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Another ethnic studies prof departs

On to the next one. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 sparred with Sen. Bernie Sanders at a town hall in New Hampshire last night. Sanders, who hails from Vermont, leads Clinton 55 points to 37 in the state. “I think it’s important people understand that good ideas are one thing, but you got to know how to implement.

You’ve got to have a record of getting results. And I’m taking my ideas and my record to the people of New Hampshire this week,” Clinton said.

The elite reading list. The Washington Post tallied the most frequently assigned books at Ivy League universities and compared the list to the most frequently assigned books at all schools.

“The Elements of Style” by E.B. White and William Strunk held the No. 1 spot among all schools but the No. 3 spot among Ivy League institutions. #OscarsSoWhite. Lupita

Nyong’o DRA ’12, the sixthever black woman to win Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in “12 Years a Slave,” spoke out against the Academy in an interview with Buzzfeed yesterday. “It’s vital for film, TV and theater to be inclusive of the people who will engage in it, and who will learn to dream from it,” she told Buzzfeed.

Hae, what’s up? Hello. Adnan Syed, who was featured in NPR’s “Serial” podcast series narrated by Sarah Koenig, will appear in court once more.

According to the Baltimore Sun, Syed’s attorney’s successfully argued for a new trial for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee. Syed is currently serving a life sentence.

Will you be an all-star? The senior tradition “Feb Club,” in which class of 2016 members are invited to a social event every night of February, is underway. Last night’s event was held at the Davenport cottages. To earn all-star status, seniors must attend every Feb Club event.

An eternal bond. Silliman

College will host a bookbinding workshop at the college’s bindery at 8:30 p.m. today. Students can create blank journals or hard-bind copies of their favorite book.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1935 Yale basketball falls to Penn 32–28 in an away game.

Yale excels in the final eight minutes of the game, closing a 12-point gap to a 4-point one, but the fourth-quarter push falls short.

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Salovey names presidential task force

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Native American literature, will leave Yale after the Humanities Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee rejected her candidacy for the associate professor on term position, a step in the tenure track system that does not yet award tenure.

According to several faculty members interviewed, Rasmus-

After the University launched an anti-discrimination website earlier this week, University President Peter Salovey has announced the formation of another one of his proposed initiatives: a presidential task force on diversity and inclusion.

In a Wednesday afternoon email to the Yale community, Salovey announced that the 18-member committee is now ready to begin its work. The committee’s creation stems from conversations about race and discrimination on campus that took place last November, which led Salovey to announce several initiatives, including the presidential task force and the anti-discrimination website, as well as increased funding for the four cultural centers and improvements in financial aid offerings. Members of the task force include administrators, deans, alumni, one Yale Law School student and one Yale College student. Martha Highsmith, senior advisor to the president and vice-chair of the task force, said the group will meet monthly and its end date is yet to be determined. Salovey told the News that the task force is meant to work beyond the spring to ensure that Yale continues to build a more inclusive campus.

“The overall purpose of the task force is we need a process by which ideas that people generate for addressing the challenges of full inclusion at Yale are considered,” Salovey said. “I

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Rasmussen’s class, ENGL 293, is the most popular course in Yale College this semester.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Birgit Brander Rasmussen — an assistant professor in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration who is teaching one of the most popular courses in Yale College — will leave the University at the end of this academic year following a controversial promotion review process that some of Rasmussen’s

colleagues have alleged was colored by bias against her gender, disability and area of scholarship.

Rasmussen’s departure comes amidst a series of high-profile departures of diverse faculty members and scholars who work on issues of diversity and ethnicity. Unlike some of her colleagues who left the University after receiving tenure, however, Rasmussen, who has written extensively about

Malloy’s austere budget meets criticism

BY AMY CHENG AND NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTERS Calling for a structural transformation of the state of Connecticut’s budget, Gov. Dannel Malloy laid out a proposal Wednesday that would cut

thousands of workers from the state’s payroll and impose a new philosophy on the state’s budgeting process.

In his speech to a joint session of the General Assembly, Malloy urged legislators to pass an enforceable spending cap to force the state to “live within

its means.” Malloy said his new budget for fiscal year 2017 — which would enact $570 million in cuts to bring the year’s projected spending down to $18.1 billion — will be the first step in the state’s adjustment to a new economic reality. But though the budget does not bring any

new tax increases, the acrossthe-board cuts Malloy has proposed will likely be a tough pill for Connecticut residents to swallow.

“Connecticut is not going back to that prerecession reality,” Malloy said, referring to an era in which state spend-

Water under the bridge.

Bridgewater Associates, an investment management company known for its unconventional interview tactics, is holding interviews on Yale’s campus tomorrow.

Bridgewater manages over $150 billion for a variety of clients.

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Increased interest in rushing SAE

ing could rise more freely without obvious consequence. “It just doesn’t exist anymore. The people of Connecticut know it — they’ve accepted it — and so must their government.”

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Brown announces $165 million diversity plan

BY MONICA WANG AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS Despite igniting national headlines for alleged racism last fall, Yale’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity attracted more potential members this rush season than it did the year before.

Last semester, the chapter found itself under intense scrutiny after students accused its brothers of hosting a “white girls only” party the weekend of Halloween.

An administrative investigation ultimately concluded that there was “no evidence of systematic discrimination” by SAE brothers but found that brothers had at times behaved “disrespectfully and aggressively toward students seeking admission” to the party, according to a collegewide email from Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. Still, over the course of the semester, many students criticized SAE and said it had long displayed discriminatory behavior toward minorities.

Despite these controversies, interest in the fraternity has increased. Yale SAE President Grant Mueller ’17 said the number of potential rushes this spring has grown to around 60, from roughly 40 last year. The fraternity ultimately issued 19 bids last year, he said.

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Brown is directing roughly $165 million toward diversity and inclusion on campus.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Brown University announced on Monday the final draft of its plan to bolster diversity and inclusion on its campus, directing roughly $165 million toward the initiative.

Following the release of a draft

plan in November that set aside $100 million for the initiative, Brown faced significant backlash from community stakeholders who claimed not enough money had been allocated. As a result, the administration’s leadership solicited feedback until early January and subsequently updated its plan. The final version — called

Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University — will direct $10 million to Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, $10 million to the school’s Center on the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, $100 million to 25 SEE BROWN PAGE 4

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The brunch problem B

runch is the ideal time to do it. Dinner is usually too crowded, and lunch and breakfast are so rushed that I don’t have the time. On any given weekend, I arrive at a dining hall past noon, usually with leggings and a warm, knit sweater. I swipe my card.

Then I count the amount of rapists in the room.

Girls at Columbia and Brown got in trouble for releasing lists with names of known rapists on their campuses. My friends and I have still considered doing the same, but we’re too exhausted to deal with the inevitable backlash.

I can’t speak about other campuses because I know only this one, but Yale has an epidemic. Each day, students fear for their safety as they walk across campus. Whether stepping into the library or taking a seat in a classroom, they’re reminded of some of the most traumatizing moments of their lives.

I think it’s true that you can survive Yale despite an experience of violence, sexual or otherwise. You can do it. I have endured Yale. But you shouldn’t be enduring Yale: you should be attending and enjoying Yale. Women and queer people aren’t thriving at Yale the way we should be. According to the Association of American Universities’ 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault, most of us here at Yale have been physically violated and intimidated. Among straight women, it’s over half; among genderqueer students, it’s over 60 percent. And according to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, college-aged women enrolled in school “are three times more likely than women in general to suffer from sexual violence.” It’s not just one person running around committing all the sexual violence on campus — they’re all over.

Here at Yale, the Communication and Consent Educators program isn’t enough, and the University Wide Committee on Sexual Harassment and Misconduct isn’t working because this violence continues at an astonishing rate.

When over half of your undergraduate female population is being assaulted, you have an epidemic.

We need more than just emails or long-term strategies aimed at transforming campus culture. We need immediate action and protection: The UWC must expel more rapists.

Every semester, there’s a new name for me to add to my Facebook blocked list. Every weekend, I take another look around a dining hall (my own and others'), and I take a breath. Since I started counting, I can’t remember a single weekend without noticing at least one rapist (that I know of) in the room. And they exist beyond the dining halls. They’re in

our suites; they’re in our seminars and lecture halls. They live with our classmates. They ADRIANA sit with us at lunch. They MIELE show up at a party. SomeCheck times they are friends. yourself So m e t i m e s t h e y ’ r e Republican, and sometimes they’re die-hard feminist Democrats. Sometimes they’re men, and sometimes they’re not, but most of them are men who think they are entitled to another person’s body. And I have no more compassion for them.

When you commit an act of violence, you forfeit your privileges as a member of this community. And you should leave.

I’ve heard arguments from administrators and students who claim that rehabilitation is possible. This is an educational institution, and when people do something wrong, we want to give them a chance to learn how to be better. I’m sure that people do remedy their behavior. But second chances are for midterm papers. Yale should not apply the same principle to those who violate my classmates’ bodies.

What I’m suggesting may seem incomprehensible to some readers. But over 50 percent of UWC cases result in no action — and I doubt it’s because 50 percent of the claims are unfounded. In 1996, the FBI reported that only 2 percent of rapes reported to law enforcement were false. There is very little incentive for anyone to invent trauma, and it’s improbable for people to imitate its effects. This suggests that at Yale, huge swaths of rapists are left off the hook.

