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Weekend sweeps

Pey Day. The Denver Broncos

defeated the Carolina Panthers 24–10 to win Super Bowl 50 — named with numbers instead of Roman numerals for the first time in NFL history. Coldplay, Beyonce and Bruno Mars performed at the halftime show. Broncos linebacker Von Miller, who had two and a half sacks and six total tackles at the game, was named Most Valuable Player.

Another one. After Republican

candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic contender Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 won in Iowa last week, the presidential hopefuls continue to battle for the nomination in New Hampshire tomorrow.

According to FiveThirtyEight, the chances of Sen. Bernie Sanders winning are greater than 99 percent, while those of Donald Trump are 71 percent.

Freudian slip. At a New

Hampshire town hall this weekend, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge mistakenly introduced Republican candidate Jeb Bush as his brother, former president George W. Bush ’68.

When Bush was president, Ridge served as the firstever secretary of Homeland Security when the cabinet position after the 9/11 attacks.

This land is Boland. In the New York Post, former Yale admissions officer Ed Boland wrote about his new book, “The Battle for Room 314,” which tells stories about the process. “A few years before, an overeager Eagle Scout … on the wait list had pitched a tent … on the lawn to show how ardently he was interested. I am sure he enjoyed Haverford,” Boland wrote.

Will you be my Slaventine?

The Yale Slavic Chorus is selling singing valentines this week. Students can pay five dollars to surprise a lover, friend or random acquaintance with a special Slavic song.

The Trump car(d). On

Overheard at Yale yesterday, students reported sightings of a bus outside Vanderbilt Hall that looked like a Donald Trump campaign vehicle but had the message “Make fruit punch great again.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1961 President John F. Kennedy appoints two Yale alums as ambassadors. While Douglas Macarthur II ’32 will head the embassy in Belgium, James G. Parsons ’29 will serve in Denmark.

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Hoffman, psych prof, dies at 66

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER

A reflection. Silliman

Associate Master Erika Christakis spoke to The New York Times about the campus controversy sparked by her Halloween email last semester.

“It was a painful experience,” Christakis told the Times.

While she is not teaching at Yale this semester, Christakis told the Times she has not yet decided whether she will lecture again in the future.

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n a busy weekend of action in New Haven, the Yale men’s basketball and hockey teams each notched critical sweeps of Ivy opponents. Among the four impressive team victories, one individual stood out as men’s basketball forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 set an NCAA record in the process. PAGE B1

Ralph Hoffman, medical director of the adult intensive outpatient treatment program at Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and beloved psychiatry professor, died last week of illness. He was 66 years old.

Hoffman, who is survived by his wife, a psychologist, and his two children, is best known for his research focused on the pathophysiology of auditory hallucinations associated with schizophrenia. He was also wellknown for developing a treatment method for auditory verbal hallucinations — otherwise known as “hearing voices” — which utilizes repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatments, a noninvasive technique consisting of a magnetic field emanating from a wire coil held outside the head which induces electric current in nearby regions of the brain.

This method stimulates the areas of the brain active during patients’ hallucinations. The treatment has been replicated by groups around the world and is now considered an effective treatSEE OBITUARY PAGE 4

Mens’ rights meetup canceled

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After a planned worldwide meetup of self-declared “men’s rights activists” garnered international attention late last week, organizer Daryush Valizadeh — also known as “Roosh V,” the owner of the controversial website “Return of Kings” — canceled the meetups out of concern for attendees’ safety.

Valizadeh, a writer, anti-feminist and self-described “pickup artist,” had originally planned the worldwide meetups Saturday night for like-minded men to congregate and discuss current events and social issues.

Events were planned in 165 cities around the world, including Stamford and New Haven, where

men were told to meet near a flagpole at a World War I memorial. The meetups were canceled after protesters threatened to demonstrate at the locations.

Valizadeh achieved notoriety last year for a blog post arguing that rape should be legalized on private property. He wrote in the blog post that such a legalization would incentivize women to “protect [their bodies]” and make them less likely to be raped.

In a wide-ranging, rambling press conference to journalists in an undisclosed Washington, D.C. hotel Saturday, Valizadeh criticized the world’s media for focusing on his own organization despite the prevalence of other, more serious problems. He conSEE MEN’S RIGHTS PAGE 6

Mental health hackathon encourages innovation

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale undergraduate group Bulldog Hacks held its first mental health hackathon this weekend, attracting seven teams and 20 participants from across the University. At the event, teams worked to identify current problems in nationwide mental health treatment and then worked to develop potential solutions to the problems, many of which involved the use of technology to aid people with mental health conditions.

The event lasted from Friday evening through Saturday afternoon and was held at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, where each of the teams pitched their solutions to the other participants and to a panel of six judges, including Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science Vincent Wilczynski. The judges chose four prizewinners based on each team’s potential health impact, innovation, business model, product and presentation, according to Claudia See

’17, one of the event organizers.

The general Mental Health Prize was jointly awarded to two teams who proposed to develop applications for iOS which would connect individuals looking for mental health care with care providers by providing an online list of professionals tailored to each user’s characteristics, insurance coverage and needs.

Sreeja Kodali ’18, a participant on one of the winning teams, said that although she was happy to have won the competition, the highlight of her experience was seeing the extent to which technology could affect the lives of those with mental health conditions.

“Winning together was great, but the real prize was seeing how much technology can make a difference in mental health,” she said. “Our pitches were so similar that it only made sense for us to share the reward. We have seven people between the two teams who worked on this concept, so some of us may move SEE HACKATHON PAGE 4

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The New Haven meetup was planned to be held at a flagpole near a World War I memorial.

City celebrates Lunarfest

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The Yale-China Association hired performers from New York’s Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute.

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER Hundreds of New Haven residents attended a parade of colorful puppet lions early Saturday morning, as the city kicked off its celebration of Lunarfest.

Lunarfest, an annual cere-

mony for the Lunar New Year sponsored by Yale’s Council on East Asian Studies, the New Haven Museum and the Yale-China Association, began at 10 a.m. with a traditional lion dance — a Chinese dance which involves mimicking the movements of the animal — outside Bruegger’s

Bagels on Whitney Avenue and Grove Street. Festivities continued until 5 p.m., with Chinese culture workshops, demonstrations and talks hosted in the official buildings of the event’s three sponsor organizations.

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The Middle Way

GUEST COLUMNIST JULIA FISHER

For Amistad College T

he names of Yale’s new residential colleges should embrace the best of Yale’s history and the promise of Yale’s future; they should celebrate Yale’s best values.

A lot of people have recently latched on to a proposal to rename Calhoun College in honor of the hope and progress evoked by the memory of a universally loved and lauded student who died in a car crash during his senior year. But hope isn’t just the domain of recent history.

In 1839, on a slave ship bound for Cuba, a group of Mende captives rebelled. They tried to direct the ship back to West Africa but wound up in New Haven, where American authorities charged the Mende with murder. The murder charges were soon dropped — American courts had no jurisdiction — but the question remained whether to send the prisoners as property to Spanish authorities in Cuba or as free people home to Africa. Their fate was left to the courts; eventually, John Quincy Adams argued and won their case before the Supreme Court, and the Mende returned home.

IT’S A STORY ABOUT NEW HAVEN, YALE AND THE POWER OF EDUCATION Most Yalies probably have some familiarity with the story of The Amistad. But it’s a story about New Haven, Yale and the power of education as much as it is about self-empowerment in the face of oppression.

While the Mende were imprisoned in New Haven, Yale professors and students set to work to help win their freedom.

Philology professor Josiah Gibbs went to New York to find someone who could speak the Mende language. Law students and alumni worked to prepare the Mende’s case in court.

The Mende took to educating themselves. With the help of Yale students, they studied English and theology. While Adams worked on their behalf in the courts, the Mende knew that education would bring them another kind of freedom.

The Mende then used that education to argue their case.

An 11-year-old named Kali wrote a letter to Adams: “We want to ask the court what we

have done wrong. What for Americans keep us in prison.

Some people say Mendi dolt, because we no talk American language. Merica people no talk Mendi language. Merica people dolt! … We want you to tell court that Mendi people no want to go back to Havana, we no want to be killed. All we want is make us free.”

As consternation over two or perhaps three upcoming college naming opportunities has proved, the choice of a name is a deeply political decision. But nearly every interest group should embrace Amistad College.

The college would be the first to represent a racial minority, but it wouldn’t honor someone merely on the grounds of his racial status. It would bear close ties to New Haven’s history and Yale’s; it wouldn’t refer to history so recent as to seem trivial. The name honors the work of Yalies but also looks well beyond campus and emphasizes the duty Yale has to its home in New Haven and the world. The Amistad’s story is American as well as international. And it is a story of hope — a story that, even while it looks back to the past, looks forward to progress.

The good guys don’t always win, and too much of American history includes stories where good people don’t even have a chance to try. But Yale history is not so bleak that we have to look to just the last few decades to find an example of hope, goodness and promise of racial justice. Out of too many cases in Yale’s history — and far more in America’s — of freedom corrupted or Yale educations used for ill, there are still lots of stories of freedom won, education used for good and justice delivered.

Yale’s conception of itself, as charted by the names memorialized on its buildings, ought to be built on the faith that Yale is a project that always can and often does do good. Yale can embody optimism. If we cannot believe that Yale can stand for good, we have no business caring about the University at all. But if we do, we ought to find that good in Yale’s history and carry those stories as the mantle that will shape its future. The Amistad is one of the best of those stories, one the University would do well to remember and one members of a new college should be proud to bear as their identity, history and future.

JULIA FISHER is a 2013 graduate of Berkeley College and a former Opinion Editor on the Managing Board of 2012. Contact her at juliajfisher@gmail.com .

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everal centuries ago, a prince known as Siddhartha made his way to a place near Bodh Gaya in India where he found a suitable site for meditation.

On the full moon of the fourth month of the lunar calendar he sat beneath a Bodhi Tree and vowed not to rise from his position until he had attained consummate enlightenment. Also known as Buddha, Siddhartha finally reached a state of nirvana under that tree. Since that fateful day stamped in spiritual history, the Buddha’s teachings have endured over generations.

Three Buddhist perspectives strike my mind as exceptional; each revolves around the competing forces of temporal versus permanent existence, of physical versus mental steadiness. The first stresses the inevitability of hedonism in human existence: We are a species governed by desires, appearances and fleeting activities. The second perspective appears diametrically opposed to the first: the world — and everything in it — is ultimately eternal and permanent. These conflicting perspectives mirror Platonic dualism, except Buddha went further than Socrates’ pupil and posited a third perspective, that of the Middle Way. The Middle Way is the essence of life that transcends and encompasses these two opposites: It is an indivisible relationship between body and spirit.

I believe that we can apply The Middle Way at both the global and local level.

During my winter break in Amman, ISAAC Jordan, my AMEND family spent time in areas just 100 miles The away from terIconoclast ritory belonging to the Islamic State group, also known as Daesh in Arabic. The Middle Way tells us that it is crucial for policymakers and intelligence organizations to combat Daesh through a gray lens — one that delicately balances emotional outcry and intellectualization of conflict. What do I mean by this?

Sometimes it is appropriate to fight terrorism with hedonistic impulses. Take, for instance, the burning of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh. Prior to his torturous immolation, approximately one-third of Jordanians held varying degrees of sympathy for the Daesh cause. Many Jordanians were tied to Sunni tribes in Western Iraq who had suffered at the cruel hands of Saddam Hussein and in the carnage of the Iraq War. In spite of these sympathies, after the pilot was burned alive, the Royal Hashemite Court exe-

cuted a hyper-emotional propaganda campaign that successfully incited a national rally-aroundthe-flag effect. A picture of King Abdullah donning special forces attire popped up on Instagram, with a caption elaborating the monarch’s desire to personally strike Syrian territory. A series of heavy air campaigns subsequently destroyed Daesh strongholds. The result of this public retaliation was a severe turn in Jordanian public opinion: Now a full 98 percent of surveyed Jordanians oppose Daesh. In this case, emotional backlash proved tremendously successful.

