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CROSS CAMPUS Speaking out. Lupita Nyong’o

DRA ’12 is one of several stars protesting the Oscars after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to nominate any actors of color for the second consecutive year. “[The nominee list] has me thinking about unconscious prejudice and what merits prestige in our culture,” she said.

Thirty-nine years. This week, Scarsdale, New York saw its first homicide since 1977.

Thirty-nine years ago, Bonnie Garland ’78 was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by her boyfriend, Richard Herrin ’77.

Herrin was arrested shortly after the incident when he drove to Coxsackie, New York and confessed to a priest who called police.

Bleed Blue. Take the Crimson down a notch by participating in the Yale-Harvard Blood Drive Challenge. The drive will take place Monday and Tuesday at the Afro-American Cultural Center and the Slifka Center. Each blood donation can save up to three lives, and donors will receive gift cards to Dunkin’ Donuts.

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Calhoun paintings to come down

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER For decades, students in Calhoun College have eaten meals beneath the scowling portrait of former U.S. vice president and notorious slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, class of 1804, that hangs in the back of their dining hall. But early Friday — after months of race-related tension on campus, including an as-yet-unresolved debate over the naming of Calhoun — the controversial oil painting will be taken down.

In a Jan. 17 email to her college community, Calhoun Master Julia Adams announced plans to remove three portraits of Calhoun — one in the dining hall and two in the master’s house — that have hung in the college since the 1930s. Adams later told the News that after technicians from the Yale University Art Gallery remove the paintings, she intends to keep the wall space blank until the naming dispute is resolved. She laid out her plans following a period of renewed debate within the college, where conversation about the symbolism of the name Calhoun has picked up steam in the wake of a series of racially charged incidents on campus.

“We no longer need these aidemémoires, Exhibits A (“the Glowering”) and B (“the Neck-bearded”), in our discussions and debates,” Adams wrote in the email, describing the portraits that hang in the dining hall and the living room of the master’s house.

Genecin details MH&C updates

BY PADDY GAVIN AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS

University is the ultimate owner of all work on display at Yale, including the paintings in the YUAG collections.

In the wake of months of vocal student demands last year for enhanced mental health services on campus, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin outlined changes to Mental Health & Counseling Thursday in an email to the undergraduate student body.

Among the most prominent updates are the December appointment of Howard Blue as deputy director of MH&C, the introduction of electronic messaging to schedule counseling appointments and the hiring of 2.5 new full-time-equivalent staff in the fall semester.

In his message, Genecin also affirmed MH&C’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and said the department will continue to build a diverse staff to meet the needs of students on campus.

“An atmosphere of inclusion and the appreciation of diversity are core values in Mental Health & Counseling,” Genecin wrote. “We provide care and service to students of all races, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. Clinicians’ ability to understand the impact of cultural or ethnic identity in students’ lives is essential for forming effective therapeutic relationships.”

Approximately 30 percent of students seek-

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Three portraits of Calhoun — one in the dining hall and two in the master’s house — will be removed.

Adams told the News that she decided to remove the portraits to address student complaints about the problematic racial symbolism of artwork that many in the college also find visually unappealing. The

Deuce is better than one.

From the creators of “The Wire” comes a new series called “The Deuce” which stars James Franco GRD ’16 as a pair of twins. The show, which also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a sex worker, is about the rise of the pornography industry in the 1970s. “The Deuce” will premiere on HBO.

The sound of music. Students

can look forward to two musical events on campus next week. The Brentano String Quartet, a group founded at Princeton in 1992, will perform at the Morse Recital Hall on Jan. 26. On Jan. 29, conductor Carolyn Kuan will give a show at Woolsey Hall. Kuan is the music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

Got Dramat? The Dramat has an all-new mainstage selection process which is open to the whole student body instead of just members. Students may submit suggestions for shows until Sunday night. The Dramat will also hold a campuswide forum Tuesday evening to discuss submissions.

Fail University. The Sphincter

Troupe, Yale’s only allfeminine-identified sketch comedy group, is kicking off the semester with “Yale Fail” — a show about the perils of shopping period and more.

The show is tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in the Morse Crescent Theater.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1959 The University’s Army ROTC program announces that it will revise its program.

The main changes include the addition of weekly military science lectures required for participants. These lectures will replace the courses on history and geography.

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For dean of student affairs, a familiar face

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER On a chilly Thursday morning, petting her three-yearold mixed-breed Cavachon, Mambo, Ezra Stiles College Dean Camille Lizarríbar — who was named Yale’s new dean of student affairs in December — was talkative and relaxed in her office, rattling off jokes and eliciting laughter from her assistant and a student worker nearby.

The care and warmth she brings to people around her, students interviewed said, are her defining characteristics, and they will play a critical role as Lizarríbar assumes a position that will be more important than ever after a tumultuous semester on campus.

“It’s obvious to everyone that we are in an era of profound change in Yale College,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway told the News. “And while

we had very compelling external candidates in the finalist pool, there was something reassuring that we would bring someone into Student Affairs who was already up to speed on so many aspects of the office and of this particular campus culture.”

Lizarríbar is no stranger to developing policies or working with students. She was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and she worked as an attorney both in government and in private practice, as well as lectured at Harvard, before coming to Yale. Here, she has taught classes in Directed Studies, led the Freshman Scholars at Yale program and mentored Stilesians. She is also a single mother of two boys, eightyear-old Tadeo and 11-yearold Arcadio. Students from her college described Lizarríbar as both professional and downto-earth, making sure her students are on the right path aca-

demically but also connecting with them on a personal level.

Lizarríbar is a self-professed zombie lover and an avid traveler and language learner.

Among an array of other hobbies and interests, watching “The Walking Dead” — a popular study break in Stiles — is a personal favorite, students noted.

Lizarríbar’s appointment concluded a nearly yearlong search for a new dean of student affairs. The position had been vacant since Marichal Gentry left Yale last summer to serve as dean of students at his alma mater, Sewanee: the University of the South. Following Holloway’s announcement, students and administrators alike said they are excited to see Lizarríbar in her new position. Especially after almost two months of campus protests surrounding SEE LIZARRÍBAR PAGE 4

Elm City sees lull in heroin use

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER The country, state and city have all seen spikes in heroin use and overdoses in recent years. But over the last few weeks, emergency medical technicians say there seems to have been a lull in heroin-related emergency calls in New Haven.

When New Haven EMTs first began administering Narcan — an opioid antagonist — from fire engines last September, they regularly received between two and three calls a night on the weekends to address heroin overdoses. New Haven Fire Department Emergency Medical Services Director Ken Oliver said when the department began carrying Narcan on

every fire truck, they used about 30 dosages by the end of September. NHFD Assistant Chief of Operations Matthew Marcarelli said since the department began using Narcan, the intervention has been very effective — the NHFD has saved approximately 50 lives with Narcan. But Oliver said that over the last couple weeks, some communities have been calling less often to report overdoses. Though he said he hopes the reason is because simply fewer people are overdosing, he added that it may in fact be tied to the efficacy of Narcan. Because some opioid users in the Elm City are now aware that EMTs in the city carry Narcan, they may be unwilling to use the drug

within city limits, he said.

Sometimes, even when people are barely breathing, they will say they are allergic to Narcan because they do not want to lose their high, he added.

“Sometimes … we get people who aren’t just citizens of New Haven. They come to New Haven to find a dealer and they’ll use in New Haven,” Oliver said.

“Now we’re finding that people may be getting their drug and then going back to where they came from.”

Though statistics regarding heroin, other opioid usage and overdoses were not available from the New Haven Health Department, both Oliver and Colleen O’Connor, the special SEE HEROIN PAGE 6

COURTESY OF CAMILLE LIZARRÍBAR

Dean of Ezra Stiles College Camille Lizarríbar has been named the new dean of student affairs.

Schwarzman Scholarship boasts powerful network

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER For a national fellowship in its first year of operation, the Schwarzman Scholars selections committee featured a lot of heavy hitters.

The panel, which conducted interviews for semifinalists in major cities worldwide, was composed of CEOs, university presidents, former heads of state, nonprofit executives, journalists and other high-profile leaders. But this level of access to the movers and shakers of the world may be typical for Schwarzman Scholars, continuing once the students enroll at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing

next fall.

“The fact that [Stephen Schwarzman ’69]’s behind this program was one of the critical reasons I did it,” said Hui Kay Teo ’16, a member of Schwarzman Scholars’ inaugural class. “He just knows so many people.”

As a business magnate, Schwarzman’s influence and network of connections will put the scholars in contact with people they would otherwise not have the chance to meet, Teo said. Schwarzman, who in May donated $150 million to Yale for a new, state-of-the-art student center, is chairman and CEO of the private equity firm The BlackSEE SCHWARZMAN PAGE 6

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much better strategy”

Sheeping period

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nce a year, my family hauls up huge plastic bins of decorations from the basement. We unpack strands of beads and sparkly ornaments — my current favorite is a glittery plastic avocado half. This annual decorating blitz happens not in December but in early fall, and we hang the decorations not on an evergreen in our living room but in a small wooden hut, rebuilt from prefab panels that live for most of the year in the garage, on the backyard patio.

This is our sukkah.

The Jewish holiday of Sukkot, for those who consider themselves bound by the rules of traditional Jewish law, requires one to “dwell” in the sukkah for eight days. We eat all our meals in this little wooden booth, with branches for ceiling; a sukkah’s roof must allow for the stars to be seen. For most of my life, my exposure to Christmas decorations has been oriented toward that week in autumn; I delighted in finding new ornaments and strands of colored lights to (mis) place in the sukkah.

I’M CONTENT TO FEEL MORE LIKE AN OUTSIDER IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER This year, I found myself in a place where Christmas was not just on TV but in my entryway, in the form of a tiny tree, in my common room, in the lives of people I have grown to love deeply during my first semester here. Christmas is a religious observance for some of my friends and a cultural one for others, but for the first time it pervaded my entire life. This closeness made Christmas simultaneously less and more alien; I understand ritual and big meals and family time, and this made it easy to appreciate the significance of Christmas. On the other hand, increased intimacy with the holiday made me feel how deeply it is not mine.

I grew up living and continue to live a life that is out of sync with mainstream American culture. I spend one day each week without using any technology as an observer of the Jewish Sabbath. I devote time — in high school, it was half of my long school day — to the study of texts in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic.

In class and in social settings, I periodically feel like I’m living in translation, as I struggle to find the English words to communicate a Talmudic logical principle

or a Yiddish idiom that is part of my natural vocabulary. And my “holiday season” is the early fall, when Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot occur in quick succession.

This period, called “the chagim,” or “the holidays,” by observant Jews, is a time of family, ritual, familiar foods and melodies. It’s also a time of moderate chaos, family strife and conflicting obligation to different people and places. These are my “holidays.”

In the past month, I was invited to participate in innumerable “holiday” events. I was surrounded by “holiday” decorations that are aesthetically foreign to me. While my family uses Christmas decorations in our sukkah, the green and red of Christmas trees and mistletoe are so exotic as to be almost taboo. I received three emails about the Freshman Holiday Dinner.

All of these feel like Christmas to me. Despite some Hanukkah decorations in the dining halls that nod to what is a minor, albeit lovely, occurrence in my life, “the holidays” at Yale were Christmas wrapped in the sparkly paper of what is at best pluralism and at worst tokenism.

“Holiday” events feel as viscerally “not mine” as they would if they were explicitly identified with Christmas. But when it’s a “holiday” party, I don’t get to politely opt out in the same way I could for a Christmas party.

The consequence of choosing to live a life that adheres to my understanding of my religious obligations is that I am slightly out of sync with the world. I’m at peace with this; it makes my life and my Yale education richer.

I’m content to feel more like an outsider in the month of December. There will be parties celebrating things I do not celebrate and songs alien to my ears. If these were ”Christmas” parties and “Christmas” songs, I could communicate this easily.

I at least had an excuse to not attend the Freshman Holiday Dinner. It was scheduled this year on Friday night, when I was at Slifka observing Shabbat, as many Jewish Yalies do weekly. It’s hard to see the “holiday” dinner as more than a shallow attempt at inclusion when this purportedly major part of the Yale experience is scheduled to conflict with a regular observance of hundreds of students.

I’m looking forward to sharing my friends’ joy next December, and being immersed in a season that emphasizes light, community and giving. But please, call it Christmas season.

AVIGAYIL HALPERN is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact her at avigayil.halpern@yale.edu .

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little more than a year ago, former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz penned a controversial book in which he criticized students at elite universities for being “excellent sheep.” In it, he somewhat hyperbolically implies that the Yale student body and those at peer institutions are composed of resume-padding automatons who live in a community devoid of intellectual curiosity. At this point, I think many of us have concluded that he was largely incorrect. But there’s certainly one aspect of Yale that makes me feel sheepish: shopping period.

I remember having shopping period advertised to me as a sort of utopian solution to the normal problems posed by pre-registration for classes, as is the case at other schools. Getting the chance to “try-before-we-buy,” so to speak, is certainly handy, but with Yale becoming more technologically connected by the day and with enrollment slated to grow by 15 percent, it’s probably time to evaluate some of shopping period’s growing pains.

High among these is how pointless the first day of classes often becomes. Consider the large lecture courses, my favorite targets to pick on as of late. In many of

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these, the first day of classes becomes a mindless ritual, with students transforming from sheep into sardines as SHREYAS they fill overTIRUMALA crowded lecture halls.

Rhyme and Once a student stakes a reason claim on his or her plot of tile on the ground, the show begins in earnest: there’s the obligatory 30 to 40 minutes of class spent rehashing a syllabus that many of us already took the time to peruse.

Instructors then spend time wading through a veritable sea of questions that can usually be answered by little more than “Check the syllabus.” It’s probably more effective to write an FAQ or record a brief video for the course website than to waste an hour of class with this inane chore; to be sure, going over course structure is important, but class should elaborate on the syllabus rather than simply restate it.

Students are equally to blame for shopping-period woes. Those who wait out the beginning of a class expect an exciting denoue-

ment; unless the lecturer is particularly flashy or engaging, students switch from note-taking to browsing social media (I’m especially guilty of this). Perhaps this is why the information taught on the first day rarely matters for the rest of the semester; professors have learned that our attention spans on Day 1 are limited. Opening lectures become nothing more than a distraction as students rush online to confirm spots in sections for courses they may very well end up dropping days later — creating a logistical nightmare for everyone. One simple fix can be to have section selection follow the end of shopping period. But more importantly, we should probably be a bit more discerning about the arrangement of rainbow-colored blocks on our scheduling worksheets.

But I reserve even more ire for seminars — particularly for the more popular ones. It’s not uncommon to see students stooping to saccharine, if not entirely sycophantic, methods of gaining a professor’s favor. Some students quote passages from a professor’s latest book at the end of class; others email multi-page treatises professing their love for the subject. Perhaps it’s overly cynical, but I question how authentic

this excitement is. Undoubtedly, there are some excellent seminars at Yale, and I’m sure that there are indeed students who express genuine passion in their applications for course admission. That said, it’s curious how many of these coveted seminars have CourseTable work ratings below 3.0 — a marker of a low-workload class.

All this suggests that Deresiewicz may have had a point: in lectures, we pay enough attention to understand whether or not this was indeed the science gut we were searching for; in seminars, we’ve been taught how to come up with just the right words and phrases to convince the professor to let us in.

It may be hard to have any large-scale reform accompany this semester’s shopping period.

But hopefully the second week will be a little less painful for all of us.

Moving forward, it may be time for us to consider how shopping period can be made more efficient and less personality-driven.

It’s time we become the shepherds of our education — not the sheep.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

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Yale’s mental health revolution

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ver the past few months, there’s been a lot of discussion about mental health and sexual assault at Yale. Some have praised Yale’s response to each issue, while others have been more critical. No doubt, both responses are warranted. However, all this dialogue got me wondering: What was the response to mental health and sexual assault like five, 10, 15 years ago? To find out, I went digging through the News’ online archives for articles written on each subject. What I found stunned me: Over the past 15 years, Yale has seen nothing short of an administrative and culture revolution.

Let’s start with mental health. Mental health stigma has decreased on this campus to an astonishing degree, while open discourse and discussion have increased. In 2002–04, there were only a scattered dozen or so articles on mental health services, culture and resources. In 2013 alone, I found 20 articles on the subject (and even more in 2014). This increase in discussion through very public forums represents a total paradigm shift from just 10 years ago, when mental health seemed to be a relatively obscure, niche issue. In addition to these articles, countless people have raised questions about the care that Yale pro-

vides, and many have demanded changes. It is amazing to see people so openly advocating for an increased focus on mental health, considering that this movement barely existed a few years ago.

I can even attest to this shift in just the last 3 years, during my time at Yale. At the very first meeting of Mind Matters this year, a mental health awareness and advocacy group at Yale, members discussed both their own and their families’ personal experiences with mental illness.

I could not have imagined such a frank dialogue taking place my freshman year. Sharing personal anecdotes about mental illness in a group setting would have been seen as incredibly bold. But today, it isn’t so. People felt very comfortable sharing these stories unprompted, and not an eyebrow in the room was raised. Even the YSO show this year addressed Yale’s culture of stress. To anyone involved in mental health on campus, the shift is nothing short of miraculous.

Similar to mental health, we (especially the administration) have made leaps and bounds with regard to sexual climate and our collective response to sexual assault. To begin with, discussion of sexuality and sexual assault has gone from a taboo to a cultural imperative. Student groups like The Sexual Liter-

ary Forum and the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale are obvious examples of how common it is to discuss sexuality and sexual health at Yale. And anyone who has attended a Sex Week event in the past would snort at the idea that sex is taboo.

In addition to this cultural shift, we must give credit where credit is due and acknowledge the massive institutional changes reforms that Yale has implemented. We’ve seen an explosion of University resources, such as the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center, Communication and Consent Educators, the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, the Office of LGBTQ Resources and more. Every Yale undergraduate attends at minimum three sexuality workshops by their third full semester. Again, to a student even 15 years ago, this wealth of resources would have seemed unimaginable.

But perhaps even more, it is incredible to see how far we’ve come in terms of reporting sexual assaults. In 2004, the University reported a single case of sexual assault. One. Today, things couldn’t be more different: We have the rigorous, 6,000-student AAU climate survey, which shows that there has been a massive increase in the number of

students taking advantage of the University’s resources for reporting and responding to sexual misconduct. But 10 years ago, op-eds published in the News were simply trying to convince people that sexual assault was actually a prevalent and important issue on campus.

