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second-place finishers from the Iowa caucus won big in the New Hampshire primary yesterday. Donald Trump took the Republican race, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich was a far second. On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 by a similarly wide margin. Clinton conceded the race shortly after 8 p.m. last night.

No Screw Crew. The Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office added photos of Freshmen Screw and the Senior Masquerade Ball yesterday and referred to the class of 2019 event as the “Freshman Dance.” The admissions office, as well as several residential colleges, shy away from using the term “screw.”

Righty tighty, lefty loosey.

The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program will host National Review editor Eliana Johnson, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades and pollster Jim McLaughlin to speak on “exodus from the establishment” in the 2016 primary elections. The talk will focus on the views of Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who represent the far right and far left, respectively.

Thrifty Shift. SHiFT Cycling, an exercise studio located on Crown Street, has introduced a new promotion. You can earn the chance to bring a friend to a spin class for free if you tweet the studio with “#SHiFTLUV” — happy spinning!

Herbal (Dance Par)Tea.

Rappers Lil Bibby and Lil Herb will perform at Toad’s Place tomorrow at 9 p.m. Students can buy tickets in advance online or at the door. The artists have gained recognition for their single “Ain’t Heard Bout You.”

Hymn for the WKND. Visit the

Yale Daily News WEEKEND website to vote for one charming bachelor and one lovely bachelorette. This Valentine’s Day weekend, the News will set up the two winners on the blindest date of all time and they’ll report back with details.

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1943 Almost 300 undergraduates register to take the University’s special wartime courses in engineering, radio, navigation and other subject areas. One such course, “Automotive Engineering,” is designed to prepare students for army mechanical work.

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School of Art appoints first female dean

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disappointment in the YCC’s decision to host a Mardi Gras-themed party on the first day of the holy season. The Saint Thomas More Chaplain’s Office also asked the YCC to consider a name change in a statement to both the News and the YCC signed by Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler, among others. The new name honors New Orleans, a

Marta Kuzma will serve as the next dean of the Yale School of Art, University President Peter Salovey announced Tuesday. She is the first female dean in the school’s nearly 150-year history.

Kuzma, the vice chancellor and rector of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden, will succeed current School of Art Dean Robert Storr at the end of this academic year. In addition to her experience at the Royal Institute of Art, Kuzma has also recently served as visiting professor in art theory at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice and the Università Bocconi in Milan. Her international, extensive experience is what set her apart from other candidates for the position, Salovey said. “[Kuzma] distinguished herself as an independent and creative thinker with a strong record of forging and enhancing connections to students and faculty,” Salovey wrote in the email announcing Kuzma’s new position.

Professor Sheila Levrant de Bretteville ART ’64, director of graduate studies in graphic design — and the first woman to earn tenure on the School of Art faculty — served as chair of the committee that selected Kuzma for the position. According to de Bretteville, the pro-

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reported that Harvard received 39,044 applications for the class of 2020 — a 4.6 percent increase from last year’s numbers. Yale also saw an increase this year. The University received 31,439 applications, which was a 4 percent increase from last year, and surpassed 31,000 for the first time.

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The YCC’s decision to host “Fat Woads” on the first day of Lent has drawn ire from Yale’s Catholic community.

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Following vocal student outcry, the Yale College Council has decided to change the name of its Wednesday Toad’s dance party from “Fat Woads” to “NOLA Woads.”

The original name is a play on “Fat Tuesday,” the traditional name for Mardi Gras, which was on Feb. 9.

Mardi Gras, despite widespread sec-

ularization and celebration outside its Catholic context, has a religious origin, and it is directly linked to the Catholic calendar. Fat Tuesday culminates the festivities of Carnival season and precedes Ash Wednesday, when those observing Lent cease merriment and begin reflection. When Fat Woads was first announced on Facebook, students from Yale’s Catholic community immediately responded, expressing

SOM class size remains constant despite spike in apps

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Despite a rise in applications to the Yale School of Management Master of Business Administration program, its incoming class size will remain the same for the third year in a row.

Though the SOM’s applicant pool for its class of 2017 MBA candidates saw a 24 percent jump compared to the

year before, the class size only increased by three students from the previous year’s 323. According to SOM Assistant Dean for Admissions Bruce DelMonico, the school is still in the midst of its application cycle for the class of 2018, though the number of applications has grown by approximately 10 percent from last year. Even so, the incoming class size will be kept stable at around 325 so as not to impair

U.S. schools earn less, spend more, study shows

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER While endowment returns at hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities declined last fiscal year, spending rates at those schools increased. At Yale, however, both endowment returns and spending remained steady.

A Jan. 27 study of endowments at 812 schools conducted by two institutional investment firms showed that the average school made 2.4 percent on its endowment in the 2015 fiscal year, down from 15.5 percent returns the previous year.

Yet despite these lower endowment returns, the report — coauthored by The Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers — found that many schools increased the amount they spent from their endowments to support initiatives like financial aid and faculty research. Increased spending was even more common at schools with endowments of over $1 billion, such as Yale.

Ninety-four of the 812 schools studied had endowments over $1 billion.

“The spending increases were quite substantial,” said Ken

Redd, the NACUBO director of research and policy analysis.

Much of the increased endowment spending went to support students, funding scholarships and other student programs, he added. The study reported that the median spending increase was 8.8 percent.

Larger endowments performed better last year, the study also showed. Redd said that on average, the largest endowments above $1 billion had returns of 4.3 percent, compared with 2.3 percent returns for the 96 schools studied with endowments of less than $25 million. Last year the Yale endowment returned 11.5 percent, bringing the total endowment to $25.6 billion.

Size alone did not determine an endowment’s performance, according to endowment experts interviewed. Asset classes, the kinds of industries an endowment invests in, play a significant role in determining the fate of an endowment, Redd said. Yale has long been lauded for successful investment strategies, and the University’s endowment regularly outperforms endowments at SEE SPENDING PAGE 6

its close-knit culture, DelMonico said. Over the past five years, the freshman class size jumped from 228 to 326.

“The [increasing] trend goes back to the last five years. What makes our substantial growth all the more remarkable is that it stands out among peer institutions,” said Anjani Jain, SOM senior associate dean for the MBA program. “It shows that the school and its MBA program

are beginning to be recognized as distinctive.”

The SOM’s mission and its objectives in pursuit of the mission — namely its close connection to the University and to challenging management issues around the world — are beginning to resonate with prospective students, Jain added.

The increase in applications to the SOM has come in the midst of a decline in the number

of students who take the Graduate Management Admission Test, the test generally required for entrance into an MBA program. The number of total GMAT exams taken dropped by 4.17 percent from 2011 to 2015, and the share of MBAs among GMAT test takers has also declined, according to data from the Graduate Management Admission CounSEE SOM PAGE 4

Alders approve bike lane plans

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders’ City Services and Environmental Policy Committee kicked off its first meeting of the new aldermanic session by moving plans for a new bike lane on Edgewood Avenue one step closer to reality.

A joint project between the city’s transportation and engineering departments, the plans would be the first of its kind in the state: a two-

way bike lane, cut off from traffic by a row of parking.

The construction costs for the project would be paid for with a $1.2 million grant, preliminarily approved Tuesday night, from the Connecticut Department of Transportation, according to Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04. The lane, which would extend roughly two miles down Edgewood Avenue to connect Westville to Downtown, would be a “guinea pig

project” for future bike lanes in the city and state, Hausladen said.

“A street that has designated spots for pedestrians, designated spots for cyclists, designated spots for parking and designated spots for vehicles is the safest type of street,” city engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05 said.

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Alders on the City Services and Environmental Policy committees convened at City Hall.

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ou common cry of curs! whose breath I hate/As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize.” So yells Coriolanus, in Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedy, cursing the plebeians who have banished him from the city. His hatred for the common folk is palpable — but by no means is it without historical precedent. The patrician’s contempt for the people has existed in every form of government since Roman times, and our most recent democratic rendition is no exception. Therefore, I was not entirely surprised reading a recent column in the News (“Participation isn’t perfection,” Feb. 4) lamenting unqualified voter participation, and calling for a form of lazy democracy where uneducated voters stay at home while the real, smart guys decide elections. This attitude is wrong for several reasons.

CHAMPIONING THE CIVIC DUTY OF ALL TO VOTE MOTIVATES PEOPLE TO PROTECT THEIR LEGITIMATE STAKE IN SOCIETY, WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE BE OVERLOOKED Underlying such arguments is what I term the Patrician’s Fallacy: The notion that those who are most qualified, educated or privileged in any other respect will make the best decisions in elections.

Conversely, this fallacy presumes that normal, uneducated people are imbeciles incapable of rational selfinterest at the best of times, while bloody nuisances to the democratic process at the worst.

Experts are more flawed, and common people more intelligent, than you think.

Take Ben Carson for example. The Yale-educated (alas!) neurosurgeon farcically opposes evolution. If that doesn’t convince you, think only of the legions of creationist scientists who abuse the scientific method for their own motives. Ideology constrains the reason of those we generally consider intelligent.

Alternatively, an underpaid street cleaner probably has a better sense of the injustice of low wages than any economist. And he can express that view through the ballot box.

In fact many political scientists cite the “Wisdom of the Crowd” theory as a justification for a wide, unrestricted electorate. The aggregated wisdom of diverse opinions tends mathematically to produce better results than a more homogenized pool of voters. It would seem that even your slightly racist distant uncle has a part to play in the larger scheme of popular democracy.

The lazy democracy theory ignores that voting is a tool to project individual concerns.

In this sense, the civic duty of voting is not merely an appeal to a higher social bond, but also an imperative for citizens to assert their own interests, lest other democratic actors overpower them. One reason the democratic process constantly screws over the poor is their lack of voting power.

