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Clinton LAW ’73 was confirmed as the winner of the Iowa Democratic caucuses at around 1 p.m. yesterday after all votes were counted. With 49.9 points, Clinton beat Sen. Bernie Sanders by a slim margin of 0.3 percent of the vote. Martin O’Malley, who garnered only 0.6 percent of the Democratic vote, dropped out of the primary race late Monday night.

The punk from Punxsutawney.

The official Groundhog Day hog — Phil from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania — did not see his shadow when he emerged from his tree trunk cage this morning. According to tradition, Phil predicted that spring will come soon.

Canada’s resident groundhog Shubenacadie Sam also did not see his shadow and predicted a short winter.

CrashesV2. Hundreds of

students experienced difficulty accessing materials on course website Classesv2 yesterday.

While some reported that they had been inexplicably removed from all course sites, others complained that they could not download syllabi and resources. The issues were largely resolved by the end of the day.

Blue me away. The New Blue,

Yale’s oldest all-female a cappella group, earned the No. 3 spot on College Magazine’s list of the nation’s top 10 female a cappella groups.

The top spot went to The Sil’hooettes, a group from the University of Virginia.

Loreleis, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, were ranked No. 2.

Get a whiff of this. Speaking

of a cappella at Yale, the University’s senior-only singing groups — The Whiffenpoofs and Whim n’ Rhythm — will hold an information session to explain their respective audition processes at 9:30 p.m. at the Broadway Rehearsal Lofts.

Auditions will take place later this month.

Fellowships with fellows. The

Center for International and Professional Experience is guiding a peer workshop for students’ fellowship proposals at 3 p.m. this afternoon.

Students will work in pairs to review and critique proposal drafts.

Dinos and Vino. Marrakech

Inc. — a New Haven-based community organization that works to provide housing and employment — will host a wine-tasting event to benefit its cause at the Peabody Museum at 5:30 tomorrow evening.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1972 Forty-two students, 40 of whom are in Saybrook College, report symptoms consistent with gastroenteritis to the Department of University Health. Students complain of vomiting and cramps, among other severe symptoms.

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was in these [cultural] centers, and I struggled with feeling a lack of authority to speak to what life

Grant Mao, an international student from Shanghai, China, was at the center of a Graduate Employees and Students Organization rally held on Dec. 8, which called for his reinstatement into the School of Management. Describing his dismissal from the SOM last spring as “unfair,” Mao claimed that the school’s administration had discriminated against him because of his mental illness and nationality. Now, more than a month after the GESO rally, the SOM administration stands firm in its decision to dismiss Mao, even in the face of his potential deportation.

The GESO demonstration took place on the same day the organization submitted two petitions — one addressed to the SOM on Mao’s behalf, and the other calling for general mental health reform. According to a doctor’s diagnosis from the Connecticut Mental Health Center last April, which was included in Mao’s GESO petition, Mao met “criteria for an unspecified depressive disorder,” but during the rally, Mao said the SOM administration did not take his mental health into consideration when deciding on his expulsion.

Mao told the News on Tuesday night that the administration still has not responded to either of GESO’s petitions. Unable to dis-

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Each multiracial peer liaison will be assigned to one cultural house but will plan separate events as well. peer liaison program — set to begin next fall — to make Yale a welcoming and inclusive community for all, including its multiracial students.

“I didn’t know what my place

State senators propose gun legislation

BY JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTER Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy joined fellow lawmakers last Wednesday to introduce legislation that would revoke the gun industry’s unique protection against civil suits filed by victims of gun violence.

The bill — the Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act — would repeal the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which first established the gun industry’s liability shield. The PLCAA bars prospective plaintiffs from suing firearm manufacturers, distributors, dealers and importers in either state or federal courts except under certain explicitly enumerated circumstances. These include cases when gun companies have engaged in negligent entrustment, broken laws due to negligence, committed knowing violation of state

or federal statute and breached contract or warranty.

Despite these exceptions, Blumenthal says the bill infringes on basic judicial entitlements of American citizens. But gun rights proponents argue that the statute simply guarantees gun dealers and manufacturers the same protection afforded to other industries.

“We’re here to repeal a law that makes a mockery of American justice,” Blumenthal said at the press conference when the bill was unveiled.

“We’re very simply trying to give victims of gun violence the same day in court that every other American has when they are harmed by law breakers.”

NRA Spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen, however, said that the PLCAA ensures that legal action brought against the firearm indus-

Following advice from the Connecticut Department of Public Health to health care providers to be on the lookout for the Zika virus, the Yale Office of Emergency Management is investigating the potential risk posed to the University and monitoring Yale-affiliated travel in the areas of South and Central America.

Zika first arrived in Brazil in the second half of 2014, and the first U.S. case was reported in Texas on Tuesday. Transmitted through the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the disease typically causes relatively mild symptoms such as low fever, body pain and rashes, none of which leave any longlasting symptoms for individuals. But

Sliding scale for student contribution still on table

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The idea of a “sliding scale” to determine the expected summer contribution for students on financial aid is on the table, but questions remain about its feasibility.

At a town hall meeting in December, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi announced that the student summer income contribution — earnings from a summertime job that aid recipients are expected to contribute toward their tuition — would drop from $4,050 to $2,700 for students with the “highest need” as defined by the University and to $3,600 for all other students. Previously, the expected contribution had been the

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Admins offer Zika safety advice

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Mao continues to fight for reinstatement

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER When Chandler Gregoire ’17 stepped onto Yale’s campus as a freshman more than three years ago, she was assigned two peer liaisons: one from the Afro-American Cultural Center and the other from the Asian American Cultural Center. Ethnically, Gregoire explained, she is half white, one-quarter Black and one-quarter Asian, and Yale felt compelled to match her multiple identities with the appropriate cultural resources.

A well-established initiative under the Yale College Dean’s Office, the peer liaison program has functioned to connect freshmen of color with the University’s four cultural centers — the AACC, the Af-Am House, La Casa Cultural and the Native American Cultural Center — since 2008. And while multiracial students have served as peer liaisons for these houses in the past, there is currently no formal multiracial peer liaison program to which members of Yale’s growing community of multiracial students can turn for support. Faced with difficulties in navigating her own multiracial identity, especially within the spaces of the existing cultural centers, Gregoire founded the Racial and Ethnic Openness Club with other multiracial friends in the spring of 2014. Now, REO is partnering with directors of the cultural centers to develop a new multiracial

University curling club welcomes new, diverse group of members

certain areas infected with the Zika epidemic have also seen an increase in cases of infant microcephaly — abnormal smallness of the head associated with incomplete brain development.

Although a direct correlation between the two has not yet been found, there is “strong suspicion” that the two are connected, said Esper Kallas, infectious diseases specialist and professor of medicine at the University of São Paulo.

“There has been what appears to be a large outbreak of microcephaly, and there are a lot of different things that cause microcephaly,” said Albert Ko, department chair of epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, who is conductSEE ZIKA PAGE 6

same for all students. While students were generally pleased that the expectation decreased, some have questioned the seemingly arbitrary divide of students on financial aid, asking if the University would consider implementing a sliding scale based on varying levels of need, similar to the way Yale’s financial aid packages are assembled. Yale College Council President Joe English ’17 said establishing a sliding scale is one of the YCC’s more immediate goals in conversations with University administrators this semester over financial aid policy reform. “[A sliding scale] just makes more sense,” English said. “It’s more efficient if you use a sliding scale just like the regular financial aid process. You don’t SEE SLIDING SCALE PAGE 4

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From bubble to blanket Y

ale often feels like a rock nuzzled in a random corner of the universe. It seems so far away from everything: from old friends, from family and from the rest of the world. Even the way that the University interacts with the New Haven community feels — at times — aloof and distant.

We don’t have to travel far to get to our classes or to our friends. We stay ensconced in our little bubble for the most part, periodically venturing into the outside world. Here, we remain content.

But sometimes the bubble pops. The serene fortress we built around ourselves collapses. We remember that a world outside of Yale does, in fact, exist.

For me, the bubble popped last week. My mother called me on the phone, frantic, to tell me that my great-grandmother had a stroke. As I am writing this, my greatgrandmother remains in hospice, slowly starving to death.

Because she refused to receive nourishment from a feeding tube, she can no longer eat on her own. The fortress had collapsed.

SOMETIMES THE BUBBLE POPS AND THE SERENE FORTRESS WE BUILT AROUND OURSELVES COLLAPSES I thought for a long time about what it means to write on the fleeting nature of life. I let my fingers hover over the keyboard with half-formed ideas in my head. I’m so used to clear premises and conclusions, but sometimes it's impossible to describe what one feels inside, as much as I hate to admit this.

Here at Yale, we come from near and far; some fly miles and miles to come here. Even though I feel so far from home this week, in reality, I know that my home in New York City is only a stone’s throw away.

I can just hop on the Metro North and arrive there in a few hours.

When I first came to Yale though I felt trapped; the bubble felt like a plastic bag, suffocating me. My hometown never sleeps. You can wake up at 3 a.m. and hear sirens as ambulances travel down the street.

Someone is always walking around Astor Place or Grand Central. My friends at Cooper Union, NYU and Columbia all make their homes out of the city. They imbibe their environment; there is no clear

delineation between the campus and the city.

At Yale, on the other hand, our daily lives rarely ISIS DAVISe x t e n d MARKS b e y o n d Phelps Gate.

The dark I can roll out of my bed in side Farnam and arrive at my philosophy class in LC in two minutes — a drastically shorter commute than the hourlong train ride I used to take every morning to my high school, Bronx Science.

What does all of this have to do with my great-grandmother?

Now, this bubble has become my blanket; I welcome the interconnectedness of Yale instead of rejecting it. Before, I felt like being constantly surrounded by friends was oppressive, but it now feels like an escape. It is during times of loss when it is most necessary to feel the emotional support of those around you, and to give it back to those friends when they need it. New York is great, but for such a large place it can be lonely. If you burst into tears in the middle of a subway car, most people would look in the other direction. No one would offer you a tissue.

While I usually appreciate this solitude, during times of loss it can be overbearing. At Yale, we usually try forgoing emotions in favor of rational thought.

However, at times when we are emotionally vulnerable, the protection of a “bubble” can be exactly what we need.

Yale is becoming home, finally. I consider myself introverted; I’d rather hide under my blankets reading Plato — or watching Netflix — than going to a party. This is why I usually find the extremely social aspect of Yale so off-putting, and the independence of New York so attractive. However, it is OK to sometimes rely on others. It is OK to just say things and feel things and laugh and cry. We often feel like we have to wear masks — to keep going and running — by showing everyone the best possible image of ourselves, devoid of negative emotions.

However, this is not always the case, and bad things happen unexpectedly. The good thing about living so closely to friends — at college — is that it allows for us to form genuine relationships because we are around each other constantly.

The bubble has become a blanket instead of a plastic bag.

GUEST COLUMNIST GRANT MAO

From depression to deportation I

always imagined that the end of my time at Yale would be marked by graduation. Now I fear that it will be deportation instead.

I came to the School of Management from Shanghai with a lot of dreams and ambition. But the culture shock overwhelmed me, and I got depressed. While I struggled to adjust, my family back home was in crisis. When I told the administration about my struggle, they didn’t offer any help. Eventually my depression became so severe that I was hospitalized for six days. My plans to embrace Yale’s academic challenges were crippled by my unexpected illness.