If you commit sexual assault, you are a perpetrator of sexual violence, and you are a rapist. That’s what you are. You shouldn’t be here.

Sometimes, I imagine a different Yale. I wake up on a Saturday, watch some TV in bed, brush my teeth and head to the dining hall. There’s a selection of real, whole bagels instead of the mini kind. I toast a cinnamon-raisin one. I slather on cream cheese. I sit down with my friends. I don’t see a single rapist. Then I go to Blue State to do work, and I don’t see a single rapist. Then my friends text me, and they don’t see their rapists.

Then my friends go out that night, and they don’t get raped.

We finish our problem sets and read our books and participate in section, and we aren’t scared.

It would be beautiful.

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST ALARIC KRAPF

Participation isn’t perfection P

rimary season is just beginning, and our phones and televisions are about to be bombarded by nonstop ad campaigns and canvassers. Different candidates will promote different visions of the future and focus on different issues, pissing everyone off in the process. One message, however, will be consistent throughout the whole affair: No matter what you believe in, vote. It’s your civic duty. Democracies only work when all of their members participate.

However, that’s not strictly the case. Democracy can get along just fine when a huge number of citizens are asleep on the job — just so long as those who do participate know what they’re doing. Whether voter participation this year is 7 or 70 percent, the daily work of writing, passing and repealing laws will be the same; the only difference will be who does the work. Maybe higher voter participation rates would give us better results — but maybe they wouldn’t. If most of the apathetic voters in a given election cycle would have voted for ineffective leaders, then the world is a better place because they stayed at home. We would all be better off, for example, if

only qualified experts voted on climate change policy.

Participation isn’t good in and of itself, it’s only good because of what it can bring about. When we forget that fact, in the political world and elsewhere, we lose valuable perspective.

PARTICIPATION ISN’T GOOD IN AND OF ITSELF Children today are often derided as the “Trophy Generation,” the group who gets rewarded for participating rather than succeeding. It’s not our fault — we should blame the people handing out trophies, not those receiving them — but it’s a bad trend nonetheless. When we treat champions just the same as failures, we devalue the champions’ successes, meaning they are less likely to direct their efforts towards success in the future. When we treat failures just the same as champions, they are less likely to re-evaluate their options and redirect their efforts. Effort is a good insofar

as it is necessary for success, but effort that accomplishes nothing doesn’t have much value. No matter how hard you work at it, trying to carry water using only a sieve isn’t a noble task — it’s impossible, and you should try something else.

America’s cultural premium on participation also reaches its tendrils into the classrooms of Yale. In many seminars, students are given participation grades that are supposed to assess their level of engagement with the subject material and their peers. There are a number of reasons why this is a bad practice. It puts introverts and the naturally quiet at a disadvantage and allows unjustified personal prejudices to manifest themselves in students’ grades. On top of all that, however, it’s likely a counterproductive measure. When teachers give grades based on participation in a discussion, no matter what is said, students feel pressured to speak on a topic even when they don’t have something good to say. It’s only natural that some students will have more to contribute to a discussion than others, either because they feel strongly about a particular text or because they have

experiences relevant to the class.

But if a reading didn’t speak to or resonate with a particular student, he shouldn’t feel pressured to say something. Stigmatizing and penalizing nonparticipation incentivizes superfluous, valueless comments. I’ve made them, and I expect many others have too. It’s easy. Begin with “just to build on that” or “just to add to that point,” then repeat what the person just before you said in slightly different words.

Yale’s seminars and sections are filled with people repeating endless permutations of the same idea, and our participation-centric culture is the driving force behind that unfortunate trend.

Let’s not mistake the instrument for the end. It would be better if every Trump supporter stayed home for the primaries, it would be better if poor athletes sought different pursuits beyond sports and it would be better if everyone who speaks just to say something didn’t speak at all, participation be damned. We shouldn’t care about participating. We should care about participating well.

ALARIC KRAPF is a freshman in Saybrook College. Contact him at alaric.kraft@yale.edu .

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The will to grace M

y grandma often counsels me from her witty, always raunchy and deeply profound aphorisms of advice, which she has cultivated over a lifetime. “The fastest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but don’t go for a man who falls in love like that.” Or, “Only flip someone off when you really mean it; don’t overuse that shock value.” Or, more practically, “Save 10 percent of every paycheck.” This weekend, she opined: “Just be graceful, and it will all work itself out.”

Graceful? The online cottage industry of etiquette blog spots and How to Be Ladylike WordPresses situates “grace” in the realm of 1950s sexism. These bloggers discuss grace as seenbut-not-heard comportment, with little snips about elegance under pictures of Audrey Hepburn and advice on stockings. In this aesthetic, grace is a ballast of old, white finishing schools and bridge clubs.

These authors of sites like ElegantWoman.org (I’m not kidding — someone literally spent money on that domain name) have incorrectly conflated grace with politeness. Polite, the lapel pin of insincerity, codes for being disingenuously civil to someone you may very well dislike. Anyone can manually learn the choreography of politeness, which may be why Bono called this duplicitous decorum “death by cupcake” (funnier if you imagine

AMELIA JANE NIERENBERG Close to home

him saying it wearing those purple-tinted sunglasses).

Imagine an entire category of wikiHow on civility — read it, and voila!

Polite: the fundamental social banalities of any environment.

Grace is a very different

breed.

Grace — as Nana meant it — is existential elegance. The verb accompanying “grace” is “to have,” whereas one “acts” polite.

Therein lies the distinction: politeness is a mask; having grace comes from reservoirs of inner confidence. It’s a nuanced distinction, but important — being graceful is not an act, but rather a state of living. To be graceful means radiating internal selfassurance into the world. Thus, gracefulness also puts your conversational partners completely at ease, allowing them space to feel more comfortable being authentic. Conversational grace means tabling your personal insecurities, an attitude that in turn soothes the insecurities of your interlocutor. In that sense, perhaps, grace is social mindfulness; it invites people to be their best selves.

Or, for a good old SAT throwback — polite is to rude as graceful is to vulgar, a more insidious, base impoliteness. Grace and vulgarity are much harder things to learn (and unlearn) by simply reading etiquette blogs.

GRACE — AS NANA MEANT IT — IS EXISTENTIAL ELEGANCE Although Yale graduates are a well-educated and hypothetically polite brigade of workers, how many of us are truly graceful adults upon graduation? Perhaps our fundamentally insecure campus relies too heavily on external validation for selfworth. To draw from Nana, Yale undergraduates, as a generalized whole, are not yet comfortable in their own skins. Our insecurities tether our conversations to a wariness of each other — we lack the grace necessary to create authentic relationships. Considering the Yale public sphere, let’s treat grace as a civic virtue of sorts, the power to elevate conversations, create more engaged community members and celebrate people as and how they are.

We need more grace at Yale.

To use the global sociopolitical wordbook we all know and love, grace is the linchpin of soft power. Coined by Harvard professor Joseph Nye, soft power is the ability of a nation-state to attract rather than coerce, to persuade through appeal rather than through force. States nurture their soft power through an emphasis on their reputations, bolstered through hosting the Olympics, having fantastic and internationally loved music or exporting their unique cuisine.

In other words, soft power is the embodiment of grace.

Grace must carry more social currency at Yale: a focus on the soft power of the people we know and those we have yet to meet. If more of our campus had grace, we would have fewer section assholes, fewer messy break ups and fewer catty rumors. Our flock of resume-padded Canada Geese would fly a truer north. With a Yale degree would come not only the expectation of intelligence and work ethic, but also a human who moves through the world with elegance. This outward respect can only come from self-respect — this is the essence of grace.

That, and truly impeccable posture.

AMELIA JANE NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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“People have got to learn: if they don’t have cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.” SUZE ORMAN AMERICAN AUTHOR

CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, JAN. 29

The article “New report says Elm City feels safer” misstated that the current unemployment rate is 20 percent. In fact, that figure represents the city’s under-employment rate.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3

The story “Kennicott offers insights on architectural criticism” incorrectly stated that one person organized the Poynter Fellowship, when in fact, there are several organizers. It also misstated New York City’s cultural affairs budget and the national arts budget.

The article “Students propose multiracial peer liaison program” incorrectly stated that a multiracial peer liaison program is set to launch. In fact, the program has not yet been approved, and is one of many options administrators are considering. It also mistakenly stated that students hoping to become multiracial peer liaisons would not have to be multiracial to apply.

Refugee figurines to flood campus

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“Moving People” is a public art installation designed to raise awareness about the European migrant crisis.

BY NITYA RAYAPATI STAFF REPORTER More than 500 miniature refugee figurines will be displayed across campus on Thursday as part of a public art installation to raise awareness about the European migrant crisis.

“Moving People,” a concept initially conceived by Amsterdam-based art collective Power of Art House, is coming to Yale to provide a cultural element to the second annual European Student Conference. The conference, which will take place Feb. 5–6, is organized by Yale-based international student think tank European Horizons.

The ESC will bring together 100 students from across the United States and Europe to discuss solutions to major issues — such as the migrant crisis — facing the European Union. The students and artists behind the “Moving People” installation voiced optimism about the reality check the art will give the crisis.

