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CROSS CAMPUS SOTU Bowl. Welcome to Yale, where more people probably watched the State of the Union address than will watch the Super Bowl. Thanks, Obama.

Enter. Applications for the

2015 Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fellowship are due tonight at 11:59 p.m. Please apply if you have some kind of world-changing idea — we’re getting tired of watching all these tech movies that take place at Harvard and Stanford.

Put the gothic architecture on the big screen.

Escape. It may or may not

be world-changing, but one startup business kicks off today with two launch parties — the first takes place at Ordinary and the second at Briq. Promoted as a “cooperative, real-life adventure space,” Escape seems unique, if nothing else.

SHAKESPEARE THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

IT’S NOT EASY

MELTING POT

Being green, that is.

Carbon committee looks for sustainability ideas.

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BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER By the time the new colleges — set to open in 2017 — are fully populated in 2021, they will necessitate some $18 million of financial aid funding annually, a substantial increase over Yale College’s current $117 million financial aid budget.

On Tuesday, the University took a major step toward securing that funding by embarking on a two-year, $200 million ini-

tiative to secure financial aid at the University. Access Yale, as the University has named the endeavor, is intended to prepare the University for the addition of roughly 800 undergraduates, the first expansion of Yale College in decades.

“It’s a university-wide initiative,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. “Expanding access to Yale College is something that has been at the forefront of President Salovey’s and my agenda

over the last year and a half, and the fact that we’re making financial aid a University priority at this time is very appropriate and exciting.”

In addition to securing the funds necessary to provide financial aid to the two new colleges, the initiative is also intended to provide additional aid to students in the graduate and professional schools.

Salovey indicated early in his presidency that financial aid would become the next top

Series of thefts unnerve Trumbull students

A recent Yale Athletics profile on men’s hockey forward Trent Ruffalo ’15 detailed his unconventional path from the Everglades to the Elm City. And he plans to skate on: Ruffalo acknowledged aspirations to continue playing in Europe after his time at the Whale comes to an end.

Hold it. As plans to reinforce the New Haven-HartfordSpringfield train line with additional stations solidify, the state Department of Transportation broke news that might leave some uncomfortable: Many of the new stops will not feature restrooms in their facilities.

Could be a long ride.

“It’s not mine, I swear.” One

New Haven Police Department officer is in a tough position after some of her colleagues found stashes of crack and heroine in her car, which was being driven by her boyfriend at the time of his arrest.

Police maintain the officer’s innocence, but still. Friends don’t let friends’ boyfriends drive with drugs in the trunk.

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1985 Three separate employees of the University’s Audio Visual center allege corruption within the center’s management staff.

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fundraising priority once funding for the new residential colleges was complete.

“Building our financial aid, especially as we anticipate the arrival of 800 additional students, will remain a priority,” Salovey told the News last September.

Both Salovey and Quinlan said the administration has spent the past year and a half working towards this goal of securing comprehensive financial support for students.

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Over the past few days, several students in Trumbull College have been the victims of theft. Computers, wallets and other valuables have been stolen from unlocked student rooms.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS In the first week of the new semester, at least five students have been victims of theft on and around Yale’s campus.

At 9.30 p.m. on Jan. 15, Michael Cruciger ’15, who lives in Trumbull College, left his suite door unlocked before crossing the street to go to Ashley’s Ice Cream shop. He said he

CLAY heads to national “March for Life” in D.C.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Choose Life at Yale, a campus pro-life activism group, will participate in the annual “March for Life” on Thursday.

The march, described by organizers as the “largest pro-life event in the world,” has received consistent Yale support since 2002.

According to former CLAY president Courtney McEachon ’15, while only 15 CLAY representatives are attending this year, as many as 25 have gone in the past.

The march occurs nine months after CLAY was denied full membership to Dwight Hall — Yale College’s umbrella organization for community service — and the Women’s Center’s refused to support the group. McEachon said the decisions showed a lack of tolerance for students with controversial opinions.

“Despite shared goals like working for social justice and providing for women, CLAY has been excluded from both umbrella organizations in the past,” she said. “Such marginalization makes it difficult for students SEE CLAY PAGE 4

was there for no more than 20 minutes, adding that leaving his suite door unlocked had not previously caused any problems.

When Cruciger returned, he discovered that his 13-inch MacBook was no longer in his backpack. Cruciger’s decoy wallet, full of expired credit cards, was also stolen. The wallet, he said, was well-hidden in his room and SEE THEFT PAGE 6

The Office of Development worked during the 2013–14 fiscal year to plan for the launch of Access Yale, Salovey said, and its completion was first announced to the Yale Development Council in October of 2014. He added that the University has already raised 25 percent of its $200 million fundraising goal.

Additionally, a portion of the $200 million raised by the SEE ACCESS YALE PAGE 4

Federal law may shed light on admissions

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER

Those of us with less-thanentrepreneurial spirit might check out the SOM’s Finance Technical Interview Bootcamp this afternoon at Evans Hall.

On the agenda are discussions about DCF modeling, trading and transaction comparables and the world of finance in general. Oh, and you should also expect questions on “ethics” at these things.

Ruffalo ruffalo ruffalo ruffalo.

Gymnastics team soars to new heights, but fails to top New Hampshire

Yale launches $200 million financial aid program

The road more traveled.

Three, two, one. Last night, men’s basketball guard Javier Duren ’15 was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for the third time this year after a stretch that included a doubledouble against Brown — the first of his Yale career.

UP IN THE AIR

Hundreds of Stanford students have begun requesting copies of their admission records under a 1974 federal law, spurring some Yale students to do the same.

Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Stanford must comply with these requests, The New York Times reported on Friday.

FERPA is a federal law that grants students the right to inspect and review their education records. If a student submits a written access request to the registrar’s office of a school that follows FERPA, the school must comply within 45 days by sending the student a copy of their files.

Though FERPA was enacted 41 years ago, a group of Stanford students who run an anonymous newsletter called “The Fountain Hopper” have brought the law back into the public eye by using it to request access to their records, The Times reported. At least one student has received his files back from Stanford administrators, The Times reported, which were comprised of his admission records, as well as a log of each time the student had used his identification card to unlock a door.

Stanford Associate Vice President for University Communications Lisa Lapin told the News that Stanford has to review any requests that may have been submitted over the three-day weekend. Stanford administrators are just getting to work now, she said.

“The law applies to all universities,” Lapin said. “FERPA applies only to enrolled students.”

A student can make a FERPA request once they are in attendance at Yale.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Yale University The Yale University Registrar’s Office website echoes these words by stating that Yale follows FERPA law. Additionally, according to the website, students enrolled at the University have the right to access their education records, as well as request to have these records corrected, should they find something in them inaccurate or misleading.

FERPA further stipulates SEE STANFORD PAGE 6

In small Swiss town, Salovey huddles with world leaders

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The permanent population of Davos, Switzerland stands at just over a modest 11,000. Dating back to the early 1200s, the city has little more to offer beyond glistening ski slopes, an acclaimed hockey team and a few hotels.

Yet, it is there where the world’s most influential businessmen, politicians, educators and moneymakers converge this week to talk shop at the annual World Economic Forum.

While the forum has been criticized since its inception in 1971 for being a gathering place for the world’s elite, it also provides an opportunity for Yale and its peer institutions to flex some muscles of their own.

This year’s forum will be University President Peter Salovey’s second since he took office in July of 2013, continuing the tradition of former University President Richard Levin, who was a frequent attendee.

Splitting his three days at the forum mainly between meetings with large donors, prominent alumni and “potential friends of the University,”

Salovey will also fill seats at panels and larger discussions for the Global University Leaders Forum. GULF, a subset of the WEF, of which 25 universities from Yale to the University of Cape Town are members, is currently focusing on the future of higher education and the role of science in society.

“Many gifts to the University have been closed at Davos meetings,” Salovey said in an interview last week. “It’s such a convenient way of meeting with a large number of people who have a relationship with the University.”

Perhaps equally important as Salovey’s attendance are the professors chosen to represent Yale alongside him. This year, economics professor and 2013 Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller, applied physics and physics professor Robert Schoelkopf and economics professor Aleh Tsyvinski will moderate panels, give lectures and attend other WEF social events.

Schoelkopf, for example, will be a panelist in two sessions and will give a short lecture on the quantum computer he is working on at Yale.

Though Schoelkopf said a commercially viably quantum computer — which uses quantum bits as opposed to binary bits to compute — may still be 10 to 15 years away, the past decade of research has resulted in significant progress.

“We’re starting to think about the things we learned in the lab to build up potential for the next generation of computing,” Schoelkopf said. “[WEF] is a time when we’re trying to reach outside the scientific specialists and outside of this field into a broader audience.”

Larry Elliott, an economics editor for The Guardian who has covered the WEF in the past, said that the academic voice at Davos plays an important role. Elliott said university representation is much more significant than it was 10 years ago, with the London School of Economics and Oxford among Yale’s fellow attendees. Some of the Forum’s better sessions are those where academics come to present their latest research, he added.

But, Salovey added, the majorSEE DAVOS PAGE 4

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merican postsecondary education is transactional by nature. Students pay tuition, room and board, and in return they receive access to curricula, professors, academic resources, housing and food. Yale is certainly unique in many ways, but regardless of how the University might try to frame the Eli experience as one-of-a-kind, it, like most colleges, cannot survive without its client base — us, the student body.

Yale’s financial reports reveal that, despite fluctuations in the total sum that students paid to the University, net tuition, room and board has made up roughly nine percent of the University’s budget in recent years. Yes, there are dips and jumps in this figure, but generally the University relies pretty heavily on students to help pay the bills.

I would be lying if I said that I am displeased with the annual transaction that my family has made for the past four years. I have learned how to learn, made lifelong friends, been wrong and thankfully corrected in both academic and social settings and, overall, grown quite a bit. However, if the University depends on students to contribute almost a 10th of its operating budget, we must ask: Where does the University not live up to expectations in serving its clientele?

The administration most resoundingly (even if not explicitly) demonstrates the limits of our transaction with them in their unwillingness to adequately and transparently incorporate student opinion into decision-making. Perhaps at one point in the school’s younger years, administrators found it important not only to pursue student involvement in planning for the future but also to explain University actions.

But if such a tendency did exist, whatever muscle twitched and encouraged such activity seems to have atrophied long ago. Emboldened by its prestige, an ever-increasing number of qualified applicants and a student body with a lifespan of four years, our administrators are increasingly comfortable with making decisions and not answering to the student body after announcing them.

Mechanisms exist to incorporate the student voice into University planning and policymaking: the Yale College Council and various working groups and University-wide standing committees that convene on a semi-regular basis and include faculty, administrative staff and students. Having served both in working groups and standing committees, as well as having overseen the appointment process of student members for two consecutive years as vice president of YCC, I say with the utmost confidence that the mere inclusion of students on the committees is not enough to

adequately represent student concerns.

This is not to say that the student members of these KYLE ommitTRAMONTE ctees are not re s p e c te d ; Green on their opinions are the Vine heard very closely and their advice is often heeded.

