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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 72 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS Dear Leader. The weekly

Woad’s email became a surprising source of breaking news last night when it announced that University President Peter Salovey will take to the (typically debaucherous) Toad’s stage on Sunday for a concert with his legendary band, the Professors of Bluegrass. Welcome to our world, Mr. President.

They’re coming. Get ready for a whole lot of high schoolers in ill-fitting suits. YMUN, aka YIRA’s Super Bowl, kicks off this evening. Actually, they’re probably all picking up copies of the News and reading this right now, so nevermind. Enjoy New Haven, kids.

Bain Shack. Addendum:

Anyone walking around in a well-fitting suit tonight is probably on his or her way to the Bain Associate Consultant Internship Case Demonstration event at Shake Shack. Good move — this could make up for the fact that McKinsey had much better food at its fall info session.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY A SWISS AND A SWEDE LEAD

ONE STEP CLOSER

DOCTORS NO MORE

The University makes headway on plans to expand grad housing.

UNNECESSARY REQS REDUCE APPEAL OF PRE-MED

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BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER On Jan. 20, Yale Law School Associate Dean of Student Affairs Kathleen Overly sent the entire law school community a copy of the school’s code of conduct and grievance procedures for handling alleged violations. The procedures, which are sent out at the beginning of every semester, include how the law school handles formal complaints of sexual misconduct that are brought to its attention.

Those procedures differ from the rest of the University. In fact, the law school is the only school within the University that retains its own internal disciplinary body for hearing such complaints.

When the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct was established in 2011, each school at Yale was given the option of keeping its own complaint process or transferring the authority for hearing such cases to the UWC, said philosophy professor Michael Della Rocca, who served as chair of the UWC at its founding. Only the law school chose to keep its own disciplinary board, Della Rocca said, meaning that law students who choose to file a formal complaint of sexual misconduct may do so either with the UWC or through the Law School’s process.

The latter is a process that aligns with the law school’s “history of self-government” as outlined in the institution’s

“Rights and Duties of Members of the Yale Law School.” It is also a process that is seldom utilized and whose policies are not readily available to the public.

It differs from the official UWC procedure in several ways. A three-person Complaint Committee considers charges reported to it, and if it finds grounds to proceed with the investigation, refers the charges and findings to the Law School dean. The dean first seeks an informal settlement with the respondent, but if none is reached, the complaint goes to a five-person Hearing Panel.

The Hearing Panel’s decision is final, unless the respondent appeals to the dean. There is no independent fact-finder, and there is no final administrative

Movement slow on transportation

Lone dogs, old flick.

Through his lens. Today at

4:30 p.m., Morse Master Amy Hungerford is hosting photojournalist Peter Van Agtmael ’03 for a tea, where the Pierson alumnus will walk through some of his best shots and … discuss how one can find vocation in life? That escalated quickly.

Na-na na na, hey, hey, hey.

Bronx resident Johnny “NaNa” De Los Santos was sentenced to 97 months in prison for his role in running an Elm City cocaine ring, per a ruling by the U.S. District Court yesterday. Goodbye.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2014 Doug Hausladen ’04 is named the city’s new director of the Department of Transportation by Mayor Toni Harp after serving as Ward 7 alder since 2011.

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AN UNEXPECTED CHOICE

In 2009, a Yale Women Faculty Forum working group published a report on sexual misconduct at Yale, advocating for the creation of a university-wide committee to adjudicate complaints. But the report’s authors did not envision that any individual school would retain its own system for hearing such complaints, said astronomy professor Priyamvada Natarajan, who served as co-chair of the working group.

“When we drafted the WFF sexual misconduct report, we were keen on having the entire University under one umbrella UWC to adjudicate complaints,” Natarajan said. “That was our

vision, and we were optimistic that all the professional schools would agree to this model.”

In fact, she added, WFF members had expected that the deans of the individual schools would be eager to devolve authority to the UWC, given the complicated nature of sexual misconduct cases.

Yale Law School Director of Communications Jan Conroy said that while the school participates in and encourages students to utilize the UWC, the law school’s own disciplinary code predated the creation of the university-wide option.

“We are, after all, a law school,” Yale Law School Dean Robert Post wrote in an email to SEE LAW SCHOOL PAGE 4

Without quorum, Democracy Fund cannot function

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER

New Haven. Though the city has made varying degrees of headway on all of Harp’s goals under her leadership, none of the three have been achieved.

Adding flights out of Tweed — a task that Harp said would be completed in two years at last year’s State of the City — is complex because it requires

After a three-month hiatus due to a shortage in staff, the Democracy Fund — New Haven’s public campaign financing program — prepared to meet last night but failed to achieve a quorum and postponed for another week.

The fund, established in 2006 to pursue fair and meaningful municipal elections, requires candidates to limit individual donations to $370 in exchange for a $19,000 grant and matching funds of up to $125,000. Its board can accommodate seven members and an administrator, but currently only four of the seven positions are filled. To meet, the board requires a quorum of four members. The fund’s secretary, William Wynn, was not present at last night’s meeting, so the board could not formally meet.

“There’s so much we can do for the city and that we are pursuing,” Democracy Fund Administrator Alyson Heimer said last night. “But it’s really difficult to do those things when we don’t have enough board members.”

Wednesday evening’s meeting would have been Heimer’s first. She interviewed and was selected for the position of administrator at the fund’s October meeting, the last meeting before the hiatus.

Heimer will officially assume the position after sign-

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Old dogs, new tricks. The

Screenings at the Whitney Humanities Center tonight will include “Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs,” evidently the archetypal Japanese crime film since its 1931 release.

Education Studies Scholars program receives 300k grant.

At law school, a separate and murky process for misconduct

Told you so. Tyler Varga ’15 is doing the blue and white very proud over at pre-Senior Bowl workouts in Mobile, Alabama.

Fansided’s NFLMocks.com profiled the sturdy running back, his “227 pounds of chiseled muscle” and the cult following that he’s starting to develop on Twitter for his performance so far.

2014-15 men’s hockey team doesn’t look like the typical Keith Allain ’80 squad, swapping out offensive firepower for rock-solid defense this year. And the rest of the college hockey world is starting to notice, as evidenced by the USCHO.com feature on “the top defensive team in the country.” Don’t jinx it.

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Mayor Toni Harp’s transportation goals aimed to make the Elm City more accessible by plane, train and bus.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER After one year in office, Mayor Toni Harp has yet to make substantial progress on a number of her transportation goals for the Elm City.

In last February’s State of the City address, Harp outlined three specific transportation initiatives she planned to begin

in her first year. First, she sought to connect New Haven to other major cities by lobbying to add flights from local Tweed Airport to Florida, Washington, D.C. and Chicago. Harp’s second goal was to improve transportation to New York City by introducing a one-hour express train from Union Station to Grand Central. Finally, she pledged to add buses and expand bus routes in

MBA program applications jump

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER With the expansion of its global programs, augmented curricular opportunities and the move to the new campus, the Yale School of Management is gaining momentum.

And its admissions figures have seen a significant jump this year.

The SOM has received 31 percent more applications for its MBA program during this most recent application cycle compared to this time last year, SOM Associate Dean David Bach said. This increase comes in the wake of the SOM’s completion of the second of three application rounds for the 2014–15 cycle.

SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said this increase in applications will not affect class size, which will stay at around 300 students for the next two years. In the 2011–12 school year, a larger admissions yield led to an unexpected class increase that fit into the school’s larger growth program, which was to grow to 600 students by 2017.

Bach said that from his expe-

rience, this degree of growth in applications is usually seen among very small or new business school programs and not at an older and slightly larger school like SOM.

Our old facilities were holding us back and the [new building] really reflects… the modern aspects of the curriculum.

BARRY NALEBUFF Professor of Management, SOM

“I don’t want to be hyperbolic, but in my decade in management education I have never seen an already established MBA program in a pretty developed and mature market having year on year growth in applicaSEE SOM ADMISSIONS PAGE 6

With new admin, SOM addresses diversity

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER This spring will be the first full semester on the job for the School of Management’s first director of community and inclusion, Tiffany Gooden.

Despite being hired in October 2014, Gooden was only introduced to the student body at large in a schoolwide email last week.

Gooden, who comes to the SOM from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, said her new position encompasses working with current students to find ways to talk about issues of diversity on campus and alumnae to continue their connections with the SOM. Since she joined the SOM, she has been working with student affinity groups, clubs and organizations at the school, such as the SOM’s Women in Management group and Community and Inclusion Council. Gooden also works in admissions to help the SOM with its selection process for students from historically underrepresented populations.

As part of this role, Gooden is also

expected to work with the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a group of business schools of which Yale is a member, that works to increase access to business leadership for students of Native American, Black or Latino backgrounds. SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said this position will work to encompass all of the diversity initiatives the SOM has been working on.

