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Honorary degree questioned

Waking up in Vegas. After a resounding defeat to Sen. Bernie Sanders, who took over 60 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 prepares for the next contest: the Nevada Democratic caucus on Feb. 20.

In the 2008 caucus, Clinton took the Silver State. On the Republican side, Donald Trump won New Hampshire with 35 points, and Carly Fiorina dropped out yesterday.

’75 will lead the international jury at Berlinale — the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, which is set to begin tomorrow. Streep, who is also 66 years old, has been a frequent guest at the 10-day festival. In 2012, she won the Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement. The School of Drama graduate is a three-time Academy Award winner.

The big kahuna. The Lesbian

Filmmakers at Yale are hosting a screening of “Go Fish” and discussion with director Rose Troche. The film is a lesbian love story set in 1990s Chicago.

It’s the climb. New Haven’s

City Climb rock climbing gym, located at 432 Science Park, is hosting the semester’s first “College Night” this Friday evening at 7 p.m. The Yale Climbing Team will host the event and belay student climbers.

NHPS teacher arrested for sexual assault

husband’s death, she has worked to bring asbestos awareness to her local community. Casale residents continue to die from asbestos-related illnesses at the rate of one person per week, Prato said. Although the factory shut down, asbestos continues to blow over the town, irreversibly polluting the environment.

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Kirvanna Jones, a mathematics teacher at the Engineering and Science University Magnet School in West Haven — just a 10 minute drive from Yale’s campus — was arrested Wednesday evening for seconddegree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

Jones was taken into custody by the New Haven Special Victims Unit after the New Haven Police Department was notified of alleged “unprofessional conduct” between an ESUMS teacher and student. The investigation, launched last week and led by NHPD Detective Shayna Kendall, pointed NHPD to Jones, who is a New Haven native and has taught at Hartford public schools CREC Museum Academy, Annie Fisher STEM Magnet School, Martin Luther King School and Classical Magnet School during her career.

Though the timeline of the incident is not yet clear, Connecticut news outlet WFSB News reported that Jones was asked to leave ESUMS on paid leave on Feb. 3.

In a written statement, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 acknowledged the seriousness of the charges and stated that support resources have been sent to the ESUMS community.

“The warrant includes very serious allegations that, if true, break the fundamental trust and professional responsibility carried by every educator,” Harries’ statement said.

Harries said Jones will remain on admin-

to The New York Times, Princeton African American Studies professor Imani Perry ’94 is protesting a traffic arrest. Perry, who is black, said she was arrested over “a single parking ticket” and handcuffed to an interrogation table by two white officers. Princeton police said the officers followed department policy.

night, the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously approved a request to allow a private hookah club and food hall to open on 27 Church St. The club, which will open to patrons 18 and over, is equipped with an open smoking deck. The request was initially presented to the board in late January.

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Speaking out. According

Hook, line and sinker. Last

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Barry Castleman, an asbestos expert, spoke at the Law School discussion.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER In Casale Monferrato — a small city of 35,000 on the banks of the river Po in Northern Italy — sits Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny’s abandoned cement factory, a building responsible for the asbestos-related deaths of thousands over the past 20 years.

Assunta Prato, 64, came to Casale with her late husband 40 years ago.

The newlyweds had little to do with the factory — she taught in the local school, he was a local official — until Prato’s husband died in 1996 from mesothelioma, a rare and untreatable chest cancer typically caused by asbestos contamination. Prato was left to raise her three teenage children alone, and in the years since her

CT Dems rename annual fundraising dinner

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER During a bible-reading session in a church in Charleston, South Carolina last June, white nationalist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine African-Americans.

A few weeks later, in the midst of the national debate about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War that followed the tragedy, the Connecticut Democratic Party chose to drop the names of former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from the title of the party’s annual fundraising dinner.

The decision, which followed

pressure from the Connecticut chapter of the NAACP, meant that the event formerly known as the “Jefferson Jackson Bailey Dinner” — named after Jefferson, Jackson and prominent 1950s-era party leader John Bailey — would no longer honor prominent slave owners. Last week, the Democrats announced that the event would be newly christened the “Connecticut Democratic Progress Dinner.”

For Connecticut NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile, the case for effacing Jefferson’s and Jackson’s names was simple: The two

Grad students face reporting issues

BY MONICA WANG AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Walking through the gates of Yale’s Hall of Graduate Studies marks a milestone in many graduate students’ careers in academia.

The six or more years they spend there are their first step toward a Ph.D., professorship and ultimately tenure at an academic institution.

Over half of Yale’s female graduate and professional students will experience some form of sexual harassment during these years.

Many will not report it for

fear of jeopardizing their futures.

Because of these fears, the efficacy of bringing a complaint against a faculty member to the University — and the consequences of doing so — has long remained unclear. But recent events within the Spanish and Portuguese Department and interviews with graduate students and administrators have shed new light on the complicated dynamics of reporting sexual misconduct against faculty members who work closely with graduate students or hold powerful administrative positions.

According to survey results released by the Association of American Universities in September, a staggering 53.9 percent of female graduate or professional students at Yale who responded to the questionnaire reported experiencing sexual harassment — and of those who had experienced it, 29.5 percent identified a faculty member as the perpetrator. In addition, more than 70 percent of those respondents said they at least “somewhat” believed that alleged offenders or their associates would SEE MISCONDUCT PAGE 6

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Heartbreakers. Yale

improv troupe Just Add Water is putting a creative spin on campus a capella groups’ tradition of selling singing valentines. Last week, the group sold Valentine’s Day pranks.

The pranks, which start tomorrow, include random hook-up confrontations and “Congratulations on losing your virginity!” announcements.

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Malloy suggests gun law to curb domestic violence

BY AMY CHENG AND JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTERS In an effort to protect victims of domestic violence, Gov. Dannel Malloy introduced legislation last week that would require anyone under a temporary restraining order to surrender their firearms and ammunition within 24 hours.

For up to 14 days after an individual is given a temporary restraining order, a judge must hold a hearing to determine whether the restraining order should be lifted or made permanent. But under current state law, individuals are permitted to keep any firearms they own during this time. Malloy’s proposed bill, titled “An Act Protecting the Vic-

tims of Domestic Violence,” aims to reduce the potential danger of that two-week waiting period by removing firearms earlier. The 24-hour countdown to hand over one’s firearms begins the moment an individual is notified of the temporary restraining order against him. Gun rights organizations across the state have raised objections, but to Malloy, the bill simply codifies “common sense.”

“We should be able to work across party lines on these issues,” Malloy said. “We should be able to agree that a person with a temporary restraining order should not have a deadly weapon.

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The wreck of it O

n Saturday night, the class of 2016 attended our first extravagant senior event: Masquerade.

The dance made apparent that the end is near. In the next few months, seniors are meant to cherish what’s left of this place.

The dance signals the culmination of our undergraduate careers, one of several ritual complements to senior seminars and theses.

My friends and I have gone out more often this year than others, probably because we know that our walks down Elm Street are numbered. There’s something poetic about endings.

We’re leaving, so we have to think about what we’re leaving.

We have to think about what these four years have meant.

This is a daunting task.

Inevitably, I’ve reflected a great deal on the beginning. As I looked around the ballroom this weekend, dressed like a princess, the band began to cover Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” and I wanted to cry. I wanted everybody I’ve loved in this place to be in that room with me, and so many people were missing. A lot of them have already graduated.

YALE IS THE PLACE WHERE I BECAME A WHOLE PERSON The gentle giants, my fairy godparents. The ones who saw themselves in me when I was 17 and dyed my hair five different colors because a German magazine made it look cool.

I miss the women who introduced me to Atticus and Orange Street. I miss their warm hands, the Elmhurst kitchens, the red loveseat. I miss Nicky and Amy and Abigail and so many other surrogate older siblings who have already tossed up their handkerchiefs and flittered off to Brooklyn and Asia and Los Angeles. I intended to write a column about them, about how much I miss them. But, really, they’re here with me. They’re in my heart, and they’re sending me iMessages. Consider this column a tribute to what they taught me.

Yale is the place where I became a whole person. Before I got to college, I didn’t like to face my problems. My wounds were sore spots to avoid at all costs. When a high-school friend tragically went missing my first semester, avoiding my trauma was no longer a luxury.

Because my fellow frosh were so overwhelmed by this new environment, I disproportionately befriended those older than me.

I remember resenting everyone in my year for a time: Freshman year is already hard enough, but they only had to worry about

the most i m m e d i a te concerns.

My most treasured moments from freshman year were evenly ADRIANA split between MIELE two red couches: the Check loveseat in my freshman yourself counselor’s suite, and an armchair in a boy’s room.

On Nicky and Adri’s couch, I shed many tears about something that I feared would define my entire Yale career. What I’ve learned since cannot be broken down into 800 words, but the lesson I value most is that some things won’t ever truly be over.

Sometimes, when you are in profound pain, the best you can do is admit it. Face the truth of the matter, and then trust that this moment, however painful, will pass.

The grief of violently losing a young friend won’t ever go away. But it is easier to manage, to make it through the day now that I’ve gotten through the most intense throes of traumatic loss. I needed to experience that sense of displacement and loss so that I could move on from it — my fairy godparents taught me that. They guided me through it. And they still do.

Yesterday afternoon, a fellow senior friend mentioned how she feels pressure to make peace with all of her ex-best friends and romantic flames.

Senior spring adds intensity to an already intense place, and Masquerade was a tangible reminder of that. Another friend mentioned her list of all the boys she should’ve kissed — a more trivial matter, but I think we’re all starting to fear every unturned stone.

As much as I want to embrace the senior spring ritual of perpetual drunken delight, I worry that I’m going to exhaust myself and forfeit the best parts of this place. Maybe that means I won’t make peace with every former friend or boy who didn’t want to be my boyfriend. Maybe that’s okay.

In her poem “Diving into the Wreck,” Adrienne Rich writes, “I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.” She distinguishes the difference between “the wreck” and “the story of the wreck,” because they are different. We have our entire lives to tell the story of Yale.

Until then, let’s dive into the wreck of it.

Cauterized hearts O

n Sunday, America will celebrate Valentine’s Day: the only expression of “love” less romantic than a third-wife prenup. In theory, our overpriced dinners and often begrudgingly purchased boxes of chocolate commemorate the martyrdom of Saint Valentine, a brave young priest who stood against the Roman Empire. The cruel Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage for young men, believing they’d be better soldiers without wives and families.

