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And so it begins. Today, residents of Iowa will participate in the first event of the 2016 primary elections: the Iowa caucus. According to FiveThirtyEight, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 has a 73 percent chance of winning on the Democratic side. Among Republicans, Donald Trump has a 56 percent chance. Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz are second among Democrats and Republicans, respectively. Big brother. Republican candidate Jeb Bush’s most recent Iowa campaign flier includes a letter from his brother and former president George W. Bush ’68. In his message, Bush wrote, “As someone who has sat in the Oval Office, I know Jeb has the leadership skills to grow our economy, fix Washington, strengthen our military and keep America safe.” I think I’ll go to Boston.

According to data released by Fitch Ratings, an international agency, businesses that are leaving Connecticut are relocating to Massachusetts. A recent CNBC survey also ranked states in terms of business friendliness, putting Massachusetts 20th and Connecticut 33rd.

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University fundraising trails peers BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS

sity President Peter Salovey’s annual freshman address. And last semester, after a series of racially charged controversies on campus generated national headlines, student activists again demanded that the University rechristen Calhoun and name the two new residential colleges after people of color. Students and professors who attended the open sessions said that compared to the hundreds of students who participated in November demonstrations and the consistent interest of those in Calhoun College, the low attendance at the public sessions underscored the growing apa-

Yale ranked 15th in a list of charitable contributions made to universities nationwide last year, the same as the year before, according to a survey released last week. But top administrators say the results are not indicative of Yale’s fundraising strength, noting that the survey did not account for pledges promised for future years — which, if considered, would bring Yale’s fundraising in fiscal year 2015 to its second-highest ever. According to an annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education, an organization that collects data on university fundraising, Yale collected $440 million in funds in fiscal year 2015, a jump of $10 million from the year prior. Still, in the past few years, Yale’s fundraising totals have fallen behind other schools like Stanford — which topped the list with a staggering $1.63 billion in 2015 — and Harvard, which came in second place with $1.05 billion. But University President Peter Salovey, who told the News that he takes the responsibility of fundraising for Yale “very seriously,” said the survey results paint an unfair portrait of the University’s current fundraising efforts. In figures Salovey sent to the News that summarize the amount of money committed to the University each year, rather than actually given, Yale’s financial picture is more optimistic.

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The name of Calhoun College was central in discussions with the Yale Corporation last week. BY DAVID SHIMER AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS Last Thursday evening, just a few dozen undergraduates sat scattered across the nearly 450 empty seats in Yale’s cavernous Law School auditorium. They were gathered to discuss the potential renaming of Calhoun College and the naming of the two new residential colleges with Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 and Alumni Fellow Eve Rice ’73. The session, which was also attended by a handful of professors, graduate students and alumni, was planned to last 90 minutes but

ended 15 minutes early. A second open session Friday morning drew a similarly small crowd, according to attendees. But earlier Thursday, around 35 Calhoun College students squeezed into a small room in the Rose Alumni House with Marshall and Rice for a similar purpose. The session, which was closed to students in other colleges, ran 15 minutes longer than planned. The debate over the future of Calhoun College — named for former U.S. vice-president and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, class of 1804 — picked up steam over the summer and was the central focus of Univer-

Fifth time’s the charm? Claire

Danes ’02, who plays the lead role in the hit Showtime series “Homeland,” was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award this weekend. She lost the award to Viola Davis, who stars as Annelise Keating in “How To Get Away With Murder.” Danes has been nominated for the SAG award four times but has never won.

All of the lights. According

to reports on Overheard at Yale, someone was projecting messages on Yale buildings yesterday evening. The messages ranged from political — “I Have A Dream” on Calhoun College — to humorous — “All Are Welcome” on Skull and Bones’ tomb and “Let Your Body Do That Yoga” on Pierson College.

The next Sam Tsui? Opia,

a band started by Cole Citrenbaum ’17 and Jacob Reske ’14, has a new single “Falling” which has risen to 14th overall on music-sharing site “Hype Machine.” Opia is an electronic and R&B music band. Planes, trains, automobiles.

goNewHavengo — a citywide initiative to promote sustainable transportation — is hosting “Transportation on Tap” to discuss equity in transit. The event will be held at BAR tomorrow evening. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1993 The University’s Course of Study Committee releases a memo to faculty to recommend tougher grading policies. The existing policy does not allow the University to distinguish academic excellence clearly, according to the committee. Follow along for the News’ latest.

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Still no executive director for AYA BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Executive Director of the Association of Yale Alumni Mark Dollhopf ’77 announced in April that he would step down when his term expired that summer. But nine months later, he still has not been replaced. Jenny Chavira ’89, thendeputy executive director of the

AYA, assumed the position of acting executive director during the interim period, but no permanent appointment for executive director has since taken place. Dollhopf held the position for nearly a decade. The executive director of the AYA is the highest officer in the Association’s administrative structure and works with the AYA board of governors,

Ward 1 selects new co-chairs BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Four months after securing the Ward 1 alder seat against a Republican challenger, the Ward 1 Democratic Committee is inaugurating two new cochairs, both of whom are Yale students. The new chairs, Clifford Carr ’17 and Chris Rice ’18, have made a name for themselves in campus politics throughout their time in New Haven. As the only two candidates running for the two-year co-chairmanship, Carr and Rice will take over from Jacob Wasserman ’16 and Sarah Giovanniello ’16 on March 2. In interviews with the News, Carr and Rice said they are committed to strengthening the bonds between the Yale and New Haven communities and dissolving the so-called “Yale bubble” that divides the University from the city. Rice said his experience as a field director for Fish Stark’s ’17 campaign in the Ward 1 Democratic primary last fall sparked his interest in engaging Yale students in New Haven.

“I really believed in the vision that we were pushing forward for the Stark campaign,” Rice said. “I thought that, as Yale students, we have a responsibility to give back to New Haven and do our part to give back to the community that gives so much to us.” A native of Houston, Rice is especially involved in the Latino community on campus, serving as president of La Unidad Latina’s Yale chapter and as a member of La Casa Cultural and MEChA, a campus activist group that advocates for Latino and Chicano issues. Harnessing the spirit of the anti-racism protests that engulfed campus in the fall, Rice said he will work to increase diversity on the ward committee, which he said has historically been mainly white. Carr comes from a different side of Yale’s activist community. A volunteer on current Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson’s ’12 2015 campaign and native of Oxford, England, he currently serves as chair of the Party of the Left in the Yale Political SEE WARD 1 PAGE 6

AYA staff and University leadership to set programming for the organization, among other duties. The AYA published a report in September to provide information about the organization and assist potential candidates in assessing their interest in becoming executive director. Yet Michael Madison ’83, who chairs the search committee, said the hiring process is still

ongoing. Madison emphasized the importance of finding the right candidate rather than filling the position as soon as possible. “The search is not governed by a timetable,” Madison said. “The committee’s goal and Yale’s goal is to find great person for the position.” The new executive director will be tasked with improv-

ing how the AYA makes use of emerging technologies — specifically for communications and branding — as well as overseeing human resources, management processes and budgetary discipline, according to the report. Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Joan SEE AYA PAGE 6

Church St South conditions dire

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The Church Street South complex is located on 34 Cinque Green. BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Last January, water leaked from Laynette Del Hoyo’s Church Street South apartment so severely that her daughter developed respiratory complications from the resulting mold.

Her experiences refuted the high inspection score given to the low-income housing complex by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development less than three months prior. But scores released earlier this month from a January investigation more accurately

reflect the living conditions that Del Hoyo and many other residents continue to face. This inspection cut Church Street South’s score from its 2014 high of 81 to a failing score of 20 out of 100 in January 2016, 40 points SEE CHURCH STREET PAGE 4

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Of course I’m a racist I

constantly find myself threading the needle between two worlds: one thoroughly liberal and protected by the thick film of the Yale bubble, and the other in my hometown within the Deep South, where Donald Trump and his shamelessly divisive rhetoric reign supreme. In both, racists abound. This is not a column setting out to prove the insidious racism of New England is just as problematic as the more apparent racism of the South — though trust me that such arguments can be and have been written. Rather, I’d like to posit that the knee-jerk instinct to use the word “racist” at all is more an act of self-defense than a genuine act of concern. In other words, this is a column for white people who call other white people racist to feel good about being white. Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am, of course, a racist. This is extremely hard for people to admit. But if we accept the term “racist” to mean simply someone with racial prejudice, then we all — to some degree — meet this standard. No one can seriously deny ever having a single prejudiced thought cross their mind or having supported an inherently racist institution, no matter how many times one has read Lorde or Baldwin.

