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Benchwarmers. After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, Bloomberg columnist Justin Fox wrote a piece about lack of diversity on the bench. Fox’s piece, titled “Save Us From the Ivy League Oligarchy,” made reference to Scalia’s Obergefell v. Hodges dissent in which the late justice criticized the fact that all the justices on the court studied at either Harvard or Yale Law School.

the cast of “Fifty Shades Darker” — the sequel to the hit film adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey” — and one of them is an alumna. Robinne Lee ’91 will join Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as an executive at Christian Grey’s company. Lee has previously starred in “Hitch” and “Seven Pounds.”

L’Eggo my logo. The Yale

College Council’s Spring Fling Committee launched its logo contest yesterday. Students can submit designs for the official Spring Fling logo until March 2. The three finalists will win VIP passes that allow backstage access and other perks. The winner’s logo will appear on YCC apparel.

Regal eagles. A pair of bald eagles was spotted in New Haven’s West River Memorial Park yesterday. Later, the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection reported that the birds are settling in the Elm City. The eagles appear to be building a nest, the department said.

Something wicked this way comes. Yale’s Something Extra

will present their semiannual jam, titled “Disney’s Jamtagonists” at Sudler Hall at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The members of the all-female a capella group will dress as various Disney villains, including Cruella de Vil and Maleficent.

A Cappello. Loner Chic, an indie rock band led by Chris Cappello ’17, will celebrate the release of their record “Year of the Goth,” with a live performance at Toad’s Place at 6:30 p.m. this evening.

Pinegrove, Milkshakes and Bilge Rat will also play.

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1960 Yale receives 4,700 applications for admission to the class of 1964 — a 12 percent increase from the previous year. Administrators attribute the rise in applications to the Baby Boomer generation.

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There’s no business like show business. Secretary

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of State John Kerry ’66 met several Hollywood executives earlier this week to discuss “perspectives and ideas of how to counter Daesh narrative,” according to a tweet Kerry sent out. Among the attendees were the CEOs and chairmen of DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox and the Motion Picture Association of America.

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he No. 9 Yale men’s lacrosse team opens its season on Saturday with national championship aspirations. But before any potential NCAA Tournament appearance, the Bulldogs will first have to venture through an impressive Ivy League, which boasts four schools ranked among the top 20 in the nation. PAGE 9

According to a new report from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate, faculty members continue to express concern that when the two new residential colleges open in fall 2017, there will not be enough professors to teach the increased number of undergraduates.

The report, which was discussed at a senate meeting Thursday, includes survey responses from more than 300 faculty members and addresses long-standing concerns that the size of the FAS ladder faculty will not grow to meet the 15 percent increase of Yale College students that will come by 2020. Many professors also expressed concern about the insufficiency of other teaching necessities, such as lecture space and qualified teaching fellows, and questioned the University’s current plans not to significantly expand these resources.

Set to be voted on at the senate’s next meeting on March 10, the report calls for greater communication between faculty and administrators.

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STUDENT LIFE

Students reflect on reinstatement reforms

BY PADDY GAVIN AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS One year ago, the death of Luchang Wang ’17 sent shockwaves through campus. As the community gathered to mourn her, many focused attention on a note Wang wrote before her apparent suicide, in which she described her fears about taking time away from Yale and not being allowed to return.

Students pointed to her note as evidence of the inadequacy of mental health care at Yale as well as flaws in existing University policies regarding withdrawal and reinstatement.

In the wake of Wang’s death and subsequent student activism, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, on the recommendation of a review committee of faculty, administrators and one undergraduate, announced in

Grant to refurbish brownfields

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER A f te r re c e iv i n g a $200,000 state grant last week, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will move forward with plans to transform contaminated lots in the city into new stores and affordable housing.

Gov. Dannel Malloy announced the grant last week as part of an $8.7 million funding effort to rehabilitate 17 statewide brownfield sites, land contaminated by previous industrial use. St. Luke’s Development Corporation, the church’s nonprofit development arm, received the grant to assess the toxicity and cost of cleanup of four of the properties on its block — 10–12 Dickerman St., 117–125 and 129 Whalley Ave. and 34–36 Sperry St. — project consultant Cathy Petrachone said. After the assessment, which requires roughly three months, SLDC will begin construction of a 28-unit affordable housing complex on Dickerman

Street and another complex with a commercial ground floor beneath 38 units of affordable housing for the adjacent Whalley Avenue and Sperry Street lots.

The state Department of Economic and Community Development, which distributes brownfield funding four times annually, chose SLDC’s project based on factors including SLDC’s readiness to proceed and the project’s potential return on investment, DECD Director of Communications Jim Watson said. The DECD distributed an additional 11 grants for project assessment and five for cleanup and redevelopment across Connecticut.

SLDC will submit applications for grants to the state for the bulk of its construction costs in June, Petrachone said. If funds are secured in the fall, construction will begin near the end of this year, with homes up for lease by the SEE BROWNFIELDS PAGE 4

April a host of reforms designed to make the withdrawal and reinstatement processes more flexible and transparent. While some of the changes were put into effect immediately, Holloway wrote in his collegewide announcement that others would take time. He committed to enacting all of them for students applying for reinstatement in spring 2016. As such, students who applied to be rein-

stated this semester would be the first to experience the full effects of the changes.

Interviews with students recently reinstated show that most of the changes have indeed been put in place, although some have yet to materialize.

In addition, newly and formerly reinstated students emphasized that while the reforms are a good start to support students who need time away from Yale

— especially those leaving for mental health reasons — more remains to be done.

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The reforms announced last spring range from adjustments in terminology to extensions in timelines. The process formerly known as “readmission” was renamed “reinstateSEE REINSTATEMENT PAGE 4

Project Longevity on track

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The grants approved by the alders’ committee will allow the NHPD to update its crime-analysis software.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s Project Longevity program has received national attention in recent years, including a mention by President Barack Obama in a speech last year on criminal justice. Now, the anti-gang violence program is on track to enhance its capabilities after a favorable vote from the Board of Alders’ Public Safety Commit-

tee Thursday night.

Meeting in City Hall, the alders preliminarily approved the acceptance of two state grants that will allow the New Haven Police Department to update its crime-analysis software system and provide $11,000 for the department’s crime analyst to work overtime. The department’s current analytic software is incompatible with systems used by the FBI and the state police, hin-

dering the exchange of information between departments.

Using the two grants, totaling $35,000, the NHPD will be able to create “hot spot maps” of areas with gang violence and better evaluate its anti-crime efforts, Assistant Chief Achilles Generoso told the committee.

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problems that today’s graduate parents face. In response, Cooley told the News on Wednesday that I must have “misunderstood something [she] said.” (“GPSS details child care struggles,” Feb. 17) I didn’t misunderstand. I know from experience that Yale has not committed to providing the affordable child care graduate students need.

Yale has made real changes to support graduate parents in the past, but only when graduate parents have demanded them.

The News story on Wednesday noted, for example, that Yale offers free health insurance to the children of graduate employees. This is a critical resource for graduate families. Just over a decade ago, the children of graduate students were not covered under Yale’s health plan. In 2003, after the Graduate Employees and Students Organization released a report detailing the conditions faced by graduate families, Yale announced it would offer free health care to dependent children. I’m grateful that previous generations of graduate employees organized around this issue — otherwise my family would not be able to afford health care right now. We must keep pushing for change, and we need the administration to recognize our union and negotiate a contract with us to ensure that we have the support we need in the future.

Cooley told the News that “providing greater child care support is extremely important so that we can attract and retain the best students, especially women, in graduate school.” I am glad to hear this and I agree entirely. Child care is essential to gender equity: Too often, women in particular are still forced to choose between a family and a career.

It’s no wonder that there are fewer women at the highest levels of academia. To be a progressive employer, Yale should do more than pay lip service to diversity; it should provide the resources and support that will make diversity a reality.

Employees of an institution with a $25 billion endowment should be able to afford to have children and take care of them.

Yale’s employees — including graduate employees — cannot keep the University running every day if we are not able to care for our families.

I intend to hold Cooley to her word.

ANNA JURKEVICS is a graduate student in the Political Science Department who will graduate in 2016. Contact her at anna.jurkevics@yale.edu .

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ast spring, Stephen Schwarzman ’69 gave $150 million to Yale. In return, Yale commemorated him by renovating Commons, Memorial Hall and Woolsey Hall into a “state-of-theart campus center,” and by naming the complex the “Schwarzman Center.” This strange exchange is emblematic of Yale’s weakness — of which we’re all aware and a shade ashamed — for glitz, prestige and money.

“No thinking person wants to be reduced to a caricature,” Schwarzman said in a 2008 New Yorker profile. But symbolism is unavoidable when your appetite for eponymous buildings is as pronounced as Schwarzman’s.

His name is emblazoned on the Abington High School football stadium, the New York Public Library and would have been emblazoned on Commons much earlier if his $17 million bid in the 1990s hadn’t fallen through.

After Salovey’s announcement in May, the “Schwarzman Center” rebranding was so swift that Yale reunion staffers had to reprint a small forest’s worth of event pamphlets to reflect the name change.

By contrast, Charles Johnson ’54 pledged $250 million to Yale’s new residential colleges in 2013 and since then hasn’t put his name on so much as a buttery.

In this era of namesake controversy, what about Schwarzman —other than his estimated $10 billion fortune — does Yale find appealing? Surely not his belief, as of October 2015, that Donald Trump’s “political incorrectness” makes him “good for democracy.”

Surely not his 2011 suggestion to raise taxes on the working poor because “skin in the game” might make them work harder. Surely not the view that a 2010 bipartisan effort to close a private equity tax loophole — from which Schwarzman personally profits — was “like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.” Surely it is not his prominence at the Koch brothers’ donor summits, where he’s donated undisclosed millions to political organizations that have cannibalized the GOP establishment and paralyzed the Obama administration. As a public figure Schwarzman is at once complicit and complacent in American polarization.

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“There was something essentially democratic about ‘Commons’ — a shared space not only between current Yalies but across the generations,” said one Yale College alum who wished to remain anonymous. “The University has allowed Mr. Schwarzman to simply buy the place, putting his name on something that is supposed to belong to all of us.”

The subordination of Commons and Memorial Hall under Schwarzman’s name reflects Yale’s toofrequent willingness to forsake common cause and sacrifice for money. Schwarzman’s name evokes the lesser angels of our nature.

Proponents argue that Schwarzman’s center-to-be is necessary for Yale’s future. It is not.

“The handling of the Schwarzman donation was a big failure,” said another Yale College grad — under the condition of anonymity — who has worked in several roles within University administrative departments. “It’s not as though Yale lacks world-class performance spaces and programming, and as much as I support President Salovey’s ‘One Yale’ philosophy, it shouldn’t cost this much to create a University-wide space,” he said.

“I can think of so many other, better uses of that capital.” The short

list of worthier causes includes the computer science and engineering programs, financial aid for middle class students, resources for faculty of color, a physical space for the LGBTQ Co-op and expanded mental health counseling. Activities described in the recent Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee report — from its “workshops on basic electronics,” to its LGBTQ Co-op “luncheon forum,” to its “weeklong Africa Festival” — reads like a medley of half-hearted conciliations.

I have never seen my friends incoherent with rage because Yale did not provide them a “state-ofthe-art campus center.” I have never seen anyone weep for want of “cultural programming.” If Yale wanted to put the money to better use, but Schwarzman insisted on a new student center, then it’s shocking that an institution older than the American republic and wealthier than many nationstates capitulated to a private equity CEO. Even when we concede that Commons could use a renovation — let’s say $40 million, to be generous — splurging more than $100 million on a “state-ofthe-art campus center” still has the primping illogic of the doctor who performs breast augmentation surgery to treat a bacterial

infection. Yale can’t tell the difference between what it needs and what it really, really wants.

Schwarzman’s donation is a calculated purchase of influence. The New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer writes in her new book “Dark Money” that conservative billionaires have spent millions ingratiating themselves with higher education. Yale is no exception.

The Olin Foundation, endowed by industrial tycoon John Olin, gave $7 million to Yale Law School to establish a “Law, Economics and Public Policy” program, which subtly espouses free-market noregulation policies favored by the one-percent. Schwarzman’s Center, with its ambitious “cultural programming,” should be above similar suspicion.

Yale has made itself beholden to a man who inspires less than light and truth. It’s a reality of University fundraising, but if we must be beholden, let the names on our buildings remain testaments to our ideals. Let the money that makes us beholden help our University become not a glitzier, but a better place.

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a senior in Saybrook College and a former staff columnist. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

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A harmful rush process O

ne of the reasons I chose Yale was its seemingly inclusive social life. Even fraternities, which at other schools are known for their exclusivity, are described as incredibly inclusive. It is undeniable that most fraternity parties are open to all, regardless of Greek status.

I figured that, since social life is so inclusive, rush season would be the same way.

I was wrong.

I saw tears from and anger in my friends who rushed sororities. Genuine, charismatic girls were not invited back after just the first round. Understandably, they were upset when friends and suitemates advanced further and received bids while they were left behind. Of course sororities are wonderful institutions when they encourage women to support women. But this rush season, I saw many Yale women find that not to be the case.

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Affordable child care now he cheapest child care available on Yale’s campus costs more than two-thirds of my pay as a graduate teacher.

I’m a graduate employee in the Political Science Department and a parent of two — a two-year-old and a two-weekold. Balancing my academic work and my family commitments is a challenge, but I love both and the challenge is worth it to me. It has been made more difficult than it needs to be, however, by the Yale administration’s decision not to cover the costs of child care. And I’ve experienced the effects of that decision every day in the two years since my daughter Alice was born.

Like my peers who don’t have children, I teach classes, grade student work, conduct research and publish papers.

But the playing field isn’t even.

As graduate parents, my husband and I face many challenges. But the most significant one for my family has been the lack of affordable child care near our workplace.

Instead of running its own day care at a rate its employees can afford, Yale has established affiliations with private day cares, which cost anywhere between $1,300 and $1,950 per month for full-time care. Even the cheapest option would cost over two-thirds of my monthly graduate stipend. It is simply not an option for my family.

Because we can’t afford the Yale-affiliated day cares, my daughter goes to Sunshine Preschool in Hamden. It costs $1,160 each month — still a major expense, but significantly less than Yale’s cheapest day care. But Sunshine is far from campus, where we both work. And we couldn’t afford both day care and a car without going into debt. So for the past two years, we’ve taken turns taking Alice to and from Hamden on our bikes and by bus.

As a result, we weren’t able to be on campus as often and were cut off from the social and intellectual life of our department.

I’ve tried to raise my concerns with the Yale administration but have had little success. Last semester, I attended a “Dine with the Dean” event, intended as a forum in which graduate parents could share their experiences and concerns with Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School. But graduate parents were just a handful of attendees, and we had just a few minutes to make our points. In what little conversation we did have, I was concerned that Cooley did not seem to be familiar with the

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Some heard later that they were not invited back for subsequent rush events because they had been “blacklisted” from certain sororities. Usually, a woman is blacklisted for hooking up with the “wrong” person. If a potential new member hooked up with someone a sister likes, has hooked up with or dated, she no longer has a chance at a bid, according to some women I spoke with.

Other times, women are blacklisted because they are deemed “too wild” from a quick scan of a Facebook page.

Take the story of one freshman woman I spoke to. She was originally excited to rush. At the beginning of the year, older sisters told her that there was a list of freshman males that she could not be involved with romantically. They were being “saved” for older sisters. Apparently, sisters are now allowed to dictate sexual morality. And in their warped

The case for tuition In her Thursday column (“On Working Hard,” Feb. 18) Adriana Miele ’16 fails to draw sufficient attention to the most important implications of her position. Her situation is tragic, and it points to a fundamental flaw in the way Yale distributes financial aid; a flaw that in her case has enormous consequences. But her situation does not justify making tuition free.

The Financial Aid Office’s failure to take into account the estrangement of her father is no reason to abolish tuition. This policy would

conception of sexual morality, it is not only permissible to shame women for their level of sexual activity but also to objectify men.

For these sisters, men and women should not have the freedom to decide whom they want to be romantically involved with.

Certain sororities, then, are promoting unhealthy norms that prioritize group loyalty over individual agency. If sororities only accept women who conform to such norms, groupthink will ensue, and sororities will become isolated, homogeneous clusters of self-reinforcing dogma that refuse to change.

Because blacklisting is not an official, on-the-books practice, it is hard to know what sort of offense one would have to commit in order to be disqualified from further consideration. Still, the concept is disturbing all by itself. Moreover, the rush process may include even more egregious

only serve to further the privilege and obliviousness of those she is so critical of at the beginning of her piece. It would send significant portions of Yale’s operating budget to funding the tuitions of those who can already afford to pay, thereby eliminating the contribution these more privileged students make to the education of their peers.

Before abolishing tuition altogether, Yale should look to less expensive alternatives that would fix the flaws in the current financial aid system. Yale can implement comparatively inexpensive policies, such as removing the student income contribution or providing students on full aid with

instances of sexism that have yet to be brought to light.

It is important to note that not all sororities blacklist. Many remain healthy, supportive environments that foster long-lasting friendship. Nevertheless, the practice of blacklisting illustrates a larger unwillingness to respect the decisions and agency of both men and women during the rush process. This trend flies in the face of the progressive ethic embraced by most Yale sororities.

Kappa Alpha Theta’s page on the Yale Panhellenic Council website shows a group of smiling sisters holding signs that read, “Our Yale is a place where sexual respect is the norm.” A supportive sisterhood is a commendable ideal.

Sororities should do their best to live up to it.

KATIE KIDNEY is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact her at katherine.kidney@yale.edu .

emergency funds, that could help low-income students even more than free tuition would, but at far less cost. Maybe Yale could even implement a petition mechanism that would allow students like Miele to prove when one parent refuses to contribute.

While abolishing tuition would certainly serve to correct Miele’s tragic circumstances, I encourage everyone to consider, before advocating for something based on a heart-rending but rare situation: At what cost would free tuition come, and for how much benefit?

WILLIAM ROBERTS The writer is a freshman in Pierson College.

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International students navigate tax struggles

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER From a lack of clarity about federal tax policies to costs imposed by taxes on grant aid, international students on financial aid face challenges unique to their status as non-U.S. citizens.

Depending on their country of origin, international students can pay anywhere from no tax to a 14 percent tax on grant aid above tuition, Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said. The taxable amount includes financial aid for room and board, which is included in students’ financial aid packages, and additional grants for textbooks and other personal expenses. International students must pay a reduced student effort, which is money that students on financial aid must contribute to the cost of their education each year and is currently set at $6,400. But the tax that international students pay can represent an additional expense, depending on the amount of grant aid received. Since students must first pay the tax and later file a return with the IRS to receive the money back, international students often need to find a way to raise the money by the time their bill must be paid. Storlazzi told the News in April that he was making the issue a priority for the class of 2019, but students say the problem persists.

Many international students have to work additional hours just to cover the cost of taxes on their grant aid, said Nadya Stryuk ’17, a student from Moscow.

For Stryuk, the tax — which is paid directly to Yale and appears on students’ financial statements from the University — was $3,000, though she can receive all or a portion of it back after filing a tax return due to Russia’s tax treaty with the United States.

Some countries, including Can-

ada and China, have treaties with the U.S. where students are entitled to a refund on the money they pay in taxes. “[The charge] hasn’t been talked about as much [as the student effort], but I wonder why, because $3,000 is a lot of money,” Stryuk said.

Camila Franco ’18, a student from Buenos Aires, Argentina, said she had to go into credit card debt to pay the tax charge listed on her Yale bill, which was just over $300. Though she works as a web designer at the School of Medicine, the income from her paychecks was not enough to cover the cost, given other expenses like textbooks and phone bills.

Storlazzi said the Office of Financial Aid increases the amount of grant aid for first-year international students to help offset the tax as they transition to Yale.

“Taxes are not hidden costs,” Storlazzi said. “These are IRS rules which every school has to follow in the U.S., and we’re trying to be really clear with our international students about this.”

Students who come from countries with tax treaties can have the charge waived, but the process is not automatic, Storlazzi said. Still, Stryuk said she tried to have the unnecessary tax expense cleared from her Yale bill, but that administrators in Yale’s Tax Office were inaccessible and unhelpful. She said workers in the Tax Office did not return her emails and that she had to visit multiple offices before her situation was resolved.

More broadly, international students interviewed spoke to a general feeling among the international community that they were unaware of or confused about tax policies that affected them.

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The Office of Financial Aid increases the amount of grant aid for first-year international students in anticipation of these tax issues.

“A lot of international students don’t know that they can actually get the refund,” said Wenbin Gao ’19, who is from China. “They’re not even aware of the tax treaties between their countries and the U.S.” Gao added that he was not aware of a tax treaty between China and the U.S. until he arrived on campus in January for his second semester at Yale.

