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Harvard replaces “house master”

Reid between the lines. In an interview with CNN yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid revealed that he is endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 for president in the coming election. “I think that my work with her over the years has been something that I have looked upon with awe,” Reid said. The party leader is the most prominent Democrat to endorse Clinton yet.

Power play. Cities and towns

across the southern part of the state, including New Haven, were under severe thunderstorm watch late last night. Nearly 12,000 Connecticut residents lost power during the storm.

Weather reports warned Elm City residents winds up to 60 mph. The warning was lifted past 2 a.m. this morning.

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Men’s basketball captain will not return to team

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“Titles can and should change when such a change serves our mission,” Smith wrote in the email. “I want to emphasize that a decision to change does not necessarily mean that what came before was wrong.”

Smith said some people have criticized Harvard for lacking a “proper appreciation” of the history of the title at the university, while others said the administration reacted too quickly to student demands. How-

Yale men’s basketball captain Jack Montague ’16, who has missed the team’s past four games, will not return to the team, Yale Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett said in a press release Wednesday afternoon.

The announcement from Yale athletics follows more than two weeks of speculation regarding the possibility of Montague’s return. Still, no specifics concerning Montague’s departure from the team were made public in the release, which noted that the University will not provide further comment.

Montague’s academic record indicates his status was changed to “withdrawn” on Feb. 10, according to Jean Cherniavsky, the undergraduate registrar of Montague’s declared major, American Studies. A representative from the Yale Registrar’s Office told the News on Tuesday that Montague is withdrawn from Yale College.

Michael Denning, the director of undergraduate studies for American Studies, could not be reached on Wednesday for further clarification of Montague’s status.

Montague’s name was removed from the online Yale men’s basketball roster Wednesday afternoon. No plans for an interim captain have thus far been announced, and members of the team declined to comment on Wednesday afternoon.

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Eclips’d. Oscar-winning

actress Lupita Nyong’o’s DRA ’12 Broadway show “Eclipsed” — a play about a group of women who are held captive by a rebel leader in Liberia — premiered at New York’s John Golden Theatre earlier this week. The show opens to the public on March 6.

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Harvard has decided to change the name “house master” to “faculty dean.”

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Following more than two months of deliberation, Harvard announced Wednesday that the university’s house masters will now be called faculty deans.

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Science Dean Michael Smith made the announcement in a Wednesday evening email to the university’s undergraduates and professors. As at Yale, some students at Harvard have said

the word “master” — which was previously used to refer to the heads of Harvard’s undergraduate residential houses — has associations with slavery and discrimination. In this message, Smith also addressed criticisms of the decision to change the title at all and emphasized that he has not seen any direct connection between the term house master and slavery.

Still, he reaffirmed the university’s decision and said the title “dean” is the most appropriate for the position in this time and place.

Huang out with the Politic.

The Yale Politic will host human rights and racial justice advocate Margaret Huang for a talk at 4:30 p.m. at the law school. Huang is the executive director of Amnesty International USA — a group committed to protecting human rights across the world through research and advocacy.

Food and faith. The Yale

University Chaplain’s Office is hosting “Feasting on Faith” — an event which aims to bring students in various religious communities on campus together to mix. Students can enjoy food and art from different cultures at Payne Whitney Gymnasium this afternoon at 4:30 p.m.

Treat yoself. The Yale

Women’s Leadership Initiative invites students to enter a raffle to win gift cards and special deals from businesses around New Haven. Visit the group’s “Spring Raffle” Facebook page to enter to win packages such as dinner at restaurants such as Barcelona or Elm City Social, or classes at SHiFT Cycling or Breathing Room Yoga.

Focus on me. Organizers of

FOCUS on New Haven — Yale’s preorientation program focusing on community service — are holding an information session at Dwight Hall at 7 p.m. for students interested in applying to be leaders.

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1936 John Q. Tilson, Jr. ’33 LAW ’36 — who was elected to the Board of Alders from Ward 18 in the fall — reports to the community about his work with the board to review the city’s budget. Tilson is one of the few Republican alders to serve a Yale ward.

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Students, colleagues support Camacho; admin silent

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Following her arrest in front of the White House for civil disobedience, Ezra Stiles Associate Master Alicia Camacho returned to campus Wednesday afternoon, hearing many warm wishes from students and fellow faculty members but silence from the administration.

Camacho joined 13 immigration activists in holding a sign that read “President Obama: You Have Blood On Your Hands” to protest recent escalation in deportations of Central American refugee families. Each activist was brought to a Park Police facility in Washington, D.C. and released after posting $50 bail. They also were issued civil citations. Camacho said that since returning to Yale, she has

received encouraging messages from colleagues and students but has yet to hear from University administrators.

“I’ve received no communication of any kind from University officials or anyone in an official capacity, just colleagues and students,” Camacho said. “My sense is that in University communities, many of us participate in political action. Over the years that I’ve been at Yale, I’ve participated in action related to immigrant rights and labor movements.

There has never been any concern about that on the part of the University.”

University spokesman Tom Conroy said he would “leave it to” Camacho to comment on her arrest, and Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said she views the SEE CAMACHO PAGE 4

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Ezra Stiles Associate Master Alicia Camacho returned to campus Wednesday, after being arrested.

ER&M plays role in ethnic center

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS The announcement last week of a new Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration has brought greater attention to problems with racial and ethnic studies at Yale, while also shedding light on possible paths for improvement.

In light of conversations about awareness and sensitivity to racial issues on campus, the strength of Yale’s Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program has recently come into the spotlight. And while the center is in part a response to student demands for more funding for ethnic studies, it also may not address Yale’s long-standing problems with hiring and retaining diverse

faculty, especially as it is not currently slated to change the institutional status of the ER&M program, which does not have the power to independently recruit faculty. Funding for the center will not directly go to ER&M, although the center’s activities will likely influence the program.

Still, administrators involved in planning the center — which will house ER&M — said it is a milestone for the University and could signal a shift in academic priorities, as Yale’s ethnic studies resources increasingly trail those at peer institutions.

“I don’t think [the center] is just going to be a shifting around of things that already exist,” said Timothy Dwight Master and American Studies professor Mary Lui, who

sits on the center’s implementation committee. “They have committed to a budget, which means the allocation of resources.”

Starting in fall 2016, the center will be housed at 35 Broadway, the current site of the ER&M program’s offices and the Yale College Writing Center. The Writing Center will relocate to the Center for Teaching and Learning in Sterling Memorial Library by December. The RITM center will likely have at least one staff member, said Ezra Stiles Master and former ER&M Director Stephen Pitti, who will serve as the center’s inaugural director and chair of the implementation committee.

The center’s approximately SEE ETHNIC CENTER PAGE 6

ULA success spurs discussion

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS With the introduction last fall of CS50, otherwise known as CPSC 100, the University for the first time hired undergraduate students as learning assistants.

The undergraduate learning assistants were hired in November 2014 only after a motion was approved to make an exception to the University’s provisions on undergraduate instruction.

Previously, undergraduates did not serve in teaching roles other than as peer tutors or graders.

Administrators called CS50 a “true experiment” because it allowed undergraduate assis-

tants to engage in a greater range of teaching responsibilities. Despite initial reservations from some administrators about how to best handle the student-to-ULA relationship, the successful implementation of ULAs in the course may serve as a model for expanded undergraduate teaching roles, as the University considers how it will accommodate the new residential colleges expansion and subsequent increase in undergraduates. Computer science professors interviewed agreed that using ULAs in other understaffed lectures would be very advantageous for a department with a strained graduate stuSEE ULA PAGE 6

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No place like home A

s the end of February draws nigh, sophomores and juniors start facing the age-old question: to live on- or off-campus? This decision necessarily demands some tough questions. Who (would you want to live with)?

What (is life like as an “adult”)?

Where (would you even start trying to get an apartment)?

When (to start looking)? And finally, Why (move)? Many people have really legitimate reasons to stay on-campus — a residential college community, financial considerations or a job that demands a residential college address, such as a master’s aide or freshmen counselor.

Yet many of us also consider another factor: inconvenience.

It’s not an unfounded issue — living off-campus is objectively more inconvenient. In moving off-campus, we “keep house” as we play-act at adulthood. And yes, daily chores take time. But if inconvenience is the only reason you’re staying on-campus, I’d push you to reconsider that as your deciding factor — “I don’t want to clean my own bathroom” is a pretty pathetic way to choose where you call home for the next year(s).

Living on-campus is convenient. But without the domestic responsibilities of “real life,” our dorm rooms never really feel like our homes. And so to overcome the transient anonymity of our residential college bedrooms, we decorate. We Etch A Sketch our life onto standard wooden furniture in rooms that have served as temporary homes to 80-plus years of underclassmen. And come May, in a matter of four or five stressful hours, we wipe our entire year off the room.

We root and uproot so abruptly in revolving dorms filled with other people’s memories.

Personally, I have a plant to make my room feel a little more like a home. And with sub-zero temperatures a few weekends ago, I found myself desperately worried about said plant. How would my leafy friend cope with the wind chill? The lack of sunlight? Should I caulk my window? I even searched on Google “how to protect plants from frost,” and found myself on TodaysHomeowner.com — the WebMD, I quickly realized, for people with gift cards to Lowe’s. (This extremely thorough article on root protection assured me that everything would really, seriously, be just fine.) Zooming out, a plant is objectively a stupid worry. Yet it’s the only thing that would actually die without my care.

And so I water my plant, give it little quarter-turns every few days so the new stems get equal sun exposure and even order sushi so I can use the chopsticks as supports for the growing leaves. It’s my dependent, my responsibility. If I do

not care for my plant, no one will.

