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Meningitis confirmed on campus

Illustrat’d. Sports Illustrated

covered Yale men’s basketball — a team well-positioned to earn the NCAA tournament bid for the first time in 54 years — earlier this week.

The magazine used historical benchmarks to demonstrate how long it has been since Yale played in the tournament, saying “the first Super Bowl was five years away.” The Bulldogs are 8–0 in Ivy conference.

A step backward. South Dakota’s state senate became the first in the country to pass a bill that requires transgender students to use bathrooms according to their sex at birth. The bill awaits Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s signature.

Things are different at Yale where, earlier this semester, administrators held the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the University’s first allgender bathroom.

Run this town hall. Gov.

Dannel Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman will travel to New Haven on Feb. 23. They will hold a town hall forum to discuss issues, such as the state budget and the economy, slated to appear before the General Assembly in the 2016 legislative session. The event is the third in a series of town halls across the state.

Speaking out. According

to The Harvard Crimson, a 2015 graduate has filed a lawsuit against the university claiming that administrators did not appropriately respond to a sexual harassment case in which she was the complainant. Alyssa Leader, the plaintiff, says that Harvard allowed the her alleged perpetrator to live in her dorm after the incident.

Trumped up. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump confused opponent Ben Carson ’73 for President Barack Obama at a campaign stop in South Carolina. Trump called Carson by Obama’s name while referring to a comment Sen. Ted Cruz made in Iowa.

International love. The

Yale International Students Organization is hosting a teach-in at 7 p.m. tomorrow in LC 101. ISO’s event will place ongoing campus conversations about race in a global context.

The teach-in will feature three panels of faculty and students.

And, oh, oh those midsummer nights. The Shubert Theater

presents an operatic interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” performed by the Yale Opera. The show opens Friday and plays three times this weekend.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1941 The University plans to host over 2,000 graduates for the 28th Alumni Day. University President Charles Seymour, class of 1908, will address guests at Woolsey Hall as the day’s principal event.

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Basketball captain takes leave

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loway passed along Genecin’s email to the parents of Yale students to update them on the ongoing situation. Holloway added in the email that no additional cases have been reported since Sunday, and that Yale Health has been giving preventive antibiotics to anyone who might

Yale men’s basketball captain Jack Montague ’16, who did not attend games at Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend, “is not with the team at this time,” Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said in an email to the News on Wednesday night.

“I’m taking a personal leave and I’m trying to get back as soon as possible,” Montague said in a statement to the News. He declined to comment further.

Prior to last weekend, Montague had started all of the team’s first 20 games at shooting guard. Head coach James Jones said he was “not at liberty” to comment on Montague’s status. Five teammates, multiple Yale athletic administrators and the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communication also declined to comment.

Montague has led a Yale team that, due to an 8–0 conference start, is in first place in the Ivy League with an opportunity to earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1962.

Jasmina Besirevic-Regan, dean of Montague’s residential college, Trumbull, would not confirm whether Montague is still enrolled in Yale College. Yale Director of Sports Publicity Steve Conn said Montague is taking care of “personal issues,” but would not provide further comment.

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The Silliman student tested positive for a form of meningitis known as serogroup B meningococcal disease.

BY DANI BRIGHENTI AND BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTERS The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that the Silliman College freshman who was hospitalized on Sunday night for a possible case of bacterial meningitis has the disease.

Director of Yale Health Paul

Genecin said in a Wednesday email to the Yale community that the student tested positive for a form of meningitis known as serogroup B meningococcal disease. The student, who was sent to Yale-New Haven Hospital this past weekend, is making successful progress, Genecin added.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Hol-

Faculty criticisms of misconduct procedures released

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER After more than a year of discussions and proposals, concerns and tensions about how the University should adjudicate alleged faculty misconduct are far from resolved.

In a Feb. 12 email to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS

Dean Tamar Gendler released a collection of comments from professors regarding new faculty conduct standards and draft procedures distributed to the faculty for comment. The draft procedures, which were written by a committee of faculty and administrators formed in May 2014, have ignited a debate among professors about

Details emerge about NHPS sex assault

BY JAMES POST AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS A week after New Haven Public School math teacher Kirvanna Jones was arrested on charges of second-degree sexual assault and injury to a minor, further details have emerged about the case.

After the New Haven Police Department was informed of alleged “unprofessional conduct” between a student and teacher at the Engineering and Science University Magnet School, just 10 minutes from campus, Jones was placed on paid leave. On Feb. 10 — seven days later — Jones was taken into custody by the New Haven Special Victims Unit. She was released on bail last Thursday after the payment of $50,000.

According to an affidavit obtained by the New Haven Register, Jones texted photographs of herself in underwear to a 15-yearold student and had inter-

course with him. Sexual intercourse with a student enrolled at a school one works in is grounds for sexual assault in the second degree, according to the Connecticut Criminal Jury Instructions. City officials contacted declined to comment.

“My primary and immediate concern remains … the well-being of students,” NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 said in a press statement released at the time of Jones arrest.

ESUMS was first notified of the alleged assault when a female ESUMS student approached the school on Feb 3. stating that she had seen four photographs of Jones in just lingerie, allegedly texted to a male student at the school. Jones was immediately placed on paid leave the day the allegations surfaced.

The male teen in question initially told investigators that he had texted Jones about his homework. But SEE NHPS TEACHER PAGE 4

faculty governance and administrative transparency. The 37 comments, many of which were anonymous, revealed deep concerns about what some faculty members perceive to be a sign of administrative overreach and centralization of power. While some comments expressed support for the overall goals of the standards, many highlighted

the ambiguity of the standards’ language and the centralized role of administrators in the draft procedures, which allow deans almost unilateral decision-making authority in cases of alleged misconduct.

“This proposal represents the most staggering usurpation of power of the faculty that I have seen in over 30 years at

Yale,” political science professor Steven Smith wrote in a comment. “The opportunity for the abuse of power by the dean in conjunction with the provost strikes me as far in excess of any real or actual problem that this new procedure is designed to solve.”

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Schwarzman to prioritize grad students

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Graduate and professional school students hope the Schwarzman Center will improve their social experience.

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER The recently released advisory committee report outlining recommendations for the Schwarzman Center paints a lavish picture of bistro-style dining and weekend concerts.

But for students in the graduate and professional schools, the 2020 opening of the $150 million campus student center

will fulfill a far humbler vision: a campus hub designed to combat the social isolation many describe as endemic to graduate school life.

The nearly 100-page report, released last Thursday by the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee after months of soliciting student input, recommends a series of features designed specifically to improve life outside the class-

room for graduate and professional students, including a bar venue serving wine and beer and an upstairs room reserved exclusively for students in the University’s 13 graduate and professional schools. The center promises to deliver the kind of centralized social experience missing from existing graduate student facilities on camSEE SCHWARZMAN PAGE 4

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On working hard A

t Yale, there exists a group of people that come from very privileged backgrounds who behave and speak as though they do not come from such wealth and prestige.

In the last few years, I’ve heard several children of Ivy League graduates complain to me about “rich people,” even though they are, by most accounts, “rich people.”

Students whose parents subsidize unpaid internships and free summers in the city, students who will never worry about work-study jobs, students who only have to worry about their classes, who don’t acknowledge how lucky they are. They’re a strange, elusive kind to me. On the other hand, I have many friends who come from privileged backgrounds that very explicitly acknowledge their privilege — who are self-aware, who are successful and kind and grateful.

I have listened to more than one Yale legacy complain (at length) about the fact that their families are wealthy but not in the top 1 percent. In each circumstance, I have not known how to react. As time passed and I grew distant from these individuals, I reflected on these experiences with friends and guffawed. As the daughter of a single mom on financial aid, I don’t quite understand how such people thought of me as an appropriate audience for such complaints.

I think their behavior was insensitive and downright rude, but it also betrays their limited perspectives. I could complain about these individuals, but I have started to think that maybe I need to look at my own privilege.

My estranged father, a white man with a law degree, has contributed exactly $50 to my education and personal expenses over the last two-and-a-half years. The Office of Student Financial Services has still considered his income as they calculated my family’s total contribution, and I have therefore accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in debt. With graduation looming, this is pretty scary.

I find comfort in knowing that I’m in good company — and there are many loan repayment plans for me to consider.

Most college graduates in the United States are in a similar position. I’m not alone, even though Yale promised me a debt-free education. It isn’t fair that I have taken out loans, but I’m in a difficult family situation. While Yale could have certainly done more to accommodate my needs, there are limits to their financial policy. I have to respect the difficulty of their situation as well.

It isn’t easy balancing campus jobs on top of classes and extracurriculars, as well as feeling weighed down by debt. It isn’t fair that my mother has

to support me when she has two other kids whom she raises on her own. I have many peers ADRIANA at Yale who have never MIELE worried about finanCheck cial stabilyourself ity.

Given that 52 percent of Yale students receive some form of aid, that means that about half of Yale students come from families that fork over the full $65,000 a year. The average Yale student comes from immense socioeconomic privilege in comparison to the average American college student.

And so, institutionally, the Yale experience is structured for students who have the most.

The world is unjust, and I believe this should change.

I wholeheartedly agree with activists and protestors who wish to reform financial aid at institutions that can afford to do so. Many have called upon Harvard, Princeton and Yale to go tuition-free — these schools should consider this strongly. With some of the largest endowments in the world, elite universities should not be pinching pennies from lowincome families with single parents. Yet as unjust as this may be, I am not capable of fixing this systemic failure on my own.

That’s not my job. I can use my voice to strengthen the case for financial aid reform, but there’s only so much I can do.

My job is to take care of myself. To carry myself. Sometimes when I see Canada Goose jackets and salon-treated glossy hairdos, I get angry. I am envious. But the truth is that student loans aren’t going to ruin my life. As nice as it would be to have a family with more financial stability, that isn’t my reality. Instead, I grew up with a single mom who supported three children while earning her undergraduate and master’s degrees; I am a different kind of legacy, and I’m proud of this.

