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ANALYSIS: mixed student engagement

Clinton in the Constitution State. Hillary Clinton’s LAW

’73 campaign announced that the presidential candidate will make a stop in Connecticut on March 18. The event will charge $2,700 per head, and there will be a VIP reception for those who donate more than $10,000. Clinton’s event will be co-organized by prominent Democratic Sens.

Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85.

She didn’t mean it, really.

Meryl Streep DRA ’75 wrote an op-ed in The Huffington Post yesterday to set the record straight after the Berlin International Film Festival.

At the festival, Streep — the leader of the jury — said, “We’re all Africans, really,” in defense of the all-white jury. “I was not minimizing difference, but emphasizing the invisible connection empathy enables,” Streep wrote in her column.

Caps and gowns is not the

name of a secret society, but what graduating seniors at Cornell will be wearing as they hear James Franco GRD ’16 (Is he ever graduating himself?)

— their 2016 Convocation speaker — deliver remarks.

Franco was confirmed as Cornell’s speaker earlier this week. “[We] are confident that his address will be powerful and enlightening,” Cornell senior and Convocation Chair Zachary Benfanti said.

What’s your name, crayon?

The Purple Crayon of Yale — the University’s oldest longform improv troupe — takes a hint from the hit, Grammy Award-winning musical “Hamilton” and presents “Hamilcrayon.” At the show, the troupe will perform a fully improvised musical. The performance is tonight at 8 p.m. in Sudler Hall.

Tell it like it is. Telltale, a

student storytelling group at Yale, will host its third event of the year at the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theatre at 9 p.m. tonight. The group was formed

by Sophie Haigney ’17, Alex Simon ’17 and Devon Geyelin ’16 to create a community around storytelling on campus.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1988 University President Benno Schmidt Jr. announces that he opposes a student proposal to add four LGBT freshman counselors to serve the freshman class in a “floating” capacity. Schmidt says he believes that the existing resources at Yale are sufficient.

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Amnesty International head explains response to current events PAGE 5 UNIVERSITY

Legislators weigh affirmative consent

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER

dents who are really interested,” said Martha Highsmith, senior advisor to the president and a member of the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee.

Last weekend, the University presented students with yet another chance to share their thoughts on the Schwarzman Center, offering a new incentive: cash. During the Thinkathon event, teams of undergraduates and graduate and professional school students offered

After failing to pass the General Assembly in the 2015 session, legislation to mandate an “affirmative consent” standard at the state’s public and private universities is back for a second round in Hartford.

Introduced by state Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, and state Rep. Gregg Haddad, D-Mansfield, affirmative consent legislation passed the Senate by an overwhelming 35–1 vote in the 2015 legislative session. But the bill died after not being put up for vote in the House of Representatives before the session ended. Flexer and Haddad have come together again for the 2016 short session to reintroduce the legislation, which would establish a “yes means yes” standard for sexual consent at colleges, in the hopes of getting it to Gov. Dannel Malloy’s desk before the session closes in May. Advocates for affirmative consent say the bill’s passage would go a long way toward combating rape on college campuses and provide clarity for university disciplinary boards adjudicating sexual assault cases.

“We need these conversations in order to create more understanding and higher expectations for our students,” Flexer said in a press release earlier this month. “The scourge of campus rape is not going to go away by itself; we need to be proactive, and we need to change the debate from ‘No means no’ to ‘Silence doesn’t

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SEE CONSENT PAGE 4

In it to win it. Despite

comments made by one of Ben Carson’s ’73 top advisers that he will leave the race on March 2 if Super Tuesday does not go well, the Republican presidential candidate said he would stay in the running.

“What’s relevant is what direction are you going in.

How much support do you have and what are you trying to accomplish,” Carson told CNN yesterday.

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Students were offered cash prizes at the Thinkathon.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS In planning the development of the Schwarzman Center, the University has presented students with many opportunities to involve themselves in the process. But while some students have become intimately involved, it appears that the student body as a whole remains disengaged.

Set to open in 2020, the center — made possible by a $150 million gift from Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69 — will trans-

form Commons into a Universitywide student center. University administrators and members of the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee have said the need for student input in the planning process is key. As a result, students have been presented with many ways to get involved, including thorough listening tours conducted last semester and a Thinkathon that took place on Feb. 20. Nevertheless, few students seem to be actively engaged in the center’s development.

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Harvard grad students back union effort

BY VICTOR WANG AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS The leaders of a graduate student unionization effort at Harvard announced yesterday that a majority of students in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have signed on in support of a student union, just months after Yale’s own Graduate Employees and Students Organization claimed it had reached two-thirds support among graduate students. But questions linger over whether increasing support for the two unions will result in any real change.

The announcement by the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers merely underlines the central challenge faced by graduate student unionization movements across the country: winning over administrators who are reluctant to accept the legitimacy of a graduate student union even as these movements gain momentum

nationwide. Current National Labor Relations Board regulations on student unions affirm universities’ hard-line stance that graduate students are students rather than employees, although two cases currently pending before the board could change that precedent.

The NLRB stipulates that 30 percent of employees must sign authorization cards before an election for or against unionization can be held. But although GESO and HGSU-UAW claim to have far surpassed this threshold of graduate student support, they are not permitted to hold an official union election, under the precedent set by a 2004 case in which the NLRB ruled that graduate students at Brown University did not meet the legal definition of employees.

Still, despite this ruling, Yale has the option to voluntarily recognize a graduate student union.

GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD

55 receive meningitis vaccine

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER A week after the diagnosis of a Silliman freshman with the rare serogroup B variety of bacterial meningitis, Yale Health has vaccinated approximately 55 members of the Yale community against the strain, according to Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin. No new cases of meningitis have since been reported, and the infected student has been discharged from Yale-New Haven Hospital after receiving treatment, according to the New Haven Health Department.

Genecin announced the availability of the vaccine last Wednesday in a community-wide email. In his message, Genecin also confirmed that the affected student had been diagnosed with the serogroup B strain — a type of meningitis not protected against by the meningitis vaccination required of all Yale students. Known as Bexsero, the vaccine requires two immunizations at least a month apart and is approved by the Food and Drug Administration only for people 25 years of age and younger.

It is currently available SEE MENINGITIS PAGE 4

SEE UNION PAGE 4

COURTESY OF THE HARVARD CRIMSON

Students at Harvard’s Graduate Student Council voted in support of a unionization effort.

$14.5 million given for Q House renovation

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders last week accepted a $14.5 million grant from Gov. Dannel Malloy that kick-starts reconstruction of the Q House, a Dixwell community center that closed in 2003 after 79 years.

The grant, which the state bond commission approved in January, covers most of the building costs for the new Q House — a 46,135 square-foot facility that will provide amenities for the general public, including a fitness center, gymnasium, computer lab and child care. Following the grant’s aldermanic approval, demolition of the old building and construction of the new building will begin this spring, Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison said. She added that the new Q House, which will rent some of its space to a library, health clinic and senior center to partly offset

its cost of operation, will open its doors to the Dixwell community within the next two years.

“Even though the state in itself is going through different financial challenges, Malloy still found a way to make sure that he provided us with the resources to build something that I consider a pillar of hope and safe haven in the community,” Morrison said.

The original Q House, which is located on 127 Dixwell Ave., has been unoccupied since it closed its doors more than a decade ago due to a lack of funds. Morrison took on the rebuilding of the Q House after she first assumed office in 2011, she said.

After an initial two-year planning period, Morrison and other Q House proponents submitted requests to the state for $15.5 million to enable its reconstruction. Malloy granted the Q House $1 million in 2014 to complete designs for the facility. In 2015, the city also allocated $800,000

of its own funds for the demolition of the old building.

“In 2015, we submitted all of the sketches and all of the specifics and the cost of the stuff that we wanted to do back to the state,” Morrison said. “We had to show the state that this was really real.”

In the decades before the Q House closed, the establishment welcomed tens of thousands of residents of Dixwell, a neighborhood with one of the highest rates of poverty in the city. Supporters of the Q House’s reconstruction argued that rates of youth violence increased after the center closed because it had provided a recreational space for young adults who would otherwise be targets of gang recruitment.

Dwight Alder Frank Douglas, who grew up in Dixwell, said his own experience in the Q House SEE Q HOUSE PAGE 6

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Saluting leadership O

n Sunday, the members of the University community will celebrate the career and achievements of Joseph W. Gordon, deputy dean of Yale College and dean of undergraduate education, who retired last month after more than 40 years of service to Yale.

The faculty and administration have done much in recent weeks to recognize Gordon’s legacy, and yet one of his greatest contributions to Yale remains largely unknown — even to some who have worked with him in the context of undergraduate academics.