“We had a position before that was focused more on admissions and a little bit with student experience,” Jain said. “We wanted to expand the scope of the position and encompass into the role all of the activities that attract a diverse group of students, create an educational experience that is inclusive and continue a relationship with alumnae.”

Tyler Godoff SOM ’16 has worked with Gooden as a member of the SOM’s Community and Inclusion Council, a task force consisting of students, professors and administrators and dedicated to issues of diversity and inclusion. He said from his SEE SOM INCLUSION PAGE 4

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Include Asian experiences I

t’s been several decades since the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, and seven years since the election of the first African-American president of the United States. You’d expect that by now issues with race relations would be relics of the past — that riots such as those that occurred in Ferguson would be distant memories. Of course, they’re not. This week’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day reminded us — in case we had forgotten about Staten Island and Ferguson — that issues of racial discrimination are still rampant across the country.

However, this dialogue about race relations is largely black and white — literally. Asian Americans, a significant minority in this country, are too often forgotten in the important conversation surrounding race in America.

As an Asian American, I have also been a victim of discrimination and stereotypes, albeit to varying degrees. It’s kept my peers and me out of public office, upper-level management positions and even out of colleges. African Americans and Hispanics aren’t the only ones who should be upset about the current state of this country.

Of course, this isn’t anything new. We’ve all read about this by now — heck, almost a fifth of Yale has lived it. We know what our struggles are as a so-called “model minority.”

Growing up, I think many of us were indeed expected to ace our math and science tests, but not to be actors, writers or athletes. Then, college applications came, and many of us went into the process knowing that our race made it all the more difficult to get into a school. At a time when colleges are emphasizing students with unique narratives, it is unsettling for Asian Americans, contrary to what any admissions office might say, to apply with an interest in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

I always wondered whether I would be seen as Applicant #83 from Southern California with strong scores and a lack of varsity letters.

But now that we’re at Yale, it’s easy to assume that our issues with being a model minority are over. After all, we don’t need to worry about college admissions anymore. Besides, if the list of Yale alumni on Wikipedia is any indication, Yalies tend to achieve great things, right? It’s so easy to sweep these types of issues under the rug now that we’re close to having a coveted Ivy League degree under our belts.

But no piece of paper would have saved Sandeep Singh from being mowed down in Queens a few months ago. No amount of education can bring back to life the six Sikhs killed by white supremacist gunmen in Oak Creek, Wisconsin back in 2012. No A grade will erase the

injustices of World War II internment camps.

A s i a n Americans have always s t ra d d l e d SHREYAS a strange in TIRUMALA position the discussion about Rhyme and race.

As writer Soya Reason Jung notes, unless our lives “prop up ideals of American exceptionalism and meritocracy,” they “don’t register much.” We’re treated as a predictable set of number-crunchers — not leaders or public officials.

Without the shadow of slavery haunting us in the way it continues to color the African-American experience, it’s harder for most Americans to take our problems seriously.

This is only compounded by our higher levels of education and household income, two important metrics but certainly not enough to accurately depict the Asian-American experience.

We can’t even agree on who should be considered “Asian.” I can’t count the number of times that I’ve been told that Asian refers solely to East Asian. Indians, according to many people, don’t count for some strange reason (there’s even a Wikipedia page about this very controversy).

It’s both counterproductive and flat-out wrong to suggest that the discrimination that Asians face is worse than that of African Americans — that’s not my point. What’s important is that Asian issues matter, too.

Why do Asian Americans make up only about 1 percent of Congress despite boasting, by far, the highest proportion of college graduates? Why are there only nine Asian CEOs of Fortune 500 companies?

Despite being an all-California award winner in high school, Jeremy Lin, who now starts for the L.A. Lakers, wasn’t offered an athletic scholarship, a snub he attributes to the stereotypes held against Asian-American athletes. How many American TV shows and movies can you name with Asian leads — and not just a token Asian character?

I’ve been incredibly inspired by the protests and demonstrations that have taken place around campus decrying racial injustice. But Asians need to be part of the conversation, too. We’ve made great strides toward equality in this country, but we’ve certainly got a long way to go before there is truly liberty and justice for all.

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Windows of opportunity A

bout 40 minutes into my ride-along, the officer beside me received an alert. There’d been a shooting in District 4. He hit the gas and soon we were racing, threading our way through the cars on Chapel and heading toward the scene of the crime.

Last month, I participated in the New Haven Police Department’s Citizen Ride-Along program, giving me the opportunity to spend an evening in an officer’s patrol car. The officer to whom I was assigned polices District 1, which includes the heart of Yale and downtown New Haven.

He knows my neighborhood far better than I do. He knows the one-way streets and the Atticus one dollar coffee deal. But he doesn’t know too many of District 1’s residents, despite the time he spends policing our streets. And I’d wager not too many of us know him.

Seen through the window of the patrol car, the streets seemed distant. We passed by familiar shops and corners — Alpha Delta, Jojo’s, those little boutique stores

by Starbucks. But everything looked just a little bit off, like I was viewing my own neighborhood through a weird sort of filter. I felt removed from the shadows shifting up and down York, heading to class or to coffee or just to chill. It all got me thinking

about the sorts of barriers we erect between streets and patrol cars, between our communities and our police.

Our counEMMA try is at a critGOLDBERG ical juncture regarding our Dilemmas policing practices. With the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, we’re finally having a much-needed dialogue about law enforcement and civil rights. It’s about time.

And as New Haven residents, we are living in a city that offers unique opportunities for exploring and debating progressive policing.

What if Aug. 9, 2014 had not been the first time that Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson met? What if the two had recognized one another, at least by face? Would their encounter have been less hostile? These are the questions underlying community policing, an approach based on partnerships between officers and city residents. And it’s a strategy that has deep roots right here in New Haven.

Under the leadership of Chief Dean Esserman, the NHPD took a decisive step toward community

oriented policing. This involved a number of new initiatives implemented in recent years. For one, the department now deploys officers to walking beats around the city’s 10 districts. This means the police are out strolling the streets and interacting with civilians — they’re not just viewing them from behind patrol car windows.

Esserman has also introduced CompStat, a weekly meeting where department leaders, service workers and members of the public gather to evaluate trends in crime around the city. All of these new strategies aim to break down barriers between officers and civilians. Our city's police department is far from perfect, but it has introduced some promising measures.

“We are trying to return to a way of policing where relationships and intimacy matter,” Esserman explained at a panel yesterday on “Mass Incarceration and Minority Mobilization,” which was hosted in Sudler Hall.

He said he feels the significant cost incurred by the department’s walking beats is a sound investment. “We’re in the business of relationships.”

The success of this business lies not only in the initiatives of the police, but also in the participation of the broader community.

Community policing isn’t just a policy you study in the classroom,

or read about in a newspaper over your breakfast cereal. It demands action on the part of the public.

The avenues for public involvement in New Haven policing are actually quite accessible. Anyone can participate in the department’s citizen ridealong program. Thursday morning CompStat meetings are open to the public, offering an opportunity for ordinary citizens to air grievances and listen to updates on crime-fighting efforts across the city. The department even offers the Citizens Police Academy, which is an eight-to-10week course designed to educate New Haven residents on the city’s police force.

The divisions between police officers and the public exist because we’ve erected them, whether or not we did so intentionally. Now, in New Haven, we’re being invited to dismantle those divisions. We’d be foolish to let that opportunity go to waste.

If we do, our officers will continue cruising our neighborhoods to keep us safe — but we’ll remain separated by the tinted glass of patrol car windows.

EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College. She was an opinion editor on the Managing Board of 2015.

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Engaging with Castro’s Cuba A

little over a month ago, inside an international fair on the outskirts of Havana’s Miramar neighborhood, I heard from a local representative of the Committee to Free the Cuban Five that President Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro had come to a compromise. I wonder now if that was a professional crisis for the man who told me, since the prisoner swap that occurred on Dec. 17 brought closure to the cause of the Cuban Five committee and its local affiliates all over the island.

The historic announcement about ending the economic and political embargo came three and a half months after I arrived in Cuba for a semester at the University of Havana. The New York Times Editorial Board had published a number of pieces arguing for Obama to take action in the weeks and months preceding the announcement. Some of these editorials had reached the house I lived in with 25 or so other Americans, but none of us had a sense that things were going to change so quickly in our last few days there.

President Obama has since argued against the embargo in a new stretch of presidential power, and will seek formal leg-

islation in the 114th Congress.

For most Americans, the travel ban and visa licensing process will not stand in the way of traveling to Havana. The CubanAmerican community has been divided in their response. Many older Cubans view these changes as a betrayal of their suffering at the hands of Fidel Castro. But the majority of Cuban Americans have supported a policy shift with regards to the embargo.

