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CROSS CAMPUS Gut punch. We were going to stop with the Super Bowl items, but, after that ending, how could we? Fists flew and hearts broke … You’ll forgive some of us, Yale professors, if we show up to class today somewhat (emotionally) hungover. Can’t stop, won’t stop. Hope you’re all ready for round two — with significant snow expected to hit throughout the day today, Connecticut and New Haven officials are telling residents to buckle down. We’re not counting on another snow day (what is this, 2012– 13?), but we’re also not quite counting it out. We don’t bite. This weekend,
our counterparts at the Columbia Daily Spectator hosted their Annual Awards Dinner, featuring a keynote by BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith ’99. “I went to the first meeting of the Yale Daily News and never came back, I was so intimidated,” the former Herald editor recounted. OK.
Take it off. In case all the
photos in your news feed hadn’t already given it away, the seniors all had a ball running around in nice clothes and masks on Saturday night for Masquerade, a prommeets-real-world affair. With that out of the way, we suppose they’ll be shifting their focus to finding the perfect hats for Class Day now. For the kids. Meanwhile,
2018 is probably too invested in Freshman Screw (i.e., Masquerade lite) to notice what happened at the Omni this weekend. The dance’s official Facebook event went live last night, revealing this year’s theme: The Yule Ball. How refreshing to see yet another Yale shindig inspired by Hogwarts.
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Friends recall Wang’s warmth, insights BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The vibrant stained glass windows of Battell Chapel bore a stark contrast to the solemn mood Saturday afternoon as students, faculty and administrators gathered to celebrate the life of Luchang Wang ’17, who took her own life last Tuesday. Those closest to Wang spoke of a friend who was a constant source of warmth and insight for those around her, despite her own internal struggles. They said her suicide has left a hole in the communities Wang belonged to at Yale. As eight of those who knew Wang best took to the podium to share personal anecdotes and memories, a circle of friends spoke to Wang’s selflessness and commitment to ensuring the happiness of others. “She looked to find meaning in a life and world she thought was hostile,” Jonathon Bowyer ’16 said. “She positively impacted our lives. These were the times that made her most happy.” The theme of Wang’s capacity to fill any space she entered remained the focus of the memorial. Whether it was the 10-foot by five-foot freshman dorm room Wang shared with Alejandra Mena ’17 last spring, SEE VIGIL PAGE 6
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Students, faculty and administrators gathered in Battell Chapel on Saturday to commemorate and celebrate the life of Luchang Wang ’17.
BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Residential colleges are working with students to avoid the continued loss of tens of thousands of dollars worth of dining hall materials. On Friday, the Berkeley College Master’s Office sent an email to its students asking them to return mugs to the dining hall, which is currently miss-
ing 394 of its 400 mugs. But the problem of missing dining hall materials has become universal — over the past 12 months, Yale Dining has lost 3,276 mugs and spent $90,000 to replace them as well as other dining hall materials, said Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke. Berkeley Dining Hall Manager Monica Gallegos said mugs, plates and silverware are often lost at a faster rate than the din-
ing hall can replace them. Silliman chef Stu Comen said he places the blame not on students, but on low-grade materials. “I don’t think the plate shortage or mug shortage is due to theft, but breakage because they are just not of good quality,” he said. “In our dish room there’s a bin full of broken dishes — we fill up a bin everyday with broken mugs, dishes and soup bowls.”
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Thank goodness for this new video series, called “the bull report,” which kicked off over the weekend. In its pilot, host Sahil Gupta ’17 took on common room piano players, dining hall silverware and philosophy professor Shelly Kagan, promising viewers enlightenment on the oftenhard-to-find truth at Yale.
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On national board, Esserman to mend police, community rifts New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman — best known for bringing Elm City cops out of their cars and onto walking beats in New Haven’s neighborhoods — will serve on the National Advisory Board of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, a national effort to improve the relationship between police and the communities they serve. Last September, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that a $4.75 million grant would fund a national initiative to improve relationships between police and citizens, prompted by a trend of distrust after the events in Ferguson, Mo. Five months later, Esserman has been called to participate in the effort. The National Initiative is a cooperative effort between the Department of Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale Law School, the University of California, Los Angeles and the Urban Institute. The initiative will first focus on identifying U.S. cities where the Board can pilot new policing strategies. Esserman will join Yale Law SEE ESSERMAN PAGE 4
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We don’t know what to think.
1984 A Boston District Court judge decides to postpone hearings for a cocaine possession charge against Jodie Foster ’85 after the actress was searched by Customs officers at Logan International Airport.
After a semester of darkness, Harkness Tower’s lighting restored.
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Sam we are. Outing
themselves as perhaps the quirkiest group of identically named individuals on campus, the entire population of Yale College students named “Sam,” or some permutation of it, gathered for the (apparently annual) Sam Brunch in Silliman on Saturday. Reports that the dining hall’s cagefree scrambled eggs were dyed green for the occasion could not be confirmed.
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Recent leadership changes allow those who remain to determine the direction Yale will take. BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS In the past year, three top administrators have decided to say goodbye to the institution to which they have each dedicated four decades of their lives. These announcements come in a string of other administrative changes, including departures from the Office of General Counsel to the Provost’s Office to the Yale College Dean’s Office. Though the University welcomed a new top
legal counselor, Yale has seen the shuffling of several of the president’s top advisers and is now preparing for the departure of four college masters. Some Yale administrators, faculty and staff attributed these changes in administration to the departure of former University President Richard Levin in fall 2013 or recent retirement incentive offerings. Others, however, said they were merely flukes of SEE MASTERS PAGE 6
But Van Dyke said Yale Dining estimates accidental breakage accounts for some lost objects, but two-thirds of the total amount missing is due to Yale students taking them and not returning them. Calhoun Dining Hall Manager Jeffrey Hughes said breakage is only a minor part in the problem of lost dining hall property when compared to student misplacement. The only way to
get these materials back is if students decide to help Yale Dining, he said. Anna Russo ’17 said she and three of her friends are taking the initiative to get Berkeley’s mugs back by throwing a “mug party,” in which students will be asked to bring and drink from dining hall mugs before returning them. SEE MUGS PAGE 4
Yale-NUS to grow faculty by 40 percent BY YONATAN GAZIT AND MAY TAY SPECIAL TO THE NEWS SINGAPORE — Yale-NUS is seeking to grow its full-time faculty by nearly 40 percent, using a process that administrators say reflects the culture of the nascent school. The college is in the midst of a series of hiring workshops, offering students the chance to interact with prospective faculty members over lunch or dinner. A workshop toward the end of January was the third in a series of five such events, with the final one scheduled for March. Roshan Singh YNUS ’18, who attended a workshop in the sciences, said the sessions reinforce the college’s commitment to teaching. “Professors have a few roles in the college. One is to add to the research vibrancy, but at the same time they are also teachers,” he said. “You can’t tell the worth of a teacher by the pieces of paper they’ve accumulated, or even the testimonials that they have, because at the end of the day those are pieces of paper. But you judge the worth of a teacher by their communication of ideas.” After each session, students
are asked to fill out a form providing feedback on the candidates. The forms are then forwarded to one of the 17 review committees, depending on the professor’s specialization. Dean’s Fellow Regina Markle said the students’ evaluations can make or break a candidate’s chances. SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 4
EDITOR’S NOTE Starting this semester, the News is collaborating with a group of student journalists at Yale-NUS, founding members of The Octant — to provide our readers with on-the-ground coverage from Singapore and to share with readers there a better sense of events at Yale. This story was reported in Singapore and edited here in New Haven. We hope this fosters dialogue between our two campuses and promotes student journalism at Yale-NUS.
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hatever happens in November,” wrote journalist Charles McGrath ’68 in 2004, “the president will be a Yale man — though that term doesn’t mean quite what it used to.” McGrath meant, of course, that the president was either going to be John Kerry ’66 — the member of Skull and Bones who did not have a single A on his transcript — or George W. Bush ’68 — the entitled scion of a Connecticut Brahmin family, a member of DKE, another Bonesman. To McGrath, times had changed. Before 1963, the Yale Man was “a Cole Porter-ish sort of fellow, stylish and well connected, who spoke with just a hint of a lockjaw accent.” He wore a blazer and a tie. He didn’t need good grades to get into Yale, and he didn’t need them leaving Yale, either. Everything began changing in the mid-1960s, when the Admissions Office began seeking out students with higher standardized test scores. In 1967, the admissions office changed its standards again, in an effort to reach out to less wealthy students, those from public schools. Finally, in 1969, Yale admitted women. As Kathrin Lassila ’81 wrote in the Yale Alumni Magazine in 2009, “When the college went coed, ‘Yale Man’ all but died” — the term itself would be replaced by the less formal “Yalie.” Yalies, McGrath wrote in 2004, wear jeans and sneakers and flip-flops, and “to save their lives they couldn’t tell you the difference between a wingtip and a Weejun.” Yale Men were old and wrinkled, a dying breed, the Dink Stoverses and C. Montgomery Burnses, only brought out when the school needed donations. And yet, some things don’t die so easily. I believe that, in 2015, the new Yale Man is back, in all his bigoted glory. He is back for reasons I will explain at the end. But the following is a profile of the New Yale Man. The New Yale Man is born choking on a silver spoon in a New York hospital. His parents drive him — I’m calling this one “him,” though the New Yale Man can be a woman too — back to their spacious home in the suburbs. Father is a banker or a lawyer; mother can be too. His parents went to top schools. Yale Boy grows up attending private schools, or maybe just wellfunded suburban public ones. He doesn’t think of himself as rich — just comfortable. Yale Teen is a bit worried as he applies to college, but things always just have a way of working out for him. The interview goes well; he is charismatic and personable. He has good hair. Presidential hair. When he gets to Yale, New Yale Man majors in economics and joins a few clubs. He wears salmon pants and polo shirts, and doesn’t get why others don’t do so as well. He golfs. He’s like a little grandfather, but with so
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much potential. He doesn’t receive financial aid, obviously, but doesn’t talk about that. His grades are decent. His SCOTT Woads attenSTERN dance is stellar. He joins A Stern a society to Perspective make connections, or, as he calls them, friends. He takes Grand Strategy, or something like that. He hears people complain about the Yale administration, about financial aid, about microagressions, but he doesn’t understand. Nor does he care. These whiners have a few good points, he concedes, but they’re just so belligerent about them. They’re blowing things completely out of proportion, he thinks, silently. It’s easy for him to dismiss things that don’t affect him in the least. He wants to get a job at Goldman, but doesn’t, so he goes and works for Boston Consulting Group instead. He doesn’t understand why people constantly question his career choices. This is what father does, and since when is trying to make money somehow wrong? He’s vaguely uncomfortable, but cares less about this than about the money and status. He smokes a cigar with his father on graduation day. Then it’s off to that selfperpetuating privileged world he calls home, again. Sure, he’ll vote Democrat, but he’s “pro-business.” He believes in “the markets.” He marries, of course. His son will go to Yale, too. Even though the Yale Man is back, something has changed. Something important is missing from his repertoire: any sense of social responsibility. In the middle of the twentieth century, for instance, the rich paid more than 90 percent in income taxes, and many of them accepted this as their due. The privileged served in the armed forces; they lionized public service. Of course, that reality was paternalistic and intentionally exclusive and stunningly bigoted, but in some ways the privileged philosophy of yesteryear was better than what it is today. Now, the rich, the privileged, the Yale Men, have lost any sense of social responsibility. They have abandoned the ideal of the post-war boom and returned to a gilded time when a Social Darwinistic philosophy confirmed for them their inherent superiority. Yale confirms this for them, too. They are privileged, and they deserve to be so, or so they believe. They deserve their advantages. They are the New Yale Men. SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .
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am about two-thirds of the way through writing a column on Adderall, the newest addition to my list of daily drugs, when I reread the suicide note posted on Facebook by my friend Luchang Wang ’17. It says that she couldn’t wait for new medication to kick in while remaining in school. It sounds desperate. I wonder if my voice sounded desperate through the phone when I implored Yale Health to let me see a psychiatrist to increase my dosage. When they said I had an appointment in three days. When I pushed my mother to call my psychiatrist in Florida that night because three days was too long. I spend a lot of time talking about my emotional health, but I’m still hesitant to bring up my history with psychiatric medication. Words like ‘antidepressant’ and ‘benzodiazepine’ tend to evoke a visceral reaction, an unsettling in your gut that makes you want to change the topic or converse in hushed tones. We’ve sanitized terms like ‘therapy’ and ‘mental health care’, but suggestions of pharmacology — aside from jokes predicated on popular stereotypes about Prozac and Xanax — remain part of the crude, unpretty reality of mental illness. Perhaps it’s that a prescription, in popular culture, forms a demarcation between the romantic archetype of depression-neuroticism and the stereotype of an asylum inpatient. When I bring up my expanding list of medications, I’m invoking an entire
popular history of mental illness. I’m drawing on our collective memories of Winona Ryder in Girl, InterCAROLINE rupted and Norman Bates POSNER from Psycho. As a result, our Out of Line conversations about psychiatric meds are sterile and distanced. We can wax philosophical about our antidepressant generation or speculate on over-prescription of certain pills, but only so long as we’re guarded by distance and disapproving tones. It’s obvious that a decent portion of Yale students is on some regimen of psychoactive drugs, so our ironic unease with psychiatric medication might be comical if it weren’t so incredibly dangerous. Luchang’s point about her medication is a resounding, unambiguous reminder that our school lacks a sufficient understanding of the impact of psychiatric drugs on the lives of its students. When I learn a friend is starting a new psychiatric treatment, a good part of me is thrilled. The other part, though, is wary and apologetic. Starting medication for the first time is hard; switching medications, which usually means that the previous drugs have failed, is often harder. These medications have side effects that
differ from the drugs we take for other illnesses. They demand patience from people who don’t have the luxuries of time or emotional wellness. Take me for example. My high dose of Lexapro has made my life unspeakably better. But it also impacts my sensation of emotions, makes me drowsy at earlier hours than my friends, makes reaching orgasm more difficult and makes my nightmares frequent and painfully realistic. Adding a stimulant to the mix when I was diagnosed with ADHD this November meant flirting with insomnia, headaches and relapses into anxiety. I can’t forget a dose of either med without experiencing symptoms of withdrawal or discomfort. It’s possible I’ll take these medications for the rest of my life. None of this should suggest that seeking psychiatric help isn’t necessary. The benefits of my successful treatment far outweigh the challenges of medication. In fact, I might describe psychiatric pharmacology as the closest thing to magic I’ve ever known. My life and the lives of people I love have been improved or saved by the right meds, something close to miraculous in the religion of science. Rather, I’m insisting that the full burden of medication must be understood so that we can eliminate further hardships on students seeking psychiatric treatment. A few kind professors offered me extensions
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CAROLINE POSNER is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .
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when starting Adderall meant I couldn’t sleep or eat on a regular schedule, when my depression wasn’t under control, when breakthrough anxiety got the better of my ability to attend section. To others, I’ve lied and suggested alternate forms of physical illness. Our world remains more sympathetic to the stomach flu than to an attention deficit, more familiar with a bad cold than an anxious mind’s dark, irrational thoughts. But when finding the right medication and dosage takes weeks or months or years — like in Luchang’s case — the institutional framework for accommodation must be stronger. Expecting that a mentally ill student fight for her own support is equivalent to expecting that a physically disabled student attend class in Klein Biology Tower without an elevator, only easier to disregard. If we expect to see change from our school and society, we must make our struggle impossible to ignore. I will write about my mental illness and treatment until every Facebook friend and Twitter follower and classmate can recite the milligrams of Lexapro I swallow in the morning, if that’s what it takes. Because I deserve more than this halfhearted, sanitized discourse about mental illness. Luchang deserved more.
ale is not Dartmouth, but we, too, should ban hard liquor. We cannot talk about the sexual climate at Yale without addressing our drinking culture. There is nothing wrong with drinking in moderation, but drinking to the point of blacking out is something else entirely. The Yale community should try an experiment: We should stop consuming hard alcohol on and off campus. Too many students regularly engage in unnecessarily risky drinking. Taking shots in suites during pregames is the single most harmful student activity at Yale. Binge drinking may be fueled by peer pressure; it is awkward not to drink with your friends. Everyone can understand how blacking out is a terrifying and dangerous experience, both physically and socially. If we all cut out shots, life would be much safer. It is likely that with the right encouragement, the administration could help us diminish or eliminate blackouts at Yale. Quickly drinking hard alcohol causes blackouts. A study that appeared in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, titled “Alcohol-Induced Blackouts,” suggests that a rapid increase in blood alcohol content is the cause of alcohol-induced memory loss. Yalies who enjoy being drunk can be comforted by the findings: Individuals who drank huge quantities of alcohol over a longer period of time became extremely intoxicated, but did not black out. Shots of bottom-shelf liquor are cheap and convenient tools to get drunk quickly, but they are the riskiest part of our campus drinking culture. Yale bans kegs on Old Campus, but not handles of Dubra, which are more dangerous. Yale claims to treat alcohol as a health issue, and blackouts should be viewed as acute symptoms of real abuse. We could stop taking shots, stop blacking out and still have our drunken fun. Scientific research and anecdotal evidence suggest that hard alcohol is the real problem. Blackouts are part of what’s wrong with campus sexual climate, both because alcohol mars judgment and because blackouts eliminate witnesses and complicate consent. One student told me that we have
“an inalienable right to have drunk sex.” I am not sure that is true, but we certainly don’t have an inalienable right to have blacked-out sex or even to be blacked out at all. Individuals who host parties have control over what they serve guests, but not over what those guests drink beforehand. They are in the awkward position of responsibility for partygoers, even (or especially) those who show up unsafely drunk. Fraternities and other partythrowing organizations would benefit from this restriction on those guests’ drinking. If students, administrators, fraternities and student clubs could agree to stop drinking hard alcohol — as a means of experimenting with slower or less drinking in order to reduce black outs — we would all be better off. The administration could do many things to encourage slower, safer consumption. It could subsidize beer; it could allow kegs on Old Campus and disallow handles; it could communicate with students and solicit our cooperation. These changes may seem drastic or unusual, but only because liquor is an entrenched part of campus drinking culture. Yes, if we only drank wine and beer, some students would not be able to drink as much or as quickly as before. But that’s the point. Alcohol can certainly be a social lubricant, but pounding shots in the space of a few minutes should not be an important part of that lubrication. The kind of social and sexual interactions that occur as the result of a few extra shots are exactly what we as a community should condemn. At the very least there would be less regret, less unsafe sex, less vomiting, less blacking out and perhaps better scholarship if nights out involved guzzling beers instead of Dubra. At the very least, fewer students would wake up with no idea of what they did or where they were the previous night. We are in college, and deserve to be free and have fun. Still, it is hard to believe that we prefer a world in which much of our drinking consists of shots of paint thinner in a crowded dorm room at 11:15 p.m. to get “ready” for the 11:30 p.m. party. ELIOT LEVMORE is a freshman in Pierson College. Contact him at eliot.levmore@yale.edu .
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ast week, Dartmouth College unveiled a plan — Moving Dartmouth Forward — meant to curb “harmful behavior” on campus. It includes an ambitious step: a blanket campus ban on hard liquor. The move comes in light of a slew of bad press the school has received, as it has come under investigation for alleged Title IX violations. Amy Olson, a senior media relations officer at Dartmouth, told USA Today that she expects the policy will correlate with “a substantial reduction in consumption [of alcohol] and many fewer negative consequences, like sexual assaults.” Hopes among administrators, like Olson, are running high. The policy is certainly an effective answer to Dartmouth’s perpetual PR problems (I still remember applying to college just as reports of the school’s severe hazing practices, including the infamous vomlets, came to light). But student responses to the new policy have been far more mixed. To me, it’s highly unclear: Is the alcohol ban a response to bad behavior, or just bad press? The Moving Dartmouth Forward Plan could actually make it more difficult for the community to address instances of sexual assault. For one thing, the hard alcohol ban helps to shield administrators from liability when students report cases of sexual misconduct that involve drinking. In theory, the policy might seem like a strong effort to reduce the school’s culture of binge drinking. But it’s unlikely that will pan out in practice. Other schools like Notre Dame have actually tried banning alcohol, and often the effect is simply to move binge drinking to off-campus locations. In working to design policies that prioritize student wellbeing, Dartmouth administrators should aim to hear and amplify student concerns. So it’s concerning that Dartmouth students have been so quick to question the merits of the new alcohol ban. Some have told the press that the policy is likely to drive drinking underground, which could pose even more significant risks to student wellbeing. Catherine Donahoe, the social chair of a Dartmouth sorority, told The New York Times: “If I were to design the policy, it’d be pushing alcohol into the open so that it’s as visible as possible.” Dartmouth’s new policy may also make students less likely to report sexual violence if their
cases involve hard alcohol. The full effect on reporting rates will have to be monitored over time. However, EMMA if the numGOLDBERG ber of reported sexual assault cases does Dilemmas decrease, administrators should be hesitant to attribute that to lower rates of assault. Which is all to say, we should be cautious in praising Dartmouth for its new ambitious plan. And perhaps we should be cautious of similar tendencies on the part of universities to search for panaceas to the deeply rooted problems of sexual misconduct and binge drinking on campuses. Sweeping moves like Dartmouth’s decision to ban hard alcohol can distract from efforts to take measured, well-reasoned steps to address campus sexual violence. School authorities must avoid drowning out the voices of activists and survivors who have spent years considering the sorts of policies that might address the real needs of students. On Yale’s campus, activists have continuously put forth strong proposals that might improve the school’s sexual climate. Some of these suggestions may seem minor, too small to have any real effect. But modest advances can be more powerful than broad, ineffective plans. For example, some survivors have called for Yale to boost its use of trigger warnings, including them on emails from Chief Ronnell Higgins that reference sexual assault. This may not be the sort of policy that draws waves of positive press, but it can go a long way in meeting the mental health needs of survivors on campus. No quick fix is going to end campus sexual assault — particularly not a full-on alcohol prohibition. The full effects of Dartmouth’s new plan remain to be seen, but the fact that so many students are skeptical of it should make campus authorities take pause. Campus sexual violence isn’t a PR problem and shouldn’t be treated as such. EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College and a former opinion editor for the News. Her column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .
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Resilience teams combat gun violence BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTER In response to a study published by the Yale School of Medicine last December, community leaders in Newhallville and West River are now taking steps to reduce neighborhood gun violence. Researchers at the medical school trained 17 residents of Newhallville and West River to administer surveys to residents of Connecticut’s most crimeridden neighborhoods last summer. The results indicated that gun violence is inversely correlated with strong neighborhood ties and community participation. Community resilience teams — organizations composed of residents dedicated to community safety in Newhallville and West River — are now discussing those results with community leaders in order to determine how to most effectively promote stronger neighborhoods. “People feel that the solutions we’ve been using thus far haven’t been effective,” said Ann Greene, co-chair of the West River resilience team. “[The study] made us realize that you have to tackle this issue from many different directions … and cooperate with others as opposed to compete with them.” Greene said that thus far, the city’s efforts to curb gun violence have not involved the residents themselves. Although the community resilience teams are not sure how exactly they will apply the results of the study, Greene said, they plan to meet with local political leaders to discuss the results in the coming weeks. The team’s scheduled meeting with Mayor Toni Harp was canceled due to last week’s snowstorm, but the meeting will be rescheduled in the near future, said Greene. The study also indicated that the residents of some neighborhoods experience strained relations with the police department. In an attempt to restore these relations, the Newhallville resilience team has scheduled community meetings with the New Haven Police Department in March.
