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INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

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CROSS CAMPUS Five guys. Today is President’s

Day, and, since we have classes anyway, we might as well celebrate by basking in the fact that Yale has done more than its fair share for the nation’s highest office. Hey, William H. Taft 1878, Gerald Ford LAW ’41, George H.W. Bush ’48, George W. Bush ’68 and Bill Clinton LAW ’73 — this one’s for you all.

Just in case. On Friday night, Harvard Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde GRD ’94 emailed students in the Cantab undergraduate community to inform them that Harvard admins are keeping an eye on meningitis cases both here at Yale and at Providence College.

We know you can never be too careful, but isn’t Cambridge a little far from New Haven?

LAST OF THREE TRACK AND FIELD FALLS AT HYP

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Yale-NUS students weigh time in New Haven, but find few spots available.

PROFS, STUDENTS DEBATE TECH IN THE CLASSROOM.

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BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER After a formal investigation by the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, Yale’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is facing several sanctions: a ban on on-campus activities, a ban on communication via Yale University email systems and bulletin boards and a prohibition on the use of the name SAE in

connection with the University.

These sanctions will be in place until August 2016.

In a college-wide email Friday morning, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway informed the community of the complaint that inspired the investigation, which was first opened by the UWC last year. In the email, Holloway explained that SAE had been found in violation of the University’s policies on sexual misconduct and included

a letter jointly written by the members of the fraternity summarizing the incident.

According to the letter from the fraternity brothers, the complaint involved a presentation made at a February 2014 initiation ceremony. In addition, the letter said, members of the fraternity were found to have impeded the resulting investigation.

A statement from SAE national headquarters indi-

New Haven Register profiled 38-year-old Yale-New Haven Hospital patient Roman Lutsiuk. Currently receiving treatment for serious intestinal wounds, Lutsiuk comes to the Elm City under unique circumstances: The former businessman helped fight Ukrainian separatists, and was referred to YNHH’s Alla V. Vash-Margita by field medics back in Ukraine.

Cold Haven. Spring break may

be just around the corner, but it still feels like winter outside. As a result, New Haven emergency shelters, which give homeless locals an indoor space to get out of the cold, have had to add several new beds to accommodate increased demand.

Up to you. Up to Yale — a group seeking to raise awareness on campus about the United States’ national debt — will host a study break tonight in Bass Library, complete with sushi, Thai food and, most importantly, a Twitter contest.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1951 A flu outbreak remains the focus of University officials after seven additional students are admitted to the Yale infirmary, which had treated 75 total cases that year.

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cated it had launched a separate investigation and found that two members had made inappropriate comments about a female student at a private chapter event, in the presence of other members. While the offensive actions in question were isolated to two individuals, the statement continued, all SAE brothers are expected “to act as gentlemen at all times.”

The headquarters, which added that it does not con-

Perez to head to Hartford

are starting to notice that something’s brewing within the Ancient Eight. An article

by SBNation on Friday told readers to pay attention to the race for the Ivy League men’s basketball title, which has essentially come down to Harvard and Yale. Citing the fanfare surrounding The Game every year, the piece noted that “it’s been a while since the stakes were as high on the hardwood.” Buckle up, folks.

Safe Haven. Yesterday, the

Yale professors speak in favor of genome-specific cancer treatments.

SAE sanctioned after sexual misconduct

Pay attention to us. People

Who’s the new kid? After claiming Mark Arcobello ’10 off waivers, the Arizona Coyotes became the fourth team to sign the former Eli this season. And on Friday night, Arcobello became the first player to score for four teams in one year during his first shift in Glendale, Ariz.

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done demeaning or derogatory language, also imposed its own sanctions on Yale’s chapter, including mandated sexual assault and harassment training for all members.

Brandon Weghorst, associate executive director of communications for SAE’s national organization, confirmed to the News that the two members involved had graduated from the UniverSEE SAE PAGE 4

Meningitis org. pushes vaccination

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER

government officials in the Elm City.

If the General Assembly approves his appointment as banking commissioner, as it is expected to, Perez will resign from the board and Ward 23 Alder Tyisha Walker, who represents

After a case of serogroup B meningococcal disease was confirmed on campus last Friday, members of the National Meningitis Association are urging Yalies to get vaccinated against the strain.

On Feb. 5, an undergraduate student was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with suspected bacterial meningococcal disease.

After a series of tests, physicians confirmed that the student had serogroup B meningococcal disease, one of the most common strains of meningitis among college-age students and a strain that is not covered by today’s required meningitis vaccines.

While people in close contact with the student have already been offered ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic that prevents meningitis, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin announced that Bexsero, a vaccine for serogroup B meningitis, will be available to all members of the Yale community, beginning Tuesday, Feb. 17.

Public health authorities do not specifically recommend being vaccinated against type B meningococcal infection, but members of the NMA say it is better to be safe

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YALE DAILY NEWS

Board of Alders President Jorge Perez will depart the Elm City for Hartford, where he will be state banking commissioner.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS After nearly three decades of public service in New Haven, Board of Alders President Jorge Perez is headed to Hartford.

Perez, who as Ward 5 alder has

represented the Hill neighborhood since 1987, will become the new state banking commissioner, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced at a press conference in Hartford on Friday. As president for two terms — from 2000 to 2006 and again since 2012 — Perez has become one of the most powerful

Suicide bill passes Senate with Blumenthal’s help

CS50 starts recruiting drive

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER

The Department of Veterans Affairs released a report in 2013 estimating that 22 veterans in the United States were committing suicide every day.

In order to reduce that number, Blumenthal and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., reintroduced the bill in January after it was blocked in December 2014.

On Feb. 3, the bill was unanimously passed in the U.S. Senate, and just over a week later, it was sent to the White House for the president’s signature.

Signed by President Barack Obama last Thursday, the legislation will mandate annual

A little over three weeks ago, Yale computer science professor Brian Scassellati was at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy when the office’s assistant director pulled him aside. He told Scassellati that the office has been closely watching the development of the joint Harvard-Yale CS50.

“Good luck,” he added.

On Friday, Scassellati told this story at two information sessions in WLH and the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design, held to recruit undergraduates to become CS50 teaching fellows and course assistants. As the new Yale CS50 professor, Scassellati began the talk by emphasizing that CS50 is a “true experiment” for Yale and Harvard because it is one of the first of its kind for partnerships among the Ivies. It will also be the first time Yale professors rely on undergraduates to function as TFs by leading sections and grading papers. Although students at the information session posed questions about how Yale can invest in CS50 without expanding the Computer Science Department faculty — which has remained roughly the same size since 1989 — Scassellati assured the group that the administrative support for CS50 at Yale indicates increased investment in the department, which he hopes will translate to hiring more faculty.

“CS50 is part of this larger effort to say that computer science is essential to being part of modern society,” Scassellati said, noting that Yale’s language requirement reflects the University’s belief that

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BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 commemorated on Thursday the passing of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, a bill that seeks to reduce the number of veterans who commit suicide.

We hope this day and Clay’s legacy will inspire all Americans to join our fight and work even harder in the years ahead.

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Professor Brian Scassellati held two information sessions on Friday to recruit undergraduates to become CS50 teaching fellows in the fall.

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n Dec. 2, former President Jimmy Carter called out Yale on the issue of sexual assault. It was a memorable moment. “You can’t just warn a boy and chastise him — that doesn’t help,” Carter said.

The audience cheered. University President Salovey appeared “visibly uncomfortable,” according to a News report (“Carter to Salovey: punish rapists,” Dec. 3). The moment reverberated around the Twitterverse and was picked up by a number of national publications.

“Jimmy Carter decries discrimination, violence against women,” ran the headline in YaleNews. Yet this article did not mention the comments Carter made that were critical of Yale. It did not mention that he had confronted Salovey to his face; it did not mention the audience’s enthusiastic response. Instead, its lede read, “In an open forum at Yale on Dec. 2, Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, spoke about the world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls, which he believes is the most serious, pervasive and ignored violation of basic human rights.”

The article did mention that Carter discussed rape on college campuses, but it did not quote his comments about Yale. At all.

This article struck me as both odd and totally predictable. Odd in that the article completely omitted the most newsworthy — and, indeed, important — moment of Carter’s appearance.

And totally predictable because I didn’t really expect YaleNews to do more.

I don’t mean to insult or pick on YaleNews. In many respects, it serves a valuable purpose. It was created in 2011 to serve as a sort of “Huffington Post” for all Yale-related news, YaleNews Editor LuAnn Bishop told the News in 2011. The site adopted a user-friendly interface and expanded the multimedia offerings of its predecessor, Yale Bulletin. The new site “allows us to showcase the rich diversity that’s here at the University and allows various voices to come through as we include pieces that might appear in the external media,” Bishop continued.

“We’re essentially now curators of the news.”

Yet curators make choices, and I have become highly skeptical of the choices of those running YaleNews. The site is not a real news source; it certainly doesn’t “showcase the rich diversity” of Yale or allow “various voices to come through.”

And it is far more — or less — than merely “the University’s official news channel,” as the website of the Office of Public Affairs & Communications, which runs YaleNews, describes the site. YaleNews is an attempt to whitewash the realities of life at Yale. We all receive weekly emails from YaleNews; it is a site that many visit to learn about the school. Its omissions do a disservice to all of us who expect genuine communication or, dare I say, journalism, from

a site with the word “News” in its name.

OPAC is designed to “promote the institution and SCOTT to tell the STERN many stories of Yale.”

A Stern Yet these Perspective are, sometimes, diametrically opposed goals. There is a time and a place for self-promotion, and there is a time and a place for telling real stories. Apparently, a single office cannot do both.

A Nov. 25 article, for example, boasted, “Seven more reasons to shop and dine in New Haven.” This article had all the positivity of a happy piece of propaganda. “Just in time for the holiday shopping and dining,” this article promoted Extra Virgin Oil Store, Barbour Inc., Lou Lou, Emporium DNA, Kiko Milano, Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant and Tarry Lodge. I don’t know too many students who could actually afford to shop at these overpriced vehicles of gentrification, but that’s hardly the point. This article is just not news. It is self-promotion. Even a subpar news article would have covered the debates and dissent surrounding the appearance of these new, pricy stores. If YaleNews simply admitted to being a University mouthpiece, that would be fine.

But it is misleading in its use of the word “News.” It claims to showcase diversity and highlight multiple voices and all that jazz. It doesn’t.

YaleNews did not run a single story about Ayaan Hirsi Ali coming to campus last semester, and the scandal that accompanied her arrival. It has not run a single article about the allegations of sexual harassment at the Medical School. National newspapers covered both of these stories.

I’m not looking for a site that highlights all things wrong with Yale. But if YaleNews is actually supposed to inform as well as promote, it needs to step up its game. To only display fun, peppy stories about Yale — and to actively omit the bad stuff, as YaleNews did with the Carter article — is creating a dangerous false impression. One of the many problems with propaganda is that it makes for really bad journalism. Students or parents who read YaleNews will inevitably be disappointed when they experience the real Yale — warts and all. Besides, YaleNews’s omissions prevent readers from becoming genuinely informed members of the Yale community.

YaleNews can do better.

Or maybe it can’t. Either way, we deserve better.

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ON 'UNFULFILLED PROMISE'

Consider the lobsterman “R

ight here’s my pride and joy,” Mike tells me.

He points to a sleek red boat docked in New Haven Harbor. Its name is etched in white cursive on the port side: Rock & Roll. Mike’s other two boats are named Christopher and Michael, for his twin sons. “My daughter Ashley Marie’s pretty mad at me right now because I had to sell the boat I named after her,” he chuckles. “Took it sorta personally. But hey, times are hard.”

He pauses for a moment and admires Rock & Roll, the ropes and metal hangings illuminated in the early morning haze of Fair Haven. Then we’re off to tour the shop where the fish he catches get counted and bagged — lots more to see, Mike assures me.

Mike Fraenza is a farmer, of sorts. His family established Fair Haven Lobster 54 years ago, and he started working lobster boats when he was 14. Mike took over the business in 1984, and he’s barely taken a day off since. “I think I maybe took off Thanksgiving 2002,” he muses. And the work certainly isn’t easy. He takes the boats out at 4:30 each morning, closes up shop around 8 in the evening. His son sometimes calls him from California begging him to retire, he says with a laugh.

Upstairs in his office, he shows me a painting gifted by his father. In blue-green oils

it depicts 7-year-old Mike on the edge of a dock, watching the boats coming toward shore.

Back then, he tells me, he EMMA never thought GOLDBERG he’d one day own a fleet.

Dilemmas The walls behind his desk are lined with dusty photographs. Pictures of clams and crimson sunsets over the Quinnipiac River. A photo of Mike and his business partner, who has since passed away, opening a bottle of champagne the day they expanded their fleet in 1985. The photos, he tells me, capture the business as it used to be, back when the industry was booming.

In the 1990s, Fair Haven Lobster employed close to 50 people. Now they’re down to six.

They used to fish up to 1,000 pounds of lobster daily, but because of the pesticides in the river they now get 20 pounds on a good day. Business has dropped precipitously over the years, and Mike has been forced to sell some of the boats and lay off many workers.

In six months, Mike may have to close up shop. It’s getting impossible to make a living

in the industry. So what’s next?

I ask. He shrugs. “Can’t even really get myself to think about it.”