While some are concerned by our dealing with a Communist country, they need only look to normalized relations with China and Vietnam to see the fruits of diplomatic openness. In terms of Cuba more specifically, the Carter-era openings that brought about the Cuban and U.S. Interest Sections in Washington and Havana were never overturned but rather used as means of achieving U.S. goals in Latin America. This initiative continued even under subsequent administrations who perceived Cuba as a rogue state.

Most Americans probably didn’t realize that one of the State Department’s largest outposts in Latin America is in Havana or that 600,000 Americans (most with family connections to the island) travel there every year.

That figure is about to skyrocket.

One expert, Julia Sweig, estimated that the number might even quadruple in the next year.

Over $2 billion flows back to Cuba in remissions every year. All these figures prove that bilateral ties are stronger than many realize and will only deepen in the coming years.

As a pioneer in global education, Yale should seize upon this historic opportunity to foster dialogue with Cuba. The University can work to bring Cuban academics here to campus, to engage with the community and connect to a culture that has been largely cut off from the United States for the past 50 years. Cuba’s history and the outsized role our nation has played in its politics can teach us important lessons about the unsuccessful uses of hard power in Latin America.

There’s precedent for a Yaleled academic exchange that would bring Cuban academics and diplomats from their posts on the island, in Washington and at the United Nations to New Haven. In 1977, as President Carter’s administration reestablished limited diplomatic relations with Castro, Yale professor Al Stepan was one of the leaders in coordinating the travel of several Cuban academics to the United States. Yale was one of

the first two schools, along with Johns Hopkins, to host the academics in America. This marked the first authorized Cuban academic exchange since the embargo first began in 1960.

The people I met in Havana have followed American politics and culture much more closely than we have followed theirs. You may say that this is the relationship of a large country to a small one, of a super power to a regional one, but it’s a dynamic that has to change for our diplomatic effort to succeed. In the past, a failure to understand Cuban motivations and realities has weakened our standing in the world.

Yesterday, Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson began the semiannual migration talks in Havana, this time with an expanded agenda that will include the logistics of full diplomatic relations. We have a responsibility to follow these talks closely and to learn about the society with which we will soon be free to engage and to learn from people whom we have failed to adequately understand. Yale has led engagement with Cuba in the past, and should do so again.

JOSH CLAPPER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at joshua.clapper@yale.edu .

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CORRECTION TUESDAY, JAN. 21

A previous version of the article “With increased wealth, religions take a moral stand” misstated the class year of Konika Banerjee. She is in the graduate school’s class of 2016, not its class of 2017.

Bigger classes, fewer pre-meds, students say

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Unnecessary course requirements are keeping pre-med attrition rates at Yale College high, according to undergraduates interviewed.

The pre-med sequence requires students to take specific science courses as well as one year of English. Of 10 pre-med undergraduates interviewed, eight said that large class sizes are hindering students’ ability to engage with the subject material. In some instances, the large class sizes are even dissuading these students from pursuing medicine, some students said.

“I think a very small percentage of people come to Yale and then decide they want to be doctors because of the classes,” said Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology major Joel Bervell ’17, who is also on the pre-med track, adding that the classes simply do not inspire students.

I think a very small percentage of people come to Yale and then decide they want to be doctors because of the [pre-med track] classes.

JOEL BERVELL ’17

The pre-med sequence at Yale requires that undergraduates take at least one year of each of the following: biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry and physics, as well as other courses such as statistics and biochemistry.

Bervell said that large introductory science classes made it harder for him to get to know people in his classes and form study groups.

Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern noted that the large class sizes in pre-med courses resulted from a resource constraint. Having smaller classes, he said, requires hiring more faculty, which in turn costs the University more money.

“I think the more you can teach science and math in small groups, the better it is,” Alpern said. “It’s a question of cost.”

Other popular programs of study at Yale do not necessarily suffer from the same dearth of smaller courses. Caroline Ayinon ’17, a chemistry major on the pre-med track, noted that there are plenty of seminars in the Political Science Depart-

ment. In contrast, the large science majors do not have classes that allow students to closely interact in smaller environments with professors and fellow classmates.

Most students interviewed voiced concern about Yale’s biology sequence, consisting of Biology 101 through 104, that pre-med students must complete.

“Most people don’t like Biology 101 or 102 because you are thrown into it, and it seems like a weird conglomeration of facts that don’t connect together,” Bervell said, though he acknowledged that the University has been trying to improve the courses.

Bervell said he was more concerned about the discrepancy between the quality of science and social science lectures. He said he has found political science lectures, such as “Bioethics and Law,” more engaging than his biology courses.

Andi Shahu MED ’17, who studied biology and French at Johns Hopkins University, noted that pre-med requirements vary by college and that it is important that colleges prepare students enough to be able to apply wherever they want.

Alpern, who co-chaired the Committee to Establish the Scientific Foundation for Future Physicians in 2009, said that he would prefer a move towards competency-based assessments for medical school admission.

He said that many students take sufficiently rigorous high school courses to prepare them for medical school, adding that it is not always necessary for such students to take college science courses.

However, Alpern noted that undergraduate institutions opposed competency-based assessments because they did not want to assume the responsibility of certifying the competency of their students.

To improve attrition rates in Yale’s pre-med track, Bervell suggested creating a “buddy system” that would link freshmen interested in the pre-med track to upperclassmen who have completed their pre-med requirements in order to offer support and information about the process.

“I’ve wavered back and forth in regards to how committed I am to pre-med,” Bervell said, adding that having a student mentor might have prevented this uncertainty.

For its 2014–15 admissions cycle, the Yale School of Medicine implemented new requirements for applicants.

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

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Undergraduate students have voiced complaints about the lack of small classes available on the pre-med track.

Yale seeks zoning approval for grad housing

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTERS Moving one step closer to completing a building intended for graduate student housing on Elm Street, Yale submitted a request for a variance and special exception from zoning regulations to the Board of Zoning Appeals yesterday.

According to the filing, written by Yale Associate Vice President for Facilities John Bollier, the housing complex, to be constructed on the parking lot adjacent to Tyco Printing, will be a six-story, 73-foot building with 51,000 square feet of space. The first two stories will be used for non-tax-exempt retail space, while the tax-exempt top four stories will contain graduate student apartments. The building’s size will exceed that currently allowed by zoning code, so the Board of Zoning Appeals will need to grant Yale a variance in order for the building’s construction to proceed.

The proposed building’s size and partly tax-exempt status has provoked some controversy among residents and activists.

At a meeting in December, community activist Olivia Marston said that the proposed building is too tall, and she further criticized its tax exemption.

But according to Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, the city is not concerned about losing tax revenue from the building. He said that the two stories of retail space will likely bring in more tax revenue than the current parking lot does.

“The main thing that concerns me is that we are not building high enough,” Nemerson said. “We’re a city with very little land, and what I ask every developer is to build as high as they can. Every acre is precious and every square foot is pre-

cious.”

In addition to requesting a variance for construction, the University is also requesting that the BZA allow zero parking spaces in the lot, which requires over 200 parking spots according to the city’s zoning code, according to the New Haven Independent.

Bollier writes in the report that granting this request would not significantly impact traffic, parking or future development and that the new building adhered to the city’s goal of promoting “the concentration of facilities and efficient use of current lands,” according to the New Haven Independent.

The proposed graduate housing will not resemble Yale’s other downtown housing, Provost Benjamin Polak wrote in an email to the Yale community on Jan. 15. He said that the building, which is slated for completion in 2017, will be composed of two-bedroom apartments equipped with kitchens.

Polak said in the email that the University has conducted extensive research to determine the criteria that matters most to its students. But some graduate students said they would not choose to live in the new housing.

“I don’t think I would live there simply because it does not have the same culture [as HGS],” said Michael Sierant GRD ’20. “What keeps me [at HGS] despite the overly expensive and exorbitant cost of living and mandatory meal plan is the history, the ambiance and the location.”

After the new building is constructed in 2017, the University will begin renovations on the Hall of Graduate Studies. Polak said that by renovating the Hall, Yale hopes to turn it into a hub for the humanities at Yale. Specifically, Polak mentioned placing differ-

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The Graduate School plans to build additional housing for its students, followed by renovations to the Hall of Graduate Studies on York Street. ent humanities departments in closer proximity with each other in order to facilitate more collaboration across disciplines.

Erik Stassen GRD ’15, who currently lives in HGS, said the building would benefit from renovations, noting issues with the building’s heating system.

Currently, HGS houses 168 graduate students.

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

Michelle Liu contributed reporting

CT prison population hits 16-year low

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER A criminal justice report published this month indicates that Connecticut’s prison population has reached its lowest point since 1999, with the greatest reductions in the number of juvenile offenders aged 16 to 17 years old.