Last March I got an email saying I was expelled for missing the academic requirement by onehalf credit. I wasn’t offered academic support or mental health services; I was simply told that my health insurance was terminated and I had 15 days to leave the country.

I submitted appeals with medical records detailing the way my depression had interfered with my work, but they were denied and ignored.

As a business student, I recognize that bureaucracies can be impersonal, callous and unforgiving. I hoped this might not be the case at Yale, but it has sadly proven true for me.

I feel like I’m fighting for my dignity. International students and students facing mental illness shouldn’t need to fight for Yale to respect us, but I am fighting nonetheless. And I’m grateful that my colleagues have stood with me. We organized a petition with our campus unions, UNITE HERE Local 35, Local 34 and GESO. Over 1,000 students and staff signed, including 250 from China. My story has made national news in China and the United States. But it has been two months since we delivered our petition with no response.

The administration’s lack of compassion has been frustrating, confusing and painful. If

Yale continues to ignore me, my visa will not let me stay here. I never imagined pleading with the administration to take my mental illness seriously and keep me from being subject to deportation, but now that is what I’m forced to do.

I am coming forward because I want to stay and finish my education. I want dignity. I do not want this to happen to anyone else.

President Salovey has said that Yale takes mental health and racial equity seriously. I’m asking him to live up to that commitment.

我一直想象着自己在耶鲁大学最后的 时光应该是圆满毕业。而现在，我最 害怕的事情却是驱逐出境。

后，我被通知开除决定立即生效，我 的医疗保险也当天失效，并且通知我 在十五内离开美国。但是在此之前， 管理学院从来没有给予我任何学习或 心理辅导和帮助。

现在，我觉得我必须争取自己的尊 严。耶鲁大学本应该给予有心理疾 病的学生和国际学生更多的支持 和尊重。让我深感欣慰的是学校里 很多的学生和老师一直在鼓励和 支持我。我和校园里的公会，包括 UNITE HERE Local 35, Local 34， 和 GESO，一起集体请愿，要求耶 鲁恢复我的学籍。已经有超过一千 名的师生与我联名请愿，其中有二 百五十位是中国学生。在过去的两 个月里，我在耶鲁的遭遇也成了中 国和美国媒体的头版新闻。但是， 尽管如此，耶鲁大学校方还是保持 沉默。

且，如果他们继续忽略的我们的请 愿，我的签证就会失效，面临着被 迫离开美国。我从来没有想象过自 己要请求耶鲁认真对待我的心理疾 病，以至于我不会被驱逐出境。但 是现在，我被迫继续请愿。

2014年8月，我怀揣着梦想来到耶 鲁大学管理学院念MBA。但来到学 校以后，由于语言的困难和文化的冲 击，我开始患上了抑郁症。在学期中 间，家庭的危机又让我的病情雪上加 霜。而当我向耶鲁管理学院寻求帮助 时，他们却对我置之不理。之后，我 的疾病急剧恶化，最终我不得不在医 院里治疗六天。这个不期而来的病情 阻碍了我在耶鲁的学习计划。 去年三月，学校就给我发了一封邮 件。通知我说：因为我的成绩差了半 个学分，管理学院必须开除我。之

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作为一位商学院的学生，我明白大公 司的这种不负责任的官僚作风。但我 没有想到耶鲁大学，这个与中国有着 一百七十年历史的高等教育机构也是 相同的作风。

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我把我的故事分享给大家，目的是 为了能够回来完成我的学业。也是 要要回我的尊严。但更重要的是， 我希望我的故事能够警醒耶鲁大 学；希望我的遭遇不会发生在任何 一个其他学生上。 Peter Salovey校长也承诺过，耶鲁 大学会认真对待心理疾病和种族平 等的问题。我请求他能够信守这个 诺言

A rush to judgment

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at isis.davis-marks@yale.edu .

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出院以后，我与管理学院联系，请求 他们重新考虑关于开除学籍的决定。 医生们的诊断证明详细的写了：“抑 郁症影响了我的学习成绩”。而我提 交的请求被学校断然拒绝了。

GRANT MAO is a former student at the Yale School of Management. Contact him at grant3827@gmail.com .

GUE ST COLUMNIST MRINAL KUMAR

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'SY' ON 'MAGGIO: AROUND THE RED TAPE'

ast semester, we rallied for change. We cried, we marched, we petitioned and we fought the status quo.

We denounced all aspects of categorization and labeling.

We were united in the desire to uphold that oft-quoted aphorism: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

This week, however, we celebrate the creation of exclusive social groups — groups formed through superficial 15-minute conversations, through opinions on body type and body shape, through first impressions that are fake and unreliable in equal measure, through the judgment of just about every book by its respective cover.

But I’m sure you’re already familiar with rush.

With sorority rush having just concluded and fraternity rushes (the “clean” ones, at least) due to finish up over the coming weeks, Greek life at Yale will receive its latest influx of those wellversed in the art of “coming off well.” But for every “angel” and every “brother” celebrating with their new pledge class, there’s a student at home on bid night, guilty of nothing except an inability to pigeonhole himself or herself into a “srat” or “frat” stereotype.

How jarring that after working so hard to devalue stereo-

typing, we place so much stock in a system based in superficiality and first impressions.

I am a member of a fraternity on campus, and as a sophomore, have now experienced both sides of the rush process. To cast it in an entirely negative light would do a great disservice to both its intentions and its outcomes. Rush, both last year and this year, allowed me to meet guys who I wouldn’t have known otherwise, several of whom I’ve been lucky enough to form lasting friendships with. Further, in my experience, there has been a general awareness of the shortcomings of rush and an effort to minimize the artificiality of the rush process.

IN OUR DESIRE TO GO GREEK, WE MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO STEREOTYPE Yet it is impossible to completely iron out a system that is essentially devoted to establishing a social hierarchy. Groups across campus employ quanti-

tative ratings to rank these students, a system that is grossly barbaric, and, more worryingly, deemed unavoidable. Is there a more dehumanizing way to evaluate a prospective brother/ sister than reducing him or her to a number on a numerical scale? It exists because it is time efficient and, while excluding some, works well for many — one of the most common justifications for social stratification.

How ironic that a selection process that can be so disempowering is the start of a brotherhood that promotes belongingness and self-improvement.

Stories disparaging the rush process abound, some humorous, some less so. From girls too self-conscious to eat the brownies laid out at their rush event, to guys feeling pressured to be spotted with a “hot chick” in front of their prospective brothers, to the hours spent preparing an outfit that strikes the perfect balance between “casual” and “semiformal,” we are all aware of the social biases that rush perpetuates.

And yet, Greek life at Yale has far less influence on campus than it does at other schools.

Step off High Street, and you can enjoy a diverse social life completely independent of fraternities and sororities. Only 10 percent of the student body is

involved in Greek life — for context, half of MIT students have gone Greek. Is it so bad that one small, completely optional segment of our campus tends to be overly superficial? Then again, is even one of these segments one too many?

I do not know the answers to these questions, and I often find myself trying to avoid them. As a member of Greek life, it is easier to come terms with the “fact” that the rush process has to be done. “It doesn’t make me feel good,” one sorority girl told me recently. “But there’s no alternative.”

At the end of it all, we are left with booze-filled celebrations of new pledge classes and triumphant profile picture changes featuring our new brothers or sisters, reaffirmations of a system that we only condone because it’s convenient.

Greek life has many positives.

But in our desire to go Greek, we must be careful not to stereotype both others and ourselves based on boat shoes and hairdos. We must acknowledge and celebrate our individuality, and we must reflect on our roles in a process that often doesn’t even open the book.

MRINAL KUMAR is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

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$5.5 million to fund New Haven tech hub

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER After receiving a $5.5 million grant from the state last week, Connecticut Transit’s abandoned bus depot moved one step closer to transforming into “The District” — a 105,000-square-foot complex that will house a CrossFit gym, cafes and office space for tech companies.

The State Bond Commission approved the grant, which will finance the elimination of pollution from the 470 James St. site. With the multimillion-dollar grant secured, project leaders have enough funds for clean-up and must now obtain aldermanic permission to build “The District” before the $16 million construction begins, according to David Salinas, co-leader of the project.

I envisioned something that I wanted for my own company. The campus is a combination of work and life.

DAVID SALINAS Co-leader of “The District” Project The complex, which Salinas initially designed for his tech company Digital Surgeons, now caters to young professionals desiring office spaces replete with amenities, Salinas said.

“I envisioned something that I wanted for my own company,” he said. “The campus is a combination of work and life.”

The old bus depot, which CT Transit abandoned in September 2010, sits adjacent to the Mill River and houses a squat, onestory garage where buses used to sit overnight. Architects in charge of “The District” hope to preserve the depot’s industrial aesthetic, said Kenneth Boroson, whose namesake firm created the complex’s exterior designs.

Boroson added that half of CT Transit’s former building will be preserved, including its brick

walls and skylights. Architects will wall off the demolished side with cement and create a similar two-story building with lightpermitting glass walls.

Tech professionals at the complex will have access to recreational options such as kayaking on the Mill River, a CrossFit gym and yoga studios. The centerpiece of the plans is a 15,000-squarefoot collection of offices and conference rooms for entrepreneurs and small companies to share, Salinas said. He added that Studios Architecture, the design head for this space, is modeling this shared working space on offices the firm has already built for Pandora and Dropbox.

“The concept is like an ecosystem,” Salinas said. “You come in through the co-working space and grow as large as you want. Once you graduate, there are spaces that range from 1,300 square feet to 13,000 square feet as you take your company from one to 100 to 100-plus people.”

The construction of this project follows a three-decade effort by various developers to revitalize the once-industrial neighborhood surrounding the site, city Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said. Housing redevelopments, the addition of East Rock Community Magnet School and new eating options have brought commerce, residents and visitors back to the neighborhood.

“We’re really reusing old factory buildings to connect neighborhoods damaged by highways and development to try to go back to the dynamic community you might have had in 1900 and reimagining it for 2015,” Nemerson said.

Though Salinas said he hopes construction will likely begin by next month, he also noted that the timing of city approval may be unpredictable.

Along with approving $5.5 million for “The District,” the State Bond Commission also approved a $14.5 million grant to fund teen safe space the “Q House,” on Dixwell Avenue last Friday.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

Tax filing campaign kicks off

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The New Haven Free Public Library is one of 14 free Volunteer Income Tax Assistance centers across the greater New Haven area.

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER At stations scattered throughout the lower level of the New Haven Free Public Library’s main branch, volunteers prepared taxes alongside Elm City residents on Tuesday afternoon.

Surrounded by representatives from local and state agencies and nonprofits, Mayor Toni Harp kicked off this year’s tax season in City Hall earlier that day. Harp and other officials promoted the 14 free Volunteer Income Tax Assistance centers across the greater New Haven area, including Elm Haven Community Center, Stop and Shop Community Room and the New Haven Free Public Library. Established by the Internal Revenue Service, the VITA Program uses trained volunteers to prepare tax returns for low-income taxpayers around the country.

These volunteers — including Yale students and other New Haven residents — help local families claim both federal

and state tax credits that can be used to pay off bills or debt and to save for emergencies, IRS Senior Tax Consultant Ron Peruzzi said.