However, as a matter of procedure, many of the recommendations that these committees formulate require subsequent faculty approval at faculty meetings. But while administrators concede that only a handful of faculty committee members cannot decide policy for an entire campus, no parallel concession exists regarding the ability of a couple of students — who happen to be selected for committee membership — to make decisions on behalf of their peers. Committee recommendations are never subjected to a student vote. Because members of standing committees sign confidentiality agreements, even if we asked our peers or professors who serve on these committees about a recommendation, it is unlikely we would get any information from them.

Whenever a policy change occurs, we are often invited to share our thoughts via email with the administration. And that’s it. Decisions are made, reports are released and policies are implemented. A veto option for 11,000 students (or roughly 5,400 undergrads for policies related solely to the College) seems unwieldy. But forcing our administrators to explain why they made decisions is certainly not too much to ask.

I began this article by framing the contract between students and the University as an economic transaction. But regardless of how much students contribute to this school, one should never have to put a price on inclusion in the future of one’s own education and environment. We help fund this University, we comprise its core and, while our time here is limited, we have its future in our minds just as much as anyone else.

In the 2013–14 academic year, contributions to the school comprised four percent of the operating budget. While I’m sure plenty of donations went to the endowment, I’d be interested in learning what the price tag is for an answer when a donor calls Woodbridge Hall.

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n Saturday, the NCAA tried to pull the wool over our eyes. The group approved a measure ensuring that, for the first time, athletic scholarships will cover the full cost of attendance. The NCAA also voted to increase stipends and stop schools from rescinding scholarships based on performance, among other measures. These moves are not unexpected; actually, they are part of a national trend. In the last few months, many individual schools have promised to guarantee scholarships for all four years. Some schools, including those in the Pac-12, have recently decided to provide medical coverage to their players.

These moves — while welcome — are little more than obfuscation. They are Band-Aids on a gaping, bleeding wound — a concussion would probably be a more apt metaphor. They are trying to stanch popular support for efforts by college athletes to unionize — to declare themselves employees who deserve benefits and a little pay. These distraction tactics by the NCAA and individual schools are just plain wrong.

Athletes should not let their universities buy them off so cheaply.

They should demand recognition as employees and the treatment such recognition brings. Corporate welfare just doesn’t cut it anymore.

First, a little background: In April 2014, the football team at Northwestern University voted on whether or not they wanted to form a union. Many players

claimed they were essentially overw o r k e d , underpaid e m p l o y ees — performing hard physical labor SCOTT for 50 or 60 STERN hours a week, making milA Stern lions of dolPerspective lars for their school and getting virtually no monetary compensation in return. The vote was never tallied; instead, it was sealed until the National Labor Relations Board rules on whether on not scholarship athletes count as university employees (this ruling is expected any day now).

The NCAA, which is not a party in the matter, nonetheless filed an amicus brief with the NLRB, claiming that a ruling in the players’ favor could “undermine the revered tradition of amateurism” in college athletics and “have a significant and irreversible, and negative impact on the future of intercollegiate athletics and higher education in the United States.”

Here’s what the Northwestern players are saying. They work long hours every week — enough to merit overtime, if they were actually paid. When they sustain concussions or other serious injuries — which they so often do — they are frequently left to cover the expenses themselves.

They’re more likely to suffer a

career-ending injury than they are to make it to the pros. Their coaches take home millions; their universities rake in tens of millions; and they get nothing — nothing beyond their scholarships. Athletes can’t accept anything that might look like a gift — help purchasing schoolbooks or school supplies, a little money to defray the costs of groceries or clothing — nothing. In spite of a financial aid, the average scholarship athlete ends up assuming $3,200 in debt, and some assume much more.

UNIONIZATION IS THE SOLUTION FOR SOME STUDENT ATHLETES The NCAA’s emphasis on amateurism — that athletes are students, not employees — is more than just misguided. It deliberately ignores the reality of life for athletes at big-brand schools. And that’s what brings us to Yale.

When we assess the merits of unionization or amateurism, we should take our own circumstances, and privilege, into account. With a few notable exceptions, most Yale sports teams are not bringing in the dough as do those at Alabama or Ohio State. Furthermore, players in the Ivy League are not depen-

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dent on athletic scholarships, as Ivy League schools don’t give them out. There are definitely distinctions between the daily existence of a Yale runner and a Northwestern linebacker. Perhaps not all college athletes need to be paid, but certainly many do.

This is why unionization is the solution. For the students who actually are, in effect, working as employees, forming a union would allow them to negotiate with their universities to get the pay and benefits they deserve. I’m not sure what the standard should be to determine which college athletes qualify as employees, but hopefully the NLRB’s forthcoming ruling will clarify this.

There is considerable evidence that the doomsayers who claim that this would kill college athletics are just plain wrong.

Several dozen sports economists wrote a brief opposing the NCAA’s, claiming that “the concerns that (a) college sports is too poor to afford unionization, (b) the competitive balance among teams will be fatally disrupted by unionization and (c) the advances by women athletes through Title IX will be arrested are all dubious claims …”

College athletes should not be cowed by these scare tactics or bought off by the NCAA’s stopgap measures. Let’s take that wool and set it on fire.

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Kiko Milano was a resourceful choice For the last dozen years in every student focus group University Properties has conducted, female students have complained of the difficulty in finding cosmetics near the campus. After soliciting, without success, every major cosmetic operation in North America (no, not everyone wants to come to New Haven to set up a retail store), University Properties resourcefully found a popularpriced cosmetics store. Kiko Milano, with 500 outlets in Europe, was opening a dozen stores in the U.S. and, with the help of some Yale undergraduates from Italy, University Properties convinced them to locate a store at The Shops at Yale. My own view of this as the cognizant Vice President for University Properties is that University Properties did a great job in filling what students said was an unmet need.

BRUCE ALEXANDER JAN. 20 The writer is the vice president for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development.

Engage with New Haven productively Regarding the spoof of Kiko Milano, it is disappointing that a new merchant trying to serve a student need — which has been consistently identified in surveys — is essentially being told by a small group of Yale students

that they are not welcome to New Haven and to a retail district adjacent to campus. It was with great effort that this tenant was recruited, they serve an identified need and they provide jobs and taxes to the community. To not support, in fact to mock, a new business is counterproductive to efforts to build a strong New Haven and discourages other businesses from coming to New Haven. While a very small group of students is involved, if they wish to find other ways to relate to the New Haven community, the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs offers many opportunities to tutor New Haven youth and other programs for Yale students to positively engage with our community should they wish to contact us.

LAUREN ZUCKER JAN. 20 The writer is the associate vice president and director for New Haven Affairs and University Properties.

For Kiko Milano!

We hope that our protest in favor of the fabulous cosmetic store Kiko Milano was not somehow misinterpreted! We love Kiko Milano, and that’s exactly the rea-

son that various members of The Record have advocated for the construction of anywhere from one to 13 additional Kikos Milano on campus.

If one were to read our flyers carefully, one would find that we rejoice in the blueberry scones of Maison Mathis, in the cheap, stylish haircuts offered at Barbour and in the sleek contours of the thousand-dollar leather leggings available at Emporium DNA (only $500 per leg! How reasonable!).

It’s clear that University Properties understands the needs of Yale students, fancy European tourists and the New Haven community.

Sincerely, The Yale Record, first-ever recipients of the Kiko Milano Gold Card P.S. We considered calling for the expansion of many Broadway stores, but chose Kiko Milano mostly for its silly name. We also note that the manager of Kiko Milano came outside to hang out with us and tell us how funny we were during the protest (yes, really).

AARON GERTLER JAN. 20 The writer is a junior in Timothy Dwight College and chairman of the Yale Record.

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Carbon task force unveils new competitions

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday, Yale’s Presidential Carbon Task Force announced a series of new efforts to engage campus opinion on sustainability measures.

The Task Force, formed by University President Peter Salovey in August, unveiled two competitions this week to solicit ideas for reducing energy use at the University. Since the central charge of the Task Force is to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of instituting an internal carbon pricing mechanism at Yale, representatives of the committee said these competitions will help the group utilize campus ideas and consider “best practices” in reducing Yale’s carbon footprint.

Although the task force was expected to submit a formal recommendation earlier this year, Presidential Carbon Task Force chair and economics professor William Nordhaus ’63 said the group intended to issue its formal recommendation in late February or March, so that a carbon charge — if recommended and approved — may still be implemented next year. “[The competitions are] a major element of trying to engage the critical constituency that is going to be part of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and understanding how we can engage faculty, students and staff,” said environmental law and policy professor Dan Esty, who is chairing one of the committee’s four working groups. “[The committee] is thinking about how to put a price on carbon and position Yale for leadership to bring down carbon emissions in a serious way.”

The first competition asks entrants to pitch ideas and consider opportunities to reduce energy use in student and staff behavior and future campus planning, among other areas.

The task force sub-committee will then select up to 10 winning submissions for a cash prize of $100 per idea.

The second competition — rather than identify areas of conservation within the University — calls for individuals to submit “best practices” of sustainability, which can be drawn from other institutions, companies and governmental organizations. A grand prize of $500 will then be awarded to an individual, Yale club, group, department or college.

“Students, staff and faculty come to Yale with a wealth of experience, information and knowledge that they have gained over time,” Yale Office of Sustainability Program Manager Keri Enright-Kato wrote in an email. “Sustainability and energy conservation is a rapidly evolving field, and there are many successful strategies out there that we can learn from and

adopt as best practices.”

Esty said the task force has been “running on parallel tracks” to develop an answer to how to best implement and blueprint a carbon charge for campus.

However, one difficulty of implementing a carbon charge is that it is most effective for individuals that actually pay energy bills, Esty said. He added that since many students and faculty on campus are not directly looking at these costs, the committee needed to consider alternate ways to enlist this part of the Yale community to reduce carbon emissions.

“The competition is not soliciting ideas about how to structure our carbon charge, per se, but soliciting ideas of how to reduce our carbon footprint on campus, which is the mission of the task force,” said Jennifer Milikowsky FES ’15 SOM ’15, one of the student members on the task force. “We have come across a bunch of these challenges, such as students not seeing their energy bills, so this competition is trying to combine these hurdles we have come across in implementing the charge and also to implement on the ground reductions.”

Despite these challenges, Nordhaus said the task force is considering both the budgetary and behavioral reforms that will make a carbon charge more effective for the Yale community.

“Everything we have heard is encouraging, both from inside and outside,” he added.

Alders approve grant for Newhallville

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After months of debate among alders, residents and community figures alike, the Board of Alders voted unanimously yesterday to approve a million-dollar federal grant intended to reduce crime in Newhallville.

The Byrne Grant, which New Haven received last October, will pay $1 million dollars over three years, and will be directed towards a coalition of organizations, all of which will work in tandem to reduce crime and increase the quality of life in Newhallville, a low-income neighborhood adjacent to Dixwell. How the money will be distributed among the organizations has not yet been fully determined, said Ward 20 Alder Delphine Clyburn, who represents much of Newhallville, but she said that all of the grant’s money will go to Wards 19, 20 and 21.

“There’s a lot [going on] to see what we can do within the perimeters of the grant,” Clyburn said, adding that she wants to guarantee that Newhallville will

receive the funds and services it needs.

According to figures submitted to the Board of Alders by the administration of Mayor Toni Harp, approximately $100,000 will go towards community policing efforts in the threeyear grant period, and at least $270,000 will go towards community organizations, including the New Haven Family Alliance and a new Newhallville Youth Employment Program. Much of the remaining $700,000 will fund salaries for people overseeing the grant as well as operational costs.