Appalled at this injustice, Valentine defiantly married young couples anyway, and died at Roman hands. He traded his life, the ultimate sacrifice, for the ultimate worldly jubilation of others — love. By contrast, our 21st-century selves would be lucky to even get a Snapchat from our valentines, no less a text.

Each year, Valentine’s Day frustrates many of us here because it forces us to confront the reality of our relationship statuses — and reflect upon whether or not we are happy with that reality. Any way you slice it, Valentine’s Day demands an answer — you cannot really equivocate to yourself about your own life. Abstaining from reflection is not an option.

Our collective ironic socialmedia moping just won’t allow it. If you’re single, will you happily be with other single friends, or will you tearfully eat Nutella and watch “Grey’s Anatomy” on your futon? If you’re dating, do

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thing that has both kissing and feelings.

Yet far too few people have their ideal small-r relationship.

Sexual and emotional dissatisfaction is an epidemic here, and we need to address it.

To extend the epidemiological metaphor, perhaps heavy-handedly, our campuswide allergy to love, relationships and monogamy is the perfect petri dish to host this, pun intended, culture.

Yale’s aversion to dating cripples the silent romantic majority — without a socially sanctioned model of how to initiate a smallr relationship, we struggle to proceed. Yale has a series of relationship-oriented one-liners floating around: “It’s a sixth class, easily,” or “Yeah, but youth is about experimentation,” or “What about all the other people you’re missing?” Love does not always feel compatible with a Yale life, and so a lot of people tiptoe warily around intimacy in their sexual encounters. There’s no real place for dating here — Yale is a binary of hooking up or hitching up.

There’s nothing in between.

So this year, with this tiny megaphone, I’m suspending my personal apoplectic hatred for this annual chocolate-centric bloodbath in favor of really celebrating Valentine’s Day at Yale. I think it’s actually a great opportunity for a campuswide reality check. Instead of shunning Valentine’s Day or dismissing it in an Instagram of you eating a sand-

wich (caption: “BAE”), we should embrace Valentine’s Day. Take Sunday to consider what you want from your relationships, and what lengths you would be willing to go to achieve that ideal.

If you’re single, is that your ideal?

If you’re in a relationship, are you with your partner because they’re just there, or are you with them because they make you happier than being with anyone else (or maybe being with no one else) would? If you’re not meeting that ideal, why not? What’s the obstacle?

The pursuit of love is meant to be hard. If it were easy, we’d have no literature, no art, no philosophy, no war — no nothing! Love is the emotional engine driving humanity; the only force that can really get humans to do anything beautiful at all. And it’s worth a thoughtful sacrifice. Chase your ideal, whomever and whatever that may be: self-love, a jilted ex, someone a few seats over in lecture, a certain Blue State barista — whatever. Trust me — it just might be the most worthwhile thing you do in your whole damned life. Because other than love, really, what else have we got? So, Yale: Wear your heart on your sleeve this Sunday. If not now, then when?

AMELIA JANE NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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Is fairness just?

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you “do” or do you “not do” Va l e n t i n e ’s Day? Should you even be together at all? And, if “it’s complicated,” then AMELIA what?

(My JANE advice: “lose NIERENBERG your phone for 24 hours,” and then make a Close to Facebook stahome tus on Feb. 15 informing everyone that you “found your phone.” Sneaky, yet effective.)

At Yale, a lot of people are unhappy with their relationship statuses. This is not a blanket statement — there are happy couples, happy single people and happy people doing everything in between. Still, my hypothesis stems from my three-andchange semesters of listening to friends yearning for something a lot snugglier, more comfortable and more consistent from their partners. A lot of single people — of all genders, of all majors, of all colleges, of all years — want something more like a relationship than a one-night thing.

Many of us want something along the spectrum of togetherness and dating, something between living together and leaving together.

Call it a “small-r” relationship: anything between Relationship and a snuggle buddy — some-

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t the contemporary American university, fairness is the highest virtue. We take for granted that the endgoal of our actions is, in some vague sense, “justice,” defined as unmitigated fairness. Whenever someone feels uncomfortable, or whenever someone feels excluded, many in the student body decry Yale’s treatment of “marginalized” communities.

The solution is easy, and it has been the University’s priority since I have been here: Give people what they want, and make sure everyone feels like he or she belongs.

This political discourse undertakes, in many ways, Socrates’ task in Plato’s Republic, written two-and-a-half millennia ago. In aiming to build the perfectly just society, called Kallipolis, Socrates proposes a set of remarkably progressive policies, such as gender equality and collective ownership. He meticulously details economic and governmental structures that will lead to an egalitarian society. At first, Kallipolis seems like a harmonious, desirable state — preferable, in some ways, to the one in which we live.

As the political dialogue unfolds, however, this perfectly just society grows increasingly dystopian. Socrates advocates for, among other things, the dissolution of the nuclear family,

the abolition of the institution of marriage and censorship of art that does not inculcate good values.

Most contemporary readers would flatly reject Kallipolis as the model nation-state.

Socrates’ ideal polity destroys basic human emotions and impulses. Ultimately, Plato tells us, we must stamp out our deepest interpersonal connections and creative passions if we want to ensure complete societal harmony.

To this day, scholars disagree about whether we should take the Republic as an earnest attempt to delineate justice or as an ironic display of the limits of fairness. It is not difficult to take the latter view. Drew Hyland, one of the many academics to examine the role of irony in the Republic, highlights how the form of Plato’s dialogue demonstrates its ironic intent. If he truly believed in censorship as a means of eradicating “imitative” works of art, it would be contrary to his own concept of justice to write a distinctly imitative, dramatic dialogue such as the Republic.

The dialogue demonstrates, therefore, the danger of making justice the cardinal value of society. When taken to its logical extreme, fairness becomes oppressive.

Take the push against microaggressions, for example.

Columbia University psychology professor Derald Wing Sue defines microaggressions as, “the everyday verbal, nonverbal and environmental slights, snubs or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.”

In a just society, the thinking goes, our differences should never make us feel uncomfortable. Thus, when a professor at UCLA edited poor grammar in a group of graduate students’ dissertation proposals, they charged that his corrections amounted to an imposition of his white, cisgender patriarchal culture on them. In staged protests, they called for professors to stop creating hostile environments by imposing their pedagogical methods on marginalized students.

One wonders why they enrolled at the university in the first place.

In aiming to assure that everyone is treated fairly, those fighting microaggressions contribute to a discourse in which people fear expressing their ideas. I routinely hear students chastised simply for referring to others as “black” or “gay.” In the perfectly just society, pointing out a personal characteristic amounts to an act of aggression.

The same logic applies to the exclusion of comedians that offend certain students. Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and Anthony Jeselnik, among many others, no longer perform at colleges due to the negative reactions they have received from easily offended students. The best comedy tends to be transgressive and offensive. But, under the conception of justice advanced by so many at this University, the raw, visceral enjoyment of comedy must be curtailed, because a joke might be unfair to certain people.

Justice is certainly a laudable aim for society. However, what current campus debates forget is that it is one competing value among many. If we want a thriving discourse, an expressive student body, and — most of all — a genuine human life, we have to accept some injustice. When students decry the Western tradition for not including “minority perspectives,” when we try to protect ourselves against “triggers” and when we police people’s everyday language, we create a society of socially just robots.

Perhaps those clamoring for reform would benefit from reading Plato.

DANIEL TENREIRO-BRASCHI is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College.

Contact him at daniel.tenreiro-braschi@yale.edu .

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Students canvass before primaries

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Prior to Tuesday’s first-inthe-nation presidential primary in New Hampshire, several Yale students traveled north to campaign for their chosen candidates and encourage residents to go to the polls.

Over the last few weeks, these students — most of whom are members of Yale Students for Hillary and Yale Students for Bernie — drove up to New Hampshire on weekends to knock on voters’ doors. In addition to their trips out-of-state, student volunteers also worked locally to garner support for their candidates, participating in events from phone banking to online photo campaigns to hosting speakers on campus. Students who canvassed for Republican candidates could not be reached for comment.

“No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, it’s an incredibly exciting time,” said Adam Gerard ’17, who is vice president of Yale Students for Hillary and traveled to New Hampshire this past weekend. “The margins are razor-thin and I think when it comes down to it, being on the ground and being on the campaign is the most exciting way to get involved at this stage in the game.”

Even now that the primary in New Hampshire has finished, students said they will continue to actively campaign on their candidates’ behalf.

For the past two weekends, members of Yale Students for Hillary have gone to Keene, New Hampshire, where they went door to door encouraging residents to vote for Clinton. They also helped voters make a plan for going to the polls.

According to Delaney Herndon ’17, co-president of Yale Students for Hillary, making a plan to vote has been shown to double turnout at the polls.

“We try to gauge who they’re going to support,” Herndon said.

“If it’s Clinton, we make a plan with them about how to get to the polls. If they’re undecided, we try to persuade them to vote for her.

If they’ve made up their mind on someone else, we say ‘Thanks for your time’ and hang up.”

Eight volunteers from Yale Students for Bernie traveled to Nashua, New Hampshire this past weekend to get out the vote.

“Get out the vote” efforts are different from campaigning in the sense that volunteers are mostly

concerned with reminding voters of when and how to get to the polls, regardless of who they will be voting for, according to Matthew Massie ’17, co-founder of Yale Students for Bernie.

“When we were going door to door in Nashua, we identified ourselves as volunteers for Sanders, but our only question was whether they intended to vote on Election Day,” Massie said.

Josh Hochman ’18, who canvassed for the Clinton campaign, discussed the difficulties of going door-to-door. He said that often, voters are not home, so volunteers are unable to make contact.

But students said it was still rewarding to partake in the historic campaign.

“The experience is worth it when you’re able to talk to even just one voter,” Hochman said.

“I was struck by the depth of the conversations I had with New Hampshire residents about health care, income inequality and climate change, for instance, and it was so rewarding to experience the presidential campaign off of the debate stage.”

Volunteers for both groups will continue their work after the primaries with canvassing excursions, phone banking events and social media campaigns to build grass-roots support.

Massie said since Connecticut’s primary is not until the end of April, most Yale students will have already voted in their home states. Accordingly, many Sanders canvassers will shift to the New Haven for Bernie Sanders team, rather than the Yale-specific team, to focus on voter turnout in the city, he said.