CALLING ANOTHER PERSON A RACIST IMPLIES THAT SOME FINISH LINE EXISTS And if we further acknowledge that everyone born with the ability to see race is in fact a racist, then the term as a tool of categorization renders itself meaningless. So instead of forcing a false dichotomy between racists and non-racists, it may be more helpful to think of racism not as a divider between good and evil but as a spectrum somewhere along which we have all landed. Why does this distinction matter? First, calling another person a racist implies that some finish line exists, that eventually we will somehow be able to convert all the racists to non-racists. That you yourself have finished this journey and the other person needs to hurry up and rid themselves of racist thoughts so they can be pure — just like you. What baloney. It is justifiable and even encouraged to call out another person for engaging in racism, but putting a holierthan-thou barrier between yourself and the other person helps no one. This is a shared struggle. I’ll even go so far as to say that we’ll never get to a place in

which every facet of racism has been stripped away from this world. Our legacy of hatred is simply too TYLER That BLACKMON strong. said, our world today Back to is unrecognizable from Blackmon that of my g ra n d p a r ents’ generation, and hopefully our grandchildren will continue to chip away at racism in ways that we never could have imagined. But this journey never ends. It is a constant struggle, and no one is over the finish line. Second, relying on the word “racist” to separate yourself from others implies that racism is an identity, not a idea. If racism is an idea that plagues us all, then even the most prejudiced among us have the agency to cast it aside. But allowing someone to claim the absence of prejudice as an identity grants self-proclaimed non-racists free range to say and do entirely racist things. Ultimately, we’re talking about getting rid of ideas, not people. Activists last semester pushed for more ethnic studies courses at Yale not because they thought doing so would eliminate racists from campus. Rather, students argued that engaging with a more complex version of our history and culture would move a person further away from racism and toward some better alternative. In short, everyone had the ability to improve. Once you make the switch to viewing prejudice as a spectrum, you’ll realize how powerful using “racism” or even “racist actions” instead of the term “racist” can be. It requires demands that lesser-racists engage in selfreflection and endows the farmore-racists with the ability to make modest improvements without getting defensive. It allows those in my grandparents’ generation, who still think racism means burning crosses or segregating water fountains, to understand how much further we still have to go and that they can admit these shortcomings without admitting they are fundamentally bad people. “Racist” is an identity. “Racism” is something we have agency in casting off. Calling someone else a racist may be good for your ego, but it does little to make progress on racial justice. Everyone is a racist. Everyone struggles. Some just struggle with racism more than others. Here’s the bitter truth: I’m a racist. So are you. Now what are we going to do about it?

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The rise of the cult class A

s shopping period draws to a close, an exciting, if not entirely new, phenomenon has arrived on campus. Yale’s biggest classes are getting bigger, heralding the “cult class” as a fixture of contemporary Yale culture. What makes a cult class? They’re usually huge lectures, but it’s not just the high enrollment numbers; otherwise, a number of large but otherwise unremarkable introductory courses would qualify. Instead, cult classes share a few defining characteristics. To begin with, the cult class is taught by a big-name professor. Sometimes, the instructor is a leading scholar in their field: Paul Bloom, Marvin Chun, Shelly Kagan, John Gaddis and George Chauncey all come to mind. Other times, they may simply be adjuncts who have a gift for teaching, with David Malan of CS50 being the most prominent example. Regardless of their background, these instructors own the course with their larger-than-live personalities, serving as lightning rods that conduct information and electrify their students. In a sense, the cult class is a revolt against decades of pedagogical research, which has emphasized studentcentric approaches to education. In the cult class, the teacher regains their preeminence. The cult class is an immersive

experience with a subculture of its own. It is not just another class but rather an event, relying on social contagion to JUN YAN build a fanCHUA dom around itself. From The film screenwallflower ings to snackfueled study sessions, the cult class often extends beyond the cut-and-dry lecture. For this reason, it becomes a topic of conversation in dining halls. With a few exceptions, the cult class is seldom a gut. Guts do not require the investment of time and effort needed to build loyalty and allegiance. For example, the history class “Vikings” was highly popular last spring, but never quite achieved the reputation of “The Cold War,” which inspired a book in 2005. In terms of content, the cult class resists the hyperspecialization so characteristic of the modern academy. It is often crosslisted in multiple disciplines, and targets majors and non-majors alike. The focus of the cult class possesses broad-based appeal: After all, everyone watches “Twenty-First Century Hollywood.” The film studies class

with that title now has over 300 students — 20 times the number of majors in the department per class year. When the Internet first emerged, commentators predicted that technology would kill off the live lecture. Flipped classrooms and video lectures were all the rage. To some extent, the cult class is an offshoot of this trend. In an age of content saturation, the lecture has had to reinvent itself to stay relevant. Platforms like TED have raised the bar for presentational excellence, prompting students to seek out a blockbuster aesthetic in their lectures. Yet the rise of the cult class also refutes the view that online learning will replace physical classrooms. If anything, the cult class demonstrates that students crave intellectual communion with their peers. Yes, they want bespoke, artisan, personalized instruction, but they also want to be part of a shared experience — “a company of scholars and a society of friends.” That said, the cult class is not without its pitfalls. Spectacle can supplant substance, and charisma can overshadow content. Students may end up becoming passive consumers of their instructors’ views, with little critical engagement. But this objection romanticizes what happens in the typical classroom:

Students nod off and check their email, provided they are actually present. If cult classes keep students that much more engaged, or nudge one or two kids to go into a field, why should we begrudge them? In the long run, Yale’s course offerings will polarize, with cult classes on one end, intimate seminars on the other and everything in between fighting a war of attrition. With the opening of the new residential colleges, and no planned increases in tenuretrack faculty, the trend towards cult classes will only intensify. Cult classes, therefore, offer a glimpse of what Yale’s future might look like. The University needs to prepare for this shift. Are there enough venues to accommodate courses of this scale? Will there be enough teaching fellows to staff sections for cult classes? More departments will probably have to offer at least one or two cult classes, in order to capture the imaginations of impressionable freshmen. In the meantime, we can all huddle in the art gallery auditorium and listen to Ronald Gregg speak about Hollywood blockbusters. What was that he said about them being self-referential? JUN YAN CHUA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. His column usually runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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Yale’s job problem I

n the financial aid town hall last semester, the administration implemented changes to the summer portion of the student income contribution, reducing the expectation by $1,350 for high-need students and $450 for everyone else. However, many students voiced concern that the term-time contribution — which stands at $3,350 for upperclassmen — remains a large hurdle that hinders students’ ability to focus on academics and participate in extracurricular activities. In response to calls for greater revision, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said that students don’t seem to have trouble with the term-time cost, as data from the Student Employment Office has shown that students on financial aid spend an average of less than five hours per week at those jobs. Still, Quinlan said he was open to hearing other interpretations of data. The average five-hour working commitment cited by Quinlan is much less than the 10–12 hours a week that would be required under the campus minimum wage to fulfill the portion of the “term-time job” that is the first part of every financial aid package. However, his claim that stu-

dents are working fewer hours per week than would be required is not a valid reason to conclude that the term-time job poses little burden on students. This logic is akin to a politician arguing that rising unemployment or a falling labor force participation rate means people are becoming more prosperous. The reality is that there are not enough student jobs at Yale to fulfill the demand that exists among undergraduates alone. Roughly 50 percent of Yale students are on financial aid (and thus may need to work), which translates to about 3,000 undergraduates with a demand for about 10 hours of work a week, which is equal to roughly 30,000 hours. The average of five hours quoted by officials means that students are working roughly 15,000 hours, leaving an additional 15,000 hours of work unfulfilled. If we look at the Student Employment Office’s website, we can observe that there are a total of roughly 200 student jobs currently open on campus, which are certainly not enough to fill the shortfall under the estimate that students must work 10 hours a week. Furthermore, this “job market” at Yale not only caters to undergraduates but to the entire grad-

uate community as well, and as a result, many undergrads fail to qualify since certain jobs require specialized skills. Therefore, we can conclude that students work less or not at all because finding a student job is a rather uncertain process. When I asked roughly half a dozen of my peers why they’re not working, many people stated that they had “applied to like 20 on-campus jobs but not did not hear back from anyone.” We see this type of discouragement play out in the job market of the real world as well; people drop out of the labor force after a prolonged job search rather than continuing to search in vain for an occupation. On the employer side, there is an intense demand for (some) jobs with over 100 applicants submitting their resume for a single job posting. Just as there are structural rigidities in the real job market, similar rigidities exist for student-workers as well. Firstly, a single job may not always be enough to provide one with the requisite 10–12 hours a week. Also, many jobs usually require a student to commit large blocks of time during the normal workday, which can conflict with classes, sections and other com-

mitments. Hence, the types of jobs available are often incompatible with the types of hours demanded by students. Finally, the student income contribution could create an unfair disadvantage for students based on socioeconomic status. For some, “dropping out of the workforce” may not be an option and as a result, they must cut down on extracurricular commitments to make time for the 10–12 hours of work a week. One the other hand, as we progress up the socioeconomic ladder, students may be able to depend on families to help meet their income contribution if the job search appears to be futile. This leaves low-income/high-need students to work longer while those who are slightly more welloff can gain a entirely different Yale experience. This invalidates the blanket claim made by Quinlan that students seem not to have as much trouble with the term-time contribution. Whether revising the student expectation further or expanding job offerings, Yale has plenty of work left to do. GAURAV PATHAK is a freshman in Branford College. Contact him at gaurav.pathak@yale.edu .

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The article “A programming parity” misstated Michelle Danoff’s class year at Harvard. It also misspelled the names of Penny Rheingans and Klaire Tan ’19.

ULA protests Thai Taste amid audit BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Unidad Latina en Accion, a New Haven-based immigrants’ rights activist group, staged its 11th Thai Taste protest since May on Saturday evening. ULA alleges that Thai Taste owner Roger Jaruch owes three ex-employees more than $37,000 in unpaid wages at Thai Taste and Rice Pot, an East Haven restaurant Jaruch also owns. Though the Connecticut Department of Labor began investigating these claims before auditing the restaurant Tuesday, roughly 15 ULA members and sympathizers convened outside of the Chapel Street restaurant Saturday to protest the alleged wage theft once again. Protesters said they are continuing demonstrations to hasten judicial action and galvanize public support. “The reason why we continue to demonstrate is we find that it’s the best method to push the Department of Labor to speed up the process,” ULA organizer Karim Calle said. The protest featured not only workers and immigrants’ rights advocates, but also the children of ULA community members. Calle said she and Joe Foran, another ULA organizer, bring their children to pass out leaflets and speak through the megaphone because they want to begin educating them about social justice at an early age. Foran said protestors chanted “Don’t buy Pad Thai from this bad guy” and “Don’t let your education go to waste; don’t eat at Thai Taste” in front of the restaurant for almost an hour. He said one restaurant patron approached him and other demonstrators to tell them she would not have eaten at Thai Taste if she had known about the allegations. While Jaruch was not at the restaurant Saturday, he said he was aware of the demonstration and is “used to” ULA’s relatively frequent protests. He added that he does not know why ULA staged another protest since the DOL has already audited the restaurant.

