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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. At last night’s
Republican presidential debate, the seven candidates attacked Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 nearly as often as they went after one another. While Sen. Marco Rubio criticized Clinton’s proposal to consider President Barack Obama for a Supreme Court seat, Jeb Bush joked about the email scandal.
No-brainer. Harvard’s John A.
Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and associated schools received a $28 million grant from the federal government to invest in artificial intelligence research. According to the Harvard Gazette, the university will use the funds to record and map activity in the brain’s visual cortex.
Is he ever graduating from Yale? Stephen King’s eight-
part series about a highschool teacher who goes back in time in an attempt to stop JFK’s assassination premiered at Sundance yesterday. The series, titled “11.22.63,” stars James Franco GRD ’16 in the lead role. Boom Boom Pow. A series
of sonic booms emanating from a military fighter jet conducting tests caused tremors in New Jersey and parts of Connecticut yesterday afternoon. The booms, which several hundred people misinterpreted as earthquake tremors, lasted from about 1:30 to 3 p.m. White knights. The women’s ice hockey team is holding its annual “White Out for Mandi” event at its game against Brown today at 3 p.m. at the Yale Whale. The event honors Mandi Schwartz ’10, a former team member who succumbed to leukemia in 2011. Spectators wear all white in solidarity. We could be each other’s company. Mixed Company at
Yale is performing their soldout show “Snow Job 34: A Three Four All” at Sudler Hall at 7 p.m. tomorrow evening. If you didn’t have a chance to lock down your ticket, the group has said they will let in a few people who show up early at the door. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
2015 For the first time in 10 years, Yale is not among the top 10 universities in terms of cash donations. The total amount received by Yale falls from $444.2 million raised in fiscal year 2013 to $430.31 million in 2014, and Yale falls from the ninth rank to the 15th. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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lege, and the second was open to the entire Yale community. Another open meeting will be held Friday morning. The Corporation has final jurisdiction over naming issues. During the sessions on Thursday, many students in attendance, through both personal statements
Officials in several city hall departments, including some who have dubbed food-truck operations in the city a “Wild West,” created a plan this week that would revolutionize how the city regulates these vendors. Following a meeting with food-truck owners, departments including Economic Development and Building finalized reforms that would create designated sites for food trucks, impose a $5,100 yearly fee for each site and use revenues of the fees to enforce new vendor ordinances, said Steve Fontana, deputy economic development director. Officials began brainstorming these reforms in September 2014 after hearing complaints against vendors for dumping food waste in sewers, neglecting to feed parking meters and parking in front of fire hydrants, Fontana said. Over half of those complaints came from competing food trucks, he added. The proposed regulations will go before the mayor before being sent to the Board of Alders ahead of the anticipated rollout this summer. Fontana said he hopes rewritten ordinances would take effect by June 1, with the $5,100 site fees beginning next calendar year. “We took a look at what was being done in Austin, Texas or New York City to track this abusive behavior,” said Fontana. “We also
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Two roads diverged. Despite
strong campaigning from students to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, Oriel College at Oxford has decided against removing it. Earlier this month, Oxford Union — the university’s student government — voted 245 to 212 to have the statue torn down.
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Two Yale Corporation members met with Calhoun students and the wider Yale community to discuss naming issues. BY DAVID SHIMER AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS Student support has begun to coalesce around a new potential candidate for the renaming of Calhoun College: Roosevelt Thompson ’84. On Thursday, a pair of Yale Cor-
poration members — Senior Fellow Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 and Alumni Fellow Eve Hart Rice ’73 — hosted two listening sessions to discuss campus conversations surrounding the potential renaming of Calhoun College and the naming of the two new residential colleges. The first meeting was held exclusively for members of Calhoun Col-
Asian American Studies classes garner interest BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Student activists highlighting the need for an Asian American Studies program at Yale may now have even more cause for advocacy: students have flocked to the three courses on Asian American Studies being offered this semester. Campus demand for the expansion of Yale’s Asian American Studies offerings has been increasing in recent months, with several prominent events last semester such as a photo campaign and a conference held by the student-led Asian American Studies Task Force. Last fall, student interest in Timothy Dwight College Master and American Studies and history profes-
Yale-NUS sees naming debate
sor Mary Lui’s “Asian American History” lecture was so high that the class had to be moved to a larger room. It was the only Asian American Studies class offered last semester. Now, some of that interest may be sated by the courses being offered this semester: English professor Sunny Xiang, who was hired last fall, is teaching a junior English seminar on Asian-American literature, a class that was last offered in 2007. Additionally, newly hired lecturer Quan Tran GRD ’15 is teaching “Asian Diasporas Since 1800.” While her second course, “Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies,” is not directly about Asian American Studies, it has many strong ties to the field, she said. SEE COURSES PAGE 6
Applicant diversity continues to rise BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER With an unprecedented number of applications to Yale College this year, Yale is attracting increasingly more students from demographic groups that have traditionally been underrepresented on college campuses. Heated student protests over racial discrimination at Yale did not seem to deter prospective students of color, as applications from students self-identifying as African-American increased 10 percent from last year. Yet this trend has been sustained over time. Since 2013, applications from African-American students are up 36 percent, while applications from students identify-
ing as members of ethnic or racial minorities are up 18 percent. The number of applications from first-generation college students is up 12 percent. By contrast, the number of students applying from the U.S. has increased by just 5 percent. “America is becoming increasingly diverse — ethnically, racially, religiously [and] linguistically,” Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said. “And the change is being driven by the younger generation. It’s encouraging to see these larger demographic changes reflected in our applicant pool and our student body.” Nationwide, more AfricanSEE DIVERSITY PAGE 6
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Yale-NUS does not use the term “gender-neutral,” instead calling their housing “open housing.” BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER At Yale’s venture in Singapore, gender-neutral housing is known as “open housing,” gender-neutral bathrooms as “single-stall bathrooms” and Sex Week as “Doing it Right.” The fledgling liberal arts institution’s naming decisions are, for some, an attempt to avoid appearing “too American.” But others
have suggested that the university made these naming selections due to the diversity of the student body. In a November opinion article published in the Yale-NUS student newspaper The Octant, Daryl Yang YNUS ’18 addressed — through the lens of naming issues — the nuances of balancing a liberal arts education and a conservative Singaporean society. The reason for these deci-
sions is to avoid appearing overly American and therefore “antagonizing” a public drenched in conservative values, Yang wrote. “With [how Yale-NUS names] Sex Week and gender-neutral housing, it really was about not being able to call a spade a spade for fear of public backlash,” Yang told the News. Yang’s meetings with the SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 4
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A reform of substance T
he situation in Flint, Michigan is an outrage. Residents there have been drinking water contaminated with lead, the result of incompetent city management, poor regulation and a long legacy of industrial pollution. Flint might seem an anomalous failure to protect the environment and the people living within it. But I suspect that the problem is, in fact, much larger than Flint. The major scandal began after city managers, appointed by Michigan’s governor, decided to switch the source of Flint’s drinking water from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River. The river water’s corrosiveness — a result of pollution — wears down on the lead in pipes that transport water into Flint homes. When a child drinks that water, the lead can cause a battery of neurological problems that will affect her for the rest of her life. All because of the wild imprudence of those in power. Upon learning about Flint, I wanted to know how the scourge of lead poisoning might persist closer to home, here in New Haven. City residents aren’t necessarily exposed to lead through drinking water. In an article in the News (“What’s in your water?”, Feb. 17, 2010), then-South Central Connecticut water quality supervisor Tom Barger claimed that, “absolutely,” water in New Haven is safe from lead contamination. But in New Haven, and throughout much of the country, leaded paint may be a more significant source of lead poisoning.
UNLIKE FLINT, NEW HAVEN SOUGHT TO DO SOMETING ABOUT ITS PREDICAMENT Since most of New Haven’s houses were built before leadbased paint was banned from residential use in 1978, many families still live in homes where exposure can have dire consequences. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 24 million homes in the U.S. have walls covered in leaded paint, and four million of them house families with small children. Poorer children are more likely to live in older homes, and thus they’re at greatest risk for poisoning. Unlike Flint, New Haven sought to do something about its predicament. In the summer of 2014, the city and the Environmental Protection Agency partnered to investigate whether home renovators and contractors were complying with the
Toxic Substances Control Act, the nation’s flagship toxic chemical regulation law. The law requires AUSTIN workBRYNIARSKI that ers be trained to renovate Guns & homes in such a way butter that minimizes the possibility of lead exposure. Though the EPA claimed this intervention would better prepare companies to keep their customers safe, compliance was originally only spotty at best. Passed in 1976, TSCA has since been criticized on numerous occasions for being too weak. Because the law stipulates that only the (underfunded, overstretched) EPA must prove that a chemical is harmful, and not the companies producing it, few chemicals have actually been regulated. Of the 80,000 or so chemicals in the marketplace, only 200 have been tested for their effects on human health and the environment. And though the EPA has employed TSCA to prevent lead exposure in New Haven, the small intervention falls short of the systemic approach the agency needs to make any real impact. Flint has been a wake-up call in realizing how ineffective laws like TSCA are in preventing human exposure to hazardous substances. The crisis might also alert us to the great number of toxic substances that aren’t regulated at all. In a few months, maybe years, the crisis in Flint will be the stuff of history, and the brown water flowing from its tap will be a potent symbol of political incompetence, poor disaster response and egregious pollution. The children there who consumed lead-poisoned water will grow older, dogged by persistent neurological disorders. And without action, the rules that allow undue exposure — as in drinking water, our homes, or outdoors — might persis as well. As a new iteration of TSCA — in the form of a chemical safety law, passed independently by the House and Senate in December — is hashed out, Flint underscores the importance of federal legislation by illustrating the grave injustices of a system where chemical safety is insubstantial. This crisis is a national concern. We must demand comprehensive federal legislation that deals safely with toxic substances — TSCA reform services as an opportunity to demand it. AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .
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'SHADRACHSMITH' ON 'MIELE: THE REALITY OF WOMEN'
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Screw is screwed up I
n theory, Freshman Screw — the annual dance held in the Commons dining hall for all freshmen — is a great idea. Almost the entire freshman class comes together for a rocking dance party and students have the opportunity to meet kids from completely different friend groups as their suitemates set them up on blind dates. However, in practice, in the process of setting up one’s suitemate and being set up, students face moral and philosophical quandaries that make the lead-up stressful. For example, imagine that some girl in Berkeley is good friends with a guy in JE. Both of them have suitemates who are still lacking screw dates. Berkeley girl tells JE guy that her suite mate is still dateless and she’s wondering if JE guy knows anyone who is still available. JE guy says his suitemate is still available and so the setup begins. What will ostensibly occur is that names are exchanged and both the girl and guy will tell their suitemate with whom they are being set up. The dates are “blind” since the people don’t often know each other, but in this day and age, it’s a rarity that someone will accept a date without the customary Facebook stalk. Both of
the dateless people will scour each other’s profiles looking for a glimpse at whom their suitemate is trying to screw them with. Social media has come a long way, but no Facebook profile can actually reveal whether someone is a great person and whether you’d enjoy spending three hours on a Saturday night with them. Facebook profiles are often dubious representations of what a person’s life is really like. On Facebook, you can really only tell if these people are attractive — or, more likely, if they’re photogenic. So, let’s continue our example and look at this from one of the participants’ perspective. The girl (it can just as likely be the guy) examines her prospective date’s Facebook and doesn’t find him attractive. If she doesn’t know anything about his personality other than word of mouth from an indirect source and believes he is unattractive, she will likely be disinclined to accept this man as her screw date. Now we see the problem manifest itself: What does she tell her suitemate to tell the friend from JE? She can’t just say, “I don’t know enough about him to want to spend three hours with him” because that runs counter to the very idea of a blind date. Her true reasoning for not want-
ing to go with him is that she finds him unattractive; however, in our society we would decry such a response as distasteful and superficial. Herein lies the crux of the issue: this girl is now in a very unenviable position. Her reasons for not wanting to go to screw with this guy are extremely rational and fair, but she has no way of articulating this in a manner that doesn’t seem rude. Either she must take the politically incorrect route of announcing a lack of physical attraction and turning this man down, or she must weasel out of it by lying and claiming she has already found a date. So what should she do? I’m not here to answer this question because it seems a lose-lose situation. Lying is never a great thing to do, but neither is hurting someone else’s feelings. What I do want to address, though, is that either this concept of a semi-blind date or our social norms governing courtesy may need some tampering. We must either accept that people can flat-out tell strangers they are unattractive (a rather abrasive, but also effective solution) or we must face our fears and make these screw dates truly blind as they are intended to be. For the first option, that means upsetting
the “cult of likeability” (“Why don’t we complain?”, Jan.26, 2016 ) that defines our generation. For the second, it means no information exchanging and no Facebook stalking, just an old-fashioned Seinfeld-style blind date. While this option may be the noblest route, the risk of one person feeling mismatched or unhappy is likely. While each of these solutions has drawbacks, each also clearly represents an improvement over our current situation. In the former, we risk hurting one’s feelings and getting our feelings hurt, but at least we will have a system with complete transparency. In the latter, we risk having our prized freshman screw with a miserable date, but at least feelings are protected in the process. The current situation, however, lacks candor and exhibits tremendous superficiality. Some claim the dance is called Freshman Screw because you have the opportunity to screw your suitemate with a bad date. In our current system, your suitemate’s still getting screwed, but now, it’s by screw itself. CAMERON KOFFMAN is a freshman in Davenport College. Contact him at cameron.koffman@yale.edu .
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Expanding our moral capacity O
n Tuesday, Fossil Free Yale — the student group fighting for Yale to divest its $25 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry — met with the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility for the eighth time in three years. Four members of our group presented a new proposal for fossil fuel divestment. Our requests were simple: that the ACIR release a public statement in support of divestment, and that members of Fossil Free Yale be allowed to present our case directly to members of the Yale Corporation’s Committee on Investor Responsibility, with whom we have never been allowed to meet. Following the presentation, Fossil Free Yale and 45 divestment supporters stood and left the meeting. Our abrupt departure was an expression of our frustration at the lack of administrative engagement and our assertion that divestment cannot wait. We have traced and retraced our steps through the available administrative channels to dead end after dead end. We have written reports. We have written letters. We have collected signatures. We have acted. Yale is stalling. Some people have told us that “this is how things work” or that “institutions don’t change overnight,” as though we aren’t aware. We are not surprised by the institutional inertia we have faced, but we refuse to accept Yale’s stagnancy because this inaction has real, unjust and deadly ramifica-
tions. We see this stagnancy as an unwillingness to take responsibility for the University’s very real role in the world beyond Yale. When confronted, the University demonstrated that they would rather arrest their students than engage in a challenging and crucial conversation. The Corporation cannot continue to deflect divestment. For too long they have done so on the basis that the fossil fuel industry, in the CCIR’s words, does not cause “grave social injuries.” We know that this claim is false, or that it betrays a very dangerous understanding of who counts as being part of the social fabric in which one could be injured — i.e. who counts as people. We know that Exxon, Shell and other fossil fuel companies have been covering up their knowledge of fossil fuels’ contributions to climate change. We know that Corporation member Charles Waterhouse Goodyear IV ’80, the previous CEO of BHP Billiton, which was owned by Shell, has a vested interest in turning a blind eye to grave social harms. Let’s look at fracking sites, which disproportionately disregard the rights of low-income communities and communities of Color to a clean, healthy environment and drinking supply. Surely, recent events in Flint, Michigan demonstrate that this type of disregard is not singular. The CCIR’s interpretation of “social injury” warrants further examination.
The Yale Corporation is content with our continuing investment in the fossil fuel industry, choosing willfully to ignore the industry’s sinister political role in climate denial, pollution and political corruption. Yale has a huge endowment. This endowment allegedly exists to advance knowledge, to research and to teach. More broadly, in the words of the Yale College Mission Statement, the University should “develop [students’] intellectual, moral, civic and creative capacities to the fullest.” But our investment in an inherently damaging, exploitative and extractive industry entrenched in a network of shadow power reveals our institutional tendency to rely upon a limited “moral capacity,” a stinted moral imagination. This stinted moral imagination occurs when the University becomes so preoccupied with an unquenchable profit motive that it does not consider the source of its money. The way we currently manage our endowment necessarily requires that we close our eyes to the injustice to which we contribute and stifle impertinent questions. We operate with a lack of systemic empathy. Perhaps this is why FFY fights for fossil fuel divestment; if we don’t — and sometimes even if we do — we are guilty by association. The Yale Corporation’s demonstration that they don’t care about the source of their money makes us suspect that maybe they never have. Maybe this is the
same limited moral imagination that allowed Yale’s first scholarships to be funded by slave-trading money. Perhaps it was the same drive that led Yale officials to oppose the construction of what would have been the country’s first black college in New Haven because, according to Yale officials in 1831, such an institution would have been “incompatible with the prosperity of Yale.” Maybe this limited moral imagination, which ascribes injustice as natural, has always been integral to the Yale we know, the Yale we love. This is a terrifying possibility. But this need not be the case. We have watched Next Yale expand the moral imagination of ourselves, the campus, the administration and beyond. We work for divestment not because we want to, but because we have to protect our own futures, protect our communities and imagine a better future. We need this moral imagination more than ever if we are ever to create restorative alternatives to the path we are on right now: one of unfettered extraction. Fossil Free Yale will continue to build its movement of students, faculty and alumni until the Corporation divests. We imagine something better and we hope Yale will, too. CASSANDRA DARROW is a sophomore in Calhoun College. Contact her at cassandra.darrow@yale.edu .
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he situation in Flint, Michigan is an outrage. Residents there have been drinking water contaminated with lead, the result of incompetent city management, poor regulation and a long legacy of industrial pollution. Flint might seem an anomalous failure to protect the environment and the people living within it. But I suspect that the problem is, in fact, much larger than Flint. The major scandal began after city managers, appointed by Michigan’s governor, decided to switch the source of Flint’s drinking water from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River. The river water’s corrosiveness — a result of pollution — wears down on the lead in pipes that transport water into Flint homes. When a child drinks that water, the lead can cause a battery of neurological problems that will affect her for the rest of her life. All because of the wild imprudence of those in power. Upon learning about Flint, I wanted to know how the scourge of lead poisoning might persist closer to home, here in New Haven. City residents aren’t necessarily exposed to lead through drinking water. In an article in the News (“What’s in your water?”, Feb. 17, 2010), then-South Central Connecticut water quality supervisor Tom Barger claimed that, “absolutely,” water in New Haven is safe from lead contamination. But in New Haven, and throughout much of the country, leaded paint may be a more significant source of lead poisoning.
