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Calhoun portraits removed

“Your move, Yale.” After a poster revealing shortcomings in Yale’s hiring and retainment of faculty members of color appeared on Cross Campus last semester, issues of faculty diversity have been a constant source of campus debate.

The Yale Graduate Student Assembly is hosting a panel discussion tomorrow at 6 p.m. to address these questions.

Panelists include FAS Dean Tamar Gendler and GSAS Dean Lynn Cooley.

Jackson to Jordan. Stephanie Leutert GRD ’16 and Nitsan Shakked GRD ’16, both graduate students in the Jackson Institute, oversaw the opening of three stand-alone classrooms in the Azraq Syrian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan late last week.”We felt we had to do something; Yale has to do something,” Shakked said in an interview with the Register.

The Snownas Brothers.

Several Connecticut towns reported more than a foot of snow accumulation on Sunday after the worst of Winter Storm Jonas. New Haven reported 12.5 inches of snow, while towns in the southern half of state, including Greenwich and Monroe, reported 16 and 21 inches, respectively.

Cancel’d. In light of dangerous weather conditions on Saturday night, Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard contacted fraternities that had scheduled events and asked them to cancel.

The snow also led Yale Model United Nations to cancel half of its events on Saturday.

Still, YMUN went ahead with the delegate dance and some fraternities hosted parties anyway.

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Prof redesigns syllabus after campus protests

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER

two dozen students finishing breakfast. A photograph of the painting’s removal was promptly posted to the popular Facebook group Overheard at Yale. It all happened in less than 10 minutes. The speed with which the painting came down, Adams said, took her by surprise.

The two men laid the portrait facedown on one of the long tables at the front of the dining hall. They looped white tape around the canvas,

Last semester, the chant “We out here.

We’ve been here. We ain’t leaving. We are loved,” reverberated around campus, as over 1,000 students took to the streets and filled Cross Campus in a massive “March of Resilience” to show solidarity against racial injustice. This semester, the chant will be heard once again, this time in the classroom.

On Friday, more than 50 students gathered in a seminar room in 81 Wall St. — lining the walls and sitting on the floor — to vie for one of the 18 spots in African American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson’s class, “Politics and Culture of the American ‘Color Line.’”

In light of a series of racially charged events that occurred at Yale last fall, Jacobson has redesigned the syllabus for his class, organizing the readings into four sections, each corresponding to the elements of the studentactivists’ chant. In particular, Jacobson’s syllabus cites the work done by Next Yale, a coalition of students advocating for racial justice on campus. Students said Jacobson’s decision validates many of the concerns surrounding racial injustice that they raised outside of an academic setting.

“I adopted the Next Yale chant because, upon reflection, I saw it as potentially structuring a useful approach to the course’s general questions about the politics of past and present,” Jacobson told the News in an email. “We [out] here (this is what the present looks like, from where I stand); we been here (we stand atop a deep history); we ain’t

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A portrait of John C. Calhoun, which had hung in the college’s dining hall since the 1930s, came down on Friday.

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER The students eating breakfast in the Calhoun College dining hall on Friday morning were not gathered there to witness the removal of a widely loathed work of 19th-century portraiture. They were focused more on oatmeal and coffee than on the vexed history of race at Yale.

But at about 10:50 a.m., Calhoun Master Julia Adams entered the dining hall, trailed by two men with a

ladder and some bubble wrap, art technicians trained to haul priceless paintings from place to place. They had come to take down the glowering portrait of outspoken slavery advocate John C. Calhoun that had hung on the back wall since the 1930s.

The two technicians — dispatched by the Yale University Art Gallery to carry out the painting’s removal — set up a ladder, and carefully lowered the portrait from its position above the dining hall fireplace. There was scattered applause from the nearly

Ruling forthcoming on grad unions

Trumbull dean steps down

Meals on wheels. Uber

recently launched UberEATS, a food delivery system, in several cities including New York and Washington D.C. The app delivers items from a curated menu to patrons through a cashless payment system just like the Uber app. The News hopes UberEATS expands to the Elm City next.

Phi Phi Pho Phum. If you’re

a freshman or a sophomore, sorority recruitment begins on Wednesday. Sorority recruitment is similar to ordering a salad: Go Greek and think feta.

In case you have an Android.

The campus life app uBlend has expanded to Android.

Students can use uBlend to get information about sporting events, concerts, parties and other happenings at Yale. One of the features allows users to follow specific student groups to track their events.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1910 The Yale men’s basketball team loses to the Penn team 31–20 after the Quakers outscore the Bulldogs 12–0 in the final five minutes of the game.

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Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization have been seeking unionization.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Ya l e g ra d u a te s t u dents seeking unionization may look with interest and expectation at two cases currently before the National Labor Relations Board whose rulings could upend decades of labor law precedent surrounding graduate student employment.

On Dec. 16, the American Council on Education — a higher-education organization with around 1,700

members, including Yale — weighed in on a pending NLRB court case between The New School, a university in New York City, and its student employees. In a friend-of-the-court brief — a document filed by an interested party that is not actually involved in the suit — the council argued that graduate students should not be treated as employees, but rather as students. The New School case, along with a similar case at Columbia University, could determine the fate of Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students

Organization, a group of graduate students formed in 1990 that has held four demonstrations in the past 18 months while attempting to form a union and obtain bargaining power in its negotiations with the University. The New School and Columbia cases were filed with the NLRB in December 2014, and the NLRB is expected to make a decision by mid-March or early April of this year.

The New School case has the potential to overSEE UNION PAGE 6

COURTESY OF JASMINA BESIREVIC-REGAN

Jasmina Besirevic-Regan is stepping down from the Trumbull College deanship to take a new position at the graduate school.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER In the latest of a series of administrative changes within the residential college system, Trumbull College Dean Jasmina Besirevic-Regan announced to the Trumbull community Friday that she will be stepping down from her position at the end of this term to take on a new role in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Besirevic-Regan, who is in the 12th year of her deanship, wrote in an email to the college that she would be taking on the role of

assistant dean in academic affairs at the graduate school, writing that this was the “most difficult professional decision” she has made.

“I will cherish my 12 years in Trumbull College as the best years of my adult life. I never dreamt about how amazing the experience of living and growing with all of you was going to be,” Besirevic-Regan wrote. “I learned enormously and laughed greatly, I cried sometimes too, but most of all, I loved so much.”

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Wasta transgenderism I

n Arabic there’s a word with no English counterpart; it’s pronounced wasta, which means the power one gains from making connections. Wasta is horseback riding with the daughter of the mayor of Amman on a colonial road; it’s sleeping in an underground hotel room surrounded by rainbow fish and stingrays in Dubai; it’s unlimited glasses of Dom Perignon in Abu Dhabi 30 minutes before takeoff to JFK. Wasta most definitely seeps through our Gothic walls, where children of ambassadors and trust-fund babies have a tremendous head start in the search for prestigious jobs after college. This latter point, though, is fodder for another column.

This column is about wasta in the context of 21st-century American transgenderism. It’s about two transgender women who have followed critically different life paths to achieve their authentic identity. These life paths sharply diverge in their degree of privilege, and they are painful representations of how wasta plays out even in one of the most marginalized communities in contemporary society. They are examples that belong on a metaphorical ladder in which one’s position is loosely decided by a few general patterns concerning socioeconomic status and gender. Specifically, transgender individuals with higher privilege tend to be upper-class and in the process of transitioning from female to male because our hyper-patriarchal society shames femininity in men more than masculinity in women.

There are individual exceptions to these trends — outliers who, due to inordinate fame or inherited privilege, can skirt the inflicted prejudices of the transgender community altogether.

In July 2015, Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, came out to the world as transgender by donning an off-white strapless dress and light brown curls on the cover of Vanity Fair. The story’s combination of radically changed identity, preexisting stardom and newfound beauty provided a unique shock value that made its publication a turning point in the modern transgender landscape. Jenner demonstrated how an objectively accomplished celebrity could still feel internally unfulfilled, but how fulfillment was still attainable through voicing difficult yet profound truths even after six decades of living in closeted agony.

Jenner’s revelation to the outside world was two-sided.

On the one hand, her coming out most likely eased the emotional burden of countless individuals struggling with gender identity, including myself. The day my eyes touched July’s cover of Vanity Fair I immediately identified with Jenner’s rejection of her former heteronorma-

tive image broadcast to a flawed s o c i e ty.

Still, her o ve r h y p e d image still dampens the voices of ISAAC struggling AMEND transgender individuals The and undermines their iconoclast everyday tribulations.

These individuals scorn at the public’s newly glamorized perception of transgenderism that significantly downplays their grueling confrontations with flimsy job prospects, health care and housing. In other words, solely evaluating 21stcentury transgenderism from Jenner’s wasta-infused narrative stymies real social change happening at the grassroots level.

The real face of 21st-century American transgenderism should not belong to Caitlyn Jenner. It belongs to someone like Kricket Nimmons, a black transgender woman from New York City whose life path was recently documented in The New York Times. Nimmons endured an upbringing in the conservative rural South, where she was sexually abuse as a child and evicted from home. She braved an HIV-positive diagnosis as a teenager, spent years in prostitution and was put in prison for fraud and theft.

Further, she also fell victim to botched black-market medical procedures and faced multiple suicide attempts. It comes as no surprise to me, then, that the average life expectancy for transgender women of color is 35. Nimmons did not have Jenner’s upper-class wasta, and so she suffered from damages on the metaphorical ladder of transgender privilege for far too long.