“This can be solved in court,” Jaruch said. “The Labor Department already has the report and is investigating.” He said while ULA has a right to protest, he thinks demonstrations make customers uncomfortable, adding that it seems to him as though ULA wants him to pay the alleged sum without going through proper DOL procedures. Jaruch said the DOL is looking into payroll records to determine whether wage theft occurred. He said his lawyer, Andi Hallie of Branford law firm Riccio & Beletsky, has been corresponding with DOL officials. Calle said two former Thai Taste employees allege that while they were working for Jaruch, he paid them less than the state’s minimum wage and did not pay them for overtime. She added that the workers, who were supporting families, were unable to take any days off due to financial duress. Foran said he thinks the demonstrations are effective in moving toward a more socially just New Haven. He said putting a worker’s face on wage theft helps rally public support. “When we go there to demonstrate, it’s with the intention of letting students know what the restaurant is doing and asking them to stand in solidarity with the workers, and to also help us advocate against wage theft,” Calle said. Calle said the main audience ULA hopes to reach is the Yale community. She said she noticed many Yale students dining at the restaurant Saturday’s demonstration. ULA also stages semi-regular protests at Goodfellas Restaurant, a steakhouse on State Street. Five former Goodfellas employees filed a federal lawsuit against the owner in May alleging wage theft, harassment and intimidation. “There’s no peace without justice,” Foran said. ULA was founded in New Haven by Guatemalan immigrants in 2002. Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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Students and administrators have continued dialogue over financial aid policy since the University’s December announcement of reform. BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Dialogue between students and administrators over financial aid policy has continued into the spring following the University’s December announcement of reforms to the student summer income contribution. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi met last Thursday with Yale College Council President Joe English ’17 to discuss the next steps in financial aid reform. In December, Quinlan and Storlazzi, in conjunction with the YCC, hosted a town hall meeting in which they announced changes to Yale’s financial aid policies. The reforms, which will go into effect next year, include reductions in the student summer income contribution — summer earnings that students with financial aid are expected to contribute toward their tuition — as well as increased reductions for students with the highest need as defined by the University. The changes came fol-

lowing a YCC report published last January which called for the full elimination of the student summer income contribution and the studentemployment expectation, which consists of earnings from a term-time job. This semester, the YCC’s financial aid working group — a group of four YCC representatives — will have three meetings with the administration, and there will also be one or more open forums similar to the one in December, Storlazzi said. “What we want to delve into are the comments and ideas that came out of the forum in December, and also, I think, to continue to address the conversation about student work on campus,” Storlazzi said. He added that future conversations with students will also center around how Yale’s endowment supports financial aid at Yale. English said his meeting with Storlazzi and Quinlan mostly focused on how to engage a broader set of students on issues in financial aid policy. He said that other than hosting an open town hall

meeting, a way in which the YCC is working to involve students in the reform process is through a financial aid “focus group.” English said the group would be composed of around 25 students from across the student body who would meet with administrators from the Provost’s Office and the Office of Financial Aid to discuss their concerns. The YCC’s immediate goals in financial aid reform are further reducing the student summer income contribution, lowering the term-time expectation and establishing a “sliding scale” to calculate a student’s individual contribution based on need, English said. Under the current setup, upperclassmen with no expected parent contribution are expected to contribute $1,700 each summer; that figure is $2,600 for all other upperclassmen on financial aid. The amount is lower for freshmen to give students time to ease into the expectation. Immediately following the announcement in December, students were generally grateful for the reduc-

tion but expressed a desire for further reform. At the town hall meeting, many students shared emotionally charged stories about difficulties that the expected student contributions have imposed on their lives at Yale. English said the YCC has made good progress on improving communication between students and administrators about the University’s financial aid policies, which was one of the suggestions outlined in the January YCC report. To enhance transparency about financial aid, the Office of Financial Aid updated its website in the fall and redesigned the award letter it sends out to admitted students. The new letter features a clearer layout and more straightforward language. “We look forward to building on the momentum of last semester’s student effort changes and revamped award letter,” Quinlan said. The University’s current financial aid budget is approximately $122 million. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

Students respond to Stiles basement flooding BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Students jumped to fix flooding in the Ezra Stiles College basement on Sunday when Yale Facilities was nowhere in sight. According to a Yale facilities hotline employee, the flooding was an “emergency, and a priority,” yet on Sunday afternoon the nearly one-inch-deep water pooling outside the Stiles laundry room went unaddressed for several hours. The Yale Facilities superintendent had been notified as of 3 p.m. on Sunday, the hotline employee said. Around 3 p.m., the hallway was still covered in water. Around 3:45 p.m., three Yale Facilities maintenance staff had arrived and were cleaning up the remaining water in the laundry room and hallway using a vacuum, a mop and an industrial blow dryer. The flooding was caused by a broken washing machine, which overflowed midday on Sunday when Stiles student Selena AnjurDietrich ’17 went to go wash her clothes. After calling the facilities hotline and being redirected several times without finding someone to fix the flooding, AnjurDietrich and her suitemate took things into their own hands and attempted “damage control” with a mop and bucket. Turning off the water flow on the machine, they sought the help of the students who lived across the hall. Together, the group used brooms and mops to quell the soapy tide. One student stretched

towels by the gate of the mechanical room to prevent water from damaging the equipment inside. “Luckily it didn’t cause too much damage,” said Adam Zucker ’17, who lives in the nearby entryway. His suite is slightly elevated from the basement floor and so did not feel the full effects of the flooding, he said. Zucker speculated that the laundry-room drain was clogged, since the water from the broken washing machine was spilling out of the laundry room and into the hallway close by. Zucker said the delay in maintenance was to be expected given that the flooding began over the weekend. “We’re really thankful to them for coming in on a Sunday and cleaning up the mess,” Zucker said. Nick Crowle ’18, whose suite borders the flooded hallway, said a small amount of water had entered his room. He said the flooding began to enter the hallway around 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Crowle added that this is the first time his hallway has experienced flooding or any other technical problems. Still, it was not the first time this year that the college has experienced flooding. A broken sprinkler in September flooded the Stiles basement in the fall. Ezra Stiles College was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen ARC ’34 in 1961. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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A broken washing machine triggered flooding in the Ezra Stiles College basement over the weekend.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.â&#x20AC;? LYMAN BEECHER PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER

Corp naming discussions draw few attendees CORPORATION FROM PAGE 1 thy of the larger University community after prolonged debate and the widespread belief that the discussions were â&#x20AC;&#x153;for show.â&#x20AC;? Still, Marshall said it is important that the Corporation take its time in deciding these issues, and that she learned a great deal from the sessions held last week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree that the debate has gone on for too long â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these are serious issues,â&#x20AC;? she told the News. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the number of students affected the value of the sessions. Many students have communicated their views in different kinds of ways, so we simply wanted to make sure that if anyone hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had an opportunity to do that, we provided one.â&#x20AC;? Students have also had the option to contribute to an open website that was set up to solicit feedback on the issue. At the Calhoun-only session, where students distributed roses in honor of Roosevelt Thompson â&#x20AC;&#x2122;84, a beloved African-American graduate of Calhoun who died in a car crash and has emerged as a candidate for the possible renaming, students spoke about their discomfort with the college name, saying that they refuse on principle to eat in its dining hall and that their friends are reluctant to visit them in their suites. Calhoun Master Julia Adams said she was not surprised that the closed session attracted more interest than the two Universitywide meetings. A survey administered by the News in September found that students in Calhoun were less supportive of changing the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name than students in the wider Yale community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does fall more directly on this community,â&#x20AC;? Adams said, referring to the student population of Calhoun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are still presenting new ideas and thinking about the name and the symbology in ever more profound ways.â&#x20AC;?

Students interviewed at the first open listening session said they were underwhelmed by the turnout and felt the discussions were poorly structured. Jordan Taylor â&#x20AC;&#x2122;13, who attended the Thursday session, said she was frustrated that the moderators limited her speaking time to three minutes even though attendance was low and the session ultimately finished early. The University required students to sign up for the open sessions, and attendees who wished to speak were asked to register at the door. Rianna Johnson-Levy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17, another Thursday attendee, said she attributed the low turnout at the open session to widespread skepticism that the Corporation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which has final jurisdiction over the naming disputes and has promised to reach a decision on Calhoun sometime this spring â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will take student opinion into account. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If students really thought these forums would make a difference in the naming of the colleges, more people would have shown up,â&#x20AC;? Johnson-Levy said. She added that student distrust for the Corporation stems partly from the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal last year to divest from fossil fuels, despite months of student activism. Marshall disputed the notion that the Corporation does not value student input. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The opinions of students of course had an impact,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The strength of the views of some of the Calhoun students about a particular naming, Roosevelt Thompson, was important and it gave me an opportunity to engage with people who had interacted with him, which I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and probably couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have before.â&#x20AC;? Two history professors who attended the Thursday session speculated that low turnout could be attributed to student apathy about the debate rather than skep-

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Some say the low turnout at Corporation town halls signals waning student interest in naming disputes. ticism about the Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s receptiveness to feedback. Jay Gitlin â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71 MUS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;74 GRD â&#x20AC;&#x2122;02, widely known as the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unofficial historian, said the low turnout is indicative of declining student interest in the naming disputes over the last few months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the turnout shows that many students have had enough of this conversation,â&#x20AC;? Gitlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not important. It just means a lot of people have moved on.â&#x20AC;? And history professor David Blight, who partly specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction era and hosted a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tea centered on the naming of Calhoun

Complex fails inspection CHURCH ST SOUTH FROM PAGE 1 below passing. The HUD officials leading the investigation found 1,015 building code violations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 445 considered life-threatening â&#x20AC;&#x201D; such as blocked fire exits. Regional HUD spokeswoman Rhonda Siciliano said that the report would not change the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, HUDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Northland Investment Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans for moving families out of the complex. Northland, the owner of Church Street South, moved 58 out of over 300 families into hotels after several residents filed litigation last summer. According to Siciliano, almost 70 percent of residents living in hotels have been moved to new homes. The results only confirm what parties involved have known for the past few months, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The plan all along has been to relocate the residents in the hotels and then begin working to move the residents that are still in the CSS apartments,â&#x20AC;? Siciliano said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That continues to be our plan.â&#x20AC;? For the residents living in conditions that HUDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspection found far below livable, leaving the complex may require at least one more month. While some wait to be moved out of hotels, some residents will not be able to find permanent homes until the process for distributing vouchers begins in March. The department, Northland and city officials met tenants in early January to present the two options for new housing: a Tenant Protection Voucher for any home of their choosing or a projectbased development that would receive the federal subsidies

currently given to Church Street South. Of the 241 families living in the complex, 198 opted for a voucher, Siciliano said. The future housing for these families is now in the hands of the New Haven Housing Authority â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the local arm of federal housing programs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which will meet with each family to determine the size and conditions of their vouchers.

