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Yale-NUS admin speech sparks debate

Moolah en Mass. A recent

Bloomberg article profiled Bracebridge Capital — a Boston-based hedge fund run

by Nancy Zimmerman that, according to Bloomberg, is “generating huge profits for Yale.” Bracebridge has gone from $5.8 billion in assets to $10.3 billion in four years, making it the largest hedge fund run by a woman in the world.

Cruz control. At a New Hampshire campaign event, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz said that, if elected, he would reverse the policies of “sanctuary cities,” such as New Haven. Sanctuary city policies include welcoming undocumented immigrants with official ID cards.

Longer MCAT, with upped focus on social sciences, gets positive reviews PAGE 5 SCI-TECH

Spanish dept grad apps plummet

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senting adult men even in a private setting. Prior to Chan’s comments, more than 10 delegates from different countries such as France and Norway suggested Singapore repeal Section 377A and any legislation that discriminates against people on grounds of sexual orientation. In

The Spanish and Portuguese Department received just 19 applications to its graduate program this year — less than half of its usual application numbers — as it continues to struggle with internal controversies.

Following a six-month review of the department’s climate in light of long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power against several senior faculty members, University administration instituted a series of changes at the start of this term, including the appointment of a new director of graduate studies from outside the department and a ban on the recruitment of new graduate students until faculty members attended sexual harassment training. That training took place on Jan. 19, and the ban has now been lifted. While faculty and students in the department said they are waiting to evaluate the effects of these changes, the significant decrease in applications suggests that the department has an urgent need to repair its reputation within the wider academic community. Professors and graduate students interviewed overwhelmingly agreed on one point: The department needs to revamp its faculty.

“Unfortunately the pool of graduate program applicants is very, very small, and the candidates are not very promising,” Spanish professor Anibal González-Pérez GRD ’82 said.

“The recruitment of new professors at assistant

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War of (Wood)words.

Longtime Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s ’65 remarks about 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” sparked controversy earlier this week. “She shouts. There is something unrelaxed about the way she is communicating,” Woodward said. Later he apologized for “dwelling on the tone issue.”

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After Chan Heng Chee sparked debate at Yale-NUS while defending Singapore’s sodomy law, students spoke out.

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER A speech delivered by Chan Heng Chee, Singapore’s ambassador-atlarge who also serves on Yale-NUS’s governing board, sparked a heated debate at the young institution after she defended Singapore’s sodomy law.

Speaking to a group of delegates at the 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review in Geneva on Jan. 27, Chan defended Singapore’s decision to uphold Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code. Section 377A, also referred to as Singapore’s sodomy law, criminalizes sex between mutually con-

At least it lasted for 72 hours.

Despite official groundhog Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of an early spring, a snow storm is set to hit eastern Connecticut today. The heaviest snowfall will occur between the hours of 4 and 10 a.m. Forecasters have also predicted heavy wind gusts of up to 30 miles per hour.

Hbd Fb. Facebook, the

company started by thenHarvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg in his dorm, celebrated its 12th birthday yesterday. The social media site marked its anniversary by creating custom friendship videos for users. The hashtag #BeforeFacebookI also surfaced on Facebook and Twitter as user recounted their lives before the popular site was created.

Who run the world? Earlier

this week, the Ivy League celebrated NGWSD — National Girls & Women in Sports Day. This year marks the 30th annual celebration of NGWSD, which is commemorated in all 50 states.

D’Attilo case reaches hearing

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The Connecticut couple who won a record-breaking $25 million in a 2003 lawsuit against the doctor who severely injured their newborn son’s brain was back in court Thursday morning, accusing the lawyers who won their case of defrauding them of millions in legal fees.

In the halls of the Hartford Superior Court, Dominic and Cathy D’Attilo attended a public hearing that will determine whether the state will reject or accept their plea against Kathleen Nastri, one of several attorneys at the acclaimed medical malpractice firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder whom they claim behaved fraudulently and misrepresented the financial terms of their agreement.

Dominic D’Attilo and his wife Cathy won an enormous sum in 2012 after their son Danny was born with permanent brain damage and a shortened life expectancy due to a mismanaged delivery. But during the legal proceedings that brought

them justice for their son’s injury, the parents allege that seven attorneys unlawfully took $4.34 million from their $25 million settlement fund. The parents’ civil complaint, which was lodged in the New Haven Superior Court in February 2015, appeals to a 1986 state law that limits how much attorneys can charge their clients in legal fees.

“The documentary evidence establishes that the [attorneys] acted in concert to defraud the D’Attilos out of millions of dollars,” reads the civil complaint.

From its beginnings in the New Haven Superior Court, the D’Attilos were advanced to the Statewide Grievance Committee in Hartford — which will decide the case within 60 days — for Thursday’s hearing. The couple argued that their attorneys failed to document over $600,000 in litigation expenses, on top of the $4 million they charged in legal fees. But when the D’Attilos

Financial aid deadline may move up

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The deadline for incoming and current Yale students to apply for financial aid may come earlier next year as a result of the U.S. government’s decision to consider earlier tax returns in calculating federal student aid.

In September, President Barack Obama announced that students will be able to file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid using tax information from two years prior, beginning in October 2016. Before the change goes into effect, students can only file for aid using prior-year data, which is only complete after Jan. 1 of the current year. Students submitting

documents before the new year have to base their application on income estimates from the year that had not yet ended. The switch to considering prior-prior year data will allow students to submit their data sooner and will enable financial aid offices to draw on a more complete picture of students’ finances in assembling their award packages. The changes will go into effect for students enrolling in college during the 2017–18 academic year.

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said the changes can streamline the process by shifting the federal financial aid timeline back SEE FINANCIAL AID PAGE 4

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SCC Presents: Mask’d. Clad

in black tie attire and masks, seniors will dance the night away at the Senior Class Council’s annual Masquerade Ball this Saturday evening.

Tickets for the event sold out in late January.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1990 City and state leaders, including Mayor Jon Daniels and Rep. Bruce Morrison LAW ’73, speak to an audience at Yale, calling on the University to divest holdings in companies that do business in South Africa in an effort to end apartheid rule.

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Refugees gear up for winter

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Leslie Koons tossed a container of oatmeal across two tables in a classroom on the second floor of New Haven’s Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services building on Nicoll Street Thursday.

“How many of you have eaten oatmeal before?” she asked the audience.

IRIS staffers then handed out cups of oatmeal to the people dispersed around the room. For many, this was their first taste of what Koons called a “cheap, super healthy” meal.

Along with IRIS social worker

Amanda Bisset, Koons — IRIS health and wellness programming coordinator — led over 30 refugees in a wellness class geared toward safely navigating a Connecticut winter. For many of these refugees — who hail from countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria — this winter is their first in the United States. The winter health and safety class is part of a monthly wellness series that Bisset leads. The attendance for Thursday’s class was nearly double the number of attendees that the series usually draws, Bisset said.

The refugees discussed nutrition, SEE REFUGEES PAGE 6

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ost Yalies do not, I imagine, spend much time contemplating whether men and women should be permitted to live in the same suites.

Those who avail themselves of the liberty must support it; those who do not, care little that others do. But there is a portion of us, though not a very public one, who besides not living with members of the opposite sex, think it an outright impropriety to do so. There are good reasons for this, and a decent case that Yale should provide these students, a minority with a compelling interest, with special accommodations — including, perhaps, single-sex colleges.

Many of these students are religiously conservative (though some are not). This is not to say they would sooner vote for a muskrat than a Democrat.

Rather, their self-constitutions and identities are informed by 1,000-year-old traditions believed to originate in the will of God. The three most common religions at Yale — Christianity, Islam and Judaism — all link sex to marriage, defined as union of man and woman before God. Many religious communities separate the sexes for education during youth. Some restrict even nonsexual touching before marriage, and many retain a code of modest dress and behavior — explicit or not — for males and females.

Religious activity and experience, involving a struggle to locate oneself in the cosmos and behave according to that placement, is one way many people at Yale seek meaning. If less fraught activities — hooking up drunk, to name just one — are tolerated and pursued with the same intention, religious observance should be as well.

But perhaps the fervid secularist is not persuaded. Religion is unreasonable, he might object, and there’s no sense in cordoning living space for those suffering under its delusions.

It is perhaps noteworthy that the first biblical discussion of men and women — the story of the Garden of Eden — precedes any mention of a covenant, or any ongoing relationship between God and man the word “religion” evokes. That is, even the Bible sees prereligious differences between the sexes.

And, indeed, the systems of religious law distinguishing the sexes can be supported by nonreligious arguments.

All people naturally desire their own preservation and continuity, achieved through union with a member of the opposite sex. Humans are conjugal animals. As Aristotle writes in the Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics, “human beings form couples more naturally than they form cities, to the extent that the household is prior to the city, and more necessary.”

The special friendship between men and women, which we call

marriage, involves not just childbearing, but also the “benefits in their life. For the difference COLE etween ARONSON bthem implies that their Necessary functions are divided, & proper with different ones for the man and the woman.”

Much social science — not to mention everyday experience — confirms that differences exist. They manifest themselves sometimes subtly, sometimes not. Men and women behave differently around one another — anyone who’s ever walked into a room populated entirely by members of the other sex knows it to be an experience quite different from walking into a room populated by members of the same sex. Everyone tenses.

Some sense, which not even the most progressive cultural mores can quash, is heightened when men and women encounter one another in any setting.

Many religions have rich theologies of the sexes going beyond what is observable and thinkable to anyone using only his reason. And these theologies can sound extreme. They have often been used to justify unpardonable oppression of women.

But while today’s culture treats men and women similarly, it denies the differences religious traditions sought to protect and beautify. And there are many believers, male and female, who find traditional mores to be more meaningful than a culture denying anything essential about manhood or womanhood. It is perfectly coherent to think that women should vote, work and have the right to divorce their husbands without thinking they are not different from men.

Traditional sexual mores have been questioned in recent years, though I imagine they will weather the challenge. But this is a university, and arguments should stand or fall by reason, not by convention. This includes arguments about personal practices. It’s time for a new discussion about human sex, accounting for the differences most cultures and religions — and each of us — seen between men and women. And it’s time that those with conservative mores are given a space to live in accordance with them — in halls of men or women who see their companionship with the opposite sex properly reserved to certain spheres of life, and not to others.