But in other situations, defeating Daesh also involves resisting the temptations of emotivism. If we were to act on raw impulses alone, the result would be unchecked CIA drone strikes, barbaric calls for vengeful bloodshed and supposedly adept politicians pushing for an immigration embargo on Muslim refugees. We would see rampant Islamophobia at play and cries for a resurgence of dangerous “enhanced interrogation” programs. Politicians need to understand the importance of meticulously navigating gray space. We must intellectualize this problem in the form of, for instance, algorithms predicting Daesh recruitment success based on an individual’s geographic region, age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity and gender.

A black-and-white outlook

on Daesh will backfire. Pragmatism and honesty — especially with regards to our nation’s mistakes in Iraq — will do much more good than a Superman, “save the world” approach.

So, on a global level, the Middle Way bridges political fury and rational thinking to create a stronger path to defeating Daesh.

On a local level, we Yalies should heed the Middle Way as we conduct our lives as students, friends and citizens of this University. One example of unchecked hedonism comes in the form of excessive binge drinking, abusive Adderall use and nonconsensual sexual behavior.

On the flip side, sometimes we over-intellectualize our problems to our own detriment. For example, instead of responding compassionately to the grievances aired by students of color last semester, many were keen to focus exclusively on the issue of free speech. These two extremes — one dominated by pernicious desires, the other by dispassionate abstraction — should be rejected in favor of a Middle Way. From the deserts of Daesh territory to our own neo-Gothic campus, the Middle Way can be counted on to provide an answer to problems both large and small.

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at isaac.amend35@gmail.com .

Diversify the faculty, actually O

n Wednesday, President Peter Salovey announced the creation of a “presidential task force on diversity and inclusion.” The group should begin where Yale is perhaps most deficient: intellectual diversity.

In 2012, according to the News, 97 percent of political contributions from Yale employees went to Democrats. Yale beat all other Ivies in this category; Dartmouth, at 78 percent, came in last.

And ask yourself: how many professors at Yale defend — and accept — the immorality of abortion, the impropriety of gay marriage, a hawkish foreign policy, the importance of religion in the public square (or anywhere else), the perversity of race-based affirmative action or the justice of free-market capitalism? Not many. But these positions are held by millions of Americans.

They help comprise the platform of the political party in control of the House, the Senate and 32 of 50 governorships. They have able proponents in newspapers and magazines. I would bet that four in five Yalies disagree with most or all of them. And few other than some renegades in the Yale Political Union are willing to promote them.

This means Yale is splurging on the educations of conservative and religious students, while skimping on Yale’s liberal, secular plurality. Right-wing students needn’t wait for lunch before encountering a master, dean or professor willing to challenge

them. These students’ assumptions are sacrilegious to many. Their privilege is checked, their opinions casCOLE their ARONSON tigated, concerns criticized and Necessary their concluand proper sions derided.

And no one provides spaces where these students may safely process a difficult experience they had that day. Who could ask for an environment more conducive to growth, agility and rigor than the one provided today to the average conservative Catholic Eli? None of this is to impugn the liberal-mindedness of Yale’s faculty, or to question the interest they take in all their students’ educations. I have never heard of a teacher sneer at a conservative student for thinking as she did.

Nor is it to say there are not very interesting disputes among liberals.

Rather, opinions affect the questions that we think important to ask at the beginning of a discussion, as well as the thoughts we have at the end of it. That’s because most thoughts are not isolated sound bites, but part of an integrated metaphysics, ethics and politics. Liberals think differently from conservative not just

in the trivial sense that they vote differently, but because they have different ideas of what makes an argument good in the first place.

There are ways a conservative will naturally bend one's mind that are different from the ways a liberal will. What is the practical consequence of having almost no conservative faculty? After all, Bass Library has at least two copies of Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind” awaiting any curious leftist.

Consider the case of Silliman Associate Master Erika Christakis’ Halloween email. I don’t wish to address the arguments in her email. I want only to point out that Yale did not really get the chance to do so. The email was greeted by histrionic outrage and condemnation. Students claimed they felt “unsafe.” Dozens accosted and screamed at her husband, Silliman Master Nicholas Christakis. Many argued that the Christakises had traversed the bounds of their roles in Silliman, with some so disgusted that they threatened to transfer out.

The reaction of hundreds of Yale students to an argument with which they vehemently disagreed, in other words, was to protest, accuse and condemn, rather than to dispute. They did not want to have a discussion.

In words that should shame our entire school, one student yelled, “It is not about creating an intellectual space!” One cannot know the exact cause of this widespread illiberalism, but might it

have something to do with the narrow range of political opinions defended by the adults at Yale? Many students may go four years thinking that some very serious ideas are simply irrational, because among Yale’s brilliant teachers, there is almost no one who offers them.

Princeton professor Robert George recently spoke at Yale about intellectual diversity. Among his points was the danger of everyone thinking as those around them do. This is how intellectual orthodoxies form, and orthodoxies beget lazy inquiry. Worse, as the decidedly liberal Erika Christakis discovered, they narrow what the late journalist Christopher Hitchens called “the limits of permissible thought,” making a campus a difficult place to dissent.

Yale should not hire worse faculty simply because they are conservative. If anything, it should raise its standards for espousers of views many of its students have not heard from a Yale professor.

This new task force might wish to consider the different kinds of diversity truly necessary for a good education and a complete University. To not do so would be a scandalous abdication. The victims would be Yale’s liberal students.

describes already has such a space. By default, every Yale student is placed in a suite populated solely by members of their biological sex. For upperclassmen, living in mixed-gender housing on campus requires painstaking arrangements, despite the fact that according to the YCC fall survey, an overwhelming majority of students have considered it. Freshmen have no choice but to live in same-sex housing, even though nearly a third would prefer not to.

While Yale’s housing policy repeatedly asserts, “No student will be assigned to a mixed-gender suite against his or her will,” students who request mixedgender housing are frequently assigned to a single-gender suite against their will. In contrast, Yale is already extremely accommodating of students’ religious needs in housing, and regularly provides devout students with arrangements that do not require them to share any living facilities with members of the opposite sex.

Ultimately, the deepest problem with Aronson’s argument is

that it generalizes his own experience as a straight, cisgender man to all of Yale, denying the existence of trans and non-heterosexual students. Aronson is arguing that based on his own religious beliefs, the University should systematically exclude students from certain residential colleges.

Aronson is free to believe that the people who live in mixed-gender arrangements do so in “outright impropriety.”

We agree that he shouldn’t be forced to share a living space or bathroom with members of the other sex. But if Aronson’s point is that Yale ought to respect the values and beliefs of every student with regard to their living situation, then he should join us to push the University to move quickly in expanding the gender-neutral housing system so that all students may live in accordance with their identity.

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

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These people

In his Friday column “This Man and this Woman,” Cole Aronson ’18 claims to speak for a group of Yalies whose religious beliefs are so conservative that they not only wish to live in a single-gender environment, but cannot even share a college with those living in mixed-gender suites. He supports his argument with the most conservative interpretations of Abrahamic religion in addition to his own observations, which he labels as “social science.”

Yale is not a place where even a majority, let alone a minority, of students may impose their views on others. Students hold a great diversity of beliefs about the proper way to act toward people of other genders and sexes. Given Yale’s culture of pluralism and intellectualism, the Yale community accepts those differences, seeks to learn from them and respects the beliefs of others. For instance, we expect that Yale students would consider it perfectly acceptable that a small group chooses to believe that interactions between cisgender men and women should be limited. Even though the majority of Yale students said that they would consider living in mixed-gender housing if they had the chance, especially conservative students ought to be given a single-gender space to live in accordance with their beliefs.

It follows that the minority Aronson

ADAM MICHALOWSKI AND MAX GOLDBERG The writers are a freshman in Berkeley College and a junior in Pierson College and members of the YCC Task Force on LGBTQ Resources.

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“An empty canvas is a living wonder, far lovelier than certain pictures.”

WASSILY KANDINSKY RUSSIAN PAINTER

FRIDAY, FEB. 5

The article “D’Attilo case reaches hearing” misidentified the independent expert who the Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder firm hired for an employee. It also incorrectly stated that the firm did not document litigation expenses; in fact, the firm documented the expenses, but did not keep the paper receipts of the expenditures. Furthermore, Altschuler was misquoted as saying the Koskoff firm had been accused of overcharging, when in fact the firm had been found to be in non-compliance with accounting procedures.

The article “New position aims to unite Yale vets” incorrectly described the Eli Whitney Program as a veterans organization.

CPT urges parent engagement

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER The Citywide Parent Team — a coalition of several dozen New Haven Public Schools parents dedicated to providing feedback to the district — met Thursday to discuss the importance of parental engagement in improving the learning environment and school climate across NHPS. CPT co-hosted the monthly meeting with Educators 4 Excellence-Connecticut, the state’s branch of a nationwide teacherled organization that elevates teachers’ voices in education policy discussions. Roughly 50 NHPS parents and Elm City community members joined NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 and E4E-CT teacher representatives at Wilbur Cross High School to offer feedback on the best methods for improving communication among the school district’s administrators, teachers and families. Attendees at the meeting broke up into small groups led by E4E-CT teachers to discuss methods that could increase parent engagement in schools.

“The research has shown that the more involved the parent is, the better the child does as a student — to the best of their potential,” CPT steering committee member Ruth Swanton said.

E4E-CT held more than 120 focus groups, school visits and individual conversations with New Haven educators and surveyed over 100 teachers from diverse backgrounds since it began its collaboration with CPT last year. Following the organization’s research last year, it made several policy recommendations that broke down to increasing support for teachers, students and parents.

One recommendation E4ECT offered based on its initial research was that schools should be more flexible when scheduling parent-teacher conferences, especially to discuss students’ report cards, Swanton said.

“The current systems in place do not support and encourage educators and parents to work together efficiently and effectively,” E4E-CT teacher Keeler Otero, a science teacher at New Haven’s Christopher Columbus Family Academy, said in a statement. “Students should not slip through the cracks, but be caught by the safety net that is provided by faculty, staff,

administrators and parents.”

Swanton, a Sound School parent who joined CPT when former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and former Superintendent Reginald Mayo founded it in 2009, said parents across different socioeconomic backgrounds struggle to engage with their children’s education due to conflicts with work.

During her small-group discussion, Swanton said E4ECT representatives encouraged parents to more effectively use Parentlink, a smartphone application that connects NHPS parents to news and events in the school district. She noted that Elm City parents tend to prefer phone communication to email, adding that some low-income parents in New Haven do not have access to computers at home. Swanton said she encourages parents who do not have personal computers to use those provided by public libraries.

While communication between parents and schools was the focal point of Thursday’s meeting, Swanton said embattled Board of Education member Daisy Gonzalez — widely regarded as the voice of NHPS parents — serves as a critical liaison between CPT and the BOE. Harries affirmed that the BOE is backing Gonzalez, a former CPT steering committee member.

The Board of Alders voted to remove Gonzalez from the BOE on Dec. 21 because her continued membership violated the terms of the New Haven City Charter, which calls for a seven-member BOE. Gonzalez, the most recent appointed member approved by the Board of Alders, brings the total number of voting members to eight.

The alders filed a lawsuit against the BOE and Gonzalez on Jan. 26, despite appeals from the CPT to resolve the issue through mediation. Swanton noted that the lawsuit will cost the BOE around $20,000 in legal fees — money she said would be better spent in classrooms.

Swanton said CPT has been collecting signatures from NHPS parents to keep Gonzalez on the BOE. She added that after Thursday’s meeting, the signatory count stands between 400 and 500.

The CPT will hold its next meeting on March 3.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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All Elm City public schools send two representatives to Citywide Parent Team meetings.