The plan all along has been to relocate the residents in the hotels and then begin working to move the residents that are still in [Church Street South]. RHONDA SICILIANO Spokeswoman, Northland Investment Corporation The 43 families deciding to move into project-based subsidized housing will be moved into a temporary apartment while the city, HUD and Northland work to transfer Church Street Southâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old federal subsidy to a new apartment for that family. All residents should be out of the crumbling housing by the end of this year, which is around the time when Northland plans to demolish the complex. The investigation followed an August letter by the New Haven Legal Assistance Association questioning the previous results

based on Del Hoyoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences. Because the October 2014 score was so high, HUD would otherwise not have needed to investigate the complex again until October this year. Northland Chairman and CEO Lawrence Gottesdiener said that after the development organization bought the complex in 2008, it improved conditions in the building, leading to the high score from the October inspection. The particularly harsh winter that followed, however, quickly reversed the strides that had been made, he said. The recent investigation also found 67 cases of broken smoke detectors, which violate a 2014 Connecticut law requiring them in all homes built before 2005. The other 503 cases contributing to the complexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismal score of 20 included broken handrails, damaged walls and plumbing leaks. Only two other existing complexes in New Haven have also received failing scores in their most recent round of scoring, but neither scored as low as Church Street South. The Dwight Cooperative Housing received a 43 in 2007 and the Ethan Gardens Cooperative a 30 in 2003. Both have since fallen under new ownership. Work crews are currently renovating Dwight, and real estate company Pike International bought Ethan in 2010, said Amy Marx, the NHLAA staff attorney who filed litigation on behalf of Church Street South residents last year. The Church Street South complex was built 47 years ago. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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in September, said the dispute should have been settled months ago, adding that the Corporation may be deliberately delaying its announcement until it reaches a verdict on the two new residential colleges as well. Still, Marshall emphasized the need for the Corporation to be as thorough as possible in listening to the Yale community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any debate of this nature, where we are particularly interested in knowing the views of others, takes as long as it takes for the Corporation to feel it has heard from as many voices as possible,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it goes until the Corporation feels ready.â&#x20AC;?

Wendell Adjetey GRD â&#x20AC;&#x2122;18, a Thursday attendee, said he was disappointed that so many students passed up a rare opportunity to engage with the Corporation in an open setting. Zhirui Guan â&#x20AC;&#x2122;19, a member of Calhoun College who attended Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s session but not the Calhoun-only session, said she was surprised by the low attendance, adding that she initially thought â&#x20AC;&#x153;everyone was going to be there,â&#x20AC;? but now believes many students have grown tired of the ongoing debate. Still, according to University Deputy Chief Communications Officer Michael Morand,

more than 1,000 people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including undergraduates, professors, alumni and graduate students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have participated in the latest phase of discussion, either by attending one of the public sessions or submitting suggestions in an online forum. Salovey first announced the open forums as part of a Nov. 17 communitywide email, in which he outlined a series of administrative responses to last semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversies. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

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“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” BRAD HENRY FORMER GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA

NHPS targets teacher absence BY ROBBIE SHORT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER About 100 teachers from New Haven Public Schools have missed enough class this year to be considered “chronically absent” — and the school district is looking to understand why. Roughly 5 percent of teachers have missed more than 10 percent of school days — approximately 10 days — since the start of this school year, a record the district defines as chronic absence, according to a letter sent to all of the district’s teachers by the NHPS talent office earlier this month. The Jan. 8 letter announced that NHPS will increase its focus on tracking teacher attendance and finding ways to minimize absenteeism, while supporting teachers who are absent for “legitimate reasons,” such as health issues or family emergencies. “The purpose of this letter is to remind you that attendance matters for educators just as much as it matters for students,” the letter read. “Your job is a difficult one … but it is also the most important one: As educators, you cause the learning to happen.” The letter reminded teachers to report all future absences through the district’s online absence management system and outlined administrators’ process for addressing attendance issues. First, they will meet with teachers who have “excessive absences” and determine if the teachers have legitimate excuses. If administrators find the excuses inadequate, they will monitor future absences and have followup conversations to hold teachers accountable. NHPS Talent Director Michael Crocco said while he would not speculate as to why the 100 teachers have been chronically absent, some of their absences have been legitimate. “We want to be able to support teachers that have legitimate reasons,” Crocco said. “At the same

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In 2012, 15.5 percent of NHPS students in grades K–3 were chronically absent. time, we also want to make sure that we’re keeping track of and keeping an eye on teachers who may be abusing their sick days.” Though Crocco said his office intended the letter as a reminder to all teachers, it was met with criticism by some district teachers, who felt the talent office should have sent it to just those who are consistently absent. According to Dave Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, the NHPS teachers’ union, many of his col-

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leagues felt slighted by the letter. “[NHPS administrators] even acknowledged that it’s a relatively small number of folks,” Cicarella said. “But that doesn’t come through. What happens is, they put a policy out and … all [NHPS teachers] get a blast from HR.” Cicarella said he believes most teachers who fall under the district’s definition of chronically absent are missing school for legitimate reasons and that abuse of sick days is limited to a minor-

ity of the chronically absent body. The letter also reported that the NHPS administration is looking at ways to improve the quality of its substitute teaching pool to ensure that effective instruction can continue when teachers are absent. Cicarella, who taught in NHPS for 28 years, said securing enough effective substitutes to fill in for absent teachers has long been an issue in NHPS. Alicia Caraballo, vice president of the New Haven

Board of Education, said during her former administrative career in the district, which included a stint as principal of Hill Central School, she often struggled to fill the places of teachers who were absent. “It was highly unusual to get the number of substitutes to match the number of teachers who were out,” Caraballo said. “You were lucky if you got a few.” Crocco acknowledged that NHPS’s substitute pool could stand to improve and said the

administration is currently looking into proposals that include raising the pay for substitutes. At $62.40 a day, substitute compensation in NHPS is $10 to $15 less than it is most other local districts, Cicarella said. That proposal is still being discussed by NHPS administration, Crocco said. There are 48 schools and 1,800 teachers within NHPS. Contact ROBBIE SHORT at robert.short@yale.edu .

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“I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government.” JUSTIN TRUDEAU PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA

Ward 1 co-chairs elected

AYA yet to fill top position AYA FROM PAGE 1

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O’Neill said the timeframe for the search has been consistent with her expectations. She added that in addition to the search committee, which is composed of Yale alumni, the hiring process is being supported by Witt/Kieffer, an outside recruiting firm that specializes in higher education and nonprofit organizations. Despite the lack of a permanent executive director, Chavira and Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives Stephen Blum ’74 said AYA affairs are running smoothly and that staff members have been stepping up in various ways to help out during the transition period. “While we are all looking forward to welcoming the next leader for AYA whenever that person is named, in the meantime, everyone is contributing to keeping us moving forward, in partnership with our hundreds of alumni volunteers,” Chavira said.

Union and works with the oncampus progressive activist group Students Unite Now to push for financial aid reform at Yale. Carr, currently a junior, will have graduated by the time his two-year term is complete, but said he intends to see out the entire term. Like Rice, Carr said he views the ward committee as an opportunity to involve Yale students in solving issues in New Haven, building on the momentum of last fall’s protest movements on campus. “I want to make sure that the committee contains people from a range of different political organizations on campus,” Carr said. “It should contain people who want to build links between undergraduate politics and the process of reimagining the University’s place in New Haven.” Carr added that the ward committee can be a means of mobilizing students to “hold Yale accountable” for its responsibilities both to students and to New Haven residents. Rice said he will look to con-

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The Association of Yale Alumni has yet to appoint a new executive director. Blum added that there have been no structural changes to the governance of the AYA other than Chavira’s serving as acting executive director until the search committee finds a suitable candidate.