There is, of course, room for improvement. Many students still do not prioritize their own mental health. Stigma is still a significant barrier to treatment. And waiting times at Mental Health & Counseling are still quite long for many students. There are still an inexcusable number of sexual assaults every year, and both students and administrators have a way to go before the crisis is solved. Nevertheless, I think it is incredibly important to recognize the progress that has already been made.

We need to take a step back and think about how many incredible and positive changes there have been, both on our campus and across the country. My hope is that by building off these changes and examining how they came about, we can utilize our newfound openness and zeal to create a University that is safer and healthier for everyone.

ELI FELDMAN is a senior in Silliman College. Contact him at eli.feldman@yale.edu .

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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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The article “Mindfulness course spreads to other colleges” incorrectly stated the residential colleges in which the course will be offered.

Students to host civic leadership conference

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Over winter break, Eric Liu ’90 attended a typical Yale gathering in a Seattle teahouse. The meeting, planned to welcome newly admitted Yalies, quickly turned into an three-hour discussion among dozens of current students, alumni and newly admitted high-school seniors that centered around the racial controversies that dominated campus life last fall.

“There was a wide range of political viewpoints and perspectives from different generations, and it was incredibly values-laden and heart-andhead connected,” Liu said of the impromptu conversation. “It made me appreciate that when Yale works, it can create a sense of community that allows people to disagree, and disagree well.”

It is just this spirit of optimism and possibility that animates the Yale Civic Leadership Initiative, created last spring

by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Liu at the first Civic Leadership Conference in February 2015 — an all-day event which involved roughly 60 Yale students. It is now run by a group of undergraduates who are planning the second iteration of the conference, set to be held Jan. 30. According to the student coordinators, the conference aims to empower Yale students to affect change regardless of their social standings and positions in extracurricular activities. The conference will also host a range of speakers, including American civil rights leader Rashad Robinson, tech-startup founder Amanda Slavin and filmmaker Lynn Novick. Moreover, coordinators hope the conference will serve as a starting point for students to have a larger discussion about the idea of civic leadership, while keeping in mind the unusual spike in student activism and lingering tensions on campus.

“Civic leadership can seem like a fluffy term, but it essentially means being active in a community,” said Diksha Brahmbhatt ’18, the initiative’s head of public relations. “We want to give people the skill set to do so.”

The initiative is partnering with Citizen University, a nonprofit organization founded by Liu to democratize how power functions in civic life through educational programs, case studies and conferences. Liu, who served as deputy assistant for domestic policy to President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 between 1999 and 2000, said this means teaching and empowering people to be positive social contributors in their society, regardless of their background.

Civic leadership, Liu added, means being able to move others to join in collective action even if they do not possess leadership titles.

“Civic leadership comes from everywhere, and from people who have and do not have authority,” he said.

The initiative’s coordinators said that at Yale there is a certain stigma about civic leadership that must be overcome.

Conference chair Stella Yang ’16 said she is often met with cynicism about civic leadership and questions about why such an initiative is relevant for students. Yang said the mission of the initiative is to give students concrete skills to bring about change, in whatever field they enter.

In planning the upcoming conference, student organizers have also had to grapple with finding the most appropriate way of framing last semester’s student activism within the conference’s context. Ariel Murphy ’18, one of the coordinators for the conference, said the organizing committee wanted to make sure that the conference was not “tone-deaf” to student activism on campus, and other organizers said they will frame these events as a case study for civic leadership.

“Students who are not necessarily student-leaders and not administrators were able to organize voice and numbers to create real change,” Liu said of last semester’s student activism. “It is certainly civic leadership.”

Students interested in attending the conference must register

by Jan. 24.

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

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Due to the high percentage of people leaving the state, Atlas Van Lines has classified Connecticut as an “outbound” state.

BY JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTER More people moved out of Connecticut in 2015 than in the past 10 years, according to a new report published by Indiana-based moving company Atlas Van Lines.

The new data showed that of the 2,204 people that the company gave moving assistance to in Connecticut, 1,236 people left the state while only 968 moved in. The report drew from Atlas’ household goods relocation records between 2006 and 2015 to model broader interstate migration patterns. It then classified each state as “inbound” if greater than 55 percent of its moves were arrivals, “outbound” if greater than 55 percent were departures or “balanced” if both arrivals and departures constituted under 55 percent of total moves. Because approximately 56 percent of the moves left Connecticut, the state qualifies as outbound. Atlas Marketing Manager Lauren Falls, who oversaw the study, stressed its importance both for the company and for understanding movement across the country. While Atlas’ study did not explore why people are leaving the state, numerous papers and

studies have postulated about which factors most influence interstate migration — a question that remains the subject of much disagreement.

“It is vital for not only the moving industry, but also our nation, to track migration patterns and better understand why and where individuals are relocating,” Falls said in an email.

Atlas’ data represents a small proportion of the total number of interstate migrations. Of the approximately 40 million people who move every year, according to U.S. census data, the report included just the 77,705 handled by Atlas. The study’s authors, however, said their data offers a nationally representative sample capable of helping determine the destinations of and motivations for interstate migrations more broadly.

President and CEO of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association Joe Brennan said that in Connecticut’s case, consistent net outbound migration probably results in part from the harsh tax burden — the fourth-highest in the country according to a 2015 study by personal finance website WalletHub. “I think taxes are a factor,”

Brennan said. “Our income tax, particularly on higher-income individuals, has been creeping up quite a bit and I know for a fact that some people are making choices based on that.”

The findings of Atlas’ study corroborate Brennan’s theory.

Among the 10 states whose residents face the highest tax burden according to WalletHub — including New York, California, Nebraska and Illinois — the Atlas report classified eight as outbound, one as inbound, and one as balanced. Brennan also said that the state’s slow economic growth, which still has not reached pre-recession rates, and inability to compete with what he called the “bigcity appeal” of nearby metropolises like New York and Boston could be driving people away.

In addition to the possible causes underlying the trends exhibited by Atlas’ data, Falls and Brennan noted some likely consequences of those patterns.

“From a state budget perspective, obviously you have fewer people living here paying property taxes, paying sales taxes, paying payroll taxes and [paying] other taxes,” Brennan said.

Falls also discussed the trend’s potential long-term impacts on the Connecticut

economy. She said the state should expect a decline in the size of its labor pool and in general economic growth if Connecticut continues to see net outbound migration.

In New Haven, however, evidence indicates no outbound migratory trends, according to City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer.

“There is a very small vacancy rate in terms of housing and there are somewhere close to 2,000 housing units in some phase of design, permitting or construction to address that vacancy rate and the need for additional housing units,” Grotheer said.

In light of Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ imminent return to New Haven — a relocation that promises to bring 1,200 new jobs to the city — and of the introduction of two new residential colleges at Yale, Grotheer is optimistic. He called prospects for New Haven’s indefinite future “bright.”

Two hundred Alexion employees arrived in New Haven on Tuesday, the first of a total of 1,000 it plans to move to its new headquarters by the end of March.

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

SOM students craft green start-up

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Benjamin Young SOM ’16 and Frederick Kukelhaus SOM ’16 combined family traditions of sustainability and carpentry in their new business venture “Hugo and Hoby,” an online retailer of regionally handcrafted furniture.

Named after the founders’ grandfathers, Hugo and Hoby endeavors to provide the quality craftsmanship of high-end furniture without the hefty price tag.

Hugo and Hoby, which was conceived in 2014, posts new furniture designs they create with the help of craftspeople onto its website each month for customers to preorder. The website also allows users to track the delivery and even the construction of the pieces.

“We’re inspired by the idea of things that are convenient and easy on customers,” Kukelhaus said. “Right now, that is missing from the furniture-buying experience. There is always a trade-off between style, affordability, sustainability and convenience.”

The pair, who received a Bronze reSET Impact award last year in recognition of their viable earlystage startup, emphasizes sus-

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tainability as a defining characteristic of their business model.

Their grandfathers were both carpenters and environmentalists. As a result, the founders explained, Hugo and Hoby strives to uphold values of ethical sourcing and quality design.

Hugo and Hoby fulfills its commitment to consumer transparency with the same innovative spirit that characterizes its business model. Each piece of furniture is imprinted with the name of the craftsman who built it and the geographical coordinates of the area from which the lumber was sourced.

Adam Muniz, director of the New Haven chapter of Startup Grind, a global startup community for entrepreneurs, said the business has carved out a niche that distinguishes it from similar furniture companies.

“I don’t believe that there are competitors that come close to what Hugo and Hoby are building across manufacturing, marketing, distribution and supply chain,” he said.

Muniz also pointed out the benefits of low, preordered production quantities that minimize waste and enable greater quality control. Still, he questioned

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whether Hugo and Hoby will need funding from investors to achieve growth in the future, and whether there is a strong consumer demand for handmade furniture.

Kukelhaus described the current furniture market as “fragmented and increasingly competitive,” but said this motivates him and Young to continue striving toward meaningful, walletfriendly designs.

Hugo and Hoby’s business model stems from the experiences of its founders when they were furnishing their apartment near East Rock when they first moved to the Elm City.

“There weren’t a lot of good options for our demographic group,” Kukelhaus said. “Either [the furniture] was not particularly inspiring, poor quality or didn’t fit our style.”

Kukelhaus said he wondered why appealing and affordable furniture companies did not already exist in a place full of natural resources and skilled craftsmanship.

Muniz said a limited range of furniture with a quick turnover enables the brand to be innovative, responsive to customer feedback and “less susceptible to copycats.”

Kukelhaus explained that the unusual practice of releasing monthly furniture collections emerged from two rationales.

Firstly, the strategy speeds up the rate of sales, capitalizing on the limited time the cofounders have left at the SOM before they graduate this year. Secondly, monthly collections are a dynamic alternative to the typically longer cycle of furniture production.

Kukelhaus said the market’s inability to purposefully react to customer preferences is a drawback of the historically lengthy production cycle.

“I think we’re trying to get away from the traditional furniture-making process, where they make designs a year ahead of time and [the furniture] sits in the store,” Kukelhaus said.

Although Kukelhaus said

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[Yale] realizes there are so many smart people here with great ideas.

FREDERICK KUKELHAUS SOM ’16 Hugo and Hoby Co-Founder

Yale is not normally viewed as an entrepreneurial hub, the resources Yale funnels into entrepreneurship are increasing. “[Yale] realizes there are so many smart people here with great ideas who would be useful in a startup setting,” he said.

“There’s a lot to be gained by moving quickly.”

Young cited the support the pair received from his SOM classmates and Yale’s alumni network of informal mentors as crucial components of Hugo and Hoby’s success. Kukelhaus emphasized that although entrepreneurship classes at SOM kickstarted the pair’s understanding of running a business, the Yale Entrepreneurial Summer Fellows program provided the greatest source of training.

Moving forward, Kukelhaus and Young hope to wrap their furniture in recyclable packaging.

Kukelhaus said he would be proud to see Hugo and Hoby become a leader in customized and sustainable packaging. The pair also hopes to put the reigns of designing the furniture into the hands of design experts. Currently, Kukelhaus and Young design the furniture they sell together with craftspeople.

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“We’re not experts, and I think that really helps us because we still see the industry as outsiders,” Kukelhaus said.

Ryan Cocina, a Hugo and Hoby craftsman and instructor of woodworking at Vermont’s Shelburne Craft School, said he is optimistic about the future of the startup.

He said he looks forward to the company expanding and awarding everyone the right to have affordable and well-made furniture.

“Since I came on early with this business, I am also excited to see this business grow from the ground up,” Cocina said.

Kukelhaus said that while his classmates are going to interviews for jobs at major firms, he and Young spend this time at the lumber mill or in the forest.

When the duo is building prototypes in the sawdust-covered basement of their home, they are inspired by the principles ingrained into them since childhood.

“My grandfather was building pieces to last a lifetime,” Young said.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; / No more of that.” KING LEAR FROM SHAKESPEARE’S “KING LEAR”

Genecin offers updates on MH&C changes GENECIN FROM PAGE 1 ing care in MH&C during the 2014–15 academic year are members of an ethnic minority, Genecin said, a statistic that reflects the percentage of minority students in the Yale population. Within MH&C, 20 percent of clinicians identify as ethnic or racial minorities, and the entire staff will receive ongoing training to help them better understand the wide diversity of Yale’s student body, he added.

Blue, a man of color himself, will be responsible for increasing awareness of mental health issues on campus and developing programs that focus on diversity and inclusion for all students, Genecin wrote. He added that Blue will collaborate with the University’s four cultural houses to determine ways that MH&C can help and support their programs.

Blue did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

University Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart said MH&C Director Lorraine Siggins created the position of deputy director in response to the growing size of MH&C, the scope of its activities and the complexity of running a department with over 30 staff.

She added that Blue’s qualifications made him the clear choice for this new role, given his experience in mat-

ters of diversity and inclusion.

“Dr. Blue is an outstanding clinician. He is a capable administrator and for many years he has been responsible for certain aspects of MH&C operations,” Peart said. “Dr. Blue’s interest in racial and ethnic diversity, and his expertise in this field, have been assets in MH&C and in the psychiatry training program at Yale School of Medicine … Dr. Blue’s expertise in this area is certainly relevant and he will be working with the cultural houses to identify needs in the coming year.”

University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews said that, having worked with Blue on numerous occasions, she believes his appointment is excellent news for Yale students. Blue will be able to bring his deep care for student well-being and his many years of experience as a professional, among many other things, to this new position, Goff-Crews added.

Students on the Yale College Student Advisory Committee to MH&C — a group established in spring 2014 that works to enhance services and improve communications between MH&C and undergraduates — expressed general satisfaction with the new measures.

Eli Feldman ’16, one of

four undergraduates on the committee, said the student representatives worked directly with Genecin and Siggins. Both Feldman and Mari Kawakatsu ’17, another student representative on the committee, said the addition of electronic scheduling was among the most notable updates.

“Any enhancement in the health service for students is important, but I think that the electronic scheduling is definitely something to note,” Kawakatsu said. “It directly responds to the [Yale College Council] recommendation in their 2013 Mental Health Report, which noted the frequent complaints about telephone scheduling. I hope that the new electronic system can ease the process of making appointments for students.”

The ongoing diversity training for MH&C staff, Kawakatsu added, will help the department continue to improve mental health and counseling services to Yale students.

MH&C saw over 2,000 students by the end of last December, which is about 16 percent of the current Yale University student population.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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Genecin addressed mental health and diversity concerns in a college wide email yesterday.

Calhoun, off the walls CALHOUN FROM PAGE 1 Adams added that she will consider a number of possible replacements for the portraits — including student artwork and professional paintings with racial-justice themes — once the University settles the naming dispute this spring.

“An empty space at this point actually befits the stage that we’re at in the conversation,” she said. “We are waiting for a decision now.”

The controversy over the naming of Calhoun began this summer after the racially charged shooting of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina prompted nationwide discussion of Confederate symbols. University President Peter Salovey dedicated his entire freshman welcome address to the debate, though student interest faded in the early weeks of the semester.

But the college naming issue drew fresh scrutiny this past fall, amid national headlines about the racerelated controversies that have rocked campus since Halloween weekend.

After Thanksgiving break, dozens of Calhoun students gathered in the dining hall for a small-group discussion session focused on the naming dispute, and last month nearly 200 students — about half the student population of Calhoun — filled out a survey on the topic that was passed on to Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway.

Jock Reynolds, the director of the YUAG, visited Calhoun on Wednesday to discuss the three portraits with Adams. After examining the paintings, which he said require significant cleaning, Reynolds agreed to place them in storage at the YUAG

while the Yale Corporation — which has final jurisdiction over the college’s naming — weighs the naming dispute.

The three portraits are not the only objects in the college honoring the former vice president. As of this week, Adams said, the college dean will no longer use a ceremonial mace cane that once belonged to Calhoun.

She added, however, that it is not within her power as master to replace the dining hall’s stained-glass windows, which depict slaves picking cotton, because they are part of the structure of the building. In 1992, in response to a student complaint, the college removed a panel from the stained-glass windows in the common room that depicted a shackled slave kneeling at Calhoun’s feet.

The plans for the paintings’ removal have received largely positive reviews from students and faculty interviewed. Two African American Studies professors who disagree on whether the college itself should be renamed both expressed support for removing the paintings.

Professor Gerald Jaynes, who argued against changing the college name at a debate hosted by the Yale Political Union in September, said he agrees with the decision to take down the paintings, because unlike renaming the college, it would not be “an erasure of history.”

And Classics Director of Undergraduate Studies Emily Greenwood, who took the opposite position at the YPU debate, said she, too, fully embraces the plan to replace the portraits.

“To adorn public spaces at Yale with portraits is to place a symbolic value on those portraits and, in the

absence of critical engagement and critique, to tacitly endorse the legacy of those portrayed,” Greenwood said.

“I welcome Professor Adams’ proactive decision to remove these portraits that cause disquiet to many residents of the college.”

She added that the college should create a museum space in which student curators gather symbolically problematic artwork, such as the Calhoun paintings, alongside pieces by contemporary African-American artists.

But the paintings, which have served as provocative backdrops in the debate over the naming of the college, are not universally loathed.

“It’s history, so it adds a sense of authenticity,” said Newlyn Joseph ’19, who added that he supports keeping the college name.

Still, Calhoun sophomore Jonah Pearl ’18 said the paintings should be removed because they create a toxic atmosphere for students of color.

Pearl added that the paintings are in some ways more problematic than the college name because, as visual representations, they are more directly tied to Calhoun himself.

“Who wants to look at it anyway?” said Clio Byrne-Gudding ’19, gesturing to the painting in the dining hall.

“It’s ugly.”

At the meeting with Adams, Reynolds echoed that complaint, noting that he has no plans to put the portraits on display at the YUAG. “To tell you the truth,” he said, “I’m not sure they’re of such great aesthetic merit that they really belong in the collection.”

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

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Adams said she will consider possible replacements for the portraits once the University settles the naming dispute.

Lizarríbar steps into new role LIZARRÍBAR FROM PAGE 1 racial climate last fall, many — including Lizarríbar herself — have expressed high hopes for the role she will be able to play in leading Yale to become a better and more inclusive campus.

“The events this fall on campus showed that we have a robust community that is willing to have honest conversation, no matter how difficult, and that is something to be proud of,” Lizarríbar told the News.

