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Schwarzman report released

And it all started with the Big Bang. A team of scientists

announced that they had successfully detected the sound of two black holes colliding almost one billion light-years away. The sound confirms the final piece of Einstein’s theory of relativity: Space and time are interwoven, and disruption in space-time produces gravitational waves.

Mic drop. Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Sen. Bernie Sanders took the stage for their sixth debate last night.

When asked about women supporting her opponent in New Hampshire, Clinton said “I have spent my entire adult life working toward making sure that women are empowered to make their own choices, even if that choice is not to vote for me.”

Faux pas. Meryl Streep

DRA ’75 is facing backlash for a comment she made to a reporter at the Berlin International Film Festival yesterday. In response to a question about diversity in the movie business, she said, “And, after all, we’re all from Africa, originally … We’re all Africans, really.”

Where there’s a will there’s a way. More than 2,000

University faculty and staff members gave to this year’s Yale-United Way fundraising campaign, donating a record $1.3 million as of Jan. 31, the target date. According to a community-wide email from University President Peter Salovey, the campaign saw over 500 new donors this year.

Ganja with the wind. State Rep. Juan Candelaria, a Democrat serving New Haven, has introduced legislation that would legalize marijuana.

Candelaria told the Hartford Courant that although legalization is a long shot, he proposed the bill because a recent poll showed that 63 percent of voters would support it.

Tower of Terror. To their

dismay, students living in the Morse College tower found that their elevator — which has already been broken and fixed twice — was out of service again. To make the situation worse for residents of the 14th floor, a loud alarm went off every 10 minutes or so throughout the night.

Pocket, I’m on one. There are

a few days left to surprise your crush with a Valentine’s Day treat. For five dollars, the Yale Undergraduates for UNICEF will hand deliver a “pocket of love” filled with candy and a message to your crush’s suite.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1950 After a closed session in Woodbridge Hall, the Yale Corporation appoints Alfred Whitney Griswold ’29 GRD ’33 the 16th president of the University. While an undergraduate at Yale in the late 1920s, Griswold was one of the founders of the Yale Political Union.

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Admins silent on “master”

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convened last spring after Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69 donated $150 million, the second largest gift in University history, toward transforming Commons into a hub for student life.

The committee’s primary recommendations include the development of “vibrant” arts programming at the center, as well as enhanced dining options and new social spaces

As the Yale Corporation prepares to meet this weekend, the Council of Masters and top University administrators have kept largely silent about the council’s longawaited recommendation on whether to change the title of master.

Since August, the 12 college masters have been discussing whether to change the title at their monthly meetings. The council had been expected to submit a recommendation to University President Peter Salovey to be discussed at the Corporation’s February meeting, though it is unclear whether a decision will be reached then. Such an alteration would require a change in University bylaws, which can only be approved by the Corporation. In interviews with the News over the past few months, both Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said they believed a recommendation from the council was forthcoming.

One source familiar with the council’s deliberations told the News that the recommendation has changed several times.

Salovey and Holloway would not confirm whether a recommendation had been submitted.

“I have been asked by the masters to keep the fact of whether or not they submitted anything to the Corporation confidential, so I want to honor that promise,” Salovey said Thursday night. “But I can say that if the masters submitted anything, I would

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The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee has published its recommendations on how to transform Commons.

BY VICTOR WANG AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS The presidential advisory committee tasked with soliciting input on a $150 million campus student center scheduled to open in 2020 released a report on its findings Thursday afternoon, outlining detailed recommendations designed to make the space welcoming to students across the University.

In an University-wide email

Thursday, the co-chairs of the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Lynn Cooley, formally shared the nearly 100-page report, noting that around 2,500 students, faculty and staff members had participated in the monthslong discussion process. The advisory committee — a 27-member task force comprising students, faculty and staff — was

Dwight reverses position on controversial grant

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER In spite of initial community resistance, the Housing Authority of New Haven received approval to apply for a $2 million federal grant to fund the development of the Dwight neighborhood, located just a halfmile away from campus.

The application for the federal grant, supplied by the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development, required a letter of support from the Dwight Central Management Team, the organization that manages community life in the Dwight neighborhood. But at a Feb. 2 meeting of the DCMT, community members voted against HANH’s grant proposal due to concerns with the integrity and management skills of the housing company HANH

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Yale extends

local outreach

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Over the past few years, Yale has continuously reaffirmed its mission to recruit high-achieving, low-income students.

Often, these students are African-American, Hispanic or the first in their families to attend college — all groups which have traditionally been underrepresented on campuses nationwide.

Last spring, Yale made a commitment to the White House to increase college opportunity and socioeconomic diversity, including a promised increase in the number of QuestBridge finalists enrolling at Yale. And the diversity of Yale’s applicant pool has increased markedly in the past few years: Since 2013, there has been a 36 percent increase in African-American applicants and an 18 percent increase in students identifying as members of an ethnic minority.

This year alone, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan has endorsed “Turning the Tide,” a Harvard report focused in part on improving college access, and announced his participation in the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a group of over 80 colleges and universities dedicated to recruiting lowincome students.

But as for recruiting students from diverse backgrounds, admissions officers need not look too far: In many ways, the New Haven public school district is demographically similar to many districts in which Yale focuses its outreach efforts.

42 percent of the 21,500 students enrolled in New Haven’s 10 public high schools are African-American and 41 percent are Hispanic, according to the school district’s website. And in New Haven, the median family income is $35,950, well below SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 6

planned to partner with. After a concerted effort to win over the community, HANH received a letter of support from the DCMT in time for the grant’s Feb. 9 deadline.

“We felt, at that point, that we had to show the city that we’re not trying to be obstructionist,” said Kate Walton, a 36-year Dwight neighborhood resident and DCMT member.

The DCMT initially rejected

HANH’s proposal because the authority had plans to partner with The Community Builders, a development organization that already owns multiple apartments in the Dwight neighborhood.

These properties, however, have given the neighborhood “notoriety” for poor quality and being a hotbed for crime, West River Neighborhood Services Corporation President Stacy

Spell said. “[The Community Builders’] property is poorly managed,” Spell said. “It has been the subject in the past of violence. It is looked on as a location that supports criminal activity.”

Statistics supplied by Walton state that 286 crimes have occurred at one of The Community Builders’ properties in the SEE GRANT PAGE 4

City proposes higher food truck fees

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Amid an ongoing dispute over permit fees for vendors in New Haven, city officials and food truck owners met in City Hall Thursday night to hear the details of the city’s new plan to reform sidewalk business in the city.

Attended by roughly 40 vendors, the meeting fea-

tured a lengthy presentation from Steve Fontana, New Haven’s deputy director of economic development. The city’s plans for a hike in permit fees would cap the highest fees food trucks must pay to operate at $4,250 annually, with most fees falling around $2,000 —a far cry from the few hundred dollars most food trucks currently pay annually. Fontana said the

new plans would update current zoning ordinances and provide the funding for the city to enforce current ordinances and regulations more forcefully. At the moment, the city does not have enough funding to enforce these policies.

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Elm City officials met in City Hall Monday to discuss the new food truck ordinances.

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n my last column (“A reform of substance,” Jan. 29), I discussed the Toxic Substances Control Act, a federal law that gives our Environmental Protection Agency the power to make sure that chemicals released into the environment pose little threat to human health. Since its passage in 1976, it has resulted in the ban of nine chemicals. “Good on the EPA!” you might think, as you take a swig from your plastic water bottle. But those nine chemicals are a woefully small cluster in a constellation of over 80,000 chemicals currently on the market, most of which have never been tested.

There are a couple reasons for this. When TSCA was passed, some 60,000 chemicals were grandfathered into the program, assumed to be safe since they were already on the market. These chemicals have yet to be tested. What’s more, the onus is on the EPA to decide if a newly introduced chemical poses an “unreasonable risk,” rather than on chemical manufacturers to prove that their products almost certainly pose “no harm.” Given administrative and bureaucratic constraints, that’s hard to do and has very little impact on whether a chemical makes it into the market.

In response to inadequate federal regulations, many states have implemented their own measures to regulate dangerous chemicals. California’s Proposition 65, passed in 1986, created a list of chemicals that cause cancer, lead to birth defects or are otherwise hazardous. Businesses cannot knowingly expose customers to chemicals on this list. Likewise, Connecticut took an early lead in banning Bisphenol A — a plastic that disrupts human hormones — from food containers, jars of baby food and the paper on which receipts are printed.

For the past four years, the Connecticut General Assembly has tried to pass “an act concerning chemicals of high concern to children,” which would create an inventory of chemicals deemed hazardous much in the way that California has done. In the bill’s most recent iteration, Connecticut’s public health commissioner would report on this list of chemicals, offering recommendations on how to protect children from risky chemicals. It hasn’t passed yet, but it would be a step in the right direction.

The problem is that these state laws are under attack.

Enter the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, the bill poised to bring TSCA up to speed. But it’s not without problems. In fact, one provision of the bill would wipe away all state-level laws that regulate chemicals and replace them with federal

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That means states with stronger enforcement mechanisms would be required to AUSTIN go back to ones.

BRYNIARSKI weaker B u s i n e sse s f re q u e n t l y Guns & argue that butter a state-bystate patchwork of regulations makes it impossible to bring products to market in a way that makes sense for their bottom line. But are a few extra hoops to jump through so bad when human health is at stake?

“GOOD ON THE EPA!” YOU MIGHT THINK, AS YOU TAKE A SWIG FROM YOUR PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE. BUT THOSE CHEMICALS ARE A WOEFULLY SMALL CLUSTER IN A CONSTELLATION OF OVER 80,000 CHEMICALS CURRENTLY ON THE MARKET

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his Valentine’s Day, Yalies need to learn to love. By love, I don’t necessarily mean romantic love, or its many bastard children, but love in its broadest sense — a love for learning, and a love for one’s fellow man.

In a course I took last semester on emotional intelligence, love was the number one emotion that the hundred-odd students in the class most wanted to feel. In some senses, that’s not surprising: Most college students are living away from their families for the first time. This condition is already an aberration in the human life cycle, but its effects are exacerbated by the fact that millennials are closer to their parents than any other generation in recent American history.

Emerging research on early adulthood also suggests that 20-somethings are primarily selffocused rather than other-centric. Consequently, college dorms may lack the kind of robust, stable relationships which are integral to human flourishing. If we are to bolster well-being on campus, we need to find a way to replicate those networks of kinship in at least some of our daily interactions.

Love does not have to take the form of grandiose proclamations or extravagant gestures. It mani-

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the supreme historian of nationalism, understood, love can also be a force for good, motivating altruistic behavior and other prosocial acts.

Another criticism of love is that it is inherently anti-intellectual.

There are some who would have us believe that there is a sharp distinction between an intellectual space and a home. They are wrong. The whole point of a liberal education, as opposed to a technical or professional one, is that it is rooted in a humanistic ethos and animated by a concern for those around us, an idealistic belief that knowledge can be used to uplift the human condition.

Argument for argument’s sake, without considering the consequences of our ideas, undermines the civic mission and ethical character of the university. A love for learning must go hand in hand with a love for one’s fellow man.

That said, we should remember that love is different from coddling. Love can sometimes be tough, as when a professor tells a student that he needs to spend more time on his work, or when a student tells her suitemate that he should probably skip that drink.

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference, and a culture of permissive relativism can be just as devoid of love as one of stifling intolerance.

They say February is the longest month, and it’s not hard to see why, in the midst of midterms, problem sets, papers, applications and snow. Any modicum of passion for what we do gives way to the slow tedium of work, retrenching our intellectual curiosity. In light of this, it is tempting to pull back on our commitments, to skim those readings, to just stay in our room and watch Netflix all night.

But while there is a place for self-love, the real antidote to ennui lies in reaffirming our love for what we do, and for those around us. Only when we throw ourselves at something with abandon can romance blossom.

And only when we reveal our affection for others can we heal our own vulnerabilities.

The events of the past semester have exposed deep wounds in Yale’s community. Too many Yalies feel alienated, as we have seen from controversies over racism, mental health, sexual assault and financial aid. Institutional and structural changes are pivotal to reform, but the most effective transformation might well be an affective one: love.

JUN YAN CHUA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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fests itself in the little things that constitute thoughtful living.

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Give your suiteThe mate a hug. wallflower Hold the door for someone else. And reply to those damned text messages.

While philosophical conceptions of love have Judeo-Christian origins, love finds expression in almost all normative traditions across time and space. Love is particularly important at a time when resentment seems like a cultural fad. The rise of the “hater” as a trope in contemporary American culture should alert us to a deficit of kindness and civility — on online message boards and in real life.

Despite the decline of hegemonic masculinity, we still speak of love with a degree of embarrassment. We have come to associate love with irrational fanaticism; many deride patriotism — love of one’s country — as a cause of needless violence and suffering. But as Benedict Anderson,

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To be sure, sometimes federal laws are more efficient for solving environmental problems. Federal legislation that regulates the head-scratching array of sell-by (or useby, or best-before, or freshest-before, etc.) labels might reduce consumer confusion and prevent the disposal of food that’s perfectly fine to eat.

But these are cases where policy is strengthened, not weakened.

In its current form, the TSCA reform bill repeats the same errors that TSCA originally suffered from, in large part because it weakens state laws that protect the environment. Should the bill come across President Obama’s desk, he might want to consider the progress it could undo before signing it.

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The other side of “sensitive”

ur “hypersensitivity,” “culture of victimhood” — however you may describe it — is a problem.

While this notion is sometimes exploited to caricature requests for respect, the attitude it refers to can ultimately disrupt and threaten the rigor of academic life. Both aspects are concerning. The phenomenon of acute sensitivity is not restricted to any particular group or outlook, but usually emerges in the context of demands for certain language and the like, and it betrays deeper flaws behind our use of and need for such measures.

Arguments for politically correct language are completely reasonable. As discourses include a broader range of individuals, some of their expressions must be changed — it is claimed — to avoid alienating people whom such language might appear to undermine. For example: On campus, psychological problems that might once have been characterized as poor responses to environmental stressors are now increasingly being characterized by advocates as neurological differences. This “politically correct” stance actually clashes with NextYale’s calls for mental health practitioners who specialize in problems deemed unique to minorities. One cannot insist that psychological problems should be considered innate dif-

ferences and also demand racially sensitive psychological treatment without contradicting P.C. gospel. To do so would suggest that what may appear as symptomatic of anxiety in a person of color is, in fact, a maladaptive response to perceived discrimination (or some racialized disorder) — while the very same symptoms in a white student are effects of neurological abnormality.

While the two viewpoints above are not strictly contradictory, few would dare hold both, and the problem is not that such perspectives may offend — they’re just too simplistic to be accurate or useful. One must become “insensitive” to proceed here. Unquestioning adherents of fashionable P.C. expressions will at some point undermine other supposedly progressive views and erect harmful stereotypes in their wake. “Correct” premises give way to “incorrect” interpretations. Even in a therapeutic context like the above example, “insensitivity” is inevitable. It’s also inevitable in academic and intellectual life. Blind adherence to ready-to-hand phraseology makes serious thinking impossible. By concretizing identities in narrow and inaccurate ways, it also makes real respect difficult to give or receive.

Taking someone or something seriously will at some point produce a statement that might seem

“insensitive.” Moreover, being treated “sensitively” does not always mean one is being taken seriously or treated respectfully.

In practice, demands for absolute sensitivity promote a false pluralism that reinforces rigid stereotypes. When we craft our discourse according to abstract ideas of what we think will be politically correct, we often ossify identities. We encourage – not challenge – the idea that difference is weakness.

This is not a justification for mistreatment. The point is not that we should aim to offend.

Kindness is of the utmost importance. Nor do I mean to suggest that a perfectly individualized discourse is any more possible (or desirable) than a perfectly “sensitive” one. The point is rather that a language superficially attuned to difference can hinder the process of mutual understanding. Moreover, when we expect that the people we interact with should know as well as we do what offends us, we’ve passed from sensitivity into hysteria. To demand participation in a language game with rules perfectly tailored to one’s own experience is to cross from self-assertion into self-absorption. In any case, what point would there be in trying to craft a language in which no expression gave offense? Such an effort would be deadening and futile. Absolute sensitivity is

extraneous to the goal of respectful exchange.

To be misunderstood is not to be undermined, and the possibility of misunderstanding is what makes social and intellectual life meaningful. All of us, even those who aren’t minorities in any sense, have been guilty of accounting for our own problems as another’s prejudice. Yet where does self-defense stop and serious engagement begin? I ask this as a liberal (and a woman of color) who would resent excusing gratuitous and intentional offenses as free speech. Resisting the rigid and superficial byproducts of P.C. culture should not be a partisan task.

The deeper embarrassments of identity are often less about a particular biography than the chagrin of feeling like one’s biography is all one has to bring to the discussion. One can feel this sense of guilt regardless of background. Challenging our prejudices is important, but emphatic sensitivity is not an end in itself.

If we spend more energy trying to perform our sensitivities for each other than seriously interacting and working together, we risk turning each other into bundles of superficial attributes that lack real personhood.

KATHERINE ADAMS is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact her at katherine.adams@yale.edu .

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“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and U.S. history are taught from one book?”

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Black History Month starts strong

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Black History Month, which celebrates the role and achievements of African-Americans in the United States, is well under way on campus. Working together with affiliated groups and departments, the AfroAmerican Cultural Center is bringing speakers and events to Yale in a monthlong celebration of black history. The theme this year is “Roots, Rebirth and Renaissance.”

The packed schedule of events for Black History Month kicked off at the Af-Am House this past Saturday with the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, during which attendees worked with filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris to explore the construction of identity and community through photography and storytelling. The event was co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and included presentations by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Coordinator of Arts for Yale College Daisy Abreu, as well as by students and other contributors. Looking ahead to the remaining weeks of this month, student planners and administrators interviewed all emphasized that the scope and depth of events planned for this year’s Black History Month set it apart from past celebrations.

“This year’s Black History Month theme, ‘Roots, Rebirth and Renaissance,’ gives us an opportunity to explore our roots and learn more about our history, not only here in the United States, but across the African diaspora,” said Nicole Tinson DIV ’16, a member of the Black History Month planning committee at the Af-Am House and one of the organizers of a massive race teach-in at Battell Chapel last November. “This month also gives us an opportunity to fully engage with the New Haven community as well as the Yale community.”

Af-Am House Director Risë Nelson told the News that planning for the Black History Month was a joint effort across many affiliated groups.

She cited the 21st annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale — set to take place this weekend from Feb. 11 to Feb. 14 — as an example of an event hosted in honor of Black History Month. The conference, one of the largest at Yale, will bring over 700 diverse undergraduates from different universities to campus for discussions and other activities pertaining to the African diaspora.

Other events, Nelson added, include

Ward 22 co-chair race takes off

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The theme of Yale’s Black History Month celebration is “Roots, Rebirth and Renaissance.” a performance by actor Roger Guenveur Smith DRA ’83 on Feb. 19 and 20 in the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theater.

Smith will perform “Rodney King” — a monologue about the construction worker who was brutally beaten by the Los Angeles police in 1991 and whose case incited widespread protests throughout the city following the officers’ acquittal the next year. The Af-Am House and the African American Studies Department will host a reception for Smith after his show on Saturday.

Still, Nelson said the highlight of the month will take place during the last weekend of February in a threeday series called the Celebration of Black Life Festival, which will honor “the rich cultures, histories and traditions of the African Diaspora.” Sponsored by the Office of the Secretary and Vice President of Student Life, the festival will include a brunch conversation with Mayor Toni Harp, who will discuss possibilities of coalition building between student organizations on campus and local ones throughout New Haven. The Af-Am House will also host Nadia Lopez, a Black Girls Rock! honoree and the principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brooklyn, New York, whose leadership and story have been featured on Humans

of New York, as well as Laduma Ngxokolo, a South African designer who will lead a session on the Black image.

A photo exhibit, a student showcase and an event focused on the intersection of art, athletics and politics are also planned for the weekend.

Student planners interviewed said they are optimistic about the potential for building a better relationship between Yale and the New Haven community. Others noted the tumultuous weeks of student demonstrations about the racial climate on campus last semester and their unique impact on Black History Month celebrations this year.

“In this moment, I think about the undergraduates’ chant: ‘We out here, we been here, we ain’t leaving, we are loved.’ Celebrating Black History Month at Yale demonstrates that love pierces through when we value people from the African diaspora,” N’Kosi Oates DIV ’17 told the News. “Ultimately, authentic love shines when everyone believes that our racial and cultural identity matter.”