“It’s not your typical image of the IRS,” Jim Horan, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Connecticut Association for Human Services, said.

“They’re really doing a lot to make sure that tax filers get the refunds and credits they deserve.”

Tax forms are inherently confusing and challenging, Harp said, adding that hiring an accountant to handle taxes can cost up to $400. But the volunteer nature of the VITA program ensures that working families do not have to pay high fees to comply with the IRS. Harp lauded the Connecticut Earned Income Tax Credit that VITA helps families claim.

She said it levels the playing field and helps circulate capital through the local economy.

As a state senator, Harp helped Gov. Dannel Malloy install the state EITC in the state budget in 2011, Horan said. State offi-

cials initially set Connecticut’s EITC to equal 30 percent of the federal EITC, gearing it toward low- to moderate-income working individuals. Residents can receive up to $6,242 from the federal tax credit.

Because the credit is only available for individuals who are employed, the EITC creates an incentive for people to hold jobs, Perusi said.

After the state EITC was approved by the legislature in 2011, its percentage relative to the federal EITC dropped to 25 percent in 2013 and 27.5 percent in 2014.

Although state budget shortfalls have limited the EITC since 2011, advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children will be calling on the state legislature to raise the EITC back to its original percentage, CT Voices Fiscal Policy Fellow Derek Thomas said. “[Raising the EITC] would put an additional 50 dollars into these families’ pockets,” Thomas said. “Currently that’s enough for maybe two tanks of gas.”

Last year VITA volunteers prepared nearly 4,800 tax returns in Greater New Haven, according to a report from CAHS. Those returns yielded over $8.7 million of refunds to local families.

A survey of tax filers using VITA in the 2014 season showed that nearly 70 percent of them had previously filed their taxes at a VITA site. In the survey, 63 percent of filers reported planning to use their tax refund to pay bills.

The NHFPL main branch site has seen a surplus of taxpayers trying to file taxes with VITA, site coordinator Trevor Williams ’17 said.

“People are clamoring for the service,” Williams said. “I think word of mouth travels fast.”

Sponsors of the city’s VITA campaign this year include the United Way of Greater New Haven and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Goodyear ’80, Corp. member, provides business perspective

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ext month, the Yale Corporation will meet to discuss major campus issues. This is the second in a four-part series on its members.

DAVID SHIMER reports.

Successor Trustee Charles Goodyear IV ’80 wears many hats: that of a business titan, a fourth-generation Yale student and a servant to the University.

After graduating from Yale College as a varsity rower and geology & geophysics major, Goodyear embarked on a successful career in business and natural resources, eventually serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. — one of the world’s largest producers of copper and gold — and, beginning in 2003, chief executive officer of BHP Billiton — a multinational mining, metals and petroleum company. He became a successor trustee of the Corporation in 2012.

In an interview with the News, Goodyear discussed his family’s more-than-century-old relationship with Yale, his time as a Yale College student and his general take on current campus issues. Concerning the naming of two new residential colleges and the potential renaming of Calhoun College, Goodyear said that in approaching the subject he would think about how higher education will change over the next few decades.

“I can assure you there will be a huge amount of input from students, faculty and alumni,” he said. “We’ll listen to that and recognize what Yale is today and what we want it to be and pay attention to the kinds of messages that come from issues like naming. And then we will reach a consensus on that and then reach a conclusion.”

University President Peter

Salovey described Goodyear as “extremely thoughtful, unafraid to dig into the details and quite reflective about what attending Yale College in the late 1970s meant for his own development and career trajectory.”

But some students on campus, most particularly those involved in Fossil Free Yale, have raised concerns about Goodyear’s involvement with the debate over divestment in 2014, when the University opted not to divest the endowment from fossil fuels.

In a statement to the News, Fossil Free Yale discussed Goodyear’s potential conflicts of interest regarding divestment.

“Mr. Goodyear is the former CEO of BHP Billiton and served on the Board of Directors at Anadarko until last year.

Fossil Free Yale is asking Yale to divest from both companies. This is a clear conflict of interest,” the statement read. “That Mr. Goodyear did not recuse himself from the Corporation’s decision on divestment in 2014 makes us question how ‘fair’ Corporation decisions really are, and whether the Corporation truly serves the interests of students and the University.”

Goodyear said he is aware of FFY’s concerns and declined to comment further. But Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said Goodyear’s professional experiences enable him to think about how Yale can best position itself to retain its leadership position in the world in the coming decades.

Calling his family a “Yale family” that stretches back to the late 1800s, Goodyear said his great-

grandfather, grandfather and father all attended the University. He added that he only realized just how many of his relatives were associated with Yale at a recent family reunion attended by roughly 30 alumni. Goodyear also has two children who currently attend Yale.

Highsmith said Goodyear’s family history only bolsters his qualifications for serving on the Corporation.

“I view his Yale connection, his sense of Yale as a family and his family being so involved with Yale as a real positive,” she said.

“I think people who have those deep connections not just in the past but also in the present have a very good understanding of what Yale is like today.”

Looking back on his time at Yale, Goodyear said the time he spent on the crew team stands out as particularly formative.

“Clearly the part I remember most is the relationships built with so many interesting people, and to this day those relationships continue to be very important to me,” he said. “It was a great opportunity to meet a broad range of people with lots of different interests. They worked hard and played hard.”

Goodyear said other than rowing with close friends each year after graduation, he lacked direct contact with the University for many years.

But he said his engagement with Yale increased when he connected with then-University President Richard Levin in Australia. While there, Goodyear said they bonded over the shared belief that Yale must connect with countries around the world and give students opportunities to immerse themselves abroad.

“It was our interest in globalization that happened to coincide with President Levin’s vision — we built a relationship around that,” Goodyear said. “That’s

really how I got re-engaged with Yale, and I think it’s common for people to leave school, work on their career, their family and at some point come back.”

The Corporation meets five times per year, usually from Thursday evening to lunch on Saturday. Goodyear called this service a “pretty significant commitment of time.”

He added that he takes advantage of his time on campus to observe the Yale community in person.

“I usually try to spend Wednesday and Thursday around the campus,” he said. “It gives me a chance to see students and faculty, see what’s happening — sometimes I’ll go to a basketball or hockey game.”

Goodyear said he does not bring any specific specialty to the table concerning campus naming issues, though he added that he appreciates the changing nature of higher education and the societal implications of controversial names.

He added that it is important for Corporation members to consider all aspects of these issues, as well as their personal takes.

“It all means something to us individually,” he said of naming-related decisions. “It will be based on our experiences and what we believe to be most important. These are not unique decisions in the sense that there are always tough decisions. We’ll walk through them with a group of people you have a great relationship with and respect for.”

Still, when asked about October discussions at Princeton University to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from certain buildings, Goodyear emphasized that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to naming issues. What might be appropriate in one place or one institution may not be appropriate at others , he said.

Goodyear said while it is

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Charles Goodyear IV ’80 became a successor trustee of the Corporation in 2012. important for all students to feel comfortable in their residential colleges, he does not associate his own residential college, Pierson, with its namesake.

“What I remember is the people I was there with and all the fun we had,” he said. “I’m sure to people there now, Pierson means to them whatever it means to them. I don’t think the first thing that comes out of their mouth is who Pierson was. Everybody can have a view about this. It is an important symbol. The school at one point decided to name colleges for the people they named

them for, and that was relevant at the time. But the atmosphere of the college now is based on the people there.”

Salovey said while on the Corporation, Goodyear has been especially involved in “buildings and grounds” planning and, more recently, on developing the capacity and strategy for Yale’s next fundraising campaign, which has yet to be scheduled.

Goodyear chaired the presidential search committee in 2012.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

ELBERT HUBBARD AMERICAN WRITER, ARTIST AND PHILOSOPHER

GESO supports Mao in fight to return to SOM MAO FROM PAGE 1 close the details of specific student cases without permission, SOM Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program Anjani Jain also told the News that the SOM had not received permission from Mao to discuss his case publicly as of Tuesday.

The termination of his status as a SOM student meant that Mao’s student visa through Yale expired last spring, though Mao said he has been able to remain in the U.S. ever since through visas granted by other institutions such as the University of New Haven.

“I was discriminated against [because of] my national origin as well as my mental illness,” Mao told the News. “I reached out to the administration for help and I told them about my struggle, but they didn’t do anything and I was ignored.” Instead of find-

ing ways to help him, Mao added, the administration is “trying so hard” to discredit his case.

In a Dec. 8 interview with the News, Mao said his visa from the University of New Haven would expire within the next month, though he would not specify how he obtained that visa, only stating that he has been pursuing “different channels” to stay in the U.S. Mao added that he has reached out to different universities and various politicians — though he would not give details — so he could stay on campus and continue to fight for reinstatement.

Faced with the uncertainty of an administrative response to Mao’s demands of reinstatement, GESO chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 affirmed the organization’s commitment to Mao’s case.

“We are proud to stand with Grant, calling on the University

for his reinstatement,” Greenberg said. “We look forward to sitting down with the administration, and we look forward to Grant’s reinstatement.”

Mao was dismissed from the SOM in April because he failed to meet the school’s academic standards. Jain said students in the MBA program take 33 credits in the Core Curriculum during their first year. When a student accumulates below “proficient” grades — meaning that he or she is at the bottom 10 percent of the class — in more than 15 credits, he or she faces dismissal from the school. In December, Mao told the News that he had accumulated 15.5 credits of below “proficient” grades, leading to his expulsion from the SOM. Mao said he first requested a meeting with the SOM administration in January, during which he spoke about his language difficulties, cultural barriers and

family troubles. According to his GESO petition, Mao’s fiancée had broken off their engagement and his mother suffered a heart attack in Shanghai. On Tuesday night, Mao stressed that he made it clear to the administration that he was struggling during the January meeting, though he would not confirm to the News whether he mentioned any specific mental health illnesses at the time.

Last March, when Mao was notified of an imminent dismissal due to his academic standing, he was given a chance to appeal.

According to a December article in the Hartford Courant, Mao did not focus on mental health issues in his first appeal letter, attributing his poor academic performance to extracurricular activities and other distractions instead.

“My lack of devotion to coursework and several distractions has led to this disappoint-

ing situation,” Mao wrote in his appeal letter, which was provided to the Courant, in early April. The appeal was denied on April 7.

Later that month, Mao was hospitalized for six days and diagnosed with depression by Matthew Gambino, a physician at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. On Tuesday, Mao said the diagnosis makes it “more than clear” that depression had affected his academic performance.

“It appears that his condition [of suffering from depression] developed slowly over the course of the past year,” Gambino wrote in his diagnosis, which was quoted in Mao’s GESO petition.

“It is likely that it interfered with his ability to meet the obligations of his coursework.”

Mao was given the chance to submit a second appeal for reinstatement to the SOM administration on May 21. His second

appeal was denied on May 28, concluding the school’s formal process for dismissal and reinstatement appeals. Jain emphasized that the SOM gives its final word during the appeal process.

After an appeal is denied, students have to go through the regular MBA program admissions process if they want to return to the SOM. When asked if he knew about the possibility of reapplying and whether he had reapplied through the normal admissions process, Mao said he would rather pursue reinstatement, reiterating that “I deserve to be reinstated.”

Mao’s GESO petition for reinstatement garnered more than 1,000 student signatures, including 250 students from China.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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GESO held a rally for Mao on Dec. 8.