“I will be collaborating closely with Dean [of Student Engagement Burgwell] Howard, and working together with Dean Holloway, the Yale College Dean’s Office and other Yale administrators to address not just those issues, but all the ways in which we can build a stronger and better Yale community — for everyone.”

Holloway added that Lizarríbar’s familiarity with Yale — and especially the residential college system — was a major asset as the administration looked for someone to fill the position.

Lizarríbar’s deep understanding of Yale’s student body will be an “excellent resource” for her colleagues and for Yale College, he added.

“I have always had a very positive relationship with Dean [Lizarríbar].

From the moment she was hired in Stiles I could see that she had just the right mix of good cheer, seriousness of purpose, and determination to do right

by Stilesians,” Holloway said. “I expect that she will bring the same energy and outlook to [the Office of] Student Affairs.”

In the Yale College Dean’s Office, Lizarríbar will serve many of the same functions as her predecessor: She will be Holloway’s senior adviser in undergraduate affairs and activities, which include helping students transition into Yale, organize extracurricular time and navigate University regulations. She will also work closely with Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker to lead the residential college deans and respond to cases of emergency that go beyond a particular residential college. Given Lizarríbar’s nearly six years of experience as the dean of Stiles, Holloway said he is confident in her ability to advise the residential college system.

New to her role as dean of student affairs, however, will be Lizarríbar’s close partnership with Howard to coordinate student programs and initiatives, oversee aspects of undergraduate student life and foster an inclusive community on campus. Howard, who was welcomed to campus at the beginning of this school year, occupies the newly created dean of student engagement position, which now divides and shares responsibilities with the dean of student affairs. In a September interview with the News, Howard said the dean of student affairs will focus on the programmatic aspects of

student life, such as student organizations, while he will supervise the cultural centers and develop new programming for first-generation college students, among many other projects.

Given Lizarríbar’s experience working with first-generation students, however, these boundaries may still be blurry, with the two deans’ responsibilities and expertise overlapping.

She is just fun — so I look forward to working with her, even closer, as a colleague.

BURGWELL HOWARD Dean of Student Engagement “It is my hope that together, with the input and support of students and faculty, [Lizarríbar and I] can continue to think of ways to help Yale be even more inclusive for all our students.

Her interest and work with some of our lower-resourced and first-generation college students, along with her awareness of many of the issues that Yale students face, will make her a tremendous partner for all of us within the YCDO,” Howard told the News in December. “Besides all of that, she is just fun — so I look forward to working with her, even closer, as a colleague.”

Howard added that, during her time as a residential college dean, Lizarríbar has already given much thought to creating student-centered services that address alcohol, student well-being, housing and the freshman counseling program. She will be able to have an even broader impact in her expanded role, Howard said.

Nine Stiles students interviewed all spoke positively of their experiences with Lizarríbar, who has been dean of the residential college since 2010. She was “funny,” “relatable” and “not too formal,” even though she occupied an authoritative position as their academic adviser in the college.

Freshmen also said that her welcoming demeanor at the beginning of the year helped ease their transition into college.

“I am super happy for her as the new dean of student affairs, and I think it’s great for the general student body,” Adam Zucker ’17 said. “But I will miss her in Stiles. She’s a big presence here.”

For Lizarríbar, though her job title may be changing, her approach to engaging with students will not. When asked what she would say to her students both in Stiles and in the entire Yale community, she replied, “That’s easy.”

“My door is always open,” she said.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” SALVADOR DALI SPANISH SURREALIST PAINTER

SOM perilous to birds

Beckett commemorated at Mory’s

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

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Evans Hall is notable for its large windows, but they have proven hazardous to birds.

BY JACOB STERN AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS The 130,000-square-foot glass windows of Evans Hall may be easy on the eyes, but they are hard on birds.

When inaugurated in Jan. 2014, the School of Management’s new campus on Whitney Avenue sparked controversy in the New Haven community for its modern architecture that replaced the traditional buildings originally occupying the area. But in the two years since its opening, the SOM has noticed another problem: birds flying into the building’s expansive glass windows and dying.

SOM Director of Facilities Bob Saidi said the number of bird strikes peaked at an average of three per day in spring 2014, prompting an investigation into the issue. The school has yet to find a solution, Saidi said, and as spring approaches once again, the school’s facilities team continues to search for solutions.

“No one at Yale SOM wants birds flying into the glass,” Saidi said. “Aside from concern over the birds themselves, we have the disturbing sight of dead birds lying just outside the building, and our custodial staff has to remove the bodies.”

Ornithology professor Richard Prum said the reason for the bird strikes is that many birds have eyes on the side of their

heads and therefore do not look forward when flying. He added that transparent objects such as glass windows pose a threat to birds, because birds have not evolved to detect these objects.

Saidi said he began his investigation in fall 2014, when he attended a presentation for architects by the American Bird Conservancy and read related publications written by several different institutions. He learned that migratory birds are especially prone to accidents, which is why the number of strikes peaks in the spring and fall.

Still, his investigation found that possible solutions for an already constructed building are limited. Options are restricted to incorporating screens, latticework or grills on the outside of the glass, or applying patterned window films, Saidi said, adding that both solutions would significantly alter the appearance of Evans Hall — which was designed by a prize-winning architect — and were therefore considered infeasible.

Saidi said he also considered using audible deterrents such as subsonic or ultrasonic sounds, but research showed that such solutions are ineffective. “[Finding the solutions] is an active area of research,” Prum said. “The [SOM] building is built and it has these problems. It is much easier to

avoid them in building design than to fix them afterward.”

He added that some scientists have hypothesized about making glass reflect ultraviolet colors that birds can see but that are transparent to human eyes. But there have not yet been any empirical tests on this technology, Prum added.

The problem has not gone unnoticed among SOM students. Students interviewed said they have witnessed birds killed or stunned by the building’s glass walls.

Shane Burgan SOM ’16 said she and another friend saw an injured bird that crashed into the glass windows last fall.

They put it in a shoe box and it recovered from the shock, but she has also seen dead birds on the roof, Burgan said.

Mike Burshteyn SOM ’17 said he saw a bird strike once, adding that he knows SOM students are concerned about the issue and are looking for ways to address it.

At this point, the issue remains unresolved. But Saidi remains optimistic.

“If we hear of any new ideas, we will be happy to investigate them,” Saidi said.

As many as 988 million birds die annually in window collisions, according to The Washington Post.

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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Already an establishment known for its tributes to Yale athletics, Mory’s added to its collection last week by inaugurating the Thomas A. Beckett Hall of Champions.

Pictures of all sizes now hang in a corridor connecting Mory’s main dining room to the famed Temple Bar and display the accomplishments of Yale’s many student-athletes as well as those of Beckett during his 21-year tenure as director of athletics. At the end of the corridor are two digital monitors — one shows images of various Yale championship teams since the Ivy League’s inception in 1956 and the other constantly rotates images of all current Yale varsity captains. The project, organized primarily by Mory’s President and former Yale football player Tom Ketchum ’72, was made possible by the donation of 16 families connected to Yale athletics.

“The Hall of Champions at Mory’s is a very impressive display of the prideful athletic accomplishments of the men and women of Yale athletics,” Beckett said. “I am both honored and very humbled to have my name associated with all of these remarkable men and women.”

Plans for the Hall of Champions began last summer by a committee including Ketchum himself, Yale’s Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, Swensen’s wife and former Yale tennis player and coach Meghan McMahon ’87, Deputy Director for External Operations Alison Cole and Associate Athletics Director Steve Conn.

The committee was responsible for deciding who would be featured in the Hall of Champions, Conn said. He added that the final design was com-

pleted by Tom Strong of the local graphic design firm Strong Cohen.

“It was an opportunity that Tom Strong made [the Hall] into an open-ended thing,” Conn said. “Photos can be pulled out and updated and the digital [frames] we can update with new teams and information.”

Multiple Yale administrators were present at the unveiling of the hall, including University President Peter Salovey and his wife Marta Moret, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Jonathan Edwards College Master and Special Assistant to the President Penelope Laurans.

The event was organized as a surprise for Beckett, who did not know the Hall of Champions would be honored in his name.

“It is wonderful to celebrate Tom Beckett, who cares so deeply about Yale’s studentathletes, not just while they are here, but for their entire lives,” Salovey said at the event. “He is a tremendous leader in the Yale community and an inspiration to all of us.”

A panel at the very middle

of the hallway commemorates Beckett’s accomplishments in his first two decades at Yale. Those include the renovation and construction of many athletic facilities including the David S. Ingalls Rink and the Israel Fitness Center, the establishment of “crucial” Yale athletic endowments and the recruitment of “some of the world’s finest coaches and student-athletes,” the panel reads.

Although Mory’s previously displayed pictures of team captains, the Hall of Champions will now recognize the work of many more student-athletes who have contributed in their own way to the legacy of Yale athletics, Conn said. He added that this would make more former student-athletes excited about visiting Yale and the Hall of Champions.

“There is not a lot of room since it is a hallway,” Conn said.

“But it’s a special hallway. We don’t have a hall of fame at Yale.

This is, literally, a hall of champions.”

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

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Mory’s inaugurated the Thomas A. Beckett Hall of Champions last week.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Originality is the essence of true scholarship.

Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”

NNAMDI AZIKIWE NIGERIA’S FIRST PRESIDENT

Elm City sees decreased heroin use HEROIN FROM PAGE 1 assistant to the health director, said they have observed an increase in the number of heroin and other opioid overdoses in New Haven in recent years.

New Haven has several initiatives to address these growing numbers, in addition to having Narcan on every fire truck. As well as a confidential syringeexchange program where people can obtain clean needles, O’Connor said the city is working to increase education and awareness of the dangers of opioid overdoses from both heroin and prescription drugs. Through public events like Overdose Awareness Day during the summer and smaller training sessions at homeless shelters and other community centers, the city has given out Narcan widely to family members, partners or friends of heroin abusers and educated them on how to use it.

T h e C o m m u n i ty Se rvices Administration has also invested in training two mental health first aid trainers to educate community members about mental health and substance use symptoms and ways to manage mental health and substance use crises, Community Services Administrator Martha Okafor said in an email to the News. She added that this includes handling suicide attempts and heroin or other substance abuse crises until professional help is provided. Training will begin in February.

The New Haven Police Department does not carry Narcan because they do not perform any medical services. NHPD spokesman David Hartman explained that law enforcement does not deal with heroin any

differently than any other drug.

Hartman explained that while the department uses sting operations, cooperating witnesses and community policing to stop drug sales, drug abuse is also a public health issue beyond the scope of law enforcement.

“It’s a growing problem. It’s not going away anytime fast.

Heroin as opposed to some other drugs … is so instantly addictive,” Hartman said. “It’s not something that we’re going to be able to arrest our way out of.”

Yale pharmacology professor Robert Heimer GRD ’88 agreed that increased law enforcement involvement is not likely to solve drug abuse problems.

In fact, Heimer said, the odds of dying from an overdose after release from jail are eight to 10 times higher than at any other time in a person’s life. Because of this, Project Fresh Start, the city’s prison re-entry program, also focuses on the proper treatment of formerly incarcerated citizens.

Project Fresh Start program administrator Clifton Graves explained that because over 70 percent of men and women who are incarcerated have some sort of mental health, substance abuse or physical health issue when they come out of prison, many are referred to New Haven’s Transitions Clinic. The clinic helps recently released prisoners access confidential medical treatment and provides referrals to employment, legal and housing resources.

The Transitions Clinic is located at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Primary Care Center.

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Schwarzman scholarship may offer powerful connections SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 stone Group and has a net worth of $12.9 billion, according to Forbes.

Schwarzman established the scholarship in 2013, drawing inspiration from the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University. As Schwarzman Scholars, 111 students will be given full funding next year to pursue a one-year master’s degree in either public policy, economics and business or international studies at Schwarzman College, a residential college similar to those at Yale being constructed at Tsinghua University specifically for the program.

New fellowships of this kind are established rarely. Yale’s Director of National Fellowships Kate Dailinger said the last similar program may have been the Gates Cambridge Scholarship,

which was founded in 2000 to encourage students to pursue the mission of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of global development and public advocacy.

Each national scholarship differs slightly in their overall purposes, but Dailinger said a large part of each of them is helping students build a community of like-minded and ambitious individuals around themselves.

“The Schwarzman Scholars program and many other scholarships are very much about building connections with people, in addition to the academic experience,” Dailinger said.

For Teo, these connections may constitute as much as 50 percent of the value in participating in a program like Schwarzman Scholars, she said, adding that many global leaders often pass through Beijing. Teo

also said the scholars would have access to highly prized internships as a result of Schwarzman’s prominence.

Corey Meyer LAW ’18, another new Schwarzman Scholar, said that while it will not be possible to weigh the benefit of these connections against the quality of the program’s academics, Schwarzman’s personal network has already had a positive impact on the students simply by making the scholarship possible.

Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for Schwarzman Scholars, said Schwarzman is intimately involved with the development of the program and, among other concerns, will focus on bringing high-level people to come and speak to the scholars.

She added that because of the relatively small number of scholars — 111 in total — students will have a chance to interact directly

with visitors when they come to the college. This year, five current or former Yale students were selected to be Schwarzman Scholars.

Anderson said the organization had already arranged a long list of speakers for the students, though she was not yet releasing their names. She did say, though, that individuals mentioned include Larry Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former president of Harvard University, and Niall Ferguson, a historian who has been named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people in the world.

Though the curriculum for the program is designed to be highly rigorous, it only lasts one year, while the Rhodes Scholarship and its counterparts are generally two years long. Teo said this is amenable to students in the program who are pursuing business

and would like to get started on their careers as soon as possible.

She added that the content of her courses — as one of the students pursuing the business and economics track — would be more similar to those found in an MBA program, which are more focused on leadership development.

Students will also be paired with mentors and have ample opportunities for internships, Anderson said.

Skyler Ross ’16, who was selected to be a Marshall Scholar in December, said that while connections formed within national scholarships are important, relationships with the citizens of the host country also carry significant weight. He noted that the Marshall Scholarship places great emphasis on ambassadorship and learning about the host country.

The Marshall Scholarship funds American students for graduate

study in the United Kingdom.

Teo and Meyer also spoke to the importance of forming ties with those living in the region where they will study. Teo said one of the factors that makes Schwarzman Scholars unique is its focus on bridging relationships between the Eastern and Western worlds.

“I am hoping the program will offer me a greater understanding of the Chinese economy, political system and Chinese social values alongside lifelong friendships with ambitious, intelligent and hardworking folks from around the globe,” Meyer said.

Of the 111 Schwarzman Scholars, 44 percent are from the United States, 21 percent are from China and 35 percent hail from the rest of the world.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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Stephen Schwarzman ’69 founded the Schwarzman Scholars program in 2013.

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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” SCOTT ADAMS CARTOONIST

Language diversity, offerings increase

BY NITYA RAYAPATI STAFF REPORTER New Haven educational programs have expanded their offerings to accommodate an increase in students who do not speak English as their first language.

Educational support for English-language learners in the Elm City mainly targets students whose first language is Spanish, said Pedro Mendia-Landa, supervisor of the English Learner programs at New Haven Public Schools. But as the diversity of languages represented in New Haven has increased in recent years, NHPS has introduced specialized programs that appeal to a broader array of languages.

The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences — which focuses on project-based learning for native English-language speakers and ELLs — and the Fair Haven Newcomer Center, which supports new ELL migrants to the United States, are two such programs.

Mendia-Landa said this diversification of offerings is appropriate, given New Haven’s language diversity.

“In the district, 67 different languages are spoken.

There’s diverse representation from 118 different countries,” Mendia-Landa said. “[NHPS] is not monolithic.”

NHPS programs aimed at supporting Spanish speakers — New Haven’s largest ELL group — include transitional bilingual programs that begin mostly in Spanish and lead up to entirely English-based instruction after three years.

Two-way immersion programs are also available and teach students to be bilingual and biliterate. English as a Second Language support is a supplementary layer of pro-

City maker space offers scholarships

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More than 60 different languages are spoken in the New Haven school district. gramming for students and is administrated by specialist teachers.

Nancy Elgert, a bilingual kindergarten teacher at Fair Haven School, noted that the increase in language diversity is largely due to an influx of refugee students who speak languages like Swahili and Arabic. ESL specialist and teacher at the International Academy Alan Gibbons said some students at the International Academy came to New Haven from conflict zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq and Syria.

Since these types of ELLs do not qualify for SpanishEnglish bilingual programs, resources like the Newcomer Center at Fair Haven teach students English and help acclimatize them to the U.S. education system.

“It’s a very specific type of program that’s trying to work with a very specific type of population,” Mendia-Landa said.

The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences at Wilbur Cross High School works with a similar demographic. The academy has two cohorts: students who are natives of the Elm City and others who are recent arrivals from other countries. Similarly to Fair Haven, the majority of ELLs are from Central America, North Africa and the Middle East.

“There’s been an increase of non-Spanish-speaking ELLs, and that has been helpful in that there are more students that can help each other. It’s also been beneficial because it opens the students’ views to different parts of the world,” Gibbons said.

The increase in ELLs and the difficulties inherent in teaching a new language have posed challenges for ELL educators in New Haven. Gibbons said teaching can be difficult when students do not speak English at all or have had an

interrupted educational history.

The varied language levels present in a single classroom are an additional hurdle for educators. According to Ann Brillante, academy leader of the International Academy, new students sometimes join the academy in the middle of the year, resulting in an uneven skill level within the classroom.

“One strategy I use is grouping students in a meaningful way. So if a student from Iraq came here three years ago and now I have a newcomer, I might try to pair them together to support one another in Arabic as well as in English,” said International Academy English teacher Nicole Pernal.

Roughly 15 percent of NHPS students qualify as ELL, according to MendiaLanda.

Contact NITYA RAYAPATI at nitya.rayapati@yale.edu .

This year, New Haven residents will have a new opportunity to meet their — inner — maker.

MakeHaven, a New Haven nonprofit that provides equipment and a brick-and-mortar space for community members to work together on creative projects, opened applications for scholarships on Wednesday in the hopes of diversify its membership.

Located on State Street, MakeHaven facilitates woodwork, glasswork and textile creation and other hands-on projects. Members pay $600 a year in dues for the opportunity to collaborate with others or work independently in the workshop. MakeHaven’s scholarship system subsidizes applicants’ membership fees either fully or in part, depending on the applicant’s financial need. Applicants can reapply for scholarships on an annual basis, and anyone over the age of 18 can receive a scholarship by applying on MakeHaven’s website.