That contribution is the immeasurably positive impact he has made on military life at Yale, particularly with regard to Navy and Air Force ROTC. When then-University President Richard Levin and United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the return of ROTC to Yale in May 2011, there was still much standing between Woodbridge Hall’s welcome message and the actual presence of a functioning military organization on campus. After a morethan-40-year absence from undergraduate life, these new ROTC programs did not merely face severe logistical challenges in finding a home at Yale: They faced the legacies of Vietnam; “don’t ask, don’t tell” and other difficult chapters of our nation’s political life. Levin and his staff had opened the gates for ROTC’s return, but the task of implementing this return fell primarily to the Yale College Dean’s Office.

The first meetings between the Yale administration and the incoming cadre of officers were anything but certain or comfortable. “I was sure I was going to be shredded,” wrote Col. (Ret.) Scott Manning, the first commander of Yale’s Air Force ROTC detachment, about his initial interview. But the apprehension surrounding this moment in Yale history was short-lived, he told us, because of Gordon’s magnanimity and initiative in breaking down cultural assumptions on both sides. Gordon — Yale’s first openly gay college master, who came of age in the academic community during the height of the Vietnam War — was quick to embrace these military officers as members of the Yale community. Manning writes that, with Gordon, “nothing was ever predispositional, [Gordon] only cared about you as a person.” He also added that, “when it came to the politics of ROTC, there was no vitriol, no angst, no drama — [Gordon] wanted to start a dialogue, to find commonalities among groups that might have felt irreconcilably misaligned.”

Time and time again, Gordon made himself available as a voice of reason, facilitating

thoughtful engagement between the administration, faculty and United States military across a variety of issues. Operational questions of facilities allocation, ROTC instructors’ relationship to the faculty and speculation about whether or not ROTC classes would receive Yale credit were just a few of the complications awaiting uniformed freshmen on Old Campus. Through all of this, Gordon could be found at the Yale Farm, Elizabethan Club or walking around campus with a mixture of military and academic leaders, cultivating mutual respect and decency when formal conversations were often difficult.

At the heart of Gordon’s work is a strong personal conviction that all students, regardless of interest or background, deserve fair treatment, a warm welcome and an equal share of everything Yale has to offer. These values help to explain why Yale’s threetime chair of the LGBT Studies Program was at the leading edge of Yale’s renewed relationship with the military, which to this day is a frequent target of criticism from the LGBTQ community. His humility, unwavering commitment to policies of inclusion and support for all students wishing to grow in Yale’s traditions of service and leadership made him an at once unlikely and perfect ally in the difficult and unglamorous struggle to allow ROTC to not just return to but also thrive on campus.

There is hardly a more familiar face at ROTC and veterans events around campus than Gordon’s.

During our time at Yale, there was not a single ribbon-cutting, enlistment ceremony, commissioning ceremony, Veteran’s Day event or ROTC awards banquet he did not attend. Gordon has more than earned the universal respect and gratitude he holds within the Yale ROTC community, and has shaped our growth as military officers and as human beings. The core focus of ROTC is leadership training, preparing college students to become ensigns and second lieutenants responsible for the lives of the sailors, soldiers, airmen or Marines under their command.

“I’ve worked for some incredible leaders in my time,” said Manning, a former F-16 pilot and squadron commander. “Hot spots and cold spots, combat and noncombat — I’ve never met another leader like Joe Gordon.”

JAMES CAMPBELL is a 2013 graduate of Pierson College and the ROTC Program. Contact him at campbell1James@gmail.com .

SAM COHEN is a 2015 graduate of Calhoun College and the ROTC Program. Contact him at samsoncohen@gmail.com .

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'PROSPECT ’18' ON 'NIERENBERG: NO PLACE LIKE HOME'

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n March 1, Yale is pulling the plug on our beloved panlist system. The panlist has been the superhighway for innumerable emails to and from Yale students since sometime around the turn of the millennium, making it not much younger than the current freshman class. Panlists deserve thoughtful reflection.

Consider this an elegy.

Panlists — listservs that are used for mass emails — are special because they’re unique to Yale discourse. Like the Wenzel, the Saybrary and “Boola Boola,” panlist is not a term that exists outside of our community. Maybe you’ve already experienced this when you requested to be added to a happy-hour panlist at your summer job, only to get your coworker’s questioning countenance in return. Even iMessage doesn’t get our lingo — panlist autocorrects to “panelist” — in its very presumptuous way.

But allow me to clarify. The Urban Dictionary definition for panlist claims it’s an email list through which a message “pans out to a number of individuals.”

This etymology is clearly the work of a misinformed Yalie. Panlist is actually a contraction of “Pantheon list,” referring to the sturdy, well-built program that sprang from the head of one IT professional to connect Yale’s virtual campus.

At first glance, the concept of a panlist is sort of boring. It is, of course, in dullest terms, a list of people’s emails, and AUSTIN those people BRYNIARSKI are ostensibly connected by Guns & some mutual association. butter They are the conduits of mundane yet necessary information — everyday stuff, like where a club is meeting or when a Master’s Tea is taking place.

But more than that, a panlist is a sort of currency, and the marketplace is the Extracurricular Bazaar. “Can I put you on our panlist?” an entrepreneurial student might proposition to a freshman. Whether or not that student eventually joins an organization in practice is secondary; panlist initiation binds a student to that organization on paper. That student might not ever attend a meeting, but rest assured he will receive emails from the Party of the Left until his senior year.

In addition to being useful, panlists have in fact been a site of much campus rabble-rousing throughout their history. In 2001, a botched email broke the Pan-

theon system temporarily. In 2003, the University considered legal action against a student who sent a schoolwide email via a hijacked panlist claiming that classes were cancelled. In my sophomore year, someone curiously used the panlist of the Yale College Democrats to create a LinkedIn account, much to the chagrin of all 800 students on that panlist who received incessant requests to connect. And until the present day, students have suffered from outbreaks of emails containing only “M,” the supposedly secret (and entirely useless) code of those seeking to “mute” the pestering updates from a panlist email.

If you’ve ever managed a panlist, you know that with any panlist comes great responsibility. Adding and removing people from a panlist requires logging into something akin to a Yahoo!-era GeoCities site, decked out with a dark, not-quite-Yale Blue background and text in nearly unreadable red Times New Roman font. Every visit has the nostalgic tinge of blowing on an old Nintendo cartridge, or listening to Chumbawamba on a cassette tape unironically. The panlist embodies a certain vintage that I will, in a matter of days, no longer be allowed to enjoy.

Just as many on campus haven’t been able to shake the habit of calling Good Nature Market “GHeav,” my sense is that referring to the

panlist’s many descendants — EliLists, Mailman, Google Groups, what have you — will feel sacrilegious, and the specter of the panlist shall remain. Anachronistic and skeuomorphic, “panlist” will no longer be a term that is technically correct after March 1, but tradition and technicality don’t always impress upon each other so easily. But durability doesn’t mean permanence. I’m reminded of how Bass used to be called “Cross Campus Library,” and how “Commons” has a new (he-who-must-notbe-named) name. As important as the panlist has been to Yale’s past, it will not be long before the trusty service is all but forgotten.

Walking through the cemetery where the panlist will eventually lay, I see the headstones of yore.

I see the telegraph, two tin cans and a string, AIM, Pony Express.

The soil in which the panlist will rest is fresh, the Earth ready to take another fixture of Yale’s past and disintegrate it. I’ll miss the panlist, and this column preserves its legacy for whoever writes her digital humanities dissertation in a century’s time. But for now, dear panlist, rest in peace. If not in our inboxes, you’re forever in our hearts.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

Compare and despair A

s an international student, I am often asked about the differences between the United States and my home country Singapore. It is a surprisingly difficult question. As Benedict Anderson points out in his yet-tobe-published memoirs, “Comparison is not a method or even an academic technique; rather, it is a discursive strategy.” It is incredibly hard to argue that two entities are fundamentally similar or different, much less that one is better or worse than the other. Often, it’s a matter of finding the contrasts or commonalities we need to support our beliefs about the world.

Yet so much of our academic enterprise and everyday life is devoted to comparison. We write papers comparing texts by this author and that author; we spend seminars discussing whether a case is typical or atypical of something under consideration. Outside of class, our choices are governed by the subliminal comparisons we make. Vanilla or chocolate? Toad’s or Bass? Swipe left or swipe right?

And then there are the deeper comparative questions we ask ourselves. Am I special (or special enough)? Am I getting the quintessential Yale experience? How do I stack up against my friends?

These comparisons are not just

a source of stress and anxiety, but also of spite and ill will: In trying to justify the decisions we make, we sometimes JUN YAN end up deniCHUA grating and delegitimizThe ing the experiwallflower ences of those around us. I can’t be great if you’re awesome, too, or so the thinking goes.