Yale Students for Hillary will continue to support Clinton’s bid for the presidency in upcoming primaries, likely through phone banking for faraway states such as Nevada and South Carolina, and through on-the-ground efforts in closer states such as Massachusetts, Herndon said.

Herndon noted that canvassing is a serious time commitment, adding that events like phone banking take up the most time in her schedule.

“I feel like I’m busy all the time, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Herndon said.

“I don’t regret the time sacrifice, but it definitely is one.”

The Nevada Democratic caucuses and the South Carolina Republican primary will both take place on Feb. 20.

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .

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Squash Haven currently operates out of an office and three classrooms in Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Up until this year, Victor Padilla has come to Payne Whitney Gymnasium as a New Haven student for squash practice and academic tutoring sessions. But starting in the fall, Padilla will walk around the halls of Payne Whitney with a new perspective.

Padilla, who was admitted to Yale in its early action admissions cycle in December, is just one of 21 students admitted to a college in the past three years after participating in Squash Haven, a youth development program with close ties to Yale.

Founded in 2006 and based out of Payne Whitney, the program provides tutoring, mentoring and squash training to approximately 100 Elm City students ranging from fifth to 12th grade.

After beginning the program with its first batch of fifth-grade students in 2007– 08, Squash Haven will graduate its third cohort of high school students this June.

Although the students have since enrolled in various New England colleges, the graduates continue to receive individual support from the Squash Haven community.

“An increasing focus [of ours] is the support we’re providing to kids in college — active and ongoing support,” Squash Haven Executive Director Julie Greenwood said.

“We are helping make sure

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the group has found a “sweet spot” with its seven full-time staff members and around 100 current students, who come to campus for practice and tutoring at least three times per week.

Players from the men’s and women’s squash teams help with squash practice at the Brady Squash Center for at least one hour per week, and other Yale students serve as volunteer tutors in classrooms.

“We are in the second year of a three-year strategic plan,” Greenwood said. “The focus of the plan was a pause from the growing stage, and the theme was strengthening, what are the areas of the program where we need more funding or resources.”

Yet the group now needs more space, BoscarinoElligers said. The staff currently operates out of one office on the second floor of Payne Whitney, and they have three classrooms in the building, one of which is currently under construction. Although Boscarino-Elligers said she would like to see Squash Haven in a bigger space, even if it meant moving off campus, Yale men’s and women’s squash head coach Dave Talbott highlighted the practicality of having both classes and practices take place in Payne Whitney.

An original co-founder and strong supporter of Squash Haven, Talbott said the students enjoy feeling part of the Yale community. For example,

all students have a card with swipe access to the gymnasium.

“It fits the Yale mission extremely well,” Talbott said.

“And we didn’t need to build an infrastructure since we have one of the best squash facilities. We are so uniquely partnered with the University that it makes our program unique.”

Sam Chauncey ’57, the other co-founder of Squash Haven and a former Yale administrator, said he and Talbott began the program out of a shared interest for the New Haven community and ways in which Yale could help serve the city. The two squash players were also driven by the idea of linking squash to the students’ education as a whole.

The program receives a “small financial commitment” from the Yale Office of Public Affairs, Talbott said, but most of its $500,000 budget this year came in the form of grant and foundation money and private donations. A large number of those private donations are from Yale alumni who are interested in squash, Chauncey said.

“Squash has historically been a sport for rich people, and we have both liked the idea of getting squash out for the community,” Chauncey said.

Michelle Liu contributed reporting.

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

Strong Yale-NUS presence at Yale in London

BY JON VICTOR AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS

Members of the group Yale Students for Bernie canvassed in New Hampshire last weekend.

kids don’t just get into college, but graduate with some sense of where they want to go.”

Christi Boscarino-Elligers, who has worked as the director of academics and instructional development for Squash Haven since the program’s second year, said that Squash Haven students face many challenges when first arriving at college, such as encountering cultural differences at predominantly white colleges, being first-generation college students and needing to negotiate financial aid packages.

To help combat those issues, Squash Haven staff members often help students travel to and from their new colleges campuses, navigate appeals for financial aid and find appropriate summer programs between years in college, among other things, Greenwood said.

“After graduating two classes of students, we realize now that getting them [into college] is not even the hard part,” Boscarino-Elligers said.

Right now, the two cohorts of graduated Squash Haven participants attend colleges such as Mt. Holyoke, St. Lawrence, Hamilton and many schools in Connecticut. Of those students, nearly 50 percent are also playing squash at the varsity level, according to Boscarino-Elligers.

Squash Haven has grown each year since 2006, but program administrators plan to keep the number of students at the same level from now on. Boscarino-Elligers said

Yale in London might have to make an effort not to become Yale-NUS in London.

Last spring, Yale in London — a study-abroad program run through the Yale Center for British Art — opened for the first time to students from Yale-NUS, who see it as an opportunity to engage with Yale students, Director of Study Abroad Kelly McLaughlin said in a November interview. The program attracted immediate interest: in the first semester, Yale-NUS students comprised over half of the group accepted into the program, with four out of seven participants coming from the Singaporean college, although Yale-NUS’s student body is only about 10 percent the size of the undergraduate student body at Yale.

Some Yale-NUS students who attended the program said they wished there had been more Yale students.

“One of the draws of attending Yale-NUS was that you would have some kind of Yale experience,” McLaughlin said.

Yale-NUS students were

concerned that the balance of students from the two institutions has tipped too much towards Yale-NUS, he said.

When contacted again this week, McLaughlin said he understood Yale-NUS students’ desire to interact with Yale students but deferred to Yale in London Director Lisa Ford for further questions. Ford did not respond to requests for comment.

This semester, the number of Yale-NUS students enrolled in the program has gone back down to two. Trisha Craig, dean of the Centre for International and Professional Experience at Yale-NUS, said the artsfocused, specialized nature of Yale in London attracts a specific group of students at YaleNUS, but she denied that there has been worry over too many Yale-NUS students participating in the program. She said Yale-NUS students value the experience not only for the intellectual exchange with Yale students but also for the intimate and focused learning environment abroad.

Yale-in-London offers three sessions per year: one during the spring and two during the

summer. For each of these sessions, the program caps the number of participants at 15.

Former Yale in London participants from Yale-NUS confirmed McLaughlin’s November comments, saying they wished there had been more Yale students at the program.

I was surprised that there were not more Yale students attending [Yale in London].

KEZIAH QUEK YNUS ’17 “While I made a conscious decision to withhold any expectations and be open to the experience, I was surprised that there were not more Yale students attending the program,” said Keziah Quek YNUS ’17, who attended the program in spring 2015. “It would have been interesting to interact with more students from Yale, and a slightly larger class size might’ve made tutorial discussions richer, and our social life

within our class more varied.”

David Chia YNUS ’17, who also attended last spring, also said he would have wished for more Yale students in the program. Given the relative size of the two institutions, he said, participation in Yale in London was not balanced.

However, he said his experience was not dampened by the relatively small number of Yale students in his program.

Quek agreed, saying she was close to the three Yale students who did participate in the program. Because they had all their classes together and lived in the same flat, common classroom experiences and living space bonded the group, despite the small number, she added.

Chia said the small size of the Yale in London group helped him bond with the three Yale students who attended.

Yale in London was founded in the 1970s and hires Yale faculty to teach courses at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, which is owned by the University.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.” STEPHEN COLBERT AMERICAN COMEDIAN AND WRITER

Panel disputes Schmidheiny’s honorary degree DEGREE FROM PAGE 1 In 1996, Yale awarded Schmidheiny an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree for creating “an attainable vision of a global economy based on sustainable, ecologically sound development.” In 2012, an Italian court convicted Schmidheiny of negligence that led to the asbestos-related deaths of over 2,000 people in Italy.

After three years of outside pressure from Yale alumni and asbestos victims, a panel of lawyers and medical professors met at Yale Law School on Wednesday to discuss whether the University should revoke Schmidheiny’s degree. If Yale does, it would be the first time an honorary degree has been revoked in University history.

DEGREES OF DEGREE

At the core of Schmidheiny’s case is the broader question of whether the University should revoke any degree, and under what circumstances. If Yale set a precedent for revoking a degree, would that open the door to a flood of objections to other honorary degrees? The Schmidheiny case comes amid recent debate over honorary degrees given to now-controversial figures, namely Bill Cosby, who was given an honorary doctorate in 2003.

From her home in Casale, Prato condemned Schmidheiny’s degree in an interview with the News, adding that the longer his degree remains unrevoked, the more injurious the symbol is to victims and survivors like her.

“It was an offense to us … cruelly making fun of us. We think it’s absolutely absurd,” Prato said, speaking through a translator. “We are pleased … [that] Yale will be discussing this.”

Prato is not alone in her condemnation. In May 2015, 60 alumni signed a petition demanding that the University revoke the degree. Thirty-four mayors of affected Italian towns wrote to University President Peter Salovey making the same request. Victims groups have taken out at least three full-page ads in the News over the past two years. Members of the Asbestos Victims’ Families Association (AFEVA) have lobbied the University through private and open letters to revoke the degree.

Only the Yale Corporation has the power to revoke an honorary degree. New Haven lawyer Christopher Meisenkothen, who represents AFEVA, said none of the top Yale administrators notified of and invited to the panel participated on Wednesday.

“Yale does not believe that the Italian legal proceedings provided cause to reconsider the judgment made by the [honorary degree] committee in 1996,” University spokesman Tom Conroy told the News. “The decision

to award this degree was made by a committee that considered Mr. Schmidheiny’s full record as a philanthropist who used his wealth to fund sustainable development … a businessman who inherited and dismantled a decades-old family asbestos processing concern.”

At Wednesday’s panel, Italian translator Vicky Franzinetti said there are two sides to any honorary degree: the institution that grants it and the significance it has to other people.

Prato is part of AFEVA, a group founded by Casale residents and factory workers, which has declared that there is no honor in Schmidheiny’s actions.

“People felt in Italy that a man like that should not be honored for what he had done to the environment,” professor of philosophy and international affairs Thomas Pogge said at Wednesday’s panel. However, Pogge added that this case raises important questions about how Yale bestows honorary degrees.

“Should every honorary degree be up for grabs?” he asked.

Meisenkothen noted that Schmidheiny’s case comes at a time when the issue of correcting historical wrongs is more prevalent than ever on campus. Prominent figures like former vice president and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, class of 1804, are being scrutinized and their honorific status at the University is being questioned. Meisenkothen said Schmidheiny’s degree is no different.