They are ignored, while voting-empowered citizens direct the path of government. This occurs biannually during House elections when low voter turnout of mainly white conservatives propels Republicans into office, who subsequently slash welfare programs and hurt the poor.

That’s why democracy might be able to roll on merrily for some but is actually rotten for many. Voting for everyone is the only way to ensure that the conflicts that result from competing societal interests are mitigated, and not exacerbated.

I will freely admit that some participation in the electoral process is harmful (looking at you, Trump supporters). It does not follow, however, that we should wish these people never participated. Championing the civic duty of all to vote motivates people to protect their legitimate stake in society, which might otherwise be overlooked. If some malcontents are brought to the polls, so be it. The status quo avoids drawing arbitrary and wrong distinctions between equally important voters, distinctions that would perpetuate class divisions and misalign common interests. Democracy is valuable precisely because patricians like Coriolanus no longer dominate the political landscape. It wouldn’t be democracy otherwise.

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oday is Ash Wednesday, thus marking the beginning of Lent in Catholicism and many other Christian denominations. The season is meant to prepare its religious observers for Easter and to recollect the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert enduring the temptations of Satan. For me, it has also prompted a reflection on the question, “What if Jesus went to Yale?”

I think of Jesus often and when people ask me who my best friend is, I tell them it’s Jesus. I think that if He went to school here and our paths crossed that we would have a great time and be pals. But I also think that the question of what Jesus’ Yale experience would be like, if fully considered, contains many implications about how we choose our priorities.

On the surface, the question reminds me of the scene in “Talladega Nights” when Ricky Bobby, his children and Cal Naughton Jr. banter about how they picture Jesus. I, for one, picture Jesus getting an A in every class and being the friendliest person at Yale. I could imagine Him walking into a dining hall one day and joining a seemingly lonely stu-

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dent for lunch.

I think that as He spoke, a large crowd would build around Him to listen to His thoughts and teachings, greatly astonished by His wisdom. Every day would be a spectacle and Jesus would be a large campus

presence.

Additionally, it is fun to think of how Jesus’ powers could come in handy to take care of Yale’s minor inconveniences. Perhaps, for example, He could multiply the food in Commons when they invariably run out an hour before lunch ends, or walk on the water of the massive puddles that always form at the intersection of Elm and High when it rains.

There is no biblical evidence of Jesus using His powers in such a way, but it’s still a fun thought experiment.

More substantively, I don’t think Jesus would be particularly involved in the campus cul-

ture. It seems obvious to say that He wouldn’t put much stock in Yale’s social pressures and would instead probably spend most of His time volunteering in New Haven and saying prayers. This approach is not one that most Yale students, including myself, can really relate to. But despite our different schedules, it is a cop-out to dismiss the lessons behind what Jesus would do as irrelevant.

Pope Francis has spoken previously of the Catholic Church as a field hospital after battle.

He said the Church needs to be concerned with healing people’s wounds and being close to them, not getting caught up in “small-minded rules.” There are so many people at Yale in need of that healing, most egregiously proven by the results of the survey by the Association of American Universities that found that sexual assault on campus is rampant. There are so many people who are broken.

Beyond being present for His friends, I don’t know how Jesus would deal with these problems if he were a student here at Yale. But I do think His previously recorded example pro-

vides a framework for the right approach to our time on campus.

Jesus talked about walking with “the light of life,” about washing the inside of the cup instead of worrying about the appearance on the outside.

Yale is full of ambitious people, but ambition is not an end in and of itself. Elvis likened it to a V-8 engine, and I think Jesus would apply that metaphor to say we should use that engine to move in a positive direction and to be blessings in the lives of others.

I think He’d want us to remember that goodness, not success, should be our goal.

I don’t pretend to speak on behalf of Jesus, and hope I have not offended any Christians, but I know that Yale is a place where we spend a lot of time treading water rather than swimming. I hope this Lent, we will pause to consider the focus of our Yale experiences, and upon reflection, that we’ll all try to be a little more like Jesus.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Inequality on the YDS walls

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ast month, as a result of a growing awareness about the persistence of racial inequalities on campus — and in recognition of some ways in which Yale reinforces such inequalities — the portraits of John C. Calhoun were removed from the college still bearing his name. This act was a significant step forward for Yale — but it needs to be merely the first step towards rectifying the way campus artwork perpetuates racial, as well as gender, power structures.

In a letter to the Yale community Nov. 17, 2015, Peter Salovey pledged to address the issue of the representation of diversity on campus. Now, I urge the community to pay particular attention to the lack of diversity on the walls of the Divinity School.

Currently, the Divinity School displays portraits of 99 white men, five white women, one Black woman and two Black men throughout its campus. These portraits all make an appearance in the short film I produced, “Mirror Mirror on the Wall: The Legacies of Sexism and Racism at the Yale Divinity School 2016.”

The problem with the near exclusive representation of white men is that many of the images venerate a time when women and

people of color were systematically excluded from education.

The reason these groups don’t appear on the walls is that they bore (and still bear in many ways) the brunt of a society that refused — and too often still refuses — to recognize their full humanity. By continuing to enshrine the past in this visible way, we reinforce the old hegemony rather than ushering in a new era. We send the message that privilege and power belong to white men.

I first raised this issue in the fall of 2014 in an open letter to the Divinity School community and I was certainly not the first to raise it. But in the time since, few permanent changes have been made, save for the addition of the school’s only three portraits of Blacks mentioned above.

The following semester someone anonymously hoisted a huge black board onto the fireplace mantle in the Divinity School’s Common Room with the words “End White Supremacy” spraypainted on it in red. What was brilliant about this statement was that at the same height of the vigilante message, there hung 12 portraits of white professors staring back at you. The message was clear: In this room you literally look up to white people exclusively.

In a recent article published online entitled “God is not a Man, God is Not a White Man,” noteworthy feminist theologian Carol P. Christ GRD ’74 spoke about her own experience with the portraits on the walls of the Divinity School back in the late 1960s. She described that “the toxic atmosphere at Yale both created and reinforced by the mirrors on the wall makes women and people of color intellectually doubt our right to be there.”

The message sent by the nearexclusive veneration of men also reinforces the power structures that are responsible for our current rape culture. At a town hall meeting at the Divinity School on Jan. 28 we learned that nearly one in 10 divinity students reported suffering sexual assault in the recent survey conducted by the Association of American Universities — and that women and non-gender conforming students are disproportionately affected. The rate of sexual assault at the Divinity School is above the Graduate School average.

At the town hall meeting, Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling expressed his distress at the lack of respect for other people that the reports signals. But as

current student Allyson McKinney DIV ’16 pointed out at the meeting, experts on the issue of sexual violence (like Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune DIV ’76) have asserted that the real problem is not simply an issue of respect.

The problem is one of power and control. As we confront the reality of how our entrenched patriarchy continues to wreak havoc in the lives of our female students, it would serve us well to consider to the visual messages we consume daily that support the male dominance that exists in our community.

The problems of racial and gender inequality are systemic and deeply engrained in our society. They will take time to resolve, unfortunately.

But establishing greater gender equality and diversity on the walls of the buildings where students are educated is relatively clear and straightforward.

The Divinity school can begin by honoring a diversity of esteemed graduates of the Divinity School as well as other ethnic expressions of the Christian tradition.

What is stopping them?

SIMON CHRISTOPHER TIMM is a 2015 graduate of the Yale Divinity School. Contact him at christopher.timm@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS

Public library hosts Mardi Gras party

FRIDAY, FEB. 5

The story “Project Bright, SolarCity partner up” incorrectly stated that Project Bright receives compensation for all consultations they arrange. In fact, the group is paid only for consultations that lead to a sale.

MONDAY, FEB. 8

The story “Students convene to discuss better Europe” misstated the number of workshops the program included as seven instead of six.

TUESDAY, FEB. 9

The story “Yale 6-0 in Ivy League for first time ever” misstated the first name of Columbia men’s basketball head coach Kyle Smith.

A graphic paired with the story “Executive action to probe pay equity” mislabeled salary differences of men and women faculty at Yale.

Sunrise Cafe fights stigmatization

BY CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTER Every morning, volunteers turn on the stoves at the Sunrise Cafe to prepare breakfast for those in need.

The cafe, a volunteer-run program that caters to low-income members of the New Haven community, welcomes more than 100 patrons every morning between 7:30 to 9:30 and serves smoothies, oatmeal, fruit and more free of charge. Volunteer Meghan Elgee said the cafe mostly serves men and that the majority are low-income, unemployed or homeless.

“They have dignity here,” volunteer Sha Mackenzie said. “It’s a little more civil [than a soup kitchen].”

Bragsdale added that the early hours of the cafe also draw the Elm City’s working residents, since few restaurants open before typical business hours.

The cafe — which receives funding from an umbrella organization Liberty Community Services — this week received a $100,000 grant from Wendy Hamilton, one of its volunteers. Hamilton was one of the cafe’s original volunteers when it opened in March 2015 and is a well-established advocate for people of need in New Haven, Sunrise Cafe supervisor Thelma Bragsdale said. Given after years of volunteering for the cafe, the donation will be used to fund the Sunrise Cafe’s operations over the next year.

“We raised enough money to get us through the end of the year — mostly through private donations,” Bradley said. “That’s how this [$100,000] gift was welcome. We basically have enough to keep us going another year.”

John Bradley ’81, executive director of Liberty Community Services, said the cafe was born out of a community volunteer’s worry for the homeless people she saw sleeping on the New Haven Green. After approaching Liberty Community Services with a pitch to supplement pre-existing food-service programs, she and the organization established the Sunrise Cafe. After learning that free breakfast was not available for New Haven residents every

day in a steady location, their idea blossomed into a free daily cafe.

