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CROSS CAMPUS Can you hear them singing?

After a strong showing at the Golden Globes, Yale continued its strong run atop the world of entertainment during yesterday’s Grammys: Cellobeatboxer Kevin Olusola ’11 from Pentatonix won the night’s Best Arrangement award. As if the a cappella groups on campus needed another reason to break out in spontaneous song …

TWICE IS NICE HOCKEY TOPS HARVARD AGAIN

THEY’RE HIRING

ALTERNATIVE BREAK

Amid dysfunction, Democracy Fund solicits applications.

OCS DEBUTS TREKS: SPRING BREAK JOB SHADOWING.

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MENINGITIS

Univ. readies for unlikely outbreak

Good Story. If it was good

enough for our Around the Web Editor’s Pick this week, it’s good enough for this.

Saturday’s “Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to New York Real Estate” launched a fivepart New York Times series on the role of shell companies in helping foreign business magnates take over prime Manhattan real estate. With it, former Newsie Louise Story ’03 has made us proud and primed for more of her investigative reporting.

The ’Houn is hungry. This

afternoon, Calhoun will host Shake Shack Culinary Director Mark Rosati, whose job includes cultivating sustainable practices within the now-publicly traded burger company.

And Morse is thirsty.

Meanwhile, Alexis Carra ’03 is the guest of honor at today’s Morse master’s tea.

Carra currently stars in ABC’s “Mixology,” which we’re going to assume is about a bar.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2011 Raymond Clark III, charged with the murder of Annie Le GRD ’13, appears in New Haven court, nearly 17 months after his arrest.

Because the case was in the pre-trial stage, a firm timeline for the trial process had yet to be set.

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Student has probable case of meningitis

floxacin and being extra-vigilant for symptoms that may indicate meningitis.

The suspected case comes less than two years after an outbreak of type B meningitis at Princeton that infected nine within the span of 12 months and left one Drexel Uni-

The condition of the Calhoun College student currently being treated at YaleNew Haven Hospital for suspected bacterial meningitis is improving, according to Calhoun Master Julia Adams.

“The parents have said they see improvement,” Adams said in an email to the News Saturday afternoon, though a suitemate noted at that time that the student remains in the intensive care unit of the hospital. As of early Saturday evening, there was no confirmation that the student’s illness had been verified as meningitis.

In addition to Adams, another of the patient’s suitemates confirmed Saturday afternoon that her condition is improving.

The suitemate said the suite has not been given any additional information about how the patient is doing.

The student was taken to Yale Health by suitemates on Thursday evening after a headache and flu-like symptoms became severe and the student, who had been stay-

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Yale is taking substantial precautions to reduce the risk of a meningitis outbreak on campus.

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER After the hospitalization of a student with a probable case of bacterial meningitis, the University is preparing for the potential of a meningitis outbreak, though the likelihood of the infection’s proliferation is low.

“I want to stress that although bacterial meningitis is a serious disease, the risk of transmission is very low,” said Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin in a Sunday campuswide email.

Still, the University is taking substantial precautions, including providing those at risk of contagion with doses of the antibiotic cipro-

YPBA, admins reaffirm stances on Blow case

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Members of the Yale Police Department are standing by the officer who held African-American student Tahj Blow ’16 at gunpoint on Jan. 24.

The Yale Police Benevolent Association, a union representing roughly 65 patrol officers

and detectives in the Yale Police Department, posted a statement in YPD headquarters early last week saying the officer was justified in his decision to draw a gun to Blow, who matched the description of a reported suspect of theft in Trumbull College. YPBA Executive Director Earl Reed said the union was compelled to release a state-

ment because its members felt the general public was too quick to judge the actions of the police officer. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said in a Sunday email to the News that there was nothing for him to say about the YPBA statement.

“The last time I held up a gun, I was investigating a burglary and discovered a Yale stu-

dent being raped and assaulted,” Reed said. “So, it was a good job that I had it.”

He added that the police officer who held a gun at Blow could not see below Blow’s hands and therefore could not determine if the suspect was armed.

The statement from the YPBA, obtained by the News, also condemned the adminis-

Elementary, my dear Watson.

Emma Watson is doing her part to keep the Harry PotterYale connection alive and well. In a Sunday tweet, reallife Hermione praised “The Opposite of Loneliness,” the late Marina Keegan’s ’12 universally-lauded anthology.

We already knew the book was good, and now Watson’s 16.3 million followers do, too.

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BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER

the Oscars in two weeks, Yale will soon have a shot at pushing that run of success even further. The Academy announced on Friday that Meryl Streep DRA ’75, a nominee for Best Supporting Actress, will present an award during Feb. 22’s show.

student section at Saturday’s basketball game against Harvard. At least part of the Cantabs’ shooting woes can be attributed to the mental rattling doled out by the Bulldog faithful — it all started with the classic “we’d rather read the newspaper than listen to your player intros” stunt before tip-off. Guess which paper they were reading?

Yale-New Haven uses app to streamline doctornurse communication.

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Yale-NUS elects first student gov’t

BY SCOTT CURRIE AND MAY TAY SPECIALS TO THE NEWS SINGAPORE — In the first three semesters of its existence, students at Yale-NUS had no semblance of self-government.

That is about to change.

On Feb. 6, students at the college elected 11 peers, out of a field of 19, to represent them on a newly formed student governing body. The student representatives will help manage student organizations and plan collegewide events. Seventy-eight percent of the student body voted in the elections, which marked the end of an 18-month-long effort to create such a body.

A constitution drafted and ratified in fall 2014 set the basic framework for the government.

The body consists of 11 members with equal voting power — a representative from each of the three residential colleges, two from the class of 2017, two from the class of 2018 and, finally, four representativesat-large. Though the constitution provides few specific grants of power to the new body, YaleNUS President Pericles Lewis said he sees student members serving on committees jointly with faculty and staff and helping to decide important collegewide matters as the school con-

tinues to define its identity.

Lewis said the new body will allow elected representatives to “take ownership” of aspects of the college that affect students most, while establishing avenues for the student body at large to provide input and voice concerns to the administration.

“Having a conduit for student ideas and perspectives only strengthens the Yale-NUS community,” said Chris O’Connell, manager of student life at YaleNUS. There are stark divisions in student opinion on the efficacy of the new body, which is designed to amplify student voice. Ami Firdaus YNUS ’17, who was elected as a Cendena College representative, said he is glad to see the process come to a close, ending months of debate about whether it was too soon to elect a student government.

Firdaus said he sees the position as a way to contribute to something greater than himself.

Still, Firdaus acknowledged widespread apathy about the elections. He said students who choose not to invest in the body are giving up a chance to have a say in the identity of their school.

“Ultimately all of us have a stake in the success of the colSEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6

tration’s handling of the case, specifically referencing an email administrators sent to the Yale community in response to the incident. The YPBA’s statement said the email antagonized the police officer in question and drew unnecessary comparisons to the events in Ferguson, Staten SEE YPBA PAGE 6

Petition advocates against NELC restructuring

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Many people are concerned about the future of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department.

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER With the future of the Near Eastern Language and Civilizations Department uncertain, 640 people from across the globe have signed a petition asking that the department not be restructured.

In October, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler appointed a committee to explore potential options for the future of the study of NELC at Yale. The

appointment of the committee came five months after a meeting in which NELC faculty members expressed concerns — including the administration’s failure to consult with faculty on departmental decisions — to the University administration, and almost two years after revelations about a relationship between two professors rocked the department. Given recent events, many are concerned for the department’s future.

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Empathy for Jordan O

n Feb. 4, the Islamic State released a video showing a Jordanian pilot, Muath al-Kaseasbeh, being burned alive. The appalling footage sparked a fierce response from the Jordanian government.

Within 48 hours, Jordan’s military launched a massive air strike campaign against ISIS. Jordanian state TV even ran footage of Jordanian fighter planes lifting off and destroying ISIS targets. With triumphant music blasting in the background, the reaction is textbook military propaganda — the kind that would almost certainly be condemned if produced by the American armed forces.

Analysts, bloggers and politically conscious Yale students have been quick to point out the obvious: Jordan is responding to a video designed to provoke shock and terror with an unrestrained call to militarism.

Meanwhile, the same right-wing pundits who supported America’s overreaction to 9/11 are now praising Jordan for a similarly haphazard turn to war in the face of terrorism.

WE CAN'T QUANTIFY GOODNESS OR MODEL EVIL I sympathize and agree with these criticisms. If the past decade has taught us anything, it is that blunt instruments of force rarely solve problems in the Middle East.

Yet, before everyone on the far left (read: half of Yale) rushes to condemn Jordan and mock Fox News’s ignorance of geopolitical disputes, I have a request: Watch the video first.

There are no words to describe seeing a man burned alive, surrounded by cheering onlookers, just as there are no words to describe the sight of the World Trade Center collapsing in the heart of New York City. These images incite violence for a reason. ISIS knows that showing you the face of a man about to die, invokes both empathy and fear. It knows that showing you someone of your same nationality makes the connection especially powerful. And it knows that you, a civilized human being, cannot stomach the sound or spectacle of this cold, precise instance of conflagration.

So it is probably correct, at least in one sense, to say Jordan has caved to terrorism. The country has allowed itself to be manipulated by a video whose sole purpose was manipulation.

Uncoordinated revenge will not bring al-Kaseasbeh back. Uncoordinated revenge may help defeat ISIS, or it may just perpetuate the instability and terror that fuels it.

Though reason and empirical evidence tell us what is good policy, empathy and intuition tell us what are AARON morSIBARIUM good als. We do not come to The know right Moderator and wrong through detached cost-benefit analysis. We can’t quantify goodness or model evil. These things only come to us through a shared recognition of our own — and thus others’— humanity.

Consider that Fox was the only American news outlet to publish the unedited video in its entirety.

Consider that until now, every mainstream media organization has declined to show a yearlong string of beheadings and executions. And consider that you have most likely not gone looking for such graphic content, despite hearing about it every other week.

If we really want to curb our most counterproductive impulses in the face of terror, we need to understand where they originate. It is easy to read a headline in The New York Times and sigh at the West’s hypocritical rush to violence, and applaud the few mavericks who dare resist the mass consensus of jingoism. It is hard to watch a real, teary-eyed man be locked in a cage and set on fire. And it is impossible to watch such suffering without wanting those responsible to suffer for their crimes.

Yale — and much of America — has grown understandably mistrustful of unchecked interventionism. But old habits die hard for a reason. Fear is certainly one driver of uninformed, incautious military policy. But so, I would posit, is human decency. Perhaps the Jordanians are making a mistake in their rush to punish ISIS. But we too are making a mistake when we condescend world leaders for acting on an innate, human sense of justice.