“These issues are all related to some extent, and all speak to the institution’s willingness or resistance to change,” he said.

Mail correspondence from the past several years between Meisenkothen and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews presented at the panel reiterated the same message: Yale will not revoke the honorary degree. Meisenkothen said these letters were a “robo-response” and that he is disappointed Yale will not reconsider the degree.

“They basically washed their hands of the situation,” Meisenkothen said.

IMPROVING IMAGE

When Yale presented the award to Schmidheiny in 1996, he had a reputation as a forwardthinking businessman with an eye to helping the environment.

That same year, one of Schmidheiny’s companies made multiple donations to Yale, although Yale did not disclose the size of these gifts.

In 1992, he made connections with environmental activists in countries like Brazil, reinventing himself as an environmentally conscious businessman, said Barry Castleman, an American asbestos expert who spoke at the Law School discussion. Schmid-

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Pressure to revoke Schmidheiny’s degree has picked up steam over the past few years. heiny also helped fund an environmental conference at Yale in 1995.

The Law School panel debated whether Schmidheiny’s contributions to various environmental protection groups outweigh the harm he caused. Meisenkothen said that Schmidheiny tried to “green-wash his image, and Yale unwittingly helped him do it.”

Schmidheiny’s company, Eternit Genova, built four factories in Northern Italy during the 1970s and ’80s. Estimates of the deaths caused by the asbestos used in these factories number over 3,000, and Prato said Casale alone has lost 2,200 people from asbestos-related illnesses.

After being sentenced to 18 years in prison in February 2012, Schmidheiny appealed the decision, and in November 2014, a higher court overruled the sentence on the grounds that the statute of limitations for the crime had expired. His lawyers argued that Schmidheiny had no knowledge of the deaths and was not involved in the factory operations that polluted the nearby towns.

“It’s easy to say now that in the early 1970s we were aware of the health risks; in fact we knew

nothing,” Schmidheiny wrote in 2014, according to a slide shown at the panel by Martin Cherniack ’70, a professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut and an asbestos researcher.

The court’s ruling did not find Schmidheiny innocent, but only dismissed the sentence, Castleman said. Castleman was also a witness for the prosecution.

Castleman explained how Schmidheiny was involved in a complex system of minimizing the apparent danger of asbestos, and knew as early as 1976 of asbestos’ health risks. Factory managers were given instructions in how to reduce paranoia and worry in communities affected by asbestos, he added.

Schmidheiny sank deeper into controversy last year when, after Amazon released an e-book about the trial called “The Great Trial,” Schmidheiny’s lawyers successfully blocked the book’s publication in Europe with a threatening letter to the publishers. Schmidheiny’s lawyers threatened to sue the small domestic publishing company after they released an English translation of the book online.

The publisher said it was not prepared to take on the lawsuit.

Schmidheiny’s lawyers objected to “The Great Trial,” claiming in their letter to the publisher that the book presented him as “a ruthless industrialist who values his own profit higher than the security and life of his employees.”

The e-book — co-authored by an Italian university researcher and one of the public prosecutors in the asbestos trial — was taken down only two months after it was published online. But on Wednesday, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization released the English version of “The Great Trial” online.

FORGIVE AND FORGET?

Despite Schmidheiny’s connection to her husband’s death, Prato said she harbors no ill will against him.

“As far as Schmidheiny is concerned, I do not wish to feel hate or revenge. Asbestos has taken my husband’s life, and I didn’t want it to ruin my life with all these negative thoughts,” she said. “We don’t seek revenge, we seek justice.”

Castleman said he doubts Schmidheiny has genuinely had a change of heart. His biography shows no “epiphany” or real-

ization of the tragedy he helped cause, he added, nor has Schmidheiny made any kind of heartfelt apology to the people of Casale.

Prato said she hopes Schmidheiny, instead of pretending to be an environmentalist, will be true to his word and work to eradicate asbestos from Casale. Prato’s husband, shortly before his death, had worked to decontaminate the town and factory.

The factory has been turned into a “Victim’s Park,” yet many of the houses in the town remain tainted, and complete decontamination will take a long time, Franzinetti said.

Schmidheiny did not pay for the clean up of Casale, but instead offered around $45,000 to each affected family on the condition that they agree never to sue him. Around 100 families accepted this offer.

“As [my husband] committed his time and his energy to the decontamination, I felt it was my moral duty to continue with that work,” Prato said. These days, Prato dreams that Casale may one day “the first asbestos-free city of the world.”

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

Democrats rename controversial state dinner DEMOCRATS FROM PAGE 1 men were slave owners who made enormous profits from owning other human beings.

“They were ruthless slave masters, and they made a fortune off the backs of black people,” he said. “If you want to take down the Confederate flag, we also

need to remind the Democratic Party of their history.”

Esdaile said the NAACP has also pushed for renaming other institutions and buildings that

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

The state Democratic Party decided to remove the name of Thomas Jefferson from its fundraising dinner title.

honor slave owners. The state NAACP, he said, began its efforts to pressure Yale into renaming Calhoun College in 1987. He added that the University should make the change immediately.

Though this debate has not yet been resolved on campus, three portraits of former U.S. vice president and notorious slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, class of 1804, have been removed from the walls of Calhoun College.

Vincent Mauro Jr., the chairman of the New Haven Democratic Party, said he supports the renaming of the dinner, though he was not involved in making the decision. He said his personal opinion is that it was “about time” to rename the dinner and continue with the Democratic Party’s normal functions.

Gary Rose, chair of Sacred Heart University’s Department of Government, Politics and Global Studies, said the name change signals a fundamental shift in the ideological underpinnings of the Connecticut Democratic Party.

“The Democratic Party in Connecticut has — like democratic parties across the country — moved in a decidedly leftward direction,” he said. “It’s not the old centrist democratic party that we once knew. It is a party with a much more liberal agenda.”

Rose said the renaming of the dinner is connected to a demo-

graphic transition underway among Connecticut Democrats.

In the years of the old party boss John Bailey, the party represented working-class Italian and Irish immigrants and their descendants. But racial minorities make up a larger proportion of the party than they used to, and as a result the party’s message has changed, he said.

Rose said the new name of the dinner — the inclusion of the word “progress” evokes the invogue progressive movement — is no coincidence.

“That’s where this [Connecticut] party is heading,” he said.

“I still think it’s more of a Clinton party than a Sanders party in Connecticut, but it’s still a party that is moving to the left on social issues, economic issues.”

He added that he believes the party’s sensibilities are increasingly in line with the progressive ideology of popular party leaders like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

The legacies of Jefferson and especially of Jackson have soured in recent years. In a New York Magazine article published shortly after the Charleston tragedy, prominent liberal writer Jonathan Chait argued that the “party of Jackson” is incompatible with the “party of Obama.”

Chait criticized “The Age of Jackson,” a glowing and influ-

ential account of Jackson’s time in office published by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in 1945.

Schlesinger argued in the text that Jackson was a radical Democrat whose policies greatly expanded the franchise to all white men.

But, Chait noted, Schlesinger’s account failed to mention Jackson’s genocidal policies against Native Americans. Filled with what Chait called “analytic errors and ghastly omissions,” the book does not once mention the Indian Removal Act, a signal policy of Jackson’s tenure.

Chait’s central argument, that Jackson was the father of the modern Republican Party, holds considerable merit in the modern academic sphere.

Esdaile said renaming the dinner is a step in the right direction, but it does not yet rectify all of the Democratic Party’s past misdeeds.

“I’d like to applaud the leadership of the Democratic Party in doing the right thing, and I think the leadership of the Democratic Party should be striving to right the wrongs of the past,” he said. “They haven’t righted the wrongs, but they’re moving in the right direction.”

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

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“Incarceration didn’t change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.”

ROGER AVARY CANADIAN FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCER

Art exhibit explores incarceration

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One wall of the Seton Art Gallery exhibit featured jars containing photographs that had been dipped in hair relaxer.

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER Light turquoise walls covered with portraits and poetry transformed the Seton Art Gallery into a room designed to evoke the atmosphere of a jail cell.

“Whereabouts Unknown,” created by artist Felandus Thames ART ’10, is the gallery’s second exhibition on race and social justice in America. It focuses on high incarceration rates among American Black men using art made from everyday materials such as jars, hair berets and photographs.

The exhibit will host its opening reception Thursday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. After its opening, “Whereabouts Unknown” will be on display every day until March

1. Thames said he wants to create questions and conversations through his art and hopes that people will bring their own narratives to the exhibit.

“We are at a point in our nation where we are facing the fact that one in three Black men go to jail in their lifetime,” Seton Gallery Director Laura Marsh ART ’09 said. “As we look at our nation starting with slavery, moving into civil rights and now police brutality, we are asking how we can promote dialogues that bring people of different races and different social and economic backgrounds together.”

According to a 2003 report from the U.S. Department of Justice, one in three Black males in America is expected to go to

prison during his lifetime, while one in 17 white males is expected to be incarcerated.

Marsh has been planning the exhibit with Thames over the past year. One wall of the exhibit is covered with small shelves holding jars that contain photos of anonymous Black men of various ages. The photos are dipped in hair relaxer, a product that straightens hair. The chemicals from the relaxer will eventually cause the images to fade away, Marsh said. She added that she views the relaxer as symbolic of the way a prisoner’s former life and relationships start to fade while they are incarcerated.

“The memory of this person will slowly start to wither away, your vivid memories fade,”

Marsh said. “The details of [the prisoners’] lives become abstract to them, their former lives dissolved.”

The exhibition also includes excerpts from poems by Black writers Amiri Baraka and Etheridge Knight. The poems are displayed with each letter created with the bristles on hairbrushes.

One wall features a portrait of a smiling Black girl made with hair berets.

Thames said that hair is significant to his work because it serves as a symbol for resistance against a culture that obscures Black identity.

“Hair is one of the signifiers for Black people because it’s a way of having a voice and a self-expression in a society that is designed

to silence your voice and where you are underrepresented,” Thames said.

He said he wanted the word “Black” to describe his exhibit rather than “African-American,” as he believes “Black” is more encompassing and includes people from all over the world, rather than limiting the scope of his work to Americans.

For Thames, America’s incarceration rate for Black men is personal. He has seen cousins and nephews from both sides of his family serve time in prison, he said. While Thames studied at Yale, one of his male family members was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Although the family member was exonerated when a witness confessed

to lying, he was kept in jail for violating his parole. After being transferred to a new prison he was found dead in his cell.