The two community resilience teams, one in Newhallville and one in West River, were founded in 2011. Since then, residents of both neighborhoods have reported a heightened sense of security, said Stacy Stell, one of the founders of the West River resilience team and current president of Project Longevity — an organization that aims to reintegrate incarcerated people into the community. The community resilience team was founded at the height of crime in New Haven, Stell said. At that time, residents of Newhallville — which has a longer history of violence than West River — feared for their lives on a daily basis, said Teresa Hines, co-chair of the Newhallville community resilience team and a Newhallville resident. Shoot-outs, robberies and drug deals occurred frequently in broad daylight three years ago, when the team was just coming together, added Stell. “Every other week someone was getting killed, people were afraid to leave their homes, and my own son knew most of the kids that were getting murdered,” said Hines. “[However,] after years of community work, my home feels safer.” The community resilience team is considering establishing another team in a Fair Haven. Still, the results of the study indicate that crime is still a problem and that stronger neighborhood cohesion is critical to combating gun violence. Maurice Williams, who is involved with the Newhallville resilience team, also mentioned that gun violence is directly correlated with poverty. He believes that government intervention will be important for stimulating the neighborhoods’ economies. H ines emphasized that improving the neighborhoods will be a multilateral effort. “At the end of the day, we all have one singular mission: to make the neighborhood better than it was yesterday,” said Hines. “Making our neighborhoods safe is a victory for everyone.” Contact MALINA SIMARDHALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .
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The city prepares for another snow storm by instituting a parking ban until 6 p.m. Monday. BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As another winter storm barrels into the Elm City Monday morning, city officials are taking precautions against the possibility of significant damage. Unlike last week’s all-snow Blizzard Juno, this storm is expected to bring a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain, with the National Weather Service predicting four to nine inches of snow and up to half an inch of ice in New Haven. With the storm expected to arrive early Monday morning, New Haven has instituted a parking ban throughout the city starting at 1:00 a.m. and lasting until 6 p.m. Monday. On a Sunday conference call with roughly 50 New Haven businesses, Deputy Economic Development Administrator Michael Piscitelli said that Connecticut Department of Transportation vehicles had already begun to salt roads in preparation for the storm. Earlier forecasts for the storm
had predicted an all-snow event, Piscitelli said, but those forecasts have since changed. The snow will likely be heavy, accumulating at two inches per hour on Monday morning. High winds, including 40 mile-perhour gusts, may also be a danger. “One of the key concerns for us with mixed precipitation is icing conditions, and we do anticipate some icing in the city starting tomorrow,” Piscitelli said. With significant amounts of ice predicted, Piscitelli said the city is particularly concerned about possible power outages. In mixed-precipitation storms, ice tends to coat tree branches, weighing them down and sometimes causing them to fall onto power lines. Though the citywide parking ban will last until 6 p.m. on Monday, Director of the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04 said his staff will focus on ensuring that plows can cover posted snow routes unimpeded
from 2 a.m. until 2 p.m. Hausladen said the city will enforce the parking ban strictly, tagging and towing illegally parked cars. Clearing the snow from downtown roads, he said, will be a priority. Piscitelli said that the city has made other parking options available, as it has for previous storms. As part of the Super(SNOW)Bowl Special, the Temple Street Garage offered a discounted rate of $3 per hour starting Sunday night, and the Granite Square Garage is open free of charge. The city has also opened school parking lots in the neighborhoods to provide residents with another option. Hausladen also said the Super Bowl factored into the city’s planning. He said the late start for the parking ban will allow residents ample time to return home after bars close. “It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and people are going to be out and about,” Mayor Toni Harp said during Sunday’s conference call. “Because of the variation of weather, we’re just asking peo-
ple to be really careful and watch the weather as it progresses and make sure they do it safely.” In a Sunday press release, City Hall announced that its Emergency Operations Center at 200 Orange St. would open starting at 5 a.m Monday and remain open throughout the storm. The state’s Emergency Operations Center will open at 4 a.m. Monday to monitor conditions. Gov. Dannel Malloy has not yet issued a statewide travel ban, a move he took during last week’s storm. On Twitter Sunday afternoon, he urged state residents not to travel on Monday morning, the anticipated height of the storm. Piscitelli echoed that sentiment, saying that residents should travel minimally on Monday. CT Transit and Metro-North Railroad have not yet announced any schedule changes in response to the storm. Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
Yale Press grant seen as shift in arts publishing BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL AND CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTERS For arts and architecture scholars at Yale, a new electronic library project signals a shift toward a more digitized publishing industry. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded an $840,000 grant to the Yale University Press last December to create a new e-portal for art and architecture books. While no formal work on the project has begun, the project’s leaders are in the midst of designing the new database and enlisting the help of collaborators, which currently includes the Art Institute of Chicago. Sarah Guernsey, the AIC’s executive director of publishing, said that the initiative to create an electronic archive for reference materials is reflective of an industry-wide change that increasingly supports the role of technology in arts and architecture. “In the publishing world, everyone’s trying to figure out how to have digital publishing be a viable option, and no one has done it,” she said. “Having Yale and Mellon involved — there’s a chance we’ll find a way.” Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
ART ’64, a graphic designer and professor at the School of Art, said the overall relationship between online and print sources in media remains the same. She pointed out that graphic designers tend to be equally drawn to print and screen-based modes of expression.
Artists are very much enamored by the way the sequence of images can be best rendered by a book … SHEILA LEVRANT DE BRETTEVILLE Graphic designer and professor at the Yale School of Art De Bretteville said she believes that architectural photographers and architects who make exquisite models and drawings also create similar amounts of digital and print-based works. She added that these professionals would continue to publish such images in forms that can depict a high level of detail. “Artists are very much enamored of the way the
sequence of images can be best rendered by a book format,” she said. Brennan Buck, professor at the Yale School of Architecture, said he thinks a comprehensive e-portal will aid most designers and design students, who do the bulk of their research and information gathering online. Buck said the e-portal reflects the way in which the architects share information between one another has changed in recent years. Buck added that the e-portal seems like one effort among many to make content and information accessible on the web. “The e-portal seems like it will make that a richer, more content-driven way of communicating, as opposed to a merely image-based way,” explained Buck. Julian Bittiner ART ’08, a graphic designer and a lecturer in the School of Art’s graphic design program, said that he does not believe that the rise of digital publishing has made much of an impact in graphic design. He explained that a printed book’s appeal comes from its “autonomy,” referring to the fact that books are not dependent on digital databases or other electronic resources. He added that he thinks that
color quality on a printed page is higher than on a computer screen. “There is a fair amount of trepidation towards that medium, just because it works against everything that makes art publishing valuable,” Bittiner said. Bittiner said e-publishing can diminish the field of artists who work in book design. Guernsey and Bittiner both said the transition to eBooks has been far smoother for other publication forms, such as novels, where the physical design of the book is not as integral to the reading experience. Bittiner said he believes that over time, eBooks will bear an increasingly small resemblance to physical books. “Book designers on the whole are not chomping on the bit to explore eBooks,” Bittiner said. “But that might change.” The first items that the AIC will publish on the e-portal include works on Impressionism and Pre-Columbianism as well as a book on watercolors by American painter Winslow Homer. Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu and CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .
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The Yale University Press will create an e-portal for art and architecture books.
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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” RAY BRADBURY AMERICAN AUTHOR
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ESSERMAN FROM PAGE 1 School professors Tracey Meares and Tom Tyler when the board convenes for the first time next month. “The New Haven Police Department is proud to be invited to take a leadership role in this important national initiative,” Esserman said in a press release last Wednesday. NHPD spokesperson David Hartman said that the initiative would highlight three areas that “hold great promise for concrete,
rapid progress”: racial reconciliation, procedural justice and implicit bias. A press release from the Department of Justice in September said the initiative hopes to reignite the public’s trust in policing by investing in training that will focus on evidence-based strategies, policy development and research. John Jay College President Jeremy Travis said in a Wednesday press release that the initiative is one of the most ambitious and important steps the federal
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government has taken during his career in criminal justice. “Addressing the broken relationships between the police and communities of color across the nation is a fundamental challenge facing our democracy,” he said. Esserman has also recently been invited to offer technical assistance and advice to the police force in St. Louis County, Mo., where he will join a group of officers from across the country who have been drafted to help address use-of-force doctrine and racial discrimination.
Hartman said Esserman’s emphasis on community policing has put him in a strong position to assist in areas that may have been suffering a break of trust between the community and the police. NHPD was one of the pioneers of community policing in the early 1990s, which Esserman continued when he began as chief of police in 2011. He said New Haven is the only city in America that requires all of its police officers to engage in active foot patrol, where they must provide a visible police presence in an
assigned neighborhood. City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer said Esserman’s dedication to community policing has helped to create trust and cooperation between the police and the public. New Haven has seen a drop in crime rates across the city under Esserman’s leadership. Still, Esserman’s new appointment comes shortly after allegations of misconduct. In December, Mayor Toni Harp sent him a letter of reprimand after he reportedly shouted at an usher at
September’s Yale-Army football game. On Feb. 9, Esserman will join a collection of police officials, professors and organizations who will speak at a teach-in sponsored by Yale’s Department of African American Studies called “Ferguson and Beyond: Race, Policing and Social Justice.” Esserman first joined the NHPD in 1987. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .
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MUGS FROM PAGE 1 “The idea was originally that we thought it was funny students were stealing from the dining hall and all of us had so many mugs in our rooms,” she said. “But now we are going to try to do the whole college a favor and collect them.” With the help of Berkeley Master Marvin Chun, who has agreed to give Russo and her fellow hosts $50 to buy snacks for the party, Russo predicted that it will be a success. As of Sunday night, 187 students had committed to attending the event on Facebook.
We are going to try to do the whole college a favor and collect [the mugs]. ANNA RUSSO ’17 Van Dyke said spoons, tumblers, mugs and plates are the items that most often go missing. But because mugs are most expensive and least numerous, Van Dyke said, their loss has had the greatest impact on Yale Dining. She added that missing dishes and utensils are often found in the trash, student kitchens, butteries and, most of all, student rooms. Of 13 students interviewed, 11 said they either have or know someone who has taken materials from a residential dining hall. Maggie Moor ’18 said she has never taken dining hall property, but she knows students who do so to impress their classmates. “The reason people take stuff is to show off to their friends,” she said. “People who do that are inconsiderate because the materials are not yours and are hard to get back.” Megan Perkins ’16 said that if plastic silverware is not available, she often takes spoons from the dining hall while on the run for breakfast. She added that she normally returns the spoons to the collection bins later in the day. The mug party will be held at 9:30 p.m. on Friday and is open to all Yale students. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .
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Yale-NUS will be visited by roughly 100 candidates for faculty hiring workshops before the end of March. YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 “Being part of a start-up institution, it is important to provide feedback, as faculty, staff and administration take it very seriously, and it contributes to the development of the institution,” she said. Still, student feedback is one element of a multi-part hiring process, which involves going through a review committee, then the respective division and finally the appointments committee before coming before to the governing board for ultimate approval. Yale-NUS Director of Faculty Affairs Navin Raj said the process is currently expected to end with offers for up to 30 new faculty members,
though he emphasized the provisional nature of that projection. The college currently employs 76 fulltime faculty members, including four on visiting appointments and three senior administrators. Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn ’81 said roughly 100 candidates are expected to visit the school over the course of the five workshops. For each position the college is seeking to fill, roughly three applicants are invited to the hiring workshops. The only departments that are not recruiting new faculty members are Economics, Psychology and Art, Bailyn said. Raj said the college employs 34 full-time faculty in the humanities, 22 in the sciences and 20 in the social
sciences. It also maintains a parttime teaching staff of five, he said. The student body is a major draw for faculty candidates, Bailyn said: Sharing a meal in an informal context makes them excited about the prospect of teaching at Yale-NUS. “The faculty members who want to teach the kinds of students we have here are exactly the kinds of faculty members we want,” he said. Echoing Markle, Bailyn said the distinct culture of Yale-NUS is reflected in the hiring process. Merit alone is not enough to land a position, he said. Review committees also consider a candidate’s ability to work with the current staff, which is small, and to be involved in building a new curriculum and, fundamentally,
a new institution. Jay Lusk YNUS ’18, another student who attended a workshop in January, said he was eager to have a hand in shaping his own academic experience. “I’m really thankful for the experience because I think it’s very important that students have a say in what happens in the academic life of the college,” he said. Eleven Yale-NUS faculty members are currently on leave or sabbatical. Scott Currie and Ying Tong Lai contributed reporting. Contact YONATAN GAZIt at yonatan. gazit@yale-nus.sg and MAY TAY at may.tay@yale-nus.sg .