“Our facility is focused on teaching in an informal peer-to-peer way. We want to empower people. Just a little bit of education allows people to fix things, understand things and make prototypes,” MakeHaven Chief Maker J.R. Logan said.

Currently, MakeHaven has raised $3,500 in public donations to fund the scholarships, but Logan said the nonprofit hopes to raise $5,000 by the end of the year in order to make them more widely accessible. MakeHaven has the funds to provide roughly six full scholarships, Logan said, but he expects most people will be able to pay part of their membership fees and apply for partial scholarships.

Logan added that MakeHaven hopes to expand its knowledge base by finding members with rare skills,

like those they may have learned during New Haven’s industrial past.

MakeHaven’s tool collection includes sewing machines, computers, 3-D printers, mold-making machines and laser cutters, many of which were donated. Members are given 24-hour swipe access to the MakeHaven building and are expected to clean up after themselves and take care of the tools.

According to Logan, the organization was established roughly four years ago, and most of MakeHaven’s original members were individuals with backgrounds in engineering. Since then, MakeHaven has increased in size to roughly 100 members and has broadened its appeal to include craftsmen, Logan said.

Elise DeVito became a MakeHaven member three years ago to learn to fix things herself and to pick up new skills such as woodworking.

“I love it. I’ve met a lot of interesting people, heard a lot of exciting ideas and familiarized myself with new tools and techniques,” she said.

Tambira Armmand, MakeHaven’s director of creative action, lauded maker spaces like MakeHaven for fulfilling creative needs and enabling community members to live more meaningful and balanced lives.

MakeHaven hopes its scholarship will increase the number of people of color in its membership.

Armmand said she looks forward to this.

“I think variety is the spice of life. Everyone tackles and sees a problem differently,” Armmand said. “There is definitely a need for more women and for people of color.”

The first sewing machine was invented in 1790.

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“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” PARACELSUS SWISS GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

PillTracker suggests growing social entrepeneurship at SPH

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Two Yale School of Public Health students have developed a solution to inconsistent prescription adherence — a medical issue that kills 125,000 people a year — as part of a growing focus on entrepreneurialism in Yale’s health care programs.

The project, known as pillTracker, is a seven-day pill dispenser wired to flash and alert the user when the pills are not taken by a certain time. If pill disuse continues, the dispenser alerts health care providers or family members via cellular networks so that they can follow up with the user. Howard Forman, director of the health policy and management program at the School of Public Health, said this project demonstrates increased interest among public health students for social entrepreneurship — business creation that seeks “greater impact than just profit maximization.”

“For my grandfather, the beginning of the downhill slope of his health was not being able to take his medication on time,” pillTracker co-founder Alex Rich SPH ’17 said. “As his cognitive capabilities deteriorated, he had to take five or six different kinds of pills that don’t come presorted and don’t have any intelligent way to remind you what to take and when.”

Poor self-regulation of pill intake can lead to serious health concerns by reducing the drugs’ helpful effects or worsening harmful side-effects, Forman said.

Keeping up with student demand for social entrepreneurship programming, Forman pointed to a new required health care management class, “Creating Healthcare and Life Science Ventures,” that aims to provide instruction for starting busi-

nesses in medicine and care.

“This is all about demand and pull, not push — this is all driven by student demand,” Forman said. “We independently chose to meet the demands of the students by offering a required course on ventures in health care technology.”

However, the class is not required until students’ final year in the program. PillTracker cofounder Rob Martin SPH ’17 said that since students will graduate soon after taking the course, it would be difficult for the class to have a substantial impact for entrepreneurship on campus, even if it is highly informative.

While organizations like the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute offer funding and mentorship, these options are not necessarily what a social entrepreneurship product like pillTracker needs, Martin added.

“There are different monetary resources that are through YEI, but we’re weighing that option versus finishing the product ourselves, doing the user testing, and then finding mentorship just through our professors and fundraising ourselves,” he said. “I think the latter is the option we’re going to go with.

Philosophically, we’re scared to get anyone involved that doesn’t share our direction.”

Martin added that if building the company without the YEI framework is slower and another product “eats” pillTracker, their objective has not been missed, because the service goal will be fulfilled by the new company.

The primary entrepreneurial strength of the School of Public Health is Forman’s ability to recruit the top students to the management program, Rich said.

His recruitment talents allow for the student interactions that result in innovation, he added.

Rich noted that organizations like the Center for Biomedi-

cal and Interventional Technology allow for people throughout the Yale community to meet and share ideas for problems that need to be solved. The CBIT offers a program bringing physicians, professors and other health care professionals to present on problems within their discipline. Students in the audience then seek to find solutions to these problems, and, Rich said, sometimes go into business with the presenters.

According to Rich, programs like these are important for cultivating the right sort of collaborative environment for entrepreneurship to flourish. However, there is a long way to go in this capacity, and these resources are somewhat uneven, he said.

“I think Yale as a whole has a challenge in the entrepreneurial space in terms of getting people to work across silos — what we have going for us in the School of Public Health is that we work closely with the School of Management, so being able to get into courses there is tremendously valuable,” Rich said. “But of all the places I’ve been, we have more brilliant people per square foot here than anywhere I’ve been, but we still find challenges for people to come together across disciplines.”

Rich said one of the biggest problems for the school is the lack of visibility for entrepreneurship opportunities available on campus. He said that, too many times, he found out about exciting workshops, lectures or meetings a few days after they happened — he only came upon CBIT by chance, which he said was ultimately a huge advantage for his product.

Martin said the best way to stimulate entrepreneurship in the School of Public Health and elsewhere at Yale is to push for more interaction across disciplines.

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“The bottom line is that the number one resource at Yale is the people at Yale,” Martin said.

“Programs like YEI are definitely useful to undergrads, but there are limitations to these resources, which is why we are looking for other resources for mentorship, guidance and funding.”

Martin added that pillTracker is currently in the design and development phase, but will likely move toward a Kickstarter campaign and apply for awards in the coming months. After the product is fully developed, they hope for a rollout to health care providers as a form of preven-

tative care to avoid prescription misadherence.

Today, the Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology is running a hackathon on medical technology.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

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“I didn’t come this far to only come this far. So we’ve still got further to go.”

TOM BRADY FOUR-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION

Yale looks to brave snow, opponents W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 peted against RPI this season, the Bulldogs blew the Engineers out of the game early on with a 4–0 lead after just the first period. Since winning that game 4–1, the Elis have been able to produce a similar offensive performance just once, in their 5–2 win over St. Lawrence.

Forward Jamie Haddad ’16, who scored in that RPI win, noted the importance of finishing possessions in the latter half of the season.

“We frequently shoot it into the other team instead of getting the puck through and on net,”

Haddad said. “So even though we’re possessing the puck, we aren’t creating good offensive chances.”

RPI’s offense, which ranks sixth-to-last in Division I with 1.62 goals per game, has gotten a significant amount of production from forward Alexa Gruschow, who has netted a teamleading 10 goals this season, but just one in the Engineers’ last six games.

Despite the powerful first period and ultimate win against RPI, Yale still looks to improve its game in the early stages of competition facing an Engineer defense that now ranks 10th in

the nation with just 2.09 goals allowed per game. Out of Yale’s last four losses, there have been two games in which the Bulldogs faced a deficit of two or more goals within the first period.

In order to be victorious over RPI a second time around, the Bulldogs have to get through opposing goaltender Lovisa Selanderm, who currently stands second in ECAC Hockey with a 0.950 save percentage in conference play.

“We need to work on playing consistently throughout the game in order to have the best success,” defenseman Mallory Souliotis ’18 said. “Especially

starting out the first period well and building momentum in the first shifts.”

The Elis’ first game against Union, happening just a day after Yale’s matchup with RPI, played out in much different fashion. Yale was not the dominant offensive force, but instead found itself trailing the Dutchwomen by one goal within the first 45 seconds of the game.

Captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 tied the contest late into the second period, and forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 put through a goal in overtime to secure a tight victory.

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that game, in practice Yale has been working on cleaning up the defensive zone by bettering its communication and sticking to its systems. The team has also continued to work the defense into offensive zones in an effort to create more scoring opportunities.

Defense is the strongpoint of the Dutchwomen, who rank 24th nationally with 2.96 goals allowed per game but dead last in team offense with an average of 0.71 goals scored.

Another statistic, however, may be the most encouraging for the Bulldogs: Union is the only team in ECAC Hockey yet to win

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W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 throughout the entire contest, despite its best efforts to snap a six-game losing streak against the Bulldogs.

Last weekend’s defeat was only the Bears’ third loss of the season, which comes after a disappointing 10–18 campaign a year ago. Brown has also won all seven of its home games this year, while Yale has yet to win a single one of its six road contests thus far.

“It’s a really strong Brown team this year,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “They have already won more games this year than they did in the entirety of their season last year.”

Despite their 27-point win, the Elis will need to stay sharp in order to open up 2–0 in league play, as Brown features three players that average double-digit scoring. Shayna Mehta, in particular, stands out as a perimeter threat as she leads the Ivy League in three-point shooting at 48.2 percent.

She had 16 points in last Saturday’s game, while Jordin Alexander followed closely behind with 12 points to help

pace the Bear offense.

The two combined to knock down three of seven three-point attempts, but the rest of the team struggled, making just one of eight shots from beyond the arc. If Yale can again contain Brown’s three-point shooting — the Bears are still shooting 35.1 percent after struggling, third-best in the Ivy League — it will go a long way toward another victory.

Also, Brown leads the league in field-goal percentage, at a 43.3 percent clip, and steals, with an average of 11.0 per game. Yale finds itself ranked fifth at 40.0 percent shooting from the field and it sits second with an average of 9.2 steals per contest.

With only six days to prepare for their rematch, players used practice to work on cutting down turnovers after committing 19 in the prior meeting, as well as refining the team’s defensive game plan.

“Offensively, we are focused on valuing the ball and making the most out of each possession, while continuing to execute our sets and get offen-

sive rebounds,” Wyckoff said. “Defensively, we are looking to stop them in transition and keeping them out of the middle.”

This Friday’s matchup comes in the form of a doubleheader with the men’s basketball team, as the looming snowstorm Jonas prompted both games to be pushed up from Saturday. This has not affected the team’s mentality, however; according to Santucci, players are enthusiastic about the game regardless of its date.

The Bulldogs are hoping to maintain their winning streak in Providence, where they have not lost a game since the 2009–10 season.

“I think a strength going into this game is just our style of play,” forward Jen Berkowitz ’18 said. “We play very up-tempo and pressure basketball, which Brown struggled with last game.”

Tipoff on the road is set for 5:30 p.m.

Contact MADDIE WUELFING at maddie.wuelfing@yale.edu .

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

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Forward Jen Berkowitz ’18 came off the bench to score nine points and grab six rebounds.

a single game.

“I think we have kind of hit our breaking point,” forward Eden Murray ’18 said. “We’re ready to play some good hockey, and it’s time to move on from all the mistakes we have made in the past weekends. This weekend will be a huge and defining moment for our team.”

The Bulldogs begin their weekend play against Union at 3 p.m. on Friday before facing RPI at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Both game times were pushed forward due to the weekend weather forecast.

of Kuakumensah. “We need to repeat our performance. If he makes two threes, he makes two threes.”

Sears played just nine minutes in the second half as he was limited with foul trouble. The Plainfield, New Jersey native fouled out with more than four minutes left in the second half, not long after he was issued a flagrant foul for an altercation with Brown’s Travis Fuller.

Sears and Kuakumensah will go toeto-toe on the block once more on Friday.

Both are especially talented on defense, with Sears entering the game averaging 1.8 blocks per game, while Kuakumensah holds the Ivy League record for career rejections with 273. Kuakumensah is also a two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.

With Sears limited to zero points in the second half, Yale relied upon guards Makai Mason ’18 and Victor to carry the offensive load. Mason scored 12 of his game-high 20 in the second half, while Victor added 11 points in the final frame.

Victor finished the game with a double-double, notching 15 points and 11 rebounds, in addition to four assists and four blocks. The Texan has a chance to continue his impactful senior campaign, as Yale has not lost in the four games in which Victor has grabbed double-digit rebounds.

Victor is one of three Elis to rank among the top 10 rebounders in the Ivy League, alongside forward Brandon

Sherrod ’16 and Sears.

According to Sears, the Bulldogs are determined to open their title defense on the right track against a team they swept last season.

“It will be huge. It gives us a little breathing room knowing that we knocked out a travel partner,” Sears said. “It is definitely going to be a tough league this year. It will be great just to be 2–0, and ahead of the pack a little bit.”

Although the Elis have already defeated Brown once, and despite Brown being projected to finish in the bottom half of the Ivy League in the Preseason Media Poll, it was not long ago that the two teams battled down to the wire. In the two teams’ second meeting a year ago, in New Haven, Yale outlasted Brown 69–65 in a hotly contested affair.

Heading into Friday’s action, Yale head coach James Jones said he expects a close, challenging test.

“I am anticipating a hard-fought basketball game,” Jones said. “Every Ivy League game is going to be that way. You have to go out and defend, rebound and share the ball on offense. Hopefully, we put ourselves in a position to win again.”

Tipoff between the Bears and the preseason Ivy League favorite Bulldogs is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Friday in Providence.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Guard Makai Mason ’18 ranks third in the Ivy League in scoring, and he leads all underclassmen with 16.1 points per game.

Conference play heats up in New York MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 bottom of the conference and has contributed to Clarkson’s scoring defense ranking seventh in ECAC Hockey.

The Knights’ relatively young offensive attack is led by sophomore forward Sam Vigneault, whose nine goals, nine assists and 18 points all pace his squad.

Following closely is junior forward A.J. Fossen with 16 points, and of Clarkson’s next six leading scorers, only one is a senior.

And though the Knights sit just a half game ahead of last-place Brown in the conference standings, they have held their own against tough competition: Clarkson tied No. 1 Quinnipiac in November and, in their most recent game, handed No. 8/9 Harvard a 5–1 drubbing in Boston.

“It’s a competitive league and we can’t afford being content,” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “These are two tough opponents, and it’s important for us to play to our identity for 120 minutes.”

After Friday’s game, the Elis will make the 11-mile trip to Appleton Arena,

where on Saturday they face St. Lawrence in a battle of last year’s first- and second-team All-ECAC goalies. Sophomore Kyle Hayton, who took home 2014–15 ECAC Rookie of the Year honors, owns a goals-against average below 2.00 for the second consecutive season.

On the other side of the ice, the Saints’ offense is at its best when it spreads the wealth, as their count of nine skaters with double-digit points is second only to Quinnipiac in ECAC Hockey. Leading the team is junior defender Gavin Bayreuther, who had 17 points all of last season but now holds 14 points midway through the 2015–16 campaign.

St. Lawrence’s résumé, like Clarkson’s, includes a winning record at home and a tie with Quinnipiac. Nevertheless, although St. Lawrence opened the season 7–2–1 and was ranked as highly as No. 13 at one point, a current five-game losing streak has brought the team outside both major polls.

That slide has been characterized by a lack of scoring — St. Lawrence has two or fewer goals in each of those five contests — which has been exacerbated by

an exceptionally underwhelming performance on the power play. For the 2015–16 season, the Saints’ 0.095 manadvantage efficiency ranks dead last in the country, while Yale’s 0.913 penalty kill sits second nationwide.

The Bulldogs have had their own issues finding the back of the net — their scoring offense of 2.53 goals per game this year comes in below both Clarkson’s 2.55 and St. Lawrence’s 2.73 — but received a boost this past weekend when forward Mike Doherty ’17 returned from injury.

Doherty, the Elis’ leading goal scorer in 2014–15, tallied an assist in each win over Brown.

“It was great to get back out there,” Doherty said. “It’s not fun watching from the stands, and it’s been a long wait.”

Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.

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YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL BULLDOGS MAKE HIGHLIGHT REEL A trio of Yale players produced a scoring play in last weekend’s win over Brown that was named the No. 2 Ivy League Play of the Week. Makai Mason ’18 stole the ball and found Nick Victor ’16, who quickly passed to Justin Sears ’16 for an emphatic slam dunk.

YALE WOMEN’S TENNIS 2016 SEASON KICKS OFF The No. 68 Elis, who last competed during early November in Illinois, will take another lengthy road trip this weekend to particpate in the ITA KickOff Weekend in Chapel Hill, N.C. Yale will play in a tournament against UNC, Tulsa and Marshall.

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Bulldogs seek sweep of Brown

Yale brings heat up north MEN’S HOCKEY

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The Yale men’s basketball team faces off against Brown for the second time in six days Friday night, this time in Providence. Last Saturday, in the first meeting of the two teams’ annual home-and-home to open the season, the Bulldogs defeated the Bears 77–68.

formance from the field. Kuakumensah, a three-year team captain, leads the team with 13.9 points per game. He currently needs only two points to break the 1,000-point scoring mark for his career.

“I think we did a good job on him,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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The Bulldogs are 4–0–1 thus far in 2016, including two wins over ECAC opponent Brown last weekend.

BY DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER Less than two weeks ago, the Yale men’s hockey team was playing in sunny Glendale, Arizona, only two hours north of Mexico. This weekend, in the opposite corner of the country, the Bulldogs will try to stay hot during two games in the shadow of the Canadian border.

No. 12 Yale (11–4–3, 5–3–2 ECAC Hockey) visits Clarkson (10–10–2, 2–6–2) on Friday

and St. Lawrence (10–10–2, 4–5–1) on Saturday in the Elis’ annual trip to the North Country of New York. The Bulldogs left with a pair of one-goal losses the last time they traveled to Potsdam and Canton but bring significant momentum to the 2016 rematches: Yale is unbeaten, starting 2016 at 4–0–1 — its only blemish a 1–1 tie to No. 17 Michigan Tech in the desert — and is coming off home victories over Brown, the Bulldogs’ first ECAC Hockey weekend sweep

on the season.

“As far as [winning both games] on the weekend, that’s always our goal,” forward JM Piotrowski ’19 said. “And while it’s very tough to win in this league, we expect to win every opportunity we get.”

The Bulldogs’ first opportunity to win on the weekend will be as tough as any, as Clarkson boasts a sparkling 7–1–1 record at its home Cheel Arena in 2015–16.