The grant has proved controversial among Newhallville residents, many of whom have presented their concerns to alders and community leaders at meetings throughout the fall and winter.

Nazim Muhammad, who has lived in Newhallville for his entire life, is one of those residents. Before yesterday’s meeting, he questioned the need for the grant. He said that crime in Newhallville is not at the levels that the public perceives, and that drug activity has decreased

substantially. One of the grant’s focuses is to target so-called “hotspots” where crime often occurs, but Muhammad said such areas are not large enough to warrant special attention.

There’s a lot of racial injustice … as a black man living … in … Newhallville, I suffer from police brutality.

NAZIM MUHAMMAD Newhallville Resident Muhammad also said that tensions with the police are a major concern in Newhallville.

“There’s a lot of racial injustice going on, because me myself, as a black man living in America and Newhallville, I suffer from police brutality,” he said. “I was beaten by police about four or five years ago. They always stereotype us.

I believe that the police can help us, but they’re not our friends.”

During a public safety committee meeting last Decem-

ber, other Newhallville residents also raised concerns about the grant, particularly about how the money would be spent. At the four-hour long meeting, residents said they wanted the money to go directly towards community issues instead of towards salaries of consultants.

Clyburn said that one of her top priorities throughout the process of approving the grant has been to ensure that the community is involved in all steps.

At the King/Robinson Magnet School last week, Harp presented the city’s plans to use the funds.

Jonathan Kringen, a professor at the University of New Haven who will serve as the chief evaluator of the Byrne Grant, said that the city will attempt to involve all the relevant local organizations and will use those groups to engage the community.

Newhallville houses the former Winchester Repeating Arms factory complex, which was recently renovated into an apartment complex.

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

Harp announces new DPW head

Sustainability and energy conservation is a rapidly evolving field.

KERI ENRIGHT-KATO Program Manager, Yale Office of Sustainability In addition to the competitions, the task force will also hire 10 student researchers to investigate energy conservation programs at other universities across North America.

While members of Fossil Free Yale — a student group advocating for divestment — noted that the initiatives by the task force were commendable, they said the policies should not be considered a complete solution by the University.

“Sustainability initiatives should be the norm — that we are doing everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint,” Communications Director for FFY Chelsea Watson ’17 said.

“But in terms of the broader societal harms, it can be doing much more.”

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The Department of Public Works, which will be headed by Jeff Pescosolido, is located at 55 Church St.

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER Jeff Pescosolido will take over as the Elm City’s new director of the Department of Public Works, according to a Tuesday afternoon announcement

by Mayor Toni Harp.

The DPW, which has gone without a director for four months, is in charge of maintaining and managing the city’s infrastructure and public assets.

Its responsibilities include street sweeping, trash collection, snow plowing and road maintenance.

With over 30 years of public works experience in New Haven and other cities, Pescosolido will oversee seven different divisions of the DPW and is responsible for personnel and budget decisions.

“Normally, people think of public works as just a maintenance crew,” Pescosolido said.

“We are going to bring this department to new heights and build better communities and better public works in the area.”

Pescosolido had been deputy director of operations in New

Haven’s DPW since the summer of 1999. Prior to that, he served as the acting director of the DPW from 1998 to 1999, giving him experience in the role he now occupies full time.

City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer said Pescolosido’s vast experience in the city was key to his selection for the position.

Michael Carter, who served as acting director of the DPW before Pescosolido was appointed and is currently the city’s Chief Administrative Officer, said he expects Pescosolido to expand the DPW’s responsibilities in New Haven.

“We have got a lot of work to do,” Carter said. “We want to do more recycling. We want to do more training for street mechanics.”

Carter’s other goals for the DPW include improving storm equipment by purchasing sweepers and packers and finishing several sidewalk repair projects.

Grotheer echoed Carter’s sentiment, noting that Harp saw Pescosolido’s appointment as an

opportunity for the department to upgrade the city’s equipment and technology. Grotheer specified new computerized monitors for gauging the distribution of pavement treatments as an example of one such technology. These monitors will make sure only the necessary amount of material is distributed, helping to prevent waste.

Pescosolido stressed the importance of efficiency.

“Recently, the mayor announced we picked up nine brand-new snowplow trucks,” he said. “With that type of control, we are going to have less waste. Computerized operations are going to be more efficient and save us money.”

Pescolodido also said he is intent on reorganizing the department internally. He wants to put a greater focus on smaller repairs and on bringing back smaller labor jobs.

Grotheer was optimistic about Pescdolido’s transition into the job, noting that the DPW was managed effectively during the search for a new director after Doug Arndt was

let go in August 2014.

“Jeff has been taking direction from me daily, and we have weekly staff meetings,” Carter said. “This is a good transition, and we know we made the right choice.”

Pescosolido went through a rigorous interview process before receiving the position, according to Grotheer. Twentyfive applicants underwent over five months of interviewing before Harp settled on Pescosolido.

Pescosolido said he hopes city residents will recognize that the changes he’s planned benefit them in the long run.

“People are always afraid of change, but if we introduce it slow I think we’ll be okay,” he said. “We’re trying to acquire special funds that will bring us to the level we need so that we can provide additional services that way. Our staff has been around for a while, so I don’t think we’re going to have any issues.”

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“It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” KAHLIL GIBRAN LEBANESE ARTIST AND POET

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ACCESS YALE FROM PAGE 1 initiative will be allocated to the graduate and professional schools, allowing them to offer more aid to students.

Because the financial aid endowment fluctuates across the graduate and professional schools, each school has its own funding and a separate budget under which it operates. Due to this disparity, each school has a different starting point from which it begins determining how to meet the financial needs of its students.

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said Access Yale is meant to strengthen endowment support of financial aid programs across the University.

Donors may specify if their gifts

are meant to fund a particular school or program, he added, and this will most likely be the primary determinant of how much of the $200 million raised by this fundraising effort will be apportioned to each program or school.

“As always, the financial aid budgets at all of the schools are reviewed annually, as are the financial aid policies, in order to ensure that the door of education is open to all students,” Storlazzi said. “This Access Yale initiative is crucial to Yale’s mission of maintaining and strengthening the financial aid programs at the schools.”

Though the initiative will help fund the expansion of the Yale College student body by securing aid for an additional 800 students each year, Pamela Schir-

meister, graduate school senior associate dean and dean of strategic initiatives for the college, graduate school and FAS, said she does not think the initiative will have a significant effect on the number of students applying to or enrolling in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Because the graduate school fully funds all Ph.D. students, Schirmeister said, none of them require financial aid. She added that if the graduate school were given more money for financial aid, this would not necessarily increase the number of students admitted, because the number of students taken in each year depends on many more factors besides the amount of available financial aid.

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CLAY hopes to be more visible on campus CLAY FROM PAGE 1 who do question the legitimacy of legal abortion to step forward.”

McEachon, who has attended the rally for the past three years, said members of CLAY are aware that their political position is countercultural and unpopular. However, she added that the march is also a demonstration of how the demography of the pro-life movement is changing, including and incorporating more college students.

Former CLAY secretary Elizabeth Tokarz ’17 said she hopes nationwide discussions raised by the march will increase CLAY’s visibility on campus and generate constructive debate between students.

We feel like life issues are often pushed under the rug, which may be why they aren’t prioritized.

ELIZABETH TOKARZ ’17 Former secretary, Choose Life at Yale “We feel like life issues are often pushed under the rug, which may be why they aren’t prioritized, so we like it when one of our events sparks conversation,” Tokarz said.

She added that, while she knows the prolife stance is underrepresented on campus, the only time she felt her opinion was unwelcome was when Dwight Hall denied the group full membership. She said that, while Dwight Hall’s decision did not necessarily impact the finances of the organization, the group did miss out on some of the resources offered by the organization. For example, being able to partake in the car-sharing program would have been particularly useful, she said.

Former Dwight Hall co-coordinators Teresa Logue ’15 and Sterling Johnson ’15 declined to comment on the April 2014 decision.

CLAY member Evelyn Behling ’17 said the organization is no longer pursuing Dwight Hall membership, but the possibility of reapplying may resurface in the future.

Olivier van Donselaar ’17, who identifies for pro-choice, said Dwight Hall was justified in its decision to deny CLAY membership, adding that the umbrella organization should not associate itself with the negative messages he associates with CLAY. “Dwight Hall is about social justice, and I think that denying women to choose what they want to do with their own bodies does not fit into their agenda at all,” he said.

Van Donselaar pointed to the Reproductive Rights Action League and the Women’s Center as alternative groups where students could engage in pro-choice discussions. While CLAY and RALY groups have similar levels of membership, van Donselaar said they are important regardless of their sizes.

The March for Life will not be the first prolife demonstration with which Yale students have been involved. Tokarz said many CLAY members have attended other local demonstrations and organized “Vita et Veritas” — an annual pro-life conference that invites students from other Ivy League schools — at the Saint Thomas More Center for Catholic Life at Yale. According to the conference website, the event hopes to unite students engaged with pro-life organizations that have felt their opinions “marginalized or condemned” on large liberal university campuses.

Behling, who was the co-director of last year’s conference, said she was pleased with the attendance of the conference and that she hopes to extend invitations to more schools in 2015.

Jim McGlone, president of Harvard Right for Life, a pro-life organization similar to CLAY, said his organization has been able to receive funding from different Harvard groups, allowing the organization of 20 members to participate in events like the “March for Life,” to continue their service projects and to host guest speakers.

“We definitely are in support of CLAY and their efforts,” he said. “We hope to walk with them at the March on Thursday to promote solidarity among the Ivy League schools.”

The first “March for Life” took place in 1973.

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

tralized than the college and work on a program basis in making our decisions about how many students to admit,” Schirmeister said. “We have to consider the job market for Ph.D.s in each field, the strength of the applicant pool by field, faculty size and so on.”

Salovey, when asked if money raised by this initiative could fund future financial aid policy change, such as the elimination of the student income contribution, said the University continues to evaluate its financial aid policies on an ongoing basis, and Access Yale is a separate effort.

“This fundraising initiative is independent of the process by which policy changes are considered,” Salovey said.

Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff

columnist for the News, said he is pleased to hear that the University is finally turning its attention towards financial aid but disagrees with the wording of the Yale News press release announcing the program. Blackmon said the release denies facts that have recently been publicized in the Yale College Council report on financial aid.

“The release says that ‘Yale reduced the required student contribution so that loans are no longer a necessity,’ but this is just not true,” he said. “The YCC report shows that a significant number of students are taking out loans each year and accumulating debt.”

Blackmon added that another issue with the Access Yale initiative is that the University is

not raising $200 million to specifically fund financial aid policy change.

But others interviewed said they were encouraged by the University’s efforts to provide for incoming students.

“Ensuring that qualified students can both attend Yale and are given the necessary funding to do so is very important,” said John Lazarsfeld ’17. “And I think the Access Yale initiative shows that the administration is continuing to put students first.”

During the 2014–15 academic year, the University will spend $116.6 million on financial aid for Yale College students, and $340 million on financial aid in total.

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

Davos “convenient” for fundraising

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President Peter Salovey traveled to Davos, Switzerland to meet influential donors at the World Economic Forum.

