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And then there were four. The four remaining Republican presidential candidates sparred in the 11th GOP debate, hosted by Fox in Detroit, last night. While frontrunner Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio went back and forth on some NSFW topics, Sen. Ted Cruz squeezed in some digs at Trump saying, “Donald has a tenuous relationship with the truth.” Gov. John Kasich had a breakout moment when he described himself as the “adult on the stage.”

Bill takes Beantown. Former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 caused controversy when he entered a polling place in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Super Tuesday. Clinton was stumping for his wife, 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. The law that Bill Clinton was accused of violating was the same that New Haven voters alleged Sarah Eidelson ’12 violated during the Ward 1 primary.

Schuy high. Pi Beta Phi at Yale

is hosting “Schuy is the Limit” — a dance-a-thon fundraiser for Schuyler Arakawa ’15, a member of Pi Phi who was critically injured when she was struck by a boulder while rafting in Colombia. Students can form dance teams or simply donate via Venmo.

The event will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium’s Lanman Center.

Roses are crimson, violets are blue. A Harvard student’s

account of the dating scene at the Ivy League university appeared in Salon yesterday.

Yehong Zhu, a Harvard sophomore, said “Dating is hard enough. Throwing Harvard into the equation just makes everything worse.” In the article, Zhu noted that “nobody really dates” at Harvard. In fact, she wrote, one-fifth of Harvard seniors graduate without having been in relationships.

Itty bitty piggy. This Sunday

at 6 p.m. Oink — a local, sustainable pop-up restaurant — will partner with Ordinary for a special late-night event.

The restaurant and bar will serve cocktails and specialty items such as yakitoris and pork belly lettuce wraps. The pop-up will serve customers on a first-come, first-serve basis until food runs out.

Movie night. The Yale Film

Society will screen a 35 millimeter film version of “The Master” — a drama starring Joaquin Phoenix as a World War II veteran adjusting after his military service. The screening will be held at the Whitney Humanities Center at 7 p.m. tomorrow night.

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1965 Ray J. Byrd ’67 becomes the first African-American man to be initiated into the Phi Gamma Delta national fraternity after he receives a bid from the Nu Deuteron chapter of the fraternity at Yale.

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Basketball capt. expelled, father says

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ard said the Yale College Dean’s Office hopes to hire candidates in the next six weeks.

According to Howard, part of the funding for the new positions will be drawn from the doubling of each cultural center’s budget, a pledge announced by University President

The father of former Yale men’s basketball captain Jack Montague told the New Haven Register on Thursday that Montague has been expelled from the University.

Montague’s status was changed to “withdrawn” on his academic record over three weeks ago, and on Feb. 24, Yale sports publicity sent out a press release stating that Montague would not return to the team. Until Jim Montague’s statement, no one had specified the nature of Montague’s departure from Yale College.

“We have strict orders from our lawyers,” Jim Montague told the Register while explaining he had been advised not to comment.

“Soon enough, I’d love to tell the other side of the story. It’s ridiculous, why he’s expelled.

It’s probably going to set some sort of precedent. We’re trying to do things the gentleman’s way, so we’re keeping things closeknit. But you guys will get a story.”

No University administrators or members of the basketball program would comment on Jack Montague’s expulsion Thursday night.

Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said she was unable to comment

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Job postings for the new positions went online Thursday morning.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS The University’s four cultural centers — often described as understaffed and underfunded — will each gain a new full-time assistant director next academic year.

All four cultural centers are currently searching for assistant direc-

tors, and a job posting for the positions went online Thursday morning. The posting states that candidates should be “student-centered” and motivated individuals who can assist in the implementation of services supporting underrepresented students and who can increase engagement with the broader campus community. Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell How-

Reinstatement tough on int’ls

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER At the beginning of every semester, roughly 10 percent of Yale undergraduates board planes that take them across oceans, continents and national borders to reach the United States.

Coping with the initial jet lag and culture shock, Yale’s international students face many challenges that their domestic peers do not. For an even smaller portion of this population — those who journey back to Yale after withdrawing and spending an entire year in a different country — their international status brings yet another challenge: cultural barriers in the reinstatement process.

Wenbin Gao ’19, who

hails from Qingdao, China, was reinstated earlier this semester. He decided to withdraw from Yale last April after speaking with his psychiatrist at Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling Department. Since Gao missed the deadline for a leave of absence, University policies regarding withdrawal and reinstatement required him to be away for at least one full term, not including the spring semester during which he withdrew. From April 2015 to January 2016, Gao was back home in Qingdao, where he was able to rest and recover. When he felt ready to return, he decided to apply for reinstatement. But Gao did not expect the amount of time and energy that the rein-

statement process required or the numerous obstacles he faced as a result of unique cultural differences.

In particular, he said, China did not have sophisticated mental health facilities, and academic requirements for reinstatement were hard to fulfill abroad. “[The reinstatement process] is very frustrating.

I do not complain because I realize all these tedious procedures are necessary. I do realize why [the administration] is doing this,” Gao said. “Still, Yale should be more culturally aware of withdrawn students who live abroad. These cultural differences are something that students and the SEE REINSTATEMENT PAGE 4

For diverse faculty, admin roles hinder teaching

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER In spring 2014, 26 students enrolled in history and American Studies professor Mary Lui’s Asian-American history class.

Last fall, that number spiked to 90, according to course demand statistics on the day final schedules were due. But if any students in the class hoped to take another class with Lui — who is Yale’s only tenured professor of Asian American Studies — they were disappointed: because of Lui’s administrative duties as master of Timothy Dwight College, she is only able to teach one undergraduate course a year.

“I feel badly when students take the lecture, and they ask

what’s next,” Lui said.

The University’s push for increased faculty diversity has often focused on recruitment and retention efforts, with less attention given to the subtle yet significant dilemma that arises when professors already at Yale who teach issues relating to diversity and ethnicity take on increasing administrative workloads. Faculty members have fewer teaching responsibilities when they become administrators — either in their own departments, in residential colleges or in the central administration — and some professors and administrators have suggested that this disproportionately hamstrings academic SEE ADMIN PAGE 4

YNHHS, L+M committed to affiliation, despite executive order

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER Despite last week’s executive order signed by Gov. Dannel Malloy halting the proposed affiliation between the YaleNew Haven Health System and the Lawrence+Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut, both hospitals remain committed to the affiliation.

The proposed affiliation would incorporate L+M Hospital within the Yale-New Haven Health System, which currently includes Bridgeport, Greenwich and Yale-New Haven Hospitals. The executive order, which was signed on Feb. 25, has postponed the affiliation until at least January 2017.

Malloy asked that the Office of Health Care Access and the state Department of Social Services postpone the decision in order to give a newly appointed state task force the opportunity to conduct a review of the decision-making

process concerning affiliations and acquisitions between hospitals. However, the executive order requires that OHCA forbid affiliations between hospitals whose joint operating revenue would exceed 20 percent of the total operating revenue of all hospitals in the state.

According to OHCA’s website, YNHHS had operating revenues in excess of $3.4 billion in 2014 — over 27 percent of the total operating revenue of all hospitals in the state.

Malloy said the mandated review will ensure that consumers statewide receive equitable access to transparent and competitive health care that contributes to economic development. According to a release announcing the executive order, having a small number of hospitals control the market would negatively affect health care in the state.

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Gov. Dannel Malloy signed an executive order last week halting the proposed affiliation of YNHHS and L+M.

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In search of nuance T

he “Yale Bubble” is a strange place. Inside this odd world, it’s not out of the question to hear young adults casually discussing Plato and Socrates; it’s a place where many students acquire a summer job that pays more than the annual salaries of most Americans.

In short, Yalies dream big, so it’s probably unsurprising that many of us can be pretty wedded to our ideas. Consequently, whether in class or another public setting, our arguments lack a sense of nuance when we’re discussing these ideas.

Think about your sections and seminars, for example. In an ideal world, sections would be a place to unpack the meaning of course material. But in reality, as many have pointed out previously in the News, most section discussions of philosophy, history or economics are horribly one-dimensional. After hearing the cross talk between section assholes and section suck-ups, how often does anyone come away with an appreciation for the subtleties of a subject? How often do people have their minds changed? I’d posit that it doesn’t happen too often.

Part of that is probably attributable to the short time frame of these discussions; 50 minutes isn’t enough time to really investigate complex sociocultural issues. We’re also graded on what we say, so there’s a tendency to stick to what we know — and disavow anything remotely controversial. But undoubtedly, it’s also partially a function of our personalities. Yalies are just not very good at entertaining ideas that we dislike.

Perhaps expecting so much open-mindedness is too lofty a goal for course sections. But what about our discussions outside of class? What are conversations like when we leave the lecture halls and seminar rooms behind? The answer, I think, is that they’re largely the same.

The best evidence of this comes from how we react to op-eds written in the News. Deviating from campus orthodoxy in a column will almost always yield swarms of nasty emails or comments. The converse is also true, of course; supporting the prevailing narrative for a given campus issue all but guarantees you showers of praise.

In a sense, that’s fine. If you’re willing to express something unpopular, you ought to be ready to handle some blowback.

This isn’t a column that’s going to decry some lack of ideological diversity on campus; that’s simply not true. What does concern me, however, is that when our campus’s ideological diversity manifests itself, Yalies often dismiss rather than discuss other ideas they disagree with. Instead, unpopular op-eds are shared on Facebook to publicly shame the other. Many posters proudly proclaim that an author is just unilaterally wrong — that they

just can’t even finish reading such abhorrent words.

I find myself rejecting certain arguSHREYAS ments on TIRUMALA faceWtoo. e ’ r e better than Rhyme and that. Most students reason are generally openminded; private discussions about race, politics and philosophy can be complex and fulfilling, but for whatever reason, our public discourse isn’t quite so nuanced. The same students who are thoughtful, intelligent and analytical in private become fiery, antagonistic and uncompromising while debating at the Yale Political Union or in other public spheres. And as a result, campus discourse basically amounts to creating and destroying caricatures of ideas we don’t agree with and preaching to our own ideological team.

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Lessons from a pizza maker I

often joke with my peers that if my friendship with Kadir Catalbasoglu were a course at Yale, it would be called, “LIFE 101/PIZZA 900” and titled, “The intersection of wood fired pizza, small business ownership, community relations and Turkish studies.” It would be cross-listed in at least a half-dozen different departments, including Modern Middle East Studies, Economics, Psychology, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Political Science and American Studies.

But truth be told, I’ve learned as much or more from Kadir, the founder and owner of New Haven’s Pizza at the Brick Oven on the corner of Howe and Elm streets, than I have from any class I’ve attended. Don’t get me wrong — I feel incredibly grateful to have learned from extraordinary teachers at Yale and throughout my upbringing. But, I’m not talking here about that type of learning. I’m referring to the education you receive outside of class. Learning about life.

Learning about how to be a citizen, a father, a business owner and, most importantly, a friend.

Above all, Kadir has taught me what it means to be, to use the Yiddish word, a “mensch,” a person of integrity.

The restaurant goes by a hand-

ful of names around the city, depending on the crowd. Those of us regulars who live in the neighborhood call it “PATBO,” or Pizza at the Brick Oven. To others, it’s “The Brick” or “Brick Oven.” Many just know it as the place with a massive pile of chunk wood sitting in its parking lot, ready to be loaded into the fire.

To me, this is the place where I’ve gotten to know one of my closest friends and teachers. I vividly remember the first time I met Kadir as a freshman. I’d been on campus for a few days, and some friends and I headed over to grab a late-night slice. I could feel Kadir’s warmth as he greeted me with his well-known opener, “How are you brother, what can I do for you? What’s your name?”

I introduced myself, and without hesitation, Kadir told me that he remembered my older brother, a Yale alum. Kadir is the unofficial “Mayor of Howe.” He knows everyone.

That first time I went to Brick Oven was the only time I came just for pizza. Over the last three and a half years, I’ve been in at all hours, hungry or not. I’ve talked with Kadir about politics, business and religion. I’ve gotten to hear his remarkable story, an American Dream tale in

motion: coming to the U.S. as a new immigrant, raising a family and trying to get a small business off the ground, all at the same time. I’ve introduced Kadir to my friends and family and gotten to know his as well. After moving to an apartment a block away before my junior year, I started coming in more and more. I help him behind the counter, take orders and make some pies, too. I’ve gotten to know Kadir’s employees, and they are now close friends as well. Carlos is the wizard of the brick oven who runs at least five miles every day before work, and effortlessly bakes dozens of pizzas at a time.

Abdul, who helps deliver orders, arrived a little over a year ago from Afghanistan after escaping violent run-ins with the Taliban. Today, Abdul speaks perfect English and has mastered every task at the restaurant. He’s taught me some Farsi, too. As for Kadir’s family, I was in the restaurant celebrating with him just an hour after his son Hacibey was accepted to Yale last spring; I’ll never forget Kadir’s tears of joy.

It may sound crazy to some that my friendship with Kadir has been an absolute highlight of my time at Yale.

But, I’d like to let my experience serve as a challenge to all of

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us on campus. The opportunities within the walls of our colleges and academic buildings are abundant. I promise you, though, that if you also seek out learning experiences that can only be found outside of the confines of the University, you’ll be amply rewarded. Get to know a local business owner. Volunteer at a community institution. Teach or mentor local high school students. Learn about this city and those who make it tick.

I’ve found the reward to be great.

When I graduate, I’ll look through my Instagram profile and see endless pictures captioned #rafiandkadir. From the flour-dusted counter of Brick Oven where I recently made a veggie-soy-bacon-and-kale pizza for Kadir and staff, to the backyard of his home in Hamden where we celebrated Hacibey’s Yale admission over a delicious Turkish breakfast, to celebrating my 22nd birthday with friends at the picnic tables in the Brick Oven parking lot, my memories are endless.

Thank you, Kadir, for the years of friendship, and the lessons you’ve taught me along the way.

RAFI BILDNER is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at rafi.bildner@yale.edu .

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I’m sure that this lack of nuance isn’t due to malice. Many Yalies participate in fiercely competitive activities that require choosing sides and end up working in competitive industries that similarly demand an ideological loyalty. Our public discourse is likely shaped partially by this mentality that we share. It certainly doesn’t help that many of us are products of the American high school system, one that teaches students about the importance of forming “strong” theses in essays and making clear arguments — even if those arguments lack any acknowledgement of the other side. In essence, we reward rhetoric over reason.

Certainly for me, shutting off the urge to pick a side in an argument and stick to it is difficult, and I’m sure it’s the same for many others as well. But having the intellectual humility to stop and engage with unsavory arguments is incredibly important.

One of the greatest compliments we can pay to one another is to say, “You changed my mind.”

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Trump’s hostile takeover W

e are past Super Tuesday. After tremendous buildup by the national media, the 11 primaries that took place earlier this week added little clarity to an already convoluted presidential race. On the Democratic side, Hillary won seven states and Bernie won four. It was a good day for Clinton, but one that relied heavily on her much-touted “Southern firewall.” On the Republican side, Donald J. Trump won seven states, while Messrs. Cruz and Rubio garnered three and one apiece. Perhaps the only certain winner on Super Tuesday was the media industry, whose executives have delighted in soaring ratings.

For all their elections coverage, however, media outlets have largely neglected to address an important question about the GOP front-runner: What is Trump’s political ideology?

The familiar journalistic attacks on Trump usually come in some variety of, “Did he really just say that?” Liberal pundits typically accuse him of peddling phobias and -isms, whereas conservative pundits often object that he is not a real conservative. Neither attack

gets to the core of Trump's ideology. They address its implications rather than its premises.

To sincerely elevate political discourse, the journalistic corps must engage Trump on his own terms.

Trump’s ideology envisions countries as businesses in a competitive marketplace. In his view, America is a high-potential but underperforming asset.

Despite its excellent people and resources, America loses to its competitors because of mismanagement. At the root of this problem are American leaders, who Trump deems to be incompetent or “just stupid.” The governing class, as Trump would have it, is beholden to special interests, lacking in innate ability, and — in select cases — disloyal to the American enterprise.

For Trump, the solution to this problem is one that frequently arises in the corporate world: Fire the current managers and hire better ones. Trump’s essential pitch to voters is that he and his business partners — smart, loyal and not wanting for money — are the better managers. Under their stead, the United States would “beat” its competitors in trade, diplo-

macy and health care. It would earn back its rightful place in the marketplace of nations. This ideology seems to be resonating with Trump’s supporters, who are among the most steadfast in the primary electorate.

The conservative and liberal media have overlooked Trump’s ideology because he initially masked it with doctrinaire conservative policy stances. Yet Under the veneer of lower taxes, limited abortion and repealing Obamacare, Trump never adopted the conservative ideology of small government.

Indeed, Trumpism has more to do with smart government than small government. While the journalists focus their 24/7 coverage on his outlandish policy proposals, provocative language and interpersonal feuds, Trump spends the majority of his speeches outlining the premise that he and a few billionaire pals — notably Carl Icahn — would make better stewards of American interests than the current political-media elite. Unlike his policy stances, his ideology did not change when he entered the public arena.

Trump’s worldview poses a serious problem for the Repub-

lican Party, because it has nothing to do with conservatism.

Shaped by the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and President Ronald Reagan, the conservative movement fundamentally aims to shrink the federal government and restore power to the people. Government is the problem, conservatives hold, not its lackluster overseers.

Whether or not Trump wins the Republican nomination, the success of his candidacy has serious implications for the American political landscape. It demonstrates that many Americans care more about nationalist “winning” than they do about social conservatism, constitutional originalism, or global policing. The rise of Trump indicates that the Republican Party lacks ideological consensus. No matter who wins in November, it is clear that the GOP will have to contend with a new truth: the conservatism of its voters cannot be taken for granted. Republican voters may care more about America the business than America the nation.

ZACH YOUNG is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at zachary.young@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY FORUM: SUPER TUESDAY GUE ST COLUMNIST ELIOT LEVMORE

GUEST COLUMNIST M I T C H BA R R OWS

Strong leaders F

rank Samson’s 2013 study in Comparative Education Review purported to show that white adults put greater value on so-called “intangibles” in college admissions, after being told that Asian applicants’ test scores were superior to white students’. It is possible that leadership is a real quality and that admitting students based on leadership is reasonable. But it is more likely that we sometimes use “leadership” as a code word to mask racial preferences and a relative lack of qualifications.