Like Yale, Clarkson’s strength is largely in its

defense, which is allowing just 25.9 shots on goal per game — good for seventh in the country and second in the conference.

But unlike Yale, for whom goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 has been an anchor in net, Clarkson has struggled to find its starting netminder throughout the season. The 0.912 save percentage of likely starter Greg Lewis and the 0.885 clip of Steve Perry, who has split time with Lewis this season, each ranks near the SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

Yale seeks second straight blowout victory

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER

Due to an imminent snowstorm, the second weekend of Ivy play will start a day early for the Yale women’s basketball team. The Bulldogs will travel to Rhode Island on Friday to once again face Brown, six days after an 81–54 win over the Bears.

After dropping five of its past six ECAC Hockey contests in 2016, the Yale women’s hockey team will look to regain momentum at home this weekend while facing two teams it has found marked success against in the past two years.

Guard Lena Munzer ’17 has provided a deep threat off the bench, having converted on 40.9 percent of her attempts from deep.

After their impressive all-around victory last Saturday, the Bulldogs (10–8, 1–0 Ivy) are looking to prevent a letdown in the rematch against a Brown team (12– 3, 0–1) seeking revenge.

“We know that each game is different and that we won’t necessarily have another easy win,” captain Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “We haven’t let up on our intensity for that reason, and are just as focused as the first time around.”

Yale, coming off a preseason marked by highly regarded opponents, showed its offensive prominence in its opening conference game. Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16, currently ranked as the second-highest scorer in the Ivy League, led the team with 14 points for her 15th double-digit finish this season. Sarju was not alone in contributing offensively, as 11 of the 13 Elis that saw action scored in the blowout victory.

The Bulldogs not only dominated the scoreboard, but also outrebounded their opponents 52–24. Brown trailed SEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 averaged 21.0 points per game in Yale’s two contests versus Brown last season.

Elis look for points at home

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Due to winter storm Jonas, which is set to roll into New England on Saturday, the contest — in addition to many others around the northeast — was rescheduled to accommodate travel plans.

Although both teams lose a day of game planning and preparation, guard Nick Victor ’16 downplayed any potential impact caused by the rescheduling on the streaking Elis (10–5, 1–0 Ivy), who have won their last five games by an average of 24.6 points.

“We have a lot of time to prepare, two full weeks, so the first week we go over their plays and we change up some of our plays,” Victor said.

“Then the second week, this next game, is more about adjustments to make. It’s more what we think their team is going to adjust to and how we should combat that, and how we can adjust to some of the new plays that they ran.”

In last Saturday’s matchup, the two teams combined for 49 fouls as the game stretched to almost two-and-a-half hours from start to finish, despite just 40 minutes of gameplay.

Brown forward Cedric Kuakumensah paced the Bears (5–10, 0–1) with 18 points, including shooting 8–10 from the foul line and a pair of three-pointers, though the senior was held to just a 4–16 per-

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Just over a month ago,

the Elis (5–13–1, 4–7–1 ECAC Hockey) defeated both Union (0–19–5, 0–10–2) and Rensselaer (7–11–4, 5–5–2) for its first four-point weekend of the 2015–16 season. The stakes are now higher with the end of the conference season just six weeks away, as the top eight teams in the ECAC standings make the conference tournament at the end of the year, and Yale currently sits in 10th place.

If Yale wins these next two

games, then the four points earned could propel the team from 10th to as high as sixth place in the ECAC Hockey rankings.

“I do not think that [the team] is necessarily happy with the standings,” forward Emily Monaghan ’18 said. “But I think we have the ability to improve our standings exponentially come playoffs.”

The first time Yale comSEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 10

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Forward Jamie Haddad ’16 has scored three goals in the past three games.

THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE YALE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS WON IN A ROW AT BROWN. Although the Elis are 0–6 on the road this season, they can change that against Brown Friday evening.

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Nine-year-old Graham Ambrose discovers the magic of the game when a fast-swinging gal steps into the diamond.

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// BY GRAHAM AMBROSE CJ flipped her bat like Sammy Sosa and watched the orb sail high and far past the oak, cleaving cleanly through the dead heat of summer like a knife into syrup. The ball scraped the cerulean sky stretched thick across midday and sank into the juniper silhouette of treetops below. She trotted with an imperceptible skip toward first base while her opponents kicked grass, whispered violently with embarrassment, crouched low, did anything at all to avoid looking up and spotting her little smirk stomping halfway to home plate.

I was there, a refugee from the boredom at home, commiserating over the tragedy of June with a neighborhood of sweaty nine-year-olds on a grassy unkempt field.

I was there, a living room truant who had ditched the air conditioning for the glimmer of the diamond — for the great sport that, unlike anything else, helped beat back shared tedium with aluminum bats and hanging curveballs and unknown scores that no

There were two distinct epochs of the game, marked by CJ Golding’s emergence in the lineup. The pre-Golding era was defined by strict abidance

of game rules and a Wild West disregard for social ones, which conferred unbounded freedom on all the bad jokes, curse words and histrionic bouts that had become quotidian in The Boys’ Club.

The post-CJ period began with a sea change. After she moved to the neighborhood one Saturday in June and quickly proved her categorical superiority, teams had to be prearranged to account for the inevitable handicap on whichever side CJ played against. Rules of the sport, hitherto memorized, were relaxed. Most significantly, the entrance of the ultimate Other onto the field — a real, living girl — tectonically realigned earlier customs. No longer could little boys stomp away crying after a disputed call, or launch a corrective missile at the smug little twerp who let his vanity swell out of bounds. Girls obliged manners.

And manners required nineyear-old boys to grow up fast.

In exchange, we availed ourselves of front row seats to The Greatest Show on Earth, complete with all the tricks of the

everything back up again. Maybe it’s a bit naïve of me to still feel this ache, but it’s something I want to hold on to, if only for a little longer. It’s the feeling I get when the waiter at my favorite restaurant back home asks me where I’ve been, he hasn’t seen me in a while. It’s the feeling I get when my friend mentions that

there’s a new movie theater at the mall, with a bar and reclining seats, and that the old one’s been boarded up and replaced with a Chipotle. It’s the feeling I get when my mom waits up with me as I pack the night before I leave again for Yale, and we watch as Bobby Flay urges a soufflé to rise, sweat beading on his forehead,

one remembers but still argues about anyway.

I was there because CJ had changed the hue of the jewel. What had been a simple scheme of get-me-outof-the-house became a sort of awakening that seeped down below skin-level bruises into the marrow, deep and heavy.

At first, we boys were merely there to fight the numbing existential dread, bat in hand, head in cap. But what had begun as an experiment in diamond-dwelling — with only incidental baseball playing — became a regimen in which I lost regularly, repeatedly and fairly, to a girl, CJ. In every aspect, against every measure, she outperformed her ego-clutching peers with a canny I’ve only met once, on a dusty field in the summer of my youth. ***

stage. CJ wielded an artistic savvy, a discerning eye that saw in 16ths of an inch.

She swung a bat the way an early hominid struck fire, realizing with every muscled torch the grandeur of tools in shrewd hands. No one else could hit like her, pitch like she could with her winking left-handed fastball that blew smoke as it nicked the outside corner.

Baseball was CJ’s plaything, and it pissed off the other boys to no end. What we spent Saturdays studying on ESPN, CJ learned by feel at shortstop.

What amounted, for ordinary players, to a fickle combination of muscle memory and dry luck, CJ executed with wordless finesse, a songbird resting atop the head of a coyote. *** There was something brilliant about Catherine Jennifer that was never understood by the boys she struck out and not infrequently made cry. To beat a nine-year-old senseless would teach the fragile youngster never to return.

Instead, CJ instilled patience. After all, we came back each day to the same overgrown lot where dreams stuttered and faltered with the sun overhead. Locked in a routine, the ragtag team became ritual, shrouded in secondhand smoke, something just shy of divine.

That CJ never revealed her tricks, only heightened the magic of her illusion. We nogood preadolescents too young and white and suburban to otherwise contribute a verse showed up because there’s still a part of every man that’s happier thinking of the game as a constant improvisation without known playbook.

And that was the gift she gave us. Baseball as anesthetic, as an evaporating moment that distracted from the realization of our lives arcing like a fly ball in and out of sight. There, on that field, in the dry stew of the open Midwest, we learned an unknown contentment in the shadow of a passing comet.

Contact GRAHAM AMBROSE at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .

Going home ZHAO

// BY ALICE ZHAO I didn’t unpack my suitcase during winter break.

Instead, I just left it lying there, its contents spilling out onto the floor. Sweaters. Socks.

Shoes. A jumbled mess, three weeks’ worth. My mother suggested on the fifth day that it might be helpful to tidy it up a bit, in case I tripped.

“Doesn’t it bother you?” she said. “Why don’t you put everything away?”

I shrugged. How could I tell her — how could I even start to tell her — that I just couldn’t?

This doesn’t usually happen.

Summer, in Cambridge: On the first morning, I unpacked everything. Opened up the dresser, opened up the drawers, folded up my clothes, even organized.

Short-sleeves here, long-sleeves there. Darkest colors on the bottom, lightest on the top. And, this is for my underwear. And, this is for my bras. And, this is how I’ll line my boots up — tallest to shortest.

Fall, at Yale: I took longer this time. Boxes, shoved together in my room, piled up to my waist. It was too hot, too muggy to jump right into the thick of things, but after a week, I couldn’t stop myself from ripping apart the tape, the smell of cardboard and storage — dank and dusty, clinging to me like the humidity — finally too much to bear. Fan on, music on, I remember slapping my hair away from my face as I put away all of my things, one by one. Finished, I lay on my bed.

The heat was intolerable, but a burden had been lifted, that unease finally gone.

But at home, unpacking is

impossible. I drop off my suitcase, open it up for the toothbrush and ignore everything else.

I pull out what I need. I put in what I’ll bring back. I can’t settle in anymore, and it took me a while to realize that this paralysis — this standing over my stuff and looking at my stuff and walking away from my stuff over and over until my travel itinerary is in my hand again — exists because I just don’t live here anymore.

My mother joked with me as I left for freshman year of college that I wasn’t a permanent houseguest any longer. It’s a phrase that still churns in my head. When I look out the window of my dorm room, or when I’m walking down Science Hill, or when I’m in Bass Library crouched over my organic chemistry textbook, it just hits me, this pang so sharp and sudden that I want to cry. And I think about the way I used to drive down the roads in Phoenix late at night. And I think about the way I used to walk around my neighborhood in the quiet morning.

And I think about the way my bed in my house used to smell, when I still slept in it every night.

I know this pain will pass. It’s just a part of growing up, this moving away from place to place.

City-jumping, state-jumping, home-jumping, it’ll happen again and again and again. I guess I should get used to it now.

It’d be good if I could unpack again.

Yet, I can’t bring myself to hang up all my clothes and put away all my socks and line up all my shoes when I know that in a few weeks’ time I’ll just zip

shiny from the kitchen’s lights.

I think the word is nostalgia.

But also memory and loss and good times and childhood and ending. Whatever it is, I can’t let go of it yet. For now, I’ll keep it with me, tucked somewhere safe.

Contact ALICE ZHAO at alice.zhao@yale.edu .

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POLITICS MEETS PERSONAL

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n a Friday morning in September, Aryssa Damron ’18 was asked

by Campus Reform, an online news source focusing on colleges and universities, to participate in a Fox News story about political activist DeRay McKesson. By 3 p.m. that afternoon, Fox had booked her a car to their studios in New York. Damron filmed live at 7 a.m. the following morning, less than 24 hours after she had gotten the initial call.

During the interview, which was aired on national television, Damron criticized the Yale Divinity School’s decision to bring McKesson to guest lecture a two-day course on leadership, stating that she believed him to be unqualified to teach at Yale.

McKesson is a civil rights activist who has been involved with protests in Ferguson and Baltimore. He has been credited with marshaling protestors and gathering momentum around the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter using Twitter and other social media.

During the interview, both Damron and Tucker Carlson, a Fox news pundit, used inflammatory language to criticize McKesson, alleging that he inflamed racial tensions. During his interview with Damron, Carlson said McKesson was “not an impressive guy, just kind of a race hustler,” and added that he makes “totally unfounded, stupid claims.”

Damron herself stated that she didn’t believe McKesson fit the criteria for a Yale professor. “The other teachers teaching the other courses at the divinity school are senators and reverends, or Yale alumni, and yet we have this random Twitter star teaching a course because Beyoncé follows him on Twitter maybe,” Damron said in the Fox interview.

She ended the segment by criticizing Yale as a whole, saying that the political climate of the institution was hostile to conservatives like her.

“I hate seeing that Yale is creating leaders who divide instead of leaders who unite,” she said.

Several hours after the Fox piece was aired, Melina Delgado ’19 posted a video of the interview on the Facebook group Overheard at Yale. The post immediately garnered widespread attention on campus and provoked intense anger and hostility from people within the group. Many of the comments expressed outrage toward Damron and the ideas that she had voiced, but some took the form of personal attacks.

Some commentators called Damron “a disgrace to Yale” and a “bloody ingrate,” asking her to “stay away from campus.” Others questioned her qualifications for speaking on the subject and stated that she “proved terrible stereotypes” of Southern women. Several students posted that Damron had stretched the truth when she claimed during the interview that she paid $60,000 a year for her education. In reality, Damron is a QuestBridge scholar and receives a full-ride scholarship for low-income, highachieving students.

Damron received the first notification about the post the Sunday night after the interview aired.

“When I checked it, I was in the middle of a game of pool so I wasn’t paying much attention,” she said.

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As the posts intensified in frequency and online reaction grew more heated, Damron said that she received hundreds of Facebook messages from people who wanted to express their sympathies.

“I thought I was lucky that the worst backlash I was getting was from some people online that I had never actually met in real life and probably never would,” she said.

Damron also received support from members of Yale. Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, a former staff reporter for the News, defended Damron in an op-ed in DOWN Magazine, alleging that she had been manipulated

by Carlson and Fox News in order to inflame partisan and racial differences.

“Being a low-income and conservative woman at Yale does truly put her in a marginalized position on Yale’s c a m p u s ,” MedinaTayac wrote.

“Her zeal to speak on national news was just a nail in the coffin.

Instead of using Damron’s parents’ income to reveal her hypocrisy or further bludgeon this low-hanging fruit, we have to recognize the ways in which corporate media manipulated all of us.”

Damron told WKND that although she had expected some controversy, she had not anticipated the potency of the backlash from her fellow students.

She said that she hadn’t expected that there would be any Yale students watching Fox News at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning, or particularly caring about the issue.

“I do wish [my critics] had felt brave enough to confront me in person about my beliefs, if they thought they were so egregious,” she said. “Not a single person ever told me to my face that they did not like what I said, disagreed with me, etc.

They simply posted online and thought that that was enough. I had zero trouble going back to campus and walking around proudly.” *** Since its founding in 2013, Overheard at Yale has mutated into the central online campus forum. The group has amassed a total of 5,500 members and become one of the main places where students and alumni report and discuss events happening at the University.

Javier Cienfuegos ’15, a prolific commentator on the group noted for his vocal defense of liberal viewpoints, said that he

realized he had begun to build a reputation around campus purely based around his online presence.

“People who I had never met before would recognize me,” he said. “I would show up to parties and people would say, ‘Oh, you’re that Javier.’”

Tyler Blackmon ’16, the creator and administrator of Overheard at Yale and a staff columnist for the News, told WKND that he had not expected the growth of the group.

“I really just wanted us to have a space to share things we overheard,” he said. “The group has evolved in lots of ways I didn’t expect.

Even simple things like starting to add pictures wasn’t something I originally intended, but I’m not necessarily opposed to evolution. In some ways, this is the student body’s group. They have molded it into something new, and I’m [okay] with that.”

On occasion, online posts have triggered widespread demonstration, as in November, when Gian-Paul Bergeron ’17 used the forum to report an offensive joke that speaker Greg Lukianoff had made during a private William F. Buckley, Jr. Program conference on free speech.

Bergeron claimed that Lukianoff had quipped: “Looking at the reaction to [Silliman College Associate Master] Erika Christakis’ email, you would have thought someone wiped out an entire Indian village.” The online Facebook post precipitated an impromptu protest outside of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, where the Buckley event was taking place, as a group of over 100 Native American students, other students of color and their supporters began to gather around LinslyChittenden Hall to voice their anger.

However, discourse on Overheard at Yale and on other online forums has also become heatedly personal, as it did after the posting of Damron’s interview, possibly due to the nature of online, rather than face-to-face interaction.

Wabantu Hlophe ’18 stated that his experiences as a student involved with the South African #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements led him to the opinion that internet activism was antithetical to calm discourse.

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“I found the internet to be a series of echo chambers where people hear the arguments they want to hear over and over again,” he told WKND. “The information they receive is by and large determined by the people they happen to be friends with, and their social media becomes a reflection of the culture they grew up in. As a result, they tend to use non-rational argument methods, attack the person instead of the argument and create golden staircases. It becomes difficult to reach any kind of progress.”

Hlophe said that he believes online ideological discourse results in a higher frequency of flippant ad hominem attacks. As a result, he now explicitly chooses not to engage in any type of online activism for political movements, Yale-specific or otherwise.

“In person, when you have a discussion, you’re dealing with a real person, you’re more likely to be constructive with your criticism,” he said.

“I want points to be grounded, rational and reasonable — presented in a manner that doesn’t denigrate who I am as a person. I would rather debates in the online world be like debates we have in a room.”

As the administrator of the group, Blackmon is responsible for deleting and censoring otherwise inflammatory posts. Blackmon told the News that he doesn’t seek to moderate content, but to moderate the way by which content is presented. In addition, Blackmon does not allow extracurricular groups to advertise on Overheard at Yale and tries to avoid including lost-and-found postings and news articles. Blackmon said he has been criticized by conservatives and liberals alike for an ideological bent to his methods of content regulation.

“The ironic part … is that my critics don’t even agree on what my ideological bias is,” he told the News.

Blackmon intends to hand over the group at the end of the year to new administrators who will in turn be tasked with moderating group content. *** Confrontational online discourse isn’t limited to the confines of Overheard at Yale. Aaron Sibarium ’18, an opinion editor for the News, published an op-ed entitled: “Reject hook-up culture.” In the article, Sibarium argued against the logic of hook-up culture — “the way we treat sex,” he wrote, in a subsequent Facebook post.

The op-ed generated a strong negative response from the student body.