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“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” LEWIS BLACK AMERICAN COMEDIAN
IRIS run draws record crowd in eighth year BY MARTHA LONGLEY STAFF REPORTER Seven hundred and forty runners and walkers gathered at the starting line adjacent to Wilbur Cross High School yesterday morning for the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services’ annual Run for Refugees. The event, now in its eighth year, drew a crowd of roughly 1,000 — including lifelong Connecticut residents, refugees who only started learning English in the last year and dozens of Yale students — and raised at least $28,000, according to IRIS Deputy Director Kelly Hebrank. Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, Mayor Toni Harp and Oni Chuckwu, the president of the Africa Plan Foundation — this year’s top sponsor — all delivered opening remarks, praising IRIS’s success in resettling refugees in New Haven and urging local residents to volunteer. After crossing the finish line, runners socialized in the gym over live music and food — the majority of which was provided by local businesses. “It’s amazing how many people haven’t heard of us and what we do,” said IRIS Employer Outreach Specialist Owen Davis. “Once people understand what we do, they’re very supportive. That’s the nice thing about this event, it brings together both types of people.” IRIS, a program based out of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and a local affiliate of Episcopal Migration Ministries, provides services to help refugees adjust to their new communities, including helping them obtain Social Security cards and health examinations and hosting English language classes. Yale student Harper Loonsk ’18, an IRIS volunteer, said attending the run was a great way for Yalies to connect to the community, both through volunteering and participating in the event. Project Manager Becky Paugh said the run also helps motivate refugees to exercise and pursue a more active lifestyle. She said many of the refugees come from warm regions where run-
Lulu’s to change owner, keep spirit BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER
ning is not part of the culture, but they find themselves lacing up for the winter run and then making exercise a routine. For example, Ibrahim Yusic, a Sudanese refugee, ran for the first time last year and now gets out regularly. “We make this fun, even though there is really nothing fun about the refugee crisis,” said IRIS Executive Director Chris George. “There are probably about 18 million refugees in the world today, they’ve suffered horrible persecution, and a tiny fraction of them, the luckier ones, they have a chance to settle in the United States, and even once they get here, it’s still a struggle. Sure, they’re not being tortured, they’re not being persecuted, but it’s still tough.” Davis pointed out that many aspects of daily life that people take for granted, such as communication and transportation, can be extreme obstacles for refugees completely unfamiliar with American culture and the English language. That is why the event, which is also a great place for refugees to get to know the local community, is so important, according to Paugh. Yusic, for example, said he has found running to be a fun way to stay healthy and make new friendships in his community. In addition to bonds forged in the community, George said the run is also helpful in showing the refugee community that the city of New Haven cares about their cause. “The best thing our country does is the tradition of welcoming refugees, and IRIS is a thriving program here in New Haven,” George said. “You have this great combination of local community and government … in many ways, refugee settlement is very local, but it doesn’t happen unless there’s a strong government.” According to IRIS, about 550 refugees enter Connecticut each year, and IRIS helps resettle approximately 215 of them. Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .
Although Lulu de Carrone plans to relinquish ownership of her East Rock coffeeshop at the end of February after 24 years in business, she jokes that, according to the contract, her successor, David Orrichio, is required to serve her a double macchiato every morning anyway. De Carrone is in the process of selling Lulu’s European Coffeehouse, located at 49 Cottage St., to Orrichio, an employee she hired two years ago. While de Carrone did not cite specific plans to pursue after transferring ownership, she said her entrepreneurial spirit motivated her to take her career in a different direction. The name of the establishment will change to East Rock Coffee, but the underlying values of the business — including a ban on tablets and laptops in the shop — will remain the same, according to Orrichio. “[Orrichio] is a wonderful person,” de Carrone said. “He’s very smart, he’s very community-oriented, and he loves the reason behind why I banned laptops and iPads. What’s not to love?” Instituted in 2008, the technology ban, de Carrone said, helps fos-
Last week, the multi-tiered lighting system of Harkness Tower — a signature campus structure in the Memorial Quadrangle — was restored after remaining off for the entire fall semester. According to Ian Hobbs, Branford College building supervisor, the lights had been out due to a relay switch that had broken a few months earlier. Still, some students and faculty argued that, despite its contribution to the Yale night skyline, there might be compelling reasons, ranging from sustainability to appearance, to keep the structure in the dark. “I remember thinking it odd, in the beginning, that the tower wasn’t lit, given its status as one of the more recognizable landmarks on campus,” said Paddy Gavin ’18, who posted a photo of the newly-lit structure on the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale.” “I loved seeing the lights back on, as I think Harkness looks much better at night this way.” Harkness is a symbol of the University, Gavin added. As a freshman, he said, this is the first time he has been able to see the tower illuminated since stepping foot on campus. After noticing that the tower was no longer lit at night, Joshua Fitt ’17 said he emailed Hobbs earlier this month to notify him that there was likely some sort of electrical malfunction. Once facilities was aware of the issue, Fitt said, it took a few days for the University to resolve the problem and restore the lights. “The concerning part is that no one noticed,” he said. “I suppose that with something as obvious as the tallest structure at the University not being lit, [it is] hard to understand why no one was aware.” Hobbs said that once he was alerted of the lighting issues, facilities dispatched electricians to identify the cause and replace the broken relay switch. He said that due to the age of Harkness — which was constructed in 1921 — it is not uncommon for things to break or for the lights to burn out. Still, some students and faculty said they had reservations about keeping the lights on. “It looks creepy, it looks like not all the lights are on since it is unevenly lit and it looks like some of the lights may still be broken,” Hershel Holiday ’18 said. “If they want to light up the
structure, they should light the entire tower and base — all or nothing.” He said that lighting the base, however, might be disruptive due to its proximity to dorm rooms and the master’s house in Branford. Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley wrote in an email that the tower is a large part of what makes Branford beautiful and the structure makes for great history, storytelling and music. Still, Bradley said she felt conflicted lighting the tower given the efforts to be green within the college. “Lighting the tower is wonderful and comforting to all of us, and I look forward to seeing it lit; however, it would be good to balance that pleasure with the goals to not waste energy unnecessarily,” she said. “We are looking in to how to do it in the most sustainable ways.” Holiday said he thinks that while
held by neighborhood residents, he intends to expand the menu by adding gluten-free and vegetarian options, as well as by sourcing produce locally and adjusting offerings seasonally. Furthermore, the coffeehouse will seek to cater to residents’ needs by extending hours. Orrichio said he will open the coffeehouse an hour earlier, at 6 a.m., for the sake of professionals like doctors and teachers, and also keep the coffeehouse open until 6 p.m. on most nights and 9 p.m. when hosting special evening events. East Rock Coffee will also host certain evening events, ranging from game nights to spoken word to movie screenings, he added. McMillan said that over the years, she has even seen children grow up as their parents regularly bring them into the coffeehouse, such as the two children of East Rock resident Richard Mammana DIV ’12. Mammana said the coffeehouse draws several students from both the Divinity School and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, in addition to professors. He added that East Rock alders hold office hours in the establishment as well. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .
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Lulu’s, located at 49 Cottage St., will change its name and ownership, but laptops and tablets will still be banned.
Harkness lights ignite campus debate BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER
ter community and create ambiance within the coffee shop. Patrons also cite the ban as a reason for the coffeehouse’s development as a space for relaxing, conversing with neighbors and gathering new ideas. East Rock resident and New York Times contributing writer Jack Hitt, for example, said that over the years, the establishment has cultivated a number of surprising connections between strangers and neighbors. Laura McMillan, an East Rock resident who has been a regular at Lulu’s for the past six years, said she anticipated the change in ownership to yield new ideas from Orrichio, but that the coffeehouse would retain the same spirit. “Lulu is a big fan of Dave, and it’s really a great relief for her to leave the shop in the hands of someone who can carry it forward,” McMillan said. De Carrone said that the idea to transfer ownership to Orrichio arose when she mentioned looking for a successor and Orrichio suggested himself. Orrichio, who has previous experience working in restaurants and coffeeshops, said he plans to offer lighter fare in contrast to the food served by various Italian establishments in the neighborhood. Additionally, he noted that in light of “serious food values”
some people might believe lighting the tower is not sustainable, the counterargument is that it is a “drop in the bucket” compared to other waste on campus. Many cities consume even more energy to light their skylines, but there is often little criticism of this behavior, he said. Some students interviewed, however, instead said they did not even notice the change. Tyler Harkness ’18, who is not related to the tower’s namesake, said he did not even realize the lights had been off and therefore was indifferent — although he acknowledged that it is essential to keep “what is arguably [Yale’s] most important monument” lit. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
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Harkness Tower has not lit up at night for one whole semester. But many students did not notice its darkness, and some had reservations about relighting it.
Microaggression pervasive on college campuses, study says BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER A study by the Harvard Voices of Diversity Project, published at the end of 2014, has found that regardless of the kind of campus, geographical location and admission standards, microaggressions are a major problem for colleges. The study defines microaggressions as “manifestations of prejudice and hatred that are brief and/or subtle but great in the power or magnitude of their consequences” — unintentional discrimination by way of subtle comments that reveal bias generally ingrained in culture through race and gender stereotypes. Though racial minorities and women are increasingly represented on college campuses traditionally dominated by white males, the study concludes, there’s substantial room to improve interracial interactions. The study surveyed roughly 200 students across four campuses and reported their stories of daily encounters with racism and sexism that resulted in microaggressions, and provided a list of 12 recommendations for university administrators on how to address the problem. Students interviewed said that while there is no institutionally-backed initiative to discuss and combat microaggressions, there is significant student activism around the issue. On Jan. 14, a Facebook page titled “Overheard Microaggressions at Yale” opened, giving students a forum for sharing their encounters with negative slights, with the option to submit posts anonymously. “A goal is for people to be open minded and to learn about how they might be committing microaggressions,” said Abrar Omeish ’17, the founder of the page. “The page will point [microaggressions] out to people so they can realize the underlying prejudices they might have.” Everyone has unconscious biases, Omeish said, adding that the page can be a place to post microaggressions that anyone commits, including professors and administrators as well as students. While Omeish said it is critical to report microaggressions because little is being done about them, the page
cannot be the end of activism around the matter. “We need to go beyond listing the forms of microaggressions, but that is a good start,” Paula Caplan, Harvard Voices of Diversity director, said about the page. “Then we need to educate everyone about the reality and the very specific nature of the damage that is done.” The Women’s Center has a held a discussion about microaggressions, said Women’s Center Outreach Director Isabel Cruz ’17. The discussion, she said, provided a space for students to share their experiences and discuss the importance of committing to inclusive language. In these type of conversations, students can talk about their legitimate emotions and feelings on microaggressions but also recognize that people have different backgrounds and exposure. “I think there is a lot of value in [the page], and it has a lot of healing power,” Cruz said. “But we also need preventative power.” Cruz said that even in the way in which administrators communicate with students on campus can include microaggressions. Further, she said, the administration needs to strengthen spaces for cultural diversity on campus in order to fulfill the promises it makes to its prospective and current students — that they will find a diverse and inclusive campus. The Harvard Voices of Diversity report recommended that all college administrations educate everyone on campus about the pervasive nature of microagressions, and on the welldocumented effects of racial and gender bias on actual educational performance. “I think every campus should have one course required of all students in which that material is taught and role playing is done about ways that students, faculty, administrators and other staff can and should step in when they see this happening,” Caplan said. The only university which agreed to be named in the survey — Missouri State University — took immediate action as a result of the study, instituting a vice president for diversity and inclusion position. Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” MAHATMA GANDHI LEADER OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT
Admin departures bring opportunities for positive change
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Four residential college masters, including Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel, will depart their posts at the end of this semester. MASTERS FROM PAGE 1 timing. But regardless of the reasons for the turnover, administrators interviewed agreed that the change provides an opportunity for Yale to evaluate the direction it will take. “There’s always a tension at a university between the tradition and innovation,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said. “When we have this kind of administrative turnover, one can only look at it as a moment of challenge and a moment of opportunity.”
