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BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

I know you got all dressed up for the Club Hockey. The

Stallin’ with Stalin. As he

delivered his closing statement at Saturday night’s Republican debate, candidate Ben Carson ’73 claimed to quote Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin saying, “Stalin said if you want to bring America down you have to undermine three things — our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality.”

After the debate, however, CNN’s fact-checking team called the attribution false.

Couldn’t be colder. Despite Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog’s prediction of a short winter, New Haven experienced dangerously low temperatures over the weekend. There is a “winter weather advisory” in the state, starting at 1 p.m. today. The advisory will last until midnight for coastal Connecticut.

A Streep recovery. After her

comment, “We’re all Africans, really,” inspired the hashtag #MerylSoAfrican on Twitter, Meryl Streep DRA ’75, a Berlin International Film Festival juror, gave a more positive interview over the weekend, saying “We’ve entered a new time of possibility for women.”

T is for Tacos. Atticus Book

Store and Cafe is hosting a special “Taco Tuesday” tomorrow from 5 to 9 p.m. featuring tacos, sopas and antojitos.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1985 The Council of Masters subcommittee on alcohol policy proposes a plan that will allow the University to serve drinks at Yale-sponsored events despite the drinkingage hike to 21 years.

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Female athletes struggle with body image

college dining halls and gyms, including those in Branford and Davenport, did not have heating yesterday.

However, University control room operator Marcus Hayes confirmed that no power outages had been reported to Yale Facilities as of late last night.

Sweet South Carolina. Former president George W. Bush ’68 will visit South Carolina — the location of the next Republican primary — to campaign for his brother, Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida. The elder Bush won in South Carolina when he was a candidate in 2000. Their father and former president George H. W. Bush ’48 also won in the Palmetto State.

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Corp. leaves naming issues unresolved

No one man should have all that power. Several residential

Yale Men’s Club Hockey team beat Fordham 5–4 and took the Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey Conference title over the weekend. Eric Fein ’16 and Dylan Gastel ’18 led the Bulldogs in points, with 18 and 17, respectively. Yale’s goaltender ranked fourth in the conference with a 93.4 save percentage.

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Prior to the meeting, Salovey said he was planning “substantial conversations” with the Corporation concerning these three subjects, adding that they are areas “everyone would like to get settled.” But due to formal technicalities, as well as the hope that the Corporation will reach a consensus across various meetings,

During the winter months, student-athletes from multiple Yale varsity teams walk daily through the hallways of Coxe Cage, their place of practice and refuge from the cold outdoors. On the walls of these same hallways recently hung a fluorescent pink flyer with detachable slips at the bottom. The poster invited female student-athletes who had ever struggled with eating disorders to take a survey.

As of last week just one lone tear-off slip remained, casting light on the challenges many Yale female student-athletes face every day.

A recent Yale co-authored study found that disordered eating habits are seen in 25 percent of female collegiate athletes. These habits, which include inadequate calo-

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The Yale Corporation gathered in Woodbridge Hall this weekend for the first of its five annual meetings.

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER The Yale Corporation’s February meeting has ended, but the fates of Calhoun College and the title “master,” as well as the names of the two new residential colleges, remain unclear. Still, University President Peter Salovey said he expects all three decisions to be announced by

the end of the academic year.

This weekend, the Yale Corporation gathered in Woodbridge Hall for the first of its five annual meetings. Although the body’s agenda is officially confidential, several sources confirmed that part of its slate included the three hot-button naming issues over which the body has jurisdiction and that were a focus of student demands last fall.

Clinton dominates Yale faculty donations

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS As the races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations heat up, data from the Federal Elections Commission indicate that faculty and administrators at Yale — and at the country’s other top universities — have a decidedly left-wing bent.

Yale professors and administrators have raised a total of just over $111,000 for official presidential campaigns this election cycle, with the vast majority of that figure — over $96,000 —

going to Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, the Democratic frontrunner. Sen. Bernie Sanders, her challenger in the Democratic primaries, has received $5,700 from Yale faculty and administrators. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig LAW ’89, whose short-lived campaign focused on campaign finance reform, received $4,200. The FEC only collects data about donations to official presidential campaigns, with donations to super PACs remaining confidential.

Data from four other top universities — Columbia, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard —

Malpractice settlement rejected

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The Connecticut Grievance Committee rejected a settlement that would have found a lawyer guilty of failing to document legal transactions Friday — the most recent development in a 2003 medical malpractice lawsuit that led to the winning party suing their lawyers for malpractice.

The committee held a public hearing in the Hartford Superior Court Feb. 4 between the state of Connecticut, Howard Altschuler — the legal malpractice lawyer now representing Dominic and Cathy D’Attilo, who won $25 million after their son was injured in childbirth — and Kathleen Nastri, one of the D’Attilos’ attorneys at the firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder. Although Altschuler originally charged two different law firms with 16 different violations, the New Haven Superior Court, which first heard the case, only escalated one of the violations to the Grievance Committee. But following Thursday’s hearing, the settlement proposed by

state disciplinary officer Karyl Carrasquilla was rejected. The Grievance Committee decided to neither absolve nor condemn Nastri of improper documentation. Instead, the case will go to another public hearing, this time involving the submission of evidence, testifying witnesses and cross-examination.

The committee did not list reasons for rejecting the settlement, as is procedure in such decisions.

Altschuler, a legal defender of clients who believe their lawyers have exploited them, said in a press release that Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder failed to account for $600,000 in legal expenses. However, Koskoff’s lawyers said the legal expenses were fully documented, though paper receipts were not kept.

The law firm has presented around $635,000 in cancelled checks as evidence — proving money had changed hands — and is expected to present them again in the next hearing.

“We thought the proposed resolution was fair and we look forward to a full hearing,” said SEE SETTLEMENT PAGE 4

show similar trends, with faculty overwhelmingly donating to Democratic candidates and especially to Clinton. While Clinton has been widely lauded for her experience in public service, Yale faculty interviewed also cited personal experience with the candidate as a reason for their support — perhaps unsurprisingly, given Clinton’s ties with the University.

Sanders has often claimed on the campaign trail that his campaign tends to receive small donations from a large number of people, as opposed to Clinton’s campaign, which

he says is fueled by big donations from wealthy individuals.

At Yale, the trend is similar: 19 faculty members and administrators gave an average of $300 to Sanders’ campaign; the 59 faculty members and administrators who donated to Clinton gave an average of $1,650.

Numerous faculty members, especially in the Law School, contributed $2,700 — the maximum donation that a campaign can use during a primary — to the Clinton cause. These donors included law professors Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld, Ian Ayres ’81 LAW ’86 and Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00.

Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, who worked with Clinton at the State Department, gave $2,975 to her campaign, although Clinton is not allowed to use the excess $275 unless she secures the Democratic nomination. Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis was among the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who gave the $2,700 primary maximum.

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Groups head diversity initiatives

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Woodbridge Hall established “implementation groups” to oversee anti-discrimination initiatives.

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Woodbridge Hall has established “implementation groups” to oversee its initiatives combating race and discrimination on campus.

On Nov. 17, University President Peter Salovey released a campuswide announcement in which he detailed several initiatives meant to foster a more inclusive campus environment. While some of those policies have already been put in place, such as the recently formed Presiden-

tial Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, many are still in need of supervision. Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said the new implementation groups monitor a variety of areas, including increased funding for the cultural centers, University communications, improved mental health services, diversity training and the reporting of harassment and discrimination.

“We want to be very transparent about two things: one is progress toward all of those initiatives that we announced,

the second is we recognize that there are many details that were not worked out by Nov. 17,” Salovey said.

Salovey added that while progress on initiatives has impressed him so far, his new presidential task force on diversity and inclusion will “keep a watchful eye on them.”

Highsmith said the groups first started meeting at the beginning of the new year and that she periodically meets with them as well. She added that, true to their name, they SEE INITIATIVES PAGE 6

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Remembering Marina I

never knew Marina Keegan ’12, but like so many students, I know her story. A promising young journalist and writer, she saw her life tragically cut short in a car crash just days after her graduation.

Yet for someone I’ve never met, Marina and I share a bond that is difficult to explain. For one, we charted remarkably similar paths during our time at Yale.

Both of us wrote columns for the News, and both of us would eventually serve as president of the Yale College Democrats.

But more than sharing titles, I’ve connected most strongly with her writing. From her columns, I learned Marina was a thinker. Unfazed by the daily grind of Yale life, she wrote pieces as whimsical as her's on why we connect so well with whales and as logical as her piece demanding that Connecticut’s General Assembly should decriminalize marijuana. She wrote the seminal work for our generation of Yale students in her column, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” and the thoughtful reflection of what Wall Street has done to the Yale educational experience in another one of her pieces for the News, “Even Artichokes Have Doubts.” Her words resonated far beyond New Haven, and through her work, she proved that ideas can make an impact.

SHE LEFT ALL OF US WITH AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL COMPLETE WITH HER INSIGHT INTO HOW TO LIVE A PURPOSE-FILLED LIFE - ONE THAT ENGAGES WITH IDEAS AND THEN HAS THE RESOLVE TO PUT THOSE IDEAS TO ACTION But while the rest of the world continues to see through the eyes of her ideas, I’ve had the added privilege of seeing who Marina was through her work.

The woman The New York Times described only as the “Student Journalist Who Took on Wall Street,” I knew as the events coordinator, elections coordinator and, eventually, president of the Yale College Democrats.

And from the documents she’s left behind with us, I’ve also learned that Marina very much understood the value of getting

things done.

In “action p l a n s ” passed down with each new leadership cycle, future presidents will TYLER MariBLACKMON see na’s obsession over the Back to details of eve ry t h i n g Blackmon from how to run a successful political event to how to get out the vote on Election Day. They’ll see her detailing her plans for “a more sophisticated car service” to aggressive demands that the Dems develop “effective canvassing and phone-banking workshops.”

In the pages of her book, Marina is a dreamer. But in the manuals she left with me, she is a ruthless pragmatist.

I think her life means so much to me because Marina embodied the synthesis of thoughtful reflection and meaningful action.

She recognized the importance of contributing boldly to public discourse through her writing, but she was also pragmatic enough to know that nothing gets done without someone willing to obsess over the details of implementation.

And with such a powerful connection to this life I never saw in the flesh, I have felt, over the last few years, an odd compulsion to keep Marina’s legacy alive. Take this fall, for example.

The Yale College Dean’s Office wanted Freshman Counselors like me to talk to our freshmen about building a positive community at Yale during the last of our daily meetings. I probably should have stuck to the script, but I couldn’t shake the urge to share with my freshmen what I loved so much about this place, what made me want to become a FroCo in the first place.

So half an hour before our meeting, I went to the library and printed out 16 copies of a column I’ve read dozens of times before.

And together, my freshmen and I read every word of “The Opposite of Loneliness” aloud, paragraph by paragraph, word by word.

The tragedy of Marina’s story is that she left this world too soon. But the beauty of it is that she left all of us with an instruction manual complete with her insight into how to live a purpose-filled life — one that engages with ideas and then has the resolve to put those ideas to action.

Marina helped define my Yale experience in ways she never would have imagined. So in my final year, I’m determined to keep her spirit and influence alive for the next generation of Yalies.

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VIEW What's fit to print College publications do not (usually) uncover political misdeeds or sex scandals.

They report on topics that to most Americans seem relatively mundane: endowment returns, hiring initiatives, library renovations. It is rare that they shape national consciousness: They concentrate for the most part, on issues particular to their institutions. We student journalists occupy ourselves with a small sphere of reality, of which few outside of our institution take notice.

Last week at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland, this spirit of salutary neglect came to a grinding halt.

In January, reporters at The Mountain Echo, Mount St. Mary’s student-run paper, published a story claiming that the university’s president, Simon Newman, had compared struggling students to drowning bunny rabbits. The paper quoted Newman as saying: “This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can’t.