I don’t necessarily suggest anyone watch the video. It’s beyond disturbing, and many analysts think Fox’s decision to publish it does more harm than good. But before espousing the virtues of pacifism or posting wise aphorisms about the past, think about what it would be like to see a member of your military burned alive. ISIS’s actions do not ipso facto recommend any particular course of action on our part or Jordan’s. They do, however, remind us of terrorism’s pernicious efficacy. Maybe that’s a good thing.

'AALELI' ON 'JUST LET YALE FAIL'

To give or not to give E

very Yale senior faces an important decision in the upcoming weeks. No, I’m not talking about that overwhelming “future” one — I’m talking about whether or not to donate to the Senior Class Gift.

The SCG is an annual campaign in which members of the senior class are asked to give small donations to Yale. There are four SCG co-chairs directing the whole operation; beneath them are the residential college co-chairs (about thirty of those), and beneath them are about eight to 12 “agents” per college, each of whom is assigned about eight to 12 students to convince to give to the SCG. Donations go to the Yale Alumni Fund, and students can direct their donation (any amount, minimum $5) to go to financial aid, facilities, library resources or several other options.

This year, perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, the SCG is controversial. Following several revelations about the treatment of mental health at Yale and the death of a student, a number of undergraduates have created a petition, refusing to donate until the University reforms its mental health policies.

I stand with these students in their calls for reform, but I am reluctant to give to the SCG for other reasons. I’m still deciding whether or not to give. What follows is my thought process.

First, as the petitioners have noted, the historically sky-high participation rate of the SCG could potentially be used to whitewash student dissent. The SCG website repeatedly says that

participation “shows your support for the University” and “signals your endorsement of Yale and its future.” While SCOTT we may love STERN many facets of Yale, I A Stern think few of Perspective us would want to endorse Yale with this totalizing language.

Yet one of the SCG co-chairs, Evi Steyer ’15, told me that the SCG “is not necessarily an endorsement of the administration or the University, but our class.” Fellow co-chair Jake Dawe ’15 agreed. Further, he said he stood with the petitioners in their calls to reform Yale’s mental health policies and did not see his donation as an endorsement of everything about Yale.

So the question becomes: How much of an endorsement of the University is the SCG? How much of it is just money to help support things that we care about, and how much of it is a political statement?

But perhaps the endorsement question isn’t the important one. After all, as the SCG website puts it, “The primary goal of the campaign is to educate students about the importance of unrestricted gifts to the university and establish a pattern of giving post-graduation.”

Yet when I asked Steyer and Dawe about the primary goal of the SCG, they stressed other things. Dawe mentioned finan-

cially supporting particular facets of Yale; Steyer mentioned the “chance to do something together” and the sense of community the SCG engenders. Neither felt that creating new donors should be the “primary goal” of the SCG, as stated on the website, but Steyer noted that those at the Alumni Fund might have “more of a long-term perspective.”

Once again, in order to figure out whether to donate, we must decide what we consider the primary goal to be. Personally, I’m not sure we should be pushing people to give to Yale. This University is already fabulously wealthy. Perhaps other groups or institutions need our money more.

An interesting case to consider is the Harvard Alumni for Social Action, a group of Harvard alums who decided to stop giving to their massively rich school, and instead to support “destitute universities” in the developing world. In just a few years, they raised half a million dollars for the University of Dar Es Salaam — an immense sum for that school, but hardly a drop in the bucket for Harvard.

Yale cares so, so much about creating rich alums and ensuring that they donate. That’s the only reason “legacy” status exists in the first place. One could even argue that this is why Yale pushes its students into careers like finance and consulting — the more money these grads make, the more they might give back to Mother Yale. I think we’d all agree that other charities need support more than Yale does.

There is war, injustice and hunger out there. And then there’s

Yale’s facilities.

And there are still other potential problems. One must wonder how much the money actually helps. A popular option is to donate to support financial aid, but since Yale promises to meet 100 percent of demonstrated aid, giving to financial aid allows the University to shunt funds that would have gone to financial aid elsewhere, instead.

In the end, I think that students must decide for themselves what the SCG is, what it represents and then, whether or not they will donate. This is an individual choice, and I don’t think students should take it lightly.

This is a dilemma, and no one should act like it’s not.

I’m still not sure whether I’m donating. As any casual reader of this column might suspect, I have some serious problems with the Yale administration and the direction administrators are taking this University. Yet I do love Yale — just not unconditionally.

I’ve loved my time here — not all of it, but most of it. If 94 percent of my college has given, do I really want to be the one to stop Branford from creating a $10,000 scholarship (which kicks in with 95 percent participation)? On the other hand, I have enormous sympathy for those who have signed the petition and for those choosing not to give out of disgust or disappointment.

And yet, it’s just $5. It’s basically nothing.

And yet, it’s still something.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

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any Yalies I’ve spoken to since I arrived this fall have expressed readiness for Hillary. All would describe themselves as liberal or progressive, and many were disillusioned with our sitting president. This raises the question of what they think they are ready for.

I think the person who says she is ready for Hillary is saying she is ready for at least one of two things: for either Secretary Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 to be president or for Clinton’s ideas to become official U.S. policy or law. The second is the stranger reason because Clinton’s opinions are fairly centrist, if not conservative.

She voted in favor of the Iraq War in 2002. She voted for the PATRIOT Act. According to The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick, she toiled to win U.N. support for a NATO intervention in Libya. In an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, she criticized the “failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad” as responsible for ISIS’s power in the country. Despite her professed support for what she calls “smart power,” she has supported American hard

power for over a decade.

On the domestic front, Clinton is a tepid culture warrior. She has “evolved” to support gay marriage. She thinks abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.” She supports a higher minimum wage, thinks “trickle-down” economics fails and, as a senator, often voted against tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. But she has also voted to extend tax cuts on capital gains and dividends, made a “no new tax increases” pledge for incomes below $250,000 during the 2008 primaries and supported the welfare reform her husband signed as president that instituted work standards and cut payments.

She thinks inveighing against Wall Street “needs to stop.” She supports fracking and is silent on Keystone.

I think the views mentioned above are much further from those of my liberal and progressive classmates than are those of, say, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. It therefore surprises me that many of the people I’ve spoken to at Yale who are passionate about issues such as the environment and corporate greed would support with equal passion such a milquetoast liberal.

But in many cases, there’s another reason, often, in my experience, freely divulged: her gender.

Clinton’s election would be an historic one, an emblem of a century of victories for American women. Clinton is one of the most powerful women in American history. She was an active first lady, a senator and then secretary of state. And, she did all this while being a she, besting the sexism that has obstructed the careers of many American women.

For those who based their support on Clinton's sex, I have two responses. The first is that hundreds of millions of lives and trillions of dollars will be affected by the next presidential election, and none of the effect will come from the president’s sex as such. There is no essentially female perspective, and there is nothing that Clinton, as a woman, can bring to the table that makes her the best candidate.

Surely, the people who want Clinton to be elected in part because of her sex do not believe that the historic nature of the election is worth bungling the economy and our foreign policy. Which brings me to my second response to the people who are ready for

Hillary because Hillary is female.

Hillary Clinton is not the receptacle of anyone’s idea of what a woman should be like or of the views a woman should have. She is not simply a woman who might make a historical point. To make her any of these things is to objectify her.

Hillary Clinton’s opinions would guide her presidency. No doubt, her sex has influenced some of these views, but surely her opponents’ sexes have influenced their ideas no less. At any rate, anyone who cares more about the sex of the person with the ideas than the ideas themselves is comfortable enough not to have to care what the president thinks. At its best, identity politics is a means toward equal politics, ensuring that people are judged by the content of their ideas, not their demographics. If “Ready for Hillary” can honestly be rendered “Ready for a Woman,” identity politics has degenerated into an end in itself that may make the privileged few at Yale feel good, but will hurt the American people.

COLE ARONSON is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, FEB. 6

A previous version of the article “Misconduct complaints stay steady” attributed unauthorized comments to Melanie Boyd, assistant dean of student affairs. She has been removed from the article. The News regrets publishing incomplete and misleading information.

A previous version of the WEEKEND article “Art is Here” incorrectly named public artist Matthew Feiner as Michael Feiner.

Democracy Fund seeks new hires

Hundreds flock to Commons for housing fair

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Over 1,000 members of the Yale community visited Commons on Saturday in search of affordable housing in the Elm City.

Yale’s second-ever Housing Fair, hosted for the first time by the Yale Housing Office, brought together dozens of vendors, landlords, property owners and local businesses to provide graduate students and other members of the Yale community with information concerning housing options in New Haven. Although vendors and students felt the fair was helpful, they said affordable housing remains difficult to find in New Haven. Students said they often feel overwhelmed by the process of finding accommodation, and many small off-campus landlords struggle to compete with large vendors closer to downtown.

“It’s difficult to find really good housing,” Graduate Student Assembly Steering Committee member Brian Dunican GRD ’15 said. “You may be able to find housing, but for people who have

had problems with landlords, there’s not many places they can turn.”

Fair attendance increased by 700 this year, up from the 300 attendees and 18 vendors, most of which were large property owners, present at the 2014 Housing Fair.

Forest City Property Manager Tracy Goguen said there was “no comparison” between this fair and the one held last year.

“We feel it is important to offer our community the opportunity, in one venue, to see the various options available to them,” Director of Graduate and Professional Student Housing George Longyear said in a press release.

All 20 students interviewed said both fairs addressed the difficulty of finding affordable housing close to Yale’s campus. Many students mentioned how challenging it can be to find an offcampus apartment, especially for first-year students who are not familiar with the New Haven area.

The vendor Elm Campus Partners could only offer two available units of their total 521 units in New Haven. ECP Tenant Associate Bill

Ruth said such low availability is common during the off-season, adding that 18 new units will open at 911 Dixwell Ave. in the fall.

Roger Sheu GRD ’20, said he was “on the fence” about whether to live on or off campus, and the fair had helped him decide where he was going to live next year.

“You’re kind of rushed when you first come to Yale,” said Neil Bajaj GRD ’20, who was unhappy with the property he found on Craigslist last year. Bajaj said he appreciated that Yale had screened all the vendors at the fair, as many property owners can be irresponsible and unfair.

Properties offered at the fair ranged from single-bedroom apartments with costs of roughly $700 per month to four-bedroom houses with monthly rents of $5,000.

Although the fair was geared toward students living off-campus, it was not a direct response to the upcoming renovations to oncampus graduate housing, Graduate Housing Manager Melanie Pagan said. However, she said she thought the event still catered to students who are thinking about

housing options two years from now.