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column usually runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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The stories we tell

t Yale, we like to tell stories. Namely, our own stories. Whether preparing for job interviews or reciting our “bios” at senior society, it’s safe to say that we Yalies are conditioned to create narratives for ourselves.

We like having a map that tells us where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re going. Our story gives us reference to ourselves, something that helps us navigate the world and make choices. That is, some coherent conception of self that we can hold on to.

That isn’t to say that our conception of self is flattering or based in narcissism. We dig deep, engaging in self-analysis with the same scrutiny that we would analyze anyone else. It’s an admirable trait, and often a brutally honest one. We’re not afraid to construct unflattering narratives, or create stories for ourselves in which we are flawed protagonists.

But as different as each of our stories may be, we still have our own, and we generally tend to cling to them. It’s a habit that’s a byproduct of our campus culture as much as the result of the types of people we tend to be.

I remember my freshman year, the first question I was always asked after my name and college was “what do you do?”

From the time I was writing my Common App essay until now, Yale, and I suppose, life in general, has forced me LEO KIM to refine and constantly On us think about my story.

This process does have its benefits. Self-knowledge in this form is certainly a good heuristic to determine preferences or predict your own behavior in the future. It also serves as a good point of self-reflection: to figure out what motivates you and what you care about.

But with these benefits also come the dangers of a fixated adherence to your story. No life progresses linearly, and at certain points, your story may break down. You may be left to navigate your life without a map to guide you.

This is a sentiment I felt when I first got to Yale, when my own story, like those of so many others, diverged from its projected plot. I’m sure this is a sentiment that may be familiar to some here on campus. After all, a consequence of so much talent being in one place is that there will always be top debaters who

fail to make it on the Yale Debate Association, or former varsity athletes who stopped playing their sport.

FROM THE MOMENT I WAS WRITING MY COMMONAPP ESSAY UP UNTIL NOW, YALE AND I SUPPOSE, LIFE IN GENERAL, HAS FORCED ME TO REFINE AND CONSTANTLY THINK ABOUT MY STORY And as a junior with the precipice of the “real world” starting to dawn on me, I’ve begun to get the odd feeling that something similar will happen again soon.

In my three years here, I — like so many others — have constructed a handy little new nar-

rative that pieces together the fragments of my previous story before college with my new experiences that I have made here.

But I now know something else. The ability to cope with the inevitable break from your own narrative is vitally important.

Being unable to take advantage of what you have at your disposal in the present — due to some set future you had planned — is inflexible, and only causes distress.

Stories are certainly good, and often necessary to help steer one’s life. But they shouldn’t be things we depend upon — they shouldn’t be things that we desperately cling to when the plot changes.

So when someone asks “Who are you?,” it’s fine to respond with “I don’t know.” After all, our stories aren’t — in a deep sense — real. They’re constructs that we form for ourselves, and they’re only as real as we choose to make them. We shouldn’t be shackled to our personal narratives because in reality, it’s us who have complete power over them, rather than the other way around.

LEO KIM is a junior in Trumbull College. His column usually runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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ost folks, when they are asked whether $1 million is a lot of money, will answer yes. Still more people are impressed by $1 billion — as they should be. But try asking them what the NASA budget ought to be. How much money does a large government agency need to survive from year to year? Five billion? Ten? These questions aren’t particularly sexy, and indeed most Yalies don’t really care about them. And that’s fine. We don’t need an entire college campus to scrutinize the minutiae of federal accounting. What concerns me, however, is why Yalies don’t concern themselves with these types of questions: an antipathy toward mathematics.

As John Allen Paulos writes in his book “Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences,” it’s not socially acceptable to say that you’re “bad with words.” No selfrespecting politician would be caught dead suggesting that we should cut back grammar instruction in schools. Yet, as recently as 2012, The New York Times published a piece suggesting that algebra — arguably the basis for most of mathematics — wasn’t so important.

Similar sentiments can be found all around campus. How many times have we heard, “I’m not a math person?” In course

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reviews, complaints about mathematical rigor are common. It puzzles me that students are willing to SHREYAS adopt such mentality.

TIRUMALA aThere seems to be an instiRhyme and tutionalized fear of quanreason titative reasoning — and it’s not just tolerated, but celebrated. I’ve heard students take pride in getting through high school and college without taking calculus. The number of people who chuckle at their inability to perform basic mental math is equally strange. It’s not that I think calculus is particularly useful for most people, but it’s concerning that a significant contingent of Yalies find it acceptable to go four years without doing much more than arithmetic.

So, how much mathematics do we need to know? I obviously don’t think that everyone needs to be able to spell out the divides between Bayesian and frequentist statisticians. I’ll even admit that learning how to take a partial derivative is probably a lot less practical than learning how to write an essay. I do, however,

The Real Yale Corporation I am writing in response to the first installments of what is to be a four-part series on the members of the Yale Corporation.

The Yale Corporation is the University’s secretive, autocratic governing body, a group completely unconnected from Yale students, yet one that makes so many of the major decisions governing this University. Most Corporation members have run companies or institutions — like Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan or TransCanada — that are destroying our planet or widening inequality. Worse, these men and women often guide this University in ways that help their own bottom lines. For instance, when Yale expanded into Singapore in 2011, three current or recent Corporation members had direct financial ties to that country’s repressive government. Any series about the Corporation that fails to dwell extensively on these facts is doing readers a grave disservice.

The first installment was a laudatory profile of Margaret Marshall LAW ’76. This piece — which quoted Marshall as saying she takes student input “very seriously” because of her background as a student activist in South Africa — completely failed to mention the fierce criticism she faced following her appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court for consistently benefiting from the racist structures she claimed to oppose.

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think that a good grasp of orders of magnitude — and some general numerical intuition — is important.

Take the NASA example I brought up earlier. As of 2016, NASA’s budget is a little less than $20 billion. That sounds like a huge sum indeed — which may be why its budget has been shrinking as a percentage of the federal budget for the past few decades. In fact, politicos often tout their fiscal prudence when they salvage billions of dollars for the American public. But this is incredibly misleading. NASA’s supposedly huge budget is a meager 0.6 percent of the federal budget. Why? Because the federal budget is a whopping $3 trillion. Let’s put that number into perspective.

A million seconds is about 12 days; a billion seconds is about 32 years. One trillion seconds is almost 32,000 years.

Understanding basic concepts of mathematics, such as the huge difference between a billion and a trillion, is a crucial prerequisite for meaningful policy discussions. I hope every economics major on campus, for instance, understands how much revenue can be generated or lost by even a 1 percent change in tax rates.

Yalies shouldn’t be able to graduate without being able to tell when numbers just don’t add up.

This is why Fermi approxima-

against her nomination. It failed to mention her decades of work at corporate law firms, representing clients like the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which, with Marshall’s help, successfully defeated a graduated income tax that would’ve helped low-income families. It barely mentioned her tenure as Harvard’s general counsel, during which she was widely criticized for allegedly whitewashing investigations into discrimination. Finally, it failed to note the galling hypocrisy of a woman claiming to take student input “seriously” yet working for a body unelected by students that meets just a handful of times a year and makes its decisions behind closed doors; the hypocrisy of a woman who heroically opposed apartheid working for a group that delayed divesting from South Africa for years because at least four Corporation members had direct financial ties to the apartheid government.

The second installment was even more offensive. Indeed, in its very first sentence it called Charles Goodyear IV ’80 a “business titan” and a “servant to the University.” Goodyear, a spoiled, wealthy triple-legacy at Yale, is the former CEO of BHP Billiton, a fossil fuel company that

tions should be considered more than just another topic to learn before a McKinsey interview.

WHAT CONCERNS ME, HOWEVER, IS WHY YALIES DON'T CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH THESE TYPES OF QUESTIONS: AN ANTIPATHY TOWARDS MATHEMATICS I don’t think that the majority of Yalies are inept at mathematics. It’s clear, however, that many are indifferent to basic mathematical literacy. That QR requirement is far less scary than you think.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

has lobbied hard against carbon pricing. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of Anadarko, yet another fossil fuel company. Thankfully, and commendably, it mentioned these connections and the criticism of Goodyear for serving on the Corporation, a body that has declined to divest from fossil fuel companies, possibly as a result of Goodyear’s and others’ financial connections to the fossil fuel industry. But it was spent most of the article quoting University officials’ vapid statements about Goodyear’s “extremely thoughtful” service to Yale and reprinting Goodyear’s own bland pronouncements. The article did not delve deeply into the financial motivations that may undergird Goodyear’s tenure on the Corporation; it did not mention at all the allegations of immense harm wrought by the companies Goodyear has led.

I sincerely hope that the final two installments of this series will bring a more critical eye to examining this powerful institution, one about which Yale students know so little.

SCOTT STERN The writer is a 2015 graduate of B ranford College and a former staff columnist for the News.

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New position aims to unite Yale vets

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, FEB. 4

The article “New bakery rises on Chapel” erroneously credited the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce for a $10,000 grant; in fact, the grant came from the city.

The article “Another ethnic studies prof departs” incorrectly stated that Professor Birgit Brander Rasmussen had a disability issue that forced her to take time off from Yale. In fact, Rasmussen did not take time off, but had her tenure clock extended due to her disability.

A photo that ran on page A8 of the News with the story “Guth a hit among Yale players” was incorrectly attributed.

In fact, the photo was courtesy of Yale athletics.

Law school not concerned by decline in applications COURTESY OF MICHAEL MORAND

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER A decline in applications to top law schools nationwide may not be a concern for Yale Law School.

A Jan. 26 article published by Bloomberg News said that over the past five years, the number of applicants to the country’s top 20 law schools — as ranked by U.S. News and World Report — saw a median drop of 18 percent.

The article also highlighted that applications to Yale Law School declined by 13 percent during the same period. Despite the dip in application numbers, though, Law School spokeswoman Janet Conroy said the volume of applications received by the school in the past five years has remained “within the school’s historical range.”