Yale invests over $3.3 million each year to support AYA operations, a figure which constitutes more than 50 percent of its annual budget. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

tinue the progress made by previous co-chairs Wasserman and Giovanniello in increasing student activism. Looking back on his two years as co-chair, Wasserman said civic activism on campus has increased since early 2014. “Looking back, what surprises me is how politically active Yale students have become, and that trend is going upwards. Two years ago, there wasn’t as much engagement in local issues and local politics,” he said, noting that voter turnout has markedly increased in recent aldermanic elections. Wasserman said the primary accomplishments of his cochairmanship have been securing a third term as Ward 1 alder for Eidelson and the re-election of Gov. Dannel Malloy in 2014. Rice said he has yet to decide on what the ward committee’s main focuses will be over the next two years. Instead, he said, he is conducting a “listening campaign” — talking to student and city activists at gatherings such as the New Haven Votes Coalition meeting he attended last week. But issues like increasing Yale’s hiring of New Haven residents are likely to be on

the docket, he said. Both Carr and Rice said they have yet to think about what they would do if the 2017 election for Ward 1 alder were a repeat of 2015, when the ward committee declined to hold an endorsement vote in the Democratic primary. Rice said he would take into account the political and social context of the race before making a decision. Eidelson said she is excited to work with the new co-chairs, adding that she and the co-chairs share the same goals: involving students in politics and activism and engaging them in the process of governing. She said she has gotten to know both Rice and Carr well through their involvement in New Haven politics during their time at Yale. “The way it’s set up, the alder and the co-chairs get to work together as a team, since all of us are focused on trying to engage students in the various aspects of the democratic process,” she said. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Admins dispute University fundraising rank FUNDRAISING FROM PAGE 1 “In the year ending June 30, 2015, Yale received more than $650 million in pledges for new gifts. This is the second-highest total in Yale’s history, exceeded only by the final year of the last [capital] campaign — and we are not in a campaign at present,” Salovey said. Yale has fallen considerably in the CAE rankings since fiscal year 2012, when the University finished in third place nationally with around $544 million under thenUniversity President Richard Levin. Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Joan O’Neill said Yale finished its last capital campaign in 2011 and that the University is currently planning its next one. O’Neill added that the results of the CAE survey focus on current cash payments rather than taking into account the future financial well-being of the University, which includes promised donations. “Our results this year are consistent with our level over the last few years,” she said. “CAE does not look at commitments which represent pledges and new gifts, and yet that is the figure that reflects the pipeline of future cash to come to the University.” Salovey said donors often fulfill their pledges to Yale over five years. So in focusing on cash received, he said, the CAE’s 2015 numbers are delayed because they partly reflect old pledges. O’Neill said the University is confident its relative standing will improve in future years. She said Yale has received $304 million in commitments as of December 2015 for this fiscal year — $79

million more than it had at this time last year. She also said recent big pledges made to the University will be paid out over several years, so they will be reflected in future CAE numbers. The president of Yale has traditionally played a large role in fundraising for the University, and Salovey said he spends much of his time fulfilling that role. “In general, when I am not in New Haven, I am on the road visiting with alumni, parents, friends and corporations encouraging them to provide financial support to the University,” Salovey said. Salovey said that schools like Harvard and Stanford are able to draw on a larger alumni pool than Yale, a factor that contributes to their relative success. Yale enrolls just over 12,300 graduate and undergraduate students, compared to about 16,000 at Stanford and 21,000 at Harvard. Yale traditionally raises a higher percentage of funds from alumni than from non-alumni, O’Neill said, noting that alumni gave 58.6 percent of total cash and 70.5 percent of total pledges last year. O’Neill added that many of Yale’s peer institutions have had success in getting donations from nonalumni, and that while Yale has made strides in this area, the University will focus more attention on soliciting non-alumni, such as the parents of students, for donations. Yale’s relative performance also is impacted by its location, O’Neill said. “The fact that we are not located in a major city and that we do not own our hospital makes us very different than many schools who perform especially well in this area,” O’Neill said. “But we still

feel there is room for considerable growth.” Ann Kaplan, director of the CAE’s annual survey, said there was a drop of almost $4 billion in contributions to educational institutions following the 2008 financial crisis. It took until 2013 before contributions had returned to prerecession levels. Fiscal year 2015 was the highest year on record for gifts at $40.3 billion. The CAE survey counts any gift or donation that must be claimed on a tax form toward a school’s

annual total fundraising, she said. For example, valuable artwork and bequeathals for future construction are monitored by the CAE. According to the survey results, Stanford has topped the list every year but one in the past decade. But drawing conclusions about a school’s spending power from the CAE data can be misleading, Kaplan said. For example, donations are often “restricted” by their donors, which means schools cannot spend the money however they please. In 2015, 7 percent of all

gifts to schools were unrestricted. Last year, Yale collected $41.1 million in unrestricted dollars, which went toward the University’s operating budget, O’Neill said. Furthermore, Kaplan pointed out that schools are more than just academic institutions. Thus, a better metric of a school’s financial health might be to measure how much it fundraises relative to how much it spends annually, she said. “You’re not just running an educational institution, you’re running a multipurpose non-

profit,” Kaplan said. O’Neill said a recent analysis conducted by the University reveals that Yale’s cost per dollar raised — based on spending University-wide for alumni affairs and development — is lower than all of its peers. The CAE survey was first conducted in 1957. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

GRAPH TWO TAKES ON YALE’S FUNDRAISING CASH RECEIVED IN DONATIONS (2015) 1. Stanford 2. Harvard 3. USC 4. UC San Francisco 5. Cornell

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($1.63 billion) ($1.05 billion) ($653.03 million) ($608.58million) ($590.64 million)

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GIFTS PLEDGED TO YALE 2005–15: 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

($650.2 million) ($502.5 million) ($605.9 million) ($316.7 million) ($861.9 million) ($317.3 million) ($433.9 million) ($603.0 million) ($555.7 million) ($517.1 million) ($590.8 million)

While the CAE Survey records the amount of cash that each school receives in a given year, Yale’s records also include gifts pledged. PHOEBE GOULD/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF

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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” MAYA ANGELOU AUTHOR

Newcomer celebrates black beauty in exhibit BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER Tucked away on the lower level of the New Haven Free Public Library, vibrant artwork depicting black women in joyous scenes will be on view until March 4. The images on display — some painted and some produced digitally — are the work of self-taught local artist Alana Ladson. Ladson’s current exhibit “Queens” will be formally introduced to the public during a Feb. 4 opening reception and is both free and open to the public. “Queens” is the first of six exhibitions the library will show over the course of the year. A common thread running throughout the six exhibits is a focus on reflecting the diversity of the New Haven community. “I remember when I was younger I didn’t really have a lot of books, pictures or art with people that looked like me, it felt like I couldn’t see myself anywhere,” Ladson said. “I want to make sure more people are seen.” Ladson said she draws her artistic inspirations from her desire to uplift women of color. According to her exhibit’s official description, “Queens” intends to correct the “appropriated, mistreated and understood,” media presentation of the black woman and family unit. Ladson said she hopes to shine a light on the beauty of natural Afro-Caribbean hair textures and skin colors in a relatable and peaceful manner. Above all, Ladson said she wants her pieces to bring happiness to those that look at them while also conveying a sense of power and dignity. “I want them to promote that peace and calm, but I still want to demonstrate more of a quiet storm type of effect,” she said. In addition to painting and drawing, Ladson uses affordable technological tools as a medium for reaching her audience. She said she uses “Procreate,” a $5.99

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Alana Ladson’s current exhibit “Queens” intends to correct the “appropriated, mistreated and understood” media presentation of the black woman and family unit. iPad app, to sketch designs with the help of a tablet pen, instead of Adobe Photoshop, a more expensive image-editing software that requires a fast computer speed. NHFPL Community Engagement and Communications Manager Ashley Sklar said the library has had a gallery for displaying art for years but only decided to launch an official library program

this year. “[The library] is an institution that serves everyone in the community and I wanted the gallery to be reflect that. I wanted it to be an open and accessible opportunity for everyone,” Sklar said, adding that she hopes everyone will be able to identify with either a piece of art or an artist over the course of the year.

The library issued an open call to artists last fall, giving them roughly six weeks to submit their work and potentially be included in the exhibit. Selection was conducted by a panel of judges made up of community members and library staff. Sklar said the display has already garnered positive reception from library patrons. David Greco, a member of the

NHFPL board of directors and executive director of Arte Inc., a New Haven nonprofit that promotes Latino art, was on the panel that selected Ladson. He said her bright, colorful pieces and status as an emerging artist impressed the panel. Greco said he hopes members of the public from different backgrounds who come to gallery

openings will be able to communicate and break down stereotypes together. He also hopes the library will expand the space it displays art in, as the years progress. The NHFPL’s Ives Main Library was completed in 1911 and expanded in 1990. Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 3:30 PM Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Build, Dwell, Live. A workshop addressing the following questions: how does the supposed rise of the Asian city impact the ways in which people live? What are the effects on built space and living environments? Alongside spectacles of modernity, what other less spectacular forms of dwelling have emerged in Asian cities both historical and contemporary? Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 208. 4:30 PM Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names. Ruth Bernard Yeazell ’71 gives a talk about the history of naming paintings. A painter who wants a title to stick, Yeazell argues, must engage in an act of aggressive authorship. She investigates prominent cases, such as David’s Oath of the Horatii and works by Turner, Courbet, Whistler, Magritte and Jasper Johns. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 7:30 PM A Reading in Celebration of the 2015 Norman Mailer Student Writing Awards. This event will present the work of the recent honorees of this annual national writing competition sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.).

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 4:00 PM Stephen A. Schwarzman Discusses the Schwarzman Scholars Program. Stephen A. Schwarzman ’69 and other guests will share the latest information about the new Schwarzman Scholars Program, designed to foster the next generation of global leaders through a one-year Master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. 55 Whitney Ave., Rm. 369.

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YALE MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING THIRD PLACE AT HYP In the final meet before the Ivy League Championships, which are set to begin Feb. 25, the Bulldogs were bested by Princeton and Harvard at the annual meeting of the three historic Ivy programs. Full coverage of the meet will appear in Tuesday’s News.