On Facebook, Sibarium’s article was reposted by multiple students, often accompanied by critical rebuttals.

The reaction was exacerbated by the then-recent release of the Association of American Universities report on campus sexual assault, which showed a staggering incidence of sexual misconduct on campus.

Helen Price ’18 was one of the most vocal critics of Sibarium’s piece, and her critique, which took the form of a Facebook comment on a repost of the article, received over 50 “likes.” She wrote in an email to the News that she believed that Sibarium’s article had SEE AD HOMINEM PAGE B8

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WEEKEND FLOATS

I don’t hallucinate at any point during my float, although I do become acutely aware that I am a product of many eons of the evolutionary process of cephalization. I’ve lost any sense of my position in the room, or any sense of the room at all, and so the limits of my body are the borders of my spatial sense.

The seat of my perceptions feels grossly off-center from the rest of me, my body basically one branching tendril grown out of my head, like the upward-sprouting growth from a spud stuck in the dirt. It feels extraneous like that, tacked-on, a slimy afterthought.

Not to be cowering in the attic of my body, but to have an evenly distributed neural apparatus, like a starfish or a sea cucumber, is a balance I’ll never know.

I’m at Surrender to the Float, a sensory deprivation tank center in Guilford that, among other things, also offers classes on yoga and lucid dreaming. Co-founder Jeremy Spang told me that floating for 60 minutes in one of his tanks could help “recognize the nature of your mind.”

But it’s difficult — bathed in darkness, virtually unhearing, naked, my heart squeezing and unsqueezing so that I can feel its labor — it’s difficult not to wish something more would happen.

I. There is a sort of feedback loop in play. The more I think about this, the more I try to put words to it, the more I feel trapped in my lousy nugget of a central nervous system. Hopelessly skullbound. Hopelessly un-starfish. This is perhaps what Spang meant when he told me it would be best not to “chase after thoughts.” The injunction is familiar to anyone who has ever practiced meditation, but it’s not an easy one to follow. The brain, as Philip Corlett, a psychiatry professor at the medical school, tells me, uses prior experiences to understand new ones, and with virtually no identifiable sights and sounds, my thoughts are all I can latch onto.

They present themselves in the parlance of what I’ve seen and understood previously: “cephalization,” for example, or “tendril,” or “attic.”

Corlett’s research focuses on how the brain’s demand for that which has been literally déjà vu — and the process by which it is applied to ongoing experience — can go wrong. Psychotic episodes, and their accompanying auditory or visual hallucinations, offer an example. Corlett described a model that suggests hallucinations result when “the brain becomes hungry for prior explanations, or to explain things in terms of its priors,” which leads it to make false inferences about the world. This can occur as a result

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of schizophrenia, psychedelic drug use, prolonged social isolation or sensory restriction.

Corlett, like Deepak Cyril D’Souza, another Yale psychiatrist, takes advantage of these last two phenomena to study psychotic symptoms, modeling them in healthy individuals using drugs and forms of sensory deprivation, sometimes in conjunction. Some people manifest visual or auditory hallucinations after long periods with restricted sensation alone, but with some drugs, D’Souza has observed a “synergism” between sensory deprivation’s effect and the drugs’.

Cody Krosky, an East Haven resident and a member at Surrender to the Float, described floating as a “step into a giant void of time and space.” Maybe one could say, then, I’ve been forced into a kind of verbal hallucination, leaving my starving brain no choice but to populate the void with words and images smuggled in from time and space — from the outside. But in my case, it might be more accurate just to call this process “metaphor.” Poetry makes nothing happen, Auden wrote. But in here, language might be the only thing preventing it from taking place.

II. What I did in the most literal sense was float on my back in a shallow pool of salty water, enclosed in a small dark room, with earplugs in, for about 75 minutes. Versions of this practice have gone by the names of “perceptual isolation,” “sensory deprivation,” “floating” and “restricted environmental stimulation technique” (REST), among others. The object’s name, stowed away in our minds when we enter the tank, seeking the void, will inevitably influence our expectations about it.

Perhaps this helps explain why people who float or study floating seem particularly invested in nomenclature. “Floating” sounds ethereal, relaxing, maybe a little hokey and New Age. “Sensory deprivation” sounds Spartan, ascetic, coldly medical. Peter Suedfeld, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia, coined the acronym “REST” in the 1970s and said he “detests” the term “sensory deprivation.”

True deprivation of the senses, he said, would be possible only with “very serious drugs or with a scalpel.”

He was right: in the tank, I heard my heart beating and felt the blood coursing through my head. I heard the little sounds of dripping condensation and the occasional hum of the tank’s filter. I was aware of the soft water on my skin and the heat of the air in the room. At one point I blinked repeatedly, fascinated by the never-before-heard noise, like thick socks padding on hardwood.

III. The various attempts to name the practice mimic the long arc of our trying to understand it.

The history of REST brings together psychologists and psychonauts, the CIA and LSD, the Cold War and the New Age, interrogation and relaxation. All float in the same briny darkness.

Many still link sensory deprivation with interrogation and torture, but Suedfeld argues that the connection between REST and interrogation techniques results from a false conflation of two McGill University psychologists, Donald Ewen Cameron and Donald Hebb. Both worked in the midst of the murky research climate of the 1950s, when the CIA, through a variety of front organizations, funded research in hopes of developing psychological interrogation techniques. The CIA funded Cameron’s research, which had little to do with REST, but not Hebb’s, which laid the groundwork for the practice as it’s known today.

Hebb’s subjects, part of the first-ever studies of what the scientist called “perceptual isolation” in the first half of the 1950s, were physically restrained, wore translucent goggles and listened to unceasing random noise for long stretches of time—from a few days to a week. While most found the experience unpleasant and withdrew before their time was up, they were paid volunteers who were fed, could be led to the bathroom when they wished and could stop whenever they wanted.

Later in the 1950s, researchers moved away from Hebb’s parameters, which Suedfeld called more akin to “sensory overload,” and instead toward darkness and silence. Two of these investigators, John C. Lilly and Jay Shirley, eventually developed the direct progenitor of the modern tanks, wherein the subject floats on a buoyant solution of water and Epsom salts. Lilly studied dolphins and REST tanks and experimented with psychedelic drugs; he is often described with the epithet “psychonaut.”

Lilly published a book in 1977 titled “The Deep Self: Profound Relaxation and the Tank Isolation Technique,” which contributed to an increasing commercial interest in flotation REST tanks.

The phenomenon waxed and then waned as the 1980s progressed. Suedfeld listed the common hypotheses about the reason for this: The market was limited, given the tanks’ association with psychedelic drugs and the CIA. Few viewed floating as anything more than a one-off adventure; the AIDs crisis frightened people away due to

(unfounded) fears of infection in the tanks. A popular 1980 movie called “Altered States,” in which a scientist takes a hallucinogen, enters a REST tank and emerges as a sort of protohuman primate, surely didn’t help the cause.

Knowing all of this, it was hard not to feel at least a little nervous as I settled into the water at the outset of the experience. Floating, sensory deprivation, REST, perceptual isolation. If they and their murky connotations are all in the bath together, then I’m right there with them, buoyed by them, soaking them up. I wonder if I shouldn’t have done my research and conducted my interviews after the fact, so as to have had a cleaner slate going into the tank, fewer words to bring along. When I hit the rubber button that turns off the lights in the tank, there was only the music, a looping track of far-out sitar noodling, to connect me to the space I’d stepped into. In time that faded too, and then I was fully alone, fully adrift.

And at first I didn’t like it at all. My heart raced.

I became a little paranoid. I was strangely vulnerable, after all, naked and shut in a dark box.

I thought, admittedly, about getting out. But in the course of minutes, it passed, leaving almost nothing behind.

IV. Surrender to the Float is located behind what looks like a residential property just off I-95.

When I entered a couple of older women were sitting in the lobby, talking softly and drinking the free hot tea available on a countertop. The walls were painted a warm orange. There were plenty of plants and comfortable places to sit. Spang reclined at the front desk, wearing a warm smile, long hair, a beard and slippers.

The center represents the latest iteration of commercial REST — less like a lab and more like a spa. The practice is on its way to becoming a fullfledged cousin of yoga, meditation and acupuncture. Indeed, according to data from Float Tank Solutions, a group that hosts an annual Float Conference in Portland, Oregon, about 69 percent of centers they surveyed offer services aside from floating, the most common of which are massage, yoga and chiropractic.

Like mindfulness meditation, REST has begun to increase its mass appeal by embracing hard science. Suedfeld said the relationship between the commercial float centers and the professionals researching REST was once an antagonistic one; now, Suedfeld and some of his colleagues speak yearly at the Float Conference. Their research points to potential therapeutic benefits of floating. Suedfeld cites studies demonstrating that chamber REST — a dry version of flotation REST — has been shown to improve performance on memory tasks, enhance creativity and evoke pleasant memories. Flotation REST has been shown to reduce blood pressure and muscle tension, alleviate some types of insomnia and, when used in conjunction with positive visualization, improve athletic performance.

Exactly why REST does what it does hasn’t yet been pinned down. Some researchers have proposed that the benefits stem simply from deep relaxation, others from the shift in focus from external to internal processes, others from the prodigious quantities of Epsom salts that keep the water buoyant. Suedfeld has argued that during REST the part of the brain that is “logical and problem-solving” relinquishes its usual dominance, thus allowing “the nonlinear and nonverbal part of the brain” to become less suppressed.

Increases in creativity and physical coordination are thus the result of a “change in the hemispheric dominance of the brain.” Others have taken a psychoanalytic tack and posited that a dip in the tank affects the unconscious. A few have argued that it resembles a return to the womb.

V. This last speculation is at heart a metaphor, and one I can’t argue with. But if REST is like a glance back before birth, it’s also like a peek ahead to the tomb. Or maybe it’s a baptism in both: a dip in our beginning and our end, a quick duck out of the harsh middle and into a void.

Of course, as with most forms of escape, in the end one can’t help but come away with an awareness of escape’s impossibility. Towards the end of my float I begin desperately to need to use the bathroom. I wait it out, and in time the music comes back on to signal my time is up. I turn the tank’s light on, am blinded, turn it off, fumble for the door and step out with my hand over my eyes.

I shower and check my phone, shocked to find that about 75 minutes have passed; I would have guessed about 40.

Things start to happen again. I shower and dress. I make small talk with Chris, another member of the Surrender to the Float team. A friend arrives to pick me up; on the way back we’ll stop at Best Buy to buy an adapter for his laptop.

It’s dark out when we leave, about a quarter to six.

I feel lighter, a little tingly, a little dazed. Snowflakes fall, incomprehensibly multiple, glinting against the darkness. They look, for a moment, like nothing I’ve ever seen before, like something for which I have no words.

Contact SAM ABER at samuel.aber@yale.edu .

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EUROTRIP AT THE YUAG // BY ANDREW RUYS DE PEREZ

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Shopping period can be a time of great frustration, stress and disappointment. Your professor tells you that the section is full. You have a pset, but you don’t even know if you’re going to take the class. At the Yale University Art Gallery, you can blow off some steam by looking at images that will make your Yale problems pale in comparison. The new exhibition at the museum displays war and execution, people being gored by bulls and limb dismemberment. And that is only the first floor.

“Meant to Be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints” provides a treat for students returning for the new semester. Both the immense breadth and fabulous quality of the etchings acquired by the New York businessman and philanthropist Arthur Ross can be viewed on the YUAG’s first and fourth floors. Known for his Cen-

tral Park conservation efforts, Ross also acquired over his lifetime an astonishing collection of prints that span several centuries and periods of European art.

The collection has two main focuses.

On the first floor, the exhibition highlights the famous Spanish artist Francisco Goya, whose political and allegorical prints remain among the most iconic images of the 19th century. “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” perhaps Goya’s most famous print, depicts bats and owls haunting a forlorn sleeper and can be found in the left-side gallery.

Goya’s prints often investigate these dark, psychological themes. His series of prints “La Tauromaquia” demonstrates the art of bullfighting, contrasting its beauty and athleticism with its brutality and cruelty. Another series, called “Los Disparates,” or “The Follies,” expounds on the dark subject matter

with surrealistic, very modern images of goblinlike creatures and other nightmarish subjects that one would not necessarily expect from the early 19th century.

However, the collection also showcases a diversity of works. The 18thcentury Italian Tiepolo family’s traditional etchings, mostly of pious Christian characters, contrast Goya’s more dramatic prints. Pieces by the French artists Honoré Daumier and Camille Pissarro guide the displayed legacy of printmaking towards a more contemporary context. Daumier’s almost-cartoonish prints offer social commentary, while Pissarro focuses on nature and subscribes to the Impressionist tradition.

Another artist on the lower level, Édouard Manet, uniquely incorporates splashes of color into his works

and draws inspiration from literature.

His “Raven” series, an ode to the Edgar Allen Poe poem, is a collection highlight.

The exhibition continues to the fourth floor and time-travels several centuries into the past. In the James E. Duffy Gallery, visitors discover some of the first artists to utilize the etching technique.

The collection emphasizes the artist Canaletto and his “vedute” series, which depict Venetian scenes. Canaletto’s linear design structure illustrates the immense beauty found in the Italian city’s architecture, naval power and seascapes. The works of Mortimer Menpes, a later artist, hang next to Canaletto’s and show a more industrialized Venice.

Together, these artists demonstrate the passage of time through the city’s architecture. While one of Canaletto’s prints displays a canal’s construction process,

Menpes’ depict a city closer to our current understanding of Venice.

Finally, Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s works dwarf the prints in the rest of the exhibit. Piranesi’s mythical scenes, often depicting iconic Roman monuments, are so full of splendor that one could miss some intricate, wonderful details in the prints. Small characters and intimate actions — women strolling through ruins, dogs playing and people bartering — hide within the works’ grand scales.

Arthur Ross’ collection is one of this year’s must-sees at the YUAG. Organized to take the visitor on a journey through time and artistic movements in Europe, the exhibit manages to both surprise and delight.

Contact ANDRE RUYS DE PEREZ at andrew.ruysdeperez@yale.edu .

Getting in Shape for the New Year // BY TERESA CHEN

“It was 1968 and the first day of New Geometry at Cheshire High School …”

This is the story behind the “New Geometry” exhibit at the Fred Giampietro Gallery. Inspired by a snazzy pink-and-green geometry textbook from Giampietro’s 1968 high school class, “New Geometry” is a collection that showcases various artists and their fresh perspectives on geometric abstraction. But perhaps more importantly, “New Geometry” seeks to bring us back to our childhood days, when everything was beautiful.

Walking into the exhibit brought back fond memories of kindergarten days, playing with parquetry blocks during math class and creating fun tessellations as we learned how triangles, squares and rhombuses fit together. Sadly, my love for geometry faded quickly in high school, when complicated proofs and equations ended terribly: a B in the class and a pure hatred for shapes and the like. I dreaded entering “New Geometry” for fear of bringing back traumatic math memories. But I was pleasantly sur-

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prised.

Vibrant colors are the first thing you’ll notice when you arrive at the gallery; they pop out in contrast to the bare, white walls. A collection of works by Power Boothe, particularly his “Harwinton” series, leaves an especially startling impression.

Using just red, yellow and blue, Booth experiments with color blending and shading to create a bold mosaic of arcs, lines and right angles that come together seamlessly.

Blinn Jacobs’ equally colorful collection plays with triangles and complementary colors. At first glance, his casein/gatorboard work “Bend,” which resembles a paper plane, looks simple, but closer inspection reveals great complexity. In the piece, a triangle split in half, Jacobs experiments with different textures and mixes lilac purple and navy blue. The hundreds of hand-etched and crosshatched lines make clear how challenging and precise the artist’s hand is.

Another theme that unites the pieces in “New Geometry” is the contrast between their seemingly whim-

sical nature and complex undertones. I was particularly struck by “2013P-24,”

by Anoka Faruqee ’94, which resembles a hypnotic illusion. Through pastel colors of green, pink, yellow and blue, the piece came alive the moment I saw it and began to pulse before me in waves of shimmering color and light.

Using just a two-dimensional plane, Faruqee is able to translate movement into color.

Celia Johnson’s “Blazon Series,” whose jigsaw-esque pattern evoked images of puzzle pieces, also impressed me. Although each piece in the series is meant to act as an independent work, all share the same color palette of black, yellow and orange, and can be brought together to form a larger, single masterpiece. Together, they form — in a very meta-like fashion — a puzzle within a puzzle. And just as a puzzle is about putting pieces together, Johnson experiments with color in different ways to make a larger statement about abstract form and pattern.

My favorite pieces in the “New Geometry” collection, however, are

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those by Karen Schiff. In her “Dialogues” series, Schiff uses old newspaper clippings as the basis of her work. In using the punctuation marks at the ends of paragraphs, Schiff plays connect-the-dots to convey abstract faces speaking to one another.

“X-Plus” plays similarly with printed text, creating a mixed-media collage of bright purples and blues. Here, Schiff hand-stamps Xs all over newspaper pages, then draws between the stamps.

Looking at Schiff’s works creates a dizzying effect similar to Faruqee’s pieces and reminds me of the vertigo I’ve felt after looking up from a book after hours and hours of reading.

Though abstract art isn’t for everyone, “New Geometry” offers a fresh and inviting way to appreciate modern art. Come for the colors, and come for the shapes. Take it from a person who didn’t do so well in high school geometry — “New Geometry” is not an exhibit to be missed.

Contact TERESA CHEN at teresa.chen@yale.edu .

// ROBBIE SHORT

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CUFFING SEA S HOW TO GET CUFFED

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1) Get Tinder. I know you’re nervous because you’ll people you know on it.

Yes, the section asshole in your weird not-even-hard gut science class will show up. Swipe left. Yes, the TA for said section will show up. Swipe right. If you don’t get a cuff out of him, at least you can get an A in the class.

2) Is your roommate cuffed? If so, ask her to share her cuff. Think of this not as an orgy, but as a public service. You’re entitled to it, WKND believes. Everyone needs to be warm at night. If your roomie loves you, all three of y’all will be cuddling in her bed every night.

3) Check Craigslist. What, you think that’s desperate? It is. You’re desperate. It’s January and it’s been cold since November. There are only two months left of cuffing season. Come March, and everyone will be wearing their new skirt and chubby shorts, and romantically/aromantically sexually stable relationships will be a thing of the past.

WKND’s made some really good friends by responding to personal ads on Craigslist. Everyone gets a little lonely sometimes, right?