Since January of last year, the prison population in Connecticut has dropped by 2.6 percent, and since February 2008, it dropped by 18.7 percent, according to data from the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management. Government officials and non-profit organization coordinators said several factors contributed to the drop, including the state’s decisions in 2010 and 2012 to raise the minimum age required for adult incarceration from 15 to 17. As of 2010, 16-year-olds were considered juveniles in the eyes of the law, and as of 2012, 17-year-olds also became eligible for juvenile court. This, in turn, allows more youth to go through juvenile review boards as opposed to the more punitive criminal justice system.

“If you can keep kids from entering the juvenile pipeline and prevent expulsion, then you reduce the chance that those kids are going to commit crimes down the road,” said Mike Lawlor, the governor’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy.

As of Jan. 1, the prison population was 16,167 — the lowest it has been since Jan. 1, 1999, when the prison population was 16,104.

Lawlor attributed the drop to a combination of factors, including better community policing, improvements in identifying high-risk offenders and behavior modification for juvenile offenders. Lawlor noted that the reduction has primarily been among youth, blacks and Latinos.

Kyisha Velazquez, the coordinator of the Juvenile Review Board at New Haven Family Alliance, said that the JRB provides an alternative and more holistic way of approaching juvenile offenders. JRB’s are prevention programs that divert juvenile offenders from

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the formal justice system in a way that is tailored to that particular community. New Haven established its JRB in September 2007, and most Connecticut towns and cities have one.

“What we’ve learned over the years is that there are a lot of low-risk people who get caught up in the criminal justice system,” Lawlor said. “You almost guarantee a life of crime when that happens.”

Velazquez said the JRB’s focus on restorative justice helps the young person, the family, the victim and the community to come up with a way to make the young person accountable

without entering the court system.

Velazquez stressed that teaching conflict resolution and social behavioral development, as well as focusing on future goals for the youths, are key aspects to preventing young people from committing crimes.

“We look not just at their challenges, but also at their strengths,” Velazquez said.

“The reason why it works is that it teaches them early on. What ends up happening is that we teach them life-long skills.”

Velazquez said that raising the age at which youths are tried as adults has allowed New

Haven Family Alliance and other juvenile review boards access to 16- and 17-year-olds who otherwise would have gone into the court system. She also emphasized that both on the city and state level there have been more collaborative efforts to reduce juvenile arrests.

In 2013, violent crime on the national level dropped 5 percent. Connecticut’s violent crime dropped 10 percent and violent crime in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven dropped 15 percent.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

On sexual misconduct, law school goes its own way LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 the News. “Procedures are at the core of our professional expertise. My memory is that we had our own procedures before the University procedures were put into place, and we liked them, and we kept them as an option if a complainant was inclined to use them.”

Natarajan said she understands why the law school might have been hesitant to give up its right to hear cases, as there is a distinction between the kinds of rules that the university adjudicates and the general law of the land.

“You can imagine that’s probably why the law school wanted to have its own procedures,” she said.

UNSTANDARD STANDARDS

But under Title IX, schools that receive federal funding are required to handle cases of sexual misconduct differently than the law of the land normally would.

While sexual assault charges brought before a criminal court must be proven “beyond reasonable doubt,” a 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights mandated that educational institutions utilize a lower “preponderance of the evidence” standard.

The “preponderance of the evidence” standard — which is what the UWC uses in deciding cases — is also lower than the “clear and convincing evidence” standard used by the law school, which requires that evidence presented during the hearing is substantially more probable to be true than not.

Preponderance of the evidence only requires that the evidence be more likely to be true than not. Both Princeton University and Harvard Law School had previously employed the “clear and convincing evidence” standard in adjudicating sexual misconduct complaints, but Title IX complaints filed at both institutions were closed last year — in November and December, respectively — and found them in noncompliance with the federal equity law.

“Title IX requires campuses to apply a preponderance of the evidence standard, and schools such as Princeton and Harvard Law have been found in violation for using a higher standard,” said Laura Dunn, founder of SurvJustice, a sexual violence

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Yale Law School procedure for any violation of the code of conduct, including sexual misconduct, plagiarism and cheating advocacy organization. “Merely having it written in the current policy is sufficient for a Title IX complaint to be filed at this moment.”

Dunn’s comments were echoed by Wendy Murphy, an attorney who filed the initial complaint against Harvard Law School in 2010.

Various universities, Murphy said, are trying to skate by with “tolerable noncompliance standards” that will not flag the attention of the OCR. For example, she said, some institutions try to frame sexual misconduct — which Murphy said is a civil rights violation — as a violation of the disciplinary code, and thus try to treat it less seriously.

Just because the law school’s procedures for hearing sexual misconduct complaints fall under its general procedures for handling violations of the code of conduct, Murphy said, does not mean that the law school can treat sexual misconduct the same way it treats plagiarism or cheating.

“You can’t reframe that which is obviously civil rights

violence and just call it a disciplinary infraction, and use what you call it — the naming and framing — as an excuse to apply generic disciplinary policies to the redress policies,” she said.

“You can’t do that. OCR has very explicitly said that many times.”

In response to questions about whether or not the law school’s policies might bring it under federal investigation, Conroy said that the Law School consults with the University Title IX coordinator on every complaint to make sure its policies are properly aligned, and in some cases may even refer cases to the UWC. “I would just say that we make sure that any formal complaint of sexual misconduct is addressed in compliance with the requirements and expectations of the federal and state agencies, including those requirements that pertain to standards of evidence,” she wrote in a Wednesday evening email to the News.

A MYSTERY BOX

A possible reason that the law school’s policies have not come under further scrutiny is that they are not often put to use. Yale Law School professor Claire Priest, who serves as the school’s Title IX coordinator, said that during her tenure as coordinator during the 2013–14 school year, there were no informal or formal complaints filed with the school’s internal body.

Conroy added that this does not mean there were or were not complaints originating at the Law School that may have been filed elsewhere — with the UWC, for instance.

The Law School’s disciplinary policies are also not publicly available. They are what Conroy called “internal only,” that is, published online only for Law School community members.

Current UWC chair David Post said he does not know much about the law school’s grievance procedures and that he does not know of any cases heard by that body.

Ten Yale Law School students interviewed said they were not

sufficiently familiar with the school’s internal disciplinary process to comment on it. However, Cara McClellan LAW ’15 — who serves as the law school representative on the University Title IX board — said that the climate and structure at different schools within the University can vary, so it is important for administrators to communicate and learn from each other.

Two students who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said that if they were to present a complaint, they would turn to the law school’s internal system rather than to UWC, because they are more familiar with it.

One law school student and three law school faculty members serve on the UWC. The most recent Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct at the University, which encompasses complaints from Jan. 1 to June 30 of last year, noted seven complaints that originated from the graduate or professional schools.

Regardless of whether a complaint is heard at the law school

or by the UWC, it is always eventually reported to the University Title IX office to ensure that it was addressed in accordance with all of Yale’s standards and procedures, said Deputy Provost and University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler.

Despite the law school’s decision to retain its own disciplinary body for hearing sexual misconduct, Natarajan said that she believes the University’s method of addressing complaints has overall been successful. But she added that there is no reason for one school to treat complaints differently than the rest of the University community.

“Everyone is equal in terms of having the right to be nurtured by the intellectual community at Yale,” she said. “We [at the WFF] felt that part of treating everyone equally had to do with having standards for a community. The acceptable standards of collegiality and behavior and decorum are true for everyone.”

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

SOM looks to improve diversity with new administrator SOM INCLUSION FROM PAGE 1 experience with her so far, he is encouraged by the direction in which Gooden will lead the SOM. “I’ve been very impressed with her,” Godoff said. “She’s very qualified, she has lots of experience in business schools and she brings a lot of energy. She seems to really get how a committee can be effective in a business school setting.”

Leading a business school committee is different from chairing an undergraduate committee, Godoff added, because students are only at the school for two years, giving administrators less time to make a lasting impact on students.

D’Andre Carr SOM ’16, a CIC member, has worked with Gooden on developing a dialogue at SOM about the recent Michael Brown and Eric Garner verdicts.

Carr said he thinks the greatest challenge Gooden will face in her role is creating a comfortable setting in which to have conversations about race, equity and diversity within a predominantly white student body.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said Gooden’s role will only grow in importance as SOM continues to become more globally oriented, since her purview is all areas of diversity, including nationality.

“As we try to become the most global U.S. business school, we want to make sure we’re not just a collection of people from different parts of the world [but that] we’re also curious about one another’s backgrounds and learn about one another’s backgrounds,” Bach said Gooden, meanwhile, said the greatest challenge she is expecting

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The Yale School of Management welcomes Tiffany Gooden into her new role as director of community and inclusion this semester. in her new position is that people often expect instant cultural change, which in fact tends to take a longer time. Before change comes to the SOM, Gooden said she will first need to get a feel for the SOM community’s culture.