According to reports from the American Bar Association, the number of applicants to the Law School dropped from 3,173 in 2011 to 2,767 in 2015. The class size, however, remained constant at around 200 each year. The GPA and LSAT performance of admitted students also remained stable, according to the ABA. “The biggest drivers of the decline in law school applications nationwide have been the shrinking of the private legal employment market, combined with the rising amount of debt among law school graduates,” Asha Rangappa, associate dean for admissions and financial aid at the Law School, said. “We are fortunate to still have more qualified applicants than we can accept, which has allowed us to keep our class size the same.”

Students’ fears about incurring debt when high-paying jobs are not as plentiful also contributed to the trend of declining applications, said Wendy Margolis, director of communications for the Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT. Yet, Margolis said the latest data shows that as of Jan. 29, the number of ABA applicants — students applying to law schools approved by the ABA —

increased over the past year by 0.9 percent and total ABA applications increased by 0.1 percent.

Sarah Zearfoss, senior assistant dean of admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, told the News that the law school applicant pool nationwide decreased by half between 2004 and 2014, and last year’s pool alone saw a 20 percent decrease in number of applicants who scored high on the LSAT. “Thinking arithmetically, one has to deduce that a decrease of that magnitude necessarily results in a different selection process for any or every school.”

Zearfoss said. According to the Bloomberg article, Michigan has slashed its first-year class size by 26 percent since 2011.

Changes to the selection process can be readily apparent and not, Zearfoss said. For example, more obvious changes in how schools admit their students can include smaller class sizes, lower median LSAT score requirements or fewer women and fewer ethnic minorities admitted to law school. Schools may also make compromises based on “soft factors,” such as work experiences and undergraduate education background, Zearfoss added.

She added that the changes in the selection process will be smaller if a law school has a smaller class to begin with and enjoys a high yield rate.

Still, Conroy said the Law School has not changed its policies or recruitment efforts in any way.

Yale Law School students interviewed said they are not surprised by the decline in application numbers.

Valerie Comenencia LAW ’18 said she heard more students attend graduate or professional schools when the economy is not performing well and they cannot secure a job. Now that the economy is picking up, it is reasonable that fewer students apply to law schools, Comenencia added.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER When Elizabeth Verardo GRD ’16 first came to Yale as a student at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs in 2014, straight off her second deployment to Afghanistan where she flew Apache helicopters, she was worried she would have trouble fitting in among Yale’s cloistered classrooms and students who had never been in a war zone.

Now, the University has created a new position designed to help veterans like Verardo adjust to University life. On Monday, University Provost Ben Polak announced the appointment of Jack Beecher MPH ’84 to the new position of veteran liaison, effective Feb. 1. Beecher — a New Haven native who ushered at the Yale Bowl in the 1960s, fought in the Vietnam War in the Air Force and later earned his Masters in Public Health from Yale — has worked at the University for decades in the Child Study Center, the School of Medicine and most recently as senior director of professional schools and academic support. As veteran liaison, he will be responsible for helping Yale’s veterans access services and resources both on and off campus. His appointment comes at a time when the University is taking a renewed focus on its veteran community, including partnering with a nationwide organization to increase the number of veterans studying on campus.

Verardo, who is now president of the Yale Student Veterans Council, said she thinks the new position will centralize the many disparate veteran groups

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at Yale, including the Eli Whitney Students Program, the Yale Veterans Association, the Yale Veterans Network and the Student Veterans Council.

“We’re paddling in the same direction, but this helps us come together,” Verardo said.

The idea of creating a veteran liaison began with Polak, who after discussions with Beecher finally asked him if he would like to fill the role. Beecher, who is retired, agreed to take on the part-time position. He will report directly to Associate Vice President for Human Resources Donna Cable.

Polak said Yale does not know the exact number of veterans at Yale, as veterans selfreport their status.

“Jack is especially suited to this job,” Polak said. “He is himself a veteran, and he has long experience at Yale. No one knows Yale better than Jack, and no one is more widely respected.”

Beecher said that when he began working at Yale 27 years ago, there was very little in the way of awareness of veterans who worked or went to school here. Gradually over the years, with help from Linda Lorimer — then the vice president for global and strategic initiatives — veterans at Yale began to see more resources and commemorative ceremonies. In 2001, Lorimer increased the prominence of Veteran’s Day ceremonies at Yale.

The reinstatement of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program on campus in 2012 — after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — further heightened the visibility of the military at Yale.

“From that day forward, the visibility of vets on cam-

pus increased,” Beecher said. “[Promoting veterans’ resources] is something that has been very near and dear to me.”

Verardo said Yale has been a pioneer among other top-tier schools for its work with its veterans. Though her transition to University life was significant, Verardo said the people she has met at Yale have been curious about her experiences and generally positive.

But the University is still looking to increase veteran representation. Beecher said he will meet soon with Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan about expanding the veteran population in the student body.

Eli Whitney student Rob Henderson , who served in the United States Air Force before coming to Yale, said that although Yale is making progress, most of his veteran friends are in the graduate school, and he wishes the undergraduate veteran community were larger.

“It might be nice to have a community and more of a peer-to-peer network. It can be a little bit isolating for some of us,” Henderson said. “It does seem like Yale has been making an effort to bring more vets to campus, slowly.”

Henderson also cited VetLink, a nationwide initiative that identifies qualified veterans and help them attend toptier schools, as an organization that is effectively working to send more veterans to schools like Yale after their military service. Yale announced its partnership with VetLink last June.

ROTC member Sierra Jackson ’18 said that although there are not many undergraduate

veterans, she is in contact with several who are Eli Whitney students. Jackson emphasized the importance of veteran role models to students like her who are entering the military.

Still, Henderson was enthusiastic about the resources available to him as a veteran.

Questions about how to best spend his GI Bill money and where to find affordable housing in the city are issues he enjoys discussing with fellow veterans and Eli Whitney students, he said.

Yale has deep ties to the military, Beecher said, adding that Yale’s commitment to military service is returning. From 1988 until around 2000, Beecher said there was little or no interest about the military status of people at Yale, a climate that reflected most of American society at the time. Now, he said, Yale is beginning to realize that the military aligns with Yale’s commitment to service.

The leadership skills and life experiences that the military teaches can make Yale a better place to work and study, he added. However, not all veterans identify as such, and Beecher said Yale can better communicate with its veteran population and help to “normalize” being a veteran on campus.

“This is just a beginning,” he said. “I think things at Yale evolve, and we’re trying to test and understand the community and what the needs are.”

Yale’s most prominent war memorial sits on Hewitt Quadrangle and was built in 1927 to honor the Yale alumni who died during World War I. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Committee streamlines student elections

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Jack Beecher MED ’84, who served in Vietnam, will serve as Yale’s inaugural Veteran Liaison.

In preparation for the April election of a new student to the Board of Education, New Haven’s Committee on Student Elections met Thursday afternoon to determine exactly how the process will look.

The meeting of the committee, charged with handling all matters relating to the election of student representatives to the board, was the latest in a series of meetings that have taken place throughout the winter. Those meetings, committee member and Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said, are part of the process of learning from and correcting the mistakes made in the first student elections, held in June 2015. The committee is composed of a wide range of members — alders, representatives from the public schools and Mayor’s Office and the two students who currently hold nonvoting seats on the Board of Education. The students, a junior and a senior, are elected by city high-school students for two-year terms every other year, and sit on the Board of Education to offer a student perspective on resolutions.

Thursday night’s meeting dealt largely with the procedure for addressing alleged violations of the campaign

rules in the coming election.

The current guidelines for the elections state that candidates are responsible for all actions related to their campaign. But some committee members questioned how to tell whether a violation of campaign rules was, in fact, committed by a person related to the campaign.

One such violation includes taking down a candidate’s campaign posters.

“I wouldn’t call it fair for [the candidate] to be blamed if it was a friend, and if they didn’t know which friend,” said Kimberly Sullivan, a senior at the Sound School who was elected to the Board of Education in June. “Last year, I had flyers torn down, and it was kind of like ‘What are you going to do?’

You don’t know who it was, and you can’t make assumptions — you weren’t there at the exact minute.”

Greenberg said the investigating body for any alleged violations of the campaign guidelines is the Committee on Student Elections, which he said will be able to use its discretion to determine whether an action was undertaken by a campaign or by an outside actor.

Joe Rodriguez, the mayoral representative on the committee, wondered whether the guidelines would provide an enforcement mechanism. He

said any rules passed by the committee should also include measures providing for ensuring they are carried out.

Among the items the committee considered was the system for reporting alleged violations of campaign guidelines.

Sullivan suggested that complainants should remain anonymous to the candidate, but that the school should know the complainants’ identity.

Greenberg said he sees both drawbacks and benefits to keeping complainants anonymous.

“I see reasons both for and against making this what it would look like in an election with electors,” he said. “It might prevent frivolous complaints, but I see reason against it because the people who are complainants are minors.”

In setting up the student elections, the committee has sought to maintain an equity between all candidates. In the 2015 election, the Board of Education provided 5,000 campaign leaflets for each candidate; this year, that number will fall to 2,000, according to New Haven Public Schools Projects Manager Suzanne Lyons. Lyons said the 5,000 leaflets the school district provided to each candidate last year proved to be too much, and many of the flyers sat in her office for months.

She said 2,000 is a more realis-

tic figure, given the scale of the campaign.

Coral Ortiz, an elected student representative to the Board of Education and a junior at Hillhouse High School, emphasized the importance of ensuring that all candidates are on an equal playing field.

“I want to make sure it’s fair,” she said. “I don’t want it to be so that the person who has the most resources is the person who wins.”

Ortiz proposed that the committee institute a spending cap on the race, but Rodriguez said such a cap would be difficult to enforce.

Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12, who has chaired the committee since its inception and guided the student election process over the past two years, said Thursday night’s meeting will likely be her last on the committee.

Eidelson’s current place on the committee comes from her chairmanship of the alders’ Youth Services Committee, which Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate recently took over.

Eidelson said she has briefed Wingate on the student elections process and that he will likely come to the committee’s next meeting.