4) Ask that cutie in your seminar on a date. You might be intimidated, because it’s a small class, and because you’ll see her every Tuesday and Thursday for three hours and everyone will realize you guys have a thing or everyone will realize at least that you have a crush on her: It doesn’t matter. Next semester, you won’t even remember these people’s names. Ask! Ask! Ask!

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// BY WEEKEND I’m not cuffed, but I can think of plenty of ways to keep warm at night without a partner. Winter’s cold but it’s not that bad, and realistically, someone else’s body heat isn’t going to do that much for you anyway. I’ve always slept with an enormous teddy bear — it feels a little like snuggling with someone, and stuffed animals don’t snore or toss and turn and kick you out of the bed in the middle of the night. My teddy bear, named Theodore Roosevelt (my celebrity crush), is even hypoallergenic.

If you can’t do that, get an electric blanket, or a space heater, or even a heated mattress pad. Particularly if you live off-campus — in my apartment, heating is especially unreliable — I think any of these three options is an excellent choice for New Haven.

And if you aren’t able to find a cuff, don’t despair! Most likely, there are plenty of other Yalies swaddled in sweaters upon sweaters, blankets upon blankets, curling up against their space heaters with their large stuffed animals, wishing that they had someone to cuddle. At least you’re warm: think about all your fellow students who didn’t read this column, who are still cold and lonely, staring out at the snow.

// BY WEEKEND I met my cuff, Taylor, in class. It was called Sex, Evolution & Human Nature, and everyone — myself included — was there because they wanted to get laid. No, not because it was a gut, or because the subject material was interesting: We wanted to get laid. We all had spring fever, and we all knew that we all had spring fever. I took the class with two friends, and over the course of the semester, both of them started hooking up with these super hot gymnasts. I was so jealous. I hadn’t had sex in eight years. Every time the class met I would #searchforbae in Battell, desperate. But the last week of school — April now, and with the flowers and everything my spring fever was pretty crazy — I saw Taylor. He was so beautiful, but it was the last day of class. He left before I did. We didn’t speak.

Over summer, absence made the heart grow fonder. I never saw him, but I thought about him all the time, and when school started in the fall, we didn’t have any classes together.

But I saw him at a party in November; we were outside; it was freezing. “It’s cold,” I told him. “I know,” he said. “Would you … be my cuff?”

I was shy to ask, but he quickly accepted. And we’ve been happily cuffed ever since.

// BY IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY Self-respect is all one needs to keep warm at night: the knowledge that you are a completed person even without a partner.

I mean this in a purely metaphorical sense, of course. Self-respect will not keep you warm in extreme weather conditions. I really can’t stress this enough. Instead, you have to get creative. I recommend brightly colored earmuffs! Not only will they keep your ears warm (aka “the testicles of the face” according to a TV show whose name I can’t remember right now; I think Rob Lowe was in it) but if you ever die in an avalanche, hot pink leopard-print earmuffs would make finding your body just that much easier.

To be fair, wearing earmuffs to bed could be uncomfortable; at night it’s a different story. You gotta find a way to lock in body heat. I recommend Hot Pockets. Literally, microwave Hot Pockets before bed, wrap them in tinfoil and gently cradle them through the night. Plus, if they stop giving off heat, you have a convenient late-night snack. Eating them will also be a chance to get rid of some of that impractical non-warmth-producing selfrespect you’ve been lugging around with you. With these warmth tips, you can carry the spirit of No-bae November with you all year long!

// BY GRAHAM AMBROSE Yeah, I got cuffed. It was over by the barbershop on 34th Street, near the bookstore. Mhm, that’s the one, Noah & Sons Tailor.

Contact GRAHAM AMBROSE at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .

Contact IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY at ian.garcia-kennedy@yale.edu.

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IS IT REALLY A GREAT DEBATE? // BY NOAH KIM

AD HOMINEM FROM PAGE B3 encouraged victim-blaming.

“The column essentially argued for more moral policing around sex and hooking up as a solution to [the AAU report],” Price wrote. “This is both ridiculous and dangerous, as such policing of sexual activity inevitably leads to women being shamed more than men.”

Sibarium said that he feels that online criticism was directed more at him as a person rather than the arguments that he had made.

“What upset me was not that there was pushback, but that most of the pushback was directed at a flagrant misreading of my column, and that so much of the criticism was ad hominem,” Sibarium told WKND. “If people disagree about my empirical claims, that’s totally fine. But anyone who thinks I advocated slut-shaming or victimblaming should read what I actually wrote — I did no such thing. I was walking on eggshells for several weeks. I kept thinking, ‘Wow, people must really hate me now.’”

Sibarium added that although he has reconsid-

the most online flack, especially with a platform that only affords 800 words; there’s no way that potential gap in understanding could be bridged. But online commenters don’t intend to bridge understanding,” she said. *** In an email to WKND, Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said that the administration has little control over Overheard at Yale, even though Yale’s name is included in its title.

Howard acknowledged that the issue of discussion in online forums is a very tricky one for most colleges and universities.

“As you are aware, Yale vigorously defends the rights of students and mem-

nario emerged in an online forum, or somewhere physically on campus, and could be tied back to a Yale student, a case could be made for administrative involvement. *** Last April, Jason Henington DIV ’16 posted on Overheard at Yale that his wife had just been robbed at gunpoint, offering a description of her assailant as a black male wearing a black hoodie, a black scarf with white “F”s on it and black pants. Henington urged the Overheard community to call the Yale Police if anybody had any information.

Shortly following the post, Neema Githere ’18 commented that Henington should have

often used to make offensive and derogatory remarks, some of which mention specific students and professors by name. Universities are often powerless to take action regarding inappropriate and offensive comments due to the app’s privacy policy.

Computer science professor Daniel Abadi told the News that Yik Yak has provided a platform that promotes “animalistic inclinations without the social pressures of personal accountability.” *** In his email to WKND, Howard wrote that “We would hope … that students would respect each other enough to engage with each other responsibly — whether in person or online. Yale fully supports a student’s right to engage in challenging speech, even speech that may be disliked, personal or even hurtful, but we would hope that the values of the com-

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ered the wording of some parts of the piece, his overall position has not changed.

His experience was mirrored by that of Cassandra Darrow ’18, who was similarly criticized when she published an op-ed in the News entitled: “White people need ethnic studies,” a rebuttal to staff columnist Cole Aronson’s ’18 controversial op-ed “What Yalies Should Know,” which argued against an ethnic studies requirement on the basis that ethnicity is not inherently a part of the human experience.

In her article, Darrow claimed that arguments such as Aronson’s perpetuate ignorance of power and white supremacy. Her article was met with criticism and ad hominem attacks, especially from online commentators, who dismissed her as a “social justice warrior” and harshly contested her claims, often in racially offensive terms.

“Much of this anger is really just the frustrating knowledge that some ethnic groups are actually intellectually superior,” read one of the comments posted on the News website.

Darrow said that she had expected to be censured when she published the article. She told WKND that a friend had warned her to be emotionally and mentally prepared for vitriolic commentary.

“These types of articles tend to get

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bers of our community to speak freely, and we do not limit speech on campus,” Howard wrote. “The exceptions arise when speech becomes threatening or harassing, and that threshold is when the Undergraduate Regulations might apply.”

Howard wrote that the University does not have an explicit cyberbullying policy. However, the Undergraduate Regulations address issues of threat, intimidation or coercion, stalking or harassment and/or use of the Yale name. So, if a student could be identified as engaging in online behavior that may be in violation of any of these regulations, it could be an issue for the Executive Committee.

Howard also wrote that it is difficult to define what in particular constitutes cyberbullying and acknowledged that it can occasionally be difficult to differentiate between heated online discourse and online harassment.

“Every case that is reviewed formally by a dean or through the Executive Committee is unique, so there is no clear answer available up front,” he wrote in the email.

Howard defined harassing behavior as repeated, unwanted behavior — especially after one party has expressed that the communication or behavior is unwanted. So, if such a sce-

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included a more specific description of the suspect.

“There are many black males with black clothing on and around this campus. It would be unfortunate if there were people unjustly pursued based on this very vague (not to mention problematic) description,” she wrote.

A terse exchange with Henington followed, during which Githere cited the instance last January when AfricanAmerican student Tahj Blow ’16 was forced to the ground at gunpoint by a Yale police officer.

Following the exchange, Githere posted on her own Facebook page a compilation of 16 comments that she had seen on Yik Yak, a social media app that allows users to post anonymously.

Many of the comments mentioned her by name and derided her for her role in the Overheard thread.

Some of the comments were racially offensive: “Black people wonder why everyone hates them, it’s because you can’t shut up. Angry, fat, loud black woman is a stereotype that DOES live up to its name,” read one.

Githere wrote that her intention was to point out that racism and violence were widespread at Yale despite the “pretty buildings.” She could not be reached for further comment.

Yik Yak’s anonymity means that it is

munity, and what it means to be connected with each other, would intercede before it could be considered a violation of our Regulations.”

Ad hominem is universally acknowledged to stymie rational discourse, increase animosity among both involved parties and generally hamper communication. But strikingly, all of the students mentioned above have become, if anything, more entrenched in their original views after enduring significant criticism.

Damron is probably the most notable example. She wrote to WKND that she feels as if her statement about Yale’s hostility towards conservatives has been validated by the criticism she faced after conducting the Fox interview.

“Honestly, I was a bit pleased when people began to attack me online … their negative comments only served to prove my point further,” she said.

Her reaction to the personal attacks she suffered mirrors the claims that Medina-Tayac made in his article on Damron’s interview.

“If there’s one way to radicalize someone even further, it’s to exclude them from any world in which they can relate to the other side,” he wrote.

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

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ON MORAL GROUNDS // BY MAYA CHANDRA 2015’s best advocate for the rights of the environment may very well be the Pope. And if other religious leaders follow his example, the U.S. just might be on its way to successfully combating climate change.

Climate change has been acknowledged as an environmental and politically divisive issue for years, but a new report published this month by Yale and George Mason universities suggests that redefining it as a moral issue may lead to more widespread support for action on behalf of Mother Earth.

The report, entitled “Faith, Morality and the Environment,” explores the wide range of American attitudes on climate change. Dividing these attitudes into six distinct categories, the report analyzes the traits and beliefs that each grouping holds. Its analysis suggests that large sectors of the American public who do not currently feel that climate change is a dangerous and very present threat can be convinced of the necessity of action if the issue’s presented as a moral one. *** Senior research scientist and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication director Anthony Leiserowitz is part of the team working on “Climate Change in the American Mind,” a longterm project in the YPCCC. Since 2008, the team has written two national surveys on climate change each year. Over the course of their research, they’ve used statistical analysis methods to identify the aforementioned six groupings of Americans who respond uniquely to the issue of climate change; Leiserowitz calls these the “Six Americas.” According to Leiserowitz, understanding the Six Americas is key to understanding how to reframe climate change as a moral issue for all Americans.

“It is impossible to address America as a single group with a single mindset, and we know that one of the first rules of effective communication is ‘know thy audience,’” Leiserowitz said. “Otherwise, it’s kind of like trying to play darts in the dark with a blindfold on.”

The group that the YPCCC refers to as the “Alarmed” consists of the 12 percent of Americans most engaged in acknowledging and combating global warming.

According to the report, the Alarmed are the most likely to view global warming as a moral issue — and therefore the most likely to support strong action against climate change.

On the opposite side of the spectrum is the “Dismissive,” who neither believe in global warming nor see it as a threat.

In fact, they tend to view it as a largely political issue.

Dismissive individuals are oftentimes “conspiracy theorists,” Leiserowitz said with a wry laugh.

It’s the

four groups in the center of the spectrum — the “Concerned,” “Cautious,” “Disengaged,” and “Doubtful” — who are most likely to be reached if climate change is reframed as a moral issue, Leiserowitz explained. And in order to convince people that it’s a moral ill to stand idly by while global warming threatens to destroy the world as we know it, the discussion needs to be led by moral authorities, many of whom may be religious in nature. *** As the team’s research suggests, it’s important to gain the support of religious and community leaders: It may even be necessary for opening up discussions on climate change and its consequences in American homes. A report the YPCCC published in November discussed the effects of Pope Francis’s support for sustainability and environmental activism. The Pope — who made his stance clear when he declared in front of the United Nations in September 2015, “Any harm done to the environment therefore is harm done to humanity” — had the potential to significantly impact the way Americans view climate change, coauthor Edward Maibach said.

“Although relatively few Americans were seeing climate change as a moral issue last year before the release of the Pope’s encyclical on climate change, our research showed that many Americans [now] have the potential to see climate change as a moral issue,” Maibach said.

Connie Roser-Renouf, lead author of the report, suggested that because the news typically frames global warming as a scientific and political issue, the topic may alienate many Americans who aren’t particularly interested in either science or politics. If activists could make clear that global warming is a moral issue, Americans would likely express significantly more interest in working against it, Roser-Renouf said.

She added that while Americans across the board feel that it’s important to help the poor and future generations, many do not yet recognize that global warming poses a real and significant threat to those groups. In fact, there is a high level of religiosity in the USA along with a perceived conflict between religion and science, she said. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.

Some politicians seek to exploit that apparent conflict, but many religious leaders, like Pope Francis, recognize climate change as an important moral issue.

In fact, according to Roser-Renouf, many of the religious Americans who are on the fence about the legitimacy of climate change

believe that humans are meant to be “stewards” of nature: At the same time, they do not recognize the potential damage to nature that climate change can cause. And the voices of scientists and political leaders alike have not been enough to bridge that disconnect.

“It’s likely that more people will listen when religious leaders speak up about climate change,” Roser-Renouf said.

“The moral authority of figures like Pope Francis may reach segments of the public who have not yet recognized the issue as having any personal significance.”

And other researchers share that expectation. Matthew Riley DIV ’08, a lecturer at the Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, studies how individuals interact with the environment based on their values and beliefs, primarily looking at those who follow one of the world’s major religions. Riley agrees that there is more to environmental issues than just science and politics. Rather, there’s a larger spiritual value, which he describes as a connection with nature, that some Americans may have lost sight of. Riley has studied the way religion intersects with nature, and he has noticed that many of the world’s major religions are increasingly supporting environmental activism. When asked if he felt climate change was a moral issue, Riley responded, “absolutely.”

“Each of the world’s religions is going back and re-examining and reinterpreting their sacred texts to seek for guidance on how, in the 21st century, to use our deepest values and convictions to guide us in this very different world.

Because none of those ancient leaders — Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, etc. — had any inkling of c l i m a te

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change,” said Leiserowitz. *** On a smaller scale, Yale undergraduate students have been working to improve sustainability practices on campus. While changing student behavior is a less demanding task than changing the views of the entire American populace, the issues that Yale’s Sustainability Coordinators identified in convincing their classmates of the importance of a sustainable lifestyle were highly similar to those discussed in the YPCCC report.

When it comes to encouraging students to make changes in order to live more sustainable lives, there doesn’t seem to be a single approach that works across the board. According to former Trumbull College Sustainability Coordinator Alexandra Golden ’17, many people will only make necessary changes if they are convenient, and the conversation can vary widely depending on whom you’re talking to.

Ezra Stiles College Sustainability Coordinator Sophie Freeman ’18 expressed a similar sentiment. The efficacy of change depends on your audience — you need to reach people based on their values, Freeman said. And oftentimes, according to Pierson College Sustainability Coordinator Pratik Gandhi ’18, people are simply unaware of the ways in which their lifestyles affect the environment.

These sentiments reflect what the YPCCC report explores: In order to change people’s views and, more importantly, behaviors regarding sustainability, those people must be addressed according to their individual systems of belief. All three sustainability coordinators stressed that while students may feel that climate change is a real threat, they tend not to see it as a moral concern and consequently do not change how they conduct themselves.

“I see [climate change] as both a scientific and moral issue,” Gandhi said.

“Sustainability is not just about one person on a crusade to save the world.

It is about communities committing to leading better lives, not just for the sake of the environment, but for their own health and that of future generations.”

THE MORAL AUTHORITY OF FIGURES LIKE POPE FRANCIS MAY REACH SEGMENTS OF THE PUBLIC WHO HAVE NOT YET RECOGNIZED THE ISSUE AS HAVING ANY PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE.

Contact MAYA CHANDRA at maya.chandra@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND COLUMNS

GETTING THROUGH THE NEW YEAR BLUES // BY JACK BARRY DEAR JACK: The New Year seems to hold little new for me. Thus far, I have only experienced the same sense of overwhelming disappointment that has marked each day since I hit puberty at the tender age of 20. As a child, I was so carefree and imaginative — a young 19-year-old without worries or pubic hair! Now every day is a struggle to find time for friends, class and shaving my back. If this year is just as dismal as the last, I’d sooner leave my back hair to grow into the magnificent flowing cape it was destined to become and not bother with the incessant nuisances of life. How do I hop off the soulless cycle of sorrow?

— Pessimistically Pubescent DEAR PUBES: You are a rose still in bloom.

Or, more accurately, a fresh field pussytoe (antennaria neglecta), a commonly found perennial herbaceous plant famous for the hairy backs of its leaves. I believe your puberty-onset blues are a rather grave strain of the extremely rare post-teen angst.

All of those hormones bubbling inside you have fermented over the past decade, excitedly waiting to flow forth from your neglected glands. Hair in strange places and endless waves of frustration and disappointment are to be expected if a concentrated dose of boner juice (testosterone) has been unleashed in your system.

Fortunately for you, postteen angst (and the more frequently observed teen angst) is

easily curable. Many who suffer from all varieties of teen angst have found great comfort in the loving and understanding support of parental or authority figures. Has a maternal figure ever suggested you “stop looking so sad all the time,” then questioned, “Why don’t you smile more?”

Of course, the best remedy for struggling to find the meaning in living anymore is a smile.

As long as you appear happy, the constant thoughts of inadequacy and self-loathing cannot weigh heavy on your heart. Just listen to male authority figures when they instruct you to “quit crying and be a man for once in your life!” It really is that simple.

If you find that a smile a day does not keep the depression away, I recommend a more aggressive treatment. Researchers have started to conduct medical trials on rodents for an exciting new form of experimental phototherapy. For the rats that survived, the results have been extremely promising. Test subjects are placed in a small cage, maximally restricting their movement. The subject is exposed to 72 hours of constant ultraviolet radiation. At the end of the testing period, the living rats are placed in a mirrored holding cell. The disorientation from the lack of food, water and sleep creates the perfect environment for the molting process to begin. Like a snake from its skin or a corn from its husk, the rats shed their nolonger-necessary layers of fur

and dermis, breaking forth from their hardened shells of flesh like newborn spring chickens.