UNLIKE FLINT, NEW HAVEN SOUGHT TO DO SOMETING ABOUT ITS PREDICAMENT Since most of New Haven’s houses were built before leadbased paint was banned from residential use in 1978, many families still live in homes where exposure can have dire consequences. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 24 million homes in the U.S. have walls covered in leaded paint, and four million of them house families with small children. Poorer children are more likely to live in older homes, and thus they’re at greatest risk for poisoning. Unlike Flint, New Haven sought to do something about its predicament. In the summer of 2014, the city and the Environmental Protection Agency partnered to investigate whether home renovators and contractors were complying with the
Toxic Substances Control Act, the nation’s flagship toxic chemical regulation law. The law requires AUSTIN workBRYNIARSKI that ers be trained to renovate Guns & homes in such a way butter that minimizes the possibility of lead exposure. Though the EPA claimed this intervention would better prepare companies to keep their customers safe, compliance was originally only spotty at best. Passed in 1976, TSCA has since been criticized on numerous occasions for being too weak. Because the law stipulates that only the (underfunded, overstretched) EPA must prove that a chemical is harmful, and not the companies producing it, few chemicals have actually been regulated. Of the 80,000 or so chemicals in the marketplace, only 200 have been tested for their effects on human health and the environment. And though the EPA has employed TSCA to prevent lead exposure in New Haven, the small intervention falls short of the systemic approach the agency needs to make any real impact. Flint has been a wake-up call in realizing how ineffective laws like TSCA are in preventing human exposure to hazardous substances. The crisis might also alert us to the great number of toxic substances that aren’t regulated at all. In a few months, maybe years, the crisis in Flint will be the stuff of history, and the brown water flowing from its tap will be a potent symbol of political incompetence, poor disaster response and egregious pollution. The children there who consumed lead-poisoned water will grow older, dogged by persistent neurological disorders. And without action, the rules that allow undue exposure — as in drinking water, our homes, or outdoors — might persis as well. As a new iteration of TSCA — in the form of a chemical safety law, passed independently by the House and Senate in December — is hashed out, Flint underscores the importance of federal legislation by illustrating the grave injustices of a system where chemical safety is insubstantial. This crisis is a national concern. We must demand comprehensive federal legislation that deals safely with toxic substances — TSCA reform services as an opportunity to demand it. AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .
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lady.”
'SHADRACHSMITH' ON 'MIELE: THE REALITY OF WOMEN'
G U E S T C O LU M N I S T CA M E R O N KO F F M A N
Screw is screwed up I
n theory, Freshman Screw — the annual dance held in the Commons dining hall for all freshmen — is a great idea. Almost the entire freshman class comes together for a rocking dance party and students have the opportunity to meet kids from completely different friend groups as their suitemates set them up on blind dates. However, in practice, in the process of setting up one’s suitemate and being set up, students face moral and philosophical quandaries that make the lead-up stressful. For example, imagine that some girl in Berkeley is good friends with a guy in JE. Both of them have suitemates who are still lacking screw dates. Berkeley girl tells JE guy that her suite mate is still dateless and she’s wondering if JE guy knows anyone who is still available. JE guy says his suitemate is still available and so the setup begins. What will ostensibly occur is that names are exchanged and both the girl and guy will tell their suitemate with whom they are being set up. The dates are “blind” since the people don’t often know each other, but in this day and age, it’s a rarity that someone will accept a date without the customary Facebook stalk. Both of
the dateless people will scour each other’s profiles looking for a glimpse at whom their suitemate is trying to screw them with. Social media has come a long way, but no Facebook profile can actually reveal whether someone is a great person and whether you’d enjoy spending three hours on a Saturday night with them. Facebook profiles are often dubious representations of what a person’s life is really like. On Facebook, you can really only tell if these people are attractive — or, more likely, if they’re photogenic. So, let’s continue our example and look at this from one of the participants’ perspective. The girl (it can just as likely be the guy) examines her prospective date’s Facebook and doesn’t find him attractive. If she doesn’t know anything about his personality other than word of mouth from an indirect source and believes he is unattractive, she will likely be disinclined to accept this man as her screw date. Now we see the problem manifest itself: What does she tell her suitemate to tell the friend from JE? She can’t just say, “I don’t know enough about him to want to spend three hours with him” because that runs counter to the very idea of a blind date. Her true reasoning for not want-
ing to go with him is that she finds him unattractive; however, in our society we would decry such a response as distasteful and superficial. Herein lies the crux of the issue: this girl is now in a very unenviable position. Her reasons for not wanting to go to screw with this guy are extremely rational and fair, but she has no way of articulating this in a manner that doesn’t seem rude. Either she must take the politically incorrect route of announcing a lack of physical attraction and turning this man down, or she must weasel out of it by lying and claiming she has already found a date. So what should she do? I’m not here to answer this question because it seems a lose-lose situation. Lying is never a great thing to do, but neither is hurting someone else’s feelings. What I do want to address, though, is that either this concept of a semi-blind date or our social norms governing courtesy may need some tampering. We must either accept that people can flat-out tell strangers they are unattractive (a rather abrasive, but also effective solution) or we must face our fears and make these screw dates truly blind as they are intended to be. For the first option, that means upsetting
the “cult of likeability” (“Why don’t we complain?”, Jan.26, 2016 ) that defines our generation. For the second, it means no information exchanging and no Facebook stalking, just an old-fashioned Seinfeld-style blind date. While this option may be the noblest route, the risk of one person feeling mismatched or unhappy is likely. While each of these solutions has drawbacks, each also clearly represents an improvement over our current situation. In the former, we risk hurting one’s feelings and getting our feelings hurt, but at least we will have a system with complete transparency. In the latter, we risk having our prized freshman screw with a miserable date, but at least feelings are protected in the process. The current situation, however, lacks candor and exhibits tremendous superficiality. Some claim the dance is called Freshman Screw because you have the opportunity to screw your suitemate with a bad date. In our current system, your suitemate’s still getting screwed, but now, it’s by screw itself. CAMERON KOFFMAN is a freshman in Davenport College. Contact him at cameron.koffman@yale.edu .
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n Tuesday, Fossil Free Yale — the student group fighting for Yale to divest its $25 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry — met with the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility for the eighth time in three years. Four members of our group presented a new proposal for fossil fuel divestment. Our requests were simple: that the ACIR release a public statement in support of divestment, and that members of Fossil Free Yale be allowed to present our case directly to members of the Yale Corporation’s Committee on Investor Responsibility, with whom we have never been allowed to meet. Following the presentation, Fossil Free Yale and 45 divestment supporters stood and left the meeting. Our abrupt departure was an expression of our frustration at the lack of administrative engagement and our assertion that divestment cannot wait. We have traced and retraced our steps through the available administrative channels to dead end after dead end. We have written reports. We have written letters. We have collected signatures. We have acted. Yale is stalling. Some people have told us that “this is how things work” or that “institutions don’t change overnight,” as though we aren’t aware. We are not surprised by the institutional inertia we have faced, but we refuse to accept Yale’s stagnancy because this inaction has real, unjust and deadly ramifica-
tions. We see this stagnancy as an unwillingness to take responsibility for the University’s very real role in the world beyond Yale. When confronted, the University demonstrated that they would rather arrest their students than engage in a challenging and crucial conversation. The Corporation cannot continue to deflect divestment. For too long they have done so on the basis that the fossil fuel industry, in the CCIR’s words, does not cause “grave social injuries.” We know that this claim is false, or that it betrays a very dangerous understanding of who counts as being part of the social fabric in which one could be injured — i.e. who counts as people. We know that Exxon, Shell and other fossil fuel companies have been covering up their knowledge of fossil fuels’ contributions to climate change. We know that Corporation member Charles Waterhouse Goodyear IV ’80, the previous CEO of BHP Billiton, which was owned by Shell, has a vested interest in turning a blind eye to grave social harms. Let’s look at fracking sites, which disproportionately disregard the rights of low-income communities and communities of Color to a clean, healthy environment and drinking supply. Surely, recent events in Flint, Michigan demonstrate that this type of disregard is not singular. The CCIR’s interpretation of “social injury” warrants further examination.
The Yale Corporation is content with our continuing investment in the fossil fuel industry, choosing willfully to ignore the industry’s sinister political role in climate denial, pollution and political corruption. Yale has a huge endowment. This endowment allegedly exists to advance knowledge, to research and to teach. More broadly, in the words of the Yale College Mission Statement, the University should “develop [students’] intellectual, moral, civic and creative capacities to the fullest.” But our investment in an inherently damaging, exploitative and extractive industry entrenched in a network of shadow power reveals our institutional tendency to rely upon a limited “moral capacity,” a stinted moral imagination. This stinted moral imagination occurs when the University becomes so preoccupied with an unquenchable profit motive that it does not consider the source of its money. The way we currently manage our endowment necessarily requires that we close our eyes to the injustice to which we contribute and stifle impertinent questions. We operate with a lack of systemic empathy. Perhaps this is why FFY fights for fossil fuel divestment; if we don’t — and sometimes even if we do — we are guilty by association. The Yale Corporation’s demonstration that they don’t care about the source of their money makes us suspect that maybe they never have. Maybe this is the
same limited moral imagination that allowed Yale’s first scholarships to be funded by slave-trading money. Perhaps it was the same drive that led Yale officials to oppose the construction of what would have been the country’s first black college in New Haven because, according to Yale officials in 1831, such an institution would have been “incompatible with the prosperity of Yale.” Maybe this limited moral imagination, which ascribes injustice as natural, has always been integral to the Yale we know, the Yale we love. This is a terrifying possibility. But this need not be the case. We have watched Next Yale expand the moral imagination of ourselves, the campus, the administration and beyond. We work for divestment not because we want to, but because we have to protect our own futures, protect our communities and imagine a better future. We need this moral imagination more than ever if we are ever to create restorative alternatives to the path we are on right now: one of unfettered extraction. Fossil Free Yale will continue to build its movement of students, faculty and alumni until the Corporation divests. We imagine something better and we hope Yale will, too. CASSANDRA DARROW is a sophomore in Calhoun College. Contact her at cassandra.darrow@yale.edu .