The objective of the program is to provide a warm and comfortable place where guests can relax, Bragsdale, who has been volunteering at the cafe since it opened, said. Every guest who enters the cafe is greeted by a hostess and offered a chair at one of the many numbered tables.

“Anyone is welcome,” Bragsdale said.

Although the cafe’s atmosphere differs from that of the average soup kitchen, it caters to a similar demographic. Instead of ushering visitors down a cafeteria-style line, the Sunrise Cafe serves customers as if they were in a restaurant.

Bragsdale emphasized the cafe’s dedication to the total wellbeing of its guests, pointing to its collection of knit hats, gloves and scarves available for free to anyone who may need them. Furthermore, the cafe has a nurse visit on Fridays to check on the guests and has a representative from Veterans Affairs available as a resource.

While the program may now have the means to sustain itself until March 2017, the needs of the New Haven community are not yet met. Sally Fleming, Sunrise Cafe volunteer and head of Loaves and Fishes, a food pantry and ministry of St. Paul and St. James Episcopal Church, said that despite the recent donation, the organization continues to fill out grant applications. Bragsdale said cafe volunteers would like to provide some of the heartier breakfast foods more often and that they are in need of more gloves, socks, hats and scarves.

Darby Henry ’17, head of Yale student volunteers at the cafe, highlighted that they are always in need of more volunteers, particularly toward the end of the month when guests receiving subsidies run out of money and can no longer afford food for themselves.

“That’s what we need: more and more volunteers,” Bragsdale said.

In 2012, roughly 14.4 percent of individuals in New Haven county were food insecure.

Contact CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .

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Tuesday’s celebration was the library’s 15th.

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Free Public Library was not a quiet zone Tuesday night. Covered in streamers and flowers, the lobby of NHFPL played host to the library’s 15th Mardi Gras celebration.

Roughly 300 New Haven residents attended the party, which ran from 5:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The revelers, clad in masquerade masks and Mardi Gras beads, ate, drank and bid on more than 70 silent auction items donated by individuals and New Haven businesses.

Twelve local restaurants donated food and drinks to the fundraiser while a host of other local businesses and groups offered their photography, musical and decorating skills to the event. Although exact figures are yet to be calculated, the NHFPL Foundation estimated that over $50,000 was raised to support New Haven

library programs in that evening alone.

“The library is important to everyone,” Andrew Rubenoff DRA ’83 said, adding that he relied on NHFPL as a Drama School student when Yale’s libraries lacked the resources he needed. Rubenoff, who volunteers every year at the fundraiser, set up the decorations and lighting for the event and also led the charge to transform the circulation desk into a bar.

Rubenoff said people visit the library to take advantage of resources other than books. He noted that access to the internet, media resources and programming, such as job and language training, are also key functions the library provides to the New Haven area.

He added that the party itself brings together many constituents and, as a result, is an important social event for businesses, volunteers and community members.

Nicole Licata-Grant, a lifelong resident of New Haven and a party attendee, agreed that the library is crucial to the community. “[The library] was a refuge and a home away from home for me,” she said. “I think we are lucky to have a dominant institution in our town that is so loved.”

But Lisa Katson, NHFPL Foundation development officer, noted that both of New Haven’s branches are underfunded compared to other libraries across the state.

Katson explained that the library, being state funded, is not permitted to raise money on its own. The NHFPL Foundation, which directs donations to the library, receives the $75 per person ticket revenue from Tuesday’s event.

She said the money raised at the party will go to library programs including NHFPL’s online resources, children’s programs and its bookmobile

— a travelling book distributor.

Among the guests was Mayor Toni Harp, who attendees a happy Mardi Gras and thanked them for supporting the library.

The library celebration also included a parade where local performers danced and marched through the library lobby as band members played, “When The Saints Come Marching In.” Marshall Demorest, a volunteer busboy who was working the event for the second year in a row, credits the library with giving New Haven residents a safe and productive place to go — keeping people off the streets and out of trouble. He smiled as he relayed his own plan to start a Yu-Gi-Oh! club at the library based on the Japanese manga game.

Mardi Gras marks the last day before the start of Lent.

Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

Former UN official discusses refugee crisis

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Before an audience of roughly 40 students and professors at the Morse College Master’s house, Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff LAW ’77 — former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees — addressed a wide range of issues associated with the Syrian refugee crisis, expressing particular disappointment in the American response.

Aleinikoff was appointed to the position in 2010 and held the job for five years. At the Master’s Tea Tuesday afternoon, he discussed national responsibility, development’s relationship with humanitarian aid and political motivations towards refugees.

He repeatedly spoke critically of the United States’ response to the crisis. While there are over four million Syrian refu-

gees, Aleinikoff said, as of last November, the United States had only taken in 1,800. In contrast, Germany has accepted over one million refugees. He called on students to speak out on refugees’ behalf and urge the government to accept more.

“The U.S. usually takes half of all resettled refugees in the world,” Aleinikoff said. “It’s in our tradition to be generous, but our response [to the Syrian refugee crisis] has been miniscule.”

He added that although America has a long history of welcoming refugees, dating back to the Pilgrims, contemporary hateful attitudes towards refugees put the U.S. in danger of losing that history. In order to change American attitudes, Aleinikoff said, the narrative has to be framed in a way that highlights how solving the crisis would benefit the U.S. In particular, he said, solving the crisis

could enhance national security.

Before opening up the talk for questions, Morse College Master Catherine PanterBrick asked if efforts by European countries to secure jobs for refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan are simply a veiled attempt to keep refugees out of Europe. Aleinikoff said yes, adding that political motivations were rampant, especially in Turkey, which he pointed out has the added incentive of appeasing European countries in order to gain admission to the European Union.

James Leckman, a professor in the Yale Child Study Center, asked Aleinikoff what role universities could play in the greater relief effort. Aleinikoff pointed to the current political climate, urging students to protest the xenophobic voices that “polarize national debate” and to view themselves, not just

states, as active agents in providing aid. He also suggested offering scholarships to displaced students and developing educational platforms on the internet to reach remote audiences.

Leckman told the News that he agreed with Aleinikoff’s assertion that multiple groups in civil society, not just governments, need to play a role in solving the crisis.

“I think that as a community we need to be better informed — the media frightens us, it’s us versus them — and in this interconnected world that we live in, we need guidance in terms of how to create multi-sectorial partnerships that could actually make this a more peaceful world,” he said.

Several students referred to their personal experiences living in South Sudan, Turkey and Jordan while asking questions of

Aleinikoff. One asked how civilians could contribute to peace efforts, a question to which Aleinikoff did not have an answer. An architecture student asked about efforts to create accessible housing for refugees.

“The IKEA Foundation worked on that actually, making these flat packs that you build just like you’d build something from IKEA,” Aleinikoff said, to laughter from the audience. “But only 10,000 to 15,000 of them have been deployed.”

At the end of the tea, PanterBrick informed students of a planned grassroots initiative for humanitarian intervention that she is leading, which she hopes will bring internship placements for Yale students who want to work with refugees, as well as scholarships for Syrian students looking to study in the United States. She also said that she appreciated the human perspective Aleinikoff took

toward refugees.

“He said that he was a refugee person, and I think that means that at his heart he’s got advocacy for the people who are in distressing situations, whose lives are in danger and [who] have fear of persecution,” Panter-Brick said. “I liked that comment in particular because he’s not wedded to a system, he’s wedded to people, which is a very interesting distinction. By his remark, he signaled that he was accountable to people themselves, and I really value that. It was an off-thecuff remark, but for me it was the best moment of his talk.”

Aleinikoff, a visiting professor at Columbia, also delivered the Yale Law School’s Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice on Monday.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

HENRY KISSINGER AMERICAN DIPLOMAT AND POLITICAL SCIENTIST

After student outcry, YCC renames “Fat Woads” WOADS FROM PAGE 1 city famous for its Mardi Gras celebration.

YCC Events Director Amour Alexandre ’17 said YCC originally decided to host Fat Woads on Feb. 10 given the date’s proximity to the official day of celebration, but changed the name in response to student complaints. The Facebook event “Fat Woads” — which garnered criticism from students who called the name insensitive and even disrespectful — has also been renamed and is now under the title “NOLA Woads.”

“We are responding to the concerns of numerous Catholic students and members of the Chaplain’s Office,” Alexandre said. “We do not believe this name change will have any negative impacts on today’s event or on those participating in Ash Wednesday.”

Alexandre had previously told the News that the name would not change, and responded to student concerns on the Facebook page by citing her own Catholic upbringing and inviting concerned community members to reach out to her directly.

Before the name change was announced, many students had vocally advocated for a more respectful title. Some students had even advocated for a boycott of the event if its name did not change.

Many Catholic students interviewed said they did not object to a Mardi Gras-themed event, or to Woads being held on Ash Wednesday, but said the combination of the two caused concern.

“Hosting what is essen-

tially a Fat Tuesday celebration on Wednesday and calling it ‘Fat Woads,’ … is ignoring the historical and religious relevance of traditions like Mardi Gras and Lent,” Renee Breer ’16 said prior to the name change. “It is in particularly bad taste for such an event to be hosted by YCC, which is supposed to represent and support all Yalies of any religion, culture or background.”

Mardi Gras festivities typically span multiple weeks, Catholic student Helder Toste ’16 said, and had the event been hosted last week, a Mardi Gras theme would have been equally appropriate and less objectionable. Emmy Reinwald ’17, one of the first to raise concerns on the Fat Woads Facebook page, said she does not believe the name was purposefully offensive but maintained that it was a “bad judgment call.”