FALLOUT FROM LEVIN
Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon, who will leave Yale next January after 40 years of service, said recent retirement incentive offerings and Levin’s departure were key to this turnover. “That there had been a period of unusual stability was one of the positive effects of Rick Levin’s long tenure as president,” Gordon said. “And then there is the direct effect of the Baby Boomer generation reaching conventional retirement age all at once.” School of Management professor Sharon Oster said in December that some administrators — such as former Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Lorimer — might have made the decision to leave after Levin’s departure, but remained
at Yale for a year or two in order to facilitate the transition. “Some [administrators] actually postponed their life plans a little bit to help with the transition,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “[They] all felt a responsibility to help us with the transition, and I am personally incredibly grateful.” Some administrators interviewed said much of the turnover may also be due to retirement incentives offered in 2014, which former Yale College Dean Mary Miller said “[were] certainly advertised as a one-time only opportunity.” According to an email sent to managerial and professional employees last March by Human Resources & Administration Vice President Michael Peel, these “workplace flexibility” options come as part of an effort to cut costs. “As you know, Yale continues to face budget challenges, both to put the remaining deficit from the 2008 financial crisis behind us, as well as to build the financial flexibility needed to be able to invest in opportunities important to the University’s future,” Peel wrote. The email also outlined provisions for several retirement options, including phased retirement and voluntary layoff. University spokeswoman Karen Peart added that although Yale may have realized a slight budget surplus in the past year, it is continuing to exert “careful
financial controls” in its budget planning. Several recently departed administrators — including former Associate Dean for Student Organizations and Physical Resources John Meeske and former Director of the Teaching Fellow Program Judith Hackman — took advantage of the “voluntary layoff” option, which Hackman said will guarantee her a full year of her current salary after she retires. University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews said it is not unusual to have some administrative turnover when a new president takes office. But Goff-Crews also noted that the most interesting aspect of the turnover is that so much of it is due to longtime University administrators retiring, rather than leaving for new positions.
A SELF-PERPETUATING CYCLE
For some, the decision to leave now comes as a result of all the recent changes. While Hackman said the retirement incentives were one of her motivations for leaving Yale now, she also cited the lack of transparency surrounding decisions to restructure responsibilities following the introduction of a new dean of Yale College, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — an entirely new position this fall.
In particular, Hackman said she does not understand why several resources that were formerly under the purview of the Graduate School — such as the Center for Language Study and the Writing Center — have been placed in the new Center for Teaching and Learning. She also cited confusion surrounding the overlapping duties of Goff-Crews and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry. “There have been several major changes without any clear explanation of why they’re being made,” Hackman said. “That’s one piece of it — there is enormous uncertainty right now about what’s going to happen.” Other changes in administrative structure have also led to certain departures. The creation of academic divisional director positions for the humanities, sciences and social sciences last September — and the subsequent appointment of Morse Master Amy Hungerford as divisional director of the humanities — was cited by Hungerford herself as a reason for her stepping down from her mastership. “To remain the master of Morse while taking on this role would be unfair to both communities,” Hungerford wrote in the Sept. 17 email to Morse College in which she announced her decision. Holloway explained that many changes — including some of the decisions surrounding the Center for Teaching and Learning — predate his deanship. He also
said many of these decisions have been made in an effort to further integrate the many disparate pedagogical resources Yale offers. Still, he acknowledged that recent administrative turnover has made it difficult to be as transparent as would be ideal. “There’s so much change happening in administrative structure right now. It’s hard to keep pace of who’s where at any given moment,” Holloway said. “Everybody in the central administration needs to work really hard on being as transparent as possible and communicating [our reasoning].” Holloway added that he expects this problem to resolve itself next year, once he and other new administrators are more settled in their new positions.
A “GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY”
While some administrators interviewed noted that the high amounts of turnover may result in a loss of institutional memory, they were optimistic about the opportunity for change that such turnover brings, especially as the University looks toward expansion. Silliman Master and Council of Masters Chair Judith Krauss said that while the departure of four masters in one year — onethird of the Council’s membership — is more than usual, half of the remaining masters are in their second or third terms and will serve as mentors for the
new Masters of Silliman, Timothy Dwight, Saybrook and Morse Colleges. Krauss added that the council will continue to work with Holloway in planning for the two new residential colleges — a process that will include adding two new members to their group. “Whenever new masters join the council there are opportunities for new direction — welcome opportunities,” Krauss wrote in an email to the News. “We are always rethinking our policies and work based on the ‘here and now’ and ‘future’ consideration, and having new members is a plus.” Holloway said that while loss of institutional memory poses a challenge in planning for the future, it also creates a “golden opportunity” for lower-ranking administrators with talent and potential to ascend to higher ranks. “Whatever its causes, this moment does present the University with the opportunity to promote the next generation of leaders, both from within and without,” Gordon said. “I am excited and optimistic, because I know personally how many extraordinary folks there are who are ready to step up to new positions, and there must be many more than the ones I know.” Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .
Wang’s words “amplified by the hundreds of people that she touched” VIGIL FROM PAGE 1 or a grand lecture hall during a Yale Political Union debate, Saturday’s speakers said they were struggling to fill those spaces in Wang’s absence. “She whispered softly, but she whispered words that were amplified by the hundreds of people that she touched,” Soham Sankaran ’17 said. Silliman Master Judith Krauss opened Saturday’s memorial, saying that multiple communities from across the University — including from the Yale Political Union’s Party of the Left, the Yale Effective Altruists, the Yale Record and the tech community — had come together to honor
Wang and support one another. Krauss called on attendees to make a commitment to finding the life affirming relationships and care for themselves in times of grief. “[Luchang’s] burden has been lifted,” Krauss said. “You don’t need to carry it anymore. Managing your own burdens will be plenty.” Andrew Sherlock ’16 said he struggled to find words that could strengthen Wang’s memory. Sherlock said he hoped Wang had found “a clean welllighted place,” quoting an Ernest Hemingway story that he and Wang used to talk about together. Juno Pinder ’16 spoke of Wang’s unique ability to dis-
cuss general relativity alongside philosophy, as well as her natural inclination to see the laws of physics everywhere in the world around her. Attesting to Wang’s character in addition to her intellect, Pinder said she once sat down with Wang to learn how to say “How are you?” in Chinese. But after a 10-minute lesson, Pinder discovered Wang had actually taught her to say “I am kind and smart and good and I deserve the world.” “We were so lucky to have had as much time with her as we did,” Pinder said. “[She] was kind and smart and good and deserved the world.” Benjamin Garfinkel ’16 said Wang would be remembered for
the small gifts she left behind for others — warm pieces of winter clothes or a book that had come up in casual conversation. Sherlock also recalled one instance when he and Wang were walking near Toad’s Place as an intoxicated passerby knocked a root beer out of his hand. Sherlock said he froze, unsure of what to do about the encounter, but Wang confidently stepped forward with a bottle of hot pink mace and the situation quickly diffused. “We kept walking like nothing had happened,” Sherlock said, commending Wang’s unflinching courage and desire to protect her loved ones. In an tribute to Wang’s love for
folk music, Tangled Up in Blue performed “Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Angelina Xing ’17, who spoke at the ceremony, said afterwards that the service was the first step in her healing process, adding that the memories shared were a just representation of Wang’s multifaceted nature. “She was a complex character, stirring when she spoke softly, silent in her moments of fortitude, and her intelligence had its unique sense of humor,” Xing said. One of Wang’s former suitemates, Leigh Vila ’17, said during the ceremony that she would miss entering her common room to be greeted by Wang’s kind
expression and quiet glow. During the ceremony, Vila said Wang had a “gentle power” about her and that Vila had been permanently changed by her and Wang’s friendship. Following the memorial, attendees gathered in Krauss’ home to share their memories of Wang over wasabi seaweed and ginger tea — snacks that Wang was known not only to have on hand, but also always to offer others. “She didn’t lend me anything,” Mena said. “She gave things to me. Thank you for being in my life.” Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT
THE DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth will adopt a hard alcohol ban BY PARKER RICHARDS In a Thursday morning speech outlining a new social doctrine for Dartmouth, College President Phil Hanlon announced a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol — beverages containing more than 15 percent alcohol by volume — to be enforced the beginning of spring term, and the mandatory presence of thirdparty bartenders and bouncers at parties hosted by Dartmouth or College-recognized organizations. Hanlon also reaffirmed the continuation of the Greek system, but said that its existence could be revisited in the coming years. The changes, the subject of much speculation before their official announcement, were generally met with acceptance by Greek leaders interviewed by The Dartmouth. “I think a lot of it was pretty predictable, and frankly, at the end of the day pretty tame in respect to its impact on Greek life and student life in general at Dartmouth,” president of Beta Alpha Omega fraternity Chet Brown said. Brown added that the elimination of hard alcohol will make managing social events easier for Greek houses and their leadership and praised the policy’s potential to mitigate risks. Panhellenic Council Vice President of Public Relations Jessica Ke said the policies were still vague at the time of announcement and added that Panhell is looking forward to participating in the process of narrowing down the specifics of the policies. “Student voices really do need to be heard in this implementation process, and it’s really a function of the fact that we are
the ones on the ground, we’re the ones in this culture,” Ke said. “The adminisDARTMOUTH tration is overseeing it, but we’re living it.” In a statement provided by Interfraternity Council Public Relations and Outreach Director Brett Drucker, the IFC lauded the role of the Greek Proposal — a set of policy recommendations produced in the fall by members of the IFC, Panhell and the Gender-Inclusive Greek Council — in influencing Hanlon’s recommendations. The statement made clear that while the IFC does not agree with every aspect of Hanlon’s new policies, they look forward to continued collaboration with student leaders and administrators to implement these policies. Drucker is a former member of The Dartmouth Senior Staff. The specifics, including the timeline and enforcement structure, surrounding the policies’ implementation have yet to be made clear. The hard alcohol ban states that hard alcohol beverages cannot be kept in students’ possession or be served at events sponsored by the College or by College-recognized organizations, including Greek houses. While the policy changes mention a commitment to expanding the size of Dartmouth’s Safety and Security force, the exact method of implementation for the hard alcohol ban was not made clear in Hanlon’s speech. Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer said that some specifics will be proposed through a new social events and
alcohol management working group, which will be comprised of various community members. Experts in alcohol and alcohol policy have mixed opinions on the effectiveness of a hard alcohol college campus ban. David Hanson, an expert on collegiate alcohol policy and a professor emeritus of sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam, said that he does not believe a ban on hard alcohol will be effective in combating highrisk drinking. “A ban on hard liquor really makes no sense,” Hanson said. “If [Hanlon] wants to ban hard liquor, he should ban beer and wine, because a drink of beer or wine contains exactly the same amount of alcohol as spirits.” There is little logic in banning hard alcohol without banning all alcohol, Hanson said, though he did not advocate for the latter policy. Laura Forbes, the former chair of the American College Health Association’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Coalition, said that Dartmouth’s new policies likely would not dramatically “slow down the intoxication rate, because you can’t curb all the pre-partying.” Students will find ways to become “overly inebriated” if they wish, no matter the College’s alcohol policy, she said. Other colleges and universities around the country employ a hard alcohol ban, including Bowdoin College and Colby College. Colby, which implemented its ban at the start of the 2010–11 academic year, has outlawed all hard alcohol on campus with the exception of a campus bar, Colby’s Senior Associate Dean of Students and Director of Campus Life Jed Wartman said.