“It’s is not a reaction to [the renovations to the Hall of Graduate Studies], but it obviously helps,” said Pagan. Currently, roughly 80 percent of graduate students live off campus.

Wendy Xiao GRD ’17, a member of the University-wide Housing Committee, said she believes the number of students living off campus will not change much in the near future.

Yale Police and Yale Public Safety also had tables at the fair to provide information to graduate students, who often live in close proximity to campus. These organizations helped the fair address housing needs in a more comprehensive way, Director of Media Strategy & Project Management Lisa Maloney said.

In addition to the fair, the Housing Office plans to host smaller monthly events for graduate students who live off-campus to provide more information on housing.

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

OCS offers new job shadowing program

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER

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The members of the Democracy Fund met with Mayor Toni Harp to discuss the hiring of new members.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER After meeting only once in three months due to staff shortages, members of the Democracy Fund — the city’s public campaign financing system — met with Mayor Toni Harp last week to discuss new hires.

The fund’s board currently has an administrator and four acting members, the minimum number needed to achieve a quorum and conduct business. The Board can accommodate up to four new members. Members are hired in a two-step process in which the mayor first nominates candidates for consideration and the Board of Alders approves the hires through a majority vote.

At last week’s meeting with Harp, Democracy Fund Chair Jared Milfred ’16 and Administrator Alyson Heimer spoke with the mayor about hiring goals for the year as well as about expanding the Fund’s reach. “[Harp] understood the Board’s situation and expressed that she would be sure the Democracy Fund re ce ive s n ew n o m i n e e s shortly,” Milfred said. “Its the mayor’s prerogative — as an elected official, accountable to the people of New Haven — to select which candidates go forward for nomination.”

With only four members, if one member is absent, the Board cannot meet officially, leading to long hiatuses between board meetings. Since its conception in early 2013, the Board has not filled more than six out of eight positions.

Heimer said Harp has received one application thus far for a Board position. Harp has approved this candidate and submitted their name to the Board of Alders, Heimer said. The applicant’s name will be revealed and they will be approved or rejected at this month’s Board of Alders’ meeting, on Feb. 17.

“The mayor indicated that she wanted to learn more about how the fund works in New Haven,” Heimer said. “She has been very supportive.”

The Democracy Fund provides grants and matching funds to mayoral candidates who neither accept individual private donations exceeding $370 nor approach political action committees for cam-

paign funding.

Although Harp did not use the Democracy Fund during her 2013 bid for mayor, she was a champion of clean elections legislation during her tenure as a state senator, according to City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer.

Harp has not yet revealed whether or not she will utilize the fund if she runs for reelection in 2015. Heimer said she does not expect the mayor to approach the fund with her decision until early April.

The mayor indicated that she wanted to learn more about how the fund works in New Haven.

ALYSON HEIMER Democracy Fund Administrator In addition to discussing new hires, Heimer and Milfred also spoke to the mayor about the possibility of expanding the Fund to non-mayoral citywide elections, specifically the aldermanic, city clerk, voter registrar and probate judge elections.

According to Heimer, Harp responded positively to the idea, but she asked to see detailed financial data that would assess the impact of a fund expansion on the city budget.

Heimer added that the fund would work to prepare such a report. She also said that the Democracy Fund Board has sent a questionnaire to alders to gauge their views on a possible extension. The fund is awaiting responses from the alders.

“Any program that encourages participation in the electoral process, and any program that makes it easier for eligible residents to consider running for public office is consistent with the mayor’s approach to public service,” Grotheer said.

Heimer added that, during her meeting with the mayor, she had confirmed that the fund would not be asking for any additional city funding for the 2015–16 fiscal year. The Fund’s budget for this fiscal year is $342,581.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Over spring break, students will have the opportunity to participate in Yale Treks, a new jobshadowing program sponsored by the Office of Career Strategy.

This year’s pilot program will mainly consist of shadowing opportunities in New York, New Haven and Boston — three of the five most popular cities for Yale graduates, OCS Associate Director Denise Byrnes said. She added that there will be eight to 10 “treks” in each city, with each “trek” being led by a different company. Students will be able to apply to these programs via Symplicity. Byrnes said Priceline and Procter and Gamble have already agreed to host students, but there will also be treks in the advertising, consulting, finance and education industries as well.

“We talk to students a lot about networking, and we have peernetworking lists and an alumni database online, but this is a way to do it in person by going to the actual site [of the company],” Byrnes said. “This kind of experience can be very eye-opening, because you can see the corpo-

rate culture and gain exposure to different industries by spending a day, or half a day, at a certain organization.”

Byrnes said that, in addition to shadowing an employee, participants in Yale Treks will go on site tours, listen to presentations and learn about a variety of roles within each firm. The program will be open to students of all grade levels, she added, but employers may have to limit the number of shadowing students for logistical purposes.

OCS Director Jeanine Dames said older versions of this shadowing program have been offered in the past, but that former opportunities spanned one or two weeks. Students typically have other obligations during spring break, she said, so the office is trying to offer shorter-term experiences — anywhere from a half-day to three days.

“This is something that we’ve been building up for the last few years and are finally putting some structure behind,” Dames said. “The idea is for students to get short-term experiences over break periods, just to understand what a day in the life is like.”

Isiah Cruz ’17 said one of the

most attractive aspects of Yale Treks is that the program is a relatively short time commitment, which allows students to gain valuable experience while also having the freedom to make other plans for the break.

While employers may offer breakfast or lunch to students, Byrnes said, additional costs such as travel or housing will not be funded by OCS or participating organizations.

She added that the program gives students living in New York and Boston, or staying on campus in New Haven, an opportunity to shadow over spring break.

But Christopher Rim ’17 said that because many students do not go home for spring break, the timing of Yale Treks is not ideal.

“It sounds like a program that I know many people would be interested in, but the timing is inconvenient,” Rim said. “Spring break is one of the few breaks that students use to go on service trips or vacation. I think a job shadowing program offered over the summer, or even over winter break, would be better, because students are more likely to actually be at home.”

However, both Byrnes and

Dames said OCS plans to expand the program in future years to address such concerns. Dames said it is likely that shadowing opportunities will eventually become available over winter break, in West Coast locations such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In addition to experiencing the inner workings of a company firsthand, students who embark on the treks will also be able to form valuable connections with alumni and future employers, Byrnes said. A day of job shadowing could eventually lead to an internship or longer-term opportunity, she added.

“Firms are very excited about this opportunity to bring in students,” Byrnes said. “A lot of them do make trips to Yale, but it’s a whole different ball game when you can go to [a firm’s] site and pick up on the culture of that organization, as well as see what different functions and roles within the organization look like.”

Although a handful of treks are already listed on the Symplicity website, all opportunities will become viewable early this week.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

CT lawmakers propose marijuana legalization

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Connecticut State lawmakers will debate legalizing recreational marijuana this legislative session, jumping on a wave of similar efforts in states across New England.

Two bills, sponsored by Democratic House deputy majority leader Juan Candelaria of New Haven and representative Edwin Vargas of Hartford, seek to decriminalize and regulate the sale, possession, use and growth of marijuana across the state.

Connecticut’s state legislature decriminalized the drug in 2011 and then approved a medical marijuana program just one year later, though the drug was not available to consumers until September 2014.

Vargas said he believes the state’s current policy on recreational marijuana use is hypocritical, noting that, with the current language, youth in urban areas are unfairly persecuted for possessing small amounts of marijuana. He added that, in light of the state’s looming budget deficit, taxing the drug would boost state revenue as well.

“My constituents are tired of seeing young peoples’ lives destroyed by this war on drugs,” Vargas said. “I think every other family in the city of Hartford has either a relative, a close friend or neighbor who’s been stigmatized by this drug issue. It’s touched almost every family in my district.”

The government should treat marijuana as they do alcohol and tobacco, Vargas said, noting

that marijuana usage should be viewed as a public health issue as opposed a criminal one. Candelaria could not be reached for comment over the weekend.

The state’s existing program for medical marijuana use bodes well for these new bills, according to Marijuana Policy Project legislative analyst Chris Lindsey. Connecticut’s medical marijuana program is one of the country’s most highly regulated, Lindsey said, adding that it has set up a blueprint lawmakers can use to push recreational marijuana legalization. He noted that many features of the two programs would remain the same, with cultivators, testing and retail establishments already in place.

But other state lawmakers are not as enthusiastic.

Republican House representative Vincent Candelora, who voted against medical marijuana legalization in the state, said that he opposes the new legislation due to its negative health implications. Candelora cited examples from Colorado, which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, noting incidents where children had accidentally ingested the product, as well as an increase in the number of DUIs in the state.

Candelora is also concerned with the claim that taxing the product will aid state revenues and, in turn, help close the budget deficit.

The two bills arrive on the legislative table in a year fraught with state budget issues, which is projected to run a deficit of $182.3 million for the 2015 fiscal

year, according to the legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis.

Vargas said that, looking at revenue figures in Colorado — the first state to legalize recreational marijuana — and the dense population of the Northeast, Connecticut could also generate a hefty amount of revenue as the first state in the Northeast to legalize recreational marijuana.

If the bills were to pass, their impact on the state budget would be two-fold, according to Lindsey: Not only would the government be able to tax marijuana in forms like retail sales taxes or wholesale taxes, but the state would also save money, as it would no longer need to enforce laws that impose penalties on the drug’s users.

But Gov. Dannel Malloy, who holds veto power on state law proposals, has expressed opposition to the drug’s legalization for recreational purposes. While the governor recently honed in on criminal justice reform issues to eliminate mandatory minimums for non-violent drug possession, he believes a program for recreational marijuana use is unlikely to be approved, according to spokesman Mark Bergman.

Candelora believes Malloy’s stance on the issue will lead state legislators to not approve legalization. He added that, within the legislature, there was a lack of interest in furthering the issue. Candelora also expressed concern that there is an insufficient amount of time and research being placed on recre-

ational marijuana use.

With the possibility of joining states like Alaska, Colorado, Washington and Oregon — all of which have already legalized recreational usage — Connecticut is one of many states in the Northeast courting the issue.

Lawmakers in Vermont have also proposed similar legislation, while Rhode Island and New Hampshire both considered, but ultimately did not pass, legalization in 2014.

President of the University of Connecticut’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy Tyler Williams, a senior, said that students in the state would benefit from legalization in more than one aspect, noting that University of Connecticut police could redirect their focus from pursuing marijuana charges to addressing crime such as sexual violence on campus. Williams also suggested that the new industry would be an economic boon to students.

“When Colorado regulated marijuana, there was a huge boost in economic growth. I know there are many students who are looking to leave Connecticut because the jobs they want aren’t here,” Williams said in an email to the News. “By developing this new industry, students in the next few years would see a lot more economic opportunity in the state.”