Multiracial PL program to begin PEER LIASIONS FROM PAGE 1 was like as an Asian-American or an African-American, because I was neither while simultaneously being both,” Gregoire said, adding that her experiences led her to create REO as a safe space for multiracial students at Yale.

“Multiracial peer liaisons can help fix this problem, and in their creation the University will acknowledge that multiracial students have a unique experience at Yale and need support and resources as well.”

Gregoire said each multiracial peer liaison will be officially affiliated with one of the four cultural centers and will lead his or her group of multiracial freshmen in attending that center’s events. However, multiracial peer liaisons and freshmen will also work together and participate in events specific to the multiracial community.

The exact number of multiracial peer liaisons who will be hired is still unclear, Gregoire said, as it will depend on the number of applicants and how the program develops.

T h e a p p l i ca t i o n fo r becoming a multiracial peer

liaison is the same as the one for regular peer liaisons, with a Feb. 12 deadline. Gregoire added that students hoping to serve as multiracial peer liaisons should indicate their interest on their applications.

REO member Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 emphasized that interested individuals do not have to be multiracial to apply. The most important aspect of both REO and the multiracial peer liaison initiative, she added, is to help Yale students realize that they have a place on this campus no matter if they identify as one, more or none of the minority groups.

Multiracial students have a unique experience at Yale and need support and resources as well.

CHANDLER GREGOIRE ’17 Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said NACC Director Kelly Fayard, who will be taking over the

peer liaison program next fall, is in charge of managing the details of the multiracial peer liaison initiative. Af-Am House Director Risë Nelson will also play an integral part in the program’s development, Gregoire said. Nelson and Fayard did not respond to multiple requests for comment as of Tuesday night.

All four students interviewed expressed their excitement about the program. Darby Henry ’17, a member of REO who is halfBlack and half-Japanese, said she looks forward to seeing how the multiracial peer liaison program can help students unravel issues related to race and identity.

“I know a lot of multiracial kids who grow up feeling like they don’t totally fit in anywhere in a country that very much sees color and not knowing what to do with that,” Henry said. “I’m really looking forward to the program because multiracial people encounter issues and questions that are relatively novel to this country, and the number of people who will be experiencing them is only going to continue growing.”

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

SSIC sliding scale considered SLIDING SCALE FROM PAGE 1 lump people into categories and have set awards. You evaluate the person’s entire financial situation.”

But the idea of a sliding scale presents logistical challenges.

For this academic year, Storlazzi said, the student summer income contribution was calculated by considering each student’s actual income and comparing it with established minimums based on national student summer income averages. The calculation looks only at student income and not family income, and Storlazzi said there is no suitable way to establish a sliding scale without looking at family income as well. And if the Office of Financial Aid did look at family income, the contribution could actually go up for some students: Storlazzi said allowing the number to float could result in a potential range from $0 all the way up to $5,000 for upperclassmen on financial aid whose families made comparatively more money, although he emphasized that the numbers were just estimates.

Neither Storlazzi nor Quinlan ruled out the idea of a sliding scale, though Quinlan declined to comment on the idea specifically as discussions about the student efforts for the 2017–

2018 academic year have not yet begun.

Still, Storlazzi noted that the idea “may not be practical.” He added that the idea for a sliding scale has not yet been discussed among other University officials, who he said will need to review it carefully before deciding whether it is feasible.

In addition, Storlazzi said, depending on the range established, a sliding scale could impose an additional cost to the University budget, and administrators at Student Financial Services would have to spend more time analyzing and verifying each student’s financial situation. Staff columnist for the News Tyler Blackmon ’16, who co-authored a YCC report last January that called for the complete elimination of the student summer income contribution, disputed Storlazzi’s claim that calculating a sliding scale would be complicated, arguing that financial aid administrators could easily correlate an expected summer contribution to the existing expected family contribution. He added that doing so would require little additional staff time. He also said that under a sliding scale model, costs for students could be kept from going up by increasing the University’s financial aid budget.

“Ultimately, students should continue to demand that the financial aid budget increase to make Yale more accessible,” Blackmon said. “Any switch to a sliding scale should be accompanied by an increase in aid.”

He added that the outrage about the student summer income contribution has not been about the cutoff amounts, but rather the fact that it still exists at all.

Still, English was hopeful that students and administrators could work out the details.

“I don’t think any of us think it’s insurmountable,” English said. “I think it’s a step in the right direction that we are differentiating students with higher need from students with regular need. [Quinlan and Storlazzi] are certainly open to negotiating a sliding scale.”

Representatives from the YCC working group on financial aid will continue to meet with administrators this spring and there will be another open forum like the one held in December.

This year, the total student effort — the sum of the student summer income contribution and earnings from a term-time job — is $4,475 for freshmen and $6,400 for upperclassmen.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of my will. That has not been my experience.”

MATTHEW PERRY AMERICAN ACTOR

Three-year sustainability plan comes to a close

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale began to vocalize its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2005 and released its first three-year sustainability plan in 2010. A similar three-year plan was released in 2013, and now, with that coming to a close, the Office of Sustainability is working to finalize its next set of goals.

The Sustainability Strategic Plan 2013–2016 outlined objectives in five areas related to sustainability: energy and greenhouse gas emissions; natural and built environment; materials management; food and wellbeing; and sustainability leadership and capacity building.

Leaders of the program said they are currently integrating feedback received from the current three-year plan when drafting the new plan for this spring. Virginia Chapman, director of the Office of Sustainability, told the News in an email that, for the upcoming plan, the Office of Sustainability hopes to emphasize materials management, the natural environment and energy and green house gas emissions and connect these areas “to ecological, social [and] financial contexts at the local and global levels.”

“We have been pleased with the progress we have been able to make in all of these areas as well as the lessons we have learned from the process of moving toward our goals,” Chapman said.

Chapman, along with Bradford Gentry, associate dean for professional practice at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, said the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is one of the current plan’s most important and ambitious goals. Chapman highlighted the effectiveness of the Carbon Charge Pilot Program, which was instituted during the Office of Sustainability’s current three-year plan, and added that the University

has worked to be more transparent about its emissions by releasing its inventory to a third-party monitor.

The Office of Sustainability’s other efforts to be more sustainable include changing landscaping practices on campus, installing urban meadows and rain gardens to reduce stormwater runoff and promoting use of public transportation, Chapman said.

Students and faculty from F&ES, the School of Management, the Yale School of Public Health and Yale College have been involved with these projects, Gentry said.

Chapman also noted that Utilities and Energy Management, Procurement, Waste Management and Dining staff helped with these projects.

“These partnerships and opportunities to test creative solutions at the community level — within a museum or school — have enabled us to customize our efforts for various audiences, and have demonstrated great leadership across the University,” Chapman said.

Gentry mentioned that, during a review of the current threeyear plan conducted by the Sustainability Advisory Council — a faculty-led group responsible for strategic oversight of Yale’s sustainability effort — in the fall of 2014, he and others agreed that the plan was too limited to Yale’s New Haven campus. They advised that the plan be changed to consider local, regional, national and global impacts, he said.

Yet James Sirch, the public education coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, noted that the collaboration between the University and the museum has already led to significant improvements for the area’s wildlife, not just on Yale’s campus.

“Yale has begun to make some positive changes in eliminating grass and establishing no-mow areas and small meadows in some

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The Office of Sustainability is preparing a new three-year sustainability plan. places,” Sirch said. “We have documented more birds and insects using these areas.”

In October 2015, the Office of Sustainability published a progress report detailing how the current plan was implemented from July 2014 to June 2015 and what the University could still do to improve efforts toward a more

sustainable campus. In most areas, the University had either achieved the Sustainability Strategic Plan’s goals or was on track to do so.

But in some areas – such as waste production, green house gas emissions and energy consumption, single occupancy vehicle use and water use —

the campus could “do better,” according to the report.

Chapman emphasized that students can play an important role in helping the University become more sustainable.

“Whether it’s how you use your building, the items you decide to purchase or how you move around campus and town, there

are decisions you can make to improve the community around us every day,” Chapman said.

Since 2013, efforts by the Sustainability Strategic Plan have saved Yale 627,766 gallons of water.

Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

YSM program to fight addiction, recidivism

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“Living Free” hopes to reach up to 300 inmates with a history of substance abuse.

BY MICHELLE LIU AND ANDREA OUYANG STAFF REPORTERS Three-hundred inmates with a history of substance abuse will soon be connected with resources and treatment to help them transition back to life in New Haven, thanks to a new collaboration between professors at the Yale School of Medicine and state agencies.

The program, called “Living Free,” offers comprehensive addiction treatment, health care and peer mentors through an integrated care model. Beginning this January, Living Free aims to tackle recidivism with the help of a three-year grant worth $1.2 million from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in conjunction with the Connecticut Department of Correction and Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction

Services. The upcoming program stands out as a support system available to inmates while they are still incarcerated and are awaiting release.

“What’s unique about this program is that we’re trying to connect with people and begin the treatment process before they’re released from incarceration,” said Lindsay Oberleitner, associate director of the Forensic Drug Division Clinic of the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, the primary location of the program. “[That is] not standard of care for addiction treatment.”

A Jan. 26 press release reports that Living Free’s combined approach will be particularly impactful for inmates who struggled with substance use.

Roughly 68 percent of addicted offenders are arrested within three years of release from incarceration.

Psychiatry professor and ForDD Clinic Director Sherry McKee, who will lead the program, said approximately 80 percent of any population of incarcerated individuals has drug addiction issues.

My hope is that when people are able to grasp onto recovery … programs like this can have an impact on generations.

CHYRELL BELLAMY Yale School of Medicine Professor “The idea [of the program] is to support people as they’re coming out of incarceration with addiction treatment, men-

tal health treatment, physical health treatment and to provide peer mentorship as an integrated system of care and to facilitate successful re-entry back into their communities,” McKee said, adding that it is particularly important to treat aspects of both physical health and addiction given the proven link between poor health and likelihood of suffering from addiction.

Living Free will also partner with the state Department of Corrections to identify patients who qualify for the program, said Kathleen Maurer, director of health and addiction services at the Connecticut DOC. These individuals, who are culled from a database that identifies addicted offenders slated to return to New Haven in the next six months to a year, must agree to take part in the program before receiving a clinical assessment.

The program leaders hope to show that an integrated model of care can significantly decrease recidivism in a cost-effective manner. In Connecticut, incarcerating one prisoner costs $52,000 per year, according to Kimberly Guy, research assistant and engagement specialist at the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.

This cost, however, does not include the less tangible social cost of incarceration and recidivism, said Chyrell Bellamy, professor of psychiatry and director of peer services and research for the Yale Program for Recovery & Community Health.

“When you’re looking at a cost-benefit analysis, you’re also not just talking about a cost related to that $50,000 that you’re saving there,” she said.

“You’re also talking about the cost of people’s daily lives — they’re losing connection with

their families, their children, with society as a whole.”

Bellamy said Living Free can help cut costs and limit the toll that addiction takes on inmates and the prison system at large.

If successful, future steps would include providing this model to other communities who want to improve their offender re-entry care, McKee said.

Ultimately, the program aims to meaningfully improve health and reintegration outcomes for both inmates and their communities.