You just have to drown the bunnies.” According to The Mountain Echo, Newman planned to dismiss 20–25 struggling freshmen before the end of September in order to improve the university’s retention numbers — a major factor in college rankings.

Last week, the university

informed Ed Egan, the newspaper’s faculty adviser, that he had been fired. Two other professors who had voiced objections to Newman’s policies were also dismissed.

On Saturday Newman announced that the professors would be reinstated.

The reversal comes after widespread condemnation of the firings by academics and free-speech monitors — a petition protesting the firings gathered over 5,000 signatures in 24 hours. National media outlets, including the Washington Post and The New York Times, also covered the story. We are happy to hear that the Mount St. Mary’s administration has taken steps to rectify its unjustifiable suppression of the free press. Nevertheless, in moments like these it is important to reflect upon the value of student-run newspapers — and of freedom of expression more generally.

It is impossible to divorce the practice of journalism from that practice’s societal context. True, political exigencies and public opinion can and do influence what the media reports on, and college newspapers are not exempt from this law.

But the dynamic goes in the opposite direction as well.

In a free society, journalists play a pivotal role in holding those in positions of power accountable. Perhaps

the most famous example is the Watergate scandal, when Bob Woodward ’65 and Carl Bernstein exposed the corruption of the Nixon administration. Such flashy cases can, however, obscure the primary mechanisms by which investigative journalism serves to check cronyism and systemic abuses of power. Woodward and Bernstein did more than humiliate a dishonest president.

They reminded America’s political class that, when you do something wrong, sooner or later somebody finds out.

Journalism is as much about deterring misbehavior as it is about punishing transgression.

Newman is no President Nixon, and Mount St. Mary’s University is not the United States of America. Yet the student reporters at Mount St. Mary’s still deserve praise for their willingness to challenge bureaucratic authority.

They refused to acquiesce to the status quo, plunging, instead, into the thick of controversy. That Newman went to such great lengths to stifle dissent is all the more reason to applaud their efforts. The marketplace of ideas, after all, cannot function without the open circulation of ideas.

Free speech is more than an abstract principle; it is a project. Institutions cannot grow and progress without tolerating constructive and at

times unflattering criticism.

This has proven especially true at Yale, where widely publicized complaints about the University’s mental health infrastructure has led to substantial, albeit incomplete, improvements to funding and design. By reporting candidly on the policies and administrators responsible for their well-being, student journalists promote institutional accountability. The value of student journalism thus hinges on administrators’ willingness to face and accept criticism as a necessary driver of reform, not a nuisance to be eliminated.

It should also be emphasized that the suppression of controversial statements and ideas is antithetical to the goals of a liberal arts education. A spirit of intellectual discovery and the pursuit of truth cannot thrive under the threat of censorship.

Restricting freedom of the press does not merely evince a disregard for institutional development. It fundamentally undermines the premise and purpose of a liberal education. That is inexcusable.

We sincerely hope that Mount St. Mary’s will respect The Mountain Echo’s autonomy going forward. But more than that, we hope that student journalists everywhere recognize and embrace their duty to hold administrators accountable for their actions.

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TYLER BLACKMON is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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n 1965, four gentlemen from Japan published “Take Ivy,” a visual account of the day’s Ivy League fashion. They mentioned that while none of the eight schools required its students to attend seminars swaddled in tweed, each one maintained an informal code of attire.

Yale’s “code,” according to the book, had 20 clauses, including advice for certain occasions. For instance “wear a sport jacket and a tie” to a date.

The wardrobe of ’60s Yalies, which included herringbones, grey flannel “trousers,” “regimental” striped ties and “a cardigan with an orthodox style,” might seem fogeyish, not to mention pricey. (There’s no way “yacht parkas” came cheap.)

Obviously, folks dress differently nowadays, but is there any doubt they dress less formally? I think this turn has cost us in professionalism, and I'd like to make the case that we shouldn't show up to class in tank-tops and torn sweatpants.

Yalies are an individualist crowd, and the traditionalism of any sort is, in my experience, met with a mix of skepticism and condescension. But even if we’re

here just to make money so our kids can have the same “opportunities” we do, college is a serious business, isn’t it?

COLE We learn ARONSON about things that we think Necessary are imporAnd and proper tant. there’s something in a mission statement somewhere about leadership, or global citizenship or thinking critically.

And we hear quite a bit about how important all that is. The world looks to Yale to learn which matters in the cuttingedge fields need further research and, it turns out, which residential college namesakes are too gauche to keep. Yale has “privilege,” and it’ll be damned if it doesn’t use it responsibly!

Fine. Then while we’re sorting out these adult questions, let’s dress the part.

But, the free spirit asks, why have any code of behavior? Well, if you and your culture think

there’s a correct way to be, then perhaps having a set of rules enforcing it is a good thing to do.

The Japanese custom of bowing is an excellent example. As I understand it, the depth of the bow accords to the status of the person to whom one is bowing. The point is to show respect to those to whom respect — because of age, accomplishment or something else — is due.

Returning to the matter of clothing, many groups maintain codes of dress. Monks, for instance, wear habits (plain cloth garments) showing their commitment to poverty and renunciation of the material world. Soldiers wear camouflage for protection. Ultra-Orthodox Jews and devout Muslims also restrict what adherents may wear.

And we needn’t even look so far as the local monastery for an example. The Whiffenpoofs sport white tie as they warble the world over. I don’t know how that tradition got started, but I imagine it serves three purposes: first, it’s sort of hysterical. And second, it facilitates a kind of unity of purpose among the members. They don their cravats

and canes and those white gloves that look like they were taken off Mickey Mouse’s hands, and they’re no longer just a dozenplus handsome senior gents — they’re Whiffs, identifiable to all who see them. When they sing as one in that dress, they sing as the Whiffs. If they all just wore jeans and ripped tees, I suppose it’d still be that bunch of blokes, but it just wouldn’t be the same.

Wouldn’t it be nice if, when all the dignitaries who visit our fine school look around, they see students who appear to take what they do so seriously that they dress like adults? And wouldn’t it serve the purpose of reminding us that we’re here not just because it’s sort of fun or useful, but because we’re part of a great tradition of learning going back to the folks who started this place 300 years ago?

Well, at any rate, I think so. If you don’t, that’s fine. I’m happy to talk about it with you. But please, throw on a collared shirt for when we meet.

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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Black Solidarity Conference attracts over 700

BY MONICA WANG AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS The temperature was below freezing this weekend, but the wind chill did not dampen the enthusiasm of participants attending the 21st annual Black Solidarity Conference, the largest conference held at Yale each year. More than 750 students from over 50 universities across the country registered, conference planners told the News, and the weekend-long series was sold out even before the start of the new year.

Named “The Miseducation: Changing History as We Know It,” this year’s Black Solidarity Conference sought to address historical fallacies concerning African-Americans in the United States and the complexities of Black history. The conference has always focused on promoting solidarity, but each year explores a different theme. Through lectures, workshops, discussions and career talks, as well as a keynote address by African American Studies and English professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84, who will leave Yale to join the faculty at Columbia University this year, the conference pushed participants to reflect on the history of the African diaspora and to consider ways of creating a better future. In particular, a heavily sponsored career fair — with representatives from companies such as Google and Goldman Sachs — provided conference participants with a chance to explore tools to empower themselves and their communities. In the wake of tumultuous weeks of student demonstrations about race at Yale last semester, the Black Solidarity Conference also played an important role in pro-

viding a safe space for attendees to discuss the events that took place on various university campuses.

“The Black Solidarity Conference is really about providing the opportunity for all students to come together, engage each other, empower each other and take away something powerful that they can bring back to their own community,” said Alexandra Williams ’17, vice president of the board of 21 people who planned the conference.

According to conference president Chad Small ’16, this year the conference sold out faster than ever before. Last year’s conference was fully booked by the beginning of January, while this year’s sold out in December.

Centered around the theme of miseducation, Williams added, the conference was able to explore the historical aspect of the African diaspora, especially how many narratives have been misconstrued, manipulated or simply untold. Participants were given a chance to “rectify” Black history throughout the four days of the conference, she said.

Small said that while last year’s theme focused on the struggles that come out of institutional racism, this year the program was centered around Black people who have been successful in spite of continued adversity. The event was divided into two parts, Small said, with the panels and workshops on Friday centered around rectifying historical misconceptions and Saturday’s events concentrating on the achievements of Black community members.

The hope was to inspire people to pursue their dreams as well as show them viable methods for achieving those goals, Small said.

“What the conference boiled

down to is Black solidarity, which is strength within each other, and people come out to see people who look like them,” Small said.

“It’s great to see the features that are built in a conference like this, where you see Black students doing well in their communities and connecting with people who come from different places.”

The keynote dinner on Saturday evening at the Omni Hotel, featuring Alexander as the speaker, was a highlight of the conference. Conference organizer Brinton Williams ’16 told the News that Alexander was chosen as the keynote speaker this year because the planning committee believed that she could address the core theme of miseducation through her artistic medium of poetry, in order to make sure participants can understand the true story of Black Americans in the United States. Alexander recited a poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009.

Organizers also emphasized the special role that the conference is playing after last semester’s weeks of student activism on campuses across the United States, and especially at Yale.

“This conference brings a platform for participants to engage in discussions about what happened on different people’s campuses and provides a supportive healing space,” Alexandra Williams said. “For a lot of people of color, this past semester has been really hard. To be here where you are surrounded by people who look like you, care about you and understand you makes a big difference and is rejuvenating for conference participants.”

Shane Lloyd, assistant director for first-year and sophomore programs at Brown University’s

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More than 700 studentse from over 50 schools flocked to this weekend’s Black Solidarity Conference.

Center for Students of Color who hosted a workshop titled “How Class Matters in Black Lives” during the conference, said over 60 students came to Yale from Brown. Taking into account all of the campus activism by Black students, Lloyd said, the conference was incredibly important because it was a significant site for students to process those experiences and share common strategies for enacting change.

He added that the gathering pro-

Obama announces cancer “moonshot”

BY STEVEN LEWIS STAFF REPORTER In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a new cancer-research funding initiative to cure cancer. On Feb. 1, the White House pledged $1 billion in cancer-research funding toward the National Institutes of Health and Federal Drug Administration in the 2016 and 2017 fiscal budgets to discover new treatments.

Obama called the initiative a “moonshot” to emphasize that his administration wants to make the fight against cancer a top priority, similar to the priority given to the moon landing during the presidential administrations of Kennedy and his successors. Before formulating the goals of the initiative, Vice President Joe Bidenn with 15 doctors and researchers, including Patricia LoRusso, professor of medical oncology and associate director of Innovative Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, for consultation on how to best utilize the funding. The initiative aims to bring new therapies to patients and improve data sharing and applications of genomics in the

clinic to accelerate the pace of research, according to a February White House press release.

Though this “cancer moonshot” initiative has largely been met with hope, researchers still have tempered expectations.

“The notion of a moonshot, which the vice president articulated, I think should be seen as aspirational and not business as usual, which would translate into much faster progress,” said Douglas Lowy, acting director of the National Cancer Institute. “The faster progress is not going to take care of the cancer problem in the next month, the next year or even in the next couple of years, but the opportunities are enormous at this time.”

Lowy detailed the NCI’s plan to improve data sharing amongst researchers by launching a genomic data cloud that will hold genomic and clinical data from up to 50,000 patients.

Lowy noted that while the mortality rates for most cancers have decreased in the past two decades, the mortality rates for specific types of cancers have remained stagnant due to the lack of new treatments.

“We have the capacity to incorporate not just data from NCI trials, but in addition, from other trials,” Lowy said.

“The vice president could make an enormous difference in creating greater demand for data sharing. This kind of database has enormous potential.”

At the meeting with the vice president’s aids, LoRusso and the team of researchers and doctors discussed a clinical database and sharing initiative — project GENIE, for Genomics, Evidence, Neoplasia, Information, Exchange. She said it is currently being beta tested at 10 select institutions which they plan to expand.