Black History Month was formally recognized by the U.S. government in 1976.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

While some students are watching presidential primaries pick up around the country, a local race is heating up in Ward 22.

The ward, which contains both Dixwell and four of Yale’s residential colleges, will be the only ward in New Haven with a contested co-chair race this election season. Five candidates have filed petitions for the two positions on the Democratic Town Committee, including current Ward 22 CoChair Cordelia Thorpe, who is running on a slate with Angela Watley. The other candidates include Timothy Dwight resident Gabrielle Diaz ’18, who is running as a team with former co-chair candidate Victoria Dancy. New Haven resident Helen Powell is the fifth candidate. The co-chair election is scheduled for March 1, giving candidates less than three weeks to sway voters on choosing their community leaders for the next two years. Both Morrison and outgoing Ward 22 Co-Chair Maxwell Ulin ’17 have endorsed Dancy and Diaz.

“Both [Dancy and Diaz] are extremely hardworking and dedicated to the community, and I think that they will form a great team to lead the committee and help bridge the Yale-New Haven divide,” Ulin said.

Over the past decade, Yale students have frequently served as one of the two co-chairs in the ward, which contains the Ezra Stiles, Morse, Silliman and Timothy Dwight colleges as well as Swing Space. Josef Goodman ’14 won the co-chair position in 2012 and Alyssa Rosenberg ’06 served as a cochair from 2004 to 2006.

Diaz first began her involvement with Ward 22 while canvassing for Gov. Dannel Malloy’s gubernatorial campaign in the fall of 2014. Her interactions with Dixwell have been primarily through her work on the Ward 22 Democratic Committee, where she conducts voter outreach and registration, she said. After learning of the upcoming co-chair election from Ulin, Diaz decided to run.

If elected as co-chair, Diaz said, she will aim to improve education among Yale students about Ward 22 and foster greater participation in the ward.

She added that the ward represents the relationship between city and university.

Dancy, who has previously served as a treasurer on Morrison’s aldermanic

campaigns, is a Dixwell resident whom Morrison and Diaz described as being engaged in the ward. Dancy and Diaz’s campaign aims to speak with every registered Democrat in the ward by election day by canvassing four times a week.

“It’s a pretty competitive election considering this is the only election in the city right now,” Diaz said. “People are not going to get out to vote unless we really get to them.”

Morrison, who has been alder of the ward since 2012, said one of her main goals is to bridge the gap between the New Haven and Yale communities in her ward. In pursuit of that goal, she aims to set up and support co-chair teams consisting of one permanent New Haven resident and one Yale student, she added. She said it is important for students to become involved in local politics because the ward houses a significant student population. Currently, Yale undergraduates make up roughly 30 percent of the ward.

Diaz noted that although more Yale students are aware of issues in Ward 1, Ward 22 will have growing importance for both the city and Yale, as the ward will encompass the University’s new residential colleges, set to open in fall 2017.

Ulin — who has now spent one term as co-chair with Thorpe — said he believes that without a Yale student on the ticket, Thorpe and Watley will not be as well equipped to unite the ward through the committee.

Thorpe told the News in October that she had been seeking another Yale student to run as her counterpart in the co-chair race, as she and Ulin did not run on a slate together in 2014. In that year’s co-chair election, Dancy — then running on a ticket with Eshe Sherley ’16 — was disqualified from the Ward 22 co-chair race along with Sherley after neglecting to submit a proper petition to the New Haven Registrar of Voters. Thorpe, the only remaining candidate in the race, automatically secured a position. Ulin was later appointed to the other position by the city’s Town Committee Chair through Morrison’s recommendation.

Thorpe did not respond to multiple requests for comment as of press time.

The two candidates for Ward 1 cochair this year are Clifford Carr ’17 and Chris Rice ’18.

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

Despite rise in ranks, SOM mission unchanged

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Even as the Yale School of Management moves up the rankings of the nation’s business schools, its administrators and faculty members say it has stayed true to its founding mission of serving society, and deny that it has taken a more corporate spin.

Founded in 1976 amid debates over Yale’s need for a business school, the SOM adopted a more nonprofit focus than its peer institutions from its first day. Its founding mission — “to educate leaders for business and society” — set the school apart at a time when many business schools were positioned as feeders to the private sector.

Though its mission statement remains unaltered today, The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 3 that some of its alumni and students have begun questioning whether the SOM has become more corporate. According to the article, the expansion of the school’s management program, changes in graduates’ chosen career paths and the school’s relocation to the new and high-tech Evans Hall have made some concerned that the school has lost sight of its original purpose.

Nevertheless, SOM administrators and students interviewed by the News agreed that the school’s recent undertakings only suggest that it is now run in a more professionalized and structured way — a necessity given increasingly intense competition among business schools. But that does not mean a shift away from its founding mission, they said.

“Sometimes people construe changes in things like how the school is managed and what its physical plant looks like as being indicators of what the school stands for, which I think is a big mistake,” said SOM professor Jim Baron, who has taught at the school for about a decade.

Another reason for the mistaken concern, Baron said, is that as the SOM rises in rankings, people are more likely to categorize the school in the same set as the world’s very toptier business schools, some of which

are more oriented towards the private sector.

SOM’s latest employment report shows that 29.3 percent of its class of 2015 work full-time in consulting, 24.5 percent in finance and only 4.4 percent in nonprofit. But the majority of SOM graduates have pursued careers in the private sector for decades, SOM Senior Associate Dean David Bach said. What distinguishes these graduates from graduates of other business schools is, instead, what they do in those private-sector positions and how they show their commitments to both business and society from within diverse industries, he said.

SOM Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain said because of the increasingly blurry line between the corporate and nonprofit sectors, employment data organized by industry or firm cannot fully describe the nature of a job. For example, he said, someone might work in PepsiCo — a private firm — but hold a sustainability-related position, or work in consulting but work with nonprofit clients.

Indeed, almost 10 percent of the school’s MBA students are earning a dual degree from the School of Forestry, and three-quarters of the school’s Executive MBA students focus on either health care or sustainability in year two, Bach said.

Howard Forman, director of the SOM’s MD/MBA program, who also teaches health care, agreed, noting that he has witnessed increased interest in health care among SOM students.

The employment placement numbers, as well as the school’s increasing popularity among prospective students who plan to enter the private sector, does not bother SOM Dean Edward Snyder, who has led the school since 2011.

“There is increased interest in Yale SOM from the corporate sector. While one might think that is because Yale SOM has become more corporate, another explanation is that the corporate sector has become more interested in Yale SOM’s enduring mission,” Snyder said.

Similarly, Baron said the school’s mission has not been eroded but actually has become all the more attractive among peer schools. As public trust in business institutions declines, many business schools have adopted a similar mission, posing a risk that the SOM might become less distinctive than it used to be, Baron said.

Even if the SOM has begun attracting more corporate-minded students, SOM students interviewed said the change has contributed to classroom diversity.

Ignacio Martinez SOM ’17 said that previously, a lot of applicants were a “self-selecting group,” as students applied to Yale did so because they were interested in public and social sectors. But lately, he said, the school attracts students of varying interests and has become a more heterogeneous environment.

Henry Litman SOM ’17 said the student body is a good mixture between students with social impact mindsets and students who are more corporately oriented, and the diversity contributes positively to classroom discussions.

President of the SOM Student Government Brittan Berry SOM ’16 said her organization has held conversations regarding what it means for the school to move up in the rankings and whether SOM has retained its mission in being an education leader for business and society. The concern has jump-started several grassroots efforts to preserve the school’s culture.

For example, “Open Evans,” a new student-led project, organizes events to keep the community close despite its 2014 move into a larger building.

“The fact that people care about [the issue] and talk about it in hallway conversations, as well as in the student government means a lot,” Berry said. “It shows that we care.”

When the SOM was founded, it offered a master’s degree in public and private management rather than an MBA. Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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The SOM’s founding mission is “to educate leaders for business and society.”

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FROM THE FRONT

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek.” BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Committee releases Schwarzman Center recommendations SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1

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The recommendations include increased performing arts space and a room for graduate students.

Dwight approves grant GRANT FROM PAGE 1 past four years. In that same timespan, two other properties of The Community Builders have hosted 265 and 189 crimes respectively.

Neither HANH nor The Community Builders responded to requests for comment.

In the past, DCMT has confronted The Community Builders about the management of their properties. But the problems with the properties were never solved, Walton said.

“The Community Builders ends up saying, ‘Yes, we’re sorry that these problems are here, but now we’re going to do something about it,’” Walton said. “But then [The Community Builders] disappears.”

Community members were also frustrated that the HANH requested very little input from the Dwight neighborhood organizations while drafting the application for the grant.

They expressed concerns that if the grant money were received, they would have little input in the actual development process.

Marcus Paca, vice president of the Greater Dwight Development Corporation — an independent group that works closely with the DCMT — noted that the grant application also failed to mention any of the recent accomplishments of the GDDC and DCMT, which include housing development projects, the purchase of commercial real estate and the development of a successful early-education program in Dwight neighborhood.

After the community’s negative response to the initial grant proposal, however, the HANH directly responded to their sentiments.

“The following day, the city basically made a huge effort to step in and try to actively, proactively address our concerns,” Walton said. “They assured us that they would both effectively rewrite the narrative and include as an asset the very successful work of the neighborhood group.”

The population of Dwight neighborhood is 5,339.

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

for both undergraduates and graduate students. The report, which also calls for the center to provide flexible meeting spaces for student groups, has been submitted to University President Peter Salovey, who will work alongside the center’s architects to vet and develop the committee’s recommendations. The Yale Corporation will have final say over any changes to the building.

Discussions about the center’s function and design will continue over the next few weeks, and community members will have an opportunity to contribute their input at The Big Ydea: Schwarzman Center Thinkathon on Feb. 20.

“We are trying to think outside of the box and consider the ways in which Yale operates for different constituencies,” Holloway told the News. “The center may serve a different purpose for graduate students, compared to undergraduates, so we wanted to hear about everyone’s perspectives.”

The recommendations are fairly consistent with the vision that the advisory committee described last fall: They plan to implement a robust annual calendar of ongoing programs and major monthly events intended to attract students from the different schools within the University. The programs envisioned by the committee would include guest speaker events similar to the Master’s Teas currently held in residential colleges, as well as film series, dances and academic talks led by graduate students. The report also suggests a series of features designed to promote the arts, including multipurpose rooms and spaces for dance and film. At Commons, there would be a stage available for arts and other events, while a bistro area would contain a performance venue for music, sketch-comedy and spoken-word groups. Woolsey Hall and the War Memorial will retain their original functions.

Despite the project’s massive budget, the recommendations do not

square perfectly with some of the requests made by certain student groups. For example, while dance groups on campus have expressed a need for more rehearsal space, the report noted that the spatial configurations of the Schwarzman Center are not well suited for a large dance studio. Additionally, though the LGBTQ Student Cooperative requested dedicated space within the center, the committee elected to focus on creating flexible spaces instead. Only the President’s Room on the second floor was recommended for a specific purpose, as the committee suggested reserving it for graduate and professional students, many of whom feel the campus lacks a central gathering place for the graduate student community.

But other parts of the report do reflect student feedback. In an interview with the News, Holloway said food and dining will play an integral role in the center’s design. The report notes that students consulted during a monthslong “listening tour” cited enhanced food and beverage options as their primary desire for the center.

The report recommends an overhaul of the current dining hall, adding that the cafeteria space is “woefully overdue for a thorough renovation” and that its lunch service should be better publicized to graduate and professional students. Three of five graduate students interviewed said they had never set foot in Commons.

Alongside the main dining area, the center may also feature a lower-level bistro with a flexible menu adjusted throughout the day. The bistro envisioned in the report would serve coffee in the morning, as well as reasonably priced lunches and dinners later in the day.

The report recommends a handful of features intended to make the new center attractive to graduate and professional students — the demographic that has been the most vocal in advocating for a student center on campus. In addition to setting aside the President’s Room for these students’ use, the report also recommends a bar venue serving wine and

beer, noting that other universities have found ways to incorporate both undergraduate and graduate students in such spaces, despite the availability of alcoholic beverages.

Jesse Boretsky LAW ’16 said he views the campus center as a solution to the social isolation endemic to graduate student life at Yale.

“People in graduate school generally just get very, very focused on their own projects,” Boretsky said. “That can tend to drive people into isolation. Maybe that’s a more important goal for the Schwarzman Center, getting people to see new perspectives.”

Boretsky said he has never visited Commons during his time at Yale but would consider visiting the center if it opened before his graduation later this year.

Cooley said the center will add a “new dimension” to the student experience at Yale, including to that of graduate students.

Undergraduates interviewed also expressed enthusiasm about the plans outlined in the report, saying that the center promises to encourage muchneeded interaction among students in different residential colleges.

“It sounds like a Global Grounds kind of situation, except bigger,” said Nicole Sanchez ’18, referring to a weekend hangout spot on Old Campus.

Hanna Karimipour ’18 said she hopes the new center will draw students from across the University, allowing undergraduates to mingle with peers who live in different colleges.

“It’s really going to bridge students together in a way other things haven’t,” Nicole Mo ’19 said.

Chang Liu ENG ’16 said she hopes that the provision of new social spaces for graduate students will encourage healthy intellectual dialogue among students in the different schools. And, she added, “a really soft sofa” would be nice, too.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

City suggests hike in food vendor fees FOOD TRUCK FROM PAGE 1 thoroughly mixed opinions on their efficacy.

“What concerns me is that I don’t see the correlations between the problems identified here and the 1,000 percent increase in the price to do business in this city,” said Bob Sweeney Jr., who has owned a hot dog truck in the city for decades. “It went from $450 to a proposed $4,250 —that’s a 1,000 percent increase.”

Fontana said the city often receives complaints about vendors’ behavior from residents and other vendors alike. Those complaints, he said, typically allege that vendors are violating city policies regarding noise, food waste and pollution, among other violations.

Though Fontana acknowledged that such offenders are in the minority of food vendors, he said it is still important to strengthen the enforcement of rules.

“Most of the complaints we get about vendors are from other vendors,” he said.

“Clearly, most of you … are the ones that are following the rules, but you’re noticing that, due to a lack of enforcement resources by the city, there are some vendors who aren’t following the rules.”

Fontana added that the new fees are meant to increase the city’s capacity to enforce existing regulations.

City building official Jim Turcio, whose department has evicted several different food trucks from illegal spaces in recent months, also attended the meeting and was on hand to answer questions.

“We don’t want rogue people doing this any more than you want rogue people doing this,” Turcio said. “This is our way of saying, ‘How can we, with the limited resources we have as a city, put someone on the job making sure people aren’t doing that sort of stuff?’”

According to the proposal, the only food trucks that would be required to pay the $4,250 maximum fee are those on Long Wharf. The major-

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Permit fees for food vendors could increase with the city’s proposed fee reforms, city officials said Thursday. ity of permit fees in the four areas that would be designated as “special vending zones” — Long Wharf, Cedar Street, Ingalls Rink and Downtown — would fall around $2,000.

Fontana said the city will work to “cluster” food trucks in specific Downtown areas.

At Long Wharf, food trucks would be required to pay $17 a day for a permit, the highest rate in the city. Food trucks — which park on the street, unlike food carts that set up on the sidewalk — would pay $8 a day in Downtown. Food carts, meanwhile, would pay $8 per day at Long Wharf and $4 per day at Ingalls Rink, Cedar Street and Downtown.

The meeting was the second between the city and vendors this week; a previous meeting on Monday addressed many of the same issues, though attendance was limited by a snowstorm.

City government first floated the idea of an increase in vending permit fees in January at a closed meeting between Fontana and res-

taurant owners in The Study at Yale. The fee increase discussed at that meeting would have caused fees to skyrocket to $5,100 from the current fees of only a few hundred dollars.

Following vocal opposition from vendors, Fontana’s new proposals represent a compromise between the two parties.

The permits will be available through one of two means. Current vendors will be allowed to submit sealed bids above the base rate for a permit in two-thirds of the spots in the designated area.

The other third of the permits will be made available through a random lottery process. Fontana said the dual system is meant to protect current vendors while also allowing new vendors to enter the business.

“How can we try to make sure that people who have been vending in the city and have a valuable customer base can keep doing it?” he asked rhetorically. “How can we make sure that people who want to get into the business can do so?”

Attendees at the meeting, which lasted for over two hours, had mixed views on the new plans. Many said they were glad the city has become more transparent in the redesign of the vending ordinances, and praised Fontana for aiming to enforce existing regulations.

Others, however, said the new fees are far too high.

“What [Fontana] is trying to accomplish here, addressing these complaints and these problems, is a proper government function,” Sweeney said.

“What I don’t like to hear and see is government telling us where we can go, where we can’t go. I know you have reasons and you have to abide by here.”

Mary Ciccono, who works on the 744 Express food truck Downtown, questioned why the city had chosen to divide food trucks and food carts into separate fee categories. She said carts and trucks often face similar costs and profit margins, and that it seems unfair to charge them different rates.

Wub Tessema — owner

of Lalibela, which has both a brick-and-mortar restaurant and a fleet of food carts — said he was happy that vendors were being included in the city’s deliberations on the fee revisions. He said the process is becoming “clearer and clearer” and suggested that vendors meet on their own, without the presence of city officials, to make their own positions clear on the fee hikes.

Fontana noted that the regulation restructuring process is by no means over. The city still plans to meet with Yale regarding the food carts at Ingalls Rink — which are technically illegal under current zoning law — after which the city will present the ordinance to Mayor Toni Harp. If the mayor approves, he said, the ordinance will be presented to the Board of Alders, which will offer substantial opportunities for public comment before it becomes law.

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

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NEWS

“Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.” AMY JO MARTIN AUTHOR, SPEAKER AND ENTREPRENEUR

Yale athletics hires social media specialist

Warming centers to open for homeless

Placing an increased emphasis on social media is not a Yale-only phenomenon. In recent years, the Ivy League administration has also introduced new strategies aimed at heightening its social media presence, Ivy League Assistant Executive Director Trevor Rutledge-Leverenz said.

This last fall, for example, the Ivy League created a Snapchat account that allows staff members to share live updates from contests happening around the conference.

Although the Ivy League also has Facebook and Instagram accounts, its primary social media platform is Twitter, where the conference has created hashtags to boost the Ancient Eight brand, Rutledge-Leverenz said. #OneIvy, for example, was first brainstormed two years ago to encapsulate the uniqueness of the Ivy League, Rutledge-Leverenz said. The Ivy League began using it at first, and reached out to the communication office of individual schools to encourage them to use the hashtag in their posts as well.

Another hashtag that the league recently introduced is the #14GameTournament, which stands for the characteristics of the Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball seasons not found in other conferences. All 14 games in the Ivy League season are equally important because the regular season league champion earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. In all other Division I conferences, a postseason tournament is held to determine the automatic bid. “#14GameTournament is something we have pushed this year and asked schools to use, mostly because it is a great way for someone to go Twitter and get all the game updates at once,” Rutledge-Leverenz said. “Rather than go to each individual handle, you can go on this hashtag and get everything.”

In the football season, #IvyFootball is also used widely.

Rutledge-Leverenz added that moving forward, Ivy League administrators will discuss potential hashtags to promote a larger variety of Ivy League sports.

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BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER At a time when Yale sports teams and the Ivy League continue to increase their activity across several social media outlets, the Yale athletic department has recently taken a major step toward expanding its own social media presence.

Yale athletics has created a new position, assistant athletic director for external operations, for the purpose of managing its social media accounts and reaching a younger generation of Bulldog alumni and fans, Deputy Director of Athletics Alison Cole ’99 said. Erica Egan, who has previous experience with social media, began the new job last month.

Although Egan’s job in the development office will include organizing certain athletic events and working with the Yale Alumni Association, her main role will be to streamline and integrate all of Yale athletics’ Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts under one voice.

“Before this position, many different people ran the accounts and there wasn’t one common voice to them,” Egan said. “The department has seen the effect of social media and wanted to have someone directing it from up closer.”

The new social media strategy has three main goals, Egan said, which include connecting with alumni and fans that do not live in New Haven, attracting more Elm City residents to Yale athletic events and helping with the recruitment of future Yale student-athletes.

The Yale sports publicity and marketing departments will continue to provide information and feedback for posts, but Egan will be responsible for creating the majority of the content, she said.

“The world right now is a social media playground,” Egan said.