Vargas said that he is currently working towards having a public hearing on the issue this year.

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

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“Health is not valued till sickness comes.” THOMAS FULLER MINISTER AND HISTORIAN

Administration looks to prevent transmission of meningitis PREVENTION FROM PAGE 1 versity student, who had visited Princeton, dead.

Moreover, on Monday, Rhode Island health officials confirmed that a Providence College student, who had been vaccinated against meningitis, was diagnosed with the disease. On Thursday night, officials confirmed the existence of a second probable case, the Providence Journal reported.

Physicians interviewed said an outbreak is unlikely but not impossible. In an interview with the News, Genecin said that “these things come in clusters,” explaining that despite the low transmission rate, the school cannot rule out another case of meningitis cropping up.

However, Louise-Marie Dembry, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine and hospital epidemiologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said that in most cases, meningitis is sporadic, and does not arise again within communities.

“It is more common to have a single case [of meningitis],” she said. “Only 2 percent of the time do you have more than one case.”

Medical school professor Onyema Ogbuagu said the

chances of an outbreak are low, and even in cases where there have been outbreaks, such as at Princeton, very few students were affected. He also added that because the disease is spread by close contact, particular demographics, including college students, are particularly susceptible. But Dembry noted that because the type of meningitis is not yet known, it is hard to know how likely an outbreak will be.

During the outbreak at Princeton, the university imported Bexsero, a vaccine used in Europe but not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration, in December 2013 to manage the outbreak.

According to the Princeton Infirmary website, the vaccination was encouraged because, though it had not been cleared for U.S. use, it had already been proven successful and safe to use. In January, the FDA approved Bexsero.

Yale is currently recommending that only people who have been in close contact with the affected student should take one 500-milligram dose of ciprofloxacin. But physicians, including Ogbuagu, said that if the student has type B meningitis and further cases occur on campus, it would make sense to vac-

cinate the entire student body.

At Princeton, which had eight cases of meningitis by the time it decided to administer vaccinations, 90 percent of students were vaccinated. In contrast to Yale, Princeton did not offer its students antibiotics, said Princeton junior Sharim Esteves.

Though the vaccine was not compulsory, the University highly recommended it, said Princeton sophomore Tiffani Hanson, adding that few students chose to forgo a vaccine that had proven to be effective in Europe.

After the mass vaccination, no other Princeton students became infected, though a visiting student from Drexel contracted the disease and later died.

Although Connecticut state law requires all college students living on campus to have a meningitis vaccine, the two vaccines that are currently approved in the U.S. only protect against type A meningitis. Type B meningitis, the strain that caused the outbreak in Princeton, cannot be prevented by either of those vaccines.

“It is a response that has happened in the past, and would be appropriate here if the student has a non-vaccine strain

of meningitis,” Ogbuagu said, using the term “non-vaccine” to refer to strains of meningitis that are not covered by the two FDAapproved vaccines in the U.S. In conjunction with the vaccination campaign, Princeton stressed public hygiene measures, particularly not sharing cups, said Princeton sophomore Erik Massenzio. Students were told that especially at home, it was important to not share cups with family members, added Esteves.

Only 2 percent of the time do you have more than one case [of meningitis].

LOUISE-MARIE DEMBRY Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist, Yale-New Haven Hospital Dembry, Obguagu and Genecin all said it can be especially difficult to manage meningitis outbreaks because they often occur during influenza season, and meningitis, early on, presents symptoms very similar to those of influenza. But Dembry stressed that meningitis symptoms tend to become extremely

severe, so people do not usually stay home for long. She added that the disease progresses very quickly, so early diagnosis can be the difference between successfully treating a patient and failing to do so.

Although all the Princeton students affected recovered, the Drexel student who had been visiting Princeton for a weekend contracted the disease and died.

“When the Drexel student died, we were really shocked,” Esteves said. “Everyone knew what was going on, but we didn’t think it was serious.”

Because meningitis affects the brain and spinal cord, neurological symptoms may arise, and persist even after a patient gets better, Ogbuagu explained. He said neurological deficit persists in 20 percent of meningitis survivors and that 10 to 15 percent of people who get meningitis die of the disease.

While all nine Yale students interviewed said they first heard about Yale’s first case of meningitis in a campus-wide email, at Princeton, rumors circulated by word of mouth before students were formally notified by the University, Princeton students interviewed said. Following the initial case, students were informed of subsequent cases by

campus-wide emails.

At Princeton, very few students worried about the severity of the disease on campus until the University made the decision to import the then-unapproved vaccines, Esteves said.

Yale students interviewed were calm and optimistic about the University’s ability to handle a possible meningitis outbreak.

“Until there are more outbreaks, there is no reason to be too concerned,” said one student in Calhoun. “I have faith that Yale Health and the administrators are taking enough preventative measures.”

Even the patient’s suitemates said they were not alarmed by the potential for an outbreak. One suitemate said they are not worried about becoming infected, but understands why others would be. They added that the nurse who spoke with her told her that unless they had been within three feet of the patient for more than eight hours, they are unlikely to be infected.

According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 2,600 people contract meningitis in the United States every year.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

Patient suspected of having meningitis said to be improving PATIENT FROM PAGE 1 ing in bed due to sickness, began vomiting. At Yale Health, clinicians ruled out influenza.

Because the student’s symptoms were consistent with meningitis, the student was sent to YNHH. At 2:35 p.m. Friday afternoon, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin informed the Yale community about the probable case in a University-wide email.

“The University has activated its emergency response protocol,” Genecin said in his email, which was also forwarded to parents and guardians of Yale College students by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. Genecin added that although meningitis is contagious, it is not spread by casual contact nor is it airborne. In an interview with the News, Genecin noted that the disease is mostly spread by intimate contact — spending eight hours or more within three feet of an infected patient — through bodily fluids.

“People need to live their lives, but if there is a choice between taking a puff of someone’s cigarette or not, maybe you should not,” said Genecin, adding that hand washing is the most important public health measure students can take.

Later on Friday night, Genecin sent a second email providing information about how to prevent contagion and identify symptoms that may raise concerns. The email also included information about the antibiotic clinic stationed at Yale Health, where students who may have been exposed to the patient could receive 500-milligram doses of Ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic used to prevent meningitis.

The antibiotic clinic remained open on Sunday until 6 p.m. to provide those students the doses of Ciprofloxacin. Ninety percent of students who have had close contact with the patient and are thus at risk of contagion have been identified and given Ciprofloxacin, Genecin said. Until Sunday, the clinic was also offering students leaflets highlighting symptoms, such as dizziness, seizures and a meningococcal rash, all of which they were being instructed to look out and seek medical attention for.

Though Ciprofloxacin is the recommended preventative treatment for meningitis, Genecin stressed that it does not guarantee that a patient will not contract the disease.

“It isn’t a magic bullet,” he said, adding that Yale Health will be following up with students who have had close contact with the patient, even after they have been given the antibiotic.

Yale Health, administrators and the local and state public health departments are still continuing their search for people who have been in close contact with the student.

One of the patient’s suitemates said she was told by clinicians that the patient has been contagious since Jan. 26. The suitemate added that the suite in which they live was professionally cleaned on Friday to prevent transmission of meningitis.

The seriousness of meningitis prompted a quick reaction from the Yale administration. On Friday, Genecin, Chief of Student Health Andrew Gotlin and other medical adminis-

trators were called into an emergency meeting at 3:15 p.m. to discuss the situation.

Prior to the email being sent on Friday afternoon, the New Haven and Connecticut Departments of Health were working with Yale to track down students who may have had contact with the patient. These students were notified of their risk status roughly one hour before the campus-wide email was sent, Genecin said.

Genecin reminded students in his email that the acute care department at Yale Health is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and included a link to Yale’s Emergency Management website, which now has a FAQ page with information about meningitis. He stressed that while the disease is very serious, transmission rates are low, and the University does not see any cause to cancel activities on campus.

The University has activated its emergency response protocol.

PAUL GENECIN Director of Yale Health “You should feel confident gathering with friends and colleagues in classrooms, dining halls, the library, the gym or anyplace else on campus,” Genecin said.

Meningitis is typically diagnosed by drawing blood from a patient’s vein and seeing if it grows bacteria.

But patients are often given a lumbar puncture — the insertion of a long, thin needle into the spinal cord to collect a sample of spinal fluid — to confirm a diagnosis. While the patient at Yale Health has had a blood test, because of confidentiality laws, Genecin was unable to disclose whether or not that patient has had a lumbar puncture.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meningitis occurs when the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord — the meninges — become inflamed. This inflammation is normally caused by a bacterial or viral infection of the surrounding fluid but can also be triggered by physical injury, cancer or the consumption of certain drugs. It takes between 24 and 72 hours for the results of diagnostic testing for meningitis to produce a result.

In an interview with the News, Genecin said the student’s symptoms are strongly indicative of bacterial meningitis, so precautions are being taken in line with the suspected diagnosis.

Genecin also emphasized that all students should engage in preventative health measures, such as handwashing, to lower the risk of contagion, and recommended that those who have had contact with the patient take Ciprofloxacin as soon as possible.

Genecin did not rule out the potential for an outbreak, noting that one meningitis case is typically accompanied by others.

“These things normally come in clusters,” Genecin said.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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The Yale administration reacted quickly to a probable case of meningitis revealed this past weekend.

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App to improve care at YNHH

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER Doctors and nurses at YaleNew Haven Hospital will soon be able to stay abreast of their patients’ treatment wherever they are, thanks to a smartphone app that is quietly transforming patient care.

Last week, the Yale-New Haven Health System reached an agreement with smartphone clinical communications provider Mobile Heartbeat to license its MH-CURE (Mobile Heartbeat Clinical Urgent Response) application for use in all facilities under the YNHHS network. MH-CURE will streamline communication between doctors and nurses and allow them to securely access patient data using the smartphones they carry. Doctors will download the app on their own smartphones while nurses and other healthcare staff will swipe in for shared hospital units when they report for duty.

“We envision the smartphone platform to be the workstation of the future,” said Edward Fisher, vice president and chief technology officer of YNHH.

It’s essentially a Swiss Army knife.

ALLEN HSIAO Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine and Chief Medical Information Officer, Yale-New Haven Hospital Communication between healthcare staff has been a longstanding challenge because physicians and nurses are frequently busy, and the team that cares for each patient changes as different doctors are brought onto the case, Fisher said.

According to Ron Remy, CEO of Mobile Heartbeat, MH-CURE solves this problem by allowing each member to identify who else is on the team, see whether they are available to talk and call or text them — “with just one click.”