Living off-campus expands this single plant into an entire AMELIA of NIERENBERG garden responsibilities — the Close to groceries, the batteries home in the smoke alarm or the code for the Wi-Fi. Although perhaps irritating at the time, those accumulated domestic responsibilities actually make a room feel like a home. Without establishing Yale as home, these four years will feel like borrowed, sublet time. Instead of grafting ourselves on and off of this Gothic architecture in four short years, making Yale feel like home acknowledges the exchange of person and place.

Perhaps it seems like counterintuitive advice — to feel like a part of Yale, you should move out of the famed and storied residential college system. And it’s counter to what we imagine as the quintessential Yale experience. We have a script in defense of staying on-campus: “When else in your life will you get to live in a castle?” Or: “We will have our whole lives to live in apartments.” Or, my personal favorite: “We’re only here for four years!” which seems to be our catch-all explanation for pretty much anything.

And I won’t deny it — moving off-campus would interrupt certain parts of this postcard Yale college experience.

You would have to work harder to hold onto your residential college community: Walking to get a bacon-egg-and-cheese at the Buttery will now have to be a conscious choice over one from GHeav — ahem, Good Nature Market. You might play less pool. The circle of people you nod at without knowing where you know them from might shrink.

But you will also be responsible to and responsible for something. Roots and responsibilities create an interaction with a space, tethering us to a greater system called Yale.

Creating a real home at Yale where you cook, buy your own toilet paper and maybe even host dinner parties will make on-campus Yale feel like yours, too. Home is where the heart is, sure. But home is where the hearth is, too. And it’s those mundane things that ground your days and create rhythms of responsibility. Ground your days. Create a rhythm. Make Yale home to make Yale yours.

Should you go to law school?

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hould I go to law school?”

By the time students ask this question, they have usually given it a lot of thought. But they often approach the question abstractly, appealing to a well-worn list of pros and cons.

I do not answer this question for them, and I cannot answer it for you. However, if you are considering law school, I can offer you a series of concrete steps to help you make the right decision.

Law school is expensive and time-consuming. The opportunity costs are huge. The burden is on you to show that it is the right fit.

Here’s how: First, read two law school textbooks (“casebooks”), one in a substantive area that you find intrinsically interesting, and another in a subject area that you find inherently uninteresting. The casebook on the “intrinsically interesting” subject should be really interesting, meaning that you cannot wait to finish your other work so that you can keep reading it. You must find it exciting, important, even beautiful. You must find yourself arguing with the casebook author and boring

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your non-lawyer friends. As for the textbook on the “intrinsically uninteresting” subject, you are allowed to still find the subject matter dull after finishing it.

However, you must nonetheless find something appealing in the reasoning or method of analysis involved. To be a lawyer, it is the process, the way of thinking that you must find compelling: The subject matter is secondary.

Second, work for a lawyer who represents individual clients. The substantive area of law does not matter as much as the process, particularly if you work with people who really need legal services. Either you derive joy from using legal tools to help people feel less desperate, less frightened, less hopeless, or you don’t. Sometimes students come to me and say that they want to study law, but not practice. For those students, this step in the process is especially important.

Law is an applied discipline. If you want to be a law professor, a legislator or a judge you still need to understand how the law works — and does not work — for real people. One or two summers working for a lawyer will tell you what you need to know.

Third, when you help represent individuals, make sure that you are more interested in resolving legal problems than in addressing the other challenges they face. Many students mistakenly choose law when what they really wanted to do was social work, psychology, medicine or business. The question is not “Which problem is more pressing?” or “Which job is more important?” The question is: At both an individual and a macro level, which tools do you want to use to help solve these challenges? If you want to be a lawyer, it should be the structural and systemic issues you see in your individual cases that keep you up at night. You should be obsessed with questions of “Who decides and how?” You should start to see the law in places, big and small, that you had never noticed it before, and you should start to think deeply about how you could make it better.

Finally, read legal memoirs.

You can start with Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy” but there are many others. To be a good lawyer, you need to have a high tolerance for detail, for needle-in

the-haystack searching, for the slow, steady piecing together of evidence: You are more historian or journalist than philosopher. Cases are won or lost — deals stick or crumble — on the facts. Casebooks and undergraduate law classes are helpful but can mistakenly lead students to believe that it is only the law that matters. Yes, you have to like the law — find it beautiful, even — but you have to love evidence, facts, data, documents.

Legal memoirs will help give you a sense of whether you would like the daily, painstaking work of legal practice.

If you go through these steps and discover that you do not want to be a lawyer, fear not. Perhaps you are destined to become a teacher, a coach, an entrepreneur, a psychologist, a religious leader, a scientist, a nurse. There are many ways to do right in this world. All you have to do is find the one that is right for you.

ALEXANDRA DUFRESNE is a lawyer who has taught seminars at Yale in Immigration, Refugee, and Child Law and Policy and former dean of Morse College. Contact her at alexandra.dufresne@yale.edu .

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eniors currently have more free time on their hands than at any other point during their Yale career. Most are done with the job hunt and know where they are going to be after graduation. Extracurricular responsibilities typically subside after junior year. Departmental requirements and senior theses are finishing up too.

What I want to ask those about to graduate is this: How will you make the most of your freedom?

Traditionally, the Senior Class Council has presented Feb Club, Masquerade Ball and a score of parties all the way through Senior Week as the answer to this interlude. Graduation is an ending, and endings call for celebrating the only way our generation knows how: with lots of sensory stimuli and not enough personal space, a fleeting escape from inevitable truths.

As a FroCo, I was on duty a majority of these senior event nights. And it really wasn’t that bad. Acknowledging that I would be spending many of my nights in, I decided to audit a

Russian literature class. I read "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" in my final semester of college.

Reading such beautiful prose and engrossing stories provided me with a deep feeling of satisfaction as I ended my time as an undergraduate.

I made the most out of Yale’s resources and opportunities, just as I was told to do when I arrived.

But this no longer seems like enough. I find myself wondering whether the indulgence of literature and knowledge is any different from the indulgence of alcohol. Is it any less utility-driven?

As an aspiring physician who has spent time shadowing terminal cancer patients, I’ve seen my fair share of endings. The terminally ill do not have a Feb Club, nor do they seem to want one.

The patients and the families I’ve met at the hospital are looking for very different things. They crave simple pleasures — companionship, comfort, love. They resist the idea of being drugged.

Their eyes are open. They want

to engage with the world. Perhaps most importantly, they think about the legacy they want to leave behind.

And in many ways, I feel the same way. As I stand poised to graduate again this May, I want to believe that my time at Yale mattered, that I didn’t come and go for nothing.

By remaining in New Haven another year, I have been able to witness my former FroCo group grow up. That growth is a privilege to witness. Ironically, even though I no longer have swipe access to my own residential college, I’ve become more committed to providing mentorship to those freshmen who seek it. In this way, the knowledge and wisdom I’ve accumulated through my own struggles are not in vain.

When I finally leave New Haven, I hope to have made a mark in some way.

You don’t have to be a FroCo to leave a legacy. There are over 50 volunteer groups at Dwight Hall.

If the senior class could collectively contribute toward these service projects, the impact

would be extensive and significant. Beyond the lives that would be improved by these acts of service, seniors would send an important message to younger and future classes about responsibility, purpose and living well in the face of an imminent conclusion. What if we celebrated those who performed public service and made an impact on their community over those who partied every night of a month?

These folks should be the real all-stars.

Eighty seven. That’s how many days we have left before commencement. In that sense, we are lucky. The dying don’t know when their time is up. It’s more difficult for them to plan because they can’t predict a time frame for that plan.

But for us, May 23 is an absolute certainty. What will we do with that knowledge?

JOHNATHAN YAO is a 2015 graduate of Jonathan Edwards College and will graduate from the School of Public Health in 2016. Contact him at johnathan.yao@yale.edu .

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Students prefer GPSCY to Schwarzman plans

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER The $150 million Schwarzman Center, conceived partly as a weekend hangout space for students across the University, will include several features designed specifically to appeal to the thousands of students in Yale’s 13 graduate and professional schools: a late closing time, a bar serving beer and wine and an upstairs room reserved for graduate and professional students.

But those much hyped features of the lavish new student center could face competition from an older, more established student hub with deep roots in the graduate school community, according to graduate and professional students interviewed.

Gryphon’s Pub at GPSCY, a historic, student-run bar that has served graduate students for nearly 50 years, currently offers some of the same services promised by the Schwarzman Center — but in an intimate and familiar setting that students are already envisioning as a hip alternative to the soon-to-be-renovated Commons.

“It sounds like Yale is trying to be cool,” said Jay Locke GRD ’17.

“GPSCY is already cool.”

GPSCY, which stands for Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale, has been a staple of graduate student social life at Yale since it opened in the 1970s. Students gather there to dance and play pool as they wind down after days of grueling work in the high-pressure academic cauldron of the graduate and professional schools. Through the decades, the pub has served as a workplace and hangout spot for a series of prominent Yale alumni.

University President Peter Salovey helped construct one of the three bars in the pub while he was a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

And Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 worked there

as a bouncer and bartender during her time at the law school.

“It’s like if you took a nice, classy bar and mashed it with the grungiest, diviest bar imaginable,” said Robert Wickham GRD ’16, one of eight managers who run the pub. “It’s almost an ironic bar. We’re not trying to be hipster, but it’s pretty hipster down there.”

On Friday nights, according to Wickham, the pub sometimes attracts as many as 1,300 customers, who gather to play karaoke games with their friends or to perch on creaky chairs as they sip mugs of two-dollar beer.

GPSCY’s York Street building is owned by the University, which maintains the facilities and meets periodically with the Graduate and Professional Student Senate to discuss the finances of the pub.

But GPSCY, which does not admit undergraduates, covers operational costs, including its payroll, without University assistance, charging graduate and professional school students a membership fee of $20 per year. The vast majority of GPSCY employees are either graduate students at Yale or the spouses of students.