But comparison is not just bad for the soul; it is bad for the mind as well. Our attempts to distinguish ourselves are often silly and trivial. Of course we are all unique on some level, shaped by the variation of genetics and the vicissitudes of life. A cappella groups, sports teams, frats and sororities — the groups we join as wideeyed, first-semester freshmen can have a profound influence on how our four years at Yale pan out.

And yet there is also a great deal of convergence. If a survey were conducted, I suspect most Yalies would report broadly similar experiences: moments of intimacy interspersed with moments of alienation (and lots of small talk

in between), periods of drudgery punctuated with periods of triumph.

Consequently, comparison is a flawed method for living life.

Despite this, the Yale experience can often feel like being on a treadmill at Payne Whitney. You look at the person next to you and decide to run faster, even though you are not going anywhere in particular.

Such attitudes are unfortunate: Yale should be a jog through East Rock in the New England fall — each person running at their own pace, setting their own route and enjoying the beautiful foliage as they run.

Unfortunately, a number of practices at Yale actively promote facile comparison. Too many classes continue to use bell curves for grading, in spite of educational research demonstrating the benefits of evaluating each student’s work on its own merit. Part of this owes to the demise of genuinely independent work as a mode of assessment. Many majors now allow a senior seminar in lieu of a thesis, and many “objective” exams simply test students’ ability to regurgitate “facts.” The result is a shift towards a production-line model of education — the type of box-checking exercise that lends itself to senseless competition.

Indeed, there is an old Chi-

nese proverb about the futility of comparison: “Compare upwards, and you’ll find something greater.

Compare downwards, and you’ll find something lesser.” Whenever I feel self-congratulatory, I remind myself that David Hume was writing one of the most important works of the Enlightenment when he was around my age. Or that Malala Yousafzai was 17 when she won the Nobel Peace Prize. On the flip side, I tell myself I could have ended up as Justin Bieber whenever I feel despondent.

Ultimately, we have little choice but to resign ourselves to the fact that we are “same, same but different,” a wonderful phrase in Thai English which illustrates the coexistence of diversity and conflux in a transnational world. In Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s moving tribute to Antonin Scalia, she cites the end of the opera, “Scalia/Ginsburg”: “We are different, we are one.” It is a poignant line, especially given the two justices’ close friendship in the face of jurisprudential rivalry. Our differences should not define our relationships.

Or, to put the point another way: To compare is to despair.

JUN YAN CHUA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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Troubled by teaching changes W

hen the Yale administration unilaterally decided to restructure teaching requirements in the History of Art department, my workload doubled overnight.

One of the best things about teaching in my department is that we teach our weekly sections in the Yale University Art Gallery. There, I help students discover the texture of Titian’s brushstrokes for the first time, notice the way the light shimmers across Valencian lusterware, or read aloud from Xenophanes while standing around a 2,500-year-old piece of Greek pottery.

The long-standing expectation in Art History has been that graduate teachers are responsible for teaching one section of students each semester. These are the terms that were presented to us upon enrollment. This semester, however, after the Yale administration’s restructuring of the Teaching Fellow Program, I was asked to teach two sections.

I am particularly troubled by the fact that the administration

appears to have changed teaching departmental requirements unilaterally. This goes against Yale’s own stated goal of assigning teaching loads in consultation with faculty. Yale’s Teaching Fellow guidelines state that the “appropriate level [of teaching] rests on a faculty determination of what constitutes optimal training in teaching in a given discipline.” The original onesection policy had been instituted as part of a faculty review of and report on teaching.

I am classified as a TF20, meaning that I am supposed to spend up to 20 hours per week performing my role as a teaching fellow. As any teacher knows, good teaching requires a great deal of work. Attending lecture and preparing readings is just the start. Last semester, I spent time in the galleries before section to plan how our discussion would move through the space, and how to bring larger issues of museum display and official narratives into our conversations. I did extensive supplemental research on the artworks we would discuss

and on the relevant historical periods. I held additional review sessions and workshops on how to write papers using visual evidence. I proctored exams and graded them, giving extensive feedback. I conducted many one-on-one meetings with students to discuss paper topics and drafts, and spent hours reading and commenting on the papers that my students submitted.

Now, the Yale administration is asking me to teach twice as many students within the same 20 hours a week. That means twice as many students to meet with and twice as many drafts to comment on. Twice as many papers to read and twice as many exams to grade. What does the administration suggest I drop?

Should I spend less time commenting on the papers that my students have spent hours writing? Should I offer my students fewer meetings? Bring less material to my sections each week?

Graduate teachers across the University are increasingly asked to do more work in the same time and for the same pay. I am con-

cerned about how this trend has affected the work of graduate teachers and the educational experience of Yale students. I fear it will accelerate significantly when the new residential colleges open and add hundreds of students to the undergraduate student body without a corresponding increase in tenure-track faculty or graduate teachers.

My experience has made it clear to me that graduate teachers need a union to negotiate the conditions of our work. With a contract, we would be protected from the arbitrary and unilateral changes that Yale’s administration has imposed on my department and others’. A union and a contract would provide the structure and support I need to focus my attention where it should be: on my students and their first encounters with Greek pottery, Valencian lusterware and Titian’s brushstrokes.

EMILY SESSIONS is a Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Art. Contact her at emily.sessions@yale.edu .

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The story “Morse wins Final Cut cooking competition” misstated that the winning Morse team cooked five-spice chicken with crispy rice. In fact, the team cooked five-spice chicken with a ginger arepa.

Committee seeks student engagement

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER With the election just over a month away, seven high school sophomores from New Haven Public Schools have submitted petitions to run for Board of Education membership.

The Committee on Student Elections — the aldermanic committee that oversees the election — convened to discuss election procedure and school engagement Thursday evening.

This year marks the second year of student BOE elections, which began after a multiyear push by community members and legislators, including Sarah Eidelson ’12. Though state law prohibits the student members from voting in the BOE, they perform roles similar to full board members, such as attending board meetings and reporting constituents’ concerns. The deadline for prospective candidates to submit petitions for consideration is March 9, and candidates will be announced March 13, according to Suzanne Lyons, the interim chair of the committee and member of the BOE College and Career Pathways Department. This year, the committee aims to engage more students and provide a voting process that mimics general municipal elections.

“I expect higher levels of engagement to come once we actually have candidates on the slate,” Lyons said. “The great thing is that the schools have lived through [the election] once already, and so they have a sense in their head of what it looks like and what it could look like, and so a lot of it will be refining what’s going on.”

Lyons added that the committee has only targeted sophomores at this point because they are the only students eligible to run. She said she anticipates higher student engagement once the election is better publicized to reach other grade levels.

In order to run for the twoyear membership, sophomores must collect 100 student signatures — 50 from their own high school, and 50 from five other NHPS high schools. Lyons said she reviews each signature using the district’s student information system before approving the petitions.

The committee, composed of the respective chairs of the aldermanic Youth Services Committee and Education Committee, two BOE designees, two community members and one representative from the mayor’s office, has been refining practices used during last year’s electoral process to facilitate this year’s election.

The election is intended to

mirror a real municipal election to the largest possible degree, Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said. Candidates will appear on the ballot in the order in which the committee received and approved their petitions, Lyons said.

Greenberg said the addition of a write-in option on this year’s ballot would offer students a truer vision of real elections. While Randy Goldson, a representative from the mayor’s office who sits in on committee meetings, voiced concerns that such an option would be unfair for candidates who fulfilled the petition requirements, Greenberg said these candidates would have a significant advantage because of more prominent placement on the ballot.

Committee community representative Rachel Heerema said she thinks the student BOE election is an excellent opportunity to teach students “civics and democracy, live and in action.”

She emphasized the important role student voice plays on the BOE. “To get students — both voters and candidates — to think about the structural issues of their schools and how the school is operating gives all students a bit more power, a bit more ownership over their education,” Heerema said.

I expect higher levels of engagement to come once we actually have candidates on the slate.

SUZANNE LYONS Interim Chair, Committee on Student Elections Heerema said the committee will also attract student engagement through a candidates’ forum in which students running for BOE membership will present their platforms.

Lyons said in order to increase student and school engagement, the committee will hire a BOE videographer to film a promotional video featuring the current student members, Coral Ortiz, a junior at Hillhouse High School, and Kimberly Sullivan, a senior at The Sound School. The video, meant to capture NHPS student life and voice, will be used to galvanize student participation in the election as voters and candidates, Lyons said.

The election for the new student BOE member takes place April 7.

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The Joint Committee on Community Development and Human Services met Thursday to discuss the new Consolidated Action Plan.

BY AMY CHENG STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s Office of Management and Budget presented their Consolidated Action Plan for the coming fiscal year at a Joint Committee on Community Development and Human Services meeting Thursday night.