University of New Haven senior Alyssa Mackinnon said she is excited to see the exhibition as thinks that experiencing the artwork will help people understand racism even if they have not personally experienced it.

“Because it is such an emotional topic, people sometimes don’t really listen,” Mackinnon said. “It’s hard to understand when it isn’t your background.”

The New Haven Correctional Center is located on 245 Whalley Ave. Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

Humanities program targets local students

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER This summer, a dozen students from New Haven Public Schools will have the chance to discuss Locke and Lincoln in a Yale classroom.

The “Citizens, Thinkers, Writers: Reflecting on Civic Life” program will begin its pilot session this July. The NPHS high-school students participating in this tuition-free program will engage in a two-week seminar, where they will connect historical writings on civic life to contemporary life in New Haven. During these two weeks, the students will live on campus, participating in supplementary workshops and activities. Citizens, Thinkers, Writers — which will focus on participants who are future first-generation college students — is led by the University’s Humanities Program through Yale’s Pathways to the Arts & Humanities initiative.

The program will remain small this summer while establishing its footing, said Humanities Program chair Bryan Garsten, who is spearheading Citizens, Thinkers, Writers.

Garsten said he is seeking avid readers and thinkers who “are interested in talking about big human questions.” He said he and other program administra-

tors have reached out to teachers and librarians to recommend and nominate students. Students can apply for admission into the seminar until March 15.

“This a very modest initiative to do small things that remind us that we live in a particular place and have responsibilities to that particular place,” Garsten said.

After reading a 2014 op-ed by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni on Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship Program for high schoolers, Garsten thought that New Haven would be the perfect place to establish a similar program. Garsten reached out to administrators of the Columbia program, while Director of Undergraduate Studies of Directed Studies Kathryn Slanski sat in on the seminar last summer. This summer, Slanski will teach Yale’s seminar alongside Garsten. Unlike the Columbia program, Citizens, Thinkers, Writers will focus more broadly on humanities rather than political philosophy, Garsten said.

Roosevelt Montas, the director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, has taught the Freedom and Citizenship seminar at Columbia in previous summers.

He said the new Yale program is one of a handful which have been created — including one at Carthage College that will also begin

this summer — since the Columbia program’s inception.

“We hope that this becomes a trend,” Montas said. “We hope that many schools do what Columbia and Yale and Carthage are now doing — that is, to make their intellectual wealth available and accessible to underserved high school students in their surroundings.”

When Garsten began investigating other Yale outreach programs to Elm City high schoolers, he realized that though many of the University’s STEM departments collaborate with NHPS, similar outreach was not present within the humanities departments.

Director of Education Studies Lizzy Carroll, who has advised Garsten and his team on the program, said she connected Garsten with Director of Public School Partnerships Claudia Merson in the Office of New Haven and State Affairs. Merson and her department have provided logistical support for Citizens, Thinkers, Writers, such as creating a link between Yale and NHPS. Merson anticipates that this summer, Citizens, Thinkers, Writers participants will be housed with other Elm City highschool students in Yale’s Pathways to Science Summer Scholars Program. This early experience

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Yale’s new summer program will give NHPS students the opportunity to study with University professors. in residential college living will help them work on interpersonal, nonacademic skills such as rooming with other students and resolving conflicts, Merson said.

Garsten said he has procured funding for the program — the main costs of which are room and board for the students — from Yale’s Humanities Program, but added that he hopes to secure support from outside foundations in future years.

The program staff will also

include a graduate-student coordinator and three undergraduate residential assistants. Garsten said he hopes the program will help bridge the intense but separate worlds of extracurriculars and academics in which Yale students often live. Citizens, Thinkers, Writers is still seeking Yale students for the RA positions, he added.

The success of the program will be determined by the students’ engagement in the class-

room, Garsten said. He added that ideally, all 12 students will finish the program and apply to college in the fall. After the July seminar, students will continue to receive advising support from the program as they enter their senior year and begin the college application process.

The seminar will run from July 11 to July 22.

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

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FROM THE FRONT NHPS teacher arrested on sexual assault ARREST FROM PAGE 1 istrative leave — as required by the law — until the police department gathers all the evidence it needs to determine the facts of the case. He also noted that the investigation is still ongoing and that no assumptions should be made about her guilt.

“The teacher is entitled to a presumption of innocence, a full and fair investigation and due process,” he said.

According to a Wednesday press release from Mayor Toni Harp’s office, the Jones investigation has not yet indicated that additional students or teachers are involved in the case.

The statement also lauded the work of the investigators who have been leading the charge in the case so far.

“The NHPD commends lead investigator Detective Shayna Kendall and the detectives and supervisors of the SVU for their effective pursuit of this investigation,” the press release said. “It also thanks the Board of Education and its staff for its cooperation throughout this investigation.”

For now, NHPS and NHPD will be working together to ascertain the validity of the allegations made against Jones.

“The NHPS investigation will follow that of the police department, gathering the relevant evidence and then determining the next steps,” the release stated.

ESUMS is a New Haven public middle and high school and is one of the highest-performing magnet schools in the city. The school enrolls around 600 students.

Harries said his “primary and immediate concern” is the wellbeing of the students affected by the allegations. He said NHPS has made resources available for the entire ESUMS community, adding that the school will continue to be monitored closely.

According to the ESUMS website, Jones is in her second year of teaching at the school.

Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.” DON MARQUIS AMERICAN HUMORIST, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR

Gun law targets domestic violence GUN LAWS FROM PAGE 1 against it.”

But prominent voices have expressed opposition to the bill.

Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson voiced two primary concerns with the bill. Constitutionally, Wilson said, the bill’s provision for confiscating firearms prior to a hearing would violate citizens’ entitlement to due process of law. Furthermore, he said, few temporary restraining orders ever become permanent, meaning the original claims prompting those annulled orders lack sufficient evidence.

Wilson also disputed how effective the proposed legislation would be.

Despite Malloy’s positive intentions, Wilson questioned whether the measures would ultimately save lives.

“I think if somebody wants to get a gun to kill someone [with it] they will,” he said. “There are a lot of ways to kill people.”

According to Malloy and his advocates, however, research demonstrates the bill’s lifesaving potential. Statistics show that victims of domestic violence are five times more likely to be killed when the perpetrator has access to a gun. Additionally, firearms are responsible for 39 percent of the roughly 14 domestic homicides committed in Connecticut each year.

But David Kopel, a professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, still questioned the bill’s constitutionality.

“The governor’s bill would mandate the confiscation of arms from a person who has never had any notice or opportunity to be heard,” Kopel said.

He proposed an approach that is more in line with the due process clause of the Constitution. He also suggested measures to provide the courts with more resources and to enable judges to make prompt decisions after hearing both sides of the situation.

But Malloy’s effort resonated with Connecticut groups fighting against

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Gov. Malloy introduced legislation requiring individuals under a temporary restraining order to surrender their firearms. domestic violence. Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence CEO Karen Jarmoc defended the constitutionality of the bill by arguing that similar laws have been signed into legislation by 20 other states across the country.

“We appreciate that [Malloy] has made this a priority,” Jarmoc said.

“It’s about protecting victims at what we know a very dangerous time.”

Jarmoc said the CCADV has conducted evidence-based research into firearm-related domestic violence homicides. She also noted that of the eight domestic violence homicides that occurred in Connecticut last year, six of them were commenced

with a firearm.

Approximately 16 percent of Connecticut households possess at least one gun.

Contact AMY CHENG at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu and JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

Sexual misconduct reporting challenging for grad students MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1 retaliate against a person making a report of misconduct.

Last March, an anonymous group of graduate students within the department circulated a letter accusing Spanish professor Roberto González Echevarría GRD ’70 of sexual harassment, among other issues. The letter prompted an administrationsanctioned review of the department’s climate. An anonymous graduate student who helped write the letter said the students chose to write the anonymous letter because they did not want to identify themselves by making official reports of misconduct. As a result of the review, administrators instituted a mandatory, one-time sexual harassment training session for the department’s faculty members,

but they did not take disciplinary action against Echevarría.

Students interviewed said they were shocked by the lack of substantive change, and they cited the outcome as confirmation of widespread fears that students’ complaints do not materialize into real consequences for faculty members.

Graduate students in general often have highly personal but subordinate relationships with their faculty mentors. Many hesitate to report cases of sexual misconduct because they fear retaliation that may damage their careers, students interviewed said. In particular, students fear that faculty members will hurt their reputations within the field, either by withholding letters of recommendation or issuing bad grades. Sexual harassment and the subsequent consequences of

reporting or not can also negatively affect students’ productivity, Women’s Faculty Forum Chair and School of Medicine professor Paula Kavathas said.

“Faculty members, especially your advisor, are your lifeline to a career in academia. A student spends anywhere from six to 10-plus years working with faculty, pursuing a Ph.D. and cultivating a reputation in a given field of study,” Graduate and Professional Student Senate President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18 said. “Your advisor has the power to shatter all of that.”

She added that the power dynamic between graduate students and faculty is one factor that distinguishes the graduate and professional student experience from the undergraduate one.

Graduate students have the

same resources as undergraduates for addressing sexual misconduct, such as the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, Title IX Coordinators and the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center. Still, graduate students may be more reluctant to report sexual misconduct by faculty members, Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said.

“I do recognize that faculty members have a close advisory relationship with graduate students and play a significant role in the students’ academic and professional success,” she said in an email to the News.

Kavathas said there has been discussion about whether faculty members in leadership positions found guilty of sexual harassment should be prohibited from assuming these roles

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Graduate students and undergraduates have the same misconduct reporting resources.

in the future, rather than simply being suspended for a certain time period.

While acknowledging students’ fears of retribution, both Cooley and University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler stressed that retaliation against any individual who files a complaint of sexual misconduct is a violation of University policy that would be addressed through the appropriate disciplinary procedures.

“I understand from anecdotal conversations and from data in the AAU survey that some students do not report incidents of sexual misconduct because they are concerned about potential negative social and academic impacts,” Spangler said. “When individuals do come forward with complaints, we work closely with them to develop plans to address not only their core complaints of sexual misconduct but also any concerns about retaliation.”

In addition to the anonymous letter in the Spanish and Portuguese Department, one student author also pursued a University resolution by reporting an instance of sexual harassment to a Title IX coordinator. The student said the Title IX office took the complaint very seriously, but was not sure how the investigation is progressing. This graduate student, who requested to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the subject, added that filing a complaint can turn into an “open war” with the faculty member in question, as well as with other faculty in the department.