“We want to extend our reach as wide as we can.”

Many individual teams manage their own social media accounts, with the sports publicity and marketing departments offering assistance when feasible, Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett said.

Egan said that system will not change with her new role, but she will share the teams’ content and

mention specific team accounts more often in the pages she runs.

In the past week, for example, the Yale athletics Twitter account has retweeted posts from the Yale football and women’s swimming and diving teams, as well as men’s basketball forward Justin Sears ’16.

Head football coach Tony Reno, whose team’s account is run by members of the coaching staff, said he believes the new hire will improve Yale’s current social media strategy, helping enhance the Yale football brand. For Reno, social media has been a crucial component to the team’s recruiting strategy in his four years at the helm.

I think that the best way to communicate with high-school prospects is through social media.

TONY RENO Football Head Coach “I think that the best way to communicate with high-school prospects is through social media because of how often they’re on Instagram, Twitter, and the access they have to it,” Reno said. “We put a lot of time and effort into it.”

He added that the accounts also allow alumni, parents and friends to follow along with what the football players are doing in the weight room and on the fields. During games, the team’s operations staff runs the Yale football Snapchat and Instagram accounts to provide real-time video highlights to fans.

Student-athletes also come into play when deciding which content to post. Both Reno and men’s basketball head coach James Jones highlighted that, given their age, the student-athletes have a better understanding of what works in a social media context.

“I’m always asking our players what they think of something before we do it, because the audience that we’re trying to really attract is them,” Reno said. “The music we put on the video, I have no feeling on that at all. What I listen to on the radio is complete different from what college kids listen to.”

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

The New Reach homeless shelter’s resources will be constrained this winter.

BY AMY CHENG STAFF REPORTER As temperatures this weekend are predicted to plummet to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit, Mayor Toni Harp and city emergency management officials have activated New Haven’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol to protect homeless individuals from the extreme cold.

Temperatures in the next three days are expected to approach dangerously low figures and to be laced with a biting 20-mph wind chill. City officials went so far as to warn that exposure to the northwest wind for an extended period of time could be potentially “life-threatening.” A Thursday press release from the Office of Mayor Harp said the city will roll out a bundle of safety measures, including the opening of warming centers, to keep its most vulnerable residents safe.

“It is Mayor Harp’s intention that no one is left unprotected — and subject to severe frostbite or hypothermia — during this next spate of cold winter weather,” the release said.

According to Erika LynnGreen ’18, advocacy chair from the Yale Hunger and Homeless Project, New Haven, along with many cities in the Northeast region, has a no-freeze policy — an unwritten rule that the city will not let anyone die on the streets due to a lack of access to shelter. Whenever

temperatures drop below 15 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill for longer than 12 hours, warming centers are set up to accommodate the homeless population.

The protocol dictates that city libraries double as daytime warming centers, and that overnight warming centers, typically churches, should be opened to provide ample sheltering for homeless residents.

“Warming centers are literally just places to go so you aren’t losing feeling in your feet and hands,” Lynn-Green said. “They would just be public libraries with chairs that open after dark.”

According to the Winter Shelter Chart Protocol, patrons will be divided into four groups — single men, single women, families with children and youth — and directed to different locations across the city. That said, some shelters are open to all demographics. “[Emergency clients] are given a bed to sleep in,” said Anthony Braxton, a staff member working at a New Reach shelter that is designated for single women under the protocol. “We provide food and showers if they need that.”

The New Reach warming center, which is located at 559 Howard Ave., is a shelter that also provides steady housing assistance throughout the year. Its acceptance of winter walk-ins is in accordance with New Haven’s no-freeze

process. At the New Reach shelter, residents are subject to an “up-and-about,” policy, Braxton said. This means that although individuals are allowed to stay indoors during the day, they are encouraged to be productive during that period. Due to its limited capacity, the Howard Ave. branch of New Reach shelter can only welcome two to three walk-ins, in addition to the regular population they already house.

When confronted with the considerable demand for shelter that comes with bad weather, New Reach shelter’s resources will be stretched to their limits.

“We provide them with a list of warming centers throughout the community,” Braxton said. “That’s basically all we can do.”

Due to resource constraints, warming centers have to be frugal about which seasons they remain open for and the extensiveness of the services they provide. Shelters run by New Reach or Columbus House — a larger nonprofit that shelters the homeless year-round — provides not only temporary housing, but personalized long-term programs to help residents get employed.

There are currently 15 New Haven shelters and warming centers offered under the Winter Shelter Chart Protocol.

Contact AMY CHENG at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” KURT VONNEGUT AMERICAN AUTHOR

University expands outreach to local high schools ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 the overall median for the U.S. as a whole, which was $51,939 in 2013 — the last year for which the U.S. Census Bureau has released data.

With the University citing lofty goals of continuing to create exceptionally diverse applicant pools, how has Yale’s outreach fared in its own backyard?

HOMETOWN TIES

Students, high-school administrators and representatives from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions interviewed for this article all said Yale has a particular responsibility to recruit highachieving students from local public high schools.

“We take a close look at all of the strongest applicants from New Haven public schools,” Quinlan said. “We are committed to bringing in the best and brightest New Haven highschool students and giving them the opportunity to let them continue their education here in New Haven.”

In keeping with this commitment, Amin Gonzalez, who serves as Yale’s co-director of multicultural recruitment and manages outreach and application review for the New Haven area, said he makes an effort to visit all of the New Haven public high schools annually. Gonzalez said high-school students’ awareness of Yale and college admissions varies from school to school. Quinlan said the admissions office holds strong outreach efforts in New Haven, noting that in the past two years, Gonzalez has made presentations at every public high school except for one, due to scheduling challenges.

According to a 2015 report by the Yale Office of Institutional Research, just 34 students matriculated between 2013 and 2015 had residency in New Haven. Over this same time period, 32 graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire matriculated, along with 38 from Phillips Academy Andover in Andover, Massachusetts.

As Yale’s national applicant pool has grown increasingly diverse over the past few years, so too have applications from within the New Haven area, according to Gonzalez, though he declined to provide specific data.

Quinlan added that the general applicant pool has seen a steady increase in representation from New Haven public schools, both in the number of applications and in the number of schools those applications come from.

Jake Colavolpe ’18, who attended The Sound School on South Water Street, said that given the University’s taxexempt status, Yale has a responsibility to aid in the educational mobility of the residents from which it withholds those funds.

“When Yale benefits from a tax code that allows it to not pay taxes on property valued at approximately $2.5 billion dollars, New Haven misses out on critical revenue to improve social and physical infrastructure,” Colavolpe said.

Cari Strand, curriculum leader at High School in the Community on Water Street, said it is important for Yale to be as connected to New Haven as possible, which includes recruiting students from the area. As most Yale students live in the city for just four years, Strand said having local students would benefit their peers by offering a different perspective on the community.

And others simply favored recruiting local students out of fairness to Yale’s home city.

Kiana Hernandez ’18, who went to Wilbur Cross High School in East Rock, said Yale should be doing at least the same level of outreach in New Haven as it does anywhere else.

“If Yale can send out recruiters looking for students in different areas around the country to apply, then I think they definitely do have a responsibility to look right here in New Haven,” she said.

AN IVORY TOWER

Still, as with any publicschool district enrolling a significant number of first-generation students and students of color, challenges to enhancing access to higher education abound.

Despite growing up in New Haven, students attending local public schools sometimes view Yale as a distant entity, accessible to only a small group of privileged elites.

“Only a few of us saw Yale as a school rather than an employer,” Hernandez said. “I don’t know if it’s that Yale thinks that because we grow up with it in the city we just kind of know what Yale is about, but I do know that everyone I speak to in this city sees Yale as a closed-off place.”

Cameron Schmitz ’19, who attended Wilbur Cross, also said that local public-school students often see Yale as inaccessible to them.

But Hernandez also noted an imbalance of information across racial lines, saying that for the most part, the white students at her high school had more information about the college process than did students of color. Hernandez, a Hispanic first-generation college student, said she had no idea that she had a chance at getting into Yale until her guidance counselor told her that she did, and she only found out about the University’s financial aid policies from a white classmate. She added that just two students of color applied to Yale from her school that year, though Wilbur Cross enrolls roughly 50 percent Hispanic students and 35 percent African-Americans and gradu-

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Between the years of 2013 and 2015, 34 New Haven students matriculated into Yale. ates around 400 students per year.

Colavolpe said there is definitely an issue of accessibility for New Haven public-school students, though this phenomenon is not limited to Yale and New Haven. Rather, he said, the relationship between the University and its host city is representative of a larger phenomenon of lowincome students being systematically excluded from colleges and universities nationwide.

“Yale does not seem accessible to most students in New Haven, because it is not,” Colavolpe said.

However, Jahia Owens, a junior at High School in the Community, said she does not feel Yale is foreign to her because of all the opportunities she has had to interact with Yale students.

Owens said she participates in the Urban Debate League and Project Youth Court, two programs run by volunteers from the University.

Judy Puglisi, principal of Metropolitan Business Academy on Water Street, said her top students do consider Yale an option, but noted that some students might be turned off by an apparent lack of diversity on campus.

“If you do a tour, and you don’t

see anyone who looks like you, that could deter students [from applying],” Puglisi said.

REACHING OUT

There are many opportunities for New Haven high-school students to interact with Yale through both formal outreach and extracurricular activities run

by Yale students, though the latter is a more sustained and effective channel for engagement, according to local students interviewed.

Quinlan cited Yale’s highschool auditing program and free Summer Session courses for local students, as well as the Yale Book Award — awarded to outstanding juniors in local high schools — as ways in which a young resident might engage with the University before applying.

For Alejandra Corona Ortega ’19, engagement with Yale began in high school when she joined her school’s debate team.

Corona, then a student at The Sound School, was coached in debate by Yale students once or twice a week and participated in monthly tournaments on campus.

“The debate program made me want to come to Yale because

I was surrounded by great people,” she said. Corona added that the older students she knew from debate also served as mentors once she enrolled at Yale, which eased her transition.

Strand said that most often, interactive experiences with Yale students help local high schoolers see Yale as a possible destination.

James Mosley, head of guidance at Metropolitan Business Academy on Water Street, said he was not aware of any specific outreach at the school by the Yale Admissions Office. And while Schmitz said a group of students and admissions officers visited Wilbur Cross in the spring of his junior year, other local students he knows did not experience the same level of outreach.

Still, Strand said that Yale sent admissions representatives to High School in the Community in the past, provided that the high school reached out to the administration beforehand. Colavolpe said he received a letter from the admissions office encouraging his application, and that an admissions officer came to The Sound School to speak about Yale and the application process.

However, Colavolpe took care to

differentiate these efforts from outreach by Yale students, which he said were long-term and more effective.

But these efforts were comparable to outreach at New Haven private schools. Charlie Proctor ’17, who attended the Hopkins School on Forest Road, said Yale representatives attended college fairs at Hopkins once or twice per year.

Hernandez further lamented efforts by the Admissions Office.

She said that when she was in high school, it did not feel as though the Yale administration was making an effort to reach out to local students and encourage them to apply.

“Aside from an interview with a Yale grad, which is pretty much a part of the standard application process, I don’t remember Yale reaching out to me in particular, or anyone at my high school,” Hernandez said. “As far as I know, most students in New Haven that apply to Yale do it because it’s in our city and we very obviously know about it, not because we feel particularly sought after or wanted by the University.”

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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The Council of Masters has been largely silent about its recommendation on the title “master.”

make sure the Corporation saw it.”

The source said the council had been “flip-flopping” on its decision. On Thursday, Salovey indicated that he had not received multiple recommendations. Because he had agreed to confidentiality, however, he said he could not confirm whether he has received a single recommendation or not.

Over the course of the past several months, Salovey has chosen to say less and less about deliberations within the council. He told the News last semester that he expected the council to submit a recommendation before the Corporation’s February meeting. In mid-January, he said he could not comment on the council and that if the group planned to submit a formal recommendation to him, it had yet to do so.

Similarly, Holloway, who works closely with the council, has grown reticent on the issue.

In December, Holloway told the News that he expected a recommendation from the council to be submitted to Salovey by the end of winter break. At the start of the semester, Holloway said the recommendation would arrive “momentarily.” But

last week Holloway said he had “nothing to add” until the Corporation makes its decision.

Residential college masters contacted for this story either declined to comment on the status of their potential recommendation or did not respond.

Stephen Davis, head of Pierson College and chair of the council, said the body did not want to interfere with the Corporation’s deliberations by commenting publicly.

“While conversations are ongoing I’m unfortunately not in a position to share any information,” Davis said. “I’ll be happy to have a conversation about these matters once the Corporation’s conversations are concluded. My colleagues and I don’t want any public statements to interfere with their process of deliberation and decision-making.”

At Harvard, change has been slow despite a public announcement to do away with the title in December. Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that undergraduate residential house masters had unanimously expressed a desire to change their title with the support of Harvard University President Drew Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith. Khurana also

noted in December that the college would launch a process to find a replacement title by early 2016.

However, the Harvard Crimson reported in a Jan. 26 article that the college had yet to replace the title. Almost all house masters either declined to comment or did not respond to interview requests.

However, Mather House Master Michael Rosengarten said while specifics surrounding a replacement title at Harvard remain confidential, the title of master is still set to change.

“At the moment we are embargoed from discussing the ongoing process,” he said.

“What Dean Khurana and all of us wrote in December remains true. The title change comes from the sensitivity of the house leaders to our community of students. This has been a change that has been long in the making and there appears to be no rush for the college to find a new title that serves the 21st century needs of our students.”

The Council of Masters meets roughly eight times during the academic year.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.” BILLY MAYS TELEVISION SALESMAN

Electronics repair site seeks growth

BY BRITTANY SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Exactly one month after opening a location on Broadway, the owners of The Windows Store are beginning to see slow growth in business.

Entrepreneur-technicians Timothy Toliver and Daniel Perez opened their computer repair and accessory store between the Apple Store and Campus Customs last month to improve electronic services available to Elm City residents.

Both owners bring over two decades of hands-on customer service and electronics-repair experience to their business.

But although they service a variety of operating systems, smart phones and software, Toliver and Perez are seeing slow business.

“We will repair what others aren’t willing to repair, and we will explain what is wrong instead of trying to sell a customer new items,” Toliver said.

“We want to leave a positive mark on the community and give back — not rip people off.”

Perez said he expected a slow start, but the store’s upstairs location puts them at a further disadvantage. Because the storefront is not at ground level, other businesses have larger signs that obscure their site, meaning passers-by can easily overlook it. Perez added that he and Toliver often rely on wordof-mouth to attract customers.

Although business is slow, Perez said he is optimistic about its future growth. Though his previous business endeavors around the state have flatlined, he said he believes New Haven provides a dynamic community where he can succeed. He added that unlike other businesses in the area, The Windows Store places a focus on personaliz-

ing customer service and fulfilling a wider variety of computing needs, including complete cleanups, data backup and data recovery.

“This area is a prime location of need,” Toliver said. “We have no desire to be exclusive, and we are open and welcoming to Yale students and locals. We see ourselves as underdogs trying to ensure people get the right service they need at the right price.”

We will repair what others aren’t willing to repair, and we will explain what is wrong.

TIMOTHY TOLIVER Co-owner, The Windows Store Like Perez, when Toliver began working in computer and electronics repair, he faced similar challenges. But he added that his identity as an AfricanAmerican created additional hurdles. He said that because of his race, he has found it harder to build connections and gain customers. Toliver added that had he not had a mentor as a teenager, he would not have had the opportunity to learn the skills he needed to enter the electronic-repair industry. Toliver is restarting college in the fall, and said he aims to serve as a role model to youth by growing The Windows Store.

Toliver said he also hopes The Windows Store will help reduce high unemployment rates in the Elm City. He noted that unemployment tends to be a more prominent issue among minorities. More than 18 percent of black New Haven residents were unemployed in 2015,

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according to a statement made

by New Haven Caucus Chair and Hill Alder Dolores Colon at the New Haven alders’ Black and Hispanic Caucus last March.

Among New Haven Latinos, the unemployment rate stood at over 20 percent in 2015, she added. Both owners said they hope their store will help alleviate unemployment in the Elm City.

“When it picks up, we’re definitely looking to hire,” Toliver said. “We want to help lower the unemployment rate, which is really high here in New Haven.”

Toliver added that many businesses in New Haven are family-owned and run, and thus less likely to hire from the general population. As a result, local residents have trouble finding employment.

Until The Windows Store sees more customers, the owners cannot afford additional employees. The store currently draws attention from some Yale students and New Haven residents, including court liaisons, residents of Hotel Duncan and the owner of Custom Tee’s Plus on Whalley Avenue. Toliver and Perez have also retained clients who hired them before they opened the new business.

“They are a new business and still working on their operations, their wrinkles,” said local architect David Harlan, who previously hired Perez for regular computer service. “[Perez] is very informed and smart about IT system design. He understood and worked within our budgets especially well — in fact, worked hard to get the best prices for our needs.”

The Windows Store is located on the second floor of 59 Broadway.

Contact BRITTANY SMITH at brittany.smith@yale.edu .

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The Windows Store opened on Broadway next to the Apple Store last month.

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NEWS

“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.”

DRAKE CANADIAN RAPPER, SONGWRITER AND RECORD PRODUCER

Betts discusses journey from prison to Yale Law

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER Reginald Dwayne Betts LAW ’16 — an award-winning author and poet, former high school writing teacher and current student at Yale Law School — got his start in an unusual place: Fairfax County Jail, where he spent eight years in prison for carjacking.

At 5 p.m. on Thursday, over 70 people from the Yale and New Haven community crowded into the Beaumont Room at the Sterling Hall of Medicine to hear Betts’ story. The talk — which was hosted by the Program for Humanities in Medicine and co-sponsored by the Offices of Multicultural Affairs, Student Affairs and the Yale Student National Medical Association/ Latino Medical Student Association — was a forum for Betts to read excerpts from his memoir and book of poems, and for him to discuss problems within the criminal justice system.

[Betts] even mentioned at one point that it took only 30 minutes for [him] to become a statistic.

JEREMIAH CROSS MED ’19 President, Yale SNMA/LMSA “Tonight, Reginald Dwayne Betts has joined us to reflect on a journey,” Nientara Anderson MED ’19 said in opening remarks.

“He invites us to contemplate complex issues with empathy.”

Betts’ story began when he was arrested for carjacking at age 16 and tried as an adult. He subsequently spent eight years in Fairfax County Jail in Virginia, near his hometown of Washington, D.C., during which time he completed high school. He also read and wrote poetry during his time in prison.

Upon his release, Betts, who is now 36, went on to work at a bookstore in Maryland, where he was eventually promoted to store manager. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Maryland, taught poetry in middle schools and high schools in Washington, D.C. and now attends Yale Law School.

His memoir, published in 2010, was awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. He now frequently hosts talks and readings at various universities and high schools.

“I’ve made friends with people in the worst prisons and best law schools in the country,” he said.

At the event, Betts spent about half an hour reading excerpts from his works before opening the floor to discussion. His memoir begins with the moment he was brought to prison and ends with his ultimate release, and it brings up controversial issues about the intersection between criminal and racial justice. At one point in his memoir, he writes, “Add my name to the toll of black men behind bars.”

Jeremiah Cross MED ’19, copresident of SNMA/LMSA and a moderator of the talk, said he was especially drawn to Betts’ recurring references to 30 minutes — the time it took for Betts to commit the crime that landed him in prison. “[Betts] even mentioned at one point that it took only 30 minutes for [him] to become a statistic,” Cross said. “But when I think of the incarcerated, I think of something hardened, premeditated.”

Betts was quick to address the misconception that all people in prison are hardened criminals. He said “prison as an institution hardens people,” and that the rough conditions of prison — not the individuals inside it — are what society needs to examine further.

In fact, Betts said, the stigma surrounding criminal records has held him back from various opportunities. He men-

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Reginald Dwayne Betts LAW ’16 spoke of his journey from prison to Yale Law School. tioned that he had a full tuition scholarship to Howard University, but when they found out he had gone to prison, the school revoked it. Even after earning an undergraduate degree and going to law school, he has still lost job opportunities due to background checks.

“We’ve got to change the way we stigmatize people with criminal records,” he said. “We need to use legislation to get people their civil rights back.”

Betts is still not allowed to vote in some states. He said that this

affects his peers as well, many of whom have been locked up for various “low-level felonies” that, according to him, should not prevent them from having basic civil liberties.

