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The best Woads of all time. As is tradition, the Yale College Council will announce this year’s Spring Fling lineup at Woads tonight. The announcement will take place at midnight, and, after the event, the Spring Fling Committee’s website will go live. Students can visit yalespringfling2016.com for details after tonight.

Last chance dance. This is your last week to stream several shows and movies on Netflix, which is bringing in a new batch of content with the new year. Popular films including “Terms of Endearment,” “The Hurt Locker,” “The Terminator” and “Rain Man” will be removed from the site next week.

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application to be a peer liaison for the coming academic year is now open. Peer liaisons serve the Office of LGBTQ Resources, the University Chaplain’s Office, OISS and the cultural centers. The peer liaison program has also changed its fall orientation dates to allow students who lead freshman preorientation programs to participate.

Black and fellow. The Yale

Center for International and Professional Experience is hosting a workshop to teach students how to write effective fellowship proposals. The workshop, which will take place at the CIPE at 11 a.m. today, will be followed by summer fellowships Q&A sessions next week.

In case you skipped leg day. Students living in the

Morse College tower woke up yesterday to find that their elevator was not working. The elevator was out of service all day, and students who spoke with facilities staff over the phone were told that the it would not be fixed until today at the earliest.

Yale’s next top. Y Fashion House released the announcement video for its Winter 2016 show “Synthesia,” which will take place on Feb. 5 in the Silliman dining hall. The student group also shared an album of models’ headshots on Facebook.

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the sponsorships that the conference develops with corporations, according to JMI Sports President Tom Stultz.

“The key is that we wanted to partner with a company that was really interested in understanding what the Ivy League is as a conference, what we are going for as a league and who really wanted to respect the brand that we are and

Yale-NUS’s Common Curriculum, a signature of the young liberal arts college, will adopt a more condensed form next academic year.

Announced last Thursday, changes to the Common Curriculum program — a set of courses compulsory for all Yale-NUS students — will include reducing its current size, designating an inaugural director of the Common Curriculum and designing a common science class for both science majors and non-science majors. The changes follow months of review by the Yale-NUS internal review committee and an external review committee made up faculty members from Yale and the National University of Singapore.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said the results of the two committees showed that the Common Curriculum has been successful since the school opened in 2013. But the school will not share a summary of the reports submitted by the two committees, which was meant for “internal circulation only,” according to Yale-NUS spokeswoman Fiona Soh. “The primary finding of the self-study committee was that the Common Curriculum seems to be working quite well over-

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Not-so-lucky seven.

Presidential candidate Ben Carson ’73 has fallen 15 points to 7 percent among likely primary voters according to a ABC News and Washington Post poll released yesterday.

Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican race with 37 percent of the vote. In the poll, 67 percent of Republican primary voters said they expect Trump to win the nomination.

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Though no specific plans have been made yet, JMI Sports will seek more Ivy League corporate sponsors in the near future.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER In the same month that Yale revealed a historic apparel deal with Under Armour, the Ivy League as a whole was finalizing a brand-new partnership of its own.

The Ivy League announced last Tuesday that JMI Sports, an athletics marketing firm that also holds partnerships with the Pac-12 athletic conference, the University of

Kentucky and Arizona State University, has become the conference’s official marketing-rights agency. The conference had previously worked with the Leverage Agency, which became partners with the Ivy League in March 2012 and helped secure its first-ever corporate sponsorship, with footwear brand JP Crickets, in January 2014.

The agreement, which originated from an Ivy League initiative last summer, is meant to enhance

Infant ingests PCP-laced cigarette

BY CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTER On Jan. 19, emergency medical technicians hurried an 18-month-old boy to Yale-New Haven Hospital after he consumed a phencyclidine-laced cigarette belonging to his father.

Police arrived at Brookside/ West Hills apartments last week after a 27-year-old mother called the New Haven Police Department to report that she believed her baby to be high. In a press release published last week, the parents said the infant was “acting oddly — as if he

was high” before he fell unconscious. The mother said she smelled phencyclidine, a hallucinogenic commonly referred to as PCP, on the child’s breath.

She added that the contraband cigarettes were available in their home and within the child’s reach. When emergency medical professionals arrived, the boy had a pulse and was breathing on his own, but was still taken to the hospital. Since being admitted to Yale-New Haven, the child’s condition has stabilized, according to a news release from NHPD spokesman David Hartman.

Admins talk faculty diversity

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER “Yale has problems, serious problems,” Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas admitted at a Tuesday evening panel about faculty diversity at the University.

In light of recent campus controversies about racial justice and public calls for increased diversity among faculty and students, top administrators met with graduate students Tuesday to discuss the ways in which faculty members are hired, promoted and retained, particularly when it comes to building a diverse faculty. Around 150 students attended the panel discussion, titled “Building a Diverse Faculty: Recruitment, Tenure and Retention,” and attendees posed questions on topics ranging from the tenure-track system to diverse faculty-student mentorship to details of the recently announced $50 million faculty diversity initiative, which

some have found confusing and opaque.

The trajectory of the discussion centered on two overarching questions regarding faculty diversity and the tenure system: how the tenure system is currently set up and how the system can be altered to improve the diversity of the Yale faculty.

“I was extremely impressed by the insight that the questions showed and the commitment by those in the room to what I think is a University-wide shared goal of getting a faculty that represents the full diversity of our nation and world,” Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler said after the meeting.

“I thought the tone in the room was respectfully challenging in exactly the way that is appropriate for an academic conversation.”

The panel consisted of Gendler, Bribiescas, FAS Dean of Academic Affairs John Dovidio and Associate Dean for Graduate Student Development and SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 6

“It is critical to provide [substance-abuse recovery support] to families, especially those with the most vulnerable — younger children,” said Mary Painter, director of substance abuse treatment and recovery at the Connecticut Department of Children and Families.

Both parents were taken into custody on Jan. 19 and are facing charges for risk of injury to a minor. Furthermore, the 28-year-old father was charged with possession of narcotics, Hartman said. Hartman declined to comment further on the case, but noted that similar

situations “[are] not common.”

Under Connecticut law, specific information about the case is confidential, Painter said.

While the unintended ingestion of contraband by a youth may be rare, DCF Communications Director Gary Kleeblatt said that 60 to 70 percent of children in child welfare programs come from homes with substance abuse. The DCF could not comment on whether the child admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital last week will be streamlined into a child welfare program.

“There is a tremendous inter-

sect between child welfareinvolved families and substance abuse, so we have a pretty large service array in Connecticut to try to address parental substance-abuse, as well as adolescent substance-abuse, issues,” Painter said.

Painter said the DCF does not look to remove children from their homes unless it is absolutely necessary. Cases such as these are the reason behind the DCF’s commitment to developing services to address the needs of families impacted by SEE CIGARETTE PAGE 6

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Yale hires workers to shovel, plow, salt and sand the campus when snowstorms hit.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS Marco Olivar leaned on his shovel outside an entryway in Timothy Dwight on Saturday, standing with a half dozen fellow snow shovelers. It was 7 p.m., the snow was only inches deep, and the night was far from over.

When snowstorms come to New Haven, Yale hires a veritable army of workers to shovel, plow, salt and sand the campus at any time until the snow stops. These workers are not full-time Yale employees, but are hired from a variety of outside sources — often contractors — said Senior Advisor to the President Martha High-

smith. Most of the 10 workers interviewed during the storm Saturday night speak only Spanish, and nearly all live outside the city.

“We come from all over,” said Olivar, who was called to work shortly before the snow began to fall Saturday morning. The work done by this SEE FACILITIES PAGE 6

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hen women of color at the entrance of a fraternity at Yale suffer, we all suffer. When the Legion of Black Collegians at Mizzou suffers, we all suffer. When teens in McKinney suffer, we all suffer. Ferguson. Charleston. Staten Island.

Sanford. And revealed most recently: Chicago. We are all racism’s students, unwittingly caught up in a semester of suffering.

It is difficult to see how one more person pushing will help to move the boulder of institutional racism that has caused so much suffering. But isn’t that precisely the reason for collective action? I was emboldened

by Rianna Johnson-Levy’s ’17 column asking students and alumni to “stand in support” (“How we do better,” Nov. 10, 2015). Many Yale alumni feel as if they are part of this movement. Current students do not stand alone. So here is another response to my friend’s call.

Teach-ins at Yale have educated many about racism and misogyny, but we’re all on different schedules of enlightenment. I was racially awakened in high school when “friends” hurled “blackie” and "nig nog," and would click their tongues to imitate isizulu sounds, condemning my blackness as the reason for my acceptance to the universities that rejected them. At Yale I became proficient in the (subtle? blatant?) racism and femmephobia some gay men espouse in their “preferences.” Once I embraced and expressed my trans identity, I absorbed transphobic comments from hookup partners.

A leader of the Black Student Alliance at Yale encapsulated my point best: “Yale is as much as it ever was.”

I now work at Yale-NUS College. While this distance from Yale can make my attempts to offer support feel ineffective, Singapore has opened my mind. Similar to Baldwin and Coates, living in a place where chattel slavery is not imprinted on societal memory — and where the population is majority Chinese — has provided a critical distance from which I have been forced to examine de facto discourses and internalized racial hierarchy in the U.S. I’m not sure how to be connected to this movement from Singapore. I straddle the bridge Yale built into Asia, pulled in two directions by competing demands: current Yalies need support, but discussions at Yale-NUS require my full attention. The desire to bring the uproar at Yale into the Yale-NUS psyche is tangled in an unshakeable sense of futility: is it relevant to this Singaporean-majority campus, or am I devoting a navelgazing focus to this issue?