Indeed, Nimmon’s case is a microcosm of a macro-scale problem ravaging the present-day transgender community, in which activism is on the rise while violence is also paradoxically increasing. At least 22 transgender men and women were killed in 2015 alone, the largest amount transgender hate crimes in recorded history.

Nineteen of these victims were people of color, and their deaths were often carried out in brutal fashion — through shooting, beating, strangulation and even burning. These brutalities, which reveal the true face of a stigmatized world, lead us to question the reality of leadership misrepresentation and privilege-induced issues in greater society.

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact him at isaac.amend35@gmail.com .

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“Perhaps the focus on assimilation is a MUCH better strategy than "advancement"” 'MARCEDWARD' ON 'YAO: THE PRIDE OF OUR IDENTITY'

GUEST COLUMNIST ALEX ZHANG

Thompson College, not Calhoun R

oosevelt Thompson, Calhoun College ’84, is the most compelling candidate to be Calhoun College’s new namesake.

It should go without saying that a significant majority of the Yale community would be in favor of renaming Calhoun College after an African-American.

Yet, we face a predicament: Residential colleges cannot be named after people still living, and there are relatively few African-American Yalies who fit that description.

Enter Roosevelt Thompson.

Roosevelt “Rosey” Thompson was not only a Rhodes Scholar but also a Truman Scholar his sophomore year, a firstround, junior-year pick to Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Hart Lyman Prize, a freshman counselor, chairman of the Calhoun College Council, a chairman in the Yale Senior Class Council, coordinator of the Calhoun Troupe Tutoring Project, secretary of the Black Athletes at Yale, a member of the JV football team, a worker at New Haven City Hall and an intern for then-Gov. Bill Clinton LAW ’73, among other accomplishments.

He graduated as valedictorian of Little Rock Central High School, where in 1957 nine African-American students — the Little Rock Nine — sent shockwaves across the world by inte-

grating Central High School with the help of the U.S. Army.

There’s a PBS documentary about Roosevelt Thompson (search “Looking for Rosey” on YouTube), in which members of the Little Rock Nine and Clinton attest to Thompson’s character and promise.

An exceptional AfricanAmerican scholar and public servant, Thompson tragically died in a car accident his senior year at Yale. Newsweek Magazine ran a full-page obituary in his honor; Bill Clinton cried at his funeral — he loved Rosey.

There is a prize awarded every year at Yale’s Commencement in his honor, a scholarship for Calhoun students provided in his name and a public library named after him in Arkansas. His is the only portrait that hangs on the Calhoun Library walls. There is a plaque outside Calhoun College in Thompson’s memory, a tree in the courtyard dedicated to him and the old varsity weight room was named after him. Alumni already love him.

“He was a hero — not only to students, but adults,” remembers former Calhoun College Dean David Spadafora. “He had all the personal decency, honor and compassion one could hope to find in a leader.” Former Calhoun College Master David Napier remembers of Rosey: “[He was] one of the most outstanding stu-

dents to enroll at Yale in modern times, and it is doubtful we will ever see his like again.”

Some will ask, why not name Calhoun College after Richard Henry Green (class of 1857) — Yale College’s first black graduate — or Edward Bouchet (1874) or Jane Bolin (LAW ’32) or William Pickens (1904)?

Indeed, there will likely be pushback against naming Calhoun College after a Yalie who died at age 22, before he was able to become the first black governor of Arkansas — as many predicted Thompson would — or president of the United States, or inventor of X or CEO of Y. Yet it is precisely this reason why Roosevelt Thompson makes an especially compelling candidate. He represents what Yale is — at its core — to countless students and alumni: possibility and hope for all; what could be and what should be. Thompson, unlike Green and Bouchet and Bolin and Pickens, was a Calhoun alum. Renaming Calhoun College after Roosevelt Thompson would be exactly what John C. Calhoun would have hated. It would highlight how being a black student at Yale — the domain of former slaveowners — is something valuable and precious in and of itself.

It would reaffirm Yale’s commitment to providing such amazing opportunities to students of color today.

Who could dislike a guy like Rosey? His record is so outstanding and untarnished that renaming Calhoun after him would not invite the controversy that might come with other candidates.

What is more, endorsements from the Little Rock Nine, Clinton and others of similar stature would be the best kind of publicity Yale could have.

There are so many relics of Thompson’s life already at Yale that it makes sense to take the next step and rename Calhoun College after him. He did not have a full lifetime to accomplish what Bouchet, Bolin, Green and Pickens accomplished. Yet his potential, his promise — isn’t that the kind of promise all of us so desperately aspired to when we first stepped through Phelps Gate? Isn’t that caliber of potential exactly what a Yale diploma symbolizes?

Let us signal to the world that Yale is not just defined by its alumni presidents, CEOs, scientists, artists and donors, but also by its students while they are still students. Let us rename Calhoun College after Roosevelt Thompson and institutionalize what he represented: A Yale that is at once a vision, a company of promise, a society of hope.

ALEX ZHANG is a sophomore in Calhoun College. Contact him at alexander.zhang@yale.edu .

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ast week, Oberlin President Marvin Krislov ’82 LAW ’88 rebuffed student calls for "deconstructing" the oppressive "system" of the small Ohio college. The demands are more extreme than Next Yale’s.

But though Krislov chafed at the students nixing “collaborative engagement,” he did not explain why he opposed the demands’ substance. Before Next Yale urges a similar direction, Yale’s leaders should explain what Yale is for and what it is against — and why certain practices are opposed, in principle, to its goals.

The demands were intended to combat Oberlin’s “premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism and a cissexist heteropatriarchy.” Well then.

Pervading the 14-pages-worth of theses is the desire to affix race to many parts of school policy.

Two of the worst ideas: a “change in the fundamental ways we assess knowledge at this institution” to make the grading system more “reflective of this institution’s student body,” and exemptions for students from courses “rooted in whiteness.”

The protesters are suggesting, in effect, that students of different races should be educated in different subjects and judged by different standards. That we are of many races does nothing to vitiate our common humanity, and therefore does not change what we all need to know to be intelligent and good people. And

just because race is important in American society, and to the identities of many people, does not mean students of COLE different races ARONSON have different educaNecessary tional needs. and proper Every schoolchild knows this. Many at Oberlin seem to have forgotten it.

Introducing race into education as Oberlin’s protesters wish it to be introduced would harm any school. A university assumes that some questions matter to all people, and that there exists a language common to all for engaging such questions. Diversity is valuable insofar as it permits those with different ideas to discuss matters of general interest. Race is but one thing informing identity, and identity is but one thing informing ideas. Not permitting an identity — or vogue ideas about what an identity should mean — to simply determine one’s thought is difficult. But if there is to be reasoned debate, the university has to ask everyone to make the attempt.

Otherwise, we will never think to trade the provincial for the universal.

Many at Oberlin reject this possibility. They see people and thought as inescapably and com-

pletely determined by identity.

And they see knowledge, and the standards needed to judge knowledge, the same way. They leave no room for an individual’s reason. But if their view were true, a university would be meaningless, because all notions of meaning would be rooted in — that is, produced by — “whiteness” or some other trait. They would be products of forces beyond our control, rather than conscious thought, and therefore of interest only in the way that hurricanes are interesting. But they would have no claim on us, morally or intellectually.

Now, perhaps we are puppets of an evil demon — identity, or something else — beyond our knowledge and influence.

The most to be said against that argument is that it is selfundermining: It, too, is a product of the demon it purports to unmask. To accept it is to reject the rationality of accepting any argument.

How would Yale’s leaders respond if Oberlin-type demands were made here? In an email to Yale last semester, President Peter Salovey wrote that the “very purpose of our gathering together into a University community is to engage in teaching, learning and research.”

This cannot happen if many students believe that British philosophy or German poetry are useless to them because of “premises of imperialism.” Or, worse, if they view their teachers and

fellow students as captives of their demographics, rather than as free-thinking agents making their best stabs at the truth.

A liberal education requires a pluralistic university. Before the forces of anti-pluralism advance further into Yale, the school’s leaders should articulate what such a university looks like.

Without some principles telling us which ideas are just wrong, Yale will soon die.

Yale’s leaders could start by rejecting the following notion: That just because someone looks or is a certain way, that he must think a certain way and that we must therefore judge him a certain way. Some version of this idea is at the core of any creed that refuses to treat people and ideas on their own merits, preferring to classify, chalk up, pathologize and then dismiss instead of engaging in the hard work of charitable debate.

To drive the point home, Yale perhaps should make W.E.B. Du Bois an honorary alumnus, and place the following quote above the entrance to the residential college that should be named after him: “I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension.”

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, JAN. 22

The article “Departures from state outnumber arrivals” incorrectly stated that more people departed from Connecticut in 2015 than had over the course of the decade prior.

City weathers major storm

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER A historic blizzard bore down on the East Coast over the weekend, with over two feet of snow falling in Central Park and New Haveners across the city digging out from the winter’s first snowstorm.

The storm was the city’s most severe since the Nor’easter of 2013 dropped over three feet in the New Haven area. Still, by Sunday morning, most streets in the city had been cleared. Having learned lessons from previous winter storms, Deputy Director of Emergency Management Rick Fontana said at a meeting in the city’s Emergency Operations Center Friday that New Haven would “over-prepare” for the expected six inches of snow.

“The last thing we want to happen is someone standing in front of the news media saying we dropped the ball here,” he said. “So we’re going to ramp up higher, and if we need to scale back, we can do that.”

Fontana’s over-preparation proved wise, as the eventual 16 inches of accumulation exceeded the Friday forecast provided by the National Weather Service.