Canvas outperforms Classes*v2

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER A working group within the University has officially recommended that Yale transition away from Classes*v2 to a new software called Canvas.

Last fall, 40 to 50 classes at Yale piloted Canvas, a course management platform, as a possible alternative to the aging Classes*v2 software.

Administrators have in the past described Classes*v2 as “clunky” and “awkward,” and faculty and professors have expressed decreasing satisfaction with the platform over the years, according to an internal University survey. On Thursday, a working group specifically dedicated to supervising the pilot submitted a 34-page report to the University’s Learning Management System Steering Committee, in which it outlined the results of the first semester’s trial, with key findings including an overwhelming satisfaction rate and easy integration with Yale’s systems. The working group, comprised of 22 members from across the University including the Center for Teaching and Learning and the professional schools, collected information from pilot program participants and conducted a comprehensive survey at the end of the semester.

“After working with Canvas, I find Classes*v2, slow,

clunky, visually unattractive and limited in what it can do,” said music professor Craig Wright, who is a member of the steering committee and chair of the Provost’s Committee on Online Education. “I have now used Canvas in two large courses and students seem to prefer it over Classes*v2 about 10 to one.”

After the Learning Management System Steering Committee reviews the recommendations, it will present them to deans and faculty across the University. Deputy Provost for Teaching and Learning Scott Strobel, chair of the committee, said the proposed transition period from Classes*v2 to Canvas is one year. During the next academic year, he said, faculty will be able to choose between both learning management systems. A final decision about the switch will be made by the end of this semester, he said.

Canvas is already used for distance and hybrid courses offered through the School of Management, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and School of Nursing, Director of Academic IT Strategy David Hirsch said. The pilot program last fall focused in particular on how well the software would meet the needs of traditional on-campus courses that Classes*v2 is used for, he added.

Hirsch said the need to move away from Classes*v2 is

becoming ever more apparent as the system begins to show its age. In particular, he said, many of the universities that were integral to the continued support and development of Classes*v2, such as Stanford, the University of Michigan and Indiana University, have since transitioned to Canvas.

“Because that community support is no longer there, it’s much more expensive for Yale to have a custom service-based system,” Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Jennifer Frederick said.

Frederick highlighted Canvas’ cloud-based system as one of its greatest strengths in addition to being far more modern than Classes*v2.

Similarly, Strobel said Canvas provides easy integration of plug-ins including WordPress and Piazza. The system has a smooth hierarchical structure for presenting course materials and makes it easy to include flipped classroom videos, he said.

Still, several problems have been identified with Canvas. Frederick said that unlike Classes*v2, Canvas does not include an online photo roster which teachers can use to learn student names. Additionally, Wright said the platform does not send direct messages to students via email. Instead of receiving the message’s actual content, he said, the student receives a notification that an email has been sent and then

has to track it down separately in Canvas.

But Canvas’ advantages outweigh the disadvantages, he said. Canvas allows students to see at a glance what will be in play during the course and it provides efficient access to course assignments, Wright said.

“Why try to improve something that’s not very good, when there already exists a system that is better in almost every way?” Wright said.

Students interviewed also agreed that they preferred Canvas to Classes*v2. Emily Chen ’18 said Canvas is easier to navigate and provides a host of additional services, like the ability to take online quizzes, in addition to the functions found in Classes*v2. She added that professors are also able to post assignment deadlines on Canvas.

Yijiao He ’18 echoed Wright’s complaints about Classes*v2’s user-friendliness.

“Although I haven’t used either extensively in the past, I’m currently using both and I like Canvas better,” she said.

“I just think Classes*v2 is chunky, slow and annoying in general.”

Over 40 universities and organizations, including Yale, contributed to the development of Sakai 10, the software behind Classes*v2.

Contact JOEY YE at shuajiang.ye@yale.edu .

Little-known hedge fund aids endowment

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Yale’s endowment returns are among the highest in the Ivy League thanks to an obscure Boston hedge fund — just one company in a network of bankers, managers and financiers used to enhance Yale’s portfolio performance.

The hedge fund Bracebridge Capital — founded by Nancy Zimmerman, a trustee of Brown University and a close friend of Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen — has grown from $5.8 billion in assets to $10.3 billion in just four years.

During that same period, Yale’s endowment grew by $6.6 billion, from $19 billion to $25.6 billion. According to endowment experts interviewed, Yale’s financial success is bolstered by the network of business relationships the University’s Investments Office has cultivated for decades under Swensen.

“Yale and its peers have this tremendous network,” said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm. “Individual investors, and investors who cannot do what Yale does, should surrender.”

The relationship between Zimmerman and Swensen dates back to 1994, when Swensen helped stake around $50 million in one of Zimmerman’s companies with the help of hedge fund manager Thomas Steyer ’79. In past interviews with national media outlets, Swensen has commended Zimmerman’s skill at identifying risk. Swensen and Zimmerman are members of a larger network of business allies that include former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and Princeton’s Chief Investment Officer Andrew Golden SOM ’89, one of Swensen’s protégés.

Wick Sloane SOM ’84, a columnist for Inside Higher Ed, said that Yale benefits from Swensen’s close ties with Bracebridge Capital and with Zimmerman.

“The better David Swensen knows the people at the firms, the better choices he will make for Yale,” Sloane said. “An informed customer is the best customer.”

Because Yale supported Zimmerman’s company in its early stages, the University likely gets exclusive deals, said School of Management professor Roger Ibbotson.

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I’m sure they got all kinds of special deals,” Ibbotson said.

“I suspect that the friendship [between Zimmerman and Swensen] is more professional than personal.”

With Zimmerman at its helm, Bracebridge is the largest hedge fund in the world run by a woman. According to Bracebridge’s 2015 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Zimmerman owns most of Bracebridge Capital.

Yet Zimmerman is seldom in the public eye, and has been absent from lists of the top female hedge fund managers. For example, a 2015 article in The Hedge Fund Journal — a publication that gathers information on the industry — did not include Zimmerman on a list of top 50 women in hedge funds.

An aura of mystery shrouds Bracebridge; a Feb. 4 Bloomberg Business article calls the company “secretive.” But Sloane said this might be a poor choice of words, since Bracebridge is not keeping secrets so much as it is staying out of the public eye. Sloane speculated that this privacy comes as a product of Bracebridge’s focus on business, rather than a concerted attempt to conceal its activity.

“Bracebridge seems to be going about its business for its

investors, which doesn’t requite publicity for the founders,” Sloane said.

But Zimmerman was not always as far from the limelight as she is now. In 2004, Zimmerman’s husband Andrei Shleifer, an economics professor at Harvard, was found in federal court to have conspired to defraud the U.S. government while he led a government-funded Harvard economic reform program in Russia in the 1990s. The scandal concluded with one of Zimmerman’s former companies paying $1.5 million to resolve claims that it had improperly taken government resources from the Harvard project.

Swensen said in the Bloomberg article that after the scandal, the Yale Investments Office scrutinized Zimmerman’s company to see if there were grounds for Yale to divest from the company or sever business ties.

“We took a hard look and found no reason to modify our relationship,” Swensen told Bloomberg.

Swensen, who came to Yale in 1985, has helped increase Yale’s endowment holdings in private equity and hedge funds. While hedge funds tend to focus on generating maximum shortterm profits, private equity can

be more illiquid and creates long-term wealth. Since 1985, Yale has increased the holdings of private equity in its endowment asset allocations — the amount of money Yale seeks to invest in specific industries each year.

Hedge funds like Bracebridge are unique for their exclusivity: only well-endowed institutions and people with substantial assets can invest in a hedge fund. Recent market changes, such as the devaluation of China’s currency and falling oil prices globally, have not damaged the Boston firm. Last fiscal year, when the hedge fund industry saw only 0.6 percent growth, Bracebridge grew by 2 percent. Sloane said that articles like the one in Bloomberg are important because they shed light on companies that need to be scrutinized. Hedge funds are not regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

“These fund managers need more, not less, public scrutiny,” Sloane said.

Bracebridge Capital boasts on its website that its staff members speak 21 languages collectively.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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Beloved psychiatry prof remembered OBITUARY FROM PAGE 1 ment for these symptoms.

Psychiatry Department Chair John Krystal praised Hoffman’s enthusiasm for his research, creativity, clinical acumen and commitment to his students and patients.

“Remarkably, Ralph developed his research career on top of a very busy clinical and administrative career,” Krystal said in a statement. “Ralph was held in high esteem for his clinical astuteness and kindness. His ability to deeply understand his patients’ experience of their illness and to carefully listen to them were the starting points for many of his theories and experiments.”

Hoffman first came to Yale in 1979 as a clinical and research fellow and became a professor in 1981. In addition to his research, teaching and clinical work, he held various administrative positions during his time at the University, including medical director, research director and acting psychiatrist-in-chief of the Yale Psychiatric Institute.

Judith Ford, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco medical school who worked on research with Hoffman, said that Hoffman was a “brilliant, caring and gentle psychiatrist and scholar,” as well as a “rare breed of scientist.”

She also lauded Hoffman for his research’s reliance on patients’ explanations of their experiences.

“Ralph was a rare ‘phenomenologist’ in the U.S. He believed clinical neuroscience investigations should be informed by experiences patients reported,” Ford said.

“He argued that careful listening and understanding of the details of auditory hallucinations was essential to developing realistic neurobiological theories of auditory hallucinations.”

Mental health hackathon held HACKATHON FROM PAGE 1 forward because it addresses a very real and pressing issue and has the potential to make an impact.”

See, a member of Bulldog Hacks, said the idea for the hackathon came from a similar event held last year at the Yale School of Management, at which participants brainstormed methods of improving health care services in the United States.

Mental health is a personal issue but there is also a lot of potential for technology and innovation to take place in this field.

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Hoffman has been praised by his colleagues for his world-renowned research on schizophrenia.

Medical school professor Philip Corlett, who will continue Hoffman’s research, said that Hoffman’s work in the area of auditory hallucinations spanned psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and clinical practice.

Corlett added that Hoffman

combined a meticulous scientific rigor and mathematical precision with the warm and plural approach of a master clinician, a combination he described as ideal for teaching and inspiring trainee psychiatrists and neuroscientists as well as enacting impactful

translational research.

Medical school professor Ismene Petrakis described Hoffman as a wonderful colleague who contributed much to psychiatry.

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

She added that although this weekend’s event was originally conceived as an autism hackathon, the organizers decided to hold a general mental health hackathon instead because of how relevant mental health issues are to college students and the broader Yale community.

“I think that mental health is indeed a very relevant topic on college campuses in that whenever we think about it, we bring to it our own experience,” See said. “Mental health is a personal issue but there is also a lot of potential for technology and innovation to take place in this field in order to help people have better mental wellbeing.”

See emphasized that the hackathon represented a first step toward improving care options by providing an opportunity to identify problems.

“I think there’s a lot we can do

to connect individuals to mental health care and treatment that they need, whether that be an app or a hardware solution,” she said. “But the first step to innovation is to recognize what are the problems out there and why do we feel that many people are unhappy or depressed today …

In the end it’s about connecting people to others, that’s something I hope we see more of in innovation in the future.”

The event brought together members of the Yale community interested in issues of mental health and members interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, Wilczynski added.

He added that hackathons promote a diversity of thought that is conducive to the creation of solutions to large problems.

Psychiatry professor and event judge Thomas Styron said the issue of mental health was a very relevant one for Yale students. He spoke positively of the hackathon for its emphasis on student-driven solutions to problems which affect them personally.

Ellen Su ’13, a co-founder of Wellinks — a company which uses technology to assist with day-to-day treatment techniques such as braces for scoliosis patients — who spoke at the event, said she was impressed not only by the quality of the teams’ ideas but with their considerations of more practical matters.

“It was encouraging to see that the students had thought about business, about how they were going to turn [their ideas] into a sustainable company,” Su said.

“Because I think that at a lot of hackathons you come up with a cool idea but not about how you could implement it.”