Jason Malia, assistant manager in the Pediatric Emergency Department at YNHH, one of the departments where pilot trials were conducted, said MHCURE has had a huge impact on facilitating communication.

He added that because staff can now contact each other without paging every single room using the overhead speaker system, the app has created a quieter environment and improved the patient experience.

The app also provides doctors with access to patient electronic medical records from any location, without having to find a workstation, said Fisher. It alerts doctors when test reports become available, and sends alarms to doctors when their patients’ conditions deteriorate.

“It’s essentially a Swiss Army knife,” said Dr. Allen Hsiao, professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and chief medical information officer at YNHH. Mobile Heartbeat has added new features in response to the hospital’s needs, and more can be added as additional demands come to light, he added.

Remy emphasized that the security of the app was a top concern for the company, and that there are multiple layers of security built in. Access to the app requires a password, and all patient data is deleted from the device when the app is closed.

Communications between smartphones and the servers are encrypted, and photos taken using the app — like those taken during a surgical procedure — are stored on a secure database instead of on the phone.

“Yale has given us a lot of guidance as to how our product should look, feel and work,” Remy said. Mobile Heartbeat already provides a similar app for other clients, including the Hospital Corporation of America, the largest for-profit operator of healthcare facilities in the world.

YNHHS plans to roll out MHCURE across its facilities over the next two years, Fisher said.

While YNHHS administrators and Remy did not disclose the exact value of the agreement, Remy said the cost of running the app per clinician was similar to the cost of a cell phone data plan. Fisher added that YNHHS has agreed to license over 4,000 installations of the app and plans to purchase iPhone 5Cs for the shared hospital units, which nurses and other healthcare staff use.

Eventually, Hsiao hopes that MH-CURE will also reach the hands of physicians outside of YNHHS, so that primary care physicians will be able to communicate with and give advice to inpatient teams.

Facilities under the YNHHS network include the YNHH, Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus.

Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

WLI conference breaks down stereotypes

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The seventh annual Yale Women in Leadership Conference was held at the Yale Law School on Saturday.

BY HANNAH YANG STAFF REPORTER Over 400 students gathered at the Yale Law School Saturday morning to attend the seventh annual Yale Women in Leadership Conference.

The theme of this year’s conference was “Women Empower Women,” or “W.E. Women,” which embodies the collaborative nature of female empowerment, said Chloe Siamof ’16, one of the conference’s head coordinators. Open to all Yale students, the conference consisted of 15 panels on topics pertaining to female leadership in the modern world. This year, some of the most popular panels covered topics such as balancing work with motherhood, succeeding as a woman in male-dominated career fields and breaking into the “Brogrammer” culture of the tech startup industry.

One panel, “Women Leading the Way in Law and Politics,” addressed the challenges that women face as a result of centuries of all-male leadership.

“There are some women in charge now, and it’s changing public perception of what a leader is supposed to look like,” said Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill, one of the speakers on the panel.

“People have to have those images in their heads in order to make more female leadership possible, and I like to think that we’re all a part of that process.”

Another speaker in the same panel was Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, U.S. representative for the 5th Congressional District of Connecticut. Esty said that when she brought her family to Capitol Hill for her swearing-in ceremony in 2013, most of the guards and passersby congratulated her husband, assuming he was the one

who had been elected.

Etsy said that while there has been progress —104 women are in Congress — the government still needs to make space for more women who are passionate about their political visions.

Another panel, “Social Enterprise: How Business Can Change the World,” focused on the impact that women can make in the non-profit sector. One of the speakers was Maria Verlkin, founder of the nonprofit organization “Found in Translation,” which teaches bilingual homeless or low-income women to become professional interpreters.

Verlkin said there is a larger percentage of female leadership in non-profits than in private business, and that this is a model she hopes private businesses will someday follow.

“Our society has a tradition of teaching men how to succeed for themselves, and women how to help others succeed,” Verlkin said. “I think this view is slowly being broken down by this new generation of female entrepreneurs.”

In addition to the 15 panels, the conference featured two keynote speakers: Ann Shoket, the former editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine, and Claudia Chan, founder of S.H.E. Global Media Inc. Both women spoke about the challenges they had to overcome in pursuing their careers and the lessons they have learned in the process.

The conference was organized by the Women’s Leadership Initiative, an undergraduate organization that encourages and empowers aspiring female leaders, according to Siamof, who is also a board member of WLI. Siamof said one of her hopes for the conference in the future is to potentially help it expand to other loca-

tions nationwide.

“There’s been a lot of progress, and we get more attendees each year,” Siamof said. “We had a big social media presence for the first time this year, and we’re hoping to take it to a new level in the future.”

Siamof added that there were Harvard students who attended the event and reached out to her, hoping to learn from the conference model and bring something similar to their campus.

Students interviewed at the conference said they thought the event offered engaging and very necessary perspectives.

“I really think that in this day and age, having female role models is so important,” said Makana Williams ’18. “These women have accomplished so much in their respective fields, and they were so accessible today.”

Karen Chen SOM ’16 said the themes of the conference complemented many topics discussed in her classes, adding that the gender gap in the private business sector is a recurring conversation topic at the SOM. Aviva Abusch ’18 said that in spite of the prevalent opinion that being a woman is an added hardship, many speakers highlighted the benefits of womanhood.

“You get to raise a family and at the same time, you still get to be a force to reckon with in the workplace,” Abusch explained. “That’s a very inspiring experience to hear about.”

Past keynote speakers of the conference include Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, and Janet Robinson, the first female CEO of The New York Times Company.

Contact HANNAH YANG at hannah.yang@yale.edu .

Sleds join case books at Law Library

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER This winter, students interested in frolicking in the snow can check out sleds and shovels from an unlikely source: the Law Library.

The winter gear joins a long list of useful yet unconventional items in circulation at the Lillian Goldman Library, including blankets with sleeves and DVDs. The library boasts games, sporting gear, tech equipment and study tools. In the past, the library unofficially has also allowed undergraduates to check out items, provided that there are enough in circulation. Now, policy has changed so that Yale College students can check out anything from the Law Library, except for iPads and laptops.

“We tried to think of what students lack when they’re away from home, what don’t they have in the dorm room or apartment,” said Julian Aiken, head of Access Services at the library. “The list of things we check out will only be limited by our own imagination or the ideas of students — if we can fit it in the library and check it out, we will.”

Aiken said the library is very responsive to student requests.

Joanna Dafoe LAW ’17, who formed the Yale Law School Sledding Society this year, said she inquired about the possibility of the library adding sleds to its circulation. She said she and Aiken

worked together to order 10 sleds on Amazon. The gear arrived at the end of January.

“A lot of folks have never been sledding before,” Dafoe said. “If [the Law Library] didn’t have sleds available, some students wouldn’t bother going out.”

She added that a collection of law school students are trying to convince their counterparts at the Yale Divinity School to take a break from religious study for a run on the slopes.

While the sleds remain untested, other unconventional items have been quite a hit. Aiken said the board games, popular fiction and nonfiction books and sporting equipment are the most popular with students. Noisecancelling headphones and phone chargers are also in high demand, he added.

Students can request the items at the library circulation desk, though some, including the board games and DVDs, have their own section within the library.

Typically, items that are used outside the library, such as the board games, can be checked out for a week, while those used in the library, such as phone chargers, can be checked out for 24 hours.

In the past, the Law Library officially didn’t loan out the items to undergraduates but would make exceptions when the item requested was sufficiently wellstocked, Aiken said. He added the library was “flexible” with this policy, particularly if undergrad-

uates were working in the library at the time.

In an effort to extend the library’s services to the entire Yale community, Aiken said he is now formalizing the library’s policy toward undergraduate borrowing by allowing them to check out anything from the library, with the exception of laptops, iPads and, most prized of all, Monty, the library’s therapy dog.

When it comes to offering unconventional items, Bass Library will not be following suit.

Ken Crilly, associate University Librarian for Program Development and Research, said the size of the Yale College student body — on top of graduate students and faculty, who also frequent Bass — makes a similar program infeasible.

The program at the Law Library originated about four years ago, Aiken said. In 2011, the Law Library began offering students the opportunity to check out time with Monty, who is Aiken’s dog, a small, brown cross-breed terrier. The program, which was one of the first of its kind, was an unqualified success, Aiken said, and inspired the library to expand its collection of items students might enjoy but are not strictly academic.

“We’re trying to make students realize that we appreciate them as people,” Aiken said. “A lot of these things, like soccer balls and sleds, one might not need as a student, but as a person.”

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Students can check out far more than books at the Law Library. Among the items: sleds and a dog, Monty.

Students i n te r v i e we d expressed praise for the Law Library’s service, though several were initially unaware that it offered unconventional items.

Yuki Hayashi ’17, a book monitor at the library, said she hopes the extension of the service to undergraduates will encourage

more to come to the library. She added that undergraduates are gradually recognizing the library as an ideal study space, and the ability to borrow a blanket at the library on cold winter days is an added draw.

Helen Li LAW ’17, who has borrowed some of the unconven-

tional items several times, said the Law Library Circulation Desk has been likened by students to the “Room of Requirement” from Harry Potter.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

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“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.”

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Students divided on Yale-NUS student gov’t

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On Feb. 6 students at Yale-NUS college elected representatives to their first student government body.

YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 lege. This college can’t be run from topdown, it has to be run by the students. I know that is very idealistic and that the administration will still run it, but we have to do all we can to ensure that everyone participates in the formation of the student government,” Firdaus said.

Jolanda Nava YNUS ’17, who was part of the committee that planned the elections, said the new body, while not a cure-all for student engagement, provides sustainable means through which students can approach the administration with issues.

In future semesters, the body may be revised and perfected, according to Nur Qistina ’17, who was elected as a representative for the class of 2017. Only by seeing how student government works in practice can community members deliberate on the best model, she said.

Others think the body is purely symbolic.

While lauding the student government for being “broadly representative” of the college, Timothy Lim YNUS ’17 said its powers are “minimal at best.” Others

emphasized the poor turnout at an election forum on Jan. 31, where candidates made speeches.

“Generally, there’s a feeling of inertia and disinterest,” said Tu Linh Nguyen YNUS ’17.

Professors, too, expressed skepticism.

According to Andrew Bailey, an assistant professor of philosophy, “there exists already collective movement on things that [students] care about.” He wondered if the student government will become “an extra layer of bureaucracy,” in fact impeding progress on issues.

Significant work remains in demarcating the authority of the student government from other student-centered groups. Notably, the central body will work alongside similar groups in the individual residential colleges. Elm College has formed its own residential college advisory council, while Saga College’s is in the works.

In a Feb. 5 email to members of Saga College, rector Sarah Weiss said she hopes the college’s internal council will have “observer status at some of the Big-C College Student Government meetings, a representative for reporting

back to the residential college student council.”