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

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“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.” WALTER BAGEHOT JOURNALIST

After tax change, aid deadline could move earlier FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 1

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The changes to the FAFSA will make it more aligned with the college application calendar.

by three months, aligning it more closely with the College Board’s application cycle.

Having the data available earlier will allow administrators to consider a full year’s income data rather than simply an estimate.

“Students can give us everything we need sooner,” Storlazzi said. “We hope to be able to push back the application procedure for continuing students so that we can get a jump on the needs analysis.”

Storlazzi added that considering prior-prior year information will save his office hours of work, as financial aid officers will not have to go over applications again once the data has been finalized.

To assemble aid packages, Student Financial Services uses a formula to estimate how much aid students will receive from the government. SFS then factors this estimate into its own financial aid calculation. However, Yale financial aid officers must go back after the student submits updated data and confirms the informa-

tion to finalize the aid package. Since the federal government will accept the FAFSA from Oct. 1 this year, Yale will be able to calculate the packages using finalized information.

Some colleges and universities nationwide have floated the idea of moving their admissions deadlines up to correspond with the earlier start date on financial aid, Storlazzi said. However, Yale’s application deadlines will remain unchanged in the 2016–17 academic year, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan.

Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on student financial aid who has testified before Congress about federal financial aid policy, said the shift to prior-prior year tax information will be beneficial for families and administrators alike.

“There may be some bumps in the road as people get used to the new system, but I expect that people will really like the fact that it’s better aligned with the college calendar,” Kantrowitz said. “It’s an easier process,

and this is just the first step in increased simplification.”

The new regulations may adversely impact families that posted higher incomes in the prior-prior year. Since the income reported on the FAFSA is meant to be representative of income during the school year, only one year can be considered, and families whose income has gone down may not receive aid that reflects their most recent financial circumstances.

However, Kantrowitz said families whose yearly income fluctuates wildly from year to year may be able to appeal to colleges to have a different year considered or submit an average of incomes from several years. Overall, he said, administrators will have more time to spend helping students with unusual financial situations which require individual attention.

“There’s going to be a lot less stress on the financial aid office,” he said.

Nearly 2,800 undergraduates currently enrolled at Yale are on financial aid.

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

Yale-NUS students mixed over ambassador’s remarks YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 her speech, Chan responded by explaining that the rationale for retaining the status quo, citing Singapore’s largely conservative society and the government’s position not to proactively enforce the sodomy law. Created by the U.N. General Assembly in 2006, the UPR involves a review of the human rights records of all U.N. member States every four and a half years.

Chan’s comments caused a split among Yale-NUS students shortly thereafter. Some students called for Chan’s removal from the school’s governing board, while others said a removal would be unfair because Chan was speaking as a Singaporean ambassador, not as a governor of the college.

“Yale-NUS may be beholden to the laws of Singapore, but we do not have to accommodate the government’s official position on gay rights within our own leadership ranks,” Nicholas Carverhill YNUS ’17 wrote in a Feb. 3 op-ed in The Octant, a YaleNUS student publication. In the same article, he said that if YaleNUS is to create an inclusive community, it cannot have leadership that actively advocates for policies contrary to the school’s commitment of inclusivity, as Chan did last week. Carverhill declined to provide further comments to the News.

The sodomy law — codified into the Singaporean Penal Code in 1955 — has been a source of contention in the country for decades. On Oct. 22, 2007, the Singapore government passed a bill to protect and maintain the

law. On Oct. 29, 2014, a Singaporean Supreme Court ruling upheld Section 377A, stating that it does not violate the country’s constitution.

At Yale-NUS, The G Spot — the school’s main student group raising awareness on issues of gender, sexuality and feminism — issued a “Statement of Concern” on Feb. 1, following Chan’s speech. According to the statement, The G Spot was contacting the Yale-NUS administration to request a closed-door dialogue with Chan on issues related to her comments at the UPR. Yale-NUS students interviewed said the issue has sparked heated discussion on campus, especially among activists for LGBTQ rights. Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis affirmed that Chan is a “lively and positive force” on the governing board. “[Chan] has been an integral member of our governing board, and a firm believer in our mission and vision to build a community of learning, where all viewpoints are heard and a respectful understanding of different opinions and beliefs is encouraged,” Lewis said.

Three Yale-NUS students interviewed asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the issue. One student said most at Yale-NUS agree that Chan’s message at the UPR was in a spirit contradictory to Yale-NUS’s core values of equality and nondiscrimination, but that the student body is split on whether Chan should be blamed for delivering a government message. Some Yale-NUS students openly requested for

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Chan’s resignation from the college’s governing board because as a Singaporean ambassador, Chan cannot help but speak on behalf of the government, whose views might contradict those of the Yale-NUS community, the students added.

The student said others who opposed Chan’s resignation said forcing her to do so would also set the precedent that Yale-NUS cannot have any government representatives or civil servants on its governing board, as these figures would be required to speak for the government regarding controversial issues.

The student said they would be sorry to see Chan resign simply because she fulfilled her government job, adding that Chan’s role as an ambassador does not necessarily conflict with her role as a member of the school’s governing board.

“Calling for Chan’s removal is naïve and demonstrates a lack of understanding of local politics,” said another anonymous student. Changes in Singapore often stem from within, as opposed to through extreme means such as advocating for someone’s removal from office, the student added.

The student said that removing Chan from the governing board, after she “toed the party line” at an international forum, is not an effective way to fight for LGBTQ rights, adding that Chan’s removal would be more appropriate had she spoken in favor of Section 377A outside of a government capacity.

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Yale-NUS students were divided in their reactions to Chan’s comments. but did not comment on whether they will be taking administrative action.

Sara Amjad, Yale-NUS’s director of diversity and inclusion, said students responded to Chan’s comments in different ways because of their diverse backgrounds. She added that she

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is meeting students individually and helping them unpack their thoughts and consider action steps.

Chris Bridges, Yale-NUS’s new dean of students, said the conversation is still unfolding on campus. He added that his office fully supports the debate, par-

ticularly as reflections and conversations are key steps before actions, if any, can be taken.

Chan served as Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S. from 1996 to 2012.

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Mixed support for Bulldog Rewards

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Five months after launching fan loyalty program Bulldog Rewards, the Yale athletic department continues to modify and promote the app to increase its popularity on campus.

The program rewards users with points, redeemable for one of five different prizes, if they attend athletic events and interact with Yale athletics on social media.

The application’s goal is to increase student support and excitement for Yale teams, Associate Athletic Director for Marketing Patrick O’Neill told the News when the program debuted. But it is unclear whether marketing efforts have been successful thus far in reaching the Yale population.

“Not much of the student body knows about the app,” Zachary Danker-Feldman ’17, co-director of fan engagement for the Whaling Crew, said. “Whenever I bring it up in conversation with other students, they’re generally surprised to hear about it.”

Danker-Feldman is one of several non-athletes involved with the Whaling Crew, a student organization that prides itself in supporting Yale athletics. Even within the group of “sportscentrics,” Danker-Feldman said, some members still are not aware of the app’s existence.

Of 38 students interviewed — 23 of whom said they attend Yale sporting events at least once per month — just 11 had heard of Bulldog Rewards, and only five had downloaded and used the app.

Senior Associate Athletics Director Jeremy Makins

said that the department is “very happy” with the program thus far. He added that the athletic department is still learning how to improve the configuration and marketing strategy of the program, which is operated by fan loyalty company FanMaker. Improvements include increasing the number of points that fans get for attending events, adding Bluetooth beacons to more venues and making schedule listings more complete, Makins said.

This weekend, the athletic department will publicize Bulldog Rewards by giving away promotional items at the Yale men’s basketball game against Columbia on Friday. Fans who check in to the game via Bulldog Rewards will enter drawings for a Samsung television, an iPad Mini and a Bose Bluetooth speaker.

Approximately 250 people had signed up for Bulldog Rewards by the first week of September, O’Neill said shortly after the service’s launch. Makins, who is now in charge of Yale athletics promotions, said that since then, the app’s member base has grown but would not specify how many people are currently enrolled.

Students who frequently use the app suggested potential improvements to the program that could increase its user base.

Yuri Gloumakov GRD ’20 said he wished the program offered more interesting rewards. Currently, the program’s prizes are $25 gift cards to three different New Haven restaurants and two Yale athletics T-shirts.

“The gift cards are cool but you can’t buy an exclu-

sive shirt,” Gloumakov said.

“If there is actual pretty cool stuff, like a signed jersey or a special-edition item, it would be more cool and people would have more incentive [to use the app].”

Danker-Feldman said the app should also consider offering attendance points for more sports. During the winter sports season, users receive points for going to home basketball or hockey games.

Students also questioned whether the prizes provide enough incentive for students who do not regularly attend sporting events to begin going to games.

Yale gymnast Sloane Smith ’18 said the app acts as a reward for students who are already frequent supporters of Yale athletics, but does not attract new students to go to events.

Anya Malik ’19 expressed a similar sentiment, noting that because she does not normally attend sporting events, she did not think she would need the app.

“Since you need a significant number of points to redeem for even the lowestvalued prizes, users need to attend a significant number of matches to be able to get a prize,” Danker-Feldman said.

“For casual fans, this doesn’t provide much value, but for those who follow Yale sports closely, this is a great incentive.”

The Yale-Columbia men’s basketball game on Friday night is the most valuable event this weekend, with 400 points available for those who attend.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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Premed students expressed positive views on the new MCAT.

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER As this year’s medical school applicants receive interview offers, Yale’s premedical community has had the opportunity to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of last April’s changes to the Medical College Admissions Test. Students interviewed said the revamped test, which focuses more heavily on the social sciences while still measuring proficiency in the natural sciences, reflects a shift in the medical profession toward a more socially as well as medically conscious job force.

The MCAT — which prior to April 2015 tested prospective medical students on biology, physics, verbal reasoning and general and organic chemistry — has been lengthened from 3 hours and 20 minutes to 6 hours and 15 minutes in order to accommodate the additional examination of introductory psychology, biochemistry and sociology. The new format of the MCAT also places an increased emphasis on verbal reasoning while reducing the focus on physics. Although many students interviewed expressed frustration at the increased duration of the test, most said they feel the changes represent a positive step toward a more holistic and accessible profession.