Politicians, of course, latch onto these codes all the time. Donald Trump talks about making America strong again, and charges that his opponents are “wimpy” and “low-energy.”

In 2009, Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 spokesperson demanded in an email to The Atlantic that the magazine use the word “muscular” to describe one of Clinton’s speeches. Sure, Clinton convinced The Atlantic to unapologetically print propaganda as if it were objective reporting. But perhaps she is most like a student who feels forced to pad a resume to compete on intangibles: Don’t hate the player; hate the game.

A recent poll out of Quinnipiac Uni-

versity reports that two-thirds of Florida Republicans who say they want a “strong leader” support Trump.

Meanwhile, a quick Google search for “Obama Strong Leader” turns up Trump’s oft-cited praise of Vladimir Putin for being a stronger leader than Barack Obama. Indeed, Putin is a “stronger leader” than Barack Obama by some metrics. He is more eager to be photographed bare-chested. But I doubt many Americans or even Russians would actually have voted for Putin over Obama in an election. Even if Trump is as healthy and virile as his physician claims, raw stage presence does not a good president make. Trump talks a big game — but politics is about action, not just words.

Presidents should be intelligent and compassionate. They should have a serious policy agenda, or at least a coherent direction for the country.

They should be honest and reliable.

Perhaps most importantly, they should appreciate dissenting opinions, even within their own cabinets. These are all strengths. A candidate’s ability to shout his or her plans loudly over the protests of other candidates — in English, simplified to the fourth- or sixth-

grade level — is not particularly important. But this kind of onstage bullying is exactly what primary debates showcase, and that is where nebulous claims about “strong leaders” originate. We think that a strong personality makes a strong leader, but in fact, personality only has so much to do with it.

REPUBLICAN VOTERS FACE A BRUTAL CHOICE — THERE ARE JUST NO PLAUSIBLE, CONCRETE AND WINNING PLANS ON THE RIGHT To the Republican voters’ credit, they face a brutal choice — there are just no plausible, concrete and winning plans on the right. The tax pro-

posals that have been floated are pure fiction. At best, certain groups can pray that Trump’s true intentions somewhat resemble what he proposes (they can’t be worse than Sen. Marco Rubio’s) and that he picks a good cabinet (actually plausible). But if those are the relevant facts, we should actually start trying to discover them.

It is a little bizarre that outsized attention has been paid to prospective presidents’ water drinking, urination and responses to hecklers. On the other hand, it is equally bizarre that so much coverage of Trump has focused on the language he uses to describe individual women and his popularity with white supremacists. Most developed countries vote for platforms; the United States seems increasingly distracted by personality. Do citizens really think that a candidate’s virility, crudeness, profanity or debating ability are central qualifications to govern? If so, we then we are well-informed and ready to vote.

But if not, then we have been focusing on the wrong things this election cycle.

ELIOT LEVMORE is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact him at eliot.levmore@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SCOT T REMER

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Don’t count Bernie out

ernie Sanders’ campaign has been outperforming all expectations and will continue to do so.

The Democratic nomination is still an open question.

To see why, let’s appreciate what Bernie has accomplished so far. He has faced tremendous obstacles: a massive lack of name recognition, an extraordinary deficit of corporate media coverage and an intransigent Democratic National Committee that refused to increase the number of primary debates. A December 2015 Tyndall Report showed an 81:1 ratio of Trumprelated coverage to Bernie-related coverage on ABC; Bernie won Time’s Person of the Year online vote, but Time’s editorial board refused to pick him.

Despite this, Bernie has drawn gigantic crowds to his rallies (28,000 in Portland and 27,500 in Los Angeles).

His pledges to refuse corporate contributions notwithstanding, Bernie has been wildly successful at fundraising.

His campaign raised $42.7 million from 1.4 million contributions in February alone, raising a stunning $6 million in the last day before Super Tuesday.

That’s far more than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, who only raised $30 million last month. As of Feb. 22, Bernie had raised almost $95 million from individual contributions; the average contribution was only around $30. He has garnered endorsements from nearly all progressive

groups that have allowed their membership to determine whom to endorse, with Bernie usually winning around 80 percent of the vote.

He fought the vaunted Clinton juggernaut to a near tie in Iowa, won New Hampshire by 22 percent and lost Nevada by only 5 percent after being down 20 percent just a few months ago.

And in the past week, Bernie received endorsements from big names: Robert Reich LAW ’73, Bill Clinton’s former labor secretary, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down from her position as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee to do so. All of this doesn’t sound like a campaign that’s losing momentum.

Now let’s turn to Super Tuesday’s results. Clinton won Southern states and won big — there’s no denying that.

But in its fixation on Clinton’s supposed “domination,” the media has conveniently forgotten that she was always expected to win the South. The more interesting story is the states Bernie won (or nearly won, in the case of Massachusetts). Where he won, Bernie prevailed by hefty margins: in Oklahoma by 10.4 percent, in Vermont by 72 percent, Colorado by almost 20 percent and in Minnesota by over 20 percent. In Massachusetts, he lost by around 1.5 percent, but he won voters making below $100,000 and won 41 percent of nonwhite voters. As of Wednesday night, with some delegates

outstanding, he won 334 delegates on Super Tuesday – a very respectable total.

Demographically, the states Bernie carried resemble the states that have yet to vote. Colorado and Minnesota are far more similar to Ohio, Illinois and Missouri than states like Alabama or Georgia. The Sanders coalition is diverse. Contrary to reports that paint Sanders supporters as all white men, Bernie beat Hillary among women in New Hampshire and Iowa, and he appeared to have tied her among Latinx voters in Nevada. Bernie has also excelled among demographics that will be key in the general election: young voters, first-time voters, independents, liberals and working-class voters.

It’s true that Hillary has received enormous support from AfricanAmericans across the South. Bernie’s difficulty with African-American voters is worrisome, and he must broaden his coalition and improve his racial justice platform. However, it’s also possible, as political theorist Corey Robin suggests, that this support reflects regional differences and a Southern African-American electorate that skewed older more than it does a deep, race-based difference in voting patterns. Time will tell.

With that caveat, the Sanders coalition looks good going forward. Bernie has won or nearly tied in six of the eight

states that are Democratic or swing states, while Clinton has prevailed primarily in states that vote Republican in general elections. After mid-March, the calendar becomes more favorable for Sanders, featuring states like Wisconsin, California, Arizona and Oregon.

Stories about Clinton’s momentum miss all of the above, and also ignore the following statistics: Clinton has won 596 pledged delegates. Bernie has won 399. That’s a gap of fewer than 200 delegates — not inconsiderable, but not insurmountable. There are 4,051 pledged delegates, meaning either candidate needs 2,026 to receive a majority. Over 75 percent of pledged delegates are still up for grabs. Clinton has racked up superdelegates, but the media has forgotten a crucial point in its rush to anoint her: superdelegates can change their minds at any time.

Not only can they switch to the candidate who wins the popular vote, but they must, unless they want to divide the Democratic Party.

It took Obama until June 3 to secure the nomination. Hillary didn’t concede until June 7. Reports of the Sanders campaign’s demise are premature.

We’ve got a long way to go before we have a nominee.

SCOTT REMER is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at scott.remer@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNISTS HALEY ADAMS AND DELANEY HERNDON

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s California Sen. Barbara Boxer recently expressed, we “think Bernie’s challenge was a positive thing” — with “was” being the operative word here. Don’t get us wrong, we like Bernie and appreciate all that he has added to the conversation. We are glad that he’s drawing attention to the excesses of Wall Street. But there is no doubt in our mind that Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 is not only the most qualified candidate to run this country, but also the candidate that most clearly represents our values. We are progressives, and as Hillary best put it, “progressives make progress.”

We, of course, like Hillary. But we recognize that it can be almost impossible to convince someone who has preconceived notions to “like” Hillary. The genius of the “She’s just not likable” criticism is that it’s an opinion no one can really question, grounded in “feelings and intuition” more than facts — and no one can “fact-check” your emotions. We will also probably only frustrate you more if we point out that sexism and insidious discomfort with female ambition probably underlie most of these criticisms. (Enough of that conversation for now— but do think about it.)

Instead, we ask you to think about your ideals — which Bernie’s supporters supposedly do often. The Sanders

It’s now inevitable camp has unfairly painted this primary as a contest between optimistic idealists and sellout cynics; the revolutionaries and the establishment cronies; a bright future and the status quo. But we need to stop pretending that Bernie has a monopoly on idealism. Clinton supporters are not ruthlessly pragmatic “hillarybots” — one or maybe both of us may have cried when she finally announced that she was running. When asked — as we often are — if Hillary “really inspires us?”, we answer with a wholehearted, emphatic YES. Even when facing what seem like insurmountable obstacles, we believe that she has what it takes to drive our country forward. While we are by no means voting for Hillary just because she is a woman, we do think having a female president would be, dare we say, revolutionary.

Our biggest problem with Bernie’s supporters’ appeal to ideals and claim that they are the only ones truly committed to the issues, is that, at some point, Sanders’ continued campaign actively hurts Clinton’s chances of winning the general election and continuing the progress of the last eight years. We know that the immediate response to this is that Clinton’s primary victory is not a foregone conclusion — but we tend to disagree. As of Super Tuesday, Clinton’s delegate

lead is bigger than Barack Obama’s was at any point in 2008. As a recent FiveThirtyEight article pointed out, “Sanders has won only in relatively small states where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the population.” Even in Massachusetts, a fairly homogenous state that borders Sanders’ home state, Hillary still won. Bernie supporters often point to 2008 as an example of upsetting the “inevitable candidate.” But at this point in the 2008 primary, Obama had more delegates than Clinton.

Undoubtedly, Sanders is doing better than most people would’ve imagined a socialist candidate could do in the United States. But doing “better than expected” is not winning.

So, as Sanders’ shot at winning the nomination fades, we ask you again — is your support of Sanders really aligned with your ideals and values?

This election isn’t just about where we want this country to go — it’s also about where we don’t want the country to go. Somewhere along the last eight months, Republican candidate Donald Trump went from being a punch line to an irritation to a very real and terrifying possibility. But, this isn’t to say the other GOP candidates are much better. While Sen. Marco Rubio may seem more palatable than Trump, he too has his own backward ideas; he is adamantly

opposed to reproductive choice, even in cases of rape or incest. The next president will likely nominate a judge who rules on matters like these.

If Bernie’s supporters are really voting based on their values, we challenge them to articulate which values they are fighting for. By prolonging the infighting and contributing to the unfair narrative surrounding Hillary’s candidacy, Sanders’ camp only increases the chances that we end up with a president who is unconcerned with the issues democratic voters care about: commitment to equal pay, slowing climate change, criminal justice reform — the list goes on.

The stakes are too high to prioritize personal affinity for a candidate over our progressive values. The longer the divisive infighting continues, the closer we inch toward a general election in which Democrats do not rally behind a candidate, and the GOP wins. We’re not telling you to get in line behind the establishment — we are just asking you to put your efforts where your ideals are.

HALEY ADAMS is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at haley.adams@yale.edu .

DELANEY HERNDON is a junior in Branford College. Contact her at delaney.herndon@yale.edu .

The revolution is dead T

uesday’s record Republican turnout and string of victories for Donald Trump should serve as a wake-up call to progressive activists. There is another “revolution” happening in America, and Sen. Bernie Sanders is not at the helm. For all the media hype, Trump was not the runaway winner of Super Tuesday. That trophy belongs to Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. The results signal that it is time for Bernie’s most ardent supporters to emerge from their social media echo chambers. The so-called “political revolution” is dead.

Bernie has underperformed in almost every contest thus far. It’s true that there is some favorable terrain for Sanders in the coming weeks, and we can expect the Vermont senator to tally up many more states.

But therein lies the problem: The Democratic nomination is not won by winning states; it is won by building coalitions and winning delegates.

Sanders seems not to have learned the lessons of his rival’s failed 2008 bid for the White House, when Barack Obama strategically siphoned away Clinton’s delegates in states where she was declared the winner and made up for his losses by steamrolling his opponent in places her campaign neglected. In the end it didn’t matter that she had won many of the delegate-rich states and the overall popular vote. After Tuesday, Sanders finds himself nearly 200 delegates and 1.3 million votes in the hole, and the next month of contests will probably widen that gap significantly.

Two months into primary season, most Sanders supporters look the same: liberal, white, young and male. Clinton, on the other hand, has built a strong, diverse coalition that reflects the makeup of both the Democratic Party and the United States more broadly.

African-Americans continue to vote for Clinton in unheard-of proportions. Results from southern Texas — specifically places like Hidalgo County, which went overwhelmingly for Clinton — dispel the myth that Sanders has made inroads in the Latino community.

Clinton consistently racks up large wins with moderate Democrats, and holds her own with liberals. All the talk of Clinton losing women was unfounded, as she easily dominated Sanders 2:1. Tuesday even showed that Sanders’ supposed advantage with “millennials” is largely confined to whites.

All of this is not to say that the party should coalesce around Secretary Clinton so soon.

Sanders has made her a far better candidate, pushing her to align with contemporary liberal politics in a way that probably would not have happened otherwise. It took several Sanders-induced evolutions of Clinton messaging to finally reach the now-resonating “breaking barriers” theme. Presidents keep their campaign promises more often than not. Hillary’s voters are blacker and browner than eight years ago, and this shows in her platform. If she is elected, Barack Obama would pass the torch to the most progressive president in history.

The senator’s fundraising prowess and ability to decisively win a handful of states will allow him to continue until June. Keeping Clinton on her toes will benefit her, the Democratic Party and Bernie himself. In his Vermont victory speech, Sanders told the adoring crowd, “This campaign is not just about electing the president. It is about transforming America.” If the senator wishes to carry out this mission, he has to start playing by (some of) the rules. That begins with not burning more bridges within the Democratic Party, an institution in which he very recently decided to claim membership and has few close allies.

By dialing down the character-assaultsby-insinuation and focusing solely on a positive and uplifting message, Sanders can continue to collect delegates without fracturing the party. When he arrives at the Democratic convention in July with a respectable number of delegates, he can heavily influence the party platform and raise his stature significantly. From there he would endorse Clinton and stump for both her and down-ballot Democrats, uniting the party just as Clinton did in 2008. This would set him up to be a powerful senator under a potential Clinton administration. More importantly, it would afford him the political capital to fashion the future of American progressive politics in his image. Out of the ashes of the revolution could rise better candidates and better messengers than Sanders, ready to take us in new and exciting directions. The value of this potential cannot be overstated.

In many ways, Sanders and his voters represent the future of the Democratic Party.

The revolution may be dead, but that need not always be so. The choices Sanders makes moving forward could determine the course of the general election and whether the support he has mustered will fizzle out or translate into a renewed progressive energy to take back Congress, state legislatures and eventually the Presidency.

MITCH BARROWS is a senior in Silliman College. Contact him at mitchell.barrows@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Mental health needs a great deal of attention.

It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ADAM ANT ENGLISH SINGER AND MUSICIAN

Montague expelled, father says BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 on the specifics of an individual’s status, as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prohibits educational institutions from releasing a student’s private academic records without the student’s prior written consent.

We’re trying to do things the gentleman’s way, so we’re keeping things close-knit.

JIM MONTAGUE Montague, who has not responded to requests for comment in over two weeks, could not be reached Thursday night.

His last public statement came on Feb. 17, when he told the News he was taking a “per-

sonal leave.”

On Monday, a week after Montague told the News he did not have a lawyer, a representative from the New Haven law firm Jacobs & Dow told the News that Jack Montague was a client at the firm. However, William Dow III ’63, a lawyer at the firm who has represented Yale students in the past, denied that the firm represents Montague to news organization Jezebel on Thursday.

Yale’s Undergraduate Regulations define an expulsion as a “permanent separation from the University” that will be recorded on the individual’s academic transcript. An expulsion may be imposed by either the Yale College Executive Committee or recommended by the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, according to the regulations.

The regulations do not state whether a student who has been expelled can be reinstated to the University. If a student with-

draws when facing pending disciplinary charges, the student is not eligible for reinstatement, re-enrollment or a Yale College degree.

Montague’s information was removed from Yale’s online directory and Yale Facebook

midweek. A student may elect to remove his or her information from the two databases.

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

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Montague last played for Yale on Feb. 6, the men’s basketball team’s 20th game of the 2015–16 season.

Teaching, admin responsibilities conflict

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Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti, who specializes in Latino Studies, can teach fewer courses because of his administrative duties.

ADMIN FROM PAGE 1 areas that are already understaffed.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who holds appointments in the History and African American Studies Departments, said that while there is now “far more” diversity in the University leadership than there has been in the past, that diversification can come at the expense of the undergraduate curriculum. “[Ezra Stiles Master and Latino Studies specialist] Stephen Pitti, Master Mary Lui and I are all involved in the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, so our administrative work is taking eight courses off the [required] load,” Holloway said. As dean, Holloway is exempt from the annual fourcourse teaching requirement, and as masters, Lui and Pitti are each generally exempt from two courses per year. “That’s a lot for people teaching in these related fields and is definitely an issue that has been brought up. But it’s a tricky situation.”

Even if Holloway wants to teach a course, despite his exemption, he is often unable to due to time constraints. Lui, who normally would also have a four-course load, is teaching two courses this academic year: the Asian-American history lecture last fall, and a class on urban history this semester for graduate students. Pitti is also teaching a reduced course load due to his mastership commitment and his position as the inaugural director of the

Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration.

Lui said the situation is particularly challenging for faculty members of color and professors teaching already understaffed or emerging areas of study, such as Asian American Studies.

“There is only so much time in the day and something has to be cut,” Lui said. “It is especially hard when you have someone like me and Stephen Pitti, who teach in areas where there is hardly anyone else teaching.”

This year, Yale hired English professor Sunny Xiang, who teaches a course in AsianAmerican literature, but students interested in the field have continued to call for more hires. Xiang’s class, a seminar capped at 18 students, was oversubscribed this semester.

For many of these faculty members, their current administrative roles are not their first, which means they have had to curtail their teaching responsibilities for a number of years. Beyond deanships and residential college masterships, diverse faculty members often have to take on administrative positions within their departments or programs, particularly in areas such as African American Studies, American Studies and ER&M. Prior to being appointed dean of Yale College, Holloway served as master of Calhoun College and chair of the African American Studies Department. Lui was formerly the

director of undergraduate studies and director of graduate studies for American Studies.