It’s corny, but I can’t either.

It’s hard to imagine the woodpaneled shacks of Fair Haven Lobster torn down, Rock & Roll dismantled into pieces and sold.

Maybe some ShopRite erected in its place.

But this isn’t a eulogy for the business, it’s more of an asking why.

Mike’s story is hardly unique.

Small business owners across New Haven are struggling, failed by flawed policies and communities. But their stories bring to light all sorts of possible interventions.

When Mike first started out in the industry, his customers were primarily locals. Families across New Haven would hear of the store, and they’d make the trek out to North Front Street to buy heaps of shellfish. Mike’s office is filled with greeting cards from his old customers, yellowing newspaper clips about the free products he would distribute on Veterans Day. Now people get their lobsters from Stop & Shop.

Mike mostly ships his products internationally.

“Supporting small business” is rhetoric that gets tossed around a lot, but the significance sets in when you meet people like Mike. It’s easy to see why

customers elect for the convenience of mass-produced foods sold cheaply at chain stores. But there’s something lost when we give up on the people waking up at four in the morning, people with hands calloused from building their shops from the ground up.

In addition to loyal communities, business owners like Mike need support from policymakers. Mike laments the state’s mounting regulations and tells me that “the state is not small-business friendly.” This spring the Connecticut General Assembly will vote on several bills that could help small business owners. But all too often voices like Mike’s aren’t heard in Hartford.

Mike’s bookshelf houses a small wooden sign that reads: “To fish or not to fish. Not to fish, yeah like that’s even an option.”

The phrase catches in my head as I’m leaving. And when I turn around I see Mike heading toward the river, his workmen already readying the boats for another day of fishing. Sometimes for paychecks and sometimes for stories and sometimes just for lobster.

EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College and a former opinion editor for the News. Her column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

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SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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Interrogate your ideas A

few weeks ago, I remembered something I hadn’t thought in a long time — that I really don’t know anything.

It happened when I was helping a friend with a paper. I’m a philosophy major, so sometimes, my friends take one of the classes in my department, they ask me for advice and I do my best to help them with their papers.

But as I was going over his essay on Descartes, I realized that I was just not a qualified resource for this topic. It’s not that I hadn’t studied the topic before. I’d read Descartes' works, attended lectures and even written papers on his ideas. But as I thought about it, I remembered that there are people who have spent years, decades even, studying what I was studying. There were people asking questions I hadn’t even dared to ask.

Coming to Yale, I acknowledged that I was, more or less, pretty stupid. I was green. I was naïve. I thought it might get better. In all honesty, I don’t think much has changed. As a sophomore, I still feel just as green — the only difference is that now I realize just how little I know. I’m beginning to grasp the vast space that I still have yet to explore.

And I think that’s a sentiment that, as Yalies, we should keep close to heart.

At Yale, we’re told that we’re the best and the brightest. We’re told that we’re in the top one percent of the LEO KIM academy. This notion gets On Us thrown at us so often that we eventually just buy into it. We are more than ready to proclaim ourselves as experts at the drop of a hat. We’re more than ready to employ terms and arguments that we don’t fully understand to prove a point we haven’t fully explored.

I’m not saying that it’s bad to be confident in your own capabilities. I’m saying it’s bad to consider your opinions infallible, your perspective superior and your insight somehow deeper than others. Every point is surprisingly nuanced, surprisingly profound — and chances are neither you nor I have had sufficient time to explore it.

I acknowledge that some of the smartest people I’ve ever met have been Yalies. But some of the most stubborn, obstinate people I’ve met have also been Yalies. It’s good to have strong beliefs, but I don’t think that we should hold

strong beliefs without properly giving all perspectives a chance.

And I think that the problem lies with our tendency to trust our views without interrogating them.

We falsely believe that we’ve thought about the issue from all different angles. We believe that our minds are open. But too often, we’re closed off and we perceive any assault against our stance on an issue as a personal attack.

Sometimes a new idea may not sit well with you. It may give you a queasy feeling. I know that’s happened to me more than once.

But that doesn’t mean you should ignore it, label it blasphemous and be on your way. To truly do justice to your own opinions, you should really consider all contradictory ideas — even try to argue on their behalf.

When you’re able to reconstruct the new argument as well as you can your own, then you can decide which one you buy.

It’s only then that you should feel confident to present your case.

Maybe your opinions will have changed during this process of self-examination. Maybe they will be even more firmly calcified.

Regardless of the outcome, what truly matters is that your opinions withstood battery — and in the end that makes them stron-

ger, more resilient.

Humility in this sense can go a long way. You shouldn’t fear being wrong. You shouldn’t fear new ideas. Maybe it is the case that we’re relatively smart, but we’re all still young. And we’re still naïve. Everyone should be open to growing. We’re far from being experts on any subject, and it’s always good to see every argument or idea as an opportunity to learn and evolve.

Everyone can do more in this respect. Next time you and your friend find yourselves in a heated discussion, it may help to switch sides and even play devil’s advocate midway through the debate.

And this isn’t merely arguing for the sake of arguing. Rather, it would help both parties figure out where they stand.

We should certainly have our own opinions and believe in them fiercely when duty calls. But believing in your ideas involves putting them up to the test — putting them under intense scrutiny and realizing that maybe they won’t make it out. But in the end, it’s better to have thought and lost than to never have truly thought at all.

LEO KIM is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column usually runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place — police, firefighters and members of the armed forces.” SIDNEY SHELDON AMERICAN WRITER

CORRECTIONS MONDAY, FEB. 9

At Yale-NUS, study abroad expands

A previous version of the article “Women’s conference speaks against stereotypes in workforce” incorrectly spelled the name of Maria Vertkin. It also misspelled S.H.E. Globl Media Inc. FRIDAY, FEB. 13

Due to an editing error, a previous version of the WEEKEND article “Hard to Tell” incorrectly referred to Communication and Consent Educators as Community and Consent Educators.

A previous version of the article “Pushback stalls grad housing plans” misattributed the timing of quotations from Matt Nemerson SOM ’81. The article implied that Nemerson had spoken to the News directly before the article; in fact, the quotes were taken from an interview the News had conducted with Nemerson three weeks ago for a previous article on the proposed housing.

A previous version of the online article “After meningitis confirmation, Yale Health to provide vaccine” mistakenly stated that Bexsero was provided to Providence College students. In fact, Trumenba was provided. Furthermore, a previous version of this stated article that the vaccine for serogroup A was not legally required in 1988. In fact, the combined vaccine for serogroups A, C, W and Y, was not legally required.

A previous version of the column “We are not MIT” stated that Yale has one of the lowest STEM faculty-to-student ratios in the country. In fact, Yale has one of the highest faculty-to-student ratios.

City to appoint assistant fire chief

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS The city will soon fill the position of assistant fire chief, a post which has remained vacant since last June.

Mayor Toni Harp and Fire Chief Allyn Wright jointly endorsed the candidacy of Battalion Chief Matt Marcarelli as assistant chief of operations last week. Their nomination will be considered by the Board of Fire Commissioners — which has the power to appoint the assistant — at its next meeting, the date for which is yet to be announced. Since former Assistant Chief Ralph Black retired after 27 years of service last June, Battalion Chief Tom Newville has temporarily filled the position.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said Harp and Wright worked together closely throughout the eight-month process of selecting an assistant chief. Marcarelli was selected, Grotheer said, after Newville, the obvious candidate, withdrew from consideration.

“Matt’s businesslike approach to the job and all it entails will be a great benefit to me and to the entire department,” Wright said in a statement.

Wright specifically cited Marcarelli’s leadership in the city’s response to the recent snowstorms and his four and a half years of experience as a safety officer and director of training as evidence of his readiness for the appointment to assistant chief.

As battalion chief, Marcarelli’s responsibilities included overseeing the hiring of new employees and managing the department’s operating budget.

“I have great confidence in Battalion Chief Marcarelli’s ability to meet the new responsibilities he’d face as assistant chief, and I will

encourage the fire commissioners to consider this recommendation favorably,” Harp said.

Of the five candidates who took the promotional exam last month, Marcarelli scored the highest, according to the New Haven Independent.

As assistant chief, Marcarelli will earn $104,471 per year, according to the city budget, a salary that has stayed constant for at least the last two fiscal years.

The Fire Department has encountered numerous difficulties in the last decade. Disputes between the fire union and the city over the weighting of promotional exams — a dispute that eventually made its way to the Supreme Court — led to a lack of hiring. Last October, a third of the department’s 370 positions were empty.

Overtime has also proved a problem, with costs ballooning in recent years. For fiscal year 2015, total overtime costs are projected at $8.5 million — but the city has only budgeted $3.9 million. City officials said they hope that, once the pace of hiring picks up at the department, overtime costs will begin to go down.

Last October, the city and fire union signed a new contract that both sides agreed would lead to more hiring, lower overtime costs and hopefully create a new era in relations between the entities.

Two weeks after the contract’s approval, Harp appointed an independent investigator to evaluate the state of the department.

Fire union president Jimmy Kottage declined to comment on Marcarelli’s appointment.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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Yale–NUS in Singapore has added two new study abroad programs that allow students more opportunities to engage with different universities.

BY SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA AND LI TING CHAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND SPECIAL TO THE NEWS SINGAPORE — The addition of two new study abroad programs and the introduction of a petition process by the Centre for International and Professional Experience at Yale-NUS have made it easier for the college’s first few classes of students to study abroad. Precisely where they may study, however, remains uncertain, owing in part to conflicting statements from Yale’s CIPE office and its counterpart in Singapore.

During an information session on Feb. 10, Yale-NUS CIPE announced its new offerings: the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and Pitt in the Himalayas, a program offered through the University of Pittsburgh. CIPE also advertised Yale, among other colleges, as an option for study abroad next semester. CIPE’s website states that the number of students who can study at Yale next semester has yet to be determined, leading some to believe that there will be at least some spots available.

Yet this may not be the case.

Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience at Yale, said in an interview that there would be no study abroad spots at Yale for YaleNUS students in the coming semester.

“We are likely to stay with the

model of having a single semester for Yale-NUS students which is the spring,” she said.

When asked to confirm Edwards’s statements, Lindsay Allen, associate director of International Programs, did not comment specifically but said in an email interview, “We are working closely with our colleagues at Yale CIPE and plan to provide ongoing opportunities for study abroad between Yale-NUS and Yale.”

The current collaboration between Yale CIPE and YaleNUS CIPE can be traced back to the founding days of Yale-NUS CIPE. “It’s not a particularly common model [to have] study abroad and career services and so on in a single student-focused operation,” Edwards said. “I guess … my colleagues at Yale-NUS liked the idea.”

Through Yale-NUS CIPE, students currently enjoy a host of opportunities at Yale and its overseas programs, including Yale Summer Session. Four sophomores are also currently enrolled at Yale for the spring semester.

One of them, Joan Danielle Ongchoco YNUS ’17, said she hopes her term abroad will crystallize her academic interests and help her decide what to focus on back in Singapore.

“Going back home, I hope I’ll have a clearer idea of the questions I want to ask and the methods through which I want to pur-

sue them,” she said.

The sheer size differential between the two schools has required her to adjust, Ongchoco said. At Yale, she said, there is a premium on tradition and camaraderie — a spirit she hopes to bring back to Yale-NUS. Tiffany Sin YNUS ’17 said the size of the other universities in Yale-NUS’s study abroad offerings make them attractive options for overseas experience.

“I can’t study all the things that I want to study here, so I want to go over to a larger university that has a larger range of STEM courses,” she said, emphasizing academic opportunities over cultural experience.

Currently, CIPE at Yale-NUS recommends that Yale-NUS students study abroad for one semester. According to the YaleNUS CIPE website, there must be exceptional and compelling reasons to study abroad for two semesters. As the website outlines, this one-semester limit is in place to ensure students have sufficient time in Singapore to fulfill Common Curriculum courses, two of which must be taken during junior and senior year, as well as requirements for their major.

The rule is unique to Yale-NUS students studying abroad at Yale, Edwards said.

“That was a hard decision for us to make,” she said. “We find that Yale works better for a year than a single semester. But if it’s going to be a single semester, the spring works better than the fall,”

she added.

Edwards explained that there would not be a “sense of completion of an experience” if students left after fall semester. Increased housing constraints during the fall semester were also a consideration, she said.

Students interviewed also questioned the rationale behind the one-semester rule. Chua Yao Hui ’17, who intends to major in economics and explore courses in engineering, hopes to study at Yale for a full year.

“I want to explore courses in engineering and physics. I would also like to fulfill some of my major requirements. Going for a full year at Yale gives me that flexibility to venture in both directions,” he said.

Yale students will have the opportunity to study at YaleNUS for a semester starting in the fall of 2016, Edwards said. Since most students who go abroad are juniors, she said, it makes sense to wait until there are upperclassmen at Yale-NUS. Yale-NUS students who wish to attend a program outside the college’s official suite of offerings may petition to CIPE. Li Ting Chan reported from Singapore. Spandana Bhattacharya reported from New Haven.

Contact SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA at spandana.bhattacharya@yale.edu and LI TING CHAN at chanlt94@ hotmail.com .

Professors, students divided on in-class technology

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Amidst a changing technological landscape, students and professors at Yale have struggled to find the best way to integrate electronic devices into classrooms without disrupting the learning environment.