LoRusso emphasized that genomics will have an “important place in the future of cancer drug therapy” and is already impacting patients.

However, Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale School of Medicine, expressed hesitation about the impact this initiative will have.

“Science evolves with time,” Alpern said. “You can certainly accelerate the rate at which it moves, at certain times by infusing more money, but the likelihood that a one-year ‘moonshot’ is going to have the

effect that the name implies is unlikely.”

He also disagrees that data sharing is a major problem in cancer research.

“We hear all the time from people outside of science that science is slowed down by the lack of data sharing. Data is shared in science and at just the right time. You don’t want to share it prematurely because bad data could get out,” Alpern said.

Alpern compared excessive scientific data sharing to socialism, adding that he believes if scientists become unable to establish the priority of their work, incentives to innovate will diminish and progress will be slowed.

Alpern said he believes that cancer research is already moving quickly, but in order to truly accelerate the pace of progress, there needs to be a sustainable funding initiative.

The global cost of cancer treatment currently stands at $100 billion, a 10 percent increase from 2010, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .

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vided a venue for students to better coordinate joint-campus efforts as well as to develop a broader network of friends facing the same issues.

“I think what the students most appreciate is being in a community of students facing similar challenges as them and thinking about how they can resist those challenges and make positive changes on their institutions,” Lloyd said. “Moving forward, I think the students

are both refreshed given the exhaustion they experienced last semester, but also energized to take on some important projects during the spring.”

Attendees hailed from institutions as close as Williams College and as far as the University of San Diego.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Murphy candid on mental health reform

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Sen. Chris Murphy discussed mental health, guns and the Republican Party Friday afternoon with a crowd of roughly 100 Elm City psychiatry professionals and patients at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

Murphy — a Democrat who co-sponsored the Mental Health Reform Act of 2015 with Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy — said he expects bipartisan support will push a version of the bill through committee this spring and eventually to Congress. The act proposes reforms that would integrate physical and psychiatric services, establish funding for early intervention for mental health treatment and prevent insurance companies from refusing coverage for mental illnesses.

Murphy said the bill enjoys bipartisan support because many representatives on Capitol Hill want to advertise mental health reform as the solution to gun violence.

“Of course we cannot allow for people to blame the epidemic of gun violence on our nation’s system of health care,” Murphy said.

“But given that Republicans control both houses this is the reason for the legislation coming to the floor.”

The bill would affect the 44 million Americans who experience mental illness each year, many of whom do not have access to adequate care, Murphy said. 26 percent of the country’s homeless population and 20 percent of those incarcerated have been diagnosed with mental illness, he said. Murphy added that psychiatric treatment programs often fail to provide long-term care, with only 32 percent of those with depression receiving follow-up treatment.

Luming Li — a resident at the School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry who invited Murphy — said the bill’s provisions to encourage child and adolescent psychiatrists to practice in community centers would be particularly impactful. She added that she found integrating psychiatric care with physical care and creating an undersecretary of mental health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as particularly important parts of the act.

“As someone who is working

in the field, it is very exciting for there to be talks of reform at the national level that might come through,” Li said. “The last one was the [Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act] of 2008.”

As the bill passes through Congress, senators and representatives will likely attempt to combine it with other mental health reform acts comprised of both similar and conflicting provisions, Murphy said.

In the House, Republican Rep. Tim Murphy created a bill that emphasizes Assisted Outpatient Treatment — court-ordered regimens for severe cases of mental illness — which is not available in Connecticut. Murphy said his bill neither assists nor discourages AOT programs.

Murphy added that several members of Congress have also suggested that he merge his bill with one supported by Republican Sen. John Cornyn. The Texas senator’s bill would improve health care in the criminal justice system, but contains dubious gun law provisions, he said. The National Rifle Association endorsed Cornyn’s bill last August. While Cornyn’s provisions would aim to prevent the mentally ill from obtaining guns, critics of his bill have said it loosens overall gun regulations.

Murphy added that he is worried about his fiscally conservative colleagues diminishing the scope of bill while still touting its symbolic importance as comprehensive reform. In its current form, the bill would spend several billion dollars expanding clinic capacities and bolstering outpatient support.

Participants at the discussion included GESO Co-Chair Robin Canavan GRD ’18, who attended with Grant Mao — a former School of Management student who alleges that the administration expelled him after he suffered from depression. Though Murphy’s bill does not address mental health services at universities, Canavan said she wanted to learn more about mental health services in general.

Murphy’s visit on Friday ended a four-city tour that began Friday morning in a public high school in Hartford, where he discussed systemic racism with students.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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“Anorexia taught me to love life and to realize that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time.” CELIA IMRIE ENGLISH ACTRESS

Female athletes confront body image challenges FEMALE ATHLETES FROM PAGE 1 rie intake and purging behavior, such as induced vomiting, can lead to electrolyte imbalances, malnutrition syndromes and bone loss, according to the study.

Based on interviews with members of all 18 Yale women’s varsity sports teams, Yale seems to be no exception. At least one athlete on each team said either she or a teammate had struggled or continues to struggle with eating disorders or body image issues during college.

A WIDESPREAD ISSUE

At Yale, in most cases female student-athletes struggle particularly with the contrast between a body that performs well in sports and one that looks feminine.

A former runner on the Yale women’s track and field team, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic, had never given thought to her personal appearance in high school. But after arriving at Yale her freshman fall, she felt she had “social standards” to live up to, and that she should lose weight in order to perform at the Division I level.

During her freshman summer, the runner lost nearly 4 0 p o u n d s. S h e d eve l oped anorexia, bulimia and orthorexia — an obsession with only eating healthy foods — a combination that is especially threatening for an athlete training up to four hours a day.

While some see losing weight as a means for excelling at their sport, other athletes cited examples of the practice leading to malperformance instead.

For a second track and field runner who also asked to remain anonymous, issues with body image began when she started college weight training, which was more intense than her workouts in high school. She decided to lose weight until she looked more like the other girls on her team.

“I would make myself throw up and my diet was very restrictive,” the runner said. “But then people would tell me, ‘Wow, you lost weight, you look good,’ and that would incentivize me to keep doing it.”

Although the runner liked the way she looked after the weight loss, her performance on the track began to deteriorate.

And yet the only solution she could see was losing even more weight.

The athlete ultimately sought her coach’s guidance and the support of a therapist and nutritionist. Although she said she is physically better now, after two years since beginning treatment, eating remains a constant source of stress for her.

“Logically, I know I am physically fit and better now, but I am always worried about food,” she said. “It is constantly on my mind. Mentally, it is a stressor, but not physically.”

Not all women who struggle with eating disabilities and body image issues go as far as developing anorexia or bulimia.

Still, 21 of 28 female athletes interviewed said they currently or at some point in their collegiate career had issues with how their bodies look.

On the Yale volleyball team, during the spring season some players worry about developing “spring bods” — having “man arms” and looking “way too jacked” from spend-

ing increased time in the weight room — according to an anonymous player on the team.

Similar conversations occur on the women’s soccer team, where the common complaint for players is developing “soccer legs” because of the extreme leg strength necessary in the sport, women’s soccer midfielder Margaret Furlong ’18 said.

Being scared of being big has to go out the window.

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KAREN SUTTON Director, Women’s Sports Medicine “People make comments a lot about how muscular we look,” a women’s hockey player who asked to remain anonymous said. “I know that a lot of us feel like we need to work extra hard to keep body fat off because the muscle we need for our sport already makes some parts of our bodies bigger than we might want.”

While the study also found that athletes in “lean-body sports,” such as swimming or gymnastics, were more prone to developing eating and body image problems than other athletes, in interviews with athletes at Yale the condition was more widespread throughout teams.

One member of the women’s golf team who asked to remain anonymous said that although she had always had healthy relationships with food and her body before coming to Yale, in her freshman spring semester she developed an obsession with food and her weight, often feeling guilt and shame after eating.

E l i sa b e t h Be r n a b e ’ 17, another member of the women’s golf team, said she agonized over her weight for many years because other athletes on her team were significantly smaller, and that she feels more confident now that she has lost weight.

“After living the last 10 years of my life overweight and constantly being around a team such as mine, I finally had enough and decided to make a life change,” Bernabe said.

“Though I knew that they all loved me for who I was, I did feel ashamed when we were delving up uniforms and I was the only large amongst many smalls.”

Her case is just one of many in Yale’s female student-athlete community. But many of these cases go unheard.

Athletes interviewed highlighted that while many face issues of eating disorder and body image, few come forward and discuss their conditions openly with their teammates and coaches.

“It’s the dirty laundry no one likes to talk about,” long-distance runner Emily Barnes ’17 said.

The anonymous golfer, for example, said she has not felt ready to discuss the troubles she went through with her team or coaching staff. She added that she believes others on the team face similar issues, but that no one has ever brought up the topic as a team.

Although two golf players interviewed for this article cited previous experience with body image issues or eating disorders, when asked if any athletes on the team had struggled with

these issues women’s golf head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 said she was not aware of any athletes on the team who had.

The second anonymous runner said although she talks with her teammates about her past condition now that she has improved, in retrospect she wishes she had been more open with them at the time.

“The tough thing is that most people who struggle don’t talk about it, and the signs that someone is struggling with an eating disorder can slip under the radar pretty easily,” women’s hockey forward Gretchen Tarrant ’17 said. “I think more athletes deal with this than most people realize.”

One of the first steps in curbing these issues, the anonymous runner said, is to be more open about eating disorders and bring up these problems more often with teammates and coaches.

Women’s fencing captain Joanna Lew ’17 said even when she notices “warning signs” in teammates, it is difficult to approach them outright without trespassing personal boundaries and making assumptions about a person’s lifestyle.

“The elephant in the room was just never talked about,” the runner said.

DEALING WITH CHANGE

For most student-athletes interviewed, societal expectations and pressures on how their bodies should look were the main reason behind their issues with weight and body image.

Spending up to four hours a day in intense workouts and weightlifting regimens, female athletes often end up with larger muscles and more defined bodies than non-athletes, features that can be seen as masculine, a softball player said.

“Body image is both a personal interpretation and one a society implores,” she said. “I feel as though everyone constantly worries about their personal body image just due to the society we live in today.”

It is often hard to reconcile society’s view of a beautiful woman with the type of body athletes need to succeed at the Division I level, Tarrant said.

She added that it is impossible to be both “skinny” and strong.

This issue often comes up for the first time in college, where training is more intense than it is in high school. Many female student-athletes are introduced to regular weight training only upon arrival at Yale, causing their bodies to change significantly, Furlong said.

Female athletes are also sometimes bothered by the way they look because they are “bulkier” than non-athlete female students, a squash player said. This is likely because female non-athletes focus on cardio workouts and do less weight lifting than a varsity athlete, she added.

“There have been a few people on my team who have struggled with eating issues, and I think some of it came from how we became so bulky during lift and people did not like the way that they looked,” a varsity athlete who preferred not to specify her team said.

Karen Sutton, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and a co-author on the study, also works for the University as the director of women’s sports

medicine and for Yale athletics as a team physician and sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon.

In those roles, Sutton works both alongside athletic trainers to help with injury treatment and alongside strength and conditioning professional to help with injury prevention.

Sutton said strength conditioning is necessary for female student-athletes to perform at a Division I level — a fact not emphasized enough in high school.

“Being scared of being big has to go out the window,” Sutton said. “You have to throw body image out.”

Many female student-athletes interviewed agreed that they see their strong bodies and muscles as an advantage when competing in their sports.

For instance, women’s squash player Georgia Blatchford ’16 said she works hard to have a strong body, and that on the court it is preferable to be strong rather than delicate.

“If you love the sport you play, you should also embrace the changes that it does to your body,” women’s squash player Celine Yeap ’19 said.

I would make myself throw up and my diet was very restrictive.

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD RUNNER Volleyball player Lucy Tashman ’17 added that being on a team helps athletes come to terms with how their bodies look, since the workouts make players better and help the entire team.