The student council in her own college will ideally have autonomy over certain events and activities, as well as “keep [her] up with the mood and needs of students in the college since I don’t yet live in the building,” Weiss wrote.

Additionally, the college-wide student government will have to work with the Student Organization Review Board, jointly staffed by students and administrators, on funding for student organizations. Currently, the constitution does not allow the student government to allocate funding to student organizations.

The current constitution includes a sunset clause that mandates a review of the constitutional model. It will take effect in November 2015, after a twosemester term.

Chan Li Ting, Lai Ying Tong and Yonatan Gazit contributed reporting.

Contact SCOTT CURRIE at a0127930@u.nus.edu and MAY TAY at may.tay.ee@gmail.com .

Island and Cleveland.

Holloway, along with University President Peter Salovey and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins, coauthored the email criticized by the YPBA. Holloway reaffirmed the administration’s statements on the matter.

“I absolutely stand by the decision to join in the statement with the president and chief,” he said.

He added that he does not know where the investigation stands.

Reed said he remains concerned with the lack of support from the Yale community and administration. He said the officer involved with the Blow case has experienced a lack of support, and continued negativity toward the police could further damage morale.

“One of the perils of not supporting cops is that you end up with cops that aren’t proactive,” he said. When police officers fear they will be investigated, he explained, they are less likely to protect themselves in dangerous situations or use a gun when it may be necessary. Having a proactive police force, he said, ensures campus safety.

Controversy over the use of guns on campus comes on the heels of other instances of suspected racial profiling across the country.

In May 2014, Ersula Ore, an African-American professor at Arizona State University was stopped by a campus police officer who, according to eyewitnesses, forced her against a police car and then onto the ground. Ore had been stopped for jay-walking and was charged with four counts of misdemeanor after she hit the officer in alleged self-defense. A statement from ASU on June 28 said an investigation showed no sign of misdemeanor from

the police officers, yet activists who started a petition against Ore’s charges on MoveOn.org said that the case was “another instance of racial profiling and police brutality.”

Similar incidents of police officers stopping AfricanAmerican community members have occurred at Vassar College, UCLA and the University of Michigan in 2014.

On Jan. 28, Blow’s father publicly tweeted a statement his son had made on Facebook regarding the incident. Blow said he did not want the coverage of his events to take precedence over the events of others whose stories do not get shared.

“Their stories matter just as much as mine,” the post said.

Blow has not responded to request for comment since the events of Jan. 24.

Kristi Lockhart, associate research scientist and lecturer in Yale’s Psychology Department, said biases against people of color can occur because the media inflates stereotypes.

She said one study found that seven out of 10 stories about young black men in the media are related to crime, and that another study showed people of all races, including African Americans themselves, are more likely to envision a gun in the hands of an unarmed AfricanAmerican man than an unarmed white man.

Acknowledging the presence of racial biases at Yale is something that people of color must come to terms with, Hershel Holiday ’18 said. Holiday said racial profiling becomes problematic when it is manifested within authorities like the police.

The YPBA was founded in 1988.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

Petition defends NELC status quo NELC FROM PAGE 1 And with the committee set to give a recommendation by early April, those concerns have only become more acute. In January, Alice Slotsky GRD ’92, an alumna of the department, created a petition asking that the department not be restructured. The petition was addressed to Gendler, University President Peter Salovey, Provost Benjamin Polak and committee chair Kirk Freudenburg, the chair of the Classics Department.

“You have asked the committee to recommend and optimal configuration for NELC,” the petition reads. “My answer is an emphatic NO to any restructuring. The optimal configuration is what NELC has been, and would continue to be, given the administrative support it has long sought and richly merits.”

Slotsky said she decided to write the petition to demonstrate that there is global support for keeping the department intact, adding that the petition has garnered support far beyond her expectations.

Among the 640 signers are some prominent figures, such as NELC professor Benjamin Foster, who called the names on the petition a “who’s who” of the field.

According to Foster, the idea of potential restructuring comes as part of a larger question about the department’s limited selfdetermination and a problematic relationship with the University’s administration that goes back over a decade.

“This is a series of long-term problems,” Foster said. “Relations between the department and the administration have not been good for quite a few years.”

Foster said that last year, for example, administrators informed the department that they had moved one of its disciplines, Semitic languages, to the Department of Religious Studies. There was no consultation or reason given for the change, he added.

NELC Department Chair Christina Kraus said she is not

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Six hundred forty people from across the globe have signed a petition asking that the NELC department not be restructured. involved with the petition. Three other members of the department declined to comment.

Gendler said she, along with the president and the provost, is committed to Yale’s continued leadership in the field. She also explained that she appointed the committee based on consultation with the NELC Department, only naming members who were recommended by one or more members of the department.

Freudenburg, the committee’s chair, declined to comment on the petition.

“Each potential configuration will no doubt bring both benefits and costs,” Gendler wrote in an email. “In NELC, as in all of our

departments at Yale, we are open to the possibility that the current configuration is the optimal one, and open to the possibility that there are configurations that would be even better.”

But according to some supporters of the department, no committee research is required to demonstrate that the best set up is the present one.

Former NELC professor William Hallo — who taught in the department for four decades — said any discussion of restructuring is “bad news.”

“You don’t restructure a successful department, and this is one of the most successful departments in its field in the

country,” Hallo said. “It’s the old axiom: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The department fits that description.”

Foster said he has the highest respect for the members of the committee, but he noted that they will only make a recommendation, and the final decision will be made by Gendler, Salovey and Polak. It is not uncommon for administrators to ignore committee recommendations, he added.

Still, Foster said it would be unthinkable for the University to ignore the support the petition has gotten. However, others expressed less optimism.

During his time at Yale, while

serving as the master of Morse College and the chair of the NELC Department, Hallo said he sent countless letters to former Yale presidents, and “never saw any indication that any of those letters were read.”

NELC major Jacob Rosenberg-Wohl ’15 said he thinks by proposing a restructuring of the department, Yale is taking steps to reduce its funding, faculty or both. This effort is likely due to the small number of students formally signed up for the major, he said, though he does not believe this statistic is representative of the interest in the department.

Sergio Tang ’17, another NELC

major, said he supports the independence of the department, which could be threatened by a restructuring.

“A department is there not by chance or anyone’s ‘decision’ but only to enable an intellectual pursuit that, having unique principles and methodologies, needs its own home,” Matteo Di Giovanni GRD ’15 said. “No ‘dissection’ or ‘restructuring’ can, by definition, preserve this unity of focus and, in the end, the existence of the discipline as such.”

Yale’s NELC Department was founded in 1841.

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t is often easy to forget that there is a world that exists outside of Yale, but New Haven is also home to over 130,000 other residents covering 20 square miles of residences, walkways and open spaces. This “Through the Lens” travels beyond the “Yale bubble” to see what else could be found.

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE reports.

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ALEX WESTLUND ’99 HOCKEY ACROSS THE WORLD Westlund, a former All-American goaltender for the Yale hockey team, is retiring this month from professional hockey, ending a 16-year pro career.

His latest stop, however, might be the most interesting of all: he is the goalie for China Dragon in Qiqihar, China.

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MONDAY

JAVIER DUREN ’15 AN ELITE CLUB Though the Bulldogs fell to Harvard on Saturday, Duren hit a career milestone by recording his 1,000th career point.

He became just the 27th player in Yale history to score 1,000; the previous player to hit that mark is Duren’s teammate, forward Justin Sears ’16.

“If we don’t [outrebound the Bulldogs], we have no chance of beating them.”

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Undefeated no more

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team very nearly escaped this weekend with a seemingly insurmountable three-game edge in the Ivy League. Instead, the Bulldogs now find themselves tied for first after a tough loss on Saturday to Harvard.

Yale (16–7, 5–1 Ivy) throttled Dartmouth (8–12, 1–5) by a final tally of 81–66 on Friday evening to extend its all-time best start in conference play to 5–0.

Simultaneously, Harvard (15– 5, 5–1) miraculously pulled out a crucial victory in overtime at Brown, after tying the game in regulation with a last-second put-back by the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, Wesley Saunders.

Harvard’s heroics set the stage for an early-season battle for Ivy supremacy. The Crimson, the four-time defending league champions, survived a defensive struggle, edging Yale 52–50.

While the loss came to a familiar foe in front of a sold-out John J. Lee Amphitheater, the Elis stressed that the Harvard defeat does not count more than any other loss.

“That’s what we’ve tried to preach: have our eyes on the prize,” guard Javier Duren ’15 said. “[The prize is] not the NCAA tournament; it’s always the next game.”

Yale opened the weekend with a solid, top-to-bottom effort against the Big Green that saw seven Elis contribute six or more points, including a career-high 19-point effort from guard Jack Montague ’16.

Montague, the league’s leading three-point shooter, knocked

down five of six attempts from beyond the arc. For a Yale team that has traditionally been stronger in the post than on the perimeter, having led the Ancient Eight in rebounding margin each of the last three seasons, the team’s shooting from deep was a welcome sight.

In addition to Montague, four other Bulldogs banged home two three-pointers each to buoy Yale’s outside attack. Two of those three-pointers came as part of a 15–1 run to close the first half, breaking what was a 20–20 tie wide open and vaulting the Elis to victory.

Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, nearly their entire prowess from the perimeter vanished Saturday evening, especially in the first half.

With a chance to build a twogame advantage over Harvard and the entire Ivy League, Yale put on its worst shooting half in recent history. The Elis scored 11 points in the first 20 minutes, nine fewer than they managed against Florida in a blowout loss in December, due to a 3–22 mark from the field.

To Yale’s credit, the Crimson did enter play as the league’s best scoring defense. Moreover, despite shooting 13.6 percent from the floor, including 0–6 shooting from the three-point arc, Yale only trailed by five at the half.

Sears pointed to the crowd as a possible explanation for the poor shooting.

“I think that the crowd played a factor, just a few nerves for some guys,” Sears said. “Some routine shots that we usually make we weren’t hitting in the first half, which caused a slow start.”

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Imperfect, but hope remains

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Before the season, if you offered men’s basketball head coach James Jones a 5–1 start in Ivy League play, I have no doubt he would have jumped at the offer.

In its first five games of the conference season, Yale looked superb, displaying dominant rebounding, great offense and the ability to win games down the stretch.

Yet after Saturday night’s 52–50 home defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs’ archenemy Harvard, Jones was anything but happy.

His players had, in his words, not stuck to the game plan that had catapulted the team to the top of the Ivy League standings. Jones felt great about his team’s defense, which held Harvard to just 16 first-half points and 52 for the entire game, a dozen fewer than the Crimson’s average. However, Jones lamented the fact that his offense stalled in the first half because it did not effectively pass to create shot opportunities.