An online survey of current Yale undergraduates, conducted by the News last week, showed that 72 percent of students regularly use electronic devices, such as laptops and e-readers, during class, while only five percent never do so. While almost all 183 participants cited convenience and organization as reasons for using electronics, over a quarter said that devices were used as part of their course requirements. Still, there remains much debate about the advantages, disadvantages and appropriate usage of electronics

in educational settings.

While 84 percent of participants said Yale professors accept the use of electronics during classes, professors interviewed gave a more nuanced opinion of the presence of laptops and iPads in their classrooms. Of eight professors, who represent a range of academic departments, seven generally allow the use of electronic devices during class, but all expressed reservations about the potential drawbacks of technology.

“Technology can be a great way for students immediately to delve more deeply into course content,” classics professor Andrew Johnston said. “But the ever-present siren song of Facebook and Instagram can be hard to resist.

Several professors, such as economics professor Pinelopi Goldberg, said they do not

forbid the use of technology because they want to treat students like adults.

But modern art professor Sebastian Zeidler noted that he finds electronics distracting, and he does not know whether his students are paying attention in class. However, he said he allows electronics because he does not want to seem dictatorial.

Other professors see the use of electronics as inevitable and instead try to attract students’ attention by making class more interactive.

“If I can’t outcompete their iPads and phones, I better pick up my game,” classics and history professor Noel Lenski said.

“So electronics in class are a challenge, not an abomination.”

Mathematics professor Roger Howe said he tries to make electronics counterproductive by conducting classes to resemble

conversations, so that students need to pay attention.

Students also seem to be aware of the distractions electronics can cause in classrooms, with 73 percent of participants replying that online distractions during classes are “serious.”

One participant reported that laptops and iPads are incredibly distracting, and the presence of too many electronics would sap the interest out of any seminar.

A few professors have adopted more drastic measures.

History professor Paul Kennedy said he banned anything other than hand note-taking for his lecture course in order to make his students better notetakers. Economics professor Dan Keniston bans laptops in his class, but allows the use of iPads and Kindles as textbook replacements.

Both students and professors said the use of electronics

depends on the type of class and the academic subject. Several participants of the poll said that physical note taking is much better suited for math classes and art classes, as these subjects require students to sketch and draw diagrams. Seventy-nine percent of the students also said that they would use electronics during lectures, compared to three percent for seminars.

Beyond convenience and organization, rising textbook costs were frequently cited as a reason for using laptops in class.

“Students must be selfaware enough to realize that the reading experience of digital media tends to differ dramatically from print media, and thus often from how author(s) intended their works to be consumed,” Johnston said in an email. He added that students were less likely to engage with footnotes and bibliography

when using digital resources.

Zeidler, who prefers physical course readers, also said it is difficult to study a long text on a screen and that Kindles are not suitable for scholarly texts.

Ultimately, professors interviewed appeared to reach a general consensus that it is tricky for faculty to patrol the use of electronics in classrooms.

Students must be responsible for how they use technology, according to Johnston.

“People need to ask why they are at Yale. Is it to participate in the interminable, lowlevel chatter that overwhelms us every minute of the day while sitting in ivy-covered neoGothic buildings?” Lenski said.

“A little self-reflection would go a long way toward eliminating bad habits.”

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

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SAE violated misconduct policies, investigation finds SAE FROM PAGE 1

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Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced a series of sanctions against SAE, including a ban on on-campus activities, in a college-wide email Friday. munity on the processes behind sexual misconduct complaints.

“It is my hope that in sharing information with the community — in cases when I can preserve confidentiality — I can provide additional transparency to the University’s procedures and at the same time place them within their broader educational context,” Holloway said in an email to the News.

Alexa Derman ’18, public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said that though blaming fraternity culture for sexual misconduct would be an oversimplification that does

little to address the issue’s core issues, holding organizations accountable for their behavior — especially organizations like SAE that figure prominently in Yale’s social scene — sends a strong message to other groups about their responsibility to contribute to a positive sexual climate on campus.

University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler did not return a request for comment.

In both the letter included in Holloway’s email and the fraternity’s statement to the News, the brothers emphasized that

the incident last February did not represent the values of the fraternity. The fraternity’s statement added that the presentation in question had not been supported by the fraternity, nor were members of the fraternity aware of its content before its delivery.

Moving forward, the letter added, SAE’s brothers will strive to promote respect and tolerance on campus and to be a safe, positive social outlet.

The latest semiannual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, published Feb. 5, contained an update to a previously pending complaint by a Yale Col-

lege student against Yale College students for sexual harassment and retaliation. The complaint’s resolution stated that a student organization had been found responsible for impeding the investigation and creating a hostile environment. Consequently, the report said, the organization’s activities had been suspended for two years. The report, however, does not explicitly state which organization it is referring to.

Yale’s chapter of SAE was founded in 1988.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

Recruiting season: CS50 style CS50 FROM PAGE 1 studying a language makes students more globally aware. In five to 10 years, he hopes Yale will have the same view about computation.

Sahil Gupta ’17, who attended the information session, said he is thrilled to apply to be part of the CS50 staff, which would make him one of the first undergraduates involved in the program. He agreed with Scassellati that CS50 can be crucial to getting students excited about computer science because now “even an EP&E major can see what’s to gain from a working knowledge of computation.”

He added that he trusts undergraduates’ capabilities to teach other undergraduates, noting that they might be even more invested in the success of their students than the average TF would be.

At the information session, Jason Hirschhorn, a current Harvard senior and a CS50 teaching fellow who, after his graduation, will work full-time at Yale overseeing the joint course, said that after the application deadline, interviews will be held over the course of three weeks. They plan to have decided on the new teaching fellows by spring break.

After deciding upon the fellows, Hirschhorn and Scassellati will train all of the new hires to make sure they know the course material, he added.

Harvard CS50 professor David Malan said there were around 40 attendees at each of the two

information sessions and over 100 people submitted a statement of interest. Malan added that they are looking for applicants with good computer science backgrounds, but first and foremost, they are looking for applicants to whom students would be comfortable reaching out with questions and whose personalities would make them effective teachers. Malan added that they are working with the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning to help train teaching fellows.

Stelios Rousoglou ’18, who has applied to become a teaching fellow, said he is hopeful that CS50 will help the administration realize the importance of increasing the size of the Computer Science Department. He added that until now, the administration has treated computer science just like every other department, even though no other department has seen such a large increase in students majoring in the field over the past few years.

“I understand how people fear that our CS Department can’t handle another increase in majors and potential majors, but I believe that the administration is bound to see that and take immediate action,” Rousoglou said. “Why they haven’t done so? So far, God only knows. And Salovey.”

Jessica Yang ’16, who showed up at the information session, said she was unsure whether she would apply for the teaching fellow position — which requires a minimum of 12 hours of work a week, but often ends up taking upwards of 25 hours a week

— or the course assistant option, which would only require six to 10 hours per weeks. She added that the first group of undergraduate teaching staff will be critical in shaping Yale’s CS50 culture, which she hopes does not simply become a replica of Harvard’s.

Both course assistants and teaching fellows will hold three hours of office hours a week and attend weekly staff training, as well as help host CS50 related events. In addition, teaching fellows will teach 12 to 18 students in section every week, help prepare and grade student problem sets as well as field students questions via discussion boards and email.

Scassellati emphasized to students at the information session that a teaching fellow position will be different than other peer tutor jobs, in which tutors are only responsible for grading papers and answering questions during office hours. Instead, CS50 teaching fellows will spend time preparing for sections and working closely with students.

“The eyes of the world are upon us ... but the heart of the course is being able to have a really great staff, and that is what we hope to find in this room,” Scassellati said to the room of over 30 students.

The CS50 teaching fellow application allows students to submit a five-minute lesson plan on any CS50-related topic. It also highly recommends that applicants have a GPA of 3.33 or higher.

The application is due by March 2.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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Holloway, adding that while the vast majority of cases will continue to be reported only in the University’s semiannual Reports of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, the administration will inform the community in cases where sanctions affect the way in which an organization interacts with the larger student body.

Still, all five students interviewed said they do not believe Holloway’s announcement will deter students from attending SAE parties at its off-campus house.

Holloway also added that he hopes sharing such information will help better inform the com-

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sity since the incident last year.

In addition to listing the University sanctions, SAE’s letter in the email described steps the fraternity has taken to improve its internal culture. Among them were meetings with the dean of student affairs and communication and consent educators, as well as national leadership training for three officers this past fall.

Friday’s announcement comes less than a year after SAE eliminated its pledging process for new members nationally.

“Through working with the University and other professionals, we believe that we have made legitimate progress in this area,” the brothers of SAE said in a statement to the News.

Six members of the fraternity contacted declined to comment individually, and nine more did not respond to requests for comment.

Holloway told the News in an email that he chose to share the information with the community at this particular point because enough time had passed for SAE to respond constructively to the sanctions.

In his campus-wide email, Holloway explained that although he was sharing the organization’s name and some details of the complaint with the campus community, he was still upholding UWC confidentiality policies by not disclosing identities of the individuals involved.

While confidentiality is crucial in any UWC proceeding, Holloway told the News, there is also an important distinction to be made between individuals and groups. In cases involving groups — which have their own status independent of individuals — the demand for sharing information is higher, he said.

UWC Chair David Post echoed

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“Here is the solution to the American drug problem, suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: ‘Just say no.’”

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Sandy Hook Advisory Commission approves final report

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Two years and two months after a gunman killed 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the commission created to analyze the shooting held its final working meeting.

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, a 16-member panel of Connecticut public officials, psychiatrists and educators, was formed in January 2013 to review current policy and make specific recommendations in areas of public safety, including school safety, mental health and gun violence. On Feb. 13, their last meeting finalized the report they will send to Gov. Dannel Malloy in March.

“This is an important day for the commission,” Scott Jackson, the mayor of Hamden and chair of the commission said, opening the Friday meeting. “[Today,] we hope to vote out the final substance that we have been working on for two years.”

The day before the meeting, the commission released a draft of their 256-page report. It includes 12 recommendations for improving school safety, 30 for reducing gun violence and 53 for improvements to mental health care in the state.

Excluding some minor grammatical and technical corrections, the committee agreed by consensus that the report was ready to be presented to Malloy. The committee agreed to meet one final time on March 3 to release the document.

One decision at Friday’s meeting was to change the ordering of two quotes from victims’ parents and to give the quotes individual pages. Originally, the quotes were in opposite order and were integrated within the report.

Fire Chief for the City of Norwalk Denis McCarthy, who served on the commission, told the News that giving these quotes separate pages, separated from the language of the commission, would make the recommendations more powerful to read.

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The Sandy Hook Advisory Committee, a 15-member panel created after the shooting that killed 26, met for the final time. The committee aimed to review current public safety policies.

Jackson said it was difficult to fathom actually releasing the report after working on it for two years, but he thanked the whole commission for their dedication.

“This is an extraordinary document with a very broad reach, and it could not have happened without the various types of expertise that [the members] all brought to the project,” he said.

Members of the commission closed the meeting by reflecting on the report and on the events of Dec. 14, 2012. Former state

representative and Newtown social worker Christopher Lyddy said the decision to work on the report was difficult because it was not just an academic process, but also an emotional one.

He added that the work of commission has had a significant impact on Newtown, the families of victims and survivors, and, he hoped, on the country as a whole. Although the report is addressed to the governor, Lyddy said he hopes other states will also take note of the recom-

mended policies.

“While we celebrate our work today, I hope we’ll remember that there’s a lot more work to be done coming forward,” he said.

“This journey does not come to an end for many people.”

Harold Schwartz, professor of psychiatry of the University of Connecticut, said the shooting was a wake-up call for many people across the globe, not only those in Newtown. Unfortunately, he added, there have been many such wake-up calls, and he

believes there will be many more.

However, he said he hopes that people act on the recommendations in the report.

The report is dedicated to the 26 people who lost their lives at Sandy Hook, directing readers to a website created by the victims’ families to honor each of their legacies.

Despite the difficulties of working on the report, Schwartz said he was grateful to work on it because it presented him with a sense of purpose. He com-

mended the commission’s members for their honesty and vulnerability throughout the process, as well as their determination to push forward strong recommendations regardless of their political or financial feasibility.

“I know Sandy Hook will never be forgotten, but it has to be acted on,” Schwartz said.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

Malloy to propose legislation combating opioid abuse

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER As the rates of opioid overdoses increase across the nation, newly announced proposals for state legislation aim to reverse this trend in Connecticut.

Gov. Dannel Malloy will propose legislation later this month to address abuse of prescription opioids and heroin. The new policies will include better utilization of the state’s prescription monitoring program, improved education for physicians prescribing opioids for pain relief and increased access to overdose-reversing drugs.

“This legislation will give providers the tools they need to help save lives,” said Lieutenant Gov. Nancy Wyman in a press release.

“Reducing the potential for addiction — and identifying dangerous behavior — is key to intervention.”

The legislation aims to improve the Connecticut Prescription Monitoring and Reporting System, a database to which pharmacists and physicians who dispense medication submit prescription information.

Under the proposed legislation, prescribers would be required to check the database before prescribing a patient more than a

72-hour supply of a medication to ensure that the patient is not receiving the same medication from other prescribers.