A partial parking ban was in effect throughout the city during the storm, which lasted from Saturday morning until the early hours of Sunday. Parking was prohibited in Downtown and on posted snow routes. Tag-andtow operations targeting cars in violation of the parking ban began Saturday night. Free and reduced rates were available at parking garages in Downtown, where residents could move their cars. To ensure residents were aware of the parking ban, the city posted blinking blue lights above parking-ban signs on traffic-light support beams.

Jeff Pescosolido, chief of the Department of Public Works, said the department had the ability to mobilize up to 50 snowplowing vehicles on Saturday and during the early hours of Sunday morning. He said streets were pretreated with a brine solution to speed snowmelt.

He said he expects warm temperatures and sunshine early in

the week to aid in clearing snow from the sides of streets.

“We’re going to wing this one,” Pescosolido said on Friday, emphasizing the variability of forecasts in the run-up to the storm. “It seems like every plan we’ve put together has changed, but … Public Works is prepared with enough vehicles and enough material to handle this storm.”

Pescosolido said the public works, parks and transportation departments planned to plow city streets throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning.

In response to below-freezing temperatures and wind gusts of up to 55 miles per hour — that left exposed grass on Science Hill — New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman said the department would be “rescuing” homeless people found in the snow and bringing them to shelters or hospitals. Fontana added that two overnight warming centers extended their hours throughout the duration of the storm, though city buildings, including the New Haven Free Public Library, were closed.

Speaking Friday, Fontana said coastal flooding had the capacity to become problematic, especially in the low-lying areas of the city already prone to flooding. Saturday night saw a full moon and high tide, elevating the risk of flooding in the Long Wharf area and around police headquarters on Union Avenue.

Fontana said the city planned on erecting flood barriers in historically high-risk areas.

Fontana urged residents to use SeeClickFix, New Haven’s online nuisance-reporting system, to make authorities aware of unplowed streets and covered sidewalks. Roughly 40 snowrelated complaints filtered in throughout Saturday and Sunday, but nearly all have now been resolved, according to the website.

Public events throughout New Haven were cancelled due to the storm over the weekend, including planned track meets and SAT testing.

SAT to change format

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, thousands of students took the SAT for the last time before it moves to a redesigned format.

Next year, Yale will accept scores from the revamped test, which will be graded on a 1,600-point scale rather than a 2,400-point scale. The new test also features questions designed to be more related to students’ performance in school, rather than their ability to prepare for a standardized exam. The math section, for example, will have questions on higher-level concepts and multipart word problems.

In addition, the new EvidenceBased Reading and Writing section will have more reading and eliminate vocabulary questions about obscure words. The essay section will evaluate critical analysis and is optional, though Yale will require applicants to take it.

“We are hopeful that the redesigned SAT will be an even better assessment than the current SAT,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. “The content is more closely aligned with what students are learning in schools, and I think that has the potential to be really helpful in our process.”

Given the new test’s emphasis on critical analysis, preparation for the exam will be a more constructive way for students to spend their time and will be more relevant to performing well in college, Quinlan said. He added that he hopes the new test will be as predictive of student success as the current one.

Barbara Levine, owner of Acuity Tutoring And Test Prep, a test-preparation company in New Canaan and Darien, Connecticut, said it is impossible to determine at this point what impact the test will have on college admissions.

SAT TESTING THE CHANGES Last spring, the College Board announced its intention to redesign the exam to focus on what students are learning in the classroom. The changes are meant to increase opportunity by eliminating the edge wealthier students gain from expensive test preparation.

OLD MARCH 2005 – JANUARY 2016 2,400-point scale Questions on geometry and shapes Sentence completion using obscure words Required essay Wrong-answer penalty Five answer choices

NEW BEGINS MARCH 2016 1,600-point scale Emphasis on data interpretation and graphs Deriving the meaning of widely used words based on context Optional essay No wrong-answer penalty Four answer choices MERT DILEK/PRODUCTION & DESIGN EDITOR

Though designed partly to eliminate advantages gained by students who use costly test-preparation services, the new test may actually widen the achievement gap among demographic groups, said Parke Muth, former associate director of admissions at the University of Virginia.

“The rigor of the new SAT is such that it may make it harder for these students who have not had strong teachers and strong prep for the test, and if this is the case then the tests will be harder for some groups,” Muth said.

Levine and Muth both said colleges will need time to collect data in order to compare the new test’s batch of scores to those on the 2,400-point scale. Levine said the College Board, which oversees the administration of the SAT, will release a “concordance table” to compare the two tests, though she noted that colleges

are already used to the 1,600point scale since that was the format until 2005. Scores from the new test’s first exam date, which is on March 5, will not be available until mid-May. The changes to the test come amid a great transformational period in college admissions. In the fall, the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success — a group of over 80 selective colleges nationwide — announced its intention to create a new application that would increase college access for students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. And last Wednesday, a report from the Harvard School of Education called for emphasizing ethical conduct and good character in admissions, rather than long lists of achievements.

In the vein of enhancing opportunity, the College Board has partnered with Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization, to provide

free test preparation materials for the redesigned SAT. Quinlan said that as a membership organization composed of colleges and universities, the College Board’s efforts to make the SAT more relevant and transparent are important in bringing about necessary reforms to the college admissions process.

“The college admissions process does need to change and become more contemporary, and institutions like Yale and our peers need to work together to bring about that change,” Quinlan said. “Collective action can be more powerful than individual institutional action.”

A record 1.7 million students in the high school class of 2015 took the SAT, up from 1.67 million in the class of 2014.

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

Pro-life activists march downtown

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

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Protesters gathered at St. Mary’s Church on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling.

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER On the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, more than 300 Greater New Haven activists marched through the Elm City on Friday to draw attention to the pro-life movement.

The march, which followed a mass at St. Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue, occurs each year on Jan. 22. The march was organized by Branford pro-life activist Norma Contois and Mike Ferraro, board member at Saint Gianna Center, a New Haven nonprofit that aims at presenting women with alternative options to abortion.

The activists marched in solidarity with March for Life in Washington, D.C., the largest pro-life rally in the world.

This year’s march in the capitol drew thousands of supporters to the city, despite a blizzard that left more than a foot of snow in the area.

“I think the greatest thing to keep in mind is love,” Rev. John Paul Walker of St. Mary’s Church, who led prayer before

and during the march, told the News. “We believe in loving the moms and babies. There’s never a reason to choose one or the other.”

While the march was not organized in response to controversial Planned Parenthood videos released on Aug. 22 by the Center for Medical Progress, a California-based antiabortion group, or subsequent lawsuits against Planned Parenthood, Walker said some marchers carried signs calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood — a health care provider that offers a variety of reproductive and maternal services, including abortions.

Walker said he believes people are upset that a significant portion of taxpayer money funds “an organization that kills children.”

Walker said the march was important in conveying that hundreds of New Haven residents are still passionate about and engaged in the pro-life debate 43 years after legalization following Roe v. Wade.

He and the protesters stopped in front of the courthouse and other government buildings to pray and sing hymns praising

“the beauty of life.”

Still, the marchers’ views are hardly uncontroversial.

Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale Co-President Hedy Gutfreund ’18 said offering women reproductive choices is vital to promoting national gender equality, adding that abortion is a fundamental right that women should have.

One purpose of Friday’s march was to make people aware of the frequency of abortions in the country. According to Ferraro, one abortion occurs every 20 seconds in the United States. In 2012, 699,202 legal induced abortions in the U.S. were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to CDC data. Ferraro emphasized that unlike some other pro-life organizations, activists from the Saint Gianna Center carry out peaceful work and ensure they do not block sidewalks or protest loudly.

“They’re viable babies from conception until they die a natural death,” Ferraro said in an interview. “All babies deserve to live.”

Vice President of Legislative

Affairs at Connecticut Right to Life Chris O’Brien said he thinks it is important to educate men and women about the support services at the Gianna Center because it provides support for women who do not feel well-equipped for parenthood. The organization provides clothing, postnatal support, diapers and connections to state funding, Ferraro said.

He added that he and other pro-life activists denounce any form of “unnatural” ending of life, including assisted suicide.

Walker said he and other activists are concerned with giving a voice to the unborn.

He said the church is not interested in condemning women who opt to abort, but rather in helping these women “heal and find peace and hope.”

According to a national survey by the Robert Morris University Polling Institute, 53.3 percent of respondents support shifting federal funding from Planned Parenthood to clinics that do not offer abortions.

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

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Salovey heads to Davos

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Dozens of high-profile individuals descended upon Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum last week, including six U.S. Cabinet secretaries, Vice President Joe Biden and University President Peter Salovey.

Salovey travelled to Switzerland to participate in the forum from Wednesday to Friday of last week, in what has become an annual tradition for Yale’s president. Several other University faculty members attended the forum, including Economics professors Aleh Tsyvinski and Robert Shiller, Angel Hsu GRD ’13, an assistant professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Stefan Simon, the director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Simon said Yale launched an alliance with the Smithsonian Institution while in Davos about the preservation of cultural heritage, a subject Salovey said the University highlighted across several events at the forum.

“One of my most important roles as president is to bring the outstanding research and scholarship of our faculty to the world’s attention,” Salovey said. “What I look for in particular are research themes that bring together Yale scholars across schools and disciplines, as well as ones where Yale has particular expertise. I feel one of those areas is the preservation of cultural heritage.”

Simon said questions about the preservation of cultural heritage are as much related to the future as they are to the past, as cultural heritage provides certain groups of people with a source of identity, economic growth and reconciliation. He said that Yale has pledged to become a leader in

the study of the preservation of cultural heritage, so the administration chose to present it in Davos.