Though Yale is incrementally improving the socioeconomic and cultural climate on campus, many of us are growing impatient. It’s not enough! And we are right. Yale has made promises it had no intention of keeping. So despite its generosity, the University has, to an extent, done a disservice.

This place has power. But we have it, too. I daresay we are more powerful. There are more of us. We have the eyes of the world. We have voices. And soon, we will have degrees.

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Stripped of responsibility T

his past Friday night, hordes of undergraduates paid to watch 10 Yale men striptease on stage. Ticket sales for the event, hosted by Yale’s chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority, generated revenue for women’s heart disease research. Judging from the packed and squealing room, this event — “King of Hearts” — raised a lot of money.

Good for Alpha Phi. Heart disease is, as they pointed out, the number one killer of American women, and such research is a thoroughly worthy cause. Yet if a light-hearted (pun intended) talent show is what passes for hardcore civic service at Yale, then we have some serious work to do.

I’ll leave the obviously concerning sexual and gender normativity of this event to another writer at another time. (Was this actually a brilliant satire of Yale’s presentations of gender? If so, brava — incredible performance art.)

Instead, I want to focus on what this relatively innocuous event says about the state of community service at Yale. Our “service” comes disproportionately from our financial contributions; we are instead stingy with our time.

While financial philanthropy is useful, a system structured exclusively around monetary donations is elitist, and frankly lazy.

We need to donate our time, as much — if not more — than our money.

Yet, in many ways, Yale does not ask us to donate our time. We

do not prepare our own food, clean up after ourselves or even buy our own toilet paper (although s o m e h o w, AMELIA we still have JANE the Student NIERENBERG Income Contribution, so I’m not sure Close to how deep this home commitment goes).

Our only “chore” is to educate ourselves — or, more realistically, to be educated by Yale’s faculty. We journey through Yale wrapped in a mantle of sacred “self-discovery” — we are here to learn, and to learn hard.

Aside from excluding students whose time is not fully their own, this mythos of “College Years” as a hiatus from “real life” damages both us and our communities — both present and future.

Without any responsibilities, what sort of citizens are we? If we expect to be waited upon, to live behind swipe-access gates and to have anything we’d ever want just because we’re smart, then how can we claim to be part of an ethical and civic-minded institution?

Answer: We can’t — Yale is educating good workers, and not necessarily good people. Yale trains us to spend our time earning, but are we also being taught to give?

There is a dearth of a community-

minded ethic at Yale; it’s simply not part of our culture, at least not yet.

That “yet” is the operative word here. Let’s get our heads out of our stacks, and reorient our time-energy outward. Although helpful, Yale’s visible philanthropy should not only come from our classist fraternities and sororities. This (frivolous, elitist and altogether onanistic) culture of exclusively “hand up” philanthropy looks a lot more like our broken welfare system than community empowerment. Instead of relegating community service to purchasing a ticket for men wiggling in SSS 114, our “sacrifices” should come from our iCals; not our Venmos.

Few of us have civic-minded projects in our list of extracurriculars. We tend to view volunteering as bimodal — either a Dwight Hall passion or a sorority fundraiser — with little space for anything between. This is because of the time-money breakdown engendered by this system — either you donate your time to activism, or you donate your money to charity. Enough of us have enough disposable income to buy a Woads ticket for charity or to donate $10 for a bougie dinner — cash is not as limited a resource as our time. And therefore, it’s not as meaningful.

To foster this culture of responsibility, Yale should establish a minimum hourly semester community service commitment.

By making time-wealth dona-

tions mandatory, we will make service part of our culture and our identity. It should be a semester requirement — you can’t just “get it done” in a pricey summer project. Just as we have to know something about science and something about writing to graduate, we should also have some sense of duty to our world.

Instead of “wow”s or “good for you”s, a mandatory community service requirement would foster the understanding and expectation that privilege and responsibility go hand in hand. We’d also create a workforce of people accustomed to engaging with their community in ways that actually help. I don’t really care about skewed intentions — too many of us already volunteer for our resumes, anyway. I don’t care about the few who would choose the “Frontiers and Controversies” community service requirement — enough of us wouldn’t. We’d be helping, which would be good for our present selves and the community around us. Perhaps more importantly, it would also create the expectation that true service is more than a ticket to a charity gala.

It’s an imperfect suggestion, but it’s a start. And more than showing skin, we’ll have some skin in the game.

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

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has no significance.”

GUEST COLUMNIST EZRIEL GELBFISH

Nostalgia for the present W

hen I entered Davenport’s courtyard for the first time, the week my Yale career started, I was struck by its sweeping open lawn and its perimeter of Georgian architecture. My mind leapt to the realization that the contours of these buildings and spaces would confront me countless times over the next few years. The first time you see a new environment, the screen of your mind transitions from indeterminate white to glorious clarity. The name “Davenport” was transformed into experience when I passed under its triple arches that August day.

After only a few weeks, even days sometimes, the newness fades. As we trace the path from classroom to dorm and as October fades to November, we’re not zapped by the feeling of new environments engraving themselves on our minds. The trek up Science Hill today looks pretty much like the trek up Science Hill did last Monday. It even looks similar enough between freshman and senior year. We reach a state of flow with the world, leading us to ignore everything except the small, dynamic things — like our exams and friends — instead of the larger, static pic-

ture: the courtyard, the buildings, life in general.

Except these things aren’t actually static: they just seem that way. Time passes and shows its dynamism, unraveling the habits that fooled us into complacency. But as a secondsemester senior, I conceptualize my soon-to-be present as an indeterminate white expanse. I have a new backdrop on which to bring the contours of Davenport into focus.

For me, life becomes more wonderful when I’m granted this ability to perceive. And to be fair, this type of perception isn’t wholly subject to circumstance; we can deliberately built it ourselves through intellectual logic and emotional resonance. This perception of immediacy holds a certain danger however, because it can trigger an attendant feeling of angst. I’ve taken to calling this feeling “nostalgia for the present.” The sentiment makes us view our existence like water cupped in our hands. Try as we might, we can’t prevent the liquid from flowing through our fingers.

I’ve felt this angst all throughout college, but I feel it more strongly now. Every time I head

to Woad’s or a suite party, I’m conscious of the infinite possibility of the present, the cornucopia of people, music and color on display. Simultaneously, I hate that all my unprocessable infinity of experience becomes horribly reduced into single memories. I look back on wonderful nights at Yale and see that the glorious present has been shoehorned into blurry frames of the past.

I categorize this feeling as nostalgia because it makes our hearts pine for a certain vibe, a specific time and place. But instead of making us crave a bygone era that can never rematerialize, this type of nostalgia makes us pine for what we already possess. We anticipate that the future will create a sense of nostalgia for our current lives, and so that nostalgia slips from the future into the present. We feel the need to keep holding onto the water, yet there’s less and less and less of it.

And so two forces battle each other. The forces of habit deaden our sensitivity to the wondrous qualities of experience, both in Yale and in life. But the passage of time makes those wonders come alive at the price of existential angst. How can we navigate this

tension? I can’t answer to satisfaction, but I have some suggestions. Life beyond college (and beyond that) is not a cup of water that falls through our hands. It’s a continuous stream that replenishes with new experiences and with newness what trickles away.

Perhaps nostalgia for the present is a form of unfinished business, a failure to act. If so, we can soothe our angst by throwing ourselves into life with increased vigor.

I’ve taken to wandering around campus, trying to find new study places — the solitary desks between Sterling’s musty stacks, that room with the moldings under the Pierson cupola.

I’ll spend a few hours doing work while taking periodic breaks to absorb my thoughts into the space surrounding me. By doing this, I’m conscious of the beauty of the moment, since the visual environment is new. And slowly the feeling of nostalgia becomes something else: a consciousness of the value in the present, but without an attendant anxiety. That is the state of balance I always want to exist in.

EZRIEL GELBFISH is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at ezriel.gelbfish@yale.edu .

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“The first case I sat on … was Citizens United.

Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.”

SONIA SOTOMAYOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.

Democracy Fund, Harp look to future

Grad housing approved

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The Democracy Fund brought members of the community and the mayor together to discuss public election financing in the city.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The influence of big money in politics has taken on special importance in the 2016 presidential election, as Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 has faced criticism for accepting donations from the country’s dominant financial firms.

But the issue is not strictly national in character. In City Hall Tuesday night, activists came together to discuss how to lessen the influence of money in politics on a local level. The public forum was organized by the New Haven Democracy Fund, a city organization that provides public funds to mayoral campaigns. Mayor Toni Harp attended the meeting to answer questions from community members regarding the future of public-election financing in the city, which activists in attendance claimed is crucial to civic engagement in New Haven.

Jared Milfred ’16, the chair of the fund, said the organization’s purpose is to ensure that all citizens are connected to city politics and engaged in civic life.

“Cities today are more important than ever,” he said.

“People today are looking to their city governments to prove services like never before — but

at the same time, people are very disengaged with city politics.”

Formed in 2007, the Democracy Fund is the only organization of its type in the state.

Using a combination of block grants and matching funds, it gives public money to mayoral candidates if they agree to limit individual contributions to $370 and to accept no donations from political committees or businesses. Campaigns must receive donations from at least 200 city residents to be eligible for funding.

Though it currently covers only mayoral races, some activists have suggested expanding the fund to cover other races.

Milfred said one goal of the fund going forward is to provide funding for elections to the Board of Education and City Clerk.

Various organizations have made expanding the Democracy Fund’s remit a priority of their activism in the coming year. Aaron Goode ’04, who works with the New Haven Votes Coalition, said the fund is a crucial part of civic engagement.

“Democracy is not a spectator sport,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be a blood sport, either, but it’s not a spectator sport.”

Goode added that, at a recent conference he attended in New Hampshire, participants were “amazed” that New Haven has a municipal-level publicfinancing organization in addition to the state’s analogous fund.