“[It is] challenging work of getting us to move forward [and think] about the makeup of the class, activities we participate in every day, conversations and how we maintain and create spaces that make it a really inclusive

place,” Gooden said. “I’m excited about that but I think it will be challenging.”

Katy Mixter SOM ’17, a CIC member, said Gooden will ideally guide students in figuring out how they will both establish an

inclusive community on campus and set an example of inclusivity in the business school world.

Similarly, Michael Buzzard SOM ’15, another CIC member, said Gooden and the CIC are both exploring what the best applica-

tions of Gooden’s time will be in her new role in order to encourage a diverse and welcoming SOM community.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

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EP&E sees slick uptick in applications

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The Ethics, Politics and Economics major, known for its selective application process, became even more popular this year.

The number of student applications to EP&E rose from 79 in 2013 to 86 in 2014, echoing the trend of increased applications to other competitive majors such as Global Affairs.

Administrators said each program accepts roughly half of the applicants while seeing higher application numbers in recent years.

Both EP&E and Global Affairs majors are given special privileges, including preregistration for EP&E classes and preferred access to the Jackson Institute.

While some students and faculty interviewed felt that major

selectivity is unnecessary, others argued that application processes ensure the academic commitment of students to the majors.

EP&E will always be attractive to students who want to push themselves.

ANDREW MARCH Director of Undergraduate Studies, EP&E “In my opinion, competition for seminar space has less to do with the competitive nature of EP&E and more to do with the fact that seminars are almost always cross-listed with multiple departments,” EP&E Director of Undergraduate Studies Andrew March wrote in an

Education Studies meets growing pains

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Last summer, when Israel Tovar ’17 founded the InspireNashville College Awareness Initiative — a campaign of presentations and radio talks encouraging low-income students to pursue higher education — Yale’s nascent Education Studies Scholars program did not have the funds to support him. But after receiving a six-figure grant, the program can now support projects like Tovar’s.

Still, many students and faculty members involved with Education Studies are advocating for an even greater influx of resources.

Started in 2013, Yale’s Education Studies program is an initiative that provides undergraduates with coursework focused on an interdisciplinary understanding of education. Scholars take classes in topics ranging from education policy to youth instruction. And over the past two years, the program has grown in interest and offerings, especially after receiving a $300,000 grant from the Endeavor Foundation, an organization which provides grants for educational purposes, this past summer.

But while this money will allow students like Tovar to receive financial support for their initiatives, other scholars and professors say the program needs more resources.

[T]he fact that we offer so few Education Studies classes shows the lack of support we’re getting from the administration.

ISRAEL TOVAR ’17 Originally designed as a three-year pilot, the Education Studies Scholars program will be evaluated next year, and the University will decide whether to continue or even augment Education Studies’ funding.

Director of Education Studies Lizzy Carroll said she does not believe Yale would increase its funding of the program before this review.

Carroll said the grant money has allowed the program to add new courses, fund a Field Experience Fellowship to support Education Studies Scholars’ summer internships and research plans, and have lecturer Richard Hersh serve as Senior Advisor to Education Studies, working largely on faculty outreach. The program even aims to host a national conference on education at Yale in 2016.

While specific plans for growing the program have not yet been discussed, Carroll said she is hopeful that if the program’s demand continues to exceed its capacity, there will be opportunities to include more students.

“I am optimistic about our ability to grow,” Carroll said.

“It’s just a process that doesn’t happen overnight.”

Grace Lindsey ’15, an Education Studies Scholar who serves on the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Education Studies, said she feels there is sufficient attention being paid to the program’s needs, adding that former Dean of Yale College Mary Miller’s commitment to special academic programs on the whole was exciting.

Still, other students and faculty highlighted areas of the Education Studies program that need to be expanded, even after receiving the $300,000 grant.

“I think the fact that we offer so few education studies classes shows the lack of support we’re getting from the administration, from a student’s perspective,” Tovar, an Education Studies Scholar, said. “There’s so much interest in Education Studies. I feel like the University should be investing more in our program.”

Carla Horwitz, a lecturer in the Child Study Center, said she thinks the lack of full time faculty members focused on education reflects that the University’s priorities lie elsewhere. She added that one way to improve the study of education at Yale would be to bring in more scholars researching topics such as educational policy and early childhood education in order to increase course offerings and internship opportunities.

“I do think that would do a lot to [meet] the need,” she said.

One big limitation is the size of the program itself, Hersh said. Scholars culminate their careers with a capstone project in a senior colloquium, and with current staffing, the program only has the capacity to offer one section of the class, according to Carroll. The program currently admits about one third of its applicants, for a class size of 20 students, Carroll said.

Another current drawback of the program is the number of course offerings. This year, the Education Studies program offered six courses, with other Yale College courses in political science, sociology and psychology available for elective credit.

According to faculty interviewed, the program is working to add new courses each semester.

Additionally, students and professors said the courses that are available are often oversubscribed. Last Wednesday, nearly 150 students signed up on OCS for just 20 spots in child studies professor Erica Christakis’s “Concept of the Problem Child” class, which counts as an elective in the program. Christakis said she plans to offer the course in a lecture format next semester but added that many other Education Studies courses are best taught through small group discussion. “[To accommodate all interested students] there just isn’t enough space, there aren’t enough resources, and there aren’t really enough people doing the teaching,” Horwitz said.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

email. “Yale students tend to be intellectually curious and adventurous, and EP&E will always be attractive to students who want to push themselves.”

Forty-four applicants were accepted to EP&E, with 43 of those choosing to enroll in the major. According to Nicholas Sambanis, the program’s director, EP&E had a “very strong pool of applicants this year.”

Michelle Kelrikh ’17, an EP&E major accepted this year, said she felt the application process was stressful but necessary.

Unable to preregister for EP&E classes as a sophomore in the major — only juniors and senior EP&E majors are able to preregister — Kelrikh could not fulfill all her requirements for EP&E because she did not gain spots in capped seminars.

Professors interviewed also indicated that because only

some students are able to preregister while the rest engage in Shopping Period, offering capped seminars is particularly challenging.

“There is a problem with having both preregistration and free-for-all shopping,” said political science professor Jolyon Howorth, who teaches seminars in both political science and EP&E. For the 16 available spots in his seminars, Howorth said he often has around 120 students registered on Online Course Information. Because a majority of those 16 spots are already taken by EP&E and political science majors who are able to preregister, most students are unable to get into the class.

Howorth called this a “ridiculous waste of time,” and recommended that Yale either require preregistration for all classes, or

none at all.

Although Global Affairs majors are unable to preregister for classes through the Jackson Institute, they are given preferred access to capped seminars.

This academic year the Jackson Institute will offer 79 seminars. However, of those, only one or two required a formal application through the Jackson Institute, said Jim Levinsohn, director of the Institute, in an email.

Still, one senior Global Affairs major who wished to remain anonymous condemned the application process as “stupid,” adding that he felt as if he was being obstructed from studying what he wanted to study.

Levinsohn, in fact, did not entirely dismiss the notion that the Global Affairs major could benefit from less competition.

“I don’t think the competitive nature of the Global Affairs major is necessarily a good thing,” Levinsohn wrote. “I’d love to be able to take every student who wants to major in Global Affairs, but we just don’t have the resources to do that at present. I’m working on it.”

Despite this pushback, some students and faculty see no chance that major selectivity will diminish. According to March, EP&E has no plans to change its application process.

Other majors, such as cognitive science and environmental studies, also require an application from prospective students.

“I think all Yale students like to compete and like someone to compete against,” Howorth said.

“That’s just a given.”

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

City officials optimistic about new LCI director

BY EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER After a transitional period for the Livable City Initiative, which saw the departure of its leader and discussions of renaming the agency, city leaders say they are optimistic that the new anti-blight director will steer the agency carefully.

Serena Neal-Sanjurjo was installed by Mayor Toni Harp in December, replacing Erik Johnson, who departed to work at a non-profit in Southern California. Neal-Sanjurjo pledged to focus on building the Elm City’s neighborhoods, in particular bringing new business to Dixwell Plaza, a shopping center across the street from the shuttered Q House. City officials, including Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 and Executive Director of Neighborhood Housing Services in New Haven James Paley, said they are pleased she is following through.

The LCI is focused on improving the quality of life in New Haven neighborhoods and is involved in initiatives such as

light illumination, housing code enforcement, city-owned land distribution and federal grant administration. Last week, the LCI helped prepare city residents to argue against the opening of a liquor store on Farren Avenue at a state hearing.

“Ultimately, our goal is to make this city so exciting for developers and investors that we’ll get private money without subsidy, and people will be building market-rate houses and businesses throughout the city,” Nemerson said. “I can’t think of a better person to lead that effort than Serena.”

Nemerson said that he thinks the LCI has been undermanaged in the past couple years and supports Neal-Sanjurjo in first getting a handle on all the management issues. Neal-Sanjurjo reports to Nemerson, and they talk daily.