Premed sociology major Laura Garcia ’16, who is currently preparing to sit for the MCAT next May, said she feels the changes indicate an understanding within the medical community that modern doctors require a knowledge base and skill set that surpass expertise in the body’s biological processes.

“While more material covered in the exam does intensify the preparation needed for it, I think it’s a great and welcome change,” Garcia said. “It ensures that every premed learns basics about disciplines other than the sciences. It also emphasizes that medicine and practicing it well requires understanding that a patient is infinitely more complex than their biological and chemical makeup.”

Premed music major Leah Meyer ’18 described the recent changes to the exam as positive and necessary given the profession’s increasing emphasis on each patient as an individual rather than as a collection of biological systems working in tandem.

Meyer added that the changes to the examination will require future doctors to become more keenly aware of each patient’s societal and socioeconomic context in addition to their medical status, a development that she believes will over time lead to a gradual increase in professional standard of care in the United States.

“Emphasizing that you have an understanding of the human condition as well in a nonmedi-

cal sense doesn’t detract from [a doctor’s competence]. In fact, it enhances it,” Meyer said. “I think that all around, [the new MCAT format] puts an additional strain on students, but I think that what it might do is have a student take a sociology class who wouldn’t otherwise … But the fact of the matter is that we’re not lowering our standards. We’re just recognizing that there’s a sphere in which we have room to expand and it’s going to improve the care that we give.”

Premed History of Science, Medicine and Public Health major Joyce Wang ’17, who is also currently preparing for the new exam, emphasized that while the MCAT now requires additional expertise in the social sciences, the natural sciences continue to remain at the heart of the test, and the “substantial human component” of medicine is recognized by the MCAT.

The MCAT exam has not changed since the early 1990s, but science and medicine have changed dramatically since that time.

KRISTIN MCJUNKINS Director, Health Professions Advisory Program She added that she does not feel that the test’s increased length will affect the number of college students who apply to medical school. She noted that, in her view, those students passionate enough about medicine to have seriously considered such a lengthy career path will see the end goal as worth the additional time and effort.

Kristin McJunkins, the director of the Health Professions Advisory Program at the Office of Career Strategy, echoed Meyer’s sentiments that the changes to the MCAT are linked to the evolving nature what is expected of aspiring physicians. McJunkins added that in spite of developments in biomedical research, the changes to the MCAT are the first in roughly 20 years.

“The MCAT exam has not changed since the early 1990s, but science and medicine have changed dramatically since that time,” she wrote in an email to the News. “The decision to update the exam was not made lightly, and while no standardized test is ever perfect, it is only one piece of the admissions process, along with many other factors and competencies considered by admissions officers.”

McJunkins added that many medical schools had changed their admissions requirements to be in line with the MCAT, and

that as a result, she did not expect that the changes to the MCAT will in themselves affect students’ course choices. She also stressed that the MCAT does not stipulate that students study its subjects in college, and that some students elect to study certain subjects outside of the formal classroom.

Most students interviewed said that the changes to the MCAT did not significantly impact their course choices at Yale, given that several of the subjects added to the test last April are already required for admission to many medical schools.

However, Sukriti Mohan ’17, a premed student in Yale’s combined Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Health program, said the new content of the test did influence her course decisions during her time at Yale.

She expressed enthusiasm, however, for the changes and said that the extra subjects are important for students applying to medical school.

In particular, she noted that the broader societal perspective afforded by study of sociology is useful for medical professionals because of the way it teaches them to think about how certain populations are more or less likely to face certain health outcomes.

But Mohan added that she does not believe that the increased focus on verbal reasoning and the social sciences will place premedical students majoring in the humanities or social sciences at an advantage as compared to their science-major peers.

“If you’re really knowledgeable in topics covered by your major, you might be less knowledgeable in another, and vice versa,” Mohan said. “I don’t think the tendency at Yale is really to major in something that will help you on the MCAT. There are simply so many courses for each major, and you forget so much material by the time you actually take it.”

Mohan said students usually take on majors that they will enjoy, which they believe will strengthen their overall application holistically or which overlap with premedical requirements, allowing them to explore other classes at Yale.

Christine Xu ’18, a premedical molecular, cellular and developmental biology major, said she believes success in the MCAT is mainly linked to each student’s degree of preparation for the test itself than to their enrollment in any particular major program, noting that she does not believe students majoring in the humanities have a head start on their competitors when taking the test.

McJunkins said the breadth of courses offered at Yale prepares premedical students well for the MCAT, regardless of which major they choose to pursue.

The MCAT has been computer-based since January 2007.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON PHILOSOPHER

Twelve years in, D’Attilo case reaches hearing HEARING FROM PAGE 1 brought their case before the court, the court offered to merely reprimand a few of the lawyers and settle the case.

Legal malpractice attorney Howard Altschuler, who is representing the D’Attilos, said his clients oppose this deal. Altschuler said a decision in the defendants’ favor could negatively impact others who use the state’s appeals courts system.

For Altschuler, the outcome of Thursday’s hearing will determine “the public’s confidence in the integrity of the attorney discipline system in Connecticut.”

The Thursday hearing lasted nearly three and a half hours, with both Altschuler and the Koskoff attorney speaking for an hour each.

“There’s a lot riding on this case,” Altschuler said. “For them to settle this is seriously bad.”

Altschuler cited past instances when the Koskoff firm has been accused of overcharging legal fees. He added that it is very difficult for him to speculate on how the state grievance committee, which is composed of two volunteer attorneys and one citizen, will decide.

Evidence Altschuler presented to support the D’Attilos’ case

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includes the earnings of one Koskoff attorney who usually earns around $23,000 from each case they work on. This attorney was found to have made $68,000 from the D’Attilo case.

Tensions flared on Thursday as attorneys on both sides of the case repeatedly interrupted each other. At one point during the hearing, the committee had to take an unscheduled recess to calm down.

“I wasn’t giving ground,” Altschuler said.

Altschuler said he is adamant that Connecticut’s grievance filing system is in need of reform, adding that he hopes this could

be the case that sparks further investigation into the state’s system.

Amid the confusion of the public grievance system, Altschuler is seeking legislative ways to fix systemic problems in how grievances are filed and appealed. Earlier this month, he met with Connecticut state legislators, who said they would be requesting that the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee hold a hearing on the state’s entire grievance system.

“This is a new area of law,” he said. “There’s no guarantee about what happens.”

Chief Disciplinary Counsel Karyl Carrasquilla — who over-

sees the state office that keeps legal records of Connecticut lawyers — said that once a panel in a local jurisdiction finds “probable cause” in a grievance, it is referred to her office. For cases with probable cause, the Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s Office has the legal authority to investigate and prosecute the case on behalf of the state. If no probable cause is found, the grievance must be dropped.

Carrasquilla said she could not comment on the hearing. She added that there is no way to predict how a case will turn out.

“It depends on the case,” she said. “There’s not a normal.”

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For the D’Attilos, Thursday’s hearing is another chapter in a yearslong legal battle that began with the birth of their son, who is now 13.

Altschuler said the D’Attilos appear to be the victim of a system of attorney self-regulation that is turning a blind eye to allegations of unethical conduct.

“This is difficult for them.

They’ve been through a lot,” Altschuler said. “This is all supposed to have been resolved.”

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Refugees prepare for cold weather REFUGEES FROM PAGE 1 exercise and how to avoid catching colds and the flu while sampling the oatmeal and snacking on bananas and tangerines. At one point, IRIS Executive Director Chris George made a guest appearance, demonstrating how to walk safely on ice and snow. He emphasized keeping the knees slightly bent and the arms out for balance.

“We’ve had many IRIS clients fall and break bones because they don’t know how to walk on the snow,” Bisset warned the class.

Bisset told the News that injuries over the past few years led IRIS to offer a comprehensive winter education class for the refugees it serves.

Fatuma Lkamba, a refugee from the Congo, said the class was helpful because she now feels prepared to dress herself and her children in cold weather.

Part of Bisset’s role at the organization includes creating programs that allow IRIS clients to feel empowered and holistically healthy. That approach means focusing on the clients’ mental and physical health and working to reduce any stressors in their lives, Bisset said. Her monthly wellness class series is only one of IRIS’s wellness programs for refugees.

“We really focus on where our clients are at, where their basic needs are and helping them adjust to life in the U.S.,” she said.

Other programs Bisset runs include a weekly sewing skills group for refugee women, a mother-and-child English class and a monthly cultural orientation class.

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tion with the New Haven Land Trust to provide a community garden for the refugees, which would incorporate concepts of healthy eating and healthy living, Bisset said.

Bisset said the English class contributes to overall health and wellness, adding that the women in the program learn to ride the bus or go to the store — tasks they might not have felt comfortable with or have done alone in their original countries. The women thus learn to feel more independent through the programs, Bisset said.

In addition to offering classes, IRIS resettles roughly 200 refugees in New Haven each year. In November, the organization made national news headlines when it welcomed a Syrian refugee family that was turned down by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Ward 2 Co-Chair Jane Kinity, who translated between Swahili and English during the class, said she began volunteering at IRIS after she received help from the agency about 16 years ago. Originally from Kenya, Kinity said the agency had helped her with housing, food stamps, identification and her job hunt.

After the class, IRIS staffers laid out sneakers on the tables for the clients to take home. Staffers encouraged the clients to wear the shoes to this weekend’s Run for Refugees 5K, which will start and end at Wilbur Cross High School.

Founded in 1982, IRIS is an affiliate of Church World Ministries and Episcopal Migration Ministries.

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

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During this month’s wellness class, IRIS workers spoke with refugees about how to handle Connecticut winters.

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Few apply to Spanish grad program SPANISH DEPT FROM PAGE 1 and senior level will be important to give our department a new perspective. It is true that the department can become very isolated and backwards-looking if it does not refresh its faculty.”

While some fluctuations in application numbers are the norm, this year’s numbers are uncommonly low. The number of applicants usually ranges from 40 to 60 students.

Newly appointed Director of Graduate Studies Ed Kamens announced to the department that it will be allowed to make five offers for three spots.