[The artwork] does draw you into a conversation about the crisis on a certain level.

OLGA KARNAS Executive Director, European Horizons “We want to give these refugees a human face by telling their stories, making connections and showing people a different way of looking at refugees,” Saskia Stolz, founder of Power of Art House, said.

The figurines — which will be placed in campus common spaces such as residential college courtyards, dining halls and libraries — come in 10 different shapes and are modeled in the image of the 10 refugees who shared their stories with Power of Art House. Each figurine has a sticker on it advertising the website “movingpeople.nu,” where people can read the stories of the people behind the art.

The “Moving People” project first began in Amsterdam and The Hague this past September. From there, the project travelled across

the world as people took the figurines with them to diverse places including Spain, Italy, Romania, Serbia, China and the U.S. The collective often incorporates their art into public spaces as a method of promoting dialogue.

“With our artistic expressions, we aim to stimulate dialogue on sociopolitical issues, thus promoting involvement. We raise questions,” Stolz said.

Students who encounter parts of the “Moving People” installation tomorrow should engage with the art, Stolz added. People are encouraged to take pictures of or with the figurines to post on social media with the hashtag: “#MovingPeople.” Students are also permitted to take one of the miniatures and place it somewhere else in order to contribute physically to the project.

The art is meant to be dynamic, Olga Karnas, executive director of European Horizons, said.

“The most forceful feature of this artwork is that it’s relatable,” Karnas said. “It’s not lofty artwork that you can’t touch or can’t take home. It does draw you into a conversation about the crisis on a certain level.”

“Moving People” will occur in conjunction with the ESC, where participants will take part in workshops exploring topics such as European identity and transatlantic relations.

A key issue up for discussion is the escalating European migration crisis. One of the six workshops at the conference focuses entirely on “Immigration and Integration” and will explore the formulation of a European integrated immigration-and-asylum policy.

“Moving People,” however, is a way of using art to help the conference transcend this academic discussion and interact with the human reality of the crisis, Karnas noted.

“Sometimes culture and art are a way to talk about politics that normative discussions don’t quite match,” Maximilian Krahé, director of networking at European Horizons, said.

According to Stolz, a new set of “Moving People” figurines sharing more refugee stories will be ready by April.

Contact NITYA RAYAPATI at nitya.rayapati@yale.edu .

Alexion tallies $2.604 billion in revenue

BY JIAHUI HU AND SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTERS Alexion — a pharmaceutical company that relocated to New Haven last month — announced its 2015 financial results Wednesday morning, revealing revenues of $2.604 billion.

With this year-end result, Alexion increased its revenues by 21 percent over the past year, having earned $2.146 billion in 2014. CEO David Hallal said the company expects revenues to continue growing by around 20 percent in the upcoming year. Hallal forecasted the company’s 2016 year-end totals to reach $3.17 to $3.22 billion. The company, which specializes in rare metabolic disorders, launched two drugs for pediatric diseases this year, but still relies on revenue from its trademark drug, Soliris. This compound, which treats the life-threatening and blood-destroying disease paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria, brought in $2.59 billion — over 99 percent of total revenue.

“Beyond, in 2016, we will accelerate [earnings per share] growth through Soliris and our rare-metabolic-disease franchise,” Hallal said.

Strensiq, which the Food and Drug Administration approved in October 2015, helps babies and young children with hypophosphatasia — a genetic disease that prevents bone formation, leads to muscle weakness and kills infants. When given to affected babies, Strensiq leads to sufficient bone healing so that infants can walk like their peers, Hallal said. He added that the company is expecting slow and steady growth in the drug’s sales — approved in the U.S., European Union, Japan and Canada.

In December 2015, the FDA also approved Kanuma, the second of the two pediatric drugs released this year. The drug treats lysosomal acid lipase deficiency — a disease that leads to fatal fat buildup in organs and affects 25 in every one million people, according to British nonprofit Heart UK. Clinical trials show that 67 percent of treated babies survive for at least one year, Hallal said.

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The Alexion headquarters will move back to New Haven from Chester, CT by the end of March.

This year, Alexion will target markets in the U.S. and Germany, two of the 50 countries in which the company sells its drugs, Hallal said. He added that the company expects to launch or obtain FDA approval for six new products by 2018.

The company is now conducting clinical trials for the six new products, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Research & Development Martin Mackay said.

ALXN1210, one of the drugs the company deems promising, treats PNH by lowering levels of lactate dehydrogenase, which is high in patients with PNH and indicates tissue death, muscle injury or blood flow deficiency. During the trials, Alexion researchers saw 88 and 85 percent reductions of LDH in three weeks of treatment, Mackay said.

Along with the AXLN1210

trial, Alexion is currently testing ALXN1101, which treats molybdenum cofactor deficiency type A — a disease marked by seizures, brain dysfunction and neuronal atrophy — in infants up to 28 months old. Other up-and-coming medications include SBC103 for treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB, which causes speech and behavior problems in children. The company is also testing eculizumab, which treats generalized Myasthenia Gravis, a disease causing chronic muscle weakness.

Alexion officials said despite sales delays in some countries, they still expect to see high revenues in 2016.

“We had a $15 million impact in Brazil by the year’s end, even though government restrictions delayed orders,” CFO and Executive Vice Pres-

ident Vikas Sinha said. “We think that business as usual will continue in 2016.”

If business does continue as usual, Alexion will be on track to earn a hefty profit. Fourthquarter 2015 earnings — $701 million — boosted Alexion’s year-end total by accounting for more than a quarter of 2015 revenue.

Stock prices spiked yesterday after Alexion conducted its 10 a.m. call. The share prices, which opened at $132.50, jumped to a high of $147.30 at the conclusion of the conference call. The price closed at $145.97 Wednesday.

Alexion’s new global headquarters are located on 100 College St. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

New bakery rises on Chapel

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER The scent of freshly baked cookies and granola emanates from the new, bright yellow bakery on Chapel Street.

New Haven resident Robin Schaffer ’79 opened Four Flours — the company’s first storefront — Dec. 15 on 1203

Chapel St. Almost two months later, the bakery’s grand opening will take place today at 11 a.m. with a guest appearance from Mayor Toni Harp. Before opening a brick-and-mortar location, Schaffer established Four Flours as a wholesale retail business to markets like Rica’s and Elm City 15 years ago, she said. Four Flours offers an all-

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1203 Chapel St. is Four Flours’ first brick-and-mortar location after 15 years operating as a wholesale business.

natural assortment of cookies, biscotti, granola, breads, vegan treats, coffee and Chillwiches — ice-cream cookie sandwiches that students may recognize from the food truck that sells them in New Haven.

Schaffer said she has been baking since high school, but her children inspired her to expand beyond her home kitchen.

Schaffer explained that managing a storefront has been something she was longing for because of the large difference between wholesale and retail.

“It’s nice to reach out to customers directly,” Schaffer said.

“In retail you can also add so many flavors, like we have all kinds of gluten- and veganfree baked goods now, as well as frozen cookie dough.”

Schaffer noted that while she initially did retail for women’s athletic clothing, she was always drawn to baking. Her design logo — a flower with four petals of different primary colors — was influenced by her four children, Schaffer added.

Whenever she brought them baked goods, she would designate their treats with primarycolored labels.

Four Flours’ interior has a window to the back kitchen, allowing visitors to watch the bakers at work. Shaffer emphasized the bakery’s natural ingredients, which may not allow the sprinkles to appear as vibrant, but offer Four Flours an edge over other bakeries.

But an employee at Insomnia Cookies, just a block away from Four Flours, said the new bakery will not pose a threat to business.

“There’s no way they’ll be competition,” an employee at Insomnia on Chapel Street said. “We’re not threatened.”

Business is improving each week, Schaffer said. Its current demographic is a mix of neighborhood residents, graduate students and a few undergraduates. She added that she had always wanted the corner space on Chapel Street because of the large, open windows and general location.

Kate McMillan ’16, said she already buys a lot of baked goods from other stores around New Haven, but is particularly excited to try Four Flours.

“I haven’t gotten around to trying it yet,” said McMillan. “But they might be a better alternative to going somewhere more expensive and less fresh.”

But other students said the new bakery might not replace other long-standing locations. Mieke Scherpbier ’16 said while she wants to try Four Flours and loves Chillwiches, she remains skeptical about the store because she can buy her baked goods elsewhere.

Schaffer added that she wanted to hold a grand opening to thank the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, which offered a grant for the store facade, and to raise public awareness of the opened storefront.

Schaffer explained that she and her husband are also grateful to the state, which provided money for more labor. Because of the grant, the hours of the storefront have now doubled, while the prices from wholesale to retail have remained the same, underlined Shaffer.

Four Flours offers a 10 percent discount to Yale students and is open 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“We are increasingly recognizing and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.” JULIE BISHOP AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN

Salovey announces presidential task force on diversity TASK FORCE FROM PAGE 1 would say it has a charge with at least three prongs: be the body that vets new ideas as they come in, the body that talks about and generates ideas of their own on the theme of inclusion at Yale and the body that monitors the progress we’re making on carrying out the Nov. 17 initiatives.”

Highsmith said she helped Salovey gather a roster of potential task-force members and ultimately establish a group that is representative of the broader Yale community. She added that as vice-chair, she will serve as Salovey’s “right hand” in helping to create agendas for the task force and engaging in appropriate post-meeting follow-ups.