The administration has also continued to create new administrative positions, such as the deputy provost for faculty development and diversity position, currently held by anthropology professor Richard Bribiescas. Bribiescas, former chair of the Anthropology Department, has studied the health of indigenous populations in Ecuador.

“Every time you put people in a leadership position, its great, but it’s a trade-off,” Bribiescas said. “You want good mentors, faculty and administrators, but there is always a trade-off. For diverse faculty members, it is a labor of love.”

Faculty members interviewed agreed that with growing diversity among undergraduates, the academic void left by such administrative appointments has become more conspicuous. It also further highlights the significant gap between the diversity of the undergraduate population and the ladder faculty: 42 percent of Yale College students are of minority descent, compared to only 17 percent of Faculty of Arts and Sciences ladder faculty. Yet there appears to be no easy longterm solution to the problem.

Holloway said faculty members who hold administrative positions do not serve in these roles for life and most will eventually return to full-time teaching, which makes long-

term planning and replacement extremely challenging.

“It’s a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ situation,” Holloway said. “What if I decide I am done with the deanship and want to go back to my job as a professor? What if there is someone there to replace me already?”

FAS Dean Tamar Gendler said her office evaluates replacement teaching needs whenever faculty members take up administrative roles or go on leave. Departments make requests to the Teaching Resource Advisory Committee, and the group evaluates these requests and allocates funding to the departments to hire a suitable scholar to cover relevant courses. Lui said over the past years, the University has hired advanced graduate students and lectors to teach individual courses related to Asian-American history.

These courses have sometimes been covered, she said, but mostly in the very short-term.

But while stopgap hiring can work temporarily, some faculty members have called for a more long-term solution: simply making more permanent hires.

“A short-run solution is bring visitors who can teach perhaps a course but also mentor grad students,” History Department chair Naomi Lamoreaux said. “The only long-term solution is additional [faculty hiring] lines.”

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

Unique reinstatement challenges for intl. students REINSTATEMENT FROM PAGE 1 administration have to work on together.”

As part of his reinstatement application, Gao had to take two courses for credit and provide two letters of recommendation — including one from a psychiatrist — to indicate that he was ready to return. Fulfilling the academic requirement was “difficult,” Gao said, since academic institutions in China are not easily accessible and it took Gao many attempts to persuade the local university in Qingdao to grant him student status. Even then, because the academic calendar in China does not align with the American one, Gao missed the initial deadline to enroll in his local university by the time the necessary application materials reached him.

Beyond the differences between the Chinese and American academic systems, Gao also questioned the requirement of taking classes, especially for those who have withdrawn for mental health reasons.

He said he is not sure if he understands the rationale behind this requirement since it seems to be yet another burden for students suffering from mental illnesses.

Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker told the News in a February interview, however, that the requirement of two course credits “is not an obstacle but rather an avenue to returning to Yale with the best chance of success.”

Another international student who was reinstated this spring and who asked to remain anonymous said students have no option but to fulfill the requirements, onerous though they may be.

“Reinstatement is a game, and your ultimate goal is to be reinstated,” the student said.

Physician and sociology professor Nicholas Christakis — who is also master of Gao’s residential college, Silliman — said he can think of arguments both for and against the coursework requirement, but he believes it is important for the University to have an open conversation about the necessity of these two academic credits.

The University should accommodate the special circumstances of international students seeking reinstatement, Christakis added. One of the loudest student complaints with the reinstatement process has been that it is not tailored to individual students’ needs.

“Often [international students] return home to countries with very different systems.

There are all kinds of ways in which satisfying the coursework requirement can be especially demanding for international students,” he said. “My feeling is that there is flexibility in the system. I do think deans and mas-

ters and other bodies on campus have the ability to customize the reinstatement process.”

Pamela George, chair of the Committee on Reinstatement and assistant dean of academic affairs, did not return multiple requests for comment.

In addition to the academic requirement, Gao said, he also needed to seek treatment at a mental health institution and demonstrate that he was mentally stable. But in China, individuals with anxiety problems or mild depression do not visit mental health hospitals, he said, as these hospitals function more like asylums for people with aggressive symptoms. Gao was ultimately able to fulfill the medical treatment requirement because his father is acquainted with a psychiatrist in Qingdao who was willing to give him treatment for his specific conditions. Nevertheless, Gao said, this type of treatment for patients with mild symptoms like his was “unconventional” in China.

There are all kinds of ways in which satisfying the coursework requirement can be especially demanding for international students.

NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS Master, Silliman College Christakis said he knows there are many parts of the world where mental health infrastructure is wanting, though he added that he imagines the administration can find a way to address these issues.

Gao was notified of his successful reinstatement on Dec. 18. Even then the challenges of being an international student were not over: He had less than a month to apply for a visa to return to the United States this spring. Gao said he received his visa only a few days before his flight was scheduled to depart.

Despite these myriad challenges, international students who have withdrawn in the past emphasized that because there is no guarantee of reinstatement, they often hesitate to request special accommodations for their international status.

“If you’re in my position, do you want to explain the situation to the administration? If you’re already away, you’re really anxious about coming back,” Gao said. “Subtleties can’t be easily communicated via email or even phone.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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Chinese students seeking reinstatement must contend with a different academic calendar and weak mental health services.

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NEWS

“There’s two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.”

DARIUS RUCKER AMERICAN MUSICIAN

Ivy League football postseason still unlikely

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER After this past football season, No. 20 Harvard and No. 23 Dartmouth both finished ranked in the Football Championship Subdivision after winning a shared Ivy League championship with the University of Pennsylvania. Months later, three 2016 recruiting classes from the Ivy League were ranked in the top five out of 125 FCS programs by the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings.

But beyond these rankings, none of those schools currently get a chance to test their national competitiveness on the field.

The Ivy League is one of just three FCS conferences that does not participate in the annual NCAA Division I Football Championship, and it is the only league that does not take part in any postseason play. The Ancient Eight season lasts 10 weeks and ends in late November, more than a month before the FCS tournament finishes. A change in the system, which dates back to 1945 and would need to be agreed on by all eight Ivy League presidents, remains unlikely in the coming years.

“The Ivy League presidents are not interested in allowing participation [in] the NCAA Division I Football Championship for several reasons, including its potential impact on academics with a schedule that extends into December and early January,” Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris said. “[Ivy presidents] value Ivy League football as it currently exists and also believe the focus should be on the regular season in football, and that the traditions and the history of Ivy League football should be paramount.”

Harris’ point about academics is the main argument traditionally made for the lack of postseason play in Ivy League football.

Because December and January are finals period for most Ivy League institutions, joining the FCS playoff institutions could overlap with student-athletes’ studies.

Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett noted, however, that every other Ivy League sport at Yale sends its champion to a national postseason. The Yale men’s hockey team, for example, extended the end of its 2012–13 season from early March to April 13 when it won the first NCAA Tournament title in program history.

“All Ivy League coaches, athletic directors and team members, alums and fans would love to find a way to reward the regular-season league champion with a postseason championship experience,” Beckett wrote in an email to the News. “As a league, we must find a way to reward our champion in football as we do with every other Ivy League championship team.”

University President Peter Salovey, whose presidency is in its third year, said he has not been part of any discussions about a football postseason in the Ivy League.

As is the case at Yale, football is the only sport at Harvard that does not see postseason play.

Harvard football head coach Tim Murphy conceded that it is “not easy” to argue for a policy that makes football different from all other sports, but he added that unique opportunities in Ivy League football, such as playing in the historic Harvard–Yale game, exceed the experience of the FCS playoff. Previously, Murphy coached at the University of Maine, which participates in the FCS playoff.

Yale football head coach Tony Reno said although he often discusses the possibility of a postseason playoff, those decisions are out of the coaches’ control.

Similarly, Brown Director of Sports Publicity Christopher Humm said the subject has been brought up several times in the past, but that the decision of participating in the FCS playoffs is solely at the discretion of the eight Ivy League presidents.

Yale tight end Jackson Stallings ’17, who is a co-president of Yale’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, said the topic of introducing postseason play in football was discussed in a meeting with other Ivy League SAAC presidents on Feb. 14. The presidents decided to research the amount of support from coaches and players. The research is ongoing, Stallings said, and may influence potential SAAC action in the future.

“The Ivy League is not at a disadvantage among FCS conferences for not participating,” Stallings said. “But because the Ivy League routinely beats our out-of-conference opponents, it does leave room to speculate how our conference would compete given the opportunity to play for a National Championship.”

NCAA Associate Director of Public and Media Relations Christopher Radford declined to comment when asked if the nonparticipation of the Ivy League schools in the FCS playoff affected the subdivision.

Other alumni called attention to the idea of tradition, and said participating in postseason play would take away value from an Ivy League season whose format has remained the same for decades.

“As a traditionalist I enjoy the Yale season ending with Princeton and Harvard,” former football player Greg Hall ’77 said.

“The HYP games draw good crowds and often television audiences larger than any FCS playoff game. ESPN’s College Game Day came to Yale–Harvard two years ago, and The Game was broadcast nationally by NBC last year.”

But Stallings said the Ivy League has a “strong international brand” that could add value to the FCS playoff, both in talent and interest.

North Dakota State won the 2015 NCAA Division I Football Championship, marking the fifth consecutive year the Bison claimed the FCS title.

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

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The recruiting classes of Yale and Harvard were ranked first and fifth, respectively, in the entire FCS this offseason.

Yale students push for affirmative consent

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Yale students ventured to Hartford this week to testify in favor of a bill that would establish a “yes means yes” standard for sexual consent on the state’s college campuses.

Submitted to the General Assembly by Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, and Rep. Gregg Haddad, D-Mansfield, the bill would mandate that all colleges in the state adopt an “affirmative consent” standard to define sexual assault. Currently, only three colleges in the state use that standard. Yale is one of them, having instituted affirmative consent in 2011.

Roughly 10 students from Yale and other Connecticut universities testifying in favor of the bill Tuesday to the General Assembly’s Higher Education Committee said affirmative consent makes college campuses safer, but other citizens raised questions about the bill’s potential impact on students’ constitutional rights.

For Helen Price ’18, the director of Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale, the consequences of not having an affirmative consent standard are clear.

Her friends at British universities — most of which have no affirmative consent standard — grapple with a culture of sexual assault, she told the committee.

“Virtually all of my friends [at British universities] have had at least one sexual encounter where they weren’t willing and active participants — because they felt under pressure, they were worried their partner would turn hostile or for one of many other reasons,” Price said. “They did not say no, but they did not say yes either.”

Dasia Moore ’18, legislative coordinator for the Yale College Democrats, sat beside Price as she testified. Despite colleges’ illusion of safety, Moore said to the committee, they are in fact unsafe places where sexual assault occurs all too often.

Students Unite Now activist Hannah Schmitt ’18 described to the committee exactly what that lack of safety looks like on campus. She said that before she and her friends go to parties, they develop signals to indicate if they experience unwanted touching and need a way out. “[Affirmative consent] really does change campus climate,” Schmitt said. “Because of affirmative consent, I can have conversations where I learn not only how to be a better partner, but also to demand that other people be better partners for me.”

College Democrats of Connecticut Treasurer Nicholas Girard ’19, who also testified, framed the legislation as an “effective, common-sense” measure that would combat victim-blaming on campuses and create a culture more conducive to justice.

Moore noted that students often fail to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct out of a fear that the university will “mishandle” the case. She said passing the affirmative consent legislation would aid the cause of justice at colleges across the state and go a long way in addressing a culture that often fails to recognize sexual consent.

“Colleges come with many risks, academic and social,” Moore said. “Being assaulted should not be one of them.

Being denied justice after experiencing assault should not be

one of them.”

But others expressed less positive views about the affirmative consent bill. Wilton, Connecticut resident Shelley Dempsey spoke against the bill after being introduced by her representative, Rep. Gail Lavielle GRD ’81, R-Wilton.

Dempsey, an attorney involved with due-process advocacy group Families Advocating for Campus Equality, said a false accusation of sexual assault against her son, then a Bucknell University student, led to his suspension from the university. He was ultimately reinstated after he was cleared of the charge. She said his situation was only one among many and that the affirmative consent legislation would shift the legal balance away from the accused.

For Dempsey, the bill undermines “innocent before proven guilty,” which she said is the fundamental principal of American justice. Dempsey was not, however, opposed to the idea of affirmative consent on principle: she said affirmative consent can be an effective learning tool and should be taught on campuses like it is taught at Yale, but should not become a judicial standard.

“The language of this bill ensures that wrongful accusations will continue and the accused will be specifically deprived of the protections afforded to them under the U.S. Constitution,” Dempsey said.

“What the standard sets up is guilt before proving innocence.

That I find disgraceful, as an attorney as well. It upends our system of justice.”

But Flexer disagreed.

In a heated exchange with Dempsey, Flexer argued that statistics show one of every five

women will be a sexual assault victim on campus. That many of the perpetrators are repeat offenders only increases the need for the affirmative consent bill, she said.

Dempsey, however, called into question the often-cited one-in-five statistic, saying that the figure was based on a flawed 2007 study conducted by a team of researchers for the U.S. Department of Justice. She said the study’s results have recently been pedaled back by the department, which released a 2014 study that showed the rate of sexual assault sat at a rate of 6.1 assaulted students per 1,000 in the period from 1995 to 2013.

Flexer said Dempsey was reframing the debate in a way that was not conducive to solving the urgent problem of college sexual assault.

“It’s frustrating to be debating the criminal justice statistics on this issue when everyone in this room can recognize that there are clearly far too many young women in this state and across the country that are sexually assaulted on our college campuses,” Flexer said.

Flexer added that she had not found evidence of any college student ever having been sent to prison for a rape that had occurred on campus — a fact that she said suggests criminal proceedings are ineffective when it comes to campus rape, making higher standards for university proceedings more urgent.

The Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center is located at 55 Lock St. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Student groups consider effects of new colleges

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER At the start of every fall semester, thousands of Yale College students converge on Payne Whitney Gymnasium in search of new and exciting extracurricular activities.

Starting in the fall of 2017, those thousands will be joined by an additional 200 students annually after the opening of Yale’s two new residential colleges, making it more difficult for students to find membership opportunities and funding.

Currently, Yale has over 500 registered undergraduate student organizations. While some organizations are open to all undergraduates, others require students to undergo tough selection processes before joining. With the size of the student body set to significantly increase in the coming years, student organization leaders are considering how the uptick might affect the competitiveness of their organizations as well as the amount of funding and resources they receive from the University.

Yale UNICEF President Neha Anand ’17 said the increase in students at Yale will likely lead to an increase in students who want to get involved in Yale UNICEF, which may necessitate an expansion of the organization’s budget.

“I am sure that the new residential colleges will bring many more people interested in Yale UNICEF’s work and who want to get deeply involved,” Anand said. “However, if more people become involved in Yale UNICEF, we will probably host more events, and in this way our budgetary needs will increase.”

Most student organizations, including UNICEF, rely on funding from the Undergraduate Organizations Committee.

As the policy currently stands, groups are eligible for up to $400 per semester for administrative expenses. According to the UOC’s website, the UOC’s total operating budget is roughly $205,000 per annum and comprises funding from the Yale College Dean’s Office, the President’s Office and from the Student Activities Fee, which is $75 annually

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Students are concerned that it will be harder to gain membership into clubs after the opening of the new colleges. for all students.

Aparna Nathan ’17, UOC director and a former production and design editor for the News, said that although not all groups apply for the maximum amount of funding, group needs often exceed $400.

“As the groups’ sizes increase, their need for administrative funding will increase as well, and there will probably be new groups too,” Nathan said. “The increase in [the UOC’s] budget will need to be able to accommodate this growing need so that these groups can successfully serve an even larger Yale community.”

Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway, who is part of a working group for the new colleges, said he imagines there will be an increased demand for the creation of new student organizations simply because there will ultimately be 15 percent more undergraduates. He added that it is “possible” that the budget for funding for student organizations might increase given the strong potential that most organizations will increase in size as well.

Eugene Lim ’18, treasurer of Yale Outdoors — one of Yale’s largest student organizations, with around 200 new mem-

bers each year — said his group expects greater costs and more widespread participation with the introduction of the new colleges.

“Yale Outdoors will have to find a way to put out a more accessible set of trips with less capital,” Lim said. “For example, many of our trips are limited by a lack of cars, which is unlikely to improve due to the high cost of buying and maintaining cars. A larger membership will only increase the strain on this limitation. As such, we may have to put out walking-distance trips or day hikes if we are to reach out to a larger population.”

Still, other student organizations called to attention other areas in which they may need additional University support with an increased undergraduate pool.

Russell Cohen ’17, president of undergraduate film-production house Bulldog Productions, said the availability of film equipment already concerns his group and could become increasingly problematic. It can be difficult to reserve items for a given weekend due to the number of people who want to use them, Cohen said.

“Resources are spread pretty thin and an increase in students will augment the

problem,” Cohen said. “An investment by the University in cameras, sound kits and other gear would be greatly beneficial for filmmakers on campus, since, without them, there’s not much we can do.”

Reserving classrooms and meeting spaces might also be an issue for student organizations, President of Splash at Yale Rachel Lawrence ’16 said. She noted that the new colleges could potentially have spaces organizations can use, though the student body increase may still exceed that of the addition of physical meeting rooms.

Still, Lawrence said her group could still benefit from Yale College’s expansion.

“We are constantly in the process of trying to recruit enough teachers to satisfy the growing demand from middle and high school students for Splash classes, and the number of Yalies who decide to teach is our limiting factor in how many of those students can attend,” Lawrence said. “A larger student body could definitely help.”

The average student activities fee across the Ivy League is $159.57.

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“Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.”

ELIZABETH HOLMES AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMAN AND CEO OF THERANOS

Cultural centers to gain new assistant directors CENTERS FROM PAGE 1 Peter Salovey on Nov. 17 as part of the University’s efforts to work “Toward a Better Yale.”

Under the current structure, directors of the cultural centers must split their time between the centers and the Yale College Dean’s Office. Students interviewed said an assistant director will result in a more constant administrative presence at each of the centers. In February 2015, an external review board recommended the addition of increased financial and administrative resources to the cultural centers, citing deficiencies in their organizational structures. Howard said the new positions come partly in response to the recommendations that came out of last year’s review.

Saveena Dhall, an assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Asian American Cultural Center, wrote to the AACC community on Thursday celebrating the announcement.