“My hope is that when people are able to grasp onto recovery … programs like this can have an impact on generations,” Bellamy said.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”

AYN RAND RUSSIAN-BORN AMERICAN NOVELIST AND PHILOSOPHER

Proposed gun law targets industry liability GUN LAWS FROM PAGE 1 try comports with longstanding rules of law. She added that replacing the PLCAA would create a special class of liability for gun manufacturers and dealers, putting them at a disadvantage relative to other industries.

“You can’t sue General Motors because somebody uses one of their cars to commit a crime, so why should you be able to sue a firearm company if a firearm is used to commit a crime?” Mortensen questioned.

While the PLCAA does exclude product defects and illegal sales from its prohibition, it still exempts the gun industry from basic products liability law, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence website. Because car manufacturers know that some vehicles will crash, they can be held responsible for failing to make cars crash-safe. The PLCAA exempts gun makers from that sort of accountability, the Brady Campaign said.

Staff Attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence Ari Freilich said numerous cases have been discarded before reaching the courthouse because of the PLCAA. In one such case in 2014, the parents of a victim of the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting filed suit against the company that sold the shooter thousands of rounds of ammunition and a hundred-round magazine over the internet. As a result of the law, Freilich said, the case was discarded and victim’s parents now owe more than $200,000 in legal fees.

But Mortensen argues that these arguments do not necessitate the repeal of the PLCAA.

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Connecticut Sen. Blumenthal presented the new gun control bill Wednesday.

She points instead to an underlying antipathy toward the gun industry to explain the bill’s motives.

“This is an attempt to sue companies that are engaged in a legal business into bankruptcy,” she said. “The Obama administration should focus on prosecuting criminals instead of trying to bankrupt an entire

industry in the name of politics.”

The bill’s introduction comes on the heels of a recent increase in national publicity surrounding liability for firearm dealers and manufacturers. President Barack Obama criticized the gun industry’s alleged special treatment in his town hall meeting on “Guns in America” last month.

In addition, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Thursday that he will cosponsor the new bill after facing harsh criticism from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 for his 2005 vote in favor of the PLCAA and subsequent refusal to renounce that vote.

Mortensen said she sees no reason to believe the bill’s 2016

revival will find any more success than its predecessor. The new bill was first introduced in the House in 2013 but never made it out of the Judiciary Committee.

While he is not optimistic about the bill’s chances in the current Congress, Freilich did identify some reason for hope.

“I do think this country is

at a tipping point,” he said. “I think we are witnessing a turning point nationally where [gun violence] is becoming an issue.”

Connecticut is one of 16 states that has not enacted legislation similar to the PLCAA at the state level.

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

Little danger of Zika at Yale, admins say ZIKA FROM PAGE 1 ing research on the disease. “We have high suspicions that Zika is the cause of this outbreak in Brazil. However, we do need more hard evidence and that is something our group and many other groups are trying to get at.”

According to Ko, research groups throughout Brazil are currently attempting to find a concrete link between Zika virus

and the congenital imperfections being identified in the country.

Experts already know that the Zika virus can cause birth defects because the virus was detected in the tissues of fetuses in several cases, Ko said. However, it is still unclear whether the virus is responsible for the over 4,000 cases reported in Brazil, he added.

Researchers are also trying to identify which cases of micro-

cephaly are caused by Zika since congenital malformations can have other causes, such as premature birthing, Ko said.

University Director of Emergency Management Maria Bouffard said the Office of Emergency Management is monitoring travel by Yale-affiliated individuals in the affected regions. She recommended that anyone travelling to the affected countries adhere to the protective mea-

sures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin, to the best of Yale Health’s knowledge, the mosquito vector is not in Connecticut and transmission during mosquito season is not likely to be a local issue. He added that he does not believe that transmission of Zika virus occurs person-to-person.

“Yale is an international community with extensive travel to and from places where the disease is active,” Genecin said in a Sunday email. “As a result we will be vigilant for possible infection in arriving travelers; we will be advising precautions for outgoing travelers consistent with CDC recommendations, and tracking the increasing numbers of geographical regions where reports of local transmis-

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sion are occurring.”

He added, however, that the response to this public health issue is in its early phases and likely to evolve. He also recommended that the public keep up with reports about the virus from the CDC. Colleen O’Connor, special assistant to the director of health at the New Haven Health Department, emphasized that Zika spreads only by mosquitoes and cannot be spread from person to person. Although the range for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which increases in the summer, includes some regions of the United States, it does not include New England, O’Connor said.

“The cases in New York are imported cases which refers to an individual who contracts the virus abroad or in another state, then is diagnosed when they return home,” O’Connor said in a Tuesday email. “Zika virus is a reportable disease in Connecticut and to date, the New Haven Health Department has not received any reports of Zika virus infection in New Haven residents.”

She said the city of New Haven takes measures to control mosquitoes during the summer months. The New Haven Agricultural Station monitors mosquito-borne illness by trapping mosquitoes in order to monitor the species circulating in the area and test the insects for mosquito-borne illnesses, she added.

Four of five students interviewed said that although they had heard of the virus, they were not significantly worried about it reaching campus. But some cited potential concerns with students planning on or currently studying abroad in Central or South America.

Kallas said that although there is no evidence that a person with a well-functioning immune system should face any serious symptoms, there have been some cases where healthy, nonpregnant individuals after being infected with the Zika virus developed a rare nervous system syndrome known as GuillainBarré that can lead to paralysis.

The Aedes aegypti is the same species of mosquito responsible for malaria transmission.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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Summer programs for low-income students to expand

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Two summer programs established to help students transition to college will expand this year to accommodate more participants.

Freshman Scholars at Yale — a program run by the Yale College Dean’s Office and Yale Summer Session for low-income and first-generation college students — will increase its capacity from around 48 to 60 students in 2016. Likewise, Online Experiences for Yale Scholars, which is an online quantitative study program for incoming students with comparatively weak secondary school backgrounds, will be able to accommodate 80 students, up from 60 spots. FSY started in 2013 and ONEXYS in 2014, and both have expanded in size each year since their founding.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions selects a number of incoming freshmen each year to come to campus in July for FSY, where over the course of a month students enroll in Yale courses like English 114 and attend workshops designed to acquaint them with campus resources. Participation in ONEXYS is also by invitation, and students in the program follow online lectures, interact with tutors via Skype and complete web quizzes.

“There is strong evidence that the first two cohorts of Freshman Scholars gained valuable exposure — in advance of the start of freshman year — to the academic and community resources that make Yale such a special place,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, who is involved with the selection process for the programs.

“Like FSY, ONEXYS is an innovative effort to provide all students with the tools and experience to ensure a successful Yale experience. There is strong evidence that students … came to Yale in August better prepared

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Online Experiences for Yale Scholars is an online quantitative study program and one of two summer programs established to help students transition to Yale. to engage in the QR curriculum here.”

Quinlan added that student demand for spots in FSY last year was far larger than the program could accommodate, although he did not provide any numbers.

Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, who is involved with FSY and is tasked with developing programming for first-generation students on campus, said research has shown the program to be an effective way of preparing students for academic life at Yale.

“The FSY Scholars are all quite academically able students, capable of excelling here at Yale,” Howard said. “However, through no fault of their own, these students often come from under-resourced schools and environments compared to some in the class, so we want to make sure that they have a solid grounding in writing, which is foundational to academic success at place like Yale.”

T h e e s ta b l i s h m e n t o f ONEXYS in 2014 was part of a series of commitments Yale

made to the White House to increase college accessibility and ease the transition to college for high-achieving, low-income students.

Jim Rolf, a mathematics professor who oversees ONEXYS, said the program is able to expand relatively cheaply because it takes place almost entirely online. ONEXYS employs current Yale students to serve as coaches, and these instructors meet with small groups of around five students over video chat several times

per week. Like Howard, he said research indicated that his program was effective in achieving its aims.

“This past summer, student perception was very positive and data about student learning indicated that learning had occurred over the summer,” Rolf said. “So of course, we want other people to have a similar experience when the data is pointing in a good direction.”

Rolf and Howard also both stressed the community-building aspect of the programs,

which they said can help the students acclimate socially to Yale.

With ONEXYS, Rolf said, the student instructors can serve as mentors and answer questions about life at Yale, and Howard said the people that participants meet during FSY can serve as a community once the semester begins.

Nineteen students participated in the pilot program of ONEXYS in 2014.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

Buses, race discussed at panel

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Community activists and New Haven residents came together Tuesday night to discuss a topic that has found a renewed relevance in urban politics: racial and socioeconomic inequities in mass transit.

The panel discussion, held at BAR Restaurant, drew roughly 100 people and featured community leaders and civic activists, including state Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, New Haven Independent editor Paul Bass ’82 and Anstress Farwell GRD ’78, the president of the New Haven Urban Design League — an independent planning and zoning organization.

Recent developments in New Haven’s bus and bicycle networks were a main point of discussion, with panelists arguing that urban policy should aim to create equal access to mass tran-

sit opportunities for all city residents while reducing the city’s dependence on car ownership.

“How do I get there if I don’t have a car? Is the bus going to be running late?” asked Winfield, posing questions that he said occur to his constituents on a daily basis as they commute to their jobs. “There’s a lot that we should have done, but the conversation needs to be about, ‘What do we do now about these people?’”

Farwell agreed, adding that city and state authorities should seek to make businesses and workplaces easily accessible through mass-transit systems so that employees do not have to depend on cars.

Bass, who moderated the discussion, asked the panelists about the prospect of merging Yale’s bus system with the city’s CT Transit system. Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04

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said the city is currently working to combine the two systems. But he said any merger is still in the works Hausladen said the question that motivates discussions in city government is about how New Haven can provide the same services in a public bus system as Yale does in its private system.

The city’s current dual-bus system, Farwell said, is a classic example of “separate but unequal”: certain residents — especially on the city’s west side — have access to lower-quality transportation options than other residents do.

The city’s burgeoning system of bike lanes provided a focal point for the discussion.

Bike lane systems — which are prominent in millennialfriendly cities like Portland, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. — have grown in New Haven throughout Hausladen’s tenure at the helm of the Depart-

ment of Transportation, Traffic and Parking. In fact, the city put out a request for proposals for a bike-sharing network throughout the Elm City just a week ago.

Still, bike lanes have remained a controversial issue in the city.

Bass suggested that most bike lanes, which are not separated from the rest of the road, may not have had the intended positive effect on bike usage in the city.

Winfield, meanwhile, said bike lanes fully separated from the street — which Hausladen recently championed — may hold more promise.

“A couple of years ago, I was running for an office in the city, and I was asked a question about separated bike lanes and I thought they made a lot of sense to me,” he said. “If we’re thinking about safety, I think a physical barrier does a lot for the safety of the people who are in that lane.”

Farwell noted that though bike lanes are plentiful in East Rock and Downtown, majorityminority neighborhoods like the Hill, Newhallville and Fair Haven have sparser networks.

Caroline Smith ’14, co-organizer of New Haven Bike Month, agreed with Farwell.

“One thing we’ve really, really heard is that there are lots of neighborhoods that don’t get a lot of attention from the major biking communities,” she said.

The inclusiveness of the biking community’s discussions was a major point for panelists. Bass — who noted that New Haven has the highest rate of people biking to work of any other city in New England — added that biking is most common in white and wealthier neighborhoods.