Eileen O’Connor, Yale vice president for communications, added that Yale is uniquely positioned to take the lead in researching the subject.

“There are aspects of cultural heritage that can be informed by just about every one of the schools at Yale, from the divinity school to the architecture school to the school of management to the school of forestry,” she said.

“It really is an issue where Yale is uniquely qualified to lead, because Yale is at its core a place where the humanities and the sciences come together in such an interesting way.”

Chief of Staff to the President Joy McGrath said in addition to discussing the preservation of cultural heritage, Salovey held conversations about Yale’s research in artificial intelligence and ways to enhance water conservation in a water-scarce world. McGrath added that Salovey also moderated a public panel about the use of big data in decision-making and met with world leaders to discuss Yale’s mission of educating the next generation of pioneers, though the specifics of his schedule remain confidential.

Salovey said he had three major goals while in Davos: to amplify the research and scholarship of Yale faculty, to participate in the Global University Leaders Forum — a community of 25 university leaders — and to meet with members of the Yale community, especially alumni and parents.

O’Connor said Salovey can meet with a large number of donors while in Davos, requiring less time and money than separate appointments. She added that highlighting the

preservation of cultural heritage served as a “curtainraiser” in the sense that it began a discussion that will be continued at the Global Colloquium of University Presidents. The colloquium will be held at Yale in April and attended by roughly 30 university leaders and Ban Kimoon, the secretary-general of the United Nations.

Salovey said the WEF gave Yale the opportunity to refine its presentation of the topic before the colloquium.

“I thought at Davos we could present some of that expertise and get input from a very international and sophisticated audience, and that it would help us clarify the most interesting Yale findings to highlight at the global colloquium in front of the [secretary general] of the UN in April,” Salovey said.

Pilar Montalvo, director of administrative affairs at the Office of the President, said that while Woodbridge Hall prefers to limit Salovey’s travel while Yale is in session, the office has formed a communication structure that includes calls, emails and even texts.

Though the WEF requires Salovey to leave campus during the academic year, Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said it is well worth the trip.

“President Salovey and President Levin before him have participated in the World Economic Forum in order to initiate partnerships, share best practices and expand the reach of our mission,” Highsmith said. “Yale is a global university and the World Economic Forum is an excellent way to maintain Yale’s role in the global higher education network.”

The WEF was founded in 1971.

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Both the new exhibitions will be on display until Valentine’s Day.

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s Kehler Liddell Gallery hosted an opening reception on Sunday for two exhibitions that will run until Valentine’s Day and set the stage for the Elm City’s celebration of love.

One exhibition, entitled “Couples,” features the work of local artist and Kehler Liddell Gallery member Kathleen Zimmerman. “New Year/New Work,” the second exhibition showcases the work of 20 of the 21 artists who are members of this Whalley Avenue gallery. Casey McDougal, a Screen Actor’s Guild actor, performed a mini-play inspired by “Couples,” during the reception.

“Well, since it’s coming up to Valentine’s Day, I decided to think about how I used paired images in my work,” Zimmerman said. “There are a number of [artists in the other exhibition] that played off of my theme, too.”

Zimmerman’s exhibition builds off her earlier work, in particular “EastWest Series” — a collection of prints that brought Eastern and Western ideas together, visually comparing the two cultures. For “Couples,” Zimmerman expanded upon the concept of mirrored, paired and reflected images.

The theme of “Couples” naturally complements Zimmerman’s preferred medium, printmaking, Zimmerman said. The etching or carving from which a print is made is always a mirror image of the print itself. “[The exhibition’s concept] depended upon the strength of the design … because sometimes, you look at [a design] one way and it looks fine, and you flip it over and you think it’s terrible,” Zimmerman said. “I started realizing that I can draw both ways and the design will work both ways.”

“New Year/New Work,” features a diverse collection of etchings, sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from the other gallery members — all of which are from the Greater New Haven region. For group shows, all gallery members are invited to contribute.

Gar Waterman, a co-founder of the gallery, noted that the gallery is currently an “unusual hybrid” of its typical self. Usually, the gallery features two solo shows and one group show with a single piece from each gallery member, Waterman said. But because the only solo show is Zimmerman’s, “New Year/New Work” features multiple works from each contributing member.

This amalgam of art pieces cap-

tures the rich history of collaboration among the gallery’s artists.

“This gallery came out of a development that my wife, [Thea Buxbaum], was part of founding called ‘ArLoW,’ ArtLoftsWest, which is actually New Haven’s first and only artist-affordable housing program,” Waterman said. “We helped get this place off the ground with a few other artists who we knew at the time, and it has managed to keep its doors open for the last 10 years or so.”

Penrhyn Cook, a photographer and gallery member, described Kehler Liddell as a “cooperative” as all gallery members contribute to running the gallery and organizing openings. Applications for membership to the gallery are reviewed by current gallery members, who then make admissions decisions.

“It’s really a group running an art gallery,” Cook said. “And for me, I can’t think of any place in Connecticut that has a higher functioning group of artists … It’s fun to be around a group of such talented artists.”

The gallery’s next exhibitions, “Matter and Time,” “Looking Southwest” and “Many Voices, One Song,” open Feb. 18.

Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

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“Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.”

JOE BIDEN U.S. VICE PRESIDENT

Court rulings to impact grad student unions TIMELINE COURT RULINGS ON EMPLOYEE STATUS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS 1980 U.S. Supreme Court case says grad students at Yeshiva University are not employees

2004 NLRB Brown Decision argues grad students do not have right to unionize

December, 2014 Columbia and The New School cases filed with NLRB

Spring, 2016 Expected announcement of New School/Columbia case decisions

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UNION FROM PAGE 1 turn a 2004 NLRB decision at Brown University in which the board decided that Brown’s graduate students did not meet the NLRB’s definition of employee in the National Labor Relations Act and thus could not unionize.

If the Brown decision were overturned, Yale — which has historically opposed graduate student unionization — and other private universities would be affected by the ruling, said Jonathan Clune ’74 LAW ’79, senior associate general counsel at Yale’s Office of General Counsel.

“The faculty supervising the [teaching assistants] in courses … would become the supervisors of those students. So the NLRB would look at that [relationship] as a supervisor-employee relationship,” Clune said. “For laborlaw purposes, graduate students who are working [would] be treated as employees for those

purposes, for that aspect of their work.”

The ACE’s brief argues that the Brown case was correctly decided and that graduate students’ relationship with a university is fundamentally one of “student-teacher,” not “masterservant.” The brief further states that teaching and research assignments cannot be used for collective-bargaining purposes without infringing upon the “predominantly academic character” of the graduate student-university relationship.

“Such a reversal will adversely impact fundamental, core aspects of the manner in which highereducation institutions across the country structure and deliver graduate education,” the brief continues. “It will intrude unnecessarily upon academic freedom and the relationship among our nation’s universities, professors and their graduate students.”

Yale’s administration worries

that such changes could hurt Yale academically. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler said Yale shares the same concerns voiced in the ACE brief. Gendler was adamant that the teacherstudent relationship is of central importance to Yale’s academic mission, and voiced concern over the future of graduate studentfaculty interactions at Yale in the event of a pro-union NLRB ruling.

I am concerned that this relationship would become less productive and rewarding.

TAMAR GENDLER Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean “I am concerned that this relationship would become less

productive and rewarding under a formal collective-bargaining regime in which professors would be ‘supervisors’ and their graduate students ‘employees,’” Gendler said, adding that Yale administrators welcome “a full, robust debate about graduatestudent unionization on the Yale campus.”

The NLRB could decide any number of ways, and lawyers involved with the case said there is no way of anticipating the board’s eventual ruling. The NLRB, whose five governing members are appointed by the president of the United States, has been known to swing pro-union during Democratic presidencies and align with corporations during Republican ones. The Brown case was decided after George W. Bush ’68 appointed right-leaning members to the NLRB, but the New School and Columbia cases come after Barack

Obama has appointed several members more sympathetic to unions. Vice President and General Counsel of the ACE Peter McDonough said the court may either write decisions for both the Columbia and New School cases, or write a substantive decision in one case and simply refer to it in resolving the other one.

Furthermore, McDonough said, the NLRB must contend with a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving graduate students at Yeshiva University.

The Supreme Court said that corporate and business workplace environments differ fundamentally from the academic world, in which the distinctions between graduate students’ responsibilities are less clearly defined.

“In the NLRB’s decision in Brown, the board said that the relationship between the graduate students’ assisting [through

teaching], and pursuing a Ph.D., are inextricably linked,” McDonough said.

While labor laws may define employment one way, other definitions, like those for tax purposes, view employment in a different light, Clune said. As a result, graduate students do not always fit smoothly into a single definition of employment.

GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 did not directly answer questions about the New School case, but said that over 70,000 graduate teachers and researchers are already in unions at public universities and that GESO is part of a push to bring unions to private universities like Yale.

There are approximately 3,000 graduate students at both Yale and at Columbia.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Trumbull dean takes new post TRUMBULL DEAN FROM PAGE 1 memorable experiences from her Trumbull deanship, including the college winning the Gimbel Cup for academics twice, and the Tyng Cup for intramurals in 2012–13.

She also listed chaperoning and celebrating with Yalies in Pittsburgh during the men’s hockey team’s 2013 national championship win as another particular highlight.

Her new position at the graduate school will be similar to her current role with undergraduates, as she will continue to follow students’ academic progress throughout their time at Yale. More specifically, she will help administer and develop academic programs, master’s and Ph.D. programs, as well as manage fellowships and international exchange programs.