On Nov. 11, Yale alumni

working as Dean’s Fellows led a three-hour discussion about events at Yale, in which 28 Yale-NUS students, staff and faculty reflected on implications for Yale-NUS. Someone asked if Yale’s residential colleges were “homes” or “intellectual spaces.” Another student replied, “RCs break down that false dichotomy, like we do here.” Yale-NUS has three RCs, modeled after Yale. The conversation shifted. Did we feel like our RCs were intellectual homes? Does institutional racism exist in Singapore or at Yale-NUS? Though 1,200 strong, Yale’s “March of Resilience” — larger than Yale-NUS’s student body at foreseen capacity — did not earn recognition from YaleNUS President Pericles Lewis or our school newspaper, The Octant. Perhaps contentious activism is where the hyphen connecting Yale-NUS to its parent institution — and future alumni association — tapers off. In New Haven, Yale President Peter Salovey responded to the march by detailing “four key areas” of focus for the administration to build “a better Yale.” All Yale affiliates must share that responsibility, or the crux of the work will not be achieved. This is far from the end, and we cannot lose steam.

The burden of change cannot lie with marginalized people alone. We need the harmony of voices that feel removed from suffering. My old a capella group is predominantly white, and I am the only black member in the past 12 years. Should they ask a black friend to educate them? I think not. No one should be asked to perform emotional labor.

Minority-group membership should not be a prerequisite to thinking critically about racialized humor and problematic discussion threads. As in a capella arrangements, each voice adds power, and maybe even some shimmer. The onus should be on all of us.

Yale professor Crystal Feimster teaches that we all have “linked fates.” Yale-NUS students are continuing to build a school where everyone is respected even when they disagree. I hope everyone at Yale can zoom out from the instances that catalyzed this conversation and think about how they involve all of us.

Think about who is included in your “we.” Start there. The task of combating institutional racism at Yale and across the U.S. begins with small conversations. Now is the time to put this issue on whichever table we frequent. Now: Speak.

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o me, classes during Yale shopping period are like the children in the Willy Wonka movie. The courses at the beginning are brimming with hope and enthusiastic possibility, but you can still tell that most of them are no good. Over time the suspicion is confirmed so that they are slowly but surely removed from our Online Course Selection worksheets as if by Oompa Loompas. Yet just as the chocolate factory had its Charlie, so too is there a course at Yale that has proven itself to be a great treasure. I am referring, of course, to EVST 348: “Yellowstone and Global Change.”

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than … Yellowstone, and our people should see to it that it is preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with its majestic beauty all unmarred.”

He was speaking of the park, but he might as well have been talking about the class. Despite receiving surprisingly little fanfare, it is truly the best one at Yale.

Before I explain, it is worth acknowledging that my capacity

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because it is difficult to imagine a more exciting class.

You get this sense as soon as you walk in for the first time.

The environment is infested with energy, enthusiasm and a spirit of learning. Professor Susan Clark is sweet as a box of candy and makes everyone feel welcome and engaged. She is eager to work with her students and never lacking in terms of insights, perspectives and fun commentary. Indeed, she is one of the pre-eminent Yellowstone experts in the world. The workload is fair but rigorous: There’s a lengthy final paper, two class presentations and weekly reading responses.

The dominant allure of “Yellowstone and Global Change,” however, is the wondrous nature of its subject, the park itself.

Yellowstone is the place to be; there’s no getting around it.

President Obama recently went so far as to say that Teddy Roosevelt was his favorite childhood president in large part because Roosevelt would hang out in Yellowstone for months at a time — even while in office. Anyone who has been to the park would

have to concede that Roosevelt was onto something, and that Obama is wise to be admiring.

If you take the course, you can see for yourself: One of the great perks of “Yellowstone and Global Change” is that it offers its students the option to visit over spring break — and Yale subsidizes the entire trip.

I took advantage of this opportunity and it rendered me speechless to see such a special place. Upon reflection during my time in the park, I wrote an acrostic poem (which I would be happy to share with you if you are so inclined to reach out).

Yellowstone National Park is an American treasure. Its aesthetics are breathtaking and the whole park is a volcano with the power to destroy the entire world. Correspondingly, “Yellowstone and Global Change” is a Yale treasure, and a hidden one at that.

Don’t miss your chance for this golden ticket.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

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to make such a judgment is limited. After all, I have only taken 31 courses and Yale offers r o u g h l y MICHAEL 2,000. Many them are HERBERT of gems.

Who could take Scoop of umbrage with the unflinchHerbert ing certainty of the OCE reviewer who described their love for “Ornithology”? How can one disparage a class as riveting as “Age of Akhenaton,” a close study of the famous Egyptian pharaoh, or the schoolwide energy generated by “The Structure of Networks”? Not to mention the various courses which have received accolades in the national media.

I have not taken all of these courses and certainly do not intend to diminish the value of any class at Yale. Nevertheless, my pronouncements on “Yellowstone and Global Change” are more than just a gut feeling,

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hen we go to the movies and watch television, we expect to laugh and cheer and to be entertained. At its best, however, media can give us something deeper, a portrait into our lives and a glimpse into what we can become.

But what if that portrait never reflected your reality? According to U.S. census data, minorities now represent over 40 percent of the country. That number might surprise those who grew up against the backdrop of American movies and television shows whose storylines typically concern white men, or, if there’s a white girl, the white guy‘s attempt to get with her.

This lack of diversity has serious consequences. Only one demographic in this country can turn on the TV and see a positive, in-depth representation of itself. Only one demographic of the country is spoon-fed inspiration to achieve its maximum potential at the expense of every other group. If you use television screens to propagate

already dominant conceptions of strength and beauty, these ideas seem to pass as truth.

Does this feel any different from marketing or — worse — from propaganda?

Sometimes I wonder if my younger self would have had greater dreams and aspirations if there existed a wider variety of depictions of Asian-Americans beyond the typical scholastic nerd.

As I got older, I told myself that the best way to combat stereotypes and empower other Asian-Americans would be to break through these barriers myself and become a counterexample for others. I rowed Varsity Crew my freshmen year.

I was in student government. I was a FroCo. I’ve worked on my public speaking and my writing skills. I’ve slowly built up the confidence to define myself beyond my race. And yet, I’ve also realized that I as an individual am limited in the number of lives I can touch. Unless I become a celebrity or a national icon, unless my face can reach

an entire country’s population, my impact as a role model will only be felt at the local level.

Barack Obama’s presidency was so historically important because a black kid can now point to Obama and dare to say to himself, “I can be president too.” But a white kid can turn on his TV and tell himself, “I can be Superman, I can be Batman.”

And, if he follows the Oscars, “I can be Steve Jobs. I can use my ingenuity and grit to survive Mars or the uninhabited Louisiana territory.”

This is why diversity in media is so important. It’s a way to visualize narratives for ourselves and our world. No kid out there should believe that any path might be closed off to him due to his race. Ignorance is when other people buy into the stereotypes created about your race. Tragedy is when you buy into these stereotypes yourself.

Now, eight years after Obama began his presidency, Spike Lee and others are boycotting the Oscars because no actors of color were nominated. But the

problem extends beyond the composition of the Academy, which, as of 2012, was 94 percent white and 77 percent male.

What’s of greater concern is the lacking number of non-white, male studio executives that ultimately decide which projects are produced, how they are written and how they are cast.

“It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than to be head of a studio, or be head of a network,” Lee said.

At Yale, we are led to believe that we can change the world and become leaders and influencers. We also believe that business, politics, law and medicine are most expedient for accomplishing this end. It’s time that we also begin taking an active role in shaping the powerful and pervasive effects that media exerts on our lives.

JOHNATHAN YAO is a 2015 graduate of Jonathan Edwards College and will graduate from the School of Public Health in 2016. Contact him at johnathan.yao@yale.edu .

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Peer liaison program to evolve

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Last semester, students and administrators alike were confronted with questions about the roles that authority figures should play in student life on campus — such as if a residential college master should make potentially provocative comments, or if the dean of Yale College should take on an activist role beyond his administrative responsibilities.

This soul-searching has extended to students as well, especially within the peer liaison program, which is set to see changes in its stewardship and scope.

Heading into its eighth year of existence, the peer liaison program connects first-year students with Yale’s cultural, religious, international and LGBTQ resources.

The program will undergo several changes soon: Director of the Office of LGBTQ Resources Maria Trumpler GRD ’92, who sent a collegewide email Tuesday afternoon encouraging Yale College students to apply to become peer liaisons for the next academic year, will soon turn over the program’s directorship to Kelly Fayard, director of the Native American Cultural Center. Additionally, the Asian American Cultural Center is looking to expand the number of peer liaisons it hires, with other cultural centers considering following suit. Amidst these changes, peer liaisons expressed

hopes for better incorporation of the program into Yale’s residential college system and offered different definitions of the role they see themselves playing.

“The [peer liaisons] are a tremendous peer resource, that in some years may be underutilized, and in other periods, like this fall, be overwhelmed,” Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said. “[The] program is in a constant state of evolution to meet the needs of the student body and the needs of the University community.”

The peer liaison program is traditionally under the supervision of the Yale College Dean’s Office.

Trumpler — who only became director of the program last May, after the resignation of former Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center Rodney Cohen — explained that she has been acting as an interim director until the YCDO could find a suitable replacement from within the office.

Howard added that Fayard, who will take over as director of the program from the next school year, is considering a number of important questions, such as the proper student-to-liaison ratio; how students, deans and masters of residential colleges utilize the program; and how the program can become more effective in the years ahead. Fayard could not be reached for comment as of Tuesday night.

As Yale’s student body becomes more diverse, the student-to-liaison ratio has grown, with more students being assigned to each liaison. At the AACC, head peer liaison Payal Marathe ’16 said peer liaisons now have more students than they can handle, and anticipating the addition of two new residential colleges, the AACC is looking to hire two more liaisons for the next school year. Currently, the AACC employs 10 liaisons.