SWISS FROM PAGE 1 ity of the conference attended by university leaders “seems a bit far removed from the celebrity side of Davos you often see in the media.” Shiller echoed the sentiment, saying the forum is not simply a networking opportunity, as some suggest.

While it can be said that serious business has been accomplished at Davos — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is rumored to have bonded with Sheryl Sandberg at the WEF in 2008 before hiring her as the site’s chief operating officer — a large chunk of the forum’s coverage focuses on the lavishness of the week. One New York Times article from last year’s forum links to a video called “How to Find the Best Davos Parties,” while another calls the forum “a

glorified four-day-long cocktail party.”

Elliott said while the forum can set the tone for subsequent discussions elsewhere, its purported purpose may be somewhat empty.

“Davos does not really alleviate poverty,” Elliott said. “Its mission statement says it is committed to improving the state of the world.

One view is that the mission statement should be ‘committed to improving the state of the world but committed to ensuring that little in the world really changes.’”

In addition to wealth disparities and income inequality, a major issue at WEF in the past has been sustainability and environmental preservation. Yet, Davos critics also point to the apparent irony in staging a conference addressing the environ-

ment in a town carved out of the Swiss Alps.

Ben Cashore, professor of environmental governance and political science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, said the question of whether international conferences are worth the environmental toll is one environmentalists continue to grapple with.

“We all want to go to these meetings, we all want to travel, but doing so is not good for our long term interest,” Cashore said.

“But the question is, are those impacts justified because we’re trying to bring solutions? I hope to God the answer is yes.”

Prior to his arrival in Davos, Salovey spent a few days with alumni in London.

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

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“Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.” SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ENGLISH POET

New prefrosh advising program launched

BY HAN-AH SUMNER AND VICTOR WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER As another season of college decisions appears on the horizon, the Admissions Office will call upon current Yalies to extend a warm embrace from the Elm City to newly admitted students.

Announced last Monday, the Prefrosh Advisors program is a revamp of the Admissions Office’s previous Adopt a Prefrosh program. According to the Admissions Office, the Prefrosh Advisors program serves a similar function to the previous initiative by facilitating communication between those already on campus and those deciding whether or not to come.

Both administrators and students said that conversations between current and admitted students are an effective way for potential Yalies to learn more about the school and to persuade undecided students to matriculate to the University.

“Current Yale students are undoubtedly Yale’s best resource and the Admissions Office’s best recruitment

tool,” Admissions Office Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said.

Dunn said the Admissions Office decided to rename and improve its previous program in response to technological advancements and students’ growing accessibility to different modes of communication. When Adopt a Prefrosh was created in 2005, current students would call admitted students during phone-a-thon event held at phone banks. But over the past nine years, Adopt a Prefrosh was tweaked as administrators integrated the use of personal cell phones, removing the need for phone banks.

In its latest update, the Admissions Office has also added an online interface for the convenience of Prefrosh Advisors that allows Yalies to conduct their calls on-the-go. Instead of receiving student contact information from a physical location on campus, Prefrosh Advisors will sign up in advance for campus-wide calling events that span an entire evening. During a window of a few hours, they will be able to use a secure link to see contact information

for admitted students who share their interests. This would allow advisors’ to participate in simultaneous calling events from different locations, including the their bedrooms, common rooms or classrooms.

Despite the revamp, Dunn maintains that the goal of the program remains the same and that the office has already laid out the strategy to contact this year’s Early Action admitted students.

“To reach our Early Action admitted students, we have nine different themed calling events planned: three per night on three nights,” he said. “[The themes] will include academic interest areas, extracurricular interest areas and geographic regions.”

A short application for the program asked applicants to rank their favorite area of interest, which ranged from academic subjects to campus communities. Based on these answers, the office will pair Yalies with admitted students who have similar expressed interests.

Twelve students interviewed had differing opinions about how admitted students should be paired with current students. Many thought that the pair-

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The Prefrosh Advisors Program pairs current Yalies with newly admitted students by academic interest and geographic region.

ings should be based on academic or extracurricular leanings because this would be most useful for admitted students trying to envision how they would fit into Yale’s busy fabric.

Others suggested an alternate approach, arguing that matching advisors to admitted students by shared academic interests is not meaningful.

“Pairing by academic interest is worthless because so many freshmen like myself don’t know what we are interested in,” Ethan Young ’18 said.

Instead, pairings should be made by geographical region because that offers the greatest amount of common ground between students, Young said.

Current students’ experience with the program before enrollment ranged from neutral to very positive. Corrie Chan ’18 said that talking to a current student on the phone after she was admitted gave her a sense of whether or not Yale would be a place where she could belong.

Most students agreed that the experience is a valuable addition to the other resources that Yale offers to admitted students.

Paul Eberwine ’18 said his advisor introduced him to the Directed Studies program, which significantly impacted his decision to come to Yale.

The experience can offer a lot of useful information that a prospective student cannot get from a website, info session or even a tour, Liam ArnadeColwill ’18 said.

“Interaction with students on a personal level sets Yale apart from other schools,” Hannah Coy ’18.

Dunn said he hopes, with the aid of the pairings, these conversations would result in longer-lasting relationships between current and admitted students.

“We certainly hope that some admitted students and Prefrosh Advisors hit it off and develop relationships that continue through to Bulldog Days and probably include connecting through email, text or Facebook,” he said.

Two admitted students interviewed agreed that the program’s level of personal connection will be helpful in learning more about the University.

“Yale is this big ominous step that I’m not 100 percent ready to take yet,” said Alex McIntyre, an admitted student from Davis, Calif. But, “being able to talk to [with current students] oneon-one would be excellent preparation and would make students feel a lot more comfortable with the idea of going off to college.”

opportunities for improvement,” said Elizabeth Krause, vice president of policy and communications for CT Health.

“We felt that these voices had important things to say about improving the ACA.” She added that health care policy makers should read the recommendations in the report to ensure that health care delivery adapts to consumers’ preferences.

About 75 percent of respondents said they had help in signing up for health care coverage.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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

Contact HAN-AH SUMNER at han-ah.sumner@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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In a survey released last week, 80 to 90 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with their health care plans.

The administrative service organization BeneCare is responsible for coordinating access to dental care under HUSKY. The report recommended that information about the services and contact information for BeneCare be made explicitly available to new HUSKY recipients so they are aware of their dental plan options.

In addition, the report encourages churches and other community organizations to help spread the word about benefits for which members qualify, since 40 respondents said that they heard about the health care expansion from family or friends.

Access to specialists was also men-

tioned as a cause for worry, particularly among low-income individuals with chronic illnesses who are still having difficulty finding affordable specialty care.

In general, the report emphasized the need to improve communications between Access Health CT and Connecticut’s Department of Social Services, the overseer of HUSKY. The project was funded by a grant from the Connecticut Health Foundation, which focuses on health equity issues.

“We see the value of capturing stories as a way to understand where policies are working and where there are

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER A recent report commissioned

by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven challenges widespread assumptions about immigration in the Elm City.

At a Tuesday press conference on the report, president and CEO of The Community Foundation William Ginsberg said that the purpose of the report is to utilize hard data and surveys to help the general public, policy makers and local leaders understand the impact of immigration in the New Haven area. The report was written by DataHaven, a non-profit that compiles, shares and interprets public data in order to facilitate effective decision-making. The report assembles data from federal, state and local government agencies, as well as information generated locally through surveys conducted by DataHaven and The Community Foundation.

Ginsberg said that the report corrects two widespread misconceptions concerning immigration in New Haven. The first false impression is that substantial immigration is economically disadvantageous to the city as a whole. The report found that immigrants contribute millions of dollars in property taxes to municipal governments and are also more likely to own a small business than U.S.-born New Haveners. The second misconception, Ginsberg said, is that many immigrants are inexperienced workers at the bottom of the economic ladder. In reality, the report found that two-thirds of the immigrants in the community are categorized as high-skilled workers, defined as those who have gained advanced knowledge through higher education.

John Lugo, a community organizer with Unidad Latina en Accion, believes that New Haven is overall very welcoming to immigrants.

However, he noted that this is the case only because the immigrant community in the city has fought to make it that way.

“We are lucky in that we have a very active, very vibrant community working to speak up on behalf of the underrepresented,” he said.

Ginsberg agreed with Lugo that New Haven is more accommodating to immigrants than most other cities, referencing the city’s initiative in 2007 to issue municipal identification cards to all its residents, including undocumented immigrants, despite disapproval from the Bush Administration.

However, Ginsberg stated that there are still major problems and misconceptions that need to be corrected, citing racial profiling in East Haven as a notable example. Hispanic business owners of East Haven filed a lawsuit against the East Haven Police Department in October 2010, claiming that the civil rights of Hispanic residents had been violated Sandra Travino, executive director of Junta for Progressive Action, a non-profit dedicated to the empowerment of Latino and low-income communities, said she found the report to be a unique combination of historical context, data analysis and local perspectives.

“I think it will be an extremely important tool that we’ll be able to use to educate the community about the substantial benefits that come with immigration and to correct widespread misconceptions concerning immigrants,” she said.

Travino specifically mentioned a new statistic in the report that states that only 3.4 percent of Connecticut’s population consists of undocumented immigrants, which is far less than was previously assumed.

Ginsberg stated that the report’s release is part of a much broader initiative to improve civic, social and economic life in New Haven. Activists at The Community Foundation will continue to do immigration outreach and education, give grants to organizations that support immigration and hold leadership development programs for immigrants. The organization will also host a large community gathering in March to discuss new policies recently passed by the Obama Administration concerning the rights of undocumented immigrants in America.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven was officially established in 1928.

Residents satisfied with healthcare access Low-income residents in the New Haven area are generally content with their new level of access to health care granted by the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, according to a report released last week.

Christian Community Action, a social service organization based in New Haven, carried out the survey in conjunction with the Connecticut Alliance for Basic Human Needs in hopes of identifying issues faced by residents who enrolled in insurance plans through Connecticut’s health exchange network, Access Health CT, in the past year. One hundred four individuals who qualify for Medicaid, predominantly from New Haven, were randomly selected and interviewed for the project. Although some interviewees said they were misinformed about their dental coverage, most respondents seemed pleased with their overall health plans.

“The thing that surprised us in the advocate community was how positive the interviews were and how happy people were overall,” said Jane McNichol, executive director of the Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut, which runs the Connecticut Alliance for Basic Human Needs.

During the first half of 2014, 156,815 people enrolled in HUSKY, Connecticut’s Medicaid program, representing a 20.6 percent increase in enrollment from December 2013, the report found.

Eighty to 90 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with their health care plans and coverage.

“This is what health care should be,” Ambrose, one of the interviewees identified only by first name, said in the report.

Though more individuals in Connecticut now have access to health care than in previous years, the report highlighted several problems that still remain to be addressed.

Many interviewees expressed confusion about the HUSKY plan’s dental coverage, McNichol said.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

Decades-old federal law may impact admissions practices STANFORD FROM PAGE 1 that a student can only submit a FERPA request to a university once they have enrolled, meaning that students who have been rejected from a school or who have not yet matriculated are ineligible to gain access to their admission documents.

“A student can make a FERPA request once they are in attendance at Yale, which means when the student is enrolled and classes begin,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said.

According to The Times, members of The Fountain Hopper publicized their findings to encourage more students to submit requests, both at Stanford and at other universities.

Both Quinlan and University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said the University has recently seen an increase in requests.