Still, Abdul-Razak Zachariah ’17 — the only Yale College student on the committee — told the News that he believes more undergraduate and graduate students should have been included in it. He said he applied to be part of the task force through the YCC, adding that he believes he was deemed qualified because of his participation in several identity-based activities, such as the Yale Black Men’s Union.

He added that while on the committee, which he says should focus on finding ways to support students with identity-based struggles, his main priority will be to advocate for diversity and inclusion in the undergraduate experience.

Salovey said he expects the task force to generate new initiatives as early as this semester, adding that the committee is composed of talented individuals from across the Yale community who are more than capable of formulating ideas internally.

Emily Greenwood, a Classics and African American studies professor who is on the task force, said she is serving as a representative of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate, where she is chair of the Senate’s ad hoc committee on diversity and inclusivity. She added that the task force will help the University see the big picture as its distinct schools seek to increase inclusivity on campus.

“In recent months many different parts of the University — including each of the respective schools — have formed committees and working groups to address challenges to inclusivity and diversity,” Greenwood said. “In the months ahead it will be important for these different committees and groups to talk to each other and to share information and perspectives. This presidential task force has an important role to play in looking at the Yale-wide picture.”

Greg Sterling, dean of the Yale Divinity School and a member of the task force, said the committee will think broadly when creating new campus initiatives, including by drawing upon les-

sons from the Civil Rights movement and actions taken by other universities.

In discussing Brown University’s $165 million-dollar diversity plan, whose final version was announced on Monday, Salovey said he would also like the task force to look toward the best practices of other universities while formulating ideas.

“I think a useful and productive task for that committee would be to collect the initiatives on other campuses and to understand them at a level of detail that goes beyond the public announcements and then to ask, ‘Are there ideas that would be good for Yale?’ — that would be a great homework assignment for our new task force,” he said.

Sterling said Salovey invited him to serve on the committee likely because he is a professional school dean and his students at the Divinity School played a significant role in campus events of last fall.

Sterling added that the ultimate goal of the task force is to formulate ideas of inclusivity and fit them to the Yale community.

“We did not reach this point overnight and we will not change the ethos at Yale overnight,” he said. “My hope is that we can find ways to change the ethos. I hope that the task force can make recommendations that provide a comprehensive strategy for Yale broadly.

Ultimately, I hope that we can cultivate a community in which we respect one another as human beings and treat one another with the respect that each person deserves.”

Sameer Jaywant LAW ’18, another task-force member, said that before joining the task force, he had worked on issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education, most recently as an undergraduate senator on the New York University Student Senators Council.

Jaywant added that with that experience in mind, he believes the task force holds significant potential.

“I think this task force is a great opportunity to seize on the momentum around this issue, both at Yale and around the country, and reflect on the key areas of change that are needed to enhance inclusion on campus,” he said.

“I personally hope this committee can build on the initiatives announced by President Salovey last semester, and lay the groundwork for an effective longterm strategy that will make Yale a better institution for future generations of students.”

Jaywant added that he will look to his fellow students, particularly those in graduate school, to solicit ideas on how to achieve meaningful diversity and inclusion on campus.

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

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Salovey announced a presidential task force on diversity and inclusion on Wednesday.

Brown announces $165 diversity initiative BROWN FROM PAGE 1 endowed faculty positions, $20 million to co-curricular activities and $25 million to graduate fellowships.

The finalized plan comes as Yale is also taking steps to address similar diversity concerns following student protests and demands last fall. Brown’s diversity and inclusion initiative comes on

the heels of Yale’s own $50 million faculty diversity initiative, announced in November, which will primarily be used to support tenure-track positions for diverse faculty members. Beyond the faculty diversity initiative, the University is also committed to establishing four new tenure track positions for scholars whose studies focus on underrepresented communities, and to

creating a new center on race and ethnicity.

Brown’s financial commitment to the new initiative will constitute 5.5 percent of its $3 billion donation drive, a campaign which will add to the university’s $3.3 billion endowment.

Yale’s commitment is not part of a larger fundraising effort and the $50 million commitment constitutes less than 0.2 percent of

Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment.

University President Peter Salovey told the News Wednesday morning that he has yet to review the details of Brown’s plans. While the financial commitments made in Brown’s plan appear to be greater than those at Yale, Salovey said it is “very challenging” to compare cost estimates of different initiatives, as some allocations are related to a

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school’s annual budget and some are related to the endowment.

Still, he said Brown’s initiative is a sign of an ongoing nationwide trend concerning racism and discrimination on college campuses.

“It’s clear that campuses all over the country recognize that inclusion is an important issue that needs to be addressed at multiple levels – faculty, staff, student, alumni. My sense speaking generally is that the Brown plan is that kind of comprehensive attempt,” Salovey said.

Brown University Provost Richard Locke told the News that Salovey’s call for a “better Yale” last fall did not influence Brown’s actions. Rather, he said Brown’s plan reflects the university’s initial draft and the feedback the university subsequently received.

Still, Salovey said Yale and its peer institutions naturally share best practices.

Locke said Brown settled upon its financial commitment to the plan last summer, adding that the final version of the plan simply explains how the university intends to distribute the money.

Beyond the difference in financial commitment, Brown’s initiative also differs from Yale’s faculty diversity initiative in its scope.

At a recent meeting with graduate students about faculty diversity, Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas said that Yale’s $50 million initiative will primarily be used toward supporting tenuretrack positions for diverse faculty members. In contrast, Brown’s initiative has allocated $100 million towards 25 endowed fellowships, and will also fund two centers and graduate fellowships.

On Wednesday night, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said he had not had the chance

to read Brown’s report on its new initiative. However, he said, there are conceptual similarities between Brown’s initiative and Yale’s own faculty diversity initiative, based on his preliminary understanding.

He also noted some differences, particularly regarding the amount of time Brown spent drafting its initiative. Holloway said Brown had been working on the report for a year before it released its draft for public comment. Yale, by contrast, has not spent as much time conducting a systematic analysis of its previous initiatives, but is doing so now by examining diversity at all levels.

Holloway also noted Yale’s plans to create a scholarly center related to the study of race and ethnicity. However, he stressed that the emphasis should not be placed on comparing the different institutions, but rather on the broad national movement to reexamine diversity and inclusion on college campuses.

Haylee Kushi ’18, who works at the Native American Cultural Center, said it is difficult to imagine that campus diversity issues will be solved by financial initiatives, as many of the problems currently faced by Yale are systemic. However, she praised the specificity of Brown’s initiative.

“It is really good because it is very concrete,” she said. “The biggest criticism about Yale’s response to the protest was that it was very vague and leaves the opportunity for change to not actually happen.”

Yale’s $50 million diversity initiative will span over the next five years.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

SOREN KIERKEGAARD DANISH PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN

Princeton professor discusses free speech

BY LUKE CIANCARELLI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Robert P. George — noted legal philosopher, conservative thinker and Princeton professor of jurisprudence — came to campus Wednesday to speak to Yale students on the topics of academic freedom and liberal arts ideals. During his two-hour talk, George described the dangers modern universities face from intellectual homogeneity, and he called on students to rigorously assess their own positions.

The talk, which was hosted by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale and attracted roughly 60 attendees, focused especially on recent debates surrounding the state of free speech on college campuses — a debate in which Yale took center stage after students protested a controversial email from a University administrator. George, who has worked as an informal advisor to several Republican presidential candidates and who taught Sen. Ted Cruz during his time at Princeton, particularly denounced “group think,” his term for following an established orthodoxy and avoiding true debate. He argued that liberal arts institutions are founded for the express purpose of seeking and loving truth.

“There is a truth, or at least we have to suppose there is a truth — that’s the goal of our pursuit, and so we want to get it, or as near to it as we can possibly get,” he said.

The danger of “group think,” George said, is not that it is unfair, but rather that it is destructive to the very purpose and mission of a liberal arts university. Without an informed discourse, an understanding of one’s own position cannot be achieved, he added.

“Even if the opinions students happened to have acquired in an environment of political correct-

ness happen to be true, students’ ignorance of the arguments advanced by serious dissenters will prevent them from understanding the truth as deeply as they should,” he said.

George gave multiple examples of the negative effects of intellectual homogeneity in his own experience as an academic at Princeton. George cited a story a liberal colleague of his shared with him, in which a faculty selection committee sought to disqualify a candidate based on his views on abortion, as a particularly flagrant violation of the “academic virtues” that institutions of higher education should hold and foster. According to George, this kind of homogeneity hurts not only conservative college students in the minority, but everybody in the university.

His antidote to “group think” and “campus illiberalism,” he said, is intellectual diversity.

He proposed two measures to achieve such diversity: firstly, that there be no discrimination on college campuses based on viewpoint; and secondly, that universities actively encourage their students to be “rigorously self-critical.”

George is recognized as one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers, and his ideas have had notable impact on Republican Party policy. His critics have often pointed to his hard-line views opposing abortion and same-sex marriage.

Throughout the talk, George frequently reaffirmed and alluded to his positions on these topics, citing his colleagues’ intolerance of contrary opinions on these issues as evidence of an environment hostile to intellectual diversity.