The joint committee, comprised of alders from 10 of the city’s 30 wards, pored over a mayor-approved proposal outlining where city funds will be allocated in FY 2016–17, during the hourlong meeting. They are expected to review the budget, submit amendments that cater to organizations within their ward and present the revised budget plan to the full Board of Alders for deliberation by the end of March. New Haven’s Consolidated Action Plan receives funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. With its federal funding, the plan annually supports four grants: the Community Development

Block Grant, the Home Investment Partnership, the Housing Opportunities For Persons With AIDS and the Emergency Solution Grant.

“Initially we notified the public through emails and in the newspaper,” said Elizabeth Smith, the proposal’s point person in the Office of Management and Budget. “We sent out letters to nonprofit organizations to let them be aware that funding is now available.”

According to the current budget, there are 70 organizations receiving funding from the plan, including 11 new groups that joined this year.

Typically the city supports groups applying for funding by calling them if mandatory materials have not yet been submitted. But this year, the city had to turn away three organizations that applied for the federal grant, two of which were rejected because their application was either incomplete or a duplication of a past application for the grant.

During the meeting, Ward 2 Alder Frank Douglass, who

co-chairs the committee with Ward 27 Alder Richard Furlow, asked whether or not alders are obligated to reach out to individual organizations within their wards to help them apply.

“I know there are a few organizations that missed their [deadline],” Douglass said. “Their applications were incomplete.”

In response, Smith said alders should reach out to organizations that help their constituents and the city in general to make sure they are aware federal aid is available.

Douglass also asked the committee how closely alders should be working with local groups to balance the nuances of the budget. Since most organizations do not get the full amount of money they request, the committee’s mandate allows alders to slightly adjust the amount of funding different groups receive in order to maximize the preferences of the successful applicant pool as a whole.

As the final federal entitlement reached city coffers last

week, the total amount of federal funding saw a decrease of 2.4 percent — tallying up to $6,105,715 — compared to last year’s entitlement. Smith noted that the only funding reduction the city has seen is from the Community Development Block Grant budget.

Smith also explained that unspent money cannot roll over to the next year. Traditionally, she said, funds that organizations do not exhaust are reallocated to other programs to avoid waste.

“One thing that is important to know is if we fund the public service programs and they don’t expend all the money during the program year, [the remaining fund] will be reprogrammed [by the city],” Smith said.

The joint committee will hear testimonies from nonprofit organizations and city departments on their planned usage of the allocated funds on March 23 and 24.

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

Humanities program launches three initiatives

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER While Yale is already known for having one of the best collegiate humanities programs in the country, faculty in the program continue to work toward its improvement.

This academic year, three new initiatives in the Humanities Program were launched.

The first, called “Living Texts,” seeks to connect classical texts included in Directed Studies with modern interpretations illustrating their relevance and contemporary nature. The second, called “Callings and Pathways,” aims to reconnect recent graduates of the Humanities Program with current students to highlight potential career paths after graduation. Lastly, the “Citizens, Thinkers, Writers: Reflecting on Civic Life” program will invite a dozen New Haven Public Schools students this summer to a twoweek seminar connecting historical writings on civic life to contemporary life in New Haven. Humanities Program chair Bryan Garsten said the goal of all three initiatives is to make the Humanities Program a place that focuses on a number of aspects of a college education.

“We’ve always been interested in encouraging more intellectual community, and since a lot of the humanities majors have taken Directed Studies before, they’ve experienced what it’s like to take three courses at the same time with more or less the same people,” Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Humanities Norma Thompson said.

“The most remarkable thing created out of DS is that intellectual community and we’ve been trying to find some ways to recreate that in the humanities major.”

Inspiration for these programs drew from a number of sources, with many stemming from student interest. Garsten said members of the Humanities Program’s Student Advi-

sory Committee all expressed support for the new initiatives.

When students express a desire for some kind of extracurricular event, Thompson said, faculty listen and see how far those ideas can be taken.

Hannah Carrese ’16, a member of the advisory committee, highlighted the solicitation and involvement of student opinions as one of the cornerstones of the initiatives. Caroline Sydney ’16, another committee member and a staff columnist for the News, said what is most important to her about the new programming — even more so than the subject matter — is the fact that it brings together people in the humanities major. Taylor Holshouser ’18, who also serves on the committee, said the body has worked to ensure ideas come from the students.

Still, not everyone agrees that the new initiatives are the best method to foster a sense of community among students.

Harper Keehn ’16, another member of the committee, said rather than having formal programming, it would be better to host casual events like dinners where students can freely meet and talk to one another. Everyone is already so busy, he said, and even though the speakers might be worthwhile, there may not be enough time for students to come together and bond over an event.

“There have been conversations for a number of years about things we can do to make the intellectual environment as fresh and lively as it can be,” Garsten said. “Students seem interested in having a strong cohort when they major in the humanities, so these events are meant to foster that.”

Both Thompson and Garsten said the annual Humanities in Action Conference, which features recent humanities major alumni who may have followed unconventional career paths, was part of the motivation for the three new initiatives. Analogous to the conference, Thompson said “Callings

and Pathways” will bring back alumni for smaller and more intimate events outside of Humanities in Action.

Directed Studies DUS Kathryn Slanski said “Living Texts” aims to serve proposals from students and faculty for extracurricular programming related to literature studied in DS. Slanski added that some of the resources allocated to “Living Texts” is being used to bring writers, artists and filmmakers to campus for talks, workshops and performances.

The inaugural “Living Texts” event took place in December, when 35 students and 11 faculty members were provided with subsidized tickets to attend the School of Drama’s production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

“While the texts we study are timeless in that they continue to speak to readers today, we’re excited about these new Humanities-funded opportunities to engage with them as they are received, dusted off and reworked by contemporary creative artists, thinkers and writers in the context of our own times,” Slanski said.

Garsten, who is spearhead-

ing the planning for the “Citizens, Thinkers, Writers” seminar, said the course was inspired by the political philosophy-focused Freedom and Citizenship Program for high school students at Columbia University. Slanski, who sat in on Columbia’s seminar, will teach the pilot program at Yale alongside Garsten in July.

Director of Education Studies Elizabeth Carroll said similar programs to attract high school students have already been established in the sciences, citing the Yale Pathways to Science programs as an example. It is important to bring in similar opportunities in the humanities as well, she said.

“My main thought on the new [“Citizens, Thinkers, Writers”] project is that it’s a terrific opportunity for local students, and I am glad to see the Humanities Program engaging with New Haven in this way,” said Carroll, who advised Garsten and his team on the project.

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Dozens receive meningitis vaccine MENINGITIS FROM PAGE 1 at Yale Health to all members of the Yale community between 18 and 25 years of age, though the cost is $306 for students who do not have Yale Health Hospitalization/Specialty Care coverage. The more-than-20 individuals whom Yale Health identified as coming in close contact with the infected student also received ciprofloxacin, a type of prophylaxis or antibiotic used to prevent transmission of the disease.

Genecin said the sick student is making a steady recovery and that in general, patients with meningococcal bacteria infection who show satisfactory progress and suffer no complications stay in an inpatient setting for approximately one week. He added that the satisfactory progress of the student has reduced the risk of further cases of meningitis on campus.

“Following effective identification and [treatment with] prophylaxis of close contacts, and with increasing time after the initial case, the risk of additional cases goes down,” Genecin said.

“For close contacts, the incubation period is two to 10 days and we are beyond that point. However, there is always a low but real risk of outbreak of meningococcal disease in any dorm or dining hall living situation such as that of college students.”

Colleen O’Connor, special assistant to the director of the New Haven Health Department, said the department had reacted cautiously to the meningitis case

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A student diagnosed with meningitis was sent to Yale-New Haven Hospital last week. at Yale by working with the University to investigate the case and maintaining contact with the Connecticut Department of Public Health on the issue.

She said the strain of meningitis diagnosed at Yale was not as easily transmitted as more common infectious diseases such as influenza and the common cold, adding however, that col-

lege students were sometimes at increased risk of contracting the disease.

“While meningococcal disease is rare, college students, particularly college freshmen living in communal settings, appear to be at higher risk than the general population,” O’Connor said. “The symptoms of bacterial meningitis typically develop within three to

Harvard grad union gains support UNION FROM PAGE 1 ’18 said his organization will hold an up-or-down union vote if the University agrees to its terms. GESO is demanding that administrators and faculty refrain from lobbying against the union in a potential referendum.

“We are not waiting, we are calling on the administration to negotiate the terms of a no-intimidation vote immediately,” Greenberg said.

But according to University spokesman Tom Conroy, the University has no plans to honor GESO’s demands.