Winfield, whose state senate district covers half of New Haven, said conversations about biking and alternative transpor-

tation often fail to reach residents from a diverse racial and socioeconomic background.

Seila Mosquera, a panelist and executive director of NeighborWorks New Haven, said activists should reach out to a broader spectrum of residents, suggesting they teach students in public schools how to bike.

Near the end of the discussion, Hausladen said the city’s plans envision a transformation of transportation over the next two decades. He said he believes mass car ownership will only last for five or 10 years before being replaced by widespread mass transit options.

Data compiled by DataHaven — a New Haven-based data analytics nonprofit — show that 4 percent of city residents commute to work by bike.

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

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“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

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SEAS considers new Core course

Trustees vote against divestment

BY JULIANA KAPLAN School of Engineering and Applied Science students may soon have a core course focused on community building, academic integrity and sexual respect.

Engineering Student Council President Caroline Park is pushing for a required course, which would be similar to the School of General Studies’ “University Studies” course, to be added to the SEAS core curriculum.

“If they’re going to teach us that all these Lit Hum classic books are important to us as being wellrounded students, then why is being respectful to each other not equally as important for our development as human beings?” Park said at the ESC general body meeting on Monday.

After discussing the issue with Vice Dean of Undergraduate Programs at SEAS Barclay Morrison, Park said she found that the General Studies’ “University Studies” course may be a viable model for the potential course and will con-

tinue developing a proposal for it.

Park also discussed resources for victims of COLUMBIA sexual violence at the meeting on Monday, suggesting compromises to demands from the Barnard Columbia Solidarity Network that Sexual Violence Response remain open and staffed 24 hours per day.

The council agreed that having some sort of 24-hour personnel on campus to either counsel or aid students would be beneficial, but perhaps not necessary given the current demand.

Park said that at a meeting with Vice President of Campus Services Scott Wright, she and Wright discussed how student fees would be affected by keeping SVR open for 24 hours a day.

“He told me that even though he’s not actually allowed to tell me the numbers, because it vio-

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lates confidentiality, the number of calls that they get at nighttime is so small and so infrequent that investing that amount of money to keep all of the services open constantly would be a huge waste of our money, essentially,” Park said.

“All of the money comes from us [students].”

Though the council continued to debate whether the number of calls corresponded to the actual level of need for services, with some members noting that students may not necessarily utilize phone services and instead would prefer to wait for campus services to open, ESC will continue discussions at future meetings.

Redesigns to the first floor of the Mudd Building and staircases will also be finalized this week.

Morrison presented the potential designs to Park, Vice President of Policy Meaghan Hurr and Vice President of Student Life Joshua Bazile this past week. After a design is finalized, the construction should only take about six to eight weeks, according to Park.

BY MADELINE COHEN Cornell University’s Board of Trustees voted against divesting from fossil fuel investments, introducing new guidelines that specify that the university will only divest endowment funds from a company whose actions are “morally reprehensible,” according to the university.

This decision comes after a series of resolutions passed by shared governance organizations including the Student Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the University Assembly, all urging the university to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

The board also explained its plan to implement a new set of criteria which in the future will determine which corporations will be able to retain Cornell’s endowment funds.

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dards for divestm e n t s a y that the board will only divest CORNELL f r o m companies if their actions are “morally reprehensible,” citing examples of apartheid, genocide, human trafficking, slavery, systemic cruelty to children and violation of child labor laws as practices that Cornell would deem unacceptable, according to the university.

The new standards further specify that the board will only consider divesting from corporations if divestment will “likely have a meaningful impact toward correcting the specified harm and will not result in disproportionate offset societal consequences,” the university said.

Donald Opatrny, chair-

man of the board’s investment committee, explained the board’s decision, saying Cornell’s endowment “must not be regarded primarily as an instrument of political or social power.” “[The endowment’s] principal purpose is to provide income for the advancement of the university’s educational objectives,” Opatrny said.

However, the university will still use divestment to condemn corporations in certain cases, according to Joanne Destefano, Cornell’s executive vice president and financial officer.

“In extraordinary circumstances, the trustees may determine that direct financial investment in particular companies associates Cornell with actions or inactions that violate the university’s most deeply held values and, therefore, should be avoided, regardless of potential financial return,” she said.

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SPORTS

“It is far better to shoot an airball than to not shoot at all for fear of missing.”

TONY ALFONSO BASKETBALL COACH

Curling draws student interest

Yale’s big chance BRONSDON FROM PAGE 14

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Most members of the 18-person team had no prior experience in the sport.

CURLING FROM PAGE 14 ing in the bullseye or as “takeouts” to knock the opponent’s stones out of position.

As a player throws her stone, teammates known as “sweepers” brush the ice in front of the stone with curling brooms, changing its speed and trajectory according to the vocalized instructions of the team’s skip, or captain.

“You have to be a bit of a dynamic sportsman,” team member Fabian Schrey GRD ’19 said.

Despite the varied nuances of the game’s tactics, however, the members of Yale’s team eagerly encourage newcomers to join and empha-

size the uniqueness of the sport’s accessibility at Yale.

Yale’s team members range in age from 19 to 35 years old and most members had no prior experience with the sport before joining. Goldberg noted that the members “spread from really athletically competitive to not-so-coordinated.” The team lauds its diversity and the newfound friendships forged through curling.

“The team at Yale specifically is full of the most interesting and supportive people, and everyone, regardless of previous experience, is welcomed into the family with open arms and given opportunities to develop lifelong skills and friend-

ship” said Marc Bielas ’18, one of the three undergraduates on the team.

The importance of community, according to multiple team members, is as integral to the game of curling as are the ice and brushes.

They also said that curlers universally prioritize friendliness and sportsmanship, and that socialization is even built into the sport itself.

Both teams participate in a universal curling tradition called “broomstacking,” in which players of opposing teams come together and socialize after each match.

“The spirit of curling, and the game, are very polite, and the whole community promotes that spirit,” Schuder said.

In addition to conducting weekly practices and attending workshops sponsored by the Nutmeg Curling Club, the Yale team competes in regional open tournaments, or bonspiels, against other collegiate teams such as UPenn, Harvard and MIT. Yale currently ranks seventh nationally out of the 28 collegiate competitive curling teams, and hopes to qualify for the 16-school USA Curling College Championship tournament in Chaska, Minnesota, in March.

“It’s like getting into March Madness,” Goldberg said.

Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

val Harvard is down in the dumps, having lost three consecutive Ivy League games, including a pair at home. Just 9–11 this season, the Crimson shoots an atrocious 57.8 percent from the charity stripe — they call them free throws for a reason, guys — and has looked lost on offense for long stretches recently.

The stars have definitely aligned this year.

But don’t get too cocky quite yet — because the long-term future isn’t nearly as rosy.

For starters, remember that experience Yale boasts? It also means that there will be a lot of production to replace starting in 2016–17.

Over 60 percent of Yale’s points this season have been scored by seniors, and even with highly-touted recruits like three-star forward Jordan Bruner likely coming in next year, it could be difficult for the Elis to hit the ground running.

Harvard also figures to bounce back next year. Point guard Siyani Chambers, a threetime All-Ivy pick, will return for his senior year following a torn ACL that has kept him out this year. Joining him will be the No. 10 recruiting class in the country, according to ESPN, featuring three of the nation’s 100 best high school seniors. Head coach Tommy Amaker has proven his recruiting prowess year in and year out, and Yale will need head coach James Jones to continue to find diamonds in the rough like Mason, a two-star prospect out of the Hotchkiss School.

But that’s not something to focus on now.

We’ll learn a lot more about the Bulldogs’ chances starting this Friday night, when they take on the only other undefeated team in Ancient Eight play, Columbia, at home.

Go support this team, because you could be witnessing history.

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

Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

Sherrod one basket away from milestone M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 “Music is an international language in itself. We’ve jammed out with people from all over the world, without having the ability to speak with them in their language, but being able to play,” said Sherrod, whose 17-year-old sister Chynna Sherrod is currently among the final 51 contestants in this season’s American Idol. “That’s just unreal. It’s the same with basketball. You don’t really need to converse on the court, especially if you’re paying pickup, but everybody knows the ball needs to get into the basket and that you need to dribble.

Those two worlds are very similar, in a lot of ways.”

Unfortunately for Sherrod, though, those worlds did not often

collide last season. Only able to attend three of Yale’s away games, and none at home, Sherrod could merely watch from the stands as his team earned its first share of a league championship since 2002.

Leading up to that title run, Yale defeated the then-defending national champion University of Connecticut on a game-winning three-pointer in a game that Sherrod called “bittersweet” as he watched from the nosebleed seats.

“I wanted to be a part of that.

As much as people say, ‘Oh yeah you’re still a part of it,’ like no, I wasn’t on the court,” Sherrod said. “I was there in spirit, I was there as a fan.”

Motivated by his time away from the team, Sherrod has put together the best stretch of basketball of his collegiate career.

Not only has Sherrod been perfect from the floor during much of Ivy League play, but the Elis have been perfect as a unit — they are 4–0 and tied for first place in the conference. Sherrod has been a major contributor, leading the team with 18.8 points per Ancient Eight game after averaging just 9.1 during the non-conference portion of the season.

Not long before the streak started, there was a string of games in which Sherrod struggled to consistently perform on the offensive end. In seven games between Nov. 22 and Dec. 13, the forward reached double figures just once and made just 19 of 50 shots from the floor.

Sherrod pointed to foul trouble — he fouled out twice during that stretch — and a passive

CHARTING 25 STRAIGHT Forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 is on the verge of NCAA Division I history. He has made 25 consecutive field goals over his last 95 minutes of action, one short of the record. While every basket has come in the paint, Sherrod has still managed to score in a variety of ways.

offensive mentality as reasons for the inconsistency.

“Foul trouble is huge …

Another thing is just being a little more aggressive and looking to score,” Sherrod said. “There were some games I was a little passive, had some opportunities and passed them up, and there were games where I missed some point-blank shots. That could’ve messed up the statline a bit, but it is what it is.”

Sherrod began the 14-game tournament, as the Ivy League regular season is known, with a modest 13-point effort against Brown, but exploded for 24 points on 9–9 shooting in the teams’ second meeting. Combined with two consecutive 19-point performances against Penn and Princeton this past weekend, Sherrod

has now been selected as the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second time in as many weeks.

Though this recent stretch has brought added attention to his ability to score, Sherrod has long made his mark as a defensive presence and effective rebounder for the Elis. This season, he is averaging a team-high 7.6 rebounds per game, fifth-best in the Ivy League, which includes 3.6 offensive boards per game, which is good for second-best in the conference.

Beyond the statistics, Sherrod has assumed the role of a leader and calming force for the Elis, both on and off the hardwood.

“He’s the same guy all the time,” forward Blake Reynolds ’19 said. “He’s always walking around with a smile on his face, wanting

to lift people up. That happens on the court and in the locker room.

He’s always offering good advice, whether it’s life advice, or in the classroom or on the court.”

According to Reynolds, that advice can sometimes take the form of the popular DJ Khaled quotation, “Another One,” which Sherrod himself appears to have taken to heart. With another one basket, Sherrod can write his name into the record books.