Not all students within the Catholic community shared the objection. James Kochanski ’19, a practicing Catholic at Yale, said he found the decision to host a Fat Tuesday-themed event on Ash Wednesday unusual but not controversial, and he attributed the theme to marketing rather than ill intent. Both Reinwald and Toste described the situation as an isolated incident, and applauded the YCC for its usual hard work in creating inclusive events.

According to the Saint Thomas More website, over 25 percent of students at Yale are Roman Catholic.

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

BRIANNA LOO/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Staff at St. Thomas More Chapel asked the YCC to rename “Fat Woads” which has since been changed to “NOLA Woads”.

SOM apps rise, but class size stays constant SOM FROM PAGE 1

YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT APPLICANTS AND ENROLLS OVER TIME 2013 3449 total applicants

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cil, the owner of the GMAT exam.

Yale’s increase in applications over time surpasses those of its peers. Over the past five years, the SOM’s applicant pool has grown by 16 percent while the Stanford Graduate School of Business saw a 10 percent increase and Harvard Business School saw a 2 percent increase. Other business schools, such as NYU Stern and Wharton, saw a decline in applications during the same time period.

Jain added that the increase in applications has created momentum at the school, which translates into a sense of excitement among SOM students, alumni and prospective students alike. Jain added that the increase in the number of SOM graduates who successfully find employment also enhances the school’s appeal. The percentage of graduates who received a job offer by graduation has increased from 75.5 percent for the class of 2012 to 82.4 percent for class of 2015. The median base salary has gone up from $100,000 to $120,000 over the same time period. In addition, the growth in application numbers has marginally improved the quality of the applicant pool Average GMAT scores for the SOM class of 2014 increased from 717 to 721 for the class of 2017, and the average GPA improved from 3.55 to 3.60 in

the same time period.

Even so, the school does not have any current plans to grow its class size. DelMonico said the school is wary of “growing for the sake of growing” and takes into consideration the community of the SOM. Jain said there have been preliminary discussions about the scale and scope of the MBA program and whether the school will consider a change in its size in the coming years.

The SOM administration is concerned about how a further increase in class size might undermine the school’s close-knit atmosphere, but students interviewed said they do not share the concern.

Emily Ottman SOM ’16 said she felt her classmates are very close to one another and thus are not worried about the potential increase in size.

Shayna Keller SOM ’16 said despite the increased number of students and the higher faculty-tostudent ratio over the past five years, she has not had any trouble meeting with faculty members one-on-one.

Still, Keller said she is worried that SOM professors might “burn out” because they are teaching more students over time.

The SOM first offered its MBA degree program in 1999.

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

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“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

HENRY WARD BEECHER AMERICAN CONGREGATIONALIST CLERGYMAN

Observatory lacks student attendees

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER On Science Hill sits a dark, domed room with floating constellations overhead. For students still in need of Valentine’s Day ideas, the trek to the Leitner Family Observatory on Prospect Street may be worth the romance and education.

On Tuesday evening, the Leitner Family Observatory was open for public viewing, as it is every Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon. Of the 10 visitors in the room Tuesday, only two were Yale students. Although the telescope portion of the event was closed due to cloudy skies, the event showcased a planetarium presentation and featured a movie on solar storms — large explosion’s in the sun’s atmosphere which interact with Earth’s magnetic field.

With observatory attendance ranging from 10 to 100 people depending on season and weather, Michael Faison, professor of astronomy and director of the planetarium, said their staff’s main goal is to attract more Yale students.

“With outreach, we just want to entertain, educate and inspire the public,” Faison said.

Joey Schmitt GRD ’18, an astronomy Ph.D. student who lectured during Tuesday’s presentation, noted that when the telescope portion is available for public viewing on clear days, the observatory draws a higher volume of attendants, mostly families and New Haven residents. Schmitt added that they try to update the show every month, including different constellations and planets visible in the night sky during that evening’s showing.

Although many students are aware this facility exists, fewer know about the Tuesday and Sunday opportunities. All students interviewed said they knew about the facilities but only one out of seven ever visited the observatory.

Harper Keehn ’16, an Eli Whitney student, explained that he wanted to visit at some point, but he was not sure of the availability dates.

The facility was renovated from the Bett’s House carpenter shop into the observatory in 2004. The planetarium transitioned into a digital theater in 2009, when it received a state of the art SciDomeHD system, which can simulate the universe at any time from any place in addition to streaming highresolution, full-dome videos.

Faison, who previously worked at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, noted that this system was especially revolutionary for students and the public.

“We want people to find out more about the research at Yale,” Faison said, “It’s also a good experience for our scientists when we have public talks.”

The beginning portion of Tuesday’s hourlong show included a lecture held in the 1,920-pixel planetarium theater on astronomical concepts displayed on the dome ceiling. “Solar Superstorms,” a movie narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, was displayed during the second portion of Tuesday’s show. Visitors had the option of interacting with the lecturer after the show, and many posed topical questions.

Attendees interviewed voiced pleasure and surprise at the enjoyable experience offered by the observatory.

“I haven’t been to a planetarium since college,” John Faren, a New Haven resident said.“But I think this place is actually really cool.”

The Leitner Family Observatory will be playing “The Martian” in their planetarium theater on March 20.

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

COURTESY OF ELI WESTERMAN

The Leitner Family Observatory was renovated from the Bett’s House carpenter shop in 2004.

Yale professor talks humanities in medicine

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Medical School professor Anna Reisman ’86 spoke to a handful of students on Tuesday afternoon about the importance of using skills developed by the humanities to inform medical practice.

“To me, in medicine, the science part is very small, and the humanities part is very large,” Reisman said at the Timothy Dwight Master’s Tea. Reisman, who studied English as an undergraduate at Yale in the mid-1980s, said she had never considered being a physician prior to reading Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain” in the summer before her senior year. When Reisman discovered the humanistic component of medicine through Mann’s book, it led her to an interest in science and she ultimately completed her MD at New York Uni-

versity School of Medicine. She now runs several programs across Yale that incorporate humanities-based skills into medical practice. At the talk, which was entitled “Humanities in Medicine,” TD Master Mary Lui said she hoped the discussion would contribute, in a practical way, to an ongoing conversation at Yale about the intersection of the sciences and humanities.

“Medicine is about people,” Reisman said. “For people who want to take care of patients or be involved in academics, the role of science trails off and disappears — not completely, but to a large part — and what becomes most important is being able to talk to people, to communicate, to understand, having a way to look at the world.”

Reisman described the University as being more “forward thinking” than other institutions in its approach to combining the humanities and med-

icine. The Yale Program for the Humanities in Medicine, directed by Reisman, invites lecturers from across disciplines to speak about how skills such as drawing or observing art can be useful in practice. Reisman cited Irwin Braverman ’55, professor emeritus of dermatology at the School of Medicine, who frequently brought his students to the Yale Center for British Art to examine paintings as a way of learning how to effectively examine and empathize with patients.

Reisman also directs Yale’s Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop, a craft-writing program that encourages residents to write about and publish their experiences in patient care.

Writing is a necessary method of reflection amidst overwhelming medical experiences, Reisman said. She then shared two pieces of her own prose with the audience. The first, “Gifts,” was originally presented at Yale’s

Service of Gratitude — an annual event for students to reflect on the experience of working with cadavers — and discusses the death of Reisman’s younger sister, Deborah. The second, called “Hounded,” talks about the dogs Reisman has met during home visits with patients.

To me, in medicine, the science part is very small, and the humanities part is very large.

ANNA REISMAN ’86 Yale School of Medicine Professor “Every time I write a story about a patient, I torture myself about whether or not I should try and publish it,” Reisman said. “This is something that has

always troubled me — whose stories are they? When you spend time with a patient and hear them talk about their life and are inspired to write about it, when does it become your story? How much of yourself do you put into it?”

Siyu Xiao MED ’18 and Dan Zheng MED ’16, students of Reisman’s who attended the talk and work in various humanitiesbased programs at the School of Medicine, praised Reisman’s efforts to connect the humanities and sciences. Zheng said that writing with Reisman helped him rediscover the reasons he went into medicine in the first place, and reminded him of the privilege doctors have of working with patients during their most vulnerable moments.

Lui said she was inspired to host the talk due to her own experiences as a freshman adviser at Yale and seeing students having to make a choice between a lib-

eral arts education and a more science-focused premed track.

For example, writing a medical history for a patient is not radically different from creating a narrative history for a city, Lui said, adding that academia need not “silo” the two disciplines.

“It was really nice to see an example of someone who had been able to break from what seems like the traditional route of a science major and premedical courses while at Yale,” said Gregory Suralik ’17, an English major interested in attending medical school. “It was also nice to see a medical professional who views medicine from a more humanities and holistic approach, who sees each patient as a story rather than just somebody to cure.”

Reisman’s writing has been published in Slate, The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“For I am nothing, if not critical.”

IAGO FROM SHAKESPEARE’S “OTHELLO”

Kuzma appointed first female dean of School of Art ART DEAN FROM PAGE 1

COURTESY OF YALE NEWS

Marta Kuzma received her B.A. from Barnard College.

cess was extensive and deeply confidential.

“I asked President Salovey whether the search was a free one and he said that it was,” de Bretteville said. “That allowed us to a very wide search and [to] talk to a lot of people from different backgrounds.”

Kuzma, born in New Jersey, is of Ukrainian origins but grew up in New York. She received a B.A. from Barnard College, and later an M.A. in aesthetics and art theory from London’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University.

Anoka Faruqee ’94, the School of Art’s director of graduate studies and a member of the appointment committee, said that Kuzma’s international experience is particularly valuable, adding that she hopes it might bring a “fresh perspective” to the school.

“She brings a lot of international experience to the position, having lived abroad for a length of time,” Faruqee noted. “I think she’ll

Endowments shrink, spending rises SPENDING FROM PAGE 1 peer schools.