Conroy said Yale has never considered its graduate students employees of the University and does not recognize GESO as the students’ representative.

“The NLRB has ruled that graduate students are not employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and neither GESO nor any other prospective union can now seek a binding secretballot election on a union through the NLRB,” Conroy said.

HGSU-UAW’s and GESO’s unionization hopes rest on two pending NLRB cases — one between The New School

and its student employees and another involving Columbia University, in which the board will reevaluate the Brown decision. Both cases, which are expected to be decided sometime this spring, could give the unofficial student unions license to hold binding elections whose results would have to be honored.

“We’re proud to be part of a growing movement at private universities across the country,” Greenberg said.

GESO, which was founded in 1990, has called for a union vote once before. In 2003, as GESO and Yale awaited the results of the Brown case, the organization held a nonbinding secret-ballot election — which also was not NLRBsanctioned — to put pressure on the University and determine whether GESO had the support of a majority of graduate students. GESO did not have majority support and thus lost the election, and it has not held a vote since. It was not until 2007 that GESO announced it had secured the support of a majority of graduate students on campus, and it claimed to have reached two-thirds support in October 2015.

The Harvard union, on

the other hand, came into existence only last spring, amid opposition from Harvard President Drew Faust.

In September, the group announced that it had partnered with United Auto Workers, which also collaborates with student unions at Columbia and NYU. Only NYU’s union is officially recognized by the university.

Supporters of GESO and HGSU-UAW argue that graduate students’ teaching and grading responsibilities should qualify them as employees of the University.

“We help the University run,” GESO member Anna Jurkevics GRD ’16 said. “We’re treated partially as employees, but then we’re not acknowledged as employees.”

Jurkevics added that a graduate student union would enable student leaders to more effectively negotiate for child care subsidies for student parents, as well as other important resources.

Mayor Toni Harp and Gov. Dannel Malloy have publicly backed GESO. Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

seven days after exposure.”

Louise-Marie Dembry, professor of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, said a single case of meningitis on campus does not constitute an outbreak, and that 95 percent of meningitis cases are sporadic, posing minimal risk to the community.

She said the disease spreads

from close contact with the infected individual, such as between roommates and family members, or direct contact with the individual’s saliva. She added that outbreaks of the disease — usually defined as occurrences of three or more cases of the same strain within three months — are rare.

“Outbreaks of meningococcal

infection are not common,” she said. “Managing the risk includes vaccination — newer vaccines covering meningitis group B are now, and have been, used in managing outbreaks — early presentation if one is ill and follow-up of close contacts for prophylaxis.”

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

Affirmative consent law considered CONSENT FROM PAGE 1 mean yes — only yes means yes.’”

State Rep. James Albis FES ’16, D-East Haven, said he supports the legislation — which he cosponsored last year — because it builds safeguards against victimblaming and sets a higher bar for sexual consent.

Albis, who graduated from New York University in 2006, said members of his generation recognize that the current age is different from the one they grew up in, and questions about sexual assault can no longer be swept under the rug.

Olivia Paschal ’18, the Yale College Democrats’ legislative captain on affirmative consent, said the Dems also pushed for the bill last year. She said the fact that this is the bill’s second time before the legislature means the Dems will take a different approach in their advocacy. The main task is to convince legislators in the House — which will take up the bill before the Senate — that the bill is worthy of a floor vote, she said.

“Because this is the bill’s second time around, the work that we have to do this time is much less educational and much more communicating that this bill is important to college students, it’s important to the constituents of many of these legislators and it’s worth bringing it to a floor vote,”

she said.

Paschal referred to a fact that has not gone unnoticed in the bill’s time before the General Assembly: many of its advocates and cosponsors in Hartford represent districts that include considerable numbers of college students. Flexer’s and Haddad’s districts include the University of Connecticut, and state Reps. Matt Lesser and Roland Lemar — both co-sponsors on the 2015 bill — represent Wesleyan University and Yale, respectively.

In a short legislative session, the sooner we can bring the bill up for a vote, the better its chances of passing.

JAMES ALBIS FES ’16 Connecticut State Representative Paschal noted that college students can bring a “meaningful and powerful voice” to the issue of affirmative consent — especially Yale students, who are familiar with a campus where affirmative consent is already a University policy.

Albis noted that the 2016 legislative session is a “short ses-

sion,” running only from February to May, meaning that the effort to pass the bill must be balanced against time-sensitive efforts to pass other urgent legislation.

Because this is the bill’s second time in the legislature, he echoed Paschal’s sentiment that educating fellow legislators on the importance of affirmative consent is less crucial than it was last year.

“In a short legislative session, the sooner we can bring the bill up for a vote, the better its chances of passing,” he said.

In an effort to get the bill passed, the Dems will be taking their pleas directly to legislators. Paschal said a group of Yale students will testify before the Higher Education Committee on Tuesday, when public hearing is scheduled for the bill.

Connecticut’s state legislature has a record in recent years of taking action on sexual assault on college campuses. In 2014, legislators unanimously passed a landmark bill that required colleges to provide free counseling services to students who report being sexually assaulted. That same bill mandated that students, employees and police receive training in responding to sexual-violence allegations.

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The interim executive director of Amnesty International USA outlined her organization’s upcoming campaigns.

BY NITYA RAYAPATI STAFF REPORTER Margaret Huang, interim executive director of Amnesty International USA, spoke Thursday about Amnesty International’s key campaigns for the next four years: police accountability and gun violence, refugee rights and protection for human rights activists.

Huang, a long-standing advocate for human rights and racial justice who has led the U.S. branch of Amnesty since December, spoke at the Law School during a talk sponsored by The Politic magazine, the Global Health Justice Partnership, Amnesty International USA and the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund. She outlined to more than 30 attendees her organization’s plans to respond to key issues in human rights, both around the world and in the United States.

“We’ve done a lot of domestic work on the death penalty, solitary confinement and mass incarceration,” Huang said. “We want to work on human rights in our backyard as well as in other parts of the world.”

Huang explained the significance of these domestic endeavors, noting that during the protests that occurred in Ferguson in 2014, Amnesty was able to contribute to the movement even as an international human rights

organization. Amnesty sent in human rights observers after learning of the police’s use of military tactics against protestors and the arrests of journalists covering the police response to protests.

Amnesty’s on-the-ground activism during the Ferguson protests spurred the organization to research law and policy surrounding police accountability and gun violence around the country. It published a report entitled “Deadly Force: Police Use of Lethal Force in the United States” last June.

Huang additionally talked about how the rhetoric on the domestic presidential campaign trail has become hateful against immigrant groups. She noted that there was a dramatic rise in the number of hate groups present in the U.S. — from 784 in 2014 to 892 in 2015.

“With all this grim news to look at, how do we as human rights activists stay optimistic?” she asked the audience before highlighting the growth of grassroots groups across the world as a source of hope. Pointing to record numbers of people demanding democracy and accountability from their governments, Huang said Amnesty must now consider how to use its campaigns to work with these grass-roots movements and accomplish change.

Huang also discussed another Amnesty International campaign

that will address the plight of refugees worldwide. Huang said this coming fall, Amnesty will launch a campaign specifically focusing on the rights of refugees around the world — a group that currently encompasses more than 14 million people.

Students who attended the talk noted that they enjoyed learning how Amnesty as an organization was specifically responding to current events, as it did to Ferguson.

“She focused much of her talk on immigration and refugees — specifically on refugees from Central America, who haven’t been getting as much attention. I appreciated that she brought that to the forefront,” said Anthony Kayruz ’17, who is editor of The Politic.

The third campaign Amnesty will embark on involves working to protect human rights defenders, such as activists and journalists, to ensure that they are able to continue the work they are doing, Huang said.

“What seems so interesting to me about these campaigns are their attempts to not only advocate for human rights but also to steer these issues in a positive direction,” Zack Austin ’17 said.

Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1961.

Cynthia Scharf, head of strategic communications and chief speechwriter on climate change for United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, visited Branford College Thursday afternoon to speak about the importance and immediacy of climate change.

In her speech, and in a following question-and-answer session, Scharf touched on how the debate on combating climate change has shifted in the years she has worked in the field, and how she communicates the necessity of action to people from all walks of life. In the past few years, climate change has received more political attention — but without the understanding and support of citizens around the world, she said, effective action is difficult, if not impossible. To garner support, it is necessary to translate the facts and numbers into a tangible message that speaks to people based on their core interests and values, Scharf said.

“This issue is about you and your children,” Scharf said, addressing the room of roughly 15. She emphasized that her remarks were only reflective of her own beliefs and not those of the U.N. as a whole. “Every aspect of their lives will be influenced by climate change.”