“This is something we have been requesting for a very long time so this is welcome news,” she wrote on the AACC’s Facebook page. “You, and those before you, have been pushing for this increase in staffing so this is a joint victory for our community.”

Students affiliated with cultural centers expressed unanimous support for the creation of the position, and many said that because the current directors have to split their responsibilities between the centers and the Yale College Dean’s Office, they have

become overworked.

Alejandra Trujillo-Elizalde ’18, a student coordinator for La Casa Cultural, also said an assistant director will provide each center’s director with much needed support. Likewise, Haylee Kushi ’18, a house manager at the Native American Cultural Center, and Kodi Alvord ’17, who is the president of the NACC-affiliated performance group Blue Feather, said the recent expansion of the NACC’s programming has created the need for a fulltime administrator at the center.

Alvord added that a new assistant director will expand the NACC’s capacity to run events.

“We’re at a point where we have more events planned and run than ever before,” Alvord said.

Edward Dong ’17, a co-head coordinator for the AACC, said students do not see Dhall as much as they would like to, partly due to the fact that she has two offices: one at the center and one in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, on the other side of campus.

He added that he did not think an announcement like would come during his time at Yale.

Kyle Ranieri ’18, a house manager for the NACC, said the cultural centers have needed additional administrative support for some time.

“Currently, the full-time deans are also tasked with a huge amount of responsibilities,” he said. “The addition of an assistant director would allow the cultural centers to continue expanding and providing resources, and

most importantly they create a home away from home for many students.”

The creation of a permanent, full-time assistant directorship will also add institutional memory previously lacking at the AACC, as student leaders eventually graduate, said Jessica Liang ’17, the other student coordinator for the AACC. Pedro Regalado GRD ’20, a graduate assistant for La Casa, said he is most excited about the fact that the director will have more administrative support.

He added that he would like to see the assistant director focus on facilitating the vision of the director at the “ground level,” giving the director space to focus on broader initiatives.

“I think there are possibilities for what the full-time director can do for the [AACC] that we haven’t even been able to imagine,” Dong said.

Sukriti Mohan ’17 said she was excited about the new position, but she wondered whether the centers would also receive full-time mental-health professionals in the near future.

In Salovey’s November email, he promised the Yale community that professional counselors from Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling would work with cultural center deans to provide mental health services at each center.

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Each of the four cultural centers has begun a search for an assistant director.

Malloy halts YNHHS L+M affiliation

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Yale-New Haven Health System had operating revenues in excess of $3.4 billion in 2014.

YNHHS FROM PAGE 1 in the health care industry, it is critical that our state laws ensure that all hospitals continue to thrive, and the deck is not stacked in favor of fewer than a handful that dominate the marketplace,” Malloy said in the press release. “Fewer health care systems mean fewer choices for consumers and that can drastically affect both the quality of care and costs.”

Director of Communications and Marketing for L+M Hospital Michael O’Farrell told the News that in spite of the executive order, L+M remains committed to the proposed affiliation with YNHHS. In a press release from L+M, O’Farrell said the new affiliation would enhance the accessibility, efficiency and quality of care provided by their hospitals. He added that the affiliation would deliver sophisticated care across a wide spectrum of primary and specialty services. It further forms an integrated network to deliver health care for the entire Connecticut region. The affiliation will also make both hospitals capable of managing the changes associated with national health care reform initiatives, he added.

The executive order to postpone the decision was an “illadvised and unnecessary step,” because OHCA has the resources to decide on the affiliation now, O’Farrell said. He expressed frustration with the governor’s decision to postpone the affiliation, accusing Malloy’s administration of bringing about the very

conditions which have made the affiliation necessary.

“Federal health reform, Medicaid cuts, Medicare cuts and especially Connecticut’s notorious hospital tax are why many of our state’s community hospitals are not thriving and therefore have either already allied themselves — or need to ally themselves — with larger organizations in order to achieve scale, access capital and preserve access to locally available services,” O’Farrell said.

O’Farrell went on to note that in 2015, L+M will pay $18 million in hospital taxes to the state — resources he claimed would otherwise be used on technology updates, program development and facility improvements at the hospital.

Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Yale-New Haven Hospital Vin Petrini said YaleNew Haven also remains committed to the affiliation and that he believes the partnership will provide access to quality care in the most cost-efficient way possible for the hospitals. He added that the proposed relationship between the hospital systems is not a merger and that, as a result, each will retain its existing board.

“We do remain committed [to the affiliation],” Petrini said. “We recognize that this is best way to achieve efficiency and to drive high-quality care in the most effective way possible. It makes complete sense.”

Yale Medical Group Chief Medical Officer Ronald Vender said he was surprised by the governor’s decision, adding that the

process for evaluating proposals such as the affiliation between Yale-New Haven and L+M is well-defined and that the governor has intervened in an “unusual manner.”

Vender said the greatest impact will be felt by the hospitals because it is increasingly hard for smaller hospitals to remain financially viable. He added that while the governor appears to be strongly opposed to the expansion of YNHHS, he does not seem to be holding other hospitals in the state, including the Hartford HealthCare system, accountable in the same way.

“Hartford HealthCare is expanding into areas that have traditionally been aligned with Yale, Trinity has purchased St. Francis — and [is] attempting to purchase St. Mary’s — and Prospect is attempting to purchase [Eastern Connecticut Health Network] and Waterbury,” he said. “In addition, New York hospitals have moved into Fairfield County, Boston hospitals have moved into New London and Westchester, New York. All of these alliances, a number of which are with for-profit organizations, will clearly impact the referrals that are required to maintain the sophisticated tertiary and quaternary practices of [Yale Medical Group].”

The committee which will investigate the decision-making process behind hospital mergers and acquisitions will be chaired

by Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman.

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“Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.”

JIM LEACH AMERICAN POLITICIAN

Yale builds humanities outreach network said, adding that some institutions had independently created intra-University collaborations for students. Merson and Blancato then proceeded to create a database of NHPS students who have participated in these programs, similar to the one already in place for Pathways to Science.

The database tracks students from middle school to the completion of their college years, recording the University programs that they participate in over that time. By keeping tabs on student participation, the database serves as a central resource for University-affiliated individuals starting new humanities programs or NHPS officials looking to further engage their students in the arts, administrators said. Currently, the Arts & Humanities database lists over 550 students, while the Science database now contains over 1,000 names, Merson said.

For Raffaella Zanuttini, the director of undergraduate studies of the Linguistics Department, the support provided by Blancato and Merson enabled her to overcome the “major challenge” of not knowing how to reach Elm City students about the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad hosted by her department. In the two years that the department has held NACLO on campus, ONHSA’s outreach efforts not only have linked Zanuttini to relevant teachers and coordinators in local public schools, but also more directly to students who have expressed an interest in NACLO. Val-Jean Belton, the principal of the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School down-

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Administrators from the Office of New Haven and State Affairs have begun to craft a network knitting together the wide variety of arts and humanities programs for New Haven Public Schools students offered by the University.

The Pathways to the Arts & Humanities program, established last academic year, aims to help young scholars by linking them to various events and opportunities at the University. It is modeled after Pathways to Science, a gateway program which provides resources for about 1,000 middle and high school NHPS students interested in pursuing STEM careers.

The infrastructural initiative has begun to gain traction this semester, with ONHSA adding nine new programs and events to the 12 flagship programs already under the Arts & Humanities umbrella this year, according to Arts & Humanities Partnerships Coordinator Lynda Blancato.

Pathways to the Arts & Humanities provides logistical support for Yale-associated organizations, ranging from the School of Music to undergraduate groups like the Yale Children’s Theater, that run programs targeting local schoolchildren, Director of Public School Partnerships Claudia Merson said.

This infrastructure enables these groups to more easily reach their audiences, she added.

“The University as a whole is actually committed to being a good citizen and working with New Haven,” Merson said. “At the same time, faculty, under-

graduates and grad students have their own obligations and fulltime jobs. What we learned with STEM was that this kind of infrastructure makes it really easy for people to bring their content and bring richness they have without having to do a lot of the administrative work.”

Through Pathways, students who participate in one of the University’s programs can more readily discover and engage with other Yale programs, administrators said.

Associate Dean of the School of Music Michael Yaffe, who oversees programs such as the Music in the Schools Initiative and the Morse Summer Music Academy, said Pathways has enabled music program participants to learn about events in other disciplines. He added that last summer, the Morse Summer Music Academy attendees participated in activities at the Yale University Art Gallery through connections created by Pathways.

This set of extra resources that guide local students to other opportunities at the University is unique to Yale, Merson said, adding that most other universities lack this component in their programming for local students.

Merson’s department first began holding meetings in January 2014 to discuss the concept of a unified arts and humanities outreach initiative with representatives from branches of the University that already host programs on their own, such as the Yale Center for British Art and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. These “major players” were unanimous in their support of the concept, Blancato

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town, said both Merson and Blancato work closely with the school to involve students in programs such as the O’Neill Playwriting Program, which connects Yale School of Drama playwrights, undergraduates and Co-Op students to create original works each year.

“The benefits are great for our

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students because we’re an arts and performance school,” Belton said. “[The connection] gives them opportunities to explore other things, but also gives them the opportunity to see what’s going on in the Yale community and to be part of that community and that campus.”

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BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER In the hyper-competitive world of commerce on Broadway, the stakes are especially high for eateries with similar offerings, such as Tex-Mex staples Salsa Fresca and Tomatillo.

Tomatillo announced last month that it had extended its Thursday night hours from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and weekend hours to 3 a.m. — hours that match up with those of Salsa Fresca, which closes at 3 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Salsa Fresca opened its doors on 51 Broadway last May and joined Tomatillo, which opened on 320 Elm St. in June 2012, in providing Tex-Mex service-line food in the shopping district.

Though Tomatillo’s new late-night hours match those at the recently opened Salsa Fresca and Junzi Kitchen across the street, Tomatillo owner Moe Gad said his res-

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taurant was not reacting to the new competition. Gad said he decided to extend hours this year in response to student requests.

“About six weeks ago we began to do [late hours] again,” Gad said. “There was a need for it and students were asking why we weren’t open late because a lot of the students prefer our food to food across the street.”

During February, Salsa Fresca also made changes to attract more student patrons.

That month, the eatery began offering an entree, drink and side for $5. The offer is still available, but no longer late at night, as of the start of March.

Of 24 students interviewed, roughly half said they have gone to Salsa Fresca during the past month because of the deal.

Griffin Smilow ’18 said while he ventured to Salsa Fresca during February for the deal, in the future he will exclusively visit Tomatillo for its taste and proximity to Pierson, his resi-

dential college.

“For the last month I’ve been going to Salsa Fresca solely for the $5 deals,” Smilow said.

“Now that leap day has passed, I will no longer be making [my] way across Broadway to get my burrito bowls.”

In the past several years, New Haven has seen an influx of service-line foods, including Chipotle, Tikkaway and Pitaziki. Meanwhile, the opening and subsequent closing of several frozen yogurt shops in Downtown raised questions over whether sufficient demand exists in New Haven to sustain more than a few of certain niche restaurants.

Kosta Vastakis — the owner of the Educated Burgher, which was open in Salsa Fresca’s current location for 37 years before closing in 2014 — said the increase in restaurants and shops downtown made business difficult during his last year on Broadway.

Though Salsa Fresca and Tomatillo are close in proxim-

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ity with each other, they seem to benefit from sufficient student demand. Of the students interviewed, roughly threequarters said each eatery offers unique choices and have added welcome variety to their consumption patterns.

Like Gad, Renee Breer ’16 said students had asked for Tomatillo to offer late night hours like Salsa Fresca. She said she and many other students often buy food late into the night during the weekends because of schoolwork or social events. Breer would rather spend $10 at Tomatillo than at the nearby Good Nature Market, she said.

“I’ve been here for three years and [Tomatillo is] where we have been going for three and a half years,” Breer said.

“It’s where all of the memories are.”

Tomatillo opened in June 2012.

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Tomatillo is one of two Tex-Mex service-line restaurants in the Broadway area.

rently working on connecting the Beinecke and its upcoming exhibits to New Haven school librarians, who can then integrate that material in their work.

The Beinecke will reopen this fall.

For students searching for affordable, fresh and sustainably sourced food, a new resource has become available in the Elm City.

Actual Food — a New Havenbased same-day grocery delivery service — is on its way with a pilot program exclusively for Yale students starting next semester.

The service hopes to eradicate food deserts — geographical areas where inexpensive, nutritious food is difficult to access without a car — by stationing pickup kiosks in accessible local hubs and stocking them with grocery orders that can be collected the day they are ordered. The Actual Food online ordering platform will also function as a nutrition coach while providing consumers with the broad offerings of a farmers market and the familiarity of everyday store brands.

Actual Food founder Greg Grinberg told the News his company’s inaugural target consumer will be Yale graduate students since its kiosks will be located at on-campus graduate dormitories Helen Hadley Hall and E.S. Harkness Hall.

“Our highest aspiration is to be a lab of behavioral scientists and nutrition scientists working alongside hardware and software engineers singularly dedicated to reinventing grocery retail in the best possible way — in service of public health, the environment and social justice,” Grinberg said.

Actual Food specifically responds to what Grinberg described as a “public health crisis of unprecedented proportion,” in which the majority of chronic disease in the United States can be traced back to the food Americans consume. Grinberg said he does not view this as a failure of personal responsibility but, rather, a systemic failure through which the food retail system promotes the purchase of unhealthy food.

He noted that since 60 percent of the items Americans buy

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in grocery stores are impulse purchases, marketing strategies grocery stores employ have a huge impact on America’s diet.

Actual Food Director of Communications Elizabeth Beaucham said the company also provides an environmentally sustainable solution to the food desert epidemic.

Grinberg explained that since 3 percent of the world’s carbon footprint is caused by consumers driving to and from grocery stores, placing a competitive fresh-food store within walking distance of its core customers could help reduce this global footprint.

Beaucham explained that the pick-up kiosks cut the cost of individual deliveries and makes it cost effective for Actual Food to provide low-cost food in food deserts, which include many neighborhoods of New Haven.

Grinberg said his vision of 21st-century grocery retail involves free same-day grocery delivery to people from all socioeconomic backgrounds, specifically those in low-income communities or without cars.

New Haven resident Matthew House said he believes this program will appeal to Yale students since most do not have cars on campus and because it is difficult to find the time to make the trek to New Haven grocery stores.

Beaucham, also a resident of New Haven, explained how onerous it is to walk to and from local market Edge of the Woods, roughly a mile from central campus, with bags of groceries.

“Grocery services are good for bulk orders,” Jacob McAuliffe GRD ’17 said. “[Which is good for] grad students living in HHH — we have to make food for ourselves — as we come from different backgrounds and have different ideas of what food is.”

Actual Food has an online sign-up for students interested in taking part in their pilot program.

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“Nothing less than qualifying for the postseason will satisfy us. We have had disappointing endings the past two years when we just missed moving on.” JEFF KATZ MAYOR OF COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK

Opportunity to clinch share of Ivy title M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Big Green guard Miles Wright put Dartmouth up by two with eight seconds remaining in regulation, Mason took the ball up the court and sunk a pull-up jumper from the elbow to tie the game with 5.4 seconds on the clock.

Despite playing on an injured ankle for much of the second half and all of overtime, Mason went on to make all five of his free throws in the extra period to help seal the five-point win. For his efforts, the sophomore standout was awarded Ivy League Player of the Week for the second time this season. This time around, he shared the honor with Princeton forward Spencer Weisz.

Mason leads the Elis with 99 assists and ranks second on the team in scoring at 15.7 points per game, the most of any sophomore in the Ivy League.

Yale swept the Cornell– Columbia trip last year, a road trip generally regarded as the most demanding due to the 220plus miles that separate the two schools. With only 25 hours between the opening tipoffs at Cornell and at Columbia, fatigue can be a concern for the Bull-

dogs, especially with this being the sixth consecutive weekend of back-to-back Friday-Saturday contests.

“The only thing that we have done differently over the past few years is that we have practiced early on Thursday morning and left at 4 [p.m.] so we can get up to Cornell at a reasonable hour as opposed to getting there at midnight,” Jones said. “I am not certain if we will do that. We have also taken a sleeper bus from Cornell to Columbia as a way for our guys to get rested for the early start the next day.”

Cornell features a tandem of talented guards. Cornell freshman guard Matt Morgan has already surpassed the freshman single-season scoring record previously held by Brown’s Earl Hunt, who scored 460 points in 1999–2000. Morgan has scored 473 points with the final weekend of Ivy League play still remaining.

Morgan’s 18.9 points per game, which ranks first in the conference, just barely eclipses teammate Robert Hatter’s 17.9 points per game, which ranks second in the Ancient Eight. The two have combined to take 43.7 percent of Cornell’s shots from the field this

season, providing enough volume for the two to remain atop the league’s scoring charts.

In Yale’s 83–52 rout of Cornell earlier this season, the Bulldogs limited Hatter, who had just returned from an ankle injury that sidelined him for the first four games of conference play, to 1–9 shooting from the field. Morgan tallied a game-high 20 points on 7–16 shooting, though he was held to just six points in the second half of the lopsided affair.

Despite repeated full-court pressure from the Big Red, the Elis led wire-to-wire in a game where the team shot a combined 12–23 from behind the three-point line.

The 12 triples marked a season high for the Bulldogs.

In addition, the Elis more than doubled the Big Red on the boards, 56–22. While that margin is Yale’s largest of the year thus far, outrebounding its opponents has been a common theme for the Elis throughout the season.

The Bulldogs rank third in NCAA Division I basketball in rebounding margin, having outrebounded their opponents by an average of 10.8 boards per game.

Saturday’s contest figures to provide a tougher test, as Colum-

bia enters the weekend with Ivy championship hopes of its own.

The Lions, who have won 20 games for just the second time since 1970, are one game behind Yale and one half-game behind Princeton, with an opportunity to stake their own claim of the conference championship.

Columbia enters the game with a league-leading 277 made threepointers. Leading the perimeter-driven offense is senior guard Maodo Lo, who paces the team in three-point shots made and scoring, at 16.3 points per game.

Lo, who claimed last year’s scoring title after averaging 18.4 points per game, has been particularly effective against the Bulldogs, especially during the past two seasons. Earlier this year, Lo tallied 21 points, seven steals and six rebounds, while he posted games of 20 points and 18 points against the Bulldogs a year ago in two games that Yale and Columbia split.