“It is not rare for us to receive FERPA requests, but we have seen an increase recently,” Olszewski said.

Two Yale students — Scott Greenberg ’15, a staff columnist for the News, and Aaron Gertler ’16 — said they were inspired by The Fountain Hopper to submit their own FERPA access requests to the University Registrar’s Office on Saturday. Greenberg and Gertler both said they expected that finding any scores or comments on their records may provide useful insight into the inner mechanisms of the University’s admissions process.

Both students said they have not yet received a response from the Registrar’s Office.

While Greenberg said he is interested in holding the administration accountable for their decisions, Gertler said simple curiosity was his main motivation for sending in a request.

“I also have a little brother who may apply to Yale in a few years, and who is very similar to me in many ways,” Gertler said. “I’d like to see how Yale thought my application could have been stronger so that I’ll be in a position to advise my brother.”

FERPA was passed in 1974, and has been amended by Congress a total of nine times since its enactment.

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Following an article published in The Fountain Hopper, many students at Stanford and other institutions have submitted FERPA requests.

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

Laptop, wallet, phone stolen in series of campus thefts THEFTS FROM PAGE 1 required significant searching to find.

“This was proof that the perpetrator had extensively been through my belongings,” Cruciger said.

Cruciger immediately reported the theft to the Yale police.

A daily crime log on the YPD’s website recorded that a theft had been reported at 241 Elm St., the address of Trumbull College, on Jan 15. That case is closed, the report said. However, additional crime logs from the rest of the week showed four more thefts in Trumbull College reported on Jan. 15 and Jan. 17. Each of these cases remain open.

The perpetrator had extensively been through my belongings.

MICHAEL CRUCIGER ’15 University Spokesperson Tom Conroy said in a Tuesday email to the News that Yale detectives are investigating the thefts and are actively pursuing several leads.

The YPD could not be reached for further comment Tuesday.

Several students reported suspicious activity to Trumbull College Master Margaret Clark on the night Cruciger’s laptop was stolen, Clark said.

Axell Meza ’16 was with two friends in his common room when a person he did not know entered his suite without knocking.

The individual, described as a college-aged, African-American male, looked shocked when he saw Meza and his friends in the common room and claimed to be looking for a man named Josh, Meza said. When Meza asked him for more details about Josh, the man said Josh was a freshman with whom he attended Yale, Meza said.

Meza tried not to seem alarmed while the individual was in his common room due to a fear that he could be armed. Nevertheless, the individual appeared calm and unthreatening, and thus, Meza said, he felt no need to call secu-

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Over the past week, five students have been victims of theft on and around campus. Reports include suspicious individuals around Trumbull College and a robbery by individuals on bikes. rity immediately.

Shortly after the encounter, Meza heard his entryway door shut abruptly, and he took that to mean the suspicious person had gone.

According to Cruciger and Meza, other students in entryway J encountered the same individual that evening, claiming to be looking for Josh.

“Other students reported that in that area, and at that time, they saw someone that was walking through and standing near opening doors,” Clark said, adding that the students who saw the individual had said they did not feel threatened, even though they could tell that he was not a Yale

student.

On Monday evening, there was another sighting in Trumbull of individuals whom students identified as suspicious. The YPD was immediately called and searched the premises, asking students if they had seen anything unusual.

Nora Etienne ’17 told the News she was studying in the Trumbull library when two police officers came in and asked whether anyone in the room had recently entered. She told them that no one had. Etienne added that the officers, guided by a Yale student, continued searching through Trumbull for a few minutes before leaving the college.

Clark said she was not aware

of the presence of police until she was alerted by a student. She was then told by the YPD that nothing untoward had been discovered.

“The people who were sighted could be perfectly innocent, but nothing is known at this point,” Clark said Monday night.

Earlier that night, the year’s first campus-wide alert from YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins reported another incident involving three undergraduates.

The email said that two men on bicycles approached the students from behind, demanding that they turn over their backpacks.

A Jan. 20 press release from New Haven Police Department Spokesperson David Hartman

said the undergraduates had told investigators that one of the two men had a silver-colored handgun with which he threatened the undergraduates. According to Hartman, the undergraduates handed over their backpacks, which contained rock-climbing equipment, as well as an iPhone in a black case.

In addition to this robbery involving three Yale students, the NHPD reported three other incidents of robbery on Jan. 19. The report did not include the Trumbull thefts.

In emails sent out to Trumbull students over the weekend, Clark reminded students to stay vigilant and careful, adding that

hangers should not used to keep doors unlocked.

Cruciger said he currently has no further information on his case, but he encouraged anyone with knowledge to step forward.

“All I want is for something to be done,” he said. “My laptop contains all of my photos and files from three-and-a-half years at Yale.”

Students with information on the cases can contact the YPD at 203-432-4400.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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“We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter — and to write it in the books of law.” LYNDON B. JOHNSON 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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Title IX investigation may not spur policy change, at least for now

BY TEO ARMUS AND ELIZABETH SEDRAN The investigations of Barnard and Columbia opened by the Department of Education for alleged Title IX violations are unlikely to create immediate change to campus policy according to legal experts.

The Office for Civil Rights opened separate investigations into Barnard on Dec. 29 and Columbia on Jan. 8 following a complaint filed by 23 students in April, which an additional five students signed onto after April. The complaint alleges noncompliance with Title IX, Title II, and the Clery Act. Over 94 schools are currently under investigation by the OCR for violating Title IX, which protects against “all forms of sex discrimination” in educational institutions that receive federal funding.

Colby Bruno, senior legal counsel at the Victim Rights Law Center, said the length of the investigation can vary based on a number of factors, including the number of initial allegations put forth by complainants to the Department of Education, the school’s willingness to comply with federal investigators, and the general workload of the OCR. Over 40 investigations for Title IX violations have been opened in the past eight months, increasing OCR’s caseload by over 40 percent.

Bruno said that despite the increased workload there have not been significant staff increases to handle investigations.

“You’re talking about a flood of complaints still now being worked by about the same number of investigators,” she said.

Christina Brandt-Young, a lawyer at the nonprofit Legal Momentum,, which filed the Title IX complaint for Brown University, said that the OCR has typically requested “a lot of documents” for the Title IX office’s operations over the past several years.

Stanford law professor Michele Landis Dauber, who was active in revising Stanford’s policy on sexual assault, said the OCR makes this request to identify systemic policy shortfalls.

“They say, ‘Turn in all the paperwork about every sexual harassment complaint, and every sexual assault complaint, everything within this set of stuff that goes back three years,’” Dauber said.

“It’s a big risk. They want to look at a lot of paper, or a lot of documents, which is why these cases take so long to investi-

gate and to solve, they’re looking for patterns.”

In addition to looking at documents from a school’s adjudiCOLUMBIA cation and grievance procedures, the OCR will conduct interviews of students, faculty, and administrators about the climate on campus.

Investigations can conclude in a variety of ways: One of the most common is a voluntary resolution agreement reached between the school and the OCR. Bruno said she believes the OCR prefers this type of resolution agreement because it wants schools to be invested in creating a safe climate.

“They want the school to actually do the right thing,” Bruno said. “There seems to be more investment from the school if it’s done in a voluntary way.”

Bruno said that recent recommendations for resolution agreements have tended to focus on improving policy implementation, training of university faculty, and improving communication.

The agreement reached in December between Harvard University Law School and the OCR focuses on making the policy clearer to students in addition to alterations to the school’s grievance procedures.

Bruno said that she often cites Columbia’s policy as one of the “top five in the country,” but that implementation is essential to having an effective policy.

“You can have a perfectly good policy, but when you don’t have trained people to carry out that policy, inevitably there are flaws in the implementation,” she said. “You really see them [the OCR] talking at length about the failure to train the people who were the decision makers.”

Zoe Ridolfi-Starr and the lead complainant on the federal complaint against Barnard and Columbia, said that she hopes that the OCR recommendations would include the creation of “more severe sanctions” and re-examinations of former cases.

Bruno said that she thinks the OCR tends to “shy away from” recommending sanctions and reopening specific adjudication cases.

However, Ridolfi-Starr says that she hopes that the OCR investigation will result in further policy revisions by University administrators.

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Transgender student alleges harassment

Shooter dead, Brigham doctor seriously wounded

BY AIMEE CHO Transgender graduate student Meredith Talusan has been barred from living in Telluride House — an organization independent of the University that provides free room and board for its residents — after leaving the house and actively protesting against what she has called transphobic harassment by her housemate.

Talusan said it began with comments her housemate allegedly said to her, including, “You lost your dick,” “You’re a man dressed as a woman” and “Why do you make such a big deal about being transgender?”

After facing these comments for several months — which she said caused her to have panic attacks — Talusan asked Telluride to take disciplinary action and remove the housemate from the house. She said this led to a week of investigation and deliberations that she described as a “mysterious process [which was] very covered up and hush-hush.”

“Even after I asked repeatedly what went on, nobody explained it to me,” Talusan said. “And they emphasized that I couldn’t appeal the decision.”

Following the deliberations, Talusan said the housemate was required to undergo sensitivity training, but was otherwise found not guilty and allowed to stay in the house.

Since then, Talusan said that having to continue living with the housemate had caused her to struggle with feelings of “severe emotional stress.”

“When you’re a person who belongs to a minority category where every time you’re on the street in the dark, [and] you’re afraid for your safety, your home becomes really important. It allows me to take a breath from this feeling that at any moment, I can be confronted just because of who I am,” she said. “The fact that now I don’t have that feeling of safety where I live is deeply compromising to me.”

The Telluride House’s website describes itself as a “diverse selfgoverning community of under-

graduate and graduate students that offers full room and board scholarship to all its residents.” The house, which CORNELL was founded in 1911, encourages “intellectual engagement,” so residents each present an hour-long speech once a year, as well as participate in weekly lectures and workshop. Residents also attend weekly house meetings where they discuss governance issues.

Telluride House is owned and overseen by Telluride Association, a “non-profit organization that creates and fosters educational communities that teach leadership and service,” according to its website.

Talusan posted a petition on Change.org addressed to Telluride, asking them to reverse their decision and remove the housemate from the house. The petition received 1,640 signatures as of Monday, as well as a public letter of support signed by over 100 alumni and faculty of Telluride-related programs.

Talusan — who intended to live in the house this semester — and Telluride Association are scheduled for a court hearing to determine whether she will in fact be evicted.

“I think Telluride Association’s actions continue to demonstrate that they’re trying to use their institutional power to cover up discrimination and injustice,” Talusan said.

Residents of the Telluride House declined to discuss the matter on the record.

“PEOPLE NEEDED TO FIND WAYS TO TURN ME INTO A LIAR”

Talusan said that at the beginning of the school year, she had considered the housemate a friend.

“I would have considered everyone in the house to be my friend prior to the incidents. I even invited that person to go to a party with me one time.

I try to go out of my way to be friends with the people that I live with,” she

said.

At first, Talusan said she tried to brush off the housemate’s transphobic comments.

“Often times we [minorities] don’t want to admit to ourselves that we’ve been victimized, so we try to rationalize the actions of the people who do this to us,” she said.

But then the housemate began allowing the unexpected CouchSurfing.com guests to stay at the house for free.