“When you are in the position of the student, you always have things to lose. You are lower on the hierarchy, and even though the people at the top are abusing their power, you probably won’t gain much from complaining,” the student said.

According to several Spanish Department graduate students interviewed, the minimal changes that followed the departmental review merely confirmed the fear that official complaints are unproductive.

One graduate student interviewed called the response — the mandatory sexual harassment training session — “shocking” in its lack of substantive change or consequence.

“Apparently, the penalties that you can get for being a harasser are barely penalties at all. What is happening in the Spanish Department is proof of this,” the student said. “People complain, the professor gets a twohour training, and then you have to take classes with him the next semester. Apparently universities are the best place for sexual misconduct.”

Another student called the idea that a one-time training would change the attitude and behavior patterns associated with sexual harassment “absurd and puerile.”

Another highly public case of harassment by a faculty member, which alerted the Yale community to the dangers of faculty retaliation, surfaced in November 2014 when The New York Times revealed that School of Medicine professor and former cardiology chief Michael Simons MED ’84 had sexually harassed a researcher in his lab. The researcher, Annarita di Lorenzo, alleged in her formal complaint to the UWC that Simons had told her he could “open the world of science” to her, and that when she did not return his advances, Simons removed her then-boyfriend and fellow cardiologist from a grant.

Despite increased publicity on the issue, students interviewed said it remains a significant hurdle to those looking to pursue a successful career in academia.

“Advancement in academia is very often dependent on interpersonal relationships, and most people are hesitant to jeopardize those relationships, understandably so,” Graduate Student Assembly representative Rachel Love GRD ’19 said. “ Often [graduate and professional] students are in the same building every day, seeing the same people every day for six to seven years, and any shake up or conflict in a small community can often have disastrous ramifications. Whether or not it is justified, there are very real consequences to any lapse in confidentiality that some students simply do not want to risk.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDING FATHER OF THE UNITED STATES

At talk, Swensen encourages financial literacy

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER Seated below a portrait of himself in the Berkeley College Master’s House — also known as the Swensen House — David Swensen, Yale’s chief investment officer, spoke with National Public Radio correspondent Chris Arnold about the problems of the U.S. financial system.

Arnold has reported on Wall Street for over a decade and currently serves as the lead reporter and editor of the NPR series “Your Money and Your Life,” which investigates personal financial issues. Swensen, Yale’s CIO since 1985, has gained considerable renown for his implementation of modern portfolio theory in managing Yale’s endowment, currently valued at $25.6 billion.

Arnold and Swensen, who first met in 2006, used Wednesday’s talk to discuss the importance of financial literacy before a crowd of 40 community members.

“What I began to understand was that, if people understood what David Swensen had to say to them … the average person could have twice as much money down the road, at least,” Arnold said, describing his first conversations with Swensen. “I felt like I was very lucky to be getting this education.”

Arnold and Swensen agreed that most of the problems of the U.S. financial system can be fixed by the dissemination of credible financial information among the American public.

For instance, many Americans, because they are largely uninformed about financial issues, are forced to rely on a broker or financial advisor to manage their accounts. But Swensen argued that most investors would be better off managing their money on their own.

“I think there’s almost a Catch22 involved with financial advi-

sors,” Swensen said. “Because if you’re going to choose a financial advisor, you have to be educated enough to understand what it is you’re choosing. But if you’ve educated yourself well enough to make a good choice, you don’t need a financial advisor.”

Swensen and Arnold both emphasized the difference between the interests of a financial advisor or broker and the interests of an investor. Swensen noted that the broker often benefits “at the investor’s expense.”

Throughout the 75-minute conversation, Swensen referred to his 2005 book “Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment.” In the book, Swensen outlined a template that individual investors could follow to achieve success in a financial market rigged against them.

Arnold praised Swensen as a source of reliable information he often uses in the “Your Money and Your Life” series.

Arnold noted that in the world of finance journalism, a dependable source is “hard to come across.”

“But then you find some people who you can just innately trust,” Arnold said of Swensen. “And you feel like what they’re saying is true and they become sort of guides to you.”

Two student attendees interviewed said that though they enjoyed the talk, they did not learn anything new. “[Swenson’s advice] goes against traditional financial advice that you get from institutions,” Jessica Yang ‘16 said. “But I think maybe at our age we are more skeptical of institutions and have done more research.”

The “Your Money and Your Life” Facebook group has over 7,000 members.

Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.”

PAUL HAWKEN ENVIRONMENTALIST AND ENTREPRENEUR

C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

Students apathetic toward sexual respect requirement

BY ERIN MIZRAKI Despite Columbia’s commitment to continuing sexual respect education with the 2016 Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative, students are reporting apathy toward programming, indicating a broader unwillingness to engage in conversations surrounding these issues.

The Office of University Life, which launched Columbia’s second iteration of the SRI — a sexual respect education program required for all new students — on Oct. 20, had promised more workshop options and an extended deadline, after last year’s initiative came under fire from students who criticized its rocky implementation and questioned the efficacy of programs like the Arts Option.

Despite these improvements, many students said they are postponing the requirement until closer to the March 20 deadline and have demonstrated disinterest in participating.

Students’ unwillingness to engage with issues of sexual respect has further been underlined as sexual assault activist groups on campus have struggled to resume their advocacy

work following the graduation of key members of the movement.

But the COLUMBIA issue of sexual assault at Columbia is still a critical issue — a survey conducted and released five months ago by the Association of American Universities found troublingly low rates of bystander intervention by witnesses of sexually violent acts at Columbia, and confirmed that one in four undergraduate women report being sexually assaulted during their time at the university.

“On this issue, like on any issue, interest ebbs and flows,” Executive Vice President of University Life Suzanne Goldberg said. “The responsibility of a university to a student body is to stay engaged with these important issues, whether they are in the spotlight or not, because they deeply affect our community, as the AAU survey showed.”

But as students show reluctance to participate in conversations about sexual respect, confusion surrounding the

requirement has also emerged — the 2016 SRI is only required for new students, but upperclassmen interviewed at SRI workshops reported attending the events because they thought they were required.

Diego Anell and Gregory Swong said they only attended a Jan. 28 Sexual Violence Response workshop called “Status Updates, Snapchats & Text Wars: Navigating Networked Relationships” after an “ambiguous” email from the Office of University Life seemed to imply that they were required to complete the initiative.

“If I knew I didn’t have to be here, I probably wouldn’t have come,” Swong said. “It spreads like wildfire. One person thinks they have to do it, and then every junior is signing up.”

Other students interviewed

by Spectator indicated the same response to the email, which was sent out on Jan. 25.

“I actually messaged a couple people asking if it was going to be a yearly thing now, and they said it looks like that’s the case,” Claire Chen said. “People have basically assumed that it is required, but no one’s clear what the case is.”

Since sending out the email

in January, the Office of University Life added a registration reminder to Student Services Online. Goldberg also noted in an interview with Spectator that several notifications informing students that only new students must complete the initiative are listed on the office’s blog.

Students interviewed who were required to complete the initiative said they chose the option that seemed to require the least amount of engagement.

Kritzia Ley said she watched an online video for the requirement because it seemed like the easiest and fastest option.

“I think I’m the only one of my friends who has done it,” Ley said. “I think people are putting it off because, right now it just feels like another responsibility, another test, another thing we have to do.”

Gabriella FitzGerald said she still has not signed up for the SRI and that while she thinks it is important to educate students on sexual respect, the requirement feels like a task.

“The whole requirement thing makes people not that interested in it and it becomes something you just have to complete,” FitzGerald said. “People say, ‘Oh I have to do this, I need

of Flirting,” Columbia Health’s Sexual Violence Response Department has developed more options, such as an advice session with MTV’s Francisco Ramirez and a workshop that utilizes an episode of “Friends” to engage students in education about sexual respect.

While Goldberg said the Office of University Life was not yet able to provide data regarding which students have completed the SRI, she noted that the majority of participants have been new students. Students confirm their enrollment in CourseWorks, and Goldberg said that each workshop has seen attendance in the double digits.

Ultimately, Goldberg said that it is important to require students to complete the SRI not just because they would not do it otherwise, but also because it indicates the importance of these values to Columbia.

“In the U.S., voter turnout is very low compared to countries where it is required,” Goldberg said. “In our view, having students participate, engage on these issues and understand deeply the shared responsibility of community members is very important.”

to get it done.’”

Goldberg said that Columbia can only do so much to foster participation among students.

“People wouldn’t go to class if they didn’t feel they had to go,” Goldberg said. “It’s in the nature of doing things at a university where something reflects values … Some of those activities will have to be required to be accomplished broadly and in a meaningful way across the student body.”

Abby Porter, a member of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence who originally advocated for an SRI to be required of all students, said that she understands that not all students will voluntarily complete the SRI. “It makes students resentful when they feel that they have to complete it and they are not engaged,” Porter said. “I would love if every student would participate in one of these workshops. I know that’s not going to happen for everyone, and it is going to be fairly self-selecting.”

Still, Goldberg said that the students who have attended workshops led by trained facilitators have provided enthusiastic reviews. Aside from bringing back a popular workshop from last year, “The Art and Science

THE DARTMOUTH

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

SAE derecognized by Dartmouth

Faculty donated heavily to Clinton

BY PRIYA RAMAIAH Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been suspended by its national organization for a minimum of five years for violations of health and safety regulations as well as a failure to comply with the national organization’s standards, according to a statement released by SAE National Executive Director of Communications Brandon Weghorst.

Members of the chapter at Dartmouth College have also been suspended indefinitely from SAE national.

Investigations by the Hanover Police Department and the Grafton County Attorney’s Office are still pending. Dartmouth Director of Judicial Affairs Leigh Remy wrote in a statement to The Dartmouth that while the chapter will not be re-recognized as a local, SAE could still return to campus as a national once the five years have passed.

Dartmouth spokeswoman Diana Lawrence wrote in a statement to The Dartmouth that the suspension of SAE’s charter by its national organization derecognizes SAE as a student organization as of March 15, 2016, the end of winter term. As Dart-

mouth policy prohibits students from living in the building of an unrecogDARTMOUTH nized student organization, SAE can no longer serve as a residential space beginning in spring 2016.