Peer liaisons at the AACC declined to say how much they are paid or how much money the additional hires will cost the center. But University President Peter Salovey announced in November that the budgets for all four cultural centers will double next year, although administrators have repeatedly declined to give the centers’ current budgets.

“It would be my hope that some of the additional resources and support indicated in President Salovey’s email to the community last semester might be earmarked for enhancements to the peer liasion program — to help bolster their numbers, but also to make sure that students working to support other students are well versed in Yale’s resources and policies … [and] have access to great training to better help them support their designated peers,” Howard said, adding that each year small changes are made to the selection and training process to better prepare liaisons for issues they may

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face during the year.

La Casa Cultural head peer liaison Cristal Suarez ’16 said that while there are no concrete plans for the expansion of the peer liaison program at her house, there is awareness of the need for increased support.

I would like to see more collaboration between the peer liaison teams of different centers [and] offices.

MARI KAWAKATSU ’17 Peer Liaison, Office of International Students and Scholars Though the peer liaison program is relatively new and still evolving, liaisons from different cultural centers and offices all emphasized their role in helping freshmen transition to college and, more specifically, to the Yale community. When weeks of student demonstrations and calls for a better racial climate shook campus last semester, many liaisons said they found themselves engaged in a challenging but rewarding situation, which gave them an opportunity to explore the different ways liaisons can function as resources.

“Naturally the whole situation was challenging, but all of the peer liaisons tried to facilitate thoughtful discussion amongst first-years,” Af-Am House head peer liaison Paige Curtis ’16 said.

“I wouldn’t call this a ‘challenge’ per se, but it was really important to me that first-year students realize how powerful their voices are on campus.”

Suarez said it was “encouraging” that so many freshmen took part in the conversations and events last semester and continue to participate in these important discussions this semester and beyond.

Mari Kawakatsu ’17, a peer liaison for the Office of International Students and Scholars, said liaisons for international students faced a unique situation last semester in facilitating conversations about racial justice on campus and in America.

“One challenge we faced last semester was that many international freshmen found it difficult to relate to the issues of race and gender that were bought up, partly because of their particularly American nature,” she said.

Many of the conversations about last semester’s events, according to NACC head peer liaison Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, happened across cultural centers and engaged students from different backgrounds. As a result, Bear Don’t Walk said she thinks the peer liaison program has the

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BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER A group of community activists and New Haven residents gathered in City Hall Tuesday night to set an agenda for civicadvocacy projects throughout 2016.

The meeting of the New Haven Votes Coalition, a loose coalition of civic advocates, ended with members deciding to work on issues ranging from an expansion of the New Haven Democracy Fund to efforts to increase young people’s participation in public hearings. Focused on the concept of “civic health” — a catch-all term for levels of civic engagement in an area — the meeting also served an informational purpose. Many of the roughly 25 attendees, all New Haven residents, came out of curiosity about the group and interest in the possibilities for civic advocacy in the city. “[The group] has been around for a while … it has become about individuals,” said Rachel Heerema, the chair of the meeting and a longtime member of the New Haven activist community.

“That’s really what we’re trying to do tonight and this year — to get more individual action-oriented people to step up, and as a group we can identify the things we think are most important to civic engagement in New Haven.”

The meeting began with a brief discussion from Aaron Goode ’04, a Wooster Square resident and member of the neighborhood’s community management team. Citing a Jan. 1 DataHaven report about civic health, Goode said metrics of New Haven’s civic health run below both the national and state averages. DataHaven measures civic health by comparing a wide variety of data categories, including voter turnout, participation in government and rates of charitable giving, to the

national averages for these measures.

According to the report, neighborhoods with poverty rates above 40 percent — located in cities like New Haven, Bridgeport and Waterbury — generally have considerably lower levels of civic health than those in suburban neighborhoods.

Connecting city residents with local government was a theme among the meeting’s attendees. Some said the group should advocate for liaisons between the Office of the Mayor and the city’s community management teams.

“There’s a wonderful opportunity for someone from the mayor’s office, who I think should be high up, around chiefof-staff level, to liaison with the management teams and neighborhood associations to get feelers on what’s going on and also to get feelers for ‘How are we doing? How responsive is City Hall being?’” said Lee Cruz, a Fair Haven resident and community outreach director for The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven.

Fish Stark ’17, a staff columnist for the News and former Democratic candidate for Ward 1 alder, said Cruz’s idea may have some traction, noting that the mayor had interviewed a candidate for a liaison position between the city administration and the community management teams, though no hire was ever made.

Jared Milfred ’16, the chair of the New Haven Democracy Fund, put another proposal on the table: the New Haven Votes Coalition should advocate for extending the fund, which provides public financing for city elections. At the moment, the fund only covers the mayoral race, but progressives in the city have suggested that it be expanded.

“One thing I’ve been interested in doing … is pushing an

expansion of [the public-financing fund] to cover other races in New Haven, especially for the city clerk race and the two new Board of Ed seats,” he said.

“I would also love to see public financing for the aldermanic races, but that’s a higher bar to reach.”

Milfred’s proposal was met with enthusiasm in the room and pulled the most votes in an unofficial vote conducted at the end of the meeting.

Another popular proposal was for efforts to involve the city’s young people more heavily in the civic process. While discussing the DataHaven report, Goode noted that age is a strong predictor for level of civic engagement — young people are less likely to be involved in their community, he said.

Lou Mangini, a senior staffer for Rep. Rosa DeLauro, said young people’s lack of engagement might be a result of millennials’ heavy use of social media, which city government seldom uses to promote public hearings.

“One of the things that stands out to me is that [public hearings] is kind of an old-school way of doing things,” he said. “I think what the city did last year, in terms of making the Board of Alders more accessible through social media, can help with that.”

Heerema suggested that social-media posts about public hearings might help engage young people in their communities. Attendees agreed, and a large portion of the meeting’s attendees said they would be willing to work on the issue throughout the year.

Heerema said the next meeting of the New Haven Votes Coalition will likely occur sometime in February. The exact date has yet to be determined.

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

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

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BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER

Elm City activists gathered in City Hall Tuesday evening to vote on this year’s advocacy projects.

potential to include more crosscultural events and programming.

Other liaisons also highlighted room for the various centers and offices that employ them to work together.

“In the future, I would like to see more collaboration between the peer liaison teams of different centers [and] offices, since they currently operate independently of one another for the most part,” Kawakatsu said.

Liaisons are also reimagining other ways the program can better serve students. Ideally, Marathe said, liaisons should be able to support freshman counselors and function as another line of support. Suarez also said she would like to see the peer liason program work more closely with the FroCos and be recognized as an important source of support for freshmen.

“Yale students are often our best advocates and [a] first line of support for other Yale students,” Howard said, adding that liaisons are an important part of the network of support that also includes the residential college system and other administrative resources.

Peer liaisons are affiliated with and available through Yale’s four cultural centers as well as the Office of LGBTQ Resources, the Office of International Students and Scholars and the Chaplain’s Office.

Gov. Dannel Malloy visited the Elm City Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the success of LeanCT — a government-efficiency program — two months shy of its second birthday.

Speaking in Stamford and at the Yale School of Management on Tuesday, Malloy said over 40 state agencies became more cost-effective and efficient in 2015 after using Lean, a program Malloy launched in March 2013. Lean, a process that prioritizes customers while minimizing resource consumption, has helped save taxpayer money and has improved the delivery of agency services, the governor’s office reports. Lean has also facilitated collaborations between state agencies, making governmental systems more customer-focused and data-driven.

“It’s a tough economy out there,” Malloy said. “Government has to reform itself.

We’ve been about that work for a long time here in Connecticut.”

LeanCT, run by the Office of Policy and Management and the Office of Finance, employs organizational, process and programmatic improvement techniques such as Lean to optimize state agencies and make them more sustainable, OPM’s website reports. So far, agencies that have grown in

efficiency as a result of Lean include the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, which cut the average time taken to complete wastewater discharge inspection reports from 60 days to 10 days, according to the governor’s press release. Additionally, the Department of Labor and the Department of Social Services have provided veterans with community re-entry services 74 percent faster since 2013.

The governor’s announcement follows the release of a report from Ben Barnes, secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, to LeanCT Director Alison Fisher. In the report, Barnes detailed ways in which individual agencies and collaborations between agencies have improved their performance.

During his visit, Malloy cited examples of Lean collaborations that have also improved performance in state agencies, such as the significant improvement in response time for those applying for disability support services from the Eligibility Unit of the Department of Developmental Services.

Bob Emiliani, professor of Lean management at Central Connecticut State University, said the results the 40 state agencies have experienced are in line with what would be expected from such an approach.

LeanCT’s launch required

state agencies to conduct indepth evaluations of their activities to identify extraneous steps, excess processing of information and tasks that they are slow in completing, Malloy said.

“What we needed to do was to do what the private sector had done,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons it’s interesting to be here at the Yale School of Management.”

Ad d re ss i n g co n ce r n s regarding the efficiency of the Department of Motor Vehicles — which has encountered a slew of problems over the past year involving overly long wait times and computer program issues — Malloy referenced the difficulties inherent in implementing new software in an agency that has been reliant on an old system for the past 40 years. The governor temporarily assigned Deputy Commissioner of Labor Dennis Murphy to the DMV on Monday, after former DMV Commissioner Andres Ayala Jr. resigned last week.

Malloy also stated Tuesday that he has no intention to raise taxes in his annual budget speech to the General Assembly next week.

The term “Lean” was originally coined in the late 1980s to describe the manufacturing process of Toyota automobiles.

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Yale-NUS to revise core curriculum YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 all,” said Charles Bailyn ’81, Yale-NUS’s dean of faculty and the chair of the internal review committee. “Faculty and students are strongly behind the program as a whole, particularly the fully common first semester … [The changes] are modest improvements to a program that is already working well.”