Your dean is one of the very few people with whom you can truly share that pain.

MARGARET CLARK Trumbull College Master Besirevic-Regan said she made the decision because she wanted to broaden her career and grow professionally, and she saw the graduate school position as a “great opportunity and a natural transition.” She added that she will be able to spend more time with her family.

Besirevic-Regan’s announcement also signifies a larger trend in the career track of residential college deans, according to Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. Holloway said there is now a trend of residential college deans moving up in the administrative ladder, something that was not always the case. For example, Ezra Stiles College Dean Camille Lizarríbar was recently announced as Yale College’s new dean of student affairs. Michelle

Morgan GRD ’16 will serve as interim dean of the college until the appointment of a new dean, who will be selected by a search committee of students and Stiles fellows before the next academic year.

Holloway explained that the unique position of the residential college deanship means that other universities have difficulty placing it within a normal administrative hierarchy. However, he said, the YCDO is now committed to creating development opportunities for residential college deans.

Trumbull College Master Margaret Clark praised BesirevicRegan’s “infectious” enthusiasm for Trumbull, adding that she has enjoyed sharing both the good times and stressful times in the college with her.

“I’ve loved planning and sharing freshman counselor retreats in Rhode Island, Mellon Forums and college celebrations with Dean B,” Clark said. “Perhaps most importantly, Dean B has [been] there to share with me the pain that all people in our roles endure when something distressing happens to one’s student. Your dean is one of the very few people with whom you can truly share that pain.”

Sarah Armstrong ’18 said Besirevic-Regan is a vibrant, encouraging presence, adding that the welcoming environment the dean created in Trumbull helped her transition into college.

Joel Bervell ’17 said BesirevicRegan brought a “genuine desire” to listen to and help Trumbull students. He said that when he first met Besirevic-Regan during his freshman year, she already knew his name and some of his interests.

“She showed a sincere desire to get to know me as a student, and find out how I could best fit into Yale’s culture,” Bervell said. “I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better dean, and I hope that she is able to change just as many lives in her next position.”

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

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“Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.”

MAURICE DE VLAMINCK FRENCH PAINTER

Walls left bare after Calhoun portraits removed CALHOUN FROM PAGE 1 then covered it with a couple of layers of plastic and bubble wrap.

The painting suddenly looked more like a sizable delivery of cold cuts than one of the focal points of a polarizing debate about racial justice on campus. It was, at least for a moment, just an object — a not-particularly imposing, notparticularly remarkable hunk of paint and wood and metal.

One of the lessons of the racial unrest that has rocked campus over the last four months lies in precisely this disconnect — the chasm between the seeming banality of names and objects and the intense trauma they elicit.

The painting in the dining hall, as well as two other portraits of Calhoun that hung in the master’s house, did not come down simply because, as many students complained, the paintings were visually unappealing. The troubling power of those portraits lay in what their very presence seemed to signify: a long-standing disregard for the visceral discomfort the images provoked in some corners of the college community.

At dinner that night, a handful of students pointed to the blank space on the wall, noticing for the first time that John C. Calhoun would scowl no more. They were pleased, for the most part. One said the hall had gained an atmosphere of comfort and renewal, that the removal of the painting felt more like an act of creation than the tearing down of an ugly symbol.

The inside of the dining hall was still dark and gloomy. Outside it was still bitterly cold.

But above the dining hall hearth, a portrait-sized rectangle of decorative paneling now lies empty. For many in the college, the profound silence of that blank wooden backdrop will produce its own kind of warmth and light.

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Calhoun Master Julia Adams said she intends to keep the wall space blank until the naming dispute is resolved.

Prof’s new syllabus honors student advocacy

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African American Studies Professor Matthew Jacobson has restructured his class’s syllabus to honor Next Yale’s chant of resilience.

PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 leaving (here’s what resistance and the insistence upon justice and equity look like); we are loved (protest traditions — like the black radical tradition — are not simply about rage, they are about love).”

Jacobson said his class has always focused on current events, like the 1999 New York Police Department shooting of the unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo and the election of America’s first black president. Last semester’s controversial events became the obvious current

issue to use as a frame for this year’s class, he explained, not only because it is on everybody’s minds, but also because it has so many dimensions. He added that the student movement brings up questions regarding microaggressions, the “post” of “postCivil Rights” and issues of defining and combating institutional racism.

The first assigned reading for the course is the book “Jim Crow Wisdom” written by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway.

Jacobson said it seemed especially apt to begin the seminar with that particular work, as

Holloway — who is the first black dean of Yale College as well as a scholar of African-American history — is a figure much on the minds of many students. The book has much to teach about race at Yale, Jacobson said, and it is very interesting to read in the context of the “explosion” of this past October and November.

This is not the first time Jacobson has engaged with campus advocacy. Alex Zhang ’18, who took a seminar taught by Jacobson last semester, said Jacobson cancelled class on the day of the March of Resilience to allow his students to attend or

participate. On that day, Jacobson sent an email to the class saying that sometimes what happens outside the classroom is more important than what is happening within, Zhang said.

Students who shopped “Politics and Culture of the American ‘Color Line’” said they felt Jacobson’s adjustments prove the possibilities for an education do not end with a lecture or discussion.

“I haven’t taken any classes at Yale that relate to racial politics, and I think that especially given the movements last semester, it’s become very clear how

important this is to U.S. political history,” said Aia Sarycheva ’16, who attended the first session. “After taking this class, I hope to gain an understanding of U.S. racial politics and its historical context.”

Zhang said the changed syllabus shows students that what they learn at Yale can be directly relevant to their day-to-day lives and that professors are willing to and want to engage with them. It demonstrates that professors are willing to admit that sometimes they are the students and validates the questions students raised, he added.

Using the chant as a framework allows people to rethink what the possibilities of an education can be within an elite university like Yale, he said.

“This is a class that has always focused on thinking historically about the present — the past is not ‘behind’ us, but is in some sense the ground we stand on,” Jacobson said. “The past is what the present is made of.”

Jacobson specializes in race in U.S. political culture from 1790 to present.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Students can use preferred names

Final Gen Ed report released

BY AARON HOLMES Students who go by names other than their legal names — including transgender and international students — will be allowed by the Columbia University Registrar to use preferred names on university ID cards, CourseWorks and class rosters beginning in January.

Members of GendeRevolution, a transgender and nonbinary advocacy group, have voiced the need for preferred-name usage in the past to protect trans students’ identities.

“It’s impossible for students currently to change their name on their IDs to their name, rather than a birth name, if it’s not legally changed and recognized by the state,” GendeRevolution treasurer Rowan Hepps Keeney said in an interview on Dec. 6. “Which means that many trans students are automatically outed in classes, in emails to anybody, in CourseWorks.”

Students who wish to use a preferred name will be able to request to do so through Student Services Online beginning in January. Once approved, the student’s preferred name — rather than their legal one — would appear on their university ID, CourseWorks, class rosters, and, if they prefer, in public directories. Current students will have to pay the $20 nonrefundable fee to replace their Columbia University IDs with ones that reflect a name change.

“What this comes down to is the ability of any student to present their person in a way that they feel represents who they are,” Columbia University Registrar Barry Kane said. “The name facilitates that. It’s really as simple as that.”

Students will not, however, be able to change their UNIs,

according to Associate Registrar Kristabelle Munson.

Legal names w i l l a l so COLUMBIA continue to be used in Columbia’s official records, and likewise appear on the documents that require them, such as financial aid records. In this sense, preferred names will not replace legal names, but rather supplement them, according to Kane.

Columbia College Student Council Vice President for Policy Vivek Ramakrishnan and Inclusion and Equity Representative Ewoma Ogbaudu had met with Kane in early December to raise concerns about preferred-name usage that had been brought up

by GendeRevolution through its Student Governing Board representative.

But the registrar’s office already had plans to allow preferredname use before CCSC reached out, according to Ramakrishnan.

“There wasn’t any hard selling required. Barry Kane and his office really wanted to do this — we just reached out,” Ramakrishnan said.

Kane said that he was aware of the need for preferred-name use thanks to scattered student requests in past years.

“It hasn’t been a deafening outcry, but it’s been a request that has been made,” Kane said. “I think there’s a greater awareness and sensitivity to, for example, some of the challenges that transgender students face.”

Ramakrishnan and CCSC President Ben Makansi said they were glad the registrar’s office will change its policy, noting that the trans community, among others, will benefit from the change.

COURTESY OF THE HARVARD CRIMSON

BY LUCA F. SCHROEDER Concentration courses could count for credit in Harvard College’s revamped General Education program, a distinct change from a proposal introduced last fall, should the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approve a finalized version of the program released Tuesday.

Unlike in a draft proposal from December — which explicitly stated that a student’s concentration courses could not count for a distribution requirement included in the new program — the committee wrote that those courses could now fulfill one of the distribution requirements. This crediting system could decrease a student’s course load from a total of eight required courses in the program to seven.

The recommendations, part of a final report from the

committee tasked w i t h reviewing H a rva rd College’s G e n e ra l EducaHARVARD tion program, are largely unchanged from those described in a draft presented at a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting in December. More detailed than the December draft, though, the final report also describes specific incentives and support that would be provided to faculty and teaching staff within the program.

Harvard Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris emailed the report to students, and wrote that FAS faculty will likely vote on the new program later this semester. The current program has been described as “failing on a variety of fronts”

and now faces a considerable overhaul.

Under the proposed program, students would be required to take four General Education courses in newly formed categories and fulfill a distribution requirement by taking courses across the FAS divisions and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Additionally, Harvard College would institute a “quantitative facility” requirement, similar to the current Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning General Education category. The report recommended the formation of a faculty committee to “define the goals of this category in detail,” and said “it also remains possible that a student could place out of the quantitative facility course.” Students would still be still required to fulfill writing and foreign language

requirements.

The report also recommends that faculty receive significantly more administrative support if they teach in the program, comparable to the level of support provided to faculty teaching HarvardX courses. The proposal specifically calls for the creation of a Gen Ed-specific IT team, funding to hire a research assistant for course development and a centralized “Gen Ed job-listing database” where faculty could find teaching fellows from departments other than their own.

Further, the committee recommended strongly incentivizing the development of General Education courses, suggesting that “one possibility is that great Gen Ed teaching should be a significant factor in awarding Harvard College professorships,” prestigious positions.

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Cornell to establish College of Business

BY ZACHARY SILVER Cornell seeks to establish a new College of Business to be launched at the start of the next academic year, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced Monday.

The new college, which will require approval through a charter change by the Cornell Board of Trustees in January, will consist of programs from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Johnson Graduate School of Management. Each school will continue to maintain its own identity, according to Kotlikoff.

Kotlikoff asserts that three main benefits will come out of the new college, including enhanced opportunities for all members of the college, a better environment for research for faculty and an overall more effective structure among Cornell’s business programs. The new college will also allow Cornell to expand its initiatives and programs at home and abroad.

The new college will include 145 research faculty members and 2,900 undergraduate, professional and graduate students, making it a “top-10 business school in terms of scale and impact,” Kotlikoff wrote.

“Cornell intends to establish a single, unified College of Business, with the goal of cementing the university’s position as a world-class center of teaching, research and engagement

for business management and entrepren e u rs h i p,” sa i d Jo e l Malina, vice president CORNELL for university relations, in a statement.

Soumitra Dutta, dean of the Johnson School, will become dean of the College of Business, while Chris Barrett, director of the Dyson School, will become deputy dean and dean of academic affairs for the college.

While the university seeks to unify its business programs, it does not intend for the integration of the schools to cause them to change their operations.

“Each school will maintain its unique identity and mission, while its already strong stature, scope and impact will be markedly enhanced by its combination with faculty, curricular offerings and programs in a cohesive College of Business,” Malina said.

Additionally, Dyson students who are New York State residents will continue to enroll at the contract college tuition rate, Malina said.

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MARK GILCINI ’16 AND MICHAEL QUINN ’16 LAX PLAYERS TAKE IT TO NEXT LEVEL The two Eli lacrosse players were selected in Friday’s Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft, with Quinn being selected eighth in the first round by the Ohio Machine and Gilcini going to the Chesapeake Bayhawks with the 30th overall pick.

“Every time we win a game, we are just like ‘another one.’”

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Yale 2–0 in Ivy League, tied for first IVY TAKEAWAYS Sherrod ’16 propels Yale to victory

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The Yale men’s basketball team completed a season sweep of Brown on Friday, winning 90–66 in a blowout that hardly resembled last week’s 77–68 matchup in New Haven.

The game, moved up a day due to the threat of Winter Storm Jonas, propelled the Bulldogs (11–5, 2–0 Ivy) to a perfect start in league play and extended the team’s win streak to six games. The Bears (5–11, 0–2) now sit with the exact opposite record after two consecutive losses to Yale.

“I thought it was one of our better-played games of the year,” head coach James Jones said. “We got back to playing how we have for most of the season against teams that we feel that we are a little better than and have more experience than. We did a really good job last night.”

While the first meeting between the two teams was characterized by its high number of fouls — the Bulldogs and Bears combined for 49 last week — Yale’s offensive production stole the show this week. Thanks to a 50-point second half and a 56.5 percent shooting clip from the floor, the Bulldogs coasted to a win in Providence.

Forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 shot a perfect 9–9 from the field en route to a career-high 24 points. Six of those points came on eight attempts from the free-throw line to complete his stellar shooting performance.

“I think a lot of it was just doing what Coach [Jones] preached this week in practice,” Sherrod said. “The guards did a great job finding the big guys — myself, [forward] Justin Sears ’16 and [forward] Sam Downey ’17. For me, I was able to get second-chance points, and that was huge.”

The bench also added 38 points, a seasonhigh against Division I opponents, in the lopsided affair. Downey tied a career-best with 18 points and made eight of his 11 attempts from the floor, while freshmen guards Eli SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE B3

TWO WEEKENDS IN

MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS With only Brown in their rearview mirror, the Bulldogs still have six more teams to face in order to earn a second consecutive conference title. Two weeks into the 14-game tournament and with three teams still undefeated in conference play, the Ivy League men’s basketball title is very much up for grabs.

The first two weekends of Ivy League action have not disappointed basketball fans, providing excitement in several different forms, including Dartmouth’s surprise win over Harvard, Cornell’s gritty performance in a narrow loss to Columbia and even Brown’s tough play at Yale to open the season. There are several key takeaways from the first seven games of conference play.

MORE PARITY THAN EXPECTED

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Forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 scored a career-high 24 points behind a 9–9 shooting night in Yale’s rout of Brown.

The preseason rankings seemed to agree on one thing: There was separation between the top and bottom half of the Ivy League. The top four teams in the Preseason Media Poll — Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard, in that order — were separated by a total of 21 points, according to the poll’s voting method. An additional 42 points separated Harvard from Brown, the fifth-place finisher in the poll.

Still, in the preseason media

teleconference, Yale head coach James Jones and his fellow Ivy coaches all stressed the parity inherent in the league, and it is easy to see why. Last-place Cornell took Columbia to the final seconds in New York City two weeks ago, and a surprisingly scrappy Brown team stuck around John Lee Amphitheatre long enough to give Yale fans a scare that same weekend. And most notably, Dartmouth — selected to finish sixth in the Ivy League — toppled the defending co-champion Crimson on Saturday night in a 63–50 upset.

“From top to bottom, we just keep getting better and better every year,” Jones said in the preseason Ivy teleconference in August. “Top to bottom, all our teams are better and much improved. Everyone has opportunities to win outside our conference … I suspect that we have four teams that can win 20 games.”

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It might seem obvious, given the nature of the game, but several conference matchups have already been won or lost at the foul line. Harvard’s abysmal performance from the charity stripe essentially handed the Big Green its first win in Cambridge since 2009. The Crimson shot 6–20 from the line, enabling a doubledigit lead to erode into a 13-point loss.

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Athletes largely positive on UA switch

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Members of Yale’s 35 varsity sports teams all agree on one thing: The new all-sports deal with Under Armour is a game changer for Yale athletics.

Earlier this month, Yale announced that Under Armour will be the exclusive provider of apparel, footwear and equipment for all Yale varsity teams starting July 1. The deal is reportedly valued at $16.5 million over the course of 10 years, and is the largest of its kind in the Ivy League.

Yale’s student-athletes and coaches, who will be the most affected by a partnership of this nature, widely praised the athletic department for securing the deal and highlighted the benefits they hope to see starting in the fall.

“The deal with Under Armour will be great for Yale athletics because it is evidence of the legitimacy and quality of athletics here,” women’s basketball captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “That a quickly growing and successful company took notice of us and wants to outfit all the teams here is a big step toward putting Yale athletics on the national map.”

Women’s tennis player Caroline Lynch ’17, who is the president of the Yale Student Athlete College Council, was of the same

opinion, and said the deal puts both Yale and Ivy League athletics on a bigger stage with other “big sport schools” that Under Armour sponsors.

Lynch, who through her involvement in YSACC meets regularly with other Yale athletes, said student-athletes are largely looking forward to what Under Armour will bring in the coming years.

In addition to increased exposure for Yale athletics, many also highlighted the financial benefits of the deal.

Prior to the Yale-Under Armour partnership, most Yale varsity teams acquired their apparel, footwear and equipment from local vendors — the funding for which came directly from each team’s individual budget. Men’s golfer Jonathan Lai ’17 said the deal may ease up on each team’s budget and allow teams to allocate funds elsewhere.

“I think [the deal is] good for the overall department for saving some money, and what saves money is good for all the teams,” head coach of heavyweight crew Steve Gladstone said. “It is a real boon to the department.”

Heavyweight rower Stephan Riemekasten ’17 said his team has not gotten as much gear as other schools’ crew programs in previous years, and that he hopes the new exclusive deal can close this gap. Because the team’s set

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Members of multiple teams expressed enthusiasm for the partnership with Under Armour, which will begin outfitting Yale athletics in the fall. of singlets was “very minimalistic,” he said, rowers often wore their own gear for practice and saved Yale-provided uniforms for races.

Though Riemekasten had not heard the specifics of the apparel and gear his team will be receiv-

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ing, Wyckoff said the Yale women’s basketball team will see an increase in apparel: new uniforms, practice gear, shoes, travel suits, sweat suits and “probably even basketballs” by the 2016–17 season.

Players on multiple teams —

including the men’s and women’s basketball teams, which currently wear Nike — cited problems with their previous apparel that they hope to leave behind.

“Nike shoes look fashionable on the court, but the sneakers wore down pretty easily,”

men’s basketball forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 said. “Some guys had rips in their shoes, flimsy laces that kept ripping and foot problems. One of our players has worn the UA basketball shoe durSEE UNDER ARMOUR PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE GAMES THAT THE YALE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM HAS PLAYED WITHOUT LOSING. The Bulldogs extended their undefeated streak with a 2–2 tie with Clarkson and a 3–2 win over St. Lawrence this weekend.