Ugonna Eze ’16, who ran as a Republican for Ward 1 alder in November, said he would like to see the fund expanded to cover aldermanic races, a proposal that has been repeatedly discussed by the fund in past meetings. Eze said much of his campaign was spent fundraising — but that time could have been better spent talking to voters.

“The way we thought about this issue when we were running was that it’s not a Democrat or Republican issue,” he said. “What this fund is trying to push, I think, is ‘What kind of democracy do we want to see in New Haven as an end-goal?’

How do we lower the barrier for making it easier for people to get involved in city politics?”

Though Harp has been skeptical of the Democracy Fund in the past — in a 2013 mayoral debate, Harp said the Fund allows “sore losers” to run indefinitely — she praised its role in New Haven politics.

“I think it’s important that it exists, and it has certainly made

our elections more vibrant over the years,” she said. “While I served in the State Senate, I was an advocate for the legislation that eventually led to the Citizen’s Election Program.”

The Citizens’ Election Program — the state’s analogue to the Democracy Fund — was another point of discussion at the meeting. A favorite of progressives in the state, the program’s future was put in jeopardy in late 2015 when the state Democrats proposed its suspension for the 2016 elections.

After uproar within the party’s base, especially among young lawmakers, the party reneged on the proposal.

Cheri Quickmire, executive director of the advocacy group Common Cause in Connecticut, said the Citizens’ Election Program is a centerpiece of electoral reform in the state and can serve as a model for other states.

“One of the ways we [promote democracy], and continue to do that, is the CEP,” she said.

“We go around the country and talk about our model, and people are just stunned that we have the level of participation we do.”

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

Although the City Plan Commission approved a Yale site plan for new graduate student housing on Elm Street Wednesday evening, the University’s proposal to build a parking lot two blocks away did not fare as well.

At the commission’s monthly meeting, University property developers presented the commission with two site plans. The plan for the graduate student housing project, which the University announced in September 2014, was approved unanimously.

The proposed mixed-use development will span 272–310 Elm St., which is currently an empty parking lot adjacent to Davenport College, bordered by Tyco Printing on one side and outdoors retailer Trailblazer on the other.

The University’s momentum stalled, however, when it submitted a proposal for a parking lot to the commission. The proposal was rejected and criticized during the tail end of the three-anda-half hour meeting.

“It’s not an incredibly imaginative plan,” City Plan Commission Chair Ed Mattison said of the blueprints to construct a 62-space parking garage across the street from Popeye’s fried chicken restaurant.

Commissioner Leslie Radcliffe expressed dismay at the University’s lack of research into the proposed home of its new development.

Radcliffe asked the officials present — including attorney Joseph Hammer and University architect Stephen Brown — what community the parking lot, which is bordered by Goffe Street and Dixwell Avenue, was in. She was met with silence.

Following questioning from Radcliffe — and after the neighborhood the lot would be built in was determined — the officials acknowledged they did not know if the University had met with the Dixwell Community Management Team. Assistant Director for New Haven and State Affairs Lauren Zucker, who usually conducts community outreach, was not present at the meeting.

Radcliffe said a key benefit of speaking with the community management team would be to find out how the lot would benefit the neighborhood it is sited in.

Officials exited the meeting room briefly to inquire if the Uni-

versity had indeed already met with management team.

When they returned to the meeting room, Hammer acknowledged that he had not been able to reach Zucker, but had instead contacted Community Affairs Associate Karen King.

Officials said that Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison had been previously consulted about the proposed lot, but Dixwell’s community management team had not.

Ultimately, the plan was tabled for the commission’s meeting next month.

The University’s parking lot plan involves demolishing a building near the southern portion of the lot, while leaving an existing building at the northern end to remain. The lot will house spaces for cars and two spaces designated for buses. The lot is intended for public use, officials said, adding that visitors to Yale could pay for hourly parking while Broadway district employees could purchase monthly permits.

Earlier in the meeting, the commission greenlighted the University’s Elm Street project, but not before asking questions about how construction might affect the Broadway district.

The development of the space, described by officials as University-owned and underused, aims to fill in “a missing tooth in the Elm Street streetscape,” Hammer said.

The University has been working closely with the city’s Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking, due to the complex nature of the site’s location, said Joseph Devine, a professional engineer for the development. Marchand said that since the area around the proposed graduate student apartments is already developed, the construction could disrupt local traffic and activity.

All four lanes of traffic on Elm Street will remain open during the construction, which will begin this summer, Devine said, adding that the University aims to move graduate students into the top four floors of the building in the fall of 2018. The building’s lower two levels will be devoted to retail and restaurant space.

The commission’s next meeting is March 16.

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

Students seek to diversify DS reading

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER The Directed Studies Program at Yale is already notorious for its hefty reading requirement, but this semester a group of freshmen are adding to that reading list in an attempt to recognize perspectives not currently offered by the syllabus.

DS is a full-year academic program intended to give freshmen an overview of the Western tradition. Students enrolled in the program read a host of texts on literature, philosophy and historical and political thought. This spring, a group of DS students led

by Dante De Blasio ’19 decided they wanted a new, more critical perspective on those texts. The reading group, which consists of roughly 10 students, meets once every Monday afternoon in the Whitney Humanities Center to discuss a selected text that is not on the DS syllabus. While this is not the first time a student reading group has formed outside of the official DS program, this is the first year DS will be able to provide financial support for the external group, according to DS Director of Undergraduate Studies Kathryn Slanski. In addition, although the group is studentled, it also includes German Professor Paul North, who helps to facilitate discussion and selection of texts.

“During the first semester of DS, I saw a real insufficiency in the balance of DS, where we read a lot of works that are classics of Western philosophy, but we didn’t really understand criticisms of them,” De Blasio said.

“The reading group isn’t an

attempt to destroy DS or anything, but is more of an attempt to have a balance and expand the perspectives that include more criticisms and traditions of Western philosophy.”

Slanski said the proposal for the group came after a “town meeting” in December in which students and professor discussed DS in the context of campuswide discussions last fall about diversity and inclusivity. DS has been criticized in the past for having a syllabus that focuses almost exclusively on white male authors. During the meeting, Slanski said, DS faculty made it clear that if students wanted to branch out into other areas of the tradition, the program would be very supportive.

The best thing about the group is that it springs from student interests and the crisis they’re living in.

PAUL NORTH Professor of German She added that after the meeting, De Blasio said he wished to read more works by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and other works of critical theory that he thought were lacking from the DS philosophy syllabus. Austin Strayhorn ’19, a member of the group, said the cohort just finished reading “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” and is now on “Twilight of the Idols,” both works by Friedrich Nietzsche.

But while the group has introduced more critical perspectives on core texts on the DS syllabus, so far it has not addressed concerns about including authors who are women or people of color.

Isis Davis-Marks ’19, a member of the group and a staff columnist for the News, said she thinks it is important to include texts by authors of those demographics, both in the group and in the official DS syllabus, as the absence of their voice misconstrues historical presentation. Davis-Marks, who is no longer enrolled in DS, said she had “obvious problems” with the DS program’s structure and focus on the Western canon, and she is hopeful that the reading group will remedy some of those concerns.

De Blasio said the group is seeking to add more diverse authors to its discussions, citing the works of Jamaican philosopher Charles Mills as an example of a possible addition to the reading list.

Slanski acknowledged that there are many important writers and thinkers who are not included on the DS syllabus, whose work may or may not complement what is studied in the program.

“DS is an introduction to the Western tradition and makes no claims at comprehensiveness,” she said. “What we aim to do is introduce students to a selection of writers and thinkers who have been very influential on the Western tradition and help students develop their own ability to read and discuss those texts critically.”

Clio Byrne-Gudding ’19, another member of the group, said the group’s reading list has

helped her gain new perspectives on the topics discussed in DS. Similarly, North highlighted the opportunity the group gives students to discuss modes of thought not represented in DS that may be relevant to their own situations or experiences.

For the first time this year, DS is receiving funding for “Living Texts” programming, which is dedicated to proposals from students and faculty for extracurric-

ular programming that relates to the texts studied in the program.

As a result, DS will be able to provide funding to the reading group.

While a specific amount has not been allocated as the group has yet to formally submit a proposal, Slanski said the initial funds will be allocated towards refreshments and may later on possibly include larger activities like speaker events.

“The best thing about the

group is that it springs from student interests and the crisis they’re living in,” North said.

“They’re looking for texts that speak to them and those texts seem to be by theorists of political and social crises.”

The Directed Studies Program was founded in 1946 and is a part of The Humanities Program.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.” MICHAEL JORDAN FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER

Faculty critiques of draft procedures released FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 But although concerns persist about the conduct standards and procedures, the fact that the faculty members were given an opportunity to comment and that their feedback was released to the FAS signals growing communication between faculty and administrators. It is also a marker of the FAS Senate’s increased voice in discussions about faculty governance.

Last January, when the conduct standards were still in draft form, faculty members were given a chance to comment but the comments were not made public. The finalized standards appeared largely identical to the draft except for a few wording changes, and faculty members criticized administrators for failing to sufficiently address their concerns. Now, comments on the draft procedures — which are intended to outline how violations of the new standards will be addressed — are being publicized at the recommendation of the FAS Senate.

“The fact that the comments were made public was because of the recommendation,” history professor and Chair of the FAS Senate Beverly Gage ’94 said. “The comments have been a really productive process so far. [They] are less than ideal and show that there are some pretty deep concerns that really cross divisions and departments in the faculty.”

Gendler’s office began soliciting faculty comments for the conduct procedures in October 2015 through a website, and the first round of comments ended in late January. The comments were then sent out to the FAS, who will have the opportunity to participate in a second round of com-

ments after reviewing initial faculty input.

The faculty comments mainly addressed three issues: the content of the conduct standards, the draft procedures for adjudicating violations and the way in which the drafting and discussion process has been handled by the administration. While many of these criticisms have been raised during Senate meetings and in previous online comments, this is the first time that faculty comments have been presented largely unedited and released to the entire FAS body, Gage said. The comments were edited only to remove references to specific situations or individuals, Gendler said.