Other key contributors for the Lions include Alex Rosenberg, at 14.2 points per game, and Grant Mullins, at 13.6 points per game, while guard Luke Petrasek is also scoring in double figures for the Lions, who rank second in the Ivy

Yale begins conference season W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 represented its strongest shooting performance of the season, as the Bulldogs needed

only 20 shots to defeat the Red Foxes. Attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 led the team with her third hat trick of the season, while attackers Hope Hanley

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Yale will look to improve upon last season’s 2–5 conference record, which included a 15–7 loss to Cornell.

’17 and Kiwi Comizio ’18 and midfielder Taryn Gallagher ’18 each contributed two goals.

On the defensive side of the field, goalie Sydney Marks ’18 made a career-high 10 saves on 18 Marist shots, including seven in the second half.

“I think in Marist our game plan really came together and allowed us to be successful,” McEvoy said. “We came out excited and determined and will definitely be bringing that energy and momentum to Cornell this weekend.”

Looking to start their Ivy season on a strong note and collect consecutive wins for the first time this season, the Bulldogs will need to bring their best to Ithaca to defeat Cornell, which has already proven its national competitiveness through two games.

The Big Red opened its 2016 campaign with a home victory against Villanova before taking down then-No. 19 Albany 9–5 on the road last weekend.

Junior attacker Amie Dickson, who led the team in scoring and was named to the AllIvy first team a season ago, netted three goals against Albany. Five other players

either scored or assisted for Cornell.

Playing at home in last season’s conference opener, the Bulldogs lost 15–7 to a similarly balanced Cornell attack, which outshot the Elis 32–22.

Though Yale owned more than half of the draw controls in that game, Cornell dominated the vast majority of statistical categories and rode an 8–3 first-half lead to victory.

Still, with just four games played out of the 15 on Yale’s schedule, a turnaround season for Yale in 2016 is still possible. And with a blank conference slate still ahead of the team, Marks remains confident.

“We’re just working on playing the game the way we know best — our way,” Marks said. “If we stick to that on Saturday, I really think we can come out of this game with a win.”

Yale’s game in Ithaca will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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League in scoring at 77.3 points per game.

Where Columbia struggled in its first meeting against the Bulldogs on Feb. 5 was the frontcourt.

Forward Justin Sears ’16, who currently ranks fourth in the conference in scoring with 16.7 points per game, scored 27 points and forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 registered a career-high 25 points in the victory.

“You’re not gonna stop [Sears],” Columbia head coach Kyle Smith said. “You don’t want to give him put-backs, tip-ins, dunks, or put him on the foul line … You gotta mix it up on him. Any good player will adjust to how you’re playing him if you have a steady rule … You’re playing with fire on whether you double him in certain situations, he’ll make you pay. You gotta respect him.”

The Bulldogs combined to make a season-best 61.5 percent of their shots from the field in a lights-out shooting performance that will be difficult to replicate in the unfriendly confines of Levien Gymnasium.

Yale enters having won five of its past six games, all without former captain Jack Montague ’16, whose last weekend of play

came against Columbia and Cornell. Without Montague, guard Anthony Dallier ’17 has stepped into the starting lineup, with guards Trey Phills ’19 and Khaliq Ghani ’16 coming off the bench in expanded roles.

Meanwhile, Mason has seen an uptick in minutes. After averaging 30.3 minutes per game in the first six games of Ivy League play, the point guard has averaged 36.8 minutes per contest in the six games since.

Offensively, the team has seen a dip in its three-point shooting efficiency. The Bulldogs shot 25 percent from deep, and made just 11 three-pointers, in its first four games without Montague, though they did make 11 last weekend, at a 31.4 percent clip.

Yale tips off in Ithaca at 6 p.m. on Friday and in New York City at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Both games will be available for streaming on the Ivy League Digital Network, and the Cornell game will also be broadcast on the American Sports Network.

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’Dogs versus ’Dogs at Bryant M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 Yale’s defense, meanwhile, has quickly proven itself a top unit nationally in the Elis’ first two games. Yale’s average of six goals allowed per game is now tied for fourth in the country. Yale has also caused 10 turnovers per game, good enough to put the team in a tie for third best nationally.

On the other end of the field, midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 noted that the Elis, who have received goals from 12 players through two games, will need another balanced attack this weekend. In last season’s contest against Bryant, Yale’s offensive stars all contributed, with attackman Ben Reeves ’18, attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 and midfielder Eric Scott ’17 each scoring three times.

“We try to play unselfish and stick to our menu, as we call it,” said Keasey, who scored twice against Maryland last week. “We let the ball do the work for us.”

That style of play may be important for Yale to beat Bryant goalie Gunnar Waldt, who was named the Northeast Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Week after his effort last weekend against Hartford. Waldt is averaging nearly 12 saves per game and is on the preseason

watch list for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the nation’s best collegiate lacrosse player.

In addition to that challenge, Yale will look to improve upon several facets of its game that the team struggled with last week.

The Elis won just three of 16 faceoffs in the Maryland game, and will be challenged at the faceoff X again this weekend against a Bryant team that has won 57 percent of its faceoffs on the year.

Ground balls were also an issue for the Bulldogs against Maryland, as Yale picked up only 13 of 46 ground balls.

Gaining possessions by picking up ground balls and winning faceoffs will help keep the ball out of the stick of attackmen such as James, who comes into the contest as the Northeast Conference Offensive Player of the Week.

“We need to improve on our ground ball play,” Bonacci said. “We take pride in being a tough team to beat off of the ground. It is still early in the season, and generally speaking we hope to get better as individuals and as a team each and every day.”

Saturday’s game will be played in Rhode Island at 1 p.m.

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Guard Meghan McIntyre ’17, who has knocked down 31.5 percent of her three-point attempts this season, has made 46 triples in 29 games.

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Yale defeated Maryland in front of over 3,000 spectators at Reese Stadium last Saturday.

which made just 21 of its 64 shot attempts.

Yale aims to replicate the Tigers’ defensive effort this weekend, as the Elis look to improve their defensive track record: The Bulldogs have allowed their opponents to shoot 41 percent from the floor, the second-highest rate in the Ancient Eight.

“We hope to be much better defensively than the last time we played Cornell and Columbia,” Wyckoff said. “We gave them both too many easy looks, so this time we will be even more prepared to stop them and keep them from getting into a rhythm offensively.”

Columbia’s sole Ivy win this season came against Yale in February. After taking an early firsthalf lead, the Bulldogs stumbled in the second half, allowing star Lion forward Camille Zimmerman to score 20 points in 20 minutes, including 2–2 shooting from the field and a 7–7 mark from the foul line in the third quarter. The Lions are also bolstered off the bench by junior forward Devon Roeper, who has

started just 4 games this season, yet still averages 10 points a game.

Columbia is also coming off two losses against the same pair of teams that Cornell played last weekend. The Lions gave the ball away a combined 34 times in those games and are particularly susceptible to turnovers in general, committing the most on average in the conference. They also have the worst defense in the league, allowing 67.6 points per game, a fact Wyckoff sees as an opportunity for the Elis.

“We need to keep being aggressive offensively because neither team can guard us oneon-one,” Wyckoff said.

Even with two wins this weekend, the Bulldogs will not be able to finish higher than their current ranking, sixth, in the Ivy League, as Cornell, which sits in fifth place, has a three-game advantage.

Tipoff against Cornell is at 7 p.m. on Friday. Saturday’s game against Columbia is Senior Night, and that will also begin at 7 p.m.

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BY LARSON HOLT John Jay Dining Hall currently composts all of its leftover organic waste, as well as the paper napkins and compostable cups it uses. But all waste from Ferris Booth Commons — less than 0.1 miles away — ends up in the trash.

The New York City Department of Sanitation’s small network of compost-compatible trucks has limited the growth of composting programs, even though a few Columbia buildings are already participating in pilot programs for citywide composting initiatives, according to Assistant Vice President for Environmental Stewardship Jessica Prata and Executive Director of Dining Vicki Dunn. “Everybody is full of good intentions, but I’m not sure the mechanisms are there to take the things we want to take away,�

Dunn said. “I think everybody is saying the same thing, but nobody is armed for the battle.�

One of these pilot programs began a year-and-a-half ago and takes place in John Jay Dining Hall.

After diners place their dishes onto a conveyor belt, dining staff feed food waste, napkins and paper cups into the Insinkerator garbage disposal machine, which turns waste into pulp and removes liquid from it. The pulp is then set out for streetside collection by the DSNY. The DSNY initially proposed that the university join the pilot program, according to Environmental Stewardship Operations Manager Helen Bielak. In an average week, the DSNY collects 6,500 pounds of food waste from John Jay Dining Hall by rerouting one of its public school pickup routes to John Jay. While Dunn acknowledged that the university and the DSNY have both expressed interest in expanding composting pickups, operational and infrastructure issues persist.

The prevalence of composting in John Jay is a stark contrast to food disposal practices in Ferris Booth Commons, where, despite using compostable dishware and recyclable cutlery, all waste ends up in the trash. Space constraints in Lerner Hall have prevented the installation of a dishwasher, and Department of Health regulations bar Columbia from transporting dirty dishes between buildings,

according to Dunn.

Because John Jay is the only dining hall that the DSNY COLUMBIA has included in its pilot program, the DSNY does not collect compost from any other dining hall or cafe on campus. In the meantime, Dunn hopes that the university — which currently produces 0.36 percent of New York City’s total waste, according to a 2014 report by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education — could address this shortfall by partnering with private waste management companies to transport waste to composting facilities.

Despite the potentially large cost of waste transportation, Dunn said she believes that it is Columbia Dining’s responsibility to take steps to protect the environment — the only matter is finding a company that is able to do it. “We’re not worried about cost, we’re worried about doing the right thing and composting items,�

Dunn said. “Cost is not a concern, because the ends will justify the means.�

Columbia Dining also reduces some of its waste by donating leftover food, appliances, furniture and dishes to Broadway Community Church, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and YES!Solutions, Inc., a nonprofit organization.

While the university has made strides toward sustainability in some dining facilities, undergraduate residence halls have not seen the same improvements.

Columbia University EcoReps, a student committee that works with Columbia Facilities and the Office of Environmental Stewardship to implement sustainability initiatives, tried to address the lack of composting in residence halls in 2012 by installing a composting machine — called the “Rocket� — in Ruggles Hall, which accepts vegetable scraps but no meat or dairy waste.

Pooja Kathail, the co-leader of EcoReps’ composting committee and a former associate photo editor for Spectator, said that the Rocket processes food waste collected in floor kitchens in Broad-

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Dining staff put food waste, napkins and paper cups into the Insinkerator garbage disposal machine, which turns waste into pulp.

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way and Schapiro Halls. Cleaning staff from Facilities empty a designated compost bin on each floor into the hall’s collection bin, which is then wheeled to Ruggles by committee members.

Previously, waste was also collected from Ruggles, but this was abandoned earlier in the year because Facilities does not clean the building’s suite-style kitchens. Two years ago, the group also tried composting leftover grounds from Joe Coffee, but transporting the waste from the Northwest Corner Building to Ruggles proved too challenging.

This semester, the Delta Gamma sorority also began bringing waste to the Rocket, which processes about 50 pounds of compost a month, according to Kathail.

Kathail said she believes that mindsets need to be changed in order to increase the success of the already existing composting programs on campus. “Having the bins and having the resources for people to compost is obviously necessary, but people’s willingness is I think the biggest barrier — having people in the mindset of composting as a normal or necessary step that they should take,� Kathail said. “I think with time, as the program expands within dining halls and residence halls, I think people will start to understand.�

Though composting in undergraduate residence halls has yet to expand beyond the Rocket, 17 of the 150 buildings owned by University Apartment Housing have joined the DSNY’s residential composting pilot program. In an average week, the DSNY collects 1,650 pounds of waste from these buildings. The largest of these catchments comes from UAH’s 398-unit building at 560 Riverside Drive, which produces roughly 434 pounds weekly.

According to Bielak, UAH buildings — which typically house graduate students and faculty — are better candidates for the DSNY’s pilot program because they have full kitchens and produce more waste than undergraduate residence halls. “Within each residence hall, is it a possibility? Maybe,� Bielak said. “There has to be enough for the city to come pick it up and enough people composting to do that.�

In the meantime, Bielak encourages students to compost food scraps at GrowNYC’s Greenmarket, which takes place Thursdays and Sundays on Broadway between 114th and 116th streets.

Prata hopes that the Columbia’s positive relationship with the DSNY will help the university take part in future expansions of composting routes, and plans to build composting into Environmental Stewardship’s long-term sustainability plans. “We’ve had a long-standing positive relationship with the DSNY — we’re in constant communication with them,� Prata said. “As they work out the kinks to expand throughout Manhattan and the other boroughs, we’ll be right at the table and ready to play.�

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Moshe Rosman was born in Chicago, USA and studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Columbia University. He has lived in Israel since 1979 where he teaches in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. In 2010 he served as the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor at Yale. Rosman specializes in the history of the Jews in the early modern period in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His books include: The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov; and How Jewish Is Jewish History?

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SPORTS YALE MEN’S HOCKEY IVY HONORS PILE UP With a total of six All-Ivy selections in the 2015–16 Ivy League postseason awards, the Bulldogs set a school record this season. Forward Joe Snively ’19 earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and head coach Keith Allain ’80 won Coach of the Year.

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League play begins at Cornell

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following a victory over Marist on Wednesday in New Haven, the Yale women’s lacrosse team will embark on its third road trip of the season this weekend, beginning Ivy League play against Cornell on Saturday.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Entering the weekend undefeated at Reese Stadium and winless on the road in their four nonconference games, the Bulldogs (2–2, 0–0 Ivy) will look to draw from their successes at home as

they take on an undefeated Cornell team (2–0, 0–0) that finished tied for third in the Ancient Eight last season. The matchup will be telling for the Elis, who finished sixth in the conference last season and are hoping to improve in 2016 under first-year head coach Erica LaGrow.

“We’re all super excited to start up in our Ivy League games,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said.

“They’re always extremely competitive because we always face these teams so there’s a history to the rivalry.”

Yale’s 11–8 win over Marist SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 8

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After playing in just three of Yale’s first nine Ivy League games, guard Trey Phills ’19 has seen consistent time off the bench in the past three.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS For the first time in 84 years, the Yale men’s basketball team capped off an undefeated season in the John J. Lee Amphitheater. For the first time in 108 years, the Bulldogs have won 20 games in back-to-back seasons. But it is a mark that has not fallen in 54 years — Yale advancing to the NCAA Tour-

nament — that the Bulldogs are most focused on accomplishing, with two critical steps toward that goal set for this weekend.

Yale (20–6, 11–1 Ivy) will have to take care of road contests versus Cornell (9–17, 2–10) and Columbia (20–9, 10–2), which, coupled with a Princeton loss in any of the Tigers’ remaining three games, would secure the Ivy title and the accompanying NCAA berth

for the Bulldogs, who currently sit a half-game ahead of Princeton. Should both Yale and Princeton win out to close their regular seasons, the teams will square off in a one-game playoff at Penn’s Palestra on March 12.

“I think this team has great confidence in themselves no matter what situation we are in,” Yale head coach James Jones said after last week’s game against Dartmouth. “No

Yale looks to close on high note

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the final weekend of the season, the Yale women’s basketball team hopes to end a disappointing 2015–16 campaign on a positive note by defeating Cornell and Columbia.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL For the seniors, these last two games will be particularly bittersweet as they end their college careers in front of a home crowd.

Yale (12–17, 3–9 Ivy) lost to Cornell (14–12, 6–6) and Columbia (12–15, 1–11) — the Ivy League’s fifth- and seventh-ranked teams — a month ago, but this weekend’s rematches may be more significant to the team’s graduating class.

“These games carry extra weight because it will be the last time I ever get to play with the group of girls that are my best friends at Yale. I’ve played basketball my entire life, so these games will mark the end of an era,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “My parents have only been to two games here, and none of my siblings have been to Yale. I’ll have my parents, three siblings and a few nieces and nephews here, so I am really excited to be able to play my last basketball game on our home court in front of them.”

Forward Nyasha Sarju ’16 shared the sentiment, adding that she was excited for the

matter what happens or what we face, we always feel like we have a chance to win and we are going to attack every game with that in mind.”

In last weekend’s games, the Bulldogs handled Harvard 59–50 on Friday, but they needed the heroics of point guard Makai Mason ’18 to overcome Dartmouth 76–71 in overtime on Saturday. After SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

A win over Cornell, which most recently defeated then-No. 19 Albany, would be a major step forward for the Bulldogs.

Elis put 2–0 start to test

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The No. 6 Yale men’s lacrosse team is off to a hot start after defeating UMass Lowell 17–7 and knocking off then-No. 4 Maryland 8–5. The Elis will look to keep the momentum going as they travel to Bryant this Saturday.

opportunity to “avenge prior losses” in front of family and friends.

The last time Yale played the Big Red, Cornell won by 11 points in a game in which junior forward Nia Marshall and junior guard Megan LeDuc combined for 38 points. Stopping Marshall will be imperative for the Bulldogs this weekend if they hope to take down Cornell. Marshall is the Ivy League’s most prolific offensive player, averaging 17 points per game and making 46.8 percent of her field goal attempts. Although the Bulldogs did narrowly win the rebound battle, grabbing five more offensive boards than Cornell in last month’s matchup, Yale failed to capitalize. The Bulldogs were outscored 13–5 in second-chance points and shot just 36.9 percent as a team.

Tamara Simpson ’18 and Meghan McIntyre ’17 will look to emulate the last meeting, as they matched Marshall and LeDuc with a combined 38 points.

The Cornell defense may also be stronger than its rank — sixth in the conference — suggests.

Last week, the Big Red upset Penn, which is tied for first in the conference and was previously undefeated in the Ivy League.

Despite the strong performance against the Quakers, the Big Red is coming off of a loss as it was defeated by 37 points against Princeton a day later. Princeton shut down Cornell’s offense,

Yale’s season has opened much the same way it did in 2015, when the Bulldogs took down Maryland — en route to a 5–0 start to the season — before posting just a 3–3 record in Ivy League play. With that history in mind, this year’s Elis (2–0, 0–0 Ivy) are making sure not to celebrate early season success.

“We need to keep the pedal to the metal,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “We beat Maryland at home last year in the second game of the season, and we thought we achieved something and took our foot off the gas. We must reset after every game.”