Daysi Cardona, Yale’s international tax coordinator, also said some students do not receive their refunds because they do not file their tax returns. However, she said that the Interna-

Paper discusses Yale-NUS humanities, literature

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER During their first year at YaleNUS, students read the Odyssey alongside the Ramayana, juggling Don Quixote with the classical Chinese novel “Journey to the West.”

These texts give just a single snapshot of Yale-NUS’s “Literature and Humanities” class, a compulsory course for first-year students. Built on the college’s mission to provide an education spanning the East and West, the class came out of much contention among the college’s inaugural faculty members over what should be included in the course, according to a commentary on Yale-NUS published in January and co-authored by Yale-NUS professor Petrus Liu. The school’s first cohort of professors, including Liu, had to balance great works and noncanonical literature, not limit Asian literature to Chinese books and pay tribute to Singapore’s multi-religious society by featuring Muslim and Buddhist work in its syllabus.

Last month, Yale-NUS announced several changes to its common curriculum science requirements, but left the literature and humanities component unchanged.

In addition to addressing the difficulties of designing a curriculum in any setting, the commentary noted another challenge faced by Yale-NUS’s literature and humanities faculty: Because Yale-NUS students are a self-selecting, risk-taking group, they prefer various forms of expression, such as screenplays, video essays and poetry, and lean away from traditional literature analysis.

“What was perturbing was just how many students considered the analytical paper an archaic exercise that might inhibit their growth as independent thinkers,” Liu wrote in the commentary of his experiences teaching the class “Modern Chinese Literature and Film” at Yale-NUS. All but one of the 18 students in the class opted for a creative project in place of an academic paper. Liu could not be reached for comment.

Yale-NUS literature and humanities professors interviewed said the challenges associated with teaching their subjects are not specific to Yale-NUS, as the paper suggested.

Shaoling Ma, a Yale-NUS literature professor who previously

taught at Pennsylvania State University, said she noticed two major difficulties during her teaching career: students familiar with literary analysis over-rely on terminology, and students who are not comfortable with that type of coursework resist critical thinking and take the easy way out. She has seen these problems in students outside Yale-NUS, she said.

Yale-NUS literature professor Andrew Hui, a former postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and student at Yale Divinity School, said that whether in Connecticut, California or Singapore, students struggle with close-reading skills. What might make teaching literature at Yale-NUS more difficult is that 60 percent of the student body graduated from Singaporean high schools and pursued the Cambridge A-levels before college, which means many students enter Yale-NUS with little previous exposure to literature, Hui said.

Those students, Hui said, come into Yale-NUS with the presumption that they are not prepared to analyze literature. But it is often those without a literature background who are the keenest readers, he said.

Yale-NUS English literature professor Rajeev Patke said there are differences between teaching at Yale-NUS and the National University of Singapore, whose faculty he joined in 1988.

At NUS, classes focus primarily on texts written in English, while the syllabi at Yale-NUS are rooted in texts translated from other languages. The smaller average class sizes and greater variety of student backgrounds at Yale-NUS also add to the difference in class dynamics, he said.

Yale-NUS humanities professor Heidi Stalla, who is part of the teaching team that designs writing prompts for the “Literature and Humanities” class, said her students are eager to learn all forms of expression, including academic writing and creating writing.

“Innovation is inextricably linked to analysis,” Stalla added.

For first-year students, the “Literature and Humanities” course spans the fall and spring semesters.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

tional Tax Office does a good job of reaching out to international students about tax policies. She noted this information is included in a weekly newsletter that her office sends to first-year students with an additional email about tax policy.

“We really have to work hard on the communication,” Storlazzi said, adding that this challenge was not new.

Storlazzi said timing is a critical factor for communicating with international students. Even if information is in place to notify students of the option to have the payment returned, it will not be

helpful if the information is not sent at the right time, he said.

Gao said he paid nearly $2,000 in taxes last semester, but did not know that he could avoid the charge by obtaining an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number from the IRS, which is issued to foreign nationals who have U.S. tax requirements to fulfill. However, he said that because of the stressful and time-consuming nature of the process, some students do not even bother obtaining this so that they can file their tax returns. To encourage more students to receive their returns, he suggested that the Univer-

sity communicate with students before they arrive on campus so that they can begin the process.

Still, he said that staff from the Office of International Students and Scholars were helpful and that he was grateful to Yale for its generous financial aid.

International students have yet to receive from the IRS the funds which they are entitled to from fiscal year 2014. The IRS has delayed the arrival of funds twice, citing a need to further review the tax returns.

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

Peer support system tackles homelessness

BY AMY CHENG STAFF REPORTER Continuum of Care, a local organization that provides residential and support services to individuals with psychiatric or developmental disabilities, has launched the yearlong pilot of its Peer Connector program with the support of the Yale School of Medicine.

The medical school hosted its 23rd annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction last November to provide funding for six different local nonprofit organizations, including Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services and Continuum of Care. Continuum is dedicated to working with the portion of the homeless population that has lost housing stability due to mental illness and substance abuse. This new project draws resources from Continuum’s South Central Peer Services division and its New Haven Crisis Stabilization program. It also incorporates a peer support system with its temporary housing services. Three months after the pilot’s launch, the program has one recovery support specialist working with five clients for 20 hours a week to ensure their mental and physical wellbeing after moving out of temporary housing and into their permanent communities.

“The peers, or we call them recovery support specialists, should be looked at like a point person who bridges the [clients from temporary housing] to their next placement,” said John Labieniec, clinical director of acute and forensic services at Continuum. “It makes discharge smoother when people feel comfortable with who they are working with.”

According to Labieniec, Continuum accepts patient referrals from emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals and community members. The organization currently has nine beds allocated to the respite service in New Haven. However, the program receives 20 to 30 referrals a week, which is far more

people than it can accommodate. As a result, the program’s managing team conducts screenings to select those they deem to be most in need of immediate attention.

Usually referrals from emergency rooms are prioritized to avoid unnecessary hospitalization, Labieniec said.

Those selected from screening are either directly placed into one of the nine respite beds or on put on the waitlist. The program aims to create a home-like environment where clients can receive emotional and psychosocial support, Labieniec said.

“Many folks that we provide services to may have a difficult time in the shelter because of the level of stimulation that often comes with being in a shelter environment,” he said.

During the screening process, the team chooses a certain portion of the cases to assign to an individual called the “peer connector,” who must have a personal history of mental illness and homelessness. The peer connector is responsible for initiating long-term relationships that start before and end after the client uses the temporary housing service. Peer connectors are expected to contact clients before they arrive at respite and remain in touch after discharge to support clients through their treatment plans, SCPS Assistant Program Director Elsa Ward said.

“She’s the one that should say, ‘Hey, come on, if I could do it, you could do it,’” Ward said.

Aside from financial assistance for local housing and homelessness projects, the medical school also has a keen interest in evaluating the efficacy of the peer support system, said Chyrell Bellamy, psychiatry professor and a member of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health. Bellamy said she and her colleagues have been studying and initiating peer work for several years.

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cialists must go through an 80-hour curriculum and pass a series of exam to be certified as a peer. She said she hopes as the profession advances, peer staff will be able to receive more equitable pay.

“The whole idea of peer support has just existed throughout life,” Bellamy said. “But in terms of it hav-

ing a place within these formal settings, like in a hospital and a clinical setting, that’s fairly new.”

The Peer Connector program runs a budget of $19,050, more than half of which was granted by the medical school.

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

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

NELSON MANDELA SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY AND PHILANTHROPIST

Brownfields to turn into stores, affordable housing BROWNFIELDS FROM PAGE 1 end of 2017 or early 2018.

“These sites right now are commercial property,” Petrachone said. “The buildings there are aged and have been reused for different purposes over the years. Part of the development is to demolish the existing buildings there and assess what might be contaminant on the property.”

Part of the development is to demolish the existing buildings there and assess what might be contaminant.

CATHY PETRACHONE SLDC Project Consultant The Sperry Street property currently houses a machine shop, whose owners rent the property from SLDC. The machine shop’s operation has led to ground contaminants that must be removed before

new construction. A seafood restaurant, a parking lot and a Papa John’s occupy the lots on Whalley Avenue while the Dickerman Street property sits vacant.

For the project’s construction, which totals $13 million, city spokesman Laurence Grotheer said the Livable City Initiative has committed $100,000 to SLDC’s future construction. SLDC itself will pay $200,000 of total costs.

SLDC will seek to get the bulk of its funding from state Department of Housing grants and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s tax cuts, Petrachone added.

In a news release, Mayor Toni Harp praised the state grant for contributing to a greater supply of affordable housing in the city. Previous brownfield projects in the city have included renovations in Science Park, where there was industrial decay before the city targeted it for high-tech growth in 1981.

New Haven is home to about 35 brownfield sites.

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

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One of the brownfield locations where construction will take place is on 48 Elm St.

Students assess reinstatement reforms following implementation REINSTATEMENT FROM PAGE 1 ment” to clarify a common misconception that students who withdraw from Yale College are un-admitted from the University.

The administration also extended the deadline by which students must request a leave of absence — which does not require reinstatement — from the 10th day of the term to the last day of the course selection period, which translates into five extra days in the fall and six in the spring. Holloway also promised to implement ways for Yale to ease the financial burdens of reinstatement, increase communication between students and the administration and streamline the reinstatement process. In particular, reinstatement interviews must now be completed several months before the start of the semester in which the student is seeking reinstatement, compared to formerly lax deadlines that left students unsure of their reinstatement status just days before move-in. Finally, the committee advocated for the launch of a website that would contain clear information about the new policies as well as all application materials for reinstatement, which students previously had to actively request.

While leave of absence, withdrawal and reinstatement regulations have been outlined on the Yale College Programs of Study website, the downloadable electronic application materials were not yet available online as of Thursday night. Holloway told the News that the website will be available by spring break this year.

“The process for applying for reinstatement has been simplified: in the past, students who were applying for reinstatement had to meet two deadlines, one for requesting an application and another for submitting it. Now, only the second one remains,” Holloway told the News, adding that the application deadlines have been moved back to July 1 for fall-term reinstatement and Nov. 1 for spring-term reinstatement to give applicants more time. “Internal communications have been improved so that Chair of the Committee on Reinstatement [Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Pamela George] is now informed when students withdraw, putting her in a better position to respond to questions right away, rather than waiting until withdrawn students have requested an application for reinstatement.”

Previously, George did not know which students had withdrawn until they applied for reinstatement. She acknowledged to the News last March that this made it difficult for her to assist withdrawn students with their returns to Yale.

In addition, Holloway said the administration also decided to eliminate the $50 application fee for reinstatement, move reinstatement interviews up to July and November for the fall and spring terms respectively and

remove residential college deans from the voting reinstatement committee to allow them to more actively engage with withdrawn students. Students on financial aid can also apply for their Student Income Contribution to be forgiven, and Student Financial Services automatically waives the SIC for students who require a ninth term to complete their degrees.

Students who were reinstated prior to these reforms described a long, arduous and frustrating process. Rachel Williams ’17, who was readmitted in January 2014 — before the terminology change — after withdrawing for mental health issues, said she can relate to the alienation and lack of trust in the administration Wang expressed in her note. Those concerns, she said, are “very legitimate.” While Williams said she is not familiar with the reformed process, she emphasized that the most important change that the Yale administration must make is to show that they care about their students, including those who have withdrawn and are away from campus.

What Yale needs to make clear is that it wants [students who have withdrawn] back.

RACHEL WILLIAMS ’17 “I had no support from [the Yale administration] whatsoever while I was away,” Williams said, adding that the reinstatement process was “incredibly stressful” for her and that she hopes for more transparency. “What Yale needs to make clear is that it wants [students who have withdrawn] back. If Yale really wants to be credible in its claim that it cares about its students and that this is a great environment, then it needs to offer support to students even while they are away.”

Some students reinstated this semester reported having a better experience. One student said he valued the support he received from the administration during his time away from campus, especially the regular contact he had with his residential college dean while away.

The student, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic, said he did not consider the process of applying for reinstatement very stressful. Although he knew he ran a chance of not being reinstated, he said this did not worry him excessively. He added that he does not believe Yale’s reinstatement policies put undue pressure on students. “[A small element of worry] will be there if there’s a process of reinstatement at all, so there’s always going to be that feeling for the student,” he said.

Although the website with

application materials has not yet appeared, the student said he did not need to solicit an application for reinstatement — administrators mailed one to his home — and his reinstatement interview took place in November, in accordance with the revised timeline. Still, other newly reinstated students said they had to email administrators to request the application.

The student who received the mailed application said he had access to his Yale email address while he was away, and while he did not have permission to use the Yale library system, he said he did not object to this loss. Throughout the process, he said, he felt that the administration was trying to help him be reinstated.

“It was all very easy and well done, partly because [my residential college dean] is awesome and really helpful,” he said.

TWO ACADEMIC CREDITS

One aspect of the reinstatement process that did not change is the requirement that students complete the equivalent of two academic credits during their time away to demonstrate that they are academically ready to return to campus. Students interviewed said this requirement is one of the most burdensome components of the reinstatement process, and questioned the administration’s decision to not modify it.

An international student who was reinstated at the beginning of this semester said it was frustrating to complete two academic credits outside of the United States. Institutions in his home country follow a different academic calendar, the student said, and there is no equivalent of community colleges. It was complicated to obtain universitystudent status at home just to complete two academic credits, he said, and the administration did not take these cultural considerations into account during his application for reinstatement.

In general, the student said, students who withdraw because they are suffering from mental health problems should not be required to take courses during their time away. He added that he has spoken with other reinstated students and even administrators, and found that they often harbor the same sentiment.

Another student who was reinstated this spring said the academic requirements were not hard to fulfill but were simply “annoying.” Still, he said he thought all the reinstatement requirements were reasonable.

While the reforms did not eliminate the two-academiccredit requirement, the committee did remind students that it is possible to fulfill the requirement by enrolling in Yale Summer Session, which can provide need-based scholarships to students who are on financial aid at the time of withdrawal.

Administrators interviewed remained steadfast on the importance of requiring two academic

credits for reinstatement.

“The enterprise that [withdrawn students] are leaving for a time, and to which they plan to return, is decidedly an academic one,” Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker, who was on the review committee, told the News.

“As with the entire reinstatement process, the requirement of two course credits is not an obstacle but rather an avenue to returning to Yale with the best chance of success.”

Holloway also defended the academic requirement.

“For many students, Yale is a stressful place. We want to make sure they can handle the rigors of the academic process, and they have to remain healthy while doing it,” he said.

ONE SIZE FITS ALL

Beyond the academic requirement, students criticized other aspects of the reinstatement process that went unchanged.

“From what I gleaned, as far as the reforms go, they were just nominal changes in literal lexicon, expected to appease the reasonably angry students,” said Monica Hannush ’16, who was reinstated in the fall of 2013. “What [the administration] has done is really nothing close to what we need.

They just put different make-up on a one-size-fits-all policy.”

The reinstatement process continues to lack transparency and consistency, said Alexa Little ’16, who withdrew for medical reasons in the spring of 2013 and was readmitted in the fall of 2014.

For example, although the revised policies state that reinstatement interviews may be conducted via video conference if a student lives far away from campus, she said they are unclear about what distance qualifies as “far,” and that travel costs could still be prohibitive for many students. Additionally, she said, administrators have allowed some students to fulfill their academic requirement at community colleges but have denied that opportunity to others.

Little also criticized the medical assessment component of the interview, during which a professional from Yale Health evaluates the applicant for his or her fitness to return. A one-hour meeting with a Yale clinician, she said, should not carry more weight than the advice of the withdrawn student’s personal physician — who does not have a deciding role in the reinstatement process.

In addition, Little expressed frustration with the financial repercussions of withdrawal, including loss of tuition. While Holloway’s reforms suggested greater publicity of Yale’s tuitioninsurance program — which, for the cost of about $350 per year, guarantees up to a 90 percent refund of tuition, room and board in the case of medical withdrawal — Little said this is not the perfect solution.

“People with a valid medical diagnosis should be able to leave without the financial punishment,” she said. “I’ve been told

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One year after reinstatement reforms, students call on the administration for continued dialogue. that the solution was supposedly the tuition insurance. But that’s asking students to spend [a few hundred] dollars on the off chance that you might get ill, and some students can’t afford that.

It’s insane that this is a loss that Yale somehow can’t cover. Yale paid for lasers at Safety Dance.

We have custom waffle irons.

That really gets to me. You have to be suffering so badly to have to leave here.”

RETURNING TO YALE

Still, administrators are taking steps to ease the transition back to Yale. George has begun hosting lunch gatherings for reinstated students.

“To make it easier for reinstated students to meet each other, the chair has started an informal and voluntary series of lunches,” Holloway said. “My understanding is that they have been well-received. Two were held last term and two this term, each one in a different dining hall.

In time, I expect that these will be extended to dinners as well.”

George told the News that the lunches have proven helpful for students who wish to meet others and create a “meaningful community” among themselves.

She added that these gatherings

will continue and extend to other times convenient for the students. She will continue to assess interest and solicit suggestions from students and deans, she said.

Some students reinstated this semester called this move a “very admirable effort” on George’s part. But others described the lunches as an “awkward situation,” in which attendees avoided certain topics and tried to appear normal.

One of the anonymous students reinstated this semester said students who withdrew and returned want to leave the experience behind.

“We want to be as invisible as possible,” the student said.

No matter how reinstated students have found the transition back to Yale, all agreed that the process of creating a better mental health climate on campus has just begun.

“Now my frustration is, because something has been published on the issue, so many people consider it a solved problem,” Little said.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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Ivy League digital presence on the rise

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER As the Yale men’s squash team dethroned Harvard for the Ivy League championship in New Haven last weekend, Bulldog supporters across the country were able to follow the action online by watching the Ivy League Digital Network.

The February match marked the first time a squash game at Yale was broadcast on the Ivy League

Digital Network, an Internet television network that broadcasts Ivy League athletic events. Now in its third year of operation, the network has grown to include 34 different varsity sports and will broadcast over 1,100 events just this year. Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris said the rise of the league in national media and the network’s continued growth is evident given recent rises in numbers of subscribers and views.

“There are no questions about

it, [the Ivy League’s] success has driven more and more national attention [to the League] over the past years,” Harris said. “We have recently seen that with the JMI Sports agreement, Yale and Under Armour. People notice when the Ivy League does something well.”

The number of ILDN subscribers has grown by 30 percent each year since it was first implemented in the 2013–14 season, Assistant Executive Director of the Ivy League Matt Panto said. He added

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Yale’s Sunday win over Harvard in men’s squash marked the first home Yale squash match broadcast on the ILDN.

that the total number of subscribers is fluid and difficult to calculate given that the league offers daily passes to those who only want to watch one specific event.

Individual Ancient Eight schools reported a similar growth pattern. Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia have all grown their respective member bases yearly, athletic administrators at each of the schools said.

More importantly, Harris said, the number of games each individual subscriber tunes into has also increased.

“Our subscriptions continue to grow as do the number of games [our subscribers] are watching,” Harris said. “We care about the second number. That’s our goal, we want people to watch more and more of our games.”

Interim Director of Athletics Communications at Columbia Mike Kowalsky attributed this growth to the Ivy League and individual university administrators’ ongoing promotion of the network via social media. Yale Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Sam Rubin agreed, and added that the league has focused a large part of its efforts on growing the ILDN and spreading the message of Ivy League athletics.

The Ancient Eight schools average a total of 35 varsity teams each, and so far, 34 different sports have been broadcast on the network, Harris said. But she added that the range of sports broadcast varies across each institution.

The eight institutions agreed to stream all football and men’s and women’s basketball games this year, but beyond that, the decision of which sports to stream lies with each school’s administration, Harris said.

While Princeton streams 29 of its 38 varsity sports, Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Princeton Jerry Price said, Columbia streams only 10, according to Kowalsky.

The athletic communication offices at Dartmouth, Brown, Harvard, Penn and Cornell could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

Kowalsky said the ILDN stands out in its offering of sports such as rowing, fencing and squash — a variety which can help attract more viewers to the network.

“There’s a niche market for each of those sports, so that can help bring in viewers,” Kowalsky said. “The more we can get exposure to those programs, the more numbers you’re going to see.”

The plan is to eventually broadcast all varsity sports on the network, Harris said. The network strives to include sports with smaller fan bases — this season, for example, was the first time a fencing match was streamed online.

Price said although they would “love to stream all 38 sports” at Princeton, technical difficulties often prevent the administration from streaming some sports.

Columbia, for example, only began streaming soccer last year after the administration updated Internet infrastructure at the soccer fields, Kowalsky said.

