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YPD probes alleged rape in Vanderbilt
Rape in TD alleged by visitor BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE, ERICA PANDEY AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS
ing to one Vanderbilt resident, who asked to remain anonymous, the police remained there for 24 hours. What transpired during the 24 hours that police remained stationed in Vanderbilt remains unclear. It could not be learned whether the student was removed
Authorities are investigating a Southern Connecticut State University student’s claim that she was raped by a Yale student last weekend. On Jan. 20, students received a campus-wide email from Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins, informing them that a visitor to campus had reported being sexually assaulted by a Yale student, with whom she was acquainted, on the night of Sunday, Jan. 18. The female SCSU student was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital on Tuesday with physical injuries, the New Haven Independent reported Friday. Someone familiar with the case told the Independent that the student said she had been punched in the eye, choked and forced to perform oral and vaginal sex. Several students interviewed, as well as Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, indicated that the alleged rape occurred in Timothy Dwight College. YPD officers arrived on the scene on Wednesday to investigate and
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Vanderbilt Hall, home to Branford and Saybrook freshmen, was searched on Friday after an alleged sexual assault. BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Members of the Yale Police Department descended on Vanderbilt Hall Friday evening, searching a freshman suite to investigate an alleged sexual assault. On Friday afternoon, YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins sent a cam-
pus-wide alert reporting that an alleged incident of sexual assault had occurred in a “residential room” on campus Wednesday night. Shortly before 6 p.m. on Friday, roughly a dozen police officers entered Vanderbilt, preventing students from approaching a suite on the third floor, in a part of the building that houses Branford College freshmen. Accord-
Thefts expand beyond Trumbull
“Historic” storm set to hit the Elm City BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER
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After a number of thefts on campus, Yale has seen significant criminal and law enforcement activity. BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS Over the past week, Yale has seen a flurry of criminal and law enforcement activity on campus. On Jan. 15, Michael Cruciger ’15 had his laptop stolen from his Trumbull College common room in entryway J. Another student in
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BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS Amid a national conversation about race and policing, a series of Twitter messages posted Saturday have thrust Yale into the spotlight. New York Times columnist Charles Blow, one of the country’s leading speakers and writers on race and American identity, said on Twitter Saturday afternoon that his son, Tahj Blow ’16, had been held at gunpoint by Yale Police officers. Blow is an ecology and evolutionary biology major in Saybrook College. He declined request for comment Sunday evening. “He was let go when they realized he was a college student and not a criminal (he was leaving the library!)” one of Charles Blow’s tweets said. “He’s shaken, but I’m fuming!” Charles Blow added the hashtags #ICantBreathe and #BlackLivesMatter, rallying cries associated with the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the no-indictment in the case of Eric Garner, who died from a police chokehold in Staten Island, New York. Blow’s first tweet, which said his son was held at gunpoint because he “fit the description” of a suspect, has been retweeted more than 5,000 times. Early Monday, a column by Charles Blow published in the New York Times outlined the events of Saturday evening, as relayed to him by his son. Tahj Blow left a campus library Saturday evening and noticed a police officer following him. The officer then raised a gun at Blow and told him to get on the ground, asking where he went to school. “My son was unarmed, possessed no plunder, obeyed all instructions, answered all questions, did not attempt to flee or resist in any way,” he wrote. The Yale Police Department is conducting an internal review of the incident, according to
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the same entryway reported his wallet missing, and Axell Meza ’16 said an unknown man entered his common room claiming to be looking for “Josh.” On the same night, Kartik Srivastava ’17 said that while he was sleeping, his wallet was taken from a desk no less than a foot from his person, and his suitemate’s checkbook
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was taken. Transactions had been made on Srivastava’s debit card, and his suitemate’s checks had been cashed, he said. Several days later, laptops and an iPad were stolen from a suite in Lanman-Wright Hall, the freshman residence for Berkeley and SEE THEFT PAGE 6
Jubelate. No guarantees, but a Bandsintown.com event indicates that Klingande (known for the house song “Jubel”) will be in New Haven on Apr. 25 for the “Yale University Spring Festival.” Diplo will be a tough act to follow. One down, two to go.
A “crippling” and “historic” blizzard is set to strike the New England region this afternoon all the way through Tuesday night, according to New Haven city officials. The area was originally under blizzard watch for the weekend and early yesterday morning, but a blizzard warning has since been issued for New York City, northeastern New Jersey, Long Island, the Lower Hudson Valley of New York and the southern half of Connecticut, including the Elm City. According to the National Weather Service, snowfall is expected to start around noon Monday, intensifying and reaching a moderate level during the afternoon. By nightfall, the snow will intensify at a rate of two to three inches per hour, and will be accompanied by strong, gusty winds reaching up to 60 miles per hour. Blizzard conditions can be expected overnight, extending through Tuesday. New Haven’s Deputy Director of Operations of the Emergency Operations Center Rick Fontana said that both the city of New Haven and the University are working to prepare for the 24 to 36 inches of total snow expected, with potentially higher amounts of 40 inches in some areas under blizzard warning. “We will leave no stone unturned in this storm,” Fontana said. “We will ensure that public safety is first and foremost, and we will have an adequate amount of equipment to deal with the storm.”
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Fontana explained that this storm is different than what they are used to seeing. New Haven typically does not fall under blizzard conditions, and because of the rate of snowfall and the very fast wind gusts, Fontana dubbed it a “historic” blizzard. New Haven residents can expect an emergency parking ban in the city tomorrow, Fontana added. Cars will only be allowed to park on the sides of the street with even address numbers to ensure that snow trucks can circulate through the city. On snow routes, residents will not be allowed to park on either side. Additionally, a phone line will be up and running to provide residents with periodic updates, while messages alerting residents about street sweeping and parking bans will be sent via the city’s alert system, according to Fonatna. On top of these customary measures, new procedures have been implemented this year, Fontana said. The city fleet features nine new snow trucks, as well as a 10-foot wide snow blower that blows snow into a trailer dump instead of plowing it. Fontana said residents also could expect to be given more updates on parking bans and alternative parking options in school lots. “Once the snow really gets under way around rush hour, we expect it will continue to snow right through a good part of Tuesday,” Fontana said. In anticipation of the blizzard, public schools in New Haven will close two hours earlier today to help parents and students
Notably absent. Speaking of
snow, Quinnipiac canceled its shuttle service into the Elm City on Saturday due to inclement weather. And though some Bobcats were not be deterred, Toad’s Place was significantly emptier than it usually is as a result.
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Speaking of speaking. The
YCC’s #YaleSpeaks online campaign launched over the weekend, featuring photos of students from around campus and their thoughts on how Yale could change for the better. If only we had some way of expressing the News’ Views.
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his past November, Rumpus finally exposed the Yale Political Union’s Conservative Party for what it is: a cultish and unrepentant “BDSM society” masquerading under the guise of rightwing authoritarianism. The Chief Whip, it seems, lives up to the title in a very literal sense. One can only imagine the slight felt by the News: a hexa-annual publication had just stolen the biggest story of 2014. Such satire should be welcome from time to time. We all go to Yale, after all, and deflating our institutions goes a long way towards deflating our sometimes-all-too-substantial egos. As someone who is a member of the Conservative Party and a columnist for the News, I have no problem with self-effacing humor. There is a fine line, however, between good-spirited mockery and genuine contempt. Which is why, for the sake of good manners and civil society at Yale, I am calling on the student body to resist an insidious pattern in our campus discourse: activity shaming. Much as the University advertises prestigious extracurriculars like the YPU and the News, criticisms of these timehonored traditions abound over meals and social gatherings. The YPU has a reputation for elitism and section-assholery, while the YDN incurs scorn for its tony demeanor and (very, very strong) liberal bias. Despite the popular infamy of secret societies, public organizations by their nature endure far more ridicule: We all know who participates and what kind of clothing they wear and what classes they take. Principled criticism aimed at solving serious institutional problems is one thing. But too often the critiques of high-profile activities lapse into superficial and unproductive ad hominems — an especially troubling tendency given the fundamental absurdity of nearly every single extracurricular on campus. The Yale Debate Association consistently belittles the YPU for allegedly prioritizing rhetoric and posture over substance. Fine. Has anyone noticed that both activities essentially boil down to the same thing: engaging in arguments about public policy that will do nothing to change the minds of actual policy makers? People lambast the News for its purportedly competitive mentality and self-aggrandizing façade. But is Rumpus, which comingles sex jokes with affirmations that “No One Gives a Fuck About Your SAT Scores,” really any less pretentious? The joke only works because everyone at Yale has good SAT scores — a fact everyone remembers the moment they read the headline!
Some students partake in spoken word poetry, that glorious celebration of self-expression, idenAARON and SIBARIUM tity blank-verse ingenuThe ity. Those Moderator three things are, in most American high schools, a great way to get beaten up. Like many supposedly modest activities that enshrine the plurality of human experience, its pretention of humility is what makes it so pretentious.
THERE IS A FINE LINE BETWEEN MOCKERY AND CONTEMPT But to be honest, who cares? Insert “Yale” in front nearly any group — an a capella troupe, a political action club or a magazine — and the result is almost invariably elitist. At how many other universities would symphony orchestra tickets sell out within hours? Where else would people write serious columns indicting the administration for its appalling lack of leadership with language that sounds like it belongs in the First Catilinarian oration, not a collegiate newspaper? We all live, breath and revere intellectual snobbery in some form or another every day. Why, then, do we subject perfectly legitimate leisure activities to such vitriolic invective? Some people enjoy wearing suits and arguing with their friends about politics. Others enjoy wearing suits and rehearsing Beethoven’s 5th and still others enjoy campaigning for justice in the streets of New Haven (and then attending galas … in suits). We can and should debate the relative social benefit of all these things, but too often that’s not what happens. Too often we trade the opportunity to discourse about meaningful issues for the sorts of banal, equivocal attacks that are levied against the Ivy League en masse. When these insults stop being satirical, they stop being funny and start being stupid. Let’s all be nice to one another. And for goodness sake, let’s remember that pretentious humility is not humility. It’s pretentious. AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternte Mondays. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .
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pring rush raises a host of questions, and not just the ones you need to answer at meet-and-greets to get in — where are you from, what’s your major and so on. There are also questions about sexual assault and alcohol abuse, especially pertinent in light of the national conversation about party culture and risky behavior. Certainly aspects of Greek life at Yale are peculiar to Yale, and we won’t weigh here the sweeping changes instituted at other colleges and universities, including mandates at Wesleyan and Trinity that Greek organizations go co-ed. It is worth investigating and debating these changes. But we instead wish to propose a much simpler measure — certainly not mutually exclusive with broader reforms — that still bears on the important question of where and how students consume mindaltering substances.
Yale should revitalize “party suites” in the residential colleges. These suites, which exist in three-quarters of the residential colleges, are large and offer ideal social spaces. To varying degrees, members of these suites take it upon themselves to host parties. In return for this tacit responsibility, several colleges provide party suites with funds and encourage them to open up their space to the whole college. The Saybrook “12-pack” and the Branford “God Quad” are two notable examples. The octet in Timothy Dwight regularly throws widely accessible parties yet receives no funding from the college. In the other nine colleges, these suites either don’t exist or its members have made different decisions from year to year about whether to host large social events. Suite parties surely occur in all 12 colleges, but they are often small, exclusive pregames. This is a shame. The party
suites are assets to their colleges. They provide an inclusive space where partygoers know or, at least, recognize one another. The same person you see in the 12-pack on Saturday night you might then find next to you in the Saybrary Sunday morning. This fosters accountability and contributes to multidimensional friendships. Particularly for freshmen, unfamiliar with Yale’s social landscape, it is a welcoming destination. It’s easy to find out who your hosts are. It’s easy to come and go as you please. Many may ultimately venture to fraternity basements or off-campus apartments, but party suites ensure there’s an option for everyone. What’s more, the location of party suites and their affiliation with a given college mean they can be more easily regulated. After all, the master and dean live right there. In agreeing to subsidize party
suites, the residential colleges could set regulations that hold members of the suite accountable. No punch. Mandatory training by the Communication and Consent Educators. Unlike fraternities, which may elect to follow similar rules, enforcement and accountability are more practical for a dozen suitemates in one college than dozens of brothers dispersed across Yale College. Students who elect to live in these suites should take it upon themselves to throw parties. Colleges should spend a few hundred dollars each semester supporting them. We’re not asking for new buildings or more faculty. Not even a multi-million dollar reform to financial aid. Unlike some other requests we’ve made, subsidizing the nine party suites that exist is dirt cheap. It’s not a panacea for more structural issues. But it makes sense.
Skin in the game, and eugenics
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alies receiving financial aid are the recipients of something extraordinary, something unavailable to nearly anyone even a generation ago: a nearly free education. Yet that last word — nearly — is the operative one. Upperclassmen, even those on full financial aid, still have to pay this University $6,400 a year in “student effort,” factoring in both the term-time “self-help” and summer contribution (freshmen, meanwhile, pay $4,475). This means that anyone on financial aid will have to pay Yale $23,675 over their four years here — the equivalent of a brand new Chevy Camaro. Does Yale need this money? According to the admissions office, roughly 50 percent of undergraduates are on financial aid. Thus, Yale raises approximately $16 million from the student effort. To put this in perspective, that number accounts for less than four-tenths of 1 percent of the amount the endowment increased last year alone. In other words, the student effort is virtually meaningless to Yale, from a financial standpoint. For students, though, it presents a considerable hardship. Students who need to work have less opportunity to join more demanding, supposedly “prestigious” extracurriculars that can help land internships or jobs. In a YCC survey, more than half of respondents on financial aid reported that the student effort requirement limited their potential summer opportunities. Fifty-six percent of students
reported “having to tap into family income and/or family savings to cover part of the student income SCOTT contribuSTERN tion” — this, in spite of the A Stern fact that Yale Perspective e l i m i n a t e d the family contribution a decade ago. The YCC sent this report to the administration; they know these facts. So, why keep student effort? The phrase used over and over again in justifying the existence of the student contribution is that students on financial aid should have “skin in the game.” As in, they should have a financial stake — even a small one — in their education. There is a word for this argument: eugenic. This argument is predicated on the unstated assumption that rich kids deserve their easier lives, that they deserve to be at Yale more. This argument demands that poorer kids work because that is what poorer kids are supposed to do, while richer kids get a free pass. Even the vocabulary of “self-help” and “student effort” is stunningly paternalistic. But let’s slow down for a moment. Some may argue that Yale is already so generous — reducing an education that can cost upwards of $60,000 to just a little over $6,000. Such an argu-
ment is beside the point. Just because Yale is generous does not mean that students should not push Yale to address flaws in the system. This is not ingratitude; it is common sense. The News recently asked several senior administrators: If money weren’t an issue, would you eliminate the student income contribution? Not one gave a straightforward answer. They know they’re on the wrong side of this. Personally, I accept the argument that work is rewarding. I currently hold one campus job; for the last two years, I held three. So I think Yale should make everyone work. Kids who don’t need aid, many of whom have never had to work, could actually benefit more from real work experience (and not some cushy internship). Either Yale should force all undergraduates to work, or it should force none of them to do so. What it cannot do is force only the less wealthy kids to work. This creates a social dynamic whereby poorer kids indirectly serve the wealthier ones — doing clerical work like filing papers or swiping IDs — just because they had the misfortune of being born into a family with less money. The eugenic argument is neither new nor surprising. Before Yale eliminated the parental contribution in 2005, administrators employed the same “skin in the game” fallacy. In a 2004 interview, former University President Richard Levin said families “ought to have a stake, however small, in their
children’s education.” On Feb. 24, 2005, 15 students staged a sit-in at the admissions office, demanding change. Levin refused to meet with demonstrators. Yale administrators physically stopped some of the demonstrators from speaking with outside activists. Yet just one week later Yale announced that it was eliminating the parental contribution for families making under $45,000. Apparently, simple unfairness doesn’t push the Yale administration to do what’s right; only two things do. The first is what our “peers” are doing. Yale eliminated the parental contribution for families making under $45,000 in large part because Harvard and Princeton had just beefed up their financial aid offerings. In 2008, Harvard eliminated the parental contribution for families making under $60,000; just one month later, Yale did the same. The second thing that can spur change is activism. I know I sound like a broken record at this point, and I acknowledge that it’s easy to preach from within these pages, so I won’t go into detail here. But a loud, noisy show of passion might be one way to convince the administration to correct a profound unfairness. Indeed, as long they accept the eugenic “skin in the game” argument, it might be the only thing that can. SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .
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CORRECTION
OCS releases data on class of 2014
TUESDAY, JAN. 20
A previous version of the article “Biological explanations, less empathy” mentioned only “physicians” and “doctors.” In fact, the study included mental health professionals of all kinds, including some who are not doctors.
Calendar changes draw ire BY JED FINLEY AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS This upcoming fall will be the first time in seven years that Yale College final examinations do not end on Dec. 18. University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberley Goff-Crews announced in an email on Friday morning to the student body that the Fall 2015 term will end on Dec. 22 — one day earlier than previously planned. The 2015–16 provisional academic calendar had, as early as Aug. 11, set first semester final examinations to end on Dec. 23 with residences closing the following day. The change will cause reading period to be one day shorter. “I expect some measure of relief because the latest students can go home is no longer Dec. 24,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said. “However, I still expect people to be really frustrated by the decision not to start a week earlier as the [Yale College Council] survey enthusiastically indicated.” In recent years, the fall semester has begun the Wednesday before Labor Day, with the current academic year having started on the earliest possible date, Aug. 27. Next year, classes will begin on the latest possible date, Sept. 2, an occurrence that happens once every seven years. According to Goff-Crews’s, the Calendar Committee — which is composed of students, administrators and faculty — originally planned to keep all aspects of the current academic calendar for next year. These features included the fall recess, weeklong Thanksgiving break and sixday reading period. Although the committee explored many possible alternatives, the vice presidents of the University concluded from the committee’s analysis that the best compromise was to shorten the reading period by one day, thereby preserving both fall recess and Thanksgiving break while ending the semester earlier. Holloway said he does not believe that the decision will change, maintaining that it would be extremely expensive to begin the school year a week earlier. While the previous calendar proposed by the University scheduled the last day of finals for Dec. 23, Yale College Council president Michael Herbert ’16 noted that many students would not be able to begin their travel plans until Dec. 24. “Yes, this decision is preferable,” Herbert said. “This is not a compliment, but a statement of how untenable the previous option was.” Last semester, the YCC proposed an alternative 2015–16 academic calendar, proposing to move the starting date of the fall semester back one week to Aug. 26 from the University’s planned date of Sept. 2. Herbert said that the proposed turnaround between the summer and fall semester was the same duration as for the official academic calendar for 2014–15. According to Herbert, the YCC initiative received more student support than any other in YCC history. In both the 2006–07 and 2007–08 academic years, Yale
College also concluded fall semester final examinations on Dec. 22, with undergraduate residences closing the next day. The following school year, Yale College ended fall final examinations on Dec. 20. However, in all three academic years, reading period lasted at least six days. Since then, all first semester final examinations have finished by Dec. 18. “The thing that I’m most concerned about is possibly not being able to go home for Christmas,” Paige Cunningham ’18 said. “It’s not even that bad for me because I’m from England. In addition to the high airfare, other people have to travel for 26 hours before they can reach home.” Of 22 students interviewed, all of them agreed that while the change was better than the previous date, it still presented many problems. Anthony Kayruz ’17 said many students may choose to change their schedules next year in order to have earlier finals. He added that for students who had obtained extensions on papers, this meant that they would be working over Christmas. Faculty members interviewed said the calendar change will cause a litany of issues related to research and grading students’ papers and final exams. Music history professor Rebekah Ahrendt said the new schedule will pose many of the same problems for faculty as it will for students. She explained that since many professors try to fit in research travel during the break, the potentially high cost may lead some to put off their research until later in January. History professor Carlos Eire said the calendar change is insensitive to those who find the holiday religiously or culturally significant, explaining that if the last day for finals is Dec. 22 or 23, Christmas will nonetheless be a working day for faculty. “For professors who celebrate Christmas, grading will now coincide with the sacred holiday,” Eire said. “For those of us with large numbers of exams and papers to grade, it will be impossible to enjoy the holiday. The same goes for our teaching assistants, if we have any.” Religious Studies professor Dale Martin said that while he understands how students will be inconvenienced by higher travel costs, the calendar change does not affect him personally. On the contrary, Martin said that beginning the semester in August would cut into his research and writing schedule. Goff-Crews said that although students feel strongly about the schedule, she hopes that they will understand that there were many factors involved in the decisionmaking process. “I expect that many students will be pleased that the semester will end earlier than originally planned,” Goff-Crews said. “I understand that the way we achieved the outcome is not what some students had hoped for, but I hope that students will understand that there are always competing interests to take into account.” Contact JED FINLEY at james. finley@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
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BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER The class of 2014 is gravitating towards the same careers as the preceding one, but 2014 graduates are making more money, working at larger employers and securing positions later in the year. For the past two years, the Office of Career Strategy has administered a survey to graduating seniors, asking them to indicate their plans for the fall after graduation. These data are then compiled into reports, detailing information such as the main industries, postgraduate locations and average salaries of new alumni. After releasing preliminary data in November regarding last year’s graduating class, OCS finalized the class of 2014 report last week. With 1,232 of the 1,295 graduates responding to the survey, the report is representative of 95.1 percent of the class. According to the report, over 70 percent of the class of 2014 is working a full-time or part-time position, 17 percent is attending graduate or professional school and the remainder of the class is conducting research, traveling, volunteering or engaged in military or care service. The most popular industries for recent graduates have stayed the same over the past two years, with the classes of 2013 and 2014 mainly pursuing careers in financial services, education, consulting, research and technology. However, 2.1 percent more Yalies entered financial services this year. The number of students working at large businesses this year also increased, from 44.5 to 49.5 percent. Dames said the report shows that many students — over half of the class — choose to work at smaller and mid-size employers, but that a great mass of students still ends up at companies with over 501 employees because of the vast range of areas in which these companies are hiring. For example, Dames said, large companies like Google need programmers, but they also need employees in research and marketing, among other sectors, which means they recruit different types of students. However, Yale is still by far the number one employer of recent graduates, Dames added, which is reflected by the large number of alumni staying in New Haven.