GREATER COORDINATION

Beyond the structural changes in the Common Curriculum, Yale-NUS is looking to appoint an inaugural director of the Common Curriculum.

Responsibilities of the new position, Lewis said, will include bringing different parts of the Common Curriculum together, assigning faculty members to teach courses within the curriculum and reviewing course syllabi. Currently, these responsibilities are shared among the dean of faculty and directors of different academic divisions.

Lewis said having one person oversee the Common Curriculum will give the program greater focus, adding that the body currently in charge of the Common Curriculum must fulfill other duties such as faculty recruitment and responsibilities toward majors. He added that having one person instead of several heading the Common Curriculum will foster greater communication among instructors and help coordinate the courses’ content.

Bailyn acknowledged the need for improved synergy between courses so as to maximize the benefits of a common curriculum. He called this the most important recommendation proposed by the internal review committee.

Lewis said the director will also ensure a standard grading guideline across various classes, which might ease students’ complaints regarding grading.

According to a September article in the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times, Yale-NUS students voiced concerns about erratic marking standards in Common Curriculum courses.

REDUCING SIZE

Currently, the Yale-NUS Common Curriculum is made up of either 12 or 13 courses, depending on whether a student chooses the two-semester course called “Foundations of Science,” or the three-semester course “Integrated Science.”

This number will be reduced to 10 for every student next academic year.

Lewis said by reducing the current size of the Common Curriculum, which comprises 38 percent of a Yale-NUS education, the school will give students more time to pursue electives and classes in their majors.

The fact that under the current system students can end up with one extra Common Curriculum course also motivated the change, according to YaleNUS life sciences professor Neil Clarke ’80. Under the current academic requirements, those who opt for the “Integrated Science” track have to take eight Common Curriculum classes in their first year, leaving them

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with no room to fit an elective class into their schedule — unless they decide to overload.

But students choosing “Foundations of Science” have one slot open in their second semester of the first year.

“This disincentivized the taking of Integrated Science,” Clarke said.

Yale-NUS professor of physics Shaffique Adam said many students, who were already passionate about a particular field of study before joining YaleNUS, were dissatisfied with being unable to select a majorspecific class until much later in their Yale-NUS careers.

Students interviewed echoed the concern about the lack of flexibility under current requirement.

Rohan Naidu YNUS ’17, a physics major, said the structure of the Common Curriculum prevented him from taking more advanced science classes earlier. Coming from a strong background in science, Naidu said he was prepared for a jump start but did not have the opportunity.

COMBINING SCIENCE COURSES

The two different science courses, “Foundations of Sci-

ence” and “Integrated Science,” will be combined into one required course common to all Yale-NUS students.

Currently, a student has the choice of either taking “Foundations of Science” or “Integrated Science” to fulfill the Common Curriculum requirement.

“Foundations of Science,” which focuses more on the interaction between science and humanities, is mainly taken by nonscience majors, whereas “Integrated Science,” a more intensive science class, is most popular among science majors.

After the change goes into effect, all students will take the same science course, although the content of the course has not been decided and will be debated and determined within the next few months, according to several Yale-NUS professors. This new consolidated course will only be one-semester long.

When asked about whether a common science course will disadvantage non-science majors, Lewis said students can still decide which section to select.

Different sections will accommodate students with different science backgrounds, he added.

Bailyn said he also supported the idea of a common science class. Bailyn said a physics-ori-

ented student may know as little about biology as their non-science peers, and therefore teaching all students together will strengthen the breadth of a YaleNUS education and reinforce the school’s philosophy of a common curriculum.

Previously, the “Foundations of Science” class received many negative reviews from students, ranging from trying to cover too much ground to not articulating learning goals clearly. Naidu said he heard students calling the course a “complete fiasco.” For example, Naidu said, four professors taught the class and each professor dealt with a different subject, so students were lost as to what was expected of them.

Still, Clarke said science classes at Yale-NUS are the most innovative and exciting teaching he has encountered, either as a student at Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or as a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

“What we’ve tried to do is very, very hard. It’s been a challenge to figure out how to teach real science, with smatterings of philosophy and history, to a student population with wide ranges of prior education in the sciences,” Clarke said. “We’ve done alright, but we need to keep

Ivy sports announces marketing partnership IVY LEAGUE FROM PAGE 1 strengthen our condition in the marketplace,” Ivy League Associate Executive Director for Communications and External Relations Scottie Rodgers said.

The new deal means JMI Sports, which was founded in 2006, will be responsible for handling all of the Ivy League’s marketing rights, as well as helping connect the Ivy League brand with potential corporate sponsors, Rodgers said.

Rodgers added that since the deal was only recently finalized, there are still no specific details about upcoming marketing initiatives. JMI Sports is currently seeking an employee to serve as the partnership’s chief marketing officer, who will lead the partnership and act as the main contact for Ivy League administrators.

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when Ivy League administrators met to discuss the league’s marketing approach and ways to improve it moving forward. Rodgers said that after initiating a request for proposal and sending plans to numerous agencies, league administrators saw JMI Sports as the best fit of the nearly 20 responses received.

Although JMI Sports has deals with conferences and schools elsewhere in NCAA Division I, the firm wanted to partner with the Ivy League because of both the strength and innovation of its brand, JMI Sports CEO Erik Judson said.

“We are trying to be very selective in what partners we pursue, and we believe the Ivy League is such a strong brand,” Judson said. “We want partners who really appreciate the deal, and we are going to be focused on unique ways to enhance the Ivy League brand.”

Stultz said each corporate deal

facilitated by JMI Sports will be customized for the “elite partners” the firm will seek for the Ivy League. Such partnerships could include opportunities for companies to recruit students or alumni through Ivy League sports, make an online presence on the Ivy League Digital Network, which broadcasts league sporting events, or sponsor a conference championship or series of championships, he said.

The new partnership encompasses the Ivy League in its entirety but does not include the marketing rights of any Ancient Eight schools, Rodgers said. He added that there will be working relationships and “some connectivity” between the schools and the Ivy League, and that he believes the benefits brought to the league will also extend to the individual Ivy League schools.

“The Ivy League has established a partnership with JMI Sports to expand the reach of and

interest in the exceptional model of college athletics displayed by our eight outstanding member institutions,” Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “We are excited about this plan and look forward to working with the very experienced and successful leadership of JMI and their staff.”

Last summer, the Ivy League also welcomed bids for its media rights, since the conference’s three-year deal for the Ivy League Digital Network ends this year. Rodgers said there is no information to share on that front at this time, but added that Ivy League administrators hope to announce a plan for its media rights “sooner rather than later.”

JMI Sports has also done work for professional sports teams such as the Golden State Warriors of the NBA and the Boston Red Sox of the MLB. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

experimenting to make it better.”

Students interviewed said they are happy with the consolidation of the science classes.

Wan Ping Chua YNUS ’17 said the change will make the Common Curriculum “truly common” to all, allowing students to have the same ground from which they can build off future studies.

Naidu said although it is hard to predict the effect the new consolidated course will have without knowing its content, having the class only be one-semester long will give students a lighter course load.

“Too many have been too miserable for too long,” Naidu added.

CLEARER DISTINCTION

Following the implementation of the new curriculum, “Current Issues” will no longer be a component of the program.

A study of pressing problems in the world, “Current Issues” differs from other components in the Common Curriculum in that it is more like a distribution requirement than an actual class. In the past, concerns were raised as to which classes counted toward the distributional requirement and which did not.

“We found that students were already covering the topic [of current issues] in a lot of other courses,” Lewis said. He added that if the school were to reduce the size of the Common Curriculum in order to make space for study-abroad plans, “Current Issues” will be the area that is “okay to reduce.”

Students interviewed praised the removal of “Current Issues” because of its overlap with courses outside the Common Curriculum.

Chua, an environmental studies major who is currently studying abroad at Yale, said there was a class on food security, which definitely counted as a “Current Issues” credit, but the course was also one that she could have taken through her major. The distinction between the Common Curriculum and other courses was often blurry, she said. The removal of “Current Issues” will therefore help differentiate the Common Curriculum from the rest of classes, Chua added.

According to The Octant, a Yale-NUS student publication, the next Common Curriculum review will take place in 2020.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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Law school hosts wrongfully convicted man

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER An audience of 225 people gathered in the Yale Law School auditorium Tuesday night to hear a presentation by Anthony Ray Hinton, a former Alabama deathrow inmate who was wrongfully convicted on two counts of firstdegree murder and finally exonerated in April after spending 30 years in prison.

At the event, which was organized by the Yale Law School’s Capital Punishment Clinic and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, Hinton spoke about flaws in the criminal-justice system and discussed his experience, expressing a message of forgiveness and optimism despite his three-decade-long ordeal.

“Make no mistake, no man or woman was made to survive 30 years in a five-by-seven cell, but by the grace of God I survived,” Hinton said. “There’s an old saying: when you love something and you lose it, and it finds its way back to you, you learn to love it even more. I love life even more now.”

Hinton, who was 29 at the time of his conviction, was arrested for the murders of two restaurant managers. Prosecutors said the bullets taken from the victims’ bodies matched a .38-caliber revolver owned by Hinton’s mother, despite the fact that Hinton was at work at the time of the shooting and there were no eyewitnesses. Additionally, the ballistics expert who testified against Hinton at his trial was blind in one eye.

Hinton emphasized the role that race and status played in his conviction. He said being a poor, black man facing a white judge, prosecution and jury “spelled conviction.”

While on death row, Hinton saw over 50 men executed by electric chair and almost a dozen

commit suicide. His cell was 30 feet away from the chair, he said, and he could smell burning flesh the day after an execution. He was in prison when his mother, whom he described as “the love of [his] life,” passed away in 2002.