At Princeton, George is known for engaging opposing viewpoints in the classroom. He teaches a popular freshman seminar, “Great Books: Ideas and Arguments,” alongside promi-

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Princeton professor Robert George spoke about the danger intellectual homogeneity poses to academic freedom. nent African-American scholar and public left-wing intellectual Cornel West. According to George, the success of his seminar hinges on the intellectual diversity he and his colleague bring to the discussion table. West was also on campus Wednesday evening, participating in a panel discussing “The Politics of Higher Ed in 2016.”

Student opinion on George’s

talk was generally positive.

Alaric Kapf ’19 found George’s talk enjoyable and charitable to dissenting opinions. When asked if he thought the talk was out of touch with the current spirit of Yale’s campus, he said that he thought “the campus was out of touch with it.”

“The two are definitely not in alignment,” Kapf added.

Faculty attending the talk

seemed to sympathize with George’s concern about the lack of rigor in intellectual dialogue on college campuses.

Sociology professor Margarita Mooney ’95 said she found George’s observations reflected in her own experience.

“I see a type of contradiction in my colleagues, where they are willing to advocate for positions they can’t justify are true, but yet

are also willing to use political and economic pressure to enact,” Mooney noted.

According to The New York Times, George once represented Mother Teresa before the Supreme Court in an amicus brief seeking the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Contact LUKE CIANCARELLI at luke.ciancarelli@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Rasmussen to depart RASMUSSEN FROM PAGE 1 sen’s experience is yet another example of an imperfect tenure system that has failed to retain and promote faculty who add diversity to the community through their identities or areas of scholarship.

“My case was assumed to be strong, as I received a unanimous vote from the American Studies Department and was encouraged to submit my promotion file a year early by my review committee,” Rasmussen said. “My promotion was overturned at the divisional committee, for reasons that are not quite clear to me. It is part of a pattern where it is has been difficult for ER&M — and Af Am, and WGSS — to gain consistent institutional support despite increasing numbers of students.”

This semester, Rasmussen’s lecture course, Race and Gender in American Literature, has the highest enrollment of any course in Yale College.

Rasmussen arrived at Yale in 2009 as an assistant professor and came up for review for the associate professor on term position in 2013. Rasmussen’s first book, “Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature” was published in 2012 by the Oxford University Press and was a finalist for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, an award for the best first book in American studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/ or nation.

As per standard procedure, Rasmussen was first reviewed by a committee within the American Studies Department, and then her candidacy was voted upon by the department’s senior faculty in fall 2013. Rasmussen said she received unanimous support from the departmental vote, a claim a senior professor in the department confirmed. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler also said the departmental vote was positive, but said the details of such votes are confidential and are never shared with the candidate.

Following the positive departmental vote, Rasmussen’s case was brought before the Humanities Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee — a body composed of full professors in the humanities — where it was voted down by the committee members. Rasmussen said she received word that she had been rejected by the divisional committee in January 2014.

Rasmussen filed an appeal against the decision in 2014, arguing that the committee failed to address a disability issue which she said forced her to take time off from Yale, but would not elaborate further. However, the ad hoc appeal committee found no irregularities in the review process and her appeal was unsuccessful.

“I appealed my case, but Yale evaluates itself, and decided that it did nothing wrong,” Rasmussen said. Following the appeal’s failure, Rasmussen said she declined an “attractive lectureship” at Yale.

The majority of cases brought before the FAS Tenure Appointment and Pro-

motion Committees pass. Gendler said only 20 of 172 internal promotion cases brought before the committee from fall 2010 to spring 2015 were voted down. And Amy Hungerford, divisional director of the humanities, added that she has seen a “handful” of cases rejected during her three years on the humanities committee.

Although Gendler and Hungerford stressed that details of the committee review are confidential and declined to provide further information about Rasmussen’s specific case, an American Studies professor who asked to remain anonymous said there have been rumors, which Rasmussen said she agreed with, that the humanities committee was concerned about the nine years that elapsed between Rasmussen’s Ph.D. and the publication of her first book. During this time, Rasmussen moved from the University of Wisconsin to Yale and took leaves to have two children as well as for disability issues. Rasmussen said that the University had promised to reset her tenure clock, but went back on the promise.

The American Studies professor said that if these rumors are true, then Rasmussen’s early career and maternity leaves would have counted against her in the committee’s calculations of “productivity” and would represent an act of discrimination against women in the review system.

Rasmussen said her review carried both gender and disability discrimination because she had her tenure clock extended due to a disability, in addition to her maternity leaves.

Hungerford said the committee is always aware of whether candidates have taken a leave off of the tenure clock, which is most often granted for child-rearing, though the reason for the leave is not reported to the committee. She said this information helps the committee judge productivity fairly while upholding promotion standards.

Despite these criticisms of the tenure promotion system, Gendler noted that over the past five years, the turndown rate for men has been higher than for women. She added that the turndown rate for federally defined underrepresented minorities whose promotion cases were brought before the FAS Tenure Appointment and Promotion Committee is 0 percent.

Several faculty members interviewed criticized the Humanities Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee for its lack of expertise in Native American Studies and other areas of ethnic studies. Some also suggested that the tenure review requirements are unfavorable toward professors of diverse identities, backgrounds and fields of study.

“It is astonishing that a divisional committee, a group with little or no experience in interdisciplinary studies or the scholarly fields of racial formations or gender history and theory, would vote to fire Rasmussen after a unanimous vote in American Studies to award her tenure,” the American Studies faculty member who asked to

“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”

JANE WYMAN AMERICAN SINGER, DANCER AND ACTRESS

After tumultuous fall, SAE pledges rise SAE FROM PAGE 1

COURTESY OF BIRGIT RASMUSSEN

Rasmussen will leave the University at the end of this academic year. remain anonymous said.

A senior faculty member of color who recently left Yale citing the University’s lack of commitment to diversity, and who also asked to remain anonymous, said many minority faculty are getting cut at the divisional level because of the humanities committee’s lack of expertise in the study of diversity and ethnicity. The professor added that while many University departments have strong senses of the degree of effort and intellectual prowess needed to accomplish certain scholarship, this “local knowledge” is lost on the divisional level, which imposes universalized external criteria to the review.

But Hungerford refuted claims of biases against or ignorance of ethnic studies within the humanities committee. She said that members of the divisional committee are drawn from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities, adding that in all cases, and by design, committee members would be engaging with scholarship outside their own courses of study.

“The divisional committee — no matter the division — is premised on the idea that the work of any scholar should be legible to senior scholars in their division,” Hungerford said. “Ethnic studies cases would be no further from the expertise of readers in the room than other cases are. In every case, the readers are from fields outside the candidate’s discipline or disciplines.”

Hungerford added that there are widely recognized signs of scholarship distinction that can be applied even in interdisciplinary fields, such as ethnic studies. The committee also relies on expert letters to understand the candidate’s accomplishments, she said.

Rasmussen will take a position at SUNY Binghamton in the department of English, Language and Rhetoric this fall.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

affected this rush class specifically, but we have previously had, and still have, a diverse group of brothers,” Mueller said. “During this process, we’d like to emphasize that and want to establish this class to be as diverse as previous ones.”

Luc Ryan-Schreiber ’17, a brother of SAE who is serving as the chapter’s inaugural diversity chair — a position created in December in response to the campus outrage — said much of his new position involves being a resource to potential brothers seeking to learn about SAE’s culture.

He added that, as a gay brother, he is able to talk and relate to other potential members of the same orientation. He is also available to direct rushes to other brothers if they want to converse with people of different cultures.

“I have already spoken to several individual rushes with questions about being in SAE and what it’s like coming from different backgrounds,” RyanSchreiber said.

When the fraternity has a new incoming class, Ryan-Schreiber said, he will give a presentation about diversity and the values the group holds. He will emphasize that the brothers need to be respectful of everyone, regardless of

background, orientation or religion.

The number of individuals rushing other fraternities has also increased.

Fraternities plan to hand out bids in the next few weeks.

Sigma Chi has seen an increase in the number of rushes compared to past years. Alpha Epsilon Pi President David Ribot ’17 said the number of students rushing his fraternity has increased as well. Sigma Phi Epsilon President Amin Mirzadegan ’17 also said his fraternity’s numbers are largely similar to last year’s, if not slightly higher.

Similarly, former President of Chi Psi Taylor Rogers ’17 said that this year the fraternity has “a much bigger rush list” than before. Chi Psi’s rush process has not changed since the events that took place on campus last semester, and the number of bids — which are scheduled to go out in about two weeks — will depend on the ultimate number of rushes.

SAE generally holds two rounds of rush each year, one in the fall for sophomores and another in the spring for freshmen and sophomores, Mueller said.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Interest in SAE has increased this semester, despite campus controversies last fall.

Malloy proposes controversial budget BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 get for FY17 is technically a set of revisions to the second half of the biennial budget the General Assembly passed last year.

Malloy’s cuts will need to be approved by the General Assembly in the session that opened Wednesday afternoon before they can become law.

A constitutional spending cap that limits year-by-year growth of state spending was first passed

by Connecticut voters in 1992, but legislators have never passed a bill that would give the state government the ability to enforce the cap.