“[It gives] the team confidence knowing we have arguably the best goalie [Alex Lyon ’17] in the country behind us.” ANTHONY WALSH ’19 MEN’S HOCKEY YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016 · yaledailynews.com

Yale still perfect in Ivy play MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS In a weekend in which the Yale men’s basketball team showed off its shooting prowess, the Bulldogs maintained their undefeated record at home, beating both Penn and Princeton en route to a 4–0 start in conference play. Although the Tigers gave Yale a scare down the stretch on Saturday, the Bulldogs did not trail for a single moment in either contest. Of the many storylines this weekend, that of forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 and his streak of consecutive field goals made is perhaps the most exciting. The senior has made all 25 of his shot attempts in his last 93 minutes of play and he currently stands one basket away from the NCAA Division I record of 26 consecutive made field goals. “They were point blank. You’ve got to make those,” Sherrod said of his shots against Penn. “My teammates are finding me in good positions. Kudos to Justin [Sears ’16], Makai [Mason ’18], Jack [Montague ’16] and Nick [Victor ’16]. I’m able to get deep in the post or at least get fouled.” Against the Quakers (6–11, 0–3 Ivy) on Friday, Sherrod led the way for the Elis (13–5, 4–0) with 19 points. The six-footsix forward took advantage of

Elis lose one, win one at home BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After an unbeaten streak lasting eight games and 56 days, the No. 11/12 Yale men’s hockey team suffered its first defeat of 2016 on Friday night to Union before rebounding on Saturday with a 3–0 shutout win over No. 16 Rensselaer.

MEN’S HOCKEY The split weekend dropped Yale’s place in the PairWise rankings, which penalize home losses

more than road losses, from No. 10 to No. 13 in the nation. Still, with two points in the conference standings, the Bulldogs (12–5–4, 7–4–3 ECAC Hockey) remained the fourth-place team in ECAC Hockey. Though the Bulldogs had difficulty finding the net in a 2–1 loss to the Dutchmen (10–9–7, 3–7– 4) with their only goal coming just minutes into the first period, they largely remedied the scoring problem against the Engineers (14–6–6, 6–2–6). Three goals SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

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Forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 has not missed a shot in three games, and is one shy of the Division I record. the absence of Penn’s Darien Nelson-Henry, who was limited by a sprained ankle suffered last Monday. NelsonHenry started but was sent to the bench just 93 seconds into the game after receiving a flagrant foul. The six-foot-eleven, 265pound senior re-entered the game soon after, but only for a moment, as he finished with just three minutes of playing time. Penn was held to

a 40-percent shooting clip from the field, and Yale outscored the Quakers 32–24 in the paint during Nelson-Henry’s absence. Building on a 41–31 halftime lead, the Bulldogs retained a double-digit lead for the entire second half, cruising to the 81–58 victory. After the game, Penn head coach Steve Donahue praised Yale’s mental toughness and physicality.

“We have a group of four seniors who have been around and know what they’re doing, and we have a hard-nosed sophomore,” head coach James Jones said. “That’s our team, and that certainly helps.” Part of that blowout win over Penn stemmed from Yale’s success on the glass, which Jones pointed out as central to the team’s identity, as the SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

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The 3–0 win over RPI was Yale’s second shutout win of the season, the first being a 4–0 victory against Arizona State on Jan. 8.

Yale wins HYP for first time since 1997 BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend marked a historic victory for the Yale women’s swimming and diving team, which finished its season undefeated in Ivy dual meets. The triumph over Harvard and Princeton in New Jersey represents a new epoch of success for the Bulldogs, marking their first victory in the HYP meet in 19 years.

WOMEN’S SWIM & DIVE Yale came away with overall scores of 167–133 against Harvard

and 173.5–126.5 against Princeton. The Elis started off with a slight lead against both teams after the first day of competition and sealed the win on Sunday with first-place finishes in four of the last five events in the meet. “I’m so proud of this wonderful team and I’m so happy to come away with a win at HYP and an undefeated Ivy dual meet record for the first time since ’97,” swimmer Pauline Kaminski ’18 said. “This is an encouraging sign for the rest of the season and it looks like our hard work is paying off.” The dual meet opened up

with an extremely tight 200yard medley relay in which all three schools’ A-squads finished within half a second of each other, meriting a third-place performance for Yale. The missed points were quickly recuperated, though, in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Cailley Silbert ’18 and Eva Fabian ’16 out-touched the third-place Harvard swimmer by over six seconds, and Danielle Liu ’18 snagged fourth place to earn additional points to put the Bulldogs up early. “Eva and Cailley crushed their individual events,” Kaminski said. “They were head-to-head

throughout all their races pushing each other, which helps them do so well.” Bella Hindley ’19 pulled in points for the Bulldogs as well, with a win in the 50-yard freestyle sprint and a second-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke event. Fellow freestyler Kina Zhou ’17 also brought in a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle, and the pair kicked off the second day of swimming with a 1–2 finish in the 100-yard event. The divers finished the first day of the meet with the 3-meter event, racking up some necessary points for the Bulldogs to main-

tain an 81–69 lead over Harvard and 79–71 over Princeton. Lilybet MacRae ’17 won the event by 15 points, with freshmen Talbott Paulsen ’19 and Hannah Walsh ’19 taking fourth and ninth. The trio continued their dominance on Sunday with a first-place finish in the 1-meter for MacRae, and fifth and eighth for Walsh and Paulsen. “Overall I am happy with my performance, but there are a few dives I know I can do better,” MacRae said. “The rest of the team dove well too and we all have things to work on in the next few weeks as Ivies approach. Our

freshmen [Walsh] and [Paulsen] dove really well, especially compared to the Harvard and Princeton freshmen.” The Bulldogs kept up the heat on Sunday with strong finishes in many of the individual events. Three top-eight times in the 200-yard backstroke helped the Elis net more points, and a win from Maddy Zimmerman ’18 in the 100-yard fly helped widen the margin between the teams. “I was really pleased with my swim, especially because the meet was still very close at that SEE W. SWIM & DIVE PAGE B3

GRAPH YALE FIRST-PLACE FINISHES AT HYP

At this year’s Harvard–Yale–Princeton women’s swimming and diving meet, the Bulldogs posted as many first-place finishes as they did in the prior three years combined.

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The Bulldogs are perfect in Ivy dual meets heading into the Ivy League Championship meet.

THE SAVE PERCENTAGE OF YALE MEN’S HOCKEY GOALIE ALEX LYON ’17, WHICH RANKS SECOND-BEST IN THE NATION AMONG DIVISION I GOALTENDERS. He also ranks second in goals against average, having allowed 1.56 goals per game.

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“I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn’t let me play football … because she was scared I’d get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.” CALVIN JOHNSON RETIRED NFL STAR

Ten goals on weekend WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 from Ferrara after Yale won the first faceoff of the game. The first period appeared to be more even, as the Bulldogs took 11 shots to the Bears’ 10. However, just over 10 minutes later, Brown goaltender Julianne Landry was defeated by a familiar foe in Ferrara yet again. “Janelle played great this weekend,” Haddad said. “She’s more of a playmaker than a goal-scorer. She loves to share the puck and set others up. So it was great to see her take control and get shots on net for us this weekend and this season in general.” Defenseman Julia Yetman ’19 and forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 notched another two goals within five minutes of each other in the second period. Yip-Chuck capitalized on a powerplay opportunity for Yale to score the team’s fourth goal of the match. “Brown has a very passive penalty kill, and we were able to capitalize on that pretty easily,” Haddad said. “It was especially nice to have success on the power play since we’ve struggled in scoring [five-on-four] goals this season. We really dedicated a lot of practice time last week towards beating their penalty kill, and it paid off.” The Bears finally responded to the Elis onslaught by scoring unassisted on their third power play. Nevertheless, Yale still fought back.

Squash perfect on weekend

The Bulldogs continued their trend of tallying up two goals per 20 minutes by securing yet another pair of goals within the first nine minutes of the third period. “Our puck movement is a lot more crisp and controlled than it had been earlier in the season,” forward Jordan Chancellor ’19 said. “I think it will only continue to improve as we build off of this weekend’s offensive success.” In the final six minutes of the game, Brown started to make a comeback with two goals to cut Yale’s lead from 6–1 to 6–3. Yale easily fended off the Bears in the end, but Martini noted disappointment with the end of both games. On the weekend as a whole, the Bulldogs allowed three goals in the last six minutes of the two games. “I still don’t think we have played a complete 60-minute game,” Martini said. “We have played well for long stretches, but seem to always have spans of five to 10 minutes every game where we aren’t at our best. We have been successful despite this in our last four games. But moving forward, we are going to have to be focused for the entire game if we want to have home-ice in the playoffs.” Yale will travel next weekend to play Dartmouth this Friday at 7 p.m. and Harvard on Saturday at 4 p.m. Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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The Yale women won all four of their team matches, including three 9–0 sweeps to close out the weekend. SQUASH FROM PAGE B4

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With the four-point weekend, Yale moved to sixth place in the ECAC Hockey standings with just three weekends of play remaining.

ual games played, 15 saw the losing player record at least nine points. Talbott added that the women gained confidence from the win, which propelled the team on the rest of the weekend. “The women’s win against Stanford was convincing and gave us a chance to reload after our loss against Trinity,” associate head coach Pam Saunders said. “It was a big confidence boost going into Princeton [next weekend] and it was good to see that we learned from our mistakes against Trinity. With every match we play, we mature and we have the philosophy that every match is a chance to work on something in our games.” The Bulldogs then cruised to victory over George Washington, Middlebury and Williams, whose players were only able to pry games from the