While the comments were meant to address just the content of the draft procedures, the input that was submitted suggests that the procedures are intrinsically linked to the standards — which remain contentious although they were finalized in the faculty handbook last fall — and that the standards must be rewritten or at least clarified.

“I believe that it would be a mistake … to continue the process of designing procedures for the implementation of these flawed standards,” political science professor and Senate member Ian Shapiro ’83 LAW ’87 wrote. “Instead, a committee with strong faculty representation should be appointed to review the proposed standards in light of the difficulties that have been raised.”

Speaking to the News, Gendler suggested that she would be open to working with faculty members to clarify the standards.

“The concerns expressed by FAS faculty and other faculty around the University make it clear that the standards are not

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Montague’s election as captain came after a 2014–15 season in which the team earned its first share of the Ivy title since the 2001–02 season.

In his junior season, he started all 32 games and led the Ivy League with a 43.5 three-point shooting percentage. His 67 made three-pointers led all Yale players, and he was awarded the inaugural Bill Madden Toughness Award.

I’m taking a personal leave and I’m trying to get back as soon as possible.

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articulated as precisely as they could be,” Gendler said. “As dean of the FAS, I look forward to working with the FAS Senate, just as my fellow deans will do with members of their own faculties, to clarify the standards and articulate a set of appropriate procedures that we as a community endorse.”

Multiple faculty members raised concerns about the vagueness of the conduct standards in regards to the severity of different violations of conduct.

Gage wrote in the comments that the current faculty conduct standards offer a wide range of definitions of potential misconduct, ranging from serious abuse and neglect of students, bribery, plagiarism and discrimination to far less serious behaviors such as failing to hold office hours or to submit letters of recommenda-

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20 games, he also led all starters with an 83.9 percent free-throw success rate.

In Montague’s absence last weekend, guard Anthony Dallier ’17 started in Yale’s victories against Dartmouth and Harvard. Dallier scored 20 points on 7–12 shooting from the field and 2–4 shooting from the three-point line in his second and third career starts.

While he filled in nicely for Montague, Dallier’s starting role removes a player from Yale’s already thin bench. Besides Dallier, the only other guard who has played over six minutes per game has been Khaliq Ghani ’16, who is dealing with a broken nose that has limited his time on the court.

The team travels to New Jersey on Friday to take on second-place Princeton. The two teams are separated by one game in the conference standings.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

tion by an agreed-upon deadline. She recommended that the current conduct standards be revised to “emphasize egregious, ongoing and serious misconduct.”

An anonymous commenter wrote that “it is imperative to add ‘egregious’ or ‘repeating pattern of egregious bad behavior’ somewhere in the standards” in order to distinguish between misconduct of different levels of severity.

Several faculty members also noted that the vague wording of the standards — which are printed directly after the University Policy of Free Speech in the Faculty Handbook — could endanger faculty’s freedom of speech on campus.

“The vaguely worded standards and the lack of due process in their enforcement are strong

motivators for self-censorship and avoidance of expressing controversial opinions,” one anonymous commenter wrote.

Several commenters criticized the draft procedures for centralizing power to the deans and for its lack of due process.

In their current form, the procedures allow the dean of the faculty member who is accused of misconduct to initiate reviews of alleged misconduct at his or her own discretion and to choose the makeup of the panel that will hear the case. The dean also may accept, modify or reject the conclusions of the panel and any of its recommendations.

“Control of the review process is placed entirely in the hands of two individuals: the dean … and the provost,” one anonymous professor commented. “Whether or not the dean and provost will

use their power wisely, this procedure appears, from the outside, undemocratic and open to manipulation. Therefore, it may be more likely to open the door litigation in court.”

History, African American studies and American studies professor Glenda Gilmore, who has been outspoken about her concern with the standards and procedures, said the procedures violate professors’ constitutional rights to due process and consolidate power with various deans without ensuring that the deans are trained in evidentiary standards and trial procedures.

The FAS Senate will discuss the faculty feedback at its monthly meeting Thursday evening.

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

NHPS teacher sent illicit pictures NHPS TEACHER FROM PAGE 1 after his guardian arrived to the interview with investigators, the teenager divulged that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with Jones at her house on Dec. 2.

The student told investigators that Jones had given him special treatment in her class, awarding him high marks on homework even if it was not completed and letting him do “whatever he wanted in class.” However, the student told investigators that approximately two weeks after the alleged assault, Jones became “mad” at him and stopped showing him favoritism, the affidavit states. Diane Polan ’73 LAW ’80, the lawyer representing Jones, did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday night.

Harries said the charges against Jones are serious, and if true, could break the “fundamental trust and professional responsibility carried by every educator.”

During a home search led by NHPD Detective Shayna Kendall Feb. 8, police found undergarments in Jones’ Chapel Street home that were identical to the ones seen in the photo messages.

No evidence has been uncovered linking other students or teachers to

the Jones case, a Feb. 10 city release reports.

Christine Montgomery, vice president of clinical and community based services at Clifford Beers Guidance Clinic, a New Haven guidance clinic for children, said she knows of no previous New Haven incidents like the Jones case, but said she knows of similar occurrences in other public schools throughout the state.

Montgomery said cases of sexual assault in schools are especially troublesome for parents since many are not aware of the full situation but still have to respond to questions from their children.

She said that because of this, communication between schools and parents is essential.

“When something occurs involving someone in the school … something such as this awful incident, it’s really important for the district to really communicate some of the facts as they know them,” Montgomery said. “[It’s important] to communicate with the students who were in her class so they have the bare minimum facts that they know without things left to rumor.”

Montgomery said it will be important for the school — which will be on winter break until Monday, Feb. 22 —

to have a counselor on campus when classes resume.

According to a Feb. 10 press release, the district has deployed resources to support the ESUMS community and continues to monitor the school closely.

Montgomery added that effects of even a single incident of sexual assault in a school setting are not isolated.

Negative repercussions can reverberate across the school and wider community that last long after the crime occurs.

“We place trust and the responsibility of kids’ safety in the hands of our teachers,” Montgomery said. “This type of an incident, I think it really erodes the trust, not just of this particular teacher, but it erodes the trust for students’ parents … in the school system and even beyond that.”

Jones, a New Haven native who herself studied in the New Haven Public School system, has taught at several Hartford public schools, and spent the last two years teaching students pursuing their GEDs. Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.”

HARRY S. TRUMAN 33RD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Yale grows lab space

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The interior of a mustard-colored three-story office building on George Street will transform into a suite of New Haven’s newest biotech laboratories, answering calls from city developers to grow the Elm City’s biotech hub.

University Properties acquired a 350 George St. plot in midNovember for roughly $16 million from Carter Winstanley — the developer of several biotech properties on George Street and Science Hill, said Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, city economic development administrator. UP had originally planned to lease approximately 100,000 square feet of Alexion’s 100 College St. headquarters — developed by Winstanley and constructed over the last three years — to the School of Medicine for its use, Nemerson said. But as the property neared completion, Alexion requested the entire building and Yale opted to purchase 350 George St. instead, Nemerson added.

As Alexion gears up for its official opening Feb. 29, City Hall officials interviewed expressed optimism about the prospect of yet more biotech in the Elm City.

“The whole George Street spine around the medical school is becoming a tech and biotech neighborhood,” Nemerson said. “It’s all part of something that might be in Cambridge or another city that is establishing technology and biotech as a part of its core industry.”

Yale’s plans for the property, which housed Frontier Communications before Winstanley purchased the building last October, will add to the city’s growing reputation as a biotech hub, City Director of Communications Laurence Grotheer said.

350 George St. joins the ninestory tower at 300 George St., which was converted into lab space by Winstanley in 2007 as a resource for Yale School of Medicine researchers looking for space to conduct experiments. Just last month, Alexion moved into its new 14-story glass-faced headquarters across the street from UP’s latest purchase.

We hope to see many, many buildings and hundreds of square feet of biotech space in the future.

MATTHEW NEMERSON SOM ’81 City Economic Development Administrator Nemerson added that Yale’s expansion further into the city will increase the likelihood that the 350 George St. building will be in use for the long term, noting that Yale often spends more money per square foot on its buildings and uses them for longer spans of time than other owners. He said the expansion will also grow the city coffers, as Yale — which typically spends more money on construction —

must pay building permits that increase with the price of construction. Although Yale properties are partially tax-exempt, Nemerson said many private developers also pay partial taxes for seven years, as per city regulations.

“What Yale is doing we have been thinking and planning for years,” Nemerson said. “We hope to see many, many buildings and hundreds of square feet of biotech space in the future.”

The recent acquisition will also contribute to the city’s vision for vibrant new business and commerce to link Union Station with the Downtown area. Nemerson added that he hopes Randy Salvatore — a property developer seeking to build in this area — and Winstanley will lead the effort in growing the region’s biotech cluster.

As for the labs at 350 George St., Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart said the details of the School of Medicine’s use of the space have not yet been determined.

Curtis Perry MED ’18 said that though the School of Medicine has not yet announced the acquisition of new lab space on George Street, sufficient lab space that is not on West Campus is a scarce commodity.

Winstanley still owns a fourstory parking lot near Alexion’s new building that will service the biotech firm’s employees, Nemerson said.

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

Startup hopes to catch on at Yale

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Career Catcher will launch at Yale this Friday, Feb. 19.

BY ANAMIKA VEERAMANI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the average Yale student, the spring semester marks the height of the job search. This process includes interviews for professional schools, internships and postgraduation positions. Interviews with 10 Yale students indicates that, in addition to using Yale Office of Career Strategy’s practice interview service, several students prepare for interviews with each other. But according to a few Yale startup founders, this informal practice interviewing is not the most efficient or useful method of preparation.