Meanwhile, other Ivy sports have hit new ground by grabbing the attention of cable television company ESPN. While ESPN already streamed some Ivy League matches on its ESPN3 channel previous to the 2013–14 season, the launch of ILDN led ESPN to develop a formal relationship with the Ivy League, Vice President of Programming and Acquisitions for ESPN Digital Media John Lasker said.

Now, ESPN3 broadcasts a set number of Ivy League games each year — most of which are decided before the start of the season, although matches can be added if a team does particularly well, Lasker said. He added that the viewership for these ESPN3 broadcasts has only grown since

the start of their partnership.

“We pick and choose particular events that probably deserve even greater distribution and exposure,” Lasker said. “Our broadcasts reach 100 million homes, and we give people that might not otherwise have been interested in Harvard-Yale basketball some insight into how competitive and good these teams and games and coaches are.”

ESPN was primarily interested in streaming Ancient Eight athletic events because of the Ivy League’s conference brand and “really strong” alumni base, Lasker said. Because fans are very loyal to the brand, he said viewership is unlikely to fluctuate significantly.

But Harris highlighted that the ILDN allows the league to feature all of its teams, while television networks are only interested in a select few sports. ESPN3, for example, has broadcast sports such as basketball, lacrosse and hockey.

Moving forward, Harris said she and other Ivy League administrators will continue to increase the quality and total number of broadcasts to make the Network even more attractive to its audience.

Digital networks for other large sports conferences, such as the Patriot League Network, do not charge a fee for their streams.

While the ILDN’s subscription fees — $119.95 annually, $49.95 for a four-month pass or $15.95 for a one-month pass — cover only a small percentage of its stream costs, Harris said she does not know if the service will be made free in the future.

“We continue to evaluate how we want to proceed and handle our pay for the Network,” Harris said.

There are 35 varsity sports teams at Yale.

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

ISO tackles race on campus

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale International Students’ Organization took on recent issues regarding race and discrimination on campus at a Thursday night panel discussion entitled “Race in Global Context.”

The discussion consisted of three panel discussions about race and identity, majority and minority students and other topics related to last semester’s racial controversies. The panels, which were led and moderated by a rotation of faculty members as well as students, followed a presentation of spoken word poetry by Emi Mahmoud ’16 about her experiences in the U.S. and her home country of Sudan. All three panel discussions examined current racial problems at Yale, as well as in America in general, through the lens of being an international student.

“As much as we like to think we are in a post-racial world, we are not,” panelist Daniel Silverman YNUS ’17, who is half-white and half-Asian, said. “Although I might not be inferior [to my white friends], I am not equal to them.”

The first panel emphasized the power of words by analyzing the term “person of color,” how it applies to international students and the categorization of people that comes with it. Panelist Ho Kyeong Jang ’17, who is from South Korea, said he chooses to identify as a person of color in the United States because here, “if

you’re not white, you’re a person of color.” He said that he finds the term helpful in mobilizing and uniting racial minorities.

However, Silverman felt that the term homogenized people too much; he said that it is important to consider that not everyone who is a minority falls into that category. Though panelist Albert Laguna, a professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies, said certain categorizations can sometimes be helpful, such as in the context of departments and classes, other attendees said they did not like the way U.S. society fits people into boxes.

“The first time I had to check off my race was when I came to the United States,” attendee Ana Barros ’18, who comes from Brazil, said.

During the next panel, moderators questioned how the dynamics of the terms “majority” and “minority,” as well as the racial experiences associated with them, play out in different countries. All three panelists were from African countries, but had had completely different experiences with being a part of the minority population.

For panelist Esther Soma ’16, who grew up mostly in Kenya, being “a minority” was not a common phrase to her until she landed in the U.S. However, Thuto Thipe GRD ’21, a panelist from South Africa, said that she cannot think of a time in her life when she did not think of herself as black, which in South Africa

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“For me, black is a political identity,” Thipe said. “We all know it’s rubbish now, biologically, but it carries so much weight.”

The last panel addressed international students’ places on campus when it comes to understanding race relations in the United States. Panelist Yi-Ling Liu ’17 said that because she is from Hong Kong, she finds it hard to understand the discrimination and stereotyping that her AsianAmerican friends have experienced here in the U.S. However, she said, she tries to acknowledge the differences in the two countries and figure out how to empathize.

The other panelists, Ewurama Okai ’17 and Wabantu Hlophe ’18, commented that international students do not necessarily need to feel like they have to be a part of the discussions about racism in America just because they may be “persons of color.” However, they can still add to the conversation by bringing their knowledge of their own countries to the table.

“It’s not necessarily about putting yourself in the middle of the American version of the conversation, but about viewing yourself as a different dimension,” Okai said. “It allows you to bring something new and personal to the conversation that makes it relevant and salient to you.”

The second and third panel discussions paid particular atten-

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The “Race in Global Context” panel discussion took on recent campus issues regarding race and discrimination. tion to the idea of oppression.

Mahmoud explained that considering certain people minorities can cause “otherizing,” which ultimately leads to persecution.

Thipe, Soma and Mahmoud all spoke about the government’s role in continuing this oppression, especially in South Africa and the Darfur region of Sudan.

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dents can do to combat the climate of racial tensions at Yale.

Hlophe said that because he grew up in an environment where he was not seen as simply an addition to “diversity,” he believes that he can excel at Yale just as much as the next person. Mahmoud added that students of color have the ability to change the way they feel about being labeled.

“When you take down the power behind a word, it doesn’t hurt anymore,” Mahmoud said.

“Wherever you are, you can try to break down the rhetoric.”

With over 750 members, the International Students’ Organization is Yale’s largest cultural organization.

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

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Faculty report concerns about residential college expansion FAS SENATE FROM PAGE 1 is the current tendency to view the college expansion primarily as a budgetary and logistical issue rather than as an opportunity to explore best pedagogical practices and to think seriously about what a Yale undergraduate education ought to be,” states the report, which was written by six senators. “We believe that a broader conversation is both pro-

ductive and necessary.”

The report, whose authors met with the administrators preparing for the expansion, found that the University is planning to accommodate 800 new undergraduates without substantially changing the academic structures and resources currently in place. According to the report, current plans do not include hiring additional ladder faculty, and most existing classes will be

expected to absorb additional students. Any faculty growth to address the expansion would come through targeted hiring of non-ladder faculty, especially in language and writing courses. For the fall 2017 semester, the FAS Dean’s Office plans to hire approximately 20 new nonladder faculty. But the University does not plan to increase the number of classrooms or the size of the Graduate School of Arts

and Sciences in response to the expansion of the undergraduate student body.

This limited expansion would likely result in a one- to twostudent increase in a 10-person seminar and a 15-person increase in a 100-person lecture, figures that left faculty members surveyed worried about insufficient resources.

The May 2014 report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Yale Col-

lege Expansion proposed several policies, such as offering courses twice in the same semester to manage classroom shortages, expanding instruction by non-ladder faculty and undergraduate learning assistants in FAS courses. However, according to the senate’s survey, all of these suggestions were met with generally negative responses.

Almost 50 percent of respondents “strongly disagreed” that

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increasing non-ladder faculty instruction would enhance the environment of their department or program.

The size of the FAS ladder faculty was particularly at issue in the report. The FAS ladder faculty was set to grow to 700 members in preparation for the increase in the Yale College student body, and according to the 2014 report, it did. But at the start of last semester, Yale employed just 660 FAS ladder faculty, FAS Dean Tamar Gendler confirmed. This discrepancy is set to be corrected in the next few years.

“On top of the searches that we will be doing to replace faculty who retire or depart, we will be adding roughly 40 additional ladder faculty over the next five years,” Gendler told the News.

Still, some faculty expressed concern in the survey about the 700-ladder-faculty number itself. “The faculty needs to be expanded. The official line that the faculty at 700 has already been expanded to meet the needs of the new colleges is simply not borne out by the data [the Office of Institutional Research] provides,” one respondent wrote in the survey.

Besides these logistical concerns, the report also points to a deeper issue about the quality of the undergraduate experience.

“The expansion of Yale College should prompt and further a discussion of the ‘bigger picture’ here at our university. How do we as a faculty body achieve our core ideals while expanding our student population?” the report said.

History professor and senate chair Beverly Gage suggested that many of the faculty members’ issues with the administration’s current state of planning stem from the lack of communication. 77 percent of respondents feel they do not have enough information about the Yale College expansion. The Yale College Dean’s Office’s steering committee on the new colleges includes four faculty out of 16 members.

“Communication has not been particularly good, and the report is trying to foster a conversation and collaboration,” Gage said.

The survey to faculty, distributed in October 2015, had a response rate of 40 percent.

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

Aldermanic public safety committee discusses grants PUBLIC SAFETY FROM PAGE 1 of combating gang violence, has been particularly successful — a recent Yale study, he said, found that the program has caused an average monthly decrease of 4.5 shooting incidents in the city.

“I think we’ve had a lot of successes with Project Longevity, so much so that other cities and other states are coming here to see how to do it,” he said, citing statistics that show a dramatic decrease in shootings since the city’s 2011 high-water mark. “I see it as a success … it’s one of the tools we’re using to reduce violence in the city.”

Project Longevity relies on collaboration with other police departments, both with those of surrounding towns and those of the state and federal government.

Generoso said he meets with local police forces every morning to discuss the events of the previous day and prepare upcoming strategies.

At “call-ins,” the centerpiece of Project Longevity, the NHPD — in conjunction with state and federal forces — brings gang members together to warn them that any future violent actions will not be taken lightly.

“You call in gang members,” Generoso said. “What you tell them is basically that you have to put the guns down and you have to stop the violence — that if you don’t put the guns down, the next group that drops a body … will get the full, focused attention of law enforcement.”

But without the ability to link its software system to the FBI’s, Generoso said, the NHPD is unable to institute the most effective crime-reduction strategies.

Using the new CrimeView Desktop software — the license for which will cost $16,467 over the next six months — the depart-

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New Haven’s Project Longevity emphasizes outreach as a means to combat gang violence, resulting in an average monthly decrease of 4.5 shooting incidents in the city. ment will be better able to target gang violence, which accounted for seven of the city’s 15 homicides in 2015.

The Public Safety Committee was largely positive on the grants, which will come exclusively from the state, with no matching-fund requirement from the city. Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, a former chair of the committee, said he supported the grants, though with some reservations about the tight deadline that the NHPD brought to the committee.

“I think it’s a no-brainer,” Wingate said. “I wish they would’ve come sooner for us to analyze what they were actually doing. I think it is a good program, and any time that you can get technology to support crime analysts and save lives, I’m in favor.”

Beaver Hills/Amity Alder Richard Furlow — who does not sit on the committee, but attended the meeting regardless — echoed Wingate’s “no-brainer” language, but said that he would have liked to see further substantiation for

the $11,000 overtime figure for the analyst.

Some attendees questioned the NHPD’s approach to grants.

Police Commissioner Kevin Diaz asked whether the department should be requisitioning funds for overtime instead of training new employees.

“We have this tendency that all these grants are great and they do a great job, but what happens when someone leaves?” he asked.

The possibility of the analyst in question — who makes roughly

$35 per hour, according to Generoso — leaving in the near future is real. Generoso said the analyst is currently working toward her doctorate and expects to graduate from the program next year.

Wingate said this reality should force the department to consider hiring a replacement in the coming year.

Fair Haven Heights Alder Barbara Constantinople expressed further skepticism. Noting that the grant will only last for six months, she questioned what the

department would do after the money runs out.

“We do what we’re doing now,” Generoso replied. “We make do.”

Before the committee approved the grants by a unanimous vote, Quinnipiac Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes asked legislative aide Mickey Mercier to send a letter to the NHPD asking them to consider hiring a second analyst.

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

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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” COCO CHANEL FRENCH FASHION DESIGNER

Former Cabinet member talks internment, public service

BY LUKE CIANCARELLI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Norman Mineta, a former California congressman and secretary of transportation under President George W. Bush, spoke to a full house Thursday at the Asian American Cultural Center about a life committed to public service.

The talk, which also included dinner and dessert, came a day after Mineta delivered the semiannual Chubb Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center, where he spoke on “U.S. Security Concerns from Japanese-American Internment to 9/11 and ISIL.” Mineta, who is this semester’s Timothy Dwight Chubb Fellow, was the first Asian-American to hold a position in a Presidential Cabinet, and he is the fourth person in U.S. history to hold a cabinet position under both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations, those of Bill Clinton LAW ’73 and Bush. In May of 1994, Mineta founded the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, a bicameral group committed to advocating for the concerns of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. During his time in the House of Representatives, he co-sponsored a 1988 bill that provided reparation measures for JapaneseAmericans who were affected by internment.

Mineta had first-hand experience with internment; during the talk — which drew roughly 70 Yale students, faculty and administrators — he spoke extensively about his experience as one of 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.

AACC Director Saveena Dhall began the talk by asking Mineta how he managed to cultivate loy-

alty and love for a nation that had so shamefully violated his and so many others’ rights as people and citizens. In response, Mineta described his memories from that period in his life and his subsequent reaction to those events.

“I’ve only seen my dad cry three times,” Mineta said. “Once was on the 7th of December, because even though he was an immigrant from Japan, he couldn’t understand why the land of his birth was attacking the land of his heart. He came to really love the United States of America.”

Widely recognized for his work on civil rights, Mineta was the primary force behind the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, or the Japanese reparations bill, which was the first time the United States formally apologized for its treatment of its Japanese citizens and immigrants during the war. Mineta described how powerful a statement it was for then-President Ronald Reagan to sign the act, which provided $20,000 in redress for every living detainee.

“It was a great moment when that bill was signed into law,” he said. His voice faltering, he continued, “To me, the most striking part of that legislation was the part that said, ‘And the Congress, on behalf of the American people, apologizes for those people’s mistreatment who were evacuated and interned.’”

Mineta also played a crucial role in responding to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. As secretary of transportation, it was Mineta’s call to ground all 4,546 airplanes flying over the U.S. at the time.

He spoke about Bush’s emphasis on avoiding racial and ethnic profiling in the aftermath of the attacks. Referring to a cabinet meeting on Sept. 13 where concerns over the civil liberties of Muslim and Middle-East-

ern Americans rose to the forefront of the discussion, Mineta recalled the president saying, “We don’t want to have happen today what happened to Norm [Mineta] in 1942.”

The abuse of rhetoric toward immigrants and minority communities — specifically Syrian refugees and Muslim Americans — in the current presidential election, however, was a cause of concern to Mineta. Citing a generally optimistic arc of progress in the country, he said he found it difficult to reconcile present political acrimony with the authentic concern for those vulnerable to exploitation he had experienced in the White House.

His memories of his experience in government, though, kept Mineta positive about the state of the nation.

“Here’s a country that is willing to admit its mistake and bring some kind of redress to that wrong,” he said, referring to the Japanese internment reparations. “When that legislation passed, the burden of shame that Japanese-Americans had carried from the time of evacuation — that their own government wouldn’t trust them, that their own government would treat them this way — that yoke was taken off their back. When you get a country to admits its mistakes and make redress, then you know you have a great country to live in.”

Afterwards, the floor was opened for members of the audience to ask questions, with Mineta staying long after the formal portion of the event to chat with students and administrators. Students interviewed at the event were uniformly impressed by Mineta’s storytelling, breadth of experience and powerful message.

Katherine Lin ’18 said she found Mineta inspirational.

“To see someone who has

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Norman Mineta spoke at the Asian American Cultural Center Thursday. done so much and had such an impact on the society we live in is really inspiring, I think especially since he’s obviously been a minority in many situations, and has forged his way to the person

he is now,” she said.

Mineta’s talk comes in advance of Feb. 19, the formal Day of Remembrance commemorating Japanese-American internment.

In December of 2006, Mineta was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Contact LUKE CIANCARELLI at luke.ciancarelli@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“My weapon isn’t my shot. It’s me.”

ALEX OVECHKIN WASHINGTON CAPITALS CAPTAIN

Yale seeks to end slide

Nation-best win streak on line M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Director of Athletics Tom Beckett.

While Montague remains on the roster for this weekend, guard Anthony Dallier ’17 is instead listed on the team media guide as a probable starter. Montague led the Ivy League in three-point shooting percentage last season and has made a team-high 67 three-pointers this year. Meanwhile, Dallier has shot 44 percent from beyond the arc this season, though he has only taken 25 attempts in 22 games.

While Dallier averages less than 16 minutes per game, he did see 25 minutes of action off the bench in Yale’s first meeting with Princeton on Jan. 30 in New Haven. In Yale’s closest Ivy contest of the season, the Bulldogs skirted past the Tigers with a 79–75 victory.

Mason played a phenomenal game in that contest, scoring a team-high 22 points, including 15 in the second half. The point guard was also 5–6 from behind the three-point line.

“I felt like they kind of played me to drive and packed it in so I was able to get a couple of open threes and knock them down,” Mason said. “I’m not sure if they are going to make any adjustments for that, so I will play accordingly.”

Mason possesses the skill set to place pressure on opposing defenses and force teams to respect his ability to drive into the paint. He ranks seventh in the Ivy League in scoring, at 15.9 points per game, and he is shooting 44.7 percent from the floor.

Mason’s play this weekend will be crucial for the Elis against a strong Princeton squad, as the sophomore attempts to build off a career-high 25 points against Dartmouth last weekend.

Additionally, Yale head coach James Jones stressed the impor-

tance of defense for the Bulldogs on Friday, especially closing out on Princeton’s shooters.

The Tigers lead the Ivy League in scoring at 79.6 points per game.

“We did a poor job of defending once we got a lead [in the first meeting],” Jones said. “Princeton is a great offensive team and they shoot the ball at a pretty good rate, especially in their building, so we have to make sure we do a good job fighting through the screens and making them put the ball down on the ground and then guarding their penetration.”

The Bulldogs will have to stop Caruso, the junior forward who kept the Tigers close in the first matchup. Caruso scored 26 points on 10–19 shooting while freshman guard Devin Cannady poured in 15 points off the bench.

In a thrilling contest last weekend between Princeton and Columbia, which sits at 6–2 in the league, Cannady scored 23 points overall, including eight in the final 25 seconds of regulation to send the game to overtime.

The dramatic victory extended the second-place Tigers’ win streak to four, with the team’s most recent loss coming against Yale in New Haven.

In Yale’s second contest of the weekend, the Elis travel to the Palestra to face Penn, a team that earned a 92–84 victory over Cornell last Saturday. Center Darien Nelson-Henry scored 15 points, grabbed 16 rebounds and dished out six assists in the triumph.

Due to an ankle injury, NelsonHenry played limited minutes in the first Yale-Penn matchup, a game Yale won 81–58. He averages a team-high 12.4 points per game to go along with 8.6 rebounds per contest. “[Nelson-Henry] draws a lot of attention,” Jones said. “They try to get the ball to him in the post on nearly every possession, so we have to do a great job of guarding

him one on one and limiting his ability to make passes to his teammates in order for us to be successful … Without him, they are just a different team … You have to expect they are going to score many more than [58] with him in the lineup for the next game.”

Sherrod will likely be matched up defensively against NelsonHenry, Sears said. Sears added that, though it will be a “tough task,” the team has managed to hold its own against opponents’ big men this year.

Nelson-Henry’s presence down low opens up the floor for Penn guards including Jackson Donahue and Matt Howard.

Howard, who scored a team-high 17 points against Yale on Jan. 29, averages 12.3 points per contest, while Donahue contributes nearly nine points each game.

“Penn has a lot of shooters, people like [forward] Sam Jones,” Sears said. “Without [NelsonHenry] out there, we were able to press up on their shooters and force them to drive without any threat of them dumping it off to him.”

In the first weekend series against Princeton and Penn, Sears scored 16 points in each Yale victory. The forward — who has won two consecutive Ivy League Player of the Week awards — averages a team-high 16.5 points per game.

Thanks in large part to the team’s dominant performance thus far in Ivy League play, Yale received three votes in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 national poll.

Tipoff against Princeton is set for 7 p.m. Friday night at Jadwin Gymnasium.

Maya Sweedler contributed reporting.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 ing the possession, executing our offense and setting the pace of the game overall,” guard Tamara Simpson ’18 said. “Our goal is to play Bulldog basketball in each game and play without fear.”

Yale last played Princeton three weeks ago on the road, losing 65–50. The Bulldogs kept pace with the Tigers, who went a perfect 30–0 in the regular season last year, through the first half, but their momentum was halted in the second half. Despite poor shooting — the Bulldogs hit just 31.7 percent of their field-goal attempts, compared to 51 percent for the Tigers — the Yale defense did force 25 turnovers, the highest number Princeton has committed all season. The Bulldogs were able to capitalize on the Tiger miscues, scoring 27 points off turnovers, and Yale will look for similar success this weekend.