Scharf has had what Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley described as a “diverse career.” She studied international affairs and French as an undergraduate at Lewis and Clark College, received her M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and went on to work in investment, journalism and finally communications at the U.N. She did not arrive at the U.N. with a plan to be the leading climate change

speechwriter, she said, but a combination of writing talent and commitment to the cause led to the creation of a brand new speechwriting position for her to fill. That job eventually led her to the position she occupies today.

“People always assume that I have a science background, or have been working at the U.N. my whole life. Neither of those things is true,” Scharf said with a smile.

A significant portion of the talk focused on accomplishments in the years between the two major climate change conferences of the past decade: the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2015 Conference in Paris. The 2009 conference coincided with the beginning of Scharf’s work with the secretary general on climate change, and in the last six years, important progress has been made, Scharf said, noting that the Pope’s words to the U.N. last September on the moral obligation of humanity to preserve the Earth — both for the poorest of today and future generations of tomorrow — were heard all around the world. The message is that there is a personal and moral reasoning behind fighting climate change. That raw emotion really speaks to many people who do not respond to numbers and facts that seem to have little bearing on their lives, Scharf said.

Joshua Kimelman ’18, who attended the talk, agreed that the messaging behind climate change activism is crucial.

“One caveat with presentations on climate change is that a lot of the information is public, so there isn’t always something new to be learned,” Kimelman said. “But I really learned a lot about the ways that rhetoric and framing can influence the way that people at all different levels make change.”

The conclusion of the 2015 Paris conference was hopeful, but not enough was resolved to turn the climate change crisis around, Scharf said.

The turnout was huge, and 188 countries put forth climate change plans that they plan to implement on their own. But politics continue to get in the way of significant progress — and even if all the governments’ plans were to work, the results would simply not be good enough, and the rising temperature of the Earth would continue to pose a threat, Scharf said. And, she added, governments are not the only players involved in the debate.

“The private sector is critical to transitioning to a clean-energy economy,” she said. “Without the private sector, we’re lost.”

With the power and resources the private sector manages, they are necessary to any sizable cut-down on greenhouse gas production and fossil fuel use. Additionally, social groups, the military and religious associations all play a large role in shaping society, and society needs to be reshaped if climate change is to be combated successfully, she said.

Audience members echoed Scharf’s call to action.

“When it comes to climate change, there are these of moments of terror, but there is also growing recognition of the benefits of doing better,” said Connie Gersick, a former visiting scholar at the Yale School of Management. “We’re teetering between falling into despair and thinking, yeah we can fix this.”

Scientists project that Earth’s average temperatures will rise between 2 and 12 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100.

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ANALYSIS FROM PAGE 1 ideas for the use of the space to University President Peter Salovey, Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews and Michael Kaiser, an advisor on the center. The team with the best idea received $2,500, the runner up received $1,500 and three other teams received $1,000 under different categories. The other 52 teams registered walked away with $100.

But of the 20 undergraduates surveyed by the News, none said they had been interested in taking part in the Thinkathon, though some said the cash prizes did appeal to them. Those undergraduates, as well as eight graduate students interviewed, all said they had not actively engaged in the center’s planning.

Regarding the Thinkathon, one undergraduate said it was not feasible for her to give up five hours on a Saturday, and another said the only factor pushing him to sign up was the $100 award, which he said signified “desperation� on the part of the University.

But Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said the cash prizes were meant to reward innovation, and Jeffrey Brenzel — a research associate for the president who took the lead in organizing the Thinkathon — said the cash prizes incentivized participation and made the event “interesting and exciting.� Highsmith added that there is precedent for cash awards, citing a reward for participating in an Association of American Universities campus climate survey on sexual misconduct roughly one year ago.

Still, many said busy schedules and a hesitancy to engage

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He said when he was young, he aspired to join a young men’s club at the Q House called the Noble Gents as opposed to joining a local gang.

Douglas added that he and his schoolmates went to the Q House right after school where they found recreational options, supervision and also adult role models, such as Q House Program Director Bill Douglas, who taught him how to “be a man.� “It was a second home for many youth in New Haven,� Douglas said. “Our parents had worked two or three jobs and we were shut out, and the Q House was just one of the entities that we had to go to.�

New Haven had other youth centers such as the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven and the Jewish Community Center, Douglas added. But the Q

House was the only space that served children from all over New Haven, he said.

Douglas and Morrison both said the re-opening of the Q House has been a long-term hope for Dixwell residents. When Ward 22 CoChair Maxwell Ulin ’17 canvassed for Malloy in the 2014 election in the Dixwell neighborhood, residents reacted most positively to the governor when they learned he had committed $1 million to renovating the Q House. “Elderly residents had played games and went there after school,� Ulin said. “The loss of it was a devastating thing for many residents in Dixwell. It was definitely the thing that people connected to the most when people heard about Malloy’s platform.�

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halfheartedly engage deterred them from participating. “I don’t have the time,� said Jennifer Cha ’18. “I know this [center] will be around for decades, and if I’m not going to put everything into it I’d rather not be involved.�

But the students who have decided to substantively participate in the center’s planning said events like the Thinkathon facilitate collaboration and investment in the space. But administrators must determine how to balance the preferences and interests of students from across the University. Students from Yale College and the graduate and professional schools naturally have different visions for the center: Undergraduates often think of it as a place for student organizations to meet, while graduate students are attracted to the development of a central social space. It is not enough for just one of these student groups to be involved, because none is representative of the whole. “Graduate and professional students want this [center] more than your average Yale College student,� said Tyler Godoff SOM ’16, a representative on the advisory committee. “Graduate and professional students are looking forward to this [center] because currently we don’t have the same community dynamics [as the undergraduates]. I don’t think it will detract from any existing traditions, but will instead enhance them.�

The strategy behind the University’s publicity of the center appears to be rooted in reaching various audiences in different ways. This way, conflicting and complementary perspectives will eventually

be sorted out and all interested voices will be heard.

Gretchen Wright SOM ’17 DRA ’17, a member of the winning Thinkathon team, said the University has rightfully provided many opportunities for student involvement.

One example is through the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee, which includes a total of 12 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. With the exception of student government leaders from across the University, students were required to apply for a position in the group. “In my opinion, this is a center for students, so what a great opportunity to also have it be by students,� Wright said. “Student participation is key so that we feel an ownership of the space. With that sense of ownership will come good care of the facilities and passionate engagement in its activities and programs moving forward.�

Currently, there are only a few spaces on campus dedicated to graduate and professional students, including the McDougal Graduate Student Center in the Hall of Graduate Studies and the popular student bar, GPSCY. However, Wendy Xiao MD ’17 GRD ’17 noted that HGS is being transformed into a humanities center in 2017, and will no longer be the home of the McDougal Center. While the McDougal Center will continue to function at a temporary location during the renovations, Xiao added that the destination of its new home is still unknown.

Additionally, Xiao said that as a bar, GPSCY is only open at night and offers a limited set of activities. For example, GPSCY does not provide room for graduate and profes-

sional students to study, work on projects together or bring their families.

More broadly, students from across the University questioned if their opinions would matter at all in the shaping of the center. “Part of the reason why I don’t want to participate [in the planning] is because I think important decisions are made by the administration already.

It would be a waste of students’ time,� Chloe Lin GRD ’16 said. Lin added that many graduate students are more concerned about the HGS renovation, since the elimination of the space as a graduate hub threatens to dissolve the current sense of community among graduate and professional students. She said she does not think the Schwarzman Center would be a good replacement.

To University administrators, however, the Thinkathon and other outreach events have been very successful in their efforts to engage with as much of the Yale community as possible.

Dean of the School of Drama James Bundy, a member of the advisory committee, said he is confident student involvement “accurately reflects student interest.�

Salovey said the Thinkathon furthered his efforts to engage the student body: He heard from almost 200 participants that day, many of whom had not been present at previous events.

The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee released its report on recommendations for the development of the center in a Universitywide email on Feb. 11.

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

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“I’ve never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies … I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I’m ready for the moment.” STEPH CURRY NBA ALL-STAR

Yale looks to snap eight-game losing skid W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 quarters in our past few games,” Wyckoff said. “We are focusing on playing great defense and executing on offense the entire game.”

Despite the two losses, a silver lining to come of last weekend’s play was the contributions from guard Lena Munzer ’17. Starting in Simpson’s absence on Saturday and playing the entire 40 minutes, Munzer scored a career-high 20 points on 7–10 shooting, including a 5–7 mark from behind the three-point line.

First journeying to Cambridge this Friday to take on Harvard (12–11, 7–3 Ivy), Yale will seek revenge after the Crimson escaped New Haven with a 72–69 victory on Feb. 13. The Bulldogs led by as many as 23 points in the first half of that contest before Harvard mounted the fourth-largest comeback in NCAA history en route to the road win.