Sascha Murillo MED ’19, the other co-president of SNMA/ LMSA and moderator of the talk, mentioned a “Ban the Box” program at Yale-New Haven Hospital. According to Murillo, this initiative would eliminate the question on job applications of whether or not the applicant has a criminal record.

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Betts also cited the unfortunate prevalence of violence in the community where he grew up, as well as a lack of support, as the reason that “so many black men ages 18 to 35 end up in prison.”

He described a story in which, during a celebration after Barack Obama’s first election, one of his students said that his brother had been shot the night before — but the other students just kept celebrating.

“There’s always this trauma that lies just below the surface,” he said. “It’s this trauma, this

tragedy, that we ignore.”

Jean Kalick Molot, a local who frequents the Humanities in Medicine events, said this event was “the most well attended by far.” She said she left feeling inspired and in awe of how much Betts had to say about social justice.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men will go to prison in his lifetime.

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

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AROUND THE IVIES

“I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it.”

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

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

Student Life office looks to bridge student-admin gap

South Asian Studies dept. searches for prof

BY JULIANA KAPLAN As Dean of Undergraduate Student Life Cristen Kromm enters the second year of her tenure overseeing the Office of Undergraduate Student Life, she is working to renew and reinvigorate USL’s guiding objective: to be an office with a staff of student-facing administrators that provides more direct support for students.

Following a call for more administrative support and engagement from students on campus, Kromm has pinpointed student concerns that administrators leave them to fend for themselves, and she hopes to address that through a restructured office.

“In my time here, I’ve talked to a lot of students who don’t feel cared for or feel like we could do better in terms of just messages that there is something greater, or there’s other people paying attention other than them,” Kromm said.

Some of Kromm’s first decisions as dean of USL were to cut positions that did not optimize student support. The first positions to fold were those of the associate dean of residential life — previously held by Kromm — and associate dean of student engagement to make way for more student-facing positions, such as full-time residence-hall directors.

However, this goal has been complicated as the office works to fill gaps made by several recent departures.

Since May 2015, nine administrators from the Office of USL, which encompasses Student Engagement,

the Office of Multic u l t u ra l Affairs, and Residential Life, have COLUMBIA left.

By next week, Student Engagement will have lost two administrators within the last two months: Former Director of Leadership and Civic Engagement Annie Virkus left on Jan. 15, and current Associate Director of Leadership and Civic Engagement Ryan Scherr will leave next Friday.

With the departure of Virkus and Scherr, advising for at least 35 student groups has been redistributed between Associate Dean of Multicultural Affairs Melinda Aquino and the remaining staff in Student Engagement, according to Director of Student Community Programs Josh Lucas.

Omar Abboud, — who served as the president of CU Turath last year, former Director-General of the Columbia Model United Nations Conference Expo, a member of the search committee for Kromm’s position, and the current co-chair of the Columbia Mentoring Initiative — said that current systems for club finances, such as the process for groups to get purchases approved, has become inefficient. These processes require going through advisers, which can be a difficulty for groups working with their second or third new adviser.

Columbia Outdoor Orientation Program, a studentled group overseen by Student

Engagement, faces unique issues with the departures of both Virkus and Scherr. In November, Virkus and Scherr decided that COÖP should become more accessible and proposed several expansive cuts, which COÖP rallied against with a town hall and several counterproposals. After the initial outcry, leading members of the group began to work closely with Virkus and Scherr to come up with cost-cutting solutions.

As COÖP continues to work on increasing accessibility without Virkus and Scherr, Associate Director of Leadership and Civic Engagement Peter Cerneka — previously a COÖP adviser — will serve as the group’s interim adviser.

“The fact that [Scherr’s announced departure] was very abrupt is a little concerning,” COÖP student leader Mariana Lopez, who had just been informed of Scherr’s upcoming departure on Tuesday, said. “But I know that we’re in good hands with Pete, as a previous coordinator, and we have a good support system with COÖP.” For Columbia College Student Council Class of 2017 President Ravi Sinha, whose current group adviser is also Scherr, the remaining USL personnel will help ease the transition for student groups.

“I think for students who don’t have to know everyone in the office, it might be a little bit of a transition time and a bit of a learning time for a lot of advisers, but I think there’s a lot of great people who stayed and who are able to really provide that bridge,” Sinha said.

Although Kromm acknowledged that the turnover was not ideal, she is looking to harness the situation as an opportunity to reexamine student group advising and student engagement.

“It certainly isn’t great when staff leave midyear, but you can’t fault people for opportunities,” Kromm said.

“Yes, it means that we’re asking a bit more of the staff that are here in terms of additional work and responsibilities, and then are working to replace some positions exactly as they are and then are rethinking the best structure for others.”

For the director of civic engagement and leadership position, Virkus’ former position, Kromm said that she sees an opportunity to move away from the managerial role and instead focus the position on student needs.

“We’re going to hire someone who will replace Annie but not at a director position,” Kromm said. “We don’t need another manager there — we need someone to come in and work on the front line of students.”

For her part, Kromm has been praised by students for implementing measures to connect with them, whether through bringing their concerns to higher-level administrators, such as with Sinha’s push to increase study space during finals, or sitting on the Lerner ramps to engage with them.

However, for students like Abboud, the office as a whole has not been completely successful in actively engaging with students about the work that it is doing.

BY MIA KARR The South Asian Studies department, which replaced Sanskrit and Indian studies in 2010, is in the process of finalizing a list of candidates for its second-ever tenure-track position.

The fledgling department welcomed its first tenured professor, Sunil Amrith, in the fall, and hopes that the recipient of the new post will join him in the fall of 2016.

“When you create a new department you need to build, and the idea is to build in a way that is consistent with the vision of the department and in a way that complements the people who are already here,” said South Asian Studies Department Chair Parimal Patil.

The department includes professors with appointments in fields including music, philosophy, anthropology, religion and history, among others. While Patil said he does not have a particular field in mind for the new professor, the scholar will need to work in contemporary South Asian studies, an area that he said is currently lacking.

“There’s a lot of olden times, Sanskrit, that type of interest,” South Asian Studies joint concentrator Madhavi Narayanan said.

Narayanan is taking Amrith’s class, “South Asia: A Global History,” and working with him outside of class in preparation for a thesis. Amrith was hired to fill a need for a specialist in modern South Asian studies.

Narayanan, who is one of only three students currently con-

centrating in the field, said A m r i t h ’s class has more students than she’s ever HARVARD seen in a South Asian studies course.

“I think it would be cool to have more cross-listed courses, especially so people aren’t just looking at South Asian studies courses as electives, but would be able to get credit for it,” Narayanan said.

According to Amrith, while Harvard has long had strong researchers in the field of East Asian studies, offerings in South Asian studies fall behind many other North American universities.

“I would certainly like to see this program expand,” Amrith said. “ I think it’s a rather fruitful place for interdisciplinary study.”

Narayanan, who is joint concentrating in Government, said she would like to see the expansion include a professor who works with politics or international relations. Fellow concentrator Aliya Itzkowitz said she has also found the department lacking in the subject.

“I think originally I had a more ambitious [thesis] idea focusing on contemporary politics,” Itzkowitz said, adding that if she had pursued the topic, then she would have had to turn to someone in another department or school.

Regardless of their field, in a small department the new hire must be a good fit, Patil said.

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CS dept. to hire diversity advocates

BY JULIANNE CENTER The Department of Computer Science is seeking to hire student advocates for diversity and inclusion as part of its new action plan to increase diversity. The new hires are part of an administrative effort to address the department’s dearth of gender and racial diversity — just 8.7 percent of concentrators identify as underrepresented minorities and 26.8 percent identify as women, said Ugur Cetintemel, professor and chair of computer science.

The student advocates will join the CS Diversity Committee and function as a resource for students, Cetintemel said.

In addition, the student advocates will help the department communicate with existing student groups that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, including Mosaic+, an organization that aims to make CS a more receptive space for underrepresented racial minorities, and Women in Computer Science, a group that aims to increase the participation of women in CS. The student advocates’ responsibilities will include supporting students encountering problems, helping to plan diversity and inclusion activities, raising awareness of existing resources and training teaching assistants, faculty and staff, Cetintemel said. The position will be paid commensurate to the pay levels of current departmental positions, such as teaching assistants, and will be shaped by the students who are selected.

“One of their first duties is to work with us to fully define this,” said Tom Doeppner, associate professor of computer science.

Other efforts to increase diversity in the department, such as the creation of a new administrative role to handle diversity and inclusion issues, are included in the CS department’s new action plan, which will be finalized in the next couple of months, Cetintemel said. The plan includes

s t r u c t u ra l changes separate from the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Action BROWN Plan but will leverage the resources and structures the university’s plan provides, he added.

“I think it’s really important that departments create their own action plans that synergize with the university plans,” Cetintemel said, adding that each department has unique issues and problems regarding diversity and inclusion that must be addressed individually.

Applicants will be hired in the following weeks based on a CV and “a one-to-three-page statement on [their] qualifications for the position and what [they will] bring to the role,” Doeppner wrote in an email to The Herald.

The statement was due Feb. 8.

“We’re well aware that our department is not as diverse as we’d like it to be. Our students have a lot of good ideas, and we’d like to hear their ideas and help them leverage energy to try to do what we can to become more diverse,” Doeppner said.

While the percentage of underrepresented minority students concentrating in CS increased from 3.6 percent to 8.7 percent from 2012 to 2014, according to statistics provided by the CS department, the department should be at least as diverse as the rest of campus, Doeppner said. Likewise, the percentage of female concentrators rose from 21.8 percent to 26.8 percent from 2012 to 2014, significantly higher than the national average for comparable university CS departments, which is around 18 percent, Cetintemel said.

The low representation of people of color and women in CS can be partially attributed to where students go to high school, Doeppner said. The stu-

dents who were exposed to CS before coming to Brown are typically white males from highachieving schools, and that demographic carries on to college and the field as a whole, he said. The new advocates are part of structural changes the department will enact in order to “do what we can” for students when they arrive on campus and to improve the computing industry, Doeppner said.

It is important that STEM fields are diverse for two main reasons, Cetintemel said. First, diverse backgrounds give the field greater creativity, he said. “If you’re only engaging these major groups who represent a fraction of our society, then you’re losing a lot of important, innovative and creative ideas” that could contribute to the greater good, he added.

Second, it is important that underrepresented minorities and women have equal access to the training and education necessary to qualify for desirable, high-paying jobs in the computer industry and other STEM fields, Cetintemel said.

Lucy Wei, a member of WiCS who plans to concentrate in CS, said that though she has only taken introductory courses — where disparities in race and gender are less evident — there is a visible lack of diversity in the department.

“If you’re a minority and you don’t see your presence represented by TAs or professors, it’s a less welcoming experience,” Wei said. With student groups such as Mosaic+ and WiCS, “there is always someone to talk to,” she said, but she thinks new student advocates will be a more accessible resource for issues regarding diversity and inclusion.

“As a department, we just want to make sure these groups feel comfortable here, feel productive here and are not disadvantaged in any way, shape or form. So that’s what we are trying to do,” Cetintemel said.

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SPORTS

“There’s more to me than just this jersey that I wear.” STEPHEN CURRY NBA CHAMPION

Playoff implications for Elis on Senior Day W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 final two periods, and one more goal from the Bulldogs was not enough to overcome the 4–3 deficit.

The second Colgate goal in that game was a powerplay score, something that has become a strength for the Raiders in 2015–16. Colgate is second in the ECAC with a 23.8-percent success rate on the power-play, a facet that poses a clear threat to the Elis, whose penalty kill rate is currently last in the conference.

“Right now, we need to be better defensively,” defenseman Julia Yetman ’19 said.

“This week at practice we have put a lot of focus on being tough to play against in our defensive

zone, winning battles in the corners and getting pins down low. Although we want to play physically, we need to do a better job of staying disciplined because we have been taking a lot of penalties, which often kills our momentum.”

The end of Yale’s earlier game against Cornell proceeded in similar fashion, with the Bulldogs giving up late goals to break a 3–3 tie in the third period.

Within the first period, goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 could not stop three out of Cornell’s first five shots on net. With the team down 3–0 heading into the second period, head coach Joakim Flygh substituted netminder Kyra O’Brien ’19 for Mandl.

O’Brien had a shut-out second period while her Bulldog teammates scored three goals of their own to match the Big Red. Yet the Elis just could not keep up as Cornell barraged Yale with three more goals in the last period, finishing the Bulldogs’ 13th loss of the season at that point.

“We outplayed them,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said.

“But we just came up short on the defensive side of things.”

Cornell is now on a threegame losing streak, contributing to the team’s current total of 12 defeats this season. The Big Red has not had this many losses in one season since the 2008–09 campaign.

Yetman highlighted the team’s improved offense since

that two-loss weekend, a feature that may be the key to success this weekend.

“Excluding our last game against Harvard, we have been very dominant in the offensive zone, running plays and creating good chances for ourselves,” Yetman said. “I think that if we are able to transition quickly and continue to move the puck in the offensive zone we will have a lot of success in our upcoming games.”

Yale’s last home games of the season will begin Friday at 7 p.m against Colgate and Saturday at 4 p.m. against Cornell.

Saturday’s game will be Senior Day. Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

Hoops pursues 8–0 start M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 nents by an average of 18.0 points.

Dominant shooting performances — the Bulldogs have shot 54.6 percent during the four-game stretch — have keyed the impressive streak of comfortable victories.

“All of us have gotten in the gym and we have been working hard,” guard Nick Victor ’16 said. “If we just keep doing what we are doing, we are going to get many of the same shots. We just have to knock them down.”

The team has collectively shot 52.9 percent from the field in the six Ivy games thus far, in addition to outrebounding its opponents 248–168.

In fact, the Bulldogs boast the best rebounding margin — Yale outrebounds its opponents by 12.4 boards per game on average — in the country.

In the Dartmouth contest on Friday, the Bulldogs will face a unique combination of depth and bench contributions from the Big Green. Twelve players have seen time in 15 or more games, as opposed to Yale’s 10.

Dartmouth is anchored offensively by a youthful starting five. While the Yale starting five features four seniors, Dartmouth usually starts two sophomores and a freshman to accompany just two seniors, guard Malik Gill and forward Connor Boehm.

However, that freshman, forward Evan Boudreaux, has been selected as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week seven times. The 6-foot-8 forward averages 16.9 points per game, thirdbest in the conference. “[Boudreaux] does a really good job getting to the free-throw line … it’s hard to guard him,” Jones said. “He’s a very versatile player.”

The Big Green also leads the league in free-throw percentage, converting 72.9 percent of its attempts from the charity stripe.

Like Dartmouth, Yale’s second opponent of the weekend, Harvard, also features a youthful rotation, including two starting freshman guards in Tommy McCarthy and Corey Johnson.

Just as this season’s Bulldog roster features new contributors and a new attitude — after dispatching Columbia last Friday, head coach James Jones said the memory of last season’s disappointments graduated with the squad’s four seniors — Harvard has also been forced to rebrand itself, as the Crimson lost three starters from last season to either graduation or injury.

Guard Wesley Saunders, who averaged a team-high 16.6 points per game last season, and forward Steve Moundou-Missi each graduated. Saunders scored 22 points in Harvard’s playoff

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Goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 has posted a 0.915 save percentage over her past eight games, aiding the Bulldogs in their recent rise in the ECAC standings.

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When Yale met Dartmouth in the regular season finale last year, then-senior Gabas Maldunas, left, layed in the game-winner with 0.7 seconds left. defeat of Yale, and Moundou-Missi hit the game-winner in that decisive contest. Additionally, Siyani Chambers, a three-year starter at the point guard position, was forced to miss this season due to a torn ACL. “[Harvard is] totally different,” Jones said. “They’re young, and instead of those two guys [Saunders and Chambers], there are two freshman guards in the backcourt, and they don’t have the same experience.”

After winning the Ivy League championship each of the previous five years, the Crimson finds itself in unfamiliar territory after losing five of its first six Ancient Eight contests. Should Harvard lose to Brown on Friday and Yale beat Dartmouth, a Bulldog win on Saturday would officially eliminate the Crimson from title contention.

Agunwa Okolie and Zena Edosomwan return for Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker’s squad. The talented frontcourt duo combine for nearly 25 points per game for a team that averages a league-low 66.2 points per game.

Although Harvard has struggled offensively, the Crimson defense is a much more formidable unit. It leads the conference in field-goal and threepoint defense, holding opponents

that sits at 10th in the conference standings but has seen recent offensive firepower. Last weekend against Princeton and No. 1 Quinnipiac, the Raiders scored a combined eight goals from the sticks of eight different players, the highest-scoring conference weekend for Colgate in nearly two years.

Despite the newfound offensive success, the Raiders came away from that weekend with just one win, mainly due to defensive play that has been a significant liability this season. A 6–3 loss to Quinnipiac — which included three power-play goals for the Bobcats — pushed Colgate down to 55th out of 60 teams in Division-I hockey with 3.66 goals allowed per game, the worst mark in the conference.

Saturday’s opponent, Cornell, could pose an even bigger challenge for Yale — both figuratively and literally. The Bulldogs have only defeated the Big Red — a team which lists 15 skaters weighing more than 200 pounds on its roster — once in the past five meetings, including a scoreless draw when the teams last collided in November.

Cornell, coming off a three-point

weekend that featured a shutout against Princeton and a 2–2 tie with Quinnipiac, has the third-lowest goals-against average in the ECAC at 2.00 goals per game, and goaltender Mitch Gillam earned ECAC Goalie of the Week honors on Tuesday after his fifth shutout of the season.

But luckily for the Elis, goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 has edged out Gillam in every category this season, sitting in second place nationally with a 0.941 save percentage and 1.57 goals allowed per game.

Without a full lineup, the Bulldogs’ success may rely on Lyon, one of few constants on the Yale roster this season.

Regardless, Allain remains confident that his battle-hardened Bulldogs are up for the conference challenge.

“Other guys will step up,” Allain said.

“It’s an opportunity for us to overcome a little bit of adversity. That’s what championship teams have to do. Our guys have handled it extremely well so far and I don’t have any reason to believe we won’t continue to.”

The puck will drop inside Colgate’s Starr Arena at 7:05 p.m.

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to 40.0 and 28.9 percent shooting, respectively. The Bulldogs rank second in both categories.

That is not the only area in which the two teams are similar. Like Yale, Harvard has struggled from the free-throw line at various times this season. Making just 57.7 percent of its free throws overall this season, the Crimson have especially faltered at the line in conference play.

Harvard has made less than half of its attempts, making just 8.5 out of 17.2 attempts per league game. Though that margin has cost the team only one game — a one-point loss to Columbia on a buzzer-beater in which Harvard was 7–13 at the foul line — the Crimson is still significantly beneath seventh-place Penn, which is shooting 59.8 percent in Ivy action.

Yale went through a rough patch in January, but the team’s free-throw percentage has snuck back up to 65.4 percent, good for fifth in the conference.

Both matchups this weekend are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

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Forward Mike Doherty ’17, who has nine points in the 13 games he has played in this year, is one of just 10 forwards suiting up for Yale’s away matchups this weekend.

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However, beyond Letkewicz and Roland, the Big Green offense struggles — last in the Ivy League in scoring offense, it trails the next nearest team by nearly 10 points per game.

“We can expect to see a tough team who fights for 40 minutes,” Guth said. “Dartmouth likes to spread the floor and … attack defenders one-[on]-one. I’m impressed with the way Dartmouth is coached and how they do

not give up on any possession.”

The Big Green are also on a losing streak, having allowed an average of 71 points in three consecutive losses. Dartmouth’s last win came away against Columbia on Jan. 29, a 76–73 thriller in overtime.

If history serves as any indication, the Bulldogs have had an edge lately, having won the past five meetings in the series. That streak includes a memorable victory last year on senior night, when Yale limited Dartmouth to a season-low 28 points in a sound 53–28 victory. A win can help Yale separate itself from the Big Green, as the two teams are currently tied for fifth place in the Ivy League.

Twenty-four hours later, the

Bulldogs will play their biggest rival, Harvard. Coming off an overtime 92–83 loss to Princeton, last year’s undefeated Ivy League champion, the Crimson will nonetheless look to build off its highest scoring effort of the season. Senior guards Shilpa Tummala and Kit Metoyer, as well as senior forward AnnMarie Healy, make up Harvard’s trio of scoring threats who combined for 49 points against Princeton. Healy ranks third in the conference, at 16 points per game. She is also third in field-goal percentage, making 50.8 percent of her attempts from the floor. Freshman guard Nani Redford has also made her mark on the team, having started each of the last 16 games. Guth said she

was particularly impressed with Redford’s “high motor.”