Since playing Yale, Princeton has averaged 83.5 points a game, and its overall average of 74.9 points per contest is the highest in the conference.

The consistency of its trio of seniors, guards Michelle Miller and Annie Tarakchian and forward Alex Wheatley, plays a large role in this success, as each of the three averages more than 10 points per game.

Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said the Bulldogs would look to play aggressively on offense against the Tigers after struggling from the field the last time around.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will host the Quakers, who beat Yale by 19 points last month.

Despite the team’s undefeated record in conference play, Penn ranks just second-tolast in scoring offense, averag-

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Yale has lost six straight games, with the team’s last win coming on Jan. 22 in a 48–39 triumph over Brown. ing 62.8 points per game. The Quakers do, however, boast the best Ivy defense, led by twotime Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Sydney Stipanovich, a junior center. Penn leads the conference in both scoring defense and field-goal percentage allowed.

Stipanovich also ranks first in the Ivy League in rebounds, at over 10 boards per game. “[Last game against Penn], we learned that we have to show up right out of the gates,” Guth said. “Penn is too talented to not put yourself in position early by digging in on the defensive end to win the game. We did not share the ball well versus Penn’s zone [defense], and got stagnant by taking lower percentage shots.”

A win against either opponent would throw a wrench into both teams’ pursuits of an Ivy League championship.

The Bulldogs recognize their position as underdogs in these two games, but Wyckoff said the team hopes to play spoiler.

“Overall, we just want to play our best basketball and show the Ivy League the real Yale team, which no one besides Brown has really seen yet,” Wyckoff said.

Friday’s game against Princeton starts at 7 p.m. in Lee Amphitheater. Twenty-four hours later, the Bulldogs play Penn at 7 p.m., also at home.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

Two critical contests for Bulldogs WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

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Forward Jamie Haddad ’16 scored two goals in Yale’s 5–2 win over St. Lawrence on Jan. 9.

present that we intend to carry into these games.”

Despite a 5–2 victory for Yale against St. Lawrence on Jan. 9, other aspects of the matchup appear to be more equal on paper.

The Saints hold the nation’s 16thranked offense, while Yale has the 15th. St. Lawrence has the 21st-best defense, and Yale has the 31st.

The teams’ records also indicate the potential for a closer game than that January result. The Saints are tied for sixth in the ECAC, one slot ahead of the Bulldogs, and only by one point.

That closeness between the two teams adds extra gravity to the matchup, as a win would push Yale up to seventh in the standings heading into Saturday’s contest.

With Rensselaer also just one point ahead of the Bulldogs in the standings, the team has a shot at jumping

to sixth if results around the conference play out in their favor.

And according to forward Brittany Wheeler ’18, the team is confident it can garner a win over St. Lawrence once again. “[We can beat St. Lawrence] if we play our game,” Wheeler said.

“We definitely can [win], we just have to make sure we show up playing our style.”

Saturday’s game, however, may be more of an uphill battle for the Elis. Clarkson’s offense has been the seventh-best in the nation this year, and its defense has been fifth, marking a balanced squad that scores 2.22 more goals per game than its opponents.

The matchup also features disparities on an individual level.

Golden Knight goalie Shea Tiley has recorded seven shutouts this season, while Yale’s Hanna Mandl ’17 has yet to record one. Clarkson’s leading goal scorer, Cayley Mercer,

ranks seventh in the nation with 21 goals in 32 games. Yale does not have any skaters in the top 50 of the national goals leaderboard.

Still, a victory over Clarkson would not be the Elis’ only major upset victory this season. On Oct. 31, David conquered Goliath when Yale outlasted No. 4 Quinnipiac, 4–3. Thus, the team thoroughly believes, this coming Saturday, it can rediscover the magic of that Halloween night.

“We feel pretty confident,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “That’s the mindset we want to have every game. I think we can beat every team in our league. It’s just about showing up to play well and putting in the work to do so.”

Friday’s contest will begin at 7 p.m., and Saturday’s will start at 4 p.m.

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

O’Gara ’16 back in lineup for weekend MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 in a row, the team knows it cannot afford to let up on its level of play with the postseason on the horizon.

“The last five games have been kind of like a growing point,” captain and defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 said. “You can see the transformation for our forecheck, and the way that it kind of suffocates teams … that’s the bread and butter of this team.”

On Friday night, Yale will match up with SLU, whose unbeaten streak of six games includes a 4–3 overtime defeat of No. 1 Quinnipiac — the Bobcats’ first ECAC loss of the season. Now just three points behind the Elis in the ECAC standings at fourth place, the Saints boast the third-best goals per game average in the ECAC with 2.97 per contest, compared to 2.64 for Yale.

Despite the impressive run, the third-longest unbeaten streak in the country, SLU holds an underwhelming resume on the road with only five wins in 14 games, a stark contrast to its 11–5–0 home record.

In addition, the status of standout SLU goaltender Kyle Hayton is unclear after the sophomore was injured in the Quinnipiac upset last Friday. Hayton, a major asset for the Saints, ranks fourth in the nation with a 0.937 save percentage, slightly below Yale’s Alex Lyon ’17, who claims the top spot with a 0.944 mark.

With freshman Arthur Brey in net on Saturday, SLU still managed to win 4–1 over Princeton, the bottom team in the ECAC standings.

The Saints are the lone team in the conference whose biggest offensive contributor is a defenseman, as blueliner Gavin Bayreuther leads the team with 23 points and nine goals. The remainder of scoring is widespread among the team, as 14 players for St. Lawrence have tallied 10 or more points this season.

On Yale’s roster, just six players have reached that mark.

“Our focus is to have the best game of the year on Friday night,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said.

“And, no matter what happens, to have a better game on Saturday.”

The Bulldogs will have a tough task as they try to better them-

selves in the second game of the weekend, which will see Yale square off with Clarkson for the Elis’ final regular season home contest of the season. The Knights had won six in a row before falling in overtime to Quinnipiac last Saturday, and their 0.731 winning percentage in the 2016 calendar year is second in the conference, only behind the 0.846 clip of Yale.

But as is the case with SLU, Clarkson’s home-road splits are eye-catching. The Knights are 11–2–2 at home, but just 5–7–1 away from their familiar confines of Cheel Arena. Nevertheless, though travelling from Potsdam, New York may take its toll on the Knights, they do seem to adjust after some time: Clarkson is 0–4–1 in the first game of backto-backs outside of the Empire State but 3–2–0 on the tail end of those trips, including a decisive 5–1 win at No. 12/13 Harvard.

Clarkson also boasts its own formidable goaltender, as senior netminder Greg Lewis ranks ninth in the country with a 1.91 goals-against average. On the other end of the ice, the Knights’ offensive attack is spearheaded

by sophomore forward Sam Vigneault, whose 10 goals and 12 assists both pace his squad.

The two matchups mark another tough weekend for the Elis, who, after Saturday, will have played then-ranked teams in five or their previous six contests. But the Bulldogs can find motivation in a fast approaching postseason, as the ECAC Tournament begins just two weeks from Friday. And a solid performance this weekend — with some help — could clinch a top-four ECAC finish for the team, which would lock up a first-round playoff bye and an invaluable extra week of healing for a battered Bulldog squad.

“We’ve got to make sure we have good last ECAC weekends,” forward Cody Learned ’16 said.

“We’ve been doing well and I think we’re heading in the right direction, but we still have some more work to do.”

Both games of Yale’s Senior Weekend are scheduled for 7 p.m.

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

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St. Lawrence holds the third-longest unbeaten stretch nationally, while Clarkson boasted a six-game winning streak before last Saturday.

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SPORTS

“If you can pick up a ground ball you’ll play for any team you want.”

MARCUS HOLMAN U.S. MEN’S LACROSSE NATIONAL TEAM ATTACKMAN

National aspirations for Yale lacrosse

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last May, the Yale men’s lacrosse team captured its third Ivy League Tournament title in four years in a thrilling 11–10 victory over Princeton. Less than a week later, Yale fell in devastating fashion to the sixth-seeded Maryland in the first round of the NCAA tournament despite holding a three-goal lead with seven minutes to play.

MEN’S LACROSSE The 2016 Bulldogs are simultaneously hoping to build on last season’s successes while remaining motivated by their disappointing finish to last season.

“I would say our greatest strength is the unselfishness of our team,” Yale head coach Andy Shay said. “We have a number of players who aren’t concerned about individual accolades, and I think that goes a long way.”

The team will be led by captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16, who received All-Ivy First Team honors a year ago and was recently named a preseason All-American

by Inside Lacrosse magazine.

Quinn is not alone in receiving early attention; the team as a whole is ranked ninth in the nation according to the USILA/ Nike Preseason Coaches Poll. The ranking is the highest among all Ivy teams, and other publications such as Lacrosse Magazine have tabbed Yale as the favorite to win the Ivy League title.

While the Bulldogs did win the Ivy Tournament, they finished in a tie for fourth in the regular season with a 3–3 record. However, this year’s team has more ambitious goals than capturing the conference championship.

“Five to 10 years ago, making the NCAA Tournament was the goal,” midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16 said. “This season, our goal is to win the National Championship.”

At the same time, the team is not overlooking any opponents.

Shay said that the team remains focused on “winning the next game,” a sentiment shared by his players.

In a schedule that includes five ranked opponents — three in the conference — the team understands that nothing has been accomplished yet.

“We haven’t won a game yet.

This is a new team and a new year,” Bonacci said.

Offensively, the Bulldogs will have to reinvent themselves after the graduation of attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15. Culminating with being honored as the Most Outstanding Player of the Ivy League Tournament, Oberbeck scored 39 goals last year in the regular season. Oberbeck also added a team-high 23 assists for a total of 62 points, fourth best in the Ivy League.

However, Shay said his team is accustomed to replacing lost production.

“Conrad stepped up when other guys … graduated. We expect the same increased role from a host of other players,” Shay said. “We may be a slightly different offense this year. It is all a work in progress, but we are used to replacing strong players.”

Last season, the Bulldogs replaced star attackman Brandon Mangan ’14, who tallied 45 points his senior year; two years ago, the team replaced attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13, who scored 30 goals in his final campaign.

Among the players expected to increase their contributions are Bonacci, who returns from an

ACL tear that cost him the second half of last season, and attackman Ben Reeves ’18, who was selected to the Coaches’ Preseason AllConference team. In addition, midfielder Mark Glicini ’16 was picked by the Chesapeake Bayhawks — where he will play this summer — in the MLL Draft in January.

Defensively, Quinn will anchor the Bulldogs. The captain forced a team-high 19 turnovers last season while also ranking second with 36 ground balls. Shay said he trusts Quinn’s leadership, noting that he is “an exceptional player and person whose first priority is normally his teammates.”

According to Lacrosse Magazine, Reilly Naton ’16 is projected to start at long-stick midfield while Christopher Keating ’17 and Camyar Matini ’17 will round out the starting defensive unit.

The biggest question for the Bulldogs comes between the pipes. Goalie Eric Natale ’15, who led the Ivy League in goalsagainst average, graduated and Shay has not yet publicly named a starter for the upcoming season. The Bulldogs do not have a single player on the roster who has played over 20 collegiate min-

utes in net. Whoever gets the nod will likely have one of the best defenses in the conference in front of him, as last year’s squad allowed the least number of goals in the Ancient Eight.

Lacrosse Magazine projected that Paul Huffard ’18 will start at goalie, though Dylan Meyer ’18 and Hoyt Crance ’19 were also mentioned as potential contenders for the starting position.

The Bulldogs will also lean on contributions from the freshman class in many aspects of the game.

Quinn said the class of 2019 will make an immediate impact due to their athleticism. Attackman Joseph Sessa ’19 and midfielders Jack Tigh ’19 and Brendan Mackie ’19 are the most likely candidates to see extended playing time right away.

Yale opens its season on Saturday when it visits UMass Lowell. While players and coaches said their undivided attention is focused on the River Hawks, the schedule includes several other high-profile meetings throughout the course of the season.

The Bulldogs host No. 4 Maryland on Feb. 27 in a hopeful revenge game from last season’s controversial loss in the NCAA

tournament, when a last-minute Yale shot attempt to tie the game appeared to potentially cross the goal line but was not ruled a score on the field. On April 16, Yale plays No. 10 Brown, which several media outlets have picked to win the Ivy League. As this game is a late-season battle, it may be crucial in determining the Ivy League regular-season title and seeding for the league tournament. Yale ends the regular season at home against rival Harvard, which landed 15th in the preseason USILA/Nike Poll.

Close games characterized the 2015 season. Seven of Yale’s games last year were decided by a one-goal margin. Yale went 3–4 in those tight contests, ultimately concluding with the Maryland defeat.

For Yale to flip the script this season, it will look to its eight seniors, who have never made it past the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. However, according to Quinn, his class is prepared to “carve its legacy.”

The 2016 campaign gets underway on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu .

Ivy League season preview

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BROWN 2015:

12–5 4–2 Ivy (T-1st)

Hosts Yale

April 16

9–6 4–2 Ivy (T-1st)

At Yale

March 26

PENN 2015:

6–7 3–3 Ivy (T-4th)

At Yale

April 2

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The No. 10 Bears enter the 2016 campaign with hopes of securing an outright Ivy title after sharing the crown with Cornell and Princeton last season.

Though Brown fell in the Ivy League Tournament to Yale, the Bears still advanced to the NCAA Tournament, and they bring back plenty of top-notch experience, led by Ivy League Player of the Year Dylan Molloy. The junior attackman led the nation with 62 goals, a school record. In addition, the team’s three senior captains each boast impressive resumes.

In 2015, attackman Kylor Bellistri scored 35 goals, midfielder Brendan Caputo tallied 38 total points and goalie Jack Kelly earned a unanimous All-Ivy First Team selection.

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After a one-year hiatus from the top four of the Ivy League, Princeton earned a share of the Ivy League Championship in the 2015 regular season.

However, a one-goal loss to Yale in the conference tournament precluded the Tigers from participating in the NCAA Tournament, making it three years in a row that Princeton fell short of the national tourney. Reversing that trend will be no easy feat, considering the graduations of two of the top three leading Ivy goal-scorers Mike MacDonald and Kip Orban, who combined for 93 scores and 130 total points. The four offensive starters returning to this year’s squad notched a combined 67 goals last year.

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11–5 3–3 Ivy (T-4th)

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Despite a 12–11 double-overtime victory over sixth-place Harvard early in the season, Dartmouth was statistically the worst team in the Ivy League last year, ranking last in the conference in both scoring offense and scoring defense. This season, the Big Green must deal with the loss of leading scorer Adam Fishman, who was 10th in the conference with 1.92 goals per game. Dartmouth was given a last-place ranking in the Inside Lacrosse preseason coaches’ poll, with no players on the preseason allconference team. Increased production from midfielder Jack Korzelius, who was second on the team with 1.62 goals per game last year, may be the Big Green’s key to a turnaround season in 2016.

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After an Ivy League championship season two years ago, a significant decrease in performance for Harvard in 2015 was softened only by a 8–7 home win against rival Yale. That victory, just the second in conference by the Crimson, kept the Bulldogs from winning an Ivy title and preserved a 0.500 season for Harvard. The Cantabs look poised for a rebound this season as just one starter, and four players total, have graduated since that disappointing season. Those seniors combined for just six goals last year, meaning the Harvard offense that last year ranked second in the Ancient Eight with 12.29 goals per game will be back in full force for 2016.

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While No. 15 Cornell was one of three teams deadlocked at the top of the conference standings with a 4–2 Ivy League record last year, the Big Red was also one of three Ivy League teams that exited the NCAA Lacrosse Championship with a loss in the first round. Improving on that result in 2016 — or even making the championship tournament, which Cornell has done in 11 of the past 12 seasons — may prove difficult with the team’s three top goal scorers from last season, combining for 59 percent of all scores, all lost to graduation. A March 5 contest with No. 12 Albany will be the first major test for a rebuilding Cornell squad.

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“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” THOMAS JEFFERSON AMERICAN FOUNDING FATHER

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Recent graduate sues Harvard over sexual harassment case

BY ANDREW M. DUEHREN AND DAPHNE C. THOMPSON A recent Harvard College graduate filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, charging that college and university administrators mishandled a response to her sexual harassment case and allowed an alleged perpetrator to live in Cabot House with her.

The federal suit — which was filed in Massachusetts District Court on Tuesday — charts a sexual harassment complaint Alyssa Leader filed with Harvard in 2015 against a male Harvard College student after what the suit describes as repeated threatening and abusive sexual encounters. The suit alleges that the student, referred to as “John Doe 1,” sexually abused Leader during a “dating relationship” and then subsequently intimidated and harassed her in Cabot House after the relationship ended.

Requesting punitive damages for Harvard and compensation, Leader alleges in the lawsuit that Harvard administrators failed to follow federal guidance on university sexual harassment investigations. In particular, the suit argues that Harvard’s handling of the case violated antisex discrimination law Title IX and failed to protect her against retaliation.

“The acts and failures to act perpetrated against the plaintiff amounted to unlawful sexual harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender,” the suit charges against the university.

“Defendants acted with deliberate indifference in deviating significantly from the standard of care outlined by the [Department of Education].”

In an emailed statement, Har-

vard spokeswoman Tania deLuzuriaga wrote that Harvard does not comment on pending HARVARD litigation.

A f t e r Leader reported sexual harassment to several administrators, who later opened a formal investigation, she requested that they remove Doe from Cabot during the course of the investigation.

According to the suit, administrators did not remove Doe from Cabot until Leader had secured a restraining order from an outside court.

Alex Zalkin, the California attorney representing Leader, said he and Leader first began working on filing the suit about a month ago. Leader reached out to Zalkin, who works at a firm that specializes in sexual abuse law, he said.

The suit traces several interactions Leader said she had with university administrators regarding sexual harassment over the course of about two years. According to the suit, Leader first reported Doe’s conduct to Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in spring 2013, and again in September 2014. On Nov. 6, 2014, the suit states, Leader met with Cabot Resident Dean Tiffanie Ting and claimed that Doe had sexually harassed her in Cabot dining hall and cafe, among other places. The suit alleges that Ting discouraged Leader from filing a formal complaint and said Doe could not be moved from Cabot.

Ting could not be reached for comment.

“I think that the biggest takeaway from the complaint is that she recorded multiple times

not only that she was sexually assaulted, but that there was retaliatory and ongoing harassment from the perpetrator and his friends,” Zalkin said. “Notwithstanding, Harvard did nothing to protect her and make her feel safe on campus, which is basically the whole purpose of Title IX.” In an emailed statement, Rakesh Khurana, the dean of Harvard College and a Cabot House master, wrote that he could not comment on pending litigation. Still, he wrote that Harvard administrators “take seriously and swiftly respond to all allegations of sexual assault and harassment.”

“My colleagues and I in the college will continue our efforts to educate our community about the issue of sexual assault, to better prevent it and to provide the best resources for those who experience it,” Khurana wrote.

Leader reported Doe to the Office of Sexual and GenderBased Dispute Resolution in February 2015, prompting a formal investigation, and updated ODR investigators on Doe’s alleged retaliatory conduct — including threatening comments and increased presence at Leader’s workplace, Cabot Cafe — according to the suit.

She also reported sexual assault to the Harvard University Police Department in April.

The suit claims that, on advice from Harvard College Title IX Coordinator Emily Miller, ODR and OSAPR, Leader did not try to secure contact restrictions that could have prevented alleged retaliation against the plaintiff.

It also alleges that the defendants — listed as the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers — did not provide Leader with adequate information

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Massachusetts Hall houses the offices of some of Harvard’s top administrators. about her legal rights, including her option to pursue a restraining order. When Leader independently obtained a restraining order against Doe on April 27, 2015, college administrators moved Doe to another residential building, according to the suit.

After both Leader and Doe graduated in 2015, the ODR found Doe “Not Responsible” on all claims of rape, assault, abuse and retaliation; Leader unsuccessfully appealed the finding, according to the suit. Harvard College’s Administrative Board then reviewed the results of the investigation, and voted for a sanction of “Scratch,” a rul-

ing that indicates no wrongdoing had occurred.

Jessica Fournier, an organizer for anti-sexual assault advocacy group Our Harvard Can Do Better, said Leader has the full support of the group and called the suit “really tragic and horrifying, but certainly not unique.”

“I think Harvard would like to believe and would like to tell the community at large that these issues have been solved, so they’ve created a new policy and had all these task forces,” she said. “I think that Alyssa’s case points very clearly to the fact that that is not true; this is still ongoing; this is still systemic.”

Zalkin, one of Leader’s lawyers, said his team held a press conference on Wednesday at the Sheraton Commander Hotel and anticipates heavy press attention to the case, given recent criticisms of Harvard’s handling of sexual assault.