With the current system, prescribers are only required to enter data on a weekly basis — the proposed legislation would change the requirement to daily reporting. Real-time updates would allow pharmacists and physicians to make an informed decision on whether to prescribe a controlled substance to a patient, said Xaviel Soto, program manager of the state Prescription Monitoring Program, in an email.

He added that changing pharmacies’ systems to allow for real-

time reporting might pose a challenge.

“As with any oversight, it will require due diligence by physicians and pharmacists working together,” Soto said.

Under the proposed legislation, the Alcohol and Drug Policy Council — composed of members of relevant government departments and selected outside experts in its previous iteration — would be reinstated and again play a role in shaping policy regarding addiction. The legislation will also include provisions to improve education for doctors on issues related to prescription drug abuse as part of the licens-

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ing process. That aspect of the legislation is especially important, said Robert Heimer GRD ’88, professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at Yale. General practitioners with insufficient training in pain management should not be prescribing opioids and should be referring patients to specialists, he said.

The new legislation will also include new policies to make naloxone, a drug that can reverse an overdose, more accessible by allowing certified pharmacists to prescribe the drug to people who may, at some point, need to treat an overdose, including families, first responders and drug treatment professionals.

Past legislation has also addressed the accessibility of naloxone in the event of an overdose. In 2012, Malloy signed legislation to provide naloxone prescriptions for people close to those with opioid addictions. In June 2014, he signed legislation to protect bystanders from liability if they intervene with naloxone to reverse an overdose. This legislation will expand upon past provisions.

Although it will not decrease drug use problems, expanded access to naloxone is going to save lives, said Lauretta Grau, associate research scientist in epidemiology.

“I’ve seen how effective, wonderful and lifesaving [naloxone] is,” Heimer said. “Keeping people alive until they’re ready for treatment is the right first step.”

But both Grau and Heimer added that further action needs to be taken to change public and government opinions toward long-term and short-term opioid treatments in order to enact more comprehensive change, including increased funding for addiction treatment and destigmatization of substitution therapies, such as methodone.

Grau cited a troubling conversation with a city police officer regarding opioid overdoses.

When she suggested that police officers carry naloxone, the police officer responded that the police are not first responders. While

Grau suspects that the argument behind this aversion to carrying naloxone centers on liability and cost issues, she said the argument is holding back government workers from effectively serving their communities.

“The attitudes of people in positions of power need to change,” Grau said.

Connecticut State Police began carrying naloxone with them in October 2014 and have been able to save 13 people from overdoses, according to the press release from the Governor’s Office.

Opioid deaths have been at record-high levels nationally, as well as in Connecticut. According to preliminary data from the Office of the Medical Examiner provided to the New Haven Register, there were 307 deaths from opioid overdoses in 2014, a slight decrease from the 324 opioid overdose deaths reported in 2013.

But the trend in deaths from heroin, an opioid, has been on the rise. In 2014, there were 273 overdoses that involved heroin, an increase from 257 heroin-related deaths in 2013 and 174 in 2012.

As heroin continues to play a role in a majority of opioid-overdose deaths, increasing control of prescription opioids might not address the main problem, Grau said. Abuse of pharmaceutical opiates began increasing in the late 1990s and continued until the early 2010s. That turning point, Heimer noted, correlates with the beginning of FDA regulations making opioids more expensive and tamper-resistant. Heroin presents itself as a cheaper black market alternative but is unregulated, resulting in the consumption of unknown quantities of potentially tainted drugs, Heimer said. “[The proposals] are a step in the right direction, but I don’t know if it is going to have much of an effect on the problem,” Grau said.

There were 18 heroin-related deaths in New Haven in 2014.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

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“Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.”

MICHAEL SPECTER AMERICAN JOURNALIST

Perez, one of the the city’s most powerful officials, to depart PEREZ FROM PAGE 1

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Board of Alders President Jorge Perez, one of the most influential voices in City Hall, will become the state banking commissioner.

Blumenthal suicide bill passes SUICIDE BILL FROM PAGE 1 third-party evaluations of the mental health care services offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs and enforce collaboration between the VA and non-profit mental health organizations. Further, the legislation will initiate a pilot program to assist some veteran psychiatrists in paying back their education loans. To help veterans explore the resources offered by the VA, the bill will also require the creation of a centralized website.

The bill was named after Clay Hunt, a decorated marine veteran who took his own life in 2011.

According to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America website, when Hunt returned home in 2009 after four years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the VA gave him a 30 percent disability rating for his post-traumatic stress disorder. He appealed his rating as too low and kept returning to the VA for more mental health care until his death in 2011. Five months after he died, his appeal was returned with a 100 percent disability rating. When Obama signed the bill Thursday, he said Hunt was “a young man who isn’t here, but should be.”

Had legislation like this existed years ago I believe Clay would be here with us today.

SUSAN SELKE Mother of Clay Hunt Hunt’s mother, Susan Selke, said at a hearing on Capitol Hill in 2014 that the VA had not adequately met the needs of her son, despite his proactive requests for help. In a Feb. 12 statement, she said she was humbled by the new legislation in honor of her son and other young veterans who have committed suicide.

“It is encouraging to know that this law, among other things, will enable the VA to evaluate all of its current suicide and mental health programs, and attract and hire more doctors and mental health care professionals to serve our veterans’ needs,” she said. “Had legislation like this existed years ago I believe Clay would be here with us today.”

On the senate floor on Feb. 3, Blumenthal said his motivation for reintroducing the bill after it was blocked in December 2014 came from 31-year-old Waterford resident Justin Eldridge, whom he had befriended before he died by suicide in 2013. When Eldridge returned from combat in 2008, he had PTSD and a traumatic brain injury. According to Blumenthal, he “slipped through the cracks” of his local VA facility, not getting the treatment he needed, and he later took his life.

At a press conference on Feb. 6, Eldridge’s widow, Joanna, praised Blumenthal’s lasting acts of friendship toward her husband. She added that if the new legislation had previously been in place, her husband would have had a greater chance of survival.

“There is just a lot of sadness for a lot of us, but there’s a lot of hope too,” she said. “We just want to see other veterans get the help that they need.”

On Thursday, the president said the country had long been trying to combat post-traumatic stress among veterans, but he added he hopes the Clay Hunt Act will fill critical gaps in serving veterans with mental health issues — increasing peer support and outreach, recruiting talented psychiatrists to work with the VA and making it easier for veterans to reach out and get help.

However, Obama added that this legislation is not a complete solution. Change and reform cannot only exist in government, he said, it must also stem from community. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald will keep working to provide veterans with the care they deserve, he added.

CEO and Founder of IAVA Paul Rieckhoff echoed Obama’s sentiments, saying the act will not stop every suicide, but it can build a community of care for veterans who may be suffering.

Still, he added it was a momentous day for everyone who had worked on passing the bill, and for all veterans and their families.

“We hope this day and Clay’s legacy will inspire all Americans to join our fight and work even harder in the years ahead,” he said in an interview with the News.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at steaphanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

West River, will become the new president. The board elected Walker president pro tempore of the board last January.

Malloy said Perez’s extensive experience will prove invaluable in the role of the state’s top regulator. Perez, who is currently a vice president at Liberty Bank, has worked in the banking sector for the last 25 years, Malloy said. As banking commissioner, Perez will be responsible for ensuring the safety and soundness of state-chartered banks as well as credit unions.

Perez said at the Friday press conference that he has no plans to leave New Haven just yet.

“I still plan to live in the Hill. I still live two blocks away from where I was raised,” he said. “I’m not going anywhere.”

According to city code, if Perez resigns prior to July 1, a special election will take place to choose his successor as Ward 5 alder. If he resigns after that date, Mayor Toni Harp will appoint a temporary alder to hold the seat until the November elections.

State Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said at the press conference that Perez would be able to address the needs of small businesses as banking commissioner.

“He will bring to [the job] a new perspective — someone from a city, someone who understands the aspirations of people who are struggling — for small businesses, for others who are searching for lines of credit with a dream and an idea,” Looney said.

Perez said being a community activist has been important to him throughout his life — he has been a banker for the last 25 years, but an activist for longer.

He began his professional career working in a mailroom in his teens, and “only in America,” he said, could he rise so high as to become the state’s chief regulator of the entire sector.

Perez, who will earn $142,500 per year in his new position, will be the first state

banking commissioner to have a background in community, rather than commercial banking, Malloy said. He added that Perez’s career path shows that the roles of banker and activist are not mutually exclusive.

Walker, who is slated to take over for Perez as president of the Board of Alders, said in an email to the News that the city will have to begin preparation for life without Perez’s guidance as a leader.

“If and when he resigns, all of us on the board are going to have to step up our leadership to continue the great work we’ve done as a team,” she said.

She added that Perez has helped develop agendas and policies over his years on the board, especially in the areas of jobs, youth policies, public safety and fiscal responsibility.

Ward 7 Alder Abby Roth ’90 LAW ’94 agreed with Walker. Roth said Perez exerted an outsized presence on the board, asking probing questions and exercising his institutional knowledge.

She said his absence will create a large gap on the board.

“The mayor admires and is grateful for the stabilizing force that Alder Perez has been on the board,” City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said.

Grotheer said Harp will work with the board during the transitional period once Perez resigns and the board enters a new configuration. Roth added that the board is unsure when this transition will happen.

Perez said he will work to ensure that people have equal access to capital by balancing certainty and fairness. Malloy added that foreclosure policy in Connecticut will be a priority in coming years.

Former banking commissioner Howard Pitkin resigned from the post last December. Since then, Bruce Adams has served as acting commissioner.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Nat’l organiztion urges students to get vaccine

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After a case of serogroup B meningococcal disease was confirmed Friday, the National Meningitis Association is encouraging vaccination.

MENINGITIS FROM PAGE 1 than sorry.

“As a mother, I’d say that if there’s no reason you can’t take the shot, why not?”

NMA spokeswoman Jeri Acosta said, adding that students who have concerns about the vaccine should speak with their doctors.

Meningitis is an acute inflammation of the meninges, the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, and is normally caused by a bacterial or viral infection of the surrounding fluid. While initial symptoms can mirror milder diseases such as the flu, meningitis — which first causes headaches, vomiting and neck stiffness — progresses rapidly, and can cause disability and death within hours of the patient becoming symptomatic.

Although the symptoms of the student currently recovering from meningitis were spotted early, and she was discharged from the hospital within two weeks of admission, spokespeople from the NMA are urging Yale students to think carefully about getting a meningitis vaccine against serogroup B. Acosta lost her son Robert, a junior at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, in 2006 to meningitis. At the time, similar to today’s case with serogroup B meningitis, the meningitis vaccination that is currently required of all students entering college was available, but the CDC did not explicitly recommend it.

Robert Acosta had serogroup C menin-

gococcal disease in his bloodstream and began exhibiting flu-like symptoms including vomiting, chills and diarrhea, as well as severe leg and groin pain. Twentyone hours and two emergency room visits later, he died.

According to his mother, it was particularly shocking that he died of a disease that could have been easily prevented by a vaccine. At the time of her son’s illness and death, Jeri Acosta did not know there was a vaccine that could have saved her son’s life because the CDC had not yet recommended the vaccine.

“I hadn’t heard of meningitis at all. I just knew it was a word,” she said.

Had Acosta’s son survived, he would have been severely disabled, she added.

That is what happened to John Kach, who contracted meningitis as a freshman at Salve Regina University in Portland, Rhode Island. The vaccination to prevent the strain of meningitis he got was available but not yet recommended by the CDC. Kach also exhibited flu-like symptoms but initially refused to go to the hospital when his girlfriend suggested it. When he woke up feeling extremely weak, he finally decided to go. His temperature peaked at 105 degrees and his white blood cell count — which indicates the presentation of infection in the body — reached 80,000, 10 times that of a healthy person. The physicians put him into an induced coma which lasted six weeks, during which he suffered septic shock and needed both of

his legs amputated, as well as all of his fingers.

“Before I was put in the coma, I was given my last rites,” he said, explaining that it was assumed he would die of the disease.

Kach survived, and no other Salve Regina students got meningitis. But six students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette during the outbreak that claimed Robert Acosta’s life did. Two died.

The CDC only recommends vaccinating against meningitis serogroups A,C, W and Y. However, two new vaccines are now available to protect young people between the ages of 10 and 25 from serogroup B meningitis.

Bexsero, the newly approved vaccine that Yale Health has ordered, requires two shots at least one month apart and will be free for students with Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty coverage and employees insured by Yale Health. Students who are only on the basic coverage plan will need to pay $256 in total if both rounds of the vaccine are not covered by other private insurance.

At Princeton, the vaccinations were free after eight cases of type B meningitis were confirmed, and Providence College offered Trumenba — which was approved by the FDA before Bexsero — to 3,000 students for free after two students contracted type B meningitis.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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Uber comes under scrutiny in CT

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

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A report, expected to be completed at the end of this month, will analyze whether Uber should be more strictly regulated.

NIH looks to personalized medicine

BY STEVEN LEWIS STAFF REPORTER The National Institutes of Health is slated to receive $215 million with the hope of individualizing medical treatments by using patients’ genetic information.

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 20, President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medical Initiative, a program with the goal of enabling doctors to better understand diseases through genetic sequencing of patients and ultimately choose better treatments. In cancer treatment, for example, a patient’s tumor might be sequenced to uncover the specific mutations causing the disease, and physicians will use that information to select the right drug or predict which will be most effective. The approach has gained traction in the treatment of cancer and rare genetic diseases, but is not available for all patients and is yet to be widely applied to other diseases.