Quinn and his teammates will face a Bryant team (3–1, 0–0 NEC) that has shown offensive firepower in the early going, averaging 13.5 goals per game. Although the Bryant Bulldogs have yet to face a ranked opponent, the matchup should provide a formidable nonconference test for the Yale defense.

Bryant attackmen Tucker James and Shane Morrell are the central weapons in Bryant’s offense, having combined for 17 goals and 11 assists through four games. Last year in a 16–9 Eli win over Bryant, Morrell scored four times and James added another three.

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being arrested for carjacking at age 16, Betts spent eight years in prison, where he began reading and writing poetry. Since then, Betts has worked at bookstores, started reading clubs for African-American boys and is currently in his third year at Yale Law School. In addition to his memoir, he has published two books of poetry. WKND sat down with Betts last Tuesday to talk about people, places and what poetry might be reaching for.

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Q: What’s your favorite word?

Q: Why law school?

A: Aberration. It reminds me of how things are typically not what we might expect, and that if you always allow for the possibility that reality isn’t the rule, then 1) you can probably have a little bit more hope, and 2) you can probably have a little bit less bias.

I remember when I learned it. It was probably the first word that made me think differently about my life and how I frame it. This is like when I was 16 and I was in trouble, and somebody said that I should look at what happened to me as an aberration — not the incarceration and prison, but my own behavior. It stuck with me. And it gave me something to hold on to.

A: Sometimes a bunch of decisions just [leads] you to a place, and I had a bunch of decisions from my own crime to my own fascination with trying to understand the law and thinking of the law as the language of power. But also love of oldschool, Perry Mason TV shows.

Madlock. Mystery novels, always reading mystery novels.

I always did — still do, really — think of a lawyer as someone out to solve mysteries. Even if the mystery is just how to figure out a legal problem. I like to talk, too. Being a lawyer is a way to be both the center of attention and not the center of attention. It allows you to do the work that’s important and that places your voice at a premium, while at the same time doing it for someone else.

It’s like being a poet, in a weird way — the close attention to detail, the obsession over language, craft, rules. I write a lot of formal poems that have rules and help me think in different ways.

Q: How about a favorite legal term?

A: Res judicata. It means “the thing decided.” Which is so funny, because it’s such the opposite of aberration. I did a one-day fundraiser and started a pop-up bookstore, me and two classmates, and we named it “res judicata.” I thought it would be cool to name a popup bookstore that, because the thing that has already been decided is that literature is important.

Q: Have you tried incorporating legal language into your poetry?

A: Not as much as I might. I have before — or maybe not legal jargon as much as talkedabout legal ideas. Sentencing and culpability, things like that. It is a distinct language, and a technical language, but some of it sounds good because it’s Latin. Some of it has meaning, like res judicata, that won’t come up in a different way.

Imagine, you could write a love poem called “res judicata” and it would be pretty cool — yeah, actually I’m going to do that.

Imagine if love was a thing decided, especially when you think about how love … You gave me an idea for a poem.

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Q: I’ve read that you taught poetry in D.C. — what advice did you most want to impart on your students?

A: Read widely. One of the problems with the lack of diversity in literature, and the lack of diversity in books that people are taught, is that most young writers get exposed to literature and to their models through school. As a black writer, I’ve got to know Frost — I’m in institutions where if you don’t know Frost, you don’t know Shakespeare, you don’t know Milton, it’s a red flag. As a black writer, I also have to know Sonia Sanchez. I have to know Etheridge Knight. Lucille Clifton. Elizabeth Alexander. Agha Shahid Ali. Kazim Ali. Pablo Neruda. I have to have more of an expansive view of the world of literature, both contemporary and older writers. Piece of advice is to read widely, and to not let your reading be controlled or necessarily even dic-

tated by the institution where you go to school.

Q: I read this on the Internet, so you can tell me if it’s false, but you taught yourself Spanish for “a new way to see the world”?

What ways has Spanish done this for you?

Espada book made me think about that in a way I realized I hadn’t.

Q: Do you have a poem of yours that you most like to share at readings?

A: I did, though I can’t really speak in subjunctive and have a fourth-grade vocabulary. But I used to study five hours a day, and I had this textbook that was all in Spanish. I had to use the Spanish-English dictionary just to understand the directions for any given exercise.

And then because I thought I could lose the book at any given time, I wrote the whole book out by hand. Which gave me just another opportunity to think about the words and meanings of the words.

It helped me see the world in a different way because it forced me to relate to what it meant to really be ignorant, or illiterate. You forget that there are actually people who are illiterate and what that means.

So that was one way. Another way is something simple as how saying “te quiero” is both “I love you” and “I want you.”

A: I’ve been doing a lot of readings lately and it’s been a challenge, because I have to ask myself, “Is the book really good if you read the same three or four poems?” I bounce around now. Etheridge Knight said a poem’s really published when you read it aloud. But there are poems I like. The title poem, “Bastards of the Reagan Era.” I don’t get to read that a lot because it’s so long, and I usually just read sections of it.

And then it becomes like an old friend; I find myself reading a section I haven’t read in a while and I think, I actually like this.

That’s the good thing about doing public readings. I get to be reminded of that. If you don’t like the stuff you do, you shouldn’t do it. At some point everything becomes work, and we don’t get to take really random joy in this thing that you spent so long producing.

And the challenge is, how do you make it less work?

Q: Do you see poetry as an agent for social change?

Q: Do you remember the first time you did a reading?

A: I think poetry can be an agent for making us more aware. Poetry has an obligation to do something with the world that wasn’t done with it before that poem was written.

I just imagine what it would be like if poetry was one of those required classes growing up, and you just constantly had to memorize poems. Think about it: It’s like music, the way we carry songs around in our head. Poems help you reach for something that’s not obvious. Martin Espada. His new book is called “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.” It’s like, you have all these public defenders all over the country who lose all the time, representing clients who end up getting 20 or 30-year sentences — that

A: I do. I was so bad. It was at this bookstore called Sankofa in D.C., right across the street from Howard University. I have no idea what I read, but I remember being so nervous that my heart was jumping out of my chest. It was a nice feeling though. It’s easy to forget that — you get the opportunity to read at a bunch of places in front of different audiences, and you forget it actually is a privilege whenever someone says they want to hear what you’ve written, what it is you have to say.

I actually remember reading before that in prison, but that was the first one that wasn’t in prison.

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Q: What was it like when you shared in prison?

A: It was at an event, and I shared a poem. I thought the poem was okay, but it was still nerve-wracking. It wasn’t the same kind of nerve-wracking, though. I don’t know why — all kinds of reasons, maybe.

There was more than one person reading. And I remember people responded to one of the other poems — the other guy had a poem that was better … No, it wasn’t … I know this guy, I remember him. I haven’t thought about him in years. He has a life sentence. Which is really hard. But his poem was better than mine.

Q: Do you remember where you were when your first poem was published?

A: I was in prison, and I got a letter. I remember opening it and running around the block and jumping up and down.

And buying so many copies. It was called “A Different Route,” published in Poet Lore. It’s so interesting because the poem is about a father who has two children, and he’s visiting his old neighborhood, which was my old neighborhood, and he’s searching for the thing in his children that is missing in their eyes. I didn’t have children then, and I think that’s one way poetry allows you to think about worlds that are adjacent to the ones that you live in now.

This idea of loss, and this idea [of] being in prison, thinking about what it would mean for somebody to have children and feel that they’ve lost so much that they have to go back home to try to find that thing … But I was happy about the acceptance. I bought so many copies.

Q: Do you find yourself reading poems you wrote a long time ago? What goes through your head? I guess it depends on the poem …

A: Yeah, it depends on the poem, but sometimes it’s just the poem is an artifact. I used

to work at the prison kitchen, I used to be house man — the equivalent of a janitor in prison — and I would write on the back of my monthly pay stubs.

I’d be getting paid $24 a week.

And that work, I would usually buy books with it, and then I would be writing poems on the back …

Sometimes, I look at those older poems, and I’m just humbled that out of that came this. And I guess I’m appreciative of how tenacious, and maybe unwavering — how foolish I was. You can’t predict these things, right? The thing is, if you don’t do something — whether it’s poetry, or whatever — you end up not doing something else. But it’s so easy not to do something. So when I look at those early poems, most of them are bad. But I believe the writing of them was something important.

Q: Are you a writer that revises a lot?

A: The real fun is in revision.

To see that you’ve said something wrong, and be like “Wait, that’s not true.” It exposes you in a way that a lot of other things we do don’t necessarily expose us. There is at least some approximation of a right answer, and you could write a poem about anything and just be like “I missed it.”

You can be writing about anything — love, politics, children, power, Yale Law School — you write this stuff, and suddenly you think, I was wrong about a lot of what I said. I think it’s nice to be able to go back and get it right. Because when you talk, you can’t. You can apologize, but it’s already out in the air, you’ve said it, and depending on where you’ve said it, people will hold you to that forever. But a poem, at least you have an opportunity to keep going back, keep checking yourself, imagining that there is one right thing to say.

Contact FRANI O’TOOLE at frani.otoole@yale.edu .

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Q: It was great. What was your favorite clue from it?

or changing how I clue things. I’m trying to erase all those traditional standards from my mind, and I try to just make a product that is still a crossword puzzle but has been adapted to make it more intuitively understandable and exciting for the younger, online, millennial, hashtag-y, Buzzfeed audience.

A: I wrote it down a little bit ago, but I think the “yoga” one I was happy with.

Q: What has the response been like in the last few months since you’ve launched?

Q: [1-Across] Activity that’s for total posers? Yeah.

How far can you push the envelope of being raunchy or inappropriate in your puzzles? (e.g., 9-Across, “Where your poop comes out.” Answer: ANUS. 7-Down, “Unwanted release portraying some much-wanted releases.” Answer: SEXTAPE.)

A: This whole [project] is a process and an experiment, and I’m excited to be tinkering with this stuff. Buzzfeed’s a very experimental place in a bizarre way, in that as they’re tinkering around to crack that viral code, they’re willing to try any and everything.

And so, I’m going to keep doing crosswords until I find one that really sticks. I also tend to think that the measure of success for crosswords on Buzzfeed is going to be different from other posts because it requires more investment, more interaction.

There’s some weird Frankenstein-y combination of a quiz and a list — it’s like a bunch of quizzes smacked together in the form of a list. Now we’re doing this thing where we’re trying to have people sign up for a newsletter [that emails a crossword] to your inbox every morning, which I think is more up the alley of how people experience crosswords, wherein it’s more ritualistic than scrolling through Buzzfeed and finding things to click on. It’s more about a repeated experience that you know is going to happen every day.

Q: I just finished the “Lil Crossword You Should Try” that was posted at 7:30 this morning.

A: Did you have fun?

A: I have no standards of decency in my life. I try to carry it over to puzzles as much as possible, both because I think it’s funny to see, but also because I think if you look at an answer like that in the crossword, some of your preconceptions about what a crossword contains might be upended in a fun and surprising way as well. I like using vulgarity and stuff like that to let people know this is a different type of crossword, or at least trying to be.

Q: Is there anyone overseeing you at work drawing a line at any point?

A: Nope. No no no. [Laughs] They’re just interested in me making a successful puzzle, so however I think that is best done, they go with completely.

Q: I’ve tried doing the puzzles before — they’re hard!

Where do you find that balance of being relevant to your audience but also being challenging?

A: I would ideally like to make them less challenging. A lot of people do them, but a huge barrier is not even whether or not you know the answer to a clue, but whether or not you can get past the language of the clue to understand what it’s asking for.

I think what [trips] a lot of people up, especially people who’ve never solved crosswords before, is translating that weird clue language, which I’m trying to make more casual. I’m realizing it’s still a little hard for people.

Q: You talk about people who’ve never solved crosswords before solving yours — who is your audience?

A: I don’t know. I am slowly learning that, and it’s certainly been a learning process. We started off this year with New York Times-style, daily 15x15 puzzles.

The puzzles the Times does are big, and they have themes (three or more answers are tied together in a certain way). That was my only model for doing something like this. I commissioned a bunch of those, and people were just like, “This is too big. I don’t have enough time to do this. And also, I don’t really understand what’s going on with the clues.

And also, I don’t really like a theme. I don’t like having to figure something out on top of having to figure out the clues.” Which I totally understand.

That’s why I’ve been making these smaller ones that don’t really have a theme, and also trying to make the clue language a little more casual.

My audience, I would say, is some subsection of Buzzfeed’s audience, and I think a huge part of it is liberal arts college kind of people, a demographic that’s both young and on the Internet and would be into doing a crossword every day.

Q: You’ve talked about some of the differences between the crosswords Buzzfeed and the New York Times publishes, but are some other differences between editing crosswords at Buzzfeed and doing the same at somewhere more established?

A: The Times has a formula they have perfected over the course of 80 years, where they have a huge built-in audience of people who solve a puzzle either online, but mostly on paper, and they have this huge reputation. They’re interested in maintenance and slow progress — adapting the formula for the Internet age but also retaining their massive fan base of dedicated solvers.

My job is to make a puzzle that doesn’t have that. I have no restrictions on what I can do. My only objective is to get people on Buzzfeed to solve this crossword. It’s very general, but it’s also a little more exciting to me because I get to figure out how the crossword translates to the digital age without any sort of standards to uphold. I have no audience who’s going to get really mad if I start making smaller puzzles or making different types of puzzles

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Q: Is there any one particular puzzle or clue you’ve been proud of lately?

A: Yesterday I did a puzzle — it didn’t do very well on Buzzfeed, but I was very excited about it. It was from the perspective of Kanye West, so all the clues were in his voice, and some of the answers were related to him. I thought it was really fun and I thought people would like it more.

Q: Were you inspired by his new album?

A: And his tweets. He’s a celebrity who has a really distinct voice that people respond to and is easy to parody in text, not even speech, because his Twitter is so iconic.

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aleb Madison ’15 is a young gun in the world of crossword constructors and solvers. Madison, once an assistant of the New York Times

puzzle editor Will Shortz, has run dozens of puzzles

Q: Where else are you getting inspiration from lately?

for the Times. Now, Madison has moved on to greener

A: Buzzfeed has made their success on seeing what works and transferring that into other forms. So, [I’m] trolling the Buzzfeed page, looking for how a puzzle can be framed, but also I love weird pop culture words and slang. I’m trying to think of what was in the one today — GUY FIERI, SEXTAPE — I just like frank things that you would balk at and be like, “How is that in the crossword?” I think that’s a funny reaction. I like that crosswords have a reputation for being old and crusty and it gives me a lot of room to be like, “No, fuck you.”

fields: He’s been Buzzfeed’s puzzles editor for less than

Q: What’s the weirdest or worst reaction to the Buzzfeed crossword you’ve received? Or most memorable.

a good puzzle for millennials, Twitter harassment and

a year, but has already published crosswords with titles like “How Many Kardashian Sisters Can You Find In This Mini Crossword?” and “Swiper Start Swiping: Finally, a crossword as superficial as #millennial dating culture.” WKND spoke with Madison on what makes Guy Fieri.

A: They’re really not very creative. They’re usually, like, “I hate this.” Or, they’ll [reference] a clue and say, “Seriously, Buzzfeed?” And a classic one they do for every Buzzfeed post, because a lot of the Buzzfeed posts seem casual and easy to do: “Someone’s getting paid for this at Buzzfeed? Wow.” And I’m like, “Yeah, someone is. It’s me. Just relax.”

Q: Where do you see Buzzfeed Puzzles in a year? Or yourself in a year?

A: In a year, I see Buzzfeed Puzzles on every neon sign in Times Square. No one can really look up, everyone’s super invested in doing these puzzles, people are bumping into each other, I not only have one app but I have seven apps — one for every type of puzzle I can do. And myself? Kind of just King of Manhattan, I guess, in that world. I’m a humble man. But honestly, I have no fucking idea. One thing about post-grad is that you have to take it a day at a time, which I’m kind of enjoying.

Q: Do you feel like you’ve gotten a bigger Twitter following?

“I like that crosswords have a reputation for being old and crusty and it gives me a lot of room to be like, ‘No, fuck you.’’’

A: If a puzzle’s a little late one morning, people tend to harass me on Twitter.

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

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LOVE LIKE THE MOVIES: GEORGE CHAUNCEY & RON GREGG ON LIFE & WORK AT YALE // BY NATALINA LOPEZ

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eorge Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89 teaches the always-popular “U.S. Lesbian and Gay History” lecture and has testified in 25

gay rights court cases, including five that reached

the Supreme Court. Ronald Gregg is a beloved Film & Media Studies and American Studies professor and the programming director for the Whitney Humanities Center. They have been together for nearly 20 years, and have taught at Yale for 10. WKND joined them in their residential fellows’ apartment in Berkeley — a bright, cozy space decked with travel memorabilia and modern furnishings — to talk about married life and adventures, Yale’s campus climate and their respective academic fields.

Q: Given that you both are professors here, how does your respective academic work influence each other, and have there ever been any huge debates over specific issues?

RG: No, I think we’re both separate enough. I’m in film, and George is a 20th-century historian. We overlap sometimes, when we’re talking about film and theater culture.

But I think most of the time we’re helping each other out with particular lacks. But, [for a film’s] historical context, I really depend upon George to give me a depth to that history.

GC: He said it all. It’s actually very fun when we see an old film together. He knows much more about the cinematic context, and I’m always reading it through a cultural-history lens and its moment in history. It’s led to many great conversations.

Q: But you haven’t really gotten into a fight over a certain issue?

RG: I’d say no, actually. We go to a lot of theater, but we’re always interested in theater of a certain historical period, the 1950s. So no, I think it’s more of a conversation in which we’re trying to grow in our understanding or response to something. I’m serious; I can’t think of a single film or theater production that we’ve argued about.

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GC: No, we’ve often had good conversations about it. But I feel like I’ve had a 22-year tutorial in film studies (laughter). And you with social history.

Q: If you were to throw a dinner party here, who is one ideal historical guest you would invite?

RG: Hmm, I guess it would be different people. Maybe we could agree on Judy Garland.

GC: Oh, I guess I would say James Baldwin …

RG: See, I told you we wouldn’t agree (laughter). And it wouldn’t be Judy Garland, for me. All the people I’m thinking of wouldn’t be good dinner guests: like Alfred Hitchcock.

Q: How often do you see each other here, and what is a normal day like for the both of you?