Larger endowments were more likely to have money invested in venture capital, while only 1 percent of smaller schools had venture capital stock, according to Redd. Venture capital in endowment portfolios gained a startling 15.1 percent, making it the best-performing asset class, while commodities and natural resources saw a negative 17.7 percent return. Different asset allocations likely caused the higher returns in larger endowments, Redd added.

Yale currently allocates 14 percent of the endowment to venture capital.

According to William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, larger endowments may also perform better because they can more easily avoid risk.

“If you have more eggs in more baskets, you’re less likely to be negatively affected by a bad year,” Jarvis said, adding that endowment management is not just about picking good stocks, but also about avoiding losses. Yale’s Chief Investment Officer David Swensen has been a master of this technique, Jarvis said.

A larger endowment is not only able to avoid potential losses more easily but can pay for an endowment management team, Jarvis said.

Generally, schools with endowments smaller than $500 million do not have any in-house staff, while schools like Yale with endowments in the billions can employ nine or more staff members devoted to managing the endowment and making financial decisions, which improves overall endowment performance,

Vice President for Finance Stephen Murphy ’87. Yale’s financial administrators set the spending budget in advance by predicting the future value of the endowment.

Central to the relationship between the endowment and the University’s spending policy is something known as the smoothing rule, a way of gradually adjusting spending in response to market fluctuations. The smoothing rule ensures that the University is not greatly affected by market fluctuations, according to Yale’s 2014 Endowment Report. Murphy said the smoothing rule keeps Yale’s yearly endowment spending at 80 percent of the previous year’s spending.

Yale spent over $1 billion of the endowment in 2015, a sum representing 32 percent of the University’s total revenue for that year, Murphy said. Yale spent these funds primarily on financial aid, faculty salaries, classroom maintenance and a host of other teaching and research costs, he added.

The study found that 610 of the 812 schools held long-term debt. The average long-term debt was $219.1 million, but Yale holds $3.5 billion in long-term debt, funding Murphy said was used primarily to fund the renovation and construction of campus buildings.

The surveyed schools collectively held $529 billion in endowment assets by the end of fiscal year 2015.

The data were collected through surveys of participating college and university endowment managers.

Jarvis said. The Yale Investments Office employs over two dozen people.

The real problem shown by the survey results, Jarvis said, is the decline in the average 10-year endowment returns, which fell from 7.1 to 6.3 percent last fiscal year among the 812 schools.

Without strong 10-year returns, schools may have trouble coaxing donors to give money to the endowment, since low returns demonstrate that a school is not generating wealth with the donor’s money over a long period of time.

“If [donors] lack confidence in the ability of the institution, they won’t make an endowed gift,” Jarvis said.

Most donors today are young people with self-made wealth, who are financially savvy and will be critical of an institution’s money management, Jarvis added.

But a year with high returns might not always be cause for celebration, Jarvis said, and “uncritical people” will often misinterpret a slump or spike in Yale’s returns. The goal of a school like Yale is to see steady returns over a long period of time, not huge ups and downs, he said. “[Schools like Yale] have very little tolerance for volatility,” Jarvis said, noting that Swensen is “trying for reasonably high returns.” Swensen declined to be interviewed for this article.

Yale’s endowment spending policy — which determines what share of endowment earnings fund University operations — seeks to keep a stable flow of income moving toward the operating budget, said Yale’s Chief Financial Officer and

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

GRAPH ENDOWMENT RETURNS & BUDGET PERCENTAGES Yale Endowment Returns

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be able to take the Art School to the next stage of involving a more international experience.”

In his email, Salovey wrote that Kuzma “has extensive experience curating high-level, international exhibitions,” having served as the first director of Kiev, Ukraine’s Center for Contemporary Art, as well as head of international exhibitions at New York’s International Center of Photography.

De Bretteville said that Kuzma’s collaborative nature, paired with her passion for education, progressive thinking and innovation — which she exhibited during her tenure at the Swedish Royal Institute — set her apart from other candidates.

“We wanted someone who had a vision, who would bring something fresh to the School of Art but who would also be accommodating,” de Bretteville explained.

Beyond progressive thinking and innovation, Kuzma’s appointment represents a much more profound change at the school.

Lisa Kereszi ’00, the school’s director of undergraduate stud-

ies and a member of the selection committee, said that the appointment of a woman to the deanship for the first time marks an important moment in the school’s history.

“It’s thrilling to me, as a female alum and DUS, that the new dean is a woman,” Kereszi said. “After all, Yale’s School of Fine Arts admitted women a full century before Yale College did, in 1869, so it’s about time.”

Bianca Boragi ART ’17 and Isaac Howell ART ’17, first-year MFA candidates in sculpture and painting at the Art School, shared Kereszi’s excitement regarding the historic first appointment of a female dean.

“Everyone is excited by the announcement, and the importance of Marta being the first female dean to lead the school in its 150year history cannot be overlooked,” Howell said. “Storr has always been a strong proponent of diversity, and I think that there is a real significance in having [Kuzma] succeed his legacy at the School of Art.” Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

Board of Alders vote for bike lane

NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The bike lane discussed at Tuesday’s meeting would connect Westville and Downtown.

BIKE LANE FROM PAGE 1 ity project.”

Zinn said the city chose Edgewood Avenue partly as a way to relieve bikers from commuting on the crowded Whalley Avenue thoroughfare between Westville and Downtown. Only 2 percent of bikers report feeling comfortable on Whalley, he said.

Hausladen added that the decision to chose Edgewood Avenue for the bike lanes was partially due to the number of schools along the artery. Constructing the bike lane in this area would ease passage going to and from school, but the ultimate decision for Edgewood was down to the state Department of Transportation, he said.

The department was influenced by factors including the lower density of traffic on Edgewood compared to other major streets in the area.

The bike lanes are a novel development in the city’s infrastructure. Responding to citizens’ concerns about the safety of biking in the city, Hausladen said the bike lanes would border the curb and be “separated” from traffic by a row of parked cars.

Hausladen said these specifications for the new bike lanes were, until recently, illegal. State law had required that cars park within 12 inches of the curb, a requirement that would have prohibited the new design. But Hausladen said he and Zinn had worked with the city’s delegation in Hartford to secure the legal modifications that allow plans to move forward.

Some members of the Edgewood neighborhood have expressed opposition to the bike lanes, according to Edgewood Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99. He said residents are concerned that the plans would decrease the amount of available parking in the neighborhood. Committee members at the meeting did not say whether the new bike lane would definitively decrease parking availability.

Hausladen said the city has heard residents’ concerns and is planning a series of meetings in the neighborhood that will be held at the Troup and Edgewood schools in the next two months.

“The community process will happen, for the one particular Edgewood thing we’re talking about, in the next couple of months,” he said. “Once we get a design from the community, we’ll come back to get city authorization.”

Though the state will pay for all construction costs, Zinn said the lanes’ design will be done by the city. Zinn said he expects design costs to total around $50,000 — but designing the bike lanes, he said, will provide an opportunity for the city to learn to implement projects more efficiently in the future.

East Rock Alder Anna Festa, who voted in favor of the plans, said she wants to ensure that the new bike lanes will be coupled with increased enforcement of existing traffic laws for bikers.

Hausladen said the new bike lane would encourage cyclists to adhere to traffic law. Under the current system, he said, cyclists chose to ignore traffic laws when they find them inconvenient or unsafe. He said the current state of the city’s cycling infrastructure encourages cyclists to violate traffic codes, but updating the infrastructure might change the incentives.

“I want to build the infrastructure and then educate people in how to use it, and then enforce them in using it the way it was designed,” Hausladen said. “Once we have the infrastructure to promote safe riding, it’ll be high time to do what we did in 2009, which is to enforce motor-vehicle law on cyclists.”

New Haven has the highest percentage of residents biking to work of any city in New England.

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

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“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”

VERA NAZARIAN ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN AMERICAN WRITER

HONY photographer talk draws over 1,000

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Internationally renowned photographer Brandon Stanton spoke to a crowd of more than 1,000 in Battell Chapel Wednesday afternoon about his biographical photography career documenting the lives of New Yorkers — a project known as “Humans of New York” to his 16 million social media followers.

Stanton’s passion for storytelling has led to international photography tours, major crowdfunding efforts and political activism.

Yet despite his massive popularity, Stanton described his “humble beginnings” and explained how working on the project has given him “a profound reorienting of perspective.”

Stanton started work on HONY when he moved to New York City after losing his job as a bond trader in Chicago in 2008. He endeavored to photograph 10,000 portraits and plot them on a map of his new home city, an idea that unexpectedly became Humans of New York.

He described the evolution of HONY as entirely unplanned.

“The HONY I committed my life to looks nothing like the HONY that later became successful,” Stanton said, emphasizing that if he had waited for the idea of it to come or if he had been afraid of failure, HONY would have never come to be.

The trademark quotations that accompany each HONY portrait are the product of carefully constructed interviews

Stanton holds with his subjects.

These, too, were not part of Stanton’s original plan to photograph people.

Stanton also shared what he has learned about life in New York through his photography, describing it as a place with many lonely people who are “on guard” and have a “built-in defense mechanism.”

He said he thinks his subjects experience two simultaneous trains of thought while talking to him: one is of vulnerability from sharing personal information with a stranger, and the other is the sense of validation that comes from someone taking a sincere interest in them. “[Validation] always outruns that thread of vulnerability because people appreciate so much to be listened to,” he said.

“A lot of people really don’t have anything but their stories.”

A few of Stanton’s lucky photography subjects have had more than just their stories shared.

Stanton attributed the $5 million crowdfunded by the HONY community in the past year — for everything from a new tractor for a jobless man in Pakistan to $1.4 million for Brooklyn schoolchildren to visit Harvard — to the fact that his followers are “a powerful group of people because they care.”