A federal investigation into Harvard College’s compliance with Title IX remains ongoing.

In July 2014, Harvard unveiled a new approach for handling cases of alleged sexual harassment, creating a centralized, investigatory office. And in December 2014, the federal government found Harvard Law School in violation of Title IX.

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Students concerned with need-aware aid policy

Student Assembly drafts Bill of Rights

BY JOE REGAN

COURTESY OF THE CORNELL DAILY SUN

Cornell will no longer practice need-blind admissions for international students from fall 2017.

BY KYLE OEFELEIN Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s announcement stating that the admissions process for international students will no longer be needblind has sparked concern among both international students and the student body at large.

The new policy states that international students will be admitted on a need-aware basis starting in fall 2017.

Cornell currently spends about $235 million annually on undergraduate financial aid, of which $11.53 million is budgeted toward grant aid for international and undocumented students, according to Kotlikoff.

Kotlikoff also noted that after the $11.53 million has been awarded to international and undocumented students with demonstrated financial need, no more aid will be available to that group.

The provost argued that

n e e d- b l i n d a d m i s sions results in admitted students with demo n s t ra te d CORNELL f i n a n cial need not being awarded any financial aid.

“For international and undocumented admitted students who have demonstrated financial need but are awarded no Cornell financial aid, they must decide if they will, with their own resources, attend Cornell,” Kotlikoff said.

Mackenzie Lemieux ’18, an international student on financial aid, expressed reservations about the new policy.

“I can see how this would seem like a good idea in theory, but they definitely do not actually stand by what they say,” Lemieux said.

Lemieux added that she believes the university has a good idea of the amount of aid

students need but often does not provide the amount they had promised.

“They also do not factor in exchange rates which is especially bad considering the Canadian dollar right now,” Lemieux said. “I definitely think that they are less lenient to international students when it comes to giving aid.”

Shivang Tayal, international liaison at large to the Cornell Student Assembly, also voiced concerns about the equity of the policy, saying he would like to know why these standards are imposed for international students and not for domestic applicants.

Another international student said in making the admissions process for international students “need-aware,” Cornell risks diminishing its student diversity.

“One of the main reasons people go to elite institutions such as Cornell is to be surrounded by a diverse group of intelligent people,” the stu-

dent said. “The fact that students come from different backgrounds and countries has meant that I have learnt as much from my peers as from my classes. Preparing students for life after college should involve preparing them to interact with different cultures, a task which Cornell cannot accomplish without an international student population.”

This policy shift will also affect undocumented students who hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, according to the provost’s announcement.

“Undocumented immigrants who hold DACA status will, starting in fall, be considered the same as U.S. citizens and permanent residents,” Kotlikoff said last week. “Such students will not have to be included in the fixed $11.53 million budget but instead will be included in the open-ended financial aid expenditures that Cornell now spends on U.S. citizens and permanent residents.”

On Feb. 10, the Dartmouth College Student Assembly announced via a campuswide email that it has drafted a student Bill of Rights in reaction to student frustrations.

Assembly President Frank Cunningham said that after the committee shows the draft to the student body, it will undergo further revision before being presented to the administration. He added that the assembly hopes the administration will incorporate the bill into the student handbook, making it a “living document.”

Cunningham noted that a document like this does not exist at other colleges. He said that most colleges have a Bill of Rights for students, but these bills are only intended to clarify the student handbook, not to be incorporated within it. He did mention that students at Georgetown University are working toward a similar document, but said that besides that “no one has ever tried to do something like this.”

Next Monday, a town hall will be held in Collis Common Ground on the first draft of this Bill of Rights.

Jeff Fastow, the co-chair of the Committee on Student Affairs, wrote in an email that a key consideration in drafting the Bill of Rights was making sure it was amendable.

“We want this to be a constructive bridge between students and the administration, something to more formally codify both what we value most and also what rights we are most adamant on retaining,” Fastow said.

Cunningham said that recent policy changes on campus have caused “unneeded tension” across campus.

“We wanted to figure out a way to open up a dialogue between the administration and the student body,” Cunningham said, adding that the current student handbook has many “gray areas” in terms of student rights. A document produced by the 1985

and 1986 assemblies provided the foundation for the Bill of Rights draft, DARTMOUTH he said.

C u n ningham said that the Bill of Rights seeks to address three main issues regarding campus life: academics, Safety and Security and Judicial Affairs.

Assembly Chief of Staff Nick Harrington said the assembly intends to produce tangible policy changes and stay away from large overarching policies that lack clarity.

“We see these macro-level policy changes happening at Dartmouth like [Moving Dartmouth Forward],” Harrington said. “From a student [government] perspective we don’t want student rights cast aside, we want clarity on what the experience of the everyday student will be at Dartmouth, we want clarity from the administration of what that expectation is.”

Co-Chair of the Committee on Student Affairs Spencer Furey said that the assembly has been working on creating a bill of rights since the beginning of the year. The process has involved going through the student handbook and speaking with students.

Furey said that he is excited to get a wide variety of professor and student input at the upcoming town hall.

When asked how he felt about MDF and the Dartmouth administration, Eric Gokee said that he believed communication between the students and the administration could be improved.

Andrew Sheinberg, a prospective student on campus for Winter Carnival, said that a bill of rights would increase his confidence on campus as a student.

Harrington said that a conversation with the administration can only happen after the student body has had one amongst itself.

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BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS In its past four games, the No. 8 Yale men’s hockey team has faced three ranked teams and defeated each one. This weekend, the Bulldogs will host two more top-20 squads at Ingalls Rink as the fight for conference and NCAA Tournament positioning continues.

MEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (16–5–4, 11–4–3 ECAC Hockey) welcome a pair of strikingly similar teams — right down to those opponents’ over-

all records — to New Haven on Friday and Saturday in their final regular-season homestand of the season. No. 18 St. Lawrence (16– 11–3, 10–6–2) opens the weekend at Yale, while No. 20 Clarkson (16–11–3, 8–7–3) closes out the Bulldogs’ 2015–16 home slate.

A welcome boost to Yale’s lineup will come in the form of All-American defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16, who will play after missing the Elis’ past two contests at Colgate and No. 16 Cornell due to a suspension. And while the Bulldogs have won five SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 currently ranks seventh in the Ivy League, and first among all Ancient Eight sophomores, in scoring.

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER With just two more victories, the Yale men’s basketball team, winners of 12 consecutive contests, can move into a tie for the longest winning streak in school history — a 14-game mark set back in 1906–1907.

And with two more victories, the Elis (17–5, 8–0 Ivy)

can also create substantial separation from the rest of the league as they pursue their first NCAA Tournament berth since 1962.

Yale will have to go through Princeton (16–5, 6–1) and Penn (9–12, 3–4), two Ivy League opponents the Bulldogs have already defeated this season.

Princeton currently occupies second place in the conference and could pull even with the

Elis in the loss column with a victory Friday night.

“Best case scenario, we play well defensively and keep [Princeton’s Henry] Caruso in check,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “Brandon [Sherrod ’16] gets 15-plus [points], I get 15-plus, Makai [Mason ’18] gets five assists and we win by six to eight points. I think that’s a good night for us. Then we go beat Penn the next night and

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BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER After 27 games, spanning over four months and 1,630 minutes of physically demanding play, the 2015–16 season for the Yale women’s hockey team now hinges on just one weekend.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Out of the eight teams that make the ECAC postseason each year, Yale (10– 16–1, 9–10–1 ECAC Hockey) currently sits in eighth — teetering on the edge, only one point ahead of ninth-place Cor-

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The Bulldogs may face the added challenge of dealing with the continued absence of captain and guard Jack Montague ’16, who missed two games last weekend after starting the first 20 games of the season.

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The Bulldogs, riding a five-game winning streak, hope to keep the top spot in the ECAC Hockey standings against two ranked opponents.

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nell. Should the Bulldogs win their games Friday at St. Lawrence (14–13–5, 8–8–4) and Saturday at No. 5 Clarkson (24–3– 5, 12–3–5), they would be guaranteed a conference playoff spot, but should they fail to win both games, their playoff hopes would be put in doubt.

“Knowing what’s at stake this weekend, we haven’t changed our approach or preparation very much, in that we’re focusing on the process and how we play more so than just the outcome,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “But there’s definitely been an extra edge and urgency SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8

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Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 ranks first on the Bulldogs in assists and rebounds, and third on the team in scoring.

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team will look to snap its six-game losing streak this weekend, when it plays Penn and Princeton, the top two teams in the Ivy League.

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Forward Brittany Wheeler ’18 has tallied two goals and an assist for the Bulldogs this season.

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With only six games remaining this season, the Bulldogs (11–14, 2–6 Ivy) have a small margin for error if they want to improve upon last year’s 7–7 conference record. However, this weekend’s opponents will not make that an easy task. Yale first plays Princeton (17–4, 6–1), last year’s confer-

ence champion, at home Friday night, before taking on Penn (18–3, 7–0), this year’s league leader, on Saturday.

“We are all human and it is natural to have doubts creep in after a stretch of disappointing losses,” head coach Allison Guth said. “It is my job as our leader to stay the course and address both the mental and physical aspects of the game, [so] this week our coaching staff will be creative in finding ways to improve our mentality by holding each member of our family accountable.”

She added that with a new staff, there have been some “growing pains” associated with building the foundation of a successful program, though the team did perform well in compet-

itive losses to strong nonconference opponents such as Dayton and North Carolina.

However, the Bulldogs’ only Ivy wins this season have come against Brown, which is tied with Columbia for last place in the conference standings. Last weekend, the Bulldogs squandered a pair of 20-point leads against Dartmouth and Harvard, unable to seal either victory after a pair of strong first halves. Yale will need to execute for all 40 minutes if the team hopes to come away from this weekend with at least one win.

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THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS WON IN A ROW, MARKING THE LONGEST ACTIVE WINNING STREAK IN ALL OF DIVISION I MEN’S BASKETBALL. Stony Brook had owned the longest perfect stretch at 17 games before losing 82–70 to Albany on Wednesday.

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IN SEARCH OF NEOMASCULINITY VICTOR

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My involvement with the men’s rights movement in New Haven began shortly after 8:00 p.m. on Feb 6. and ended exactly 27 minutes later, when I lost sight of a 20-something in a red jacket I had been following for some time.

Let me explain: Return of Kings is a blog devoted to the concept of “neomasculinity,” a misogynistic, homophobic worldview with massive appeal to tens of thousands of men worldwide. The movement is to some degree a cult of personality centered around Daryush Valizadeh, an American writer who has called for the legalization of rape on all private property.

Some core tenets of the group’s philosophy: “A woman’s value significantly depends on her fertility and beauty. A man’s value significantly depends on his resources, intellect and character.

“Elimination of traditional sex roles and the promotion of unlimited mating choice in women unleashes their promiscuity and o t h e r negative b e h avi o r s t h a t block fa m i ly formation.

“Socialism, feminism, cultural Marxism and social justice warriorism aim to destroy the family unit, decrease the fertility rate and impoverish the state through l a r g e we l fa re entitlements.”

T h e group h a d planned

an international meetup day on Saturday, Feb. 6, but widespread backlash and threats of protest led Valizadeh to announce three days before the scheduled meetup that he could “no longer guarantee the safety or privacy of the men who want to attend on Feb. 6, especially since most of the meetups can not [sic] be made private in time.”

Still, he wrote: “I can’t stop men who want to continue meeting in private groups.”

Which is where I come in.

I had been hoping to attend the unofficial meetup: infiltrate their ranks, befriend the misogynists and later, write about my experience in the Yale Daily News.

When I arrived at the flagpole on the New Haven Green at 8:00 p.m., I was decidedly nervous. An overweight man in a grey hoodie was loitering near the monument staring at his phone, but I saw no large crowd so I walked through to the street, where I stood and watched. After a couple minutes a guy in a red jacket walked from the corner of Chapel, said something to the man, then started back the way he came at an intense pace. I approached the other man.

“Do you know where I can find a pet shop?” This was the secret question, to which members of the group were supposed to reply, “Yes, it’s right here.”

But instead, nothing.

“Nah, man. No pet store around here. Closest one must be in Hamden.” He didn’t seem surprised or confused that I was frantically looking for a pet store on the New Haven Green at 8 o’clock on a Saturday night. Maybe he could tell that I was insincere, not a “real man” who looked capable of “swooping” girls with my “evolutionary advantages.”

I figured the man in the red jacket had known the real code and was on his way to the meetup. So I turned and followed him across the Green, toward State Street.

I walked quickly to keep him

in sight, struggling to match his clip. In the darkness he was hard to track. I had left my glasses at home to appear less intellectual, more primal, as if less-than-perfect eyesight was an evolutionary flaw that would have subjected me to ridicule at the hands of the group. I kept thinking the man would turn into the next bar or restaurant. He passed a Subway, a Dunkin’ Donuts, but still nothing. I was on the other side of the street about 20 yards back.

Had the man seemed disappointed or defeated after his brief encounter at the flagpole, I would have assumed there was no meetup. But he pushed on, and in that moment I thought that no one could have a stronger sense of his own destination, as if an angel in a grey hoodie had told him of an entrance to paradise right here in New Haven.

Soon we arrived at a church.

He proceeded to the entryway, ostensibly looking for a way in.

He tried each of the building’s four entrances, but I suppose they must have been locked.

I stood on the corner with my phone to my ear, speaking to no one.

I held my ground while he walked to the end of the block and back. The whole process took about five minutes.

After coming back to where he had just been he proceeded to dart down the block running perpendicular to his previous route, and at that point I decided to continue after him.

It occurred to me that he had absolutely no idea where he was going, a fact that contradicted the absolute assuredness of his gait. This also was the first moment when he might have realized I was following him. I had already considered the consequences of such a result. For the first time that night, I texted a friend to let her know where I was and what I was up to.

We were on Wooster Street.

A lit-up arch alerted me that New Haven may have a Little Italy. I saw a sign for Pepe’s.

Would he dart into the restau-

rant to join the rest of his neomasculine buddies? What a delightful New Haven charm a white clam pizza would have injected into their debate on the importance of a woman’s capacity for housework!

But still the man kept moving, until he reached the corner, where he stopped and waited.

Waiting, waiting, what was he always waiting for? I know that I’ll never know. He just stood there looking around lamely, never taking out a cell phone, never seeming lost, either.

Then he moved once again and stood in front of a small apartment building across the street from I-95. I was observing from a well-lit corner 50 yards away. I was sure he would see me. I would have to explain myself, and, surprisingly, I didn’t have a plan for that. I had fought my fear of a confrontation by denying that it would ever happen. I consulted my phone: 8:27 p.m.

And then, just like that, he was gone. Vanished. I waited a minute to walk down the dark street, but could find no trace of him. I lingered on the sidewalk for a few minutes and gave up. Mission failed.

The walk back to campus was lonely and cold. Should I have asked him where he was going? Maybe he was just exploring the ins and outs of the city on a Saturday night on which he had no prior engagements. Maybe he was on his way to the meetup but, like me, couldn’t find the other Kings.

It’s easier to think of confronting the man now, as opposed to when I was standing on some dimly lit side street without a soul in sight.

Anyway, the point is this: There are men’s rights activists walking among us. They hide in plain sight, fixing your laptops, sitting in your lecture halls, handing you cups of coffee from behind the counter. They’re out there. But will they plan another meetup sometime soon?

make me six and him four. It was hot and melty and happy and loud. And it’s that specific melty-loud-hot happiness that I feel when my phone is on shuffle and I turn up the volume, because whenever I hear that song, I think, “Damn right, I’m the weirdo whose favorite

childhood album is the original Shrek soundtrack,” because: “Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed … ”

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

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// BY KENDALL TEARE I never even thought to change the radio station. Not once. No, for the whole of my childhood — and I mean, the Long Childhood (0–20) — the radios in my parents’ cars were tuned to either 88.5 or 90.5.

Only.

If you’re from central Connecticut, like me, you’ll know those are the two NPR FMs. It’s not that I wasn’t aware that there were other numbers. I knew that. KISS 95.7 (iHeartRadio) implicitly DJed every middle school dance, and in carpools, 96.5 TIC-FM blasted from minivan speakers whenever show tunes didn’t. Perhaps it’s because I was too quick to accept authority. But I think the real reason I was never so brazen as to reach out and spin the dial away from Colin McEnroe, Kai Ryssdal and Lakshmi Singh was that it never bothered me that I didn’t know even the top four out of 40, or the name of the song about the apple-bottom jeans, or — honestly — who Eminem was, until, like, 7th grade. Instead of encoding those useful pieces of information, the ones with real-world applicability for both my 7- and 17-year-old selves, I was absorbing this: WEDW Stanford/Greenwich, WRLI Southampton, WPKT Meriden, WECS Willimantic and WNPR and wnpr.org (which is the sign off of every Connecticut NPR program, a piece of trivia that I have copied here from memory).

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This, however, does not make me special, or cool (in some countercultural twist of logic), but I share my atypical experience because it’s what I was thinking about last Friday, after a lovely car ride back from Costco with my new buttery co-manager. I was getting to know much more about him, about specifically his taste in music. The child of immigrants, he listened his way to a musical education almost exclusively through top pop hits stations, and today, he’s still a die-hard American Idol fan, albeit a very selfaware one. That all made me think: Huh, well when I wasn’t repeating the public radio call signs in my head, I had “Yellow Submarine,” or “If I Had a Million Dollars” or “Tomorrow” (from “Annie”) stuck in it. My music taste grew up through the rocky New England soil that was my parents’ CD collection — classic jazz, The Beatles, Van Morrison, a handful of musicals (thanks, Mom) and several other white male artists (thanks, Dad). After that car ride, for the rest of that afternoon, actually, I did something that I — and I would guess many other Yalies — do not often do, which is feel thankful for being me.

I often compare myself unfavorably to my peers, to people who right now are probably eating brunch in Morse or still sleeping in the Elmhurst or already studying in Bass. We

obviously all know this is easy to do in this big pond full of top dogs. But when you get beyond GPA, talent, social status — or at least when I do — you begin to realize that there’s a lot more to compare.

Like, what kind of music do I like and know, and how did I come to like and know it?

Or: How does my memory work? Long-term, short-term?

Trivial, weighty? What did my brain latch onto as a little kid?

Doesn’t it feel a little special to know that I may be the only one who can verbatim recite the NPR stations from my home state?

Or: How did my family shape me, for better or worse? Did my little brother have the same experience of music then, too?

Did he ever feel self-conscious about not being up on the Billboard Hot 100? Do he and I have a special bond because of public radio and the Rolling Stones and the Barenaked Ladies and Ray Charles?

I like everything except country, but I know that’s just because I haven’t listened to enough of it. Most everything that my parents didn’t introduce to me was a gift from my close friends (everything from the Jonas Brothers to the New Pornographers, I credit to them). I remember almost exclusively trivial sorts of information, and I remember the negative moments of life more often, but it is the positive ones that actually transport me

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to another time and place. For example: sitting in a car seat in the back of a white Volvo, rocking out to Smash Mouth’s “All Star” and sharing a Hershey’s Cookies ‘N’ Cream candy bar with Henry, my little brother.

It was probably 2002, and definitely summer, which would

// HUY TRUONG

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( DON’T ) SHOP TILL YOU DROP // BY JESSICA BLAU

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verything about the store looks expensive. Behind the glass windows, mannequins are clustered together in groups of three or four, each one wearing loose-hanging layers of clothing in neutral colors and sophisticated patterns. Every so often, the mannequins are replaced with posters that could be in fashion magazines. On one, an aloof-looking blond woman wearing a minidress grips a luxurious fur coat. On another, a man in a leather jacket sits on the edge of a rustic table. Near the ground, brand names span the length of the storefront: Rebecca Minkoff, J Brand, Bailey 44, AG // Denim, Free People. There are no accompanying descriptions; the brands speak for themselves. Here, on the corner of Broadway and York in New Haven is Emporium DNA, one of the newest retailers to join The Shops at Yale — and also one of the loneliest.

The blurb on The Shops at Yale’s website declares that Emporium DNA is “expected to become a retail powerhouse in New Haven and Connecticut.” Still, on a Saturday afternoon in November, almost a year after opening, the store is nearly empty. Though the sidewalk is crowded with people passing by Emporium’s open doors and posters advertising the boutique’s fall sale, only one couple is shopping inside. The shoppers are out-

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numbered by three saleswomen, one of whom is assisting the couple while the other two stand unneeded by the registers. Perhaps it is the store’s intimidating glass windows that keep shoppers out, or perhaps it is the reputed high price tags. Regardless, shoppers are not shopping. And, with the store taking nearly 3,000 square feet of precious retail space on a street that many members of the Yale community frequent every day and rely on to service their shopping needs during the school year, Emporium almost seems to be a waste of space.