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

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“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”

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Pro-choice rally garners local support

Students convene to discuss Europe

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER

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Pro-choice activists gathered in front of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Friday.

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Responding to recent attacks and denunciation campaigns across the nation, nearly 50 pro-choice advocates rallied in support of Planned Parenthood on Saturday morning in an event that demonstrated broadening support from the New Haven community.

Greater New Haven pro-choice activists assembled on Whitney Avenue outside of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, a center that provides reproductive health services, including contraception, STD screenings and abortions. Elm Citybased members of Women Organized to Resist and Defend — a nationwide grassroots feminist organization — led the rally, which garnered support from members of various faith communities and local progressive activists.

“This issue is not about abortion,” WORD organizer IV Staklo said. “This is an issue of defending a resource that provides a lot of different services to a lot of different communities.”

Slatko also highlighted the important role Planned Parenthood plays for LGBTQ communities, particularly for transgender individuals seeking affordable access to hormone therapy. Slatko added that Planned Parenthood provides prenatal screenings and care for low-income community members nationwide.

Saturday’s demonstration marked the first widely publicized pro-choice rally in the city. Previously, supporters came primarily from the WORD activist network, Slatko said, add-

ing that this rally drew from a larger crowd of pro-choice New Haven residents. WORD organizers and supporters began attending weekly protests in November when pro-life activists escalated efforts to denounce and defund Planned Parenthood, Slatko said. These efforts followed the August release of controversial videos alleging that Planned Parenthood executives sold fetal parts for profit.

Slatko said weekly support at the pro-choice rallies increased significantly after the Nov. 27 shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility. Because members of churches and other faith organizations in New Haven felt misrepresented by vocal pro-life activists, they joined rallies in support of Planned Parenthood, Slatko added.

Hamden resident Steve Hall said he and other supporters began the weekly rallies as way to counter the pro-life activists who rally against Planned Parenthood each week. Hall said he brings his daughter Kate Hall, a middle-school student, because he feels it is important to educate her on issues of social justice.

“People going to that clinic for treatment should be able to do so without being harassed,” Hall said.

“You don’t harass people trying to get health care.”

Hall said he perceives rallying against the pro-life activists as standing up against “bullies.” He added that he has seen some pro-life activists outside of Planned Parenthood use intimidation tactics — such as taking photos of employees and patients entering the building — and

vulgar language.

But Mike Ferraro, a pro-life activist and board member at Saint Gianna Center — a New Haven nonprofit that aims to present women with alternative options to abortion — said members of his organization carry out peaceful work and are considerate of passersby while demonstrating on sidewalks.

Jim Loomer, a Christian pastor from Milford, said he remains in his designated sidewalk area when he attends triweekly pro-life demonstrations. He said activists on the other side of the argument are often dismissive of his right to express his views.

“That’s not pro-choice, that’s squelching free speech,” Loomer said.

Deb Malatesta, a New Haven-based WORD organizer, said she began leading pro-choice demonstrations in 1991. She said since the Colorado shooting, the number of individuals harassing Planned Parenthood patients with “misogynistic” rhetoric has increased.

Malatesta emphasized the importance of standing in support of Planned Parenthood patients and workers suffering from harassment.

She noted that numerous employees often support the rally to express their gratitude.

“People have a right to an abortion if they want an abortion,” Malatesta said.

Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916 in New York City.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

Solutions for some of the most pressing issues facing the European Union may be coming from across the pond — in fact, from right here in New Haven.

This past weekend, 100 students from universities across the United States and Europe gathered at the Yale School of Management for the second annual European Student Conference. Over the course of the weekend, students engaged in workshops that focused on solutions to major issues currently confronting the European Union, particularly the migrant crisis. They also participated in speaker events with notable authorities such as European Union Ambassador to the United States David O’Sullivan and Representative of the European Parliament Renee Haferkamp, who is a special advisor to the conference. The event was hosted by European Horizons, a student-run think tank founded at Yale last year during the first European Student Conference and dedicated to promoting European unity.

European Horizons Innovation Team Director Marco Pau SOM ’16 said the conference provides an opportunity for students to propose new ideas — specifically business and entrepreneurial ideas — to Europe from an American perspective.

“The conference is an amazing, intense event, and that is why it cannot last longer than 48 hours,” Executive Director of European Horizons Olga Karnas ’16 said. “We founded European Horizons so that our idea can go beyond one East Coast school and reach more people.”

Over 50 schools were represented at the conference, with participants hailing from faraway universities like Oxford and the London School of Economics.

The conference is growing: Karnas said roughly 280 people applied for the 100 available spots; last year, just 80 students attended. For the second year in a row, travel costs for the conference were fully covered by a grant from the European Commission. European Horizons Marketing and Public Relations Director Johannes Behringer ’18 said the program included seven workshops focusing on topics like democracy and institutions, immigration and integration and European identity.

One of the highlights of the conference was a social entrepreneurship competition centered around the topic of successful refugee integration into the European Union. Four finalist groups participated in the contest, including Teach for Europe, which proposed a project that connects rural students with teachers from different cultures, and Eurocousin, which proposed a web

client that sets up local residents as host families. The winner was e-UBelong, which pitched a subscription-based digital platform connecting migrant workers with employers through geodata and a collaborative filtering system.

The group won prize money, although Karnas declined to specify the amount.

“Essentially, we see innovation as a synergy of good policies and effective entrepreneurship, because we believe European society needs a bottom-up approach that brings the two together,” Pau said. “It’s a combination to shape society from the top down and bottom up through policies and entrepreneurship.”

Originally founded by undergraduate and graduate students from 45 schools across the world who convened at last year’s conference, European Horizons now has 20 chapters in the U.S. and Europe at universities including Stanford, Harvard and College d’Europe in Belgium. Behringer said many students during and after the conference expressed interest in forming their own chapters of European Horizons in colleges across the country. Karnas said the goal is to have European Horizons develop into a strong network of schools that will broaden the organization’s scope.

While the conference has only just finished, preparations for the next one are already underway. Karnas said recruitment for this year’s conference team of 40 people began early first semester. She added that much of the summer is spent tackling the most challenging part of the process, which involves reaching out to and coordinating with prominent guests who speak at the program.

“It was inspiring to hear that the students had a vision for and wanted to contribute to a confident Europe,” Behringer said. “The fact that at the end of the conference, most of the participants were interested in founding a local chapter was the indicator that told me the conference was a success.”

The European Student Conference may be one of European Horizon’s biggest events of the year, but the organization also engages in a number of other activities. In addition to the conference, the group conducts policy research that is published in its academic journal, the Review of European and Transatlantic Affairs. The biannual publication features research done over the course of the year as well as during the conference.

Behringer said the group’s next event will be a spring forum, tentatively scheduled to be jointly hosted in Washington, D.C. with another think tank.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Eigth annual WLI conference draws hundreds

BY LUKE CIANCARELLI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hundreds of aspiring leaders gathered at the Omni Hotel Saturday for the eighth annual Women’s Leadership Initiative conference.

The conference brought over 60 speakers to discuss and showcase all aspects of female leadership. This year’s theme, “W.E. Women,” was both a “declaration of the female strength, independence and agency that women find in themselves and in each other,” as well as a reinforcement of “the collaborative nature of female empowerment,” according to a promotional pamphlet.

Conference chair Yelena Gankin ’17 started the day’s events by welcoming old and new faces with her opening remarks.

Gankin described the conference as “a large conversation on leadership, gender and progress,” as well as “a networking opportunity between alumni, Yale students, women from across the world and conference speakers.”

This year represented a new direction for the conference.

Gankin said that in the past, the WLI conference focused on “traditional success” — like the achievements of CEOs and finance and law executives — which too narrowly defines family leadership. She added that this year’s events sought to create a more engaging and inclusive conversation about women’s leadership.

Following Gankin’s opening remarks, keynote speaker Emilie Aries — founder and CEO of the innovative training organization for women, Bossed Up — delivered an energetic address

about life and work as a woman in the modern economy. Providing women leaders in the room with advice on how to craft a successful and sustainable career, Aries’ message especially targeted college-age audience members.

Citing studies in the social sciences, her own original research and personal experience, Aries shed light on the often troubling realties women, especially women of color, face in the modern workplace. Pointing to gender gaps in leadership that “haven’t budged for 25 years,” Aries characterized the biases affecting women as much less overt than that in generations past and, for this reason, often more difficult to tackle.

To combat these challenges, Aries suggested tactics the budding female leader could practice to promote wellness and fulfillment. By abandoning a “martyrdom mindset,” prioritizing personal purpose over perception and learning how to be effectively assertive, Aries said women can find sustainable success in spite of the prejudice they face.

After the opening keynote address, attendees broke up into a broad array of forums on topics relevant to women leaders. Covering everything from female leadership in STEM to the meaning of gender, these forums hosted prominent professionals from a variety of fields, including the lead specialist on reproductive health at the World Bank, a comedian and writer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and the chief drama critic and entertainment writer for the New York Post.

Later in the seven-hour event was a lunch and second key-

note address, given by Jessica O’Connell, executive director of EMILY’s List, an influential political action committee that works to elect pro-choice Democratic female candidates to office.

O’Connell joined EMILY’s List from the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank and advocacy organization where O’Connell worked as a senior vice president and the chief of staff.

Having also served on the senior team for Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 2008 presidential campaign, O’Connell’s talk focused on her storied experience in the political realm.

Of particular note was the conference’s first transgender speaker, Peche Di, a Taiwanese model and founder of New York City’s only transgender modeling agency. Launched in May 2015, Trans Models has already received a great deal of attention in the media, with The Atlantic, The New York Times and Forbes each writing pieces on the agency.

According to Kendall Schmidt ’19 — moderator of the “Overcoming Gender Obstacles” panel at which Di spoke — the inclusion of a transgender woman in the conference reflected its commitment to being as welcoming and diverse as possible.

“I think this conference is a big step for WLI, especially because we had our first transgender speaker, and I think that is a direction we really need to be moving in,” said Schmidt. “We can’t just be focusing on cisgender women and the obstacles they face because, as feminists, we need to focus on all feminist communities, which includes disabled people, the LGBT community and gender non-binary

This year’s conference drew over 60 speakers on female leadership. people as well.”

This year also marked the first time non-Yale students attended the conference. With strong turnouts from Brown, Harvard, Suffolk, Quinnipiac and the Ivey Business School in Ontario, the conference successfully expanded the reach of its conversation.

The conference was also attended by a number of Yale faculty and alumni, many of whom are members of WLI. Among

these attendees, molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Valerie Horsley said she was impressed by how inspiring and well-organized the day was.

She was particularly interested in certain ideas surrounding diversity she heard during the first panel she attended.

“All of the panelists really emphasized that having a diverse workforce is excellence, and that excellence is diversity,” she said.

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ple on board for diversity, but also makes the organization or university stronger.”

The conference ended at 4 p.m. with a coffee and networking session.

WLI was founded in 2006 by five Yale undergraduate women to create a formal mentorship program to support women leaders at Yale.

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

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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

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Yale, New Haven celebrate Lunarfest LUNARFEST FROM PAGE 1 Lunarfest marks the start of the Chinese New Year, one of the most important festivals in Chinese culture.

The day’s events were freeof-charge and open to the public, allowing the entire community of New Haven to ring in the Year of the Monkey, which begins Monday.

“It is a community event, so New Haven residents and Yale can learn about Chinese culture and specifically the culture of Lunar New Year,” Yale-China Senior Health Program Officer Lucy Yang SPH ’05 said.

The Yale-China Association hired performers from New York’s Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute — a dance troupe that specializes in traditional Chinese dances — to star in New Haven’s lion dance.

According to Ellie Woo, who has been with the institute for several years, many members of the team have been performing since they were very young.

Spectators, including members of the New Haven and Yale Chinese communities as well as families with children adopted from China, were led up the street by two puppet “lions” — each held up by two performers — and drum, gong and cymbal players.