“Offensively, we must push the tempo and execute in the front court,” Guth said. “Harvard loves to push the ball in transition. We truly are going to have to be dialed in on our assignments with transition defense to be successful on Saturday.”

Yale has an opportunity to break out offensively, as the Crimson defense allows the most points per game and the highest field-goal percentage in the Ancient Eight.

This presents an opportunity for Sarju and guard Tamara Simpson ’18, Yale’s high-scoring duo.

Sarju ranks fifth in the conference at 15.1 points per game, while Simpson is second on the team

at 10.4 points per contest. Yale will also receive a boost, as captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 — leading the team in both assists and rebounds — said she will return to the court after missing Saturday’s game against Cornell due to injury.

“Harvard also has some offensive weapons both in the guard and post position, but they have a lot of breakdowns defensively which we will look to expose,” Wyckoff said.

The Bulldogs have not beaten the Crimson since the 2011–12 season, when Yale split the series thanks to a road win in Cambridge.

Harvard has emerged victorious in seven straight meetings against Yale.

For the four Bulldog seniors, this season’s two contests provide the final opportunities to earn a victory over the Crimson.

“Our team has been taught to be prepare for a ‘faceless opponent’ and to really place [its] attention to valuing what we do programmatically,” Guth said. “However, I think it is fair to say that the relevance in the storied rivalry adds an extra competitive spirit to Saturday’s matchup.”

Tip-off at John J. Lee Amphitheater against Dartmouth is set for 7 p.m. on Friday. On Saturday, at 7 p.m., the Bulldogs will take on the Crimson.

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Facing adversity, Elis head north

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Riding a three-game winning streak highlighted by a 5–1 win over Dartmouth and a 2–1 victory against No. 9 Harvard last weekend, the No. 10 Yale men’s hockey team is headed north in an attempt to add to three points the Bulldogs have already earned in games against Colgate and No. 15 Cornell.

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 ranks seventh in the Ivy League in scoring, at 15.5 points per game.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The Yale men’s basketball team does not have particularly fond memories of Leede Arena.

After all, it was just 49 weeks ago that the Bulldogs traveled to Hanover with a chance to lock up the Ivy League title and a berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Despite a five-point lead with just 25 seconds remaining, the Big Green mustered a miracu-

lous comeback, capped off by a Gabas Maldunas layup with 0.7 seconds on the clock to shock the Elis in a 59–58 Dartmouth victory.

In addition to an opportunity to avenge that defeat nearly a year later on Friday in New Hampshire, Yale (15–5, 6–0 Ivy) will also get to face Harvard on Saturday, the team that defeated the Elis in equally devastating fashion in the single-game playoff one week after the crushing Dartmouth defeat.

“Especially after last year, we really just want to go up to Dartmouth and take it to them,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “Harvard is Harvard, though. I think we’re 2–1 on their court [the past three years]. It’d be great to beat them.”

Of course, this is not the same team that lost back-to-back heartbreakers, costing the team an outright Ivy title and its first trip to March Madness since 1962. This Yale squad is a perfect 6–0 in Ivy League play for

Hockey seeks revenge at home

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER With the ECAC Hockey regular season dwindling down to its final two weekends, the Yale women’s hockey team hosts No. 10 Colgate and Cornell this weekend in its last home contests of the year.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Just six days ago, archrival Harvard broke a five-game winning streak for the Elis (10– 14–1, 9–8–1 ECAC Hockey), who before that game were on the verge of breaking into

the top four of the conference standings. Now in seventh place in the ECAC, Yale remains on a mission to get into the top four in order to get home-ice advantage in the conference playoffs.

Earlier in the season, the Bulldogs lost 4–3 to Colgate (17–6–7, 9–4–5) and 6–4 to Cornell (9–12–4, 5–9–4). This week in practice, not only are the Elis looking for revenge against these two teams, but they are also celebrating the final time that the five Yale seniors will play in Ingalls Rink.

“With the regular season coming to a close, and the

standings being as exceedingly close as they are, we know these two games are very important,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “But instead of focusing on any sort of pressure, we are excited for the opportunity to play our best Yale hockey and honor our seniors.”

It has been just one month since the Bulldogs have seen the Raiders. During that matchup, Yale had a 2–1 lead over Colgate, and a 10–5 advantage in shots, after the first period. The tables then turned as Colgate converted for three goals in the SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 10

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Captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 will be honored alongside her four fellow seniors this Saturday.

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the first time in school history, and is riding a 10-game winning streak overall.

The road trip to Dartmouth (7–13, 1–5) and Harvard (9–13, 1–5), the two teams currently tied for last place in the Ancient Eight, will mark the midpoint of the 14-game tournament. Six of the Elis’ final eight games come on the road after the recent four-game homestand in which the team outscored its oppoSEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

The Elis (14–5–4, 9–4–3 ECAC Hockey), taking their first road trip in three weeks, currently sit in their best position of the season with No. 10 rankings in both major polls, a No. 10 PairWise ranking and secondplace standings in both the ECAC and the Ivy League. Yale takes on Colgate (8–19–2, 4–11–2) and Cornell (12–7–4, 7–6–3), however, without a host of injured players and, most notably, without defensive stalwart and 2014– 15 first-team All-American Rob O’Gara ’16. With only six games remaining in regular-season play, Yale still has obstacles to overcome in its quest for a strong final showing.

“It is what it is,” forward JM Piotrowski ’19 said of O’Gara’s absence from the lineup. “It’s just another adversity phase for us to go through and we’re still in contention to win [the] Ivy League … We know our game plan. The last few weeks have been building blocks each day, and I think we’re really on the right track.”

O’Gara, who has played for Yale in 37 consecutive games and leads a defense that currently

ranks first in the nation in goals allowed per game, was called for a hit-to-the-head infraction, a major penalty, against Harvard’s Sean Malone in response to an uncalled hit on the senior.

The initial one-game disqualification for the retaliatory hit was extended on Wednesday, sidelining O’Gara for the entire weekend.

The New York native will join five other regular contributors who were already on the bench with injuries during Yale’s twowin weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard, all of whom are unlikely to return on Friday night but are “all healthier than they were this time last week,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said on Wednesday.

According to Piotrowski, short shifts for the weekend will be key to keep players fresh throughout the games. As Allain only plans on dressing 10 forwards and six defensemen — two fewer skaters than are allowed in NCAA hockey — most team members will continue to see an increase in minutes.

To accommodate the shortage of players, practice this past week has been altered, including shorter practices and fewer scrimmages, Allain said.

“Due to the numbers, I think we’re doing things a little bit differently [in practice],” forward Mike Doherty ’17 said. “Probably not as high paced as usual … A lot of guys played a ton of minutes the last two weekends, so [we’re] just being smart about it.”

The weekend’s action will begin on Friday at Colgate, a team SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 10

Bulldogs return to Elm City

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Returning home for the first time in five games, the Yale women’s basketball will also look to return to its winning ways with a pair of games against Dartmouth and Harvard.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL After disappointing losses against Columbia and Cornell last weekend which extended the Bulldogs’ losing streak to four games, Yale (11–12, 2–4 Ivy) hopes its dominance thus far at home — the team is 8–1 in New Haven — will help snap the losing skid. To do so, the Elis will have to shore up their defense, after a couple of poor efforts on that end of the floor. While Columbia and Cornell are top-four offenses in the Ivy League, the Big Green (7–15, 2–4) and the Crimson (8–11, 3–3) rank eighth and sixth, respectively, in scoring and fieldgoal percentage.

“After this past weekend we realized how much we need to improve defensively,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said. “So our focus has mainly been on fixing our defensive deficiencies and really becoming confident in our ability to lock down the way we know how.”

Yale head coach Alison Guth added that the team members felt like they underachieved last

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Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 is set to return to the court after missing last Saturday’s contest versus Cornell due to injury. weekend and needed to regain confidence in this weekend’s games.

Dartmouth boasts two players who average more than 10 points per game, sophomore guard Kate Letkewicz and senior

forward Lakin Roland, who Guth called “the heart and soul of [Dartmouth’s] offensive production.” Letkewicz was named the Ivy League Player of the Week SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

THE NATIONAL RANK, OUT OF 346 DIVISION I TEAMS, OF THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM IN REBOUNDING MARGIN. Yale is outrebounding its opponents by 12.4 boards per game, by far the most in the conference, as the next best Ivy team, Princeton, ranks 61st at 4.4 rebounds per game.

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BEHIND TINTED GLASS TISDALE

// BY CAROLINE TISDALE When I walked into the meeting room, I knew right away which one of the five people sitting around the table was her. We’d never met before, but I had been told by our mutual friend — the reason for my being in that glass-walled room all flustered and awkward as usual — that she was a lot to handle, and could usually only be taken in small doses. And those words of caution were coming from a man who always terrified my parents during his visits by making sure to shout FUCK and SHIT and DICKS at random intervals whenever my little brother happened to be in the same room. So, my expectations for this woman I was about to meet were pretty high. She just about met them by wearing large black sunglasses indoors, barely turning her head in my direction when I walked into the room. Her colleague presented me, announcing, “Miranda, this is your intern.”

Miranda acknowledged me only after the meeting, and she asked me a lot of questions without waiting for answers. After all, there was business to take care of — the business of breaking me down until I was reduced to a hyperventilating wreck at a tube station platform, talking with my mother on a phone that was a hundred dollars deep in roaming charges.

One time, Miranda was standing over me as I sat by a computer, researching some errands she needed to be carried out, and I coughed. She jumped back and eyed me through a lock of hair that probably took two hours and three bodies to perfect. Her: You’re not sick, are you? Me: Oh, no, I’ve just had this little cough for a few months — Her: Well I’d better stay

away then I really can’t get sick I’ve got lots of important people to see and things to do …

Miranda was a photographer who sometimes made appearances on TV shows. She was asked to direct short films and commercials for her work, which featured lookalikes of the British royal family and other celebrities. I guess she liked to think that, in her case, art and life do imitate each other. She carried herself, sunglasses indoors and all, like the fetishes of popular culture around which she focused her work.

I worked for Miranda sporadically over the summer, whenever she needed me. I always had to refresh my inbox in case a frantic email came in from her personal assistant, asking if I could meet them at a shoot location later that same day. She sent me on missions spanning the city of London within impossible time constraints, made clear the importance of phoning in any updates (then refused to answer her calls), sent me to retrieve photographic prints that hadn’t yet been paid for, et cetera, et cetera. I wondered how people like her ever came to be. Miranda wore her inflated sense of selfimportance like she wore those large black sunglasses — in all settings, companies and weather forecasts.

One day during my employment with her, we were driving out to the countryside near Oxford to shoot a commercial, and we were alone, and she kept asking me questions, and I was terrified. She asked me if I’d ever been to Boujis (yes, as in “bougie”), a high-end club near the South Kensington tube station where Prince Harry has been

known to party. I said no, unsure if she had been spending time with the same human being I know to be myself, or if she really, to confirm my suspicions, barely noticed my existence. She told me: It’s really great fun, I should come out with her sometime and, oh, Prince Harry’s not that much older than you, now! Wink.

I looked at her sitting next to me in the driver’s seat and tried to imagine how her face, which she kept together with more eyeliner than I’ve ever dared to lay upon mine, would look under dim lights, bobbing up and down to some flashy club remix, casting her eyes across the room, trawling for faces that are usually only seen on glossy magazine covers. How would she look when she broke away from the writhing mass of bodies to go to the bathroom, look herself in the fingerprint-streaked mirror under shitty fluorescent lights? Would she sneak her reflection a cheeky grin, or would she lean in close, uncover herself, slowly bring her hands to her face and just stare at the flesh across her skull? Like the way I see my reflection when I’m drunk, and everything I know about my face seems distorted and illuminated and raw. I wondered if she would wear the sunglasses then. // CAROLINE TISDALE

Contact CAROLINE TISDALE at caroline.tisdale@yale.edu .

Peter Pan in the Netherlands VICTOR

// BY JON VICTOR The last stop on our pub crawl was a place called Players, a seedy little joint in the red-light district where the organizers poured vodka straight into our mouths as we filed through the door. The deal was that we’d get a free shot at each new place and could buy more drinks at a discount if we wanted to.

And we did want to! We had arrived in the city that evening, two of us by plane and two by train, our minds bepopulate with every teenage fiction of life on the road. Our budget flight from London was delayed three hours but we had made it after all and were the most alive we’d ever been.

The bar was large and had long wooden tables perpendicular to every wall. It was crowded enough but easy to navigate. We made our way to the back, where there were ripped vinyl booths and a jukebox from the ’80s. My friend pulled out a cigarette.

“You can’t smoke in here,” said a bartender with tattoos on his arms. His accent did not sound Dutch.

We sat, nursing bottles of Heineken. A Ukrainian named Anton was telling us about a girlfriend back home.

We thought he was funny enough so we let him talk as we drank, offering timely nods so he wouldn’t leave us alone with our silence.

Once you arrive at a destination you never know what to say, so

the thing is never to arrive. That’s what Anton said. He was mildly sunburnt and had the blondest hair I’d ever seen.

Some French girls walked by and one of us tried out our accent on them. They told us we looked young.

We told them they were the prettiest girls in Europe — a lie, of course, but an earnest one. They stood amused for a moment then continued on to the bar, where they ordered gin and tonics.

After a while the place began to empty out. We waited until the music had stopped and the staff turned on the lights before we paid our bill and left. Then we were back on the street with nowhere to go but a lot left to do. The red lights shone onto the cobblestones like in some

Hadean trance.

A short distance away a woman beckoned to us from a storefront.

She was tall and wore heels and had a bow in her hair. I imagined she was looking into my eyes but I could hardly see hers through the darkness. She was the fourth or fifth woman I’d fallen in love with that night. Three of those were prostitutes.

Through the window next to her I could see a bed, a sink, a lamp. It all

looked very clinical, clinical in the good sense. I felt like I could trust her. Like anyone else in a healing profession she would recognize my need and act accordingly to fulfill it. No other industry could provide the transactional competence I had observed that night through the comings and goings of various men, the red lights turning off and on again in 15-minute intervals. People often pity prostitutes but I remember no such sadness in her eyes; it must have been she who saw it in me.

Across the street some American girls passed around a joint. We kept moving. There was water all around us. We walked by two shawarma stands, a Burger King and were followed for some time by a Moroccan who offered us four different prices for coke before a b a n don-

ing the sale. I almost bought some out of shame; if he had asked again I certainly would have. I thought he would have made a decent peddler of just about any other good. I admired his willingness to intrude, the ease with which he lied about the quality of his wares.

The bars were beginning to close.

We stumbled into a coffee shop where bearded men were playing poker and smoking cigarettes. They said their names and I knew they didn’t want to harm us. We sat and watched them play, but no one ever seemed to win.

“Why don’t you speak?” said a wrinkled Romanian named Andrei.

His English was good.

“I wouldn’t know what to say.”

“Tell me what you think of me.”

He rested his forearm on my shoulder. “Tell me what I am.”

I told him he looked lost and he seemed to agree. For a while no one spoke. Then we said goodbye and from the street I saw the sun poking over the narrow townhomes, the canal’s surface shining like millions of coalescent mirrors.

Maybe our bus had passed or maybe it was yet to come. I don’t know. What’s important to remember now is when I stepped into the morning air the world was positively still. Doors rested in their jambs.

Dust lay waiting to be swept up by future winds. And I felt fine.

I understood how things could be at one with their becoming. I accepted the price of my involvement. The nascent dawn was large and full of light.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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HERE AND THERE: A couple of days after I joined the ranks of 1,000 Yalies for the March of Resilience on Cross Campus, I attended an intimate discussion Jonathan Edwards students were hosting. As a freshman, I had a lot of questions — I was confused about my place in the student activism that had erupted on Yale’s campus. I am African; I grew up in South Africa. I lived in a country where colonialism still casts its shadow, though I am not of color myself. I had limited knowledge of American history and a very superficial understanding of the context in which the movement was brewing. I had no idea where I fit into the evolving dynamic, so I went to listen. I had no intention of speaking, but as discussions wound down I decided to share a perspective that had been absent in the conversation.

I hope to do the same here.

On March 9, 2015, Chumani Maxwele, a student at the University of Cape Town, took to the university plaza wielding a bucket of human feces. He flung the excrement onto the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, which sits looking down over the city of Cape Town from UCT’s upper campus. The statue was commissioned to recognize the significant land donation the mining magnate, Rhodes, had made to the university in 1928. But the statue also honored a man who played an important role in perpetuating imperialism and oppression in 19th century South Africa, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of black South Africans. It was this aspect of Rhodes’ legacy that Maxwele was responding to. In the days following his actions, the Rhodes Must Fall movement — which calls for the removal of the Rhodes statue — was born. Weeks of protesting, discussion forums and demands sent to the university administration called for transformation, and the statue was removed.

In the weeks following, an

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unknown artist painted the area under Rhodes’s pedestal in the shape of the statue’s shadow. The artwork symbolized the shadow the statue continued to cast psychologically. There was still anger. There was still hurt. There was still work to be done.

A few months later, action began again. Students responded to a proposed 11.5 percent increase in tuition fees for universities across South Africa. The increase meant not only that thousands of students would be unable to continue studying their respective degrees, but also that education was becoming increasingly inaccessible to future South African students. Across the country, students organized protests that culminated in a march to the historic Union Buildings in Pretoria on Oct. 23, 2015. Universities closed for weeks, exams were postponed, students were arrested and police brutality flared in a way that reminded many of the last time students had gathered on such a large scale: apartheid.

Having studied at UCT for a semester before I came to Yale, I was surprised to find students asking questions about how to deal with history not just at Rhodes’ feet, but at those of John C. Calhoun. The parallels between the two figures are impossible to ignore. Colonialists. Racists. White men still standing as symbols of a painful history.

Why are these two discussions, about two different figures, on two different continents, happening at the same time? *** As students gathered on Cross Campus in the early weeks of November, songs were sung, speeches were made and poems were read, before Zimbabwean Nodumo Ncomanzi ’17 took to the microphone. She yelled out “Amandla!” and the crowd responded “Awethu!” The isiZulu and Xhosa call and response translate to “Power

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to the people.”

The phrase, which echoes the history of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, was used throughout both the Rhodes Must Fall movement and Fees Must Fall campaign. Its presence on Cross Campus spoke to the commonality and yet harsh separation of both cries for change.

This is just one of the complicated dynamics that Yale’s African students have to navigate.

“I hadn’t had time to see the systemic racism the Yale movement was looking to address,” said Mandlenkosi Dube ’19. For him, the situation was complicated.

“I feel grateful to Yale for accepting me and grateful to Yale for the financial aid they offered me.” As a result, he found it difficult to understand the anger other students of color were feeling towards the University.

His situation introduces questions that many other students have had to ask themselves: How can someone be grateful and angry at the same time? What space is there for someone to be part of the system, while simultaneously opposing it?

Opelo Matome ’18, a student from Botswana, spoke about how this tension particularly resonated with African Yalies. “We are here on visas that depend on our academic achievements,” she said.

// CHAI RIN KIM

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THE FIFTY-YEAR CRESCENDO // BY TERESA CHEN

// ROBBIE SHORT

When we meet, the first thing John Mauceri ’67 does is pull out his phone to show off a picture he just took with University President Peter Salovey. With a huge smile, he boasts, “Look who I just got a photo with. I gotta tweet this later.”

This is John Mauceri, whose achievements include conducting for some of the most renowned orchestras in the world, including the New York Philharmonic and the London Symphony, as well as storied opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera. He’s received a Tony, a Grammy and three Emmy awards. But in addition to being one of the most-recognized American conductors in the world, Mauceri is also beloved here at Yale, as the founder of the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

Mauceri is in town this week to help celebrate YSO’s 50th anniversary. He will be the guest conductor for YSO’s Alumni Weekend concert this Saturday evening, featuring Schoenberg’s orchestration of Bach’s “Prelude and Fugue,” Stokowski’s arrangement of Wagner’s “Finale” from “Parsifal” and Richard Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben.” This marks YSO’s biggest alumni reunion yet, with more than a hundred alumni returning to campus for the event.