The cap has been traditionally supported by Republicans in Hartford. Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven renewed the call for an enforcement mechanism in a New Haven Register op-ed last November.

In a presentation to lawmakers before Malloy’s speech, State Budget Chief Benjamin Barnes said the budget cuts would necessitate large reductions in the state’s workforce, either through layoffs or attrition.

“I cannot hide that the scale of reduction that we propose will result in many fewer state employees, and it is an open question as to how much of that reduction will be accomplished through attrition and how much will accomplished through other means,” he said. “But it is likely to be a combination of both.”

Barnes said the state will need to reduce spending on agency operations by at least 15 percent over the next two years, adding that the means of reaching those “deep reductions” will be discussed with legislators.

In remarks to the state House of Representatives, House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said Connecticut’s difficulties are the product of the state’s slow recovery from the Great Recession and ensuing economic downturn.

Though unemployment has fallen since its peak five years ago, he said, incomes have stagnated, depleting Connecticut’s tax base and depriving the state of crucial revenue.

The data backs up Sharkey’s claim. Barnes noted in his presentation that employment growth from 2011 to 2015 was roughly the same as it was between 2004 and 2008. But he said average annual wages grew 16.9 percent in the latter period as opposed to 5.6 percent in the former.

Malloy’s proposals met a negative response before he even spoke to the General Assembly. In an interview with CT-N Wednesday morning, Fasano criticized Malloy for his nontraditional approach to the FY17 budget.

In previous years, Fasano said, the governor has presented the General Assembly with a lineby-line budget, allowing legislators to make cuts on a line-item

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basis. This year, however, Malloy drafted a block-grant budget Fasano described as the product of mismanagement by the governor’s administration.

“Now, we’ve abrogated our responsibility under the governor’s plan,” Fasano said. “This has never happened before; I don’t agree with the governor’s form of budgeting, and I think it’s because we’re so far in the hole.”

Malloy’s budget was also criticized by a group that will prove

crucial for the future of the state’s finances: public labor unions. In a statement released just after Malloy finished his speech, the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition — which represents all 45,000 state workers — said the budget’s proposed cuts could prove disastrous.

Xavier Gordon, president of Council 4 AFSCME, the largest trade union of public employees in the U.S., said the budget represents the political mantra

that “politicians won’t have the guts to ask the rich to pay their taxes during an election year.” In the SEBAC release, he called on Connecticut’s legislators to raise taxes on high earners to alleviate income inequality and relieve working-class residents of their high tax burden.

Malloy said he plans on negotiating with SEBAC and the teachers’ unions to reach a solution in the coming months. Those negotiations, he said, will be based on

“what we can afford, not what we previously spent.”

Malloy can claim one victory, however: Barnes said the governor has no plans to tap into the state’s rainy-day fund to balance the budget. Tapping into the fund at the current moment, Barnes said, would be an “awful” idea.

Contact AMY CHENG at amy.cheng@yale.edu and NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” HAROLD GENEEN AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN

C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N

Hotelies confront provost on College of Business

BY JOSH GIRSKY STATUS LINE Almost 150 students from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration descended on Willard Straight Hall Tuesday evening to voice their concerns about the new Cornell College of Business at an open forum led by Cornell University provost Michael Kotlikoff.

Many of the students, who first gathered outside Cornell’s Statler Auditorium before walking to the forum, had previously opposed the creation of the business college. However, with the Board of Trustees’ authorization of the new college, some hotel students said they now hoped the hotel school would retain its core elements under a new umbrella college.

“This is not a protest or a march. This is simply a sign of solidarity amongst hotelies moving forward, because the college of business is already a done deal,” said David Outlaw, one of the organizers of the march. “We want to make sure that the hotel school is taken care of moving forward, that we’re not sacrificing that camaraderie and the closeknit network that we have as hotelies, both as students and alumni alike.”

The group was led out by Colton Haney, one of the event’s organizers, who spoke to the crowd about their goal of showing the administration how much hotel students and alumni valued the school’s distinct character.

“We are here to maintain the integrity of our school regardless of what college you put us in,

what group yo u put us under,” Haney said.

“We will always and forever be the [CorCORNELL nell] School of Hotel Administration.”

After the students entered Cornell’s student union building, Willard Straight Hall, Kotlikoff gave a 30-minute presentation on what the new college of business would look like to the full audience. He tried to alleviate student and alumni concerns by saying that the merged schools would maintain their unique identities.

“Critically, part of this plan is not just to bring [the three schools] together into one college but also to maintain the identity and focus of those schools,” Kotlikoff said.

“That’s important because as people hear about this, the first thing they think about is the school’s identity is going away.”

He continued, saying that while many students and alumni called the administration’s actions in creating the college of business unilateral, the administration decided that they first needed to “get this rolling” before allowing people to help plan and shape the college.

“That’s a very inclusive community-oriented effort to say let’s engage, let’s solve this problem,” Kotlikoff said in an interview with The Cornell Daily Sun after the open forum. “We had to get past this issue of ‘Are we going to do it or not?’ and that’s what we tried to

do and I think that’s very sensitive to the community.”

While many hotel students opposed the integration of the hotel school into the college of business, Kotlikoff said he had also spoken with many hotel students who were excited by the opportunities that a college of business could offer them.

“I’ve heard students who say that they’re deeply engaged in the hospitality industry and they want that hospitality focus, but they also want the most rigorous and advanced business opportunities,” Kotlikoff said. “The ability to access that across this university is an advantage to most students.”

At the forum, Gordon Sander, former artist-in-residence at Cornell’s Risley Residential College, said the way the administration announced the college of business revealed a lack of transparency that is reminiscent of Cornell in the 1960s.

“The way that you have gone about this really looks terrible to the outside world and to the larger Cornell community,” he said to administrators present. “Basically, it reminds me of the way the administration used to work back in the 1960s when the administration decided for one reason or another that something was good for Cornell, then presented it fait accompli. It reminds me of the worst aspects of the old days.”

Many students who spoke were also concerned that their voices would not be heard as plans for the college’s progress.

“Much of the dissent, at least speaking from a hotelie perspec-

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Colton Haney ’17 leads a group of hotel students to express their concerns about the new College of Business. tive, was the fact that there wasn’t a lot of discussion and it seemed like the student voice was not heard,” Haney said. “How can we ensure the student voice will be heard?”

Kotlikoff responded by highlighting the student committees that will inform the development of the college of business.

“We have to make sure that these committees operate with transparency to the student bodies from which they come,” he said. “All of this will be an open,

clear process.”

Many students also voiced concerns that the unique aspects of the individual schools would be compromised with the merger of Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

“One of the things that a lot of kids in the agriculture programs are concerned about is that every time there’s a reorganization, the

[agriculture] part of the [agriculture] school gets smaller,” said Ben Young.

Soumitra Dutta, current dean of the Johnson School, said the creation of the college of business was decided with consideration for the future.

“What we strongly believe is that we have to do our best to preserve the strengths [of the individual schools] and at the same time look to the future,” he said. “The college of business by necessity cannot become generic.”

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Student body expansion, transfer program announced

BY ZAYNAB ZAMAN P r i n ce to n Un ive rs i ty announced its strategic planning framework, recently adopted by its Board of Trustees, on Tuesday.

The framework will focus on the university’s commitment to research and the liberal arts, with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, affordability and service, and includes plans to accept transfer students, expand student body and create a seventh residential college.

“The vision that is expressed in the strategic framework document is one that I own wholeheartedly and am delighted to have the trustees putting forward,” university President Christopher Eisgruber said.

The framework identifies the university’s strategic priori-

ties, such as ex pa n d i n g the student body and developing new facilities to betPRINCETON ter support engineering and environmental studies.

In light of the university’s mission as a residential liberal arts research university, priorities such as expanding the graduate school are also being considered.

Among other plans, the report states that the university will institute a small transfer admissions program for the first time since 1990, in order to attract students of diverse backgrounds, including military veterans and low-income students who may have begun their post-secondary careers in community colleges.

The first set of transfer applications will be considered as early as September 2018.

Specifically, it states that the board has authorized the administration to begin planning for the addition of 500 more undergraduates, 125 students per class.

To accommodate these students, a seventh residential college will be constructed.

The plan also provides for the establishment of an interdisciplinary initiative centered on environmental studies to combat climate change and other globalscale phenomena, the continued expansion of its faculty in computer science, statistics and machine learning and increased support for student entrepreneurship.

To provide resources for the initiatives, the board authorized the administration to pro-

pose an increase to the spend rate, currently at 4.12 percent of the endowment, that would take place over fiscal years 2017 and 2018.

Eisgruber noted that different sections of the framework will be implemented on different time frames over the next few months and years, but did not provide a specific range of time, citing the complexity of the decisionmaking process.

“Where we can do things immediately, we will try to do them immediately; other things will happen on whatever time frame is needed in order to get them done right, because it’s very important that we do that,” Eisgruber said.

Noting that the last strategic plan was issued over 15 years ago, Eisgruber explained that many layers of planning went into the

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He said the board suggested that it will look at and potentially revise this plan at least every four years to allow for flexibility, and that the framework is designed to be flexible and revisable.

He noted that although the board considered reports from campus task forces while preparing the plan, the initial reports by the task forces have not determined which recommendations will ultimately be implemented.