At the front of the parade walked Richard Sosa GRD ’12, program director of the Council on East Asian Studies, Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky, executive director of the New Haven Museum, and Yale-China Executive Director David Youtz.

The parade stopped at Audubon Street for performances by the Wudang Kung Fu Academy, the Educational Center for the Arts Repertory Dance Company, the Connecticut Yankee Chorus and the Southern Connecticut Chinese School.

Mayor Toni Harp, who was also present, congratulated the Yale-

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The Lunar New Year is one of the most important festivals in Chinese culture.

China Association for reaching its 115th birthday.

Youtz said the celebration is not the only event the Yale-China Association is planning to ring in the Lunar New Year.

“We also have a delegation of students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong,” he said. “They

come here during their Lunar New Year break.”

The Yale University-New Asia College Exchange is a program that matches eight students from Yale with eight New Asia College students for a six-month academic and cultural exchange. The students from New Asia College, a

constituent college of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, spend two weeks of their Lunar New Year break — which includes this week — in New Haven. Subsequently, Youtz said, the Yale students will spend their spring break in Shatin, Hong Kong. The program is now in its 23rd year.

During the finale of the lion dance, which began at around 11:15 a.m., the lions proceeded to enter the Great Wall Restaurant as well as the Hong Kong Market to “eat the cabbage” off of the walls — a fun tradition of the Lunarfest celebrations, Yang said.

“We don’t get the holiday off for

Chinese New Year, but this event offers a semblance of celebration,” Yang said.

The three organizations have now celebrated their fifth Lunarfest.

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

Meetups canceled nationwide MEN’S RIGHTS FROM PAGE 1 demned the media for failing to report on the mass sexual attacks on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany but devoting considerable attention to the worldwide meetups.

“When a real rape happens that goes against the agenda of your boss, you actually hide it,” he said to journalists assembled in the hotel. “When no rapes happen, and I try to do a meetup, you lose your s---. Not only are you guys not honest in your reporting of me … but when real harm takes place, you don’t say anything.”

Valizadeh said his infamous blog posts arguing for “legal rape” have been misinterpreted, saying that he meant only to provoke the public into considering ways in which women could protect themselves from rape, and describing the blog posts as “satire.” In the press conference, Valizadeh compared rape to car theft: only he would be to blame for the theft of his own BMW if he left it parked in a high-crime area with the keys in the ignition, he said.

The planned meetups sparked a national backlash, and although Connecticut politicians did not make public statements, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statement harshly criticizing Valizadeh and Return of Kings’ writings last Wednesday, as news of the meetups began to spread.

“This pathetic group and their disgusting viewpoints are not

welcome in Texas,” he said. “I’ve spent much of my career protecting women from such vile and heinous acts, and it won’t be any different on my watch as governor.”

In light of his inflammatory remarks, many countries around the world have sought to ban Valizadeh from entering. The United Kingdom’s House of Commons debated a potential ban on Valizadeh’s entry into the country last week.

U.K. Minister for Security Karen Bradley condemned Valizadeh and his teachings on behalf of the British government.

“The government condemns in the strongest terms anyone who condones rape and sexual violence or suggests that responsibility for stopping these crimes rests with the victims,” she said. “Responsibility always, unequivocally, rests with the perpetrator.”

Faced with questions about banning Valizadeh from the country, Bradley declined to comment, stating that she could not elaborate publicly on individual cases.

Bradley noted that Home Secretary Theresa May does, however, retain the power to ban noncitizens from the country if their presence is deemed “not conducive to the public good.”

Similar debates were held in Australia, where 50,000 people petitioned to block Valizadeh from entering the country after he announced plans to do so earlier this month.

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Vicki Beizer ’18, the public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said the organization was pleased the meetups were canceled.

“Their meeting would have been a disrespect to everyone who calls Yale and New Haven home, especially those who have experienced gender-based or sexual violence,” she said in a statement to the News. “Although it is troubling that some members of the community are drawn to the inflammatory and misogynist rhetoric of these ‘activists,’ we are comforted by the fact that the group’s ideology is not tolerated by the general Yale/New Haven community.”

Valizadeh said he was the victim of scapegoating by the international media, which he described as searching for a “martyr.” He said he has received death threats in response to the planned meetups and his views on women and rape. He tweeted on Friday that he had been warned to leave the Washington, D.C. area, including his parents’ home in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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THE DARTMOUTH

Alumni petition for Asian American Studies department

BY SONIA QIN On Monday, Alice Liou started a petition on Change.org pushing for the immediate creation of an Asian American Studies department. As of press time, 316 people have signed the petition, which has been widely circulated on social media sites such as Facebook.

The petition specifically addresses chairman of the Board of Trustees Bill Helman, College President Phil Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Dever, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, as well as faculty, staff and other members of the Dartmouth community.

The petition makes note of the numerous unsuccessful attempts over the past years to implement this program. It states that in contrast to its peers, Dartmouth “has not taken any action to become a leader in ethnic studies and diversity outreach and pedagogy.”

The petition further states that an Asian American Studies program would fall in line with the college’s community values, the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative and the need for more diversity and inclusiveness at the college.

Liou wrote the petition letter together with Huang He and Damaris Altomerianos, she said.

“Diversity is a noun, but it’s something we have to enact and actively do,” Liou said, adding that the responsibility of diversity advocacy often falls on student groups rather than administrators.

“If Dartmouth is really committed to diversity, we need to see institutional support for

this,” she said.

Liou said that Asian A m e r i can Studies would be DARTMOUTH b e n e f i c i a l for all students, not just those who identify as Asian-American. She cited a Stanford University study from last month which showed that students who take ethnic studies courses perform better than those who do not take them or who do not have the option available to them.

History professor Annelise Orleck said she has worked with many students over the years who have urged for the implementation of an Asian American Studies program.

“It’s baffling to me why there has been resistance to establishing an institution-wide presence in Asian American Studies,” Orleck said.

Orleck said that there also needs to be a presence of Asian American Studies in the social sciences and the humanities.

“Our position in history in Asian American Studies has remained empty, and we should be filling that position,” she said.

Orleck said that it is very difficult to create a new department or program in a short period of time, but an Asian American Studies program can follow in the footsteps of Jewish Studies, which was established in 1997 with the help of a donation and remained probationary for a number of years. She said that one option is to get outside funding.

“This has been going on for the whole 25 years that I’ve been here,” Orleck said, referring to the activism surrounding the issue. “It’s a rich field and one that Dartmouth really ought to have represented in our curriculum.”

Orleck said one reason the college has been reluctant to implement this program is a fear there will not be enough student interest, but the repeated attempts by students over the years to establish Asian American Studies at Dartmouth is proof of ongoing student interest.

“You do need to stir up interest,” Orleck said. “You also need permanent faculty to establish the field on campus and draw students.”

Last spring, a student group submitted a faculty cluster hiring proposal calling for the strengthening of existing ethnic studies programs and the establishment of a formal Asian American Studies program at the college.

Orleck said that cluster hiring would help diversify the faculty and reach 25 percent of underrepresented-minority tenuretrack faculty in the next few years, a goal stated by Dartmouth in its first annual report on faculty diversity released in January.

The petition has garnered the support of many alumni as well.

While the response is encouraging, Liou said that she hopes to continuing garnering attention to the document, particularly from influential alumni.

“Three hundred people is a drop in the overflowing bucket of Dartmouth alumni,” she said.

Laurel Anderson, who signed the petition, said she was happy

to see that somebody had taken steps to try and get a response from the administration about the issue of Asian American Studies.

“As an institution that strives to be as good as we can be, it would be good to support students in pursuing whatever course of study they’re called to at a liberal arts institution,” Anderson said.

Even if the program ultimately does not get implemented, Anderson said she believes the administration should still respond to the petition.

“An Asian American Studies program would open more awareness about issues that different ethnic groups face, beyond just viewing Asian-Americans as a model minority,” Anderson said. “I think that part of the reason why universities exist is so we can undertake intellectual pursuits not based on economic viability, but on serving the needs of the community.”

Anderson said she would like to see administrators meet with students and maybe alumni as well to discuss what the possibilities are for creating an Asian American Studies program, or even creating a track within another department.

Kameko Winborn, a member of Asian/American Students for Action — also known as 4A — during her time at Dartmouth, said the group has been advocating for Asian American Studies at the College for a long time. She said that this advocacy has been in the works since the 1990s.

“Despite the support of the student body, it’s never been able

to get through because of the administration,” Winborn said.

Winborn said she hopes this petition will succeed. The implementation of an Asian American Studies program is important because the current classes in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies department focus more on ancient subjects like Confucius, with less concentration of contemporary studies and the importance of Asian-American perspectives on these issues, she said.

Liou said one of her motivations for starting the petition was demonstrating to students such as those in 4A that their activism was being supported by a broader alumni base outside of Dartmouth, especially as movements calling for Asian American Studies have been ongoing at the college since the 1990s.

4A member Kevin Bui said he has met with professors and administrators to talk about Asian American Studies during his time at the Dartmouth.

The petition’s page features pictures of current students holding up whiteboard signs in support of the petition’s contents. Bui said the pictures were part of a photo campaign last year to raise awareness about the lack of Asian American Studies at the college. 4A asked alumni to write the letter of support, he said.

“I think Asian American Studies, as an ethnic studies program, is really important for understanding the history, literature and culture of our country,” Bui said, adding that the history of Asian-Americans is no less important than the history of

other groups of Americans.

“Ethnic studies as a whole is really important for intellectual excellence at Dartmouth,” Bui said.

He said that as the United States is always touted as a “melting pot,” it’s important to actually learn about this diversity and push for diverse content within the college’s intellectual body.

“We want tenure track for Asian American Studies professors and we want them to have institutionalized support and be given time to build up their classes,” Bui said.

He said that a formalized major and minor in Asian American Studies would show that the college considers this to be a priority.

Winborn said Dartmouth needs to acknowledge the students who are invested in this issue.

“The administration needs to really see and understand that this is what students are asking for and they’ve been asking for this for a really long time,” she said.

Assistant Dean and Advisor to Pan-Asian Students Shiella Cervantes wrote in a statement to The Dartmouth that a new program would require a commitment from both the college and the students involved.

“Many of our peer institutions have Asian American Studies programs, and most if not all were established as a result of students advocating for themselves and an equitable education,” she said. “This petition shows that the interest is there in the student community.”

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Law school seal debated

Sororities offer highest number of bids

BY CLAIRE E. PARKER After a lull in activism over race relations at Harvard Law School, about 100 affiliates gathered at a “community meeting” Thursday afternoon to discuss the school’s controversial seal, which is currently under review.

The committee to review the seal — which will release its recommendations to the Harvard Corporation in March — convened the meeting in the WCC center to solicit feedback on the seal.

Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow created the student and faculty committee last November in response to demands for the seal’s removal by student activists from the group “Royall Must Fall.” The seal, which features the crest of the former slave-owning Royall family, was a focus of protests last semester about race and diversity at the law school.

The review committee itself does not have the power to change the seal; rather, it aims to release a recommendation to the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — which holds final decision-making authority. The committee has solicited feedback from law school affiliates via email since November, and committee chair Bruce Mann said the group has received more than 150 messages so far.

The format of Thursday’s meeting diverged in practice from previous town halls. Individuals broke into small groups along with committee members, who took notes on the discussion. Mann, who delivered the opening remarks and emphasized the importance of engaging a variety of viewpoints, said he hoped the format would help inform committee members about different opinions on

the seal.

“Our hope is that this arrangem e n t w i l l enable HARVARD p e o ple to listen to one another, and engage one another and members of the committee in a more conversational setting,” he said in his remarks.

Alexander Clayborne, a law student affiliated with Royall Must Fall, said he was pleased at the turnout of faculty and staff at Thursday’s meeting. While he called the conversations that took place “robust,” he expressed disappointment at what he called a onesided approach in favor of changing the seal. He said he had hoped law school affiliates with opposing views would attend and debate the merits of the seal change with the activists.