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Both Abeer Hasham ’14 and his classmate Demetra Hufnagel ’14 said they made early decisions to stay in New Haven after graduation, and now both alumni are conducting research at different University labs. Another change from last year’s report is the starting salary range of the recent graduates. More than half of the class of 2014 will begin their career making more than $50,000, while 28 percent of respondents will start with a salary of over $70,000 — significantly higher numbers than the class of 2013. She added that last year, 54.8 percent of students making over $100,000 a year were working in the financial services industry, but this trend has since shifted. Though the number of students attending graduate school decreased slightly from last year’s figure, OCS Director Jeanine Dames said this does not necessarily mean that less students are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. “This year, we asked respondents not immediately attending graduate school if they plan on going in the next five years,”
Dames said. “82.2 percent said they were. So it’s not that less people are going to graduate school, they’re just deciding to go later. Five years out, we’re going to see a huge boost in people attending graduate school.” Dames said OCS is interested in tracking students five years past graduation because the office suspects that many of these initial numbers — such as the number of self-employed students — will change. This number will likely increase, Dames said, because many students may decide to work for a major organization before starting their own business. Further, Dames added that the number of students working for government or nonprofit organizations will probably increase within the next five years. One-third of the class of 2014 is currently working in one of these positions, she noted. Adrienne Le ’14 said her position as a digital writer and producer at Everytown for Gun Safety — a national nonprofit organization with the mission of ending gun violence and building safer communities — is ful-
filling because it allows her to fight for a cause she believes in. “I feel motivated because I know I’m contributing to a movement to reduce violence and suffering in this country,” Le said. “I wouldn’t feel the same way if I were spending 11 to 12 hours a day dedicating my skills and brainpower to making money for someone or some company.” In addition, more students from the class of 2014 secured their jobs during the spring of their senior year, with over 46 percent of the class receiving job offers between the months of March and June. Dames said this statistic contradicts the stereotype that the majority of graduating seniors receive job offers in the fall. Three students interviewed said they were surprised that such a large number of students secure jobs later in the year. “It’s comforting to know that I don’t have to worry about having a job by October of my senior year,” Duane Bean ’17 said. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu.
Salovey plays Toad’s BY NICOLE SANCHEZ ASTUPUMA AND MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Five songs into the Professor of Bluegrass’s 50-minute set, bass player and University President Peter Salovey turned to the audience and asked what you call a woman on a banjo player’s arm. “A tattoo,” Salovey said, eliciting laughter from the crowd. That mild-mannered humor pervaded Sunday’s bluegrass concert at Toad’s Place, where almost 60 people turned out to see the Professors of Bluegrass and the Helium Brothers. The Professors opened for the Helium Brothers, who, like Toad’s, are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. The Helium Brothers were among the first acts to perform at Toad’s when the venue opened in 1975. The band, which is larger than the Professors of Bluegrass and features a rock-and-roll sound thanks to an electric guitar and percussion, last played together in 2010, at Toad’s 35th anniversary celebration. The bands have a lot in common. First, the two share a banjo player. Oscar Hill ’79 was an original member of the Helium Brothers, which formed at Yale in the mid70s, and later joined the Professors of Bluegrass. Hill was introduced to Salovey by Edward Hirs ’79. Hirs, who is involved in the Yale Alumni Association, said he reached out to Hill to play at reunions. In 2005, when Hill was a practicing psychiatrist on Orange Street and Salovey had just been named Yale College Dean, Hirs encouraged Hill to contact Salovey after seeing a Yale Daily News story about the revitalization of the Professors of Bluegrass. At that point, the Professors of Bluegrass had actually been around for 15 years already — Salovey had formed the band with fellow psychology professor Kelly Brownell in 1990. “It was a great way to manage the anxiety in my life at the time,” Salovey said. The Professors have gone through four stages of existence, Salovey said. The original era, of which the only remaining mem-
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University President Peter Salovey played the bass for his band, the Professors of Bluegrass, at Toad’s Place on Sunday night. ber is Salovey, began in the early 1990s. The second era featured then-undergraduates Greg Liszt ’99 and Katie Scharf-Dykes ’99, two members who were involved with the band during its “golden years,” according to Salovey. When Liszt moved on to graduate school at MIT and Scharf-Dykes went to Yale Law School, the Professors entered their third era. Liszt was replaced with a new banjoist, who then moved on in the early 2000s and was replaced by current lead singer Sten Havumaki. “[Havumaki] has the best bluegrass voice in New England,” Salovey told the audience. The bands are deeply connected to Yale. All members of the Professors of Bluegrass were either Yale undergraduates or professors. From there, they went their separate ways as auctioneers in Tennessee, law scholars and professional musicians. Liszt even toured with Bruce Springsteen. “It’s nice to see the professors out of
their element,” said Lisa McDonald, an employee of Yale-New Haven Hospital and audience member. McDonald has been familiar with the New Haven bluegrass scene since 1977, when a friend brought her to a Helium Brothers concert. Two of the Professors were absent during Sunday’s performance. As a result, the Professors of Bluegrass had 20 minutes to practice with the two last-minute replacements before going on. Despite the 11th hour changes, the band went through its 11-song set, which included two encores, without a hitch. Replacement fiddler Dan Stressler and Havumaki hit all of their harmonies. “It was so perfect,” Harper Loonsk ’18 said. “It was the ideal Sunday venue, just too good to be true.” Contact NICOLE SANCHEZ ASTUPUMA at nicole.sanchezastupuma@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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Times columnist “fuming” after son held at gunpoint BLOW FROM PAGE 1 Karen Peart, a spokesperson for the University. The incident recounted on Blow’s Twitter page occurred during a search for an intruder suspected of multiple attempts of theft last week in Trumbull College. Without naming Tahj Blow, Peart said a “Yale College student, who closely matched the description of the suspect, was briefly detained and released by Yale police.” The suspect, described in the police report as a “tall, African-American, college-aged student wearing a black jacket and a red and white hat,” was arrested shortly thereafter in Berkeley College, adjacent to Trumbull. The suspect is currently in police custody. Peart declined to comment on whether the Yale College student was held at gunpoint. She also declined to provide a physical description of the suspect in custody. A Yale Security officer, who wished to remain anonymous to protect his identity, said the YPD and Yale Security were strictly informed not to talk about the details of the case. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said in a Sunday email to the News that he “does not deny that the student who was stopped was stopped at gunpoint.” “That is a serious and unsettling issue that is being investigated by the YPD,” he said. However, Holloway added that Charles Blow’s statement that his son was “accosted” was “deeply inaccurate.” He said the student
had matched the description of someone else who was intruding on campus, but that he was not accused of being an intruder on campus. Charles Blow wrote in his column that Holloway and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins have apologized. “But the scars cannot be unmade,” he wrote. “My son will always carry the memory of the day he left his college library and an officer trained a gun on him.” Trumbull Master Margaret Clark hosted a gathering Sunday evening in the Farr Room of Trumbull College to allow students to discuss the security breach. “I called the meeting to provide time for Trumbull students to discuss two issues about which I knew there was considerable concern — the intrusions themselves and also an African-American Yale student being stopped in the aftermath by a Yale Police Officer,” Clark told the News after the gathering. Holloway said he wanted to stress that the administration and the YPD are taking the situation seriously, adding that both parties place the highest priority on campus safety and that they want to make sure every student feels safe on campus. Holloway said he has full confidence in Higgins and his officers. “I am not naïve, I know that students have different levels of confidence about how much they fit in at Yale and how the differences in their specific identities have real implications about their lived experiences,” Hollo-
way said. “At the same time, I feel that we have an incredibly professional police force and I have always found the officers very committed to the highest standards of police practice.” Ryan Wilson ’17, a member of Yale’s Black Men’s Union, said he was upset yet not surprised by the news. He said that often when walking into a residential college at night where the security guards do not recognize him, he is stopped by Yale Security, who ask about his whereabouts and check his Yale ID to verify that he is a student. “I’ve never seen or heard of it happening to other white students, but for black, Native and Latino students, I hear about it,” he said. Dara Huggins ’17, an African-American student, has not personally experienced being racially profiled while on campus, but said she anticipates that it will happen eventually. She said Yale students often try to create a clear delineation between the “Yale bubble” and the rest of New Haven, which she added is full of people of color. Her status as a Yale student will not protect her from being racially profiled, she said. “Without my ID card, I would probably just be ‘someone from New Haven’ to many students, and probably officers, on this campus,” she said. David Rico ’16, a Native American student, said he sympathizes with African-American men because he has also had a number of run-ins with the police that he believes were provoked by his race. Last year, he was stand-
ing outside his entryway talking on the phone to his parents when police officers demanded to see his student ID, threatening to confiscate it, he said. “I feel a lot of solidarity with the black community, but I acknowledge that I’m a Native American and that it has a different narrative,” he said. “I do not know the black experience, or what it is to be an African-American in this country. I just know how it feels to be discriminated against by the police. It’s not the same, but it’s similar.” Even though the conversa-
tions raised by the events on Saturday may raise difficult questions, Michael Sierra-Arevalo GRD ’18 — a sociology student whose work concentrates on police, legitimacy and policecommunity relationships — said he hoped the Yale and New Haven communities would be openminded and allow both the student and the officer involved to tell their stories. The biggest issue, according to Sierra-Arevalo, is that the Yale and New Haven communities are “woefully ignorant” of what the police were told when they were
Charles Blow’s tweets about his son’s encounter with the YPD received widespread attention on social media.