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“Once you open up the Pandora’s box of race and gender ... you’re never done.” KARA WALKER AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
ENGL 293 struggles with high student interest
Connecticut targets drunk drivers BY ELLEN KAN STAFF REPORTER
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Overwhelming interest in “Race and Gender in American Literature” has led to myriad scheduling difficulties. BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER A perfect storm of complications has descended upon the popular course “Race and Gender in American Literature,” with staggeringly high student interest creating scheduling confusions and calling attention to yet another expected faculty departure in the field of ethnic studies. The class is currently the largest in Yale College, with 382 students enrolled as of press time, according to the course demand statistics website. At one point during shopping period, it attracted more than 600 students. While interest in the course has grown steadily over the past several years, the sudden spike in interest is due to a unique set of circumstances. Campus protests and discussion about race this fall have piqued student interest in studying related topics, according to students interviewed. The course is also known to have a relatively low workload. But students may also have flocked to the class because this is the last time American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration professor Birgit Brander Rasmussen will teach it, as she will leave Yale at the end of this semester. The spike in demand has not gone smoothly. Shoppers interviewed described scenes of confusion and chaos as students spilled out of the lecture hall into the hallways during the first class, and the subsequent scheduling disarray — in which sections have been oversubscribed, canceled
and mislabeled — has been widely documented on social media. “We ended up with massive chaos because sections kept getting dropped, something I have never seen in all my time teaching at three different universities,” Rasmussen said. “It was incredibly stressful for everyone, including the students.” Paul Won ’18 said some of the scheduling chaos is the result of mistakes on the part of the Registrar’s Office, which he said had deleted sections that students had been assigned to, or accidentally labeled non-writing credit sections as writing sections and then changed them back without notice. Rasmussen, too, said she has heard many “unbelievable” stories about students being dropped, sections being canceled and even newly created sections also being canceled suddenly. Currently, only six of the course’s 22 sections fulfill the writing credit, although Rasmussen said the situation remains uncertain. Representatives at the Registrar’s Office were not available for comment. Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Yale College, the Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Pamela Schirmeister said every semester, there is a small number of courses that far exceed the expected enrollment during shopping period. She said if a particular lecture requires additional teaching fellows, the administration would provide them. However, in some cases, the demand for teaching fellows exceeds the number of qualified ones avail-
able. “We have never said that any given course may offer as many [writing] sections as potential enrollment demands, because we cannot always provide a sufficient number of qualified people to teach in those sections,” Schirmeister said. “It’s a simple pedagogical issue: we do not want to offer sections in excess of the number of qualified teaching fellows available to us.” Rasmussen said she had expected increased interest in the course due to campus events last fall, but she said the actual numbers have blown her away. Many students interviewed said they were frustrated at the scheduling disarray and their inability to enroll in writing sections, but they said they remain interested in taking the course, partly due to its timely subject and accessible nature. Won said he is interested in the course because he wants to learn more about the race and gender discussions on campus from a professional, and because he wanted a smooth introduction to English classes at Yale. However, he described his experience so far as “very frustrating.” Won said the section he signed up for was originally listed as a writing section, which he needs to fulfill his distributional requirements. But the section was unexpectedly changed into a humanities-designated one, and he was only able to stay in the class because he was able to switch with a friend. Many students have had to drop
the class because of the unavailability of writing sections. Several posts have appeared on the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale,” as well as various textbook exchange groups, from students who bought the books for the class but are now unable to take it. “I feel like the writing credit situation started out messy, and has ended in a pretty unsatisfactory manner,” Justin Yeh ’19 said. “Last time I checked, the administration only decided to open six writing sections, so a lot of people who needed the writing credit have been unable to get it.” Mohamed Karabatek ’19 said he might have taken the class next year instead of this year, but he decided to take it now because he had heard that Rasmussen is leaving and his friends had highly recommended the class. He called the situation a “giant mess,” noting that Rasmussen has sent around eight emails in the course of two days trying to reassure students and keep them updated. In one of the emails, Rasmussen called the scheduling difficulties “systemic” and said the problem requires real attention from higher administrators. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said his office had expected a jump in student interest and is managing the unexpected course demand. “Due to shopping demand, things are extremely fluid when a class explodes like this,” he said. Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .
Connecticut saw a decrease in the number of drunk-driving deaths in 2014, but the state still has one of the highest rates in the country of motor-vehicle crash fatalities involving drivers under the influence. Traffic accidents with legally intoxicated drivers, defined by Connecticut law as those with blood alcohol concentrations of 0.08 or higher, accounted for 97 out of 248 — or 39 percent — of total traffic fatalities in Connecticut in 2014, according to new data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Released in November 2015, the NHTSA’s statistics indicate that this rate has declined since 2013, when 41 percent of the state’s traffic deaths involved drunk drivers. This year, state leaders hope to further lower the rate of accidents caused by drunk drivers by bolstering education outreach, media campaigns and enforcement practices. The state currently has several strategies in place to combat drunk driving, Connecticut Department of Transportation Transportation Planner Gene Interlandi said. Connecticut offers comprehensive DUI enforcement grants to all police departments, which allows them to fund roving patrols and DUI checkpoints. The state also campaigns against drunk driving through the media and cooperation with public-safety advocates, such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Last July, Connecticut also implemented a program that requires past DUI offenders to install ignition interlock devices in their cars, closing a loophole that allowed some drivers to avoid the requirement, Interlandi said, adding that the state hopes to see fewer repeat offenses in the new year. Ignition interlock devices require vehicle owners to pass a breathalyzer test before starting their cars. According to Kara Macek, director of communications for the Governors Highway Safety Association, ignition interlock policies are one of the best measures states can take to combat drunk driving. “The GHSA strongly supports aggressive ignition interlock policies, which have been shown to be a good deterrent for repeat offenders,” Macek said. “The cornerstone of drunk driving and other behav-
ioral issues is enforcement — strong laws, coupled with public education and outreach.” Despite the decrease in fatalities, the NHTSA data does not show an overall downward trend. Instead, Connecticut’s rate has fluctuated between the high 30s and low 40s since 2010. These variations are likely due to Connecticut being a small state, in which a few incidents can easily cause the numbers to fluctuate, said Joseph Cristalli, transportation principal safety program coordinator at the Connecticut DOT Office of Highway Safety. Only four states ranked higher than Connecticut in the percentage of fatalities involving drunk drivers. Massachusetts, North Dakota and Texas all had the highest rate, at 41 percent, according to the NHTSA report. These states were followed by Delaware with 40 percent. The lowest rate of 20 percent belonged to Vermont. Connecticut’s numbers have placed the state above the national average of 31 percent. Now that the state has reinvigorated its efforts to decrease drunk driving, an additional concern for police is better documentation of alcohol-impaired driving, said Putnam Police Chief and Connecticut Police Chiefs Association President Rick Hayes. Police officers do not perform standard field sobriety tests or breathalyzer tests on the drunk driver when fatalities are involved, so these BACs often go unmeasured until medical autopsies are performed. But because the BACs from autopsies are only given to the police when criminal violations are involved, many of the BACs are documented but unreported, Putnam said. The NHTSA data is compiled for every state’s department of transportation and submitted using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Currently, Connecticut’s FARS analysts are transitioning into electronic recordkeeping in the past year. Shifting to electronic datakeeping is a shift towards providing more up-todate records for public officials, said Harley Polverelli, the primary FARS analyst for the Connecticut DOT’s Crash Data and Analysis department. State analysts submit FARS data to NHTSA twice yearly. Contact ELLEN KAN at ellen.kan@yale.edu .
NHPS launches optional Saturday school BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER New Haven Public Schools is working to combat the usual dread students feel for school on Saturday, combining math and reading sessions with fun and food at four New Haven schools. Earlier this month, Fair Haven School, Troup School, Wexler-Grant Community School and Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy launched Saturday Academies, optional morning sessions that provide additional education and enrichment activities for students ranging from third to eight grade. Students whose parents enroll them in the program are in school from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. each week. Just weeks into the program, teachers and administrators involved in Saturday Academies are already optimistic about its potential. “We wanted to provide extra academic support for our students while also really stressing the importance of social and emotional learning
and team building,” said Adriana Joseph, deputy chief of youth, family and community engagement at NHPS, adding that NHPS endeavored to make the program “exciting and enticing” for students.
We wanted to provide extra academic support for our students. ADRIANA JOSEPH Deputy Chief of Youth, Family and Community Engagement at NHPS Each Saturday begins with a cold breakfast and team-building activities that give students the opportunity to interact with one and another and with their teachers, Joseph said. Students then study for two hours before choosing from a variety of activities, including outdoor games and art. The school day ends with lunch, which is also provided. But bringing students to
school on a Saturday is not the only change NHPS is making through Saturday Academies. The district is also investing in Chromebooks to support student learning and growth, Joseph said. She explained that enrollment has increased as students have heard about the program from friends. She said students are excited to use the technology and see their friends for an extra day in the week. Saturday Academies were originally supposed to begin in December, but the program’s launch was postponed to allow students more time to enroll. Although students can only attend Saturday Academies if the school they are enrolled in offers the program, Joseph said the district hopes to expand Saturday Academy enrollment so that any student can attend, even if the Academy they apply to is not based in their school. NHPS Chief Operating Officer William Clark said Saturday Academies are the
result of Mayor Toni Harp’s education initiatives combining with the work of NHPS and the superintendent’s vision. Clark added that the meals provided during the program are an additional benefit for students who come from homes that are food-insecure. Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy Principal Pam Franco said students at the school already enrolled in the Saturday Academy are excited about the program. “Every week I ask [students] what they like about [the Saturday Academy] and they keep telling me ‘everything,’” she said. Franco added that although there have only been two sessions so far due to last week’s snowstorm, she has already noted a reduction in disciplinary problems during the normal school week. Roughly 90 students at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy are enrolled in Saturday Academy. Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .
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“Street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome.” HOMARO CANTU CHEF KNOWN FOR MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY
Food trucks to see new regulations, fees FOOD TRUCKS FROM PAGE 1 wanted a process to diminish these complaints.” The current ordinances, last rewritten in 2001 before the foodtruck boom, neither acknowledge the different categories of vendors present today nor address possible complications, said Building Department Director Jim Turcio. He added that many vendors only pay their parking meters when they see city officials approaching. The plan would create four districts — Downtown, Ingalls Rink, Cedar Street near YaleNew Haven Hospital and Long Wharf — in which the city would limit food trucks and carts to designated sites, Fontana said. In downtown New Haven, the city officials have identified 22 street sites at least 50 feet from restaurants and with high foot traffic where vendors can compete for spots, Fontana said. These sites include four on York Street, between Chapel Street and Elm Street, where food trucks like Ay! Arepa already park. Planners also identified five sites outside Battell Chapel, four in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall and three in front of the New Residence Hall, none of which are the site of food trucks on a daily basis, Fontana added. In consultation with Yale, Fontana said he also chose two spots on High Street adjacent to LanmanWright Hall. Fontana added that the city would distribute the first six spots downtown via an auction to the highest bidders coveting posts downtown. A lottery ball would determine the recipients of the last 16 locations, with each spot costing $5,100 per year. This price was calculated by multiplying $17, the most intake possible from one
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Food trucks in New Haven will soon face new regulations and costs for operation. parking meter in a day, by an estimated 300 days of operation, Fontana said. The $5,100 would be in addition to existing $200 fee for a license and $250 payment to the health department. The new fee means that the vendors would no longer have to feed the parking meter. Revenues from the site fee,
Fontana said, will fund electrical outlets for each site, which will produce fewer emissions than the gas now used to run stoves and fridges. It would also create a position in the Building Department for an employee to inspect trucks. “When we spoke with vendors last October, they said they
wanted something transparent, fair and simple,” Fontana said. “They said they would be willing to pay some money if they could have that space year-round.” The proposal would also affect food carts. These vendors, which generally make less money than food trucks, will be charged $1,000 for one of the designated
Students propose Thompson to replace Calhoun THOMPSON FROM PAGE 1 and more symbolic gestures, such as the distribution of roses, expressed support for renaming Calhoun after Thompson, a highachieving African-American student in the college who died tragically in a car accident less than two months before his graduation. The sessions coincided with Thompson’s birthday. He would have been 54. Marshall told the News that she had not heard many arguments in favor of Thompson prior to the meetings. “The name of Mr. Thompson hadn’t emerged much before today, so you always have to listen,” she said. “I am not sure the name would have emerged if not for these sessions, but it has.” In 1980, Thompson left his home in Arkansas — where he was valedictorian of Little Rock High School, the site of a famous and divisive desegregation effort in 1959 — to start school at Yale. He played on the football team as an undergraduate and recorded a nearly perfect transcript. Thompson was an active member of the Calhoun community, serving on the college council and working
as a freshman counselor his senior year. He also worked as an intern for then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton LAW ’73. During his senior year, he was one of only a few dozen students nationwide to earn a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. But on his way back from spring break in March 1984, Thompson died tragically in a car accident. Newsweek ran a full-page obituary. Clinton cried at his funeral. At the Calhoun listening session Thursday afternoon, students passed out roses in a gesture of support for renaming the college after Thompson. Of the 35 students who attended, nearly a dozen individually stood up to speak in favor of the college being renamed after him. Calhoun College Master Julia Adams declined to give her own opinion on whether the college should be renamed in honor of Thompson. Adams has previously called for the college to be rechristened Calhoun-Douglass, after 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Several students said an opinion article published Monday in the News by Calhoun student Alex Zhang ’18 that laid out the case for Thompson helped galvanize their
support. Zhang, who also attended Little Rock High School, said he spent his childhood hearing stories about Thompson. “There’s really nothing to dislike about this guy, and I knew that many people would find his story resonating,” Zhang said in an interview Thursday. He said that in the days since his column was published, he has received emails from numerous alumni expressing support for the naming proposal. Students present at the Calhoun session voiced their gratitude to Zhang for bringing Thompson’s story into the spotlight. “I’m very thankful that he did voice that in so strong a manner, and that it did take a hold in the way it has,” said Austin Strayhorn ’19, who is in Calhoun. Strayhorn said he first considered Thompson an option in the naming dispute when the founder of the Yale Black Men’s Union devoted an entire speech at the Union’s induction ceremony in September to Thompson’s legacy. History professor Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02, who attended the University-wide listening session Thursday evening, said he knew Thompson personally prior
to his passing. Calling him a “wonderful young man,” Gitlin said his death was a great tragedy. Rianna Johnson-Levy ’17, who also attended the later session, told the News that Thompson is “the epitome of what you want a Yale student to be.” “When we name colleges after alumni we admire, it’s really meaningful to make the category of student as important as statesman or theologian,” she said. Jon Stein, a former New Haven Register reporter who once interviewed Thompson, said he could not think of a better candidate for the college name. “If Calhoun is bad because of his view on race, why not replace [him] with an example of what integration can mean?” he said. A plaque in the Calhoun College courtyard honors Thompson’s memory. Thompson’s portrait also hangs on the wall of the college library, while paintings of Calhoun were recently removed from the dining hall and master’s house. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .
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At both sessions, students advocated for renaming Calhoun after Roosevelt Thompson ’84.
sites, Fontana said. Turcio added that Ingalls Rink, which is surrounded by carts, will have around 15 spots. Tom Sobocinski, co-owner of the Cheese Truck and its brickand-mortar location, said he had heard only rumors about the plan and $5,100 seemed unreasonable. But he will withhold judgment
until city officials publicly present the plan, he said. The plan will hold a public meeting on Monday, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m. in City Hall aiming to explain the details of the plan and elicit the support of food vendors. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
Yale-NUS naming debate continues YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 Yale-NUS administration left him with the impression that the school opted for “open housing” instead of “gender-neutral housing” because administrators did not want the policy to be seen as an import of the American value of trans-inclusion, he said. A former president of The G Spot, a student organization at Yale-NUS tackling issues concerning sexuality, gender and feminism, Yang said this is his personal view and not a representation of the group opinion. He added that the school — which is the only highereducation institution in Singapore that offers the option of gender-neutral housing — described the housing policy as males and females sharing a suite, as opposed to using terms of creating a more inclusive space for genderqueer and transgender students. Yale-NUS professor Brian McAdoo, who served as the interim dean of students when the school introduced gender-neutral housing policy and held “Doing it Right,” did not mention the conservative Singaporean context as a reason for the school’s naming choices. Instead, he said that the diversity of the student body led the administration to choose those monikers. Students have different levels of education and comfort with topics such as sex and sexuality, McAdoo said. To engage the Yale-NUS community in those conversations and serve the educational value of introducing these topics, the school has to be more sensitive in phrasing things that “might be unfamiliar” to students, he said. McAdoo added that terms such as “gender-neutral” are more prevalent in the U.S., but are not as common in Asia. To make the concept of gender-neutral housing more relatable and understandable, the school began to use the more famil-
iar phrasing of “open housing,” he said. Still, Yale-NUS students interviewed said they use the term “gender-neutral housing” with each other, as does Singapore’s largest newspaper, The Straits Times. The Yale-NUS student government survey administered to gauge interest in campus housing-policy changes also used the term “gender-neutral housing.” Yang said not being able to call certain aspects of life on campus “what they are” is a missed opportunity to raise awareness about campus issues. He added that The G Spot initially planned to call the college’s version of “Sex Week” by that name, but that the Dean of Students Office suggested changing the name out of concern for negative reactions and possible alienation of some members of the Yale-NUS community.
It really was about not being able to call a spade a spade for fear of a public backlash. DARYL YANG YNUS ’18 Some American colleges, such as Columbia and the University of Chicago, also opted for the term “open housing,” rather than “gender-neutral housing” several years ago. Wan Ping Chua YNUS ’17 said she felt the different terms — open versus genderneutral housing — meant the same thing to her and therefore did not pose any problem. While “Sex Week” might make the event’s goal clearer, “Doing it Right” also has sexual connotations and is “not that much” different, she said. Yale-NUS introduced open housing for non-first years last April. Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .
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“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT
Secret societies: tombs or vaults?
St. Anthony Hall is unique in that our building is public. ANDREW SCHMIDT ’18 Member, St. Anthony Hall Still, according to members of various campus societies, inequality in wealth between the groups does not translate to discrepancies in the value of the society experience, nor are the societies all alike. Some groups, like St. Anthony Hall — a literary society with members ranging from sophomores to seniors — host free, public events like concerts and lecture series, and its members are not sworn to secrecy. “St. Anthony Hall is unique in that our building is public,”
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With locked doors, slim windows and shut gates, secret societies at Yale do their best to keep out of the public eye, though their tax information is hidden in plain sight. Senior societies, secret societies and other exclusive social groups like the Elizabethan Club must file taxes with the International Revenue Service as nonprofit charitable organizations, and their financial information appears on GuideStar, an online database for nonprofits. Yale has 43 senior societies and eight junior societies as of 2015, and in fiscal year 2014, the assets of a few of these organizations numbered in the millions. Topping the list is Scroll and Key — filed under the name Kingsley Trust Association — with total assets of $10,771,828. A list of the seven richest secret societies was first published by Business Insider on Jan. 5.