Rohan Misra ’16 and Reeva Misra GRD ’17, a sibling startup team, are proposing a service that matches interviewers with interviewees to more easily facilitate effective practice interviewing.

They describe the interview as “one of the most important parts of the career hunt” and have proposed a solution to the current ineffective practice styles: Career Catcher. Their service, housed at careercatcher.net and set to launch Friday, is an interactive website that allows students to connect with advisors in their specific fields of interest.

Sachi Singh FES ’17, a betatester for the site, described the interface as “really clean, intuitive and user-friendly.” Singh has tested the site from the “interviewer” end, and believes that the service will not replace traditional college interview practices like the services provided by OCS, but instead could “supplement and complement existing

University services.”

Offering an undergraduate user perspective, Xindi Chen ’19 expressed hesitation toward using the service.

“It might be useful as you get older — but as of right now, for a freshman, I feel like it’s just a little bit far off for me to use,” Chen said.

Amrutha Dorai ’18 said she was skeptical about who would actually use the website, adding that “professionals with real jobs are probably not going to have the time to give away free advice and interviews.”

An identifier [of a startup’s tenacity and success] is … more about the founders’ attitude.

PUNEET SINGH YEI Venture Creation Advisor When asked if she would use this service as a paying customer, Dorai remarked, “I’m probably not going to pay for that.”

The platform is not officially live worldwide, as the team plans on launching the service to one university at a time. This is, in fact, one of Career Catcher’s hallmarks — it only connects users within a single university’s ecosystem, Reeva Misra said.

As of now, only those with a Yale email address can access the service. Rohan Misra said it is more likely that two people with shared interests and with a school in

common will be receptive to giving and receiving career-specific help. The program has a two-way flow: “interviewees” can make use of the “interviewers’’’ advice, and “interviewers” can use the marketplace to continue the culture of giving back, which Reeva said certainly exists at Yale.

Unlike established interview prep services available, such as Pramp or Big Interview, Career Catcher operates on an open marketplace model, Reeva Misra said. To the founders, this means removing all possible constraints.

The site does not police the type of contact between interviewer and interviewee — the founders actively encourage users to utilize the site for “off-label” uses like mentoring and networking, they said. The service is not limited to any one industry or profession. They offer connections in everything from entertainment to health care. There is also no fixed pricing, and interviewers and advisers can charge whatever they would like. Reeva Misra said that based off of the beta-testing stage, over 65 percent of interviewers have given their time and expertise for free.

Puneet Singh, a YEI venture creation advisor noted that the startup’s idea showed potential, but he added that a startup’s success does not always hinge on an idea’s merit.

“An identifier [of a startup’s tenacity and success] is less about the idea and more about the founders’ attitude towards the idea,” he said.

Contact ANAMIKA VEERAMANI at anamika.veeramani@yale.edu .

Breyer talks comparative law

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Stephen Breyer spoke at the Yale Law School on Wednesday.

BY OLEKSA ALEX MARTINIOUK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Before a nearly full auditorium at the Yale Law School on Wednesday, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Stephen Breyer asked for a moment of silence for his late colleague, Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly on Saturday.

Breyer’s talk was rife with anecdotes about his own education and career, as well as Amazon promotions for his first book, “Regulation and Its Reform,” which the Justice likened to David Hume’s “History of England” in its dryness. It was, for the most part, a conversation about his most recent book, “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities,” which explores the interdependence between the American judicial system and international law, and stresses the importance of taking into consideration how other nations handle judicial questions in an increasingly globalized world. The number of Supreme Court cases that require a global understanding is increasing, he said. But he stressed that taking international law into account should not be seen as a threat to American law.

“I persuade them so beautifully, but they don’t want to be persuaded,” Breyer said of his critics, adding that they maintain that any international influence on the Supreme Court and the judi-

cial system as a whole threatens to distort the application of the American Constitution and “[waters] down our values.” Yet, in a world where laws are increasingly crossing national boundaries and judicial limitations are not as clear-cut as a state’s border, Breyer argued that the interdependence and comparative law will “go on anyway — we just won’t be there.”

I persuade them so beautifully, but they don’t want to be persuaded.

STEPHEN BREYER Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Breyer challenged attendees to adopt different mindsets on issues currently facing the Supreme Court, many of which can be informed by decisions already made in foreign courts. He emphasized that he wants to make sure the U.S. participates in the inevitable globalization of legal and judicial thought.

Breyer was joined by Ahoran Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel, who spoke mainly about Breyer’s most recent book. Barak said the points made in the book were already clear to him because his career has often forced him to consider the implica-

tions of other nations’ laws in Israel. A judge in Israel, he said, would not even consider writing such a book because its thesis is already such a part of Israeli legal culture.

“You are an optimist,” Barak said to Breyer. “If I am a short-distance runner, you are a long-distance runner — or maybe, a Don Quixote.”

Barak added that comparative law is discounted in the American judicial system because students do not learn about it in law school because their professors did not learn it. Moreover, the Supreme Court does not often cite comparative law. He said Breyer wants to establish a system in which international and foreign law is not seen as a threat to the United States’ judicial system.

Attendees interviewed appreciated Breyer’s fresh perspective on the Supreme Court and America’s judicial system.

David Stevens ’19 said it is important for the U.S. to remember that it is not an island, adding that it is important for the country to learn from legal precedents established in foreign courts.

Robert Post, dean of Yale Law School, said he was “honored” to have Breyer “class up this joint,” despite the Justice’s ties to Harvard Law School.

Breyer was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994.

Contact OLEKSA ALEX MARTINIOUK at oleksa.martiniouk@yale.edu .

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“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every 40 years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both.” GORE VIDAL AMERICAN WRITER

Grad students respond to Schwarzman report SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 pus, such as Blue Dog Cafe and GPSCY. “Making the Schwarzman Center a destination for all students will improve the environment for graduate and professional students,” Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews told the News. “Programming and space that invite interaction among students will make everyone feel part of the Yale community and less isolated.”

The report, which has been sent for approval to University President Peter Salovey, includes a number of features designed specifically to appeal to graduate and professional students. It calls for the center to stay open year-round to serve the large cohort of graduate students who remain in New Haven over the summer. It envisions high-profile guest speaker events modeled on the master’s teas currently held in the residential colleges, areas not typically frequented by graduate students.

And it recommends that administrators turn the second-floor President’s Room — a high-ceilinged, circular room typically used to entertain guests of the University — into a designated hangout space for graduate and professional school students.

According to GPSS President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18, an exofficio member of the advisory committee, the President’s Room would serve as the focal point of graduate student social life at the Schwarzman Center, as well as a sanctuary for students who wish to avoid the undergraduates they teach in lab groups and discussion sections.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley led the 27-member task force that compiled the report, which was com-

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missioned last spring after The Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69 donated $150 million, the second-largest gift in University history, toward turning Commons into a student hub on campus. The Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate had spent years lobbying the University for a campus student center in advance of the donation.

Mo said she hopes the center will serve as an oasis from graduate students’ high-pressure academic work, which often consumes their social lives.

“It will bring people who are seeking more social interaction out to meet people,” Mo said, adding that she expects the enhanced dining options at the new center to attract students from across the University.

The report also suggests creating a bistro-style dining area with a flexible menu and a latenight pub. The pub envisioned in the report could provide a larger and more centrally located alternative to Gryphon’s Pub at GPSCY, a popular weekend hangout spot for graduate and professional students.

Many of the recommendations highlighted in the report appear calculated to push back against the widespread belief that the University lacks oncampus facilities that cater to the needs of graduate students.

In addition to the new social spaces, the report calls for rooms for late-night studying on weekdays, a provision likely designed to address complaints about the relatively early closing times of Yale’s Cross Campus libraries.

The opening of the center could also make strides in the ongoing battle against mental illness at the graduate and professional schools, students interviewed said.

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Students in the graduate and professional schoolssaid the Schwarzman Center could solve problems of social isolation.

GRD ’18, another ex-officio member of the advisory committee, said that by reducing social isolation on campus, the center promises to chip away at one of the major sources of stress and anxiety among graduate students.

“I see it as a place that can help in terms of having a lot of different resources available and a lot of different activities,” Salm said. “The Schwarzman Center has the potential … to reduce some of that social isolation.”

But she emphasized that social isolation remains only one aspect of the large and complicated problem of mental health resources for graduate students, and that the GSA will continue to collaborate with the University on improving treatment options

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Paul Genecin, the director of Yale Health, said he doubts the Schwarzman Center will help students overcome clinical disorders.

“The University should support culture change, and provide resources and facilities to help students achieve balance in the personal, professional and social spheres,” Genecin said.

“But much of the work of culture change must be done by the students. This isn’t something that money can buy.”

Graduate students interviewed generally expressed enthusiasm about the social mixing promised by the new center.

Tiange Zhou MUS ’16 said

her friends often lament the difficulty of meeting peers from other graduate and professional schools and would benefit from a centrally located social space on campus. Zhou added that GPSCY is “too small and old” to facilitate the kind of social interaction promised by the Schwarzman Center.

Lydia Consilvio MUS ’17 said she enjoys the social events held for graduate and professional students at the Hall of Graduate Studies on the first Friday of every month, and that she hopes the center will provide more opportunities for interaction among students in different schools.

But not all students interviewed expressed excitement about the prospect of a central-

ized meeting place on campus.

“I go from here to the library and home again,” Sebastian Rider-Sezerra GRD ’18 said over dinner at the Hall of Graduate Studies. “I don’t really go anywhere.”

Rider-Sezerra, a member of the GSA who specializes in library-related issues, added that he has always gotten the impression that humanities students prefer to socialize within their individual departments.

Salovey announced earlier this week that he will help judge a Schwarzman Center brainstorming contest at Commons on Saturday.

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

Meningitis case confirmed MENINGITIS FROM PAGE 1 have had close contact with the student.

“Most cases of serogroup B meningococcal disease occur sporadically, and a single case does not meet the CDC definition of an outbreak,” Genecin said. “I am pleased with the response from the Yale community. To date, no additional cases have developed on campus.”