“Student activists are accused of stifling free speech on campus, but whenever there is an opportunity to engage with people who disagree, the people who disagree don’t show up,” Clayborne said.

“That’s a level of intellectual cowardice that needs to be called out.”

In the absence of dissenting voices, Clayborne said many conversations focused on the consequences of a potential committee recommendation to change the seal, though attendees did not create any definitive plans.

Since December, activists have been relatively quiet and members of several student groups — including Royall Must Fall, Reclaim Harvard Law and the Black Law Students Association — declined to disclose their upcoming plans on the record. Meanwhile, the seal committee will meet later this month to deliberate, Mann said.

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Over 500 women registered for sorority recruitment at Columbia this year, with 301 accepting bids.

BY JOSIE HIRSCH Panhellenic sororities offered the highest number of bids in Columbia history during recruitment this year, indicative of a pattern of rapid expansion in the Panhellenic community in recent years, with 301 women accepting bids.

Former Columbia University Panhellenic Council President Roberta Barnett confirmed that the number of girls registered for formal recruitment was over 500. In 2013, 366 women registered for formal recruitment, up from 288 in 2012.

Each chapter was allowed to offer 53 bids, and this year’s pledge classes range in size from 40 to 53. Approximately threefifths of all women who registered for formal recruitment were offered and accepted bids.

Barnett attributes the rise in interest in Panhellenic recruitment to a desire among students to be a part of a family on cam-

pus.

“A lot of people at Columbia complain about the lack of COLUMBIA c o m m u nity,” Barnett said, and sororities offer an “outlet where a lot of people feel connected to a specific place.”

Barnett said that recruitment numbers were up because people were looking for a nonpolarizing community built around shared values.

“I think that people are looking for what I would describe as values-based organizations at Columbia,” Barnett said. “Their explicit purpose is not preprofessional, it’s not political. I think that people, especially in an environment like this, can appreciate that.”

Additionally, Barnett said that the Panhellenic community’s growth has increased its vis-

ibility on campus, and therefore the number of women participating in recruitment.

“As the community grows, it becomes a little bit more highprofile, and by that I mean visible,” Barnett said.

This sentiment was reiterated by a Barnard first-year who participated in recruitment.

Potential new members asked to be anonymous because they were directed not to speak to the press. She said that she was participating in recruitment in large part because her peers were.

“A lot of my friends are doing it. I actually didn’t think I would do recruitment, because it’s not usually my thing, but my friends are doing it and it has been pretty fun so far,” she said.

Other potential new members pointed to the community that Panhellenic sororities foster.

For example, when asked why she wanted to join a sorority, one Columbia College first-year explained, “I went to an all-girls

school, so I’m into the sisterhood.”

Since 2013, two new organizations, Alpha Omicron Pi and Gamma Phi Beta, were established on campus. This was Gamma Phi’s first formal recruitment after establishing a chapter on campus last spring.

Barnett said that the new sororities may have contributed to the community’s expansion.

“I think there are people that are interested in those newer organizations who might not have been interested [in Greek life] previously,” Barnett said.

Many potential new members expressed the desire for a place to call home on campus as their reasoning for participating in recruitment.

“I wanted to meet more people, meet people who weren’t living in my dorm or in my classes or in my school or in my year even,” another Columbia College first-year and potential new member said.

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MONDAY

ROB O’GARA ’16 OUT FOR FRIDAY’S CONTEST The 2014–15 first team All-American defenseman was disqualified for the Yale men’s hockey team’s game next Friday against Colgate following a contact-tothe-head penalty in Saturday night’s 2–1 win over Harvard. The Elis should have O’Gara back on the ice on Saturday.

YALE MEN’S TENNIS WIN STREAK EXTENDS TO FOUR The Bulldogs traveled to West Point, New York this weekend for the 75th meeting between Yale and Army, and ultimately leaving with a 5–2 victory and a four-match winning streak. Coverage of the weekend’s tennis action will be published in tomorrow’s News.

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Sherrod ’16 sets NCAA record MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Brandon Sherrod ’16 set an NCAA record on Friday by extending his streak of consecutive made field goals to 30.

In front of over 2,200 fans in the John J. Lee Amphitheater, Yale men’s basketball forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 set an NCAA record for most consecutive field goals made in the team’s 86–72 win over Columbia on Friday night.

Sherrod entered the Columbia matchup one shy of the previous NCAA record of 26, shared by Torian Oglesby of Bowling Green and James Thompson of Eastern Michigan. Prior to the Lions’ game, the senior had not missed a shot in more than three games — his streak of 25 straight field goals dated back to the Elis’ Jan. 16 win over Brown at home.

By the time Sherrod missed from the floor, the new NCAA record stood at 30 consecutive made baskets.

“I wouldn’t go as far as to say we have the best inside duo [in forward Justin Sears ’16 and Sherrod] in the country, and Brandon won’t like to hear me say this, but if he was 6-foot-10, we would,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “If he’s 6-foot-10, he’s playing in the NBA, making a lot of money and I’m asking for a loan.”

The streak began with Sherrod’s final field goal against the Bears at home and continued with perfect performances against Brown in Providence, followed by Penn and Princeton at home, when he went 9–9, 7–7 and 8–8 from the field, respectively.

He tied the record with an emphatic dunk with 16:05 remaining in the first half on Friday, and surpassed it with a layup with 12:39 to go until halftime that brought the Bulldogs to within one point, 13–12. Sherrod went on to extend the record, making another three baskets before missing a hook shot with just under five minutes remaining in the first half.

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Banner weekend for Bulldogs

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Cody Learned ’16, not pictured, fired the game-winner, which hit off the post and then the goaltender’s back before entering the net.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS For a heart-stopping moment, it seemed as though the script had flipped.

Three months ago, the No. 11 Yale men’s hockey team managed to escape the Bright Hockey Center in Boston with a 2–2 tie at No. 7 Harvard due to a lastminute goal by forward Joe Snively ’19.

But on Saturday, it was the Crimson — visiting Ingalls Rink and down 2–1 in the final 15 seconds — that was on the attack when the puck bounced free to its AllAmerican forward Jimmy Vesey, stand-

ing directly in front of the Yale goal with an open half-net just inches away.

MEN’S HOCKEY And then Vesey swung — and, somehow, almost entirely missed the puck, connecting just enough to send it rolling slowly to the right of the goalpost, and ultimately to send Harvard back to Cambridge with its 10th loss at Yale in its last 14 tries.

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Yale 6-0 in Ivy League for first time ever

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The Yale men’s basketball team made an emphatic statement to the Ivy League with another weekend sweep — this time over Columbia and Cornell — as it moved into sole possession of first place in the conference.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Riding a 10-game winning streak, the program’s longest since the start of Ivy League play in 1957, the Bulldogs (15–5, 6–0 Ivy) opened Ivy play 6–0 for the first time in school history. Behind consistent lightsout shooting and sound defense, Yale picked up double-digit wins over then-undefeated Columbia and Cornell.

“We had a chance to do it last year and we didn’t,” head coach James Jones said of the 6–0 Ivy League start. “We got one of the games we lost last year back by beating Columbia in our building.”

Against the Lions (16–7, 5–1), the Bulldogs had a near-perfect game, shooting 61.5 percent from the field, 55.6 percent from downtown and 77.8 percent from the foul line, en route to an 86–72 victory.

Forward Justin Sears ’16 led

all scorers with 27 points. The reigning Ivy League Player of the year shot 7–10 from the field and 2–3 from beyond the arc, atypical for the physical forward who entered the game having made eight three-pointers in his collegiate career.

“Earlier in the game, [Columbia forward Jeff Coby] dared me to shoot it, so I took that as a personal challenge,” Sears said. “He said ‘Shoot it,’ so I said ‘OK.’” Fellow forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 was right behind Sears with a career-high 25 points on 6–8 shooting from the field. His performance was overshadowed by his first five shots of the night, as the senior tied and then broke the NCAA record for most consecutive made field goals in the first half. The new mark, set by the Bridgeport native, stands at 30 straight baskets from the floor.

Despite Yale’s stellar shooting, the game got off to a shaky start, as the Lions jumped out to a six-point lead thanks to five Eli turnovers in the first five minutes. Columbia guard Maodo Lo forced seven steals, tying a school record, and added 21 points on the offensive end.

“Maodo Lo is a tremendous player, and our guys did a great job on their shooters and getting out there and rebounding the ball and getting out in transition a little bit,” Jones said. “We also got to

the foul line, and that helped.”

Lo, who led the Ivy League in scoring last year, matched up with point guard Makai Mason ’18 in a battle of two of the conference’s premier playmakers. Mason rattled off 11 of his 17 points in the first half, including 3–4 shooting from deep.

Though the Lions held a lead as late as 9:19 remaining in the first half, Yale closed out the period on a 25–15 run, punctuated by a high-arcing three-pointer from forward Blake Reynolds ’19 with just three seconds left to give the Bulldogs a 41–33 advantage.

Though Columbia forward Alex Rosenberg, a former firstteam All-Ivy player, came off the bench to pick up 11 points in the game, he was held to just 3–10 shooting from the field. Guard Grant Mullins, who notched 13 points, was the only other Lion starter, besides Lo, to surpass 10 points.

Columbia entered the game leading the league in successful three-pointers, but the Lions went just 9–31 from beyond the arc. While Yale boasts the second-best three-point shooting percentage, it also has the second-best three-point shooting defense in the league.

“Threes will separate [two teams.] We didn’t make ours,

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In Yale’s two-win weekend, Makai Mason ’18 scored in an efficient manner, finishing with 27 points on 58.8 percent shooting over the two wins.

THE CURRENT RANKING OF THE YALE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM IN THE NATION IN TERMS OF GOALS ALLOWED PER GAME. The number-one ranked defense is conceding just 1.62 goals per contest after a weekend in which Yale outscored Dartmouth and Harvard by a combined score of 7–2.

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“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.”

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Fencing competes at Ivy Round-Robins

Women fall in road matches

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The Yale men’s squash team handily defeated Princeton and Penn to move to 5–0 in the Ivy League.

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This weekend marked the first time since 2012 that the Eli women emerged from Ivy Round-Robins with a victory against any opponent.

FENCING FROM PAGE B4 boozle some great fencers and get some really exciting wins,” Flesch said.

The women’s matches marked some similarly exciting moments for Yale, with the most impressive performance coming from Zhao, who earned second team All-Ivy honors for her eight wins.

Three of Zhao’s wins came against Brown, which Yale defeated 17–10 — the first time the Bulldogs defeated any Ivy team in four years.

“I was very excited that we beat Brown,” captain and saber Joanna Lew ’17 said. “I am very proud of our freshman Jenny Zhao … and of the team as a whole, with many others coming close.”

Lew put on a small show of her own as well, as she and teammate Ilana Kamber ’18 tied for 11th overall in women’s saber. Fellow saber Lillie Lainoff ’18 was responsible for the clinching victory over Brown’s Claudia Jiang.

Fencers from both teams now look forward to the U.S. Collegiate Squad Championships, an event the Bulldogs can attack with new momentum after the

showing of improvement this past weekend.

“Though [the Round-Robins weekend] was a defeat, I think that it gives us a greater resilience going forward,” Lew said.

The U.S. Collegiate Squad Championships take place on Feb. 28 at Princeton.

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against Penn, whose sole loss of the season came in a narrow 6–3 match against No. 1 Harvard. Earlier in the season, Penn had beat Princeton 8–1.

Playing two matches back-to-back is a challenge in itself, but Princeton’s courts, which have plaster back walls, gave the Tigers an additional home-court advantage, Blatchford and Saunders said.

“It has been an incredible season and both teams have

played some magnificent squash to date,” said Saunders. “In my time at Yale we have never had two teams make such progress in a year, and credit must also go to [team psychology coach] Bob Mallimson, who has helped our players with their mental games this year.”