As we sit down to talk about his memories of YSO, Mauceri leans back into his leather chair. With a deep breath, as if to prepare himself for the conversation ahead, he launches into stories about the orchestra with clear excitement, recalling his memories in vivid detail. Every so often, he becomes so engrossed in his own anecdotes that his sentences become punctuated by chuckles.

Even after these 50 years, it’s clear that YSO matters to Mauceri as much as any of the internationally renowned orchestras he has conducted for. “The Yale Sym-

phony is like my child,” he says.

“And coming back after all these years to conduct, it just felt exactly the same. It felt normal, and that nothing’s changed.”

MAKING ENEMIES WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL YSO began as the Calhoun Chamber Orchestra in 1965. Two years later, it had already become known as the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and was led by Richmond Browne, a faculty member at Yale. When Browne soon left for a teaching position in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the students of the orchestra asked Mauceri — who had guest conducted for them before — to take over as their music director. A first-year graduate student at the Yale School of Music, Mauceri started his new position in the autumn of 1968.

YSO was a sad sight in the beginning.

“It used to perform at Sprague Hall to nobody. It had an audience of maybe 120 people,” Mauceri said. He recalled walking around campus listening for students practicing their instruments, and if they sounded good, he would run up to their dorm, knock on their doors and ask if they’d like to play for the orchestra. “Today, it is not like that,” he added with a wry smile.

After a disappointing first show, Mauceri started to imagine an imaginary orchestra that would one day play in Woolsey Hall.

Working backward, he began to wonder: How could he build YSO into a more recognizable entity on campus? First, Mauceri realized that YSO’s repertoire was key. New Haven was a small city, but there were numerous orchestras performing every year. Mauceri knew that YSO would have to distinguish itself in order to gain an audience.

“I never liked to compete with what already existed. I’d rather complete what doesn’t exist,” he explained. “So I looked at what the repertoire was of the other orchestras, and what wasn’t being played.” Mauceri eventually decided that YSO would be “trendy and hip — in a classical music sense, of course” — and would focus on playing the “most cutting-edge music of liv-

ing composers.”

One of the biggest performances that YSO did in those years was Stockhausen’s “Hymnem” or “Anthems,” an electronic piece about the anthems of all the countries in the world, with an orchestral part.

Speakers were placed around Cross Campus, and the orchestra itself sat outside of the Beinecke Library. Over a thousand performers — dancers, actors and so on — accompanied the piece, and flags were projected onto the television-like screens on the Beinecke’s marble facade. To top it all off — literally — the Yale Aviation Squad flew over the library during a section of the piece that sounded like airplanes. President Kingman Brewster himself flew in one of these planes because he wanted to be involved in the performance.

“So I guess I am kind of a crazy person,” Mauceri admitted after a pause. An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 people came to watch the performance.

YSO soon gained a sizable presence on campus, thanks to Mauceri’s ingenuity.

“Aside from the Yale football team and the football games, YSO was the thing to do,” Bob Perkel ’72 said. “Every concert was a sellout, and people would crowd into Woolsey Hall and fill all the spaces.

There would be people standing in the audience!” Perkel remembers the fire marshal “being their biggest enemy,” as they always came to shows to evict people due to overcrowding.

YSO attained worldwide fame when Leonard Bernstein — one of the first American conductors to receive international acclaim — invited the orchestra to play his work “MASS” in Vienna, for what would be the piece’s European premiere. Daniel Feller ’74 fondly recalled rehearsals for the piece.

Feller was first cello in the orchestra and also played guitar, which gave him a unique position in the piece because it had both a guitar and cello solo. While practicing the difficult solo on stage, Feller remembers looking up at the second balcony of Woolsey Hall, and seeing Leonard Bernstein looking right back at him. YSO’s performance of “MASS” would be televised worldwide, and Feller remembers the performance as a

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moment that changed his life.

“YSO, in general, was everything. And it still holds a special place in my heart,” Feller said.

LIKE DRIVING A FERRARI “YSO is everything to me,” YSO President and former photography editor for the News Ken Yanagisawa ’16 said, echoing Feller’s words.

Sitting in the reporting room of the Yale Daily News office, Yanagisawa gushes about his love for the orchestra. Today, YSO is known as one of, if not the, best undergraduate nonconservatory orchestras in the country. “The whole concept of ‘Why Yale?’ — my answer would just be YSO,” Yanagisawa said. “And it’s fair to say that almost every member of YSO knew about it before even applying to Yale, and it’s a very big part of our lives.”

Other students in YSO whom I talked to shared similar sentiments. Many of them had been choosing between attending a music conservatory or a liberal arts college, and ultimately decided to attend Yale because YSO offered them the perfect balance of musical opportunity and academic rigor.

Overwhelmingly, everyone interviewed named YSO’s culture and community as essential to the special bond among its members. The orchestra is entirely comprised of volunteers; the student musicians do not get paid or receive course credit for their involvement, which can stretch from five to nine hours a week.

Therefore, those who stay with YSO are students who truly feel passionate about music.

Such a deep shared interest inevitably gives rise to strong friendships. “It seems like you’re going to orchestra rehearsal and you’re not really talking to people, so it’s surprising to realize that so many relationships develop out of just sitting next to someone, being someone’s stand partner,” Jennifer Gersten ’16, former editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine, said.

“At the end of this year, I found that my stand partner and I were wearing matching shirts more often than we were not. We ended up documenting this one day — we were both wearing green. We were basically becoming one person. Just playing music that you both appreciate is enough common ground to feel like you really get somebody.”

Moreover, many students credited Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada — endearingly referred to as Toshi by his musicians — as instrumental

to cultivating community within YSO. Jacob Sweet ’18 said that Toshi’s inviting personality was one of the reasons why Sweet fell in love with YSO prior to attending Yale.

“When I visited as a prefrosh, Toshi — instead of just letting me listen to the rehearsal — sat with me in the audience and took the time to talk to me about the orchestra, what I was interested in and so on,” Sweet recalled. “He even brought me on stage and let me sit in the clarinet section while they were rehearsing. I pretty much knew from that point on that I really wanted to go to Yale.”

Coincidentally, this is also Toshi’s 10th anniversary conducting for YSO. When asked about his experience thus far with the symphony, he responded, “It’s one of the most exciting things I’ve done.” After a pause, he added, “It’s like driving a Ferrari. With a turbo booster on it sometimes.

And I’m always saying: ‘Stop!

Don’t go so fast!’ It’s exciting and thrilling. That’s why I really like this job.” In particular, Toshi emphasized the group’s tremendous amount of spirit and energy, which, according to him, doesn’t exist in some professional groups.

YSO defies the traditional perception of classical music as a “stodgy, dusty art only enjoyed by old people,” as Gersten puts it. And one of the best examples of this is the orchestra’s annual Halloween show. Consistently the most popular YSO concert of the season, the Halloween show never fails to attract a full house. This year, tickets sold out in one-anda-half minutes. “Over half of the music that we play for the Halloween show actually isn’t pop music,” Yanagisawa explained.

“We’ll pick out sections and snippets of music from pieces we’ll be playing throughout the season, and piece it together. Then, we’ll weave some Taylor Swift in there, and that’s how we get the Halloween show. So a lot of the music that we play in the Halloween show is already classical music — it’s just a matter of engaging the audience in a different way.”

And YSO’s reputation on campus seems to defy the stereotype of being musical nerds. Jeremy Tanlimco ’19, a self-proclaimed YSO fan, admires that about the orchestra.

“YSO seems to be the reversal of what you’d expect an orchestra to be,” Tanlimco said. “They’re not unpopular nerds, but actual sensations. Their shows are always highly anticipated, and they do a great job raising appreciation of classical music for the Yale com-

munity. They make classical music cool, and that’s not an easy thing to do.”

WHAT DO 50 YEARS MEAN? The message behind YSO’s 50th Anniversary is encapsulated in their upcoming Alumni Weekend event: the joining of past, present and future. And what links all of it together is continuity. “The continuity of human expression, which is what music is anyway,” Mauceri states wistfully.

And given the stories of YSO alumni and current students alike, Mauceri’s words ring true. Alumni like Feller and Perkel, for whom YSO has created an unforgettable chapter of music in their lives, are echoed in their love for music by students who play in YSO today, 50 years later. One of Gersten’s favorite experiences of YSO, for instance, was performing Mahler’s “Symphony No. 6,” which she described as revelatory.

“It was like something transcending you, something that became more than yourself,” Gersten recalled. “At one point in the piece, I looked over at the principal cellist’s eyes and saw that [they] were red, and I just lost it.” This emotion and passion for music is something that has continuously characterized YSO for the past 50 years.

But perhaps more importantly, YSO’s 50th anniversary celebrates what’s to come in the future. What will happen 50 years from now?

One of the sacred vows that newly inducted members of YSO make on tap night is: “Do you promise to spread the glory of the YSO to all corners of this campus?” And for many, YSO’s 50th anniversary is about both confirming this vow and extending it.

“This is our moment to say, ‘No, it’s not our campus. It’s the country. It’s the world,’” Yanagisawa said. “And perhaps more importantly, this is our moment to bring back alumni and celebrate them for making YSO what it is today, and for leaving this legacy for us.”

Contact TERESA CHEN at teresa.chen@yale.edu .

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WHO’S YOUR DADA? // BY ANDREW KOENIG “Take Dada seriously — it’s worth it!” said the artist George Grosz. The quotation is painted on the wall of one of the rooms in the Yale University Art Gallery’s newest exhibit,

//SOPHIA TAUEBER-ARP

“Everything is Dada,” except it’s backw a r d s — only when y o u see i t

reflected in a funhouse mirror do the words become intelligible.

Try to take Dada seriously and Dada will play a trick on you.

Dada is naughty and elusive, the mischief-maker of the modern avant-garde, flicking the back of your head, whispering gibberish in your ear and scampering off before you’ve had the chance to catch him in the act. Dada is anti-capitalist and anti-establishment, it is absurd, it is moralizing, it is amoral.

The playfulness of the YUAG’s exhibit complements this irreverent, all-encompassing and oftentimes mystifying movement.

The most widely recognized Dada artwork is

Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain,” which is just a urinal turned upside down. But the YUAG’s new exhibit, which opens today and runs until July 3, shows that Dada is much more than that, encompassing painting, sculpture, film and printmaking.

The curator of the exhibit, Frauke Josenhans, has drawn on the exceptional holdings of the YUAG to put on a diverse and representative show. “There aren’t that many museums that can do an entire Dada exhibit using only their own collections,” she said, citing MOMA and the Centre Pompidou as comparable institutions. Most of the collection is drawn from the gallery’s rich Société Anonyme collection, collected by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Katherine Dreier a n d

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donated to Yale in 1941.

The selection is organized thematically. (For example, there’s a room called “Sense and Nonsense.”) The show’s curators have avoided a chronological or geographical approach to the movement, as this has been done many times before, and would perhaps fetter the wild beast that is Dada.

The curators have made some inclusions that might not be found in your run-of-the-mill Dada exhibit. Angelika Hoerle, Beatrice Wood, Suzanne Duchamp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp all have prominent roles in the exhibit, which emphasizes the often-overlooked role of female artists within the transnational movement. A room devoted to Dada film highlights the significance of that medium, which was central to the work of the Dadaists and their successors, the Surrealists.

The space itself reflects the movement’s ethos, or lack thereof: A perforated redand-blue line zigs and zags across the sleek, whitewashed walls of the exhibit. The artworks, too, are staggered rather than aligned, sometimes moving up with the line and other times parting ways with it. The whole effect distances the viewer from the normal routines of museum-

going: staring at one picture, inching to the right, staring at another picture, inching to the right.

The exhibit has more tricks up its sleeve. Red velvet curtains seem to promise an entire new room, but when you go in, you find yourself a foot from the wall, staring at a series of intimate watercolors by Beatrice Wood. In another room, designed by Yale MFA students, wild typographic patterns form and deform themselves on the walls, which are in turn covered with reproductions of artworks featured in the show. Neon lights flash at you; a pennant depicting Duchamp’s famous urinal hangs six feet above the ground. The room is stocked with fake Dadaist newspapers with headlines such as “First Dadaist Political Party from North Carolina” and “Are You Ready for a Disaster,” designed by Yale MFA students, which will be replenished while the exhibit runs.

Tristan Tzara began his famous Dada Manifesto of March 1918 by declaring: “The magic of a word — Dada — which has brought journalists to the gates of a world unforeseen, is of no importance to us.” He’s being coy, but he has a point: There’s no use defining Dada, because everything is Dada. And Dada (and everything) is of no importance. You’ll find yourself thinking in circles and riddles such as these as you walk the not-sohallowed halls of “Everything is Dada,” which defies expectations, as the artists and thinkers it represents once did.

Contact ANDREW KOENIG at andrew.koenig@yale.edu .

Tapping Through Oz // BY SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN

At a Yale Taps show, sight and sound combine to create a lighthearted display. Against an ethereal, multicolored background, the tappers play with silhouette and let their feet loose. Their 21st annual show, “The Tappers of Oz,” consists of a mix of dance vignettes and an interspersed storyline based around the quintessential tale of misfits following the yellow brick road.

The story begins with a Yalie who loses her way en route to Toad’s and encounters a scarecrow who has no rhythm. As she follows the Schwarzman Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard who will take her home, she collects a Tin Man looking for moves and a Lion looking for courage. They eventually find their way to the Wizard who ends up being DJ Action spinning the best music on the planet.

Their progression down the Yellow Brick Road is punctuated

by a variety of dance numbers to songs ranging from “Stitches” to “Black Skinhead.” Some were energetic, others sexy, still more were smooth. Each dance has a color-coordinated background and outfits that match the mood of the music and the atmosphere of the piece. Although tap can get repetitive at times, each number had its own flavor, keeping the show engaging.

I especially appreciated a slightly avant-garde piece that featured six female dancers with purple tulle skirts tapping the background to Lorde’s “The Love Club” while a woman off to the side sang the lyrics.

Although visually appealing, the act focused on the auditory quality of tap, encouraging the viewer to attune their ears and unfocus their eyes. Instead of perceiving each individual tap, I began to sense the flow in the cacophony.

Upon encountering the Wizard-turned-DJ Action, the dancers engaged with the audience by asking them to identify songs they tapped out with their feet. Those who guessed correctly received a candy treat.

With each correct guess, Dorothy and her crew got one tap closer to getting home to Toad’s.

The finale hit the audience full force with sounds and visuals; the soundtrack consisted of a mashup of songs from “The Wiz,” “The Wizard of Oz,” and “Wicked.” The entire company, separated into different groups by costume, came onstage in a whirlwind of cloth and tapping feet. Their smiles, especially those of the beginners, lit up the room.

A company consisting of 20 tappers, Taps features a variety of experience levels and attitudes. Some are energetic beginners, others edgy experts;

all are united by the tapping of their feet. Although some of the pieces lacked cohesion between the choreography and the music and the dancers themselves, the enthusiasm and smiles of the tappers made the show incredibly enjoyable.

Tap reminds us of the power in every step: its impact, its musicality and the vital role is plays in a series.

If your Friday night is looking empty or the winter blues have got you down, take a quick trip to the land of Oz at the Off Broadway Theatre. I promise you’ll leave feeling brighter and lighter on your feet.

Contact SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN at sofia.braunstein@yale.edu .

// JENNIFER LU

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THE BLINDEST DATE: PART II BACHELORETTE #1 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: Eczema.

Least fa v o r i t e quote: “It’s not you, it’s me.”

First CD: The “South Pacific” soundtrack Ideal first-date drink: Buffalo chicken juice

Last week, we stripped to our diapers and armed ourselves with bows and arrows in an effort to craft the perfect new campus couple. Ten bachelors and ten bachelorettes dared to divulge their deepest secrets in exchange for the promise of eternal love (or: a free dinner). For our queer edition, we’ve selected another five bachelors and five bachelorettes, who have revealed:

BACHELORETTE #2 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: The phase in high school where I wore a lot of black in February and wouldn’t shut up about “Singles’ Awareness Day.” Least favorite quote: “Why buy the milk when you can get the cow for free?” — my mother, also probably your mother.

First CD: I’ve blocked out my entire early adolescence, but it was probably either Itzhak Perlman (I’m a nerd) or Coldplay (I’m like, really white).

Ideal first-date drink: A vodka cran. People who drink their alcohol with cranberry juice value their bladder health and generally know what’s up. Also acceptable: tea.

1. Their biggest Valentine’s Day regrets, 2. Their least favorite quotes, 3. The first CDs they bought, 4. Their ideal first-date drink.

Go online to vote for your favorite candidates!

BACHELORETTE #3 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: Walking to Insomnia alone, and having a stranger roll down his car window and call me a “whore” on the walk over (I guess that wasn’t really my fault, though — cookies were still dope) Least favorite quote: “You are special” First CD: “The Powerpuff Girls: The Movie” soundtrack Ideal first-date drink: Palo Viejo rum

BACHELOR #1 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: Surfing Grindr in my hotel room alone during the great Valentine’s Day snowstorm … ultimately realizing that none of us can host!

Least favorite quote: N/A First CD: New Orleans street performers you’ve probably never heard of Ideal first-date drink: Satsuma Mint Soda

BACHELOR #2 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: Mooning my high school crush at the state championship hockey game.

Least favorite quote: “BILL COSBY INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!” — Kanye First CD: Ashlee Simpson, “Autobiography” Ideal first-date drink: Ramen (sans noodles)

BACHELOR #3 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: The fateful V-Day of ’08, I datelessly went to diving practice. I forget how exactly, but I ended up tripping, hitting the board, scraping against the metal like it was a cheese grater and getting an entirely bloody chest. Nothing says Valentine’s Day like the paramedics ;) Least favorite quote: “Make America Great Again.”

First CD: Digitally? The Killers’ “Hot Fuss.”

Physically? Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday.”

Ideal first-date drink: Coffee during the week, Jäger during the weekend.

BACHELOR #5 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: V-Day ’06: crying — alone and naked — to James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” as it played on my clock radio because I didn’t tell Addie Barczewski that I loved her.

Least favorite quote: “Sex and nipple stimulation are the only proven ways to set yourself into labor. :)” — Taylor Fisher, from a series of wall posts on a pregnant Facebook friend’s page discussing the merits of using laxatives to induce labor.

First CD: Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album “Taylor Swift” Ideal first-date drink: Sangria

BACHELORETTE #4 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: Giving any sort of Valentine to anyone between the ages of 11 through 13 Least favorite quote: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” — Anakin Skywalker, “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” First CD: The Goo Goo Dolls, “Superstar Car Wash” Ideal firstdate drink: Something a little fruity.

BACHELOR #4 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: I have many regrets, each graver than the last. I regret that I do not have more time on this Earth to experiment with myself I regret that Blue State allows for the exploitation of large amounts of cattle and I especially regret that death is so final. However, my biggest regret with respect to Valentine’s Day is that many years ago, when the world was young and I was younger, I gave a Valentine’s Day card to a friend of mine with long blonde hair. She sucks. She is the literal worst. Anyway, I gave her the card on Friday and by Monday she had moved to another condominium and school. I was devastated and this has made me into a callous person.

Least favorite quote: “Yo, I’m in that big boy, bitches can’t rent this / I floss everyday, but I ain’t a dentist” — Nicki Minaj, “Truffle Butter” First CD: Kelly Clarkson, “Breakaway” Ideal first-date drink: L u kewa r m Fra n z i a infused with citrus and peanut

BACHELORETTE #5 Biggest Valentine’s Day regret: Not telling Seamus I liked him in seventh grade.

Least fa vo r i te quote: “This one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.” — The Bible First CD: Whitney Houston, “Greatest Hits” Ideal first-date drink: Chocolate–PeanutButter–Pretzel Milkshakes

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“I thought it was at 7:00?”

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We’re predicting Teeth KO’s Word in the first round with a diving headbutt.

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RACE, NATIONALITY & STUDENT MOVEMENTS // BY STEPHANIE BARKER COVER FROM PAGE B3 Sacrificing academic commitments to be involved with Next Yale might actually mean that they would not be around to see the Next Yale they are fighting for.

In contrast, South African students did not have immigration concerns, and though Fees Must Fall erupted in the weeks leading up to final exams, many sacrificed the hours they would have used to study to join marches and debates. Protest leaders at Yale were forced to make similar sacrifices in the face of deadlines and tests. However, unlike South African universities, Yale was not closed during the period of protests. While many professors made allowances for the increased pressure Yalies were under, for African students, among others, there wasn’t space to ignore academics for two weeks.