Yale faces an uphill battle as it looks to turn things around in Ivy play. The Bulldogs have only managed an average of 63 points per game during their eight-game skid, and on Friday will defend against a Harvard offense scoring nearly 75 points per game during its active four-game win streak.

The Crimson is paced by a trio of seniors: AnnMarie Healy, Shilpa Tummala and Kit Metoyer combine to score more than half of Harvard’s points, with Healy leading at 16.0 points per game.

“Defensively, we may mix it up a little, just to try and contain both Harvard’s and Dartmouth’s offensive threats,” Sarju said. “Regardless of our actual defensive scheme, the two most important things we must do are communicate on screens, cutters and in transition.”

Facing Dartmouth (11–15, 6–4 Ivy) on Saturday will bring back simi-

lar memories for the Elis — Yale also held a 20-point first-half lead against the Big Green on Feb. 12 before Dartmouth’s hot-shooting second half propelled the team to a 68–63 victory. The Bulldogs shot just 31 percent in the decisive fourth quarter, compared to Dartmouth’s 73 percent clip.

Despite being unable to secure a win in their last meeting against the Big Green, the Elis did control several defensive statistical categories, forcing 20 turnovers and scoring 14 points on the fast break while holding Dartmouth to zero fastbreak points for the game.

“Offensively, we want to make sure we have a lot of ball movement especially against [both teams’] zone and we want to attack all night long,” Sarju said. “First and foremost we want our defensive intensity to lead to points in transition.”

Yale will have to key in on Dart-

Final home weekend on tap M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10 series with Harvard during its four years.

In the latest showdown between the two teams on Feb. 13, Sears scored a team-high 21 points to lead the Bulldogs to a 67–55 triumph in Cambridge. Sears ranks fourth in the conference with 17.0 points per game, and in Ivy play alone, the reigning Player of the Year is averaging 17.9 points per game.

As productive as Sears and his fellow frontcourt mate Sherrod have been in the paint, the team has not been as effective from behind the three-point line. The Elis struggled shooting from deep last weekend, as the team shot a combined 2–18 from three-point range against Princeton and Penn.

Part of the decreased efficiency could be attributed to the absence of former guard Jack Montague ’16, who served as captain for the first 24 games of the season, though he was not with the team in the four most-recent contests.

Last year’s most proficient threepoint shooter in the Ivy League, Montague has not played since Feb. 6 after averaging 9.7 points per game and 28.4 minutes of play.

Montague will not be rejoining the team this season and is currently withdrawn from Yale.

Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett indicated on Thursday afternoon that there are no plans to name an interim captain for the final four games of the season.

Guard Anthony Dallier ’17, a solid bench contributor earlier in the season, has started in Montague’s place, shooting a combined 11–25 from the floor in his four starts and 2–8 from deep.

Victor leads the team with a 47.1 shooting clip from behind the arc, though he has only made one of six attempts from long range over the team’s past five games.

While the team has seen its three-point shooting drop from

47.1 percent in its first five Ivy games to 25.0 percent in the past four, Jones said perimeter shooting is not a concern.

“We didn’t play particularly well moving the ball against Princeton,” Jones said. “We only had seven assists, which was a concern, not the amount of shots that we took or made from the outside.

We certainly are capable of scoring from out there, and I believe that if we have those opportunities to score this weekend, we should knock some of those shots down.”

Whereas Yale now owns the conference’s fourth-best shooting clip from deep, Harvard leads the Ivy League in three-point shooting percentage at 38.5 percent.

Three Crimson starters shoot above 35 percent from beyond the arc, including senior forward Agunwa Okolie and freshman guards Corey Johnson and Tommy McCarthy.

Down low, forward Zena Edosomwan carries much of the offensive load for Harvard. He averages a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds per game, both of which are team-highs. Edosomwan scored 18 points and hauled in 10 boards in the first Yale-Harvard contest.

According to Jones, the Bulldogs will attempt to limit Edosomwan’s ability to find and assist open shooters on the perimeter.

He also cited the defensive presence of Sherrod as a key reason why the Elis have been able to limit post players such as Edosomwan over the course of the season.

Sherrod and Sears, whom Jones called “the two best big men in the league,” each average 7.1 rebounds per game. Thanks in part to their collective effort, the Bulldogs rank third in the nation in rebounding margin with 10.9 more boards per game than their opponents, and 16th in offensive rebounding with 13.8 per game.

After taking on Edosomwan and the Crimson, the duo will battle on the block with Dartmouth for-

ward Evan Boudreaux on Saturday.

The freshman sensation averages 17.6 points per game, the secondmost in the Ivy league, and he also notches 9.4 rebounds per contest, behind only Edosomwan.

“When [Boudreaux] catches the ball, he doesn’t normally pass it very often,” Jones said. “We have to make sure we do a good job at stopping him, limiting his touches and making everything he gets tough. He made some difficult shots against us at Dartmouth, and we want to try to force him into taking those same tough shots again.”

Boudreaux recorded a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds in the 75–65 Yale victory in Hanover on Feb. 12, and he averaged 19 points per game against Cornell and Columbia last weekend. The Big Green split those games, defeating Cornell 76–66 before falling 73–54 to Columbia.

Dartmouth has now won two of its last three games, after dropping five consecutive contests prior to that.

Other than Boudreaux, guards Miles Wright and Connor Boehm are the only Dartmouth players scoring in double figures, with 11.6 and 10.5 points per game, respectively.

Yale point guard Makai Mason ’18 scorched the Big Green for 25 points in this season’s first matchup, with 20 of those points coming in the second half to propel the Bulldogs to victory after facing a nine-point deficit with 16:52 left to play.

Mason ranks second on the team, behind Sears, with 15.7 points per game, while he also paces the Elis in assists and steals.

Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. against Harvard on Friday and 8 p.m. against Dartmouth on Saturday.

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

mouth forward Lakin Roland, who leads the team in scoring and is tied with Healy for second in the Ivy League in scoring at 16.0 points per game. Roland nearly matched that figure in the fourth quarter alone against Yale two weekends ago, scoring 15 of her game-high 24 points in the final frame.

The Bulldogs split their Dartmouth-Harvard road trip last season, winning 60–46 over the Big Green before falling to the Crimson in Cambridge 65–55 the following day.

Yale will take on Harvard at 7 p.m. on Friday, with the rivalry matchup broadcast on ESPN3. Tipoff versus Dartmouth will be at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

Madeleine Wuelfing contributed reporting.

Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

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Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 leads the team with 5.5 rebounds per game.

New challenge for Elis M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 five years, losing 10–5 to Denver.

However, both teams have since lost key players from last season, making the two lineups look quite different heading into the rematch. Yale has graduated five starters from 2015, including attackman Conrad Oberbreck ’15 and midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15, who collectively scored seven of the Bulldogs’ 17 goals in last season’s two battles with Maryland. Yale appears to have reloaded with its freshman class, which combined for seven goals in last week’s win over UMass Lowell.

The Terrapins, meanwhile, have replaced four starters, including midfielder Joe LoCasio, who found the net three times in the NCAA Tournament matchup.

Although Maryland will be without LoCasio, the Bulldog defense will have to contend with attackmen Matt Rambo and Dylan Maltz, who combined for five goals in Maryland’s 15–10 defeat of High Point last weekend.

Midfielder Henry West also returns after scoring the goahead goal in last years’ tournament game against the Bulldogs.

M a ryl a n d ’s g rea te s t strength, however, may be its defense, led by preseason AllAmerican goalie Kyle Bernlohr. The Terrapins led the nation with just 7.05 goals allowed per game last season, and although they graduated two starting defenders from that 2015 lineup, they have since acquired Virginia transfer Greg Danseglio, who was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week after his performance last weekend.

Considering the stinginess of Maryland’s defensive unit,

captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 noted that every possession will be crucial on Saturday.

“We need to win the ground ball battle and play gritty,” Quinn said.

If playing gritty is what is required in Saturday’s matchup, then Yale set itself up well last weekend, leading UMass Lowell 51–29 in ground balls.

Still, Yale benefited from a UMass Lowell team that turned the ball over on nine

of its 16 clearing attempts, and the Bulldog ride may not find that same success against Maryland. The Terrapins cleared all 16 of their attempts against High Point last weekend.

Maryland has won 10 of the 12 official games played between the schools. The 13th contest between the Bulldogs and Terrapins starts at 1 p.m. at Reese Stadium.

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Attackman Ben Reeves ’18, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, tallied four goals and three assists last Saturday.

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Forward Charles Orzetti ’16 scored the second goal in Yale’s 4–0 win over Quinnipiac in the 2013 National Championship game.

were two weeks ago, but two weeks from now I expect us to be a lot better than we are today.”