A NEW NEW HAVEN Before there was Emporium, there was Au Bon Pain, the counter-style soup-and-sandwich chain cafe. The cafe closed in May 2013, and the space remained vacant until fall 2014 when Emporium opened in its place. Before Au Bon Pain’s closing, the location, owned by Yale University Properties, the real-estate company that manages Yale’s commercial holdings, hadn’t changed hands in over 15 years. Suddenly, an inexpensive cafe beloved by the Yale community and the New Haven public alike was replaced by a retailer that did not seem to serve either population. Why did University Properties make a change? And, more pressingly, why this change?

According to Lauren Zucker, associate vice president and director of University Properties

and New Haven Affairs, University Properties’ mission is to “create a vital downtown New Haven.”

She asserts that 20 years ago, the area was unsightly and unsafe.

Stores were boarded up. People weren’t comfortable walking around after dark. Now, thanks in large part to the new restaurants and stores adding vitality and, as a result, safety to the community, downtown New Haven is an entirely different place.

University Properties is still trying to create what Zucker calls a “carefully curated mix” of stores in the downtown area.

It is attempting not only to add vibrancy and life to the community, but also to be a competitive and alluring shopping district. University Properties isn’t just trying to appeal to students, who Zucker explains are here for only eight months of the year and aren’t here for the make-or-break holiday shopping season. Rather, University Properties needs to appeal to the people within a 30-mile radius of New Haven.

It’s difficult to ignore one of the critiques of Emporium and of The Shops at Yale as a whole: by bringing yet another high-end store to Broadway, University Properties is alienating the existing New Haven residents. With the average household income in New Haven County between 2009–13 just shy of $62,000 a year, according to the Census Bureau, it’s hard to imagine that the average New Haven resident would be buying a Rebecca Minkoff bag (Empori-

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um’s least expensive model: a tiny $125 crossbody) or a pair of J Brand jeans (Emporium’s least expensive pair: $178).

Zucker doesn’t avoid the issue of gentrification, but instead responds with the notion that not all stores will appeal to or be suited for the average New Haven resident, just like not all stores will be for students, professors or older professionals. “We have to have a mix,” Zucker insists. To attract a broad customer base, The Shops at Yale can’t just have one kind of store or one price point. University Properties, it seems, is trying to look at the bigger picture.

“The store may not be perfect for you,” says Zucker. “That doesn’t mean it’s not perfect for someone else … Not every store is for every person, nor should it be, nor can it be.”

Even if the bulk of New Haven residents or students aren’t the targeted consumers, Emporium still seems to be an odd choice.

Currently, there are two other Emporium locations. The newest, which opened in April 2014, is in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., a neighborhood described by the Washingtonian as a “cosmopolitan outpost.” The other, which opened in 2006 and was the site of the original concept, is inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, a hotel and casino. Previously, there was a location at Revel Resorts in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but the store closed in the fall of 2014 after being open for just over a year.

In any case, the shopping dis-

trict surrounding a college campus seems to be an entirely different community than a high-end resort, a fabulous Vegas casino or even a trendy D.C. neighborhood.

“The owner had deep experience with retail,” Zucker says, when asked why University Properties brought Emporium to Yale.

“And we loved this concept. These are brands that would have been unable to come to New Haven on their own … Rebecca Minkoff isn’t going to open up a store on Broadway, but with Emporium, people still have access to her brand.”

Emporium is owned by IK Retail Group, a fashion retailer and consulting firm created by longtime retail developer Iraklis Karabassis. Zucker says she doesn’t remember who approached whom about Emporium’s possible place on Broadway, but the answer seems to be tied to another one of IK Retail Group’s companies: KIKO Milano, an Italian cosmetics brand with a store right next door to Emporium on Broadway, for which IK Retail Group “negotiates for all retail space locations for the development and opening of KIKO Milano stores” in the United States, according to Karabassis’ LinkedIn page. According to Zucker, University Properties “aggressively” pursued KIKO Milano after determining that downtown New Haven would benefit from a cosmetics store. Zucker could not comment on whether or not Emporium and SEE COVER PAGE B8

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WHO WEARS THE PA(I)NTS? // BY HEDY GUTFREUND In 1869 — 100 years before Yale College would open its doors to women — the Yale School of Fine Arts opened its doors on 1071 Chapel St., right across the street from where the Yale School of Art currently resides. Alice and Susan Silliman, the daughters of residential college namesake Benjamin Silliman, were two of the first students in an inaugural class of three.

Fast forward to 2016, and the Yale School of Art has just appointed its first female dean, Marta Kuzma. Kuzma is currently the vice chancellor and rector of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden, and she will succeed Dean Robert Storr after this academic year.

The School of Art is responding in other ways to calls for diversity and inclusion that have sounded across campus. In the past month, students and faculty have formed a diversity committee, coordinated by Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking Anoka Faruqee ’94 MFA ’97. On Feb. 15, the School of Art held a town hall for its entire community to address questions of diversity in both large- and small-group formats.

Diversity committee member Laura Coombs MFA ’17 said the committee plans to address a number of issues, including that of diversifying the faculty. She hopes and believes that in the future students will play a bigger role in bringing diversity into the school.

But today’s efforts, combined with a long history of female art students and the appointment of the School of Art’s first woman dean, pose the question: Has the Yale School of Art been a place of gender parity, and is it now?

ber 1971 meeting minutes show attempts at an effort to “increase and coordinate resources from which the graduate School of Art may review young talent from minority groups.”

Still, meeting minutes from the same year reveal that some of the faculty hesitated to embrace diversity without any qualifications. Minutes from a March 1971 meeting of School of Art faculty quote then-Dean Howard Weaver as saying, “A diverse faculty requires a diverse student body.

But the crucial point is whether the student is willing to work and study, and to exchange ideas with the faculty.”

IMPLICATIONS OF A FEMALE DEAN Farah Al-Qasimi ’12 MFA ’17 said that having a woman dean at the School of Art is “wonderful and well overdue,” and that she is excited about Kuzma’s international experience and looks forward to how the program will continue to morph under her leadership. Al-Qasimi also noted that the School of Art is lucky to already have several remarkable female leaders, like de Bretteville, Faruqee and Director of Undergraduate Studies Lisa Kereszi MFA ’00.

Kereszi said she is often unaware of any gender disparity. In the 2014-15 academic year, the tenured faculty consisted half of men and half of women, which

reflects a stark shift in gender culture since de Bretteville’s time as a student in the 1960s. Kereszi said she is the first female DUS in some time, and that she actually hadn’t known there had been female directors until she herself took the position.

“Of course, I always knew there was no female dean, but I felt it was just a matter of time — like a female president. It’s obviously too late, but you have to move forward,” Kereszi said. “I have a young daughter, and hopefully when she’s my age, it will be even less of an issue. Maybe by then there will have been a couple of female presidents, and maybe the next thing Yale needs is a female president.”

Faruqee noted that the School of Art has long been committed to educating women, but women remained a minority at the broader University for a long time.

“If you’re a woman, and you don’t see women in power, you may begin to unconsciously pick up on what those cues are telling you,” Faruqee said.

For Kereszi, such a disparity does not seem to be an active consideration in her experiences with the art world. She said she rarely notices the gender imbalance unless someone points it out.

“If you show me the numbers, I will be surprised,” Kereszi said, referring to the lack of gender diversity. “I just kind of choose to put my head down and make

my work and go.” Still, she fears the implications of dealers, curators and collectors being predominantly straight white men.

Kereszi lauded the Guerrilla Girls campaign of the 1980s, which responded to the lack of representation of women artists in major art museums.

In a digital age, that sort of representation goes far beyond art museums. Next month, the School of Art, along with other art and library organizations on campus, will host an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

The event’s online description explains that Wikipedia “is free and crowdsources, but depends on the interests of those who contribute.” The edit-a-thon aims to better represent women and women artists by increasing feminist participation in the world’s free encyclopedia.

But even while the art world and online encyclopedia world remain male-dominated, Kereszi noted that the undergraduate program in art is predominantly female. Of the 13 junior art majors, two are male. This year, there are five male senior art majors, which Kereszi said is an unusually high number.

Christopher Paolini ’17, one of the two male junior art majors, said this gender disparity does not stand out to him because many classes have equal gender ratios, even if the students taking them aren’t art majors.

He also noted that many

classes “try to be as equal as possible in terms of representation.”

Paolini, a graphic design concentrator, has had mostly female professors in the Art Department. He characterized the department as a whole as “incredibly accepting of all genders and ethnicities.”

GENDER IN A NEW LIGHT But even though students and faculty alike are excited about having a woman dean and overall say there is gender parity in the department, their excitement is tempered by the work that remains to be done. These efforts, led by the Diversity Committee, are aiming towards more nuanced understandings of diversity and discrimination.

“If I had to make a generalization about where our culture was in the 1950s versus now, [it] is that any kind of discrimination now takes a more subtle form than it did then,” Faruqee said. “We still have to fight against implicit and unconscious bias, and they’re harder to name and identify and discuss because a lot of that is unintentional.”

As the diversity coordinator, Faruqee wants to ensure that all students feel comfortable speaking up in critiques and classroom discussions. She emphasized the importance of people at the School of Art working on a dayto-day basis toward inclusion.

Isaac Howell MFA ’17 suggested that thinking outside the

gender binary by campaigning for all-gender bathrooms, for example, is one day-to-day way to be inclusive. This idea is in line, he said, with the School of Art’s trajectory in thinking about gender.

“Even just thinking outside the traditional binary is something the School of Art is working on, like having pronoun rounds in class,” Howell said, referring to the practice of allowing every student in a class to specify a preferred pronoun. “That way, we can recognize that it’s not just people who identify as men and women who enroll in the School of Art.” Al-Qasimi explained that the diversity committee is helping to facilitate this work in various ways, such as through education, asking questions and understanding and appreciating the ways in which people are “infinitely complex.”

De Bretteville said she believes Kuzma is coming at an ideal time, when the School of Art is beginning to embrace a larger bandwidth in thinking about sexual and gender identity.

“This is the best moment ever here because there are more people who are sensitive to the diverse places of origin, experiences of people of different backgrounds, including different sexualities, and I think it’s a wonderful time,” de Bretteville said.

Contact HEDY GUTFREUND at hedy.gutfreund@yale.edu .

A DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE When Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design Sheila Levrant de Bretteville MFA ’64 returned to Yale in 1990 as the first female tenured professor at the School of Art, she encountered a vastly different institution from the one she had known in the 1960s. Before de Bretteville accepted the position, she hesitated. She recalled contacting a Yale-affiliated friend to ask about the “condition of Yale at that time.”

“When I was here [for an MFA in the 1960s], it was totally a male undergraduate school. That was a whole different time,” de Bretteville said. “It was a time [when] male privilege was so well installed that one of the faculty grabbed me in the darkroom, and I was told not to say anything to the director because it happened all the time.”

Because of that incident, she started asking her classmates and professors to call her “Ms. Levrant” (her maiden name), as people had done in her undergraduate years at the all-female Barnard College, rather than Sheila. A lot had changed by the time she returned as a professor, but that incident and others continued to color her perception of Yale. De Bretteville said when she returned, it was “wonderful to see women lying out in the grass without any fear that someone was going to jump on them.”

Still, she often felt out of sync with the University’s administration. She recounted an incident during which administrators requested that she reprimand a student for hosting an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power event, which she herself saw as an appropriate way to honor diverse sexualities. She argued in the student’s defense that “the economy of expression was very out of balance.”

The School of Art, despite reflecting the male power and privilege existing throughout the rest of the University, did consider diversity — beyond gender diversity — as early as 1971, just as women were entering Yale College. This 1971 perspective on diversity is hardly fleshed out or progressive, but the conversation existed even when Yale was still quite homogenous. Novem-

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THE SCARS OF WAR // BY IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY

“Refugees: Stories of Life’s Dreams and Scars,” a multimedia installation by Mohamad Hafez, explores the effects and horrors of the Syrian refugee crisis, as well as the aftermath of the war in Iraq. Hafez and his two collaborators, brother-sister duo Wurood and Maher Mahmoud, have created a topical and haunting installation that humanizes the consequences of conflict.

Walking into the space, I am confronted by a white wall, over which hang 120 origami paper boats. It’s aesthetically pleasing, attractive and calming in its minimalism. But upon further examination, the boats are impaled by ominously pointed fishhooks, which serve as the means of suspension. I learn from the explanatory card that each of the boats represents 62 dead refugees, all of whom drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean between 2014 and 2016. What at first appears to be an abstract exercise in clean minimalism is actually a fiercely political statement. As it turns out, this sets the tone for much of the rest of the exhibit.

Passing behind the wall, I face several high-contrast blackand-white photographs of postwar life in Iraq, the contributions of Maher Mahmoud. The photos are eerily ambiguous, showing empty doorways and elderly citizens simply staring off into space. Perhaps most telling is a photo of a young boy pretending that a piece of wood is a gun.

Perhaps the war has been internalized by everyone, leaving the young — who have never experienced anything else — to emulate violence, and the old to take refuge in memory of better times.

The other purely photographic element of the exhibition is Hafez’s. A visually overwhelming collage of snapshots dominates an entire wall. Every photo is roughly the same size and quality as those many of us took with disposable cameras when we were younger, before digital was the standard. Interspersed with the smiling faces of children are more disconcerting images: burned dolls, men crying, heads wrapped in bloody gauze. What first seems familiar and nostalgic is anything but. The photos suggest that despite the innocence that many of the subjects exhibit, happiness exists under the constant threat of violence.

Adding to the exhibit’s aching sadness are Wurood Mahmoud’s beautiful drawings. Some are expressionistic and surreal, while others nearly approach pop art in their bright colors and focus on scenes from everyday life. In these drawings, we are shown both the warmth and vibrancy of Iraqi culture in happier times, and the pain wrought by political instability.

Hafaz’s work with miniature is also striking, and perhaps an introduction for some to a strangely underutilized art form. His small-scale replicas of

bombed-out Syrian apartment buildings are startlingly realistic.

It’s only upon further inspection that one notices a slightly surreal edge to them, with the faces of Syrian citizens imprinted upon both the windows and the various pieces of cloth that have been hung out to dry.

The best miniature work, and most surprising aspect of the installation, is a series of four small boxes jutting out from the wall. While they initially appear to be completely closed, one actually has to look through tiny slits (truly tiny, to the point where they can be hard even to find) to catch glimpses of the aftermath of conflict within. One of these boxes contains a surprise I would not dream of revealing to you; suffice to say that it comes as something of a gut punch.

The cumulative effect of the exhibition is hard to describe.

It’s painful and melancholy, an entire room in the middle of Silliman devoted to mourning a culture and generation possibly destroyed by the horrors of war.

The overall atmosphere, however, does not feel like one of depression or victimhood, but of defiance. It feels like a call to arms, a way to make us think about what it means to be a refugee and how a person’s humanity can exist beyond the borders of their homeland.

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

// AYDIN AYKOL

I double dip and so should you // BY JACK BARRY

// NGAN VU

The Yale School of Art lies beyond my usual stomping grounds. Not since freshman year, when I got lost during an ill-fated trip to Radio House, have I ventured beyond the safe haven of Insomnia Cookies. By the time I arrived at the brightly lit building at 1156 Chapel St., I was very cold and desperately wanted to eat an entire cookie cake. Fortunately for me, “Double Dip” is my favorite party pastime and the name of the MFA students’ painting and printmaking thesis exhibition, currently on view in the Green Hall Gallery.

I hoped to go unnoticed, so I put on a beanie before entering the building. In the center

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of the exhibition’s first room lies an unfolded coffin, flattened for examination. The artist of the piece is Sara Coffin ART ’16. This shall not go unobserved. A variety of colored tiles strategically adorn the wooden panels, standing in stark contrast to a matte black background. The manytoned squares and long, thin rectangles alternately scream in bright reds and hum in muted earth tones. Much like a jeweler’s showcase or a neurotic first-grader’s pencil case, the tiles are displayed for both admiration and scrutiny. I developed a fine appreciation for woodworking from my brief stint in the Boy Scouts of America, and I

found that Coffin’s remarkable craftsmanship was only enhanced by her whimsical decoration of vibrant tiles.

By disassembling the coffin — almost emblematic of decomposition — Coffin seems, paradoxically, to highlight the beauty of assembly.

The penultimate room of “Double Dip” features the exhibition’s sole multimedia pieces. A video of a building engulfed in flames loops on a flat-screen television; firefighters examine the scene as they wait for the blaze to consume itself. Small silhouettes of different characters appear at the bottom of the screen. A devil dances fiendishly. A voluptuous woman

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poses alluringly. Bowser from Super Mario Bros. stomps around in furious anticipation for a Princess Peach that will never arrive. The characters are sandwiched between overlapping subtitles, and the words are indecipherable at times. Teto Elsiddique ART ’16, the artist, aligns the incomprehensibility of the subtitles and silhouettes with the futility of the firefighters’ actions. Both man and Bowser stomp around for an impossible hope.

In the exhibition’s final room hang three gargantuan tapestries. They seem like massive pelts skinned from trees by artist Eddie Aparicio ART ’16. The rigid fab-

ric becomes fluid once the air conditioning kicks on, and what looks like the bark of great birch trees flutters in the mechanical breeze. The tapestries tell a story of both chaos and order. Their otherwise natural and organic appearance could only have been created with painstaking care and attention to detail.

When I stood up close to one work, suspended from the tall ceiling, it felt as if I were looking up from the base of a giant sequoia. The edges of the fabric extended well beyond my wingspan. From their respective positions, the tapestries act as the points of a large triangle. Standing within the perimeter of the shape, I felt

like I was gazing out onto a ghostly, two-dimensional forest.

“Double Dip,” displaying the work of 11 unique artists, is an examination in structure and purpose. The artists dissect, unfold and peel away the layers of their subjects, only to reconstruct them in colorful and often surprising fashions.

After perusing the exhibition, I fully intend on double dipping from the Yale School of Art and returning to the gallery. This time, however, I left the brightly lit building cold once more, headed straight for Insomnia Cookies.

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THE BARRIER METHOD // Eliot Levmore Donald Trump admired her from afar. He could lovingly identify every crevasse, every fold and wrinkle; he was obsessed.

“I’ve waited for you for so long,” he murmured. And he had. Trump had chased her for years. He’d flown around the world for her, given speeches for her, and now, finally, she was his.

The first embrace was exhilarating like nothing else.

As he approached her, Trump was ecstatic and electrified. It was a great big wall.

// LAURIE WANG

JINKIES! // Ian Garcia-Kennedy Shaggy and Scooby looked on as they unmasked the Abominable Snowman. As Fred pulled off the mask, Daphne let out a gasp at who was underneath. It was Svetlana and Vladimir, the quadruple-jointed Russian gymnasts and identical fraternal twins standing on each other’s shoulders. Velma quickly explained that the entire plot had been to scare away all the skiers so that the twins could buy the resort cheaply, and turn it into an erotic massage parlor.

While the mystery gang

stood in wonder at the plan, Svetlana exclaimed, “And we would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for you attractive young people.” It was true: the gang had been hitting the gym a lot recently.

Daphne explained that the twins would have to be punished for their crimes. Vlad replied, “That could be bad, depending on who’s the one punishing us.”

Velma agreed, “Well, we would do it, but dishing out punishments can be really … challenging.

I mean, intellectually.”

Eyeing Shaggy, Svetlana replied, “You look up to the task.”

Scooby immediately let out a “Scooby Dooby Dooooo!” of approval. As the group loaded the two into the back of the Mystery Machine, they realized that maybe they could start reforming the two criminals before the police got involved. Looking into the back of the van, Fred said, “Well, gang, looks like we got a bang on our hands.”

MASTER BB-8 // Caroline Tisdale The Millennium Falcon was dark. Quiet beeps emanated from the cockpit and penetrated the stillness in the air. BB-8 was alone, or so he thought. He heard whistles coming from the rear of the aircraft and rolled out of his holding compartment to investigate. The tender whistles grew louder, into heavy mechanic moans. BB-8 slowed his approach. His gears whirred quicker and quicker as he neared the source of the noise.

Suddenly, R2-D2 came into view. The droid was alone, quivering in a shining spotlight left on by Han before he’d closed down the ship. BB-8 stopped and rolled back into the shad-

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“I defile maidens, loot treasure ships and chart new territories!”

Hook roared, often while pressing his rapier to Peter’s tofu-soft alabaster, prepubescent throat.

Hook was a man. He shaved with a straight razor, spoke five languages and tossed screaming children to the alligators.

While Peter found it hysterical to douse her with bathwater or drag underage side hoes to Neverland, Hook no doubt knew how to touch her skin — both square inches of it — with his rough, calloused, ring-studded hand.

And hook.