Laurence Grotheer, director of communications at the Mayor’s Office, reiterated support for Neal-Sanjurjo.

“There has been a seamless transition to [her] leadership,” Grotheer said. “When the mayor appointed her, the mayor knew

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MATTHEW NEMERSON SOM ’81 Economic Development Administrator Grotheer noted that there are currently thousands of resident housing units in assorted stages of development, and that the LCI’s responsibility will grow as more and more housing units develop in New Haven.

Paley, who heads the Elm City’s Neighborhood Housing Services — a private non-profit organization that focuses on housing rehabilitation and assis-

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tance — said he met with NealSanjurjo last Thursday and was impressed by her energy, intelligence and passion.

“I have great confidence that she will lead LCI well, and that she will be a no-nonsense kind of leader and will be results-driven,” Paley said.

NHS collaborates with LCI to develop city-owned lots and foreclosed houses and receives federal grants administered through the LCI. Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said she is scheduled to meet with Neal-Sanjurjo soon and did not want to comment prematurely on Neal-Sanjurjo’s overall vision for the LCI. However, Morrison noted that she has had very good relationships with her LCI neighborhood specialist and other individuals in the LCI. “The biggest thing in any situation is communication, and I can honestly say that the individuals that work in LCI have been very communicative to me since I’ve been on the Board [of Alders],” Morrison said.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

One year in, “incremental” progress on transportation

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Describing New Haven as the “great small city” between New York and Boston, Mayor Toni Harp has set goals to increase fast transit options to both cities.

HARP FROM PAGE 1 action at the state and federal levels in addition to the city level, City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer said.

“There has been progress,” he said. “But it’s really only incremental progress.”

According to Grotheer, the city must communicate with New Haven and East Haven residents to first gauge interest in the project. Then, the mayor must appeal to both the state and federal governments, specifically the Connecticut State Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration, to acquire the license to add the flights. The last piece of the project, he said, is to work with the private airlines willing to offer service out of Tweed Airport. While the air-

port used to receive flights from 12 major airlines, currently only five major airlines operate out of Tweed.

“We’re not there yet because we’ve given ourselves a very high bar to get over,” City Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said. “But it’s one of highest priorities. This administration has an ongoing commitment to making the airport more useful to the region.”

Nemerson said he has met with residents living close to Tweed Airport to build trust and convince them that the addition of flights would be worth any inconvenience of higher traffic in the area. He estimated that approximately 1.5 million Connecticut residents live closer to Tweed than any other air-

port and would benefit from the added destinations.

In addition to supporting an extension of Tweed’s services, in her February address, Harp dubbed New Haven the “great small city” between New York and Boston, calling for improved transit options to both cities. During her 2013 campaign, Harp specifically proposed a high-speed transportation option from New Haven to New York to reduce the travel time to one hour. A high-speed transit option already exists between New Haven and Boston, Grotheer added, citing that the Acela service only makes two stops, in New London and Providence, en route to Boston in two hours.

Though New Haven is roughly 60 miles closer to New York than Boston, both the Metro North

and Acela options from the Elm City to New York are only about 15 minutes shorter than the Acela service to Boston.

Harp has yet to make significant moves on this onehour train service initiative, but Grotheer said it remains a goal of her administration. He added that progress has been made on the New Haven—Hartford— Springfield line, a new commuter service.

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Dannel Malloy announced on Jan. 12 that the State Bond Commission had approved $5.75 million of funding for the development of design plans of new railroad stations along the line.

“Creating a commuter rail line along the 1-91 corridor is part of our transformative transportation vision for Connecticut,”

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“I’ve been passionate about clean elections and public financing of elections for a while,” Heimer said. “The idea that you can take money out of the political process and allow more time to be spent talking about political issues is very appealing.”

In addition to Heimer, the Democracy Fund Board’s Chair Jared Milfred ’16, Vice Chair Gerald Martin and Treasurer Tyrone McClain were present last night. Although the board could not vote on any of the items on its agenda in Wynn’s absence,

the members briefly discussed their goals for the year. These include recruiting new members and seeking information about extending the fund to other municipal races besides mayoral — namely races for alder, city clerk, voter registrar and probate judge. If these expansions are successful, the fund may be further extended to accommodate candidates running for positions on the Board of Education, Milfred said.

The primary task of the planned meeting, Milfred said, was to draft a questionnaire for the Board of Alders to discern how the expanded Democracy Fund could benefit the alders’ campaigns. Martin said that while he was prepared to take the alders’ questions about a possible expansion,

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he was not ready to commit to it without examining the risks involved — notably the high costs associated with an expansion.

However, Heimer said she expected races for alder to cost the fund less than mayoral races or state-level campaigns because fewer races for alder are contested.

About 15 races are contested per year, which is much lower than the Democracy Fund’s original projection when they met with the Board of Alders two years ago.

The board plans to meet next Wednesday to complete the business on this week’s agenda.

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

Malloy said in a statement. “This bond authorization will give this important project needed momentum.”

City Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04 echoed Malloy’s sentiment, but added that while the governor has expressed commitment to a “big, transformative planning project” for transportation, he has yet to lay out a specific plan to that effect.

Hausladen said that his department’s primary focus is the restructuring of Route 34.

The city will remove two of the highway’s exits to make room for the new Downtown Crossing to be built on the former Coliseum site. Hausladen added that Harp’s goal of improving bus transport in the city was also a department priority.

With funding assistance from the Federal Transit Administration and the state, the city is carrying out a one million dollar study of the city’s transit routes to determine weaknesses in the system as it stands.

“In order to actually change the system, we need to have information,” Hausladen said.

Grotheer said one of the holes in the current system is that there are not buses running between areas outside of the city, so residents must come into downtown instead of traveling directly between these satellite locations — an issue revamped city bus routes would address.

Harp will deliver the 2015 State of the City address on Feb. 2.

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

31 percent more apply to the SOM SOM ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 tions like that,” Bach said.

Jain said the application increase is due to a variety of admissions initiatives, such as traveling to more destinations on admissions trips and hosting more events for prospective students. He also said that this is the first time the admissions office is almost fully staffed, which has enabled it to act more effectively.

Similarly, Bach said efforts to recruit international applicants intensified. Efforts have included positioning the SOM as a provider of a global management education, emphasizing the SOM’s global dialogue with other business schools around the globe and a greater effort on behalf of the admissions team to tap into the demand for global outreach. As a result, he said there has been an increase in international applicants this year.

SOM Deputy Director of Admissions Melissa Fogerty cited SOM’s participation in the Global Network for Advanced Management, an international network of schools founded by the SOM Dean Edward Snyder in 2011, and the launch of the SOM’s Yale Center Beijing this past October.

In addition, Jain said he thinks positive interactions between prospective students, current students and faculty have contributed to this increase.

SOM professor Barry Nalebuff, who has talked to prospective students interested in his work, said he noticed an increase in this year’s quality of applicants. He also said the SOM’s new building was a big contributing factor for this increase.

“In some ways our old facilities were holding us back and the [new building] really reflects seriousness, the modern aspects of the curriculum and the connections to Yale,” he said.

Despite the encouraging news at this point in the application process, Fogerty cautioned that it is premature to assess application trends until the end of the third admissions round so that the entire year can be examined as a whole.

Jain stressed that the SOM will not increase the number of students in its MBA program despite this increased interest. In fact, the cap for the MBA classes of the next two years has already been set.

In addition to increased applications for the MBA program, the SOM also received a substantial increase in applications for its executive MBA and masters of advanced management programs, Bach said.

The final application statistics for this year’s incoming SOM classes will be calculated in May. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

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SPORTS Exaggeration Nation EPPLER FROM PAGE 10 hyping of minor stories; the stoking of any insignificant controversy; and, at its worst, the publicizing of stories that have little to do with sports at all. In short, these channels and websites will do just about anything for a shiny headline.

At any given time, ESPN.com lists 11 top stories. As I look at those headlines now, at 8:45 p.m. the night this column was written, one of those headlines teases a story about Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman accusing Patriots quarterback Tom Brady of “start[ing] trash talk in 2012,” while another proclaims, “Lebron [James] to develop prime-time game show.” These are stories that should be, at best, destined for the back pages of local papers. Yet there they are, on the front page of the most-read sports website in the world.

Some may say that sports media provides these types of stories because the fans want them. Yet a comment by one fan on the James story shows a typical example of the attitudes towards this phenomenon. The fan mocks the story’s writer, quipping, “Brian Windhorst with another hard hitting Lebron James piece.”

Others may say that the 24-hour sports news cycle places particular pressures on media outlets to drum up stories, a pressure that results in tangential pieces. Yet as the sports media cycle has expanded, so too has the potential for stories: opportunities to craft work based on statistical analysis, video review or even data mining now exist where they may not have several years ago.