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said Andrew Schmidt ’18, a St. Anthony Hall member. “It may not make us better or mean we have more fun, but it definitely makes the fun we do have more visible, which affects public opinion.” Older societies with larger assets are viewed as more prestigious, Schmidt said. Even as new societies are formed, Schmidt said he is fairly certain that older, landed societies would “always have a higher social status.” No matter what happens inside, on an immediate level the buildings imply a level of history and prestige that a landless society lacks, he added. According to GuideStar, contributions to Scroll and Key in 2014 alone reached over $1 million. Below Scroll and Key in wealth is Wolf’s Head, which
New report says Elm City feels safer
boasts assets of almost $7 million. The next three richest societies in descending order are Book and Snake, the Elizabethan Club and Skull and Bones, each with over $4 million in assets. St. Elmo, a secret society with a house on Elm Street, has assets of around $90,000. Scroll and Key’s mission statement, listed at the top of its profile on GuideStar, claims the group acts as “academic support for Yale University,” while other societies emphasize social and professional development among members. Even if located on Yale’s campus, the societies operate very independently from the University administration. Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, who oversees student organizations — including sororities, fraternities and
the cultural houses — said he knows “very little” about Yale’s societies at this time. Howard assumed his position at the beginning of this academic year. Yale College Council President Joe English ’17 also said he is unaware of any existing contact between YCC and Yale’s societies. “My first thought was that Dean Howard was the official or unofficial administrator, but if he isn’t, I’m not sure anyone really does oversee the societies,” English said. “As for the YCC, we have no contact or relationship with societies.” There are 15 seniors currently in Scroll and Key. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .
Even though New Haven was ranked the ninth-most dangerous mid-sized city in the country by an October 2015 FBI crime report, Elm City residents are feeling increasingly secure in New Haven, according to a study released by the research firm DataHaven on Jan. 15. The DataHaven report — composed of two surveys conducted in 2015, including one by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at the Yale School of Public Health — found that 44 percent of respondents felt safe walking through New Haven at night, compared to 34 percent of respondents to similar surveys conducted in 2012. Although there has been an increase in perceived safety, New Haven still lags behind Connecticut’s average, according to the survey. Statewide, 71 percent of residents indicated that they felt relatively safe walking at night. DataHaven Executive Director Mark Abraham said that while the results could be caused by a number of factors, it is clear that further improvements in city services will make people feel even safer. “Further investments in highquality housing, transportation, schools and other services within urban neighborhoods could help reduce the inequalities between urban centers and wealthy towns when it comes to residents’ overall perceptions of community wellbeing,” he said. Abraham cited the effect of the city’s decreasing gun crime rates on the survey results. He noted that New Haven Police Department records show a drop in reports of nonfatal shootings, as well as fewer shots fired per month between 2012 and 2015. Abraham also suggested that the increased perception of safety could be a result of growing economic secu-
rity in the city. New Haven’s unemployment rate dropped from 32 percent in 2012 to 20 percent in 2015, Abraham said. “Even if very few residents are directly exposed to gun violence, these kind of events can impact what residents see, hear or read about in New Haven everyday, and when they drop to this extent, it is probably going to be reflected in residents’ perceptions of safety,” Abraham wrote in an email to the News. New Haven residents from within and beyond the University voiced mixed opinions on whether they considered New Haven a safe place to live. Jonathan Ramirez ’19 said he feels safe walking through New Haven, including at night, but said he is often cautious about carrying valuables with him after dark. New Haven resident Ginnie Paino said her apartment complex feels safe, but the area immediately surrounding it does not. She said she would not feel comfortable walking through this area at night. Similarly, Mya King ’18 said she feels safe near Yale’s campus, but less so when she ventures away from it, particularly at night. Su Lyn Lai GRD ’16 said she feels safe near the Yale School of Medicine and Yale’s main campus. But she said she would not want to leave the campus at night and does not normally go beyond the medical school campus. Chief of Yale Police Ronnell Higgins usually accompanies his crime reporting emails by reminding students of the importance of walking with others when possible in well-lit and populated areas of the city. He also reminds students to keep valuable items such as cash and portable electronics hidden from view. DataHaven was founded in 1992. Contact CAMERON HILL at cameron.hill@yale.edu .
Med School campaign profiles clinical trial volunteers BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER On Jan. 15, the Yale School of Medicine launched a poster and online campaign called “Help Us Discover Heroes,” which encourages the public to participate in clinical trials of treatment methods for various disorders. The campaign, which resembles a similar 2012 initiative, features the stories of clinical-trial volunteers and current Yale researchers on the medical school’s website and on the sides of Yale shuttles. In announcing the campaign, Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school, spoke of the important role played by volunteers, as well as doctors, in furthering biomedical research. However, the campaign was inspired in part by the challenge many researchers face in the recruitment of new volunteers, he added. “The biggest reason [for the noncompletion of trials] is low accrual, meaning that not enough people enrolled in the study to ensure meaningful results,” Alpern said. “There may be logistical issues that interfere with study visits, for example, or [participants] may not understand what the trial is testing and may decline to participate altogether.” Alpern said he hopes the campaign, along with other recent measures taken by the medical school, would help to encourage the public to aid clinical trials, although he acknowledged that recruitment for trials is a national problem not specific to Yale. The most common reasons deterring people from volunteering are lack of interest and time constraints, said Melinda Irwin, associate director of the Yale Cancer Center. She added that stiff eligibility criteria can sometimes be a factor in not receiving enough volunteers to complete a trial. She added that the eligibility criteria should not be excessively severe while still corresponding to the trial’s purpose. Stuart Weinzimer, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine who had a study recently featured
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The campaign features stories of clinical trial volunteers on the medical school’s website and Yale shuttles. by the campaign, said recruiting additional volunteers for trials often necessitates demystifying the process behind biomedical research for potential participants. One challenge associated with clinical trials is recruiting people of color, given historical incidents in which members of minorities were treated unethically by study investigators, Weinzimer said. He added that for some people, participation in research can be associated with “frankly horrible” cultural histories.
“At least in the experience for diabetes, participation in clinical research trials is much higher in Caucasians than in minorities of color,” he said. “Some of that may be due to language barriers. And, in African-American populations, there’s an unfortunate history of abuses in this country about getting volunteers properly informed. Some of that holds over. Some people are worried that they are just guinea pigs.” Weinzimer added that for those unfamiliar with biomedical research, the experience of seeing volunteers and investiga-
tors similar to oneself featured in the campaign will help encourage people to participate in clinical trials in the future. However, if told that they have been chosen to be part of the control group for a clinical trial rather than part of the group testing the intervention, many volunteers choose not to participate, Irwin said. She emphasized that this was an unfortunate reason for people not to participate, since the control group faces minimal impact on their lives when compared to the experimental group.
Irwin welcomed the “Help Us Discover Heroes” campaign as a way to educate people and patients about the benefits that the biomedical research performed in trials can bring to the broader population. “With research, we need people to participate to change standard-of-care practice,” she said. “With changes in health care and the Affordable Care Act, we can also find ways to cut costs but have equally or more effective treatment. There is a benefit to everyone.” Tesheia Johnson, deputy
director and chief operating officer of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, said the medical school has also launched the campaign via the first of a series of videos on YouTube and social media. “Our hope is that by formalizing the effort to share more personal stories [the campaign] will have a greater impact,” she said. The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation was founded in 2005. Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .
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“[Diversity] doesn’t mean we want the white people to write Asian stories.” CONSTANCE WU TAIWANESE AMERICAN ACTRESS
Asian American Studies courses prove popular among shoppers COURSES FROM PAGE 1 “I think [these classes are] definitely very important, because as I went to different teach-ins and student gatherings last semester, there was a real desire on the part of many students to understand the history and social status and economic struggles of Asians and Asian-Americans in the U.S.,” said Lui, who is Yale’s first and only tenured professor who specializes in Asian American Studies. “This is not a field just for Asian-Americans to engage in. This is really about understanding the current complexities of America as a nation.” All three of the Asian American Studies classes were oversubscribed on the first day they met. Tran said that in the first week, 27 students shopped “Asian Diasporas” and 50 went to “Critical Refugee Studies.” Similarly, members of the Yale community crammed into “Asian American Literature,” which met in a small classroom in Linsly-Chittenden Hall. All three seminars are capped at 18 students. Alex Zhang ’18, co-chair of the Asian American Studies Task Force, said the demand for the classes makes the need for more Asian American Studies classes obvious. “I walked in [on the first day of “Asian American Literature”] and I was like, ‘There’s no way I’ll be able to get into the class, no matter how desperately I want to,’” he said. “That was very disappointing.” Zhang eventually did secure a spot in the class.
Xiang said she has been impressed by the high level of student engagement with the field. She said the seminar’s discussions are her favorite part of teaching the class, mostly due to her students’ evident desire to learn. To be in a position to talk about Asian-American books is very fortunate, she said, especially when students are so passionate about the subject. She said she hopes to teach another course on Asian American Studies during the next academic year. Zhang emphasized, though, that Yale must continue to hire tenure-track faculty who specialize in Asian American Studies. “I think it’s a shame we don’t have the permanent instructors needed to satisfy the massive demand for Asian American Studies,” Zhang said. “Part of building Asian American Studies at Yale, or essential to building that curriculum at Yale, is having full-time faculty who can advise students, help them with their senior thesis, write them recommendation letters and create a community around Asian American Studies.” Tran said that Yale, with all its resources and emphasis on diversity, needs to bring in more faculty who have expertise in the subject. While Lui said the field of Asian American Studies is important not just for AsianAmerican students, the classes currently may still attract a specific subset of students. Tran said the majority of students in
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Over 100 students and faculty members participated in the Yale Asian American Studies Conference last spring. her “Asian Diasporas” class are of Asian descent, being either international or Asian-American. But she emphasized that conversations about Asian American Studies are “interdisciplinary” and attract diverse viewpoints, noting that two-thirds of students in her “Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies” class
are not Asian-American. Xiang expressed similar sentiments, explaining that the growing interest in Asian American Studies is part of a larger trend. “It seems students are interested in issues of race, gender, culture and literature,” she said. Lui said she is excited about the growing interest in the field.