The problem, however, often comes when female studentathletes compare themselves to female non-athletes, a women’s rower said.

She said because rowing is an intensive, calorie-burning sport, team members have to eat more than the average woman in order to recuperate the calories they lose in practice. While eating is not an issue when athletes are with their team members, the rower said it is disconcerting to always eat more than female non-athletes.

“Going home, I realized how much more I was eating and my friends noticed it, too,” she said.

YALE’S APPROACH

Members of all 18 Yale women’s varsity teams said that on their teams, each athlete is in charge of controlling her diet and making sure she consumes enough calories for practices and competitions.

While Yale women’s crew head coach Will Porter said taking ownership of individual nutritional needs is a “very basic part” of being a Division I athlete, student-athletes said many issues can stem from this approach.

“You come in, and there is a pressure to perform,” distance runner Emily Waligurski ’17 said. “That’s where the problem comes in: girls start trying their own thing, changing their diet without knowledge.”

Furlong said when she started weightlifting in the spring semester, she became “infinitely hungrier” and did not always know how to fuel right, leading her to overeat.

Yale Health’s Athletic Medicine Department currently has one nutritionist on staff

for all teams. The nutritionist, Lisa Canada, said the interactions between her and studentathletes depend largely on the team, as she meets with teams on a per-request basis. Most teams do not meet with Canada as a whole, and in most cases, student-athletes are simply encouraged to meet with Canada individually if they wish to.

The cross country and track and field teams, for example, have a team meeting with Canada at the start of each school year. Runners are then encouraged to reach out to Canada if they want individual meetings.

In addition, if coaches are worried about a particular runner, they will recommend they set up an individual meeting with Canada, Barnes said.

While other teams, such as soccer and golf, have also had team meetings with Canada in the past, that is not the case for the majority of teams. In most cases, student-athletes are simply encouraged to meet with Canada under their own discretion.

Yet several student-athletes interviewed had no knowledge of a nutritionist on staff with whom they can meet.

“It is a little difficult since I am only [at Yale on Tuesdays and Thursdays] part-time,” Canada said. “But as of yet, I don’t think anyone that wanted an appointment has been unable to schedule.”

She added that she also has the flexibility of adding more hours if necessary, but that those hours are limited because of a fixed budget.

Student-athletes also said they believed the approach to athlete nutrition should be more proactive. Often, female athletes are encouraged by their coaches to meet with Canada only once eating and body image issues have already developed, Waligurski said.

Furlong added that on the soccer team, coaches step in only when they notice “drastic changes” in a player’s weight.

“Just getting word out that help is available is important,” Canada said. “Both individual and group support is available to students and athletes, they just need to reach out and ask for it.”

According to Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin, when a student-athlete is going through an eating disorder, a physician and nutritionist are generally involved in the treatment, and depending on the case a mental health clinician may also be part of the team.

He added that varsity athletes have access to the same mental health clinicians at the Mental Health Clinic who treat all Yale students.

“Often those struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating are in need of additional support, but it can be overwhelming for them and perhaps intimidating to walk through the doors of mental health,” Canada said. “I sometimes help bridge to bridge that gap.”

A DESIRE FOR MORE

Athletes also largely called for more resources, such as mandatory training and individual and group counseling, as well as more sports-specific nutritional advisors. Multiple coaches interviewed expressed similar views.

“I believe more can be done in terms of education and counseling for all including our team,” women’s swimming and

diving head coach James Henry said.

The anonymous golf player said mandatory training and resources tailored to athletes with eating disorders and body image issues would be “really helpful,” and added that if such resources already exist, athletes do not know much about them and have not been explicitly encouraged to use them.

Canada agreed that studentathletes could benefit from additional resources regarding eating disorders but added that getting students to utilize the ones that are already available is also important.

The runner added that having mental health professionals specifically dedicated to athletes would help because they could understand the specific issues student-athletes face, which are often different from those of the typical Yale student.

Support from the coaching staff is also essential, Barnes said. Before coming to Yale, she had unsupportive coaches who avoided talking about the topic, but said Director of Track and Field David Shoehalter and women’s cross country coach Amy Gosztyla have dealt well with issues within the team.

A women’s tennis player added that coaches should be trained in how to speak with women athletes and be sensitive to these types of issues.

The player also said access to food can trouble student-athletes. Because dining hall hours and practice schedules are not coordinated, often by the time teams arrive to eat there are no healthy options left. She added that the women’s tennis team often holds four-hour practices with no snacks, which lead to undernutrition and overeating afterwards.

For Sutton, an important step to eliminating body image issues is to further develop a female athletic culture. Raising awareness of female sports, increasing their marketing and air time and making more sports accessible to young women are all ways of bringing public attention to women’s sports up to par with men’s, she said.

She cited last year’s 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which drew significant fanship from American citizens towards the U.S. Women’s National Team, as an example of how much players can look up to women athletes.

An anonymous member of the fencing team said if the media brought more attention to “less accepted” female body types, such as those of muscular athletes, the stigma of being masculine could start to fade.

Being able to see more female athletes in the media embracing their athletic bodies can help shift the narrative away from “unhealthy and unrealistic” body expectations, women’s basketball forward Meredith Boardman ’16 said.

“I think that the best way to attack these issues is to keep reiterating that it’s way better to be a badass at your sport than to live up to some imagined skinny ideal,” Tarrant said. “Someone once told me that your body is an instrument, not an ornament. Work hard for your body and own it. It is far more important how much you can achieve athletically than how you fit into a material ideal.”

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

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A statement released earlier this month by Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder Managing Partner James Horwitz said the firm was proud of the work done by their attorneys on the D’Attilo case, including Nastri’s.

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A press release from Altschuler stated that Nastri could now face suspension or disbarment on charges of professional misconduct. This is because the violation of the American Bar Association Professional Rule 8.4 previously filed against Nastri can be punished with disbarment.

But the professional misconduct charge against Nastri was formerly discarded by a lower committee and was not in ques-

tion at last week’s hearing.

“It’s unclear what will be on the line,” Altschuler said, adding that the Hartford ethics committee has the ultimate power to decide punishment.

This is not simply a question of legal malpractice in the D’Attilo case, Altschuler said, but has implications for Connecticut’s entire legal justice system.

Altschuler said he filed a writ of mandamus — a court order to an

inferior court that seeks to correct past government action — against the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel in order to highlight problems with the grievance committee procedure. He hopes the system will be changed to create safeguards for complainants.

Altschuler called the proposed settlement “an unfortunate and unjustified sweetheart deal that was made by the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel,” adding that

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According to an 1997 article in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Altschuler sued his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, after his professor gave him a failing grade on an examination.

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

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Students gather to support native women

BY SEAN WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Sunday evening, a roomful of students gathered at Yale’s Native American Cultural Center to show solidarity with missing and murdered indigenous women.

The ceremony, which was organized by Yale Sisters of All Nations and attended by roughly 35 people, included performances from the Blue Feather Drum Group and spoken word presentations from Native American students. It aimed to raise awareness for the alarmingly high rates of violence against indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada: 4 percent of Canada’s population is indigenous, but Native women make up 16 percent of all of the country’s

female murder victims. According to a December press release from the Canadian government, indigenous women are three times more likely to experience violence than their peers of other ethnicities; likewise, Amnesty International reports that Native women are 2.5 times more likely than other women to be sexually assaulted . Organizers noted that attendance at this year’s event was higher than it was at the inaugural ceremony last year, and they attributed the turnout to both better publicity efforts and the conversations around racial justice that emerged on campus last semester.

One student in attendance, Bailey Pickens DIV ’16, said she had come after hearing about the event from a classmate who is a member of YSAN. She noted that

the message of the event “seemed vital to Yale and the world.”

“I don’t think it’s that the message being spread has changed; it has always been important,” Pickens said. “It’s just that now, people are paying attention.”

The event was introduced by a variety of speakers from YSAN, including president Autumn Shone ’17. Following a performance by Blue Feather, Yale’s indigenous music performance group, Shone spoke about how emotional this showing of solidarity was for her and the other members of YSAN, noting how the murder and disappearance of indigenous women was “a reality that [she], her family and her community all live.” Shone also expressed her thanks to all the attendees, saying that the turnout gave her “hope for what Yale

can and should become.”

After spoken word performances by Native students, YSAN led a ceremony and prayers, offering students candles before holding a moment of silence. Two more songs and short closing remarks from the YSAN ended the event.

The movement for support and awareness of missing and murdered indigenous women originated in Canada, according to Kelly Fayard, director of the Native American Cultural Center. Fayard added that attention to this “epidemic” has moved from Canada into the U.S., primarily North and South Dakota, but she said the issue has still gone unacknowledged on a nationwide scale.

Although the YSAN and other Native student groups are sup-

ported by the NACC, Fayard said, this event and other groups’ events are independently organized by students. She continued to emphasize the importance of events such as the vigil, not only for showing support for missing and murdered indigenous women, but also for increasing awareness of the marginalization of Native people more generally.

She said Native people are often excluded from discussions about the marginalization of people of color.

Shone said she is excited for the future of the YSAN and other Native student groups in general. YSAN itself, having been founded last year, is a relatively new group.

“We have a very young, active community,” Shone said. “I’m very hopeful for our future.”

She added that the YSAN and other groups are trying to stress intersectionality with future events.

“We had help from various women’s groups around campus planning this event,” she said.

“We are trying more and more to get different groups together to help broaden our reach and voice.”

On Dec. 8, 2015, the Government of Canada officially launched an inquiry into the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women, in line with campaign promises made by Canada’s newly elected prime minister, Justin Trudeau. The U.S. has not announced a similar formal inquiry.

Contact SEAN WALKER at sean.walker@yale.edu.

Preliminary health survey results discussed

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Attendees of this year’s Nourish New Haven conference — a series of events exploring local nutrition issues — connected the dots between food justice, sustainability and community wellness in the Divinity School chapel Friday.

Both DataHaven Executive Director Mark Abraham ’04 and Alycia Santilli, deputy director of the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at the Yale School of Public Health presented survey results on community health that their respective organizations collected last year. Abraham discussed the 2015 DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey, which gathers information on regional well-being and quality of life across the state of Connecticut and was completed in November. Santilli spoke on the New Haven Health Survey, a door-to-door canvass conducted by CARE which focused on economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, covering the neighborhoods of Dixwell, West River/Dwight, Fair Haven, Hill North, Newhallville and West Rock. Abraham and Santilli examined the interactions between food security, obesity and neighborhood safety.

“Each interview is like a story of someone’s life,” Abraham said of the DataHaven survey.

Though neither organization has revealed final reports on its data, both Abraham and Santilli tracked changes between data collected in last year’s surveys and data from previous years.

According to Abraham, the DataHaven survey took a sample of 16,219 randomly selected adults, aiming to create public information about community well-being and quality of life previously unmeasured at a local level. Abraham noted an increase in the prevalence of obesity in Connecticut between 1990 and 2015.

Santilli, also the chair of the New Haven Food Policy Council, said her triennial health survey

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The Nourish New Haven conference was held in the chapel of the Divinity School. has had a 70 percent participation rate across the three times it has been conducted in 2009, 2012 and 2015. The questions posed to survey participants touch on topics such as physical health, mental health, diet, exercise, smoking and neighborhood safety. Santilli added that CARE works on an accelerated timeline, collecting surveys in the fall of 2015 and releasing the results the following spring.

Of the 1,189 neighborhood residents interviewed by the 20 surveyors CARE trained, 65 percent were women and the average

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respondent was 42 years old.

Sixty-three percent of the residents were black or AfricanAmerican, 22 percent were Latino and/or Hispanic and 13 percent were white. Thirty-three percent of the interviewees had a household income less than or equal to $15,000, and across respondents, the unemployment rate was 23 percent.