He emphasized his role as a mere vehicle for people’s stories to be heard, explaining that the positive feedback he receives is not a result of his personal work, but rather of the online HONY community that spans the globe.

“There is a culture where we don’t make fun of people and

try not to judge people,” Stanton said. “If that culture did not exist, HONY would not exist. If people judged, mocked or criticized, no one would let me take their picture.”

Despite HONY’s influential reach, Stanton said he is careful not to express his own opinions or come across as an activist. He only raises money for causes that organically arise from his blog. “[Stanton] tries to keep himself and his opinions out of his work as much as possible, so it was really interesting to finally get to hear his story after he has told so many others,” said Romy Vassilev ’19, who attended the talk.

Stanton said that, ultimately, HONY is not a photography blog, nor is it journalism or about New York. For example, he said, rather than maintaining journalistic objectivity, he is often more than willing to provide monetary support for those he interviews.

He said he is able to convince people to share personal stories with him through his genuine consideration for their wellbeing and his desire to get to know them.

“Through approaching thousands of people, I’ve learned to do it in a way where I can create a bubble of intimacy and compassion where a stranger feels comfortable sharing things about their lives,” he explained. “[HONY is] about that bubble.”

The “bubble” has also allowed Stanton to export his movement to an international stage.

In collaboration with the United Nations, Stanton has made sev-

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Brandon Stanton spoke to a crowd of over 1,000 in Battell Chapel Tuesday afternoon. eral trips to the Middle East to spread awareness of the individual stories behind the refugee crises.

Students who queued for up to an hour before the talk began welcomed Stanton with raucous applause, and dozens lined up to ask him questions after his talk.

“I think it’s great that Yale is a large enough artistic magnet

for important people like Brandon Stanton [to come and speak here],” Joshua Tarplin ’19 said.

Neha Anand ’17, president of UNICEF at Yale, said Stanton’s blog brings students closer to harsh realities and raises awareness about important issues and cultural ideas.

“I think his own story shows that a simple idea can have a big

impact,” she said. “This is what all Yalies are striving to achieve one way or another.”

Stanton has published three books, the first of which reached number one on The New York Times’ Non Fiction Best Sellers of 2013.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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Stanton is the founder of Humans of New York, a venture he said was entirely unplanned.

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“You show me a sore loser and I’ll show you a loser.” CAM NEWTON NFL REGULAR SEASON MVP

Ivy programs nab top athletes FCS: wide receiver JP Shohfi, whose 2,464 receiving yards in 2015 set the national single-season high school record, and running back Alan Lamar, who racked up 2,372 yards and 38 touchdowns in his senior campaign.

“The quantity is there, the quality is there and when you compare it with the rest of the Ivy League and even the FCS, this group is definitely a top-10 group, depending on how you look at it,” McLaughlin told the News when discussing Yale’s class.

Meanwhile, though Columbia has recently struggled to remain competitive in the Ivy League — the Lions only just ended a 24-game losing streak that stretched from 2013 to 2015 — the team is now a beneficiary of over 20 years of recruiting experience. Head coach Al Bagnoli, who arrived in New York City’s Morningside Heights after 23 years at Penn, needed less than a season to whip the Lions into shape.

Just months after Bagnoli broke the losing streak and then notched his first conference victory, a 17–7 win at Yale, his first recruiting class at Columbia is now reminiscent of his powerhouse teams in Philadelphia. The veteran coach snagged six threestar recruits, including prostyle quarterback Matt Dame, who declined an offer from the

University of Miami to attend Columbia.

Noting that Dame, a Riviera Beach, Florida native, could have become Miami’s starter in two years, McLaughlin said the quarterback is among the reasons Columbia deserves a spot in his top 10.

Harvard’s incoming class, which includes three-star dualthreat quarterback Lavance Northington and a pair of highly recruited linemen, has big shoes to fill: The Crimson is coming off its third consecutive Ivy title, a record streak for the program, and in May will see the graduation of many key contributors, including eight first-team All-Ivy players.

One of those linemen is Carter Hartmann, a two-star defensive tackle from Mission Viejo, California, who drew interest from Princeton and Yale. Hartmann cited the educational opportunities offered by Ivy League schools as a deciding factor in his decision to consider the three schools.

“I still think you can make it to the NFL if you really wanted from the Ivy League, so I’m not really worried about that,” Hartmann said.

For many coaches in the league, a main barrier to recruiting in the Ivy League is transmitting that message broadly enough to fill the class. Because of their strict academic standards, Ivy League schools must recruit nationally

to find enough players who meet proper qualifications both in the classroom and on the field. Yale’s 29 recruits come from 15 different states, which is fairly common.

With the advent of the Internet, it has become much easier to recruit more aggressively, a change that Reno cited as a reason for the Ivy League’s rise.

The ubiquity of online recruiting aides, such as Hudl.com or Scout. com, has transformed the process of finding recruits because players can market themselves, creating public Twitter profiles and posting videos online. Rather than combing through hard copies of highlight reels, coaches can simply log on to video recruiting services and see the top prospects from all over the country.

In today’s digital age, coaches do not have to worry about leveraging personal connections or missing a diamond in the rough: The players come to them, and in huge numbers.

Individual rankings, too, have become much more accessible. Sites like 247sports.com or Rivals have created algorithms that use player statistics and combine data to rank players by position, state and overall ability.

The top prospects in the country are deemed four- and five-star recruits so that FBS schools can easily identify them.

McLaughlin cautioned against putting too much faith in rank-

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but it’s field-event people, distance runners, etc. It’s kind of challenging when trying to get everyone together and on the same page, when you do have people practicing at different times, in various places, doing a multitude of events … but I do think the good thing about track is that even though everyone knows it’s an individual sport, at the end you’re pulling for the team.

I am definitely more of a show-byexample type of captain. Public speaking is not my favorite thing to do. When I saw the public speaking class offered this semester I was like, “Please help me!”

Though of course I do give speeches that I hope are helping the team — especially for the underclassmen. This is my fourth season so I have had a lot of experiences with the team, so I try to say things to help with that. However my team is very good at being self-motivated, so I try to display the right actions and hope that people follow suit.

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Probably my teammates. People in both my event and other events — for men and women since we practice together. My teammates can do some awesome things — things that I could never do. The throwers are so strong, the dis-

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ings because, he noted, an athlete can see his stock fall after committing to an FCS school. Ratings sites cater to their subscribers, McLaughlin argued, and top-tier football programs do not want to look at players who are considering playing at less competitive universities.

But the Ivy League may become more competitive in the near future. Last season, which ended in a three-way tie between Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth at the top, also saw each of those

teams crack the FCS Top-25 rankings. With its newest recruiting class, Yale — which boasted the top offense in the FCS in 2014 — will look to do the same next year.

“When I went on my official, they played me some highlight tapes,” three-star wide receiver and Yale commit Abu Daramy said. “I can tell that we got a lot of speed coming in for next year. Speed kills, and if we’ve got speed, we can beat teams down the field all the time. Our defensive backs are physical, our

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I would definitely love to break the school record in the 60 meters, and also in the 100-meter dash [in the spring].

I think that it is definitely possible. I am really close to breaking the 60 record — I just need an extra little push! Placing at Ivies would definitely cap off a great season.

what are your goals for the team Q And moving forward this season?

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Cureton and company will compete at the Ivy Championships on Feb. 27 and 28.

receivers are fast and shifty, so they did a great job recruiting this year.”

According to NCAA regulations, coaches are not permitted to comment on specific recruits.

Once all the athletes have formally matriculated, the football programs will officially release their incoming classes sometime in the spring and be permitted to discuss them.

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

No one likes a showboat CUGNON FROM PAGE 12

Since this is your last season, what would be your ultimate achievement before finishing your career?

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

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Because Ivy League universities may not comment on the makeup of their classes until all members matriculate, data depicted reflects numbers derived from possibly incomplete classes.

tance runners can run forever. I just can’t do that. So I’m always awed by people’s performances and it’s really impressive to see how hard everyone work everyday in a time-consuming sport like track.

To have a positive attitude and to be confident when we go into meets and getting top four at the Ivy League Championships. We got sixth place last year, so improving upon that.

[Also], representing the ‘Y’ well, being good sportsmen, competing hard and knowing that we put everything on the line and did our best to beat other people.

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end zone “dabbing” stems from much more than a single universal truth of professional sports: Nobody likes a showboat.

Personally, I adore Newton and his antics, but that doesn’t mean that the rest of the viewing public has to be as fond of Carolina’s Superman celebrating his own success. That viewpoint doesn’t have anything to do with racism; it’s simply a reflection of the principle that arrogant, successful athletes don’t tend to win many friends. Fans reacted so angrily to Newton’s glib, somewhat ungracious presser not because he happens to be a black quarterback, but because he’s spent most of the season dancing in front of defenses.

Newton got publicly shellacked for the same reasons Tom Brady was met with jeers when he was honored in a pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl. People don’t respond well to arrogance, especially when it is coupled with a history of success.

All of this is not to discount the idea that we live in a country that faces deep-seeded racial issues. I’m the biracial product of a black mother and a foreign, white father, living in rural Virginia. Trust me when I say that I’m more than aware that our country has a race problem. That being said, I’m not going to support politicians, social activists or even football fans using claims of racism, sexism or any other form of prejudice as a crutch. Just because prejudice exists, and has the unfortunate tendency to raise its ugly head, doesn’t mean that it has to be at the root of absolutely every controversy.

Newton-gate — or, as I’d prefer to call it, “Dab-ghazi” — is the product of sports journalists picking low-hanging fruit, not our country’s endemic problem with racism.

I like letting Cam be Cam, but it’s fine if you don’t.