Elis in three, one and two of the nine individuals matches, respectively. The Yale men wiped out George Washington, Navy and Williams with telling 8–1, 9–0, and 8–1 scores, respectively, in matches that the Bulldogs had full expectations of winning. The matches allowed the team to recover after two consecutive losses to Rochester and Trinity last weekend, and gave players that typically do not play in the top 10 opportunities to gain valuable experience. “The men are [focusing on] Princeton and Penn,” who the Bulldogs will play on the road next weekend, said Talbott. “The matches this weekend were a chance to work against three solid teams who could all make the men work at a level that was very constructive. Although we only lost a match or two over the weekend, it was very valuable. It also gave some of our

lower players a chance to develop.” The men’s goal all season has been to win the Ivy title, and as the only undefeated team in the League, the Bulldogs are now in strong position to do so. Next weekend the men will travel south to play No. 11 Princeton on Saturday and No. 2 Penn the following day. Facing tougher Ivy opposition, the women’s goal is to finish in the top three both in the League and in the nation, Talbott said. The women will travel with the men to face-off against No. 3 Princeton and No. 2 Penn for what will likely be the most challenging weekend of their season. The women open play at Princeton this coming Saturday at 12 p.m., and the men follow shortly after at 2:30 p.m. Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

Bulldogs fall from ranks of the unbeaten W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 working on consistently being a presence on the help-line in order to reduce the amount of touches [Stipanovich] gets [next time],” guard Tamara Simpson ’18 said. “A lot of Penn’s offense runs through its posts so once we eliminate that option, I think we’ll be fine.” An on-and-off problem throughout the season for Yale, turnovers once again hurt the Bulldogs as the Quakers scored 23 points off turnovers, as compared to just 12 for Yale. Overall, the Bulldogs struggled from the field and only shot 35.7 percent on the evening, including just three made threepointers out of 19 attempts. Simpson and guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 paced the Elis with 10 points apiece, though Sarju made just five of her 18 attempts from the floor, which was well below her 48.2-percent season average entering the weekend. “No one was shooting particularly well,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “Simpson played great defense getting tons of steals and keeping us alive early on, [but] I think it came down to the fact that they were shooting pretty well, and we were not.” Less than 24 hours later, the Bulldogs were in New Jersey to play the Tigers. Princeton jumped out a significant lead in the first quarter, outscoring Yale 19–8 behind 57.1-percent shooting, as compared to just 17.6 percent for Yale. But

the Bulldogs fought back in the second, outscoring the Tigers 20–14 to cut the deficit to just five. “I think our run in the second quarter came from our fight and the fact that [since] we knew they were going to make runs, we just needed to clamp the bleeding,” Santucci said. “I think we had some energy off the bench that helped rally us a bit in the second quarter. Simpson came in with some clutch steals that were momentum-shifters.” The Bulldogs, however, were unable to maintain that momentum in the second half. Tiger forward Alex Wheatley nearly matched Yale’s 13 points as a team as she scored 12 points in the third quarter alone, making six of her eight attempts from the field. Four of the Tigers’ five starters finished in double figures against the Bulldogs, including Wheatley and guards Vanessa Smith, Michelle Miller and Annie Tarakchian. Simpson was the sole player to reach double figures for the Bulldogs. Against the Tigers, the story of turnovers was flipped however, as the Yale defense was able to force 25 turnovers, the highest number Princeton has committed since the final game of the 2013–14 season. The Bulldogs scored 27 points off of these turnovers, compared to 17 points for Princeton on Yale’s 17 turnovers. “Although we did not achieve the desired result [against Princeton], we had incredible defensive and offensive possessions

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The Bulldogs struggled from beyond the three-point line this weekend as they made just eight of their 39 attempts. which showed that we have the ability to keep up with and outwork Princeton,” Simpson said. “There are definitely things we must fix in order to beat them next time, [including] defensive

lapses and turnovers. However, we came out of that game knowing that it was a winnable one.” Penn now sits alone atop the Ivy League standings, undefeated after three wins, includ-

ing one over Princeton. The Tigers are currently fourth while the Bulldogs find themselves in fifth with another pair of Ivy road tests set for this weekend. Yale will take on 0–4 Colum-

bia on Friday at 7 p.m., with a game against 3–1 Cornell scheduled for 6 p.m. on Saturday. Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” MAHATMA GANDHI CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Lyon ’17 earns 13th career shutout MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 on Saturday, including two in the first 20 minutes and a flawless performance from goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, sealed the 13th shutout of Lyon’s career. “I thought we played pretty well on the weekend,” defenseman Anthony Walsh ’19 said. “On Friday night the team worked really hard, but we needed to find a way to capitalize on our scoring chances more.” All three goals in Yale’s loss to Union came within the first four minutes of a period, the first being a Yale goal just 2:24 into the contest. Forward Cody Learned ’16 raced to get possession of a pass from defenseman Adam Larkin ’18 in front of the net before finding fellow forward Carson Cooper ’16 at the top of the crease. Cooper fired a wrist shot past goaltender Alex Sakellaropoulos for his first goal of the season. The Bulldogs later launched several accurate shots right at Union goaltender Sakellaropoulos, but of the 10 on target in the period only Cooper’s would make it into the net. A killed penalty from each side left the score at 1–0 at the end of the first frame. “I’m not so much worried about the chances or the goals,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “We have to be better in the details of our game.” After the break, the Dutchmen had some luck of their own just a few minutes in. Union forward Spencer Foo took advantage of an Eli line change to find a breakaway before firing a shot past Lyon to tie the game at one. The goal, which came after 16 saves from Lyon, ultimately gave the Dutchmen the momentum they needed to win the game. “Definitely an opportunity lost,” Cooper said. “When we were off, they capitalized. We made some bad plays, some bad changes that cost us. Thankfully it’s not too late in the season to learn from that.” Yale’s best chance in the second period came on a Union

power play, after forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 drew a slashing call on the Yale end of the ice and had to be separated from a Union player before making his way to the penalty box. During the ensuing Union man advantage, forward Mike Doherty ’17 made his way to the net and fired a shot that hit the pipe and bounced away from the goal. Just 23 seconds after being released, DiChiara would once again find himself with a twominute penalty — this time for a holding call. During the rest of the period the New York native would get off three hard shots on goal, but none made it past Sakellaropoulos. The Bulldogs entered the third period tied at one, but the draw was quickly broken by the Dutchmen. During a scrum on one side of Yale’s net, a shot rebounded off Lyon’s pad to Union forward Brendan Taylor on the other side, giving an opportunity to score quickly before Lyon could reposition himself. Despite nine shots in the third, Yale could not capitalize on any of its opportunities. Lyon was pulled from the net with a minute to go, but a penalty called on forward JM Piotrowski ’19 would offset the extra forward on the ice. No score from the Bulldogs in the third resulted in a 2–1 Union victory, the opposite result from the two teams’ overtime contest in November. “We played in spurts,” Allain said. “We had a number of players who weren’t involved positively for us, and you can’t win a team game unless you have the whole team going for you.” On Saturday, facing the threat of their first multigame losing streak in almost two months, the Elis answered the call to recover with a win. Yale dominated from the first faceoff, sending 11 shots in the direction of RPI goaltender Jason Kasdorf before the Engineers could respond with even one of their own. Six minutes into that stretch, a scramble in front of the RPI net allowed defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 to get a shot off

Yale breaks 19-year streak W. SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE B1 point,” said Zimmerman, the 100 fly champion at last year’s Ivy League Championships. “It has given me confidence for Ivies and has given me things to work on from now until then so I can be at my best.” The last event of the meet stood in direct contrast with the meet’s opener, as Yale’s 400-yard freestyle relay squad out-touched its Princeton opponent by almost two seconds to seal the victory in not just the race, but the entire meet. The Yale B-squad grabbed third to put up some more points, but it was already over. The Bulldogs had snapped a 19-year los-

ing streak. “The entire team was hyped for the meet as we knew it was possible that we could win,” Zimmerman said. “Everyone swam well and fed off the energy in the pool to pull out big wins and touch other girls out. It was a very exciting meet, and now we’re even more eager to win Ivies.” The team will take a break from meets and taper in practice until Feb. 18, back at Princeton, where the Bulldogs will take on the entire Ivy League in the threeday conference championship meet. Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .

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Yale posted eight first-place finishes in the meet after tallying just two in the HYP meet last year.

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Yale is now No. 13 in the national PairWise rankings, the same ranking that earned the Bulldogs a bid to the 2015 National Tournament last March. through traffic to score his first goal of the season and establish an early lead for the Elis that would only continue to grow. “Saturday night was arguably our best start of the year,” Walsh said. “We were much more effective offensively and were skating very well right from the start.” Eight minutes later, a Yale defender would once again find the net. Walsh received a difficult pass along the blue line from Larkin before firing a shot into the top corner and out of the reach of Kasdorf, giving the Bulldogs a 2–0 lead with six minutes remaining in the first period. After the goal, Walsh was quick to credit his teammates,

including Larkin, who earned his second point of the weekend with the assist. “It all started with [forward John] Hayden ’17 working hard to pursue a loose puck and win a battle,” Walsh said. “Larkin did a great job, making a quick pass across the blue line, and with Hayden screening the goalie, the shot found a way to beat him high over his right shoulder.” Despite a sequence of shots in the middle frame, the score remained the same heading into the final 20 minutes. RPI fired another 11 shots on goal in the third period, its highest total in a single period. But Lyon blocked all attempts, even

after at one point being knocked to the ground by RPI forward Jesper Öhrvall during a threatening Engineer possession. The netminder, who is now second in the nation in both goals against average (1.56) and save percentage (0.940), finished with 29 saves on as many shots in the game. The final goal of the night was also characterized by offensive skill from a Yale defenseman. Ryan Obuchowski ’16 outran a RPI player down the right side of the rink before sending a perfect pass to Learned, who put it away to bring the score up to 3–0. The victory would snap a six-game unbeaten streak for the Engineers.