It’s possible South African students were encouraged to make the sacrifice because they had seen those before them do the same during apartheid, or because there was never any doubt that if they continued to act, their goals of a 0 percent fee increase would be won.

“The political disruption of dayto-day operations is a more established practice in South Africa,” said Associate Professor of History Daniel Magaziner said. “The struggle is just one of the things South Africans do.” *** Some African students had complicated feelings about the movement at Yale because they felt as though their needs weren’t being represented well enough by Yale’s administration. In an email sent out to the Yale community concerning spring semester course selection, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway linked resources to help students find courses about “the histories, lives and cultures of unrepresented and underrepresented communities.” These classes were taught in or cross-listed with the departments and programs in African American Studies; American Studies; Ethnicity, Race and Migration; and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. African Studies was not on the list.

Much of what this movement is addressing is a question of what constitutes knowledge, Magaziner said. This question is difficult to ask of an institution as steeped in tradition as Yale, and yet as students at Yale, Africans have a right to ask it.

As less than 1 percent of Yale’s student population, African students are arguably an underrepresented group — and therefore, should have been included in Holloway’s list of subjects addressing such groups.

Matome also brought up this issue of intersectionality. “It’s difficult to be a black African student on campus,” she said. Africans of color are treated in the same way as other Yalies of color, they have a stake in the movement at Yale and yet, the American history most students looks to reframe is not theirs. “Many of us are physically present on campus,” she said, “but emotionally and mentally, we live in our home countries.”

Wabantu Hlophe ’18, a student from Swaziland and the president of the Yale African Students Association, would agree. “I feel like I have a foot on each continent,” he said. Some might

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think this is something standard that comes with the “international student package”; however, this “footing” manifests itself in a number of ways specific to Africans. For Hlophe, the distance brought up questions of involvement in the protests at Yale. While the task of tackling systemic racism is the same on both continents, the history of American colonialism and slavery differs from Africa’s.

In speaking about his reaction to South African movements, Hlophe said he felt no hesitation in becoming involved; he drafted solidarity statements in support of both Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall.

In contrast, he said that he felt more distant from what was happening at Yale, that the burning desire to help at home was missing from his response to Yale activism. Hlophe said this might stem from the ambiguity of the movement’s goals: Were Yalies protesting to transform Yale, or were they protesting as part of a greater attempt to transform America? African students have a stake in Yale, but really not a lot of stake in America — many don’t plan to stay in the country after college. *** In my conversations with other African Yalies and South African students, one of the most common threads I saw running between both places was the question of how we take on the burden of our histories.

Much of what these movements have constituted is dealing with our past, and what it means to “come after.”

Magaziner drew similarities between South African universities and Yale in this regard. He said that it is important to recognize that both UCT and Yale are historically elite institutions, built to educate white males. They were never built for women, or people of color. They were built by people of color.

“How then should students of color come to terms with occupying spaces that were never meant for them?” Magaziner asked.

UCT student Nompilo Sibisi, who remembers attending a teachin held at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, expressed a similar sentiment. Sibisi recounts that a woman stood up and told the crowd she wanted to burn the walls of the university to the ground. For her, the bricks were laid with blood — stained with the oppression her parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents had suffered at the hands of white people. And yet, it was the space she was expected to exist and learn in every day.

Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje ’19, freshman from South Africa, arrived at Yale in the midst of tense racial debates. Having attended UCT for a semester, she had experienced parts of Rhodes Must Fall as a South African student. Tlhotlhalemaje said it was a surprising experience to find that Yale students were also tackling the question of how to move forward out of a painful history. Still, for her, it was confusing to be thrown into a situation that had arisen out of a history of racism she wasn’t familiar with.

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“Although racism exists in South Africa, it’s a very different kind of racism,” she told me.

She said a lot of her confusion about what was happening stemmed from not knowing her place in the movement as an African student.

YASA, for example, is run out of the Afro-American Cultural Center, and yet not all African students are of color. The question of place becomes a difficult one to answer. Tlhotlhalemaje said she feels very comfortable in the Af-Am House, and yet the question of how to exist at an intersection still remained.

Having experienced South African movements as well as Yale movements first hand, Tlhotlhalemaje has unique insight to offer about the similarities and differences between the student experience of both. When I asked which movement she felt more involved with, Tlhotlhalemaje said she was surprised to find she felt more connected to what was happening at Yale. She said she thought this was because the two institutions were tackling institutionalized racism in very different ways — RMF was sparked with an action, whereas the issue of renaming Calhoun has not progressed beyond discussion.

Hlophe commented that seeing Yale administration grapple with the issue of Calhoun’s name was like “watching someone trying to complete a test that you had already seen someone else finish.” The two universities and two student movements, despite their differences, could learn from each other’s successes and challenges — and maybe that’s where African Yalies fit into the picture. *** South African student Nicola Soekoe ’16 remarked that having spent four years at Yale, she finds it difficult to see South Africa the same way she saw it as an 18-year-old.

She said that being at Yale has made her unlearn a lot of the ideas she had about race. This difficult process of “unlearning” refers to the greater change in rhetoric that has happened in South Africa and at Yale.

Previously, South African students called for “transformation,” but as the goals of the movements grew, that language shifted. “Transformation” became “decolonization.”

The shift recognizes that the “bornfree” generation of South Africans is not just living with an apartheid hangover. Systemic racism has its roots far deeper, “and the older generations of South Africans just don’t see that,” said Soekoe. Until RMF, South Africa wasn’t as sensitized to the manifestation of implicit racism. People weren’t really speaking about cultural appropriation and the nuances of racism.

As a result, m a n y ques-

tioned whether it was necessary for the statue to be removed. How would taking down a statue reform UCT’s institutional racism? Joy Shan ’15, a Yale student who moved to Cape Town after graduating last year, shared her views on the RhodesCalhoun tie in a News op-ed last September (“Changing our spatial vocabulary,” Sept. 17, 2015). Shan, a former editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine, said: “Targeting a symbol, I worried, would amount to only spectacle — a move that, though provocative, would divert attention away from the more subtle ways the university maintains white supremacy. It was the same reason I’d never advocated that Calhoun, my residential college, be renamed.”

However, in her column, Shan recounts how living in South Africa changed her perspective. Reconsidering the renaming of Calhoun in this new perspective, Shan wrote: “By learning to call Calhoun by a new name, we may begin to reconfigure our habits of everyday perception: how we see, hear and make sense of our daily interactions with one another. Here in Cape Town, institutional change remained a rumor until students roused a sleeping statue. It is time we do the same.” From Shan’s experience, it is clear that the stakes of the Calhoun question extend beyond the realm of symbolism.

A South African graduate student, Thuto Thipe GRD ’21, and Magaziner wrote in an article for the blog Africa Is A Country: “It was never just about a statue. Students have been, and are continuing to, call for the radical restructuring of political, social, financial and knowledge economies to reflect the lives and satisfy the needs of all.”

Similarly, the movement at Yale was not about a free speech email. It was not about Halloween costumes, and it isn’t about the name of a residential college. Thipe and Magaziner wrote: “It was never just about apartheid. It was about the future.”

Here, I couldn’t agree more. Yes, spaces must be decolonized. Yes, Rhodes and Fees Must Fall, but these movements are about more than symbols and fees. They are about what we as students want the future to look like. At some stage, when all the bricks have been torn from the walls of oppression, when there is no more left to tear down, we’ll need to begin to build.

Contact STEPHANIE BARKER at stephanie.barker@yale.edu .

AFRICANS OF COLOR ARE TREATED IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHER YALIES OF COLOR, THEY HAVE A STAKE IN THE MOVEMENT AT YALE AND YET, THE AMERICAN HISTORY MOST STUDENTS LOOK TO REFRAME IS NOT THEIRS.

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WE CARE IF YOU LISTEN // BY NOAH KIM

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In 1958, the legendary serialist composer Milton Babbitt published a now-infamous article in the magazine High Fidelity with the inflammatory title, “Who Cares if You Listen.” The article arrived at a time of heightened dissatisfaction with the inaccessibility of new contemporary composition, and people immediately seized on it as evidence of the widespread elitist contempt they believed that composers held for their audiences.

The gist of Babbitt’s argument was that modern composition had become a highly specialized formal activity, akin to theoretical physics: Just as the average audience member at a physics lecture is not in the position to critique the lecturer’s scientific techniques, the average listener is not in the position to take issue with the composer’s compositional methods.

Babbitt lies on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum from the Yale New Music Cooperative’s President Max Vinetz ’18, whose stated intention is the democratization of contemporary classical music.

Vinetz declares NMC to be a “uniform, democratic effort,” claiming that he contributes no more than any other member of the group. He is rather cagey about declaring himself the organization’s leader despite the fact that he is by all accounts the central force who spearheaded the group’s revitalization. For example, when asked if he is officially NMC’s president, Vinetz responded, “Yeah … Um … Well … I guess?”

NMC holds concerts that showcase the music of undergraduate composers; the group held a string quartet concert — its first live event — last November. Vinetz originally conceived of the idea at the end of his freshman year.

“When I started writing a lot more music for chamber ensembles, I realized: What’s the point of writing if I’m not going to get it played? Performance is half of the piece. I thought to myself: I bet there’s a lot of people like me who want to get pieces performed,

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because there’s a scene for a cappella, there’s a scene for theater, and there’s a scene for classical performance, but there’s no outlet for new classical composition.”

Jack Lawrence, one of NMC’s many co-vice presidents, said that the concept was originally to revive a model that has existed in the past under various names, the most recent incarnation of which was the now-defunct student group Igigi (nobody seems to know what the name meant).

“There are such great institutions in place for graduate students. The entire grad school itself is super wellfunded. As undergrads though, we often found it was difficult to hear our music played live,” Lawrence said, mirroring many of Vinetz’s assertions.

Lawrence, a jazz guitarist by trade, plays with Vinetz in a band called the Phonetics.

He favors folk and jazz music, citing influences as diverse as the Punch Brothers and Julian Lage. His current musical outlook differs significantly from that of Vinetz, who began as a “shredder,” committed to heavy metal music, in middle school but also waxes exuberant and at length about the string quartets of Bela Bartok (over winter break, he claims to have listened to a different Bartok string quartet every day, five times a day).

Cyrus Duff ’18, a composer and yet another co-vice president of NMC, compared the organization to the experimental music group Black is the Color, often cited as the chief contemporary classical group on campus besides NMC. “There’s certainly a split in terms of methodology,” Duff said. “The Black is the Color shows tend to be more about collaboration and coherence — each show is unified as a singular unit. The NMC shows are more scattered.”

Alois Cerbu ’18 drew a similar comparison between the groups, stating that Black is the Color is more interested in performance while NMC is more interested in creating

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a space for people who write music and may otherwise never hear it performed.

Vinetz himself cites Black is the Color as a central influence in coming up with the idea for NMC. Due to the group’s relative newness, it is difficult to assess whether Vinetz’s efforts to broaden the appeal of contemporary classical music have been successful.

“You have to take into account that we’ve been active for six months,” said current board member Jonah Pearl ’18.

One of the central paradoxes of the group is that it is attempting to democratize what is by nature an extremely abstruse branch of music.

Several members expressed worries about insularity and a concern that many of the composers belonging to the collective are members of the same few composition seminars at the School of Music.

The group’s primary faculty advisers — Kathryn Alexander and Konrad Kaczmarek — are Vinetz’s former composition instructors.

“Sometimes it feels like it’s a little too boxed-in, and not enough new faces are showing up,” said Lawrence. “We would love to find people who’ve never taken a music class.”

Duff attributed the insularity of the group to the insularity of the chamber music world in general. He also cited the group’s relative nascence, and the fact that all of the founding members are mutual friends and acquaintances.

“When you consider that it’s made up largely by these people who were all friends, it’s kind of inevitable that it would end up being a little self-enclosed,” he told WKND. Elena Saavedra Buckley ’18, a current board member, attributed NMC’s close connection to music seminars to the high technicality required in contemporary classical composition.

“It tends to limit the type of music that is played and the people who are composing that music,” Buckley said.

Along with violinist Ana Barrett ’18, Buckley is one of

only two women on NMC’s board. She told WKND that she had gotten involved because she thought it was important to have more female involvement in the organization.

“In general, classical and new music in general is a pretty male-dominated field, and I think it’s extremely important to cultivate good open spaces for this music on campus,” she said.

Pearl said that NMC is currently brainstorming ways to get more people involved. The group welcomed unsolicited submissions of any instrumentation for its upcoming February show, and Pearl stated that several composers not involved in the usual composition seminars will be featured on the program.

Duff said that NMC has democratized chamber music at Yale, but within narrow parameters.

“If you look at the audience, it’s primarily made up of the friends of the composers, friends of the musicians and other musicians,” he said.

“This is not to undersell Max’s accomplishment, but expansion has primarily occurred [among] people involved in classical music to begin with.”

Cerbu, whose new piano trio will be premiered at NMC’s upcoming February concert, agreed with Duff and added that the process of making contemporary classical composition more accessible “proceeds stepwise.”

“It’s often harder to digest new music if you haven’t had prior exposure to it,” Cerbu said. “It’s easier to digest Schubert than Schoenberg, and the process of democratization is going to work more effectively for people who are used to stretching out their ears a little bit. That said, I don’t think that discounts the impact it’s had on the vast majority of students at Yale.

The group is absolutely making modern classical music more heard on campus than it was last year.”

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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LOOKING FOR MY BUTTER HALF // BY STEPHAN SVESHNIKOV On Monday, it was chicken from North Carolina. Tuesday, we had mushrooms from Pennsylvania and lettuce from a computer-monitored, 3,000-squarefoot greenhouse somewhere (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the Yale Farm). For brunch on Saturday, Stiles served frozen mangoes from Chile.

I actually don’t know any of this for certain, because Yale Dining doesn’t provide information about the geographic origin of the food they serve. That’s all right. If I really need to know where my potatoes are grown, I can go to Five Guys and read it off their chalkboard.

But here we are, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, and I have no relationship to my food beyond what it tastes like and how many grams of sodium it has (thanks, Yale, for giving us those little nutritional cards).

The New York Times ran an article on Wednesday titled “Deliciously Out of Season.” The author is concerned that Americans aren’t eating enough vegetables. She attributes this to the alleged stigma surrounding any produce that isn’t labeled with the two words that she dislikes most of all: “seasonal” and “local.” Haunted by the idea that all other produce is inferior, she winds up feeling “insecure” and

buying cereal instead. Let’s stop glorifying these terms, she says, lest people end up forgoing vegetables altogether out of shame.

If by “Americans” she means the elite who have the luxury of feeling guilty about what they do or don’t eat … well, she may have a point. But I’m personally uninterested in what the upper class in Berkeley, California, is eating.

And I think she’s wrong. Completely and totally. I’d like to propose an alternative view and say that there are two reasons we aren’t eating our vegetables. (1) They don’t taste good, and (2) we don’t care.

The modern crisis of “It tastes good, but it’s bad for me” is just that: modern, and a crisis. We don’t need to accept it as the status quo. I refuse to. I have eaten tomatoes that dripped with flavor. I have munched on carrots that tasted orange. I’ve walked past tents at a farmers market that were on fire with the scent of grilled vegetables.

Produce can taste good, if we don’t try to make our vegetables be something they’re not.

And that’s where we get to the second part of the problem.

Because if we cared, if we had a real relationship with our food, we would never ask it to change for us. To travel thousands of miles every week to see us. To

A woman under the influence (of existentialism) // BY IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY

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sit for days in the fridge without spoiling. To taste the same, look the same and feel the same every single month of the year. If we cared, we wouldn’t throw away 30 to 40 percent of our produce before it even got to the store.

But we can’t care. We don’t know enough to care. We probably don’t even know the name of the dining hall worker who cooked the meal we ate last night.

We’ve become so alienated from our food that we’ve reduced it to essentially two things: how it tastes and what its nutritional value is. Which is sort of like reducing a person to attractiveness and social function. You can’t ask that person to be your Valentine.

So let’s rebuild our relationship with food in time for this weekend. Let’s go on a date to the Saturday farmers market. Because when we take the unique, the meaningful out of one of the most basic elements of our existence — the food that sustains us — the very action of eating can start to feel just as meaningless.

So let’s take an example from the Yale tradition of inquiring about a person’s residential college. “Where did you come from, sweet potato?”

Contact STEPHAN SVESHNIKOV at stephan.sveshnikov@yale.edu .

Here’s a weird book that more people should know about: The novel is called “Malina,” written by Austrian poet and author Ingeborg Bachmann in 1971. It’s quasi-experimental, extremely demanding and ultimately rewarding. “Malina” takes the form of a rambling internal monologue — occasionally broken up by bits of dialogue in script form — delivered by an unnamed female writer.

The writer could be charitably described as neurotic, and she spends the entire novel teetering on the edge of some sort of nervous breakdown. The essence of what plot there is involves her love affair with a younger Hungarian man named Ivan, and her relationship with a vaguely sinister male roommate, the titular Malina.

Ivan and Malina are both reasonably interesting characters but never rise above ciphers, which is exactly how the narrator views both of them. Her inability to adequately perform even menial tasks is a recurring theme of the novel. One strangely humorous subplot involves her disastrous attempts to write letters of response to some undefined business associates.

The book is divided into three parts, with the first being the most linear and generally setting up the characters and themes, albeit in an obtuse way.

The second part, a wild swerve into pure dream-logic, involves the narrator’s nightmares of violent persecution at the hands of her hateful father. A particularly memorable recurring setting from this section involves a graveyard exclusively for murdered daughters. The final section somewhat brings the novel back into order, but slowly builds up to a surreal climax that seems completely logical in the grand scheme of the narrator’s development.

There is a lot not to like about this book. At times, it almost seems like a parody of pretentiousness. Sample dialogue: “To act is not to act, in case it keeps going on the way you’re demonstrating. Then my mania is no longer growing but decreasing.” It actually makes even less sense in context considering that it has nothing to do with the preceding sentences. The characters all speak as though effectively communicating information is something to be avoided at all costs.

Getting though this novel was a slog, and I would have given up had it not been for a New Year’s resolution to read more chal-

lenging books.

Still, I’m ultimately glad I stuck with “Malina.” The bizarre dialogue filled with dead ends and non-sequiturs actually builds a kind of hypnotic effect. The novel is beautifully written — no doubt reflecting Bachmann’s background as a poet — and if you don’t attempt to read the individual sentences for meaning, but rather take each paragraph as a whole, the novel has a way of washing over you. You slowly become sucked into this woman’s neuroses and desires and begin to empathize with her.

After the first hundred pages or so, I stopped viewing the novel as an icy intellectual exercise and really became engrossed in this woman’s story.

The novel ultimately builds suspense, not from plot but from the narrator’s emotional state. I don’t mean in the sense of a psychological thriller where you wonder whether she’ll snap and stab somebody. The suspense comes from other, somehow much scarier questions.

Will she ever find a way to exist on her own terms? Will finding happiness cost her what makes her unique? Is she even capable of writing the “happy book” she promises Ivan? Again, such questions seem almost unbearably pretentious, but in Bachmann’s hands, they genuinely seem to stem not from an author’s attempts to prove her intellectual credentials, but organically from the way her central character relates to the world.

Apparently, “Malina” has built a kind of cult following, no doubt enhanced by the fact that Bachmann tragically died in a fire, leaving “Malina” as her only completed novel.

It makes sense that the novel never reached a wider audience. It’s so completely uninterested in being entertaining, or even traditionally engaging, that it’s kind of amazing that it was ever even published. It feels like Bachmann wrote the novel entirely for herself, and any audience receptiveness was purely incidental. This review is not a rave; the novel feels unnecessarily difficult at times.

Still, I know I have never read, and will never read, another book quite like it. I’m truly glad I stuck with it, and hope others will give it a chance. Besides, any book that contains a multipage digression about the psychic horrors of being a mailman has to be worth some time.

Contact IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY at ian.garcia-kennedy@yale.edu .

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Pool: Songs From the Deep End // BY CHRIS CAPPELLO “I wanna be a part of it / New York, New York.”

When Fred Ebb wrote those lines of “Theme from New York, New York,” a song originally performed by Liza Minnelli in 1977, he captured an aspirational spirit that would cling to the city for decades. Frank Sinatra’s version, released three years later, would achieve icon status; it has, for all its schmaltz, become the standard by which all subsequent high-gloss New York anthems (those of Jay-Z, T-Swift, etc.) have been judged.