Whatever the reason for overhyping certain stories or publishing headlines that tangentially relate to sports, the practice must stop for the simple reason that doing so detracts from the reason why fans watch sports in the first place: that is, the competition itself. For every story about old trash talk or an athlete’s new game show, a piece of relevant news or analysis gets dropped. As Cardale Jones might put it, sports fans miss out on solid reporting for stories that are just not a big deal.

ALEX EPPLER is a junior in Davenport College.

He was a sports editor on the Managing Board of 2015.Contact him at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

“It’s about us getting ready to play. It’s not about the other team. We’ll beat ourselves before they beat us. That’s always our approach.” PETE CARROLL SEATTLE SEAHAWKS HEAD COACH

Buldogs across the borders W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 Sochi, Russia.

Once she made the team, she still had to figure out arrangements with the University. For the Olympic hockey teams of most countries, the teams practice for an entire year before the tournament and spend the year living together and bonding. College athletes on teams like the United States and Canada had to take the entire year off from college in order to be on the roster.

The process for the Swiss team is a bit different. Most Swiss players have either work or school, so practicing for an entire year is unrealistic. The Swiss roster also fluctuates very little year to year, so the tryout process is not nearly as extensive as it is for other national teams. For Staenz, her national team feels very similar to the team at Yale.

“The dynamic is fairly similar [to college],” Staenz said. “The people stay the same. We’re all fairly close.”

Because of the unique structure of the Swiss team, Staenz would not have to take the year off; instead she was faced with taking the semester off. Unhappy with that choice, Staenz searched for another option.

With the help of Ezra Stiles College Dean Camille Lizarríbar, she was able to find a way to miss the maximum allotted number of school days and make it through all games but the last two. She petitioned the University and received permission to stay in Sochi if Switzerland advanced to the medal round.

That is exactly what happened. In the bronze medal match against Sweden, the Swiss team trailed 2–0 at the start of the third period. Staenz scored Switzerland’s second goal of that final period, contributing to her team’s 4–3 comeback win against Sweden and earning her team the bronze medal.

Although she still struggles to find words to describe her feelings after scoring her goal, she said the closest she has come is to call it “an explosion of emotions.”

“It’s kind of like all other world championships combined together,”

Sarju talks season start SERJU FROM PAGE 10 being that there was only one senior.

I don’t really feel that much different in terms of what my role is on the team as a member but I do think that her getting injured woke everybody up to take more responsibility and to realize how big the role is that we have to play now, more so on the court than off the court. In terms of basketball and playing, a lot of us have accepted the fact that it’s going to take more of an effort from everybody for us to succeed. has the program changed QHow with Halejian’s absence, both on and off the court?

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She’s actually still around all the time and she’s kind of another coach now; she has a lot of great basketball insight. On the court it’s different — we don’t have that one person we can go to and pull us out of a situation, and we’ve had to step up.

It’s hard not having her, and its sad because she loves basketball and loves playing more than anyone that I know and her not being able to play is the toughest part.

number of things well. They missed layups that they probably won’t miss this time, and we need to play better defense. Some of it was our play and some was stuff that they’re going to raise their level. The game also showed how many people on our team can contribute in different ways. is the team morale now that QHow you played so well against Brown?

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I think that morale is probably less important than persistent commitment to what we’re trying to do. It’s a tough ivy season; it’s just every game and every practice matters and I think we know that we have the ability to do good things in this league but we have to keep wanting.

We need to remember the fact that it’s not going to be easy and it takes a consistent effort in order to produce a game like that or a better game, which we’re going to need to do.

the last three games, you have QInscored in the double digits. What do you think has caused this improvement, and how are you feeling about your performance?

not, who do you feel has been I think my teammates find me QIfstepping up to a leadership role Areally well by giving me good now?

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Whitney [Wyckoff ’16] steps up a lot as a leader and I think she’s been doing that this year more and in a really positive way. The PG is usually the person to lead the team more and I think even though she’s not playing PG, she’s playing that role of calling everyone together and lighting a fire under us to regroup and to produce. But everyone has stepped up in a huge way.

did the team feel before going QHow in to its first Ivy League game?

Did you guys expect the result?

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I think we were expecting to have to play a good game and to be a good team. I don’t know that we talk about winning prior to a game — that’s not a consideration ever.

We were expecting to follow what we did in the practices and were excited about starting ivy play like every team is. I think we did a good

passes. The coach is confident in my ability to shoot the ball and I’ve been trying to be more aware of situations. My ability to score comes from the fact that everyone is a threat on our team.

Brown, the team played QAgainst very well defensively. How can

you keep that going in future Ivy games?

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We want to make everyone feel uncomfortable. Our ability to create turnovers defines us, and I hope we can continue that against other teams. I think that is something that we want to do, and that we work on. Hopefully that doesn’t change. In terms of rebounding, we need to box out better, and we need to continue having a sense of urgency and tenacity in practice and that will carry over in the game.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

Staenz said. “It was big party for everyone. It was the one time to prove yourself. On the ice, you don’t really realize what’s going on. Off the ice, I learned so much about the Russian culture.”

Staenz also had the opportunity to meet some of the world’s top athletes at the dining halls and Olympic facilities, including NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin.

Back home, both players said that the similarities between college hockey and international hockey far outweighed the differences. Practice is the same intensity, and many college players, especially in the ECAC, play at a level comparable to the international stage. That being said, rink size is bigger at the international level, and the game moves at a faster and more intense pace.

“I think I learned a lot about the importance of focusing and getting ready for games, having your routine and getting into the mind-set,” Åström said. “And have fun, that’s what it’s all about, even at this level.”

The biggest difference, according to Staenz, is the crowd. At Yale, women’s hockey draws a much smaller crowd than the men’s team.

With international play, the crowds are packed with not only parents and friends, but fans and national supporters that serve as not only a source of anxiety, but also of support.

For Staenz, however, the overwhelming emotion is not nervousness, but excitement.

“You can’t miss one moment,” Staenz said. “You have to be in the moment. You’re definitely more excited [than nervous].”

The transition between the two levels is not difficult as far as play on the ice is concerned, but the jet lag is incredibly difficult to manage.

Over winter break, both Åström and Staenz traveled back home to play for their national teams and a day after landing were either practicing or competing on a disorientingly little amount of sleep. And the two still felt the effects on the way back to New Haven as well.

“It was like looking through a tunnel,” Staenz said about her first game

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Hanna Åström ’16 started skating at age two and was on a team by age five in her home country of Sweden. back. “Jet lag is a huge factor.”

According to the players, it takes a full week to fully recover from the travel. With around nine hours of flight time to both Sweden and Switzerland, it is tough for them to completely feel natural in their routines.

But even with the jet lag, the two players are huge assets for the Bulldogs. The ECAC is one of the most competitive leagues in hockey, and with four of its 12 teams ranked in the top 10, the Elis consider it important to constantly push themselves. It is also not surprising that many of the teams in the conference have national team players on their rosters as well.

“Playing internationally enables Hanna and Phoebe to play at another level,” captain and defenseman Aurora Kennedy ’15 said of her teammates. “When they come back, you can tell they’re playing at a higher pace than before. That helps bring up the level of our practice and helps everyone improve.” Åström and Staenz will be finishing up the season with the Bulldogs

this spring, although Staenz is considering a week long tournament this semester as well.

After her seasons at Yale, Åström is unsure of her plans, but she hopes that they include hockey. She is also hoping for the chance to be a part of the Swedish Olympic team come 2018 if she gets the opportunity.

“Since we don’t have an NHL, it seems sad to think that I would stop playing,” Åström said. “I just love playing hockey at any time.”

Staenz echoed her teammate’s thoughts. She would also like to be a part of another Olympic team. Since there is no professional hockey league for women, Staenz is considering the possibility of joining a men’s semiprofessional team to stay in shape.

Just like for Åström, where she plays is less important than the fact that she is playing.

“As long as I’m playing anywhere,” Staenz concluded.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

Elis aim high for 2015 TENNIS FROM PAGE 10 The women’s team will be looking for redemption in the Ivy stretch after missing out on a conference championship because of a 4–3 loss to Princeton last season. Since then, Yale has reinforced its roster by adding four new freshmen and graduating just a single senior, former captain Annie Sullivan ’14, from last year’s squad.

Many of those freshmen could be immediate contributors to the team, as all four of them — three five-star recruits and one walk-on — got time on the starting ladder in the fall.

Captain Hanna Yu ’15 said that the coaches will not establish any lineups for the spring until they see more of what each freshman can do.

“They’re a great asset to the team, not just playing-wise but also helping the team environment,” Yu said, “We’re always known for being a loud team, for bringing as much heart as we can every day.”