“The primary sort of benefit or positive outcome is that the highest-risk drinking seems to have been reduced,” Wartman said. “We still have issues with alcohol, and we still have students who consume to scary levels, but we are finding fewer students at high risk in terms of level of intoxication than we had before the ban.” Cathy Zhao, a junior at Colby, said that the ban has not stopped students from consuming hard alcohol. Instead, she said, it has pushed freshmen pre-games underground while upperclassmen continue to pre-game largely as they did before the ban.
A ban on hard liquor really makes no sense. DAVID HANSON Expert on collegiate alcohol policy “It doesn’t promote pregaming any more than normal, it just promotes the hiding of pre-gaming,” she said. “It limits the healthy relationship that we need between campus safety components as well as the students that we’re trying to help.” Zhao also described the ban as “just a scare tactic,” and said that it has not succeeded in meeting the administration’s goals. At Bowdoin, the hard alcohol ban is similarly ignored by some students, Chad Martin, a Bowdoin junior, said. The school made it clear that hard alcohol use was not acceptable when he matriculated, but Martin said he quickly learned that students partook with impunity anyway. “There are people who get caught with hard alcohol, and
nothing happens really,” he said. “Just a small slap on the wrist and that’s about it.” Still, hard alcohol abuse is one of the more common reasons for alcohol-related sanctions against Bowdoin students, Bowdoin sophomore Hannah Miller said. “It doesn’t really impact the social experience — people still drink it,” she said. “It just gives security the ability, if they see someone drinking hard alcohol, to make them pour it out.” Forbes said that a hard alcohol ban could only really be effective if it were enforced strictly. “How seriously is it going to be taken if there’s no teeth with the enforcement piece?” she asked. Stanford University briefly had a hard alcohol ban on its campus during its summer 2012 sessions, but the ban was lifted after the university’s administration received negative student feedback, The Stanford Daily reported. Several Stanford officials either declined to comment or did not respond to numerous requests for comment. The ban at Dartmouth will simply lead to more high-risk pre-gaming and more secretive consumption of hard alcohol, Amarna Undergraduate Society President Julia Salinger said. “Prohibition hasn’t been successful in the past, and I’m not sure it will work here,” she said. Aylin Woodward, the president of Phi Tau, who noted that she was not speaking on behalf of her house, said that she expected discomfort amongst students over the policy. “Whenever you restrict a right to anything, especially a legal right, you’re going to have pushback, so that’s probably
going to be the basis of much of the collective malaise around his proposal,” she said. Woodward is a member of The Dartmouth Staff. Coed houses expect the impact of both the hard alcohol ban and the third-party vendor policy on their operations to be greater than the impact on single-gender Greek houses, GIGC president Matthew Digman said. “We have a disproportionate number of registered parties with hard alcohol, and we take great lengths to manage those well,” he said. Cristy Altamirano, the president of Alpha Theta coed fraternity, said that the third-party vendor policy could potentially pose a financial problem for her house, for which dues are optional. The Greek Proposal contained a specific recommendation that hard alcohol use be allowed at coed houses due to their history of safe events featuring such beverages and serving hard alcohol at numerous open-to-campus events. The exact form the thirdparty security and bartender policy will take is unclear, and Ameer said that specifics still need to be worked out. It is likely the third-party bartender and security policy will only effect “tier three” parties — registered events that serve alcohol and have more than 150 students in attendance, Brown said. Brown said that Beta has utilized third-party security in the past, and noted that he is not necessarily opposed to the change. It would, however, be logistically and financially impossible to have third-party vendors at every event hosted by Greek organizations, he said.
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T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N
Students react to alcohol ban
College readies Honor Council procedures
BY NOAH GOLDSTEIN Reactions to the announcement of a hard alcohol ban, new residential communities and increased academic rigor were mixed following President Hanlon’s unveiling of his Moving Dartmouth Forward policies Thursday morning. Faculty members interviewed generally supported the academic aspects while students were mixed on specific policies and the overall enforceability. Dartmouth’s Center for the Advancement of Learning Director Lisa Baldez said that increasing academic rigor will shift attention toward an area in which Dartmouth excels, but that the changes themselves are minor. The resources that Hanlon said would be provided for experiential learning, such as funding for materials, are going to help faculty expand what they already do in that field. French and Italian Department Chair Andrea Tarnowski said that Hanlon’s calls for more academic rigor will keep intellectual aspirations and ideals high at the college. Tarnowski said that she supports the faculty adviser policy because it will promote students faculty interactions outside of the classroom and prevent the partition between academics and the rest of student life. Computer science department chair Thomas Cormen said that while he supports that the policy will mandate that Greek houses have both a male and female faculty adviser, and he wants professors to take an increased role outside of the classroom, it could be a challenge getting faculty to give up their personal time to do so. Cormen said that despite the possibility that the hard alcohol ban could push drinking underground, he supports the ban and its inclusion of students over 21. “Plagiarism is legal, and Dartmouth doesn’t allow it,” he said. “They don’t need to allow everything that is legal.” Chair of the Sociology Department Kathryn Lively said she was not surprised by any of the recommendations through her involvement with the Committee on Student Affairs and various discussions on campus. Lively said that it is important for the College to have a more diverse faculty and student body. She said she was skeptical about the effectiveness of the ban on hard alcohol. “If the students don’t want to
change, then it is going to be hard for a policy, such as a ban on hard alcohol, to have them change,” Lively said. S t u d e n t DARTMOUTH Assembly President Casey Dennis said that the student body should not be afraid of change and that Moving Dartmouth Forward should be taken as an opportunity for students to challenge themselves. Student Assembly Vice President and student member of the Presidential Steering Committee Frank Cunningham said he was satisfied with the recommendations that were being implemented but acknowledged that there were mixed reactions to the announcement. Palaeopitus senior society and Student Assembly held a student forum Thursday night for students to voice their opinions, and questions were gathered to send to Hanlon and other administrators with the goal that they will be addressed at a town hall meeting later this term. Thirty students were in attendance along with four moderators from Student Assembly and Palaeopitus. Palaeopitus member and moderator for the event Ashneil Jain said that the forum was held to generate dialogue among students about the newly proposed plan. The dialogue from the forum will help to create a series of questions that students have about the policies, and clarify details surrounding the policies themselves, their implementation and the possible impact they will have on the future of the college, he said. Discussions at the forum included questions and concerns over the policies. Palaeopitus member Shoshana Silverstein said at the start of the forum that student involvement is key to Moving Dartmouth Forward succeeding. Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault President Victoria Nevel said that President Hanlon’s decision to continue the college’s relationship with WISE is a step in the right direction for combatting sexual assault, but she would also like to see the results of the annual student climate survey be made to the public. Avery Feingold, an undergraduate adviser, was disappointed by the announcement and said that the pol-
icy for UGAs, which will provide training on how to enforce the new policies, changes the purpose of the role. UGAs strive to be resources that students can come to if they get too drunk, rather than be people whose goal it is to report students for getting drunk or being irresponsible, Feingold said. UGA Tyler Fisher said that the announcement did not change much as UGAs are already expected to report any violations of college policy, including drinking in dorm rooms. He said that he believes that students who are drinking openly enough to be seen should be reported.
Plagiarism is legal, and Dartmouth doesn’t allow it … They don’t need to allow everything that is legal. THOMAS CORMEN Computer science department chair, Dartmouth Of 11 students polled by The Dartmouth, five questioned the enforceability of the policies and eight said they thought the policies went in the right direction. Hunter van Adelsberg said that while he thinks the general direction is right, he is less sure of logistics of some of the policies. “I am a little skeptical about how they are going to enforce some of the policies and handle some of the logistics and costs of what they want to do,” he said. Zoe Snow said she wondered how the current freshmen will fit into the new undergraduate housing system as they will be in the middle of the transition but said it is good that Hanlon is addressing the criticism that Dartmouth has received. Anna Rowthorn-Apel said that she thinks the ban on hard alcohol will drive drinking underground. Julian Marcu said that the announcement, specifically the call to increase inclusivity at the college, painted the college in an unfair light compared to other schools who have similar problems. Several students attended the event and held up signs with slogans, such as “Abolish the greek system” and “boo.” Those students declined to comment.
BY NOAH DELWICHE AND IVAN LEVINGSTON Harvard’s forthcoming studentfaculty judiciary body will likely adjudicate cheating cases with the same burden of proof currently employed by the Administrative Board and similarly hand down the same disciplinary sanctions, such as a requirement to temporarily withdraw from Harvard, according to Interim Ad Board Secretary Brett Flehinger. The Ad Board currently determines guilt in cases against a “sufficiently persuaded” standard of proof. The Honor Council is scheduled to begin hearing academic integrity cases next fall at the same time as Harvard’s first honor code is implemented. According to Interim Ad Board Secretary Brett Flehinger, the Council will be composed of 12 undergraduates and another 12 members selected from a pool of faculty, former or current teaching fellows, and resident or House deans. Representatives from the Dean of the College’s office, the Office of Undergraduate Education, and the Academic Integrity Committee are currently in the process of selecting sophomores and juniors to serve on the Honor Council next year. According to John T. Hamilton, a member of the Faculty Council, the group met Wednesday to discuss the honor code’s still-unfinalized affirmation of integrity statement, a point of contention among some professors. Members of the Academic Integrity Committee discuss a draft of the College’s honor code in 2014. More than 200 sophomores and
juniors we re n o m i n a te d to se rve o n t h e Council last fall, and about 70 of them formally applied for a position, accordHARVARD ing to Flehinger. Administrators and students are now completing interviews of about 40 students and plan to notify successful applicants of their selections in February, he added. Current freshmen may apply to serve on the body in February. The Dean of the College’s Office will select the other half of the Council that will include faculty, TFs and administrators, according to Flehinger. Administrators expect to name the entire Council’s membership in early March. Shortly thereafter, selected students will begin two hours of weekly training, according to Michael C. Ranen, a freshman resident dean for Ivy Yard and a member of the Academic Integrity Committee. That training will feature mock cases on a variety of academic integrity issues and sessions on cognitive biases and decision making led by faculty members, according to Flehinger. While this spring will be fully dedicated to training future Council members, Flehinger said members will spend about a quarter of their time training and the other three quarters hearing cases next year. In future years, the entire application process for undergraduates will take place in the spring.
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The Academic Integrity Committee came together in Straus Hall’s Common Room one last time Tuesday night to give students the opportunity to discuss and provide feedback on the newly drafted Honor Code.