Santilli focused on overweight and obesity rate differences by race in these six neighborhoods, noting that residents self-reported weight and height, from which a body mass index

was calculated. According to Santilli, 45 percent of white respondents were considered overweight or obese, while 72 and 71 percent respectively of black and Hispanic respondents fell into the same category.

Santilli traced a decrease in food-insecure residents between 2012 and 2015, as well as an increase in residents who had health insurance. In 2015, 32 percent of residents surveyed had coverage from Access Health CT, the state’s official online marketplace for health insurance that launched in 2014.

CARE’s next steps, according to Santilli, include disseminating the results to neighborhood residents, generating ideas for action planning and mobilizing residents and CARE partners. CARE will hold a community forum on the survey results May 7.

Senior Lecturer at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Divinity School Mary Evelyn Tucker said, in response to the presentations, that the University “should be” doing work akin to that of DataHaven’s and CARE’s.

“The inequities of New Haven are the inequities of our country,”

she said.

Conference attendees included community leaders like Project Longevity Project Manager Stacy Spell and Beverly Hills/Amity Alder Richard Furlow.

The conference continued on Saturday with panels entitled, “People Who Grow Food” and “People Who Organize Around Food,” Question and Answer sessions and group discussions.

The first Nourish New Haven conference was held in 2013.

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

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Yale cardiologist Steven Wolfson said he supports Clinton, whom he described as “remarkable,� and praised her as a representative of women. Wolfson contributed $850 to her campaign.

Other professors interviewed explained the Yale faculty’s overwhelming support for the Democratic nominees, and Clinton in particular, as a product of the faculty’s left-leaning tendencies. “This isn’t our first rodeo.

Most Yale faculty are liberal, and many of us have seen and experienced the shock of Democrats losing the presidency because of being too far to the left,� sociology professor Jeffrey Alexander, who donated $350 to Clinton’s campaign, said. “I would love to see a fuller welfare state in the U.S., and steps to create more income and wealth equality, which would come about if Bernie Sanders actually were able to get his campaign planks turned into law. I am pretty convinced, however, that Sanders would be chopped and diced during a general election campaign.�

He added that Sanders’ label as a socialist candidate would

decrease his chances of winning in November, even if he were nominated.

Nancy Stanwood, a professor at the School of Medicine, said she is a lifelong Democrat because she supports the party’s agenda to support the poor and middle class and protect women’s reproductive rights, adding that she backs Clinton because she is the most qualified and seasoned candidate in the race.

Only three Yale faculty members gave to Republicans. Laura Niklason, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine, gave $2,500 to Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign, the largest donation to a Republican from a Yale affiliate. School of Management Dean Edward Snyder gave $1,000 to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and medical school professor Adrian Maung contributed $250 to the candidacy of Ben Carson ’73, who is a former member of the Yale Corporation.

Faculty members at other elite universities showed similar donation tendencies. At Stanford, where faculty members and administrators raised $156,000 for all candidates, 77 donors contributed a total of $127,000 to Clinton. Sanders raised only $5,600 from 24 people affiliated with the Palo Alto-based university. And just like at Yale, Clinton donors gave more — an average of $1,650 — compared to $230 for Sanders donors. Only 12 Stanford faculty members gave to a Republican.

Columbia displayed similar numbers for Clinton donations: $75,000 of the $96,000

raised overall went to the former secretary of state, with an average donation size similar to Stanford’s. Sanders received donations from 21 faculty members, while Republicans received donations from only eight.

Harvard skewed the most heavily pro-Clinton of the five universities examined. Sanders received only $3,290 from Harvard faculty members — not only significantly less than Clinton’s $118,000, but also much less than the nearly $9,000 donated altogether to Republican candidates Rubio, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Gov. Chris Christie.

Harvard and Stanford were the only schools at which donations to Republicans outpaced donations to Sanders.

Princeton’s faculty bucked the trend in this comparison, both for its relative inactivity in the presidential election donations and for its support of Sanders. Of the 22 faculty members listed on the FEC data, 11 donated to Clinton, while 10 donated to Sanders. Carly Fiorina received $350 from one donor. Still, Sanders received significantly less monetary support — $2,980 compared to Clinton’s $11,650 Sanders recently became the first Jew to win a presidential primary after his 22-percentage-point victory over Clinton in New Hampshire.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

CHASE COGGINS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP The Chase Coggins Memorial Fund is named for Chase Frederick Coggins ’79 Timothy Dwight College.

The Scholarship is to assist undergraduates in 2) traveling to rural areas or developing countries to study.

Examples of past recipient project areas include “traveling to Thailand to propose an interactive sound-art installation on traditional Thai folk instruments from northern Thailand, to expand the acoustic capabilities of these folk instruments using technologies developed by the recipient and apply them in the context of a sound-art installation similar to the Soundings exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013,� “An experiment in constructing a teardrop trailer as it is towed across country, the construction of a sculptural object over time, an architectural research question about minimum standards for a functional dwelling, and a literal vehicle for returning to and learning from a vernacular building style,� “Researching on agriculture and agricultural communities in Peru, small scale on organic farming & spend time observing the inner workings of their farms and conducting interviews with workers, on-site managers and executives,� “Making a documentary about the different methodologies that have been used to reform Native American juvenile delinquents,� “A one year performance walking in silence across North America,� “Traveling to 1HZ =HDODQG WR VWXG\ KRZ WKH VRFLDO FXOWXUDO DQG SROLWLFDO DWWLWXGHV DQG LQLWLDWLYHV RI WKH 0ăRUL OHDG WR their successes in creating education and policy to strengthen their communities,� “Traveling to Little Port Walter, Alaska to pursue an understanding of the island with a writing and radio project about the wilderness, communities and history of both Baranof and Chichagof islands.�

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Salovey told the News Sunday that all three remain unresolved. “The fellows of the Corporation did devote part of the meeting to a discussion of residential college naming issues and the ‘master’ title,� he said. “Because some of these decisions could lead to voted changes to the by-laws, there is a requirement that they be discussed across at least two meetings, and so final decisions cannot not be made until the conversation can be resumed at one or more future meetings.�

Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith also said that even if the Corporation wanted to change the title of “master� during its meeting, for example, it would be unable to do so because a change in University by-laws requires at least two meetings.

Following the meeting, Donna Dubinsky ’77, a successor fellow on the Corporation, said she felt the Corporation had engaged in substantive conversations during which a wide range of views was expressed. She added that while no decision was reached on the three issues, input from students, faculty, staff and alumni raised over the course of the conversation put the opinions of the Yale community on the board’s mind.

Salovey said the Corporation’s goal is still to make these three decisions by the end of the current academic year.

Dubinsky told the News on Thursday that the body knows

it “has to get on with� these decisions and that she would like them to be announced all at once. “We need to decide them together; they’re intertwined decisions,� she said.

Still, Salovey said the Corporation has not yet formally decided how the decisions will be announced.

Thirteen of 16 students surveyed for this article said the Corporation should have settled at least one of the three decisions by now. “I’m not really surprised given their record of conservatism,� Vance Dekker-Vargas ’17 said. “It seems like they don’t get much done quickly or in line with student interests.�

Manasi Patwa ’19 said that while it is understandable for the Corporation to take its time in making decisions that will establish new precedents for the first time, the student body at large has clearly conveyed that its preference is for the name of Calhoun College to be changed.

Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor declined to comment on the agenda or conversations of the Corporation because of their confidential nature.

On Thursday, Alumni Fellow on the Corporation Eve Rice ’73 said the Corporation is aware that these three decisions are unusual for a number of reasons, including their longterm implications and the fact that the name of a residential college has never been changed before. She said it is therefore important for the body to take

its time and be thoughtful. “I came out with a different understanding with the listening sessions, and I expect to come out of the Corporation session with a somewhat different take,� she said. “My sense is no one is posturing, no one is commanding air space, people really want to understand the reasons behind things and what makes sense going forward and what is going to be best for the University. They are really trying to do the best

by Yale.�

Prior to the meeting, Dubinsky said she did not expect decisions to be reached on the three issues, as there would inevitably be differences in opinion — as there are in the larger Yale community.

She added that she, too, remains open to changing her perspective. “In terms of my particular viewpoint, I have a bunch of different ways I could go,� she said. “I am very interested in hearing input from my colleagues because I always find it illuminating. I am not walking in with a do-or-die point of view. I am walking in with some presumptions of where I stand but am open to hearing the dialogue.�

Salovey said in terms of timeline, Corporation members often request follow-up conversations on contentious issues because they like “to take their time making a decision� when those decisions have long-term implications.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Groups to oversee initiatives INITIATIVES FROM PAGE 1 are focused on the implementation of broader initiatives. “Much is still in the planning phases,� Highsmith said. “There was a pledge to increase programming funds for the cultural centers. It’s not a matter of simply ‘Here’s money,’ it’s about ‘Here is the money, how do we plan what’s next, what kinds of programs are we going to put in place?’ That’s the kind of thing we’re doing.�

Highsmith said part of the communications group’s focus is maintaining a University website that details the status of all the initiatives, while the diversity group is focused on finding more effective campus training and the mental health group is focused on offering the most effective types of services to students. Highsmith did not specify who within the University belongs to each group.

Kimberly Goff-Crews, secretary and vice president for student life and a member of the discrimination and harassment implementation group, said it was charged with streamlining related University policies. “We were asked to work on making our current policies more accessible and determining the best way to ensure that students can report any incidents with ease so that the University can respond appropriately,� she said.

Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor

said the focus of the communications group is to make sure the Yale community is aware of wider progress being made.

O’Connor added that members of the group include herself, Deputy Chief Communications Office Michael Morand, University Press Secretary Tom Conroy, Deputy University Press Secretary Karen Peart, Woodbridge Hall Director of Communications Alison Coleman and a representative from the Yale College Dean’s Office. “Essentially our objective is to make sure we are communicating all of the things that are being done — to communicate clearly when policies or procedures are put into place so they are crystal clear,� O’Connor said.

For example, Morand said an official website documenting progress on Salovey’s initiatives was launched in midDecember to keep the Yale community informed.

Still, all eight students interviewed said they would advocate for increased awareness of the implementation groups going forward, though they were more mixed on the need for more student involvement. “We always need more transparency,� Anne Zlatow ’18 said. “One can always say it would be nice to have more student collaboration, but administrators are in their positions for a reason.�

Beau Birdsall ’18 said the need for student involvement in the implementation of ini-

tiatives varies from area to area, as there are some policies about which students know relatively little.

O’Connor added that another function of the communications group is to ensure that the literal announcements of initiatives are as clear as possible, citing the recent release of a new reporting mechanism for instances of discrimination and harassment as an example. “We look at which constituencies need to know about certain things and make sure they have the opportunity to know,� she said. “So we look into what avenues people tend to look at — YaleNews, an email. It isn’t just about the words but also making sure the reach is there.�

O’Connor said her group meets once a month and is constantly communicating. She added that the group also gathers whenever necessary, such as just prior to the release of the reporting website.

Highsmith added that the communications group ensures that the University will be kept accountable. “One of the things we were very clear about in November is we want to be accountable in the community and keep the community informed about what we are doing,� Highsmith said.

Goff-Crews announced the discrimination and harassment reporting website on Feb. 1.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“Here’s a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.�

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Israeli diplomat talks hope in the Middle East

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER For George Deek, who served as an Israeli diplomat to Norway from 2012 to 2015, compassion and tolerance for cultural and religious differences will form the basis of the dialogue that moves Israel and its Arab neighbors toward peace.

Over Friday night dinner at Chabad at Yale, Deek, a Christian Arab raised in Jaffa, Israel, spoke with over 50 attendees about his hopes for the resolution of the Israeli conflict, drawing upon his experience as a minority in

the Jewish state. Deek recounted his family’s history in the region, beginning with his grandparents’ flight from Jaffa in 1948 when Palestinians were told to leave the newly independent Israel. While much of Deek’s extended family has since spread around the world, his grandparents chose to return to Israel.