Despite this, Hinton said his imagination and sense of humor sustained him.

“I read every book I could get my hands on for my mind to be free. I imagined being anywhere I wanted to be; my body couldn’t come with me but I allowed my mind to travel,” Hinton said. “I had the privilege of marrying …

Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock and Kim Kardashian.”

I hope that Yale students understand that the justice system is not always fair, and I need young people to rise up.

ANTHONY RAY HINTON After consulting a series of lawyers and enduring many years on death row, living in a cell with a bed so small he had to sleep in the fetal position, Hinton reached out to Bryan Stevenson, founder and attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative. The EJI provides legal representation to prisoners who have been denied fair treatment in the legal system.

The EJI brought Hinton’s case to the United States Supreme Court, where the justices unanimously decided that the state of Alabama had to hear his appeal.

Ballistics experts agreed that the bullets taken from the victims did not match Hinton’s mother’s pistol, and he was freed.

Sia Sanneh LAW ’07, senior attorney at EJI and visiting clin-

ical lecturer at the Law School, worked on Hinton’s case for several years and introduced him to the crowd as both a close friend and a hero, calling her time with him outside of prison one of the highlights of her life as a lawyer.

Hinton’s case was one of the first Sanneh worked on after joining the EJI. “Hinton has faced a remarkable injustice, and yet throughout his ordeal he has remained a person of remarkable faith, integrity, character and courage … To watch him share his story with people in the free world as we work together for a more just system [is] hard to put into words how meaningful it is, for me and for all of us at EJI,” Sanneh told the News.

Hinton says he has forgiven the state of Alabama and the individuals involved in his case. He said that while eight months cannot erase the past 30 years, he does not want to live with hate, but to appreciate his freedom and his new life: cell phone, GPS and all.

“I forgive them not so that they can sleep good at night; I forgive them so that I can sleep good at night,” he said. But he said he is still adjusting to life outside of prison: he sleeps in fetal position out of habit despite his new king-sized bed, and he still wakes up at 3 a.m. as he was forced to on death row.

Both Sanneh and Hinton addressed the racial bias and corruption at the heart of his legal proceedings and advocated for the abolishment of the death penalty, to the applause of the crowd. According to Sanneh, the need for reform is demonstrated by the fact that for every nine people executed on death row, one is identified as innocent and exonerated.

Attendees expressed their horror and shock at Hinton’s story as a symbol of the flaws in America’s criminal-justice system.

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Anthony Ray Hinton was released from death row after serving 30 years for murders he did not commit.

“To be honest, I don’t know that much about prison-reform policies, but I’m aware of the massive injustice that occurs within the system,” Clio ByrneGudding ’19 said. “Thirty years on death row is appalling, and he’s one of countless people that have been victims.”

Hinton spoke of using his experience to create positive

change for others who might end up in similar situations. He asked audience members to write to Congress in favor of ending the death penalty, and he mentioned public-speaking opportunities at various states and universities.

“I hope that Yale students understand that the justice system is not always fair, and I need young people to rise up,” Hinton

said. “I assume there are going to be some great lawyers that come out of Yale, and I just hope they were here tonight and will remember this speech in years to come.”

The Equal Justice Initiative was founded in 1989.

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“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AUSTRIAN PHILOSOPHER

Baby ingests drug-laced cigarette CIGARETTE FROM PAGE 1 substance abuse and addiction, she added. Within these family rehabilitation programs, a team of clinical staff is connected with a family and works to engage the family through in-home visits. Staff members are charged with providing their family with emotional support, information on services to aid housing and financial concerns, and aid in the psychosocial needs and other mental health diagnoses of clients.

This echoes a deeper belief of the DCF — that a person actively working to address his substance-use disorder with a positive support system can recover.

However, Painter said, the stigmatization of substance abuse can obscure this truth.

“We have to treat addiction like a public health issue, not a crime. In signing this legislation today, Connecticut is taking a stand against a nationwide prescription-opioid and heroin overdose epidemic to become a leader in combating opioid and heroin abuse, preventing drug addiction and overdoses,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a July statement.

Connecticut is taking a stand against a nationwide prescription-opioid and heroin overdose epidemic.

GOV. DANNEL MALLOY In 2007, 8.3 million children nationwide lived with at least one parent who abused or was dependent on alcohol or an illicit drug, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

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After being rushed to Yale-New Haven Hospital, the child’s condition stabilized.

Grad students, admins talk faculty diversity DIVERSITY FROM PAGE 1 Diversity Michelle Nearon. The administrators gave attendees packets containing graphs and information about appointments, reviews and promotions in the FAS, as well as breakdowns of the FAS by race and gender. One graph indicated that the percentage of minority professors in the FAS ladder faculty has hovered around 21 percent for the last 10 years.

Another graph showed that 70 percent of the 2015 FAS ladder faculty are white, compared to 79 percent in 2005 — a change that one attendee said was not significant. A third graph showed that in 2015, 29 percent of FAS ladder faculty members were women, compared to 25 percent in 2005.

Several attendees mentioned these graphs in their questions to the panel, asking why there has been little change in terms of faculty diversity.

“I want to hear from you why there are these atrocious numbers at Yale,” one graduate

student inquired.

In response, Gendler noted that she and several other panelists have been in their current positions for only 18 months, and that some of their positions were created precisely because of these problematic statistics. She added that she hopes the numbers will be “very different” five years from now.

Several attendees also posed questions regarding the mentorship roles of diverse and underrepresented faculty members. They said that these faculty members often take on significant administrative and mentorship roles because there are fewer underrepresented faculty members than underrepresented students, and they questioned why these services were not weighed as heavily as research work during the tenure review process. The panel responded that this work is indeed taken into account during the tenure process.

Graduate students also expressed confusion surrounding the $50 million Uni-

versity-wide faculty diversity initiative announced in November, which administrators have said will go toward incentivizing Yale’s schools to hire more professors from historically underrepresented groups. One attendee noted that bringing more visiting scholars — one component of the announced initiative — will not solve systemic diversity issues in the ladder system.

Bribiescas responded that less than a tenth of the $50 million will be used to fund visiting scholars. Instead, he said, the primary component of the initiative will go toward supporting tenure-track positions.

Chris Geissler GRD ’20, a member of the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, told the News that the GSA had spent a whole meeting trying to dissect the specifics of the initiative, adding that he wished that there were a clearer and more defined description of how it will be executed. Nevertheless,

he said that the discussion and the information provided seem to be transparent and in good faith.

“I’m glad to see that there is a clear presentation of these numbers,” Geissler said. “The graphs are helpful but obscure a couple of points.”

A female graduate student in the Physics Department, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive and personal nature of the topic, said she attended the discussion because she was interested in what the concrete plan for the $50 million initiative would be. She said that the panel responded “quite coherently,” and added that while she does not feel out of place in a maledominated STEM department, she feels that she does not have a female professor as a role model.

There are 28 new FAS ladder faculty members for the 2015–16 school year, including 13 women.

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Yale administrators met with students to discuss issues of faculty diversity and tenure.

Facilities works through weather FACILITIES FROM PAGE 1 seasonal snow-shoveling brigade requires almost nonstop shoveling. The workers get paid by the hour, Olivar said, adding that he and his fellow workers could expect to be out of New Haven as quickly as the passing storm.

One shoveler, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, said he found his way to Yale by word-of-mouth.

Then, growing visibly uncomfortable, he gestured to a man standing on a distant embankment. He explained that his boss stood watch at all times and that he needed to keep shoveling, so he could not provide additional details on his background or hourly wage. Instead, he pushed on into the snow.

Highsmith said the employment of emergency snow shovelers is coordinated by the Yale Office of Facilities and built into the University budget each year.

Speaking hypothetically, she said facilities could see a budget surplus in the aftermath of a light winter.

For Yale staff members, Highsmith said people employed in areas of “critical function” are required to come to work regardless of severe weather conditions. In an email to the Yale community during a severe snowstorm last January, Highsmith said these areas include staff “responsible for life, health, safety, patient care, clinical operations and security.”

Several Berkeley dining hall staff members interviewed said they made the drive home on Saturday night with little trouble, but reminisced about last year’s mammoth storm when classes were cancelled and dining hall staff slept in the residential colleges.

Highsmith said that critical employees understand that their responsibility to come to work during severe weather is part of their job. She also said staff members employed outside of

those areas can stay home during storms at the cost of a personal day and payment.

“If people are not working in those critical-function areas, their supervisors will allow them to take the day off,” Highsmith said. “For example, if I was scheduled to work in the library and I didn’t need to be there according to my supervisor, I could take the day off. But that would count as a personal day and I would not be paid for it.”

It would have been nice if Yale had given us some sort of transportation assistance.

DINING HALL WORKER One dining hall worker, who asked to remain anonymous to maintain her privacy, said the decision to stay home is both complex and emotional. She explained that she and her peers do whatever they can to avoid missing work because they feel they have a responsibility to serve their students.

So, despite having had to walk home in blizzard conditions, the dining hall worker said she completed her Saturday shift.

“I walked home and it was so hard — it was just terrible outside,” she said. “We have the option not to come but we know that you guys need to eat, so it would have been nice if Yale had given us some sort of transportation assistance. They had it last year but didn’t this year.”

Initial estimates indicate that Winter Storm Jonas caused $850 million in damages. At least 48 people died from the storm nationwide.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.” KATARINA WITT GERMAN OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER

Penalty kill guides Bulldogs to victory WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 saved 33 of Yale’s 35 scoring attempts.

However, despite the strong goaltending, defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 was able to beat Selander on a slap shot within the first seven minutes of the contest.