While every Yale student is required to receive a meningitis vaccine before matriculating, the infected student contracted a form of the disease that the vaccine does not protect against, Genecin said. But he added that a new version of the vaccine which covers serogroup B will be available to anyone in the Yale community between the ages of 18 and 25 who wishes to be vaccinated.

Last February, when a student had meningitis, Yale Health made vaccinations available to the entire University community. The updated age restrictions are due to FDA regulations, Genecin told the News.

For students with Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Coverage, the vaccine comes free of charge. However, students on other plans will be charged $306 for the vaccine, Genecin said.

Within Silliman, students were not largely concerned about the potential risks meningitis presents on campus. Silliman sophomore William Strench ’18 said he was not worried because the disease could only spread through close contact, so a campus outbreak seemed unlikely.

“I have not seriously thought about getting vaccinated in response to this,” Strench said.

“Maybe I’m being irrational, but it hasn’t worried me that much.”

Silliman student Ariel Murphy ’18 said that although she is not particularly concerned about contracting meningitis, she will get the vaccine anyway to soothe her mother’s worries.

“The vaccine has no real downside and the benefit is the immunity it confers for the disease which if it strikes can be devastating,” Genecin told the News. “One way or another I think it is advisable to have it. We don’t know when there is only one [person infected] whether or

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A Silliman college freshman has been hospitalized with meningitis. not there will be an outbreak.”

In an email to the Silliman community on Monday, Silliman Master Nicholas Christakis advised students on how to prevent a potential infection.

He cited frequent and thorough hand-washing, not sharing anything that comes into contact with the mouth or saliva and coughing and sneezing into tissues or a sleeve as methods of preventing infection.

He added in the email that meningococcal bacteria cannot be spread by shaking hands,

breathing the air where a person with meningitis has been or touching doorknobs, clothing or sports equipment.

Yale Health offers a meningitis telephone hotline staffed by health professionals for those seeking more information about the case or about meningitis safety. The hotline number is 866-924-9253.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

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“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

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Group strives to bring happiness to campus

BY CAMERON HILL STAFF REPORTER The Happiness Challenge, an eight-week series of activities promoting mindfulness and healthy behavior, began at Yale on Monday.

Developed by Leslie Rith-Najarian, who graduated from Harvard in 2012, the challenge was originally run at Harvard but first came to Yale two years ago. The challenge will be eight weeks long, with each week dedicated to a particular task, said Wendy Sun ’18, an organizer of the Happiness Challenge. According to the Yale Happiness Challenge website, challenges include “DeStress,” “Physical Exercise” and “Life Troubleshooting.” With each emailed challenge will come tips to incorporate the practice into daily life, Sun said. According to Sun, over 600 Yale students have signed up for the challenge, and sign-ups will remain open throughout its eight-week course.

“The challenge is a campusbased initiative to foster hab-

its that have been scientifically proven to promote happiness,” said Sun, who is also co-president of healthyU, an undergraduate group dedicated to promoting health and wellness on campus.

Part of each activity involves having participants fill out a form regarding their success with each challenge at the end of the week.

As an incentive, Sun said, participants who have filled out the form will be entered into raffles for prizes, like this week’s $50 gift card to Claire’s.

Alyssa Chen ’18, a co-coordinator of the challenge, said the coordinators aimed for the project to reach as many people as possible and, to that end, have organized community engagement events for Yale’s campus.

Although the details have yet to be set, Chen said events would include a meditation tutorial event, a beginners’ calligraphy class and an end-of-challenge food study break.

Ivy Ren ’18, co-president of healthyU, noted that promotion of the challenge has so far

been successful, and the organizers’ expectations for involvement have been exceeded.

Rith-Najarian, currently a graduate student at UCLA, said her first inspiration to create a challenge-style health and wellness project came during her undergraduate days when one of her friends decided to try veganism for a month, but did not want to do it alone, and asked if anyone else wanted to try it.

“That’s the thing about being in these intense college environments, is that you do something because you want it to be a challenge,” she said. She noted, however, a distinction between the competitive academic atmospheres of colleges like Harvard and Yale, and the idea behind this challenge: stimulating oneself to live more healthfully.

Rith-Najarian said she often noticed college students prioritizing work over sleep, but college is a time when young adults are independent and are forming habits they will retain throughout their lives, so instead of seeing

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stress as a metric for success, students should focus on living well and doing things that make them happy.

Sun noted that a recent post on Overheard at Yale from Feb. 11 affirmed the lack prioritization Yale students place on their wellbeing. “I’m thriving in all areas of my life except for my mental and physical health,” read the post, which received 603 Facebook likes.

“I think that was a red flag, that so many people found that intriguing or so many people identified with that,” Sun said. “I think without physical and mental health, what’s really the point of having all this success?”

According to Rith-Najarian, the Happiness Challenge has a waitlist of over 30 schools who want to bring the project to their campus, and six schools, including Yale, were chosen by application this year to implement the challenge.

Contact CAMERON HILL at cameron.hill@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF THE CALHOUN HAPPINESS PROJECT

Ivy Ren ’18 and Wendy Sun ’18 at the Happiness Challenge launch event.

Fadiman hosts 10th annual reading

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER A Martin guitar, wine in Paris and a tattoo in Hebrew were brought to life through prose Wednesday evening during nationally acclaimed essayist Anne Fadiman’s 10th annual evening of readings featuring her Yale students.

Each semester, Fadiman — who is Yale’s Francis Writer in Residence — teaches an undergraduate class on nonfiction and creative writing.

During the early months of the spring semester, Fadiman selects three students’ essays to showcase at a public presentation. Wednesday’s reading event, hosted in the Ives Program Room of the New Haven Free Public Library, was themed around “work and play,” and the students invited to speak were chosen from “At Home in America,” Fadiman’s fall semester class.

Fadiman’s pride in her students’ work and in the broad turnout at the event, which drew approximately 85 students and New Haven residents, was palpable in her words.

“I look forward to this every year,” Fadiman said. “It’s like Christmas for me.”

The tradition, which began in 2006, came about after the NHFPL asked Fadiman to read her work aloud at the library.

NHFPL Reference Librarian Seth Godfrey said the Wilson branch manager approached

Fadiman because he enjoyed book discussions and promoting authors. Fadiman agreed to speak at the library on the condition that her students could read as well.

Ten years on, Fadiman said she has thought deeply about what this year’s anniversary means to her. She said she read a Wikipedia article that noted the traditional gift for 10-year anniversaries is tin or aluminum, but people nowadays give diamonds instead.

“My feelings about this library are definitely on the diamond end, not the tin end,” Fadiman said.

Fadiman said the three pieces she selected this year were chosen because of the “breadth of emotion” they conveyed. The tones expressed in the essays ranged from humor to tragedy, both across the students’ work and within the individual pieces. She said the adaptability of the pieces to being shortened and read aloud was also considered, but that since all 12 of her fall students are so talented, she could have chosen any.

The selections were made over winter break and the students got together to practice after returning to campus, Fadiman said.

Brett Davidson ’16 started Wednesday evening’s event with his profile of a piano tuner. The roughly 15-minute piece detailed his experience watching and listening to a professional piano tuner.

“Death in humans is difficult to determine,” Davidson said, reading aloud from his essay.

“Determination of piano death is even hazier.”

He was followed by Emma Goldberg ’16, who wrote an object piece entitled “I Think It Was The Music.” Her story focused on her father’s Martin guitar and chronicled his life, her parents’ relationship and their eventual separation.

Goldberg, a former opinion editor for the News, said it was difficult to write a piece that was so emotional and personal but she said the experience was fulfilling and one that helped her work through her own emotions.

The last student speaker was Adam Mahler ’17, a former copy editor for the News. He tied his love of words into a tale about his first tattoo and the artist who gave it to him.

In his public introduction of his story, Mahler said Fadiman left the students in her class with some “serious wind in their literary sails.”

Fadiman finished the evening off with her own story about her father, and his love of wine that she does not share.

She added that the annual event encourages her to continue writing in order to ensure she always has new material to present.

The NHFPL has a $3.617 million budget.

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

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Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert ’83 spoke Wednesday about the dangers of climate change.

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert ’83 spoke to a room of 20 students and faculty on Wednesday about the “manmade extinction” of the Earth’s biodiversity.

Kolbert, who is the author of the Pulitzer-winning book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” spoke at a tea in the Saybrook master’s house about the man-made extinction the planet faces. At the talk, Kolbert addressed the pressing issue of climate change and other environmental concerns.

“There is one thing I can guarantee you, [climate change issues] are not going away in the course of your lifetime,” Kolbert said. “They will be the defining issues of the next century.”

Kolbert said climate change issues are relevant to all people in all careers. While she does not have a scientific background herself, she highlighted her background as a journalist for The New York Times and her subsequent interest in environmental reporting, which led to her involvement in reporting on climate change issues in the early 2000s. She described her journeys to Greenland, the Great Barrier Reef and Alaska to witness the extinction of various flora

and fauna as “something you’re not supposed to see.”

Students from diverse academic backgrounds attended the talk and posed questions about the politics surrounding climate change and the roles of national and state legislatures in enforcing preventative measures.

Kolbert answered that while some countries in northern Europe — including Denmark, Sweden and Germany — have progressive environmental policies, no country has gotten it completely right. State and local policies hold more promise for political mechanisms to reduce climate change, she said.

She also criticized the partisan divide on the issue of climate change.

[Climate change issues] are not going away in the course of your lifetime.

ELIZABETH KOLBERT ’83 Pulitzer Prize-winning Author “It’s frightening that there can be a political view on basic scientific facts,” she said.

She added that of the many election seasons that have been “depressing spectacles” on the topic of climate change, the cur-

rent one especially makes an impression.

Douglas Plume ’16, a former copy editor for the News, said Kolbert’s comments were galvanizing, especially as he is an Alaskan native with firsthand experience with climate change.