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Bulldogs progress in ECAC position BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After a disappointing weekend in which the Elis dropped games against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the No. 16 Yale men’s hockey squad got back on track in a pair of home contests against Princeton and No. 18 Quinnipiac. The Bulldogs (12–6–3, 7–5–2 ECAC) sit at fourth in the ECAC, just seven points from league leader Quinnipiac and just two points behind Harvard. In their weekend tilt, the Elis tied the Bobcats (16–8–2, 11–2–1) 2–2 and shut out the conference’s last place squad, Princeton (1–12–1, 3–15–2). Predictably, Yale won a controlled and efficient match against Princeton, with goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 recording his second shutout in just two weeks and the Bulldogs notching a 4–0 victory. Though the Tigers held on defensively in the first period, Yale blew the contest open in the second through a flurry of goals. Capitalizing on power plays proved key for the Bulldogs as forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 gave
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Yale a lead 37 seconds into the second period during Yale’s first power play of the game. Forward Stu Wilson ’16 then doubled the Eli advantage just a minute and a half later in the midst of a second power play. On the night, the Elis were two for three in manadvantage situations, proving the presence of a much-needed offensive bite. On the defensive side, Lyon and defensemen Nate Repensky ’18 and Tommy Fallen ’15 were at the top of their games, keeping Princeton’s forwards at bay and providing some offensive contribution of their own, as Repensky assisted on two Eli goals and Fallen recorded a key pass en route to Wilson’s second period goal. With four goals in the second period and Yale’s squad firing on all cylinders, the contest was all but finished. “Our defensive core is incredible,” Lyon said. “They play so well every single night, and our forwards are outstanding defensively as well. I feel confident moving forward, but there’s still a SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B3
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The Bulldogs came back from two one-goal deficits against Quinnipiac on Saturday at The Whale.
Six straight for Bulldogs BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team vaulted over 0.500 for the first time this season by defeating Columbia 55–47 and Cornell 60–53. The Bulldogs’ victory against Cornell marked the team’s sixth straight win, making Yale 4–0 in the Ivy League. “The past two wins were huge
W. BASKETBALL for my team and the entire program,” guard Tamara Simpson ’18 said. “It’s the first time we have started the season 4–0 since 1979.” Yale’s game against Cornell on Sunday, featuring nine lead changes and five ties, was hardfought by any standard. The Big Red’s 41.7 percent shooting topped the Bulldogs’ 37.0 percent, and the Big Red was more successful from the charity line at 68.8 percent compared to Yale’s 61.5 percent. However, Yale took a 45–44 lead at the 7:04 mark in the second half and refused to surrender the lead for the remainder of the game. The Bulldogs started the game on a 8–2 run, but the Big Red quickly caught up to tie Yale 8–8 at 14:10. The two teams traded baskets until a layup from sophomore forward Nicholle Aston sent the Big Red on a 11–0 run to lead the game 27–17 at 4:02. Two layups from Simpson in the last two minutes of the first half shortened the Big Red’s lead to 29–24. The Elis caught up quickly with Cornell, however, and regained the lead 32–31 at the 14:32 mark, largely thanks to two free throws from center Emmy Allen ’16 and a layup and jump shot from Simpson. The two teams traded baskets, tying at 33–33, then 37–37 with 12:02 remaining. Cornell temporarily led for the next five minutes, but an and-one from guard Katie Werner ’17 helped the Bulldogs regain the lead 45–44 with 7:04 left. From this point on, the Bull-
dogs maintained their lead until the end of the game, largely thanks to eight free throws in the last 1:41 of the game. In the end, the score stood at 60–53. The game against Cornell contrasted to the matchup against Columbia, where the Bulldogs led for nearly the entire game. The Bulldogs started the game well, using consecutive layups from Werner, Simpson and Allen to take an 8–0 lead. The two
teams traded baskets for the first 10 minutes of the game, with Yale leading 17–8 at the 10:53 mark. After a jump shot from senior guard Miwa Tachibana, the Lions went on a 15–5 run to tie the game at 23–23 at 4:53. Neither team scored again until Allen made a layup at 19:30 in the second half. That basket led the Bulldogs on a 15–5 run to break the
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Yale turned the ball over just three times against Columbia, a season-low. BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team reminded everyone why it belongs at the top of the Ivy League by sweeping its New York road trip this past weekend, remaining undefeated in conference play.
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The Elis forced 24 turnovers in their win against Columbia.
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Yale (15–6, 4–0 Ivy) knocked off Columbia (10–8, 2–2) 63–59 and Cornell (10–10, 2–2) 65–57 in a series of tight games for the team’s first road sweep of the Lions and Big
Red since 2003. Experience has played a large factor in helping the Elis to their best start against Ancient Eight competition since 1962. “Javier [Duren ’15] knocked down some clutch free throws, and then we made a big stop down the stretch,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “So that just comes back to last year and some games earlier in the non-conference schedule. We’ve accumulated a lot of experience and have been in this situation countless times. We’re ready for whatever gets thrown at us.” SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3
NUMBER OF TIMES THE YALE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAMS HAVE STARTED IVY PLAY 4–0 IN THE SAME SEASON. The Yale men are the only undefeated squad in the conference, while the women share that honor with 19–0 Princeton, which is 3–0 in conference play.
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“A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed ... are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.” TOM BRADY NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS QUARTERBACK
Bulldogs set PRs at H-Y-P
Close losses for fencing FENCING FROM PAGE B4 cool,” Miller said. “We’re looking forward to continuing to practice hard this week and maintaining the energy we had at Sacred Heart as we go into Ivies at Columbia next weekend. The men’s team’s match was just as dramatic, coming down to the final point in the final bout of the day. With the teams tied at 13–13, Paul Won ’18 and Sacred Heart’s Kevin Almerini battled to a 4–4 tie before the Pioneer managed to pull out the final victory of the day. Yale led after the first round 5–4, but the Pioneers battled back in the second to tie the match up at nine. The Bulldogs then swept the foil bouts in the third round and eventually widened their lead to 13–9 in the third set, but it was not enough to secure the win as Sacred Heart staged an impressive comeback, claiming the five remaining bouts. O’Cinneide noted that the Bulldogs might
have fared better in the face of the Pioneer comeback had they maintained the pressure they brought toward the beginning of the meet. Yet the captain also mentioned that he was proud of the effort his squad put forward on Saturday. “We need to work on keeping the pressure on our opponents throughout the meet to not give them any reprieve,” O’Cinneide said. “Everyone did their job and Brian Wang ’16 posted the best record yesterday, 3–0. He did a great job against tough opposition.” This weekend, the men’s and women’s teams will travel to Columbia for the Ivy League Round-Robin tournament. Both Bulldog squads will face four of the nation’s top-10 teams in Harvard, Princeton, Penn and Columbia. The competition will begin this Sunday at 11 a.m. in New York. Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
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Last year, the H-Y-P meet was hosted at Yale; this season it was held at Harvard. SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE B4 day, placing first in the 100–yard butterfly, while teammate Kasey Mann ’16 took fifth and set a personal record at 56.16. MacRae improved vastly on the second day of competition, takwing second in the one–meter dive with 296.30 points, less than two points behind Caitlin Chambers of Princeton. The women finished the meet with a third place finish in the 400–yard freestyle relay. Members of the men’s team — which also came up short — said mental focus and correct mindset were equally as important as physical preparation. “A big focus for a meet like H-Y-P is trusting all the work you have done in the water and making sure you are mentally prepared for what you are heading into,” said Kevin Stang ’16. The men began swimming on Saturday night, starting with the 200–yard freestyle relay. The Bulldogs’ A team swam into third place, behind Princeton and Harvard. In the 100–yard breaststroke, Ronald Tsui ’15 pulled ahead of Jack Pohlmann of Princeton to take fifth place. Alwin Fir-
mansyah ’15 did the same in the 200–yard butterfly, barely out– touching a Princeton swimmer to take sixth place. And in the 1650– yard freestyle, Kei Hyogo ’18 and Brian Hogan ’16 combined to make a 2–3 finish, respectively. Both swimmers finished over 12 seconds faster than the remaining competition. On the diving platform, James McNelis ’16 finished in the top spot for the Elis, taking sixth overall in the three–meter dive. Day two saw Hyogo placing third in the 400–yard IM with a time of 3:53.03. Hogan set the H-Y-P record for the event last year at 3:48.81. Firmansyah continued his solid performance at the meet with a fourth place finish in the 100–yard butterfly. Hyogo continued his streak of placement as well, tying for second in the 500–yard freestyle with a Princeton swimmer. McNelis placed sixth again, this time in the one–meter dive with a total of 257.15 points. The Bulldogs finished their day with a fourth place finish in the 400–yard freestyle relay. The A team of Victor Zhang ’16, Aaron Greenberg ’17, Firmansyah and Rob Harder ’15 finished less than
a half-second behind third place Harvard. Though the teams both suffered losses and settled into third place in the conference standings, the close finishes and new personal records are giving them positive outlooks for their final meet against Brown, as well as the Ivy League Championships. Both teams have the opportunity to compete at home for their last regular season meet, when the women will be celebrating 40 years of Yale Women’s Swimming and Diving. “A home meet helps in so many ways. We practice in the exhibition pool every single day, so having a meet there gives us an advantage. It feels normal, and nothing is new or unexpected,” said Zhou. VanderWel said that a home meet gives the team a sense of familiarity and a connection with teams who have swam there previously. The women take on the Bears at home on Feb. 7 at 1 p.m., while the men begin at 4 p.m. on the same day. Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .
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Yale faces four of the top-10 teams in the country next weekend: Harvard, Princeton, Penn and Columbia.
Elis upset Clarkson W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 “The win against Clarkson was obviously a huge win for the team,” forward Brittany Wheeler ’18 said. “They played really well, and it is exactly what you want going into the final stretch of the season.” On Saturday, Yale traveled to St. Lawrence to face the ranked Saints. St. Lawrence got off to a quick start, scoring its first goal just 2:01 into the game. The Elis kept pace, however, when Haddad found the back of the net for a tying goal less than five minutes later, scoring for the second time on the weekend. Entering the second period down by one, the Bulldogs faced a rough stretch where the Saints put in a pair a goals. But St. Lawrence would not keep their 4–1 lead for long. The Bulldogs came back fighting, putting two goals of their own on the board by the end of the period, scored by defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 and forward Jackie Raines ’15. Despite Yale’s comeback attempt, the team could not manage to upset the Saints, who took the game 4–3 and extended their win streak to seven games. Just as in the game against Clarkson, the Elis had noticeably fewer shots than St. Lawrence, especially in the first two periods of action. Even though 22 out of Yale’s 54 shots this weekend came in the third period, the team failed to capitalize on any of them. “Overall this was a pretty good weekend for us moving forward,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “More so than just the results, we were really happy with our effort in both games. Obviously, defeating Clarkson was a huge win for us in the standings, but it also gives us a lot of confidence moving forward with our season knowing we can play with the best teams in the country.” The Bulldogs will move on to face Ivy League opponents this weekend, with Friday’s match at No. 4 Harvard and Saturday’s at Dartmouth. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
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The Bulldogs upset No. 8 Clarkson 3–1, but fell to No. 9 St. Lawrence 4–3 this weekend.
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“I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.” RUSSELL WILSON SEATTLE SEAHAWKS QUARTERBACK
Lossless weekend for Elis M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 lot of work that needs to be done.” The shutout was Lyon’s sixth of his career, tying the Yale alltime record held by three goaltenders, including Jeff Malcolm ’13, most notable for his 4–0 shutout of Quinnipiac in the 2013 Frozen Four championship game. In Yale’s second match of the weekend, the Elis took on league leaders Quinnipiac and played them to a thrilling overtime tie. The Bobcats looked sharp early as they took a 1–0 lead 10 minutes into the first period on a goal from forward Sam Anas, who ranks third in the conference with 16 scores on the season. However, Yale fought back from an early deficit and tied the game when forward Carson Cooper ’16 scored midway through the second period. The Elis were forced to fight back from another deficit when Quinnipiac scored again in the third period; however, defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 emerged as a savior for the Elis when he fired a shot past Michael Garteig in the game’s final 20 minutes. Though the match went into overtime, strong performances from Garteig and Lyon prevented
either team from scoring in one of the most deadlocked ECAC matches this season. “I figured it was going to be a tight game,” head coach Keith Allain said. “I knew it would be about a one or two goal game going into the third period, my expectation was that we would win it, though.” Garteig and Lyon stood on their heads and produced 29 saves each in the match, while both Yale and QU fired off 31 shots over 65 minutes of backand-forth play. Though the Elis did not emerge with a win, they did prevent a juggernaut Bobcat team from increasing its lead atop the ECAC table, while demonstrating the ability to compete with the conference’s top team. “We felt great this weekend and definitely played with energy and competitiveness,” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “Going forward we need to bear down more offensively and continue to grow as a team.” Yale’s next contest comes against Harvard on Friday at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink. Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu . Drew Megerian contributed reporting.