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A student from SCSU was allegedly sexually assaulted in a suite in Timothy Dwight College last Sunday night.
question students in nearby suites. “The police would be happy to hear from anyone with relevant information about the alleged assault in TD,” Holloway wrote in a Friday email to the News. A Saturday morning email from Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel to the TD community confirmed that an investigation of an alleged sexual assault in the college was taking place. Brenzel echoed Holloway in urging individuals with relevant information to step forward and cooperate in the investigation. According to the Independent, the accused Yale student has hired New Haven criminal defense attorney William Dow ’63, who is also a lecturer at Yale Law School, to represent him. Dow declined repeated requests for comment from the News. He told the Independent on Friday, however, that he is confident his client will be cleared. “The parties knew each other. This was a consensual relationship,” he said. “Two witnesses have come forward and provided exculpatory information.” On Wednesday around 10:15 a.m., several members of YPD’s Investigative Services Unit were seen inside the college, and an officer remained stationed outside of a suite for several hours after, said a student in Timothy Dwight, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Police officers on the scene did not provide any additional information to the student, which the student said made them feel unsafe.
“I was a little indignant because I lived right next to [the suite in question], and I felt insecure being left in the dark in regard to my own safety,” the student said. “But I guess that’s how the University operates when these incidents happen.” Ellie Boswell ’17, who also lives in TD, said two officers wearing civilian clothing knocked on her suite door at around 11:20 a.m. on Thursday, requesting to come in and ask questions. “I said I didn’t really have time and was running late, but they insisted,” she said. Boswell said police asked her if she knew anything about the incident that allegedly happened on the night of Jan. 18, to which she responded that she did not. Another student in TD, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the alleged perpetrator’s identity, told the News Friday evening that they had spoken with officers who went door to door in the entryway in question on Thursday, in addition to Friday morning over the phone. Because the student had been out Sunday night, however, they had not seen anything. David Hartman, spokesperson for New Haven Police Department, said that the NHPD has no involvement in the case. The Yale Police Department referred all requests for comment to the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communication, who could not be reached. Brenzel said in his Saturday email to the TD community that he could not provide information on the case while the investigation is underway, but he encouraged those with concerns to speak to him
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looking for the suspect, in terms of who and what they should be looking for. Therefore, he said he thinks it is important not to jump to conclusions about the professional and moral underpinnings of the YPD. “The only people who in fact know what happened, and that can tell us what happened, are the officers and the student,” he said.
or Timothy Dwight Dean Sarah Mahurin GRE ’11, as well as to utilize the many other services offered on Yale’s campus, including the Chaplain’s Office and SHARE. “I do think that Yale fundamentally provides a safe space for students and guests,” Holloway said. “That said, I think it is always important for students and their guests to be aware of their surroundings as they travel about campus and the greater New Haven area. I also think it important that people report any unusual or unwanted activity to the police or, if appropriate, the SHARE Center.” Alexa Derman ’18, public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said the center stands with survivors of sexual assault, and that its members hope further actions resulting from the reports of sexual assault on campus are carried out fairly and promptly. “We also hope that these campus-wide messages spur students to think about our responsibilities to each other and the ways in which we can watch out for our friends, other students and guests to create a safer community,” she said. Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler declined to comment. Catherine Christy, SCSU Sexual Assault Response Team Coordinator and Victim Advocate, declined to comment on the case on Sunday because it was “still very early at this time.” Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu, ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .
avoid the storm. The University has also been preparing for the oncoming storm. The Emergency Operations Team, which includes Yale Dining, Facilities, Transit, Health, Security and Police has a plan in place and is ready for the storm, Director of Emergency Management Maria Bouffard said. Facilities is prepared to remove the snow, and Dining is making provisions to ensure food continues to be served. Despite the severity of the blizzard, it is still unclear whether classes will be affected. “Any discussion as to whether there’s going to be a delayed opening or cancellation or any interruption in the University will be made tomorrow,” Bouffard said. Nonetheless, in 2013, when the Elm City experienced 34 inches of snow in the course of 24 hours, school administrators decided to close school for two days — the first time the University decided to cancel classes due to snow since 1978. That storm was the worst since 1897. University President Peter
Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak will make the ultimate decision this year, weighing the severity and timing of the blizzard. Bouffard explained that Yale provides essential services — such as dining facilities and critical research — which makes it difficult to cancel classes. Ezra Stiles College Master Stephen Pitti ’91, however, emailed his students that they should be prepared for possible interruptions to their schedules. Officials in the New England area are also aware of the incoming blizzard. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio told The New York Times that today’s storm would be “one of the biggest storms to ever strike New York City,” and that citizens should “prepare for something worse than we have seen before.” He added that schools in the city would most likely be closed on Tuesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also warned that several major highways in New York might be closed, according to the Times. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .
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YCC proposes midterm professor evaluations BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER In an effort to improve the teaching methods of young professors, Yale students turned not to their own administration, but instead to Harvard’s policies. The Yale College Council recently submitted a proposal to the administration recommending that professors solicit feedback from their students before the first midterm. Currently, first-time professors are unable to receive any official assessments from their students until the course has ended. YCC academics chair and project leader David Lawrence ’15 said that the mid-semester evaluation system provided a method for professors to make direct improvements immediately, adding that the initial source of the idea came from Harvard’s own system for midterm evaluations that is required of new profes-
sors. “ So m e t i m e s t h e re a re things that could definitely be improved in the class before the semester is over,” Lawrence said. “It’s very logical that professors should be able to, and also be expected to, collect feedback before the semester is over.” P ro je c t l ea d e r Ya p h e t Getachew ’16 said that in the YCC surveys, many students had responded saying that they wanted a way to evaluate their instructors before the first midterm. According to the YCC report, undergraduates at Yale, especially those majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, have agreed that this process would be beneficial. Getachew said he did not see any difficulties in getting the proposal passed, as many professors have expressed their support for it. Lawrence agreed, maintaining that support for the project was high among both
faculty and students. “As of yet, we have not heard what the decision on the proposal is,” Getachew said. “From talking with friends, faculty and the YCC, no one had any objections to an additional teacher evaluation.” While a basic framework of the system was drafted for review by the University’s Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee, a specific format for the feedback form was not submitted. Lawrence said this arrangement would allow for the suggestions to be tailored to individual classes as different disciplines face different problems. Lawrence noted that the student appraisals would only be available to the professor and not be used by department heads to evaluate the professors. He said this would promote honest feedback and changes without fear of repercussions. Spanish Language Program
Director Ame Cividanes echoed this sentiment, emphasizing that the feedback should only be used as a tool between professors and students, not as a source of evaluation by the chair of a department.