The audience was moved to tears as Deek discussed his grandparents’ journey back to Jaffa from a Lebanese refugee camp. It was his grandfather’s decision to remain part of Israel despite the difference of culture, Deek said, that led him to diplomacy.

“Why do I care, if I am not Jewish?� Deek said. “I care because we are all different, and, in fact, being different is what makes us human. Therefore, a Middle East that has no room for Jews is a Middle East that has no room for anyone who is different, and hence it is a Middle East that has no room for humanity.�

Deek began the talk by posing the question of why Jews have been subjected to pervasive antiSemitism throughout history, proposing that such discrimination is a result of their commitment to “never give up what made them Jewish.� This reluc-

tance to assimilate forced Middle Easterners and Europeans to confront an important moral question about the willingness to accept those who are different, he added.

Addressing his time spent as an Israeli diplomat in Norway, Deek discussed Israel’s part in European historical narratives. Though Israel sees itself as a national movement of those seeking to return to their homeland, Deek said those in Scandinavia often portray the creation of Israel as an act of European compassion to atone for atrocities committed during the Holo-

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George Deek, a former Israeli diplomat to Norway, spoke at Chabad at Yale on Friday night.

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caust. While Deek acknowledged that the Holocaust â&#x20AC;&#x153;absolutely acceleratedâ&#x20AC;? the creation of a Jewish state, he argued that the land belongs as much to Jews as it does to him, an Arab. To imply that Israel exists due to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;grace of others,â&#x20AC;? he said, delegitimizes the state and the right of its people to return to their roots in the Middle East. In order to shift the discourse, one must first change this narrative, he said.

Regarding the potential for progress given present conflicts in Israel, Deek said he sees the latest wave of violence as a reason for hope. Historic attempts by fanatics and those opposing the Jewish state to throw Israel into military, political or economic crises have all failed, he said. In the face of failure to now put Israel in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;moral crisis,â&#x20AC;? such as the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, those who oppose Israel are asking whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next, Deek said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is one minority in the region, the Jewish minority, that has both the will and the capability to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yes, we are different; no, we are not going to change; yes, we are very proud of being different, and our hand will always be out there for peace,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Deek said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if you do not accept our existence here as a nation that is different â&#x20AC;Ś then we will use whatever we need to use, including force, to protect our right to be here. Israel is the last hope, in many ways, of the Middle East.â&#x20AC;?

Leah Salovey â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17, who attended the talk, said Deekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message was very inspiring.

But she added that Deek did not address Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own struggle to accept diversity and create a home for those who are not a part of traditional Israeli culture, including those practicing Islam and Christianity. In an inter-

view with the News, Salovey told the story of an Arab man living in Israel who expressed to her his desire to be called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestinian Citizen of Israelâ&#x20AC;? rather than a Palestinian Israeli, due to the fact that he feels there is no Israeli culture outside Judaism.

Israel must also come to terms with those who are different, Salovey said, in order to overcome the fears that currently hamper the region.

Israel is the last hope, in many ways, of the Middle East.

GEORGE DEEK Former Israeli Diplomat to Norway Matthew Blumberg SOM â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17, another attendee, praised Deekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique perspective in addressing the issues in the Middle East from a variety of angles. Because of Deekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s combination of cultural backgrounds, Blumberg said, he is among the only diplomats capable of negotiating the region towards peace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ambassador Deekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story and his brilliant articulation of his ability to represent Israel in a country like Norway I think lends hope to the idea that humanity is one people,â&#x20AC;? said Rabbi Shua Rosenstein, Chabad at Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head rabbi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we break down the barriers that divide us and focus on the unity that brings us together and the humanity that brings us together, I think that the world will be a much better place, and [Deek] is a living representation of that.â&#x20AC;?

Deek is currently a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University.

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

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 10:00 AM Dinosaur Days. From the 150-million-year-old Brontosaurus skeleton in the Great Hall to the award-winning, life-sized sculpture of Torosaurus outside, dinosaurs and the Yale Peabody Museum go hand in hand. Visit during the February school holidays for our annual celebration of paleontology and dinosaurs. Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

3:00 PM “Loyal Citizens, Prisoners of War”: America’s Concentration Camps. Vi Takahashi was a young teenager living in Seattle when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Her father was arrested the night of Pearl Harbor and imprisoned in Fort Missoula, Montana. Her husband lived in El Centro, California. This illustrated talk recounts their experiences during that stressful time when 120,000 Japanese were classified as the “enemy,” the fear being they were a military danger. They were forced into concentration camps built in the desert and on swamplands.

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12:00 PM Poynter — Joan Biskupic: The Roberts Supreme Court and the Divisions that Define It. Joan Biskupic is editorat-large for legal affairs at Reuters News. Biskupic has covered the Supreme Court for more than 20 years and is the author of several books on the judiciary. Her most recent book, “Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice,” was published in 2014. Biskupic was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.).

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YALE MEN’S TENNIS BULLDOGS FALTER AT ECACS At the ECAC Championships, Yale suffered a pair of 4–1 defeats at the hands of Harvard and St. John’s. Fedor Andrienko ’18, pictured, earned Yale’s two points. Tomorrow’s News will contain extended coverage of men’s and women’s action from the weekend.

“This is four years in the making and this Ivy championship belongs to a lot more people than just this current team.”

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Men dethrone Harvard for Ivy title SQUASH

Another weekend, another sweep

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Yale men’s basketball forward Justin Sears ’16 scored 21 points on consecutive nights to power the team to two Ivy League victories, preserving a perfect 8–0 conference start for the Bulldogs in addition to avenging the team’s most recent two conference losses.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Less than a year after back-toback defeats at the hands of Dart-

mouth and Harvard, two games that cost Yale an outright title and the program’s first March Madness berth since 1962, the Elis solidified their spot atop the Ivy League with the weekend’s triumphs. Yale (15– 5, 8–0 Ivy) outlasted the Big Green (8–14, 2–6) by a 75–65 margin and notched a 67–55 victory over the rival Crimson (10–14, 2–6) to extend its best conference start in school history.

“I don’t even think of last year.

Last year is behind me,” Sears said.

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Players hoisted the Ivy League championship trophy after clinching wins over No. 7 Dartmouth and No. 6 Harvard this weekend.

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It was only fitting that the No. 2 Yale men’s squash team secured sole possession of its first Ivy League championship since 2011 by defeating the team that has laid claim to the title for the past three years — especially when that opponent also happened to be the Bulldogs’ archrival.

Yale (12–2, 7–0 Ivy) finished off its third perfect conference weekend on Sunday with a 6–3 win over No. 6. Harvard at home, following a straightforward 8–1 victory at No. 7 Dartmouth the Friday before. The win over

the Big Green earned Yale at least a share of the Ivy title, but the Elis would not ease up until they bested the Crimson for the first time in four years, shutting Harvard out of a shared title.

“This is a huge moment for us as a team,” captain Sam Fenwick ’16 said. “This is four years in the making and this Ivy championship belongs to a lot more people than just this current team. That said, this has been a phenomenal season for us, but we are not done yet. The Yale squash program is such a huge part of our lives and it’s nice to give back to the coaches and alumni who have got us here and supported us

all the way.”

On Friday, Yale stymied Dartmouth (9–4, 4–3) with its depth, with the Bulldogs winning at the No. 2 through No. 9 spots, and seven of those eight wins coming in just three games. Two days later, that depth again proved too much for Harvard (5–5, 5–2) to contain, as Eli wins came from the No. 6 through No. 9 spots, as well as at No. 2 and No. 4.

The most dramatic moment of the match came at the No. 3 position, between Fenwick and Harvard opponent Bryan Koh on the Brady Squash Center’s main spectator court.

At least two hours into the match, Fenwick found himself

down 11–10 in the suddendeath fifth game. Fenwick made a diving play for the match ball, but a severe hamstring cramp left the Welshman lying on the court in pain in front of a silent crowd.

Associate head coach Pam Saunders said Fenwick’s match was one of the longest she has seen at Yale, and despite losing he set “a huge precedent showing that we were not going down without a fight.” Despite the alarming scene, Fenwick should be cleared to return well before the CSA National Championship tournament on Feb. 26.

SEE SQUASH PAGE B3

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 scored a career-high 25 points in Yale’s 75–65 win over Dartmouth on Friday.

Yale extends win streak in Empire State

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER Midway through the second period of the men’s hockey game between No. 10 Yale and No. 15 Cornell on Saturday, the student section at Lynah Rink began chanting colorful insults in the general direction of Eli goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, deriding the quality of the junior netminder’s play.

MEN’S HOCKEY Considering that the Bulldogs’ backstop is on track to lead the country in goals against average and save percentage for the second consecutive year, and that his team was beating the home side 3–1 at the time, it was a rather irrational decision by the famously rowdy Big Red students. The jeers were one of the least pressing obstacles the Elis overcame during the weekend in order to notch a pivotal pair of victories.

Injury-riddled and with its roster further depleted due to the suspension of All-American defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16, Yale (16–5–4, 11–4–3 ECAC Hockey) opened the two-day road trip by blanking Colgate (8–20–2, 4–12–2) 3–0 and finished it off

with a dominant 4–2 dismantling of Cornell (12–8–5, 7–7–4) in front of a sold-out, red-clad crowd. For the second consecutive weekend, the Bulldogs — playing with just three forward lines — scored seven goals while Lyon allowed only two. Thanks to a loss by No. 9 Harvard to No. 18 Rensselaer, the Elis now hold sole possession of second place in the ECAC standings.

“I’m just really proud of our guys,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “We’ve dealt with what we’ve had to deal with, and to come up here and play two tough opponents well — I just think we’re continuing to grow as a hockey team.”

Despite the offensive production that ultimately transpired on the weekend, the Elis waited a full 35 minutes before lighting the lamp Friday night against the Raiders, who entered Friday night having lost five of six games. The Elis failed to score in the opening period for the first time in six games, getting outshot 9–8 in the frame.

When Yale did begin to manage to draw first blood, the goal came from forward Cody Learned ’16, who headed to New York having scored in three straight games SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

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Yale, which has been on a streak recently, outscored its opponents 7–2 in two games this weekend.

STAT OF THE DAY 80

THE NUMBER OF STEALS THIS SEASON FOR YALE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GUARD TAMARA SIMPSON ’18, A SCHOOL RECORD. Simpson broke the previous mark of 74 steals during her ninesteal performance against Dartmouth on Friday. She has six more games to add to the record.

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“I’m so happy I prepared some extra [dunks] because usually you don’t need them … I’m just glad I got the last laugh.”

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Bulldogs shine in final home meet

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Three Elis earned career bests on the balanced beam on Saturday, and the Bulldogs notched a season-best in the event, scoring a 48.525. The event was Yale’s best of the day.

GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE B4 been on the team at least,” Ryan said. “There was a lot of great energy with every single hit routine.”

Beam was particularly strong for the Elis: Not only did the team top its previous performances this season with the 48.525, but three competitors notched career-highs, including Ryan and Anella Anderson ’17, who took first and second respectively in the event overall.

In the fourth and final rotation of the meet, Opperman finished the day with a high score of 9.825

on the floor exercise to give her two first-place finishes overall.

Led by its senior captain, Yale tallied a 48.150 in its fourth rotation, culminating in a 192.275 finish, ahead of West Chester’s 191.125 and Rhode Island’s 176.325.

Kiarra Alleyne ’19 closely followed Opperman with a 9.800 to take second, giving Yale sweeps of the top two positions in three of the four events. Also of note during the floor routines was the return of Allison Bushman ’18 in the event, returning Yale to a sixperson lineup and thus relieving some pressure from her teammates.

While West Chester’s Majesta Valentine earned first in the allaround event, Ryan and Anderson earned second- and thirdplace finishes respectively for the Bulldogs, as they each achieved career-highs.

The meet was particularly important to graduating seniors Opperman and Brittney Sooksengdao ’16, for whom this was the last home competition of their careers. They were honored in a ceremony after the competition, which Sooksengdao described as “bittersweet.” Ryan said the team strove to send the seniors out “with a bang,” doing

whatever it could to make the last home meet a success.