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“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”

GORDIE HOWE CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYER

Winter Storm Jonas no problem for Elis

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The Bulldogs moved up to fourth place in the ECAC Hockey standings with the three-point weekend.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 ing offense from Clarkson would eventually overcome the 2–1 Yale lead, as Knight forward Pat Megannety put through a rebound from the top of the crease eight minutes into the period to tie the game. The play was reviewed for a potential kicking call, but the goal was upheld.

Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 saved the remainder of shots he faced, and Yale successfully killed off its third penalty of the

game — retaining the Bulldogs’ status as the top penalty-killing team in the conference — to send the game into the overtime.

Despite shots from both sides, neither team could break the tie in the regulation period, and the match ended in a 2–2 draw.

“We obviously wanted the win Friday, but three of four points against difficult opponents is something to build off of,” Hayden said. “It’s important for us going forward to protect our leads by playing with the same intensity we have when coming

from behind.”

On Saturday, Yale traveled 10 miles southwest to face St. Lawrence and this time took a turn at scoring first, establishing an early lead that the Saints could never overcome. Echoing their matchup against Clarkson, the Elis’ first goal on the board came from a power-play opportunity, this time a slapshot off the stick of defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 midway through the opening frame.

According to Hitchcock, the early scoring was a result of more

Fourty-eight points enough for win W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 either scoring or assisting on the final 11 points of the game for the Bulldogs.

In particular, an assist to guard Meg McIntyre ’17, who knocked down a threepoint jumper, pushed Yale ahead by seven with 1:26 to play, creating too large a deficit for Brown to overcome.

Wyckoff not only came up big offensively in the final 10 minutes, but also had a crucial block and took a charge to contribute to the Eli victory. She recorded her third double-double of the season in the process, finishing with 14 points and 12 rebounds, both team-highs.

The victory was also the Bulldogs’ first on the road this season, and it came against a Brown team that had not yet lost on its home court.

“Playing on the road is always tough, and I think we had a lot of trouble getting in rhythm offensively,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said. “Brown did some different things that made it harder to get our transition game going and their pressure inside made it hard for us at times.”

Yale’s shot just 30.5 percent from the floor on Friday, which was almost five

success playing aggressively and generating time in the offensive zone than the Bulldogs had against Clarkson.

That offensive success continued at the beginning of the second period, when the Bulldogs scored again 11 seconds into the frame — exactly the same time at which Yale scored its second goal the night before. This time, credit for the goal went to forward Joe Snively ’19, who found the net from the slot for his seventh goal this season.

“We got our forecheck started

right off the draw,” Snively said.

“Stu [Wilson] won a puck battle and found me in front. Fortunately I was able to poke it in — any goal in the first and last minute of a period is a big momentum swing.”

Although the Saints scored twice in the third period, the Elis never allowed the score to become even. A goal from forward Ted Hart ’19 halfway through the third came before the second St. Lawrence goal, allowing Yale to end the weekend on a high note.

Lyon held off Clarkson during a 6–5 advantage in the final minutes of the game when the Saints pulled goaltender Kyle Hayton from the net on two separate occasions. Lyon’s 36 saves in the game pushed the junior into sixth place in Yale career saves with 2,035 since his freshman debut.

Yale will return home to Ingalls Rink next weekend to take on Union and Rensselaer.

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

Yale defeats winless Union

percentage points lower than in the first meeting between the teams, a 81–54 victory for the Elis. Although their offense struggled, the Bulldog defense stepped up to hold the Bears to just 22.6 percent shooting from the field and a 1–19 night from behind the three-point line.

Yale held Brown’s leading scorers Jordin Alexander and Shayna Mehta to 10 and nine points, respectively, and also outrebounded the Bears 49–37.

Completing the season sweep of Brown keeps Yale at the top of the Ivy League standings. Although 12 games remain on the Ivy calendar, players know that each game counts the same toward the standings during league play.

“Each game in the Ivy League is really important because we don’t have a conference tournament, so there’s minimal room for error,” guard Clara Mokri ’18 said. “It wasn’t our prettiest game, but a win is a win, and we’ll take it.”

Yale will continue conference action at Penn this Friday at 7 p.m., where it seeks to secure its second road win.

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

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ONE-ON-FIVE FINAL FIVE MINUTES

Yale moves on to host RPI on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. The game was rescheduled due to the snowstorm.

With 5:00 remaining in the fourth quarter of Friday's contest between Yale and Brown, the Bulldogs were clinging onto a 37–34 lead. In those closing minutes, captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 singlehandedly took control.

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W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 into the second period. From behind Union’s goal, forward Emma Vlasic ’19 sent a pass to the top of the crease, right at the stick of Haddad, who sent a one-timer into the twine.

Exactly a period of play later, with the game tied at one, the game appeared to be heading to overtime as the first Yale-Union matchup of the season had. The Elis had peppered Union goalie Melissa Black with 31 shots, but other than Haddad’s goal, had not found an answer to her blocker and glove — until Pensavalle appeared as the solution.

Forward Hanna Åström ’16 sent an outlet pass from Yale’s zone to forward Emily Monaghan ’18, who dished it to Pensavalle. From just

inside the blue line, Pensavalle uncorked a screaming slap shot that tipped off of Black’s glove, soared over her shoulder and slid into the back of the net, earning Yale the only lead it would need to lock up the win.

“I think the goal was the product of our team’s relentless effort and tenacity in the third period,” Pensavalle said. “We came out together and created numerous scoring opportunities. Mine was a lucky shot that caught the goalie off guard after having been challenged by our offense the entire period.”

This win was especially important because it came off of the heels of two losses against ECAC competition for Yale. The Bulldogs now head into their next game against RPI with momentum on their side, which cap-

tain Janelle Ferrara ’16 said the team can use to improve its position in the standings.

Yale is now tied for ninth in the ECAC Hockey standings, and the top eight teams make the conference tournament at the end of the season.

“There is plenty of time to get ourselves into a good playoff spot with nine league games left,” said Ferrara.

“If we keep playing together and outwork our opponents, we believe we can really rack up some points and move up in our league by the end of the season.”

Puck drop for Yale’s home contest against RPI is scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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“If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you’re going to have problems.

For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.”

DEAN SMITH ICONIC COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACH

’Dogs roll to sixth straight W M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 Lininger ’19 and Trey Phills ’19, and forward Blake Reynolds ’19 notched their first career points — two, four and eight, respectively — against a conference opponent.

Guard Anthony Dallier ’17 rounded out the bench’s efficient output, scoring six points in just seven minutes of action.

“We had a great offensive performance from our bench,” Jones said. “Dallier came in and hit a couple of big threes to help us extend the lead so I was real happy with the bench production [Friday] night.”

The collective team effort, in which the Bulldogs assisted on 21 of their 35 made field goals, overshadowed a night in which the team’s two most prolific scorers, Sears and point guard Makai Mason ’18, combined for just 12 points. Though both entered the game averaging over 16 points per game, Sears did not score a basket until five minutes into the second half and Mason shot just 2–9 from the field.

Yale’s two remaining starters filled their roles effectively in the 24-point victory. Captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 added three makes from deep as part of an 11-point and five-assist performance, and guard Nick Victor ’16 filled the stat sheet with two steals, two blocks and six rebounds, to go along with five points and three assists.

In the early going, Yale needed a few minutes to settle down before hitting its stride. Brown jumped out to a 10–5 lead during the first six minutes, and the two teams were knotted at 19 apiece with roughly six-and-a-half minutes left in the first period after Brown captain Cedric Kuakumensah drained a jump shot from beyond the arc.

However, the Bulldogs ended the half on a 21–8 run to seize momentum entering the break.

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 ranks fourth in the Ivy League in blocked shots, with 1.6 rejections per game.

“We started controlling Brown’s offense,” Montague said. “It led to some blocks and rebounds that led to some transition points. Shutting them down on defense got us going and into our groove, and that kind of led to a great end of the first half and sparked a great second half.”

The first half run was capped off by a three-pointer from Dallier with 24 seconds remaining on the clock.

Sherrod added eight points during the critical stretch, and noted its importance on the outcome of the game.

“It was really big,” Sherrod said. “They started the first half really hot, and Sears went down with a couple fouls. We were able to weather the storm.

Guys stepped up for us, especially in the first half, including Downey and Dallier.”

With a 40–27 lead at halftime, the Bulldogs were able to cruise in the final stanza, outscoring the Bears 50–39. The margin swelled to as much as 30 points in the second half, as a made jump shot from Sherrod with just under nine minutes remaining pushed the score to 74–44.

Kuakumensah paced the Bears with 13 points, while guard Corey Daugherty came off the bench to add 11. Additionally, forward Steven Spieth led all players with 13 boards.

Yale remains at home for the next two weekends, taking on four different league opponents during that period. First up is Penn, which comes to John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday at 7 p.m.

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

“We got an 11-point lead and then they just kind of flipped the switch and we made silly fouls,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker told The Crimson after the game. “Looking at those two stats — free-throw shooting and rebounding — really poor on our end and really outstanding by them.”

With only Columbia, Dartmouth and Brown converting more than 70 percent of its attempts from the line, Ivy League teams have been leaving easy points behind in bunches.

While the Bulldogs have not had to worry about clutch free throws in its wins this season — the team’s average margin of victory currently sits at 22.8 points — the team does not have to be reminded of its effort at the charity stripe in a one-point loss to Dartmouth to end the 2014–15 season. Yale made just nine of its 17 attempts from the free-throw line in the loss that prevented an automatic trip to the NCAA Tournament.