Other students said they found the talk inspiring as it showed journalism to be a powerful avenue for dealing with the demanding issues of the current generation.

“Although I’m not the most scientific, I found it interesting to hear her perspective on issues that we forget about that are pressing and will shape our future,” Sarah Siegel ’19 said.

“She certainly brings a unique perspective as a journalist operating in the real world and in the science world.”

Kolbert ended the talk by emphasizing the difficulty of paying attention to other environmental issues in addition to climate change, but noting the importance of both.

“People complain that climate change has sucked all of the air out of those issues, but on the other hand, you have to look at both,” she said.

In a review, President Barack Obama called “The Sixth Extinction” “a wonderful book.”

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

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“It’s a family. Lacrosse is not like any other sport, it’s more of a way of life.”

ADAM GARDNER FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF NEXT LEVEL LACROSSE

Lax season set to begin W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 named first team All-ACC in her senior season.

“We are so excited to start our first season with our new coaches,” attacker Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16 said. “Preseason has been awesome — we are really focusing on fundamentals and improving every aspect of our game. We are looking forward to big things this season.”

Murray and Serpe do not fall short of LaGrow’s accomplishments. At Syracuse, Murray appeared three times in the NCAA Tournament, and twice in the NCAA championship game, as a three-time first-team All-

American attack who graduated eighth on the NCAA alltime career scoring list with 362 points. Serpe, who earned first team IWLCA All-American honors twice, helped her UNC team win an NCAA title in 2013. Both Murray and Serpe are currently on the U.S. Women’s National Team.

“I am thrilled to see what we can do this year because we have a new staff of very talented, experienced coaches who I think will make a huge impact on our game,” Comizio said.

According to Walker, the new coaches have an incredible lacrosse IQ, and because of that, they are able to give the Bull-

dogs a whole new insight into the sport.

Though 2016 will mark the coaches’ first chance at a successful season, for Walker and the seven other seniors, this year will be the last — something Walker has not forgotten heading into her final season.

“There isn’t a single moment that I’m not looking forward to,” Walker said. “I’m soaking up every minute.”

Yale hits the road for its season opener against Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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

Great expectations at Ivies W. SWIMMING FROM PAGE 10 Yale, but the Quakers have nonetheless remained competitive with multiple top times in individual events despite not placing well as a team.

Penn’s freestyle swimmers, specifically, may pose a threat to the Elis. Penn junior Rochelle Dong holds the season-best time across the Ivy League in the 50-yard event, just 0.08 seconds faster than Yale’s Bella Hindley ’19, who has the second-best time in the conference in that swim and the top Ivy time in the 100-yard free. Penn sophomore Virginia Burns is also second on the conference podium in the 200-yard free, whose first- and third-best times have come from Hindley and Yale swimmer Kina Zhou ’17. Earning points over Penn in the freestyle events will be key for the Bulldogs to maintain their claim as top team in the Ivy League.

“I think we’re just going to do what we normally do, and not let the other competitors freak us out,” Hindley said. “Racing Penn

in January was fun, we knew we were up against some fast freestylers so we knew it was going to be tough, but we just tried to block that out and swim our own races.”

The distance swims are also shaping up for an exciting weekend of competition. Yale’s duo of Eva Fabian ’16 and Cailley Silbert ’18 have dominated in the 500-, 1,000- and 1,650-yard events in every meet this season except when they were out-touched by a Penn State swimmer in January. The two are closely followed in their season-best times in the 500-yard swim by Penn’s Burns and Madison Visco.

“We are looking to carry the focus and excitement from HYP to Ivies this weekend,” Fabian said. “Our hard work and incredible team attitude have been our biggest strengths this season, and we will focus on representing Yale with pride at Ivies.”

Other than Harvard, Princeton and Penn, the other four Ivy League teams hold losing records and are not expected to pose any problems for the Elis.

From New Haven to Rio

The four teams hold six topfive times across all individual swims: Brown holds four, Cornell and Columbia each hold one and Dartmouth has failed to produce a single projected point-earning time.

Diving should provide for an exciting showing, with Yale’s Lilybet MacRae ’17 going into the Ivy League championship undefeated in conference competition. MacRae came in second place in both the three- and onemeter events at Ivies last year to Princeton’s Caitlin Chambers, but Chambers has dived just once this season and missed all Ivy dual meets due to injury.

“Since the meet is going to be close, there is a lot of pressure to do well individually,” MacRae said. “But I know if we just do our best and swim and dive like we have all season we will have no problem doing well.”

The gun fires for the first event of the 2016 Ivy League Championships at 11 a.m. on Thursday.

Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF WILL RICKETSON

Barrows competed at the 2012 London Games — the same year that Morris graduated from Yale.

SAILING FROM PAGE 10 ter than Judge Ryan and Hans Henken. The teams met again in Clearwater; though Henken and Ryan placed 21st, two places above Barrows and Morris, they could not make up the gap created in Miami. Meanwhile, Funk and Burd placed 50th.

Three overall points ahead of Henken and Ryan, Barrows and Morris captured the Olympic berth thanks to their consistent performances in the two events.

Barrows and Morris met while competing for the Yale coed sailing team, and teamed up for an Olympic campaign in 2012 after Morris’ graduation. Both served as captain of the co-ed team during their respective Yale careers, and both were named ICSA All-Americans all four years of their time in New Haven. Additionally, Barrows was named College Sailor of the Year and received Yale’s prestigious William Neely Mallory award, given to one male athlete each year — he was the first and remains the only sailor to have received the award. He also competed in the 2008 Olympics, sailing single-handed Lasers to a 21st place finish

on behalf of the U.S. Virgin Islands. “[Barrows and Morris] have been battle-tested together.

They have been in high-pressure situations together before.

They have a lot of trust and a lot of faith in each other,” said Yale sailing head coach Zachary Leonard, who coached both sailors while they were at Yale. “They had less financial backing than everyone that they were competing against [for the Olympics] and they got going later, and so it’s a study in their patience and their perseverance and their belief that if they just kind of held it together and kept doing the right thing, they would be rewarded.”

Five or six months ago, Leonard said, the pair’s prospects may have looked unlikely, especially after Morris dislocated his shoulder, putting the team out of commission for a month and a half. However, the team has made major leaps in the five months since, and will continue to see improvement given the proper funding and coaching they will now have access to due to the Olympic program, according to Leonard.

Morris and Barrows will continue competing together, traveling to Europe in March and April for further events.

They will also spend three 10-day blocks in Rio, practicing on the tide cycles that will be present during the Olympics, giving them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the specific conditions of the Brazilian venue, Barrows said. Leonard added that a plan for preparation put together by the U.S. Olympic program will take into account the need for rest and periodization so the team can maximize its competitive potential.

“It’s been a whirlwind since we qualified, as basically everything in our lives for the past three and a half years has been focused on winning these two events; now that we have that done, there is a lot to catch up on,” Morris said. “The main thing on our mind going into the Olympics [is that] we won’t be anyone’s medal favorite. The fact that the event is in Rio, [which is] a very difficult place to sail, it really plays to [our] strengths. We’re looking forward to going out there and trying to surprise some people.”

The sailing portion of the Olympic Games will commence on Aug. 8.

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

WOMEN’S LACROSSE PREVIEW last season’s Ivy standing

PRINCETON 2015: 16–4 7–0 Ivy Hosts Yale

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Princeton enters the 2016 season after a programbest performance last year, running the table in conference play en route to an outright Ivy League championship and its first victory in the Ivy Tournament since 2011. In addition to returning three All-Americans from last year’s squad, including Ivy Tournament Most Valuable Player and unanimous first team All-Ivy midfielder Olivia Hompe, the Tigers boast the 10th strongest freshmen class in the NCAA, according to Inside Lacrosse.

Owning the No. 13 spot in the Inside Lacrosse preseason rankings, Princeton will surely be the team to beat in 2016 as it chases its third-straight Ivy title.

HARVARD 2015: 8–8 4–3 Ivy At Yale

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Ranked one spot behind Princeton in the Inside Lacrosse preseason rankings at No. 12, Penn returns to the field this season eager to reclaim its position at the top of the Ancient Eight. The Quakers entered last season having earned a share of eight consecutive Ivy conference titles, but ceded their only two conference losses in 2015 to the Tigers, finishing the season second in conference and runner-up in the Ivy Tournament.

Replacing three first team All-Ivy selections in 2016, including reigning attacker of the year Tory Bensen and defender of the year Meg Markham, will pose a challenge for the Quakers in their quest to rebound.

DARTMOUTH 2015: 3–11 3–4 Ivy Hosts Yale

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Despite a 6–2 showing in nonconference play in 2015, Brown struggled to put together any success in its Ivy League season, with its only league win coming by just one goal against fellow cellar-dweller Columbia.

The Bears graduated their only two All-Ivy selections, second-teamer Alyssa Dibona and honorable mention recipient Jane Gion, as well as former goalie Kellie Roddy, whose 348 career saves rank sixth in program history. Brown will look to rely on contributions from six freshmen in its quest for improvement this season.

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Harvard never won or lost more than two consecutive games last year as the team paced its way to an Ivy League Tournament berth, before falling to Princeton 15–8 in the opening round. Attack Marisa Romeo, midfielder Audrey Todd and defender Emma Ford comprised the program’s first trio of All-Ivy first team selections since 1998, and with last season’s lone senior, Hannah Mullen, only appearing in four games, Crimson underclassmen led the team in almost every statistical category. Led by three captains and welcoming eight freshmen to the team in 2016, Harvard will utilize its experience to chase the program’s first conference title since 1993.

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Though starting its 2015 campaign with a ninegame losing streak and finishing winless in all seven nonconference matches, Dartmouth finished its season by winning three of its final four Ivy League games, including overtime victories against Cornell and Columbia. Despite midfielder Jaclyn Leto earning unanimous first-team All-Ivy recognition for the second consecutive year and finishing fourth in the conference in goals scored, the Big Green still finished its 3–11 season with a league-worst minus-46 goal differential. Dartmouth’s Ivy-most 10 incoming freshmen will join the team in hopes of returning to the upper half of the Ancient Eight.