“She said she felt lonely and that she identified with the couch surfers,” Talusan said. “The housing contract says that we’re permitted personal guests. For everyone up to this point, the assumption has been that a personal guest is somebody you’ve met in person before. But [she] claimed that was not her interpretation.”

She estimated that about onethird of the house supported her, one-third did not believe her claims and the other third had neutral or conflicted feelings.

Daniel Marshall, Telluride House member and former chair of the advisory committee — a position akin to house president — said he supported Talusan’s “right to safety and equitable treatment from within the House.” He described the house atmosphere during that time as a “tense and stressful environment for all.” “[There was] constant discussion and frustrating debates that went on for weeks,” he said.

Marshall said he resigned as house chair out of “frustration and disappointment with the way that the Telluride Association handled the situation.”

“Because at the Telluride House we are required to commit a demanding amount of intellectual and physical labor to the Telluride Association, I pledged to withhold my labor from the institution so long as Meredith was de facto exiled from our community on the basis of her identity and her unwillingness to peacefully endure attacks made on her identity,” Marshall said.

BY MADELINE LEAR AND DANIEL LEVINE Following a shooting this morning at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a suspect police identified as Stephen Pasceri, 55, of Millbury, Mass., is dead from what appears to be a self-inflicted gun wound, and a doctor police believe he targeted is seriously wounded.

Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said Tuesday that a doctor who is employed by the hospital was in life-threatening condition after being shot at least twice in the hospital’s Shapiro Building.

“At approximately 11:04 a.m., our 911 system started to receive calls about possible shots being fired here at Brigham and Women’s,” Evans said at a press conference at the Brigham shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Police received another call of a “doctor being shot and people barricading themselves inside offices here,” Evans said, shortly after the initial calls.

A police officer stands outside the Shapiro building of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Longwood on Tuesday.

Earlier that morning a doctor was shot by an unidentified suspect.

Boston Police officers soon arrived at the scene and proceeded to secure the second floor, the reported site of the gunshots. They found the suspect — later identified as Pasceri in a press release Tuesday evening — dead in an examination room from what Evans said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound with a weapon next to him.

Evans said the suspect entered the hospital on the second floor and asked for the doctor specifically. He said he believes the doctor was shot near the entrance to the examination room and lobby area.

“Clearly [the suspect] came in, and the doctor came out to see him, and that’s [when] we believe the altercation took place,” Evans said. He

said authorities believe the suspect targeted a specific doctor, but that they do not believe the suspect was the victim’s patient.

HARVARD “[The investigation] is leading us to believe that there’s something in the past that upset [the suspect],” he said.

WBZ-TV reported that the victim was a cardiac surgeon.

Evans praised the first responders, who he said “did everything they could to neutralize not only the situation but also get the care to that doctor.” Police secured the scene within 16 minutes, and there were no other injuries, according to a press release.

Slightly after noon, the Harvard University Police Department issued a community advisory message in response to the shooting, saying that at 11:10 a.m., HUPD learned of a shooting at the Brigham. HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano directed questions to Boston Police, but wrote in an email: “The Harvard University Police Department was aware of the situation and was closely monitoring it in case there was an impact on the Longwood Campus.”

The shooting disrupted a busy day at the Brigham on Tuesday as visitors and hospital personnel evacuated the building.

James Pittelli of Stony Creek, N.Y., said he was already under stress when he arrived at the hospital Tuesday morning for his son’s heart surgery.

He was in the second floor waiting area when a security guard entered and urged him to evacuate.

James Pittelli of New York was waiting for his son, who was undergoing heart surgery when police rushed into the waiting area. “People came in and started yelling, ‘You gotta get out, you gotta get out of the building now.’”

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Would you like to publish a short essay in a book about works of art at the Yale University Art Gallery & the Yale Center for British Art? The Department of the History of Art, the Gallery, and the Center invite Yale undergraduates to submit brief essays (500 words maximum) on individual works of art in the museums’ collections.

Essays about the museum buildings themselves are also welcome.

The essays should be thoughtful and engaging, but not written in a scholarly format with footnotes. Instead, they should be personal reflections about the work in question. What makes the work special to you? How does it relate—perhaps in unexpected ways— to your experience at Yale or elsewhere? Or, to put it another way: if one definition of a museum is that it stops time, that it arrests the ordinary flow of experience by producing moments of personal transformation, what works at Yale stop you in your tracks and why? Each essay selected for publication will be accompanied by a full-color illustration. The book will appear in August 2015, and it will be distributed to Yale students and faculty, as well as to select friends and patrons of the Gallery and the Center.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 4:30 PM CEAS China Colloquium: “1943: China at the Crossroads.” World War II was a transformative moment shaping the world we live in. Joseph Esherick, professor emeritus of history, University of California, San Diego, probes the way in which the innumerable threads linking local, national, and international events can be unraveled by focusing on a single limited time when China advanced towards a critical crossroads in its history. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.).

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 11:00 AM Commercialization of Biotech and Med Device Workshop. The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and the Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology are hosting a talk

by Matt Geller, Ph.D, managing director at Geller Biopharm, on the commercialization of biotech followed by a workshop to help people understand the basic questions they need to ask to understand a biomedical product idea. Cohen Auditorium (230 South Frontage Rd.).

12:30 PM Furniture Study Tour. Go behind the scenes of the American Decorative Arts Furniture Study, the Gallery’s working library of American furniture and wooden objects, which features more than 1,000 works from the 17th to the 21st century. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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“I know that two sides of an isosceles triangle are equal.” GREGG POPOVICH SAN ANTONIO SPURS HEAD COACH

Men’s swimming upsets Penn St.

Elis top competition, prep for Trinity

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The Yale women’s team posted three wins over ranked teams last weekend.

SQUASH FROM PAGE 14 This was the second consecutive three-win week for the Bulldogs, who remain undefeated.

The team’s three seniors — captain Anna Harrison ’15, Shihui Mao ’15 and Issey Norman-Ross ’15 — have all stepped up to lead a team that continues to work hard and improve on a daily basis, according to head coach David Talbott.

The men’s team, on the other hand, was coming off a tough loss last weekend against Columbia.

Not only did the Elis drop from No. 3 to No. 6 in the national rankings, but it was also the first-ever program victory by Columbia over the Bulldogs. Moreover, the current national rankings mark the first time in recent memory that the top three rankings are occupied by non-Ivy teams.

The Yale men (4–2, 1–1 Ivy) faced tougher competition than the women’s team did this weekend, as they hosted No. 3 Rochester (6–3) and No. 1 St. Lawrence (8–1) back-to-back. The Elis bested Rochester 6–3, but then fell 6–3 to St. Lawrence.

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The Bulldogs came back from a two-point deficit after day one to overcome Penn State 181–172.

SWIMMING FROM PAGE 14 and giving the Elis some vital points. For the remaining five individual events, the Bulldogs managed to have at least two swimmers place in the top three, and they twice swept all three spots, effectively sealing the win, although by a narrow margin.

Hogan said the coaches told them exactly how many points they needed to pull out the win, giving them the motivation they used to fuel the rest of the meet.

The women’s team stayed at home to face off against New Hampshire and completed another successful blow out. Lilybet MacRae ’17, Kelly Sherman ’16 and Olivia Grinker ’16 swept the one-meter dive, followed by a win in the 400-yard medley relay. In the 1,000yard freestyle, Eva Fabian ’16 won by two seconds while Sydney Hirschi won the 50-yard freestyle by less than 0.1 seconds.

In the 200-yard freestyle, Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 took second place. She was

recently named the ECAC swimmer of the week for her victories in the meets versus Cornell, Penn and Dartmouth.

“I am honored by the recognition and grateful for my coach, Jim Henry, for nominating me,” Chintanaphol said.

The divers continued their streak and swept the three-meter dive as well, with McKenna Tennant ’18 taking second and Sherman taking third. Victories in the 100yard butterfly, freestyle, and backstroke led to 27 points for the Elis, followed by another win

by Fabian in the 500-yard freestyle to round out the first place finishes for the Bulldogs on the day.

Both teams will have a week of rest before heading to the biggest meet of the season, the Harvard-Yale-Princeton matchup in Cambridge. The women begin competition on Jan. 30 and the men begin Jan. 31.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

Talbott believes the men played their best match of the season thus far against Rochester, though the team could not match that same intensity against St. Lawrence.

Liam McClintock ’17, Thomas Kingshott ’18 and Max Martin ’18 had standout weekends, with all three of them winning both of their matches.

The team’s primary goal is winning the Ivy League title, though they do have a chance to compete for the national title as well, according to Talbott.

“The past few matches have been a great way to sharpen [our players’] skills,” Saunders said. “It is also nice that we have been able to get our lower-ranked players on the ladders some valuable experience. They have shown great maturity this weekend and we hope that this will help us [going forward].”

Both teams travel north today to face perennial rival Trinity, whose men’s and women’s teams are ranked second and third, respectively, though Talbott considers their women’s team to be the best in the country.

Three years ago, on Jan. 18, 2012, the Bulldogs upset the Trinity men’s team 5–4 to end the Bantams’ 252-game winning streak that dated back to the 1998 season.

Just two players, Joseph Roberts ’15 and Huw Robinson ’15, were on that squad, though neither were in the top nine spots.

The Bantams will be no easy task for the men. St. Lawrence — the team that beat Yale 6–3 this past weekend — fell 7–2 to the Trinity squad. Despite the challenge, the Bulldogs are confident in their ability to win.

“We are looking to rebound after losing a close one to St. Lawrence this weekend,” McClintock said. “Beating Trinity, especially in their own house, would be an incredible statement. We match up pretty well with them, and there’s no individual match we can’t win.”

The men’s and women’s matches will begin at 6 p.m. tonight at Trinity’s Kellner Squash Center.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILLOW at griffin.smillow@yale.edu .

Elis drop close opening meet to UNH GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 14 with a score of 9.625 that nearly tied her career-best on the event.

Opperman and Traina, matching her career high, tied for the Bulldogs’ top score on vault with 9.675.

With three gymnasts tying for top scores and a fourth, Li, earning the highest cumulative score, the Bulldogs demonstrated the versatility of their lineup.

“The depth of our team is going to be our strength this year, if we can carry on,” Sooksengdao said. “The majority of us train all events and do it the best we can, which I think helps us keep our depth. I’m really proud of how everyone is pushing on each event.”

These showings were not enough to win individual events, however, as the Wildcats ultimately earned the top two scores on every apparatus.

Although the outcome was not ideal, team members spoke of positive takeaways from the opening meet.

“I think everyone did a good job putting forth what they

were doing in practice,” Li said.

“Everyone has been working super hard, and that definitely showed.”

Li cited vault as the most improved event and said she thinks the lineup will be much stronger than in past years. She noted that the freshmen in particular have strong vaults and predicted that their participation will boost team scores.

Opperman, Yale’s best performer on vault last season, agreed and added that the combination of talented freshmen and upperclassmen who have upgraded their vaults will help improve the team.

“For the early meets, I’m going to be doing a Kasamatsu,” Opperman said. “It’s actually a men’s vault. It’s a tuck full. I’m hoping to upgrade it to a layout.”

Performing the vault, which is a full flip and a full twist, in a layout position, rather than a tuck, will increase the vault’s difficulty level and therefore the maximum number of points it can score.

Though Yale can continue to improve in the gym, Li said that the team can do a lot more when

not competing.