However, the publication two weeks ago of a new advisory committee report outlining recommendations for the Schwarzman Center raised questions about the future of existing graduate student social spaces on campus. The nearly 100-page report, which does not mention GPSCY, calls for the Presidents’ Room on the second floor of Commons to be transformed into a designated hangout space for graduate and professional students. And it envisions a bistro-style dining area with a late-night pub serving alcoholic beverages to graduate students and undergraduates over the age of 21.

GPSCY Director Laura Smith and Graduate and Professional Student Senate President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18 told the News that GPSCY and the planned

Co-chair candidates walk Ward 22

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER On a dark and drizzly Wednesday evening, Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison went door to door on Henry Street, introducing neighborhood residents to Ward 22 Democratic co-chair candidates Victoria Dancy and Gabrielle Diaz ’18.

“These are my girls,” Morrison said.

In the days leading up to the primary next Tuesday, the alderbacked slate of Dancy and Diaz have stepped up their campaign to unseat incumbent co-chair Cordelia Thorpe, who is running for re-election. Thorpe is running as a team with Dixwell Community Management Team treasurer Angela Watley, while former Democratic Deputy Registrar of Voters Helen Powell is running alone. All five candidates have adopted strategies to combat the expected low voter turnout for this election, which is the city’s only contested co-chair race.

For Dancy — an adjunct professor at Gateway Community College, a single mother and the treasurer for Morrison’s aldermanic campaigns — Wednesday’s strategy involved finding time to canvass in between work and picking her son up from a Black History Month event at school. Dancy and Diaz, a Timothy Dwight resident, have completed eight canvasses in the past two weeks, reaching out to both Yale students and Dixwell residents. Ward 22 encompasses the Ezra Stiles, Morse, Silliman and Timothy Dwight colleges, as well as Swing Space. Yale undergraduates make up about a third of the ward’s residents.

While canvassing Wednesday, Morrison told residents that she would need the support of her co-chairs going forward with the “Q” House renovation. The “Q” House, a former community center for youth that closed in 2013, received a $14.5 million grant from the state last month for reconstruction.

Dancy and Diaz’s team has gathered a group of volunteers

consisting of Yale students, other ward co-chairs and community members to help them canvass.

This outreach is not a matter of swaying voters, Morrison said.

Rather, the active campaigning is intended to make Dixwell residents aware of Tuesday’s election, which will be held at the Wexler-Grant School.

Thorpe, also the current president of the Dixwell Community Management Team, has reached out to her constituents mainly through email, text and Facebook, she said. She would like the Yale College Democrats president — now her current co-chair, Maxwell Ulin ’17 — to introduce her to Yale students who live in the ward, she added.

But Ulin has backed Dancy and Diaz, an aspiring lawyer who hails from Georgia. Earlier this month, Ulin told the News that a Yale student sitting as co-chair would help unite the ward as a whole.

In October, Thorpe said she had been looking for another Yale student to run on a slate with her. However, she said Wednesday that she has been unsuccessful because she does not know how to contact any Yale students, although she has been trying to reach out for years.

“I would like Yale students to come out and meet with us,” Thorpe said. “I look forward to forging a new town-and-gown relationship.”

Powell said she had not reached out to Yale students either, but she already knows a significant number of Dixwell residents.

Powell also intends to run for Democratic registrar of voters — an elected four-year position — later this year, she said.

Back at their base on Lake Place Wednesday night, canvassers for Dancy and Diaz began tallying the number of voters who had agreed to vote for the pair.

That evening, the campaign received 36 answers in the affirmative. Over last weekend, the campaign received over 100 positive answers from voters during canvasses, Diaz said.

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

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Graduate and professional school students remain loyal to GPSCY despite the prospect of a Schwarzman Center pub.

Schwarzman Center facilities will complement each other rather than compete for student attention. According to Mo, who helped lobby the University for a new student hub, the Schwarzman Center will provide dining options and yoga classes, as well as numerous daytime events designed to foster interaction among graduate students and undergraduates.

“The offerings of GPSCY are very different from what the offerings of the Schwarzman Center will be, and I see each as complementing the other,” she said.

But despite those other offerings, several graduate and professional students interviewed expressed skepticism about the

specific plans for a second latenight hangout space with a bar serving alcohol and a room closed to undergraduates.

Beth Price GRD ’21 said she would rather drink and relax at GPSCY because she prefers its endearing five-letter acronym to the corporate feel of the Schwarzman Center, named for The Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69, who last spring donated $150 million toward the transformation of Commons into a student hub.

Jordan Graf DIV ’17 said he admires the “heritage” of GPSCY and believes that once the Schwarzman Center opens, students will embrace the pub as an anti-establishment rejection of the corporatized world of big-

money donations.

“It would be good business for GPSCY,” Graf said.

Others said they simply did not get the sense that students want another graduate student bar on campus.

“I don’t think there’s a need for another bar,” said Marko Mitrovic GRD ’20. “It will just split the people up. We don’t need competition.”

But Smith maintained that GPSCY and the Schwarzman Center will occupy different niches at the University — although she acknowledged that the opening of the center may change the dynamic of graduate student social life on-campus.

“Undoubtedly there will be new challenges once the center is

up and running,” Smith said. “But that will spur whatever student managers we then have on staff to continue to improve our facilities and programming.”

GPSS Vice President Cindy Rush GRD ‘16 said the Schwarzman Center will have no trouble attracting customers to its bar, because it will be the closest place to grab a drink for the large cohort of graduate students living on Prospect Street.

Still, Rush added, “Graduate students enjoy having a place of their own and GPSCY will continue to be that place for grad students.”

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

Harp backs paid family leave state bill

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER As activists await the state Senate’s deliberation on a bill mandating paid family leave for all Connecticut employees, Mayor Toni Harp has thrown her support behind the initiative.

The Connecticut Campaign for Paid Family Leave, a coalition of more than 60 organizations and businesses advocating for statewide paid family and medical leave, announced its proposal and recommendations for the bill last Wednesday. The Connecticut General Assembly raised Senate Bill 221 — which, in alignment with the coalition’s recommendations, mandates a selffunded system of paid family leave — on Feb. 22. The Labor and Public Employees Committee of the General Assembly is currently leading the bill, which will likely reach the Senate floor in the coming months. The bill presented this year, which is similar to one proposed but not passed in 2015, stipulates up to 12 weeks of leave for all Connecticut workers dealing with personal illness or caring for seriously ill family members or newborn children, as well as members of the military or individuals undergoing treatment to donate bone marrow.

“It seems self-evident that a compassionate, effective social safety net would include provisions for working men and women suddenly faced with emergency or extraordinary family circumstances,” Harp said in a statement to the News. “This measure would provide some peace of mind for working people when they likely would need it most.”

Catherine Bailey, the Connecticut Campaign for Paid Family Leave chair and Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund policy director, said that under the bill, workers who take time off for any of the specified reasons will receive 100 percent wage replacement for up to 12 weeks, with a weekly compensation cap of $1,000.

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Harp has expressed support for a paid family leave bill.

“This year we have an excellent chance at progress because [paid family leave] is not such a new concept anymore,” Bailey said, adding that her organization has received some encouraging responses from a handful of legislators, including state Sen. Gary Winfield, who represents New Haven and West Haven.

Bailey said last year’s bill was never voted upon by the state House of Representatives because a number of other important bills emerged during the final weeks of the General Assembly’s 2015 session. She noted that the state’s budget — a significant topic of debate last year — was not completed until the session reached its final few minutes.

This precluded other proposals from receiving sufficient debate time. But Bailey said the Labor Committee and

Appropriations Committee voted favorably on last year’s bill.

Lindsay Farrell, the state director of Working Families — an independent political organization that advocates for workers’ rights statewide — emphasized the importance of implementing paid family leave in Connecticut as a way to attract families seeking job security.

Farrell, a New Haven resident, noted that all Connecticut workers would be paying the same percentage from their paychecks — under 1 percent of earnings — to finance the program. She said many small business owners and employees in New Haven and beyond support the program, which offers peace of mind in return for a small payroll deduction.

“In a place like Connecticut where we have a very

aging population, I think we could really reinvigorate our state and economy by attracting younger families who are thinking they’d like to have a family one day to come to Connecticut, where they know they have job security,” Farrell said.

Farrell added that, according to a Hartford Business Journal report, 38 percent of millennial workers said they would be willing to move “not just to a different state, but to a different country” for a paid family leave program such as the one being proposed in Connecticut.

Only three states — Rhode Island, New Jersey and California — currently offer some program addressing paid family or medical leave.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”

TARIQ ALI BRITISH PAKISTANI WRITER, JOURNALIST AND FILMMAKER

Admins quiet on associate master’s arrest CAMACHO FROM PAGE 1 situation as a private matter. University President Peter Salovey also did not comment.

Head of Pierson College Stephen Davis said speaking as a colleague of Camacho’s, he is glad to have her back on campus.

“I think what she did was an act of deep integrity from what I know of her as a person. She is someone for whom I have a great deal of respect and regard; she is someone I admire greatly,” he said.

“I’ve seen her put her values into practice locally, whether it be in the context of conversations taking place on campus last semester or in her presence with students. To me she has always been someone who has enacted an authentic presence.”

All eight students in Ezra Stiles College interviewed by the News expressed unanimous support for her actions.

Julietta Garbasz ’18 said the bravery with which Camacho approached the protest has generated admiration amongst Stiles students, herself included.

“I have yet to hear a Stilesian say anything negative about the incident,” she said. “We all love [Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti] and [Camacho] and are incredibly impressed by her strength

of character and determination to change a flawed system. It’s so great that she took such a public stand for the rights of refuges in our community and our country.”

Camacho said a number of students in Stiles reached out to her to express support and concern as to whether she had arrived home safely.

Camacho also said she has heard from students — including several from Stiles — involved with immigration issues either as activists or through personal experiences.