Sure, pixie dust made humans fly, but the mental image of Captain Hook’s dark-eyed gaze and blood-splattering brutal-

ows. He saw R2-D2’s probe extended, firmly mounted in a socket on the wall. Sparks flew, and the droid let out soft autotuned croons. BB-8 had never seen this from R2-D2 before.

BB-8 was confused, but most of all, he was curious.

“Bee weeeep-dee doo?”

BB-8 rolled forward out of the shadows, so just the front half of his carriage was exposed.

R2-D2 did not respond. BB-8 rolled forward some more, close enough to the other droid that he could feel the floor of the Falcon vibrating. The air grew sticky and hot as steam wafted from R2-D2’s ventilation shafts. With a particularly large tremor, BB-8 was thrust forward toward R2-D2. Finally, the round droid’s presence was

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ity alone would kick Tink gasping into the stratosphere, her bursts of ecstasy punctuating the pirate’s every snarled oath in her head.

“He’s a sexist capitalist pig!” fumed Peter once, punching their bin of laundered rags. “A bloodthirsty, lecherous, vain and power-hungry grown-up, right, Tink?”

But Tink had only stammered an excuse. Later, she’d tossed for hours in her driftwood bed before darting over snoring Lost Boys to rant to her one trusted friend.

“I’m frustrated and sick of waiting for Peter to notice me!” tinkled Tinker Bell, wings quavering.

“Yeah,” replied her reflection in the cold, moon-dappled pool, possibly representing her sexual subconscious. “Hook’s ass, though.”

In the present, Tink’s slackjawed reverie was interrupted by the metallic crank of a key in its padlock. Her heartbeat stuttered. Maybe dreams did come true in Neverland after all.

noticed. R2-D2 pulled his probe out of the wall in surprise. More sparks flew. The motion of the withdrawal propelled BB-8 across the compartment, into the opposite wall, from which he ricocheted back towards R2-D2, whose probe was still unsheathed and pointing right towards the other droid. They met with another surprised squeal. BB-8’s gears started turning. He didn’t know what was going on, or what to do now, but it felt right.

“Beep eeeeeep wee…”

R2-D2 softly chirped into BB-8’s auditory receptors. The pair hummed together, alone, or so they thought. From the doorway, C-3PO watched, and a single glistening tear rolled down his golden cheek.

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A MORE PERFECT UNION // Agnes Enkhtamir Alexander Hamilton burst out of the General’s office and into his waiting room in a state of hysterics. His eyes searched the small but richly furnished place until they locked on their target: Thomas. The French-loving bastard sat in the corner, pathetically looking at the folded hands in his lap.

Alexander had never wanted to punch someone out so much. But he wouldn’t. He would contain the rage and the betrayal that felt like fire in his throat. “Jefferson,” Alex choked out. “The General wants to see you. He broke up with me.”

That was all he could manage. He didn’t want Thomas to see him weep, so he bolted from the scene.

Thomas watched Alex run from the room, his coattails flapping in the wind after him. Perhaps they were waving goodbye.

Thomas waited a couple of beats before entering the General’s office, so he wouldn’t cross paths with the heartbroken Hamilton. Just the idea of having George Washington all to himself made his heart beat faster and his palms sweat.

He entered the office light-headed.

He could see the back of the president’s chair. He was gazing out of the window behind his desk. Probably thinking about fiscal independence and Congress and declarations…God, he was hot.

“Mr. President?” Thomas winced as his voice broke.

“Mr. Jefferson. I was hoping we could work out some details about your Bill of Rights.” The general’s voice was a deep baritone, soothing and comforting and just a little bit dangerous. The sound of it made Thomas’s heart skip a beat because all of his blood was rushing to his loins. “Please, sit.”

He reached for a chair, but the general stopped him. “I meant in my lap, Thomas.”

Thomas blushed so furiously he was sure even his white hair turned a rosy red. “Alright, sir.” He walked toward the General seated at his desk. He wasn’t surprised to see that he was naked from the torso down.

Thomas was so excited to coax the General to a compromise.

A DARK NIGHT IN GOTHAM // Jack Barry A heavy hot rain poured down, drenching anyone foolish enough to step outside without protection. Ben was foolish enough — usually, Jennifer reminded him to take an umbrella. Things had been hard ever since Jennifer decided to leave with the kids. She couldn’t stand any more late nights, wondering if Ben was ever going to come home. He had been different ever since he got a new job. As an actor, Ben devoted himself entirely to each role, but this one had been different. Now, Ben stayed up late wondering if his family would ever be whole again.

Ben’s shirt was soaking wet when he arrived at the apartment. His fitted white tee clung to every ripple of his muscled body. Cold from the rain, Ben’s pecs and well-defined abs were visible through the thin fabric.

“Ben, you’re soaked!” Christian said with a laugh. “Let’s get you out of that shirt, buddy.”

Christian strode over to Ben, placing his large, rough hands at the hem of Ben’s shirt, slowly lifting the dripping white tee over Ben’s head. The two men were face to face. Ben could feel the heat radiating off of Christian’s muscular body. Christian’s chiseled face leaned in close to Ben’s ear.

Christian whispered, “Let’s talk about Batman. Buddy.”

Ben Affleck had met Christian Bale almost daily for the past several months, asking him every imaginable question about assuming the role of Batman. Over time, the two grew closer until Ben’s wife Jennifer Garner began to ask questions. But tonight, the only question left unanswered was what the two men would do.

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WEEKEND SHOPS

ON BROADWAY // BY JESSICA BLAU

// JULIA HENRY

COVER FROM PAGE B3 KIKO Milano were a package deal, citing University Properties’ “policy not to comment on individual lease terms.” That’s not the only thing University Properties is secretive about; Zucker also couldn’t tell me how long Emporium’s lease is, and whether or not University Properties collects a percentage of Emporium’s sales in addition to the store’s monthly rent.

INSIDE EMPORIUM When I walk into Emporium on a Monday morning in November, there are two sales associates manning the counter. Ten minutes before, seven or eight women were participating in a private shopping party. There was personal styling and champagne. The women all left with ostentatious, bright-orange Emporium bags and took a photo out front before going their separate ways. Now, the sales floor is quiet and the two associates smile expectantly as I approach the registers.

Kelly, a young New Haven native who started at Emporium in July, says “I’m wearing a dress from here right now,” when I ask her if she shops in the store. She gets an employee discount on her purchases, but if I were to buy her same lacy, long-sleeved dress, I would pay the entire $203 plus tax. Andrew, the other sales associate, is broadshouldered and wide-eyed. He wears a checkered shirt and blue jeans. Besides Shea, the manager, he’s the newest member of the team.

A third sales associate is on the phone behind Kelly and Andrew, her back turned away from me. Her name is Lajuanda and she’s the most knowledgeable of the three, having worked at Emporium since its opening last November. She wears a beige blazer and looks like she’s in charge.

Lajuanda finishes her phone call and the three give me their undivided attention, though it is obvious I’m not here to browse the racks.

“We have an eclectic mix of customers,” Lajuanda tells me when I ask what the typical Emporium shopper looks like. She points to the fact that the store has both a younger clientele — Yalies and young professionals — and an older clientele. “The store has something for all of them,” she says.

“You can buy for yourself, or your

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daughter, or your mom, or men. No one gets left out.”

The next day, I meet Shea, the store manager, who estimates that 40 people a day enter the store to browse. On average, she thinks that the store completes 20 transactions a day. “It really varies though.

It’s definitely a weekend store, and the number of shoppers [is] also deeply affected by the weather,” she says, with the apparent confidence of someone who knows the store intimately. I ask her how long she’s worked at Emporium. Two weeks, she says.

She asserts that the store has a strong mix of items, although she concedes that “the problem we’re having now is how to get people inside the doors.”

WE’RE TRYING, WE PROMISE Without even going in the store, you can see three different signs advertising that students get 15 percent off purchases. The signs are little squares of white paper beneath a plastic cover. They are unassuming, but not unnoticeable.

The store also gives out coupons that provide $50 off a purchase of $200 or more. It’s unclear how one gets these coupons; Shea talks about them as though they automatically apply to anyone who spends $200.

Kelly says she gives them to customers who spend a certain amount in the store. Lajuanda says she gives them to customers she recognizes, customers who seem truly interested in the clothing but haven’t purchased anything yet. “Sometimes someone isn’t ready to make a purchase, but I give them one of these so that when they are, they have a little bit of help,” she says.

Why all this talk about “helping” the customer make a purchase, if the price points are, as Zucker asserts, on par with the bulk of the clothing you would find at a store like J. Crew?

“It’s a boutique store,” says Lajuanda. “We try and build client relationships.” The store doesn’t have the impersonal feel of a department store or chain retailer; the sales associates want to know their customers. It is the kind of store, already, where the sales associates can call past customers when new arrivals come in and say, “We just got something in that I think you’d really like.”

When the merchandise buyer, who buys for all the Emporium locations, is in town, she works the sales floor, talking to customers and getting a sense of what they’d like to see next. The store has already gone through different phases of “remerchandising” in which the buyer has replaced items that don’t quite work for this particular Emporium store with items that are more suited to the customer base and location.

“Each location has different items,” explains Lajuanda. “It just depends on what the customers want. Like, for example, a lot of young ladies were asking for AG jeans, so now, we sell a couple different pairs of AG jeans.”

As for prices, the sales associates think there’s a misconception within the community about how expensive the store really is. Sure, they have $500 Rag and Bone boots in the store, but the same boots are currently 50 percent off, plus an additional 25 percent off, bringing them to about $185. Still expensive, but certainly more in line with the $228 it would cost to buy a similar pair of boots at J. Crew. Similarly, the store carries traditionally highend brands like Rebecca Minkoff, for which you might expect to pay over $200 for a dress, but it also carries more moderately priced brands like MINKPINK, which feature dresses for just $60. “[People] come in expecting to see $500 price tags everywhere,” says Lajuanda. “Then they see lower priced items and go, ‘Oh, wow.’”

What’s the least expensive clothing item in the store? Lajuanda can’t tell me exactly, but she points to a few different $38 T-shirts in basic colors. I’m unimpressed; $38 for a glorified undershirt that nobody besides me will ever see? Still, while she is telling me this, a couple buys a plush men’s sweater for just $48.

Is the store successful so far?

The sales associates aren’t so sure.

Lajuanda sidesteps the question by explaining that the store has definitely picked up in sales, but they are still trying to get more. “Small chains have to be more creative about marketing,” she says, pointing out that everyone knows what J. Crew is, but most people need a little encouragement to check out a relatively unheard-of boutique. Kelly, on the other hand, makes a long “hmm” sound in response, as though she’s

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stresses that they have to “ingratiate themselves with the locals.”

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It’s not just a misconception about price that keeps students out.

It’s something deeper. Holly Taylor ’17 tells me that she doesn’t shop at Emporium — it’s intimidating and not her style. She thinks it caters to “trendy New Yorkers … 28-yearolds … new professionals who make a lot of money” and she is none of those things. She continues: “I just imagine black pants. Like, who needs that many different pairs of black pants?”

Later, I will go into Emporium and see dark jeans folded on counter tops, black suede dresses hanging on the sales rack, a collection of grainy black-and-white cropped sweaters and one lonely black tunic, but no black pants.

For now, I ask if she’s ever been inside the store.

“Like, I just imagine row after row of black pants,” she says.

“But have you ever been inside?”

She stops, looks up like she doesn’t want to admit it, but eventually says, “No.” She’s not the only one who has an aversion to the store. John Kelleher ’17 says, “It’s a stylish-looking store, but I’m afraid to go into it because everyone always talks so badly about it. People say, ‘Only rich people shop there. It doesn’t belong on campus.

Who goes there? Do people actually go there? What, you went there?’”

Once, before this conversation, I told him I was going to check out the store. “Oh, let me get my sunglasses and my hat,” he said to me.

“And then I’ll go with you.” In the moment, he was joking. But at the same time, he wasn’t.

Although Zucker says students aren’t the biggest draw for The Shops at Yale, Marie Driscoll, CEO of the consulting group Driscoll Advisors and an equity analyst focusing on luxury brands, sees it differently. “If the students turn it away,” she says, “the retailer will leave.”

She later explains that the worst thing that can happen is not that the retailer won’t make any money, but rather, that the students’ ambivalence towards the store and negative press will undermine the brand’s positioning in other locations. For retailers to be successful, Driscoll

One Friday evening just before 5 p.m., I stand on the corner across from Emporium. I watch as people walk by the store, sometimes pausing at the windows to look in at a pair of shoes or a bag, but then continuing on. Every so often, someone enters. In the two hours I am there, 18 people go inside. It’s more traffic than I am expecting, but it is the holiday season and there’s a sign just inside the entrance advertising jeans: buy one get one free.

Still, of all the people that browse, only one person comes out with a shopping bag. The buyer is a young woman. I imagine that she fell in love with a silk shirt or an unimaginably soft pair of jeans, but it turns out that inside her bag is just a candle — the kind that the store sells for $38. The clothes, hanging elegantly off their hangers inside the nowempty store, continue to hang just so, undisturbed and unwanted, but asking for a chance.

Ultimately, Emporium’s place on Broadway will be a test. Will the Yale community shun a store that, regardless of University Properties’ “bigger picture,” most of New Haven’s population simply can’t afford?

Or will it look past the glass windows and luxe brand names and accept a store that can respond uniquely to its needs and desires? And for Emporium, will it change its marketing techniques in order to feel more accessible to the community? Or will it continue to flaunt its luxury, holding tightly to the vibe that seems to ostracize students?

Later that night when I walk inside the store, Shea tells me the sales associates can no longer answer any of my questions. “It’s just not helping business,” she says, before scurrying off to greet a customer.

Before I leave, I notice a new stack of plain white bags on the counter behind the registers.

“You guys are giving up the orange bags?” I ask Kelly, who is folding a pair of jeans.

“We still have them,” she says, looking over her shoulder. “We’re just trying something new.”

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WEEKEND STRIPS

Many of us imagine it as an alien atmosphere. Clothes strewn on furniture, naked bodies gyrating. But for many Yalies, the freedom — and not just the liberation of their private parts — provided at a naked party feels like home.

The event begins. In a brightly lit residence (or, in some cases, an academic hall), discreetly revealed to a select few, students peel off their clothing. They start with their boots, untying their laces. Then they shrug off their jackets, before sequentially removing their socks, pants, shirt and undergarments.

Goosebumps appear on newly exposed bare skin. Some guests are impatient, others uncertain.

Some thought to bring plastic bags in which they shove their outfits, and others carelessly toss their clothes onto the furniture.

For some these events are routine; for others, this is a singular, nerve-ridden impulse. The apartment’s central room contains a couple dozen bare-naked bodies sipping drinks and dancing. The newly nude attendees hurry down the hallway to join the naked milieu. ***

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Simply stated, naked parties are like any other college party, except with a lot more skin showing and more “substantive conversation than you would encounter at Woads,” according to Samuel* ’16, who has attended eight naked parties since his freshman year.

“The naked parties are pointedly desexualized spaces; that’s why they work, because we go knowing that we won’t be judged sexually or have to worry about anyone being inappropriate,” said Alexandra* ’16, a senior who has attended all but one monthly naked party since last December.

All eight frequent naked party attendees interviewed also emphasized naked parties’ particularly unsexual, heavily policed nature.

Although naked parties them-

selves are not unique to Yale — Brown and the University of California, Berkeley have their own naked party traditions — they are more institutionalized here.

Naked parties have been occurring at Yale since the revival of the Pundits, a senior society, in the 1980s. Today, the group organizes the events via an informal panlist that includes anyone who asks to be on it.

Kira ’16*, a Pundit, mentioned that many of those who attend are not on the panlist instead find out about events through friends.

“The main rule is to respect all other partygoers,” Ariana* ’16, another Pundit, said. “No touching, no phones or cameras, no talking about anyone else’s body at the party or afterwards and if at any point are you are a threat to yourself or others, we will ask you to leave.”

Ariana detailed the naked party protocol to me. When the party starts, a Pundit gives a speech emphasizing the event’s desexualized nature and encouraging partygoers to report anything suspicious or uncomfortable. Throughout the night, all Pundits present remain sober and are responsible for maintaining a safe, comfortable atmosphere.

They look out for any instances of sexual harassment or dangerous levels of intoxication. After the party is over, the Pundits gather to debrief on how to improve future parties.

Jackson* ’16, who has been to 15 naked parties, said nudity almost becomes irrelevant during the event. Most other attendees agreed.

“There’s this illusion that you’ll go and everyone is a Victoria’s Secret supermodel,” Samuel said. “[But] everyone is beautiful with different body sizes and heights. There’s a lot of diversity at Yale.”

All eight people interviewed agreed that naked parties provide a much-needed outlet for body positivity.

Kira speculated that many Yale students harbor body image-

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related anxieties, which naked parties can counter because attendees consistently realize that people don’t care what their bodies look like — and that, in fact, most look alike when naked.

She added that friends have told her their body images have improved after attending a naked party.

Alexandra, along with three other female naked partygoers, said attending the gatherings has helped her overcome personal body image issues.

“Naked parties made me realize that people won’t treat me any differently based on my body, and seeing so many people of so many body types so free and happy with themselves made me learn how to do the same,” Alexandra said. “It was and is very cathartic.” *** Although naked parties greatly parallel normal parties, Alexandra said, nudity’s absurdity alone erases conversational barriers.

Isabelle* ’17, who has attended many naked parties, agreed, noting that nudity already crosses so many social barriers that approaching a stranger to chat no longer feels strange — especially in such a desexualized environment. With sex out of the equation, partygoers can focus on conversation. (Multiple attendees quipped that eye contact at naked parties is unparalleled.)

Ariana added that the parties’ explicit phone ban forces attendees to talk to each other, which she said has led to new friendships in addition to engaging conversation.

Kira mentioned that she has often felt unsafe and even been sexually harassed at large parties at Toad’s or fraternities, where sex pervades the atmosphere.

For her, the “absolutely sex-free” space at naked parties is both comforting and liberating.

For women especially, naked parties offer an escape from the objectification that they face on campus and the outside world,

she added. Perhaps it is not the absence of clothing but the absence of fear that most distinguishes naked parties.

Alexandra, who said she’d been plagued by body issues in the past, expected to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable when she went to her first naked party.

Instead, she said she had never felt more comfortable with her body than she did that night and at all subsequent naked parties she has attended. *** Ariana mentioned that attending naked parties helped her reclaim her body after being raped and fighting an eating disorder.

“At naked parties, my body belongs to me and only me,” she said. “Other survivors of sexual assault and eating disorders have thanked me in the past for providing them with a space to reclaim their bodies, and that fulfillment drives me and the rest of the Pundits to continue providing this valuable campus service.”

Male naked party attendees also noticed the positive effects naked parties have on their female friends. Jackson said his most gratifying naked party experience came when he happened upon a friend who told him she had never felt so loose and liberated at any other party in her life.

Still, a few emphasized that, for all the body-positive perceptions and takeaways, naked parties aren’t perfect.

“Naked parties are so white.

They have no power over who comes or not, so they tend to get cis-white people,” Liam* ’18, frequent naked party attendee, said.

And although naked parties are said to be judgment-free, the Pundits can only police outward expressions of disrespect. Liam said naked parties’ high energy allows for superficial judgment and private whisperings between friends.

Lila* ’18 noted a stark difference between what she heard from a female versus a male friend

who attended the same naked party. While her female friend expressed joy at the body confidence she gained as a result of going to the naked party, her male friend openly commented on the pleasure of seeing that same woman’s breasts. *** The party dies down as people slowly return to a clothed reality, slipping on their underwear, socks and shirts, bracing themselves for the cold that awaits them outside.

Partygoers take away what they choose. Many leave with newfound love for their bodies and a much-needed confidence boost. Others leave with the satisfaction of having seen others naked.

Some will come to another party alone. Others will regale their friends with the wonder of their experience, and convince them to come along for the next one.

When the clothes come off, something else is stripped away — sans the need for social lubricant or mood enhancers like alcohol, unlike most nightlife at Yale.

“One of the greatest strengths of a naked party [is] that you can achieve a raucous transcendence at a party without the need for drinks or drugs,” Jackson said.

For many other naked party regulars, bringing newcomers has become most enjoyable part of the gatherings.

Alexandra said her favorite naked party memory came when she brought three friends to their first gathering.

“I got to watch them go from on edge to disbelieving to confident as they realized what sort of space we were really in,” she said.

“I got to watch them experience that freedom for the first time.” *Name has been changed to protect individual’s identity.

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WEEKEND COLUMNS

ON THE BLUE (LINE) // BY ALICE ZHAO

ELM/YORK: There are about six of us standing here at the corner, and we look absolutely miserable.

Granted, it’s zero degrees outside.