The bewildered lab rats are unrecognizable, even to themselves. Anonymous and confused, each is free to begin a new life, entirely different from its previous incarnation.

The rodents can become flight attendants, traveling salesmen or roadside-prostitute murderers … whichever occupation best allows them to run from the haunting shadow of their former lives. Aileen Wuornos, a notorious serial killer and working girl who shot seven “johns” to death alongside the Florida state highways, is an early example of the great success of phototherapy treatment.

If Western medicine is not your thing, there are alternative practices available. Unable to fill the hole in your heart, it is often best to devote your attention to other holes. Recapture your youthful exuberance for life with a friendly game of leaky submarine and challenge a partner to plug all of your holes. It is not a task for the weak in spirit, so don’t be afraid to ask for an extra pair of helping hands.

Never forget, today you may be fresh field pussytoe — hairybacked and frowny-faced — but one day soon you will blossom into the magnificent rose that you were born to be.

Your friend, Jack Contact JACK BARRY at john.c.barry@yale.edu .

// LAURIE WANG

Sad Thirty-Somethings Looking for Love // BY MADELINE KAPLAN

Remember winter break? It was a simpler time — three gloriously empty weeks of 24 gloriously empty hours a day, free to be filled with “Jane the Virgin,” “Jessica Jones” and endless reruns of “Judge Judy.” It can be tough to make the transition from complete TV saturation to a normal and productive college existence. Here are two excellent shows — one a returning hit, the other a new critical favorite — that deserve a prime spot in your second-semester streaming queue.

The former, Amazon’s “Transparent,” returned for another season on Dec. 10. Writer/director/showrunner Jill Soloway keeps the Emmy-winning magic of the first season alive in the second, creating a show that’s warm and intimate and convincingly messy.

This time around, “Transparent” is less focused on Maura (Jeffrey Tambor), the transgender woman whose interior journey suffused the first 10 episodes.

Now the whole Pfefferman family — and all their glaring flaws — are on full display. Sarah (Amy Landecker) realizes on her wedding day, conveniently enough, that she’s unhappy with just about every decision she’s ever made.

Music business hotshot/manchild Josh (Jay Duplass) attempts to settle down with Rabbi Raquel (Kathryn Hahn, a beautiful angel sent from above). And Allie (Gaby

MADELINE KAPLAN MAD TV Hoffmann) finds herself seduced by the erotic impulses of graduate school, and by an aggressively cool department chair at UCLA. While last season introduced us to Maura’s search for herself, this season explores the search for identity as a universal phenomenon. There are many interlocking forces at work here.

Jewish tradition and inherited trauma, sexual exploration and the limits of self-reflection — all of these inform the narrative tilts of “Transparent.” Maura’s trip to a women’s festival with strict rules about who qualifies as “female” fosters nuanced discussions of feminist and queer theory. Flashbacks to the Pfeffermans’ ancestors in 1930s Germany twist around contemporary plotlines on love, fatherhood and CrossFit. Characters grow — kind of, slowly — and then return to their old ways. “Transparent” is damn good.

Another streaming option worthy of your limited free time is “Casual,” Hulu’s new comedy series. The 10-episode first season premiered in October and has been gaining critical steam ever since.

Michaela Watkins plays Valerie, a forty-ish therapist with a flailing personal life. Newly separated, Valerie lives with her playboy brother and best friend Alex (Tommy Dewey), inventor of an online dating site whose algorithms he manipulates for his own romantic gain. Valerie’s teenage daughter (Tara Lynne Barr) has plenty of personal complications too, from a philandering high school boyfriend to a serious hot-for-teacher phase.

“Casual” is a cynical take on modern dating, of a piece with some of director Jason Reitman’s previous projects (“Juno” and “Young Adult,” among others).

Valerie’s fleeting affair with a younger man is especially hilarious; she generously gifts him a box of spoons, since his apartment has none.

The show often feels like a streamlined sex comedy — not quite one-note (there are some nice moments of genuine family bonding between the three main characters), but rarely straying from its focus on sex in the age of Tinder. This isn’t a bad thing, necessarily. “Casual” has some incisive things to say and is often quite clever in saying them. It’s a fun take on what hookup culture looks like in your 30s. (On second thought, maybe it’s more of a horror series.)

Contact MADELINE KAPLAN at madeline.kaplan@yale.edu .

// ZISHI LI

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WEEKEND THEATER “This Is Our Youth” ticks all the boxes.

One may begin with the set: cluttered, noisy and painstaking. The crew took their time. Zappa and Bowie memorabilia, myriad disposable photos, a ziggurat of pizza boxes and of course a vinyl player adorn the shapeless space. A mattress with sheets halfway made, an adolescent’s token effort at rigor. Often with undergraduate theatre here, one encounters a “minimalistic” set, and doesn’t buy it; there is merely a masquerading of hastiness, of a show hanging by a thread. Here this is not the case.

Next, the bells and whistles. Jacob Osborne ’16 and Jamie Bogyo ’16 belong to the very sparse group of Yale undergraduate actors who hold theatrical sway when having a phone conversation onstage; one can briefly enjoy the possibility that there may indeed be a shrill, neurotic girlfriend or an entirely disappointed father on the other end. What’s more, Osborne is the first actor I have seen convincingly laugh on stage at Yale. The joy of watching actors cover the basics — clarity of utterance, laughing and looking like a human laughing, is utter relief.

Osborne imbues Dennis with Nelson Muntz-eqsue insult delivery (“You’re such a sniveling little obnoxious punk … an annoying loudmouth little creep”): The faux threats of his oratorial violence seep splendidly into a flabbergasted “You are so stupid, man” as he watches Warren continue to stumble into financial pitfalls.

One enjoys how comfortably the actors move about the stage — Dennis’ throwing trash into the bin, as he himself makes the noise of a fanatical audience; Osborne pours thought and energy into each and every gesture, his whole being an effort to make himself the tough guy, the hero, the glorious protagonist: a master class in the Latently Insecure Bully, that hallowed staple of Americana. Osborne’s sincerity in Dennis’ tenderness on the phone to his girl-

friend alerts the audience to how performative his machismo has been.

Bogyo misses a trick, however, with the humor of Warren. He attempts goofiness, tries it on. However, the humor of Bogyo’s acting swells as the play proceeds, and he enjoys the ridiculousness of Dennis more with each beat. I challenge anyone to stifle her cringey laughter, à la Superbad or even Annie Baker, that emanates from Lucy Fleming ’16 and Bogyo’s initial interactions.

He is better at pubescent melancholia than he is at warm folly, yet when he shares the stage with Fleming, the comedy is easy. One can also detect his time with the Whiffenpoofs; the music of his voice is well flaunted in his near-crying whinges. It should be said that a play about adolescence wouldn’t get off the ground without the audience’s innumerable violent cringes. This is triumphantly achieved. And for once not because actors are forgetting lines. To paraphrase a platitude, the audience cringes with the cast, not at them. It makes perfect sense that none other than Michael Cera, young America’s patron saint of awkwardness, has taken on this play.

The play abounds with thoughtful acting. Fleming has ensured that every gesture of Jessica’s, every tilt of the neck, her constant flitting of rogue hair behind her ear, every protective arm fold, corresponds to a gentle bump or scratch in the pair’s harmony, like the fuzz of the vinyl on the record player. Watching her wallow shamefully in the social consequence of coughing on a joint is sheer delight. Most notably, she nihilistically sighs during a hurried exit—yet another straining encounter with Dennis; her nonverbal sonic touches are as compelling as any of the play’s dialogue.

The whole work feels immediate. The lethal poignancy of watching the young voice anxieties about looking for their recent past and finding it little more than an obsolescing trinket is an inexorable real-

ity for the Yale student, who so often is propelled forward with such momentum that any sense of place, of gratitude for the current or the immediate bygone, that she cannot help feel a twinge of something honest in what unfolds before her onstage. What could be more relevant than Warren’s tentatively voiced skepticism of philanthropy in his criticism of a social worker, questioning her “mission” and “moral stance”. Here, the tension between a desire to give back and “saviorism,” a word recently found to be flexing its muscles in the Yale zeitgeist, right alongside ‘mindful’ and ‘dialogue’ is delicately put forward. Apropos of relevance to a Yale audience, one smirks when one hears in passing Jessica’s last name: “Goldman.”

Take the line, “This is why nobody likes you, man.” This would be a difficult play to botch; every line feels like dining hall chitchat, the teenage conversational equivalent of muzak, perennially trivial yet hormonally charged and inexorably painful. Fleming so touchingly and sincerely gives us the hopefulness of a girl who believes against her better judgment that someone she’s slept with has suppressed the urge to tell even his best friend. The audience, with Jessica, wishes against reason that such a world were possible.

Like a breakup, like a comedown or a withdrawal, like the whole process of growing up, the play is frightening, loud, dizzyingly unpredictable and almost nauseatingly punchy. Every bout of bad news is a glistening new pimple on a face recently accustomed to hair on its lips. “I’m completely stoned out of my mind on fear.”

Dennis’s line could be Lonnergan’s, or Osborne’s, or anyone’s who has diverged from the acceleration into adulthood, and reflected upon the financial, hormonal and traumatic pathos of giving up childhood.

Contact IVAN KIRWAN-TAYLOR at ivan.kirwan-taylor@yale.edu .

THEIR YOUTH, AND OURS

// MATTHEW LEIFHEIT

// BY IVAN KIRWAN-TAYLOR

I went to see “Slouch” with a faith in overcompensation: A play about depressed 30-yearolds in a New York apartment sounds so dull that no one would dare put it on if it weren’t fantastic.

The show, co-directed by Stella Baker DRA ’18 and Matthew Fischer DRA ’16 and written by B. Walker Sampson, is dazzling in its bold technical conceit: The three characters’ dialogue is mixed with narration, inner monologue and stage direction in an elaborately arranged and largely successful barrage of language.

English professor Harold Bloom GRD ’55 once described the effect of reading One Hundred Years of Solitude as “battle fatigue,” and I can’t deny that I was, if not fatigued, then at least a bit stupefied by the fast-paced and highly artificial speech pattern. This is not a show to see if you’re tired.

The architecture of “Slouch” is intricate, and Emily Reeder DRA’17 (Skye), Marié Botha DRA’17 (Summer), and Jake Lozano DRA’18 (Fletcher) do an impressive job of riding its sometimes surreal twists and turns.

The three are roommates in their early thirties. Each is un-,

or unhappily, employed. Having slouched through their twenties — what they were doing is far from clear — they hear about their globe-trotting college classmates and feel like failures.

Each is in a personal crisis, and since their lives are so entangled, they exacerbate, but also relieve, one another’s anxieties.

The three protagonists are attractive but devoid of any strong identifying characteristics: Skye spends her days surfing job listings, checking social media sites and fantasizing about learning violin. Fletcher (of the sizeable man-bun and smooth, tan skin) is so distracted by his boss’s breasts that he at first doesn’t realize she’s just fired him. Summer pushes paper at a secretarial job, the details of which are left vague.

And then there’s Gordon. Not portrayed by a fourth actor, Gordon exists chiefly as an idea. He is expected to visit next Wednesday; Summer and Skye are in love with him; Fletcher is nostalgic for his friendship. He is a doctor, and as such, he has greatly surpassed them all.

What sort of a play do these elements combine to make?

Where can it go from the premises it lays out for itself? Psy-

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chological breakdown seems the order of the day, as various characters cry, role-play, kiss, collapse, imagine they’re alone on an island, panic in the grocery store, dream of vacationing with Gordon and almost commit suicide.

Toward the play’s end, as Fletcher looks down at the street below his high-rise apartment window, the command that saves his life is, “Don’t slouch,” a final invocation of the titular motif threaded somewhat ungracefully through the play.

“There ought to be things I want to do,” Skye says in the play’s opening moments, establishing the depressive mood that pervades the play.

The actors do many things well, using their bodies, the stage and the desk at its center to move fluidly, quickly and convincingly between locations and into and out of characters’ inner worlds.

But it takes considerable extravagance to make depression interesting, and it takes more than skillful narration to make a plot compelling. “Slouch” doesn’t quite overcome the burden of its title.

Slouching through the City // BY JACOB POTASH

// MATTHEW LEIFHEIT

Contact JACOB POTASH at jacob.potash@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND BACKSTAGE

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Q: Why the name “Black Pulp!”?

A: We came up with the name “Black Pulp!” because the material we’re focusing on is pulp. A lot of it has to do with pulp fiction, a lot of the work in here is on paper, so it was a play off of the notion both print media and a type of attitude that is in a lot of the work there.

illiam Villalongo is a Brooklyn-based artist and lecturer at the

School of Art. Along with Mark Gibson ART ’13, Villalongo has

Q: I was reading another interview you gave about the exhibition, where you referred to the ways in which the artists deflect the cultural attitudes going on around them by using “strategy,” and I was wondering if you might be able to explain whether they’re conscious of that strategy or what that strategy is.

curated the new exhibition “Black Pulp!” located at the 32 Edgewood Gallery. The exhibition features “print media, comics and contemporary art from the Black Diaspora.” Discussing “Black

A: The works themselves explain the way in which they do that.

We’re starting here [at the entrance of the gallery] with this Isaac Julien documentary called “Badass.” It’s a documentary on “blaxploitation” films of the ’70s. It breaks down, for example, a very complex idea about blaxploitation — these films were not called “blaxpoitation” films by a white society; they were actually chastised by the NAACP and other AfricanAmerican groups. But at the same time, you have this young group of black actors with no work [previously], and they’re getting work, and they’re making these films and having careers. What you find in those films is in some way an expression of fashion, and expression of attitude through culture. All of the films are about sticking it to the man, for example, and getting over, in some way, the tough predicament economically, socially, politically that black people exist in.

When I think about strategies at play, for example, we have this wonderful print by the artist Derrick Adams [depicting the ace of spades]. This is one out of a deck of cards of the royalty suite — so you know, king, queen, jack, ace. What’s interesting about that is that it plays with a lot of language that you hear within a sort of conversation of black uplift or celebration slogans, such as, [being

Pulp!” with WKND, Villalongo touched on everything from “blaxploitation” to black female illustrators of the Harlem Renaissance.

black] kings and queens. The subversive nature of that is in choosing [to depict] the ace of spades in particular, Derrick taps back into this kind of longer history of racist language, in other words, black people used to be referred to as spades. It’s the black card in the deck. He both talks about the celebration and the ambivalence and issues surrounding race within a deck of cards. So that’s what I mean by strategy. A lot of these things are sometimes a little counterintuitive.

Q: Would you say that most if not all of the artists are conscious of the strategy they’re using?

A: I would say the great majority of the artists in this show are conscious of what they’re doing with the strategy. The way I see the strategy is really about communication. Art in and of itself is a strategy. When you look at publications like “The Crisis” and “Opportunity,” and some of the publications from the associated publishers, we’re talking about three major publishers, spearheaded by editors who were black men in the early part of the twentieth century who were absolutely literally trying to use print media as a strategy, and they say as much. In other words: ‘here’s this terrible Jim Crow social situation that we exist in, racist imagery is rampant in American society, pop culture, throughout the 20s and 30s and 40s, and we need to publish, we need a medium that is highly disseminated in order to change that narrative. People need to understand who African-Americans are, what our concerns are and that they are concerns not too much unlike theirs.’ Those editors are Charles Spurgeon Johnson, with “Opportunity” in the National Urban League, and W.E.B. DuBois, who you may have heard of, who started “The Crisis” in 1918, and “The Crisis” is probably the first of these publications to start circling around in the black community in Harlem. The third person, who is really important to this narrative, is Carter G. Woodson, who spearheaded and founded the

THE ART OF BLACK PULP!

AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM VILLALONGO Associated Publishers. He was a Harvard professor and probably one of the first people to actually study African-American history as an actual study as opposed to how people like DuBois were putting together a history, in a way that the information was very spread out and very uncontained. And Carter G. Woodson was one of the first people to say, I’m going to really look at all this stuff and start pulling together a structured history of AfricanAmerican life.

Q: Could you talk about how the idea for this exhibition began?

It’s something that you see in Ghostbusters 2, where the Statue of Liberty comes alive. It’s like that. That’s so pulp. Can we find that thread? What is this literary and visual connection to the pulp attitude in art and in literature? Where is the history of that?

And we slowly asked a lot of questions and bumped into a lot of these pieces, in particular these historic print media pieces, over the course of our research. Some of them just kept coming up as extremely important things. The question was to go find them and look at them in relation to the contemporary artists that we had

elitist and it tends to make people feel they can’t walk in front of an art object and get something from it. With these artworks on display, if you are sensitive enough to understand the world around you, you will find things in any works of art that connect back to it. For me, everything is connected, and that becomes this wonderful thing for Mark and me, in thinking about the show. The exhibition’s really about us finding a medium to have that conversation to connect the dots, or to at least lay everything out so that the audience can start to do it themselves.

FOR ME, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED, AND THAT BECOMES THIS WONDERFUL THING... IN THINKING ABOUT THE SHOW.

A: I guess myself and Mark Gibson were having a conversation around the artwork of Kara Walker. We were seeing that she did this large installation in Brooklyn called “A Subtlety.” It was this large Sphinx-like figure, sort of Mammy and Sphinx covered with sugar, larger than life.

There were a lot of debates around that piece as there always is with Kara’s work, and we were starting to think about this conversation of strategy that I said earlier: What is that? What’s happening here? And the fact that it’s so wild, wild and tough, it’s pulp.

a sense about, that would fit with them visually.

Q: You’ve written about “orchestrating conversations between history and art,” so I was thinking about whether art can be made in a vacuum, or be ahistorical.

What is the division between history and art?

A: There’s nothing. I don’t see a vacuum. Art goes with time.

I think historians tend to write about art in that way, and because they do they tend to lose the general public. They tend to sound

Q: What’s the ideal reaction or experience you want a viewer to get out of the exhibition?

A: I would want the viewer to consider the complexity of personhood, the complexity of human subjectivity in relationship to black people, and take that and think about that relationship to very narrow, limited, generalized notions of who and what AfricanAmerican people are, particularly in this country but abroad as well.

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

// CATA CHERNAVVSKY SEQUEIRA