“We pushed the pace and they couldn’t really keep up,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “We also had a strong forecheck and backcheck, so we were able to possess the puck more than RPI was able to.”

Such possession translated into Yale’s drastic shot advantage, despite the Bulldogs hav-

ing to kill off 10 penalty minutes.

Averaging seven penalty minutes in ECAC play this season, Yale committed five penalties with four of those coming in the second period.

“We had some questionable calls made against us tonight,” defender Kate Martini ’16 said. “But either way, we definitely [committed] more than we should have. We need to keep our feet moving in order to keep out of some of the situations that resulted in penalties tonight.”

Despite the infractions against Yale, the Bulldogs’ penalty-kill unit was able to prevent RPI from capitalizing on any of

its five power plays.

On the other hand, Yale was also unable to benefit from any of its own power-play situations — the Elis were 0–2 during the contest and their 14.3 percent success rate on the power play ranks ninth in the ECAC. “Our penalty-kill unit did a good job breaking up their entries into the zone,” Haddad said. “We pressured them really hard so they didn’t have much time to do anything. We’ve been struggling to score on our power plays. Our shots weren’t on net, but at least we tried them out a bit.”

Boosted by having an extra skater on the ice for eight min-

utes in the second period, the Engineers did rev up their shooting opportunities, managing 11 of their 18 total attempts.

However, it was Yale that found the back of the net in the second frame.

Forward Jordan Chancellor ’19 received the puck on the defensive end and on a breakaway skated toward Selander.

Even with a couple RPI defenders between her and the net, Chancellor slammed an off-balanced shot past the Engineer goaltender.

The goal doubled the Yale advantage in what would eventually be the team’s fourth-consecutive win over RPI.

“Tonight we did a really good job of not letting them establish possession in our zone,” Martini said. “We did a good job of pressuring them and forcing turnovers.”

Although the Engineers were held scoreless for nearly 50 minutes of action, they made things interesting in the third period.

9:44 into the final frame, RPI defender Hannah Behounek sniped the top left corner against Eli goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17.

Then, with 2:54 remaining, a checking penalty called on Chancellor forced Yale to play a 4-on-5 and later a 4-on-6 when RPI pulled its goalie. Clinging to its one-goal advantage, Yale

survived five shot attempts during the two tense minutes.

“I think what our team lacked today was consistency,” Pensavalle said. “We had moments of greatness and moments where we couldn’t have been better. We also were not disciplined with penalties which hurt us at key moments a bit. We were lucky they didn’t capitalize.”

Yale currently sits one point behind RPI in the standings and one point ahead of ninthplace Cornell. The Elis return to Ingalls Rink on Friday night to face Brown.

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

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Emily Monaghan ’18 started at center and attempted two of Yale’s 35 shots on the evening.

Oi GRD ’20 continues illustrious skating career FIGURE SKATING FROM PAGE 12 nuclear engineering. As a student in Cambridge, he was inspired to combine science and skating to create Stats on Ice, a database that analyzes results and trends in figure skating’s international judging system.

Many of the traits that have contributed to his success on the ice have also helped him thrive in the classroom.

“Both endeavors require deliberate practice and attention to detail,” said Danielle Williams GRD ’18, a classmate of Oi’s. “Good experiments in the lab require repetition and often many attempts before achieving success, much like learning new skating techniques.”

His long program on Saturday, choreographed to music from

the television series Battlestar Galactica, also had a scientific theme, meant to convey “reaching and searching through space.”

Oi earned 101.4 points for the program, including 11.53 points for a clean triple lutz-triple toe loop combination.

“His long program is music that I helped him find, and I knew that [Oi] had been interested in science fiction,” Matthew Savoie, Oi’s coach and choreographer, said. “He’s [also] a very strong skater and there’s a lot of percussion in that music. [The theme] was mostly just thinking about someone who’s on a journey and inviting the people watching him along on that journey.”

Earlier last week, on Friday, Oi racked up 48.66 points for his short program to Czárdás, a “playful” piece, which Savoie

hoped would complement Oi’s personality.

Few nationally competitive figure skaters pursue higher education, and for those who do, it is essentially impossible to enroll as a full-time student while still competing. Olympic ice dancing champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White are perhaps the most well-known student-athlete examples, but they have yet to complete their undergraduate degrees at the University of Michigan, nine years after they first enrolled. Others have competed while pursuing undergraduate educations at Princeton and Harvard, but it is practically unheard of for a competitive figure skater to also be enrolled in a doctoral program.

“Off the top of my head, I don’t know of another skater at the

National Championships who has ever been in a Ph.D. program simultaneously with competing,” Savoie said. “I know people who have been admitted and deferred [to law school and medical school], so certainly there are a lot of skaters who have achieved great academic and skating success, but I’m not sure any have pursued both simultaneously to the extent [Oi] has.”

Savoie knows this struggle intimately, as he too skated competitively as an undergraduate at Bradley University and as a master’s student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After competing at the 2006 Turin Olympics, he retired to pursue a law degree at Cornell.

“I absolutely respect him and think everything he’s done over the past couple years is very

impressive. I chose to prioritize skating a little bit more, but for [Oi], it’s different,” Savoie said.

“First and foremost, he’s a Ph.D. student, and skating is something he loves to do and happens to still be very good at.”

What is also impressive is the relatively little time Oi dedicates to practicing. He skates four to five hours a week, normally the amount a competitive skater spends training per day, including one hour a week in his hometown of Wellesley, Massachusetts, to train with Savoie.

He spends the rest of his training time at various rinks in the New Haven area, which occasionally includes Ingalls Rink. Although Oi represents the Yale Figure Skating Club in competition, club president Nancy Brittingham said that the club’s oper-

ations are more geared toward learn-to-skate and recreational programs.

Oi’s future skating plans are still to be decided, but he does plan to stay in the field of academia after he earns his doctorate.

“I’m not sure what the future holds for me in terms of skating,” Oi said. “I’m planning to take a week to decompress from nationals and then figure out what makes sense. If I can manage it, I’d love to compete again next year.”

The men’s event on Sunday was won by Adam Rippon, who, as a child, had corrective hearing surgery performed at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

Point–Counterpoint: Ivy basketball tournament

For a two-bid Ivy BRONSDON FROM PAGE 12 that you’re never on ESPN and won’t get any national exposure. Now imagine watching Harvard and Yale duke it out for the automatic bid on ESPN (note that last year’s playoff was not available on national television). Do you think that would influence your decision?

That exposure could potentially propel the Ivy League into the national conversation.

Now, some complain that regular-season games will no longer be meaningful. Many have trumpeted the hashtag #14GameTournament, referring to the 14-game conference season that currently determines each Ivy team’s fate. But, if the much-discussed fourgame tournament becomes a reality, each team still must make it to the top four of the league, and seeding remains

important. Besides, the regular season might be devalued in major conferences like the Atlantic Coast Conference, where, because of its strength of schedule, a team like North Carolina can lose a dozen games and still make March Madness. That’s simply not possible in the Ivy League, and every single contest could make or break a tournament resume.

Beyond that, if an upstart team manages to make its way into the tournament by winning a couple games at the end of the year, why not reward the hot hand? Look at the 2015 College Football Playoff, when everyone complained about the No. 4 seed and how it had no business making the playoff.

That same team, Ohio State, proceeded to take down No. 1 Alabama before it thrashed No. 2 Oregon in the championship game.

That brings us back to football. College football is all about tradition and history, with the game stretching back to 1869 and some schools playing in the same stadiums for over a century. Yet the powers that be decided to alter its landscape last year, with enormously beneficial consequences.

The Ivy League, meanwhile, is also all about tradition and history, but that doesn’t mean that we should blindly adhere to tradition and history. A conference tournament would benefit the players, the teams and the league as a whole, not to mention the fans as well.

Simply put, it’s a slam dunk.

GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College and a former Sports Editor for the News.

Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

Let the best team dance CUGNON FROM PAGE 12 recruiting difference, high-school stars should be seeing the best of what we have to offer. And their eyes will be on the NCAA Tournament, not the Ivy League Tournament.

Furthermore, conventional coaching wisdom will tell you that playing fewer games is usually better. It gives teams an opportunity to rest stars, prepare game plans and nurse injuries. One of the few advantages that the Ivy League winner has against the rest of the NCAA field is that the team is usually amongst the first qualifiers in the tournament. Take a significant portion of those extra couple weeks away and you could have an undermanned, underprepared Ivy League squad, already dealing with the rigors of an Ancient Eight education, facing an ignominious exit from the Big Dance.

Though many Yale students reacting to last year’s NCAA and NIT tournament snubs might be in favor of an Ivy playoff, we shouldn’t blame the lack of such an institution for the team’s failure to punch its ticket last season. Yale, by virtue of squandering two opportunities to take sole possession of the Ivy League crown, didn’t deserve to be a part of the 68-team field. A win against Dartmouth or Harvard would have given us all we needed to take part in spring’s most exciting competition, and the fact that Yale didn’t manage to seize either chance is a result of poor finishes, not a poor system.

Normally, I’m the first person to call for traditions and antiquated rules to be overturned in favor of more modern systems of competition. However, the Ivy League isn’t a “modern institution,” nor is it home to any traditional basketball powerhouses.

We can’t expect the same things from Yale or Harvard that we would of SEC or Pac-12 schools.

Until I see any of our players going into the NBA as lottery picks, I’m willing to dispel any of my illusions that we should follow the examples of Kentucky, Louisville or Duke. Our lack of a postseason tournament might be a bit outdated, but it’s one of the few unique features of the Ivy League that actually makes our regular season exciting. If the University of Virginia loses a game to a conference opponent in January, it’s upsetting, but if Yale does, it could quash our tournament hopes.

Honestly, I think that’s even more appetizing than a two-game playoff. In this particular case, I’m willing to keep the Ancient Eight ancient.