This year’s low application numbers come a year after none of the five admitted candidates accepted Yale’s offer of admission. The students turned Yale down just weeks after many of the outstanding allegations in the department began to come to light in March 2015, when an anonymous letter circulated in the department criticized the program’s “highly negative atmosphere” and accused top departmental administrators of not taking students’ complaints of intimidation and sexual harassment seriously.

The dearth of graduate students two years in a row would be very detrimental to the graduate program, González-Pérez said. He said the decrease in the quantity and quality of applicants is directly related to the well-publicized controversies within the department, notably the anonymous letter and the subsequent sixmonth review of the department.

Portuguese Director of Undergraduate Studies K. David Jackson said the situation is widely known in his academic field, and his peers at other universities have inquired about it.

González-Pérez added that while many of the recent changes are positive and promising, the broader community does not see the department making significant and urgent changes. He proposed that hiring new faculty members and promoting junior faculty within the department would send a strong, clearly visible signal of progress.

“If people don’t see the department making real, significant changes, we will continue to see small pools of applicants,” he said.

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The Spanish and Portuguese Department received only 19 graduate student applications this year. of misconduct in the letter. Specifically, the letter said that department chair Rolena Adorno and former Director of Graduate Studies Noel Valis were unresponsive to students’ concerns, and it also accused Spanish professor Roberto González Echevarría GRD ’70 of sexual harassment. The anonymous graduate student added that new faculty and a revamped program could help, but if these faculty members continue abusing their power, sooner or later graduate students would discourage prospective candidates.

Another Spanish graduate student, who also wished to remain anonymous, said prospective students have asked about the program.

“I, personally, have had prospective students reach out to me to inquire about the possibility of working on Latin American/Spanish/Brazilian film in our department because they couldn’t find any professors on the faculty page who worked on this area,” the student said. “Unfortunately, I’ve had to tell them the truth, which is that our department does not support this type of research project — only literature.”

The student added that the program is failing to attract qualified candidates because it lacks professors who specialize in all areas of the field and is narrow-minded with

respect to curricular and interdisciplinary options.

Jackson said the department has three faculty positions that need to be filled, including one previously held by former Portuguese professor Paulo Moreira, who was denied tenure last year in a decision that split the department’s senior faculty. Several graduate students and professors within the department told the News in March 2015 that González Echevarría has publicly stated that no junior faculty members will ever receive tenure in the department.

Spanish professor Susan Byrne, who has taught at the University since 2008, is currently up for tenure review. As part of her internal review process, the administration has recruited faculty members from outside of the Spanish and Portuguese department to participate in discussions.

Gonzalez-Perez said he hopes changes in the tenure review process will help rebuild the strength of the department.

“This is an area in which changes are taking place,” González-Pérez said. “I would like to see us recruiting, retaining and promoting good faculty internally.”

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

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“I think the future for solar energy is bright.” KEN SALAZAR FORMER US SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

Hoverboard ban reaches MTA, CSCU

BY MELINA DELGADO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hoverboards, the latest personal transportation fad for millennials, have just been banned in public transport across the state.

The Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, a collection of 17 publicly funded colleges, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced last month that hoverboards would be prohibited, without exception. Both organizations cited the device’s serious threat to community safety. This ban comes after a number of Connecticut universities, including Yale, independently banned hoverboards due to similar safety concerns in December and January. MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said there is no blanket policy penalty for using hoverboards in areas where they are banned.

But he said the New York Police Department and the MTA Police Department will police the ban at their discretion.

“Potential penalties are

assessed at the court level through judicial process,” Donovan said.

This is not the first time the MTA has restricted the use of portable transportation vehicles. MTA’s Rules of Conduct prohibit skateboards, scooters and rollerblades because of their potential to harm users and those around them. However, because such vehicles are manually operated, passengers can still carry them in their hands while using public transport. Hoverboards are powered by lithium-ion batteries, a power source known to explode under certain conditions. As a result, they are not allowed on public transport even while they are not being used.

A CSCU Jan. 26 press release makes it clear that the hoverboard prohibition is consistent with CSCU’s Student Code of Conduct, which condemns behavior or activity that endangers the health, safety or well-being of others.

Gordon Plouffe, a student representative on the Con-

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Hoverboards are powered by lithium-ion batteries which are prone to explosion.

necticut Board of Regents, the body that decided on the ban, said the policy was implemented without a vote because it dealt with student safety.

“They don’t necessarily have to do it at official board meetings, which [are] the meetings I go to where we vote on policy,” Plouffe said. “They can just say, ‘Oh, those things are dangerous, we should write up a policy.’”

MTA and CSCU’s new policies will remain for now.

But Lee Peters, vice president for student affairs at the University of Hartford, said Hartford’s policy is not set in stone.

“If six months from now they’ve solved the problems and airlines are flying them again and Amazon’s selling them again, we reserve the right to redact the policy,” Peters said. “But right now, they’re too dangerous … even [kids] have to put them somewhere when they’re in class,” Peters said.

Despite the ban, there is still room for students opposed to the policy to challenge it, Plouffe said. For example, Brian Kitano ’19, a hoverboard owner, has argued that hoverboards only explode when misused. He said fires occur when users leave hoverboards charged for more than three hours, an action manufacturers already advise against.

Plouffe said he is amenable to hearing out student concerns if they bring them to the Board of Regents.

“If I find out that 30,000 students are opposed to that decision and we want to make a proposal to repeal that, that would be my responsibility to talk to the board and figure out the next steps,” he said.

However, at the moment, he, CSCU and the MTA do not see any reason to repeal the ban.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration reported that 80 percent of hoverboards in a December 2015 study did not have proper certification of battery testing.

Contact MELINA DELGADO at melina.delgado@yale.edu .

Project Bright, SolarCity partner up

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The Yale sustainability group Project Bright’s members celebrated at the group’s launch part last week.

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER A group of Yale students is partnering with SolarCity, a leading nationwide solar panel company, to accelerate what they consider administrative lethargy in responding to changing sustainability needs on college campuses.

The group, Project Bright, launched a referral system incentivizing students to contact administrators, faculty and staff about receiving a solar panel consultation from a SolarCity representative. Students who get the most referrals for SolarCity receive prizes of $714, the average amount homeowners save each year when they replace energy from the grid with solar panel electricity.

“What we’re trying to do is to get people to show Yale as an institution the viability of renewable energy,” James Barile ’18, president of Project Bright, said. “Nothing would make a more compelling case than a city full of people who have solar panels powering their own homes.”

Barile said that Yale has been “bearish” about the possibility of solar panels, pointing to an earlier Project Bright proposal that would have created a large solar farm to replace much of the energy currently produced at Yale’s power plants. Because this top-down approach was not implemented by the administration, he said, Project Bright pivoted to a more individual-focused model.

This shift in models by Project Bright comes alongside major efforts by the University to meet its 2020 goal of cutting carbon emissions by over 40 percent, alongside a large solar panel installation by SolarCity on West Campus this past fall. Michael Oristaglio, executive director of the Yale Climate & Energy Institute, said he expects Yale will meet this 2020 goal in terms of direct carbon consumption.

Sinead Coleman, director of SolarCity’s SunRaising program which partnered with Project Bright, said that under this model, Project Bright receives $200 for every consultation with a SolarCity representative a student is able to arrange, regardless of whether it leads to a sale or not.

A portion of that $200 is distributed out to student participants by Project Bright as prizes.

“Our referred customers account for a third of our solar customers,” Coleman said. “These referrals have led to solar energy system installations projected to offset approximately 60,000 metric tons of carbon compared to energy produced from fossil fuels. In addition, the program has helped more than 400 homeowners take the first steps toward going solar while helping to raise thousands of dollars.”

She added that a similar model has been enacted at other locations, including one organization started to improve sustainability efforts within the Hudson Valley.

The benefit of this model of salesmanship is that it rewards participants for starting conversations rather than getting guaranteed sales, meaning that there is less of an incentive to pressure or harass contacts to make a sale, Barile said.

“We’re giving people financial benefits for starting a conversation that isn’t, strictly speaking, financial,” he added.

Frederick Van Duyne ’19, one of the students who signed on to look for referrals, said that avoiding “being a nuisance” in his salesmanship is one of his primary concerns with how he conducts his conversations with Yale affiliates about the program.

“I have so far only reached out to faculty that I know personally, and I can attest that it is a much more comfortable dynamic for me, and I’m sure my professors feel the same way,” Van Duyne said. “I feel very strongly about what I’m selling to my professors, and I love that I am in the position to facilitate real change of this sort.”

He added that regardless of the success of his conversations in terms of getting consultations or sales, his primary goal is to raise visibility for the financial value of solar panels for families.

Van Duyne has not received any responses to the emails he has sent out so far.

In his emails to professors, Van Duyne assured them that “unlike collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed-securities, this is a legitimately risk-free (and ethically sound) venture; you

are guaranteed to save money and support a technology proven to benefit the environment.”

Oristaglio said he was invited by a Project Bright affiliate to get a consultation and took them up on their offer. Though the installation did not go through due to low sunlight on his roof, he said that the contact was not a bother, and he would have otherwise been interested in making the switch.

The initiative comes after an official Yale effort to stimulate solar panel installations among Yale affiliates through Solarize U, a Connecticut initiative to bring solar panels to universities in the state. Solarize U works by organizing a critical mass of signups before production in order to capitalize on economies of scale in solar panel construction. However, Barile said that Solarize U’s bulk-buy model may no longer be necessary in New England due to the economies of scale groups like SolarCity achieve.

“Solarize U ran its course and we gave it room to do so,” Barile said.

He added that one of the perks of the Project Bright model over other models is that it works bottom-up rather than top-down, connecting students with Yale affiliates to introduce them to solar panel options.

Barile said that there are no causes for legal concerns between Yale and Project Bright.

“If there is any legal question about what we are doing in affiliating with a private corporation by monetary agreement and such, it’s important to note that our launch has been financially independent of Yale, no funding from the Yale administration has gone to that launch or other activities, we operate separately from the nonprofit elements of our group, and for the Yale student club element, there is certainly no law that prohibits Yale students from being part of a nonprofit together, even if those Yale students all happen to be part of a Yale club too,” Barile said.