Yu, who was named first team allIvy last season with a 24–6 individual record, said that the team has its eyes set on two goals: winning an Ivy League championship and improving on a No. 48 ranking that she feels is not representative of the Bulldogs’ true potential.

Yale will pursue those goals under completely new leadership, as both members of the women’s tennis coaching staff were replaced for this season. Taka Bertrand has taken over the head coaching role after former head coach Danielle McNamara stepped down last May, while Matej Zlatkovic has taken over for Kirsten Flower as assistant coach.

“It was a little hard to adjust at first, having two completely new coaches and having four freshmen,” Yu said. “Now, we definitely all feel comfortable with the coaches. It’s a different dynamic from in years past, and we try to embrace what we have.

We’re lucky to have the coaches that we have.”

The men’s team hopes to recover from a more disappointing year, as the Elis went 1–6 in the 2014 conference season. Thirteen dual matches and the ECAC Championships remain until the Ivy season starts, and Daniel Faierman ’15 said that these early matches are the main focus until April.

The Bulldog men did get a chance to test themselves against an Ivy opponent this past Monday, as those who were healthy played in a preseason

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The Yale women’s tennis team brings in two new coaches and four freshmen among 10 players this year. scrimmage against Brown. Yale won 11 of the 21 matches in total, but Faierman noted that these results are not at all conclusive because of the formatting of the scrimmage.

“Our main goal [in the beginning of the season] is to improve as much as possible before Ivies,” Faierman said.

“We’d also like to get inside the top 75 nationally.”

Faierman was in his sophomore season the last time the Bulldogs finished in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association top 75. Seven Yale players have graduated since then, leaving it up to seniors Faierman, captain Zachary Krumholz ’15 and Matt Saiontz ’15 to lead this year’s title pursuit.

Much of the top talent on the men’s team comes from younger classes,

however, giving the Elis an encouraging outlook on the future. In the Elis’ final tournament of the fall, the Connecticut State Championships, Tyler Lu ’17 took home his second straight singles crown with a win over teammate Ziqi Wang ’18. Faierman joined the two in the final four of the tournament, and he and Lu also emerged victorious in the doubles final.

Both squads will kick off their 2015 seasons on Saturday. None of the men’s team’s opponents for this weekend are currently ranked, while the women’s team will be playing against three teams that are all ranked higher than the Elis’ No. 48 spot.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS 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.).

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

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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.).

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 3:00 PM Films at the Whitney: “Selma.” (USA, 2015). 127 min. The film will be introduced by professor Matthew Jacobson, acting chair of the African Studies department, and followed by a discussion with professors David Blight, Crystal Feimster, Jonathan Holloway and Kobena Mercer. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. 7:30 PM Yale Schola Cantorum, Handel: Judas Maccabeus.

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of fitness tests, on-ice practices, and games to showcase their skill. According to Åström, the goal is to keep the players tired at all times to test their endurance and ability. These are also prime scouting opportunities for coaches who need to make decisions for their national teams. Åström recently competed in her first professional international competition, the 4 Nations Tournament, this winter break. She played alongside another Swedish player on the Quinnipiac team. When it comes to international play, though, Åström was the first to acknowledge that Staenz has more experience.

Playing on Switzerland’s national team since 17, Staenz has competed in several world championships, including the 2012 tournament in Burlington, Vermont where Staenz and the Swiss team earned a bronze medal.

But Staenz’s most meaningful international experience came in February of 2014 when Staenz represented Switzerland as a member of the women’s Olympic hockey team in

The television screen cuts to a shot of an empty podium. Spectators excitedly await the speaker’s presence. In the corner of the television screen, the anchor in the studio leads hushed and anxious discussion among a panel of experts.

Is this a description of CNN in the moments before the State of the Union? NBC before the president makes an announcement on war or peace?

No. The television channel was ESPN; the auditorium was a high school gymnasium in Ohio; and the NFL Live studio crew was discussing whether Cardale Jones, the Ohio State quarterback who had just led the Buckeyes to the national title as a third-string quarterback, would stay another year at the university or go pro.

“I’m going to return next year for school,” he said sheepishly, wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt. “I don’t know why you guys made it such a big deal.”

The line drew laughter from the crowd of reporters, but I’m sure just about any sports fan would agree with Jones. Surely Jones’s announcement would have made sports pages around the country — after all, he did just lead his team to a Cinderella victory in the firstever College Football Playoff. But the conceit that the decision of a student returning to school warrants scheduling and giving a press conference is absurd.

This is not to pick on Jones — especially because the redshirt sophomore acknowledged the ridiculousness of the situation. But the press conference does exemplify disheartening trends that those who watch sports TV or read sports websites know well: the over-

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Phoebe Staenz ’17 spent a year at an exchange program in Kelowna, Canada before heading to Yale.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Yale women’s hockey is fielding one of its most impressive teams in years, due in large part to two talented international players: forwards Hanna Åström ’16 of Sweden and Phoebe Staenz ’17 of Switzerland. With years of play on the world’s best teams, the pair brings their experience to the Bulldogs in the hopes of making a playoff run.

Both Åström and Staenz have grown up with a pair of skates. Staenz and her brothers started as soccer players at the age of five, but did not stick with the sport. After hearing about kindergarten friends playing hockey, the siblings switched over.

It took a year of skating lessons, but finally Staenz began to play on a team, and she has been doing so ever since. Åström was skating by age two and on a team by age five. Most of her family played hockey, which is not unusual in Northern Sweden, where she grew up.

The two were not always the best in their leagues, though at least at first.

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Years later, both Åström and Staenz were selected to play for their countries’ junior national teams. Staenz played from age 15 on the junior team before being promoted to the Swiss national team two years later. Åström started the circuit a bit later, but she also played in several international tournaments, beginning in 2009.

It was the 2010 Women’s World U18 Championship, held in Chicago, that led Åström to Yale in the first place. Many college coaches and scouts attend these matches because they showcase the top youth players in hockey. Yale’s head coach, Joakim Flygh, who also happens to be Swedish, followed up with Åström after the tournament, in which Sweden placed third.

“I hadn’t thought about college,” Åström said. “We have a really good league back home.”

But her plans changed after she was contacted by Flygh. She then went through the recruitment process and has now found what she described as a “little family” away from home with Bulldogs hockey.

Staenz’s path to Yale was slightly

different. She spent a year at an exchange program in Kelowna, Canada, where she improved her English and played hockey. When seniors in the program began the college application process, Staenz did as well, choosing to apply to schools in the United States because she hoped to play on a talented, high-level athletic team while still earning a top-notch education.

In the end, she decided on Yale, and she is very happy with her choice. She also commented on the receptiveness of the Yale hockey team, which welcomed her with open arms.

“We spent so much time together,” Staenz said about her introduction to the team two years ago. “Everyone was so open and very welcoming.”

While both Åström and Staenz have found a second home here at Yale, they are still members of their respective national teams, and they have had the opportunity to return to them to play hockey on the international level while attending the University. Åström and Staenz have been to many national camps, where a country’s top players go through a series

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their Ivy opener and her expectations for the upcoming games.

Nyasha Sarju ’16 has been a valuable player for the Yale Women’s Basketball team this season, scoring double digits in the Elis’ last three games. In the Ivy opener win against Brown, Sarju was the second top scorer with 13 points. The News spoke with Sarju about the changes in her role on the team after the injury of captain Sarah Halejian ’15, the win against Brown in

does it feel to be one of QHow the few juniors on the team, and the oldest now that lone senior Captain is out for the season?

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Nyasha Sarju ’16 has had three-straight double-digit point performances for the Bulldogs.

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Spring season set to start for Yale tennis

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER After nearly three months of offseason training, the Yale men’s and women’s tennis teams are within two days of their first official matches in 2015. And with just four seniors lost to graduation across the two teams last season, both squads head into the spring with high expectations.

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The Eli men, looking to rebound from a 1–6 conference record last season, will first test their talents in three home matches against Colgate, Monmouth and Buffalo this weekend. The women’s team, guided by two new coaches and entering the season ranked No. 48 in the nation, is headed to Ann Arbor, Michigan for a four-team tournament with Michigan, Tulsa and Utah.

“We’ve all been training really hard and working on our games,” women’s player Courtney Amos ’16 said. “The first week back at practice has been really good, and I think we’re all playing well and definitely ready for some competition.”

Though both teams compete in tournaments throughout September and October each year, the spring semester, which includes ECAC championships in February and the Ivy League season in April, is the major part of Yale’s schedule.

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JOEY YE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Tyler Lu ’17 ended the men’s tennis fall season with a bang by defeating teammate Ziqi Wang ’18 in the Connecticut State Championships.

THE NUMBER OF POINTS GUARD NYASHA SARJU ’16 PUT UP AGAINST BROWN IN THE BULLDOGS’ IVY OPENER. Sarju has had three double-digit point games in a row.