Pitti said Camacho’s involvement with immigration issues has been long-standing.

“A l i c i a h a s b e e n involved in immigration issues in New Haven for as long as we have been at Yale — nearly 20 years,” he said. “She has been active in the city’s immigrant community as a member of the board of [Junta for Progressive Action] for the last 15 years, and she served a long term as the chair of the board of that organization. She responded to Junta’s invitation to draw attention to a human rights crisis that affects communities here and elsewhere.”

Ezra Stiles College was founded in 1961.

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

COURTESY OF MICHAEL SALDARRIAGA

Camacho was arrested for civil disobedience on Tuesday.

Harvard replaces “house master” title with “faculty dean” HARVARD FROM PAGE 1 ever, Smith said these claims could not be “further from the truth.”

Debates over whether to change the title of “house master” at Harvard have spanned several years, but the recent decision to abolish it altogether can be traced to protests last fall about race and discrimination on college campuses. In particular, conversations about the title gained new strength after pieces of black tape were found defacing the portraits of some African-American professors at Harvard Law School on

Nov. 18.

Liana Henderson-Semel, a Harvard freshman, said campus protests emerged about a week after the incident.

“In my opinion, Harvard responded so quickly to the call to change the title of house master because of this recent act of racist vandalism,” she said. “Despite disagreeing with Harvard’s decision to change the title, I think that the administration handled the situation well.”

Indeed, unlike at Yale, Harvard moved quickly in deciding whether to change the title of master: In December, Dean of

Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced that house masters had unanimously agreed to eliminate their title and that college and house administrators would subsequently meet to discuss next steps. Only now, however, has it settled upon a replacement title.

Meanwhile, the Yale Corporation continues to debate whether to maintain the title of master after discussing the subject at its February meeting.

University Spokesman Tom Conroy said that while Yale “respect[s] other schools’ choices regarding titles, Yale’s discussions are not concluded and there

is nothing to add at this time.”

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway declined to comment, citing ongoing Corporation deliberations. University President Peter Salovey did not respond to a request for comment.

Silliman Master Nicholas Christakis said while he “has no idea what the Corporation will do,” he has been told that Harvard’s college deans — whom he likened to Yale’s residential college deans — will change their titles to assistant dean, allowing for house masters to be called faculty deans.

“I wouldn’t object to that

change here at Yale,” he said.

Referring to an email he sent to the Silliman community in August, Christakis said an issue central to the potential change of the title of master is the lack of practical replacement titles.

Alternatives such as lord, rector and chancellor would not fit, he wrote in August, and dean is already taken. But by changing deans to assistant deans, he said, the problem of how to address masters at Yale could be solved.

Still, Christakis said Yale should make its decision independent of the actions of other institutions.

“We’re Yale University — we can make our own decisions about what to do,” he said.

But Calhoun Master Julia Adams questioned the logistical practicality of adding yet more deans to Yale’s administrative structure.

“We have 12, soon to be 14 residential college deans,” Adams said. “If we followed Harvard’s model ... we would certainly be full up [with deans].”

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

COURTESY OF THE HARVARD CRIMSON

Harvard first announced its decision to abolish the title in December.

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“I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.” ERIN GRUWELL WRITER

Tech hub on track for East Rock

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District NHV will be a nine-acre property nestled between East Rock and Fair Haven.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER When CT Transit moved its hub to Hamden six years ago, it left the cavernous former bus depot at 470 James St. vacant, and it has remained empty since.

But after a favorable vote from the Board of Alders’ Community Development committee Wednesday night, the property is one step closer to a major transformation.

Nestled between East Rock and Fair Haven, the nine-acre property at 470 James St. — which houses a 195,000-squarefoot building — is currently heavily polluted by the petroleum in its soil, the result of environmental neglect throughout the 20th century. The state approved $5.5 million in bonds to clean the brownfield between Interstate 91 and the railroad tracks in January. Now developers David Salinas and Eric O’Brien are making their final push to turn the building, which sits on stateowned property, into a center for both work and play in the Upper

State Street area. The aldermanic committee preliminarily gave the green light for the city to sell the property to District NHV — Salinas and O’Brien’s company — for one dollar once the city receives the land for free from the state.

Only after this vote can the proposal come before the full Board of Alders for official approval.

Speaking before the alders, Salinas said the plans will be the first step in turning the area into a tech hub — the sort of place that might foster a burgeoning tech scene in New Haven itself.

“The concept behind District NHV is that today, companies and people — young people, people in general — are looking for different types of workspaces, workspaces that have energy, workspaces that combine a balance for both work and life,” he said. “The traditional corporate building is not exciting to people.”

Salinas and O’Brien’s plans are wide-ranging. After demolishing half the current building to clean the underlying brownfield, they plan to make the remaining

100,000 square feet into a home for local companies. Their renovations will also see a courtyard built in the middle of the building and a park constructed alongside the nearby Mill River Trail.

City officials at the meeting said the local government will benefit on multiple levels from the development. For Economic Development Administrator Matt Nemerson SOM ’81, the building’s 5,000 square feet of “incubator space” is particularly exciting.

“If you go somewhere like Cambridge, Lower Manhattan, San Francisco, you see a whole new era of incubation space,” he said. “The idea of innovation and collaboration has reached a whole new level of design and architecture, and we really don’t have space in the city like that.”

Matthew Smith, the economic development officer responsible for the project, said the city is likely to see tangible economic benefits from the development.

He said the city currently hopes District NHV will create 200 to 300 local jobs, many of which

would be allocated in accordance with skill level and bear little reference to each candidate’s level of education.

Smith added that the state’s current ownership of the property makes it tax-exempt. Once District NHV begins to operate on the property, however, its tax revenue will contribute to the city’s coffers.

Andrea Konetchy, a 40-year resident of Orange Street, said she believes the development will make the area safer and more vibrant.

“It brings vision for the future, and it links the wards together in a healthy way,” she said. “We had nothing there — it was a no man’s land. You were afraid to walk into this area. Now we’ll have something there that brings the area alive.”

Kevin McCarthy, the vice chair of the East Rock Management Team, said neighborhood residents have expressed considerable enthusiasm about the project. East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes — who attended the meeting though she is not a

member of the committee — said she has heard similar sentiments from her constituents throughout the planning process.

District NHV will not only be a business space, Salinas said.

Instead, 30 percent of the property will be a park on the Mill River, with the physical building containing a bakery, restaurant and beer garden alongside office space for local companies like SeeClickFix and Launch Capital.

Smith added that developers will also build an outdoor stage for public events, where an annual community festival may be held.

Salinas and O’Brien — who own design firm Digital Surgeons and a nearby CrossFit gym, respectively — will also move their businesses into the space.

Much of the building, Salinas said, will be composed of small office suites and meeting rooms for small businesses to rent on an ad-hoc basis.

Smith said the project was only made possible by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s bonding of $5.5 million to pay for cleanup of the site —

without that money, he said, the project would have been unaffordable. Speaking to reporters after bonding the money in January, Malloy said the bonding was part of an investment program that aims at “long-term revitalization” of the state’s economy.

Although there was some confusion about how best to maintain decorum during the meeting , the plans for District NHV passed the committee unanimously at the end of the meeting. The full Board of Alders will vote on the plans in its meeting in early March.

“To actually have a place where people are working — you can have people walking around, people cycling, an active community — I think that this is the step to go,” Fair Haven Alder José Crespo said. “Kudos to those who are part of this project — keep doing what you’re doing, and thank you for considering us, the residents of New Haven.”

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

Yale, Yale-NUS offer first joint course

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER For the first time, Yale students in New Haven and YaleNUS students in Singapore can enter the same “classroom” and collaborate virtually on group projects.

This spring, Yale and YaleNUS collectively launched the first-ever joint course for students from the two institutions. Named “China’s Energy and Environmental Sustainability Challenge,” the class is taught live in Singapore by Yale-NUS environmental studies professor Angel Hsu. Hsu and her students are joined by Yale students in New Haven who access the virtual classroom through Adobe Connect software, a web-conferencing tool. This semester, the class enrolls seven Yale-NUS students and six Yalies from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The class is open to all Yale students, but only attracted FES students due to its limited advertising, Hsu said.

Students enrolled in the class praised it for providing the chance to hear diverse opinions, but acknowledged that the class does not always run smoothly because of technical difficulties.

“I guess the [Yale-NUS] students are having a better experience than the FES students, as it is taught in-person in Singapore with the professor there, and here we are all joining through Adobe Connect from our respective locations,” Ralien Bekkers FES ’17 said.

The class meets at 7 a.m. Eastern time twice a week, which Bekkers said makes it hard for FES students to meet, get to campus on time and attend the course in a proper setting. All

FES students join the online classroom separately from their homes, Bekkers added. The schools need to “step up their game” in terms of technology to make classes a more satisfactory experience, she said.

Farrukh Zaman FES ’17 said Yalies have to start early in the morning for the class while students in Singapore have to stay late. The class begins at 8 p.m. for Yale-NUS students.

Technical problems with Adobe Connect and microphones can disrupt smooth classroom discussions, Bekkers said, though she added that the situation has improved over time.

Jolanda Nava YNUS ’17 also cited technical trouble such as Internet connectivity. She said she hopes the pioneering experiment of a shared classroom will make logistics easier for similar collaborations between the two institutions in the future.

Still, Zaman said the virtual classroom experience is not much different from that of a conventional classroom model, except that it allows for more flexibility in terms of revisiting the lectures because the sessions are recorded.

The course offers chances for students from both sides to interact with one another. For example, all students have to work in a team with one student from the other school and come up with a policy memo on the implementation of China’s soon-to-be-released 13th FiveYear Plan — the country’s highest policy document outlining its social and economic development for the next five years.

According to Hsu, students from both schools will meet in person next month and pres-

ent their policy memos to Chinese students, experts and policymakers during a joint field trip to China.