“We can bring up the energy a bit,” Li said. “You always forget how long meets are and it’s easy to get tired and stop cheering as much, but that really brings up the mood of the team. I think we can do a better job of maintaining that throughout the meet.”

The team traditionally begins each meet with a pump-up cheer called Roll Call. After a two-hour warm-up on the equipment, the Bulldogs huddle up for the cheer before marching out to present themselves to the judges and audience.

“It’s pretty fun,” Li said. “It’s like a little rhyme where we all go around and everyone has their own little skit where they say what their roll call is, and we do another rhyme. That gets people pretty pumped up.”

The Bulldogs will continue their season against a familiar Ivy League foe when Yale travels to the University of Pennsylvania to take on the Quakers on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m.

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

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Three Elis tied for top scores in their events while another had the highest cumulative score for the Bulldogs.

Fencing starts off 2015 with a bang FENCING FROM PAGE 14

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The sabre squad for the men’s fencing team has been struggling with injuries, according to captain Hugh O’Cinneide ‘15.

victories against Vassar, Cleveland State and Detroit Mercy. The Bulldogs handled their opponents especially well in the foil competition, with 8–1 wins against three different teams, and the sabre competition, where the squad was undefeated in its four matchups.

O’Cinneide, who led the sabre team in its sweep on Sunday, noted that the competition provided a good way for the team to gauge its progress part way through the season. The captain also noted that the sabre squad did well in combating its recent injuries.

“Although we were battling with injuries, we had a strong showing from all

members of the sabre squad,” O’Cinneide said. “Alan Zhang [’16] and Ed Kong [’16] rose to the occasion and both posted great wins.”

Head coach Harry Harutunian remarked that while the women’s team excelled in all aspects of the competition at Vassar, the men’s squad struggled in terms of the épée competition, especially in its bouts against Vassar and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The épée team has sustained significant injuries, yet Harutunian noted that he was pleased with the way the squad has been progressing in practice.

One of the toughest competitions thus far for the Bulldogs comes this Sunday when they take on scholar-

ship teams including Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wayne State and Northwestern at the New York University Invitational. According to Harutunian, this upcoming weekend represents a chance to see what kind of shape the teams are truly in.

“We have a big test at NYU. We will be meeting the toughest schools in the country and the fencers will be working on raising their level to the highest capacity,” Harutunian said. “After NYU, we will know if we are ready to take on the big boys.”

The competition begins this Sunday in New York at 8 a.m.

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ARTS & CULTURE Local arts groups perform for MLK weekend

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER As the nation spent the weekend honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History hosted a variety of artists who paid tribute to King through music, dance and poetry.

Drawing over 4,800 visitors over the course of Sunday and Monday, the event featured a number of performances as part of a larger program highlighting King’s dedication to environmental and social justice.

Local music and dance groups, including Pan Jam, Lime Steel Band and the Nation Drill Squad Youth Program, performed alongside slam poets such as Roya Marsh and J-Sun. The live acts, most of which took place in the museum’s Great Hall of Dinosaurs, were collectively referred to as World Stage Performances.

Peabody events coordinator Josue Irizarry said the name of the event reflected the diversity of the featured artists.

“We have called it the World Stage because the groups here come from different families and different cultures,” Irizarry said.

The World Stage Performances began on Sunday afternoon with the Neighborhood Music School Premier Jazz Ensemble, which has performed at the annual event for the past five years, according to conductor Jeff Fuller ’67 MUS ’69.

Andrew Fermo, a high school student at the Neighborhood Music School who performed on Sunday with the ensemble, said he believes that the inclusion of live musical acts would attract more visitors to the museum.

Volunteer and organizing committee member Ellen Jaramillo echoed Fermo’s sentiment, adding that the diversity of performances gave visitors a wider worldview.

Other groups included the Solar Youth Drummers, which consists of young New Haven students who are members of Solar Youth — a neighborhood organization that encourages its members to become stewards of the environment and their communities, said Solar Youth program coordinator Gammy Moses. Solar Youth participants also reflected on King and his role in environmental justice through poetry and drumming, Moses added.

Groups encouraged visitors to participate during their performances, Irizarry said, adding that such an atmosphere served to engage the community. Families could then learn about environ-

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At the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 4,800 visitors watched performances that paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.’s commitment to environmental and social justice. mental and social justice through the 30 interactive booths set up by different organizations throughout the museum, Irizarry noted.

The featured booths included the Connecticut Audubon Society and the New Haven/León Sis-

ter City Project, which invited attendees to contribute to a local public art installation by crafting and decorating plastic bird silhouettes to be featured in the installation. New Haven/León Sister City Project Director Chris

Film series honors Russian filmmaker’s influence

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER This semester, the Whitney Humanities Center will pay tribute to the legacy of a Russian film director whose work covered war, corruption and fraternity.

Tonight, the first in a semester-long series of films by the late Aleksei Balabanov will be screened at the Whitney Humanities Center. Subtitled “Crime and Transcendence,” the series will show 10 of Balabanov’s films.

Several Yale institutions — including the MacMillan Center and the Film and Media Studies Program — are co-sponsoring the series in conjunction with the Russian corporate conglomerate Renova. Anna Nieman, a scholar of Balabanov’s work, said that the organizers’ choice to begin with the 1997 film “Brother” was a “perfect” choice, as she called brotherhood a unifying thread in Balabanov’s widely varying repertoire. Balabanov directed over a dozen films before his death in 2013. “[Balabanov] was able to put a nationalist, a gangster and a member of the liberal intelligentsia in the same row in a theater,” Nieman said, adding that his films forced differing groups “to recognize each other as members of one society, [and] to face the existence of a massive discord within it.”

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Marijeta Bozovic, one of the series’ organizers, explained that Balabanov’s work appeals to sophisticated film critics as well as to the average moviegoer. Film and Media Studies chair and Slavic Languages and Literatures professor John MacKay, whom Bozovic credited as the series’ main organizer, highlighted that all but two of the films will be shown on 35-millimeter film, which is the original medium in which the films were made.

MacKay said that after a bit of digging, he managed to find Moscow-based foreign film distribution company InterCinema, which owns all of the original 35-millimeter film prints that will be presented during this series. The first batch arrived by mail two weeks ago, and more continue to be shipped overseas to Yale. MacKay added that films in the series will feature introductions as well as post-screening discussions led by Yale faculty and graduate students, including Germanic Studies visiting professor Henry Sussman, Theater Studies professor Dominika Laster and Film and Media Studies visiting professor Oksana Chefranova.

On Feb. 4, for example, Bozovic will introduce and lead discussion for the film that she considers Balabanov’s premier work: “Of Freaks and Men,” which focuses on capitalism, film and pornography in St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century.

The series is one of several events this semester that are part of a longer-term Russian Studies project spearheaded by MacKay, Jackson Institute senior fellow Thomas Graham and history professor Paul Bushkovitch.

The project also includes a series of public lectures and meetings called “Contemporary Thinkers Program: Focus Russia,” which will include a visit from Russian ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, as well as a conference in April called “Rethinking Early Russian History.”

Nieman pointed out that the current conflict in Ukraine and Russia exhibits many of the feelings of Balabanov’s characters.

“The final phrase of the father in ‘War’ — ‘Wish I could rise up and go to war!’ — is being actualized right before our eyes,” she said. “Balabanov has been an odd man out of Russian cinema for much too long.”

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

Schweitzer said the project would raise awareness for a more birdfriendly city, with less pollution and better public health.

The museum also held a teen summit, a workshop in which students could perform spoken

word pieces or create videos and essays promoting environmental and social justice in honor of King. Additionally, the Peabody hosted both an open mic event and a slam poetry invitational, where 23 participants performed

pieces, the majority of which focused on issues of race.

This is the Peabody’s 19th year hosting this event.

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

Russian chorus sparks protests

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER As one of Russia’s most established music ensembles came to perform on campus, roughly a dozen protesters gathered outside in protest.

The Mariinsky Chorus, led

by Artistic and General director Valery Gergiev, staged a concert in Woolsey Hall on Friday night while a group of protesters — which included students and young children — held placards with messages such as “4,700 killed in Putin’s war against Ukraine” and “Russia, pull out your troops now.”

Azamat Kumykov GRD ’15, who was present at the protests, said he believes that the protests targeted at the Chorus’s artistic and general director, Valery Gergiev. Gergiev has voiced public support of Putin’s annexation of Crimea, he explained.

“The protest called for Gergiev to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the sad truth is that in today’s Russia, speaking one’s mind openly leads to dire consequences,” Kumykov said.

Prior to the concert, assistant professor of music Rebekah Ahrendt had expressed concern over the performance being “potentially politically problematic,” partly due to Gergiev’s known ties to the Russian government. Dana Astmann, the manager of communications at the Yale School of Music, said that the school was aware of the political undertones the concert might be perceived to have had.

She said that the school believes that Yale students are politically aware, and thus welcomes their responses — both positive and negative — to performances such as these.

Joseph Haberman ’17, a Russian major who also spent a year in Russia after high school, said he thinks the protest against the Mariinsky Chorus was an opportunity to express political grievances against the Russian government. But Haberman noted that targeting the director of the chorus for his political views as a private citizen “misses the point.” Haberman explained that he believes the performers were not engaging in any sort of political action through their performance but were only interested in sharing Russia’s cultural contribution to the world of music.

A Cold War mentality towards all things Russian is not something I’d like the campus to adopt.

NADEZHDA STRYUK ’17 Haberman added that he thinks the protesters may have mistakenly associated the chorus’s performance with the will of Putin or the Russian government but also noted that he believes the protesters’ wishes are legitimate and should not be silenced.

Nadezhda Stryuk ’17, who lives in the Russian city of Voronezh, said that she was not surprised by the protests, as Gergiev and Putin had been friends even before Putin became president.

“People in the West should [that] show all people who are associated with the current Russian government and support the war in Ukraine are not welcome here,” Stryuk said. “That’s the price they need to pay for receiving numerous benefits from Putin.”

But Stryuk noted that she is not sure if Gergiev really supports Russia’s military actions in Ukraine, even if he has publicly voiced such support. She explained that Russian people involved in politics have to either express their support for Putin or risk being penalized by the Russian government.

Holly Robinson ’17, a Russian major, said she thinks that even if political issues in Russia cause controversy in United States and lead to protests on campus, it is important for arts groups such as the Mariinsky Chorus to continue to come to Yale.

“I don’t deny the right to protest against Putin, but perhaps the Russian cultural opportunities being brought to campus could be better used as a platform for understanding and appreciation,” Stryuk said. “A Cold War mentality towards all things Russian is not something I’d like the campus to adopt.”

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

YUAG welcomes new artist-in-residence

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER Having worked in places ranging from the streets of Brooklyn to the Museum of Modern Art, New York-based artist Daze has found a new home within the halls of the Yale University Art Gallery.

Known formally as Chris Ellis, Daze is the latest Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence at the YUAG. The residency allows an artist to spend four weeks or more in New Haven and to use Yale facilities for research and creative work. Daze began his residency this week and will be at Yale until March. Seymour Knox Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Pamela Franks highlighted Daze’s inter-

est in collaborating with and mentoring students as a part of his artistic work.

“The excellence of his work and love of working with students and teaching are the cause of his residency,” Franks said.