RG: Well, one of the wonderful things about living in a residential fellows’ apartment, in Berkeley, the center of campus, means everything we do on campus is so close, which both means that it’s a lot easier to get to class when you’re teaching and your office for a meeting. We definitely see more theater productions.

We have breakfast together in the mornings; we don’t go to the dining hall.

GC: And every lunch I have with a student in the dining hall. So we see each other on and off, and a lot of the time,

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we have dinner here.

Q: What would an ideal Sunday be for the both of you in New Haven?

RG: Sleep late, make breakfast, read the paper, take a walk, go to a theater or musical production in the evening?

GC: Take a walk, go to the art gallery and go to some special event. But in the end, we’d probably mostly stay home and do work. And we’d spend hours answering emails (laughter).

RG: That’s the harsh truth!

Q: I know you both led the Yale GALA trip to Cuba. Could you talk about that experience and what it was like traveling together?

GC: Well, of course, we travel together all the time. It’s something we really enjoy doing. So the alumni association arranges these trips where there are faculties that accompany the trip, and they lecture about where they are.

So this is the first trip organized by the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association, and it was to Cuba. Neither of us is a specialist about Cuba, but as a historian, I knew a fair amount about [the country], and I also had many Cuban and Cuban-American friends over the years, who put me in touch with all sorts of activists there. It was a fantastic trip.

RG: I knew a little bit more about Cuban film and some Cuban filmmakers, so I was able to build upon those contacts.

So I was able to invite them to come speak to the class … It really was a fantastic trip. We were in Havana the whole time except for one day.

Q: You [Chauncey] played a huge role in spearheading LGBTQ activism when you were an undergraduate here. What do you think of the current state of things today at Yale?

GC: Well things have changed a lot since I was an undergraduate here in the ’70s and graduate student in the ’80s. So, I was here when the gay movement was really just beginning on campus. …

There was sort of everything to do in terms of setting up infrastructure, organizations and support groups, pushing for anti-discrimination clauses in the rules and creating more visibility on campus.

It’s hard to imagine now, but there were very few students that were out on campus, and quite a bit of everyday hostility. Those days, when we had events on campus, most of the posters were torn down within a day. So we’d have a poster every day to keep them up. So, it was just a different world in the ’70s, and it really only significantly opened up in the 1980s, when many more students became politically active, and there were a lot more conversations about it.

It was just a different era.

Q: [To Gregg] And when did you start incorporating many of the queer aspects

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RG: It started in the 1980s. My first teaching gig was at Duke, and the course was an introduction to queer cinema.

So right from the very beginning when I actually started teaching and designing my own syllabi.

be all sorts of financial and legal consequences.

That’s why winning the right to get married is so important. It’s not just the symbolic thing, though that is certainly important. It has profound legal and social consequences for people.

And by 20 years, we thought, OK, we’re probably going to stay together.

Q: How many students were in your class then?

Q: Do you have any other academic goals for the future, maybe beyond lecturing?

RG: Eight. So it was a very small class.

At that point, if the student took the class, they were gay or lesbian, and they were out, because no student would have wanted that on their academic record. So it was a very intimate, safe space. It was quite rich to start off with those types of seminars.

RG: Beyond retirement (laughter)? I think we’re both on spring break next year … no … sorry, spring sabbatical.

You can tell, I’m so ready for spring break (laughter). So, I mean, George will continue to work on his book, and I have a project. I’ve been teaching “Postwar Queer Avant-Garde Film,” a film course, and I’ve been thinking of pulling together the material that I’ve been collecting, the lectures that I’ve developed [and] the films that I’ve been screening, and putting together a proposal and maybe turning that into a book.

of film into your lectures, or was that something you had always done?

GC: That’s something that’s really striking to me, just the shifts in [the] demographic of students who take my lesbian and gay history course. When I started teaching at [the University of Chicago], 20 years ago, it was all lesbian and gay students, and then a few straight students, but they were mostly women, and all of the men were gay. Then when I came to Yale, a smaller number of straight men started taking it.

And now more than half of the students aren’t queer or identified in any way. It’s just a sign to me of how the world has changed. They would’ve been afraid to take it 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago, and it’s a wonderful thing.

Q: What is the best gift either of you has gotten the other?

RG: It’s funny, it’s really like so many small gifts that it kind of adds up.

GC: Building a home together.

RG: I like that. In fact, if you look around here, many of the things in here we bought together. So the conversation is the gift we’re giving together when we’re deciding what to buy. (Points out several paintings and artifacts from their travels.) Really, that is the moment.

Q: As one of the major testifiers in court around gay marriage, and 20 years of dating each other and living together, what finally encouraged you to solidify your bond in marriage a couple of years ago, after it had been legal in Connecticut since 2008?

GC: Right, so I did testify in a lot of the courts around gay marriage and antidiscrimination, but I wasn’t really thinking that we would get married at that point. But then I think our 20th anniversary was around the horizon, and we thought, why not? And I think it’s seriously also about getting older.

There are so many legal protections built into marriage for two people who live together. So, I realized that, if I were hit by a truck tomorrow, I would want there to be no question that Ron would have everything that we built together.

And if we weren’t married, there would

Q: Have you done a joint project together?

GC: We once taught a course together.

Q: When was that?

RG: That was two years ago.

GC: No, more like three or four. Time flies.

RG: OK, trusting his memory (laughter). And then you know this screening series. We’ve been working with a couple of graduate and undergraduate students here, but the lesbian filmmaker series — we did that. We also did a couple screening series in Chicago, when we were back at the University of Chicago, so we curated things together.

GC: Yeah, we’ve done film screenings and have organized conferences together. Mostly in film, actually.

Q: Is there a difference working at Yale in contrast to the University of Chicago?

GC: Well, I guess, in Chicago, the film series drew a lot more people from across the city. There were some people that came from New Haven, but it’s mostly Yale oriented. Chicago is just a larger city with a lot more universities and major art programs and museums, so it just drew a different audience.

RG: I find we’re teaching a lot more creative students at Yale. Maybe it shows in the number of theater productions that we go to or watching students’ films, having more artistic students in my courses and actually moving my courses to have a more creative component. I mean, there were creative students in Chicago, but not the number here: in music, art, film. That life wasn’t there in Chicago, and I love that about being here.

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

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WEEKEND ROYALS // COURTESY OF ROHAN NAIK

ENVIRONMENTALISM AND ARISTOCRACY: A ROYAL AFFAIR

// BY ROHAN NAIK

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KND chatted with the United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali al Nuaimi.

Known as the “Green Sheikh” for his work in sustainability, al Nuaimi shared his journey from the oil fields to the world of environmentalism.

Q: How did you get interested in environmentalism?

A: My level of engagement changed in different stages of my life. My father loves nature and he loves falcons. Nature, falcons and wildlife, that really took my attention. With this, my father didn’t just tell me what to do. I got really passionate about the link between the falconer and the falcon and nature. So when I saw my dad going to a hunting trip, I said, “I want to be like you.” He said “No, I’m a falconer but you will be different. You focus on your studies and you’ll have a different future.” He said “You’ll be the falcon yourself.” That’s an analogy for taking only what [you need], saving the environment, having courage and foresight. These values came to my life when I became mature.

Q: Was there a moment in your adolescence when you realized this might be your career?

A: I knew in high school I wanted to do something with the environment. I didn’t find the right specialty in the university, so I chose chemical and petroleum engineering, which has some relation. After university, I found myself [thinking], “Where can I work in oil and gas?” I thought [about being an] expert, but then I thought I should go beyond just working in the oil industry. I wanted to do something better, cleaner, healthier. So I changed.

Q: Do you see a contradiction between being in the oil industry and being an environmentalist?

A: You cannot do both. Sometimes you can, but you really have to choose between the two.

I chose to do something that is more protective.

Q: Do you feel at odds with your family who are very involved with oil production?

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A. No, some people like environmentalism, some people don’t and some have no comments.

But the government and the public, they know it’s my passion.

Q. What are the biggest challenges you’ve run into in working with the government?

A: Enforcing the law. This is still not being put in place. Still there are some gaps. Monetary fines and penalties are lacking; the law is not enforced.

Q. What does environmentalism in Arab states look like?

A: Protection of the protected areas. Conservation of wildlife; hunting is banned. Also introducing renewable energy into the country. There are some countries that are copying and trying to promote their cities from the UAE. Q: What types of initiatives do you have in place?

A: Blue Youth is an initiative that connects different schools in different countries so that they can produce the best practices and be aware about saving and protecting water from pollution and conflict. This was my idea to connect youth to climate change and water. I’m also working on environmental leadership, trying to have young people focus on sustainable leadership of sustainable entrepreneurship.

The best way is to coach these students and provide them with mentorship and show them the best practices on the ground.

Q. How do you specifically deal with water conservation?

A: For daily consumption, using the shower and showing people the quantity of water being used. Show them some examples of the quantity of water being used because water use is higher here than in other coun-

tries. I show them what I practice. People love to copy what you practice. If you tell them “do this, do that” they won’t follow.

They don’t like instructions but they like to do what others do.

For me, I take fewer showers, like 2 minutes long. Secondly, I try to minimize my use of water.

I turn off gardening, use a different water supply and minimize use of water in washing. All these small things make a difference.

Q: In addition to water conservation, what are other daily things people can do to conserve energy?

A: People can use energy more efficiently, like with lighting.

You can use a timer for lights.

Also, with air conditioning, it’s a huge use of energy. When you’re not home, turn the AC off and allow natural light to come in.

Q: How do you feel your advice has been received?

A: I am a good example and people respect me, so they see me and like to learn more from me. I don’t use a lot of force and am not strict. People don’t like strict, so I’m trying to be patient. I try to go slow. Some people like it and some don’t change. You know, it doesn’t frustrate me. What they do is their choice.

Q: Has there been a point that’s been very inspiring or validating for you?

A: Yes, when I give a talk and see people really change. I remember a long time ago in 1996 a kid came and asked me to define what “environment” means. He then got his Ph.D. in environmental studies. The definition changed his life and made him passionate.

Q: Movements advocating fossil fuel divestment have arisen on many campuses. Last April, 19

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students at Yale were arrested after holding a sit-in that advocated divestment. What are your thoughts on fossil fuel divestment and student efforts?

A: I think this is not the way to act. They should debate or make an intellectual discussion.

This is a fine and noble university and discussion of pros and cons is better. Creating a dialogue and lobbying and taking time is the best approach.

You don’t need to be polite, but you need to be aggressive not in terms of confrontation, but in terms of dialogue. You have to communicate, send letters and be persistent. All the students need to be really convinced. If the majority of students are interested, then the university will change.

Q: How has the environmental movement in the UAE expanded?

A: There, the leadership and public are interested. There is a movement from the top down and from the bottom up. All the government buildings need elite certification; there are many sustainable buildings and projects with solar panels. People have learned not to be dependent on oil, and they’ve begun to think about what happens after oil.

Q. Do you think people in the West have misconceptions about environmentalism in the Arab world?

A. Yes, they do. They think people are just interested in the oil and gas businesses. But there are many people with interest in the environment.

Q. Should the U.S. be dialoguing with Arab states on issues of sustainability?

A. Yes, I think it’s important.

They may have technology, policies or procedures and they should share. The U.S. is looking out for their interests; the

best thing is to establish a council that will really help both sides. This council could create an Arab-U.S. agreement on climate change, renewable energy or water resources. We need to grow young leaders on both sides because this is the future.

Q. What’s the best and worst part about being royal?

A. The best is when I serve people and talk to people. The worst is when the royal family is independent, when the people are isolated and away from their community. When [we’re] serving people and with the people, that’s the difference.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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hen Meg Urry got to Yale University in 2001, she became the first woman ever to receive tenure by the physics department

in Yale history. She went on to serve as Department Chair from 2007 to 2013 and as the director of the Yale Center for // COURTESY OF MEG URRY

Astronomy and Astrophysics, a position she continues to hold today. Outside of the university, she is the President of the American Astronomical Society. WKND sat down to talk with her not just about her passion for astronomy, but also her passion for gender equity in the sciences.

Q: What does your research focus on?

A: My research concerns supermassive black holes that are at the center of galaxies. We know now that pretty much every galaxy has a very massive black hole at its center, and almost certainly those black holes have grown over the many billions of years of the universe’s evolution.

The biggest black holes were formed early and they grew really fast and they stopped growing early, as well.

The smaller black holes are the ones that are growing now. What we’ve been doing for the last 15 years is surveying black holes to see when they grew and what they did to the galaxies around them.

Q: What value do you think there is in studying black holes?

A: Well, you could even ask a more cynical question: “What good is it?

Once you’ve learned this stuff, how did it help me?” because sometimes people ask that.

First of all, the search for knowledge itself — irrespective of what that knowledge could be used for to change people’s lives — is just a human imperative.

Beyond that, a lot of what we learn seems far removed from daily living on Earth, but there are many things in the past that came up serendipitously in research. This, too, has happened in astronomy: for example, the existence of dark energy was a sort of accidental discovery. It indicates that there is a huge piece of physics that we don’t understand: Most of the universe is made up of dark energy, and we didn’t know it existed until 1998.

And then the third thing is that astronomy is attractive to students and to the public. It unites us around common questions — how did we get to be here, where did we come from, how is it that the world works — these are universal questions that astronomy tries to address.

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Q: What inspired you to pursue astronomy in the first place?

A: Many of my colleagues were astronomers as kids, but I didn’t decide until I was almost done with college — I was a physics and math major. It was that summer job at the radio astronomy observatory: there were two things about it. One, it just boggled my mind that I could look at these tiny bits of light and figure out what was billions and billions of light years away — and it was also mindboggling that you could get paid to do that! And the second thing — I only realized this much, much later — is that compared to the physics departments I was in, astronomers were much cooler. They were very fun, they hung out together, they played volleyball — and there were more women. There were a lot more than in the physics department, where you were typically the only one.

Q: In addition to your work in astronomy, you also address gender equity in astronomy and science in general. What led you to take up this issue?

A: I was quite late in coming into this issue. When I was in college, I was the only woman physics major in my year, I was the only woman in my graduate school class. It was a time when women were breaking into everything, and I felt that it wasn’t that the system was broken, it was that there hadn’t been women wanting to [study physics]. Well, that was of course ridiculous, but that’s how I thought about it.

When I was a postdoc, I started noticing that women were not really getting the same kinds of things.

There was this cognitive dissonance because everybody told me that because of affirmative action everyone will be trying to hire me, and nobody was trying to hire me in particular — believe me, people were not bending over backwards to hire me.

And, once I was on the faculty, I could see how women were so discriminated against: It’s really shocking, actually. For example, you see a woman job candidate give a talk, and people would come out of the talk saying, “How much of that talk was her work?” And then a guy would give a talk, and they would come out of it saying, “That guy is just brilliant!”

The playing field for women and minorities is not level — they don’t have the same opportunities and advantages, and it is both unfair and very bad for science. Over the last 50 years, U.S. science in all fields has been homogenizing. We love to work with a graduate student who is just like us, so we’ve homogenized the thinking. You end up with a bunch of people who can’t come up with new ideas because they’re all the same person. In order to do good science, we need more different ways of approaching problems. If you are with people who agree with you all the time, it’s very pleasant, it’s very relaxing, but you don’t actually learn a lot because you all know the same things. When you’re with people you disagree with, it can be unpleasant, but things that you accepted as sort of obvious get challenged, and you learn.

Q: How have you tackled gender equity?

A: My first job was at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. By 1990, there were 60 faculty at this institute, and one of them was a woman. This was at a time when women had been getting at least 15 percent of the Ph.D.s, so I started saying that this is just not right. There were guys who were barely competent who were getting promoted and lionized. So, I organized a conference on women in astronomy — the first ever — and we had a two-day meeting and it

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changed the field. We wrote this manifesto called the Baltimore Charter. At the time it was seen as a totally radical document, and it started people thinking about the issue a lot more.

Nowadays, I give a lot of talks.

Everywhere I go, if I give a colloquium somewhere, I will ask if there a group that would be interested in meeting with me, a group of women in physics, and if they would like a talk about it. A lot of what I talk about is on unconscious bias: that’s the term for people having prejudices without realizing them. There’s a lot of data about it, there are a lot of experiments, so talking about that really goes over well with science audiences.

Q: If you could give some advice to young female scientists, what would it be?

A: I think number one is that you need to know that the playing field is not level and that it’s biased against you.

Everyone’s going to be telling you the opposite, they’re going to be telling you that you have an advantage over the guys and it’s not true. It’s very demoralizing if you don’t know that: If people tell you that you’re going to have every advantage and no evidence of that emerges then you’re going to think you’re a total failure!

A second piece of it has to do with confidence, for all the same reasons. Women constantly get checked where men get promoted. The best way to work on your confidence is to network with other women. Find a group where you feel really at home and comfortable and you can support each other and help each other because it may not be coming from somewhere else. In my experience, that networking among women has been the most powerful thing in helping women advance in science.

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

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ndrew J. Cohen ’99 wrote “Neighbors,” the 2014 blockbuster starring Zac Efron and Seth Rogen, and the upcoming “Neighbors 2” and “Mike and Dave

Need Wedding Dates.” He recently wrote and directed his first

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feature film, “The House,” starring Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell. Cohen sat down with WKND to discuss breaking into the industry, his directorial debut and issues of racism and sexism in Hollywood today.

// BY JACK BARRY

Q: How did you get started in the film industry?

A: I was always interested in making movies. When I was younger I would make home videos. My brother and I would film crazy stuff, like jumping off the roof, but I would do it three times in order to get different angles to cut together. Then at Yale, I was a film production major and I had to make a senior project. It was “The Tell-Tale Heart” but as a romantic comedy. I haven’t even shown it to my wife because it’s so embarrassingly bad.

After college, I was in Japan and I was going to teach English there.

Then I just had this sense that I had to go to L.A. I thought, “Everybody else is going to get started while I’m finding myself in Hokkaido.” I called up for a ryokan [a traditional Japanese inn] in Hokkaido, but they were booked so I thought, “I’m going to L.A.” I left that one up to fate.

I went to L.A. and started working at Creative Artists Agency, swimming with the sharks. It was awful but I learned a ton. It’s boot camp. I got so bored at that company that I wrote and directed a spec commercial, which means nobody paid me to write it. It was a cell phone commercial that took place at a funeral.