This fall, SolarCity finished installing over 200,000 square feet of solar arrays on Yale’s West Campus.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

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“Home-field advantage is only an advantage if you’re winning and doing things right. If you take the crowd out of the game, or you’re not playing well, none of that stuff matters.” WILLIE MCGINEST FORMER NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS LINEBACKER

No. 11 Yale hosts two ranked squads

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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 is second in the nation with a 0.940 save percentage this season.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 2016 only to Yale’s mark of 1.33.

That upswing has led to success in recent weeks, even against challenging opponents. The Big Green’s 2016 results include a 4–2 win against then-No. 18 St. Lawrence, a 3–0 victory at then-No. 10 Cornell and a five-score outburst — and, at one point, a three-goal lead — versus No. 1 Quinnipiac in what ended up being a 7–5 defeat.

“They’re big, they’re strong, they’re very dangerous in transition and their goaltending has been, [over] the last five or six weeks, at the top of the league,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “So they’ll be a formidable opponent.”

The next night will see the Crimson clash with the Bulldogs for the eighth time in the past two seasons, and for the second time since Harvard knocked Yale out of the 2015 ECAC Tournament in a double-overtime thriller. In their one meeting during the 2015–16 campaign thus far, the Elis tied the hosting Crimson 2–2 in November courtesy of a dramatic, last-minute one-timer by forward Joe Snively ’19.

Harvard is heading into the weekend coming off a 3–2 loss to No. 4 Boston College in the Beanpot tournament.

Nevertheless, the Cantabs are sporting a modest three-game conference winning streak, highlighted by a 6–2 drubbing of Cornell on Jan. 23.

Saturday’s contest, at least on paper, figures to be a classic offense-versusdefense affair, with Harvard’s scoring offense and Yale’s scoring defense each ranking in the top seven nationwide.

Senior forwards Jimmy Vesey and Kyle

Criscuolo, whose 0.80 and 0.75 goalsper-game averages sit first and second in the ECAC, spearhead the Crimson attack.

Vesey in particular acts as Harvard’s primary offensive force, ranking second in the nation with 1.60 points per game, though the Elis did manage to hold the North Reading, Massachusetts native to just three shots and no points in the teams’ first matchup.

“You just try and play the same thing regardless of who it is on the ice,” Obuchowski said. “[But] as everyone knows in the country, [Vesey’s] a good player and he’s earned that attention and I’m sure he’s going to get that attention from us.”

And for Vesey — the ECAC January Player of the Month — to get on the scoresheet this time, he must find a way to put the puck past the ECAC’s Goaltender of the Month, Yale netminder Alex Lyon ’17.

In fact, all three conference monthly award winners will be featured Saturday night, as Snively took home Rookie of the Month honors for his six-point January.

And on display as well, of course, will be classic school pride — and perhaps a bit of extra edge, both on the Whale ice as well as in the arena’s bleachers.

“Anybody that would tell you that there’s not a little something extra special that they all feel for those [Yale-Harvard] games would not be being totally honest,” Harvard head coach Ted Donato said.

Puck drop for each contest is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

Eight-game win streak on line MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 one point with time running down, Rosenberg knocked down an elbow jumper at the buzzer to seal a onepoint Columbia win.

Still, he is not Columbia’s only potent scoring threat: guard Maodo Lo, who led the league last year with 18.4 points per game, now ranks fifth in that category with a team-best 15.8 points per game. In his two games against Yale last season, the German national team member put up 38 total points on 20–39 shooting, slightly above his 0.476 career shooting percentage.

“We have played against some competition and guys that are on similar levels [as Lo and Rosenberg] so we just have to play great team defense,” Jones said. “We are not going to ask one man to guard any other player by himself. Everybody gets help when needed so we just need to play great defense to stop Columbia, not so much stop one or two individual guys.”

Columbia’s defensive strategy will likely be similar, especially since teams have found that double-teaming forward Justin Sears ’16 opens up space for Sherrod and others. Sherrod has made all 25 of his last field-goal attempts, one off the NCAA record for most consecutive baskets from the floor.

He and Sears could each find themselves matching up against Columbia forward Chris McComber, who held Harvard’s Zena Edosomwan, a top100 prospect out of high school and the only Crimson player averaging double-digit scoring, to nine points on 3–7 shooting last week.

If both teams focus their defensive efforts on the post, the game might very well become a matchup on the perimeter, something the Bulldogs understand, according to Sherrod.

The Lions lead the league in threepoint attempts with 549, almost 100 more attempts than second-place Cornell, which has taken 452 treys.

Not only do the Lions shoot a high volume of threes, but they also make them. Columbia’s 37.9 percent shooting clip from beyond the arc is second in the league, with Yale’s 36.4 percent success rate right behind in third. Yale guard Nick Victor ’16 leads the Ivy League in three-point shooting at 51.2 percent, and Columbia’s Luke Petrasek is tied for third at 46.7 percent.

Shutting down efficient shooters will also be crucial in the Elis’ second test of the weekend. Though Yale has shot the lights out in conference play — the team’s 53.2 percent is nearly 10

Yale seeks home ice in playoffs

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 scored six points in each meeting versus Columbia last season as a freshman off the bench. percentage points higher than second-place Penn — Cornell has some offensive firepower of its own.

The Big Red features one of the best backcourts in the Ancient Eight.

Guard Robert Hatter leads the Ivy League with 19.9 points per game, though he has missed the first four Ivy League games of the season due to an ankle injury. His status entering the weekend is unclear.

Guard Matt Morgan, who is perhaps the frontrunner for Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has stepped up in Hatter’s absence. Morgan has posted games of 29, 26, 33 and 32 points in his four conference contests, which works out to an astonishing 30.0 points per league game.

Though Cornell split those four games — dropping two to Columbia before defeating Harvard and Dartmouth — Morgan shared Ivy League Player of the Week with Sherrod last week for his efforts. Morgan now ranks second on the team, and in the conference, with 18.5 points per game.

Morgan, and potentially Hatter, will square off against a potent offensive backcourt for the Bulldogs, as

Forward Jordan Chancellor ’19, number 6 above, has tallied two points during the Elis’ current four-game winning streak.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 team, but this week we have really worked at readying ourselves for their quick puck play. We have everything we need to beat them, we just need to show up, play our best and see what happens.”

Crimson goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer maintains a 0.943 save percentage, good for sixth in the nation and second in the conference.

Yale, however, has found strong goaltending from its own starter recently. On Feb. 2, for the first time this season Mandl was awarded ECAC Goaltender of the Week for her performances in wins against Brown and Rensselaer.

Offensively, the Elis also bring momentum into the contest with 12 goals scored within their last three games.

“Over the course of the season, our

team has built a lot of chemistry with each other,” Souliotis said. “And now that we have figured out who works best with who, people are working really well together and it has shown in our offensive output in the last few games. We are getting points from all 4 lines, which is what we need going into the last few weeks of the season.”

On the other side of the rink, the Crimson’s top goal scorer and top assister lies in one player for Harvard — forward Miye D’Oench. Still, D’Oench has just one goal over Ferrara, who has 10 this year, and is four assists short of Souliotis, who leads Yale with 18 this season.

In the Elis’ previous match against the Crimson, Yale was down three goals by the third period. A two-goal comeback effort in the last 20 minutes of the game brought Yale to within one, but ultimately could not lift the Bulldogs over Harvard in a 3–2 loss.

The Crimson stands just above the Elis at fifth place in the conference standings. As Harvard and Yale compete for home-ice advantage, Dartmouth will seek to get into the top eight of the conference for a playoff bid.

“I’m excited for [the team] these next three weeks,” Mandl said.

“Everyone has come a long way since we arrived on campus in August.

We’ve really grown as a group. We have leadership, talent, work ethic and the girls all want to win. It is incredible that we have the opportunity to fight for a home playoff spot, and I know we’ll take advantage of that.”

Yale will travel to Dartmouth on Friday to play at 7 p.m. before heading to Cambridge for a 4 p.m. start time on Saturday.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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

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point guard Makai Mason ’18 averages a team-high 15.7 points per game and captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 adds 9.4 points per game, including 9–19 shooting from three-point range in Ivy action.

The Elis will also look to take advantage down low with Sears, who averages 15.4 points per game, just slightly off Mason’s pace.

While Yale looks to claim the top spot in the conference all alone with two wins this weekend, Cornell is emerging from its first Ivy weekend sweep in more than three years.

“I’m sure that teams definitely think we have a target on our backs and try really hard to focus on beating Yale,” Montague said. “We’re definitely one of the top teams in the league and I think a lot of them would like to upset us.”

The game against Columbia on Friday, which will be broadcast on FOX Sports 1, tips off with an early 5 p.m. start.

more than three steals per game. She needs just seven more to break Yale’s all-time single-season steal record, currently held by Sue Johnson ’86, who had 74 steals in the 1983–84 season.

The sophomore guard will have a chance to reach the milestone in New York, where, despite the team’s road struggles for much of the season, the Bulldogs can move to 2–2 away from home in conference play. Yale defeated Brown in Providence on Jan. 22.

Just as Brown has yet to pick up a win in the Ivy League, Columbia is still searching for its first conference victory. The Lions have come close on multiple occasions, as three of their losses have been by single digits, including two straight three-point defeats. Turnovers may play a key role in Friday’s contest, as both teams have been plagued by turnover trouble this season, with Yale and Columbia each averaging about 17 per game in Ivy action.

Columbia’s offense is carried by the second-leading scorer in the league, forward Camille Zimmerman, but its defense has conceded 73.8 points per game and opponents have shot 46.1 percent from the floor, both league worsts.

Meanwhile, teams are scoring just 56.5 points per game while shooting 38.8 percent against Yale.

While the Lions are second in the league in scoring offense, Yale will face the top scoring threat the next day in Ithaca. Cornell is averaging 69.3 points per game during conference play, a full 12.3 points higher than Yale’s average.