Sherrod will put his hot shooting streak on the line this Friday when the Elis host Columbia, also undefeated in Ivy League play, at 5 p.m.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

1 To begin the second half against Princeton, Sherrod jumps the passing lane (left) to steal the ball and give himself a 1-on-0 fast break (center). Sherrod finishes with a no-nonsense dunk (right), extending his perfect shooting streak with a shot that almost never misses.

2 Forward Justin Sears ’16 penetrates on a three-on-two fast break (left), drawing the two defenders away from Sherrod and guard Anthony Dallier ’17. Sears dishes off to a wide-open Sherrod (center), giving the big man a clear path for a slam (right).

3 BRANDON SHERROD’S 25 STRAIGHT FIELD GOALS

Working against his man down low, Sherrod receives a pass from Victor (left) before pivoting toward the center of the court and scanning his options (center). He pivots again to square up and shoot over his defender (right). His 25th shot of the streak is one of the longest, but like the previous 24, it falls.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 12:30 PM Gallery Talk: Exhibiting African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Barbara Plankensteiner, the newly appointed curator of African art, examines select works on view in the Laura and James J. Ross Gallery of African art and presents her initial thoughts on conceiving a new installation of the collection. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

6:10 PM Talk by Chilean Artist Alfredo Jaar: “It Is Difficult.”

Alfredo Jaar, a Chilean-born artist, architect and filmmaker based in New York, will give a lecture as a part of “JUNCTURE: Explorations in Art and Human Rights,” an initiative that engages artists, curators, critics, scholars, students and human rights practitioners in a yearlong exploration of the rich intersections between art and artistic practices and international human rights.

Jaar’s work engages key themes of the initiative: the ethical and political complexities of memory and memorial, the limitations of art in representing human suffering and the role of the artist as activist. Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.), Rm. 129.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 2:00 PM Production Studio Orientation. An introduction to the Digital Media Center for the Arts production studio. Participants will gain insight into the operation of video cameras, lights and basic audio recording equipment. This orientation will focus on the basic use and operation the production studio facility, preparing participants to use its resources for basic to advanced studio production. At the end of this orientation, participants will be qualified to book the production studio for their individual productions. Digital Media Center for the Arts (149 York St.).

5:30 PM Literature & Spirituality: Eliza Griswold. In a talk titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About Witness,” Eliza Griswold, journalist and poet, will address the crisis in Syria and among minority communities in the Middle East, which she covers for The New York Times Magazine, and will read from her forthcoming collection of poems, “ISIS and Friends.” Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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ARTS & CULTURE Youth engage with art at YUAG Family Day

BY ALESSANDRO BURATTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hundreds flocked to the Yale University Art Gallery on Sunday to take part in Family Day, an educational program designed to introduce youth to the works of art and resources at the gallery.

Established in 2006, Family Day offers New Haven community members the opportunity to engage with the YUAG’s collection through hands-on activities ranging from drawing and writing to storytelling and mixed-media sculpture.

“My children had a lot of fun,” Joy Cheng, a New Haven-based web designer who attended Sunday’s events, said. “It was not my first time at the Art Gallery, but I had never been to Family Day, and I will definitely bring my children back again in the future.”

Cheng said she particularly enjoyed the map project station, which provided participants with a blank city map and instructed them to draw the facades of buildings that might go in the spaces.

Additionally, Cheng praised the drawing station, which invited children to draw landscape pictures using their imaginations.

Other activities included a mixed media art station with colorful felt and yarn materials and a scavenger hunt

designed to give participants an engaging tour of the gallery.

Before 2006, Family Day had an involved preregistration process for participation. Since the day has transitioned to a drop-in event with no admission fee, participation has increased significantly, said Jessica Sack, the senior associate curator of public education at the YUAG. The highest Family Day turnout since the 2006 changes was about 1,400 people, she added.

Throughout the day, graduate and undergraduate volunteers were scattered around the YUAG to direct participants and help man the various activity stations.

Tavi Meraud GRD ’17, who has been working at Family Day for two years, said her experience as a gallery teacher has been enriching, especially because it is an opportunity to connect with the community outside of Yale.

“It has been really rewarding to interact with and teach kids from different areas around here, especially noncollege age ones,” Meraud said.

Meraud, who is proficient in Korean, English, French and German, also works as a YUAG tour guide during the week, giving multiple language tours — a YUAG offering that is particularly popular, said Sack.

“Last week, for example, a whole group of Korean tourists came, and luckily two of our gallery teachers could give them information in Korean,” Sack said.

Although the day’s activities are largely tailored to children under the age of 10, Family Day has also become increasingly popular among Elm City teenagers, Sack said. Older kids typically get involved with the event through the YUAG’s afterschool arts education program.

“The fact that Tavi has been able to find a way for our teens in the after-school program to be so involved means that the kids who may have started off [as part of our K-12 educational programs] 10 years ago are now coming back to help run and work in an activity later on, and this makes us very proud,” Sack said.

The YUAG publicized Family Day using radio advertisements, distributing postcards and fliers and posting updates on social media and blogs.

“Word of mouth, however, remains the most effective way to attract families to this kind of events,” Sack noted.

The YUAG is located at 1111 Chapel St. Contact ALESSANDRO BURATTI at alessandro.buratti@yale.edu .

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Family Day attracted hundreds of children to YUAG collections.

Kennicott offers insights on architectural criticism

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER Philip Kennicott ’88, Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architectural critic for the Washington Post, brought cultured wisdom and deliberation to his talk in the Branford College Common Room on Monday.

Speaking to a crowd of 30 undergraduates, graduates and faculty members, Kennicott partook in a conversation with Stephen Longmire, photography writer and professor of English, as part of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism series. The fellowship program, organized by Longmire, invites journalists and critics to engage with Yale students. During the event, Kennicott addressed his role and goals as an architecture critic, D.C.’s culture and a commentary on the planned World War I memorial.

“I couldn’t ask for a better intellectual life than this,” Ken-

nicott said while commenting on his career. “It’s just the right balance of curiosity and panic to keep one moving forward.”

I think [Kennicott] represents a highly evolved sense of social responsibility.

CARTER WISEMAN ’68 Yale School of Architecture Professor Longmire told the News that although Kennicott lacked an academic background in architecture, his education in philosophy and music did not impede his architectural commentary.

He added that journalism is a fast-paced profession which requires extensive self-teaching.

Kennicott emphasized that

his experience critiquing music early in his writing career lent him particular skills and poetic devices for critiquing architecture.

Longmire said he hoped the talk would illuminate how a working critic thinks about his pieces. In distilling his writing process to the audience, Kennicott noted that he begins explaining the piece to himself before describing it to his readers.

The public often perceives critics as wanting to “slay judgment” on designers, Kennicott said. He went on to refute this belief, explaining that such aggressive rhetoric has not been used since the ’40s. Understanding the design’s process and function is more important than cutting down the designers, Kennicott explained.

Carter Wiseman ’68, professor at Yale School of Architecture and former architectural critic at

New York Magazine, said that when he worked for the publication, he believed a critic’s major obligation was to neither condemn nor praise a given design.

“I think [Kennicott] represents a highly evolved sense of social responsibility,” Wiseman said. “It’s not just about issuing opinions from Mt. Olympus.”

Kennicott explained that Washington, D.C. looks to New York for cultural leadership, although D.C.’s cultural affairs budget of $156 million surpasses the entire national arts budget of $140 million. Many design competitions and debates ensue over artistic and architectural additions to the city, which is “frustrating,” Kennicott said, describing the role politics plays in effecting the city’s cultural affairs. Still, Kennicott said it gives him a wealth of topics to write about.

Kennicott further discussed Maya Lin’s ’81 ARC ’86 Vietnam

Veterans Memorial, describing the design’s abstraction and the somber reminder it generates for visitors. He lauded the monument as an example of a memorial whose historical and architectural implications have not been paralleled. Longmire added that he believes building a memorial dedicated to World War I — a monument that has been commissioned via a nationwide design competition “in remembrance” of lives lost — is not constructive, since no one from that war period is still alive.

Extending the conversation beyond federally sponsored memorials, Kennicott underscored the importance of the memorials invented “on the fly” that sometimes have a greater impact on public consciousness than those monuments that are painstakingly intentional.. He cited, for example, the Parisian pianist who played John Lennon’s song “Imagine” outside

of the Bataclan Theater in the wake of the terrorist attacks last November.

Juan Pablo Ponce de Leon ’16, an architecture major concentrating on urban design, said he found it compelling that Kennicott’s work expanded upon other important international events, including the wars in Syria and Afghanistan.

“I think that Kennicott embodies an approach to architectural writing and criticism, his original background from another discipline gives him a distinct viewpoint while reaffirming architecture as a field whose spatial products impact the broadest cultural spectrum,” Ponce de Leon said.

Eliza Griswold, American poet and journalist, will speak in the next installment of the series on Feb. 4.

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

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Black Panther documentary inspires race dialogue

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The Black Panther Party, a black nationalist organization, was the subject of the film screened in Loria last Saturday.

BY CHLOE KIMBALL STAFF REPORTER Last Saturday afternoon, a diverse group of Yale students and New Haven residents packed into a lecture hall at the Loria Center for what seemed to be a typical showing of the new documentary film, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.” But as the subsequent question-and-answer session with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway unfolded, it became clear that the event was more than just a screening — it was a springboard for intense dialogue about New Haven’s race relations.

The documentary, directed by Stanley Nelson Jr., depicted the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, a black nationalist, socialist and militant organization named after an animal known to flee when in danger and to attack only when cornered. Nelson originally planned to speak during the Q&A but was unable to attend Saturday’s screening. Holloway led the discussion, which included a debate concerning why New Haven’s former Black Panther Party members were not

contacted to sit on the panel and Yale’s role in defining race relations in New Haven. “[People] in the audience implied that Yale was just not providing the solution [to various race-related issues] ,” said Jack Lawrence ’18 who attended the screening and the majority of the Q&A session. “It seemed as if [Holloway] refrained from making strong claims about any of the issues brought up, often admitting he didn’t have the answers to many of the locals’ questions and concerns.”

At the onset of the film, viewers are told that to grasp the intricacies of the Black Panther Party one must understand the individuals inside the movement. Thus, Nelson weaves together past and present footage in a close investigation of the organization’s primary actors and opponents.

Nelson’s film opens in Oakland, California, where we are told that the classic Jim Crowstyle racism of the American South took on a new guise. “[Police] might not have called you [the n-word], but they treated you the same,” one documentary interviewee explained.

It was in this coastal town that the aspiring Huey P. Newton first decided to monopolize on his state’s loose gun laws in an attempt to push back against the racial injustice that riddled his nation. Although Newton was unaware of it at the time, his small-scale demonstration of self-defense would soon turn into an international movement for socioeconomic and racial justice.

As the film progressed, the audience learned about the individuals who built the movement: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and Fred Hampton.

At the beginning of the Q&A, Holloway explained that while the party was perceived as “violent” and “radical,” the basics of the Panther’s 10-point plan, which demanded decent housing and employment, were far from extreme.

Following Holloway’s observation, a woman in the crowd stood up and proclaimed that the Panther’s agenda has yet to be realized in places like New Haven. In response to the woman’s interjection, Holloway gave a smile of understanding and said, “You took my last line.”

Next, another woman stood up and proclaimed that, “One in seven kids in Connecticut goes to bed hungry. Where do you think these kids live? Not in Greenwich.” She went on to tell Holloway and the audience that, “racial injustice has been perpetuated by Yale.”