Sometimes there are things that could be … improved in the class before the semester is over. DAVID LAWRENCE ’15 Academics chair, Yale College Council “This approach could help the instructor get valuable feedback,” Cividanes said. “Professors will be able to reflect upon their teaching and make adjustments in pedagogy before the
Sorority rush exceeds capacity, again BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER For the second year in a row, more students have signed up for sorority rush than can be accommodated by Yale’s three on-campus sororities. On Jan. 16, 238 women signed up for the rush process, according to Yale Panhellenic Council President Emily Luepker ’16. Last year, 239 women registered and 30 were ultimately not offered bids to any sorority, rekindling discussions about bringing a fourth sorority to campus. By comparison, only 199 students signed up to rush a sorority in 2013. To respond to the increasing interest, the Panhellenic Council voted earlier this year to approve bringing a fourth sorority to Yale, most likely within the next two years, according to Jéssica Leão ’16, who belongs to a sorority. But Pi Beta Phi President Caroline Pringle ’16 said she thinks the addition is probably going to happen within the next year. “My understanding is that next year during recruitment there will be a fourth sorority at Yale,” Pringle said. Leão said that the council has not reached a decision yet on which organization will be brought to campus. Luepker said that one of the main
reasons for looking to add another sorority is to lower the number of new members in each chapter, which would also decrease the total number of women in each chapter so as to more easily accommodate them in their facilities. Though the council was not ultimately able to accommodate all the women who signed up for rush this year, organizers did introduce some measures to respond to the large group undergoing recruitment. Luepker said the Panhellenic Council has added more recruitment counselors and an additional social event on the last day of recruitment, to accommodate the additional women in the system. “It is a little stressful because obviously a lot of girls are rushing and they only take a certain amount of people,” said Sydney Marks ’18, who participated in the recruitment process. Victoria Hunt ’18 also said she rushed and was worried that she was not going to get a bid at all because of the apparent competitiveness of the process. Leão said that despite the heightened competition, more women than ever before advanced to the last round of selection this year and attended the final recruitment event on Sunday. Sororities do not want to
turn people away, she said, but practical constraints make cuts necessary. “The purpose of sorority recruitment is definitely not to have this exclusive atmosphere where people don’t get bids,” Leão said. “The reason why people won’t get bids is because each house cannot accommodate that many extra people. Next year the process will be as inclusive as possible.” However, Leão said having an extra sorority might not necessarily lead to smaller classes in each one, and that there might actually be increased interest as a result of a larger Greek presence on campus. Pringle agreed with Leão, adding that the increase in interest over the past few years could be due to more people being exposed to the positive aspects of sorority life. “I think people are just catching on that it’s a really great thing to be a part of,” Pringle said. However, she said the new sorority would not immediately build up the membership that the other established sororities have. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said that he has no opinion on adding another sorority. Founded in 1986, Kappa Alpha Theta is Yale’s oldest sorority. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
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end of the term.” Public health professor Richard Skolnik similarly favored mid-semester evaluations and already offers them to students in his courses. He said the evaluations would help professors to not only implement changes before the end of the semester, but also to recognize if specific learning objectives and student desires are being met in the classroom. Eleven other students interviewed all agreed that the change would be helpful. Youkow Homma ’16 said the proposal would allow professors to immediately respond to their students’ suggestions. He added that professors sometimes did not respond to the end of the year evaluations provided by students. “It’s a good idea to promote communication early on between the professors and students,” Larry Tang ’14 said. “It might not be realistic to expect
drastic changes, but students will still benefit from small changes like extra handouts explaining concepts that they have trouble with.” Harvard’s system only applies to first-time professors. At Harvard, new professors are mandated to ask for a midterm evaluation while senior faculty members are only encouraged to carry out the same process. Under Harvard’s system, students serve as the check in order to ensure that the professors offer the evaluation process each semester. As reported by the Harvard Undergraduate Council, experienced professors have said that they recognize the value of such evaluations. Currently, Yale students are not allowed to view their grades before submitting end-ofsemester evaluations of their professors. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
Proposals emphasize subpoena power for review board BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER At a public workshop in the AfroAmerican Cultural Center yesterday, community activists presented and discussed their proposals for an ordinance establishing a new Civilian Review Board. About 20 people, a mixture of Yale students and New Haven residents, attended the two-hour meeting, organized in preparation for a public hearing to be held on Thursday night at City Hall to discuss the future of the board, which oversees police conduct in the city. The event’s organizers, New Haven activists Chris Desir and Kerry Ellington, presented their proposals for a new board with increased power to subpoena and conduct independent investigations and urged meeting attendees to testify in favor of these proposals at the Thursday meeting. In addition to the two powers, the proposals would endow the board with a larger budget and staff. The current Civilian Review Board, established by an executive order from then-Mayor John DeStefano in 2001, had its meetings suspended in August while the Board of Alders prepared an ordinance to create a new one, as mandated by the City Charter revisions of 2013. Ellington said the meeting Thursday was only the first of many. In addition to the official public hearings, she said that she will hold informal workshops either weekly or biweekly to ensure that the process is “not thrown under the rug.” According to Desir, community activists will focus on establishing the board’s ability to subpoena — a privilege the original Civilian Review Board did not hold, which lead to criticism from advocates of policing justice, some of whom attended the meeting. “[Without it], the board would be a paper tiger — a PR shield for the Internal Affairs Department [of the NHPD],” Desir said. Emma Jones, a prominent New Haven lawyer and activist whose son Malik was killed by East Haven police in Fair Haven after a car chase in 1997, said that if subpoena power proves impossible to obtain from the city, she will lobby state legislators in Hartford to provide subpoena power. Jones, whose activism in the late 1990s helped prompt DeStefano to establish the board, criticized the currently suspended board for meeting at NHPD headquarters near Union Station, calling it “intimidating” to testify against police in their workplace. She said she will also push for the board’s
complete independence from the NHPD and the ability to conduct its own investigations of police conduct. Previously, the board could recommend that the Internal Affairs department of the NHPD open an investigation, but the board could not perform its own inquiries. If the proposals were to pass, the board’s investigations would be conducted by retired police officers, working pro bono and selected by the board, and by investigators trained by the board. In addition to subpoena power, the board should also have the power to discipline and sanction officers, said Chris Garaffa, a New Haven resident in attendance at the meeting. Jones agreed.
We want people [on the board] who are really representative of the people of this community . EMMA JONES Lawyer and activist, New Haven “What gives us real authority is … discipline and sanction,” Jones said, but added that the power to recommend sanction might suffice. The meeting’s organizers also said that they will seek to ensure that the board represents the entire city. Under the City Charter, “community engagement organizations” will recommend representatives to the mayor, who will appoint them, subject to the approval of the Board of Alders. Jones said those community engagement organizations might include, among others, New Haven Family Alliance, People Against Police Brutality and the M.A.L.I.K.-Dawson Project, which drafted the proposals for the board. Some residents raised concerns that the mayor will only appoint members to the board who will defend the NHPD and act in the police’s interests. Jones said that only activism can prevent that from happening. “We will not stand for the mayor making this political football,” she said. “We want people who are really representative of the people of this community. In the 1999 municipal election, New Haven voters approved the establishment of a Civilian Review Board by a 4–1 margin. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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Police apprehend suspect in Trumbull thefts THEFT FROM PAGE 1 Pierson colleges. Then, on Saturday afternoon, another pair of students in Trumbull encountered an intruder in their suite. Although the Yale Police Department reported that they had arrested a suspect in connection with the Saturday afternoon intruder in the Trumbull College suite, they initially targeted the wrong individual. Later that day, Tahj Blow ’16, son of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, was confronted at gunpoint by a YPD officer because he allegedly matched the description of the suspect, according to Charles Blow’s Twitter page. Tahj Blow declined to comment, and Charles Blow could not be reached for comment. “Entryway doors should not be propped or have the lock taped over. These are basic issues that every student knows and, frankly, that most ignore,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said in an email. “We need to do better on this issue. Students should not hesitate to call the YPD or campus security if they are uncertain about individuals in their courtyards, entryways or hallways.” Trumbull Master Margaret Clark said she had not previously encountered similar levels of criminal activity since assuming the mastership in 2013. Clark added that she would be visiting individual Trumbull suites Saturday evening to discuss the importance of campus safety with students and ensure that no hangers are being used to prop open doors. The suspect had entered the suite of Nicholas Goel ’16 and Ian Gonzalez ’16, a former copy editor for the News. Goel said he was sitting in his common room Saturday afternoon when a man he had never before seen entered his bedroom. He and his suitemate confronted the man. The intruder said he was looking for a friend and then immediately walked out. “We yelled at him, and I think it scared him off,” Goel said.
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A series of thefts have recently occured on Yale’s campus, and an investigation into the matter continues. “He left mumbling, pretty flustered and pretending to be on the phone.” Gonzalez said they immediately called the police, and within five minutes, they saw a police presence on Elm Street looking for the intruder. According to an email sent to the Trumbull community by Clark, the intruder had fled the residential college and, following behind some other students, entered Berkeley College. Both Gonzalez and Goel said the description of the man who
entered Meza’s suite given to police authorities last week matched the description of the man they encountered Saturday evening. “Given that the previous incidents were also in this entryway both directly above our suite and across from our suite on the same floor, and that this man matched the description from the guys in the suite across from us … I’m confident it was the same person,” he said. Clark said that she, along with Trumbull Dean Jasmina
Beširevic-Regan, commended the students for their quick actions. She said the actions “almost certainly prevented thefts.” She also thanked the YPD for their quick responses in both cases. A few days earlier, on Thursday, Pierson College freshman counselor Lindey Hiebert ’15 sent an email to freshmen in her college informing them of a robbery that had occurred that afternoon in a Lanman-Wright Hall room. Upon returning to the room, three freshmen discovered that
all three of their laptops had been stolen, along with an iPad and a backpack, though other objects in the room, including a fourth laptop and a wallet, were not stolen. “All of the doors on the floor are open so it’s surprising that they only came in ours,” said Neema Githere ’18, who had her laptop stolen. “What’s really surprising is that they took my phone charger and notebooks out of my backpack before taking it.” The theft was immediately reported to Yale Security, which then referred the students to the
YPD. The case is still open. The students were informed that Yale Security would check the swipe lock on the entryway in order to determine who came into the building within the time frame. However, in a Friday email to the News, University Spokesperson Tom Conroy said that no leads had developed in the case. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
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Students living in the suite in which the assault allegedly occurred were not permitted to sleep in their rooms on Friday night.
from the residence hall or whether he remained there during the 24-hour period. The alleged perpetrator did not respond to a request for comment. A freshman who lives in Vanderbilt, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic, said he was interviewed Friday evening by the YPD at the department’s headquarters on Ashmun Street. He said police were attempting to determine whether the female student who had reported the case had provided an accurate description of the scene. The freshman said he was asked to describe the alleged perpetrator’s personality, the events of Wednesday night and his own interactions with the female, if any, as well as what time he thought the alleged assault had occurred. At least two other students who may have witnessed an interaction between the alleged perpetrator and the victim were also interviewed by the YPD on Friday. The YPD referred all requests for comment to University Spokesperson Tom Conroy, who would not discuss the specifics of Higgins’s email or the police presence in Vanderbilt Hall. He said the University and the police are committed to fully supporting victims, informing them of all University resources and complaint processes should they choose to use them. Conroy said the police are required by the federal Clery Act to notify the Yale community of reported sexual assaults, regardless of whether a victim of an assault contacted the police directly, the police learn of the assault from a third party or the police receive an anonymous report. “A notification message from the police does not necessarily mean that a criminal complaint has been filed, that a complaint will be filed or that the University is aware of the identities of the individuals involved in the reported incident,” Conroy said. Of 16 freshmen interviewed by the News, eight confidently linked the subject of Friday’s investigation to the events reported in Higgins’s email. Three students near the entryway at the time — who claimed to know the student in question — said he had a reputation for being “sexually aggressive.” A student with knowledge of the
alleged perpetrator’s whereabouts and interactions Wednesday night said he was confident that the alleged perpetrator had engaged in sexual intercourse that night. Students who live in the suite where the alleged assault occurred were denied access to their room and were told by police officers that they would not able to stay in their suite overnight. When asked on Friday evening about the circumstances of the police officers’ entry into Vanderbilt, one YPD officer said that students will “find out soon enough.” Other officers on the scene declined to comment. Associate Vice President for Administration Janet Lindner, who helps oversee the YPD, Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley and Branford Dean Hilary Fink could not be reached for comment. The investigation in Vanderbilt occurred on the same day news surfaced that a Southern Connecticut State University student had accused a Yale student of rape. One survivor of sexual assault on Yale’s campus, who wished to remain anonymous to protect their identity, told the News that they were simultaneously disgusted and frightened by the events of Friday night. They said the administration should have alerted the community after the two reports to remind students of the University’s definition of sexual consent. “Yale is meant to be a knowledgeable place where students think rationally and logically, and events like these make me question all of that,” they said. This survivor did not report their case to the YPD or the UniversityWide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, saying the process is a long and difficult one for students recovering from the trauma of sexual assault. They added that students affected by the weekend’s events — whether victims, allies or other students acquainted with the case — should know they are not alone in their concerns. The Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center can be contacted at 203-4322000. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at
stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .
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AROUND THE IVIES
“Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.” CHRISTOPHER DAWSON BRITISH AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN
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Karvonides responds to Law School’s procedures
BY KATE TALERICO AND JOSEPH ZAPPA In response to the Task Force on Sexual Assault’s interim report released Dec. 17, Brown has enacted major reforms to address sexual assault policy, wrote President Christina Paxson in a communitywide email Thursday. The new measures mandate that the appeals process last less than 30 days, that all community members undergo regular sexual assault training and that students found responsible for sexual misconduct and sanctioned with separation from Brown leave their campus residences immediately. Paxson assembled a working group led by Vice President for Academic Development, Diversity and Inclusion Liza Cariaga-Lo to implement the report’s recommendations. Almost all of the reforms recommended in the interim report have now been implemented, said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey, adding that widespread community input spurred administrators to execute the report’s “high-priority” recommendations. Carey said it is “premature” to evaluate Brown’s updated policies relative to those of its peers in terms of leadership on sexual assault reform, noting that many American universities’ policies on the matter are currently in flux. The reforms Paxson announced in Thursday’s email center on increasing the availability and clarity of sexual assault resources, updating case procedures and boosting transparency regarding cases’ final decisions. As recommended by the task force, a new sexual misconduct and Title IX website was created, Paxson wrote. The site includes links to resources for those who have been sexually assaulted or who wish to report an incident, she wrote. Content on the Office of Student Life’s sexual misconduct site was updated to reflect new Brown policies. Additionally, new flowcharts explaining the actions taken by Brown and students in sexual misconduct cases have been placed on the site and will be updated throughout the
semester, Paxson wrote. The University will provide annual mandatory training programs for all students, faculty members and staff memBROWN bers. The timing and details of who will administer the training remain undecided, Carey said. This new mandatory training marks a substantial improvement on previous protocol, under which attendance was only mandatory for undergraduates during first-year orientation and was not strictly enforced, he said. The University will provide funds to cover the costs of implementing the training sessions, Paxson wrote. It will also create a discretionary fund to allow Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, to allocate the appropriate personal and medical resources to complainants and respondents. The interim report suggested the University regularly collect data to monitor the campus climate surrounding sexual assault. To provide a baseline for data in the future, Brown will administer a survey drafted by the American Association of Universities to undergraduates, graduate students and medical students over a three-week period between early April and mid-May, Carey said. Paxson is “committed” to making the results of the survey known to the Brown community, he said, adding that those results will most likely be released in the fall. To alleviate the trauma students involved in sexual assault cases may experience, the appeals process must now end within 30 days of an appeal request, Paxson wrote. Brown will also share appeals made by one party with all other involved parties. A student support dean from the OSL and an academic dean from the dean of the College office will be assigned to assist both complainants and respondents, Pax-
son wrote. The University will play a more active role in providing students with the guidance they need to navigate the difficulties of coursework during the time-consuming hearing process, Carey said. “It’s not that you can go see dean X in her office hours, but that we want you to see dean X, and we’ll make it happen,” he added. Failure to comply with any measures taken between reporting and the trial, such as a no-contact order, will prompt an immediate response, such as removal from or limited access to campus. To ensure hearings are unbiased and “less traumatic to students,” Brown will hire trained investigators to gather evidence and create a report that will be used as case materials. This practice is common among peer institutions, Carey said. Justice Gaines, one of four undergraduate representatives on the task force, voiced concerns about the role of investigators potentially unfamiliar with Brown in the hearing process. “The changes seem to be going further for the investigation model than we had even suggested,” Gaines said. Investigators should receive “Brown-centric” training so they understand the campus culture, he said, adding that training could also familiarize investigators with issues of race, gender and sexuality relevant to many students. But while details of the training have yet to be determined, the sessions will probably not focus on culture specific to Brown, Carey said. It is most important that investigators have experience working on college campuses, and any training they receive related to Brown will probably be conveyed through the OSL and the Office of Institutional Diversity, he added. In addition to an updated statement listing the rights and responsibilities of students involved in sexual assault cases, both parties in future cases will be given copies of the Student Conduct Board’s memorandum of findings and their decision letters, Paxson wrote.
BY NOAH DELWICHE AND THEODORE DELWICHE The working group that crafted Harvard’s newly centralized sexual harassment policy and accompanying procedures did not anticipate that individual schools would deviate from those procedures to the extent Harvard Law School may, according to University Title IX Officer Mia Karvonides. Karvonides led the group that created Harvard’s new approach for approaching sexual assault complaints, which in July established a standardized set of procedures under which a centralized office would investigate complaints of alleged sexual harassment against students across the entire University. That office, the Office for Sexual and Gender-Based Dispute Resolution, makes a determination of guilt while individual schools handle discipline. But in December, Harvard Law School moved to depart from those central procedures, approving a set of their own that would allow the school to investigate their own sexual harassment complaints, cutting ODR out of the process entirely. Those policies are pending approval from the U.S. Department of Education as part of an agreement with the government after it found the Law School in violation of Title IX in late December. Despite the law school’s actions, Karvonides, speaking in her first interview with The Crimson since the Law School Title IX finding, said she does not expect other schools at Har-
vard to follow suit. “I don’t think that the working group really contemplated that HARVARD one school would go across, go a different way,” Karvonides said, adding that she thinks the Law School’s approach to handling sexual assault complaints historically differs most from other schools. According to Karvonides, in the fall semester alone, ODR initiated between six and 12 cases, more investigations into cases of alleged sexual harassment against students than the total figure across the University during the 2013-2014 academic year. Karvonides would not specify whether ODR, which she said is still looking to fill two full-time investigator positions, has completed any investigations. The law school’s adoption of its pending procedures went through several levels of discussion before approval. Harvard President Drew G. Faust and University General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano granted Dean of the Law School Martha L. Minow permission to set up a faculty committee for developing school-specific procedures after the new central policy was unveiled, according to Harvard spokesperson Jeff Neal. That decision came after “broad consultation that included discussions with the Council of Deans, among many others,” Neal wrote in an emailed statement.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 1:00 PM “Know the Monster You’re Fighting: Stigma as a Barrier to Quality Healthcare.” Listen to Elizabeth Flanagan, assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry at the Yale Medical School, discuss how stigma and discrimination are barriers to quality health care for people with many conditions that are stigmatized by our society. This talk is presented as part of the exhibit, “Harry Potter’s World, Renaissance, Science, Magic and Medicine.” Harvey Cushing/Jay Hay Whitney Medical Library (333 Cedar St.). 4:30 PM “The Age of the Vikings”: A Book Talk by Professor Anders Winroth. Professor Anders Winroth will discuss his new “The Age of the Vikings.” The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. it is true that they pillaged, looted and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network. By dismantling the myths, “The Age of the Vikings” allows the full story of this periåod in medieval history to be told. Sterling Memorial Library (128 Wall St.).
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his photo series documents the journey of my friends and me during the Yale Visiting International Student Program, which allows us to study at Yale for one year before going back to our home institutions. We come from Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. The time we spent picking apples, celebrating birthdays, exploring the Thimble Islands, Disneyland and East Rock have become great memories that we would never forget. MICHELLE CHAN and HONG WEI LOW report.
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NCAAM Duke 77 St. John’s 68
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MONDAY
ANDREW MILLER ’13 ALL-STAR Miller, who starred as a forward on Yale’s national championship hockey team in 2013, was named to the AHL All-Star Game after producing 34 points in 41 games. Fellow Yale skater Brian O’Neill ’12 was also named to the All-Star team after leading the league with 44 points.
CRAIG BRESLOW ’02 HONORED BY YALE BASEBALL The left-handed reliever was named the “Man of the Year” by the Yale baseball team at its Leadoff Dinner on Saturday. Breslow, a member of the 2013 Boston Red Sox team that won the World Series, was a finalist for MLB’s Roberto Clemente Award last year.
NBA Toronto 114 Detroit 110
“[Tyler Varga ’15] was definitely the hot girl at the beach.” JOE LINTA ’83 FOOTBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2015 · yaledailynews.com
Duren’s dagger saves Bulldogs MEN’S BASKETBALL
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Forward Justin Sears ’16 scored 27 points and recorded nine rebounds in the win against Brown.
BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER Rarely can a basketball game be described as ugly, disjointed, enthralling and heroic all at once, but those terms only begin to paint the picture of the Yale men’s basketball team’s 69–65 victory over Brown on Saturday. In the end, it was the typical plotline of the 2014–15 season — guard Javier Duren ’15 and forward Justin Sears ’16 leading the Elis — thanks to a pull-up jump shot from Duren with 3.7 seconds remaining. “This team is very versatile,” head coach James Jones said. “We can win a bunch of different ways.” With the game hanging in the balance — Yale led by two with less than two minutes to play — Duren stripped Brown guard Steven Spieth and began coasting to the rim on a wide-open fastbreak. Energized by the adrenaline of the moment, as well as the crowd of 1,736 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater, Duren rose up to slam home an emphatic dunk, only for the attempt to clang off the back iron of the rim and result in an easy bucket for Brown at the other end. But mere moments later, in a tied contest and with the game clock seconds from expiring, a calm and composed Duren brought the ball up the court. The point guard crossed over his defender, stepped back and drained a game-winning jumper with 3.6 seconds left, clinching a season sweep of the Bears. A week removed from methodically dissecting the Bears apart in Providence, the Bulldogs (13–6, 2–0 Ivy) appeared to have everything going for them as gametime approached. Yale learned just minutes before tipoff that Brown (9–10, 0–2) would be without its leading scorer, Leland King. King — who averages 14.6 points per game and led the Bears with 18 points in the first meeting against the Elis — was notice-
ably absent from warm-ups, and Brown head coach Mike Martin later said that King stayed in Rhode Island for “personal reasons.” “I think that was actually a benefit to their team,” Jones said. “I thought that [Martin] did a great job of rallying his guys around whatever issue was going on to play together and to play hard.” With King out of the picture, Brown only managed to score four points up until the 11:16 mark of the first half. The issue for Yale was that the Bulldogs also struggled early on and could only build themselves a seven-point cushion.