The Yale men and women now prepare for their next match this Friday at Dartmouth, where they will begin play at 4 p.m.

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Yale goes 1-1 on the road W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 the third period, another penalty again hampered the Elis, as the Big Green capitalized on its third power-play goal to knot the game at three in the final frame.

“Moving forward we want to avoid penalties, because special teams can be the determining factor between a win and a loss, especially in big games,” forward Brittany Wheeler ’18 said. “Hockey is a sport with contact and things happen, so it’s just about playing smart and avoiding those as best we can.”

Regular time ended with the game still tied, leaving a fiveminute overtime to determine the victor. Three minutes in, forward Eden Murray ’18 created the first offensive chance for either team by forcing a turnover in the Dartmouth zone. She sent the puck behind the net to Yip-Chuck, who beat a defender and crisply slid the puck onto Haddad’s stick right in front of the goal. Haddad gave Dartmouth’s goalie no chance, as she slotted the puck into the top corner to silence Dartmouth’s crowd and win the game.

Yale’s contest against Harvard on Saturday also started out in back-and-forth fashion: Harvard started the scoring early in the first period before Staenz tied the game.

From there on out, however, it was all Harvard. The Crimson scored a second goal on another power play — the fourth power-

play goal given up by Yale on the weekend — before tacking on another five minutes later. Late in the third period, Yale pulled goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 while down 3–1, and Harvard added an empty-net goal to ice the game.

“We didn’t play our best hockey, and the outcome showed that,” Wheeler said. “Now we’re just focused on learning from that game and moving forward.”

The 1–1 weekend ended with the Bulldogs in seventh place in the ECAC standings. With only four games left in the regular season, Yale is still in line to gain a seat in the eight-team postseason.

But Yale players said they are not necessarily honing in on the standings, but rather on the caliber of their play.

“Heading into the final two weekends of the regular season, we are most focused on our own team play,” Yip-Chuck said. “We can only control what we can control, and that means playing Yale hockey for a full 60 minutes each game. If we do that, we feel that the results we want should follow and hopefully it pays dividends in the standings.”

Next weekend the Bulldogs return to Ingalls Rink to take on Colgate on Friday night and Cornell the following evening. The puck will drop at 7 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs are now seventh in the ECAC Hockey standings after a win and a loss on the road.

Yale falls in pair of tightly contested matchups W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 advantage of foul trouble for Yale, as compared to an 0–2 effort at the charity stripe in the final period by the Bulldogs.

Although Yale upped its offensive effort — the Bulldogs scored their most points and shot their best percentage since a Jan. 22 win at Brown — behind 19 points from Simpson and 12 from Sarju, the team’s defense precluded an important conference victory.

“We missed our help defense assignments and just did not bring the intensity we needed on the defensive end,” guard Lena Munzer ’17 said. “That can’t happen,

especially against a great offensive team like Columbia. They were hungry for a win and they capitalized on our mistakes.”

With only a day between games, Yale headed upstate to Ithaca to face the Big Red. With another high-scoring start to the contest, the Bulldogs found themselves leading after the first 10 minutes of play, but an 18–3 second-quarter run by Cornell put the Elis behind by four points by the end of the first half.

The halftime break did little to interrupt Cornell’s momentum, as the Big Red scored 11 of the first 15 points of the second half to take a 49–38 lead. That 11-point margin

persisted into the fourth quarter, despite the efforts of McIntyre, who had already scored 16 points heading into the final frame.

With only 4:53 left to play, foul trouble plagued the Bulldogs yet again as Sarju picked up her third foul of the quarter and fifth of the game. With its leading scorer off the court, the Bulldogs failed to cut the deficit to a single possession from that point forward despite just 9–16 shooting for Cornell in the final five minutes.

McIntyre’s performance stood out in the defeat, as the junior guard recorded a career-high 19 points.

“I think my mentality was just

to keep attacking, and to try to create opportunities for other people to score as well,” McIntyre said. “We were down the second half, so we wanted to keep pushing in transition, and keep fighting.”

Simpson, meanwhile, registered her first career double-double in Saturday’s game behind 19 points and 10 rebounds. This was the 14th time that Simpson scored in double figures this season.

Averaging 16.5 turnovers per game this season, the Bulldogs committed just 11 on Saturday, their second-fewest of the season.

However, it was only able to force four Cornell giveaways.

“Our defense did improve a lit-

tle bit from Friday to Saturday, but it still needs a lot of work,” Wyckoff said. “Our main focus was outworking Cornell on Saturday, and we showed glimpses of that, but it wasn’t consistent enough throughout the game to win it.”

This weekend’s results leave the Bulldogs tied with Dartmouth for fifth in the Ivy League standings, with a matchup between the two teams slated for Friday.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will face rival Harvard for their first Ivy home weekend of the season, intent on improving their performance on the defensive end of the floor after both Columbia and Cornell shot at least 45 percent

from the field.

“We never gave up, but we put ourselves in a position that made it very hard down the stretch in both games, where I think we could have done a much better job on the front end in terms of defending their actions,” Sarju said. “We are happy to be back home, and will have a very defensive-minded week of practice to prepare for another tough weekend.”

Friday’s contest against the Big Green will be Yale’s first home game in nearly a month.

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

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“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”

ALTHEA GIBSON TENNIS CHAMPION

30 attempts, 30 baskets

Yale sits alone in first place

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 matched a season-high on Friday night with 27 points in Yale’s 86–72 win over Columbia.

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Through six Ivy contests, Sherrod is shooting an Ancient Eight-best 77.6 percent from the field in addition to averaging 18.3 points per game, third-best in the conference.

SHERROD FROM PAGE B1 into the game thinking I wanted to get all my buckets at the rim and make them all in a row because I would’ve done a great disservice to my team,” Sherrod said. “It would’ve been very selfish for me to think that way, so as the game flowed … I was able to get opportunities … because of my teammates.”

Perhaps precipitated by a national news blast from the NCAA Stats and Information Bureau informing subscribers that Sherrod entered the Columbia game one shot shy of the record, news of his accomplishment quickly spread throughout national media. ESPN, SportsCenter and the NCAA are among the groups that tweeted immediately after the senior made his 27th consecutive field goal.

After the game, the daily sports news program SportsCenter ran two features on Sherrod’s record, jokingly titling a shot chart graphic “30-for-30: The Brandon Sherrod Story.” “30-for-30” is the umbrella title for ESPN’s documen-

tary series about important moments or individuals in the sports world.

“As you can see, there’s a lot of work in the paint,” sportscaster Scott Van Pelt said on SportsCenter Friday night.

“Thirty straight before the miss. Well done.”

Sherrod’s record-setting performance comes more than four years after Oglesby set the original mark, back on Jan. 1, 2012. Thompson’s tying streak of 26 baskets ended on Jan. 9 of this year.

Sherrod went on to finish 6–8 from the field against Columbia, adding 13 free-throw makes on 18 attempts to finish with a career-high 25 points.

Following his 10-point performance in Yale’s 83–52 smackdown of Cornell the following night, Sherrod ranks first in the Ivy League in field goal percentage, at 77.6 percent, and third in scoring, with 18.3 points per game.

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

they made theirs,” Columbia head coach Mike Smith said after the game.

The Elis carried the hot shooting into Saturday, jumping out to a 52–26 halftime lead on 59.4 percent shooting from the field in a dominant opening period. The 26-point halftime advantage was the largest of the season for the Bulldogs, surpassing a 19-point lead over Division III Daniel Webster on Jan. 8.

Though the Big Red’s swarming full-court pressure initially disrupted the Elis, who turned the ball over more than five times in the game’s first eight minutes, the team eventually settled down.

“We were pretty much getting anything once we broke their press,” Mason said. “We were just trying to move the ball and whoever took the shot would knock it down so we were not trying to force anything.”

Yale particularly took advantage down low against Cornell. The Bulldogs significantly outsized the Big Red, which utilized four-guard lineups for multiple stretches of the game. Cornell’s double-teams in the paint opened up the perimeter for the Elis, who made 12 shots from deep — the third consecutive game in which Yale has made more than 10

three-pointers.

With a commanding early lead, the Bulldogs were able to methodically progress through their offensive sets and find the open man.

“When you share the ball and have 30 made shots and 21 of them are assisted and each one of your starters have at least three assists, that is just a great game where guys are looking for each other and that really shows the unselfishness we have on this team,” Jones said.

The Bulldogs controlled the glass throughout the contest, outrebounding the Big Red 56–22, while also scoring 32 points in the paint, as compared to 19 from Cornell. The 56 rebounds was a season-high, as was the plus-34 rebounding margin.

In both games this weekend, Victor led all Bulldogs in rebounds, with nine in each contest. Offensive rebounding, a category in which Yale ranks third nationally, remained a strength of Yale’s: Of the team’s 34 off-target shots on Saturday, the Bulldogs rebounded 20 of them.

Yale now possesses the secondbest rebounding margin in the country, according to NCAA statistics, outrebounding its opponents by 12.4 boards on average.

Though the two leading scorers in the Ivy League are on Cornell’s ros-

ter, Yale effectively neutralized the dynamic guards, Robert Hatter and Matt Morgan. Hatter, a junior and league’s top scorer at 18.7 points per game, made just one of his nine attempts from the field to finish with two points.

Morgan, a highly touted freshman, was the lone Cornell player to crack double-digits, finishing the evening with 20 points on 7–16 shooting from the field and 5–10 from deep.

Encouragingly, the Bulldogs, who entered the weekend ranked sixth in the league in free-throw percentage at 63.9 percent, shot above 75 percent in both games. Jones noted that several players spent extra time working on their foul shots the week before.

Next week, the Bulldogs head out of town after four consecutive home games, first to visit Dartmouth on Friday, then to play Harvard on Saturday.

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. in Hanover, where Yale lost in its season finale last year, missing out on sole possession of the Ivy League championship and an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.

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

Bulldogs down Crimson in Ivy showdown MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 minute, I think,” Yale goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 said after the game.

“I was pretty shocked … when it slipped off [Vesey’s] stick. And I know him pretty well, so I feel for him, but I’m happy it happened.”

It was a moment of good fortune for the Elis (14–5–4, 9–4–3 ECAC Hockey) in a set of games when they did not seem to need much of it, as the Bulldogs throttled No. 20 Dartmouth (12–10– 1, 9–7–0) 5–1 on Friday, a day before the victory over the Crimson (13–6–3, 9–4–3) pulled Yale into ties for second place in the ECAC standings and for No. 9 in the PairWise Rankings.

Even with seven skaters sidelined due to injury, Yale had perhaps its most impressive weekend of the 2015–16 campaign, dominating a Big Green team that had won six of seven before coming to Ingalls and then coming from behind to knock off its historic rival at the sold-out Whale.

Lyon finished with 46 saves on 48 shots, and the forward line of Stu Wilson ’16, John Hayden ’17 and Snively led Yale with a combined five goals and 10 points.

“I think with being down in numbers, it sharpened our focus a little bit,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “Everyone was on task, and it was a great team weekend.”

Friday’s game saw the Bulldogs square off against Dartmouth, and after having to come back from an early 2–0 deficit in Hanover in November before winning 4–2, it was Yale’s turn to open against the Big Green with an explosive offensive start.

Two goals, both by Wilson, on the home side’s first three shots set the tone for the contest, during which the Elis wound up outshooting the visitors 36–22. In both of Wilson’s tallies, which

were separated by just 47 seconds, the senior took advantage of a loose puck in front of the net for a quick shot and score. “[Hayden, Snively and I] felt [ourselves working well together] in practice and it wasn’t really showing on the scoreboard, but [Friday] we kind of broke through,” Wilson said.

Dartmouth soon responded, converting a two-on-one chance for a goal on Lyon. But a highlight-reel backhanded score from Snively, all while falling to the ground, before the end of the period re-established a two-goal margin, and the Bulldogs would only extend their lead from there.