Holloway did not directly address this latter accusation, a move Lawrence said he believes was appropriate given that the room was already “loaded with feelings.”

Minutes later, the spotlight turned to George Edwards, a former member of the Black Panther Party, who lamented to the crowd that Yale had not contacted him to sit on Saturday’s Q&A panel.

“I believe the University was advised through various department heads, particularly the Department of African American Studies or the Department of History not to invite me to the panel,” Edwards said in a subsequent interview with the News.

“The Connecticut-based New Haven chapter [of which Edwards was a member] had the effect of radicalizing the power between Yale and the poor and primarily

black community.”

Edwards expressed grievances he had with the documentary that he did not share at the Q&A. “I question the chief editing, the editorial staff and the editorialization of the film,” he said.

“I would love to see the raw footage. I question the lack of input in the film from former members of the Black Panther Party who were political prisoners.”

As moderator of the Q&A, Kobena Mercer, professor of history of art and African American Studies, noted that when watching Nelson’s film it is important to consider the choices a documentarian must make to tell a story as complex as that of the Black Panther Party and to question if one film can ever tell the whole story.

African American Studies Department chair Jacqueline Goldsby GRD ’98 said that Edwards had visited her department on Nov. 12 in order to discuss the screening. Although Goldsby was unavailable to speak with Edwards at the time, her office staff gave him Goldsby’s office hours and phone number, Goldsby said. Edwards never followed up, she added. Goldsby

also noted that the event had been planned on a weekend and in a venue that was easily accessible to public transportation. Additionally, the screening was advertised in New Haven’s AfricanAmerican newspaper, Inner-City News, to publicize the screenings beyond the University.

“Given our approach to our public programming, the African American Studies Department had no reason or plan to exclude Edwards from speaking to or about the film,” Goldsby said.

Despite Edwards’s absence from the panel, Mercer said the film sparked collective dialogue between community members of all ages.

“The applause George Edwards received in acknowledgement of his historical role in the blackfreedom struggle was as significant as all the other topics expressed in the Q&A, from residential segregation in New Haven to what schools should be doing to inspire black kids,” Mercer said.

The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966.

Contact CHLOE KIMBALL at chloe.kimball@yale.edu .

Activist highlights importance of “slow food”

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Food activist, restaurateur and cofounder of the Yale Sustainable Food Program Alice Waters spoke at the Yale University Art Gallery Tuesday afternoon about the universal value of preserving “slow food” approaches in a world governed by fast-food principles. She said she believes that the core themes in the debate of fast food versus slow food can extend to many aspects of life, including business ethics, early childhood education and prison rehabilitation.

“The effect of fast food doesn’t just happen in cafeterias,” she said. “It permeates everything, from the way we perceive the world to the way we belong in it.”

Waters explained that while slow-food culture revolves around growing food according to seasonal cycles and appreciating the natural origins of food, the fast-food world values affordability and immediate availability. She added that due to mass-production practices, food markets tend to distort the true value of their goods to the point where the cost of foods fails to reflect the labor required to cultivate them. Consumers who have the means to purchase organic produce from small farms have a responsibility to pay the true cost, Waters noted.

Waters said she thinks slow-food value systems are closely connected to America’s obesity epidemic. “[Obesity] is a physical manifestation of the ‘fast-food value’ that more is better,” she said.

In her talk, Waters emphasized that underlying all of the featured issues are values of dignity and respect, citing fair wages to workers and ethical business practices as examples. She also highlighted the corruption of words such as “sustainable” in the marketing of food, when such terminology is “used indiscriminately until it becomes meaningless.”

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industry is too willing to compromise on regulatory standards, noting that the term “grass-fed” can be used if an animal has been grass-fed for only two weeks.

“Values shape behavior, so if the culture around is glamorizing values that dehumanize us, we will naturally act in dehumanizing ways,” Waters explained.

Waters drew parallels between the racial issues behind the protests on campus last semester and the free speech movement of the 1960s, which served as her initial source of inspiration for becoming an activist. In order to make dramatic change, she added, people must articulate themselves and say things out loud.

Waters, who owns the restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, said Yale was one of the first universities to place a heavy emphasis on food education. This academic year, there are 14 courses spanning over a dozen departments, including activities at the Yale Farm.

Jacqueline Munno, programs manager for professional experience at the Yale Sustainable Food Program, attributed her own career path to her past encounters with Waters, who inspired her to pursue further education in slow food. “[The movement] really began in Yale’s dining halls and has reverberated into classrooms,” Munno said. “It inspired this whole new generation of understanding the food we eat and the systems that deliver it to us, and now interesting academic ties to agriculture are happening across the University.”

Mark Bomford, director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program, described Waters as a visionary, noting that her activist approach uses food as an “avenue for social transformation.”

Waters was awarded the National Humanities Medal last year by President Barack Obama.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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“We’ve definitely progressed in our relationships with each other, and that translates to the court.”

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Sherrod ’16 starting on a good note MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Yale men’s basketball forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 toured the world last summer with the nation’s oldest a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs, and visited 26 different countries. That number now represents another unique milestone for the Bulldog big man.

In the midst of his senior campaign, Sherrod needs just one basket to tie the NCAA Division I record for consecutive made field goals, which currently stands at 26. The six-foot-six Bridgeport native is a perfect 25–25 from the field in a streak that extends back four games to Yale’s Jan. 16 Ivy League opener against Brown.

To expect Sherrod to be on the verge of matching, and potentially breaking, an NCAA record might have seemed far-fetched a season ago, when he could only watch as a spectator. But Yale head coach James Jones believes the time away was formative in his development as a player.

“His experience with the Whiffenpoofs has helped him out tremendously,” Jones said. “That experience of learning about cultures, traveling all over the world, seeing how different people live.

There’s some people that would take that opportunity and not do anything with it but Brandon learned from it and he has come back a more mature and better man.”

Although silenced now, there were question marks entering the season as to how Sherrod would fare in his return from the Whiffenpoofs, and just how well the former starter would fit back

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After starting a combined 23 games in his first three seasons, Sherrod has started all 18 this year. into the lineup.

Sherrod’s original class of fellow recruits graduated last year on the heels of Yale’s co-Ivy League Championship and one-game playoff loss to Harvard.

“Obviously that’s not my original class, [but] we are close off the court. Throughout the year, we’ve definitely progressed in our relationships with each other and that translates to the court,” Sherrod said of his fellow four starters.

“I know where Nick [Victor ’16] is going to be in the corner, I know where Jack [Montague ’16] is and when he’s going to shoot, I know that Makai [Mason ’18] is going to use a ball screen a certain way so I have to roll or pop based on his actions, and I know Justin [Sears

’16] is going to have a tendency to roll sometimes or pop. We’re on a string, and that helps a lot.”

While on tour, the Tenor II managed to keep himself in shape through workouts with fellow a capella members and pickup basketball games around the world.

According to Whiffenpoof Justin Young ’16, Sherrod and some fellow Whiffs found ways to train whether that meant running in Tanzania, finding dirt-floored gyms in Cambodia or playing basketball against members of the Ecuadorian navy in the Galapagos Islands.

“We had to improvise way of staying in shape,” Young said. “[Sherrod] was always watching videos and professional basket-

ball, just any way he could stay connected to basketball.”

Sherrod, who carried a basketball with him through customs on his travels, admitted that it was difficult at times to find a basketball court. But sometimes they turned up where he may not have expected.

Once while running in Istanbul with fellow Whiffenpoofs, Sherrod “ditched” the group when he spotted a court, where he played basketball with a group that included multiple players competing in international professional league.

But it was not just basketball that broke barriers overseas.

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GRANT BRONSDON

This is the year Fifty-four years. 1,411 games. Over 56,000 minutes of basketball.

However you want to count it, it’s been a long, long time since the Yale men’s basketball team last appeared in the NCAA Tournament.

But after the Elis’ thrilling 79–75 win over fellow Ivy contender Princeton on Saturday, Yale seems well-positioned to take advantage of rival Harvard’s stumbles in conference play and finally make the Big Dance.

Given what the Bulldogs have shown on the court this season, as well as the oneyear dip in the Cantabs’ fortunes, this is the year for the Bulldogs if they want to bust some brackets in March.

Every tournament team needs experience and leadership, something that Yale has in spades. Four members of the starting lineup are seniors, and point guard Makai Mason ’18 has played well beyond his years this season to lead the team in points per game.

In fact, it’s Mason’s emergence that solidifies this team

as a force to be reckoned with on offense. Mason has matched the numbers posted a year ago by first-team AllIvy point guard Javier Duren ’15 and then some, averaging 15.7 points and 4.1 assists per game while shooting 44 percent from the field. When combined with forwards Brandon Sherrod ’16 and reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Justin Sears ’16, who have dominated in the paint this season, the Bulldogs have an inside-out combo that can go toe-to-toe with any team in the nation.

Finally, the tenacity and determination shown game in and game out by this team show that Yale can battle back from anything. The Elis are tied for fifth in the nation in offensive rebounds per game, a sure sign of willpower. They nearly came away with upsets at Illinois and Southern Methodist, and they’ve won eight game in a row.

This team is for real.

And to top it all off, archriSEE BRONSDON PAGE 10

Sweeping support for curling at Yale

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Few sports that have been a part of Olympic competition for nearly a century have done so without garnering widespread attention or fandom. But such is the story of curling, a strategic ice sport that has recently found a home at Yale.

CURLING The Yale Graduate Student Curling Club, founded in 2013, enjoyed success at the 2016 Super Spiel tournament held at Nutmeg Curling Club in Bridgeport this past weekend. From Yale’s 18-member club, eight members competed on two teams that won a combined four games in the 16-team event, including a victory over archrival Harvard.

This year, three undergraduates and 15 students in multiple professional schools comprise the largest membership in the club’s nearly three-year history.

“I had been curling for a few years before coming to Yale and thought it was necessary to start a club here,” club founder Kelsey Schuder GRD ’16 said.

Schuder, who earned a Master of Public Health degree from Yale in 2015 and is now a candidate for a master’s in nursing, formed the club in the spring of 2013 and initially five members joined. That figure nearly doubled the following year before multiplying again to its current size, through a combination of

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Yale’s Graduate Student Curling Club was formed in 2013 and is based out of the Nutmeg Curling Club in Bridgeport. word of mouth and advertisements for introductory sessions.

Allison Goldberg GRD ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in pharmacology with no prior curling expe-

rience, got involved after seeing one such on-campus advertisement for a Yale learn-to-curl event at the Bridgeport facility.

“So long as you’re a student,

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you can curl with the club,” Goldberg said. “You’re on the ice throwing stones before you know the purpose of the game.”

The basics of curling are sim-

ple — two opposing teams of four players each take turns sliding 40-pound stones across 150 feet of ice onto a bullseye target called the house. Stones can

be thrown as “guards” to block the target from opponents, as “draws” to score points by landSEE CURLING PAGE 10

THE NATIONAL RANKING OF THE YALE GRADUATE CURLING CLUB AFTER LAST WEEKEND’S SUPER SPIEL TOURNAMENT IN BRIDGEPORT. The Bulldogs are seeking to qualify for the USA Curling College Championship, a 16-team tournament in March.