And as the campus moves further away from last semester’s heightened conversations about racial justice and inclusion, she hopes the trend will continue. “I just hope the interest continues, because it’s intellectually satisfying and meaningful — socially and politically — for students as a whole as they
understand their place at Yale and beyond,” she said. In 1970, “The Asian American Experience” was the first class in the field of Asian American Studies to be offered at Yale and in the Ivy League. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
Admissions notes rise in applications DIVERSITY FROM PAGE 1 American and Hispanic students are attending college now than ever before. Between 2000 and 2013, the percentage of college students who were African-American rose from 11.7 to 14.7 percent, according to the
National Center for Education Statistics. This figure went from 9.9 percent to 15.8 percent for Hispanics during the same time frame. Dunn said that without having yet evaluated the regular decision applicant pool, he cannot speculate on whether the minor-
ity applicant pool will be more competitive, nor can he determine whether the overall percentage of traditionally underrepresented students will be higher in the class of 2020. Dunn also said that because all the Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ outreach programs
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The notion of finding out about college is the least of it. DANIEL PERLSTEIN Professor, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education Responding to widespread unrest among the student body over the racial climate at Yale, University President Peter Salovey announced in November a slew of reforms including increased funding to the cultural centers, additional mental health resources for students of color and changes to financial aid policy. Yale has also made tangible
efforts to demonstrate its commitment to increasing diversity on campus through admissions. In September, Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced that the University would join the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success, a group of selective colleges developing a new application portal to enhance equity among applicants. But Daniel Perlstein, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education and an expert in diversity and educational equity, said measures to increase diversity in higher education must begin before the start of the college admissions process. He said that while there are issues in the U.S. related to lack of information about college options, many students from underrepresented groups are also lacking in access to quality education that would prepare them for academic work at a school like Yale. “The notion of finding out about college is the least of it,” Perlstein said. In 2013, 34.2 percent of African-Americans nationwide aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in degreegranting institutions, according to NCES. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
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“Almost everyone’s instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.” NATE SILVER AMERICAN STATISTICIAN
Bulldogs seek to solidify first-place standing W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 well for the Bulldogs. A recurring problem throughout the season for the Elis has been their inability to limit their turnover number, which is currently the second worst in the conference at 16.9 per contest. “Where [Penn] give teams the most difficulty is in their aggressive zone in which they hold teams to very few points on average,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said. “Executing our offense and shifting the zone by attacking the basket will be critical for us as well as playing our up-tempo style and running the floor.” Meanwhile, the Quaker offense commits the fewest turnovers in the league and is led by sophomore forward Michelle Nwokedi, who was last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Nwokedi leads the team in scoring, averaging 14.9 points per game. Right behind the sophomore, at 13.8 points per game, is junior center Sydney Stipanovich, who earned Defensive Player of the Year honors a season ago. Together, Nwokedi and Stipanovich account for nearly 50 percent of Penn’s total offense. The duo also rank first and second, respectively, in the conference in rebounding. “We are also going to switch
up our defenses a little bit to throw them off, and look to get some extra coverage on Stipanovich and Nwokedi,” Wyckoff said. “If we box out and rebound, especially against those two, we will have success.” Less than 24 hours after the Penn game, the Bulldogs will play Princeton, the defending Ivy League champion who completed a remarkable 30–0 regular season last year en route to the NCAA tournament. However, the Tigers have had to deal with the graduation of last season’s unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year and honorable mention All-American, Blake Dietrick. Despite her absence, the roster is still filled with talent, including a trio of seniors, guards Annie Tarakchian and Michelle Miller and forward Alex Wheatley. The three Tigers all earned All-Ivy recognition last year and each averages more than 10 points a game this year, contributing to Princeton’s prolific scoring offense. But despite leading the league in scoring as well as field-goal percentage, Princeton has not matched the invincibility of last season. This relative decline was on full display three weeks ago at Penn. Against Penn, Princeton made only 18 of its 64 field-goal
Home-and-home with Brown W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 underestimate them,” Ferrara said. “They are a hardworking team that will battle all game long. We can’t play down to their level, but have to push the pace and play fast, smart hockey for all three periods.” In the previous two games of this season, the Elis pulled out two huge wins to keep them competitive within the ECAC Hockey rankings. Only the top eight teams get the bid to play in the playoffs, and Yale is currently ranked right at that marker. Ferrara noted that staying out of the penalty box will be key against the Bears, something Yale struggled to do against Union and RPI. The Elis had a combined total of eight penalties on the weekend, leading to 16 total minutes playing mandown. The Bears rank fourth in the ECAC in gaining power-play opportunities but have scored in those opportunities just 12.9 percent of the time, ranking 10th
in the conference. Brown boasts a younger team than Yale, with two underclassmen serving as the Bears’ leading scorers this season. Brown forwards Sam Donovan and Bridget Carey, who have scored seven and four goals in 2015–16, respectively, will face off against the Eli defense that only allowed for two goals against it in the last two games. “We’ve placed a lot of focus on improving our defensive game throughout the season and it’s nice to see it paying off with wins in the last few low-scoring games we’ve had,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “Our shot-blocking and back-checking efforts as a collective unit have been very good as of late — which has allowed us to have a quick transition game and get back on the offense.” Yale and Brown will face off at 3 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.
attempts, including just two of its 15 three-point attempts. Turnovers have played a critical role as of late, as the Tigers have averaged 16.6 giveaways over their past five games, of which they have lost three. For the Bulldogs, these two games are an opportunity to bounce back from last week’s uninspiring victory. After opening the conference portion of its season in commanding fashion in perhaps the team’s best performance of the year two weeks ago, the Bulldogs regressed a bit in a sloppy win at Brown last Friday, which, according to Sarju, reminded the team of the difficulties of playing on the road. Aware of the challenges posed by the upcoming weekend, all players interviewed still expressed excitement to build on its 2–0 start in league play. “The team is pumped for conference [play],” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “No matter who we are playing, we try to go at the game with our same programmatic mindset, style of play and intensity.” Friday’s game against Penn tips off at the historic Palestra at 7 p.m. Saturday’s game against Princeton begins at 6 p.m. Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .
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Yale is just 1–6 on the road this season, but that win came last weekend against Brown in Providence.
Yale hosts Union, RPI at Whale MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 man goaltender Cam Hackett. Hackett and fellow RPI netminder Jason Kasdorf, a senior and Buffalo Sabres draftee, have made that type of victory something of a common occurrence for the Engineers — RPI has outshot its opponents just five times in its 13 wins. Both Hackett and Kasdorf boast a save percentage that ranks in the top five in ECAC Hockey as well as in the top ten nationwide. Their performances have gone a long way toward keeping RPI in the NCAA Tournament picture despite a -4.69 shots-per-game margin, which ranks 48th of 60 teams across the country. “They’ve won a number of games where they’ve been outshot by a lot and been able to win the game,” Allain said. “I think their goaltending is really good. They block a lot of shots, they collapse around the net.” On the offensive end, RPI also ranks near the middle of ECAC Hockey in scoring, though the Engineers’ power-play unit sits at the very bottom of the con-
ference, converting at just a .114 clip. Their attack is spearheaded by junior forward Riley Bourbonnais, whose team-high 13 goals and 0.213 goal-per-shot mark place him among the conference leaders in both categories. Allain said he expects both teams to play the Bulldogs physically. But the Elis — who, according to Allain, may be without defenseman Nate Repensky ’18 and forwards Andrew Gaus ’19 and Ryan Hitchcock ’18 due to injuries — are no strangers to physical play, and the players say they are ready for the weekend ahead. “There’s a lot of parity in this league and every night’s hard, so we have to stick to our identity and play our game,” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “We’ve had success the last two months because we’ve been playing Yale hockey, and it’s hard for teams to keep up with us for 60 minutes when we’re playing that style.” Puck drop for both games is scheduled for 7 p.m. Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .
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Defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 netted the first goal in Yale’s 2–1 win over RPI on Tuesday.