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The Lions finished last season in a familiar place at the bottom of the Ivy standings, as their lone conference win of 2015, a 5–3 home victory against Yale, was just the third conference victory in the last 10 seasons for the Lions. Along with eight freshmen, the team will also welcome new assistant coach Kelly McPartland, who graduated from University of Maryland last spring after leading the Terrapins to back-to-back national championships. Columbia has much to learn from McPartland this season as it fights to escape the bottom spot in the Ivy League.

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2015 was a season of two halves for Cornell. After starting 8–2 and winning its first three conference games by a combined 22 goals, the Big Red lost four of its final five regular season games, including a 10–9 defeat at the hands of Penn in its season finale. Though Cornell earned a rematch against the Quakers the following week in the Ivy Tournament, it again lost by just one goal in a hard-fought first-round battle. To find consistency this year, the Big Red will turn to 2015 first team All-Ivy attacker Amie Dickson to lead its offense, which led the league in scoring last season.

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A year after enduring its seventh consecutive losing conference season, Yale will look to turn things around in the program’s 40th season under first-year head coach Erica LaGrow. The Bulldogs managed just 42 goals in their 2–5 Ivy campaign last year, with half of those goals attributed to four seniors not rejoining the team in 2016. Yale will look to redefine its offensive identity this season while relying on the team’s veteran-heavy defense, which ranked 18th among all NCAA teams last year with just 8.67 goals allowed per game last year.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 9:30 AM Bringing Its Treasures to Light: Three Centuries of Yale Library Cataloging and Classification. Judith Schiff, chief research archivist in Manuscripts & Archives, and Stephen Young, catalog librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, discuss the history of classification practices at Yale from the 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. Young will be on hand to answer questions about current classification and cataloging practices. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room.

4:00 PM “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” book discussion. A panel discussion about abolition among some of the field’s most accomplished scholars generated by the publication of Manisha Sinha’s “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.” The panelists include Columbia University professor Eric Foner, Harvard University professor John Stauffer and Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco. The panel is moderated by Yale professor David Blight. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Rm. 211.

4:00 PM Angles on Art: Wordplay. Led by Evelyn David ’17, this tour “examines the role of language in art through time and space.

With each piece we will discuss what the featured text is trying to communicate, how it communicates and why it is an essential part of each piece.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 8:00 PM A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yale Opera presents a new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Magic, mischief and melodies intertwine in this beautiful setting of Shakespeare’s comedy. Shubert Theater (247 College St.).

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YALE MEN’S LACROSSE SEASON COMMENCES SATURDAY The No. 9 Bulldogs, looking to defend their Ivy League Tournament championship, will open their season on Saturday versus UMass-Lowell on the road.

Extended coverage and a season preview for the team will appear in tomorrow’s News.

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YALE GYMNASTICS ROAD MEET CLOSE TO HOME The Bulldogs, fresh off a season-best meet at home this past weekend, will return to competition on Saturday at intown foe Southern Connecticut State University. Brown will also participate at the meet, with just two weeks remaining until the Ivy Classic.

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“We need to focus on stepping up to this new, and exciting challenge, a chance to make history.”

EMMA SMITH ’16 WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2016 · yaledailynews.com

Yale looks to LaGrow in 2016

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER Thirty-one players, six returning starters, six incoming freshmen and three new coaches — including head coach Erica LaGrow — are set to embark on the Yale women’s lacrosse program’s 40th season.

In addition to the seven fellow Ancient Eight members on the schedule, the Bulldogs will also face eight non-league adversaries. This year, a third of those 15 opponents are teams currently ranked in the top 20, according to the most-recent IWLCA coaches poll. Throughout the 2016 campaign the Elis will encounter No. 8 Stony Brook, No. 9 Boston College, No. 12 Princeton, No. 14 Penn and No. 20 Albany. However, the competition against the ranked teams does not begin until the beginning of March.

“This is the last season I’ll have the opportunity to wear the Yale jersey, stand beside my teammates and compete against some of the top teams in the country,” captain and defender Kate Walker ’16 said. “We have every intention of winning more games than we have in the three previous seasons and we plan to make it to the Ivy League tournament. I’m looking forward to celebrating those moments with my team.”

The eight Ivy teams will compete to be one of the top four squads to move on to the Ivy League Tournament on May 8, an event first established in 2010, to battle for an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Yale has never appeared in the tournament. The last time that

the Bulldogs finished in the top four in the league was in 2008 under head coach Laura Field who led the Elis to a 4–3 conference record.

Yale, which won conference championships in 1980 and 2003, is coming off a 7–8 season that included a 2–5 mark against league competition.

“I think the team has come a long way through the offseason,” attacker Keeneh Comizio ’18 said. “[We have been] improving and working hard for the season, and I am excited to see the results of all our hard work in the upcoming games.”

To be successful this season and ultimately earn a spot in the final Ivy tournament, however, Yale needs to compensate for some notable losses from the 2015 class, including a pair of secondteam All-Ivy selections.

Four of the Bulldogs’ top five goal-scorers and top five assisters have since graduated. Additionally, goaltender and All-Ivy honorable mention selection Erin Mullins ’15 left her defensive circle after a career-best 45.2 save percentage, which was fifth best in the Ivy League.

Nevertheless, the Elis still have capable offensive weapons in attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, midfielder Maggie Pizzo ’18 and attacker Hope Hanley ’17, who totaled 23, 14 and 13 points respectively, who were all among the top seven Yale contributors.

Attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 will look to return to form after an injury-plagued junior season, as she earned All-Ivy First Team honors as a freshman and sophomore. On the other side of the

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Captain and defender Kate Walker ’16, who has started in 42 out of a possible 45 games in her career, leads a Yale squad that finished 7–8 last season. field, defender Victoria Moore ’17 is the lone returning 2015 allconference selection, after earning a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team.

“As much as we will miss our graduates, we have a team full of talented players ready to take the

Top-ranked Elis seek Ivy title

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s swimming and diving team, undefeated in the Ivy League, looks to cap off the 2015–16 regular season with its seventhever Ivy League Championship win.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING After coming up short in the conference’s annual title meet in every season since 1997, the Bulldogs are favored to win the trophy for the first time since that championship season.

Yale most recently earned an important victory at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet two

weeks ago and plans to carry that momentum forward at the Ivy championships, which take place from Thursday to Saturday in Princeton, New Jersey.

“We were very pleased with our performance at the HYP meet, but we can’t take anything for granted,” captain Emma Smith ’16 said. “We will be using this season’s past successes — at dual meets, at the Nike Invite and at HYP — to fuel our performances this weekend, but we need to focus on stepping up to this new, and exciting, challenge, a chance to make history.”

Yale currently leads the Ivy League, followed by Princeton — whose only loss was

field,” Walker said.

Beyond the players on the turf, Yale will also rely upon a new coaching staff. In the summer of 2015, three new coaches were hired after the departure of former head coach Anne Phillips.

LaGrow and two new assis-

tants, Alyssa Murray and Sloane Serpe, are all members of the millennial generation, with LaGrow the most senior at 30-yearsold. LaGrow enters her first official stint as a head coach for a collegiate team. From 2007 to 2012 LaGrow was a midfielder

for the U.S. Women’s National Team, where she won gold in the Women’s World Cup. She also made four national quarterfinal appearances playing for the University of North Carolina and was SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 8

Yale alumni sail into Olympics

to the Elis — and Harvard, which fell to both at this year’s HYP meet. The Tigers and the Crimson will present the biggest challenges for Yale to overcome, but the Bulldogs are expected to defeat even those top foes after their performances this season: Yale’s individual swimmers hold a total of 18 top-three times in the conference across 14 events, while Harvard and Princeton combine for just 17.

Still, one potential dark horse may threaten Yale’s ability to put up points when facing all seven Ivy schools.

Penn lost to the triad, including a 195–105 defeat against SEE W. SWIMMING PAGE 8 COURTESY OF WILL RICKETSON

Thomas Barrows ’10 and Joseph Morris ’12 will continue their illustrious sailing careers at the 2016 Olympics.

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Yale alumni Thomas Barrows ’10 and Joseph Morris ’12 have qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics, outcompeting the other U.S. teams over two qualifying events, culminating in last weekend’s 49er World Championships.

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The Bulldogs are favored to win their first Ivy League title since 1997 at this weekend’s meet.

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The 49er World Championships were held in Clearwater, Florida, from Feb. 9 to Feb. 14, during which 68 boats competed in the men’s fleet, fighting to not only take home the championship,

but also achieve a sufficient score to qualify for the Olympics. While a New Zealand duo took home the Gold medal, Barrows and Morris outraced the 12 other U.S. boats and will join the U.S. Sailing Team in Rio de Janeiro in August.

“It was an extremely challenging event for a number of reasons,” Morris said. “The first being that it was the last world championship before the Olympics, so it was the most competitive regatta of the last four years. Everyone was trying to do as well as they possibly could, but make sure they beat the other sailors from their own country.”

Olympic qualifications demand

strong results in two events: the ISAF World Cup and last weekend’s World Championships.

Scores from both events are added together, and whichever team has the best cumulative result will go on to represent its country. Each participating country can send only one boat in the 49er event at the Olympics.

The ISAF World Cup took place in Miami over six days at the end of January, during which Barrows and Morris sailed to a 13th place result, five points better than the U.S. team comprised of Brad Funk and Trevor Burd, and eight betSEE SAILING PAGE 8

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TOP-THREE TIMES THAT MEMBERS OF THE YALE WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM HOLD IN THE IVY LEAGUE ACROSS 14 INDIVIDUAL EVENTS. Harvard and Princeton, the two strongest challengers to Yale’s run for an Ivy title this weekend, combine for 17.