“Precision medicine, using genomic information in a way that affects their clinical decisions about care, is already here and now,” said Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, which carried out the Human Genome Project and is now working to apply that research to solve medical problems. “This is not science fiction, but we are just starting to ascend this mountain. This will be a very long climb, but once we get to the top, you will see genomics being used all over the place.”

Green said genetic sequencing in cancer and rare genetic disease

treatment saves valuable time and money.

According to professor of medical oncology and Associate Director of the Yale Cancer Center Roy Herbst ’84, Yale is already using genome sequencing to personalize treatments and predict the effectiveness of drugs for patients at the cancer center, allowing physicians to “find the right drug, for the right patient, at the right time.”

But the hope is for the practice to reach a larger population of cancer patients than it does now and ultimately to apply genome sequencing to other diseases.

According to Green, the latter will be more complicated. With diseases like diabetes, arthritis and hypertension, there is a complex interplay between environmental and genetic factors. But the complexity of figuring out how to use genetics in those more complex diseases makes for an even stronger argument to create the Precision Medical Initiative, he added.

Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern said that although the possibility to improve treatment for cancer and other diseases is there, more funding is still needed.

“We’re at this somewhat frustrating point where the science has never been in a better position to create ways for us to cure diseases that, frankly, when I went to medical school I thought could never be cured, and now there’s not enough money,” he said. “The NIH budget just doesn’t keep up with inflation.

We’re at a point where we can do so much and the money has never been so limited.”

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Alpern added that Yale is a leader in the use of genomics in personalized medicine — the University even has a genome center on West Campus — and is primed to turn additional funding into breakthroughs.

According to Green, the area where those breakthroughs are most needed is in better understanding the variance between individuals in a given disease.

“We’re using blunt tools,” Green said. “We’re saying everyone that looks the same gets treated the same.”

The hope, he added, is to stratify classifications of individuals with various diseases, similar to how cancerous tumors are classified and treated accordingly.

Understanding those variations will help physicians to understand who will respond well and who will respond poorly to certain treatments.

Herbst noted that Yale is already applying these strategies, but that funding will be invaluable in establishing more clinical trials for patients and collaborations with other institutions. While Alpern commended the initiative, he said he is frustrated by the level of funding, calling it “a drop in the bucket” compared to the entire federal budget and that of the NIH. “Preventing disease is always cheaper than treating disease,” he said.

Obama’s proposed $3.99 trillion budget for the 2016 fiscal year contains $30.362 billion dollars for the NIH. Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .

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Just under a year after Uber launched in Connecticut, the ride-sharing service is coming under increased scrutiny across the state.

Founded in San Francisco in 2009, Uber connects riders with drivers for hire through a mobile application. Customers request rides via their smartphone app and then track their reserved vehicle’s location. With a mission statement of “evolving the way the world moves,” the company seeks to connect costumers to drivers more quickly and efficiently than the current taxi system.

Uber’s business model, however, has run into criticism from both taxi companies and consumers, who believe the lack of regulation imposed on Uber is detrimental to rider safety. On Feb. 4, Nicole Benincasa, who works as a policy and regulatory associate for Uber in New York City, led an informational hearing in front of the state’s transportation committee in which she reviewed Uber’s main policies and answered questions.

Committee members are now waiting for a report from the state’s Department of Transportation, which will analyze Uber’s operations and decide whether or not they should be more strictly regulated.

“We are seeing that there is [taxi] space being filled by other services such as Uber,” Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04 said in a statement.

“We are looking forward to the review by the Connecticut Department of Transportation of these new services.”

The report, which is slated to be finished at the end of this month, will analyze exactly how Uber operates in the state and elsewhere and aims to help state officials reach a conclusion as to whether or not the company should be more strictly regulated.

At the informational hearing earlier this month, Benincasa said the company appreciates the committee’s interest in evaluating Uber’s network, adding that Connecticut now has the opportunity to put into place a new regulatory framework that will work for these new technologies.

Lawmakers are specifically looking to decide what insurance requirements, vehicle inspections and driver background checks regulations should apply to Uber.

Uber users now download the app onto their phone, where they can then track cars in their vicinity. The company itself does not own any cars and does not directly employ any drivers. Drivers own their cars and decide their hours. Those who wish to become Uber drivers first sign up on their website. Then, the drivers must go through a background check dating back seven years, and their cars must be legally insured, registered and no older than 10 years. Additionally, Uber has a million-dollar liability policy, which starts as soon as a driver accepts a trip, Benincasa added.

“Uber’s top priority is connecting riders to the safest rides on the road,” Benincasa said. “For riders, that means [knowing] that every driver on the Uber platform is thoroughly screened, and knowing that every ride is insured.”

Regular taxi companies, however, are dissatisfied with the way Uber has disrupted the transportation system.

“It is affecting my business and all the other taxi businesses in the country,” owner of Greenwich Taxi Anthony Boskello said.

“The state has regulations and we have to follow those regulations. Uber came into the state and they don’t have to follow the regulations.”

He added that everyone should be on an equal playing field and equally regulated.

Uber has safety issues including questionable insurance, no fingerprinting, and limited background and car checks, Boskello said.

Despite the apparent lack of safety, students are increasingly gravitating toward using Uber, leaving taxis in search of riders.

Of seven students interviewed, five said they have used Uber several times. All seven said they do not usually take taxis anywhere, with the exception being to travel to Union Station.

“I prefer Uber because it’s far more convenient and easier than getting a taxi,” David Toppelberg ’18 said. “The cars are nicer, and the drivers are usually better.”

No students interviewed said they have felt unsafe in an Uber.

Uber currently operates in 54 countries globally.

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

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Future of European Union discussed at conference

BY PATRICK PEOPLES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Eighty students from 46 American universities and one European college gathered on campus Friday and Saturday to attend the first annual European Student Conference.

Participants came to campus to discuss the future of the European Union and to create a student-led think tank for EU policies during the two-day event.

They arrived from colleges across United States — including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Florida — and a small cohort hailed the College of Europe in Brussels. The event, according to the conference website, was created in order to “give American and European youth a voice in pivotal transatlantic debates.”

Through a series of five workshops and keynote addresses by European Union political figures, issues such as borders and immigration, democratic participation and European solidarity were discussed and debated.

“The impact of the conference lies in the fact that students around the United States of America … will start a debate on their campuses about which kind of Europe they would like to live in, and which kind of Europe they would like to contribute to — I think that is something that hasn’t really happened,” said Igor Mitschka ’15, ESC team president.

The five workshops, which were led by an amalgam of Yale University professors, scholars and European policy-makers, concentrated on the vital issues and challenges impacting the European Union. Workshops consisted of much more than idle discussion, according to confer-

ence organizers. Students presented policy papers on specific issues, which were then critiqued and discussed by presiding policy makers and professors. Each workshop then worked collaboratively to produce a cohesive collection of strategies, individual talking points and a specific policy recommendation, which were all presented at plenary sessions.

“We didn’t just want this to be a conference, a one-time event that participants went to, attended, had fun at and forgot — which is why we integrated this conception of a think tank into the project itself, so the impact of the conference really doesn’t end with this specific conference,” said Alicia Tee ’16, ESC director of logistics.

Tee added that ideally, students would establish branches of the ESC think tank — which they called European Horizons — at their home universities, and Yale would become the umbrella group for these different organizations. The groups would meet annually for future iterations of the ESC conference.

Speakers included former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair who participated via video message, and members of the British, Austrian and Italian parliaments — who flew to campus for the conference.

Lapo Pistelli, Italian vice minister of foreign affairs spoke about the impact of immigration in Europe and the need for “common standards of protection” — new common European policies to address human rights violations in immigration. Pistelli emphasized that immigration is not always a negative phenomenon, and said that in many cases the influx of new citizens leads to increased economic develop-

ment.

“Mobility and the freedom to move is one of the fundamental freedoms,” Pistelli said.

However, he maintained that illegal immigration almost always leads to economic and social issues.

Andrew Duff, a British member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, spoke about the need for more cooperation

amongst the member nations of the EU. Duff said it is important to establish the concept of common European citizenship and increase diplomatic participation.

Of the eight students interviewed, all said they found the conference to be a productive effort.

“We got to exchange ideas and think about what we could

improve in terms of the future of the European union.” said Verdrana Damjanovic, a student at the University of Florida The conference, which attracted more than 300 applicants, only accepted 80 students due to budgetary constraints.

Mitschka said, however, that the fundraising effort was a massive endeavor: They received more than $80,000 in a grant from

the European commission, while other sources of funding pushed the program’s budget to over $100,000 dollars.

The event was sponsored by the Yale School of Management, the American Council on Germany, Amtrak and BMW Stiftung.

Contact PATRICK PEOPLES at patrick.peoples@yale.edu .

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Eighty students from 46 American universities and one European university gathered to discuss the future of the European Union.

Philanthropy conference attracts hundreds

SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

About 300 people gathered at the School of Management on Friday to discuss developments in the field of philanthropy. One of which is the creation of innovative philanthropic techniques based on data-driven analysis.

BY SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Roughly 300 people came together on Friday to discuss the latest strategies and developments in the field of philanthropy.

Held at the School of Management, the 10th Annual Yale Philanthropy Conference emphasized innovative philanthropic techniques based on data-driven analysis. The conference is a student-run project of the Net Impact club at the School of Management, said Tony Sheldon, executive director of the School of Management Program on Social Enterprise. Sheldon added that the content for each conference reflects the interest of the organizers and “by exten-

sion the current student body.”

According to organizers interviewed, the conference aimed to attract a national audience, and most of the attendees came from outside Yale.

“We are really embracing the idea of innovation in philanthropy,” conference co-chair Sally Shen SOM ’15 said. “It is a process that has been discussed before, but this is the first year we brought the framework of the innovation cycle intact.”

In his address, Michael Smith — special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director of cabinet affairs for My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative aimed at empowering young men of color through reforms in schools and communities, at the White House — said non-profit organi-

zations must invest in quantitatively measuring their impact.

Organizations without data recording their success should not be funded, he added.

“We can no longer say that it is okay to continue to write checks to organizations that have no evidence of impact, investing where there is no opportunity,” Smith said.

The conference also included breakout sessions that focused on the application of business models to the philanthropic sector, the use of incentives to foster innovation and the use of data to drive decision-making.

Conference co-chair Maryrose Myrtetus SOM ’15 said the threepronged approach was essential for the success of nonprofits, since the organizations need to

focus on measuring the impact of their programs while also innovating.

Tom Fry, managing director of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, which focuses on making high-impact philanthropic investments, said grant-makers should act as “strategic thoughtpartners” with the recipient nonprofit organization.

“It’s not just about giving money; that’s not what makes successful organizations,” Fry said. “It’s helping bring a network of contacts, helping hire challenging people to the organization. Those are the things that make successful ventures whether it’s in the for-profit or not-for-profit space.”

Maggie Osborn, president of Connecticut Council for Philan-

thropy, said while data-driven decision-making is important, philanthropic organizations must also emphasize the value of stories drawn from the data.

Conference attendees interviewed said they were impressed by the conference and agreed that innovation should be emphasized in the philanthropic sector.

Susan Saltrick, a conference attendee and Teach for America administrator, said it is interesting to think about different financial models to build sustainability in nonprofit organizations.

Anna Navratil, the development operations manager for United Way of Greater New Haven, an organization that focuses on creating social impact and improving lives in the region, said she felt that the conference

was a great avenue to hear from thought leaders in the field.

The conference provides an opportunity for participants to meet with their peers dealing with similar issues for the first time and be exposed to different perspectives, Sheldon said.

“It’s good to step out of the circle that you may be in, and you never know who you may meet and come across, and that helps you think outside the box and look at other opportunities,” conference attendee Denise Henry said.

Phoebe Kimmelman contributed reporting.

Contact SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA at spandana.bhattacharya@yale.edu .

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“The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a costeffective way.� BERNIE SANDERS AMERICAN POLITICIAN

Interfaith students come together

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER Breakin’ with Buddha, W{holy} Queer, Demystifying American Indian Spirituality and Student Responses to Acts of Intolerance were just a few titles of the sessions held at “Coming Together,� an interfaith conference held at Yale this weekend.

From Thursday to Sunday, 115 students from colleges across the U.S. and Canada attended keynote addresses, panels and breakout sessions . The sessions centered on issues and challenges concerning the interfaith and religious communities at universities. The conference was organized by the Chaplain’s Office and two student steering committees headed by Maytal Saltiel, assistant University chaplain for special programs. The event aimed to bring together students involved in interfaith work to further develop that dialogue and learn techniques to bring back to their respective campuses, Saltiel said. “The goal of the conference is to bring students together who are involved in interfaith work on their campuses to build bridges, create connections, exchange ideas on what interfaith work looks like, and have big picture idea conversations,� Saltiel said. “They can then go back to their home campuses and bring back this energy.�

Several Yale faculty members were featured, including psychology professor Marvin Chun, who spoke on happiness from a psychological viewpoint.

Further, several administrators working in religious life on college campuses participated, including Harrison Blum, Mindfulness Programs coordinator at Northeastern University, who led the “Breakin’ with Buddha� session.