weekend — has lost two consecutive games. In the Quakers’ first Ivy League game on Jan. 9, the team held a multiple-possession lead in the second half and overtime, but could not finish off the Tigers in the final minutes. On the same day that sophomore guard Antonio Brown, who had averaged 10.7 points per game, was declared academically ineligible to play the remainder of the season, forward Darien Nelson-Henry stepped up to score 17 points in the overtime contest. Nelson-Henry averages 12.3 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, both team-highs, on the season as a whole. The Bulldogs boast scoring threats of their own down low, headlined by forwards Justin Sears ’16 and Brandon Sherrod ’16, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year and Ivy League Player of the Week, respectively. Sherrod put together an impressive game last Saturday against Brown, shooting 9–9 from the field en route to a 24-point, sevenrebound effort. “Penn’s a good team. They gave us trouble last year on our senior night,” captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 said. “They have some really good shooters under their new coach. We need to be wary of their shooters and
other than that, we should be able to work the ball low again. I think we’ll have advantages on the post. We’ll continue doing what we’re doing but be wary of guys taking shots from deep.” With new head coach Steve Donahue at the helm, Penn was picked to finish seventh in the Ivy League in the preseason media poll. A little over a week after the poll was released, it was announced that then-captain Tony Hicks, the team’s leading scorer each of the past two seasons, was leaving the program. Despite the tempered expectations and the departure of multiple scoring threats in Brown and Hicks, the Quakers are eager to prove that they deserve more attention in the 14-game tournament, as evidenced by their close overtime loss to Princeton. Meanwhile, Princeton, which travels to New Haven on Saturday after a Friday game at Brown, was projected to finish third in the Ivy League in that preseason poll. The Tigers garnered more first-place votes than Yale, the conference favorite. Those high expectations, however, have quietly developed into questions about Princeton’s true place in the Ivy League. In addition to the unconvincing opening victory over Penn, the Tigers were dealt a huge blow to begin the year
when forward Hans Brase tore his ACL and was declared out for the season. The 6-foot-8 Brase averaged 11.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game last year. Even with the loss of Brase, the matchup on Saturday pits two of the Ancient Eight’s best offenses against one another. Princeton boasts the top-scoring offense in the Ivy League with 78.3 points per game, a mark the Tigers increased in their most recent game with a 100–44 beat down of Division III Bryn Athyn. Yale ranks third in points per game in the Ivy League with 74.9, and the Bulldogs are tops in field-goal percentage at 45.8 percent, relying on the duo of Sears and Mason to carry the scoring load. Although Sears’ minutes were limited in the two games against Brown due to foul trouble, the pair still averages more than 30 points by themselves, with exactly 15.4 per game each. “We need to continue running a good offense and being patient, and just let our offense work in itself,” Montague said. “We’ll take good shots and hopefully our post players can continue to play as they have been, so we’ll be able to maintain a good offense.” The Tigers are led by forward Henry Caruso, whose 16.2 points per game rank third in the Ancient Eight. With a 10.5-
point average, Devin Cannady is Princeton’s second-highest scorer and the most major part of a Princeton bench that has scored an average of 23.2 points per game this season. Meanwhile, Yale has dealt with inconsistency from the bench for much of the season, though the Elis hope to duplicate their last game’s bench performance against Brown. Forward Sam Downey ’17 led the Bulldog reserves with a careerhigh 18 points in the game, while guard Anthony Dallier ’17 knocked down both of this attempts from behind the arc for six points in the contest. The 38 points from the bench was much greater than its average of 24.5 bench points per game. “I feel like our bench play will be great in Ivy League play,” Downey said. “We definitely are confident and I think that a lot of our problem at the beginning of the year was that we were not aggressive enough coming off the bench, but I feel like a lot of the bench guys are gaining our confidence after good games and a couple weeks of good practice.” Tipoff for each game this weekend is scheduled for 7 p.m. in John J. Lee Amphitheater. Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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SPORTS YALE GYMNASTICS BULLDOGS AT HOME AGAIN The Yale gymnastics team will perform at home for the second straight weekend this Saturday during the second annual Don Tonry Bulldog Invitational. The Elis will host Bridgeport, New Hampshire and SCSU in a four-team meet that starts at 1 p.m.
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YALE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S HOCKEY “WHITE OUT FOR MANDI” AT WHALE In honor of the late former Yale women’s hockey forward Mandi Schwartz ’10, fans are encouraged to wear white at the Yale women’s hockey game vs. Brown and Yale men’s hockey vs. Union on Friday. Schwartz passed away in 2011 after a courageous battle with cancer.
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BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS After completing a sweep of Brown to open Ivy League play, the Yale men’s basketball team moves on this weekend to host Penn and Princeton, two Ancient Eight foes each currently searching to cement their own identity in the league this season.
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Defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 is one of four players with at least four points in Yale’s six home games this season. BY DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER In its seven January games, the Yale men’s hockey team has played in five states and six arenas ranging from southern Arizona to northern New York. This weekend, the Elis finally get a chance to come back to familiar ice — and to stay for a little while, too. The No. 11/12 Bulldogs (12– 4–4, 6–3–3 ECAC Hockey) return to Ingalls Rink for the first two of four consecutive home contests, in which they will host Union (9–9–6, 2–7– 3) on Friday and No. 16 Rensselaer (13–7–6, 5–1–6) on Saturday. Against the incoming New York foes, Yale will be looking to extend its eight-game unbeaten streak to doubledigits, which would be the first such Eli run since the 2010–11
Bulldogs won 10 in a row. “[Being] on the road is fun with the guys,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said, “but there’s nothing better than being home in front of the crowd.” First on the Elis’ weekend slate are the 2014 National Champion Dutchmen, whose last 10 games have been emblematic of their up-anddown season: Union comes to New Haven trying to snap a five-game winless streak, which comes on the heels of five straight wins. At one point in November, Union followed up a 4–1 victory at Clarkson — the Knights’ only home loss of the season — with a home loss of its own against ECAC cellardweller Brown. As its 0.500 record might suggest, Union ranks near the middle of the country and the
conference in nearly every traditional metric, including scoring offense, scoring defense, power-play efficiency and penalty kill percentage. Nevertheless, the Dutchmen, whose top two goal-scorers are sophomore forwards Ryan Scarfo and Spencer Foo, have shown significant flashes of potential. In addition to taking Yale to overtime before falling to the Bulldogs 2–1 in Schenectady on Nov. 14, Union’s resume also includes a convincing 5–3 victory against No. 9/10 Boston University, as well as ties against No. 6 Michigan and No. 7 Harvard. And the biggest advantage for the Dutchmen — whose style Yale head coach Keith Allain ’80 called “structured” and “disciplined” — might come from a rather subtle but crucial area.
“They’re really good on faceoffs,” Allain said. “I think they might be leading the nation or close to leading the nation in faceoff percentage, so they have possession of the puck a lot.” In fact, Union’s Division I-leading 57.5 percent success rate on the draw eclipses that of second-best No. 5 Boston College by two percentage points, a gap that exceeds the difference between BC and the eighthbest school in the nation. Saturday will see the Bulldogs square off against RPI, whose 3–2 overtime victory on Nov. 13 against Yale remains the Elis’ sole conference road loss. Despite a 43–19 shot advantage for the visitors in that contest, Yale could not seem to solve Engineer freshSEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8
Elis take 2–0 record to the road BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, the Yale women’s basketball team will look to continue its modest undefeated streak in the Ivy League as it embarks on two consecutive road games against Penn and Princeton.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Friday night, the Bulldogs (11–8, 2–0 Ivy) will play the Quakers (12–3, 1–0), whose only home loss this year came in the season-opener to the
then-No. 12 Duke team. Three weeks ago, Penn knocked off Princeton, the defending conference champion, and the Quakers are bolstered by a conference-best defense as well as the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year. On Saturday, the Elis will travel to New Jersey to play the Tigers (11–4, 0–1), who are on a 19-game home winning streak dating back to the 2013–14 campaign. “This weekend will be a good test for us, but we are confident that we can win both games if we execute the game plan,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said.
The senior guard added that the team was focusing on fixing small details of its game, including defensive positioning and offensive spacing, in preparation for an impressive Penn team. Defensively, Penn leads the Ivy League in terms of points allowed and also limits opponents to just 34.2 percent shooting from the field, the second-lowest percentage in the conference. However, the Quakers force the fewest turnovers in the Ancient Eight, a statistic that bodes SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 8
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Coming off the bench, guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 is second on the team in assists with 2.5 per game.
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The Bulldogs (11–5, 2–0 Ivy) enter this weekend’s slate undefeated at home and the winners of six straight games. Princeton (11–4, 1–0), meanwhile, recently pulled out a narrow 73–71 overtime win over underdog Penn
(6–9, 0–1) — a game that raised questions about the validity of both teams’ preseason expectations. “[Our undefeated home record] is really important to us,” point guard Makai Mason ’18 said. “We had a couple games that we thought we gave away last year, so for us to have the record we do this year is really important. We have been playing well at home as well as on the road, but a good win at home is always a better feeling.” While the Elis are trending upward, having outscored their last six opponents by an average margin of 24.5 points, Penn — their opening opponent of the SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 8
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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 leads the Bulldogs with 15.38 points per game this season.
Bulldogs battle Bears back to back BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER In its only home-and-home weekend series of the ECAC season, the Yale women’s hockey team plays Brown this weekend in two back-to-back games, looking to continue momentum and create its longest winning streak of the season.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (7–13–1, 6–7–1 ECAC Hockey) face the Bears (3–16–2, 1–11– 2) once at Ingalls Rink on Friday and again at Meehan Auditorium in Providence on Saturday. With Yale currently sitting in eighth place in the conference standings, both games will be key for Yale to strengthen its playoff chances. Two wins this weekend would give the Bulldogs a total of 17 points on the season, potentially enough to push the team up as high as a three-way tie for fourth place. “Every game has become more and more important every time that we play,” goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 said. “The last four points [from two consecutive wins] gave us a boost into a playoff spot, and we need to keep the streak going to secure a spot.” In particular, this Friday’s contest will be an important one for all of Yale athletics. The Bulldogs will commemorate the life of fellow teammate Mandi Schwartz ’10, who died of acute
myeloid leukemia in April 2011 after playing 73 games as a forward for Yale, with the “White Out for Mandi” event. Schwartz was diagnosed with the condition in December 2008, prompting her family and the Yale community to assist her in finding a bone marrow donor. The drives held at Yale and in Canada did successfully discover a handful of matches for other patients needing donors, but Schwartz herself was unable to find a match. “Although none of us got the chance to meet Mandi, we all wear her number 17 on our helmets to remind us of her incredible work ethic, selflessness and courageous battle she fought for so long,” captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 said. “The Yale women’s ice hockey team wants to honor her legacy and play with the same love and passion Mandi brought onto the ice everyday.” The Bulldogs emerged with a 6–3 victory over the Bears during last year’s home contest, a performance they look poised to repeat against a Brown team that has won just one conference game this season. Since that victory against Union in early December, the Bears have been on a 10-game winless streak. During this past weekend alone, Brown allowed eight goals total against Union and Rensselaer. “Brown is definitely a team we should beat, but that doesn’t mean we should SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 8
THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS IN YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL HISTORY PRIOR TO JUSTIN SEARS ’16 THAT HAVE SCORED 1,400 POINTS AND GRABBED 700 REBOUNDS IN THEIR CAREERS. Sears snatched his 700th rebound last Friday against Brown to break into uncharted territory.