MARC CUGNON is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

Siblings sticking together across teams SIBLINGS FROM PAGE 12 ter, the more experienced sailor of the two.

Isabelle Rossi de Leon began sailing in her native Hawaii when she was seven years old. She fell in love with the sport and although she tried to convince her younger sister to join, it would take Claire Rossi de Leon seven years before she decided to try the sport at the age of 13.

“Our whole team and sport is very family-like,” Claire Rossi de Leon said. “It’s not very competitive so it’s not a huge issue to us. I can see that being a problem in other sports, but for us, it’s never really been a big thing.”

The two sisters were on the same club and high school teams growing up, and although they did not plan to end up at the same college, Claire Rossi de Leon said that having her sister at Yale helped her get to know and love the Yale program.

For the Ross twins, who were applying to college at the same time, the process was different.

Because the two were so used to playing and being together, the Cincinnati products knew they

would like to play at the same college — and so did their parents.

“Our parents would talk to our coaches and tell them, ‘You better give them the same scholarship,’” Derrek Ross said. “In the end, we had all the same offers and immediately we both fell in love with Yale.”

For others, college provides an opportunity to reunite as teammates.

Lacrosse players Conor Mackie ’18 and Brendan Mackie ’19 played lacrosse before coming to Yale, but because the two brothers attended different high schools, they did not get to play on the same teams. In fact, the two often faced off against each other on the field.

“In high school, whenever we played each other, our parents would be dressed like Christmas trees,” Conor Mackie said.

“My school color was green and Brendan’s was red.”

Both the Mackie brothers and their parents are glad that they can once again play on the same team, as they had before high school. Brendan Mackie, who committed to Amherst in his

junior year of high school, ultimately decided to switch to Yale.

The only reason, he said, was to play with his brother.

Heavyweight crew member Samuel Helms ’18 will also have the experience of sharing a team with his brother come next fall, when Owen Helms arrives at Yale. The two have never been on the same team before; when Owen Helms began rowing, Samuel Helms was already in college.

Samuel Helms noted that his younger brother’s late start in the sport made the thought of becoming teammates unlikely.

“Yale came as a huge shock to both of us,” Samuel Helms said.

“Since [Owen] just started last summer, there was never any expectation that we would end up at the same school.”

When asked about the negative aspects of sharing a sport and team, all siblings thought hard but failed to acknowledge any concrete issues. The Rossi de Leon sisters said they “could not come up with anything,” and the Mackies had nothing to add.

The Ross twins were the only ones to provide a retort, say-

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Dustin and Derek Ross, numbers 72 and 62 above, will graduate in May after four years of Yale football together. ing that whatever the downsides were, the positives far outweighed them. Their postgraduate plans are a testament to how much the two have appreci-

ated their inseparable bond — both will start working for the investment bank Macquarie in New York, at the same building, on the same floor.

“But we will be in different groups!” Derrek Ross added.

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

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 12:30 PM Gallery Talk: Art and Faculty in Conversation.

Hazel Carby, professor of African American Studies and American Studies, and Elihu Rubin ’99, professor of urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, recently participated in the selection of works to be installed in the Jane and Richard Levin Study Gallery.

In this conversation, Carby and Rubin discuss teaching from objects and the potential interplay between works of art in the Levin Study Gallery that are not typically displayed together. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

5:30 PM Willie Ruff Presents. Professor and jazz luminary Willie Ruff ’53 MUS ’54 of the Yale School of Music will present and discuss a 45-minute documentary, recently acquired by the University. The documentary honors Duke Ellington and Marian Anderson along with 38 other legends of African-American music.

Whitney Center (200 Leeder Hill Dr.), Aud.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 4:00 PM The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio is an aristocratic, young spendthrift vying to marry the fair — and very wealthy — Portia. It’s all love and levity until Bassanio’s dearest friend and benefactor, Antonio, finds himself at the mercy of the vengeful Shylock. Set in the present day, this play depicts a chilling world of capitalism, in which a pound of flesh is just another commodity.

Iseman Theater (1165 Chapel St.).

7:30 PM Tribute to Jacob Druckman. Jacob Druckman was a longtime member of the Yale School of Music composition faculty. This concert features a video tribute to Druckman and his works “Valentine” and “Bo” alongside new compositions by Music School student composers Molly Joyce and Brian Heim. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

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ARTS & CULTURE Thesis show highlights painting and printmaking

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER An exhibition in the School of Art’s Green Hall gallery features visual interpretations of a number of social and psychological issues.

The first iteration of “Double Dip” — a two-part thesis exhibition for graduating Master of Fine Arts students in the painting and printmaking program — brings together works that consider issues including intimacy, sexuality, alienation and discrimination.

Anoka Faruqee ’94, the painting and printmaking program’s director of graduate studies, said that the show will offer a new perspective on these issues, particularly because of its use of visual media,

rather than language, in exploration.

Fa r u q e e added that the students whose work is exhibited in “Double Dip” were involved in all of the show’s major decisions, including content, installation and curatorial strategy, noting that the experience is valuable in large part because it prepares them for experiences they are likely to have later in their artistic careers.

“The process models what will

likely happen after graduation if students choose to continue to exhibit in a gallery or museum context,” Faruqee said.

The show gives students an opportunity to exhibit their work in a gallery space and have it critiqued by the broader public. This offers a change from the numerous private studio visits and semiprivate “group critiques” common at the

School of Art, during which students receive feedback from professors and classmates on works in progress as well as finished pieces. Equally valuable, Faruqee said, was the chance for students to focus on analyzing ideas “through the act of making.”

Faruqee said “Double Dip” represents a diverse body of work, adding that fully seeing and experiencing the show requires both time and openness on the part of viewers.

Gabriela Bucay ’17, an art major, said she was impressed with the exhibition’s opening reception, noting that she was particularly interested in works by artists Christina Quarles ’16 and Tomashi Jackson ’16.

“Their work was very thorough and showed a deep investigation,” she said. “It was very ambitious in scale and thus very enjoyable.”

“The big benefit [of this exhibition] is that you get to see the culmination of the MFA students’ work,” said Steven Roets ’17, another art student. “These projects are really representative of their time at Yale, and it’s amazing to see what they can produce in two years of intensive art study.”

The second installment of “Double Dip” will open with a reception on Feb. 20 and will feature works by 11 additional artists.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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The exhibition considers several issues through visual thinking and the process of “making.”

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“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”

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Founding conductor returns for YSO’s 50th

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER This Saturday, the Yale Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 50th-anniversary season with an Alumni Weekend concert featuring John Mauceri ’67 GRD ’72, one of the group’s founding members, and more than 100 YSO alumni.

Conducted by Mauceri, who is also the orchestra’s former music director, the show — preceded by an alumni showcase — will include pieces by many well-known composers, including Bach, Wagner and Strauss.

Additionally, the orchestra will welcome former members on stage to perform the concert’s final number. Mauceri said that the performance, which will take place in Woolsey Hall, celebrates symphonic music as well as the intersection between the “human” and the “hero” — a theme brought to life by one of the orchestra’s featured pieces, Strauss’ famous “Ein Heldenleben,” which translates to “a hero’s life.” He added that the concert, in its focus on this theme, also pays homage to the idea of composers and musicians as “human heroes.”

“The Strauss is a magnificent tone poem about what it means to be both a human and a hero,” Mauceri explained. “I think every person who has ever

played in the YSO and those who play in it now are heroes, so I am dedicating it to all of them.”

Jennifer Gersten ’16, a YSO member and former editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine, said the orchestra has been rehearsing for this weekend’s show under the guidance of its current music director, Toshiyuki Shimada, since the beginning of the spring semester. Gersten added that rehearsals with Mauceri began this Monday, noting that the orchestra will have four rehearsals with the conductor before Saturday’s performance, one of which may include the alumni musicians who will perform with the orchestra in this weekend’s concert.

Ken Yanagisawa ’16, president and assistant conductor of YSO and former photography editor for the News, said he thinks the event, which brings together “past and present” in the form of alumni and current members, will allow for growth of the orchestra’s current musicians.

“It is not just about the alumni, but it is about the thing that we share: the YSO,” Yanagisawa explained. “Hopefully through this we might get even more support from alumni.”

Yanagisawa added that the concert’s hero theme is reflected in both the musical selections that musicians will play dur-

ing the concert as well as on a broader scale in the idea of the YSO as a “hero” that plays for the audience and manages to bring together people from a variety of backgrounds around a common interest: music.

“The orchestra brings a lot of people together from different backgrounds, being a testament that they love what they’re doing and showcasing that,” Yanagisawa noted.

In line with Mauceri’s intention to use the concert as a celebration of music, Gersten said that she believes Saturday’s performance will give both performers and listeners a chance to take a more reflective approach to the music.

The concert will also serve as a moment for alumni and current members to reflect on their own experiences in the YSO. Mauceri, who became founding conductor of the orchestra in his senior year at Yale, said that “not much has changed” since his time in the orchestra, adding that he was delighted to see how “vital and vibrant” the group remains today.

“It feels as if nothing has changed in a half century,” Mauceri said. “I can’t wait until Saturday night. It should be quite memorable.”

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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YSO Alumni Weekend events bring together current and former members to celebrate orchestra’s 50th season.

Exhibit gives refugee crisis a human face

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER An exhibit in Silliman College seeks to lend the refugee crisis a human face.

On display in Maya’s Room in Silliman College, Mohamad Hafez’s exhibit, “Refugees: Stories of Life’s Dreams and Scars,” illustrates the struggles of life as a Syrian refugee. Including works of sculpture and installation by Syrian-born artistarchitect Hafez as well as paintings by a brother-sister pair of Jordanian refugees now living in New Haven, the exhibition hopes to raise awareness about the current events in Syria and Iraq and to tell the human stories that are often omitted from discussions of these countries’ political turmoil.