But Harvard’s victory at the John J. Lee Amphitheater — the Crimson’s fourth consecutive road win in the series, making Harvard’s current seniors the first class to accomplish this feat in school history — was not merely due to Yale’s faults. Rather, Harvard took advantage of its undersized opponent by feeding its big men in the paint.

While the guards from both teams struggled to find their rhythm, Harvard forwards Zena Edosomwan (6’9”), Agunwa Okolie (6’8”) and Steve Moundou-Missi (6’7”) domi-

Forward Justin Sears ’16 finished with nine points and seven rebounds against Harvard.

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Bulldogs split ECAC matchups

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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 tied the all-time record for shutouts this weekend securing his seventh.

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the regular season nears its end and competition for a spot in the NCAA tournament heats up, the Yale men’s ice hockey team finds itself in the middle of a

tightly packed ECAC after a dramatic win on Friday and a loss on Saturday.

MEN’S HOCKEY On Friday night before a soldout crowd at Ingalls Rink, the

Bulldogs faced off against Harvard (12–8–2, 8–6–2 ECAC) in their third meeting of the season.

Yale (13–7–3, 8–6–2) completed its season sweep of the Crimson with a extraordinary performance from goalkeeper Alex Lyon ’17, in which the Bulldog

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netminder became Yale’s career leader in shutouts with seven only midway through his sophomore season. Lyon stopped all 24 shots, while three different Bulldogs found the back of the net.

Defender Adam Larkin ’18 noted that the team’s success

this season against its long-time rivals owes itself largely to the Bulldogs’ defensive prowess. In games against the Crimson this season Lyon has allowed just two total goals.

“Our team defense, for the most part, has been stellar all

season. Against Harvard, it all clicked, and everyone was contributing defensively every time we played them,” Larkin said.

“When we play that way, we get offensive chances from our SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B3

THE MILE TIME OF KELLI REAGAN ’18. Reagan set her personal best time at the Giegengack Invitational over the weekend. The performance earned her third place in the event.

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“Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” TIGER WOODS PROFESSIONAL GOLFER

Bulldogs split on the road W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 the Big Green’s shooting percentage down to 26 percent. Additionally, the Elis’ defense kept Dartmouth’s star player at bay. Guard Fanni Szabo, the Ivy League’s leading scorer, scored only 11 points on 5–17 shooting after coming into the game averaging 18.1 points per contest.

“I believe we made pressure the entire game, and they couldn’t run their set properly,” Simpson said.

“We were constantly in their faces and making them uncomfortable like they’re not used to.”

Yale also dominated the game offensively. In the first 12 minutes of the match, the Elis were shooting at a 55 percent clip. Yale pushed its advantage to a high of 18 points at the 7:54 mark, and during the second half, the lead never went below eight points.

However, Yale’s tenacity did not prove enough to secure a win against the Crimson.

“Harvard is a team you don’t want to let get on a roll and I think they felt in control the majority of the game,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said.

Sarju explained that even though the Bulldogs did play well in some aspects, they often were not able to capitalize when they got a steal or made a good play. She added that when Harvard ran its zone, Yale panicked and did not react well.

Although evenly matched in field goal percentage — Harvard’s 37.5 percent mark just barely outpacing the Elis’ 37.1 percent shooting — Harvard was able to capitalize on its plays while Yale was not.

Though their defense registered 12 steals during the game, the Elis did not convert these into points, with just 17 points on 23 Crimson turnovers, allowing Harvard to build up a 10-point lead by halftime.

“We definitely didn’t play our best game against Harvard, and we beat ourselves in that game,” Simpson said. “I don’t believe they are a better team than us; we just weren’t at our best.”

Although Sarju scored 14 points, the most among the Bulldogs, and Simpson continued to score in the double digits with 13 points, no other Eli scored more than six points.

Harvard, by comparison, had a

total of 35 points coming from senior forwards Erin McDonnell and Temi Faghenle, who scored 18 and 17 points respectively.

Guard Lena Munzer ’17 said playing Harvard is always an emotional game, and the only thing Yale can do now is to learn, move on and focus on the two tough teams that the Bulldogs will play this coming weekend in Penn and Princeton.

“Losing is never fun, especially when every game means so much in the Ivy League,” Sarju said. “But our goal is just to go out every game and play hard, intelligently, and play like Yale. We didn’t do that, and we lost.”

The Bulldogs’ next game is at home this Friday against Penn at 7 p.m.

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Guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 scored 12 points and added a steal in the Bulldogs’ 60–46 win at Dartmouth.

saw a pair of elite performances in the pole vault, which women’s vaulter Catherine Shih ’18 and men’s vaulter Brendan Sullivan ’16 won with heights of 3.45 and 4.80 meters respectively.

To start the meet, throwers Luke Lersichetti ’17 and Karleh Wilson ’16 each posted a second place performance in the weight throw.

The Elis now move onto the most important part of their indoor season, which includes the Harvard-YalePrinceton meet as well as three consecutive championship weekends. Garry

said her team has shown increased depth throughout the winter season, especially during its meet against Columbia and Dartmouth, and that she is expecting a strong performance.

“Harvard-Yale-Princeton is really tough, because those are teams that are just much bigger and have greater depth across the events,” Garry said. “I think that we’ll be more competitive at this meet than we have been.”

The meet will take place next Saturday in Cambridge, Mass.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

Elis rebound from Harvard W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 play midway through the period.

Goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 relieved Jaimie Leonoff ’15 entering the third period, but it was too late for Yale. Harvard did not let up the pressure, increasing its lead with a pair of goals later into the second and another early in the third period.

“We got blown out,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “They didn’t crush us. It just so happened that they had a few lucky goals right off the bat and that deflated us. It’s not like they were having great shots. It’s our responsibility to keep pushing and keep fighting.”

The Crimson went on to beat Brown on Saturday 7–1, moving up to the top spot in the ECAC. They are now one point ahead of the previous leader, Quinnipiac.

On Saturday, the game took a different direction. In the matchup against Dartmouth, both the Elis and the Big Green kept pace, starting off the game with a power-play goal from each team. Yale’s opening goal was scored by Staenz, who took the shot from behind the goal line.

“We came out strong against Dartmouth and never gave them a chance to get their bearings,” captain and defenseman Aurora Kennedy ’15 said.

“We let them back in the game with penalties, but five on five we were the better team so kept taking it to them.”

Although the first frame ended in a 1–1 tie, the Bulldogs pushed to regain the lead. At 6:05 into the second period forward Jackie Raines ’15 scored off of a backhand shot that regained the lead for the Elis.

The back-and-forth continued, however, when Dartmouth scored another power-play goal 7:34 into the third to even out the score, but it did not stay that way for long. In the final 10 minutes of the third period, Yale scored four times, including a pair less than a minute apart from Haddad and forward Stephanie Mock ’15.

Barely a minute later, Raines scored her second goal of the night to push the Bulldog lead to 5–2. An empty net goal by Staenz secured the 6–2 victory against the Big Green.

According to Haddad, the final score is not entirely representative of the game. Dartmouth did keep the game close, although Yale’s nearly flawless execution of their game plan prevailed for the win.

“We did a good job transitioning quickly through the neutral zone and generating scoring chances of the rush,” forward Hanna Åström ’16 said.

“I believe that we simply outworked them and wore them down as the game went on with our forecheck and offensive puck possession, which in the end led to four late goals.”

The Elis will play fellow ECAC opponents Rensselaer and Union this weekend.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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Elis shut out Crimson M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 defense, and we were able to put up some goals against them this season. Every player that played against Harvard this season had a role in helping shut down their offense, and it translated [into] wins for us.”

Both teams were unable to score in the first, and it was not until the second period that the Elis began to settle into the groove offensively and were able to draw blood against Harvard netminder Steve Michalek. The first goal came off of the stick of forward Stu Wilson ’16 as he put one up and to the right after the assist from John Hayden ’17. Hayden, who currently leads the team along with fellow forward Mike Doherty ’17 with 12 conference points this season, put up one of his own on a one-timer from Chris Izmirlian ’17. Although play was heated throughout, with a few scuffles between the two teams during the final two periods, Lyon continued to come up big for the Bulldogs in their own end and Harvard was unable to get on the scoreboard. With less than two minutes remaining, forward Cody Learned ’16 put the game away with an empty netter.

Sadly Yale had a different ending Saturday night against Dartmouth (11–8–4, 8–6–2), when the Bulldogs saw their threegame winning streak snapped by the Big Green. Despite attempts at a comeback throughout the game and outshooting them 39 to 28, Yale was unable to overcome Dartmouth’s prolific offense, eventually falling 6–4.

Captain Tommy Fallen ’15 attributed the difference between Friday and Saturday night to a lack of the rock-solid defense they displayed against the Crimson.

“Unfortunately we were not ready to go as a team right from the first puck drop,” Fallen said.

“We fought to get back into the game, but what really led to the outcome on Saturday was our lack of defensive discipline.”

Dartmouth took control of the game early on, scoring under two minutes into the first. Yale fought back with a shorthanded

goal by Doherty, but the Big Green were there to answer twice more before the first 20 minutes of play were up. The Bulldogs once more tried to equalize the game after a power-play goal by blueliner Mitch Witek ’16 midway through the second, but just as before, Dartmouth was there to answer with one of its own three minutes later and another before the period was over.

In the third, Patrick Spano ’17 replaced Lyon in net and Larkin notched his first collegiate goal within the first five minutes.

A power-play goal by Wilson put the Bulldogs within one, yet the Big Green had one last answer to close out the match.

Despite the loss, which drops Yale to No. 18 in the PairWise rankings and two places out of an NCAA tournament spot, the weekend did feature some considerable improvement in terms of offensive production for a Bulldog squad that had been struggling to convert on its scoring opportunities.

“I think over the last few weeks we’ve been generating a lot more quality scoring chances and capitalizing on them more which bodes well for ourselves heading forward,” forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said.

After these two games the Bulldogs find themselves with 18 points and in a four-way tie for third in the ECAC with Harvard, Clarkson and Dartmouth while Cornell and Colgate are just one point behind at 17. Meanwhile, St. Lawrence and Quinnipiac now have a relatively comfortable lead over the rest of the conference with 24 and 27 points respectively.

This weekend Yale will face off against Union and RPI in New York on Friday and Saturday.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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Forward Matt Townsend ’15 was one of just two Yale players with at least 10 points against Harvard.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 The nerves appeared to have been resolved following the halftime intermission, as the Elis came out on fire in the second half. Yale hit on each of its first four attempts from the field, including two three-pointers, en route to scoring 13 points in the first 4:19 of the second half, surpassing its first half output.