“Being a part of the gymnastics team here has been the absolute highlight of coming to Yale,” Sooksengdao said. “First of all for allowing me to come to this school, and for all the opportunities, experiences and friendships it has opened for me.”

Sooksengdao and Opperman saw this as the first event in which the full potential of the team has come together, and praised the resilience of those competitors battling sickness or injuries. Winkelman attributed much of Yale’s success to

Elis squander large leads

the attention of head coach Barbara Tonry, who emphasizes the “little extras,” such as improved posture and presentation, that give Yale an added finesse when it comes to being judged. The number of routine repetitions has increased in practice, Winkelman said, as the team attempt to build its stamina for the competitions ahead.

The team hopes this weekend’s momentum will carry it well into the Ivy Championships, which Opperman said Yale is “100 percent capable of winning.” The team will then go on to compete in the ECACs, held in March, and

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Yale clung to its lead in the fourth, still possessing a seven-point lead with 4:31 remaining in the contest.

However, Dartmouth rattled off 12 unanswered points to build a fivepoint lead with less-than-half a minute remaining. Big Green forward Lakin Roland scored six in a row on her own, as part of a 15-point quarter. In fact, she outscored Yale by herself as the Bulldogs managed just 12 points, to Dartmouth’s 26.

A late three-pointer by McIntyre with 13 seconds remaining was Yale’s lone basket in the final 4:51 of the game, enabling Dartmouth to complete the comeback victory.

Despite the inability to close late, the Bulldogs did improve upon its turnover problems, committing just 11 as compared to Dartmouth’s 20.

The Elis, who average more than 16 giveaways a game, scored 26 points off Dartmouth turnovers.

Simpson keyed many of those Dartmouth miscues, with Yale compiling 16 steals as a team while Dartmouth managed a mere three.

On Saturday night, the additional hype of facing Harvard helped key another Yale quick start.

“Everyone was pretty excited and fired up to play Harvard, and that definitely influenced our play,” Simpson said. “Even though we didn’t get the result we were hoping, it was a great game.”

This excitement was seen right from the opening tip, as after quickly falling behind 4–0, Yale answered with 10 consecutive points. Overall in the quarter, the Bulldogs shot 50 percent from the field and 72.7 percent from the three-point range.

After closing the quarter with a nine-point lead, the Elis extended the lead to 21 with two minutes remaining in the first half behind a 17–3 run.

However, Harvard responded in tremendous fashion, rattling off 14 consecutive points in the final two minutes of the half thanks in large part to three three-pointers.

Though Yale scored the first four points of the second half, Harvard again answered, utilizing a 15–6 run to cut the deficit to four. By the start of the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs held a five-point advantage.

productive, but the team still fell to a similar demise due to a span of just two minutes that altered the course of the game.

The Bulldogs opened the game’s scoring when forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 scored off a perfect centering pass from linemate Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 only seven minutes into the game. With less than a minute left in the period, Cornell forward Kaitlin Doering knotted the game at one-a-piece.

In the second period, four goals were scored, three of which were inside the two-minute mark. Yale struck first, as a save from Cornell netminder Paula Voorheis bounced off the chest of captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 before finding its way onto the stick of forward Eden Murray ’18, who quickly netted the puck for Yale’s second but short-lived lead.

Cornell forward Hanna Bunton retaliated 15 seconds later to tie the game before striking again, just over a minute after that, to take the lead.

Another empty-net goal ended Yale’s chance at a late comeback, and the Bulldogs exited their final home weekend of the 2015–16 campaign without a single point.

Heading into the two games the Elis were hoping to come away with a pair of victories to help their chances of gaining home ice in their first-round play-

Yale will have a chance to snap its six-game losing streak this weekend in home games against Princeton and Penn.

A three-pointer by Harvard’s Madeline Raster leveled the game with 5:26 remaining, and the lead changed hands three times in the final four minutes. A layup for guard Lena Munzer ’17 pushed Yale ahead 66–65 with 2:55 remaining but Harvard scored the next six points to seize control.

A Sarju three-pointer with eight seconds left pulled Yale within two points, but the final buzzer rang before the Bulldogs could get another shot off, ultimately falling by three points.

Both defeats, marked by strong first halves but poor finishes, saw double-digit scoring efforts from Sarju and Simpson, who continue to lead the team in scoring.

Now alone in sixth place in the conference, and with six more losses than first-place Penn, the Bulldogs were disappointed they could not turn around their conference season over the weekend.

“There were some very bright spots in both of our games, but we couldn’t sustain those for 40 min-

utes,” Wyckoff said. “In the second half of both games we had mental lapses both offensively and defensively that cost us the game. When we get up by a lot, we sometimes take our foot off the gas and stop attacking, so we need to improve on that in the future.”

Yale will continue its second half of the Ivy season next weekend with a pair of home games against the top two ranked teams in the conference.

The Bulldogs will face Princeton (17–4, 6–1), to which they lost on Jan. 30th by just five points, on Friday.

Yale will then have a rematch on Saturday against first-place Penn (18–3, 7–0).

“We played with a lot of heart this weekend, and nothing can take that away from us,” Munzer said. “[We] still have things to figure out, but if it came easy, it wouldn’t be worth it.”

Tipoff against Princeton is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

Contact MADDIE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .

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

Two Yale losses

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potentially Nationals, which take place in April.

“We’ve known all season that this team has so much potential and in the first couple weeks of the season, it hadn’t all come together yet,” Winkelman said.

“This weekend is the first time it really came together, and we know we can do it again, and do it better.”

Next weekend, the team faces Southern Connecticut State University and Brown in an away meet hosted by Southern.

off game. Having lost both games, home ice is no longer a possibility, but the team remains in contention for a tournament berth.

“Ultimately you can’t dwell on the past, you have to look forward,” head coach Joakim Flygh said. “We talk about it all the time — win or lose, you have to look forward. I have no doubt we will step up and face the challenge here during the week and into the weekend too.”

Eight teams in the conference make the postseason, and Yale sits in the eighth slot, just on the edge of the playoff-bound teams. Securing strong results next weekend, the final two games of regular season play, is therefore essential for the Elis’ playoff hopes.

Yale next squares up against St. Lawrence, a team the Bulldogs trampled 5–2 in January, before running against No. 5 Clarkson the following day. The score in the Yale–Clarkson matchup in January was also 5–2, though in the favor of the Golden Knights.

“We’re going to stick to our game plan,” Flygh said. “We’re going to clamp down defensively, and hopefully we can produce offensively … I’m sure we’ll have a great week of preparation here and get ready to go.”

The puck will drop at 7 p.m. in Canton, New York on Friday, and at 4 p.m. in Potsdam the subsequent night.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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Captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 had an assist in Yale’s 4–2 loss to Cornell.

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SPORTS Sole Ivy champions SQUASH FROM PAGE B1 No. 2 TJ Dembinski ’17 stepped onto the court next to play in another match that ended in dramatic fashion. After losing his first game 11–5, Dembinski found himself on the wrong side of a 9–3 score while Yale led Harvard overall 4–2. A single win was all the Bulldogs needed to clinch both the match and sole possession of the Ivy title, and Dembinski delivered.

Despite the shaky start, Dembinski won the second game 12–10, the third 11–6 and the fourth 11–3 to bring the audience in the Brady Squash Center to roars of celebration.

“In the second game, I just told myself I had to return to the basics in order to get back into the match,” Dembinski said. “Once I started to do that, things began to click and that enabled the turnaround. I was pretty excited after winning. This is only the eighth Ivy title in Yale [men’s] squash history and it’s pretty special to be a part of that. Beating Harvard at home is obviously very gratifying, especially for the Ivy.” Last year the Bulldogs lost No. 4 Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and No. 1 Zac Leman ’16 to season-ending injuries early on. Their return to play this season, which added much-needed depth at the top of the ladder, was certainly instrumental to the Bulldogs’ success this season, as demonstrated by their improvement from last

year’s record of 11–6, 5–2 Ivy. The win was also Yale’s first regular-season win against Harvard since February 2012. Harvard was the sole Ivy champion for the past two seasons, and shared the title with Princeton in 2012–13.

“Everyone went into the season knowing that we had a chance at the title, and it was great to see everyone buy into the campaign so thoroughly,” No. 7 Pierson Broadwater ’18 said.

“But our job isn’t done yet. We’re back to the drawing board in just a few days to start preparing for Nationals.”

Meanwhile, the Yale women’s team (11–4, 4–3) opened play this weekend with a 9–0 rout over No. 11 Dartmouth (4–9, 0–6), but later that weekend fell by the same margin to undefeated No. 1 Harvard (10–0, 7–0), a team Saunders said she believes “will certainly win the national championship.”

Saunders also said she was proud of the women’s level of play all season, and hopes the young team has gained enough experience to make the semifinal round of the CSA National Championship semifinals.

The men and women will use the next two weeks to prepare for Nationals, which will be held at Yale’s Brady Squash Center this year. Play begins on Feb. 26.

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

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Yale last won the Ivy title in 2011, and last defeated Harvard during the regular season in 2012.

“The important thing is that we watch each other’s backs out on the ice. That’s what matters.” ZDENO CHARA BOSTON BRUINS DEFENSEMAN

Eight down, six to go

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Guard Anthony Dallier ’17 stepped into the starting lineup on Friday and Saturday for his second and third career starts.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 “We just treat every game like it’s a championship game, so one game at a time. We have six games left so there are six championship games left.”

This weekend’s slate of games had a slightly different feel, as starting shooting guard and captain Jack Montague ’16 did not travel with the team for personal reasons. Guard Anthony Dallier ’17 started in his place, and in his second and third career starts, the junior scored a combined 20 points on 7–12 shooting from the field.

The win over Harvard marked the 12th in a row for the Bulldogs, one shy of the program record of 13 consecutive victories set by the 1906–07 squad. The current win streak, which dates back to a Dec. 30 win over Central Connecticut State, includes 10 by a doubledigit margin.

Yale has outscored its opponents by an average of 19.3 points per victory during the stretch.

Through the first 20 minutes of the Dartmouth matchup, however, it was not apparent that the Elis would be able to beat the Big Green by such a margin. The team shot a combined 8–29 from the field, a 27.6 percent clip that is less than half the team’s average shooting percentage. Point guard Makai Mason ’18, who entered the game as the fifth most productive scorer in the Ivy League, shot 0–7 from the field in the

first period.

Heading into the locker room, Yale trailed 28–27, as freshman Evan Boudreaux and his 11 points carried the Big Green. The seven-time Ivy League Rookie of the week finished the contest with 21 points on 7–15 shooting.

“I was looking through our box scores this year, and we haven’t trailed at the half very often,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “It’s going to happen. The last few weeks, we’ve shot lights-out. Makai Mason was due to have a first half like he had tonight, but I thought our guys really gritted it out and fought the entire game and found a way to get it done, which is really important. In a game where you don’t play your best, we were able to break through and win.”

Down by as many as nine in the second half against Dartmouth, the veteran Bulldogs managed to keep their composure.

When Big Green guard Miles Wright, last year’s Rookie of the Year, drained a three-point shot to put Dartmouth up 41–32 with just under 17 minutes to play, the Bulldogs responded with a 23–11 run over the ensuing 10 minutes.

“Collectively, it seemed like we had a sense of urgency in the second half,” Mason said.

“We knew we couldn’t lose this game.”

Mason went on to make six of his nine second-half field goals and all four of his attempts from

beyond the arc. The sophomore finished with a gameand career-best 25 points in the Bulldog victory.

While the Elis were unable to take control of the Dartmouth contest until well into the second half, Yale worked more quickly against Harvard. Led by 14 points in the first frame from Sears, the Bulldogs jumped out to a 37–26 halftime lead over the Crimson.

Harvard, who boasts the most efficient three-point scoring offense in the league, was slowed by Yale’s zone defense.