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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 earned his second shutout in two weeks against Princeton on Friday.
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tie and lead 38–28 at the 12:24 mark, and seven of those 13 points came from successful free throws by Simpson and guards Nyasha Sarju ’16 and Whitney Wyckoff ’17. A three-point jump shot from Sarju and a layup from Wyckoff kept Yale in the lead despite eight consecutive points from sophomore forward Tori Oliver, the Ivy League’s secondleading scorer. With 5:33 remaining, the Lions brought the score to 47–46 thanks to a threepointer from freshman guard Alexa Giuliano. But a layup from Wyckoff and a jump shot from guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 widened Yale’s lead to 51–47. Wyckoff sunk four more free throws in the last minute of the game to help the Bulldogs clinch a 55–47 victory. In a game during which both teams scored well below their respective shooting averages, Yale’s pressure defense proved crucial for the Bulldogs’ win. Yale scored five times as many points off turnovers as the Lions did, 20–4, and limited the Lions, who entered Friday on a scoring average of 64.5 points per game, to only 47 points. The Bulldogs also limited Oliver to just 11 points throughout the game.
Additionally, the Bulldogs forced 24 turnovers and kept the Lions to just 38 percent from the field. “In both games, it was pressure defense that really drove us,” Santucci said. In addition, Santucci said the team was able to outlast both opponents because every single player on the team contributed in some way to the game. Yale’s consistency from the charity line also helped make the difference in the remaining minutes of the game against Columbia. The Bulldogs shot 13–16 from the charity line, while Columbia made just 5–11 free throws. Ultimately, the team’s mentality made the difference in both tight matches, according to Simpson. “I believe we were so successful because we really played as a team for the entirety of both games,” Simpson said. “Everyone who walked on the floor contributed positively in some way, whether big or small, and we really played with the mindset of winners.” The Elis will play Dartmouth in Hanover this Friday. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .
Yale out-rebounded Cornell 46–31 and held the Big Red to just 33.3 percent shooting. M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 After a three-pointer from Columbia star Maodo Lo with 3:41 remaining, the Bulldogs were clinging to a one-point lead. But Yale, which was shooting just 11–21 from the free throw line at that point, would knock down six in a row from the charity stripe, including four straight from Duren, to put the Elis up three with 16 seconds left in the game. Columbia had its opportunities, handing the ball to its junior standout Lo, who scored 17 of his 20 points in the second half and shot a blistering 6–8 from behind the arc. Sears, however, thwarted his last second efforts, blocking Lo’s three-point attempt with six seconds on the clock. “I had a lot of defensive blips in that second half, so I knew I had to make up for it,” Sears said. “The guy was driving circles around me this game, so I just had to hunker down and make sure he didn’t get the three off, trusting my help-side defense if he went by me.” Sears reaffirmed his candidacy for the Ivy League Player of the Year award, notching 28 points, eight rebounds, three blocks and, perhaps most notably, zero turnovers. Columbia head coach Kyle Smith noted that the team’s defensive strategy on Sears obviously did not work, especially since they were unable to keep him off the foul line. In fact, Sears got to the line twice as much as the Lions’ entire roster, going 8–12 from the foul line as compared to 3–6 shooting by Columbia as a whole.
Yale also took care of the ball against Columbia, turning the ball over a season-low three times while forcing the Lions into 14 turnovers. The Bulldogs scored 13 points off Columbia’s miscues in comparison to the Lions, who notched only two points off turnovers. “Kudos to Yale as far as turning the ball over only three times,” Smith said. “That’s out of character for them — they turn the ball over usually more than that. They played well, they took care of the ball.” With the late 8 p.m. start against Columbia, the Bulldogs faced a quick turnaround with a 6 p.m. tip off against Cornell, getting into Ithaca at 4 a.m. The Big Red was coming off a win against Brown and sought to take down Yale for a share of the Ivy League lead. But the Elis did not relinquish their grasp atop the standings. Tired legs did not seem to be a problem, as the Elis jumped out to a quick seven-point lead just five minutes into the game. “We were tough and gritty and handled the tough situation really well,” head coach James Jones said. “Armani [Cotton ’15] was all over the glass, and Matt [Townsend ’15] was tough as nails defensively and did a nice job offensively.” The Bulldogs limited the Big Red to 33.3 percent shooting from the field and showcased a strong defensive effort, especially against the Ivy League’s leading scorer, forward Shonn Miller, who shot an inefficient 6–20. Over a fiveminute stretch late in the second half, the Elis were able to extend their lead to
a dozen points on a 12–4 run, and Cornell was unable to get closer than eight the rest of the way. Around the rim, Yale stepped up its game. Following their game in the Big Apple, where Columbia outrebounded the Elis 33–28, Jones said that the team allowed the Lions to get too many offensive rebounds. He added that he had faith that the Bulldogs would be better on Saturday night, and Yale outhustled Cornell to grab 46 rebounds to the Big Red’s 31. Sears finished Saturday’s game with 19 points and just two turnovers. In his last three games, Sears has 74 points and only those two giveaways. While the Bulldogs are doing well thus far, they also got off to a strong start last season, going 8–1 in league play before dropping four of their last five games. “We were kind of blinded by the spotlight,” Sears said. “That second goaround when we had to do the second matchups with other teams, we were a little caught off guard that we were going to get everyone’s best shots. Right now, we’re ready for everyone’s best shots since the target’s on our backs this year.” The Bulldogs will need to remain focused on each game individually as next weekend provides a series of tough matchups. Dartmouth and Harvard visit New Haven next weekend for a pair of 7 p.m. games. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu . James Badas contributed reporting.
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Yale is one of only two undefeated teams in Ivy play, along with Princeton.
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“Anytime you run a gimmick offense, you’re a little bit afraid — you’re not sound in what you’re doing in your base stuff.” RICHARD SHERMAN SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CORNERBACK
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Bulldogs fall to Princeton, Harvard BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Bulldogs made its way to Cambridge on Friday for the Harvard-YalePrinceton matchup — the most anticipated meet of the swimming and diving season — but fell short in both the men’s and women’s competitions.
SWIM & DIVE Still, many of the Elis set personal records in the pool, giving the teams bright outlooks for the Ivy League Championships in four weeks. The women began their competition on Friday and ended on Saturday, falling to Harvard 184–116 and to Princeton 169.5–130.5. The Crimson and the Tigers finished in a draw at 150 points each. The meet started with the 200– yard medley relay, which was won by Harvard, with Yale’s A team of Heidi VanderWel ’18, Elizabeth Larsen ’15, Maddy Zimmerman ’18 and Amy Zhao ’18 taking fourth place, only one one– hundredth of a second behind third place, Harvard. The 1,000–yard free-
style followed, and Cailley Silbert ’18 sped to a close second place finish, coming behind the first–place Princeton swimmer by only 0.3 seconds. In the 200–yard freestyle, meanwhile, Kina Zhou ’17 took second, while teammates Cheryl Xiang ’18 and Olivia Jameson ’17 took eighth and ninth. The freshmen women continued their impressive campaign, with VanderWel taking third in the 100– yard backstroke and Paulina Kaminski ’18 placing second in the 100–yard breaststroke. The Bulldogs’s lone win of the day came in the form of Sydney Hirschi ’17 in the 200-yard butterfly. In the three–meter dive, Lilybet MacRae ’17 placed fifth with a total of 273.80 points. On day two, Zhou set the pace for Yale, pulling out a third place finish in the 100–yard freestyle, while Kaminski took second in the 200–yard breaststroke, bringing in valuable points for the Elis. Kate Rogers ’18 took fourth in the 200–yard backstroke, setting a personal best at 2:00.68. Zimmerman won the only victory for the Bulldogs of theSEE SWIM & DIVE PAGE B2
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Twenty-two of the Bulldogs’ 54 shots on goal this weekend came in the third period. BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team continued its trend from the last couple weeks by splitting another weekend against conference opponents. The Elis (10–12–1, 7–9–0 ECAC) upset No. 8 Clarkson on the Golden Knights’ home ice, starting the weekend on a different note than last week’s overtime defeat at the hands of Brown, which is tied for last place in the ECAC. Playing two ranked teams was too much for the Bulldogs to handle, though, as they stumbled on Saturday, falling 4–3 to No. 9 St. Lawrence after nearly coming back from a three-goal deficit. “We showed this weekend that we are a team that can skate with any team in the country,” forward Hanna Åström ’16 said. “Both games this
weekend, we really played within our systems as a team. I think that’s what it all comes down to in the end — trusting your system and your teammates.” Starting from the first period on Friday, Clarkson tried to establish itself as one of the top shooters in the ECAC, taking nearly double the number of shots that Yale did. Despite the Golden Knights’ active offense, all 17 shots were blocked by goalkeeper Jaimie Leonoff ’15, who has a .919 save percentage this season. The Bulldogs took the lead early on when forward Jamie Haddad ’16 pushed in a rebound from a shot taken by fellow teammate and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 at 6:55. Clarkson did not find the back of the net until the next period, in which the team also took more shots than the Elis.
The Bulldogs broke the 1–1 tie in the last few minutes of the second period. The first of the pair of goals came from captain and defenseman Aurora Kennedy ’15. Just over a minute later, forward Courtney Pensavalle ’18 took a shot that tipped off of the glove of Clarkson goaltender Shea Tiley before falling into the back of the net and putting Yale up 3–1. The Elis never relinquished their lead and largely dominated the third period. The Golden Knights did not take a shot on goal until nearly eight minutes into the frame. Clarkson made an attempt at a comeback after scoring a power-play goal midway through the third, but without success. The Bulldogs took the game against the defending NCAA champions 3–2. SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE B2
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The women’s program fell to Harvard 184–116 and to Princeton 169.5–130.5.
Fencing loses on senior day BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a valiant effort in front of a packed crowd at the Yale Fencing Salon, both the men’s and women’s teams fell to Sacred Heart University on Saturday in the Bulldogs’ first and only home match of the season.
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Yale’s men’s team lost on the last point of the final bout of its game against Sacred Heart.
For three members of the men’s team — captain Hugh O’Cinneide ’15, Sam Broughton ’15 and Jacob Rosenberg-Wohl ’15 — and four members of the women’s team — captain Lauren Miller ’15, Josephine Massey ’15, Margaret Kandel ’15 and Rachel Hayes ’15 — this past weekend’s competition marked the last home match of their Yale careers. “Fencing in front of a home crowd is always exciting, and even more so senior year,” Hayes said. “The energy level shoots up more than at any of our other tournaments, which makes the whole experience both more fun and more nerve-wracking. It was a great way to celebrate our senior day.” The women’s saber and foil squads put up great numbers against the Pioneers, going 5–4 and 7–2 in their matchups, respectively. Despite eventually finishing down 15–12, the Bulldogs stayed tight with their opponents until the end and even led 11–10 at one point in the third round after a powerful performance by the foil squad. In the first round, the Pioneers slightly edged out the Bulldogs 5–4. The second set produced a similar outcome, as Sacred Heart extended its lead to 10–8. After Yale fought back to claim the advantage in the third, the Pioneers put the match away by winning the final three bouts. As Miller noted, the team felt some pressure to perform in front of a home crowd, but the squad managed to keep its composure throughout the meet. “Sacred Heart is always a close meet for us, and having this as our only home meet was exciting but also added some pressure. Particularly for the new members who had never fenced in a home meet before, I’m impressed by how well the girls kept their SEE FENCING PAGE B2