Eisgruber added that there were a number of decisions, particularly those regarding finance, that fell more under the Board of

Trustee’s jurisdiction. Eisgruber added that the framework set a basis for judging future initiatives, by comparing the costs and benefits of pursuing a proposal.

While this framework concludes an intense period of strategic planning process, the campus planning process is ongoing, Eisgruber noted, and the two frameworks intersect in areas such as the increase of undergraduate admissions and its relation to student housing.

“There are planning processes that will start immediately for the expansion of the undergraduate student body, but there’s no way we can expand the undergraduate student body until we build more residential housing,” he said, adding that the progress on campus planning would influence the implementation of strategic planning framework.

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“The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.”

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Bulldogs load up on talent FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 10 Prior to this year, Eiselen said, he did not play American football, instead participating in rugby and competitive weightlifting. He had been watching football for three years, but had not played before coming to the U.S. “I attended the Yale camp in July and got offered there before I played my first game. I committed to Yale a week later,” he wrote in a message to the News.

“I never would have thought that I would be in the position that I am now. I originally applied to do the postgraduate year so that [I] could play a season and hopefully earn a scholarship off of that, but thankfully Yale came knocking early.”

Many of the other recruits interviewed, including those who also received FBS offers, singled out Yale’s academics as the deciding factor in their decision.

Alan Lamar, a two-star running back out of Mississippi, hopes to go to medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon after graduating college.

Despite his eye-popping statistics — in his senior season, the tailback ran for 2,372 yards and 38 touchdowns — Lamar did not receive many offers from large FBS schools. Once he decided to attend an FCS school, he said, it came down to finding a school that would accommodate both his football and career aspirations.

“With all the Ivy Leagues, you have a great education,” Lamar, who received preliminary offers of support pending a holis-

tic admissions evaluation from five other Ivy League schools, said. “It came down to the people. I really liked Coach [Derrick] Lett and Coach Reno. I felt like they can help me grow as a football player. It was kind of a nobrainer.”

Lamar also had the opportunity to speak with a former Yale football player who went on to medical school and then a career as a surgeon. Calling it “a really good experience,” Lamar explained that the alumnus showed him how he could go from being an undergraduate to being a doctor while playing football.

Like Lamar, Sterling Strother, a three-star offensive tackle from Northern California, had to determine what type of college he wanted to attend before selecting a school. The 6-foot-5 tackle, one of six recruits from California, received offers from FBS schools such as Cal, Vanderbilt and Army, in addition to interest from multiple Ivy League schools. Yale was among the earliest, but not for football — Yale men’s basketball head coach James Jones initially recruited Strother to join his team while the tackle was a sophomore in high school.

When Strother decided the following year to play football in college, Yale again came calling. Strother returned to campus last spring, visiting Harvard and Princeton on the same trip. He left New Haven sold.

“It was heads and shoulders above Harvard and Princeton,” Strother said. “I don’t mean to bag on Harvard or Princeton or

their character, but I found Yale was a much closer family environment and had much greater trust between everyone. It’s another cliché, but it’s less of a business, more of a brotherhood.”

Though he had offers from other Division I schools, Strother said that if he were to remove football from the equation, he believed Yale was the best fit for him. The fact that Yale offered the possibility for him to be a “true student-athlete,” Strother said, helped him narrow his choices.

Three-star defensive end Charles Callender was also able to take his pick of the Ivy League.

The son of two Harvard graduates and the brother of a current Columbia student, Callender’s final list included Harvard, Penn, Columbia and Yale. After visiting each of them, Callender decided to become a Bulldog, crediting the way Reno runs the football program.

“Considering I didn’t have any criteria when I visited, I went by what felt right and thought about the opportunities each program could give me,” Callender said.

“My dad and I both thought that Yale’s way of running its football program and the fact that it’s Yale, academically, is an amazing opportunity.”

Daramy, Callender and Strother, along with defensive tackle Josh Keeler, offensive tackle Lucas Tribble and wide receiver Reed Klubnik, are Yale’s three-star recruits, according to 247sports.com.

Joining them is an intriguing prospect in JP Shohfi, a wide receiver from Southern California who set the all-time record

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for most receiving yards in a season by a high-school player this year. Shohfi’s 2,464-yard, 122catch season broke an 18-yearold mark, though it inexplicably led to just one Division I offer: Yale.

Shohfi and Lamar, McLaughlin wrote on Signing Day, are

ECAC shows competitiveness, parity HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 as renovations of RPI’s Houston Field House and Yale’s Ingalls Rink in 2007 and 2009, respectively. According to Appert, the end result of these program changes was increased appeal to student-athletes.

That appeal has made its mark on the ice: After having no teams make the Frozen Four between 2006 and 2011, the ECAC broke into the national semifinals in 2012, 2013 and 2014, winning national championships in 2013 and 2014. “[The ECAC is] markedly different in competitiveness and professionalism than it was when I first walked in the door … and it seems like every year the level gets a little bit tougher,” Yale head coach Keith Allain ’80, who took the helm in 2006, said in December.

Indeed, this year may be the toughest one yet.

STRENGTH

On Jan. 3, the then-No. 1 and defending national champion Providence Friars, a member of Hockey East, made the two-mile trek to Brown. The top-ranked team in the country left Meehan Auditorium three periods and an overtime later, having been not only defeated, but significantly outshot and decisively outplayed by a Brown squad that currently sits in the basement of the ECAC Hockey standings.

“I think a lot of times, that’s how you can evaluate a league: How good are some of the bottom teams?” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said.

“Our league is really good at the top and it’s really good at the bottom. We’ve got some great talent and top-to-bottom, it’s an outstanding league.”

On the other extreme of the table, the conference’s wealth of ranked teams includes No. 1 Quinnipiac, which holds the top spot in both polls.

Harvard, which did not make a single NCAA Tournament appearance between 2007 and 2014, is currently the No. 7 team in the country.

The conference’s prominence has positioned it well for postseason relevance. Sixteen teams make the NCAA Tournament, including six conference tournament champions, who receive automatic bids. The other 10 are determined by the NCAA Tournament selection committee, which utilizes the PairWise Rankings, an algorithmic ranking system whose exact details are not publicly known but are well-approximated by USCHO. Currently, the ECAC has six of the top 16 teams in the PairWise — more than any other conference and a significant jump from its mark of three before the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Tournament.

“I think this season we’re pushing to be the best conference in college hockey,” Pecknold said. “We have so many teams in the run for the top spots

two of the “most underrated and explosive offensive players in the nation.” Though he also highlighted Columbia’s incoming class, McLaughlin, who has covered national college football recruiting since 2008, labeled Yale’s class the best in the Ivy League yesterday.

“They have some dark horse candidates for big honors,” McLaughlin said. “You have the top quantifiable recruits in the same class. It’s got everything as far as I’m concerned.”

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Harvard and Yale, the No. 7 and No. 11 teams in the country, will square off on Saturday night. in PairWise, and had a lot of success nonconference.”

In fact, only three ECAC teams hold a sub-0.500 mark in nonconference play, and multiple teams scored highprofile wins in those games. Quinnipiac owns twin victories against No. 3 St. Cloud State University, defeating the Huskies 5–2 and 4–1 in October. Cornell recorded a win against No. 6 Providence during a trip to the Florida College Classic and a tie with No. 9 Boston University, which Yale defeated just before the winter break.

As the schedule has turned from nonconference to ECAC play, it has become apparent just how competitive the conference truly is as its teams battle one another each weekend.

PARITY

A quick look at the top and bottom of the ECAC standings might not do much to back up Pecknold’s words about the strength of the bottom of the league.

His Bobcats sit undefeated in the conference and first in the PairWise, seemingly a world away from Brown, which has lost two-thirds of its league games.

But a longer analysis of those teams’ play on the ice — and that of teams from across the league — tells a vastly different story. Seven of Quinnipiac’s 14 conference contests, and eight of Brown’s 15, have been one-goal games or ties.

Leaguewide, more than half of ECAC games — 51.8 percent — have ended with the teams separated by just a single or zero tallies. By contrast, Hockey East, which owns five of the top 16 PairWise teams, has had 42.7 percent of its conference games end up that close.

The National Collegiate Hockey Conference, holding four of the other five top-16 spots, has seen just 29.7 percent of intraconference contests fall into that same category.

And when the ECAC’s first and last place actually faced off against each other, Brown outshot the current No. 1 team in the country 11–4 in the ini-

tial frame. In that contest, a 3–0 Bobcat win, the two teams each managed an equal 20 pucks on net. In other onpaper mismatches, Quinnipiac beat 11th-place Colgate by just a single goal, and just a day after defeating 10thplace Princeton 6–0 in New Jersey, the Bobcats had to claw back from a twotally deficit before knocking off the Tigers again in Hamden.

“I think it’s certainly something that’s noticed by the coaches and players,” Harvard head coach Ted Donato said. “On any given night, we’re playing against teams that have great nonconference records and have the talent to be able to beat you and knock you off.”

Directly below Quinnipiac is a veritable logjam of teams, making the ECAC as a whole as tight as any conference in the country. Just six points in the standings separate second-place Harvard and eighth-place Clarkson, a small enough gap that more than half the conference could swap positions in only three games.