“I thought we played a very complete game on Saturday,” Walsh said. “Lyon made some huge saves for us in the net, which always helps give the team confidence knowing we have arguably the best goalie in the country behind us.” Yale played both games without the help of forwards Andrew Gaus ’19, Nate Repensky ’18 and Ryan Hitchcock ’18, who were out due to injury. The Bulldogs are now just one point in the conference standings ahead of Dartmouth, which they host Friday at 7 p.m. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

Elis remain in tie for first M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 Elis outrebounded the Tigers 41–25, including 16 offensive rebounds. Meanwhile, the following night against fellow Ivy unbeaten Princeton (12–5, 2–1), the Bulldogs came away victorious despite less success on the boards: Yale failed to grab a single offensive rebound until the second half when, with 19 minutes remaining in the game, Sherrod grabbed a board and kicked the ball out to Mason, who knocked down a three-pointer. That trey, one of five Mason drained against Princeton, was Yale’s seventh of the game. The Bulldogs went on to make 11 of 19 attempts from beyond the arc, a season-best percentage at 57.9. Princeton also made 11 three-pointers, but on 27 attempts. After Sears made two free throws with 16:00 remaining in the second period, the Elis pushed the lead to 16 points, the largest margin of the contest. The Tigers battled back, however, thanks in part to three of those 11 three-pointers coming in quick succession to cut the Yale advantage to single digits. Poor free-throw shooting and turnovers from the Bulldogs assisted the Tigers’ comeback attempt. Struggling at the line is not new to the Elis, who entered the weekend with a 65.6 freethrow shooting percentage. However, after going 17–33 against Penn and 12–23 against Princeton, that rate has slipped to 63.9 percent, just sixth-best in the Ivy League. The four-point win over the Tigers — the Bulldogs’ narrowest margin of victory this season — almost came down to free throws, as Princeton began fouling with 3:58 remaining. “We shot 52 percent, 53 percent for the game, and if you make your foul shots, you score 80-something,” Jones said. “We didn’t do a good job

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 attempted to save a loose ball as time expired and Yale sealed the 79–75 victory. from that standpoint, but I thought everything else was really great.” In both games this weekend, Yale’s shooting percentage from the field — 60 percent and 52.8 percent — exceeded its mark from the line. Feeding off the missed free throws and seven secondhalf Eli turnovers, Princeton guard Devin Cannady and forward Henry Caruso helped lead the Tiger surge. Cannady and Caruso scored 10 of Princeton’s final 14 points in the last five minutes of the game. Caruso finished with a gamehigh 26 points, but with Sears playing tighter defense in the second half, Caruso did not score his first points in the final stanza until after the halfway mark. In the victory, Sears notched a double-double, scoring 16 points and leading the Bulldogs with 10 rebounds. Guard Mason, meanwhile, led Yale scorers with 22 points after a

15-point second half. Sherrod contributed 19 as well, with 16 coming in the second half, after dealing with foul trouble early on. Although foul trouble has also plagued Sears as of late, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year was able to accumulate 37 minutes on Saturday, the highest total of Yale players. “These past few games have been tough, the refs have called a few ticky-tack [fouls], so the coaches have just been on me to play my game and see if I can make a defensive play,” Sears said. “I made a few defensive errors as well, but I don’t think too much about it when I’m out there.” Following a three-block performance by Victor the prior night against the Quakers, Sears racked up another three against Princeton. The pair of lockdown defenders, Sears and Victor, headline a defensive unit that

according to college basketball analytics website KenPom.com ranks 37th out of 351 NCAA Division I teams in adjusted defensive efficiency. Sears ranks third in the Ivy League in blocked shots with 1.6 rejections per game, while Victor’s 1.4 average is good for fifth place. “I tell you one thing that was nice to see: [Sears] block a couple shots against the basket like he was mad at somebody,” Jones said. “Victor had been doing it, but I wanted to see ideally one of the best shot-blockers in the league get up there and rub a few on the backboard.” Columbia, the only other remaining unbeaten team in the Ivy League, makes the trip to New Haven on Friday. Tipoff is slated for 5 p.m. Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Double contest, double conquest for Elis BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER In its only home-and-home weekend series of the 2015–16 season, the Yale women’s hockey took care of business in a pair of decisive victories over Brown that significantly increased the Bulldogs’ ECAC Hockey playoff chances. Yale (9–13–1, 8–7–1 ECAC Hockey) defeated Brown (3–18– 2, 1–13–2) by scores of 4–1 and 6–3, extending its winning streak to four games and rising from eighth to sixth place in the ECAC standings with just three weeks of regular-season play remaining. Only a week after Yale totaled just four goals in wins over Union and Rensselaer, the Bulldogs’ offensive outburst this past weekend included scoring 10 total goals in a conference weekend for the first time since 2008. “Winning always feels great,” forward Eden Murray ’18 said. “It’s nice for our team to have some momentum to build off of now.” The first game of the weekend at Ingalls Rink started off slow, as neither team could get the puck in the net for the majority of the first 20 minutes. However, just after the end of a power play for the Bears with less than a minute remaining in the period, forward Jamie Haddad ’16 collected the puck and dished it to captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16, who rocketed a shot past Brown goaltender Monica Elvin to take the initial lead. With only three and nine shots from the Bears in the second and third periods, respectively, it

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Captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 scored the first two goals of the day for Yale in Saturday’s 6–3 win over Brown. took three more goals from Yale for Brown to finally respond with a power-play goal with less than three minutes left on the clock. The Elis dominated offensively with 35 shots total to Brown’s 21.

“We are doing a good job of eliminating time and space for our opponents,” Martini said. “We are making it difficult for teams to gain entry into our zone, and if they do gain entry, we are

pressuring hard and forcing turnovers.” Despite the victory, the Bulldogs did receive a total of seven penalties. The lone goal that the Bears scored was during a five-

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on-three opportunity after three consecutive Yale penalties in a 70-second stretch. Yale’s second game against Brown began in opposite fashion. Rather than scoring within the

final moments of the first period, Yale instead got on the board within the first two minutes of the contest. That first goal came SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE B2

Yale drops in Ivy standings BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Games at conference favorites Penn and Princeton proved too much for the Yale women’s basketball team this weekend, as the Bulldogs fell in both contests to drop to 1–8 on the road.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (11–10, 2–2 Ivy) first played Penn (14–3, 3–0) in Philadelphia on Friday, losing 68–49 to the lone undefeated team remaining in the conference. A day later, the Elis played Princeton (13–4, 2–1), which went undefeated last year in regularseason play. Despite a secondhalf comeback attempt, Yale was unable to complete the upset, falling 65–50 to the Tigers. “We had some good runs in both games. We just didn’t sustain that type of play for the entire game both games, which is what we needed to do to beat two very good teams,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “Although we improved from Friday against Penn to Saturday against Princeton, specifically on defense, we didn’t shoot very well either night.” In the first quarter against

Penn, the lead changed hands seven times but ultimately ended in a 10–10 scoreline heading into the second quarter. However, after Penn pulled ahead with a three-pointer early in the second quarter, they would not relinquish the lead for the remainder of the contest. Capitalizing on three three-pointers in the quarter, as well as five Yale turnovers, the Quakers built a seven-point lead by halftime. Turnovers continued to plague the Bulldogs in the third quarter, as they made four to the Quakers’ one, preventing Yale from cutting into the deficit. Meanwhile, Penn converted on all eight of its freethrow attempts to further cement its lead. In the fourth quarter, Yale was never closer than 13 points behind and the lead swelled to 24 at one point. Ultimately, the Bulldogs were unable to contain forwards Michelle Nwokedi and Sydney Stipanovich, as well as guard Anna Ross, who together combined for 46 points. Stipanovich, the second-leading rebounder in the Ivy League, also dominated on the glass and wound up with 16 rebounds. “Our team will definitely be SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2

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The Yale men were a perfect 3–0 in this weekend’s matches, which were largely a tune-up before Ivy play resumes next weekend. BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite the challenge of playing three or more matches each in a period only slightly longer than 24 hours, the Yale men and women’s squash teams dominated their competition this weekend.

SQUASH The No. 6 women (10–1, 3–0 Ivy) topped No. 4 Stanford by a decisive 7–2 margin in the weekend’s closest match, and then recorded three consecutive 9–0 sweeps against No. 13 George Wash-

ington, No. 15 Middlebury and No. 11 Williams. The No. 4 men (8–2, 3–0 Ivy) made easy work of No. 13 George Washington, No. 14 Navy and No. 18 Williams to complete a perfect weekend in which the two Eli teams combined to drop just four of 63 individual matches. “I thought playing four matches in 24 hours was already an achievement, and to come off with four very decisive wins is definitely amazing,” women’s No. 2 Celine Yeap ’19 said. The most challenging opponent this weekend for either team was the Stanford women, who had beaten No.

5 Trinity 5–4 in November. Trinity recently topped Yale 8–1 for the team’s first loss of the year, causing the Bulldogs to drop below the Cardinal in the latest ranking. Yale came out to make a statement, and did just that with many hotly contested matches. Both Yale losses against Stanford went beyond three games, as No. 7 Selena Maity ’18 fell in a close five-game match that featured two games beyond the regulation 11 points, while No. 6 Jen Davis ’18 lost in four games. No. 1 Jenny Scherl ’17 and No. 9 Emily Sherwood ’19 won their matches by single-

game margins, with Sherwood’s being perhaps the most exciting contest in the Yale win. After finding herself on the wrong side of a 2–0 deficit, Sherwood went on the offensive to collect a purposeful 11–3 victory in the third. Riding the momentum, Sherwood was able to edge out her opponent 14–12 and 11–9 in the fourth and fifth games respectively. Head coach Dave Talbott noted that the match was closer than the 7–2 score indicates and could have gone either way. Of the 34 individSEE SQUASH PAGE B2

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While 8–1 at home, Yale is just 1–8 on the road this season.