“Taking classes together is one of the most powerful ways to bond two institutions: It gives us the opportunity to interact and explore new ideas,” Nava said.

She added that one benefit of the class is the chance for Yale-NUS students majoring in environmental studies to interact with graduate students in the same field at Yale.

Milagros De Camps FES ’17 said one strength of the class is its diverse student body and international experience. It also broadens students’ networks to include those within the YaleNUS community, contacts who may be useful in the future, De Camps added.

Students are also required to post reading responses and comment on their fellow students’ responses. This facilitates an exchange of ideas from both sides and creates learning opportunities, Hassaan Sipra FES ’16 said.

Sipra added that Yale-NUS students are desirable collaborators because they engage actively in the classroom and frame discussions well.

Besides the chance for collaboration, the class allows FES students listen to guest speakers in the course, many of whom are experts who might not travel all the way to New Haven to give a lecture, De Camps said.

All students interviewed said they look forward to more joint classes in the future.

Yale-NUS also has a jointdegree program with FES. Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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This spring, Yale and Yale-NUS launched a course which can be taken by students in both New Haven and Singapore.

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FROM THE FRONT Montague to miss rest of season BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 After Montague started the first 20 games of Yale’s season and missed the past four, the team will not have him for the final four games of the regular season. His last game with the team was a Feb. 6 contest against Cornell. In his absence, the team has gone 3–1, with the lone loss coming against Princeton.

The news comes during a stretch of Ivy League play that will determine whether Yale can earn a berth to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1962. With a 9–1 Ivy League

record, the team is a half-game ahead of 8–1 Princeton and one game ahead of 8–2 Columbia in the conference standings. An outright Ivy League championship, or a share of the title paired with a victory in a tie-breaking playoff, would give Yale a bid to the tournament.

The Registrar’s Office did not specify the nature of Montague’s withdrawal, and on Tuesday night University spokesman Tom Conroy wrote in an email to the News that the University’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications had no information to provide about Montague. Conroy did

not respond to request for comment.

Montague, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment Wednesday, said in a statement to the News on Feb. 17 that he was taking a “personal leave” and intended to return to the team “as soon as possible.”

This weekend, Yale hosts Harvard and Dartmouth in its final two home games of the 2015–16 season.

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

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In more than three-and-a-half seasons of being a member of the team, Montague started 52 of the 87 games that he played in.

“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”

WILL.I.AM AMERICAN SINGER, SONGWRITER AND RAPPER

ER&M to see new home in ethnic studies center ETHNIC CENTER FROM PAGE 1 $600,000 budget will fund postdoctoral research, sponsor summer research fellowships and organize speaker series and other public events. ER&M and other programs have not yet held faculty meetings about their future relationship to the RITM center, Pitti said.

Administrators have announced, however, that the ER&M program will be housed within the center, although the center’s scope will reach beyond the program, and the program will retain its own budgetary resources. While the RITM center’s budget will not directly support ER&M, much of the center’s resources — including programming, visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows — will impact the intellectual life of the program, ER&M Chair and African American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson said.

Interest in ER&M has spiked recently, and enrollment in the program’s courses was up this semester. Jacobson said current campus events involving race, immigration and nationality have caused the increased interest in ER&M, and the new center will allow Yale to accommodate that increase.

“All indications are that the [ER&M] major will grow significantly between this year and next,” Jacobson said.

But he also noted that ER&M’s institutional status as a program rather than a full department may stay the same for some time, meaning that the program will continue to lack faculty hiring and retention power. Affiliated faculty members must be based in a full department, such as African American Studies or American Studies.

“The broader question of faculty hiring, promotion and retention is the subject of tremendous energy across campus, including ad hoc faculty and student activity, and newly composed reform efforts associated with the [Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office] and the Faculty Senate alike,” Jacobson said, noting that the University has made significant faculty hiring commitments in ER&M-related fields. “I am cautiously optimistic.”

Lui said the center’s structure might resemble that of the Whitney Humanities Center, which currently provides an “intellectual home” for humanities programs at Yale. The new RITM center will serve the same purpose for research into race, ethnicity and identity, she said.

Faculty involved with Yale’s cen-

ter will not be required to teach a course in ER&M, although Lui said that professors in departments directly related to the center’s field of study will likely be interested in collaborating on projects and working with postdoctoral students at the center.

Lui emphasized that the center will greatly expand ER&M, rather than simply “putting it in a prettier package.” For example, she said, the center will hopefully enhance the study of currently under-researched topics like indigeneity.

Current research into issues of inequality, displacement and dispossession focus mostly on North America, and Lui said the new center may be more global — but also more grounded in New Haven’s immigrant population — than current indigeneity studies at Yale.

Still, some racial studies programs are already miles ahead at other U.S. colleges and universities. Stanford, Brown and the University of Chicago all have thriving centers for race, Lui said.

“We feel very behind some peer institutions,” Lui said.

Every racial or ethnic studies center caters to different types of work. The Yale center may be more research-focused, while the ethnic studies center at Columbia is aimed largely at undergraduate teaching, said Gary Okihiro, the founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

The ability to hire and retain faculty has been a source of struggle and growth in similar centers at peer institutions.

Columbia’s center was established in 1999 and has over 50 affiliated faculty members. Still, it does not have the ability to fully hire faculty members. In a December interview with the News, Columbia history professor Karl Jacoby GRD ’97 said the center does not have autonomy over faculty hiring and granting tenure.

Instead, Columbia’s center has to partner with departments to jointly hire faculty members, which he said is challenging for young faculty members seeking tenure.

Lui said models at other universities will be helpful as Yale plans its own center.

“We can learn from other people’s mistakes,” she said.

In the 2014–15 academic year, around 28 percent of the total University student body was nonwhite.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Undergrad learning assistants successful in CS ULAS FROM PAGE 1 dent population.

Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum said the ULAs were a great success.

“The students in CPSC 100a gave them rave reviews,” she said.

“We would love to be able to use ULAs in other classes as well.”

The introduction of ULAs only to CS50 is part of a three-year experiment designed to evaluate the new role, CS professor Daniel Spielman said.

While the Computer Science Department and other University courses have previously made use of undergraduate graders and peer tutors, students had never filled both roles simultaneously until last semester. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said there is a key difference between undergraduate graders and ULAs — graders are presented with completed assignments, while ULAs play a larger role in guiding their peers to the final product.

Computer science professor James Aspnes said the ULAs themselves can learn from their teaching experience and are often more approachable than graduate teaching fellows. He also said the number of potential ULAs will rise with increasing undergraduate enrollments.

“Other universities, including Harvard and Stanford, make extensive use of undergraduate assistants in computer science courses,” Feigenbaum said. “I hope that Yale will soon do so as well. Both the ULAs and the students in our classes would benefit immensely, because computer science has always been something that students learn collaboratively and teach each other.”

Holloway said Yale is one of the few schools that has not made significant use of undergraduate learning assistants.

He added that for faculty to feel

comfortable using undergraduates in the capacity of a teaching assistance, ULA grading must be confidential.

“It would be a violation of confidentiality if students could grade their friends’ assignments.

The grade would be tainted,” Holloway said.

At Harvard, where undergraduate teaching assistants work in many classes, the guidelines for the position highlight potential pitfalls in such an arrangement.

The guidelines address potential academic implications of undergraduate graders, stating that undergraduate course assistants may participate in student evaluation, but should not be involved in subjective evaluations of essays and examinations. “[As] undergraduates may fail to recognize the implications of serving in an instructional role, instructors should take special responsibility for initiating discussions about professional conduct, including the impropriety of amorous relationships with students and the importance of both equity and confidentiality,” the Harvard guidelines state.

Still, Spielman said the fear of “favoritism” is often overstated.

He added that in classes where he has undergraduate graders, he has students identify their homework and tests by a serial number so the grader will not know whose homework they are grading.

The potential use of ULAs may also ameliorate the long-standing challenges faced by graduate students in the department.

Professors and graduate students have long complained that they are strained to cover all the lectures in the increasingly popular department. Many courses, especially introductory courses, are understaffed.

Aspnes, although supportive of ULAs, said in the long run the University should focus on increasing the number of grad-

uate students in the department and encouraging those students to serve as teaching assistants.

Graduate teaching assistant Chuqiao Xu GRD ’16 said the department has a small number of teaching assistants at the moment. She added that one of the reasons the department struggles to find teaching assistants is because Yale’s master’s program in computer science is only one year long, which means many master’s students do not have time to teach in addition to taking classes and finding jobs.

While CS50 continues its three-year trial with the ULA model, the University may have to address the use of undergraduate teaching assistants in a broader academic context as it prepares for the opening of two new residential colleges. While the new college expansion will ultimately result in a 15 percent undergraduate increase, there are no plans to expand the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The discrepancy will result in a shortage of graduate student TAs, Holloway said.

Faculty of Art and Science Dean Tamar Gendler said that with the opening of the two new colleges, the University remains committed to providing highquality teaching opportunities for graduate students, but is also exploring ways that undergraduates might serve as learning assistants in certain courses.

She cited CS50 as an experiment that may contribute to the discussions.

“That is a debate that is going to be coming down the pipe,” Holloway said. “We are predicting a shortage in TAs for several major courses. But we have enough talented seniors who can be great assistants.”

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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While CS50 continues its three-year trial, the University may have to address the use of ULAs in a broader context.

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“I don’t believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.”

JAVIER BARDEM ACTOR

Lecture concludes stereotypes are true

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale’s Psychology Department hosted a Wednesday lecture that came to a controversial conclusion: Stereotypes are, in fact, accurate.

The lecture was led by Alice Eagly, a social psychologist from Northwestern University. The event, titled “How Can Stereotypes Be So Accurate, Yet So Wrong?” addressed the issue by claiming that stereotypes can be correct but also exist for the wrong reasons. According to Eagly, stereotypes’ accuracy is what allows them to shape our society.