SAE national said that after an investigation into a hazing complaint about the Dartmouth chapter, they passed this information to school administrators for a college investigation. The organization has a zero-tolerance policy for hazing and any behaviors not consistent with their “True Gentleman” creed of leadership, scholarship and service, the statement said.

Dartmouth then notified Hanover police, with a police investigation commencing Oct. 20. Lawrence said that the pending disciplinary review of the organization’s activities by the Office of Judicial Affairs will not be continued given the closure of the SAE chapter by its national organization.

The Dartmouth College chapter of SAE was founded in 1908.

SAE national said in their statement that they hope to reestablish the chapter in the future.

Because the decision of the national organization was based on misconduct, Lawrence said, Dartmouth will not consider any proposals for the chapter to continue operations as a local organization.

Remy said that Dartmouth Safety and Security completed an investigation of SAE new member activity in the fall, which included interviews with SAE members. While the organizational investigation has been discontinued by the Office of Judicial Affairs due to the action by SAE’s national organization, Remy said, Judicial Affairs will be reviewing information obtained from the investigation to evaluate individual conduct over the next two weeks.

Remy said that although Dartmouth has derecognized SAE, their return after five years is still a possibility. She added that the college will continue to work with the national leadership of SAE, assuming that members and alumni trustees close the chapter responsibly.

who came first in the Iowa caucuses last week — r e c e i ve d no conHARVARD tributions from Harvard faculty, instructors and researchers listed in the FEC filings.

For this story, the Crimson analyzed the federal donations of contributors who reported Harvard University as their employer and were listed in Harvard directories and websites as professors, lecturers, fellows, associates, researchers and scientists, as well as visiting fellows and professors. The data set does not include students or administrators who are not listed as teachers or researchers.

Donations from faculty members with appointments at multiple schools at Harvard only counted toward the total of the school at which they hold primary appointments.

For candidate committees, contributions are limited to $2,700 per person for each of the primary and general elec-

BY MELISSA C. RODMAN AND LUCA F. SCHROEDER 91 percent of contributions to current presidential candidates made by Harvard faculty, instructors and researchers in 2015 went to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to a Harvard Crimson analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.

Between April and December 2015, a total of 81 Harvard faculty, instructors and researchers donated roughly $131,000 to the presidential campaigns of Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Of the individuals who donated, 37 gave the maximum contribution for the primary period — $2,700 — to Clinton.

Of total donations, just $8,850 went to Republican candidates Bush, Rubio and Christie. The remaining $3,290 in donations went to Democratic candidate Sanders. All other candidates — including GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz,

tions. A small portion of the funds included in this analysis — less than $500 — are already reserved for the general election, since contributors may elect to give over $2,700 during the primary phase of an election that may only be spent if their chosen candidate receives the nomination.

The contributions data are made public in quarterly filings to the Federal Election Commission. The figures do not include contributions made to super PACs and nonprofit groups organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code that engage in electioneering communications, and excludes contributions made to candidates who have since dropped out of the race.

BREAKDOWN

Instructors and researchers at Harvard Business School contributed the most money to presidential candidates in 2015, donating $36,600 overall, while those with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences contributed a total of roughly $26,000, the next largest contribution total per Harvard school.

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SPORTS Hillhouse Band impresses

“I’ve always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I’m going to make the next one.”

ISAIAH THOMAS BOSTON CELTICS POINT GUARD

Bulldogs persevere despite injuries MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 games of the year. The Minnesota native recorded 14 points his freshman year — the second highest total of any newcomer — and played in 28 games, including all four postseason contests, but has missed 15 of the Bulldogs’ 23 matchups in 2015–16.

The remaining four are all forwards and, combined, have lit the lamp on a significant 23.7 percent of the Elis’ goals this year. Ryan Hitchcock ’18, who last played on Jan. 22, is perhaps the most major offensive loss for Yale. The sophomore missed three additional games in December and January to play for the U.S. National Juniors Team, yet still sits at fourth in total points for the Bulldogs. His six goals this season are surpassed only by forwards John Hayden ’17 and Joe Snively ’19, both of whom have played in every game on the schedule.

Forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 has missed the last three Yale victories after playing in the Bulldogs’ loss to Union on Jan. 29. Though he recorded two goals and four assists over his first 13 games, he has seen a drought in points since facing Arizona State on Jan. 8, against which he earned a season-high

BAND FROM PAGE 12 tunity to be rock stars. You guys are awesome. Here’s a way you can showcase your talents outside of just the Hillhouse community,’” she said.

Since beginning to perform at Yale, the band has seen not only increased student interest in joining but also an increase in morale among band members, Iezzi said.

The Hillhouse Band’s performance has been “outstanding,” Jones said. Forward Justin Sears ’16 echoed the sentiment, saying that the band creates a great atmosphere and brings the Yale and New Haven communities together.

“They’ve made this home stand in the Ivy League amazing,” Sears said.

The Bulldogs do not return to JLA until Feb. 26, when Harvard comes to visit in the penultimate weekend of Ivy League play.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

of two in the first game of the Desert Hockey Classic.

A pair of freshman forwards — Andrew Gaus ’19 and Ted Hart ’19 — have also been absent from the lineup. Gaus last appeared in the Classic championship game against No. 14 Michigan Tech on Jan. 10, the last Eli game before the team transitioned to the ECACexclusive stretch of its season. Hart, on the other hand, played in 18 consecutive games before sitting out due to injury this past weekend. Each newcomer has racked up three goals to date, highlighted by an overtime game-winner from Hart against Brown.

“You definitely feel [the extra time due to their absences],” Doherty said. “At the same time, you don’t really notice it during the game. It’s tough to play three lines, but you get in a good rhythm.”

And with so many underclassmen sidelined for some of the most crucial games of the regular season, other Yale players have had the opportunity to find that rhythm. Several Bulldog veterans have elevated their games to unanticipated heights, lifting the Elis to their loftiest ranking of 2016. In addition to O’Keefe’s play, standout performances from senior forwards Learned and Stu Wilson

’16 against the Big Green and Crimson last weekend helped bolster Yale with big wins against the two conference opponents.

Although Learned tied for second among Elis with nine goals last season, he racked up just two assists and one score in his first 18 games of the current campaign. But over the team’s last four contests, Learned has more than doubled that point total and has also scored in each of the Yale’s last three games, including his go-ahead tally against Harvard.

“It’s like [Learned’s] taken his game to a new level the last three or four games, and it’s right at a time when we absolutely needed it,” Allain said after Saturday’s game. “So it’s good to see a senior stepping up like that and making a major contribution.”

Wilson exploded in his own right this past weekend with two goals and four total points, including three against thenNo. 20 Dartmouth — the first time he recorded more than two points in a single weekend this season. A year after averaging less than a third of a point per game, the senior now leads the team with a 0.91 mark.

Such contributions have come from all classes, with the freshman Snively turning in a

three-point weekend of his own against the Crimson and Big Green. Forward JM Piotrowski ’19 also “thrived,” according to Allain, in an expanded role over the past pair of games during which the Illinois native displayed noticeable hustle and grit.

“Obviously having guys injured is never ideal,” Piotrowski said. “For my situation it’s kind of worked in my favor … I’m not afraid to try new things because I’m getting so many opportunities.

It’s [allowed] me to relax a little bit.”

Yet even though the Bulldogs have filled in the gaps admirably in recent contests, they struggled to adjust to the November loss of Doherty, their 2014–15 leading goal scorer.

In the 10-game stretch from Nov. 14 to Jan. 10 during which the junior was sidelined, Yale scored just 2.10 goals per contest and registered a 0.600 win percentage, as opposed to the 2.92 and 0.769 marks the team has recorded with its stalwart forward in the lineup.

And though Doherty has stayed on the ice over the past month, the Bulldogs will be down perhaps an even more valuable skater when they play at Colgate on Friday and at No. 15 Cornell on Saturday. Defen-

seman and 2014–15 first-team All-American Rob O’Gara ’16 will be forced to sit out, not because of an injury of his own, but because of one he inflicted on Harvard forward Sean Malone last Saturday.

In the third period of last Saturday’s game, O’Gara took a hard shot from Malone that prompted no whistle from the officials. The Hobey Baker Award candidate’s suspension due to a retaliatory hit to the head — originally just one game, but extended to two on Wednesday morning — will pose an additional challenge for the Elis as they fight to maintain their NCAA Tournament and ECAC positions.

“Rob’s a terrific young man.

He’s an asset to our university, an asset to our hockey program,” Allain said. “We’ll miss him, but we [have] to figure out how to win on Friday night.

That’s our job right now.”

Without O’Gara, Repensky, Hitchcock and others, the battered Bulldogs will look for their fourth victory in a row Friday, when they travel to Hamilton, New York for a 7 p.m. puck drop.

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

Men favored in both, women underdogs in one SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 said. “We believe we’re the best team in the Ivy League and we’re ready to prove that this weekend.”

Last season the Yale men’s team beat Dartmouth 7–2, but fell by the same score to Harvard. The Crimson, however, has been unable to replicate the success from its national championship season in 2014– 15.

This year, an inconsistent Harvard squad has suffered 5–4 losses at the hands of Dartmouth, No. 6 St. Lawrence and No. 5 Rochester, and a 7–2 loss to No. 1 Trinity. This season, Yale beat St. Lawrence 6–3 but was upset 5–4 by Rochester before falling 8–1 to Trinity.

“Our men match up very well versus both [Dartmouth and Harvard], and we are confident that we can come home

with two wins,” associate head coach Pam Saunders said.

“They will be tough matches but we trust our preparation and our mental edge. For the men it is all about coming in ready to play each match and not getting too nervous.”

Dartmouth’s losses this season come from Trinity, No. 2 Penn and No. 8 Columbia, the latter two of which the Bulldogs defeated 6–3 and 7–2, respectively. A pair of wins this weekend is also critical for the men to secure a favorable seeding in the upcoming national tournament that begins on Feb. 26, Saunders said.

Saunders also believes that the women’s match against No. 11 Dartmouth (4–8, 0–5) will be a strong opportunity for the team to come back after a pair of losses against No. 2 Penn and No. 3 Princeton, and for the players to work on their

games in preparation for No. 1 Harvard (8–0, 5–0).

Harvard has the decidedly strongest roster in the nation this year — the undefeated team’s closest match was a 6–3 win over Penn, which recently beat Yale 9–0. Despite the difficult competition, No. 1 player Jenny Scherl ’17 refused to be disheartened heading into the Sunday matchup.