And as the postseason looms ever closer, the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th spots in the PairWise are all held by ECAC teams, highlighting just how close play across the league has been — and how competitive the final four weekends of the regular season are shaping up to be. “[The parity] is challenging, but it makes you better,” Appert said. “As a coach, you embrace it. It prepares you for the [postseason] because if you take a period off on the weekend, you’re going to lose.”

The ECAC’s 12 teams will try to avoid that fate when conference play resumes on Friday. The day’s slate is highlighted by two ranked matchups, including No. 20 Dartmouth at No. 11 Yale.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu and DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

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Harvard and Yale, the No. 7 and No. 11 teams in the country, will square off on Saturday night.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 dent-athletes.”

Forward Meredith Boardman ’16 said Guth was able to paint a clear picture of what life would be like at Yale during the recruitment process — capturing the unique balance of campus culture, academics and basketball that Yale offers. In her previous role as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, Guth helped recruit all four members of the team’s senior class, as well as junior players Lena Munzer ’17 and Katie Werner ’17, whom she brought to campus for unofficial visits in her final year at Yale.

[Guth’s] students know how much she cares about each of them.

TOM BECKETT Yale Director of Athletics Players interviewed commended Guth’s broader understanding of the Yale experience as well as her support of players beyond the basketball court.

When guard Clara Mokri ’18 displayed her work in a photography exhibition, not only did Guth and her wife attend, but the coach also made the event a team outing. On Thanksgiving, when players could not return home

due to the ongoing season, Guth hosted a holiday dinner for the team.

“While she does expect commitment to basketball, she still values and respects our time,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “She is so interested in what we do outside of basketball. She really encourages us to develop as people, and by keeping us accountable on the court, she is teaching us lessons that can be applied off the court as well.”

Players credit their improvements on the court to their strong relationships with Guth.

Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16, who has more than doubled her scoring average from last year and is now fourth in the Ivy League with 15.4 points per game, said Guth always asks players for their opinions on practices or specific plays.

She added that mutual, honest feedback is a crucial component of her coaching style. Having an open relationship and giving constructive criticism would not be possible without the trust the team has built, Guth said.

“We have improved so much this year in our individual skills and as a team, and we are playing our best basketball since I’ve been here in large part because of her leadership,” Wyckoff said.

The Bulldogs are currently tied for fifth in the Ivy League standings with a 2–2 conference record.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS In this week’s NCAA men’s hockey U.S. College Hockey Online poll, Union — which holds a 3–7–4 conference record — received four ranking points. Cornell, which holds just a 0.500 conference winning percentage at 6–6–2, is a ranked team, clocking in at No. 17.

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Yale’s newest recruiting class includes six three-star recruits, two of whom will join cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 on defense.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER This Wednesday, National Signing Day, thousands of high school football players across the country formalized their commitments to Division I universities by signing National Letters of Intent. The 29 members of Yale football’s class of 2020 were not among them.

Still, despite the Ivy League’s prohibition of athletic scholarships — a prerequisite for a National Letter of Intent — and the absence of postseason play, Yale football head coach Tony Reno and his staff have quietly put together one of the strongest classes in recent Yale history.

“To me, what jumps out is when you’re getting kids who could’ve played in bowl games. Yale’s getting kids who could’ve played in the [Football Bowl Subdivision],” Brian McLaughlin, a senior writer

currently covering Football Championship Subdivision recruiting at HERO Sports, said. “We all know they’re going to Yale, obviously, for academics. They could play in bowl games, but since they’re choosing to play in the Ivy League, they’re not even going to the FCS playoffs.”

This year’s class includes athletes from three countries and 15 different states, according to a compilation of recruiting sites, Twitter and news clippings. It also features one national record holder and at least five three-star prospects, according to the recruiting website 247sports. com.

Yale coaches are not allowed to comment on specific recruits at this time, per NCAA regulations. The team will officially release its recruiting class later in the spring, once all the athletes have formally matriculated.

Though the recruits come

from diverse backgrounds, four of them have congregated in Wallingford, Connecticut at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school at which the players can take a postgraduate year before entering college.

Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen, linebacker Alex Abelite, defensive tackle Julian Fraser and wide receiver Abu Daramy played together on an undefeated Choate team that went on to win the New England Division A championship this past season.

“I’ve never been a part of a team this good or this tightknit of a brotherhood. This team was something special,” Daramy, a three-star recruit, said.

Originally a recruit for the class of 2019, the 5-foot-10 speedster took a postgraduate year in order to get his test scores up to Yale’s academic standards. Daramy will be retaking the ACT on Saturday in an attempt to raise his score.

At first glance, that may seem unusual. But both of those teams, along with No. 11 Yale and nine other schools, compete in ECAC Hockey, which has become a dominant force in the NCAA hockey landscape in the last three years.

That competitiveness is perhaps more apparent now than ever, with the conference currently laying claim to four of the top 15 teams in both major national polls.

The ECAC’s rise, its current strength and its atypical parity can be traced to a recommitment to collegiate hockey from its members themselves, and a motivation for reform that originated a decade ago right down the road

Despite the presence of one final hurdle, Daramy expressed excitement at the possibility of attending Yale and said he knows he needs to take advantage of all the opportunities he has been afforded.

“These coaches have had my back since the first day they called me and said, ‘Abu, we liked your tape and we’re going to look at it some more.’ Then they called me in June and said, ‘We want to offer you,’ and ever since then, they’ve stuck with me throughout the whole process,” Daramy said. “That’s how, when I committed to Yale, I knew it was the right place.”

Daramy’s recruiting process has now been going on for over a year. Eiselen, his Choate teammate originally from South Africa, has had a much shorter process.

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At the end of the 2004–05 season, Vermont left the conference to join Hockey East, and the ECAC welcomed Quinnipiac as its new 12th team. The Bobcats were in the midst of a major investment into their sports programs, highlighted by the 2004 groundbreaking for its TD Bank Sports Center, a $52 million complex housing a basketball court and a hockey rink.

According to No. 14/15 Rensselaer head coach Seth Appert, Quinnipiac’s dramatic entrance sparked a major reinvestment in the league, spurring multimillion-dollar projects and program renewals across the conference.

“Almost every team has made an upgrade to their commitment level, whether that be in facilities, financial aid [or] coaching staff [since Quinnipiac joined the conference],” Appert said. “Through that, our league has gradually become the top league in the country right now.”

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No. 11 Yale and No. 1 Quinnipiac are two examples of nationally competitive teams in ECAC Hockey, which has proven to be a conference on the rise.

Guth a hit among Yale players

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND LISA QIAN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Scrolling through the images on Yale women’s basketball head coach Alison Guth’s Twitter feed, it is no easy task distinguishing the coach from the players. In pictures showcasing jokey Christmas attire and playful selfies, the first-year coach is camouflaged, fitting right in with her team.

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The Bulldogs have taken a liking to head coach Allison Guth, the 10th head coach of women’s basketball in Yale history, in her first year.

Guth served as an assistant coach at Yale for two years before leaving in 2012 to be an assistant coach at Northwestern, whose teams she grew up supporting from her home in the Chicago suburbs. But when former Yale head coach Chris Gobrecht announced last spring that she would depart to coach at Air

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Force, the vacancy created an opportunity for Guth to return to New Haven. Since assuming the head coaching position, Guth has become more than just a coach for the 11–10 team — she has developed close bonds with the 15 players, six of whom she personally helped recruit to the team.

“It was always an idea to be a head coach at a strong academic program, and the Ivy League was of intrigue and attraction to me specifically because of the people that I met here,” said Guth, who walked onto the women’s basketball team at Illinois before earning a scholarship. “I believe so much in this University and the athletic department and it was always a dream job.”

Although Guth has held multiple coaching positions at three universities since graduating from Illinois in 2004, she has also developed her ability as a mentor through efforts off the court and

outside of the locker room.

In her first stint in New Haven, Guth served as a resident fellow for Swing Space, an experience she said gave her a better understanding of what her studentathletes experience. There, her roles included planning study breaks, resume review sessions and mock interviews for undergraduate students. In addition to her Bachelor of Science degree in business, Guth earned a master’s in educational leadership from DePaul while simultaneously serving as director of basketball operations. “[Guth] is an outstanding teacher and communicator,” Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “Her students know how much she cares about each of them. [Guth] has earned their trust and confidence.”

He added that the athletics department is thrilled to have Guth on the sidelines, and that

she has a “very promising future” as a head coach.

During her time at Yale, Guth worked on all recruiting efforts for the team, a task she believed should be “relationship-driven.”

Guth got to know both players and their families throughout the recruiting process, which she said helped develop a feeling of mutual trust with incoming Elis.

“I got to see through different lenses what students’ lives are like here, how amazing and incredible an opportunity it is to be a student at Yale, all the opportunities [they] have that also draw [their] attention in so many different directions,” Guth said. “It helped open my eyes because I got to see the challenges and the opportunities my student-athletes go through. [It] helped me connect to my stuSEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

THE NUMBER OF ECAC MEN’S HOCKEY TEAMS, OUT OF 12, THAT ARE CURRENTLY RANKED AMONG THE TOP 16 TEAMS IN THE NATION, ACCORDING TO THE PAIRWISE RANKINGS. Yale is ranked 13th, but can improve significantly with wins over No. 7 Dartmouth and No. 15 Harvard.