“Stereotypes are profoundly predicted,” she said. “They’re not social constructions by any means. They’re observations of what people do.”

Eagly went on to say that the

way stereotypes are formed is more complicated than it seems.

According to her research, people tend to associate certain roles with the attributes of people who generally fall into those roles.

For example, women are overrepresented in communal roles — those involved in nurturing and caring for others — and are therefore seen as more affectionate, gentle and sympathetic.

Because people tend to develop attributes based on the roles they are given, they eventually fit the stereotypical traits associated with those roles. The only way for an individual to change her stereotype is to break out of that role, but this can be difficult after stereotypes for the role have already been established in society.

In a similar vein, Gina Roussos GRD ’19 said that if employers are routinely told that women

are less independent, assertive and competent than men, they are less likely to hire women.

This tendency causes trouble when it comes to breaking stereotypes. If people are unable to change their roles in society — an act which often relies on others to ignore those stereotypes — they will be unable to change their stereotypes.

Eagly said group stereotypes are correlated with attributes of their members’ typical occupational roles, even if the individuals themselves do not fall into these roles. For example, a woman who is a CEO may still be seen as having the same communal attributes as the teachers, secretaries and nurses that largely represent her gender or racial demographic.

“The remedy for stereotyping is that you observe the groups engaging in different roles,”

Eagly said. “Not just any different roles, but roles that require different attributes.”

Despite her argument that stereotypes are accurate, Eagly said she understands the popular opinion that stereotypes are inaccurate. People often feel stereotypes are wrong, she said, because society changes at a pace much faster than the stereotypes.

Eagly used statistical evidence to back up the ways in which women’s images are changing in society and the ways in which men’s are not. By projecting her data linearly, she was able to predict that by 2050, women will be seen as more agentic, more mathematical and even more physically powerful than men.

Today’s stereotypes about women’s communal attributes are frustrating because they are not changing as quickly as women

are, she said. “[Stereotypes] seem inaccurate to us at a gut level because we know that even though they’re representative of what’s happening now, the groups are changing,” April Bailey GRD ’20, who attended the talk, said.

“That’s what makes stereotypes abrasive. I hadn’t thought of that before.”

Other attendees pointed out that the attributes assigned to certain roles are often misguided.

Yale psychology professor Yarrow Dunham said that although there is a belief that those who work as teachers are more communal than agentic, teachers “have to be pretty agentic to do a good job.” He also mentioned that managers have to be more communal than most assume they are.

Eagly suggested that implementing social policies such as

anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action, as well as changing the media’s portrayal of how people fit certain roles, would be effective in mitigating stereotypes. She said requiring companies to hire a certain quota of women or minorities could put those who are normally stuck in communal roles into agentic positions, changing their roles and the stereotypes about their traits.

“We have to get away from the idea that these are deeply embedded, biological attributes,” Eagly said. “We have to give people a more nuanced story.”

The talk was part of the annual Carl Hovland Memorial Lecture Series for distinguished scholars in social psychology, which began in 1964.

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

YouTube star explores race in films

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The talk featured YouTube clips that compiled all the speaking parts of actors of color in certain films.

BY SARA TABIN AND ELIZA FAWCETT STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday night, an audience of approximately 60 Yale students, faculty members and New Haven residents watched a video of all the lines spoken by people of color throughout the entire Harry Potter series.

Although the movies span nearly 20 hours, the clip took less than five minutes.

Dylan Marron, an actor and playwright, created the web series “Every Single Word,” in which each video splices together all of the lines given to actors and actresses of color in films ranging from The Lord of the Rings to Titanic. In Davies Auditorium, Marron spoke about institutionalized racism in TV

shows, movies and media at an event organized by Yale Humanist Community — a student organization that discusses ethical issues independent of religious beliefs. Since June 2015, Marron, a voice on the popular “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast, has been creating videos that highlight the scarcity of dialogue given to people of color. Yale Humanist Community Director Chris Stedman contacted Marron over Twitter in August and invited him to Yale.

“I’ve seen the habit of casting whiteness as the default,” Marron said. “Only if there is a specific [type] you’re talking about — a poor person, an enslaved person — then you can talk about color.”

According to Marron, if audiences only have exposure to all-

white protagonists, they learn to empathize with white people more than with people of other races. Without more diverse representation, Marron explained, it is more difficult for people of color to view themselves beyond the tropes that Hollywood presents.

He explained that in most major motion pictures, including stories that involve universal themes, actors of color are rarely cast in lead roles. He noted that people of color are sometimes given positions of power in films, as doctors or judges, but these roles are often still peripheral.

Marron, who is VenezuelanAmerican, first encountered institutionalized racism in casting when he auditioned for the third Home Alone film as a child.

Although casting was open to all

ethnicities, only the white children moved past the first round of cuts.

“That was the first moment when I realized there were tools built into the system to allow the system on the surface to appear not rooted in racist principles, but to allow it to continue to practice them,” Marron told the News. “Systemic injustice relies on hidden tools to continue to exert power.”

He said in high school he continued to feel the effects of prejudice against actors of color when agents told him he was “too specific” because of his race and that he would never be cast as the “male romantic lead.”

Although he acknowledged that rage at discriminatory casting practices motivated him to create his videos, he said he

keeps his videos free of personal commentary and value judgments. He added that he also avoids blaming individuals for casting choices.

Still, Marron has received negative feedback in YouTube comments. Commentators attacked his Harry Potter video and accused him of calling J. K. Rowling racist, he said.

“We have such a hard time talking about systemic issues as a culture because we are so used to pointing the finger at one person,” he said.

After the talk, Elaine To ’19, a fan of Marron’s “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast, said she appreciated Marron’s approach to tackling the issue of racism.

Monica Bunton — a second-grade teacher in a bilingual classroom at Fair Haven Pub-

lic School and an attendee at the event — said she struggles to find stories with characters with whom her students of color can identify.

“When you look at a lot of traditional children’s picture books, a lot of the characters are white although the stories are telling universal themes,” she said. “When you’re showing and reading these stories to children of color, where are their faces, literally? As a teacher, I have to go out of my way to search for stories that reflect their stories.”

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in theaters in 2001.

Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu and ELIZA FAWCETT at eliza.fawcett@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.”

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

CCSC issues formal apology for diversity proposal “blunders”

BY LARSON HOLT The Columbia College Student Council issued a formal apology to both the Black Students’ Organization and students of color at Columbia following controversy over a proposal looking to address issues of race and diversity.

BSO members had attended CCSC’s general body meeting on Sunday to express frustration about technical errors made in the document, as well as to challenge the fact that groups representing marginalized students were not given a chance to participate in the authoring of the proposal. The document was authored by Pre-Professional Rep. Chris George on behalf of the council and presented to Dean of Columbia College James Valentini as one of the five most critical issues facing Columbia College students.

CCSC’s apology, which was released on Tuesday night, addressed several key issues raised by BSO at Sunday’s meeting.

T h e council recognized that B SO a n d other student groups s h o u l d COLUMBIA have been involved in the authoring of the proposal and called for a broader conversation about minority safe spaces to take place, adding that the council’s initial proposition to expand access to the Malcolm X Lounge — a suggestion that BSO had expressed concern over on Sunday — was based on student responses to a schoolwide survey.

CCSC also admitted that it had erroneously proposed some ethnic studies classes to be added to the global core requirement when these classes are already may fulfill the requirement. The error was attributed to an editing mistake.

The statement brought up that CCSC had reached out to BSO in early February, and said that it wasn’t enough time to allow for a

thoughtful response.

“Moving forward, we’ll be redrafting the proposal on race and diversity and we’ll be involving students of color more directly in that process. We’d like to thank the students of BSO for keeping us accountable as we should be,” the statement said.

The statement can be read in full here: On Sunday, members of the Black Students’ Organization visited our general body meeting to discuss our proposal on Issues of Race and Diversity. They alerted us to two main types of failures on our part: (1) technical errors in the content of the actual proposal and (2) our lack of effort in reaching out to students of color to solicit input while drafting it. We’re deeply sorry for both the content errors and our failure to properly reach out to marginalized students.

The idea, which BSO objected to, under the proposal’s subsection “Improve Accessibility to and Expansion of Safe Spaces for Minority Students” that the Malcolm X Lounge be made

accessible to more students of color was based on responses to our schoolwide survey in which some students of color suggested that the Malcolm X Lounge be more accessible to marginalized students outside of the few student groups, including BSO, that currently have access to it. These survey responses alongside Sunday’s discussion with BSO show that there is clearly a broader conversation to be had about spaces for minority students on campus. In addition to soliciting survey responses, we should have reached out to have that discussion with BSO and other marginalized students.

Under the subsection “Ethnic Studies Component of the Global Core,” we included as examples two classes that were already available to count toward the global core requirement. In early drafts, these two classes were actually included as classes that currently do count for the global core and as the type of global core class that there should be more of. That doesn’t excuse the error — but it does mean that it was an

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Law school deliberates on seal

BY ANDREW DUEHREN AND CLAIRE PARKER In 1936, with Harvard’s tercentenary celebration approaching, former English professor Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, Class of 1895, set out to design seals for each of Harvard’s graduate schools.

For Harvard Law School, he drew a blue shield adorned with three sheaves of wheat — the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr., an 18th-century slaveholder whose gift to Harvard had endowed the school’s first law professorship. The Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, then adopted La Rose’s design, more than a century after the Law School was founded.

After re-examining the seal’s history roughly 80 years later, a Law School committee will likely decide this week whether to recommend changing the school’s shield. After weeks of reviewing documents detailing the seal’s origins and speaking to Law School affiliates, the committee — composed of students, faculty, staff and alumni — will release its full report in March to the Corporation, which holds final decisionmaking authority.

