NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 80 · yaledailynews.com
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First things first. The first-
in-the-nation primary election will take place in New Hampshire today. At 12:20 a.m. this morning, CNN announced that Ohio Gov. John Kasich led Donald Trump 3–2 and Sen. Bernie Sanders led former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 after the first nine votes were cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
The doctor will see you now.
Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced that he will resume his “Lunches with Dr. J.” series. Students are invited to sign up for a lottery through an email form. Twelve students will be randomly selected for each lunch, which will take place in the residential colleges, and there will be five over the course of the semester. Schmidheinous. The Law School will host a forum tomorrow to ask the question, “Should Yale revoke honorary degree for industrialist prosecuted for asbestos deaths?” The talk, which will be held at 6 p.m. at the Sterling Law Buildings, will discuss Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny. In 2012, he was found responsible for causing an asbestos disaster that took 2,000 lives in Italy. We will never be (ROIA)ls, but you might be. Sigma Phi
Epsilon and Kappa Alpha Theta are co-organizing a Valentine’s Day raffle. The winner will get a dinner for two at ROIA, worth $220, complete with wine pairings. Students can Venmo Kelsi Caywood ’18 $10 with the note “raffle” to enter. The raffle winner will be announced Wednesday, and all proceeds will benefit the Flint Water Fund.
The Gras is greener on the other side. Establishments
around the Elm City are offering promotions and hosting events to celebrate Mardi Gras today. The New Haven Free Public Library will host a parade at 5:30 p.m. and Elm City Social has prepared a one-night-only Louisianastyle menu. Tomorrow, the Yale College Council will host “Fat Woads” — a New Orleans-themed dance party. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1994 At a ceremony in Los Angeles, Performance magazine honors Toad’s Place as the “Best Nightclub in North America” in the under800 capacity category. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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In crises, Salovey bypasses cabinet BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER
I’ll teach you to be popular.
According to the latest U.S. census, almost 28,000 more people moved out of the Connecticut than moved into the state. The Constitution State saw one of the steepest population drops of any state. “As people leave, our state’s adjusted gross income is now the lowest it’s ever been,” Senate Minority Leader and prominent Connecticut Republican Len Fasano ’81 said.
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The former and current YSPH students seek compensation for being quarantined in 2014. BY PADDY GAVIN AND ANDREA OUYANG STAFF REPORTERS Yale Law School students announced Monday that they have filed a lawsuit against the state of Connecticut challenging the legality of the fall 2014 quarantine of 13 individuals, including two Yale School of Public Health students who had returned to the state from an Ebola-affected country. The suit was filed against Gov. Dannel Malloy, Acting Commissioner of the Connecticut
Department of Public Health Raul Pino and the former commissioner Jewel Mullen, on behalf of 13 plaintiffs including former Yale public health student Ryan Boyko GRD ’18 and Laura Skrip GRD ’19. The suit argues that the governor acted illegally by ordering the quarantine of individuals returning to Connecticut from West Africa, including those who did not show symptoms of Ebola. The suit claims that the state ordered the quarantine without scientific basis or proven medical necessity, restricting the plain-
tiffs’ basic individual freedoms without due process. The state also did not provide the quarantined individuals with an adequate explanation of their rights, including their rights to legally challenge the quarantine, the suit argues. The document argues that the quarantined individuals were not provided resources, such as food, or aid for complying with the quarantine orders, according to the suit. Emma Roth LAW ’17, legal SEE EBOLA PAGE 6
Executive action to probe pay equity BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The Obama administration proposed an executive action last week that would require companies with over 100 employees, including universities like Yale, to report to the federal government how much they pay their employees by race, gender and ethnicity. On Jan. 29, the White House — in partnership with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Labor — proposed addi-
tions to the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, legislation that aimed to make it easier for workers to challenge unequal pay. If Obama’s proposal takes effect in 2017, Yale would be legally required to release information it currently keeps to itself. Yale professors and equal pay advocates showed support for the action, stating that all institutions, including the University, should be more transparent about how much employees are being paid. “It’s a step that could improve fairness for women and under-
represented groups in academic medicine,” medical school professor Barbara Burtness, who is also a member of Yale’s Committee on the Status of Women in Medicine, said. “There will undoubtedly continue to be bias in the ways in which academic work is evaluated, but I see this ruling as a very constructive step.” Obama’s proposal rose out of an April 2014 recommendation from the National Equal Pay Task Force, and would bring SEE WHITE HOUSE PAGE 6
In 2013, University President Peter Salovey created a formal cabinet of professional school deans, University vice presidents and the provost, to unite Yale’s leaders under one umbrella organization. Immediately after its inception, Salovey said the purpose of the body was to serve as a “feedback mechanism,” “a brainstorming mechanism” and “a way to help deans and vice presidents know what the other is doing and worrying about.” Following the Nov. 17 campuswide announcement entitled “Toward a Better Yale,” in which Salovey announced several initiatives in response to campus conversations about racism and discrimination, administrators within Woodbridge Hall told the News that Salovey worked closely with his cabinet in developing the plan. But interviews with the majority of professional school deans, several vice presidents, the provost, Salovey and his senior staff, as well as the review of emails between the President’s Office and the cabinet, suggest that most members of the cabinet, especially professional school deans, were excluded from the development of these initiatives. Rather, under a compressed time frame, an inner circle of cabinet officials — Salovey, University Provost Benjamin Polak, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews — worked with one another and the president’s senior staff to formulate action steps. In hindsight, Salovey said he would have liked to give the cabinet more input and time to review the initiatives.