Students who attended the “Breakin’ with Buddha� session participated in standing and walking meditation as taught by Buddhist text, while simultaneously receiving basic hip hop instruction. The session ended with an improvisational movement workshop. “It’s a big accomplishment and celebration when we connect people from different faith groups. It increases students’ connectivity to their own traditions and also deepens their appre-

CT residents rush to meet healthcare deadline

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Students from universities across the country gathered at Yale this weekend to discuss challenges facing the interfaith movement. ciation for others,� Blum said. “So to bring that to a national and even international level creates a sense that we are not alone. Commitment to faith, morality and religiosity is a common value of young people today.�

The breakout session titled “Student Responses to Acts of Intolerance,� was a conversation led by two student members of Emory College’s interreligous council, Noam Kantor and Berit Reisenauer.

On Oct. 5, Kantor said, a swastika was spray painted on the wall of one of the Jewish fraternity houses at Emory, similar to the incident that happened on Yale’s Old Campus that same month. The hate crime, Kantor said, called for difficult conversations on campus, and motivated Kantor and Reisenauer to lead a breakout session on this theme at the conference.

Reisenauer said these are controversial topics, but the Emory community has experience dealing with acts of intolerance very directly. This kind of information and experiences need to be shared, she added.

The breakout session was planned well before the shooting at UNC Chapel Hill, Reisenauer said, but also became a comfortable space to talk about these tragic events. “We live in a diverse society. There’s

a great deal of prejudice, racism and hate crimes. To stop these things, programs like this are very important,� said Jawad Awan, president of the Muslim Students Association at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “It’s really important that we break down the walls between us and increase dialogue to achieve serious peace.�

Other students also said it is essential to foster dialogue in order to resolve social and religious conflicts. Engaging in face-to-face dialogue about these contentious issues, instead of arguing over them online anonymously, allows one to make informed and honest judgments, said Katie Ottley, a student at the University of Regina.

Kellee Richards ’16, a chaplaincy fellow and member of a Coming Together steering committee, explained that most Yale students involved in the conference also helped coordinate it.

The Coming Together conference was started at Princeton University in 2005 by the Association of College and University Religious Affairs — a professional organization for chaplains.

The conference moves from campus to campus, and Yale hosted the seventh edition.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

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With the three-month open enrollment period for health insurance coming to a close Sunday at midnight, Connecticut residents flocked to centers throughout the weekend to enroll in coverage through the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official insurance marketplace, Access Health CT. Public access to healthcare has increased in Connecticut this year through the Affordable Care Act, according to Jason Madrak, Access Health CTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief marketing officer. More than 500,000 people have enrolled in healthcare in the state since the ACA went into effect in 2010, Madrak said, and almost 130,000 people enrolled this past year.

That number is more than twice as many residents as the state had hoped to enroll.

In addition, Madrak said overall traffic in the Access Health storefronts has increased by roughly 50 percent since last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve passed several key milestones,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think one of the single biggest differences relates to the fact that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone from a 10 percent uninsured rate to about four percent.â&#x20AC;?

Under the ACA, consumers must sign up for coverage or receive an exemption by Feb. 15, 2015 to avoid a federal tax penalty. For 2015, the federal penalty for non-coverage is two percent of the total household income, or $325 per individual, $162.50 per child or $975 per family, whichever is higher.

Of the total number of people enrolled, approximately 100,000 people are in commercial insurance and the rest are insured under medicaid coverage, according to Madrak. A press release issued

by Access Health CT in January further reported that the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Small Business Health Options program enrolled 175 small businesses, helping them establishments save over $2 million annually.

According to Madrak, the rate of enrollment this year is lower than last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 208,000 enrollments, however, because there are now fewer uninsured people in Connecticut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a result [of the uninsured rate

decreasing], the people we need to reach are simply harder to find,â&#x20AC;? said Madrak.

Madrak also said the remaining uninsured are less homogenous and more esoteric in their reasons for not getting coverage. This made it difficult, from a communication standpoint, to advertise healthcare with a message that has mass appeal.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman emphasized the importance of Access Health CTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success in helping spur the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Access to quality, affordable health care is key to building strong families and a productive workforce,â&#x20AC;? Wyman said in a press release last week.

Because of its success in enrollments for the past two years, other states have considered adopting a similar model.

According to Howard Forman, Yale professor of diagnostic radiology, economics and public health, Connecticut was proactive at both the executive and legislative level to ensure the state implemented a successful healthcare exchange.

He added that Connecticut is also particularly successful at recruiting and retaining talented administrators. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They put together a great team,â&#x20AC;? Forman said.

Jim Wadleigh â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the former chief information officer at Access Health CT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was appointed interim CEO after former head Kevin Counihan was appointed to oversee Healthcare.gov, the federal health care portal, in late August.

Madrak said that Wadleighâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familiarity with Access Health CT made for a relatively seamless transition.

In addition to administrative cohesion, Madrak also attributes the enrollment success to the extensive advertising campaign launched by Access Health CT and the federal government.

The campaign focused on 10 specific cities in Connecticut and includes physical storefronts in New Haven and New Britain.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

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U. to appeal denial of its motion to dismiss newer tax exemption lawsuit

BY JESSICA LI The University announced on Thursday that it will appeal a Morris County tax court judge’s denial of the University’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against its property tax exemption for the 2014 tax year.

The University is asking the Appellate Division of New Jersey’s Superior Court to review the denial of the motion to dismiss.

The lawsuit in question is separate from a 2011 suit challenging the University’s property tax exemption for 19 buildings alleged to have noneducational or primary uses, University spokesman Martin Mbugua said.

In the lawsuit whose motion to dismiss was adjudicated on Thursday, four town residents are challenging the University’s

receipt of a property tax exemption from the town in 2014.

The lawPRINCETON suit’s premises are flawed, University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee said.

“The standard in New Jersey for being eligible for property tax exemption is that your dominant purpose should be an educational institution, and Princeton’s dominant motive is to be an education institution,” Durkee said. “Our dominant motive is not to make a profit. By law and by precedent, we believe this case should not go forward.”

The University’s legal counsel is moving forward to challenge the decision issued because the

University believes it has a compelling case, Durkee said.

“This is not a trial of the case, but a motion to dismiss the case,” Durkee explained. “The plaintiffs of the case have not argued that Princeton’s dominant motive is to make a profit.”

The University will wait for a decision from the New Jersey’s Superior Court on whether the appeal will be heard to decide to go to trial, Durkee said.

“If it will not be heard, the case needs to go to trial,” Durkee said. “We have every confidence that if it goes to trial, we will be successful.”

The University also filed a motion to dismiss the case so that it does not have to commit the resources that are otherwise called for by the litigation, especially in a situation where the outcome seems so clear that the University’s tax exemption will

be ultimately supported, Durkee said.

“This case has nothing to do with specific buildings,” Durkee explained, referring to the 2011 suit. “There was a case earlier that had to do with buildings that has not been adjudicated yet.”

Both cases are being adjudicated by the same judge, Vito Bianco.

University General Counsel Ramona Romero deferred comment to Mbugua.

Bruce Afran, legal counsel for four town residents who brought the latest suit, said he believes the University has engaged in widespread commercial activity and that the conduct will deprive the University of its tax exemption.

Afran noted examples of what he said was the University’s commercial engagement,

including being involved in a licensing deal with Eli Lilly and Company worth over $200 million and giving out $40 million a year in profit-sharing to faculty members from patent licensing. He added that the University owns two “vast office complexes” on Route 1 and is planning to triple the scale of the Princeton Forrestal Center to support a sizable hotel project.

Running a chain of publicly accessible restaurants on campus and a television company are also instances of for-profit activity, Afran said.

“The University is the largest renter business in Princeton,” Afran said. “They own 1,000 houses here that they rent out, and this is not to students. They are competing with local real estate businesses.”

Afran said the University’s legal arguments that its “domi-

nant motive” is education relied on a 1949 case that has been superseded by cases in recent years.

“Judge Bianco said specifically that this 1949 decision is not controlling over this case,” Afran said. “The University is wrong … That’s exactly what Bianco rejected today.”

Afran — as well as the University in a press release — characterized the appeal of a denial of a motion to dismiss as “unusual.”

“The immediate appeal is very unusual as it shows that the University feels threatened,” Afran said.

He said this type of appeal is rarely successful and that the University must obtain permission to appeal.

“The court may grant it just so to confirm the decision,” Afran said. “Judge Bianco has never been reversed.”

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In good standing

Penn Wharton China Center approaches the finish line

BY CATIE EDMONDSON An undergraduate student was found responsible for sexually assaulting Camila Quarta in April 2013. Since then, 481 undergraduate students have taken courses in which he has served as a teaching assistant.

The extent to which students like this, who have been found responsible for genderbased misconduct but are not expelled, can reintegrate into campus life isn’t immediately clear. But Spectator has learned that Columbia has no blanket policy that prevents these students from taking leadership roles on campus.

Any student who is currently in good disciplinary standing — regardless of past disciplinary record, including violations of the University’s gender-based misconduct policy — can serve as a resident adviser, teaching assistant, orientation or preorientation leader and in other similar leadership positions, according to a University official.

Students who are not in good disciplinary standing with the University have either been expelled or are currently serving a period of suspension or disciplinary probation, according to the Office of Judicial Affairs’ Standards & Discipline handbook. Otherwise, students are considered in good disciplinary standing and are allowed to serve in leadership roles on campus.

But students and faculty

i n t e r viewed by S p e c ta to r this week expressed discomfort with the COLUMBIA notion that individuals found responsible for genderbased misconduct are allowed back on campus with few limitations, especially given the rarity of expulsion in these cases.

None of the students found responsible for gender-based misconduct between July 2013 and June 2014 were expelled from the University, Title IX Coordinator Melissa Rooker told Spectator in September following the release of aggregate data on sexual assault. Instead, they were either allowed to remain on campus or have returned to campus after serving a suspension.

In 2011, University President Lee Bollinger told Spectator he didn’t know if anyone had ever been expelled from Columbia for sexual assault, but that he would find it troubling if no students had been expelled.

The University declined to provide the number of students found responsible for genderbased misconduct who are currently on campus and in good disciplinary standing. Research varies about recidivism rates for sexual assault offenders, but many researchers believe that sexual assault on college campuses is often committed by repeat offenders.

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CREATIVE COMMONS

The grand opening of the Penn Wharton China Center will occur over a period of six months in Beijing’s Central Business District.

BY JOE LI Almost two years and four months in the making, the Penn Wharton China Center is finally approaching its grand opening.

Penn President Amy Gutmann announced late last year that the center will open in Beijing this coming March. The grand opening will last through September 2015, featuring events including academic conferences, professional development sessions and alumni gatherings.

Originally expected to open in January 2015, the center was initially authorized by the Board of Trustees in 2012. The necessary registration, including the license to run the center, was completed in the summer of 2013. Due to legal restrictions regarding foreign academic institutions in China, the center is registered as a business entity and as a result is currently unable to host long-term study abroad programs, Faculty Director of the Center John Zhang said.

Although students will be unable to take classes at the Center, it will still offer both academic and professional opportunities. Executive Director of Penn Global Amy Gadsden said that currently, 11 of Penn’s 12 schools have research proj-

ects related to China.

There are 1,500 students from m a i n land China c u r re n t ly PENN studying at Penn, and over 400 students have studied abroad in China for credit courses since 2010.

“Right now we are sitting in Philadelphia waiting for all the bright scholars in China to come to us. This is like an old Chinese adage that says a hunter sits beside a tree and waits for prey to bump into it,” Zhang said.

“We need to bring Penn and Wharton to China.”

Zhang added that it is crucial to have a “hub” for Penn in Beijing because “much administrative and logistical work can’t be done very well on campus.”

Gadsden, who received a Ph.D. in Chinese history, believes that China is important to study at Penn due to its increasingly powerful international presence. She said that the University recently received a grant from the Freeman Foundation to promote its East Asia Internship Program Scholarship.

“China is such a diverse place that our students can explore a wide variety of interests all over the country,” she said. Cur-

rently there are 17 partnerships between Penn and various Chinese academic institutions, and the center in Beijing will be a great “vantage point” for managing these partnerships, Gadsden said.

Zhang also spoke to the importance of training future leaders in global awareness, which enhances the competitiveness of Penn students. This in turn helps Penn maintain its position as a top-class academic institution in the world, he said.

The center’s infrastructure will draw students and scholars alike. Zhang gave the example of telepresence facilities, which can simulate real-time interactions with people at different locations in the world.

“There are a lot of alums and family members of Penn students in Beijing, and we want them to use the center as much as possible,” Zhang said.

Within the month, Zhang and Gadsden will be flying to Beijing to attend the opening of the center, along with Provost Vincent Price. Price said in a meeting with the Daily Pennsylvanian staff earlier this year that Gutmann won’t be able to attend the initial opening in March due to scheduling conflicts, but will visit the center in September to host a dedication and celebration event.

“What’s been really enjoyable for me … is [seeing] the incredible range of activities related to China. There is a tremendous range of thought work going on here, and it’s very exciting for Penn to be able to show and strengthen this advantage,” Gadsden said.

Wharton senior Tina Tian, who was born and grew up in Beijing, is thankful that Penn is expanding to her home city. “I hadn’t seen much Penn presence in Beijing before. But this year, I sensed an increasing emphasis on China-related things, and I’ve been getting more and more emails about events in Beijing,” she said.