“This team is very versatile. We can win a bunch of different ways.” JAMES JONES In a game deprived of any offensive flow whatsoever, largely thanks to 54 total fouls, Brown managed to emerge at halftime with a 31–25 advantage. For Yale, it was a minor miracle that it found itself only down six at the break. The Bulldogs made just six shots from the field, while turning over the ball on nine occasions. Just seven days prior, it took a full game for the Elis to turn the ball over nine times. “What you forget about [playing teams two weekends in a row] is how hard it is offensively that next weekend because they just saw you and they pick up what you did,” Jones said. Perhaps most worrisome for Yale was the continued struggles at the line in the first half for forward Sears. Coming off a 7–16 performance from the charity stripe last Saturday, Sears bricked his way to a 4–12 first half from the line. After halftime, the Bulldogs, SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3
Varga shines in Senior Bowl BY GREG CAMERON AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Saturday night in the fourth quarter of the Reese’s Senior Bowl, NFL Network commentator Mike Mayock and his crew could be heard singing the Yale fight song on national television. The reason? Tyler Varga ’15, Yale football running back and now a serious NFL prospect, was taking over the game.
FOOTBALL Following a notable showing in practice that had scouts tweeting about both his physique and play, Varga turned even more heads Saturday with two fourthquarter touchdowns that gave the North team a 34–13 win. The 5’11”, 227-pound back sparked comments from his initial weighin all the way until the end of the game. “Everything he did in the game — catching the ball, running for touchdowns — he did during the week in practice,” said Joe Linta ’83, Varga’s agent. “I think he just repeated what he had done all
week … He went from not being on the map, to being on the map, to being on the map significantly.” Varga also earned 70 all-purpose yards in the contest while lining up both at tailback and fullback. In addition to his 31 yards on the ground, he caught three passes for 39 yards. At Yale, Varga caught only 12 passes in his entire senior season. Linta noted that Varga made several “phenomenal” catches over the week, and said that scouts noticed it. In addition to scouts, multiple news organizations were impressed by Varga’s showing. A Bleacher Report article called Varga “the most impressive running back of all,” adding that he “showed an impressively wellrounded skill set.” Rob Rang of CBS Sports, meanwhile, said Varga was one of the 10 biggest standouts and wrote that Varga “delivered a couple of crushing blows when asked to line up as a fullback.” Because of Varga’s standout performance, Linta predicted he would be a fourth- or fifth-round SEE VARGA PAGE B3
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Running back Tyler Varga ’15 rushed for 1,423 yards and scored 26 touchdowns for Yale this season.
STAT OF THE DAY 83
THE NUMBER OF SHOTS ON GOAL THE WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM ACCUMULATED IN TWO GAMES AGAINST BROWN THIS WEEKEND. The Bulldogs, up until this point, have averaged 30 shots per game.
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“I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” SHAQUILLE O’NEAL FOUR-TIME NBA CHAMPION
Yale wins with balance
Two losses for Bulldogs M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 unable to finish, as the Saints capitalized on a power-play with 1:13 left. The game-winning goal against Yale goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 came only a few minutes later into overtime. A point shot by St. Lawrence defenseman Brian Ward was deflected twice, first off of a Bulldog’s stick and then off a Saint’s skate before speeding past Lyon. Though Yale was unable to claim the win, it did claim a single ECAC point for its efforts. Despite the loss, Lyon put up an impressive 29 saves, a number that was coincidentally repeated in the Bulldogs’ 1–0 loss against Clarkson the next day. Also repeated was the style of gamewinning goal, as the puck bounced off a Clarkson skate before crossing the goal line. Though several Yale players thought Clarkson’s Sam Vigneault kicked the puck in, the officials thought otherwise. And as the clock ran down in the third, the goal stood as the only score of the night. Golden Knights goaltender Greg Lewis stopped all 25 shots he faced, and even with Lyon pulled for the final 1:08, the Elis were unable to convert.
“Obviously losing twice this weekend was disappointing, but we know we are capable of being successful in college hockey,” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “We need to bear down offensively — you can’t win if you don’t score any goals.” Even with the two losses, however, the Bulldogs remain confident as they look to host Princeton at Ingalls Rink this upcoming weekend. Luckily for the Bulldogs, the scoreless night against Clarkson is not indicative of Yale’s offense. Yale has scored 12 goals in its last five contests, and the Elis’ last shutout loss was more than two months ago in a 4–0 game against St. Lawrence. “We take a lot of pride in being a good team on the road, so it was no excuse for what happened; we know we can be better,” forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said. “Overall, we’re putting this weekend behind us and looking forward to having a good weekend against Princeton and Quinnipiac.” Yale’s matchup against Princeton is slated to begin this Friday at 7 p.m. Contact DREW MEGERIAN at andrew.megerian@yale.edu .
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Yale center Emmy Allen ’16 set a career high with 17 points on Saturday. W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 sha Sarju ’16, the Bulldogs lacked the defensive energy they had in their first game against Brown. “Defensively, we did not have the energy we would like to have,” Sarju said. “But we are thankful that a great night of play, for Emmy and our other posts offensively were enough to offset our poor defensive output.” Indeed, Yale’s offense was key to the win last Friday, highlighted by Allen’s
17 points as well as the team’s seasonbest field goal percentage of 54.3 percent. Allen went 5–7 from the field and 7–10 from the charity stripe against Brown, and even when the Brown defense added pressure, Allen found passes to players outside and find open shooters, according to Santucci. Munzer agreed that Allen was crucial to last Friday’s win. “Allen had an incredible night,” Munzer said. “She really helped destroy any momentum Brown had
towards the end of the game.” In addition, Yale’s bench stepped up and helped the team on the offensive end. The Bulldogs’ reserves outscored those of Brown 32–9, largely thanks to McIntyre’s season-high nine points. Yale is currently on a four-game winning streak and will host Columbia this Friday. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .
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The Bulldogs earned one point in the ECAC this weekend with two losses — one of which came in overtime.
Elis split two Brown matchups W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 third period, the Bulldogs committed a pair of successive penalties, leading to a five-on3three scenario which Brown capitalized on, evening out the score 2–2. Despite offensive chances in the last few minutes of the game, neither team could break the tie and the game
headed to overtime. The Bears ended the game just 48 seconds into the overtime period, scoring off a rebound. Both Leonoff and Brown goalkeeper Monica Elvin played outstanding games. Although the Bears have the lowest save percentage in the league at 0.885, Elvin saved 47 out of 49 of Yale’s shots that night, keeping the Elis
from a victory. “On Friday, we settled for too many outside shots and weren’t willing to penetrate their defense and drive the puck to the net,” captain and defenseman Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. “Both of our goals were gritty, quick plays, which we needed to do more of. We also gave them too many opportunities in our zone, play-
ing sloppy defense.” Saturday night’s rematch, however, was a very different hockey game. The Bulldogs once again came out of the gate with an aggressive offense. Raines started the game off with a goal just 38 seconds into the match, setting the tone for the rest of the period. In the first period alone, the Elis scored five times.
Despite a Brown goal at 10:29, the Elis quickly retaliated with a goal from defenseman Taylor Marchin ’16 less than a minute later. But the Bulldogs did not stop there. Forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 found the back of the net with a power play goal at 13:37, kicking off an offensive series in which Yale put an additional three points on the board
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In the second matchup against Brown on Saturday, the Bulldogs put up five goals in the first period.
in 26 seconds, the other two from forwards Stephanie Mock ’15 and Staenz. “After losing to Brown on Friday, we were all pretty upset with how the game went but responded on Saturday and came out flying in the first period,” forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 said. “On Saturday, we took the puck to the net a lot more and created better scoring opportunities for ourselves, which led to us scoring five goals in the first period.” Yale entered the second period with a 5–1 lead over Brown. The Bears capitalized on a power play seven minutes into the second, but Yale goalkeeper Hanna Mandl ’17 prevented them from converting a second power play opportunity at the end of the period, holding Brown to just two goals in the first two periods. In the third period, the Bears capitalized on another power play to shorten the Elis’ lead, after which Leonoff was put into the goal to relieve Mandl. Yale held on, scoring yet another goal less than two minutes later, this one also by Marchin. The Bulldogs’ decisive 6–3 win came after the team once again dominated Brown in shots, taking 34 to Brown’s 12. The team also scored on five of its 10 shots in the first period. In addition, Yale won 41 of 59 face-offs, generating a high level of offensive play. “Saturday was a huge improvement because we were angry with the performance on Friday,” Staenz said. “We said that a game like [that] will never happen again. We showed Brown that they got lucky. Saturday’s first period was full of energy and aggression that is why we were able to build such a lead. We wanted to overrun them and we did.” The Elis will take on Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
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“I believe 100 percent we have followed every rule to the letter.” BILL BELICHICK FORMER NEW YORK JETS HEAD COACH
With NFL scouts watching, Varga scores two VARGA FROM PAGE B1 selection in the draft three months from now, but cautioned that anything could happen in that time frame. He said that the Titans, whose coaching staff led the North team all week, are likely the team with the most interest in him early on. Varga played on the same squad as former Harvard defensive end Zack Hodges, who also practiced as an outside linebacker for the Senior Bowl. In an interview last week, Varga told BuffaloBills.com that he was happy to represent the Ivy League’s skill level alongside Hodges. “I think [our appearance in the Senior Bowl] shows that we can play football in the Ivy League, too,” Varga said in the interview. “A lot of people look down on our conference — obviously not in intelligence — but in terms of our caliber of play. Definitely coming out here and showing we can play ball elevates those standards in people’s minds hopefully.” Hodges and Varga played alongside many of the most notable names in college football, such as Bryce Petty of Baylor, Hau’oli Kikaha of Washington and Ameer Abdullah of Nebraska, who was named Senior Bowl MVP after rushing for 73 yards and tallying another 40 receiving. Varga’s play is no less impressive considering that he switched positions the week of the game. Coaches used Varga at fullback, rather than at tailback, during the majority of the week. His two touchdowns, however, were from his familiar
position of tailback, proving his versatility to NFL teams. “I think he’s got a chance to … play either running back or fullback,” an NFL scout said to the News. “He also showed he can [take a] pitch out of the backfield, so [he is a] versatile player who can play multiple positions and play on special teams. I think teams know that.” The scout, who wished to remain anonymous, told the News that he first saw Varga when visiting Army in mid-October 2014. Varga, who ran for 185 yards and five touchdowns in Yale’s 49–43 overtime win against the Black Knights, was featured on the Army defense’s film. Later, the scout visited Lehigh, another early Yale opponent. In that game, Varga rushed for 152 yards on 19 carries. After that visit, the scout decided to drop by New Haven to meet the Ivy League’s leading scorer. “He’s very smart,” the scout said of Varga. “He has good drive, he wants to be successful. He understands what it takes to have success at the next level as far as dedication, time management, all those kind of things. He’s the kind of guy who has a shot at having success at the next level if everything works out and he finds himself in that situation.” This is where Linta comes in. A Yale alumnus with more than 20 years of experience, Linta has represented NFL players such as Baltimore Ravens quarterback and former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco and former Harvard center Matt Birk, who also played for the Ravens.