For the first 16 minutes and 50 seconds of the second half, Harvard led by a margin varying between one and seven points. In fact, the Crimson nearly led wire-to-wire, as Yale’s only lead of the game was 2–0 for the first few minutes of action. An eventual 7–0 Harvard run keyed by Saunders and guard Siyani Chambers saw the lead swell to double digits with 1:38 remaining.

Yale managed to pour in 12 points in the final 1:07, including a Duren three-pointer that turned out to be bittersweet at best.

Duren reached the 1,000-point mark with the triple, though the Bulldogs’ frenetic comeback attempt ultimately came up short.

“At this point, [the 1,000 points] don’t really matter much because I’ll take a win, especially over Harvard, over anything that I can accomplish personally,” Duren said.

Though the Elis shot significantly better

in the second half, more fundamental concerns frustrated head coach James Jones, notably the team’s offensive rebounding and inability to trust the team offense.

Yale had 37 missed field goals but only eight offensive rebounds — the Bulldogs have averaged 12 offensive board per game this season — whereas the Crimson snatched 10 offensive rebounds on just 30 missed field goals.

“We didn’t do a good job of offensive rebounding. We missed a ton of shots and we didn’t get many of them back,” Jones said. “On offense, we just did not do what we planned to dow — we didn’t trust our stuff enough and we were trying to hit a home run on every play as opposed to moving the ball side-to-side.”

From a statistical perspective, one only has to look at Sears’ production Saturday evening to see how anomalous the evening’s performance was for Yale’s Ivy-best offense.

Sears, who entered the night averaging 21 points and 13.6 free throw attempts per game in conference play, finished with nine points and just six free throw attempts.

His ability to draw fouls and get to the line has been crucial for the Bulldogs all season. In games in which Sears has attempted eight or more free throws, the Bulldogs are 9–1. But in games in which

Sears has attempted seven or fewer foul shots, the Elis are just 6–5, excluding a loss against NJIT in which Sears only played six minutes.

Despite the loss, Sears remained adamant following the game to keep things in perspective.

“We’re still in first place and we control our destiny,” Sears said. “A lot of guys on the team felt that was the poorest game we played all season, outside of the Florida game, and we felt that was one of Harvard’s better games since they’re not a strong offensive team.”

This marks the second consecutive season in which Yale and Harvard are tied atop the Ancient Eight standings at 5–1 through six games. Last year, it was Yale who went on the road and spoiled Harvard’s undefeated start to conference play.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

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nated the paint for a combined 20 points on an efficient 10–19 shooting.

Next to this three-headed monster, Yale forward Justin Sears ’16 was unable to get much going. Harvard coach Tommy Amaker called the first team All-Ivy big man “out of sync” and it showed in the box score, with Sears putting up only seven shot attempts, the fewest by a Yale starter. The Yale offense could not run the ball through him like it normally does; the Harvard defense frequently collapsed on Sears, giving him minimal space to dribble himself free from defenders.

In addition, another Yale big, forward Matt Townsend ’15, scored 10 points, but could hardly get off a contested shot without the ball being sent flying back his way.

In order for Yale to maintain pressure on Harvard for the Ivy League title, the Bulldogs need to do a better job boxing out. In what has become a dangerous trend, Yale has won the battle on the offensive glass just once over the past five contests. In the Elis’ 69–65 nailbiter over Brown on Jan. 24, the Bears corralled 11 offensive rebounds to Yale’s eight. In Friday’s 81–66 win over Dartmouth, the Big Green won the offensive rebounding battle 14–10. Last night, that figure was 10 to eight in favor of the Crimson, despite Yale missing seven more field goals than Harvard. Sears is the 55th-best offensive rebounder in the nation, averaging 3.09 per game, and he remains crucial to the Elis’ success on the glass.

Jones addressed his team’s rebounding woes in the postgame press conference. He of all people understands that in order for his squad to compete for the ultimate goal of earning the school’s first NCAA Tour-

nament appearance since 1962, the team needs to work on its fundamentals and avoid playing the type of “home run basketball” that contributed to Yale’s pathetic offensive first half on Saturday.

When Sears is matched up against big men such as Harvard’s, it becomes clear that Yale lacks shot creators to get its offense going. Point guard Javier Duren ’15 struggled on Saturday, scoring just nine points to go alongside eight rebounds and seven assists. While Duren was able to find teammates like Townsend and guard Jack Montague ’16 for buckets, he made just three shots of his own, all from beyond the arc.

Saturday’s contest shows that Sears needs to play a major role in Yale’s offense going forward. That starts with his teammates hitting shots all over the court. Yale needs Duren to sink more shots in the lane, forward Armani Cotton ’15 to hit more shots from the perimeter — the New York native made just 1–7 attempts from downtown on Saturday — and more dribble-drive penetration by the Eli backcourt. Accomplish that, and Sears will continue to rampage through Ivy foes.

The Bulldogs need not fret.

They remain tied for first place in the conference. The loss to Harvard might sting, but the team should take solace in the fact that it played one of its poorest games of the season and lost by just two points.

Harvard’s small but spirited student section heckled Sears, called “Too Tall” dating back to high school, by calling him “Too Small” Sears.

And if Yale wants to reach March Madness, it needs “Too Small” Sears to come up big.

ROBERT HESS II is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at robert.hess@yale.edu .

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Against Harvard, just two Bulldogs scored in double figures: guards Nyasha Sarju ’16 and Tamara Simpson ’18.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team went on the road this weekend and secured a dominant victory over Dartmouth on Friday, but was unable to keep rival Harvard at bay on Saturday.

With the loss to Harvard, the Bulldogs fell from atop the Ivy League standings, just one game behind undefeated and No. 18 Princeton at 5–1 in conference play.

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Women’s hockey falls 6–1, wins 6–2

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team endured a weekend of highs and lows, suffering a devastating defeat to rival No. 4 Harvard on Friday, but rebounding with a big win Saturday against Dartmouth to hold its position in the ECAC.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Although the Bulldogs (11– 13–1, 8–10–1 ECAC) fell to the Crimson (18–4–2, 14–3–1) gave up six goals, ultimately losing 6–1, they managed to end their last away weekend on a high note, taking down Dartmouth 6–2 after an impressive series of goals in the final period.

“The weekend gave us two great games,” forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 said. “The games were intense and [were] played at high speed. Harvard was the better team this weekend and

beat us accordingly. However, Dartmouth was a good opponent and allowed us to play our game and play the way we should be playing for the rest of the season.”

On Friday, the Elis faced tough opposition from Harvard, who had offensive momentum after coming off of a 9–2 victory against No. 6 Boston University on Tuesday. The Crimson pulled away early in the game, scoring just 3:10 into the first period on a power play and then again towards the end of the frame when the puck deflected off one of the Bulldogs’ skates. Both teams took relatively few shots in the first period, with only five for Yale and seven for Harvard.

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The Elis fell 6–1 to the Crimson on Friday before dominating the Big Green 6–2 on Saturday.

the Ivy League,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “I blame myself partly for not putting the time into preparing the team for Harvard’s unique 3–2 zone.”

On Friday night, the Bulldogs went up against Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. Due to its strong pressure defense, Yale

rapidly took control of the game — Dartmouth did not take the lead at any point during the match. The Elis put up 60 points and held the Big Green to a measly 46-point output. Riding a seven-game winning streak, Yale’s longest since the 1979–80 season, the Bulldogs then traveled to Cambridge

for their second game in two days.

But this time, Yale was unable to secure a win, losing 65–55.

“Our energy and our drive were there but we were missing coherency,” guard Tamara Simpson ’18 said.

The Bulldogs did not, however, lack coherence playing against

Dartmouth. Yale strung together solid performances on both sides of the court in its first game of the weekend.

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Eli runners set many PRs

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER A week before the historic HarvardYale-Princeton meet in Cambridge, the Bulldogs got one last chance to test themselves at the Coxe Cage in the annual Giegengack Invitational Meet this past weekend.

TRACK AND FIELD Yale hosted athletes from 10 schools in the northeast area, and although the meet was unscored, both the men’s and women’s teams landed several first place finishes and personal bests across the meet.

“It was a really good step for our group, especially going into the most important part of our season,” women’s captain Kira Garry ’15 said. “Our coach always talks about this last home meet as the turning point of our season into the championship season. It was exciting that we had a lot of wins.”

Garry added that the competition at the Giegengack — which included athletes from Lehigh, Sacred Heart and Columbia — was better than Yale sees in most of its home indoor meets. The Harvard-YalePrinceton meet, however, will provide an even bigger challenge next weekend.

Perhaps the women’s largest display of dominance this past weekend was the 800-meter race, in which the meet’s top five times were made up of Yale runners.

Emily Waligurski ’16 and Grace Brittan ’15 led the pack with times of 2:15.03 and 2:15.67 respectively, just shy of personal bests.

Numerous sprinters on the women’s squad excelled on the weekend, as Emily Cable ’15 set a personal record in the 200meter dash with a 24.75 second performance, and Sydney Cureton ’16 narrowly outpaced her competition with a 7.62 second showing in the 60-meter dash — not only a personal best, but also one of the top three times in Yale history. “[Cureton] has been injured, so to see the personal record was exciting,” Garry said. “We had a lot of personal bests.”

The women’s distance unit of Dana Klein ’18, Shannon McDonnell ’16, Brittan and Waligurski then dominated the distance medley, despite several runners sitting out to rest for future meets.

Klein later set a personal record with a second place finish in the 1,000-meter race, while fellow newcomer Kelli Reagan ’18 did the same with a 5:03.66 time and third place showing in the one mile.

The Eli men also had a successful weekend, especially in the 3,000-meter event, as five Bulldogs combined for five personal bests and five top six finishes.

Leading those five was James Randon ’17, who won the event in 8:10.53 and bested his previous PR by a full 10 seconds.

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Yale posted several first-place finishes at the Giegengack Invitational over the weekend. tional], I came into this race with a lot of confidence, but I honestly didn’t think I would be able to lower my personal best by 10 seconds,” Randon said. “This season has been a big breakthrough for me, so I’m incredibly happy and thankful thus far.”

Randon’s teammate Cameron Stanish ’18 came in just behind Randon at 8:16.36, giving himself the fastest personal best out of all Ivy League freshmen in both the 3,000- and 5,000-meter indoor events this season.

Several other freshmen on the men’s team continued the theme of strong young talent, as Adam Houston ’18 and Ryan Brady ’18 grabbed the top two spots in the 5,000-meter race, and Paedyn Gomes ’18 set a personal record of 8.23 seconds with a win in the 60-meter hurdles.

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