“Free throws are huge for a lot of teams this year,” captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 said.

“I wouldn’t say we’re shooting a great percentage, but in most games we’ve had, we have not really needed to shoot well from the free-throw line. In the Ivy League, that’s going to be important because a lot of games will be coming down to the wire. Coach [Jones] gets it, and he’s been having us shoot more free throws at the end of practice.”

Yale is shooting 65.8 percent from the foul line this season, which ranks fifth in the Ivy League.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DEPTH

In each of the three Ivy League games played this past weekend, the victorious team outscored its opposition in bench points.

Though bench production can be

skewed by blowouts and lopsided contests, these three games highlight the game-changing effects of a productive crop of bench players.

Forward Sam Downey ’17 catalyzed the Bulldog attack on Friday evening, coming off the bench to score 18 points to go along with five rebounds, while guard Anthony Dallier ’17 contributed six points and forward Blake Reynolds ’19 added eight points. The Yale bench outscored the Bears bench 38–29.

“Obviously, it’s really important because we have played two games back-to-back and you can’t expect all of our starters to play well, number one, and then to have great legs and energy on the second night of a Friday-Saturday,” Jones said of the bench production moving forward.

“Guys are going to get dinged up, bruised and sore, so it is important to have the bench step up and provide some positive play for us.”

Columbia also received substantial production from its reserves on Saturday, as guard CJ Davis scored 11 points and senior forward Alex Rosenberg, a former starter coming back from injury, contributed nine points, four assists and three rebounds.

The Columbia bench outscored its Big Red counterparts 27–12, which made all the difference in the Lions’ 11-point victory.

Likewise, bench play played a large role in this past weekend’s Harvard-Dartmouth matchup.

The Big Green bench contributed 33 points compared to just 13 from Harvard. For much of the season, Dartmouth has employed a deep rotation and it utilized 13 players against the Crimson, with 11 of those logging at least five minutes of action.

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

Under Armour uniforms to debut in fall UNDER ARMOUR FROM PAGE B1 ing practice to see how it felt, and he’s given the shoe rave reviews.”

Women’s basketball guard and forward Gabrielle Nelson ’19 said her experience with Nike has also been frustrating. Nelson cited problems such as uniforms that did not come in until after the season had already started, as well as suits the team was supposed to receive at the start of the year but still has not.

Although all 15 student-athletes interviewed said they were happy with the new deal, distance runner Sarah Healy ’18 noted that Under Armour running shoes do not perform as well as other brands, which she called as a “specific issue for our team.”

The track and field teams currently wear Nike shoes in practice and meets.

But Director of Track and Field David Shoehalter said he does not believe there is any cause for concern for his team under the new partnership.

“We were given several pairs of shoes for our athletes to try,” Shoehalter said. “Under Armour has been very accommodating to all of our needs, and have expressed a desire to work with us to get the best possible shoes for each group of athletes. We should not have any issues adapting to the new shoes.”

No athletes interviewed had any knowledge of what uniform designs might look like, although many noted that it is unlikely the new uniforms will stray significantly from their current looks.

Yale Intercollegiate Equipment Operations Lead Assistant Jeffrey Torre told the News the same information last week, adding that the lack of significant change is because Yale is an “ultra-traditional school.”

“We will probably have no say in what the jerseys look like, but I am sure that they will be dope,” Sherrod said. “Under Armour does a great job of decking out the teams that they sponsor with tons of gear.”

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

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No players interviewed had heard about the future Under Armour uniforms of their teams, but the new uniforms are unlikely to be changed significantly.

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SPORTS

“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” RODNEY DANGERFIELD AMERICAN COMEDIAN

Men’s hockey earns tie and win in NY MEN’S HOCKEY

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Defenseman Nate Repensky ’18 tallied two points on the weekend, scoring on Friday and adding an assist on Saturday.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER As treacherous snow continued along the East Coast on Saturday night, so too did the No. 12 Yale men’s hockey team’s undefeated streak, which extended to nine games this weekend as the Bulldogs earned three points in two conference contests.

The Bulldogs (12–4–4, 6–3–3 ECAC Hockey), despite rallying from an early deficit, could not

secure an overtime win against Clarkson (11–10–3, 3–6–3) on Friday, ending the contest with a 2–2 draw. The next night, an improved offensive performance was enough for Yale to take a 3–2 victory against St. Lawrence (11– 11–2, 5–6–1). Five different skaters for Yale contributed goals on the weekend, which bumped the Bulldogs up from fifth to fourth in the ECAC standings.

“I think any time we can come away with three points

against two really tough teams like Clarkson and St. Lawrence on the road that’s huge,” forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said. “Overall, it was a successful weekend.”

Facing a Clarkson team hot off a 5–1 road victory against No. 8/9 Harvard, the Eli offense started the weekend off strong by eliminating a 1–0 Knight lead by the end of the first period. Defenseman Nate Repensky ’18, playing in his seventh game this season after returning to the lineup from

injury on Dec. 11, scored his first goal of the 2015–16 campaign.

On a power play following an interference call drawn by forward Chris Izmirlian ’17, forward Stu Wilson ’16 took the puck from the Yale net across the ice to set up a slapshot for Repensky, which tied the game at one with six minutes left in the first.

After no score for the remainder of the period, Yale would take the lead just 11 seconds into the middle frame. Forward Car-

Yale one of three unbeatens in Ivy League

son Cooper ’16 beat a defender to a puck in the corner of Clarkson’s zone before quickly passing to linemate John Hayden ’17 in front of the net. The play pulled Clarkson goaltender Greg Lewis to the side of the goal, giving Hayden an open net to fire a wrist shot over Lewis’ shoulder.

“Coop made a great forecheck to catch their goalie off guard,” Hayden said. “He made it pretty easy for me.”

Although the Bulldogs dou-

bled the Knights in shots, 8–4, in the second period, Clarkson finished the game outnumbering Yale 33–23 in that category, marking the second consecutive weekend in which an opposing team had a double-digit edge on Yale in total shots.

Clarkson’s count of 33 shots included 16 in the third frame, compared to just three from the Eli roster. That threatenSEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2

Elis come back to trounce Union

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team pulled off a comeback victory on Friday night against league opponent Union in what the team hopes will be a turning point in its 2015–16 season.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (6–13–1, 5–7–1 ECAC Hockey) fell behind the Dutchwomen (0–20–6, 0–11–3) 1–0 near the end of the first period, giving Union a chance at its first win. Yale then rallied after a weak opening frame, netting an equalizer in the second period and scoring the gamewinning goal in the third with just seven minutes left to play. Eli forward Courtney Pensavalle ’18 was credited with the winning tally, her second goal of the season.

“In between the second and third we went out together, determined and confident that if we played within our systems and our trust in each other that we would win,” Pensavalle said. “The last period, our defense was absolutely solid.

They played fantastic and also had a great offensive presence which created many scoring opportunities.”

The victory, which marks the Bulldogs’ second over winless Union this season,

was nearly as difficult as the 2–1 overtime win that Yale secured in New York on Dec. 5. During that weekend, the Elis also played Rensselaer and came away with a 4–1 victory, but their matchup with the Engineers this weekend was rescheduled for Tuesday night due to the snowstorm.

Union forward Kathryn Tomaselli opened up the competition’s scoring, giving the Dutchwomen an early advantage with just five minutes left in the first period. But after Tomaselli’s first goal, which came on Union’s seventh shot of the game, Yale’s defense clamped down and played with increasing tenacity as the game progressed: Yale would allow only five shots against goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 in the second period, and just two in the entire third frame.

“I think we were not focused enough to start off the game,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “Also, I think part of that lack of focus stems from the fact that Union has not won a game in over a year so we largely underestimated them and didn’t really come out with any intensity which allowed them to get a goal.”

The offense also seemed to start the game in a lull, but like the defense, came to life in the latter two periods.

Haddad evened the scoring 12 minutes SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2

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Yale captured its first road victory of the season on Friday against Providence, moving its away record to 1–6.

BY MADDIE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following a blowout victory two weekends ago against Brown, the Yale women’s basketball team found itself in a neck-and-neck rematch with the Bears that required a strong final five minutes for the Bulldogs to secure a 48–39 win.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Friday’s contest, pushed ahead a day in Providence due to the snowstorm, featured a slower and less proficient Yale offense, which scored 33 fewer points than in its first meeting between the two teams and 17 points fewer than its season average. Despite

the quiet offensive performance, captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 was able to find the bottom of the net when it mattered most to help lead the Bulldogs. The senior scored eight of the team’s 13 points in the final period.

“It was not a perfectly pretty one, but a win is a win,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “We did not shoot well, and neither did Brown, so it was pretty low scoring. But we fought through and came out on top, securing the road win.”

The Bulldogs only scored seven points in what became their lowest scoring frame of the season. However, the Elis still managed to carry a 7–2 lead into the second as the Eli defense held the Bears to 1–15 shooting.

Both teams were able to ramp up

their offensive output in the second quarter, with Brown cutting the deficit to just one at halftime.

After the half, the Bulldogs widened their lead immediately, scoring 10 of the first 14 points in the quarter. Yale sunk twice as many shots as the Bears during the third period to secure a nine-point lead heading into the final quarter of the rematch.

In the fourth, a five-minute scoring drought for Yale allowed Brown to climb within three points with less than five minutes to play. It was at this critical point in the game that Yale’s captain took control.

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Friday’s game was Yale’s second 2–1 win over Union of the season.