“It ain’t over till it’s over,” Scherl said.

Yale faces more favorable odds against Dartmouth, a team Saunders believes the women can beat convincingly. The Big Green has yet to collect a win against an Ivy competitor this season, and the two highest-ranked teams Dartmouth has beaten are No. 8 George Washington and No. 12 Williams.

Due to the excitement surrounding Yale’s rivalry contest against Harvard, as well as the

title implications for the men and the fact that the match comes on alumni weekend for the Yale squash programs, the Bulldogs are expecting a large turnout at the Brady Squash Center.

“Regardless of how this weekend plays out, we are very proud of both teams,” said Saunders said . “Not all of a team’s accomplishments can be seen in the wins and losses column. This year the amount of personal growth we have seen in our players both on and off the court has been astounding … We really hope that this weekend and the national championship weekend will see our teams’ hard work rewarded.”

The men and women open play at 4 p.m. this Friday at Dartmouth.

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The Yale women will look to maintain or improve their national ranking with a strong performance this weekend.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

MIDWEEK UPDATE WOMEN’S HOCKEY IMPROVEMENT OF GOALTENDER HANNA MANDL ’17 IN 2015–16

MEN’S HOCKEY NATIONAL STATISTICS PAIRWISE RANKINGS Team 1. Quinnipiac 2. St. Cloud State 3. North Dakota 4. Boston College 5. Providence 6. Michigan 7. Notre Dame 8. Boston University 9. Nebraska-Omaha 10. Yale 11. Harvard 12. Denver

Record 21–1–6 23–6–1 22–3–3 20–4–4 19–5–4 17–4–4 16–5–7 16–8–4 16–9–1 14–5–4 13–7–3 13-8-5

SCORING OFFENSE Team 1. Michigan 2. St. Cloud State 3. Robert Morris 4. Boston College ...

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MEN’S BASKETBALL YALE DOMINATION IN IVY LEAGUE GAMES Yale (6–0 Ivy) 30

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Princeton (4–1) Columbia (5–1)

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All best in conference

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Wind chill values between 10 and 15.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 2:00 PM Preserving History and Privacy: Creating a Digital Archive of Record from the Earliest African-American Psychiatric Hospital. Dr. King Davis, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has served as director of the UT Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis and as the chair in mental health and social policy in the UT School of Social Work. Davis will discuss his work as project lead to digitize and create a digital archive for thousands of records from the earliest AfricanAmerican psychiatric hospital, originally called the “Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane.” Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room.

5:00 PM “Of Empty Idols and Bugged Martinis: Privacy in the Age of Transistor.” Brian Hochman, professor at Georgetown University, is the author of “Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology.” He is currently at work on a book on electronic eavesdropping, tentatively titled “All Ears: A History of Wiretapping in the United States.” Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 317.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 10:00 AM Exhibition Opens: Everything Is Dada. Celebrating the centennial of the birth of Dada, this special exhibition brings together major works from the collection by modern artists including Jean (Hans) Arp, Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Beatrice Wood. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

9:30 PM Screening of the 1973 European Premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass.” In the spring 1973, maestro John Mauceri ’67 GRD ’72 and the Yale Symphony Orchestra went to Vienna to give the European premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” with the blessing and under the guidance of Bernstein himself. We are proud to present a screening of this monumental concert film, with Mauceri as host, for the first time at Yale in decades. Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (1 Prospect St.), Rm. 114.

DOO LEE is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at doo.lee@yale.edu .

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ROB O’GARA ’16 O’GARA OUT FOR WEEKEND The senior defenseman and reigning first-team All-American, who was already ruled ineligible for Friday’s contest against Colgate due to a disqualification against Harvard last weekend, was suspended for Saturday’s game as well by ECAC Hockey.

MARK ARCOBELLO ’10 ELI BACK IN THE NHL After more than a month in the AHL, the former Yale standout was recalled by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday and played more than 15 minutes in the team’s Tuesday loss to the Calgary Flames. In 131 career NHL games, he has registered 21 goals and 28 assists.

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“We believe we’re the best team in the Ivy League and we’re ready to prove that this weekend.”

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Hillhouse High brings the pep

BY MICHELLE LIU AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Dressed in navy blue uniforms and stationed courtside at the John J. Lee Amphitheater, the Hillhouse Band could almost be mistaken for a Yale pep band if not for the fact that each member is still in high school.

While the Yale Precision Marching Band typically serves as the pep band at the Yale men’s basketball team’s home games, the James Hillhouse High School Band has stepped in three times this season. The local New Haven high school group, along with its dancers, has provided an electric energy and excitement while supporting a squad that has not lost at home this year.

“It adds community,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “That’s the word that comes to mind.

Having people from the surrounding area come to Yale and be a part of the experience here is great for everyone involved.”

With as many as six athletic contests at Yale in any given weekend, and with hockey and basketball teams often competing concurrently, the YPMB cannot attend every event, said Thomas Duffy, professor of music and director of University bands. This year, with the band too small to split up across venues, Duffy said the ensemble must decide where to play each weekend.

But for the basketball team, playing without a band is less than ideal. During last year’s home contest against Columbia, Jones said, the team’s ability to create a raucous atmosphere was affected by the absence of the Yale band and

cheerleaders. The Bulldogs wound up losing that game, 56–50.

When Jones and the men’s basketball program received the YPMB’s schedule from the athletics department, the team decided to find an additional band to play at the games the YPMB would miss.

In the preseason, Jones said, Chris Vincent, the director of basketball operations, reached out to schools in the community and found the Hillhouse Band, directed by Hillhouse teacher Marissa Iezzi.

When she saw the list, Iezzi realized that the Hillhouse Band was free for all the games that YPMB would have to miss. She had no trouble saying yes.

“Basketball is a very popular sport amongst our student body,” Iezzi said. “It was a no-brainer.”

The Hillhouse Band, which totals 60 musicians and dancers, normally plays at the high school’s own football games, both home and away, which Iezzi said is “rare for bands in this area.”

The band also plays at some of the school’s home basketball games.

Even when Hillhouse athletics are not competing, the band is highly sought-after for performances, Iezzi said.

Iezzi added that she feels fortunate to be working with her students as their band director, especially because of the positive feedback the students receive at the Yale home games. Though Iezzi does not direct the dancers — that responsibility falls to her assistant, Quashawn Jinwright — she added they are part of the band.

“It’s such a great feeling as their director to say, ‘This is your opporSEE BAND PAGE 10

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On three ocassions this season, the James Hillhouse High School Band has brought an immense amount of energy to the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

Shorthanded Elis still streaking

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS At the same time the puck dropped on the Yale men’s hockey game against St. Lawrence on Jan. 23, an inauspicious streak belonging to defenseman Dan O’Keefe ’17 rose to 27 — 27 games since O’Keefe had last laced up his skates for the No. 10 Bulldogs and 27 games since the junior blueliner had last played meaningful collegiate minutes.

MEN’S HOCKEY However, head coach Keith Allain ’80 said O’Keefe’s efforts in practice had recently “changed for the better” as the junior looked for an opportunity to crack the lineup. And that opportunity came when defenseman Nate Repensky ’18 was injured at SLU, opening a spot for O’Keefe.

Two weekends and four games later, O’Keefe notched his first point of the season, which hardly could have come at a better time for his team: a primary assist on the game-winning goal of forward Cody Learned ’16, at a soldout Ingalls Rink, to ultimately defeat No. 9 Harvard. “[O’Keefe] was working himself into a position where he was going to get into the lineup either way, and then circumstances occurred,” Allain said.

“And he’s played very well for us.”

O’Keefe’s storyline is particularly notable because of his prolonged absence from Yale’s lineup, but this theme of the team finding success from unexpected sources may at least partially explain why the Elis hold top10 PairWise and poll ranking positions, even though the Bulldogs cannot seem to rid themselves of the injury bug.

Yale has five skaters who missed last weekend’s sweep of ranked Ivy foes Dartmouth and Harvard, and who, according to Allain, are expected to miss this weekend’s games as well.

When they have been able to hit the ice, those five have totaled 30 points in a combined 78 games, and if that 0.385 point-per-game average were for a single player, it would rank fifth among Bulldogs who have played in at least 75 percent of Yale’s games.

Over the course of the year, the two teams equal to or above the Elis in the ECAC Hockey standings — No. 1 Quin-

nipiac and the Crimson — have had 12 and eight players, respectively, play in every contest. Yale has had just six. “[We’re on] a pretty good roll. [But] everybody kind of knows the situation we’re in, [and] where we’re at,” said forward Mike Doherty ’17, who has missed 10 games this season. “We’ve got a lot of guys out.”

Notably absent throughout the season among that pentad of pained Bulldogs is Repensky, who is once again sidelined after missing the first 11

Title implications for men in rivalry weekend

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Zac Leman ’16, who has played at the No. 1 spot for most of this year, has a chance to help the Bulldogs win an Ivy League championship in his senior season.

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The grand finale of the regular season is upon the Yale No. 4 men’s and No. 4 women’s squash teams, as the Bulldogs prepare to face Dartmouth and archrival Harvard in one of the most important weekends of their 2015–16 campaign.

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Forward JM Piotrowski ’19 has”thrived,” according to head coach Keith Allain ’80, in increased playing time due to a number of injuries across the Yale roster.

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The weekend’s matches, at Dartmouth on Friday and home against Harvard on Sunday, carry mainly national ranking implications for the Yale women’s team (10–3, 3–2 Ivy), which needs a perfect weekend as well as favorable

results elsewhere in the Ivy League in order to win a share of the conference title. The Eli men (10–2, 5–0), however, have a strong shot at securing their first Ivy League championship since 2011.

The Yale men’s team is the only Ivy squad still undefeated in conference play, and a win this weekend over either No. 5 Dartmouth (8–3, 3–2) or No. 7 Harvard (4–4, 4–1) would secure the Bulldogs a share of the title. Two wins would make Yale the sole champion.

“We had great results against Princeton and Penn [last weekend], and we want to use the momentum moving forward in our matches against Dartmouth and Harvard,” Max Martin ’18 SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF MATCHES THE YALE MEN’S SQUASH TEAM HAS TO WIN THIS WEEKEND TO CLINCH AT LEAST A SHARE OF THE IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP. If Yale wins both — at Dartmouth on Friday and at home against Harvard on Sunday — the Elis will be the outright champions.