Aaron Maine, the Manhattan-based songwriter who fronts Porches, has not set out to write the next great New York City pop song. But without a careful read, one might take “Be Apart” as such an attempt. The single, which appears on Porches’ latest album “Pool,” nods toward Sinatra’s song in the chorus: “I wanna be apart / of it all,” Maine intones (italics mine).

It sounds like he is quoting Ebbs’ line verbatim, but the song’s title makes its divergent significance clear: Whatever this city is offering at the moment of utterance, Maine’s speaker wants no part of it.

In fact, Maine is getting at something like the antithesis of “New York, New York” — he stares into the void-like urban landscape and yearns for an impossible escape. Barring that, he reasons, he might as well dance. Bearing the title in mind, the song transforms into something like Joy Division’s “Transmission,” the uncanny, nightmarish photonegative of a dance-pop hit.

“And now my body moves,” he sings, as though outside himself. “It is so physical.”

In the unprecedented wake of the coverage that Porches has received for this LP, its first for Domino Records, some critics have noted the Sinatra reference but few have followed further the thematic through line that it establishes. At its core, “Pool” is an album that deals with two related dichotomies: sincerity and irony on the one hand, and partnership and soli-

tude on the other. This minor Manichean struggle plays out within a cold, synthetic musical framework of analog keyboards, programmed drums and digitally manipulated vocals, with only occasional suggestions of the “rock” sound that characterized Porches’ last record, 2013’s “Slow Dance in the Cosmos.”

The fatalistic, agoraphobic “Be Apart” ultimately falls into the thematic camp of irony and solitude, but its referential chorus engenders a sense of ambiguity. As indicated by the distortion of his rich, emotive vocals on tracks such as the initially spare “Pool,” Maine seems intent on alienating the listener — or at least on keeping him or her at a distance. This may be an attempt to recreate, on his own sonic and lyrical terms, the sense of alienation that his speaker feels. The semi-autobiographical character Ronald Paris is an avowedly “authentic” songwriter trying to succeed in a perhaps not entirely authentic musical landscape and a “going-out” culture that demands his body and brain, if not quite his soul. “I let it have me all,” he admits, again on “Be Apart.”

To counter this sense of powerlessness, Maine experiments not only with selfmedication, as in “Underwater,” but also with self-mediation. One of the most otherwise straightforward pop songs on the record, “Braid,” features a chorus in which Maine’s speaker describes a night on the town: “It was as if I was watching it / All through a video camera.”

Maine’s lyric conveys both the apparent preciousness of his speaker’s experience — the yearning to record and thus preserve it — but also its curious abstractness, its notquite-reality. Maine’s social media presence feels this way, too, halfway ironic but somehow alluring, like an iPhone photo filtered through the VHS Camcorder app.

A listener unfamiliar with Maine’s rich discography would be forgiven for taking “Pool,” with its self-con-

sciously slick arrangements and occasionally flat lyrics, as so much style over substance.

But Porches’ music situates itself within a broad aesthetic and lyrical mythology, and it’s only in this context that “Pool” can be fully appreciated. Sure, these songs could have turned out like those on “Slow Dance,” all howling vocals and blaring guitars, but that would belie their contextual heritage. Indeed, attendees of 2013’s “AnteFling” concert will remember hearing some of these tracks in their full-band format, and although Porches was easily the best band on stage that night, the aesthetic of “Pool” feels better suited to an empty studio apartment than a sweaty rock club. If “Slow Dance” were the sound of an aspiring group vaulting for the stratosphere, Pool is a delicate sound wave bleeped earthward from the fringe of space. There’s a sense of sadness, fragility and, ultimately, humility here that “Slow Dance” couldn’t have afforded to risk.

And yet, each album ends with a variation on the same sentiment: the fundamental necessity of love. In “The Cosmos,” a song from “Slow Dance,” the figure of Maine’s girlfriend and sometimebandmate Greta Kline (a.k.a.

Frankie Cosmos) served as a kind of indie-rock Beatrice, a woman who, through her love, would guide Maine’s speaker toward transcendence. On “Pool”’s closing track, “Security,” the terms are more mundane, but the stakes are higher than ever: “All I want / and all I need,” Maine sings, finally unmasked, “is some security.”

Given the album’s emotional flux, its careening between poles of irony and sincerity and its generally antiseptic vibe, it’s refreshing that “Pool” ends on such an open-hearted note. But even here, there’s a hint of ambiguity — as he pines for stasis, Maine’s voice trembles through its filter.

Contact CHRIS CAPPELLO at christopher.cappello@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND THEATER

TENDER OF YOU TOO NOT “JUST A PLAY” // BY HANNAH KAZIS-TAYLOR

// MATTHEW LEIFHEIT

The dreamy semicircle of embroidered orange shawls and rugs strewn across the Crescent’s floor drew me into the theater on Thursday night. The decor — complete with a mattress, books and clothing — hinted at a messy bedroom. The two halves seemed to lean in to meet in the stage’s center, paralleling the shape Tara and Allegra’s bodies as they reach toward each other during the play’s opening dance sequence. “tender of you too,” written by Anya Richkind ’16, is at first scene after scene of giggly flirtation between two high school girls. Tara (Lora Kelley ’17) struggles helplessly to com-

pliment Allegra (Jill Carrera ’17) on her audition performance, the girls squeamishly try kissing on a dare and then sexual tension escalates over a bowl of cookie dough. The tone borders sitcomy, with pained audience laughter punctuating the girls’ awkwardness.

The girls’ relationship takes on another dimension when we learn Tara and Allegra are cast in their school’s play as a pair of formidable female leaders of the Christian Temperance Movement in the 1870s, Mary and Frances — who are secretly, and deeply, in love. We enter the world of Mary and Frances’ intimate relationship when Tara

reads the introduction to Frances’ journal entries: “Nobody shall see these pages but myself …”

Tara and Allegra take on their characters’ personas as they rehearse together, and profess their love in weighty, poetic language. After the director criticizes Allegra for her lack of conviction as she addresses Tara’s character, Tara pushes her to explore her character’s motivations and feelings. Tara seems to grow into her character, grasping the “life-and-death” weight of Mary’s feelings for Frances. Tara and Allegra’s budding love culminates in a few truly memorable romantic scenes. Tara rushes

to Allegra, flustered that the director has cut her kiss scene, and the interaction morphs into a dance sequence. The girls, who seemed to me more like women at that moment, gaze intently, wistfully at each other as they touch palms and dance slowly, deliberately — maturely.

The girls’ love swept me away, but Tara’s shrill, grating voice jerked me out of the moment with yet another insipid comment — leaving me disappointed, with a sense of whiplash. Was she confusing the intimacy of friendship with romantic love? Or, as Richkind suggests in the program’s playwright note, is she challeng-

ing a sharp distinction between the categories? Is playing Mary, who frames her profound love as a friendship because of her day’s social norms, guiding Tara to explore the romance in her relationship with Allegra?

Frances and Mary are woven into Tara and Allegra’s relationship in surprising ways throughout the story. Both girls try to supernaturally commune with the ghosts of Frances and Mary — preceded, the first time, by a quick prayer to Jesus for protection in case a spirit proved evil. Are Frances and Mary the future of the girls’ relationship, because they are an older, more mature pair? Are they outlining

the girls’ fate? Or is the secret nature of their relationship the girls’ past, because the women lived over a century ago? We learn early on that Mary marries Frances’ brother, believing this to be her only socially acceptable option. As Tara explores Mary’s love, will the same parallels between the pairs’ stories play out, or will Tara make a different decision?

For anyone looking to ruminate on turbulent teenage love and newfound sexuality, “tender of you too” is well worth braving the cold trip to Morse.

Contact HANNAH KAZIS-TAYLOR at hannah.kazis-taylor@yale.edu .

Reality Clocks Out in “Cloud Tectonics” // BY JACK BARRY

// COURTESY OF THE YALE CABARET

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Love is patient, but life is not.

“Cloud Tectonics” by José Rivera, showing at the Yale Cabaret this weekend, is equally funny and thrilling, an intimate portrayal of a romance as it forms over the course of one very long evening.

If your love language isn’t Spanish, turn your brightness to low and pull up Google Translate. If you’re not the type to pull out your phone or desktop computer at the theater, congratulations on not being a terrible person — and fear not, there’s only one monologue in Spanish. Hopefully, you’ll pick up a few new words, like quesadilla, and leave the theatre remarking, “Coño, that was a good show.”

The play opens on a darkened stage; peals of thunder reverberate, and a violent rain beats down. Nothing good begins on a dark and stormy night. A heavily pregnant and very damp Celestina del Sol (Stephanie Machado DRA ’18) sticks out her thumb as car after car whizzes past. Headlights zoom across the set, briefly illuminating the terrified Celestina as hope drains from her face.

Finally, a car slows to a stop and a young man, Anibal de la Luna (Barbaro Guzman DRA ’18), beckons the rain-soaked girl inside.

Afraid and childlike beside Anibal, only Celestina’s large belly betrays her maturity.

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Anibal begins driving through the “storm of the century,” but Celestina does not know where they’re headed. She’s on a mission to find the father of her child, a former employee of her papi. Without a destination or a lead, Anibal takes the mysterious Celestina back to his apartment to wait out the storm. As soon as they walk in the door, the clocks stop.

Love is a funny thing. It can make days seem like seconds.

Years can go by without lovers’ noticing. That’s probably why I’m still waiting for a text back after a month. Employing the Hispanophone tradition of magical realism to play with perception, time and love, “Cloud Tectonics” considers carefully what it means to have a love that lasts a lifetime.

Celestina is awestruck by Anibal’s apartment, as she’s lived most of her life in one room.

Time works differently around Celestina. Her papi called her cursed. Celestina asks Anibal if years are longer than hours because she can’t tell the difference. She confesses that she is a 54-year-old woman who has only aged as far as 25. When she left her home in search of her baby’s father, she was newly pregnant. Now she appears several months along, but she began her quest over two years ago. To her, the days seem like sec-

onds, and if she isn’t paying attention, years can go by.

Machado explores Celestina’s dual nature, nimbly moving between flirtatious girl and sexually confident woman. Celestina is enamored with Anibal’s boyish charm, and her effervescence and mystery enchants him. At first, they are awkward together, like two nervous teens on a first date.

That, and Anibal’s disbelief in Celestina’s story, result in multiple laugh-out-loud moments as they navigate the relationship between roadside savior and pregnant immortal. Celestina is a less-thanvirginal Madonna with Child, and Anibal seems happy to accept the role of stepfather Joseph. Just as the pair begins to grow comfortable with one another, there’s a pounding at the door.

Anibal’s brother, Nelson (Bradley James Tejada DRA ’16), bursts through the door like a jolt of energy. If Anibal is the quiet rumbling thunder of the storm, Nelson is the bolt of lightning — loud, quick and electrifying. Nelson is brash and oozes machismo, a stark contrast to his soft-spoken and tender-hearted brother. “Tectonics” plays with the two types of men: one sensitive, one passionate. Nelson’s effusive compliments to Celestina distract her from Anibal’s attentions as she is

swept up in his hyper-masculine display of affection. As an audience, we question whom we’d want to spend the night with and whom we’d want to wake up next to. (Hint: Nelson looks incredibly appetizing, but so does the real quesadilla that Anibal makes about halfway through.)

As quickly as Nelson arrives, he must depart. Anibal insists that he stay while the storm blows over, but Nelson says he must return to his Army base in Death Valley.

Anibal protests at the brevity of the visit, but Nelson retorts that that’s life, just “a fucking blink.”

The play goes by in another “fucking blink.” Highly entertaining and only 60 minutes, the play hurtles towards an emotionally charged, Spanglish conclusion.

I left the Cab contemplating the time we invest in our relationships.

For Celestina, years feel like minutes; for me, the month I’ve been waiting for a text back has felt like years. Maybe I should brave the storm and venture out in search of my own gestating immortal.

“Cloud Tectonics” is worth your time, whether you’re seeking romantic fulfillment, entertainment or a great quesadilla-making demonstration.

Contact JACK BARRY at john.c.barry@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND BACKSTAGE

AMY KLOBUCHAR ’82 THE SENATOR NEXT DOOR // BY DAVID WHIPPLE

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KND wants to be like Amy Klobuchar ’82 when/if we grow up. The Democratic senior senator from Minnesota, Klobuchar was elected to the Senate in 2006 following many years as a public prosecutor in her home state. Her book, The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland, came out last year. Back at her alma mater for the weekend, Klobuchar kept her audience in stitches throughout a hilarious and informative JE Master’s Tea, during which she revealed that her senior thesis was 150 pages long. Afterwards, she sat down with WKND to discuss her career in public service, her relationship with Ted Cruz and what it’s like being a woman in politics.

// UNITED STATES SENATE, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Q: What got you into politics?

A: First of all, the big moment where I decided I was interested in politics beyond just helping on some campaigns or the high school student council was actually when our daughter was born and she was really sick and couldn’t swallow. Back then, they had a rule that you [the new mother] were kicked out of the hospital after 24 hours, and she was in intensive care.

I’d had no sleep, I got kicked out and I thought, “I can’t let this happen to anyone else.” So I became the major advocate for a 48-hour hospital stay for new moms and their babies. That actually ended up passing, and Minnesota was one of the first states to do it.

And I learned a lesson. No one could say they were against the bill, but they were trying to delay it, so at the conference committee I brought in a bunch of pregnant women that were my friends and they outnumbered the lobbyists two to one. And when the legislators said, “Well, when should this take effect?” the pregnant women all raised their hands and said “Now!” And that’s what happened.

Q: What exactly was your role in pushing this reform?

A: I was just a mom. I told my story, I testified. And that was it.

Q: That’s a nice segue, actually. So your first big political issue was an important women’s issue, and you were the first women elected to the senate from Minnesota. How has being a woman in a traditionally and still predominantly male establishment shaped your experience?

A: Well, I think a lot of the women that have gone to the Senate, including myself, came up through what I call the “accountability route.” We actually had to show that we got things done.

We couldn’t exactly strut around with a flight suit on saying “Mission Accomplished,” because the voters thought,

“Well, can they really do this job?”

People held us to this standard. When I was first running, I remember looking at the websites for Janet Napolitano when she was back serving in office in Arizona, and Kathleen Sibelius, who was the governor of Kansas at the time. I noticed they would all put goals, and then they’d say what they accomplished, and that really defined my work and a lot of women who get to the Senate. And that carries through — a recent study out of Harvard just showed that the women senators sponsor each other’s bills more, they pass more bills, they get more things done and that is what I’ve found to be the case.

Q: How do you think Hillary Clinton’s gender has affected this campaign?

A: I still think you have the issue that I talked about today, that some people can’t imagine a woman in charge of things. You really have to get around that, and the way you get around that is by showing that women can do these kinds of jobs — whether it’s being a mayor, or a police chief, or the president of the United States. And that then encourages other little girls to think they can run, and encourages men to be supportive.

Q: What has been your proudest moment in the Senate?

A: Well, there have been a few, but I was really happy when we got the funding for the I-35W bridge, the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River [in Minneapolis in 2007]. We got that done really fast and the bridge was rebuilt in a little more than a year.

But the single moment that was amazing was when we passed this bill — a family and a Republican congressman had come to me about a little girl who had gotten maimed in a swimming pool because the drain malfunctioned.

I went and visited her in the hospital, she survived for almost a year. She

had about 16 surgeries, her name was Abby Taylor, and her parents were convinced that we could pass this bill that had been sitting around for years, going nowhere, called the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool & Spa Safety Act. It was named for Jim Baker, the former secretary of state, whose granddaughter had been killed in this way. But it had just been sitting around.

Every week, he [the father] would call me and ask, “What’s happening with the bill?” And finally I got the head of the consumer subcommittee [the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security] to help. We started moving, we actually strengthened the bill — Ted Stevens, the former Republican senator, helped — and finally it got passed. It got attached to a bigger bill, an energy bill, and I’ll never forget calling that dad, Scott Taylor, and the mom and telling them from the cloakroom that it had passed.

What has happened since then? I asked the head of Consumer Products and Safety [Commission] six months ago.

We were having a lot of kids killed every year, dozens of kids died that way.

There hasn’t been one death since the bill passed, because it required simply a special kind of drain.

Q: Is that the kind of thing that makes you feel like you’re doing important work?

A: Yeah, even though it seems like — you wouldn’t think I’d answer about a pool-drain bill, because we’ve passed a lot of pretty important things like the TARP bill and the stimulus since I’ve been there, and we were able to get out of the downturn. But for me, those individual moments when you’re helping someone in your state, and in this case we couldn’t help her, but her spirit lived on by helping other kids.

Q: That seems to me to resonate with the current debate over gun control. We’re

“Well, I think a lot of the women that have gone to the Senate, including myself, came up through what I call the ‘accountability route.’”

not sure what would or wouldn’t work, but doesn’t it seem like people aren’t valuing the saving of one life?

A: You asked about the best day. The worst day in the Senate was the day the Sandy Hook parents were in my office, because I was one of the advocates for the background check bill, and I had to tell them that I didn’t think it was going to pass. We’d been working it the night before — [Joe] Manchin [the Democratic senator from West Virginia] and other people … It would help in suicide cases, domestic violence cases and this one woman told me how, the morning of the massacre, that she and the other parents were gathered in the firehouse and one by one the kids came in. And pretty soon they knew their little boy was never coming in. He was autistic, he could hardly talk and every morning he’d point at the picture of the school aide who would be with him all day.

And as she sat there in the firehouse she knew that not only he had died but that the school aide had died. And when they found them, the school aide had her arms around him and they were both shot and killed.

And I thought to myself, “They had that kind of courage and we don’t have the courage to pass this background check?” Obviously I voted for it, but I think that was my lowest moment and a reminder of the challenges we have ahead.

Q: To a lot of people, gun control is emblematic of how stuck and broken our political system seems to be — most Americans support expanding background checks, but no law has been passed. How can we improve American politics so we don’t have issues that get stuck like this?

A: Well, I’d love to get rid of Citizens United with a constitutional amendment because then the money factor wouldn’t be there. I think of TV pulling people apart — Fox on one side, and MSNBC. I would love to see show hosts having people on together, not just to divide them but to talk about the work they do in common, and, by the way, there is a lot of that going on. And then I think citizens stepping back, I think that’s going to happen — there’s so much interest in this presidential race and trying to elect someone who will be civil.

Q: Any interactions with Ted Cruz in the Senate? Any stories?

A: Ah, yes. Right now he’s holding up the Norwegian and Swedish ambassadors, who went through the Foreign Relations Committee without objection. They’re the only two major countries without ambassadors, they’re

taking in record numbers of refugees and they’re on the frontline of the Russian issue with Ukraine. So I’ve now given four floor speeches asking for them to be confirmed, and he [Cruz] isn’t there, ever. But other senators aren’t holding them, he’s holding them.

All we want is a vote.

It’s not over them, he has no problem with them, and he has no problem with the countries, it’s just over other issues. So I have had some issues with that kind of governing, yes.

Q: If you could use one word to describe Ted Cruz, what would it be?

A: I don’t have one word.

Q: You went to law school before going into politics, like a lot of people. Do you think that you learn things in law school that translate into politics? Why is that relationship so strong?

A: Well, I think learning what the laws mean and how they work and how they interact with each other is really important. I also think, for me, it taught me the Socratic method and having to give moot court arguments. It taught me how to stand up and speak for myself and for others; college did that some but law school did that a lot, especially for women. Now it’s different, you saw a lot of women asking questions here today, but when I was growing up a lot of the guys would do the talking in class. So I think law school was really important in that way too.

Q: Obligatory last question: What advice would you give a Yale student looking towards politics, or really any Yale student at all?

A: Get involved in campaigns — and it doesn’t always have to be a presidential campaign. I didn’t talk about this today but the first campaign I managed was a city council race in a suburb, and the guy ended up moving to Florida four years later. But starting small and having those [kinds] of experiences, you can actually have those experiences while you are working in the private or nonprofit sectors or in government, either helping a little piece of a big campaign or actually doing a lot more on a small campaign.

I think people sometimes neglect those small campaigns. But if you pick the right person, and you get to know some people — I mean, that guy moved to Florida but I got to know other people. Then I ran a legislator’s campaign, it was an easy race, fine. Then I ran a county commissioner’s campaign, and then pretty soon I was running myself.

Contact DAVID WHIPPLE at david.whipple@yale.edu .