In fact, the Bulldogs have failed to score more than 50 points in their last three games. Leading the Big Red’s offense will be forward Nia Marshall, who tops the conference leaderboard with 17.4 points per game.

“We try to approach every game the same by playing our brand of basketball each night,” guard and captain Whit-

ney Wyckoff ’16 said. “Both Cornell and Columbia have very strong post play and talented guards as well, so it will take a team defensive effort both nights to get two wins.”

While Cornell is the best shooting team, both inside and beyond the three-point arc, Yale can look to gain an advantage on the boards. In four games, the Bulldogs rank third in rebounding margin, outrebounding opponents by an average of 4.8 per game. Cornell is seventh, having been outrebounded by 5.8 boards by game.

However, the Bulldogs must be wary of Cornell’s aggressive offensive attack, as the Big Red leads the Ivy League in free throws made per game. Yale has committed the most fouls this season in the entire conference.

With just six days to come off their winless weekend, the Bulldogs, according to Wyckoff, are following head coach Allison Guth’s lead. The senior captain said Guth approaches each opponent the same way regardless of record in order to encourage the team to play its own style of basketball.

But regardless of the preparation, the team’s results may come down to resolving its recent shooting woes. After shooting greater than 36 percent from the field in 14 of 15 straight games, Yale has shot below that mark in its last three contests.

Sitting in fifth place in the conference, the Bulldogs understand they cannot afford many more slip-ups if they want to contend for the league title.

“After losing last weekend, we really came into this week hungry,” guard Lena Munzer ’17 said. “[We] are coming in early and staying after practice. At the end of the day, it’s going to come down to who wants it more.”

Tipoff is at 7 p.m. on Friday and at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

Contact MADDIE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .

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YALE FENCING ELIS TAKE ON ENTIRE IVY LEAGUE Both the Yale men’s and women’s fencing teams head to Cornell this weekend for the annual Ivy League Round-Robins, which determine the champion of the conference. The women will play six matches across Saturday and Sunday, while the men will play five.

JOE SNIVELY ’19 ECAC ROOKIE OF THE MONTH It has not taken long for the Yale men’s hockey forward to hit the spotlight in his freshman campaign. After tallying three goals and three assists in January — just one part of a 16-point season thus far — Snively was recently honored as ECAC Rookie of the Month.

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BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS For the second consecutive game, the Yale men’s basketball team will face an undefeated conference opponent, as the Bulldogs look to start 6–0 in Ivy League play for the first time in school history.

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Yale’s home contests against Harvard and Dartmouth have large implications for the Bulldogs’ national, ECAC and Ivy League standing.

BY DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER The No. 11 Yale men’s hockey team has just four weekends and eight games remaining in regular-season play. With the postseason quickly approaching, every opportunity the Bulldogs have to hit the ice becomes a bit more important — and come Friday and Saturday, they will square off against a pair of ranked teams in contests that carry major implications for conference playoff and NCAA Tournament positioning.

The Bulldogs (12–5–4, 7–4–3 ECAC Hockey) welcome a pair of Ivy League foes to Ingalls Rink in the final weekend of a brief four-game home stand. No. 20 Dartmouth (11–9–1, 8–6–0) visits New Haven on Friday night for a battle with the Bulldogs before making room for a Saturday showdown between Yale and No. 7 Harvard (12–5–3, 8–3– 3), the 252nd meeting between the two programs. “[Yale-Harvard is] really a storied rivalry,” defender Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “You come in as a freshman and you

know about it but you don’t understand it, and then you become able to appreciate it more through the years.”

First up on the Elis’ weekend slate is the Big Green, whose 8–2–0 mark in the 2016 calendar year has propelled the program into the national polls and NCAA Tournament picture. Dramatic improvements on both ends of the ice have spurred that turnaround.

Before the new year, Dartmouth’s scoring offense (2.00 goals per game) and scoring defense (4.09 goals against per game) each ranked dead last in

After a pair of losses last weekend to fall out of a tie for first place in the Ivy League, the Yale women’s basketball team hopes to rebound in its second consecutive road weekend.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Columbia (11–8, 0–4 Ivy) will host the Elis (11–10, 2–2) on Friday, whe the teams will battle it out in New York City. The Bulldogs will then travel upstate to Ithaca to take on the Big Red (11–7, 3–1) in hopes of improving upon their 1–8 record as a visitor.

“Columbia and Cornell are both very good teams, and we are approaching this weekend knowing we have a challenge in two tough and hard-working opponents,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said.

Although Yale had a successful start to Ivy League play with a pair of wins against Brown, its conference record evened out after losses to Penn and Princeton, who boast a combined 5–1 record. The Quakers, alone atop the Ancient Eight with an undefeated record, faced a tentative Eli offense and capitalized en route to a 68–49 win. The Bulldogs could not recover against the defending conference champion Tigers, as they suffered their second straight loss despite 10 points and an especially impressive seven-steal performance from guard Tamara Simpson ’18.

Simpson has been active on the defensive end all season long, and she is the only player in the Ivy League averaging SEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 8

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Forward Katie Werner ’17 currently ranks third on the team with 4.3 rebounds per game.

ECAC Hockey — numbers that proved true when the Bulldogs defeated the Big Green 4–2 in November.

But both sides of Dartmouth’s game have come alive in recent weeks. Since Jan. 1, Dartmouth’s attack has been averaging a full goal and a half better than its 2015 clip, while its defense, backed by a 0.943 January save percentage from goaltender Charles Grant, has sliced its goal allowance by nearly 60 percent to 1.70, second among ECAC teams in

The Bulldogs (13–5, 4–0 Ivy) defeated previously unbeaten Princeton last Saturday 79–75, and the team looks to remain perfect at home and extend its eight-game winning streak Friday against Columbia (15–6, 4–0), before squaring off against a surging Cornell (9–9, 2–2) squad.

Yale and Columbia are tied atop the Ancient Eight standings, creating an amplified sense of hype around the matchup, which will be broadcast on national television.

“There are a lot of games left to be played,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “There are 10 games left to go and this is just one of them. We are not going to crown a champion on Feb. 5.”

Though five more weeks stand between Yale and a potential second straight conference championship, the Bulldogs put themselves in good position with an undefeated January, capped off by last weekend’s sweep of Penn and Princeton.

The rivalry between the Bulldogs and the Lions has been a close one in recent years. Each of the previous three games between the two teams has been decided by six points or less.

While the Bulldogs took care of business at Columbia last season, winning 63–59, the Lions rallied in the rematch to defeat the Elis 56–50 in New Haven. In fact, that Columbia victory was the last time the Elis lost at home — Yale has won 10 in a row at the John J. Lee Amphitheater since falling to the Lions.

This year’s matchup features a lot of veteran leadership, as both teams currently start nontraditional seniors, in that there are three players in their fourth year of eligibility following a year off. Yale forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 returned this year after spending last year abroad with the Whiffenpoofs, and Columbia guard Grant Mullins and forward Alex Rosenberg are both back after missing all of last season with injuries.

“It’ll be cool to have two [originally class of] 2015 guys back on the court,” Sherrod said, referring to Rosenberg, a former firstteam All-Ivy player. “There’s a lot of experience but I think we’re going to be fine as long as we play our game.”

Rosenberg’s return has been key for the Lions, as highlighted in Columbia’s victory last Saturday at Harvard. Trailing by

Currently riding a four-game win streak and sitting in the top half of the ECAC Hockey standings for the first time all season, the Yale women’s hockey team meets two fellow Ivy League contenders this weekend with a different mindset than it had just two weeks ago.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Four contests and two weeks ago, the Elis (9–13–1, 8–7–1 ECAC Hockey) were in 10th place in the standings, needing to climb at least two spots to secure a playoff berth.

Now after breaking into the top six, if the Bulldogs can secure another four points this weekend at Dartmouth (4–15–3, 4–9–3) and No. 10 Harvard (12–8–1, 9–6–1), Yale can once again rise in the rankings to a potential fourth place out of the 12 ECAC Hockey teams.

“Our team feels pretty good about being at our highest rank so far this season,” forward Emma Vlasic ’19 said. “But we just want to keep building on it. We know we are good enough to be in the top four, and we have to keep working hard to get there.”

First up on Friday, the Bulldogs face the Big Green, a team that has gone winless for its past 14 games.

Out of Dartmouth’s 15 total losses this season, 12 saw the Big Green allowing three or more goals.

Despite not gaining a victory since mid-November, Dartmouth beats out nine other teams in the conference in ability to convert on powerplay opportunities with a success rate of 20.0 percent.

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The Elis can potentially move to fourth in the conference standings with two wins.

However, goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 said that the Elis seem prepared to match Dartmouth’s power-play skills with their own penalty kill unit. “[Associate head coach] Rob [Morgan] has worked hard in conjunction with our other coaches to improve our [penalty kill] throughout the season,” Mandl said. “This has certainly helped tighten up our defensive zone. The girls have also worked hard to back check to prevent odd-man rushes. In these final three consecutive weekends, defense will be the key to our success.”

When Yale met the Big Green in the first week of November, the Bulldogs tied the game 3–3 with just three minutes remaining in regulation and finished with a tie.

Since then, Dartmouth has lost 14 of its past 17 games, but forward and captain Janelle Ferrara ’16 said this will not impact the team’s mentality heading into Friday night’s contest.

“We definitely can’t underes-

timate Dartmouth because of the way they’ve been playing recently, but [we] have to realize that they are going to come out flying and do everything they can to get back in a playoff position,” Ferrara said. “We have to match that urgency and push the pace of the game for all three periods.”

Following the Dartmouth contest, the Elis will travel to Cambridge for their game against Harvard on Saturday.

The Crimson — ranked 10th in the nation — has seen a bit more success than the Big Green despite losing five of its past seven games.

“They have a strong goaltender, one of the best in the ECAC,” defender Mallory Souliotis ’18 said.

“We need to generate a lot of good quality scoring opportunities in order to have the best chance of beating them. They are a good transition SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8

THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT THE YALE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM HAS FACED OFF AGAINST HARVARD OVER THE PAST TWO SEASONS. The Bulldogs are 4–2–1 in those contests, with an eighth meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday at Ingalls Rink.