“I’m trying to bring a better vision and picture particularly on the refugees and what they actually went through,” said Hafez.

“I’m trying to expose the real

humanity in the situation.”

Born in Damascus, Hafez said that he wanted his exhibit to reflect the political turmoil occurring in the Middle East, as well as the East-West juxtapositions that arise from his own background as a Syrian educated in the United States. After witnessing the chaos in his home country, Hafez noted that he felt particularly uneasy about the war and refugee crisis, and explained that the exhibit expresses his mixed feelings about “going home.” Hafez added that the current show in Maya’s Room is more explicitly political than some of his previous displays, which have often taken the form of installation pieces that incorporate found objects, scrap metal and paint into surrealistic Middle Eastern streetscapes.

A graduate of Iowa State University’s architecture program, Hafez explained that his educational background plays a major role in his work as an artist. During many late nights spent building models as an architecture student, Hafez began to use the excess scraps of his constructions to fashion mock streetscapes of his hometown. These pieces, built with the leftovers of his architectural output, continue to influence his current work and exhibition design, Hafez noted. Several such streetscape installations are on display in “Refugees: Stories of Life’s Dreams and Scars,” alongside a life-size raft suspended from the ceiling and various works of painting and sculpture.

A handful of paintings were contributed by Wurood Mahmood and her brother, refugees from Jordan who now live in New Haven and attend Gateway Community College. Mahmood, who has been painting since the age of 15, said that she hoped her pieces would raise awareness about the current situation in Syria and Iraq. Harper Loonsk ’18, director of assistance at the Yale Refugee Project, was paired with Mahmood while volunteering with the project, and said that the painter has become her best friend.

“She and her brother are amazing artists,” Loonsk said. “I think everything about this exhibit is incredible and aesthetically pleasing, especially with all of the different mediums.”

Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis, expressed his excitement to host the exhibition in an email to Silliman students, highlighting the crucial role of art as an “open and deeply human expression.”

“I see the arts of all kinds as crucial features of our humanity and of our civilization,” Christakis said. “In some ways,

I think great societies are measured by their commitment to the arts.”

A public opening reception for “Refugees: Stories of Dream’s Life and Scars” will take place on Feb. 12, and the show will remain on display through Feb. 21.

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

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With the top two recruiting classes in the entire FCS, according to 247Sports, Yale and Columbia exemplify a rising recruiting prowess in the Ivy League.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Days after the ink dried on high school seniors’ National Letters of Intent last Wednesday, final rankings for college football recruiting classes went online. Looking at various recruiting services’ Football Championship Subdivision class rankings, football fans may be surprised at three of the teams that broke into the top 10, as all of them are members of one conference: the Ivy League.

Yale headlined not only the Ivy League but also the entire FCS,

according to the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings. Columbia came in the No. 2 spot, and Harvard was at No. 5. In another review of FCS recruiting classes, Brian McLaughlin of HERO Sports ranked Yale at No. 2, Harvard at No. 8 and Columbia at No. 18.

Ancient Eight teams have never appeared in the FCS playoffs, and they cannot offer athletic scholarships, ostensible downsides to playing football there. Yet the Ivy League’s unique high academic standards serve as both an advantage and disadvantage: They

establish a threshold that greatly limits the pool of recruits available to an Ancient Eight program but also attract players other top FCS programs would not be able to sign.

“There are two reasons why [the conference is improving across the board],” Yale head coach Tony Reno said. “The first is that families are looking at the big picture. Our pool of recruits is expanding because people are coming to see that the Ivy League is affordable and presents a lifechanging opportunity on and off the field. The second is that

recruiting is more aggressive in terms of volume and frequency of contact. The assistant coaches throughout the league are excellent and do an incredible job of finding top prospects.”

Yale football’s class of 2020— according to a list compiled through recruiting sites, Twitter and news clippings— holds 29 recruits, six of whom are classified as three-stars and five of whom are two-stars. A pair of those two-star recruits has some of the gaudiest statistics in the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

Cureton ’16 discusses season

Most student-athletes refer to their teammates as family at one point or another in their collegiate careers. For a select few, that statement carries even more weight.

At Yale, 19 varsity student-athletes have had a brother or sister on their team during the 2015–16 year. That means in addition to the years these students spent growing up in the same household, they spend additional years in each other’s close company at daily practices and team commitments.

For some, coming to college with their siblings in tow was a well-thoughtout plan; for others, it was no more than an added incentive. But regardless of their motives for becoming Bulldogs, siblings interviewed highlighted the benefits of having a close friend and partner by their side at school, both in practice and the classroom.

“We have always played some kind of sport together, be it soccer, basketball or football,” said football player Derrek Ross ’16, whose identical twin brother Dustin Ross ’16 is also on the football team.

“We’ve never not been on

the same team.”

The “Ross twins,” as they are often called by their teammates and coaches, are similar in more than just looks. Both are fierce competitors, which they say was influential in helping them develop as scholars and players.

Early on in high school, the two would battle over who had the higher GPA. Currently, the pair of 259pound linemen are focused on outperforming each other in the varsity weight room, looking to shed weight now that their Yale football careers have come to a close.

“When we are lifting together, I would do 10 reps, and Dustin would say ‘I have to do 11 now,’” Derrek Ross said. “Even now that we are done with football, we are pushing each other all the time.”

Yet that same competitive nature does not run in all families.

Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 and Claire Rossi de Leon ’19, although both on the coed and women’s sailing teams, have never experienced a similar sibling rivalry on the water. Quite the contrary, Claire Rossi de Leon spoke to all the lessons she has learned from her older sisSEE SIBLINGS PAGE 8

MARC CUGNON

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER

The Cam problem isn’t a race problem

Just over two weeks from the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship, the Yale men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted their final home meet of the indoor season this past weekend at the Giegengack Invitational. While the meet was unscored, women’s captain Sydney Cureton ’16 was nonetheless a highlight of the weekend with her victory in the 60-meter dash — a 7.63 second sprint in the finals just one one-hundredth of a second off her career-best. The News sat down with Cureton to discuss her own performance this season, as well as the team’s objectives moving forward.

TRACK & FIELD would you characterize your QHow performance this past weekend at the Giegengack?

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My parents were here, and we had some of the recruits visiting, so it was really nice to win my event in my last home meet in [Coxe Cage]. There were a lot of great performances across the board. That was encouraging especially since we’re getting close to Ivy championships.

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And how does it feel to not only be on the verge of breaking your personal best, but also being just four one-hundredths of a second off the school record?

A

It’s really exciting! But also I’m trying not to think about it and just stay relaxed when I race. Because if you’re trying to go for a specific time, it actually makes you tense and press,

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The men’s and women’s track and field teams compete in Boston this weekend. which makes you run slower. So I’m trying to focus on racing and competing well instead of running for a certain time. the Ivy championships only QWith a couple weeks away, how has this season looked as a whole for the women’s team?

A

We have definitely seen a lot of improvement. Most people’s first meet back was Yale-DartmouthColumbia [on Jan. 23], which was not our best meet. However, there were some strong individual performances.

Though from that meet [until] now we’ve had a couple more meets, [and]

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way more people competing and trying out different events. We have a good amount of freshmen so it’s interesting to see where their best events will be.

So this recent meet, our coaches were happy with how we did and how we are looking going toward the Ivy League championship season. me about your captaincy, and QTell what sort of leader you are. Are you one that leads by example or one that’s more vocal?

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It is an honor to be captain. It’s not only sprinters, which is what I do, SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 8

Super Bowl 50 was undoubtedly one of the worst football games I watched all season. Given that I’m a Redskins fan, I’d say that poorly executed game plans and boring four-quarter wars of attrition are well within my wheelhouse.

In summary, the game unfolded like the world’s least exciting game of PingPong. Each team’s offense politely handed the ball back to its counterpart in a four-hour spectacle of ineptitude. The Carolina Panthers looked anemic, as their patchwork receiving corps struggled to simply get open, let alone make any meaningful receptions.

Meanwhile, Denver’s Peyton Manning, who in football years is approximately 105 years old, spent most of the game trying not to screw up the opportunities that defensive coordinator Wade Phillips’ all-star defense had bought him. As a result, most of my evening was spent coming up with prop bets about which soulless corporation Papa Peyton would plug first in his postvictory interview — Budweiser won.

Fortunately, Cam Newton’s postgame press conference, and the heated controversy that surrounded it, has provided me with far more interesting narratives to discuss than the game itself.

Newton, the newly crowned NFL MVP, has spent most of the season enduring some fairly useless criticism for his touchdown celebrations, postgame comments and for having the gall to actually enjoy playing professional football.

When Newton petulantly exited his post-Super Bowl press conference, following a series of laconic responses and expressions of displeasure, the floodgates opened once more in diluvial fashion. National sports pundits, lacking anything more compelling to write about, spent most of Sunday night and Monday afternoon raising hell because Newton, unsurprisingly, didn’t take losing the biggest game of his young football career particularly well. Equally unfortunately, much of the criticism that was directed at Newton following the Super Bowl, and throughout the season, has been chalked up to a racist double standard for black athletes.

I myself am inclined to believe that black athletes absolutely do face racism and unfair stereotypes throughout their playing careers, no matter the sport. However, I also refuse to believe that the disdain for Newton and his SEE CUGNON PAGE 8

THE RANKING, OUT OF ALL 125 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION PROGRAMS IN THE NATION, THAT 247SPORTS GAVE THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM’S 2016 RECRUITING CLASS. Other Ivies deemed notable by 247Sports included Harvard, with the No. 5 class, and Columbia at No. 2.