MARC CUGNON is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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7:00 PM Russia Film Series, THE MAJOR (dir. Yuri Bykov, 2013), 99 min. A gritty portrayal of police brutality and flagrant corruption, suffused with ambiguities and inspired by real-life events. Bykov, who plays the antagonist himself, has been hailed as the “next Balabanov” for his ability to bring together popular and arthouse audiences through smart, political, not-quite-genre films. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 12:00 PM Yale Forest Forum Lunch Talk. Douglas Morton FES ’92 is a physical scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Morton studies land use change in tropical forests, including deforestation, forest degradation and agricultural land uses that replace tropical forest. Marsh Hall (360 Prospect St.), Rotunda.

4:15 PM 96 Elephants: The Fight to End Illegal Ivory. John Calvelli is vice president for public affairs, Wildlife Conservation Society, and director of the 96 Elephants Campaign. This talk is part of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics Animal Ethics Lecture Series. Sage Hall (205 Prospect St.), Bowers Aud.

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ARTS & CULTURE School of Drama puts feminist spin on iconic tragedy

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER This week at the Iseman Theater, the Yale School of Drama presents yet another iteration of Howard Barker’s “Women Beware Women,” a reimagining of Thomas Middleton’s original Jacobean tragedy.

Featuring a cast of 12 drama school students and three extras, the play examines the complex intersection of power, sex and politics in 17th-century Britain. According to director Leora Morris DRA ’16, this production of “Women Beware Women” is unique in its presentation of an innovative feminist spin on Barker’s late-20thcentury reinterpretation of the Middleton classic. “[The play] is a ruthless examination of the many boxes we trap ourselves in, or find ourselves trapped in — and the

examination of what it would take in order to gain liberation,” said Baize Buzan DRA ’17, who acts in the show. “I think, particularly in a beautiful and somewhat sheltered environment like Yale, this play asks its audience to bravely and more deeply question the underbelly of the world around them.

Where does the dark, the ugly, the utterly ravenous live — not only in the dark alleys and corners of my mind, but also within the people and the world around me?”

Morris explained that, in its questioning of the “ordering value” of structures and systems such as government and democracy, the play’s storyline juxtaposes historical and modern values, noting that elements of the production seek to reflect this contrast. As Barker’s script did not contain stage directions, the play’s aesthetic

was ultimately a combination of historical precedents and modern attitudes, Morris added.

Working-class characters appear in blue jeans alongside regally dressed aristocrats. The script, based on Middleton’s original text, is littered with sexual euphemisms and unexpected references to pop culture. Other additions include a strobe-lit dance ensemble, as well as moments of rapping, beatboxing and singing.

In its second act, Morris said, “Women Beware Women” undergoes a fundamental shift in message, style and intensity, reflecting Barker’s updates to Middleton’s original work. “[After intermission], Barker subverts a lot of our judgments about the characters in the first act and challenges us to reevaluate them,” Morris noted.

In particular, Morris highlighted the sexual awakening of

several of the play’s characters, which she said contributed to the societal critique present in Barker’s iteration of the play.

Nahuel Telleria DRA ’16, the show’s dramaturg, explained that Barker’s ending reflected the playwright’s ideas about Middleton’s original intentions.

“Barker, in the 1980s, wondered if Middleton wrote that ending only because he had to,” Telleria said, referring to the British government in power at the time of Middleton’s writing, as well as to the social expectation that sexual licentiousness would always be punished. “The themes of the play are modern, but the ending is unexpected.”

Cast members said they hoped the audience would leave the show with more questions than answers.

“Our director, Leora, would often talk about the fact that

she wanted to leave the audience questioning what they saw,” Buzan said. “What is desire? What does it mean to be alive, to be awake? These are questions I would hope an audi-

ence member might entertain.”

The Iseman Theater is located at 1156 Chapel St. Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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“Women Beware Women” offers a decidedly modern reinterpretation of Thomas Middleton’s classic 17th-century tragedy.

Filmmaker receives grant for new look at mental illness

BY ALESSANDRO BURATTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

COURTESY OF SANDRA LUCKOW

“The Way Madness Lies” uses clips by filmmaker Sandra Luckow’s ’87 schizophrenic brother Duanne.

The Artemis Rising Foundation recently awarded Sandra Luckow ’87, a lecturer and critic in film production in the School of Art, a grant of $150,000 to $250,000 to complete her documentary “That Way Madness Lies.”

Focusing on her brother Duanne’s experience with paranoid schizophrenia, the film uses his vast collection of iPhone video clips to chronicle his “progressive descent into madness.” According to Luckow and Regina Scully, founder and CEO of the Artemis Rising Foundation, “That Way Madness Lies” differs from other documentaries about mental illness in that it tells the story from the perspective of those around the person suffering and gives audiences a window into the world of untreated psychological trauma.

The documentary, begun in 2012, remains an ongoing project, and the grant funds — awarded this past December — are intended to help Luckow finish her film. Scully said the Artemis Rising Foundation plans to submit “That Way Madness Lies” to some of the United States’ best-known film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Athena Film Festival in New York City.

“We look for storytellers that have the most authentic voice, that have the commitment to the social advocacy and social-action campaigns that are sure to follow many of these films, and that are interested in making real social change,” Scully said. “The reason why Sandra Luckow is the filmmaker we chose is that she perfectly fits in all these criteria.”

When she first encountered her brother’s video clips, Luckow said, she was “scared” of the material and unsure exactly what she should do with it, so she approached Larry Davidson, a professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine.

Davidson explained that the clips likely show Duanne experiencing paranoid delusions and “hearing voices talking to him,” adding that the film’s use of original footage provides a very real account of such moments, which are relatively common among sufferers of schizophrenia.

“If you have never had those experiences yourself or with a loved one, they can seem quite alien and ‘crazy,’” Davidson said.

“But they are very real, and the movie portrays that.”

Alongside its firsthand depiction of mental illness, “That Way Madness Lies” also shows the difficulties encountered by an indi-

vidual forced to navigate the mental health system, offering a unique perspective on the system as a whole and thoroughly exposing its deficiencies and contradictions.

Luckow added that the documentary opens a dialogue on the legal and moral dilemmas surrounding mental illness, especially as they pertain to ideas about consent.

In particular, Luckow said, the decision to include her brother’s personal footage in the film did not come without controversy.

“It is very confusing in terms of what the law says is considered a valid signature of consent,” she explained. “My brother did sign, he gave me the footage. He was very much in favor of the documentary. But he is a man whose judgment is impaired by disease — so how valid should it be? As we move forward in making the film, we will continue to consult. Ultimately, I hope that the controversy still exists, because new legislation absolutely has to be made toward this kind of decisions.”

The Artemis Rising Foundation is a philanthropic organization dedicated to developing and promoting media, education and artistic expressions that seek to transform our culture.

Contact ALESSANDRO BURATTI at alessandro.buratti@yale.edu .

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Landscape on display in Kroon Hall exhibition

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER Science and art interact in a multidimensional exhibition which opened in Kroon Hall last Friday.

“Ucross: A Portrait in Place” was born out of a collaboration between ecologists from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and artists from the University of New Mexico’s “Land Arts of the American West” program. Featuring pieces by six artists from the Land Arts program and Charlie Bettigole, the program director of the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative — an F&ES research program that explores issues of land stewardship in the American West — the show explores various social and environmental issues. The works all center on the theme of Ucross, a 22,000-acre cattle and sheep ranch in Wyoming

that seeks to introduce individuals to the “land, people and ethos” of the western United States through its residencies for artists, writers and composers.

“It is a great convergence of scientific and creative thinking,” Sharon Dynak, president of the Ucross Foundation, said. “People are thinking a little more deeply about what it means to inhabit a place, and the more we think about the intersection of scientists and artists, the more solutions we find.”

Bettigole said the exhibition was the result of a chance encounter between F&ES students, who were spending the summer at the Ucross Foundation’s ranch, and a group of faculty and alumni of the University of New Mexico’s Lands Arts program, who were on a two-week retreat to the site.

Both groups noticed similarities

between their processes of data collection and field observation, Bettigole explained, and the two parties initiated a formal partnership the following year.

Among the works on display in the exhibition is “Without Soil There is No Color,” an installation that incorporates video as well as soil samples collected from different sites in the American West. The fruit of a collaboration between Bettigole and Jeanette Hart-Mann, the co-director of the Land Arts of the American West program, the work is a “dynamic exposition of the world,” Hart-Mann explained, noting that it underlines the way soil is usually taken for granted. Hart-Mann described the process of creating the piece, which included hikes with Bettigole to different sites to collect samples and record videos.

“Terrestrial/Celestial Navigations,” another piece in the

show, is the work of Bill Gilbert, director of the Land Arts program. Gilbert explained that he used constellations to record the complex interactions between plants, place and the stars, taking a series of “transect walks” that followed the paths of specific constellations to understand their relationship with particular sites.

“We hope that visitors can see the pieces not just as a scientist asking for help to make their maps ‘more artistic,’ or for an artist needing help identifying a species of grass,” Bettigole said. “Rather, [these are] pieces where both artists and scientists came together to make something more powerful than either could on their own.”

The Ucross Foundation was founded in 1981 by Raymond Plank ’44.

Contact NATALINA LOPEZ at natalina.lopez@yale.edu .

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An exhibition in Kroon Hall spotlights iconic American landscapes to explore environmental and social issues.

Pulitzer prizewinner talks social change

BY AYLA BESEMER AND JAY LEE STAFF REPORTERS At a Tuesday talk, author Sheryl WuDunn opened with humor.