A girl next to me is so swaddled in her parka that the only thing I can see is a smudge of her forehead.

She keeps refreshing the TransLoc app on her phone. I want to tell her that the app is broken, and the Blue Line is perpetually three minutes away. A lot of things could happen in three minutes. It could start to sleet. The woman in the brown coat could lose her armful of papers to the wind. I could start a conversation, or that man with the earmuffs could.

Instead, we are quiet, and

we wait for the shuttle to arrive. *** There is no start or end to the Blue Line. You could say that it starts at the Yale School of Medicine, because that’s where it stops the longest before continuing its route. You could also say that it ends at the Yale School of Medicine, for the same reason. Depending on the person, however, the Blue Line could start and end anywhere. Hoards of students board the shuttle just outside of Davenport in the morning, pour out of the shut-

tle on Science Hill. But there are also graduate students hurtling toward the Divinity School, professors or TAs or people who aren’t even associated with Yale who disembark somewhere along Whitney. If you look at the route of the shuttle, it’s one continuous loop, encircling Yale’s campus. Technically, you could ride it forever. *** 225 PROSPECT: Most of the students get off here. It’s strange, to be surrounded by people who aren’t actually my age for a change.

There’s an old man in the back who bought toilet paper from Good Nature Market; a woman clenches her grocery bag — “Have a Nice Day,” it says. The bus starts up again, and I stamp down the feeling that I’ve missed my stop. Here, there are fields and fields of snow, and buildings that sprawl instead of tower. The shuttle is still climbing; if I lean back, I can see the tilt.

Outside, someone is jogging in the opposite direction. His neon sports cap bobs with every thump of his sneakers, so in the distance, it looks like he’s saying hello. ***

There are a few ways to entertain yourself on the bus. You could look at your phone, which is always a safe bet. This is a good time to catch up on the presidential election, or your friends’ social media profiles, or whatever happens to be on Buzzfeed.

You could also start a conversation with the person next to you; it’d probably be easier if it were someone you knew. But it’s all right to sit in silence and stare at nothing in particular. Many people do it, so don’t feel ashamed.

Lay your head against the window, or fold your hands under your chin, or just do nothing. A fun exercise: What are the other people thinking about? The man in the blue beanie — he looks pensive, maybe about taxes. The woman in the thick coat — she’s worrying about organic chem-

istry. Imagine, you will never know what goes on in their heads. *** WHITNEY: We have a new bus driver now. Somewhere before we hit the residential neighborhoods, the previous bus driver stopped our shuttle in front of a Red Line bus, slipped on his navy jacket, and disappeared into the outside world. He had a mustache, and a stocky build, and I will probably never see him again.

But there’s a kind of satisfaction in that, I think, of passing by people whom you’ve never met but still remember for some inexplicable reason. Like the girl who’s talking to the couple in front of me. She’s talking about her calluses, how her other friends make fun of her calluses, she takes off her glove and shows them to the couple, says that her calluses are — finally — going soft. It’s a bit weird that, if we cross paths again, the only thing I will know about her is that she has soft calluses. *** “Jamais vu” is French for “never seen.” It describes a feeling of displacement, disorientation and loss. You are in a familiar situation that nonetheless seems strange. You are a foreigner, for no good reason. If you think about it, taking the Blue Line down College Street is like going backwards in time. Thirty minutes ago, you were rocketing up. And, now, you are moving in reverse. The order should be Calhoun, Cross Campus, Commons, but you look out the window and it’s the exact opposite.

This is the only part of the Blue Line that retraces itself. Keep going, and you’ll end up in the city. Keep going, and you’ll end up exactly where, I suppose, you wanted to be.

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Contact ALICE ZHAO at alice.zhao@yale.edu .

Feeling Vile // BY DAVID WHIPPLE

What a difference a day makes. The last time Kurt Vile woke up, on 2013’s “Wakin on a Pretty Daze,” all was well in the world. The ringing phone was only a momentary distraction for our bleary-eyed hero, who for all his fatigue seemed in a pretty good mood. “Frankly, I’m fried,” he confessed about halfway through the album’s singularly blissful almosttitle track, “but I don’t mind.”

This morning has been a little tougher. “I woke up this morning, didn’t recognize the man in the mirror,” Vile sings on “Pretty Pimpin,” the first track on his recent “B’lieve I’m Goin Down…”. He spends the rest of the song, and much of the album, trying to figure out just who that man is.

The series of washed-out, eight-minute jams that made up “Wakin on a Pretty Daze” suggested a singer content to drift through the world, offering a few pithy observations along the way. But now, Vile turns inward. His new album is sparse and empty, with introspective lyrics replacing open-ended guitar jams. The cover art for his last album featured Vile hanging out in the corner of an open urban scene, but this time, he’s front and center.

Vile’s new attitude came through clearly in his Wednesday performance at the College Street Music Hall.

Much of the set featured him on acoustic guitar, and when he did grab one of his signature Fender Jaguars, he rarely

turned it up very loud. Vile is a good enough songwriter to keep the audience’s attention with just his voice and some strummed chords. But the show’s best moments came when he cranked his amplifier to 11 and let his prodigious chops do the talking.

The sonic restraint on “B’lieve I’m Goin Down…” is a new trick for Vile, one that he’s still trying to translate to the stage. It was odd to see him quietly pick his way through the intricate electric guitar part on “Wheelhouse,” one of the album’s standout tracks, while a wall of massive Marshall amplifiers loomed unexploited behind him. The point, it seemed, was to leave space for his voice, as Vile’s new album features some of his best and most meaningful lyrics. But Vile slurred his way through the show and rarely owned a vocal performance. When he closed the set with Bruce Springsteen’s “Downbound Train,” a song I know well, I didn’t realize what he was singing until the second chorus.

Some of that sloppiness made its way into Vile’s instrumental performances as well: The bluegrass hook on “Pretty Pimpin” lacked the recorded version’s steady precision. Not that I didn’t enjoy hearing it — it’s a great song. But it’s not a great song of the type Vile usually performs onstage: epic wall-ofsound freak-outs that let him mumble, moan and, most importantly, shred to his

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heart’s content. Vile doesn’t seem very enamored of drill or precision, and as a result his performance style is a little rough around the edges — more White Stripes than Wilco. That detracts from his new material’s live appeal, but it’s also the exact reason people love songs like “Wakin on a Pretty Day,” which Vile has performed at every concert on this tour. He pulls out all the stops when he plays that song, a nine-minute torrent that swings between searing brilliance and psychedelic contentedness. But angstier emotions drive his new music, emotions that are harder to share and don’t lend themselves to extended guitar solos.

“Wakin on a Pretty Day” was the concert’s highlight because it’s the kind of song Vile knows best. And yet it might frustrate him to hear me say that. Vile’s new album purposefully moves away from the sound that has defined his career, yet fans still just want to hear the song that got him famous.

But Vile has to meet his audience halfway. It might frustrate him that we want to hear the old stuff, but that frustration shouldn’t keep him from polishing his new stuff.

If he channeled his old energy through his new anxieties, he’d win us over in a heartbeat. Maybe he’s anxious because that’s impossible.

Contact DAVID WHIPPLE at david.whipple@yale.edu .

RUN LOLA RUN

WHC Auditorium // 2 p.m.

And I run, run, run, run, run / And I run, run, run, run, run.

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WHAT I HEARD AT “HAVING OUR SAY” // BY LOGAN ZELK

The lobby of Long Wharf Theatre had the ambiance of a movie theater, including a stand. It sold alcohol instead of food, however. I collected my tickets and sat on the couch and to my right saw a selection of books: Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, an autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. There was an old couple next to me perusing the collection enthusiastically. It was part of the theater’s set up for the play of the night: “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years.” Written by Emily Mann, the play is adapted from the oral history of the Delany Sisters, who were Black women born in 1889 and 1888 and died in the 1990s.

Their lives spanned the entire 20th century, and the play centers their experiences.

The lights dimmed, people were seated and a small tune that was reminiscent of old-timey jazz played. A few pictures of what I presumed to be the sisters when they were young were presented, followed by pictures depicting famous Civil Rights activists and tense moments in Black history. And then the stage living room lit up and I saw what looked to be something incredibly similar to my grandma’s house. The shiny linoleum floors,

the ceramic green cupboards, drapes everywhere, a tan refrigerator with a prominent oven nearby and a creme base to tie all the rooms together. Was this to be the scene of strife? Two little old ladies appeared and began sorting things around the room. I was shocked. A hundred years of history, all available and ripe for the representation, and here we had a living room fit for one of those odd antique shops and two little old ladies. I wondered if I was going to regret the next hour and 50 minutes. What could two little old ladies provide that would entertain a young and restless idiot like me?

I was wrong. I knew it the moment the two spoke: A wave of personality inundated the audience. It was obvious that Bessie was the strong one of the pair.

She had, in her sister’s words, sass and sarcastic looks, and she stood for no nonsense. Sadie was the jovial sister, who loved to tease Bessie and looked on the past with almost total fondness; but even in the face of what seems like completely antagonistic personalities, they had constant moments in which they would speak in unison as they recalled the century of time they spent in each other’s company

and personal development. They invited us into their home and they told their story and they told it well, as if the memories were alive; and they were — they came alive in these wonderful women.

The procedure of the play had the sisters recall their lives around major events in the late 19th and 20th centuries, but not in a way that seemed cliche. There was a smooth transition, as the play focused more on how they developed and how the events of the 20th century forced them to act in response. Their performance created a sense of childlike wonder, harkening to those times when I listened to my grandma tell stories of what it was like when she was younger.

The whole experience of observing them felt natural and organic.

These sisters were activists, smart and vivacious. They experienced lynchings, the Suffrage Movement; they attended Columbia and lived through the Civil Rights era.

They gave an intimate portrayal of events that felt distant. On one hand, Sadie talked about some relatively uplifting moments. One was about the white people in her town that she was friends with, and how Jim Crow forcibly created

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tension in amicable relationships. She mentioned how she would visit a shoe shop owned by a Jewish man, and how she would infringe on the Crow law that forbade black people from being in the front of the store, near windows. Sadie would ask the store owner teasingly where she could try on shoes, over and over until he relented and she had her fun trying on shoes with him at the front of the store. On the other hand, there were also some darker instances. Bessie noted a

time during the lynchings of the early 20th century, when she saw a pregnant woman hung by her feet and her abdomen slit.

We listened to two amazing old Black women tell their times through the lens of their vivid personalities, and that is what the beauty of this play was.

It was delightful, and thoughtprovoking. A particular quote from Bessie stood out, where she mentioned how she felt experiencing gaining the right to vote.

She said, “I was torn between

two issues — colored and women’s rights. But I always felt I got more trouble being colored … a great day was when we got the right to vote. You know I love to complain. Never do I want to lose the right to complain!” Warmly, we all chuckled in appreciation.

And that’s how I left: appreciative. I left feeling warm, with both a hint of familiarity and a giant slice of perspective.

Contact LOGAN ZELK at logan.zelk@yale.edu .

Poignant Pierson Play // BY AGNES ENKHTAMIR Pierson College talent alone put on John Cariani’s “Almost, Maine,” performed Feb. 18 to 20 in the Davenport-Pierson Auditorium. The play tells the story of the most romantic place in Maine — Township 13, Range 7, or T13–R7.

T13–R7 is a sparsely populated town located so far north that Cariani jokes it might not even be in the United States — it might not even exist. Its residents call it Almost, Maine. It’s almost a town, and the love stories that take place there are also almost love. The play is a series of vignettes that tell tales of first meetings, first love and — at the core — human connection.

This performance is directed and produced by Chandler Gregoire ’17, and lives up to Cariani’s simple legacy. The play is short and sweet, and left me feeling a little gooey and wanting someone to stroke my hand and tell me I was pretty.

The play’s six scenes are earnest and easy to watch from the very beginning.

Gregoire doesn’t just present the scenes written by Cariani, though — the prologue is an original tap dance choreographed and performed by Tony Scott ’17 and Kira Tebbe ’17 to music performed and written

by Jeremy Sims ’17. Tebbe looks at Scott’s (sometimes blank) face with puppy love so believable I wanted to squeal. The actors were silent, letting a voice-over and the sharp taps of their shoes narrate their feelings. She nudges his shoulder. He breaks out in a smile. They sit together, grinning, until Scott’s character accidentally insults Tebbe’s. The scene ends with her running off stage, but the couple gets back together in the epilogue. This time, Tebbe is carrying her dancing shoes in her hand. She returns to sit next to Scott, and they sit in an enamored silence.

The two were one of many mixedraced couples. The work was also inclusive in that there were multiple queer couples portrayed. In addition, the additional content makes Gregoire’s version of the play so much more charming than

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the script standing alone. The scenes and dances and songs fit the tone of the play, but create within the play a richer world for the audience to enjoy.

The rest of the short scenes are similar in theme and tone, sometimes relying on very cute literal interpretations of common aphorisms about love. In the first scene, a repairman, portrayed by Collin Taylor ’16, puts together the broken shards of the heart of a hiker, Beah Jacobson ’17.

In another scene between Gregoire and Stefani Kuo ’17, both end up with bruised knees — they literally fall in love.

Despite the sugary overtones, though, in some small moments, the actors turn away from the wide smiles and blushing cheeks to the more uncomfortable parts of love: the endings. It’s equally effective in inspiring emotional response in the audience. When Will Viederman ’17 and Lilla Brody ’18 met after their very onesided breakup, toes curled as a silence says what her character didn’t: Please leave me alone. Gregoire delivers another noteworthy performance— in addition to directing, she herself played three characters.

All of Cariani’s characters are remarkably similar, but Gregoire still displayed impressive range in jumping from story to story.

Musical pieces interspersed between scenes facilitate their mood changes.

Some of these are original compositions by Sims, Ingrid Michaelson, Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 and Edith Piaf. In many scenes, Rossi de Leon’s voice carries the dreamy transitions. Most scenes end in a soft song performed by Rossi de Leon and Clara Robertson ’17 clad in bright red dresses.

Gregoire’s interpretation of “Almost, Maine” adds to the original’s considerable charm. The play is perfect to watch with chips and dip on a cold, lonely February night alone.

Contact AGNES ENKHTAMIR at dulguun.enkhtamir@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND BACKSTAGE

MUSIC FOR UNIVERSAL INTIMACY

// COURTESY OF CHROMATIC PUBLICITY

// BY CAROLINE TISDALE

WKND: You guys have all known each other for a pretty long time. How did you meet?

EZRA: We met in [middle school] band class. And then Josh, when he tried out for the band, and we were all crying, so he got in.

JOSH: I got in because they were crying.

LILAH: Well that’s not actually untrue. We auditioned him for a touring bassist, but at the time we were rehearsing in our friend’s rehearsal studio, so we could only do after hours and we would start at 12 and go till 6, and we would drink a lot of energy drinks …

E: Like alcoholic energy drinks.

L: And we were also teenagers, so we were really emotionally irresponsible, awful people at the same time, and basically, by the end of the audition, all of us were crying and Josh was just … chilling? And was fine with it? So we were both like, you are in.

E: And Josh didn’t tell us for a long time that he wasn’t even a bassist. I mean, he was our bassist for like two years before — he was playing keyboard at one point, and we were like, “Wow Josh, you’re a really good keyboardist,” [and then] he was playing guitar and we were like, “Josh, you’re amazing at guitar.” And he was like, “Well actually, those are my instruments … I started playing bass when I joined your band.”

J: I bought my bass a month before I auditioned for the band.

WKND: It’s obvious you guys are super close; how do you translate that relationship into your music without alienating people?

E: I think it’s kind of like inviting people into a home, where there is a domestic relationship. You know what I mean? It’s like, I’m trying not to bicker too much in front of them when they’re over …

L: We want everyone to be having a threesome with our band.

E: But then it’s something that goes really well, where it’s totally chill, and you can all remain friends.

L: Yeah, in all seriousness I think that is our ethos. It’s trying to show our intimacy as a universal experience.

WKND: How do you think your evolving friendships have shaped the music that you create?

E: Endlessly. Many of our songs are addressed to other members of the band, at various times of our relationships’ progression. A lot has been informed by very real processes of people in our band having hard times, and the other members rising to those occasion and being the support system for [them]. All of us having a hard time at the same time, and needing other support systems, occasionally having a

W

KND had the pleasure of sitting down (over Skype) with the charmingly eccentric musicians of Sons

Of An Illustrious Father, a Brooklyn-based trio comprised of Josh Aubin, Lilah Larson and Ezra Miller. Refusing to be confined by a single genre, they craft smart, political and emotionally poi-

gnant songs. Their newest album, “Revol,” is set to release March 4, but Yalies can hear them this Saturday, when they play at The Space in Hamden.

and definitely further and further incorporation of all of those elements into more and more of a multisensory performance and presentation of recorded material is the goal.

WKND: How do you envision shows evolving with that in mind?

E: Well I guess to reveal all of our secrets, Caroline … like eventually a roving circus. Which would be sort of a caravan of different bands and theatre troupes, mime and clown posses, witches and wizards, elves …

L: Medicine men, healers …

E: Yeah it would be like a medicine show honestly … We’d give everyone laudanum, and just play them music …

J: There would be a dragon.

good t i m e and all experiencing that together. It’s one of those things I think has been really formative, even on a literal, lyrical level.

L: I think also, in the same way that we as a group of very close friends create safe spaces for personal individual exploration, we also do that for each other musically, even in terms of trying out new instruments. In the same way that we create space for each other to grow as people, we do so to grow as musicians.

WKND: What are some things that you’re experimenting with now?

E: Josh has been playing guitar a lot.

L: Turns out Josh is the best guitarist.

E: Yeah we’ve honestly started playing in this configuration of me drumming, Lilah playing bass and Josh on guitar, which is a configuration we have never done before … It’s been really fruitful, a really nice configuration, but we’re always trying new set ups and really hearing each song and assessing individually.

L: We’re also incorporating a really fantastic little drum pad that figures extremely strange sounds.

WKND: Like what?

E: Well we’re still working on that, but we’re recording the sound of wind, icy river sound, sound of mother breathing when she sleeps, sound of creaking house and we’re gonna equalize them so they don’t resemble themselves.

L: Sound of monks chanting.

E: Yeah our friend went and got a sample of some Tibetan monks from the Bön religion.

She taught them one of the chants that we do as a band, and so now we have a nice sample of them doing our chant. And then

t h e r e ’s just this one that makes this sort of roaring sound, like thunder.

E: Yeah, it’s like (ROARRRRR) and you just kind of cackle over it.

J: It’s for when the shows are going really good.

WKND: What would you say is the theme, or the story, you’re trying to tell with your album, “Revol”?

L: Radical feminist insurgency!

E: It’s like the radical feminist insurgency love story.

L: It’s a fairy tale, about radical feminist insurgency.

E: It’s a tale about fairies, who are radical feminist insurgents who fall in love, then they break up, then they’re apart for a while, then ultimately they come back together and then they journey into the brain of an adolescent boy in Iowa. For the last song, we hear his perspective.

WKND: I’m a big fan of using comic art to accompany song lyrics, which you’ve done in the past. Do you think you’re going to expand more into incorporating visual elements into your music?

E: Well, the goal is really to more and more become a multimedia expression outlet. So the incorporation of a lot of different elements — visual elements, video elements, dance elements, written work, drama pieces …

L: Olfactory installations!

E: That’s a big plan; we’re going to start cooking bacon on stage … but really, trying to get deeper into collaboration with artists who work in different media, and just exploring all of us as three people [who] have other mediums that really interest us,

E: There would be a narrator … at some point someone would pop a balloon in a very dramatic way.

J: That would start the elephant stampede.

E: Immediately, sometimes we have our friends who are dancers dance while we are playing, we’ve done a couple thing with live artists and hoping to do more of that.

WKND: When I was listening to your album, I picked up on the word “real” a lot. What does realness mean to you guys?

J: In the sense that I’m often using it in the album, it’s having a relationship that is open and honest and not trying to have bullshit conversations and dodging around actual things that are on your mind that you actually want to be talking about with people. A lot of relationships can just fall into that zone of just pretending to connect with people.

WKND: Which song from this past album do you feel most excited about?

L: I think for me the last song, “PostFuture.” That’s the one song that I never get sick of. The first time that Josh played that for us, Ezra and I just both started crying. I think it’s so beautiful, and it’s so perennially true.

E: Perennially true and contemporarily important.

WKND: I was wondering about a line in that song: “Is finding an answer gonna set you free.” I think it’s an interesting way to end an album, and I was wondering if I could hear your thoughts about that.

E: Something we say a lot, which comes from the unofficial tradition that we are a part of, is the idea that we believe in questions but don’t necessarily believe in answers. Good question, Caroline.

L: And that’s why we’re so good at interviews!

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