After forward Cody Learned ’16 scored the Elis’ first shorthanded goal of the season early in the second period, Dartmouth replaced its starting goaltender Charles Grant with James Kruger, who stopped all 13 shots he faced in the frame. The Elis, however, killed all four second-period Dartmouth power-play chances and held onto a 4–1 lead as the final period began.

Kruger did not hold his clean sheet for long, as Hayden rounded out the game’s scoring with a onetimer, off a Snively pass, through the senior goalie’s legs on Yale’s first shot of the third period. Lyon was never seriously challenged in the final 20 minutes, and his team finished the contest with its most lopsided win of the 2015–16 conference season.

“We’ve played a number of good games this year, but I was really pleased with the way we played [on Friday],” Allain said.

Saturday was not nearly so comfortable for the Bulldogs, as a sluggish Yale start opened the door for the visiting Crimson to jump ahead. Harvard drew first blood when Vesey collected a pass from linemate Alexander Kerfoot

and buried the puck into a wideopen net at 9:55 into the first.

Nevertheless, Vesey’s goal seemed to wake the Elis up, and Yale was quick to respond with a tally of its own. Less than two minutes later, Hayden finished off a Bulldog possession with a shot from directly in front of the goal after receiving a perfect pass from Wilson. The score was the third point of the weekend for Hayden, who leads the team with 12 goals on the season, and the fourth point of the weekend for Wilson.

The first period and a half featured few notable scoring chances other than the two goals, but midway through the second frame, the Yale offense began to take control. During a 90-second stretch in which Yale kept the puck in the offensive zone and Vesey lost his stick, Learned fired a shot through traffic that clanged off the post and off the back of Harvard netminder Merrick Madsen before bouncing in to change the scoreboard for the final time on the night. Learned, who had just one goal in the team’s first 20 games, has scored in each of its last three.

“The line before us had a great shift, so the Harvard guys were tired,” Learned said. “We trapped them in their end. [Defenseman Dan O’Keefe ’17] made a good pass to me down low and I saw an opening and brought it to the middle and got a shot on net.

Luckily it went in.”

But the Crimson began seriously threatening the Bulldogs early in the third period with a series of close offensive attempts.

Yale star defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 was called for two penalties in the first half of the period, the second of which was a contactto-the-head infraction that disqualified him for the rest of the

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Captain and defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 will finish his career 6–0–2 against Harvard in ECAC season play. game. O’Gara will also miss next Friday’s game against Colgate due to the penalty.

Forward Henry Hart ’18 served O’Gara’s five-minute major, forcing Yale to skate four-on-four for two minutes and down a man for another three. In total, Harvard had six and a half minutes with a man advantage due to either power plays or an empty net, which meant Lyon had to save 18 shots in the final frame.

Though Harvard almost evened up the score during a whirlwind final 90 seconds, Lyon and his defensemen stood strong, denying three Crimson shots and surviving Vesey’s golden opportunity. “[There were] puck battles, they took sticks … They were playing desperate hockey,” Allain said. “We were playing just as desperately to keep it out of our net and I think that’s what you see

at the end of a really good hockey game.”

With three regular season weekends still to play, Yale heads up to Colgate on Friday and to No. 17 Cornell on Saturday for another pair of pivotal ECAC showdowns. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m.

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

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“It’s been every last one of you guys in the locker room that’s gotten us to this moment right here.”

VON MILLER SUPER BOWL 50 MVP

Wins over Brown highlight Ivies

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though the Yale men’s and women’s fencing teams emerged from Ivy RoundRobins this weekend with several losses to top-ranked conference opponents, both Eli squads showed significant improvement from previous years’ defeats.

FENCING Both teams defeated Brown — a feat they could not accomplish last year — resulting in a 1–4 weekend for the Yale men and a

1–5 showing for the women.

The Yale men’s team finished fifth in a field of six Ivy teams, while the Eli women finished sixth out of seven teams. Individually, foil Jenny Zhao ’19 was the central highlight for Yale, finishing the weekend 8–6 and representing Yale as the only Bulldog to be named to an All-Ivy team.

“Even though we ultimately finished with a losing record, in past years we walked away with no wins, so our one win today was a big deal,” men’s captain and epee Derek Soled ’16 said.

The men’s squad had

strong performances from sabermen Reed Srere ’17, Walter Musgrave ’19 and Ian Richards ’17, who ranked 10th, 11th and 12th, respectively, in the Ivy League standings.

Overall, men’s saber established a 21–24 record, falling narrowly to Princeton, the eventual conference champion and the No. 8 team in the country.

“The saber squad performed the best,” Soled said.

“All the starters had records around 50 percent. They were fencing against some of the guys in the country, so that was really good.”

Other weapons had their moments as well. The Yale men’s foil fell to four of its opponents but pulled out a 5–4 victory over Brown, a result that proved essential to the ultimate 14–13 team win.

Highlighting the foil matches for Yale were Paul Won ’18 and Daniel Flesch ’19, who went 7–8 and 3–8 over the course of the tournament, including three wins combined for the pair against conference heavyweight Princeton.

“We managed to bamSEE FENCING PAGE B2

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Both teams from Yale defeated Brown this weekend at Ivy League Round-Robins while falling in their other matchups.

Five-game win streak ends at Harvard

Men’s squash in strong position for Ivy title

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The No. 4 Yale men’s squash team kept its hopes of an Ivy League championship alive this weekend with a pair of wins over No. 13 Princeton and No. 2 Penn, while the No. 4 Eli women collected their first conferences losses against two higher-ranked opponents.

SQUASH Backed by a slew of wins throughout the middle of the ladder, the Yale men (10–2, 5–0 Ivy) topped Princeton (3–9, 1–4) 7–2 on Friday, and then Penn (9–3, 3–2) by a narrower 6–3 margin the following day. The women (10–3, 3–2) did not fare as well, suffering respective 7–2 and 9–0 losses to No. 3 Princeton (8–2, 3–2) and No. 2 Penn (10–1, 4–1).

By improving to 5–0 in the Ancient Eight, the Yale men’s team has positioned itself well to claim an Ivy title next weekend when its plays No. 5 Dartmouth and No. 7 Harvard. A single win would secure at least a share of the championship for the Bulldogs, and a pair of wins would guarantee them the trophy.

“These wins have inspired the men to push hard to the finish line so that we can win not only the Ivy, but hopefully a National Championship title too,” associate head coach Pam Saunders said.

The men’s match against Princeton demonstrated the depth of Yale’s roster, as the Elis’ only losses came at the No. 1 and 9 positions. Of the Bulldogs’ seven wins, all but one came in three games, and the two matches the Bulldogs dropped were among the closest of the day: Playing at the No. 9 position, Pehlaaj Bajwa ’16 fell in the fifth game after failing to capitalize on a 2–1 lead, while No. 1 Zac Leman ’16 suffered a

trio of 15–13 scores. The loss was Princeton’s eighth in a row, though the team has been playing top competition.

Following a short drive to Philadelphia and a night’s rest, Yale collected wins against the Quakers at the No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 positions. Both No. 2 TJ Dembinski ’17 and No. 4 Kah Wah Cheong ’17 rallied from 2–1 deficits to collect wins in their fifth games. Dembinski’s comeback secured the win for Yale, and Cheong’s victory was the Bulldogs’ sixth of the day.

“I thought that my match was going to be the decider — luckily Kah Wah also made a similar come back — but I just kept telling myself that if I stuck to my game plan I’d win, so that’s what I did,” said Dembinski. “Overall the team fought heroically.”

Saunders described the women’s loss to Princeton as “disappointing,” and several players felt that the match was closer than the 7–2 score indicated.

Princeton boasts two of the top players in collegiate women’s squash in Olivia Fletcher and Maria Elena Ubina, who finished last season ranked third and fourth in the nation, respectively.

Yale No. 1 Jenny Scherl ’17 took Fletcher to four games, while No. 2 Celine Yeap ’19 lasted five games.

No. 3 Shiyuan Mao ’17 and No. 5 Georgia Blatchford ’16 collected the lone wins for Yale, with Mao winning in four games and Blatchford outlasting her opponent in five.

“It was a high-intensity match, but my strategy to keep the ball straight worked out,” said Blatchford. “As a team we were expecting the overall match to be a little bit closer. Many of the matches went to extra games.”

Blatchford added that the team was expecting an uphill battle the next day SEE SQUASH PAGE B2

Road trip not kind to Yale

BY MADDIE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team saw a five-game road stand end in disappointing fashion over the weekend, dropping two tight decisions to Columbia and Cornell.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Although the Bulldogs (11– 12, 2–4 Ivy) led for the majority of Friday’s matchup against Columbia (12–9, 1–5), Yale was unable to hold on to a onepoint lead with less than three minutes remaining, ultimately losing 77–71. The Elis, now 1–10 this season on the road,

were unable to rebound in Saturday’s faceoff with Cornell (13–7, 5–1), falling 74–63 at the final whistle despite impressive offensive efforts by guards Tamara Simpson ’18 and Meg McIntyre ’17.

“We failed to defend on both nights, which is why we lost both,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said.

“We didn’t really have trouble scoring, but we traded baskets with both teams too much and didn’t get stops at critical points in the games.”

Having entered the weekend with a 0.500 record in conference play, the two losses put Yale four games behind first-place Penn with eight

games remaining.

Friday’s game pitted the Bulldogs against the Lions, a team which had yet to win a league game. The Eli offense, which has struggled to score more than 50 points since their Jan. 16 game against Brown, scored 35 points in the first half behind 42.3 percent shooting. Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16, fifth in the Ivy League in scoring at 15.1 points per game, led the team at the half with nine points and 10 of the 11 Bulldogs who saw action scored before halftime.

Columbia evened the score by the end of the third quarter, buoyed by 63.6 percent shooting from the field. Although

Yale shot just 33 percent in the period, 12 third-quarter points from Simpson kept Yale afloat.

The lead changed three times in the fourth before Columbia’s leading scorer, Camille Zimmerman, knocked down a jump shot to put the Lions ahead for good.

Despite a pair of McIntyre three-pointers in the final two minutes, Yale was not able to withstand a 16–8 run from Columbia to close out the game and victory.

Half of Columbia’s 22 fourth-quarter points came from the foul line, taking SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2

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Forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 tacked on two assists in Yale’s 4–3 win over Dartmouth on Friday night.

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team came up with mixed results this weekend, as the Bulldogs extended their winning streak to five games with an overtime win at Dartmouth before falling decisively to Harvard the following night.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Coming off of four consecutive wins, all of which were against league rivals, the Elis (10–14–1, 9–8–1 ECAC Hockey) were on a tear heading into this weekend. Forward Jamie Haddad ’16 scored in overtime to keep that momentum going against Dartmouth (5–16–3, 5–10– 3), but in Cambridge the winning streak would cease, as the Crimson (13–9–2, 10–6–2) rattled off three unanswered goals in the final two periods to hand the Bulldogs their first loss since Jan. 16.

“It’s nice to get the [two] points, but overall we didn’t play that well this weekend,” Haddad said. “It’s a

little frustrating that this far along into the season we are still not executing as well as we want to and I think this weekend reminded us of that.”

The Bulldogs’ first game of the weekend was a rollercoaster ride, as Dartmouth erased Yale leads at two separate points during the contest.

The first part of the back-and-forth action came in the first period, when an early goal from forward Hanna Åström ’16 was matched by a Big Green power-play score 12 minutes into the game.

Yale reclaimed the lead in the final minute of the period, when forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 assisted on a goal by defenseman Mallory Souliotis ’18, and further extended its advantage in the second with a goal from captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16, assisted

by Staenz.

Two minutes later, Yale watched its lead shrink to one when it gave up the second power-play goal of the contest, and only a minute into SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE B2

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Although Yale sports an 8–1 home record, it now owns a 1–10 record on the road following a winless weekend in New York.