“I planned every single second of my life,” WuDunn quipped, and then proceeded to recount the various unforeseen shifts that shaped her career. During the Timothy Dwight Master’s Tea, titled “A Path Appears: Why Should We Change the World?”, the writer emphasized the importance of seizing life’s chances as they come, even if they diverge from one’s projected plans. WuDunn was the first Asian-American winner of the Pulitzer Prize, which she received in 1990 with her husband Nicholas Kristof for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Currently a business executive, lecturer and writer, she most recently won the Visionary Leadership Award at New Haven’s annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas, given to “a leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world,” according to the foundation’s website.

The writer opened her talk with discussion of her initial plans to study medicine at Cornell, before noting that she ultimately majored in European history. After graduation, she began a career in banking, an experience she said proved valuable insofar as it taught her about “the real world and how it works.”

After a period as a banker, she moved to China with her husband, using the trip as an opportunity to explore her long-standing interest in journalism. While in Beijing, WuDunn began working for The New York Times,

reporting on the beginnings of democratic change in a then-communist China.

While traveling in China’s countryside to research the spread of urban democratic movements into rural areas, WuDunn and Kristof discovered that the country’s onechild policy and emphasis on male children led to a missing population of females — baby girls’ births were going unreported, accounting for around 30 million “missing” females. Investigating this phenomenon worldwide, WuDunn and Kristof later discovered an estimated 60 to 100 million missing women and girls, which led them to write “Half the Sky,” a best-selling book that incited global awareness about women’s rights.

“We wanted to focus on solutions, because most reporters tend to write about the bad news, probably because that’s what news is,” WuDunn said. “But we were trying to say, look, there are so many solutions that people aren’t writing about. We found so many ideas that people were implementing.”

WuDunn also offered advice to students interested in pursuing a career in journalism, drawing on her memories of reporting at Tiananmen Square.

She urged budding journalists to draw on their own creativity to develop unique reporting angles. “When you’re in this kind of environment, there is no recipe,” WuDunn said. “You have to figure out where the story is going. As a journalist, you need to ask yourself the questions, ‘What do people want to read? What do people want to know about? What angle do I write from?’”

WuDunn’s talk was wellreceived among members of the audience, who were impressed by her adaptability throughout her career.

Timothy Dwight Master Mary Lui said she hopes that students looking to pursue journalism at Yale would find inspiration in WuDunn’s unique path and her determination to create social progress around the world, highlighting the way WuDunn’s writings consider the various paths toward social change and the responsibility of the individual to contribute.

Mary Lou Aleskie, the executive director of the International Festival for Arts and Ideas, said that she thought WuDunn’s professional trajectory serves as a positive model for students.

“To be able to have in your grip the soul of humanity through history and the functionality of business and a global view is a great example for any Yale student to think about how to build a life forward, or a path forward, as she suggested to us,” Aleskie said.

Irene Chung ’17 added that she was interested to hear how careers can have such versatile trajectories.

“I think this is a really important lesson for me, along with many other Yalies, because we’re so stressed about what we’re doing after our graduation, but we should keep in mind that it’s just the beginning,” Chung said.

This is the sixth year that the International Festival of Arts and Ideas is presenting the Visionary Leadership Award.

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu and JAY LEE at jay.lee@yale.edu .

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Sheryl WuDunn spoke to students about social change and her unconventional career path.

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“We pressured [RPI] really hard so they didn’t have much time to do anything.”

JAMIE HADDAD ’16 WOMEN’S HOCKEY YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016 · yaledailynews.com

Yale gains crucial midweek win WOMEN’S HOCKEY

From the lab to the ice

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It is not uncommon for Yale graduate students to have resumes replete with achievements, but for Curran Oi GRD ’20, those successes extend far beyond the sphere of academia.

FIGURE SKATING This past weekend, Oi competed in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships’ senior men’s event — the highest level of men’s figure skating possible — and finished 18th. Oi is also a full-time Yale graduate student working toward a doctorate in molecular biochemistry and biophysics.

“I was pleased with my performances,” said Oi of his finish in the 19-skater field in St. Paul, Minnesota. “They weren’t the best I was capable of, but I built strength during both performances to end strong and I’m proud of that.”

Oi last competed nationally in 2009, a hiatus highly unusual in the figure-skating world. That year, the then-high school senior finished sixth at the National Championships, earning him a trip to the World Junior Championships, where he placed fifth.

Afterward, Oi stopped skating competitively to enroll at MIT, where he studied physics and SEE FIGURE SKATING PAGE 8

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A goal from forward Jordan Chancellor ’19 in the second period turned out to be the eventual game-winner in Yale’s 2–1 win.

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER Originally scheduled for Saturday, the Yale women’s hockey team’s home game against Rensselaer was rescheduled for Tuesday evening due to Winter Storm Jonas. Perhaps taking advantage of an RPI squad that needed to travel midweek, the Bulldogs came out

as the aggressor in an eventual 2–1 victory that pushed them into eighth place in the ECAC Hockey standings.

The last time the Elis (7–13– 1, 6–7–1 ECAC Hockey) faced the Engineers (8–12–4, 6–6– 2), Yale overwhelmed its opponent with four first-period goals. This time around, the Bulldogs once again attacked the net early and often — out-

shooting their opponents 13–2 in the first period — but that only translated into one goal.

Yale ultimately emerged victorious by just a one-goal margin despite taking 35 shots to RPI’s 18.

“Their team’s one strength was their goalie,” forward Courtney Pensavalle ’18 said.

“She made some unbelievable saves that should have been

goals, and could have taken RPI out of the game.”

Lovisa Selander stood between the pipes for the Engineers. The freshman netminder sits second in the ECAC in save percentage during conference play, with a 0.948 mark.

A thorn in the Bulldogs’ side Tuesday evening, Selander SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8

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Curran Oi GRD ’20 competed at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships’ senior men’s event for the first time since the 2009 championships.

Point–Counterpoint: Ivy basketball tournament GRANT BRONSDON

MARC CUGNON

Change for the better Fans, coaches and administrators have been, of late, celebrating a new playoff system in college sports.

This four-team tournament creates huge buzz, with the championship heavily publicized on ESPN, and it also has worked like a charm: Despite fears that the regular season would be devalued, every game still matters — perhaps more than ever, with several teams in the running for a title up until the final game of the season.

I’m talking about the College Football Playoff, but I could just as easily be talking about the proposed Ivy League conference tournament, since the Ancient Eight only stands to gain from modernizing with a four-team bracket.

For starters, situations like last year’s, where Yale won a

share of the Ivy title but finished without a postseason berth following a last-minute loss to Harvard, would no longer occur. Under the conference tournament proposal, the Bulldogs would have been guaranteed a spot in the National Invitation Tournament since they were regular season champions. And those teams often succeed: in four of the past five years, an autoqualifier has made it to at least the quarterfinals of the NIT. The one exception? The 2013 NIT, when No. 8 seed Robert Morris — an automatic qualifier — shocked defending national champion No. 1 Kentucky in the first round. Automatic qualifiers do serious damage in the NIT, so the Ivy League stands to benefit by getting its teams into the tournament.

And there’s no reason to set our sights as low as even the NIT. Plenty of mid-major conferences can support two teams in the NCAA Tournament, as evidenced by Boise State getting a bid last year out of the Mountain West. Given the incredible recruiting class that Harvard is set to bring in next year, and given the talent throughout the Ivy League, is it that far-fetched to imagine two teams making it to the Big Dance?

And those same recruiting considerations stand to benefit from a tournament. Imagine that you’re a 6-foot-8 power forward with a 4.0 GPA coming out of high school. You might think twice about going to an Ivy League school knowing SEE BRONSDON PAGE 8

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Keep the Ivy League unique The Ancient Eight mulling over a rare change to Ivy League sports procedure isn’t terribly dissimilar to a Donald Trump presidential bid. Both tend to be met with tremendous disbelief, paralyzing fear and, of course, a healthy number of fanatical supporters wondering why nobody had gotten behind their plan, or candidate, earlier.

Thankfully, the newly proposed and hotly debated change to Ivy League basketball, which would introduce a postseason tournament to decide “March Madness” qualification, isn’t nearly as terrifying as the possible election of New York City’s most cantaloupeshaded reality TV star. However, the adoption of a conference tournament is still rife with issues.

While the idea of a four-team, winner-take-all competition would certainly provide an exciting postseason reward for basket-

ball fans, I’ve always been a big supporter of the “14-game tournament,” as the Ancient Eight dubs the regular season. If the top half of the Ivy League qualifies for a two-game single-elimination tournament to decide NCAA bids, frankly there isn’t much of a necessity for leading teams to take regular season games down the stretch seriously. Additionally, the epic mid-season matchups between Yale and Harvard that both fan bases have come to love don’t provide nearly as much entertainment value if they’re merely deciding tournament seeding rather than helping punch a ticket to the Big Dance.

Frankly, the Ivy League doesn’t need another novelty to make basketball more interesting; it’s fun enough to watch on its own. The possibility of the best Ancient Eight squad being upset in the

opening match of this tourney only reinforces my view that the proposed four-team showdown is more of a money-making sideshow than a legitimate approach.

An Ivy League team battling in the Big Dance already has the deck stacked against it — I would imagine that most Ivy fans would rather see our best team take on a supremely talented first-round opponent in March Madness than watch a fluky two-game success story get blown out by Kentucky.

One of the main arguments for the tournament is the additional television exposure that it would bring to Ivy League basketball.

However, that is all for naught if our best team doesn’t make the tournament because of one bad game. Exposure is all well and good, but to actually have it make a SEE CUGNON PAGE 8

THE NUMBER OF PENALTY MINUTES KILLED OFF BY THE YALE WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM AGAINST RENSSELAER ON TUESDAY NIGHT. Despite committing five penalties to RPI’s two, the Bulldogs still managed to win 2–1 and complete a season sweep of the Engineers.