According to Jones, the Bulldogs decided not to double Harvard’s main scoring threat, Zena Edosomwan, for fear of leaving the Crimson sharpshooters open on the perimeter.

Sam Downey ’17 came off the bench after forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 picked up two quick fouls and effectively neutralized Edosomwan, who entered the game averaging 14.5 points per game. Though Edosomwan notched 18 points, nine of them came in the final seven minutes of play, when Yale had already built a comfortable doubledigit cushion.

“Obviously, [Sherrod] got in foul trouble early so I wasn’t really expecting to get that many minutes in the first half,” Downey said. “[Edosomwan] is a great player and I knew I had to definitely get him out of the box.”

Edosomwan also snatched 10 rebounds to pick up his 10th double-double of the season.

Although guard Nick Victor ’16 had a game-high 12 rebounds, including nine on the defensive end, the Bulldogs were ultimately outrebounded 36–33. It was just the second time in conference play that the Elis have not outrebounded their opponents.

Yale was also beaten on the boards against Brown in Providence on Jan. 22 by a 38–37 margin, though the Bulldogs comfortably won the game by 24 points.

“Rebounding is important,” Jones said. “This is the first game we’ve been outrebounded in forever. I can’t remember the last time we got outrebounded … we have to do a better job hitting the glass because that’s who we are. That’s our stamp: as a team, we rebound the ball.”

Next weekend, Yale first travels to Princeton to take on the second-place Tigers in the most significant matchup of the 14-game tournament thus far.

With a thrilling overtime victory over Columbia on Saturday, Princeton moved into second place in the conference.

Princeton’s sole loss of the season came in New Haven on Jan. 30, when Yale earned a 79–75 victory, the Bulldogs’ closest win during their 12-game winning streak.

Tipoff in New Jersey is set for 7 p.m. on Friday.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Yale alone at second place in standings MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 and came back to Connecticut with his streak at an ECAC-high five. With the Bulldogs riding momentum following three consecutive penalty kills, forward Carson Cooper ’16 sent a pass to the slot, where Learned rushed to the puck and one-timed the shot past Colgate goaltender Charlie Finn for his fourth goal in as many contests.

“My linemates deserve a lot of the credit,” Learned said, discussing his recent performance.

“It’s great playing with them, they do a great job and I’ve just been fortunate to get some good chances and luckily they’re going in.”

Less than two minutes later, the Bulldogs would be provided with another scoring opportunity when Finn failed to cleanly handle a shot from forward Stu Wilson ’16. Forward Joe Snively ’19 picked up the rebound off Finn’s pads before spinning around and sending a shot past the junior goalie for the second Eli tally.

A goal from forward JM Piotrowski ’19 seven minutes into the third period put the finishing touches on the Bulldogs’ fourth shutout of the season. A flawless performance from Lyon, who turned away all 36 Raider shots he faced, helped Yale overcome an eight-shot deficit.

Continuing their trip through

upstate New York, the Bulldogs traveled to Ithaca to take on a notoriously bruising Cornell crew they had not beaten on the road in three years. But this time, the Big Red team that the Elis were slated to face on Saturday had won just a single game in its last nine, and had not defeated an opponent better than 0.500 since before Jan. 1.

And although Cornell’s physicality managed to hold Yale scoreless when the two teams battled to a scoreless draw on Nov. 20 in New Haven, it took scarcely over 120 seconds into an Eli-dominated first period before the visitors’ zero on the scoreboard changed to a one, and just 182 seconds more before the one became a two.

With Cornell forward Dwyer Tschantz in the box due to a boarding minor, Yale captain and defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 faked a shot from the high slot, creating separation between him and his defender. Witek stepped into the open lane and fired a blast right at Big Red goaltender Mitch Gillam.

Gillam stopped Witek’s effort, but could not control the puck. It bounced free, and forward John Hayden ’17 found and cleaned up the rebound for his 13th score of the season. And barely three minutes later, Yale doubled its advantage when Cooper put another puck past Gillam.

“I think getting the early goals

helped us with a short bench,” Allain said. “It’s a lot easier playing from the front than from behind.”

Though Cornell managed to keep the Bulldogs from extending their lead any further in the period, the 19–6 Eli shot advantage in the frame and a crosschecking major penalty on Cornell captain and forward John Knisley with the clock running down set the stage for another Yale goal at the start of the second period.

That third score came from Hayden — his second of the night and fourth in four games — with a bit of help from Gillam. The junior Eli sent a relatively soft, low, backhanded shot towards the goal, which the netminder appeared not to expect.

His delayed reaction allowed the puck to squeeze between his blocker and the net, and resulted in him being replaced for goalie Hayden Stewart after allowing three goals in under 23 minutes.

But the raucous Big Red student section refused to give up hope, and its captain rewarded the home crowd with a highlight-reel play midway through the second. 8:45 into the period, Knisley carried the puck over the blue line, wheeled around the defense, headed straight for the net and managed to stick it past Lyon.

The senior’s goal woke up the crowd, and were it not for two

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The Elis are on a five-game winning streak despite playing without several injured forwards during that stretch. momentum-neutralizing penalty kills by the Bulldogs’ top-ranked shorthanded unit over the next 20 minutes of action, the home side might have been well on its way to a comeback. Though Cornell had several close chances with the man advantage, Lyon and his defensemen turned them all away.

And momentum fully swung back towards the Elis in the third period when Learned took a pass from Cooper off a Big Red turnover and threw the puck into an open half-net. Though Cornell scored with just over 30 sec-

onds remaining, Yale closed out the victory without trouble, putting the team in strong position to claim a first-round ECAC Tournament bye with just two regular-season weekends remaining.“Coming here in a hostile environment … and [sweeping] on the road is always huge,” defenseman Dan O’Keefe ’17 said. “So this was a great weekend for everybody.”

For the first time in three weekends, “everybody” included defenseman Nate Repensky ’18, who came back to the Bulldogs’ lineup and saw limited ice time

on Yale’s power play. And with the win at Lynah, the Elis secured their first road-conference sweep of the 2015–16 campaign and extended their season-best winning streak to five games.

The Bulldogs will return home to welcome St. Lawrence and No. 20 Clarkson for senior weekend next Friday and Saturday. Puck drop for both games is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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

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SPORTS

“You just have to not be afraid and go out there and just dominate.”

GABBY DOUGLAS U.S. OLYMPIC CHAMPION

Senior day results in season-best meet GYMNASTICS

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Yale dominated the competition on Saturday, earning victories in each of the four individual events: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor.

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER In a victorious Saturday meet against West Chester University and Rhode Island College, Yale’s gymnastics team compiled its best performance of the season, sweeping first place in every event, all while honoring its two seniors in the final home meet this year.

Competing in front of a raucous home crowd in the John J. Lee Amphitheater, Yale’s team score of 192.275 topped the Bulldogs’ previous high score of 191.475, which they earned at the Don Tonry Bulldog Invitational two weekends ago.

“It was our energy,” Megan Ryan ’18 said. “One of our focuses was having a great attitude and landing every routine, and get-

ting excited about everybody’s performances. I think that is what set us apart. We also felt like the crowd, the team and the coaches all came together, and were really energized and had a ton of fun.”

Yale started strong in the vault, where captain Camilla Opperman ’16 earned a high score of 9.700, tying her previous careerhigh and landing first place in the event overall. Yale finished

the first rotation second to West Chester, but less than a point out of first place.

Jessica Wang ’19 and Tatiana Winkelman ’17 led Yale’s uneven bars performance, outscoring the competition across all rotations with a 9.775 each. All Elis scored above a 9.000, ending their second event with a 48.200 to further narrow the margin between them and first-place West Ches-

Second halves doom Elis

BY MADDIE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the first two-game home Ivy weekend of the season, the Yale women’s basketball team could not pull out a win over Dartmouth or Harvard.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Despite a 13-point lead at the half, the Bulldogs (11–14, 2–6 Ivy) could not stop the Big Green (9–15, 4–4) offense late in the game on Friday night en route to a 68–63 loss. One day later, Yale again found itself in the lead early, this time against the Crimson (10–11, 5–3), but again the Bulldogs could not muster enough offense in the latter half of the game to fall 72–69.

“In both games we built up 20 point leads and then let them come back,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “It was us going through lulls

while the other team made a run, and then not clamping the bleeding fast enough.”

Guard Tamara Simpson ’18, who averaged 15.5 points per game over the weekend, stood out on the defensive end on Friday. The sophomore guard registered a career-high nine steals against Dartmouth. In doing so, she set the Yale single-season steals record with 79, breaking the mark of 74 steals that was previously held for 32 years by Sue Johnson ’86.

Simpson’s efforts led a Yale squad that entered the weekend on a fourgame losing streak. However, Dartmouth had also been struggling as of late, having not won in its three prior outings. The Bulldogs also entered the game with an edge according to recent history — Yale had won its past five meetings with Dartmouth — and a sixth straight win appeared in the works in the early going.

Locked at 15–15 with 1:30 remain-

ing in the first quarter, guard Meg McIntyre ’17 knocked down two three-pointers to give Yale a sixpoint cushion. McIntyre, Simpson and captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 combined to score 19 of Yale’s 21 points in the opening period.

The Bulldogs extended their edge to 13 points by the halftime break behind 12 second-quarter points between Simpson and guard Nyasha Sarju ’16.

Although Yale held a double-digit edge, Dartmouth closed the first half on a 7–0 run and carried that momentum into the third quarter.

The Big Green outscored the Bulldogs by four to shrink the deficit to nine points heading into the final period.

After Yale shot greater-than-50 percent from the field in the first half, it converted on just 26.7 percent of its attempts from the floor in the third quarter.

ter at the end of the second rotation.

Wang’s tie for first place was especially impressive considering she only had one day of practice before the meet. In fact, she had been sidelined all season due to injury before being cleared on Thursday, allowing her to make her collegiate debut.

In the balance beam portion of the day, Ryan bested all compet-

itors with a 9.800, earning Yale another first-place result. This strong performance in the third rotation — a 48.525 cumulative score — also put Yale in the lead overall, surpassing West Chester’s 143.950 with a 144.125 overall through three events.

“Our beam rotation was one of the best that we’ve had, since I’ve SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE B2

Yale drops final two games

SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2

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Defenseman Kate Martini ’16 was honored alongside her four fellow seniors on Saturday night, the Class of 2016’s final home game.

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team lost two nail-biting games at home this weekend, casting a shadow of doubt onto the Elis’ chances of earning a bid to the ECAC Hockey playoffs and erasing their hopes of hosting a home game should they make the postseason.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

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Guard Tamara Simpson ’18 scored 31 points and tallied 10 steals in Yale’s two defeats over the weekend.

On Friday, the Bulldogs (10–16–1, 9–10–1 ECAC Hockey ) faced off against No. 10 Colgate (19–6–7, 11–4–5) and narrowly lost 2–0, before skating against Cornell (11–12–4, 7–9–4) and falling by the same margin, 4–2. Both games featured a one-goal Yale deficit for much of the third period, but an empty-net goal for both the Raiders and Big Red sealed a zero-point weekend for the Bulldogs.

“I think we played really great at times, and not so great at other times,” said forward Brittany Wheeler ’18. “We need to

be more consistent going forward.”

Friday night, both team’s goalies put on clinics, combining to save 53 of the 54 shots sent their way. In the first period Yale led the charge with 18 shots to Colgate’s four, but was unable to turn its pressure into anything more than saves, as the period ended 0–0.

The second frame was far more balanced, as both teams rattled off shots, but yet again, both goalies held strong, forbidding either team to change the scoreboard.

In the third period, the puck finally found the back of a net because of an odd bounce off the skate of Yale goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17. Yale was unable to match the Colgate tally through the first 19 minutes of the final period, and an empty-netter from Raider forward Jessie Eldridge, just 30 seconds after Mandl cleared the crease, secured the victory for her team.

On Saturday, Yale’s offense was more SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2