Last fall, a wave of activism about race relations at the Law School drew attention to the seal’s connection to slavery, as members of the student group Royall Must Fall called for the seal’s removal.

Student activists at universities across the globe have challenged historical symbols, prompting debate about whether the removal of such symbols constitutes erasing history.

“The report that we make to the

Corporation will be very d e t a i l e d ,” Bruce Mann, chair of the committee reviewing the seal, HARVARD said. “It will include what we know about Isaac Royall, it will include the origins of the shield, the circumstances in which it was adopted, because all of those really are relevant factors in what should be done with the shield going forward.”

In late November, Law School Dean Martha Minow created the committee and appointed Harvard Law professor and legal historian Mann as its chair. Minow also appointed faculty members Janet Halley, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Samuel Moyn, as well as alumni James Bowers and Robert Katz.

Additionally, a Law School staff council appointed staff members Darrick Northington and Yih-Hsien Shen to the committee in January, and the student government chose student members of the committee through a written application process.

Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, one of the founding members of Royall Must Fall; Rena Karefa-Johnson, a member of Reclaim Harvard Law, another activist group calling for the seal’s removal; and Ann Rittgers are the students who serve on the committee.

Mann said the committee is different than others at the Law School because it consists of students, alumni and staff in addition to faculty, who generally comprise the other school committees.

“The mere composition of the committee signals that this is something the Law School is trying to approach in as open and inclusive and transparent a way as possible,” Mann said.

Bianca Tylek, a Law School student activist, said that based on the committee members’ backgrounds, the group seems favorable to changing the seal. The committee includes activists and legal historians who study civil rights and race in America.

“I think we have a pretty good feeling about the shield changing,” Tylek said.

The committee has studied the seal for more than a month and held a series of community meetings to discuss changing the seal.

But the committee has only met as a full group once, and Mann said members have not yet shared their personal views on the issue with the group. Committee members emphasized the importance of considering a variety of viewpoints and engaging different constituencies within the Law School.

“I think that it’s a useful process in the way that it allows for us to have a conversation that was missing when the crest was adopted,” Vormawor said.

The committee will meet this week to deliberate, and Mann said he hopes they will settle on a position during that meeting. Soon after making their decision, the group will prepare a report it will likely present to the Corporation in early March.

“I have every confidence that the Corporation will be very receptive to whatever we might recommend,” Mann said.

editing error, not a flagrant oversight in research.

These mistakes shouldn’t have happened; we’re sorry they did and we’d like to thank the students of BSO for drawing our attention to them. Moreover, they would have been caught and avoided if we had properly solicited input from students of color in the first place. The extent of our outreach for the Issues of Race and Diversity proposal consisted of (1) the schoolwide survey sent out by President Ben Makansi twice in December, which allowed students to describe the most important issues that they face and whose responses we weighted heavily, and (2) reaching out to the president of BSO in early February, which didn’t allow enough time for a thoughtful response.

We collectively put in countless hours to combing through over 100 detailed survey responses and tried to craft demands based on those responses and our own research on them. For issues like academics, advising and administrative

transparency, this process makes sense. However, we should have known that relying on survey responses and reaching out so late in the process were insufficient in addressing something as complex and important as race and diversity. Moreover, we should have reached out to other marginalized student groups in addition to BSO because the totality of the experience of students of color on campus cannot be fully encompassed by the opinions of one student group.

Again, we sincerely apologize for the blunders in the content of the proposal and the lack of involvement of marginalized students in drafting it. Students of color, precisely because they are marginalized, should have been actively reached out to in greater number from the beginning. Moving forward, we’ll be redrafting the proposal on race and diversity and we’ll be involving students of color more directly in that process. We’d like to thank the students of BSO for keeping us accountable as we should be.

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Grad students pass resolution

BY JOSH GIRSKY The Cornell Graduate and Professional Student Assembly passed a resolution on Monday expressing dissatisfaction with the decision process undertaken in approving the College of Business.

Alex Brown, a graduate student who sponsored the resolution, said he did not intend for it to inspire action, but rather was trying to add something to the record.

“I think the important part of this resolution is it doesn’t have teeth. I think that’s precisely the point,” Brown said.

“Our not being involved or not being listened to in the shared governance system, that is what this resolution is hitting at. It was positive to hear other GPSA members’ concern for having a voice in campus governance, and so it’s a good thing that our resolution emphasizes the Board’s years-long pattern of neglecting meaningful student input in critical campus decisions.”

Brown stressed that the establishment of the College of Business is indicative of a pattern of Cornell administrative action without regard to non-executive opinions.

“Based on recently poorly handled decisions, it seems that administrators are still clueless about touchstone values of Cornell and other universities, among them transparency, free academic inquiry and democratic decision-making,” Brown said.

“Just look at the examples

from the past three y e a r s alone, f r o m t h e i r thwarted CORNELL a t te m p t to cut first-year bus passes, to the unpopular hiring of new deans and the unilateral levying of a new health fee.”

Brown continued that in order to abolish “unjust” university structures, these kinds of resolutions are only a beginning. He emphasized the importance of obtaining the support of tenured faculty and of recording expressed opinions, especially at a place like Cornell.

“The important part about this resolution is to get something on the record,” he said.

“It’s really important [that] in a large institution to make sure that expressions of dissent or expressions of dissatisfactions with the way a process was handled are on the record.”

A common concern voiced at the meeting was the fact that the Board of Trustees voted to approve the College of Business at a meeting in New York City.

“I think it’s important to highlight the fact that it was supposed to be a public hearing that nobody who is involved in the College of Business could afford to be engaged in,” said graduate student Aravind Natarajan.

Jesse Goldberg, a gradu-

ate student, agreed that even if those with an interest in the College of Business were not intentionally shut out, the meeting still should not have been held in New York City.

“Even if it is not the intention, it is the outcome,” Goldberg said.

Members also discussed how they were disappointed with the administration’s actions and what they demonstrated about the shared governance system.

This is not the first time we’ve talked to the university about shared governance.

JESSE GOLDBERG Graduate Student “This is not the first time we’ve talked to the University about shared governance,” said Goldberg. “This is a conversation we’ve been having for years. Some of us are tired of it.”

After the resolution passed by a vote of 10 to 0, with 2 abstaining, GPSA president Richard Walroth said that he hoped they could now move on.

“I do think that this was a good resolution for us to pass,” Walroth said. “Now moving forward, I hope that we can turn to the College of Business and see it as a good thing.”

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Yale in Providence for Ivy championships

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The Bulldogs finished third at last year’s Ivy League Championships, behind Princeton and Harvard.

M. SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE 12 been “the Ivy League’s strongest area for the past couple of years.”

The championship meet is different from a dual meet in that only 11 percent of the total points go to first-place finishers, as opposed to 51 percent of points in a dual meet. Since the top 24 performers earn points for their respective teams, the meet places a higher premium on team depth rather than individual speed.

“The Ivy League is sort of

predictable in how it’s going to turn out. On paper, Harvard and Princeton are going to be the top two,” Rutter said. “Yale and Penn, maybe Columbia, will be the next three … We’re not just here to selectively pick one team to beat. We’re going into every race, not with the mindset of scoring points to beat the team in front of us, but to swim the best we can.”

Swimmer Derek Kao ’18 said the goal is to finish third, and added that the team is excited “to

get revenge and beat” Penn, who defeated Yale in a dual meet earlier this year.

In addition to the 500-yard freestyle and the mile, Yale swimmers are expected to compete for top finishes in events such as the 400-yard individual medley, short-distance freestyle events and the diving events.

In addition to Hogan and Hyogo, Ben Lerude ’17 is a threat in the mid- and long-distance swims. Yale’s freestyle sprinters — Brian Clark ’16, Oscar Miao ’17

Elis compete for national title SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 national championships as the No. 2 seed was in 2011, and last year the Bulldogs, ranked No. 5, entered the tournament as the underdogs as early as their first-round matchup, which they lost 5–4 to No. 4 Columbia.

This year, the Yale women face a tougher test early on than their male counterparts, as they open play against No. 4 Trinity in the first round. The Bantams beat the Bulldogs 8–1 earlier this season, but despite the results of that previous match, Saunders remained optimistic.

“The women are ready to take on Trinity and are hoping to revenge our loss from earlier in the season,” she said. “We would love to make the semifinals on Saturday — having two Yale teams in a semifinal at home would be spectacular. We are a different team than when we played Trinity earlier this season and I think our women are ready for the challenge.”

If Yale pulls off the upset against Trin-

and Victor Zhang ’16 — have the experience and the times necessary to place, based on performances earlier in the season, and newcomers Scott Bole ’19 and Joey Carbone ’19, former high school teammates, have done well in the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard butterfly races, respectively.

James McNelis ’16, Anthony Mercadante ’17 and Wayne Zhang ’18 will take to the boards in the diving events for the Elis. In the HYP meet against the Crimson

and Tigers, Zhang and McNelis placed third and fifth, respectively, out of 15 competitors.

Unless any Yale seniors qualify for the NCAA Division I Championships in late March, which is based on certain time standards, many members of the senior class will conclude their careers on Saturday.

“I think the seniors have done a good job this year of being role models for the freshmen and being leaders both in and out of the pool,” Hyogo said. “I think

every one of the seniors have a passion for the sport and it’s hard to see them retire after this meet, but hopefully they will all go out with a bang.”

The men’s Ivy League Championship has been won by either Harvard or Princeton every year since 1994. Yale’s last share of the title came after the 1992–93 season, when it split the championship with Harvard.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Rainy, victorious day

ity, an even more impressive upset would likely be required to win in the semifinal round. No. 1 Harvard, which swept Yale 9–0 earlier this month and has not lost a match as a team in over a year, is expected to await the winner of Yale-Trinity on Saturday.