The difference between this Friday’s contest against Princeton and the 4–2 defeat on Dec. 5 may be the presence of goaltender Alex Lyon ’17.

The Hobey Baker candidate — who leads the nation in goalsagainst average, 1.51, and save percentage, 0.941, suffered an injury in warm-ups prior to that December matchup that forced him to miss his only game of the season. Since that loss, Yale has gone 13–1– 2, a stretch that includes the nation’s longest active winning streak, while Princeton has gone 0–12–2, suffering from a negative 1.62 scoring margin that is third-worst in Division I hockey during that timespan.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Quinnipiac boasts arguably the most formidable roster in the league. Five

Quinnipiac players — defender Devon Toews and forwards Sam Anas, Tim Clifton, Landon Smith and Travis St. Denis — have earned 25 points or higher this season to date, while only one Bulldog, reigning ECAC Rookie of the Week Joe Snively ’19, has topped that mark with 26 points.

Yale’s final regular-season contest will pit the sixthhighest scoring offense against the Eli defense, which leads the nation with just 1.63 goals allowed per game. Moreover, the matchup will feature the closest geographic rivalry in ECAC Hockey, one that only got stronger when the Bulldogs defeated the Bobcats 4–0 in the 2013 National Championship game.

“We couldn’t ask for a better game to end the regular season on,” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “They have a great team.

We have a great amount of respect for them, and we’re all excited.”

Although Quinnipiac suffered a loss to St. Lawrence

on Feb. 12, the defeat marks just the second of the Bobcats’ entire season. Quinnipiac is just one of two teams to hold the Eli offense — which is averaging 2.70 goals per game — scoreless for an entire game this season.

Yet Yale is currently playing its best hockey of the season, in addition to seeing a fuller bench than it has in the past few weeks. Previously injured forwards Ryan Hitchcock ’18 and Chris Izmirlian ’17 played in both games last weekend, and defender Nate Repensky ’18 also returned to see minutes over the last two weekends.

“It’s always nice to be back on the ice,” Hitchcock said. “It makes you a lot hungrier when you get out there, you cherish it … I’m just trying to come back in and keep the [team’s] success going anyway I can.”

The Bulldogs have already clinched a first-round bye in the ECAC Hockey playoffs and will begin their postseason play with a best-of-three series on March 11. The Elis can

finish anywhere between first and third, depending on the weekend’s results.

In addition to determining conference playoff seedings, Yale’s game against Princeton will be important for another reason: With a win over their final Ivy League opponent of the regular season, the Elis can guarantee themselves a share of the Ivy League championship, which goes to the team that posts the best record against the other five Ivy opponents in the ECAC. No. 12 Harvard guaranteed itself at least a share with a 2–2 tie against Cornell last weekend, which gave the Crimson a 7–1–2 record against Ancient Eight opponents for the season. Yale has gone 6–1–2 through nine of its 10 such games.

The puck will drop at 7 p.m. in Princeton, New Jersey, on Friday, and at the same time in Hamden on Saturday.

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Regular season wraps up

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The No. 7 Yale men’s hockey team, riding a sevengame winning streak, finishes out its 2015–16 regular season this weekend against conference opponents Princeton and No. 1 Quinnipiac — two of only five teams to hand the Bulldogs a loss this season.

MEN’S HOCKEY Fresh off a pair of victories against No. 19 St. Lawrence and Clarkson in their last regular-season home stand, the Elis (18–5–4, 13–4–3

ECAC Hockey) appear in a much stronger position this time around to take down the Tigers (5–20–2, 3–15–2) and Bobcats (23–2–7, 14–1–5).

Holding the highest poll and PairWise rankings they have boasted all season, the Bulldogs face the best and worst of ECAC Hockey, looking to somehow maintain that momentum with postseason competition just two weeks away.

“We don’t peak in hockey — we grow,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “We’re constantly improving. I think we’re better than we SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 8

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 ranks first on the team in assists and steals while ranking second in scoring at 15.7 points per game.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS As many former Yale men’s basketball players return to New Haven for alumni weekend, a pair of victories over Harvard and Dartmouth could help four current Bulldog seniors avoid joining the ranks of basketball alumni for at least an extra two weeks.

The Elis (18–6, 9–1 Ivy) have played their last four contests

on the road, but the team returns to John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday to host the Crimson (11– 15, 3–7) before celebrating the careers of Justin Sears ’16, Brandon Sherrod ’16, Nick Victor ’16 and Khaliq Ghani ’16 on Senior Night against the Big Green (9–15, 3–7).

“I do enjoy being on the road and taking the team on the road to play, but it is great to play games in your own building,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “I am

excited to see the kind of fans that we will have this weekend.”

The Bulldogs currently sit a half game ahead of Princeton for first place in the Ivy League, while both Harvard and Dartmouth find themselves eliminated from title contention, as the two teams are each six games behind Yale, tied with one another for fifth place.

Although Harvard has won the last four matchups hosted in New Haven, the task seems more improbable this season for the

Rematch of top opponents

Crimson. The Bulldogs are a perfect 10–0 at home, averaging a 21.9-point margin of victory in those contests. Meanwhile, Harvard has experienced its most trying season in some time, as the five-time defending Ivy League champion has not suffered seven conference losses in a season since the 2007–08 campaign.

The current Yale senior class holds a 3–5 record in the rivalry SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

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Yale fell to Quinnipiac 3–0 on Dec. 4, but the Bulldogs enter this weekend riding the nation’s longest winning streak.

Rivalry game highlights road trip

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BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After beginning the season with a 17–7 win over UMass Lowell, the No. 7 Yale men’s lacrosse team moves on this weekend to face one of its biggest challenges of the year.

No. 5 Maryland, the team that knocked Yale out of last season’s NCAA Tournament, visits Reese Stadium on Saturday in an early season top10 matchup.

Seeking its first victory in over a month, the Yale women’s basketball team will visit Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend in its final road trip of the season.

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MEN’S LACROSSE The Bulldogs (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) will need a complete effort against the Terrapins (1–0, 0–0 Big Ten) in order to avenge the devastating end to last season.

“Maryland is a very talented team, so we need to execute the game plan on both sides of the ball for us to be successful,” midfielder Mike Bonacci ’16 said.

The Bulldogs were able to gain confidence for the matchup during a strong performance in their season opener. Yale’s defense held UMass Lowell to two goals in the first three quarters, and Yale’s offense showed its diversity and patience as 10 Bulldogs found the net.

Most prominent of those scorers was attackman and reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Ben Reeves ’18, who

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In the two Yale–Maryland matchups last year, Yale won 10–6 in Feb. 2015 but fell 8–7 in the NCAA Tournament the following May. led the team with four goals and three assists.

“We want to be able to use that momentum and bring it into this Saturday,” Reeves said of the effort last weekend.

Yale will be going up against an entirely different beast facing the nation’s fifthranked team, which met with the Bulldogs twice last season.

Yale won the regular season meeting 10–6 on Feb. 21, 2015, but narrowly fell to the Terrapins 8–7 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament less

than three months later.

In that season-ending loss, Yale held a three-goal lead with 13:17 remaining in the fourth quarter but proceeded to allow four goals before the game’s end. An Eli shot that would have tied the game with 20 seconds on the clock hit off the crossbar and appeared to bounce inside the net, but it was not ruled a goal by the officials. Yale’s season ended as Maryland progressed to its third championship game in SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 8

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Guard Lena Munzer ’16 scored a career-high 20 points last Saturday versus Penn in her first start of the season.

After winning their first two conference games of the season, both against Brown, the Elis (11–16, 2–8 Ivy) have been unable to continue their success against the rest of the Ivy League, losing each of their last eight games and falling to sixth in the conference standings in the process.

“We are really excited to get a second stab at Harvard and Dartmouth,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “We are ready to go all out and play complete 40-minute games, and [we are] just looking forward to having fun and playing with confidence the way we know we can.”

Yale’s slide continued last weekend as it fell at home to Penn and Princeton, with both teams now winners of eight consecutive games. The Bulldogs fell behind early to Princeton on Friday night, and were unable to erase a 22-point halftime deficit despite a combined 68 points from captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16, forward Nyasha Sarju ’16 and guard Tamara Simpson ’18.

The team shot just 39 percent from the field and was outrebounded 42–28 by the Tigers.

Playing on Saturday without Simpson, who suffered a concussion in the previous night’s game, the Bulldogs never held a lead against Penn, trailing by as many as 34 and managing just 59 points against the Ivy League’s stingiest team defense.

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THE NUMBER OF GAMES THAT THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS LOST AT HOME THIS SEASON. The Bulldogs, who are 10–0 at John J. Lee Amphitheater and 7–6 on the road, hope to finish a perfect home season in games against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend.