno and the coaching staff. With them, Hines watched film and observed how the offense was run.

“It looks like a very fun

offense to play in, for a receiver,” Hines said. “I know they have a lot of receivers who were successful last year, caught a lot of balls, so it was definitely fun to watch.”

BO THE BULLDOG

Those successful receivers include Grant Wallace ’15 and 2014 captain Deon Randall ’15.

Wallace led the Football Championship Subdivision and the Ivy League in receiving yards per game with 113.9; Randall was second among the Ancient Eight with 92.9.

Their graduation leaves a sizable gap in the Bulldogs’ offense, which was top-ranked in both the Ivy League and the FCS last year.

“I already was very confident in our wide receiving corps coming in to this next season,” Roberts said. “But we’re very excited about [Hines’s transfer]. He’s an absolute stud. It’s incredible how fast he is, how he gets breaks, his hands. We’re very lucky to have him come in this year and fill the place of two great receivers.”

At 6’1” and 190 pounds, Hines is built more like the 5’11” and 195 lb. Wallace than Randall, who is 5’8”. However, due to his combination of speed and size, Hines is capable of filling both Wallace and Randall’s spots, a fact that current players observed. Roberts praised Hines’s versatility, saying he is fast enough to play outside and win one-on-ones as a wideout.

Furthermore, Roberts said that Hines is smart and shifty enough to play in the slot.

Those who observed the receiver at NC State concurred.

“His best quality is that he was a great route runner, very strong receiver, great hands, never really missed any catches, just a great all-around guy in the game,” Lange said.

Last season, the Bulldogs went 8–2 with five conference wins, good enough for third in the Ivy League. The team’s record was a three-game improvement on the previous year, which was three wins better than the year before that. Such progress did not go unnoticed, as Hines said Yale’s record played a small factor in his decision.

“I am a competitive person who loves to win at everything I do.” Hines said. “I believe the players and coaches at Yale are the same way. I want to do whatever I can to help Yale win cham-

pionships.”

Hines said much of his visit was spent with the team. He added that he felt as if he could fit in with the Bulldogs — a key component to next season’s success.

With offseason practice already underway and preseason training beginning in a little over six months, the Elis are looking for players who will have an immediate impact.

“I know that Coach Reno looks for kids who are going to compete right away,” captain Cole Champion ’16 said. “He wants them to fit in with the culture we’ve built here.”

This culture has, in some part, been built on successful transfer players. Patrick Witt ’12 began as a backup quarterback at the University of Nebraska before transferring to Yale. He started for three seasons, setting school records in completions, yards and completion percentage.

In Reno’s tenure, two of the most prolific members of the 2014 offense – Roberts and running back Tyler Varga ’15 – were transfer students. Varga began his college football career at the University of Western Ontario, where he led Canada in scoring his freshman year. He entered Yale prior to the 2012 season.

Hines’s situation is slightly different from the previous three, however. Witt and Roberts, although Division I prospects, were second and thirdstring players, respectively, before entering Yale, and Varga played in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport league, whereas Hines made major contributions for a major-conference team.

According to NCAA regulations, Reno is not permitted to comment on individual recruits.

As of press time, Reno had not responded to requests for comment.

Hines does not yet know exactly what his role will be in Yale’s offense.

“When I get there, I have to come in and compete just like everybody else,” he said. “I don’t expect anything to be given to me just because I performed at a high level before. I have a lot of respect for all the guys who are there currently. I just want to come in and [try] my hardest, and hopefully make a great contribution next year.”

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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“My head is big, and my hair is big, so my helmet gets too small. So I have to make [sic] a haircut.” ALEXANDER OVECHKIN WASHINGTON CAPITALS CAPTAIN

New coach talks Yale future

Ballot Initiative CONDRO FROM PAGE 12 rule underestimates the voting members of the BBWAA. God love him, but even with unlimited votes, no rational elector would select Pokey Reese for the Hall of Fame, no matter how much I loved his Topps card when I was 10 because I thought he had a funny name.

Better still, it would prevent situations like this year, when Pedro received fewer votes than he deserved because some writers wanted to make sure that outfielder Larry Walker got enough votes to stay on the ballot. With no limit on the number of votes, writers would not have to vote strategically; they could focus solely on who deserved to be enshrined. They could vote for 10 players if they wanted to, or 11, or 20 or even none at all.

One argument is that only the best of the Hall of Famers — Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Cy Young — deserve to be voted in on their first ballot. These

STANNARD FROM PAGE 12 MSU, what do you think you can bring to the table in terms of a new look for Yale soccer?

apostles of the game deserve respect, and I understand the desire to raise them above the rest, even amongst such elite company. This can explain in some cases how a player can be bumped into the Hall after missing out on his first try. But it is not a reasonable explanation as to why a person can vote for a player one year, then drop them the next, short of a miracle.

I believe that the voters take the honor seriously, and that freeing them to vote for the number of eligible players they feel deserve to be in the Hall of Fame would do away with strategic voting and restore some legitimacy to Cooperstown. When the Latin Mass failed to keep up with the times, the Catholic Church had Vatican II. Now it’s time for Cooperstown to make some changes of its own.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College.

Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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I think Yale soccer just needs a new voice and a new energy to re-energize things.

Obviously Coach Tompkins was there for a great time and was a successful coach with Yale soccer, but I think my coming in here will provide a new voice and different mentality that will hopefully put us in a position to compete for championships. Coach Tompkins has been an incredible resource for me and we will continue to communicate on a regular basis as well.

you helped put together four topQAt40MSU recruiting classes and the No. 8 class in

2012. What are your goals and approaches to recruiting for Yale?

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My goal is to have a top-10 recruiting class and to have top-40 recruiting classes every year. I really hope to push for consistent top-20 or top-25 recruiting classes.

do you think the first step you’ll take QWhat recruiting-wise will be?

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I’m still evaluating what we currently have with our group here at Yale, but I really think I’ll be looking for guys that know how to win and lay it on the line every single game and give their all for their team.

From a personnel standpoint, I’m a more defensive-minded coach, but I think that my objective will be to work from the back for-

ward through the spine of the team. We have to find another goalkeeper right now and I think we’ll just go from the defense forward. do you think the biggest transition QWhat for you coming to the Ivy League will be in terms of coaching or recruiting?

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I think that in the Ivy League recruiting is more challenging because your pool of players is smaller, yet easier because you can hone in on those few players who have the criteria for an Ivy League school. The other challenge is probably just getting to know the teams, coaches and the strengths and weaknesses of each team. That’s something you can get a hold of quickly though.

is your overall goal for the first seaQWhat son? Do you quantify the goal as a certain number of wins?

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I met with the guys on the team and I expect an increase in the standards for fitness, work rate and physical and mental preparation for games. The guys know they’re in for a lot of hard work this offseason, but these are the times when you have to sacrifice. I want to be the hardest working team in the Ivy League, and I think we have a lot better players than last year’s record shows. Obviously I’d like to compete for an Ivy League Championship. This is not a rebuilding year by mentality; the focus will be on the Ivy League. Our preparation in non-conference games will be about getting prepared for the Ivy League.

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The men’s soccer team finished with its fewest wins in a season since 1922, when the Elis ended with a 1–3–2 record. would you like the “Stannard Era” QofWhat Yale soccer to look like?

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I ultimately want this team to be feared in the Ivy League and nationally respected and not viewed as an “easy” win like it might have been viewed in recent years. I want us to get to the point where nobody likes to play against [us] because we are organized, tough, hardworking and relentless for 90 minutes.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

Defense at core of Elis MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 utes per game. Blueliner Matt Killian ’15 noted that when the team does face power plays, head coach Keith Allain ’80 ensures that they are well prepared.

“I think we’ve done a good job, but there is always room for improvement,” Killian said.

“We prepare for each team’s power play weekly and aim to take away their best option by aggressively eliminating time

and space.”

This approach has limited opportunities not just on opposing teams’ power plays, but in general 5-on-5 play as well. That Yale has been outshot by its opponents just three times so far this season is as much a testament to its smothering defensive play as it is to its offensive production.

Much of the credit for this success belongs to the Bulldogs’ last line of defense against opposing goal scorers. Alex Lyon

’17, who recorded his first shutout of the season and fourth of his career against Holy Cross on Dec. 30, is No. 6 among goaltenders in Division I with 329 saves on the season for a save percentage of 0.932 and a goals against average of 1.79. These numbers represent a significant improvement for Lyon over last season, as his goals against average has dropped by more than 0.6 since his freshman year.

Lyon has also received numerous awards this season for

his puck-stopping abilities in net. The Bulldog netminder was awarded the Tim Taylor Cup as the MVP of the first matchup against Harvard and was named ECAC Goalie of the Week after stopping 26 shots against Dartmouth earlier that weekend.

Patrick Spano ’17 has also been reliable in net for the Bulldogs with a career record of 4–0 and shutout against RIT on Nov. 29.

Defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said having a goalie as solid as Lyon greatly improves

the team’s defensive confidence.

Obuchowski also noted that the defense as a whole has benefited from the experience gained last year and the hard work the skaters put in over the offseason to prepare.

“The improvement of our D corps is a testament to the hard work our returning players put forth in the summer months both on and off the ice,” Obuchowski said.

While the Bulldogs may currently sit at seventh in the ECAC

standings, Yale still has almost half its season left to play and the Bulldogs have played fewer conference games than the rest of the league. Whether or not Yale will rise in the standings depends on the performance of the defense and if its offense can improve in a similar manner.

Yale faces off against Brown this Friday in Providence at 7:30 p.m.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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In three top-20 matchups, the Elis have won all three contests, including perennial rival No. 4 Harvard.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 12:30 PM Gender, Identity and the Artist’s Career. A conversation with Lisa Kereszi, Sulki Choi, Michelle Lopez, Ka-Man Tse and Natalie Westbrook. Moderated by Lizzy De Vita. 36 Edgewood Avenue.

2:00 PM Guided Tour of the Cushing Center. Named for Yale College graduate Dr. Harvey Cushing, regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, the Center includes more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors, Cushing’s surgical illustrations, personal diaries, black and white patient photographs, memorabilia and historical anatomical and medical materials. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 12:00 PM Bookmaking Workshop: Crafting the Codex.

Inspired by sculptural works found in the book art collection of Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Hunter Ford, founder of the Yale Guild of Bookmakers, Cayla Lockwood, current Artspace Artist in Residence, and Daniel Staskawicz, DC ’17, invite visitors to explore the basics of bookmaking. Create your own unique hand-bound journal in a one-hour, hands-on workshop. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

5:00 PM Dialogues in Heritage Science: Museum Environment — Ongoing and Future Research. Lukasz Bratasz will present his research into non-destructive analysis of buildings and artifacts, with special emphasis on the good “museum climate” and linked factors of sustainability. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Memorabilia Lecture Hall.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 2:00 PM Films at the Whitney. Law Abiding Citizen (USA, 2009) 108 min. 35mm. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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MARCUS MARIOTA WALTER CAMP WEEKEND Some of the biggest names in college football head to New Haven today for the Walter Camp Weekend, named for legendary coach Walter Camp 1882.

Mariota, whose Oregon Ducks were shellacked in the national title game, is this year’s Walter Camp Player of the Year.

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Yale scores high-profile Hines FOOTBALL

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale football appears to have scored big in the offseason when Bo Hines, a wide receiver from North Carolina State, announced his intentions to transfer to Yale in the fall. Hines, a true freshman, led the Wolfpack in both catches and yards on the season.

“I really want to come in and be a top contributor,” Hines said.

“That’s how I’ve always spelled it out. I’m always confident in my ability to make plays. I feel like no matter what level I play at, I can do that.”

On Dec. 27, Hines announced his intent to transfer from NC State on Twitter. He followed that up with a Jan. 11 tweet stating that he will continue his college football career at Yale.

While Hines’s arrival is not official until the Office of Undergraduate Admissions finishes deliberating on his application, he figures to make a big impact for a team that graduates its top two wideouts from the 2014 season.

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Wideout Bo Hines, a transfer from North Carolina State, posts a 40-yard dash time of 4.41 seconds.

The “Stannard Era” begins After spending six successful seasons as an associate head coach at Michigan State University, Kylie Stannard is taking over as the Yale men’s soccer head coach. He will be the program’s first new head coach in 20 seasons, replacing the retiring Brian Tompkins. The News spoke with Stannard about his transition into the Ivy League, the difficult recovery from a poor 2014 Bulldog season — which ended in a 1–13–3 record for the Bulldogs — and the changes he intends to bring to the Yale soccer program.

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Kylie Stannard replaces Brian Tompkins — the second-winningest coach in Yale history — as men’s soccer head coach.

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Balking at the Hall I hold three things sacred in this world: God, country and Major League Baseball (I won’t say in what order). While I remember that baseball is just a game, however, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America seems unable to differentiate its work from that of the College of Cardinals.

After the white smoke rose from Cooperstown this year, four new members of the elect were unveiled: pitchers Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz and second baseman Craig Biggio.

These canonizations were far from surprising. Johnson and Pedro are considered two of the best pitchers of all time. Smoltz excelled as a starter, a closer — and then a starter again — for the Braves, and Biggio collected 3,000 hits while mastering three different positions and doing just about everything for the Astros save selling popcorn in the aisles between innings.

Three of those members were elected to the Hall of Fame after just their first appearance on the ballot — the BBWAA’s rules for election mandate that a player must be out of the game for five years before being eligible for sainthood — but Biggio finally made it into the Hall on his third try. Several other players fell just below the threshold of 75 percent of the vote required to make the Hall, most notably catcher Mike Piazza who finished at 69.9 percent. Just last year, Biggio received a frustrating 74.8 percent, while he garnered votes from 68.2 percent of the writers in his inaugural year on the ballot in 2013.

Biggio did not notch one of his 3,060 hits, swipe one of his 414 stolen bases or even play one of his 2,850 career games in the years since his debut on the ballot. The same thing happened to shortstop Barry Larkin, who received just above 51 percent in his first year on the ballot, but two years later earned his wings with a whopping 84.6 percent of the vote. Neither of them was reported to have healed the sick or turned water into wine.

Even more perplexingly, some players lose votes from year to year, as was the case with pitcher Jack Morris. His votes rose steadily until he slipped back below 60 percent in his 15th and final chance.

This sad practice is the result of the BBWAA’s arcane rules for election, which limit each writer to 10 votes per ballot. The rule was enacted, much like recent changes to canonization procedures, to minimize false beatifications. But the

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That’s what excites me about this job and this position. These men are extremely bright and driven, and I look forward to being a part of their growth and development on and off the field and hopefully competing for championships.

Bulldog defense smothers opponents

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The second annual Rivalry on Ice may have seemed like a blowout thanks to its final score, but the men’s ice hockey team actually did not dominate the match from start to finish. The Bulldogs went down a man three times that night, twice in the second period and once in the third, giving the Crimson the chance to make a momentumchanging, powerplay goal.

MEN’S HOCKEY Yet Harvard was unable to convert a single one of those opportunities, in large part due to the much improved Bulldog defense over last season.

“I think team defense has become a main focus for our team, from our forwards straight down to our goalies, and this has made us a tough team to play against defensively this year,” defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 said. “We play an aggressive

style and [take] pride in suffocating teams has allowed us to play with a lot of confidence against opposing offenses.”

This suffocating defense has allowed Yale to remain a strong contender in the ECAC, and it explains why the team is currently 3–0 against top-20 teams in the nation. The Bulldogs also maintain the conference’s second-best, and nation’s thirdbest, goals against average at 1.65 compared to last season’s fourth-place finish with 2.38.

Among the most obvious improvements to the team’s performance is a renewed focus on the penalty kill. As O’Gara noted, the team has worked this season to establish itself as an aggressive penalty-killing unit.

One of the most effective ways to prevent powerplay goals is to simply avoid shorthanded situations altogether. Yale currently stands as the least penalized team in Division I hockey, averaging just 6.27 penalty minSEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

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The Bulldogs are currently the least penalized team in Division I hockey, accumulating just 6.27 penalty minutes per game on average.

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NUMBER OF YARDS OF NC STATE TRANSFER WIDE RECEIVER BO HINES’S TOUCHDOWN CATCH SCORED IN THE OPENING MINUTES AGAINST FLORIDA STATE. The Wolfpack eventually lost the game, but Hines put up 108 receiving yards against the defending national champion.