In the finals, No. 2 Penn is then the favored challenger from the other side of the bracket.

“Harvard, Princeton and Penn are also really strong, but we are taking one match at a time and hope to get through the first round,” Shiyuan Mao ’17 said. “Nationals is definitely more exciting and the Brady will be packed with supporters of all schools. It is the real deal for us to play well and win some crucial matches. I think that everyone is pumped up and ready for this big weekend.”

On Friday, the women open against Trinity at 12 p.m., and the men begin play against Dartmouth at 2:30 p.m.

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

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The Bulldogs took care of business against their in-state foes on Wednesday, defeating the Bobcats 11–4.

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a call to which her team responded in resounding fashion.

“They were a critical first 10 minutes,” LaGrow said. “It set the tempo.

I emphasized coming out strong, forcing our own game — playing fast, good defense and playing as a team.”

The Bulldogs bombarded the Bobcats immediately after the opening whistle, notching six goals in the first 20 minutes. Four of those goals belonged to attacker Hope Hanley ’17, who took five shots after a scoreless season opener on Saturday. Hanley scored the opening goal of the contest before fellow attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 added three consecutive goals, en route to picking up her second hat trick in as many games.

Yale wound up conceding two goals after its 6–0 start, but quickly answered with back-to-back scores to take an 8–2 lead into the second half.

In the second half, that six-goal lead grew to seven, as Yale accrued three more goals to Quinnipiac’s two.

“This win is huge for the team, for the players and for the coaches,” LaGrow said. “We are proud of all the work we put in practice and film to earn it.”

More than half of the team’s 11 goals came on free position shots, as the team scored on six of nine attempts, as compared to two of three for Quinnipiac. In addition to having more opportunities off of fouls, Yale’s defense allowed the Bobcats to take just 14 shots, less than half of the Bulldogs’ 32.

Goalie Sydney Marks ’18 performed well in net, making six saves on 10 Bobcat shots on goal to garner a first of her own. The sophomore, in her second career start, picked up the first win of her collegiate career.

“It was an overall great defensive effort, everyone contributed …

[Marks] was fantastic in goal and came up with key saves and clears,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “It was a total team effort today and we’re now turning our attention to [Massachusetts].”

In addition to the stout defense and

strong play in net, Yale was able to limit Quinnipiac’s offense throughout the contest in part due to an impressive performance in draw controls — Yale secured 14 of 17. Attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16, the usual faceoff taker, sat out due to injury. Attacker Izzy Nixon ’19 earned the first start of her young career, stepping into Danigellis’ place, and handled the role adeptly.

Nixon, as well as midfielder Addie Zinsner ’19, each scored their first goals of their Yale career, scoring one each, to cap off a successful night for them and the team.

“It’s exhilarating,” Nixon said of scoring her first collegiate goal. “You want to succeed not just for yourself, but for the girls beside you on the field. Every day we go out and work our hardest to get better, so it’s rewarding when the game reflects that.”

Yale will return to the road on Saturday, when it faces Massachusetts at 12 p.m.

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

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 9:00 AM Symposium on the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Africa. This symposium brings together researchers in political science and politics who focus on key questions emerging from Africa. The symposium presenters will focus on sub-Saharan African but will address themes that effect the broader continent.

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JAVIER DUREN ’15 ALUM IS AN ALL-STAR After playing 19 games professionally for Aris Leeuwarden in Holland, the former Yale point guard was chosen to play in the Eredivisie League All-Star game. Duren, who was a first-team AllIvy honoree last year, currently leads the league with 18.2 points per game.

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YALE VOLLEYBALL AWARDS HANDED OUT AT BANQUET Three months after the end of the 2015 season, the Elis met for the annual Yale volleyball banquet to honor individual achievements by their seniors. Middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 was named team MVP and also won the Players’ Award along with libero Christine Wu ’16.

“This year there are eight true contenders and it is anyone’s weekend.”

PAM SAUNDERS ASSOC. HEAD COACH, SQUASH YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016 · yaledailynews.com

Yale hosts top squads at nationals SQUASH

Day of firsts for Elis

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team played through the pouring rain in its home opener, fending off the elements and throttling Quinnipiac at Reese Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Starting off fast and never easing their foot off the gas pedal, the Elis (1–1, 0–0 Ivy) cruised to an 11–4 victory over the Bobcats (0–2, 0–0 MAAC), earning Erica LaGrow the first win of her headcoaching career as well as the first win of the season for Yale.

“It’s great to have our first win — especially with our new coaching staff — with all the work that we’ve put in this year,” midfielder Tori Virtue ’16 said. “And its great to have it [come] on our home turf.”

The win comes four days after Yale stumbled out of the gate in its season-opener, when it gave up four goals to Lehigh in the game’s first 10 minutes. The Bulldogs responded with four unanswered goals of their own, but ultimately fell 9–7.

LaGrow emphasized the importance of the opening 10 minutes heading into this game, SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 10

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Just three matches stand between the No. 2 Yale men from a national title, and the Bulldogs are favored to win in at least the first two.

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Having just completed a regular season that saw one team claim an Ivy League championship for the first time in five years, the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams now prepare for the year’s ultimate challenge: the national tournament.

Building on momentum gained from beating arch nemesis Harvard 6–3 two weeks ago, and in doing so claiming sole possession of the Ivy title, the No. 2 Yale men (12–2, 7–0 Ivy) play the first round of the College Squash Association Team Championships this Friday against No. 7 Dartmouth (9–4, 4–3). That same day, the No. 5 Eli women (11–4, 4–3) will face

off with No. 4 Trinity (11–4).

This year, both the men’s and women’s single-elimination tournaments will be played at Yale’s Brady Squash Center for the first time since 2010.

“The Ivy title gave our men the confidence and momentum to push through the last two weeks with the goal of claiming the national championship for the first time in 26 years,” associate head coach Pam Saunders said. “We have a great draw and seeding, and are hoping to capitalize on it and make the finals.

This year there are eight true contenders and it is anyone’s weekend.”

Just two weeks ago Yale topped the Big Green 8–1, and the team hopes to replicate such results this coming week-

end. Should the Bulldogs win — as they are expected to — they will play the winner of No. 3 St. Lawrence and No. 6 Harvard on Saturday. Earlier this season Yale beat St. Lawrence 6–3, the same score of the Elis’ victory over Harvard this year.

If the Bulldogs manage to win both of the matches in which they are favored, they would likely become the underdogs for the tournament’s final round, which is expected to see No. 1 Trinity enter on the other side of the bracket. The Bantams are the defending national champions and defeated Yale 8–1 in New Haven on Jan. 20, though they did recently fall 5–4 to St. Lawrence on Feb. 13.

“The toughest part about nationals is that you play three

hard matches in three days, which doesn’t happen during the regular season,” said Zac Leman ’16, who will likely play at the No. 1 spot. “This places a larger importance on fitness, especially come Sunday, but we’re ready for this challenge.

We’ve put in a ton of work on and off court all season to make sure we’re ready for this and that we’re all in the best shape possible.”

Both Leman and Saunders emphasized that the team’s goal this weekend is to win the national championship, a feat that seems more in the Elis’ grasp now than it has been in recent years. The last time the Yale men’s team headed into the SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

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Defender Emily Markham ’17 collected two ground balls in Yale’s 11–4 victory over Quinnipiac.

Men’s swimming and diving preps for Ivies

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s swimming and diving team returns to the water on Thursday for the Ivy League Championships at Brown after nearly four weeks off from competition.

MEN’S SWIM & DIVE Coming off a third-place finish at last year’s championship meet, the Bulldogs replaced a six-man senior class with 10 swimmers from the class of 2019. That depth manifested itself in the team’s consistently impressive showings throughout the season, especially in relay and distance events.

“I would say compared to a lot of other [Division I] conferences out there, every school in the Ivy League puts a lot of emphasis on the conference meet,” swimmer Kei Hyogo ’18 said. “A lot of schools outside the Ivy League focus primarily on the NCAA championships whereas everyone in the Ivy League fully shaves and tapers for Ivies. I think that brings a lot more excitement to the meet and also makes it more rewarding to place high as a team.”

Yale went 4–3 in the Ivy League this year, defeating Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth but falling to Harvard, Penn and reigning conference champion Princeton.

The three-day meet marks the first

time this season all eight teams compete against one another. Though the event’s length makes it challenging, captain Brian Hogan ’16 pointed out that the meet’s format is not unfamiliar to the Bulldogs. Earlier this season, they had a “dry run” at the seven-team Nike Cup meet held at the University of North Carolina, where the team placed fifth.

“Being able to keep your speed up all three days is something of a challenge,” swimmer Jonathan Rutter ’18 said. “I think that depending on the person, the atmosphere can be a challenge. A lot of us thrive in it, but at the same time it is pretty nerve-wracking.”

Luckily for the Elis, the meet opens with one of Yale’s strongest events: the 500yard freestyle. Seven Bulldogs qualified to swim, and every swimmer is fast enough to make the top heat, according to Rutter.

Hogan, one of the seven swimmers, said he is excited to be part of the group that may set the tone for the rest of the meet.

“The distance events have been strong for us for a few years, and we came into this year knowing we had to carry on that tradition,” Hogan said. “We had guys swim those events at NCAAs last year, and the experience has helped us immensely.”

Hogan and Hyogo were two of the three Yale swimmers to advance to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships last season. Both competed in distance events, a category that Hyogo noted has SEE M. SWIMMING & DIVING PAGE 10

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Yale finished the regular season with the fourth-best record in the Ivy League in conference dual meets.

THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT HAS BEEN SINCE THE YALE MEN’S SQUASH TEAM HAS WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. The Bulldogs, currently ranked No. 2 in the nation, will attempt to turn that 26 into a zero in the eight-team CSA National Team Championships this weekend in New Haven.