Daze’s residency has been in the works for years, and the idea began to solidify two years ago when he had an exhibition at Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art. After Director of the YUAG Jock Reynolds saw Daze’s works at the Addison, the idea turned into reality.

As part of his residency, Daze will collaborate with graduate and undergraduate students to create two indoor murals by March and possibly one outside in the summer. In addition

to making wall paintings, his plans for his residency at YUAG involve working in sculpture, printmaking and etching. The students, many of whom are gallery guides and undergraduate art students, range from inexperienced to seasoned artists. Daze will also be speaking to a variety of student groups, as well as working with local high school students from New Haven.

In Andover Daze worked largely with students at both Phillips Academy and at nearby Lawrence High School, according to Phillips art instructor Therese Zemlin, with whose class Daze worked during his time at the school.

Daze was particularly skilled at facilitating and leading students while encouraging them to

develop their own voice, Zemlin said.

The more I was exposed to it [graffiti], the more questions I had about it.

DAZE Artist-in-residence, Yale University Art Gallery “Andover students tend to be super organized thinkers,” Zemlin said. “Daze blew that out of the water … working spontaneously, making choices on the fly without rationalization and showing the value of self expression.”

Daze said he first became interested in art through reading comic books as a child, when he would try to draw and create his own characters. He added that he became interested in wall art, known to some as graffiti, around the age of 15. The subway stop near his Brooklyn home housed parked trains, where he was introduced to the idea of wall art.

Daze added that though some know him as a “graffiti artist,” he does not consider himself as such, and views the term as quite limiting. But Daze noted that the type of art he creates now employs techniques that he learned from his time as a graffiti artist.

“I remember going to and from school taking the subway,”

he said. “I’d see graffiti in a blur.

[It was] this barrage of colors, and I didn’t know what it said or meant. The more I was exposed to it, the more questions I had about it.”

Franks said that while Daze’s residency is short in duration, she hopes that his time as an artist-in-residence will leave a lasting impact on the Yale community. For Daze, the opportunity represents a chance to take a step away from regular practice in the studio and work with collaborators in their home institution, Franks noted.

Bob Doran ’55 established the Happy and Bob Doran Artist-inResidence program in 2003.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

Senior thesis weighs romance, gender oppression

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Kate Pincus ’15 and Miranda Rizzolo ’15 are staging a production of “The Taming of the Shrew” that will serve as a feminist reading of the play.

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER An upcoming production will attempt to reconcile one of Shakespeare’s classic love stories with its reputation as a problematic and misogynistic play.

“The Taming of the Shrew” opens this Thursday at the Off Broadway Theater. The show will be a senior thesis production for Kate Pincus ’15 and Miranda Rizzolo ’15. Both Pincus and Rizzolo are using the production as a case study for their senior theses in English. Pincus is examining the tradition of adaptation as it relates to the play; Rizzolo, on the other hand, is studying the character of Kate.

“It was something that fascinated us both as English majors as well as people who wanted to make theater,” Rizzolo said.

Pincus and Rizzolo said they decided to work on the play as research for their senior theses after meeting on the set of a production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” during the spring of their sophomore year. Along with director Gabrielle Hoyt-Disick ’15, they worked on the play throughout their junior year.

Though senior thesis productions are usually reserved for Theater Studies majors, Pincus and Rizzolo received support from the English Department to use a drama production as research for their thesis. Both

will continue to produce a written essay related to their work.

Pincus, Hoyt-Disick and Rizzolo all agreed that a large motivation for putting up the play was the idea that in order to understand a complex Shakespeare play, they would need to perform it. For Rizzolo, taking on the difficult role of Kate as an actress became an important part of her thesis.

Rizzolo said she thinks that audiences will be surprised by the production because of the preconceptions of the play many hold, including the belief that the character Kate is forced to be obedient to a husband she did not choose to marry. In fact, she explained, Kate and her husband

develop an unexpected love for each other over the course of the play.

Pincus and Hoyt-Disick explained that the play poses a problem for many scholars because it is often taken to be misogynistic, in part because Kate is told to marry Petruchio.

But Pincus, Hoyt-Disick and Rizzolo all agreed that the original text of the play allows for a reading that suggests the presence of a romantic relationship between Kate and Petruchio .

“We believe that we’ve developed a feminist reading of the play,” Hoyt-Disick said. “We’ve done so with elements that already exist in the text.”

According to Hoyt-Disick, the

tension between the redeemable and problematic elements of the play makes the idea of adapting the play so appealing. She explained that the play’s popularity in having been produced in many different forms — including the film “Ten Things I Hate About You” and “Kiss Me, Kate” of Cole Porter 1913 — contradicts the beliefs of those who think the play should not be produced because of its potentially offensive nature.

Hoyt-Disick added that the production also complicates the typical characterization of Petruchio as a character emblematic of the play’s patriarchal and oppressive environment. According to Ben Symons ’15, who plays Petru-

chio in the production, the physical and mental abuse exchanged between the spouses is a large source of the comedy in the play. Symons noted that the play essentially depicts two characters that are both outsiders to their societies attempting to find love for one another.

Both Pincus and Hoyt-Disick said they think that the play will appeal to a Yale audience because it deals with the challenge of being a stranger in a new environment. Meanwhile, HoytDisick said the play will “strike a chord with anyone who has ever been a freshman.”

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

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Elis top competition, prep for Trinity

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Yale faces in-state rival Trinity tonight, a team most famous for its 252game winning streak that was snapped by Yale in 2012.

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The women’s swim team blew out New Hampshire at home, routing the Wildcats 152–85

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams continued their winning streaks with victories over Penn State and New Hampshire, respectively.

While the women defeated the Wildcats handedly at 152–85, the men’s meet came down to the wire, with the Bulldogs pulling out the win by only nine points.

“When meets are close, you learn the most about a team because every scoring position matters,” captain Andrew Heymann ’15 said. “This win spoke volumes about the depth of our team.”

The male bulldogs started out strong on day one with a victory in the 400-yard medley relay by the “A” team of Shawn

Nee ’18, Heymann, Alwin Firmansyah ’15 and Victor Zhang ’16. Penn State retaliated quickly, sweeping the one-meter dive and taking home wins in the 200yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke. The Elis battled back as Heymann barely out-touched Andrew Schuehler of Penn State in the 100-yard breaststroke and Firmansyah and Alex Schultz ’17 took first and second in the 200-yard butterfly.

Penn State won the rest of the day’s competitions except the 1,000-yard freestyle, where Kei Hyogo ’18, Brian Hogan ’16 and Ben Lerude ’17 dominated, sweeping the field and placing in that order. At the end of day one, the Bulldogs were trailing 94–92, their first time behind during the first day of a meet all season. A motivational speech from coach

Fencing excels at Vassar

Tim Wise and Heymann helped the team prepare for the second day.

“Our coach made it clear that the meet was far from over and there still was a chance to beat them,” said Kevin Stang ’16. “Heymann gathered the team together right before the start of the second session and motivated the team to do more than just try and hang with Penn State, but rather attack them in their weakest events and come out with a win.”

Penn State took control at the beginning of the second day, sweeping the three-meter dive and winning the 200yard medley relay. Hyogo and Hogan kept up their winning combination, taking first and second in the 500-yard freestyle SEE SWIMMING PAGE 10

Yale’s No. 4 women’s and No. 6 men’s squash teams fought hard this weekend, and each team came away with major wins against top opponents to defend their respective rankings.

SQUASH The Yale women (7–0, 2–0 Ivy) had an impressive weekend sweep, in which they hosted No. 8 Stanford (3–7) and No. 16 Middlebury (6–3, 1–2 Ivy) on Saturday, and then No. 20 St. Lawrence (2–3) on Sunday.

Despite an exhausting threematch weekend, the Bulldogs’ high caliber of play earned them

three perfect 9–0 wins.

Even given the impressive results, assistant head coach Pamela Saunders spoke of about how the team might improve.

“We need to work on being confident using straight drops and kills to win points,” Saunders said. “We also need to identify the big points a little sooner and play them a little smarter.”

The relatively weak opponents afforded the Bulldogs valuable practice and rest, especially given the team’s demanding schedule — Yale plays seven matches in the next 19 days.

Saunders added that her players are “gaining valuable experience with every match they play.”

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Elis drop close opening meet to UNH

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite posting the highest score in an opening meet in program history, the Yale gymnastics team fell to the University of New Hampshire Wildcats on Sunday, 195.9–191.175.

The Bulldogs also had three of the top five all-around finishes, with Joyce Li ’15 in second, captain Morgan Traina ’15 in fourth and Anna Merkuryev ’18 finishing fifth in her debut meet.

BY ALEX WALKER STAFF REPORTER The women’s and men’s fencing teams returned to competition this past weekend in promising form, with captain Lauren Miller ’15 leading her squad to two victories and captain Hugh O’Cinneide ’15 leading his to three at the Vassar Fencing Challenge.

FENCING “Because Sunday was the first meet of the semester, the entire team was especially excited to be there and to perform,” Miller said. “[The] constant support from all team members, and our coaches helped us to maintain our focus and win every round. We’re all proud of how successful the day was.”

The women’s team was particularly dominant in the sabre competition, winning all of its matchups. The Bulldogs bested both Cleveland State and Detroit Mercy, sweeping Cleveland State in the épée competition 9–0. The squad also managed to sweep the sabre event against Detroit Mercy and dominate the Titans in épée as well with an 8–1 victory.

For Alicia Borja Alvarez ’17, Sunday’s competition represented her first taste of collegiate fencing. After attending her very first practice on Thursday, Borja Alvarez played an integral role in sweeping Cleveland State in the épée

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The women’s fencing team found success in the epee competition, beating Cleveland State 9—0 and Detroit Mercy 8—1. competition.

“To be honest, I got to the tournament knowing nothing about the structure of college fencing competitions,” Borja Alvarez said. “It was really fun. The team is just amazing. From the minute I stepped into the locker room, they have all been incredibly welcoming, supportive and fun.”

Meanwhile, the men’s squad scored SEE FENCING PAGE 10

STAT OF THE DAY 9.6

“I think as a team, we did a really great job,” Li said.

“We made mistakes and they were fixable mistakes, so I think we have a great season ahead of us. We did [well] but we can definitely do better.”

Nine gymnasts competed, but because Merkuryev was the only freshman, the upperclassmen bore the brunt of the meet. The other three members of Merkuryev’s recruiting class are currently sidelined. Sloane Smith ’18 is recovering from a broken ankle that happened over the summer, Megan Ryan ’18 is

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The Elis scored their highest-ever opening meet score against UNH, posting 191.175 points. fine-tuning her routines but will compete soon, and Allison Bushman ’18 sustained a minor concussion several days before the opening meet, according to Li. Despite this set-

back, Yale still fielded a lineup that played to its strengths. Traina led the Bulldogs on uneven bars, where her score of 9.750 put her in fourth place.

Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 and Traina tied for third

place on beam with scores of 9.775. Camilla Opperman ’16 earned Yale’s highest score on floor exercise, with a score of 9.750, and Sooksengdao was next SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 10

THE AVERAGE VAULT SCORE OF JOYCE LI ’15 IN THE GYMNASTIC TEAM’S SEASON OPENER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Li finished second in the all-around for the Bulldogs behind Morgan Traina ’15.