Graduating this coming May and having already secured a job offer, Tian said she does not need to utilize the center’s resources to find employment opportunities, though she emphasized that China’s rapid economic growth is creating many jobs throughout the nation.

Tian added that many student groups on campus are interested in reaching out to Chinese schools or companies for professional reasons or otherwise, but they lack the necessary access to build fruitful connections. The Penn Wharton China Center may bridge the gap for students.

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Wind chill values between -10 and -20. Northwest wind 13 to 15 mph.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 4:00 PM CEAS Hong Kong Lecture: “Hong Kong Under China – Challenges to the Rule of Law and Judicial Independence”.

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University presents the Inaugural Hong Kong Friends of Yale Fund Lecture. Margaret Ng is a barrister in private practice, having been called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1988. She was formerly a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong SAR representing the Legal Functional Constituency. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 4:30 PM Beauty and Art: or Where Did the Aesthetics Go Astray? Professor David Konstan of New York University will discuss his latest book on the nature of beauty in Antiquity and compare the ancient concept with contemporary aesthetics.

Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm 101.

6:30 PM CMES Cinema: “12 Angry Lebanese”. A theater director specializing in rehabilitating people through art therapy, Zeina Daccache struggles to set up Lebanon’s first prison-based drama production in the country’s notorious Roumieh Prison.

For 15 months, 45 inmates find themselves working together to present an adaptation of the stage play “12 Angry Men”. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 11:00 AM Peace Corps: Global Health Edition. Join the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute for a presentation by Carrie Hessler-Radelet. As head of the Peace Corps, Hessler-Radelet has led historic reforms to modernize and strengthen the Peace Corps to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Beaumont Rm. 6:30 PM Science in the News: Ebola Explosion! Barriers, Blood, and Bad Press. In this month’s Science in the News talk, we explore the Ebola outbreak. Where did the Ebola virus come from and why does it make us sick? What are the public health ramifications of such a dramatic outbreak? What role does the media play in shaping our reaction? Three scholars from Yale will answer these questions and more. Rosenfeld Hall (109 Grove St.).

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alentine’s Day: loved by some, dreaded by others. At times, it seems like there is an undeserving stigma attached to this holiday, a sort of standoff between happy couples and embittered singles. However, there’s a lot to be said about being thankful on Valentine’s Day — whether that thankfulness is for the significant others in our lives, the wonderful friends, our families or even the opportunity to go to a school like Yale. Whether or not it is spent with a date, Valentine’s Day stands as a timely reminder of the importance of love in our lives: love in all forms. JULIA HENRY reports.

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SPORTS JOHN HAYDEN ’17 SUSPENSION COMPLETED Hayden, the Yale hockey team’s second-leading scorer, was suspended for Saturday’s 4–1 contest against RPI after making contact to a Union player’s head during Friday’s game. But the forward will return for the Elis’ next game against Quinnipiac on Friday.

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BRANDON SHERROD ’16 SINGING AND HOOPING Yale’s sixth man for much of the 2013– 14 season was profiled in a New York Times article last week about his year off to sing with the Whiffenpoofs. In the article, Sherrod discussed his background, his decision to leave the school for a year and his time with the Whiffs.

“Our level of confidence and our preparation over the past few months has started to pay off.”

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Bulldogs bounce back with road sweep

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team passed the halfway point of the Ivy League season this weekend, and it kept pace with Harvard atop the standings thanks to a sweep of Penn and Princeton on the road.

Yale (18–7, 7–1 Ivy) saw its offense come alive again this weekend, finishing off a perfect weekend by dismantling Penn (7–14, 2–5) on Friday night and by surviving against Princeton (11–12, 4–3) Saturday night.

Against the Quakers, the Bulldogs shot 54.0 percent from the field and 54.5 percent from behind the arc to win 75–48. The Elis were hot against the Tigers as well, shooting 58.3 percent from the floor and 46.2 percent from long range on their way to an 81–73 victory.

“This week at practice, our coaches emphasized moving the ball and trusting one another on the court,” forward Matt Townsend ’15 said. “We took a step forward with that against Penn and Princeton, and it showed in the box score. We have a lot of different weapons, so when we play together we’re a tough team to beat.”

At the Palestra, Penn’s home arena and one of the most legendary venues in college basketball, the Quakers kept Yale within reach early, as guard Tony Hicks scored seven points in the first 8:04 to give the Quakers a 10–8 lead. However, the Bulldogs stormed back with a 16–2 run over the next five and a half minutes and headed to the

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 was invaluable in Saturday’s game against Princeton, pouring in 25 points and nine boards. locker room at halftime leading 38–23.

The Elis refused to let up in the second half, extending their lead to 31 just over eight minutes into the period. In a balanced

attack from Yale, three players scored in double figures, with guard Makai Mason ’18 leading the way with 14. Nine different players scored, and forward Justin Sears ’16 led the team with

six assists and five blocks.

Saturday’s contest against Princeton started similarly, as Yale jumped out to an early 11–0 lead. But though the Tigers failed to convert their first nine

Yale picks up four points

BY DREW MEGERIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With only four regular season games remaining, the Yale Bulldogs moved into third place in the ECAC standings this weekend, decisively defeating both Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College in two days away.

In what some would consider the most heated meet of the year, the Yale track and field teams showed promise and success even while finishing in third place, wrapping up their regular seasons at the historic Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Cambridge on Saturday.

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Alex Lyon ’17 posted his nation-leading fifth shutout of the season and eighth shutout of his career against Union on Friday.

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After the intermission, however, Princeton’s shots from behind the arc started to fall, spurring the Tigers to a 21–4 run SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

Track takes third place at HYP meets

BY ADAM JENKINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

MEN’S HOCKEY Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 pitched his eighth career shutout in the 2–0 Union bout, and only conceded one against RPI — a game that ended with a final tally of 4–1.

The Bulldogs, now (15–7–3, 10–6–2 ECAC), faced a similar weekend back in December, when they split two home games against the same opponents.

Union (14–14–2, 6–11–1 ECAC) defeated the Elis in December, a game dropped by a 3–1 margin at Ingalls Rink. RPI (9–22–1, 7–11–0 ECAC) was again unable to match Yale’s offensive firepower, conceding one less goal this weekend than the last time they faced the Bulldogs and fell 5–2.

“It was a good weekend for us,” Mike Doherty ’17 said. “[We played] a strong team defense on Friday and kept a very offensive capable team off the score sheet.

We were a bit undermanned Saturday and were able to get a good win.”

Coming off of last weekend’s defensive disappointment against Dartmouth, the Elis

shots of the night, the win would not come as easily as it had the night before. At the half, the Bulldogs continued to hold an 11-point advantage, leading 39–28.

Despite finishing third in both the men’s and the women’s team competitions, both Yale teams achieved individual success, recording multiple personal bests and top-three finishes across a wide variety of events.

“There’s so much history surrounding this meet, and I think there’s a big emotional investment that plays a part whenever we run against Harvard and Princeton,” Kate Raphael ’18 said. “We SEE TRACK PAGE B3

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The men’s team finished a distant third behind Princeton in Saturday’s Harvard-YalePrinceton meet.

THE NUMBER OF TOTAL GOALS GIVEN UP BETWEEN THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAMS THROUGH FOUR GAMES. Both Jamie Leonoff ’15 and Alex Lyon ’17 boasted a shutout and both teams scored a total of 15 goals.

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SPORTS

“Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out.” LARRY BIRD THREE-TIME NBA CHAMPION

Women’s hockey defeats RPI, Union

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Jamie Leonoff ’15 earned her second shutout of the season on Friday against RPI, stopping 31 shots on the way to a 5–0 victory.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 just 1:12 into the game. The Elis continued to dominate offensively, taking 11 shots before Union took one.

“We were able to generate a lot of offense in both games and create a lot of good scoring opportunities which we were able to cap-

italize on,” Souliotis said. “Our offense was relentless in the offensive zone, preventing RPI and Union from generating any offense.”

The Dutchwomen were awarded a penalty shot early in the second period. Union forward Erica Kelly managed to get around Leonoff to even the score,

but the victory was short-lived.

Martini picked up a rebound from captain and defenseman Aurora Kennedy ’15 at 6:35 to put the Bulldogs back in the lead.

The scoring continued into the third with goals from forwards Courtney Pensavalle ’18 and Hanna Åström ’16. Union scored one more time in the final min-

Elis smash UMass 19–4

utes, but Yale secured a solid 4–2 win over the Dutchwomen.

The Elis more than doubled the number of shots taken by Union, with 38 to the Dutchwomen’s 17.

This is the second time this season the Yale has swept RPI and Union in the same weekend, and the team had an identical score in both games against the Dutch-

women.

Murray attributes much of the team’s success to its growing confidence as the season progresses.

“Our level of confidence and our preparation over the past few months has started to pay off,” Murray said. “Now we’re seeing the results which have replaced

any doubt we might have felt at the beginning [of the season] with belief.”

The Bulldogs face Quinnipiac and Princeton this weekend in the final games of the regular season.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

Elis swept at home W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 undefeated record, keeping the game closer than any of Princeton’s opponents have this season.

“I think on Saturday night we proved as a team that we belong in this league and are a top contender,” Werner said. “It was disappointing to come so close and not come out with the win.”

The Tigers came in with a 25.8-point average margin of victory. Princeton entered averaging a victory margin of 32.0 points in conference games, with wins over Harvard and Columbia by 50 and 39, respectively. But against the Bulldogs, the Tigers only managed to win by six.

The Bulldogs’ strong defense also held the Tigers to only 56 points, 22 points less than their season average.

“Having them on their heels the whole game showed that we belong at the top of the Ivy League,” guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said.

But on offense, the Elis struggled for the second time this weekend. Their shooting percentage was 30.0 percent, compared to a 45.2

percent mark for Princeton. Sarju and Simpson shot a combined 3–22 from the field.

However, at the 18:49 mark of the second half, Simpson left the game due to dizziness.

Her absence was crucial, as Simpson is the Bulldogs’ leading active scorer with 8.9 points per game. She also ranks fifth in the Ivy League with 1.9 steals per game.

Despite its poor shooting percentage, Yale was down by only three points at halftime, and continued to stay close to Princeton until the end of the game. Although the Tigers were shooting at a much higher percentage, they only took 42 shots throughout the game, while Yale attempted 70.

Despite the two losses, the Bulldogs are ready to face up the remainder of the season.

“If anything, this weekend has fired us up even more,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said.

“We know what we are capable of and we are ready for the challenges to come.”

The Bulldogs’ will now travel to Ithaca, New York, to tip off against Cornell on Friday night.

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

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Eleven Elis scored in Saturday’s matchup against Division I newcomer UMass-Lowell.

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 cant playing time from the game’s outset, Reeves tied Oberbeck for the team lead in points, depositing two unassisted goals to go along with four first-half assists.

In net, Meyer went almost a full quarter without surrendering a goal, although the team’s defense eased the pressure, allowing the River Hawks only two shots on goal over that time frame. Additionally, midfielder J. Conor Mackie ’18 helped maintain the Bulldogs’ complete control over the game, tying for the lead with five ground balls.

“A lot of freshman stepped up on Saturday and could be impact

players for us down the stretch,” defenseman Mike Quinn ’16 said.

Although playing time for the youngest Bulldogs may adjust as the season progresses, Saturday’s dominant performance from the entire roster gave Bulldog fans a glimpse of the team’s future. The Bulldogs overwhelmed the River Hawks in every aspect of the game. Yale won 22 of 26 faceoffs and amassed 34 shots on goal to UMass-Lowell’s 10.

While the Bulldog coaching staff had little prior knowledge of what to expect from their newlypromoted opponent, the decision to schedule the team’s opening tune-up against the River Hawks proved worthwhile.

“The most we knew about them was that we knew they would be well coached,” said Shay.

Despite a lofty preseason ranking and their decisive seasonopening win, though, the Bulldogs have yet to prove themselves in a meaningful contest.

The team’s next game, a showdown against No. 8 Maryland, should serve as a clear benchmark for the Bulldogs’ future success.

The Bulldogs host the Maryland Terrapins at Reese Stadium on Saturday. Face-off is scheduled for 12 p.m.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

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Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 led the team with 13 points against Penn.

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“If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.” MAGIC JOHNSON FIVE-TIME NBA CHAMPION

Yale keeps pace in Ivy race

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Makai Mason ’18 scored in double digits in both games, including 11 points on 5–5 shooting against Princeton.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 and a six-point advantage.

“I think that Princeton is a bit of a better offensive team than Penn, and [the Tigers] switched defenses and we didn’t crack their 1–3–1 that well,” head coach James Jones said. “That gave them opportunities offensively that cut into our lead …

We had some opportunities at the basket that we didn’t finish, and that hurt us a little bit, and we turned it over a couple of times.”

With 10:35 remaining in the game, the Elis trailed by eight points, but the veteran Yale team refused to panic. The Bulldogs started their own 16–6 run that helped the team regain the lead for good with six minutes to play. Princeton would get no closer than two points the rest of the way.

As the clock ticked down, it was the team’s defense that helped Yale secure the win, as steals by point guard Javier Duren ’15, Sears and Mason helped the Elis to an eight-point

lead with less than a minute to play.