Linta regularly attends the Senior Bowl with his clients, he said, but called this year “special” due to his connection with Yale. As of now, Varga and Linta are waiting to hear if Varga will be invited to the NFL Scouting Combine next month. They are also hoping to put together a Pro Day, where Varga can work out for assembled NFL scouts. Until the scouts arrive, Linta said, Varga is working on many aspects of his play, including his running and pass blocking. Though he was reported to have struggled blocking earlier in the week, the NFL scout said he thought Varga’s blocking was acceptable. Varga will be doing all that preparation while still finishing up his graduation requirements as an ecology and evolutionary biology major. While he has impressed scouts with his intelligence, Linta said that he has also dispelled a stereotype among scouts that Ivy League graduates are not passionate enough about playing professional football. “[Varga] just lives, breathes and dies football,” Linta said. “It’s what he loves. He’ll be a doctor some day, but he knows he can do that down the road. He’s probably the best prospect that Yale’s had in the last 30 years, I would say.” The last Eli invited to the Senior Bowl was right tackle Walter Clemens ’51. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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desperate for a comeback, turned to its two stars on the court, and the pair of Duren and Sears rose to the occasion. While both players combined for a respectable 17 points in the first half, they were red-hot in the final 20 minutes. Following a first half where Yale mustered 25 total points, Duren and Sears combined to score 32 points in the second half alone. During one 12:26 stretch, no other Yale player registered a single bucket as
the inside-out combo rattled off 26 straight points to turn the six-point deficit into a six-point advantage. “[Duren] is our leader on the floor offensively and he does a great job of making the right play,” Jones said. “Justin did a good job at getting himself in position to be successful, taking it up strong and finishing.” In total, Yale’s dynamic duo registered 51 of the team’s 69 points, with Sears scoring 27 and Duren adding 24. The most pleasant sight for the Elis faithful might have been
Sears’s performance from the freethrow line, as he made all seven of his attempts in the second half, including four in the final 25 seconds. “It’s like a weight off my shoulder,” Sears said. “It’s the easiest shot in the game so I knew I could make it down the stretch.” Additionally, forward Armani Cotton ’15 emerged to play arguably as significant a role for a crucial stretch late in the contest. Beginning at the 5:43 mark, when Cotton made one of two free throws for his first point of the game, he was the only member of the Elis to score until a pair of free throws by Sears with 25 seconds left. Of Cotton’s eight consecutive points during that run, six of them put Yale in front in what was a back-and-forth contest. As for Duren’s costly blunder on the dunk attempt, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week ultimately had the last laugh thanks to his cold-blooded game-winner. “I think I made up for it,” Duren said of his mistake. Adding to the significance of the victory was that Yale staved off the upset on a day when its chief conference foes, Harvard and Columbia, each lost. As the lone Ivy squad at 2–0 in league play, Yale will have to handle having a target on its collective back. The task this week will entail surviving a New York road trip, as the Elis will face off against Columbia on Friday and Cornell on Saturday. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
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SPORTS
“I don’t really answer preschool questions. Improve your line of questioning, and we’ll talk.” RICHARD SHERMAN ALL-PRO CORNERBACK
Fiery Bulldogs split series with Brown BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER For the second weekend in a row, the Yale women’s hockey team split a pair of conference games, this time earning a win and a loss against Brown.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (9–11–1, 6–8–0 ECAC) could not manage to hold off the Bears (5–16–0, 2–12– 0) on Friday night, falling 3–2 in overtime. However, they proved themselves on Saturday, rebounding with a 6–3 victory to even the team’s record against Brown for the two-game series. “This weekend we experienced our lowest low so far this season, losing to one of the lowest ranked teams in the league,” forward Phoebe Stanz ’17 said. “It was an absolutely horrendous game. We did not play to our ability and sort of just stepped on the ice because it was time for a game. We did not step out to win on Friday. We just showed up.” In Friday night’s game, Yale took control in the first period, outshooting the Bears 20–5. Despite the Elis aggressive offense and two power play opportunities, Yale players never managed to reach the back of the net. The game was scoreless entering the second period. Brown was the first to score, pushing in a rebound around goalkeeper Jaimie Leonoff ’15 at 5:35 into the period. Yet the Bulldogs once again took control of the puck, taking twice as many shots as the Bears. The Elis answered with two goals of their own in the second, scored by forwards Jackie Raines ’15 and Gretchen Tarrant ’16. Roughly six minutes into the LAKSHMAN SOMASUNDARAM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
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The Bulldogs out-shot Brown 20–5 in the first period of action during Friday’s contest.
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Yale drops pair on road BY DREW MEGERIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Coming off of a strong four-point ECAC weekend against Brown last weekend, the Yale Bulldogs were unable to continue the win streak, dropping consecutive matchups against St. Lawrence and Clarkson on Friday and Saturday.
MEN’S HOCKEY Both teams — St. Lawrence (13–10– 2, 9–4–0 ECAC) and Clarkson (10–11– 4, 7–4–2) — rank above Yale at second and fourth in the ECAC, respectively. And while the weekend originally looked to continue the trend established against Brown, Yale was unable to capture more than a single point, losing a golden opportunity to move up in the conference standings. The Elis currently sit at seventh in the ECAC with 13 points. “On Friday, we just didn’t seal the deal when we needed to. We had chances to seal the game and didn’t put it away and weren’t disciplined at the end of the game when we needed to be,”
forward Mike Doherty ’17 said. “Saturday, we faced a solid defensive team and didn’t get enough going offensively to put goals away.” Friday’s game against the Saints was characterized by a number of momentum shifts. Both defenses took away many grade-A scoring chances, as shown by each team scoring just once in the first two periods.
We need to bear down offensively — you can’t win if you don’t score any goals. JOHN HAYDEN ’17 The Bulldogs took the lead midway through the third period after defenseman Matt Killian ’15 slapped a loose puck from the high slot past screened Saints goaltender Kyle Hayton. And though the Elis looked to have the advantage all the way into the dying minutes of the third period, they were SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B2
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Yale’s bench out-scored Brown’s reserves 32–9, led by nine points from guard Meghan McIntyre ’17. BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER A week after the Yale women’s basketball team defeated Brown at home, it repeated history on Brown’s home court 79–69 on Friday thanks to a season-high 66.7 percent shooting from the field in the second half. The spotlight of the night belonged to center Emmy Allen ’16, who scored a team- and career-high 17 points to help the Bulldogs clinch victory.
W. BASKETBALL Whereas Yale led the entirety of its first game against Brown, this match was more of a back-and-forth affair, featuring seven ties and eight lead changes. Furthermore, unlike last time, it was the Bears who dominated the opening minutes, leading 11–5 at the 14:32 mark following two successful free throws from junior guard Jordin Alexander. “As a team, we failed to come out with the same energy we did the last time we played [Brown], so it took us a while to get going,” guard Mary Ann
Santucci ’18 said. Yale (8–8, 2–0 Ivy) temporarily caught up with the Bears 14–13 after two three-pointers from guards Meghan McIntyre ’17 and Lena Munzer ’17, but the Bears (6–10, 0–2) took a 22–16 lead at the 9:20 mark after going on a 9–2 run. Yale regained momentum, once again thanks to two three-point shots from McIntyre and Santucci, to tie Brown 28–28 with just less than six minutes remaining in the half.
We are thankful that a great night of play for Emmy and our other posts offensively were enough to offset our poor defensive output. NYASHA SARJU ’16 However, the Bears went over nine minutes without a field goal, scoring
just 12 free throws over the next 9:34 stretching into the second half. After intermission, down 36–33, the Bulldogs caught fire, making 14 of 21 shots and 17 of 20 free throws in the final period. In the first few minutes, the two teams traded baskets and neither team led by more than three points. Allen’s two successful free throws at 15:56, however, sent the Bulldogs on an explosive 13–4 run to lead the game 52–46. Yale would maintain its lead for the remaining 12 minutes. The Bears attempted a comeback and narrowed the deficit to three at the 7:45 mark, but the Elis quickly took off after a jump shot from guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16. With just under four minutes remaining, the Bulldogs scored 14 points from the charity line to end the game 79–69. While the Bulldogs owed much of their first win against Brown to pressure defense, the team suffered defensively this time and had to overcompensate with an explosive offense. According to guard Nya SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2
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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 saved 29 shots in each of the weekend’s contests, but the Bulldogs were swept.