THE CABINET SPEAKS
Most cabinet members
interviewed were not substantially involved in the development process. For some, like Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Joan O’Neill, this level of involvement felt appropriate. Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said it was reasonable that she was not heavily involved in the development process because November’s controversies emerged largely from Yale College. And Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern said he “did not participate” in decision-making while Salovey developed the initiatives. But Alpern said Salovey shared the policies with him before their wider distribution to the Yale community. But other University leaders were more upset about being excluded from decisions that affect the University as a whole. “President Salovey said things to suggest that University leadership was engaged, and by implication that could mean people like me, but I was not engaged,” Yale School of Management Dean Ted Snyder said, adding that he does not know of any school deans who were substantively involved, other than Holloway. Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling said his role “was minimal” but that he “would like to have been more involved.” “I wasn’t happy with the process at all,” Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary said. “Everyone would have liked to have had more time for input and discussion, so I don’t think anyone was happy with it.” Salovey said he had an in-person cabinet meeting and a separate cabinet phone call during the most turbulent weeks of November. Polak also hosted a call with the deans. Both administrators emphasized that several of the initiatives announced on Nov. 17 had been in the works prior to the campus controversies. Cooley said deans were SEE CABINET PAGE 4
International students face extra hurdles in job hunt BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Across campus, students clad in suits run to and from interviews at the Office of Career Strategy on the third floor of 55 Whitney Ave. It is internship season, and students are busy browsing Yale’s Symplicity website and drafting plans for the summer. For Yale College’s international students, there is an additional challenge to securing their dream summer internships. While international students are given student visas to support their time studying in the United States, they must also apply for Optional Practical Training — additional time to pursue work related to their fields of study — if they wish to work off-campus either during the school year, over summer breaks or after graduation. Students who are not pursuing degrees in STEM fields are allotted a total of 12 months of OPT to work in the United States,
while STEM majors are eligible for a 17-month extension that amounts to 29 months of OPT in total. But a district court judge in Washington, D.C. recently ruled in favor of a court case challenging the STEM extension, meaning that unless the Department of Homeland Security updates its policies, all international STEM students and recent graduates currently working in the United States under OPT could lose their authorization for extension on May 10. The May date is already a postponement from the original expiration date, which was slated for Feb. 12 until the judge extended it last month. But even if new OPT extensions are issued, international students pursuing summer internships and work after graduation — both in and out of STEM fields — already face challenges that their American peers do not. If international students wish to work in the United States after graduation, they must allocate nine months of OPT to the
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International students must apply for permission beyond their student visas to work off campus. time between graduation in May and April 1 of the next year, when their domestic employers become eligible to apply for work visas on their behalf. This leaves just three months for nonSTEM students to pursue a sum-
mer internship during all of their undergraduate years. Even for STEM students, who would currently still have 20 months available, finding research opportunities that sponsor international students can be difficult.
“[The OPT] can be frustrating, because it requires you to think quite broadly about how to use your summers,” Director of the Office of International SEE INTERNATIONAL PAGE 6