“Princeton is the secondmost efficient offensive Ivy team, so we knew they were dangerous,” Townsend said. “[Forward Henry] Caruso had a monster game and there was a stretch in the second half when it seemed like [the Tigers] couldn’t miss a three-pointer, but at the end of the game our defense dug in to get stops, and that’s what drove our second-half comeback.”

Even though Caruso had a big game for the Tigers, finishing with 25 points and four rebounds, Sears had an even more impressive night. The forward from Plainfield, N.J., notched 25 points to go along with nine rebounds, just missing a double-double. He shot 8–11 from the field and 9–11 from the free-throw line, pushing his free throw percentage on the season to 68.0 percent.

Sears was one of five players who scored in double digits for the efficient Elis. Townsend added 13 points on 6–8 shooting, Duren scored 12 — with six

points coming from the charity stripe in the final 36 seconds — and Mason and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 each added 11, the former hitting 5–5 from the floor.

“The Harvard game was a tough loss since we did some good things and we did some bad things primarily on the offensive end,” Sears said. “We’re making sure that we’re moving the ball more, and on my part just being more engaged and not disappearing in the second half.

Everyone has done a good job this year of putting the weekend behind us and focusing on these two games.”

The rest of the way, the Bulldogs will now be facing each team in the Ivy League, excluding Brown, for a second time.

This weekend, the Elis will welcome Cornell and Columbia to John J. Lee Amphitheater for round two of the 14-game tournament, with tip-off at 7 p.m. both nights.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

didn’t get caught up in the nitty-gritty details of points and seed times, and instead just competed with the people around us, which resulted in some outstanding performances and a ton of personal records.”

Success started in the mile event, led by captain Kira Garry ’15, who took second with a time of 4:49.62. Following Garry was Dana Klein ’18, who competed in the event for the first time in her Yale career and took sixth with a time of 4:58.20.

In the women’s 800-meter run, Bulldog runners also posted great results. Shannon McDonnell ’16 finished in second with a time of 2:12.02, with Grace Brittan ’16 (2:15.21, PR) and Frances Schmiede ’17 (2:16.16) finishing fifth and sixth, respectively.

Two Eli women stood out at the meet, as Emily Waligurski ’17 brought home the lone individual victory for the Bulldogs and Elle Brunsdale ’15 set three personal records, all of which earned her topfive finishes.

Waligurski’s triumph in the 1,000-meter run came with a personal best time of 2:50.18.

The sophomore also anchored the 4x880 yard relay, which brought home a first place medal, tying with Princeton with a time of 9:00.78.

“Emily ran a truly spectacular leg, closing the gap and winning the race by outleaning the Princeton team,” Raphael said of Waligurski’s performance in the meet.

“Emily really embodied the spirit of the meet and of competition.”

Brunsdale also had a big day, bringing home a fifthplace finish in the 60-meter hurdles (9.19, PR), a second-

place finish in the 500-meter dash (1:16.19, PR) and a thirdplace finish in the long jump (5.47 meters, PR).

In the jumping events, Renee Vogel ’16 placed second and tied her personal best in the pole vault with a height of 3.45 meters. In the throwing events, Karleh Wilson ’16 placed second in the shot put (14.54 meters) and third in the weight throw (16.42 meters).

“As we are all able to contribute in this way, we are really gelling as a team, enabling Yale to make a mark in [the] championship season,” Waligurski said. “We may not have won the meet yesterday, but it certainly shows that we are in the mix.”

The Yale women’s team finished with 41 total points, third behind Princeton at 87 points and Harvard at 54 points.

The Yale men faced similar team results, totaling 22 points and coming in third behind Princeton’s 125 and Harvard’s 36, but they also had similar individual success, including some strong performances by underclassmen.

“I think this meet shows we have some potential as a team, but we didn’t quite capitalize on that this weekend,” James Randon ’17 said. “We’re gearing toward [the Indoor Heptagonal Championships] in two weeks, not necessarily this meet.”

In the 60-meter hurdles, Paedyn Gomes ’18 placed fourth and achieved a personal record with a time of 8.19 seconds. Austin Loewen ’17 also raced a personal best in the event, running an 8.56 and taking seventh.

In the 500-meter dash, Austin Puleo ’17 took fourth with a time of 1:05.89, followed by captain William

Rowe ’15 (1:06.22), Alexander McDonald ’16 in seventh (1:06.72) and Denzell Jobson ’17 in eighth (1:08.34).

Randon and Marc-Andre Alexandre ’17 both brought home first place honors in the 1,000 meter run and 400meter dash respectively.

Randon edged out all other competitors with a time of 2:29.48, taking the win by 0.65 seconds, and Alexandre won with a time of 48.44, nearly a full second ahead of the second-place finisher.

Alexandre also was part of the men’s 4x440 yard relay, which took second with a time of 3:19.57, just four hundredths of a second behind Princeton’s first squad. Chandler Crusan ’17, Dylan Hurley ’15 and Rowe rounded out the rest of the relay team.

In the field events, Luke Persichetti ’17 and Jake Hoops ’18 both set personal records in the weight toss, taking third (16.02 meters) and sixth (12.85 meters), respectively.

Brendan Sullivan ’16 continued in his weekly successes, placing second in the pole vault with a jump of 4.90 meters.

In the long jump, Carl Mansson ’18 earned fourth place with a distance of 6.36 meters, and Mike Koller ’18 took fifth in the high jump with a height of 1.94 meters.

“Personally, I’m excited about Heps in two weeks,” Garry said. “I think we have been training hard and now is the time when it all pays off.”

Two weekends from now, both Bulldog squads will compete in the Indoor Heptagonal Championships in Cambridge once again, marking the beginning of the winter championship season.

Contact ADAM JENKINSON at adam.jenkinson@yale.edu .

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Saturday’s Yale highlight was the 4x880 meter relay, which Yale won by out-leaning Princeton at the finish line.

Elis shut out Union, beat RPI MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1

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Five of the Elis’ six goals this weekend were scored by different players.

found a way to blank one of the most offensively minded teams in the ECAC. Through the first period, Yale outshot Union 17–4, netting one goal in the process off of a wide puck kicked out in front by the boards. Doherty won the race to the puck beside the crease and was able to put away his 10th of the season. The second was an empty netter from John Hayden ’17. Lyon, now tied for the national lead with five shutouts this season, stopped all 23 Union attempts.

“We are a different team now than we were in the fall,” Hayden said. “We have improved in all aspects and are definitely closer as a team.”

Unlike in the Union game, the Bulldogs’ offensive firepower struck early and often against RPI. Only three minutes into Saturday’s contest, Yale’s Carson Cooper ’16 found twine after one-timing a Doherty pass past RPI’s Jason Kasdorf.

Three minutes after that, Yale made it 2–0 on John Baiocco’s ’18 solo effort through RPI’s defense, finding the top of the net on his backhand from the left circle on the play. In the second, the offense continued to roll, as both Doherty and Frankie DiChiara ’17

found the score sheet, Doherty for his second goal of the weekend.

“It was a solid weekend in general,” Captain Tommy Fallen ’15 said. “We had guys step up at all positions which is always needed moving into playoffs. We play great when we show confidence and that is important moving forward.”

The four-point weekend pulls the Bulldogs within three points of second-place ECAC contender St. Lawrence and nine points of current leader Quinnipiac. Yale’s first matchup against Quinnipiac, last weekend, resulted in an anticlimactic 2–2 OT tie.

Though a somewhat disappointing outcome at home, the Elis look to claim a victory against the Bobcats this time in their next matchup, an away game only a few miles down the road.

“I think this weekend was as complete of a two games as we have played all year,” Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said. “That provides us a lot of confidence moving forward.”

Yale’s Friday matchup against Quinnipiac is slated to start at 7 p.m. Broadcasts are available on SNY and TSN TV. Contact DREW MEGERIAN at andrew.megerian@yale.edu .

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In déjà vu, Bulldogs sweep RPI, Union WOMEN’S HOCKEY

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After a high-scoring pair of games, the Yale women’s hockey team swept the weekend for the first time in 2015.

The Bulldogs (13–13–1, 10–10–0 ECAC) had one of their best weekends yet this season as they defeated both Rensselaer and Union on home ice on Friday and Saturday. With four points through these two contests, the Elis have clinched a spot in ECAC playoffs for the second year in a row.

“There were some ups and downs in both games this weekend,” defenseman Mallory Souliotis ’18 said. “Overall, we knew we had to get four points this weekend, and we did, so we are happy with that. We know that some of this weekend was not our best hockey, and we are looking to learn from it.”

In Friday night’s matchup against the Engineers, Yale opened with the only goal of the first period at 14:23 when forward Stephanie Mock ’15 scored off of a rebound to put the Bulldogs on the board. The Elis would not relinquish the lead for the rest of the game.

Yale scored a pair of goals in the second, starting off the frame with a shot from defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 that tipped off RPI goaltender Kelly O’Brien’s glove.

The team faced some trouble a few minutes later with a five-on-three for nearly 45 seconds due to penalties from defenseman Kate Martini ’16 and forward Phoebe Staenz ’17. With a clear by forward Jamie Haddad ’16 during the ensuing penalty kill, the Elis prevented the Engineers from scoring. After a power-play goal by forward Eden Murray ’18, the Elis ended the second period ahead 3–0.

That lead only increased as the game went on.

Yale saw two more goals scored by Haddad and forward Jackie Raines ’15. The matchup ended in a shutout, with the Bulldogs earning a 5–0 victory.

Goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 stole the show, saving all 31 of RPI’s shots and making a diving save in the last few minutes to deny the Engineers a single goal. RPI had no such luck, playing three different goaltenders throughout the course of the game.

Yale had similar success on Saturday against Union. The team started off the game with an earlier goal from forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17

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SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2

On Saturday, the Bulldogs beat Union 4–2 for the second time this season.

Men’s lacrosse cruises to first win

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Twelve straight goals from the men’s lacrosse team set the tone against UMass-Lowell.

MEN’S LACROSSE The No. 15 men’s lacrosse team took defeated Division I newcomer UMass-Lowell by 19–4 in the season’s first contest on Saturday. After surrendering the game’s first goal, the Bulldogs (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) overwhelmed the visiting River Hawks (0–1, 0–0 America East) to put the game well out of hand by halftime.

“I was pleased that we got

every guy in the game,” head coach Andy Shay said. “I was impressed with everyone’s focus for the 60 minutes.”

Yale scored six goals in the first quarter and another six in the second, highlighted by five goals and an assist for attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15. Oberbeck’s starring role, along with first-half goals from six other Yale players, allowed the Bulldogs to spread around their playing time in the third and fourth quarters.

“I was able to find some success because of the unselfish play of my teammates,” Oberbeck said.

“Many of our goals Saturday were assisted and were opportunities created by two or more play-

ers contributing to a play that resulted in a goal.”

Thanks to Yale’s commanding halftime lead, Shay opted to devote extended minutes to some of his younger and under-utilized players. Both Will Robinson ’18 and Ben Reeves ’18 tallied their first career points for the Bulldogs, and goalies Phil Huffard ’18 and Dylan Meyer ’18 saw extended time in the net during the second half.

Reeves was particularly impressive in his Bulldog debut, appearing to be an especially promising addition to the Elis’s offensive attack. Logging signifiSEE M. LACROSSE PAGE B2

Bulldogs lose shooting touch

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team put a scare into both its opponents this weekend — including Princeton, the nation’s last undefeated team — but ultimately, the Bulldogs were swept, in large part due to a 0.308 shooting percentage in their two games.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Bulldogs (11–11, 5–3 Ivy) went into their first game Friday night against Penn hoping to win on the strength of their pressure defense, which was ranked second in the conference in forcing turnovers and first in turnover margin with a +4.0 mark. But Yale picked up just 13 points off 18 forced turnovers en route to a 61–42 loss.

The following evening, the Elis proved to be a strong adversary against No. 16 Princeton, but were still unable to secure a win despite attempting 28 more shots than the Tigers.

“We definitely proved a lot to ourselves and the rest of the league,” guard Lena Munzer ’17 said. “It’s tough to fall short after we played all of our hearts out, but there was a tremendous amount of growth against Princeton. We took a big step [Saturday night]. We just have

to keep moving forward.”

The Quakers (14–7, 5–2) came into the game Friday night 1.5 games behind the Bulldogs. While Yale’s defense was not up to its usual standards on Friday, it was the Bulldogs’ offense that undermined the team. Yale scored a season-low point total of 42 points compared to the Quakers’ 61.

The Bulldogs shot a measly 31.7 percent, including a 20.0 percent showing in the second half. Even though the Elis trailed by five points at halftime, they only scored 14 points in the second half, and were unable to catch up to the Quakers.

“It just happened to be an off night shooting for us,” forward Katie Werner ’17 said.

Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 scored the most points for Yale, notching 13 on 6–15 shooting.

She was the only player who scored in double digits. Guard Tamara Simpson ’18, one of the top scorers as of late, finished second on the squad with eight points. In contrast, three Quakers scored in the double digits.

The following day proved no better for the Bulldogs. The Elis faced off against Ivybest Princeton (23–0, 7–0). Although Yale lost 56–50, the Bulldogs presented the biggest threat of the entire season to Princeton’s SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B2

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The Bulldogs fired off 12 consecutive goals through the first two quarters of action after letting in the first goal of the game against UMass-Lowell.

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Yale lost 56–50 to No. 16 Princeton, the narrowest margin of victory for the Tigers this season.