There was the sound of a phone ringing and everyone checked their phones. The priest opens the casket and there’s a ringing cell phone on the dead guy. He answers it and looks up to the heavens and says, “Hello?” The slogan was “Nokia: Take It with You.” So I made that and then I heard about Adrian Lyne [the director of “Fatal Attraction”] needing an assistant for “Unfaithful.” I heard he was [looking to] mentor someone, so I flew to New York. He heard I shot a commercial and asked if I had it with me and I said, “Yeah, I just so happened to bring it.” He watched it three times and he gave me notes and then hired me. He was awesome. I got to do really cool things on that movie, like help him change the script — I got some jokes in the movie. It was a really cool experience.

Q: How did you eventually transition to writing and producing your own material?

A: At first, I tried to write on my

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own. I went insane, there was so much pressure. All the studio executives said, “We want to option your script,” and I said, “I don’t have a script.” The really important lesson is that before you get out here, have three scripts in your satchel. Then I worked for Judd Apatow. I went from his assistant on “Anchorman” to producing the DVD for “Freaks and Geeks.” I never wanted to produce DVDs at all. I wanted to write and direct movies. But by producing DVDs, you learn backwards, so you see how they put together the show: just getting different lessons along the way and adding it up to something bigger. Then, he let me be an associate producer on “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Talladega Nights.”

Q: What exactly is an associate producer?

A: A lot of it is being a liaison between the director and all the departments. You’re helping oversee every aspect of production, but you don’t have actual power. You can’t be held responsible for any of the mistakes, but you don’t get the glory of a higher-up producer.

But, I really wanted to be a director. So I wrote something on spec.

I needed to direct something, and nobody ever lets you direct anything, so I knew I had to write it. In “The House,” Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler can’t afford college for their daughter so they start an underground casino. It starts out like “Step Brothers” and ends up like “Goodfellas.” I was able to pitch that script and pitch myself as the director. I had to do a presentation where I put Will’s face on Robert De Niro’s face in “Casino.” When Will saw it, he was in.

Previously, my partner and I had a great success getting Seth Rogen for “Neighbors.” I knew Seth from “Freaks and Geeks” and we kept pitching the idea that it was him against his neighbor who’s this young kid and he’s hot. We thought, “What if it’s Zac Efron?”

Seth said, “Should we just call Zac Efron?”

I said, “Yeah, you can call him.”

Literally the next day, Zac is in the trailer and we’re pitching to Zac. Seth is on one side of the table and Zac is on the other and it was super clear what the movie was. We had

great success in attaching people beforehand and then selling it to the town. But the writing was a means to an end. It’s weird. I started out at an agency and then became an associate producer and then a co-producer. I knew I had to write in order to direct. You never know what skill you’ll have to learn or break out first.

Q: How was directing your first feature film?

A: I loved it! There’s an energy that is on set that is infectious. When you know you have to do it now, it frees people in the coolest way. People working together and making those split-second decisions is really fun. I like solving those kinds of problems.

Because I had to write the screenplay on spec and pitch myself as the director, it forced me to previsualize and justify why I was the guy for the job. You have to put your money where your mouth is.

I had always directed along the way, but I had to put in my own money. That was one obstacle: no one wants to give you money to direct, so you have to invest. From a producer’s perspective, you’re the gatekeeper and you don’t want to put together a package that looks amateur or untested. You want that proven name. This is why Hollywood has a problem with sexism and racism. Everyone is going with who’s proven, and not who we should take a chance on. That’s the unfortunate aspect of Hollywood. Good producers, like Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, find the young, untapped writers who are trying to break in and then help them.

Now, I’m seeking other directors to work with. People think that unless you’ve [directed], you can’t do it.

There’s that mentality and it affects everybody. It certainly affects people of color and women.

Q: How do you think you or others in the film industry can help to change the lack of diversity?

A: As far as mentoring people, I think Judd made a conscious move and found female voices to sponsor. That’s a very cool thing to do. It moves the industry forward and it moves storytelling forward. There are so many other stories out there, and if other people are not seeing that, then the rest of us will go

find those stories and find the people who know how to tell them. Film can be a very open process that welcomes a lot of voices. It welcomes chaos. Shaking things up is the point.

With “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,” the title of the movie is sort of a joke. The wedding dates, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza, are the funny part of the movie. I think exploring complicated people is very fun and funny. People’s contradictions are what I really enjoy.

I think comedy is speaking truth to power. And it’s funnier to be true.

That’s the whole point of this. Adam McKay can make “Anchorman 2” and then make “The Big Short.” He was telling truth the whole time; he was just hiding it in buffoonery. Every one of those movies has a point.

I’m reading a lot of scripts, seeing who has what skills and who I would want to collaborate with. Developing movies usually takes at least a year to get your footing, so you just have to throw every ball in the air and juggle. I watched Judd do it and didn’t understand how he did it, but now I’m learning. I think the number one thing is to hire good people. Then you don’t have to worry. There’s a guy I’m working with now [whom] I literally met through Twitter. We realized we went to the same school, and I got to know him and a character he created. It’s fun to find people through strange channels because there’s a ton of stories out there. I’m also reaching out to people I admire and have wanted to work with.

Q: What kind of projects are you looking to do going forward?

A: I realized I really like doing suburban crime movies. “Neighbors” is vigilante justice. “The House” is starting an underground casino. I grew up in the suburbs, and I think I just keep going back to that well. I like David Lynch, so the corruption of innocence is an irresistible story.

And it’s funny too, but in a sick way.

That’s happening so much nowadays, it’s kind of the story we’re telling. If the world is falling apart, and the suburbs were supposed to be an answer, what happens when that falls apart?

Contact JACK BARRY at john.c.barry@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND ACTORS Q: Both of you began your careers very early.

Do you think your parents influenced your decision to go into the arts or did you push for it to happen?

JC: It was as simple as my parents saying yes. I asked if I could take a few dance lessons because my siblings had already tried it.

And being the competitive person that I am, I wanted to try it.

LCW: Yeah, my parents were so supportive. My mom suggested auditioning while I was dancing, and I sort of stuck with it.

Q: How did you guys get into performing?

LCW: I started at the Children’s Chorus at the Metropolitan Opera at 6, and it sort of evolved into doing voice-overs for Nickelodeon. Jobs just led to other [jobs].

JC: I did a show, this little play in elementary school.

I had like three lines, but — I don’t know — I discovered myself as an actor.

So I went out for community theater after that, and started doing plays.

Q: What is auditioning professionally like? Putting yourself on display for a board of adults must’ve been tough.

LCW: I mean, it’s kind of fun! Auditioning gets you out of yourself and your comfort zone. It’s pretty amazing in that sense.

What would you say?

sus when you’re auditioning for a Broadway show or film. You can joke around and stuff; it’s not just doing the script.

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JC: It’s like the opposite — [at Yale] whenever you say something, somebody snaps.

Q: How are auditioning professionally and auditioning at Yale different?

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LCW: I almost ended up on someone’s lap. I had to do an exit in the dark during a play, and I didn’t know where I was. The lights started to come up and I just started running, and suddenly there was [an audience member] there!

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JC: The entire first act of “Billy” … I had at most two minutes offstage. I realized in the second scene that I really had to … pee. I told my dresser during a quick change, and she said, “OK, we’ll figure something out.” There’s a scene when Billy is in the bathroom stall onstage, but it’s blocked off so nobody can see or hear him. I saw a cup in there with a note that said “This is for you” … and I used it. I didn’t think that I would finish in time to come out. All my lines were very slow and drawn out, stalling.

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When I get out of college, if I’m feeling confident, maybe I will.

LCW: I think because we’re all fellow students, [there’s so much more] camaraderie here ve r-

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Jacob Clemente ’19 and Lance ChantilesWertz ’19 both have IMDb pages. Clemente began dancing at the World of Dance at age 7, but he’s best known for his portrayal of Billy Elliot in Broadway’s “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

Wertz debuted at the Met on his seventh birthday. His filmography includes roles in “Pan Am,” “The Three Stooges” and “Go, Diego! Go.” Both have performed on “S.N.L.” and remain active in Yale’s arts scene. WKND sat down to chat about theater, love, life and the movies.

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Q: When you take on a character, how do you approach it?

How do you make your performance your own?

JC: In terms of distinguishing myself from the other Billys, I had certain skills that they didn’t have and they had certain skills that I didn’t have. A lot of them were far better than I was at ballet, and I had more of a tap background. To connect with the character of Billy, I read through the script several times before the first rehearsal and came up with the feelings that I thought he would have, even during the parts where he’s not onstage, when he’s in between going to the dance studio and his house. What is he thinking? How does that affect him going into the next scene? I tried to piece together what he was feeling.

LCW: Yeah, just coming from an organic position: trying to analyze what the character would be thinking, and relating that as much as possible with your experience as possible with the character. And if they’re a real person, paying respect [to who] that person was, and being true to them.

JC: A lot of it is easier if you can establish what the character wants from a scene. There has to be some sort of game.

That helps with a lot of character development.

Even interacting with other people — what is his meaning behind it?

Q: Are you guys embarrassed of having a career here? Are you confronted by it at all?

LCW: I never bring it up.

We never really bring it up. Somehow someone else finds out.

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JC: It’s very weird. Every audition process is a little different. It was weird to perform in front of a board that couldn’t show any emotion or approval at anything you were doing.

It was a silent audience.

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LCW: First and foremost, we’re both students at Yale.

Q: What’s your favorite thing about Yale?

JC: You can be an engineer or a math major, and at the same time be in a singing and acting group. You don’t have to major in it to be involved in it on campus.

LCW: One of the things I love about Yale is that you’re not pigeonholed into anything. I’ve always had this interest in technology and here I’m able to explore that.

You can be multifaceted.

Q: Growing up, being so involved in theater, did you feel a disconnect between your lives onstage and your lives at school?

LCW: I always felt like it was an extracurricular activity. It just happened to be in a professional environment. I guess the one thing it really made me appreciate was being around adults and seeing the responsibility they brought. You have to be prepared. It taught me to have a good work ethic — when someone gives you a responsibility, you have to fulfill it.

JC: Maturing faster.

You are being paid like an adult, you’re being treated like an adult, so you have to act like an adult.

Q: Do you get a lot of action because you’re so involved in performing?

LCW: I did have my first kiss on “Pan Am,” so that was cool. [Chantile-Wertz’s first kiss was with the beautiful Karine Vanasse. She was 26; he was 12. I promise it was cute.]

JC: My first kiss was a broom. [Jacob was joking; he jokes a lot. His first kiss was probably really attractive and nice and not a broom.]

JC: It’s like this separate life from what we’re doing here. There’s not

Contact AGNES ENKHTAMIR at

dulguun.enkhtamir@yale.

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he’s a Guggenheim Fellow and an ex-fact checker for the New Yorker. She’s the author of four novels, one of

which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. And she’s a Yale alumna,

currently back on campus to teach in the creative writing program. WKND sat down with Susan Choi ’90 to talk about authentic historical fiction, politics in art and her son’s opinions on picture books.

Q: What’s it like to experience Yale now as a professor instead of as a student?

A: It’s really interesting! I keep feeling surprised that I’m a professor because in certain ways, the time that I was a student seems really recent to me, and that’s largely because of being on the campus, I think. [It makes me remember] being here as a student, which is something that I haven’t thought about in a really long time. The memories are so vivid that it’s kind of a strange experience mentally and emotionally. The things that are different are mostly just [related to] the physical environment at Yale; each time I see [certain buildings] I just can’t believe that they’re not the way they used to be. But I’ve started to get used to it — after an entire semester. [laughs] I’m not still shocked by Bass Library or by the Silliman dining hall, like I’m used to it.

Q: Do you feel like the reason that humanities are so devalued in our current culture is a result of some fundamental problem with the way they’re being taught?

A: That’s a great question. I’m not even sure if I’m qualified to answer. I could never point to anything at Yale and say, “We’re devaluing literature, we’re devaluing art”; I don’t think that’s true. I think that if anything, creative writing is being taken more seriously than when I was a student. [There’s] more attention and more resources, and there are far more classes in creative writing available to students — I feel like there’s a greater willingness on the part of the English Department to view creative writing as an important aspect of broader English study. The creation of the Writing Concentration is one example of the way in which creative writing is valued much more highly than it used to be. When I was an undergraduate it was an incredible struggle to get into a creative-writing class just because there were so few of them. And they were definitely viewed as a marginal and not terribly serious activity, and were always going to take a back seat to more “serious” forms of literary endeavor. So in that sense I do think that it’s a great improvement; but I often feel that Yale is responding to changes in the culture. It’s really difficult to make a living these days, and when I was a student at Yale, we never gave as much thought — or at least I didn’t give it much thought and my friends didn’t give as much

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thought. Maybe it was just our feeling, but I just feel like there was this sort of student culture of “we’re not going to worry about making a living because college is a time to be a bohemian and make art and do cool stuff.” Now I think students are much more pragmatic, because they have to be, so it’s hard to say. [I think] students feel greater pressure now to study something that will position them to be financially successful outside of Yale, and that’s a really different mindset.

pressure on me to write about being Chinese-American, even if that isn’t, you know, what I’m specifically interested in exploring.

A: Yeah, absolutely! I mean, you just answered your own question.

The very fact that you feel that way — you didn’t invent that by yourself, you know what I mean?

Like there is still this remarkable cultural

Q: Each of your four novels has said something important about highly politicized topics like history, violence, race and sexuality. Do you think writing has a duty to be political or say something political?

A: No, no, I don’t think so.

[When I set out to write a novel,] I didn’t start out with a political idea; I was like, I just want to write a book about relationships and feelings and not take on any issues. So I just think that it’s a matter of my instinct leading in, but I certainly don’t think there should be a duty to be political. I think that once you say that — I mean, I’m not going to say that once you say that you get into trouble, but I think that once you have that mindset and you try to write, you’re in danger of writing poorly or writing contentious, pedantic … stuff. You know what I mean? I never set out to explore a political issue. It always kind of is.

Q: It just arises.

A: [Yeah,] it usually ends up being there because it’s organic to some set of relationships or some human circumstance that is fascinating to me because of the people and what is happening to them.

Q: As a writer of color, do you feel like writers who are from minority groups are ghettoized into writing about being a minority? Because sometimes I feel like there’s a

pressure in writers of color to write about their “special,” marginal, exotic experience. It’s remarkable that that’s so unchanged from both when I was a student, because I had the same feelings as you, and when I was first publishing — all of this is going back a couple decades.

Now there’s a slightly decreasing sense that if you’re a writer of color you always have to write in a marked way because you’re a marked person. That’s the problem with it — that you’re always sort of viewed as “different” from the quote on quote “mainstream,” like there’s a sort of neutral, unmarked territory that you don’t reside in, so if you’re

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going to write, you’re expected to write about your special territory. That’s what I’ve always objected to, and at the same time, I ended up writing about AsianAmericans in all four of my books just because it interests me. But it interests me and so I write about it — I don’t write about it because I feel like I have to, you know what I mean?

ber a very, very well-known writer (whom I won’t name, but she’s very, very famous) coming up to me and saying, “Have you heard about Chang-rae Lee’s new book? That’s very bold of him, don’t you think?” And I’m thinking, well, why? Like why is it so radical? I loved the book, but I just thought that speaking of him that way, as doing something really groundbreaking, was weirdly insulting to all of us. As if we’re all sort of supposed to stay in this Asian-American subjectmatter corral and if we venture out, like wow, I can’t believe you did that. I feel like when that book came out, I thought things were finally changing, but I don’t know if they have. [I think book marketing] is more and more suspect too because publishers are concerned a b o u t s e l l ing literary books more than ever, and I think that all of those labels — many of which are ethnic or racial — are still really in // ADRIAN KINLOCH play for them. Like naturally wanting to get these books to the readership that’s most likely to be interested, and that is a readership of people of color who see when an author is, you know, a person of color. That just entrenches the fact of ghettoizing that author.

I t ’ s funny — a few Q: I remember reading an interview years ago I would have said, oh, with Don Lee where he talks it’s changing, it’s changing so about how he wishes people could quickly. I now think it’s as much just write about characters who of an issue as ever; I don’t know are Asian-American but aren’t what might have made me think obsessed with being Asianthat things were different. [For American. example,] Chang-rae Lee published a book called “Aloft” a A: Exactly. It’s so funny that you number of years ago that I just said that; this is also the converloved, and it happened to have a sation I was having earlier this protagonist who wasn’t Asian- week with a bunch of other writAmerican [but] an Italian-Amer- ers, specifically about kids’ books ican guy living in the suburbs, because there’s a drive (which I although he marries an Asian totally support) for more diverwoman. It’s such a great book, sity in kids’ books. My son, who’s one of my favorites of his, but one-quarter Asian, is very aware what was so interesting about it of that, and it’s cool but it’s not a was that people were so surprised thing that is always on his mind that he did that. Like I remem- at any given moment. We saw

this news story about this young African-American girl who’s spearheading this drive for more diversity in children’s books, which I think is really important, but my son was really affronted.

He was like, “I don’t get this”; it emerged after talking to him for a long time that what he was bothered by was the idea that there had to be special books about the special condition of being a black kid or an Asian kid or a Latino kid. He was saying exactly what Don Lee says. [And] because he goes to a really diverse preschool, he said something really funny like, “Why can’t books just like, you know, just be like, you know, how it is?” And I realized what he meant was, “We’re all different colors in my classroom, but we don’t sit around talking about it all day long, it just is that way.”

[That’s] the best case scenario — everybody’s a different color, or a different whatever, and it just is, and I thought that was so telling.

Q: As a writer of historical fiction, you’ve inhabited a lot of historical spaces and figures that you don’t have personal experience with. Did you ever worry about overstepping your bounds or reaching into experiences that aren’t necessarily yours to tell?

A: It definitely concerned me and still concerns me. Especially with my first novel, which was set in the ’50s in Korea, I was really worried about getting it wrong — making mistakes, I guess. [I wanted to] depict the period in a way that’s authentic, [and I worried] that people who had actually lived through that period would call me out, but I was really motivated to write that book at the same time. I wouldn’t have attempted it had it not been a thing that interested me; that’s what usually ends up overriding my sense of “oh, this isn’t my material.” With my second book, which is set in the ’70s, that was a period that I was alive for but I wasn’t part of; it’s a cultural milieu that I wasn’t a participant in. But I had a really strong interest and investment [that] gave me a possessive feeling that emboldened me to try to write this material. To this day, almost everyone that I’ve encountered has said, “Oh, you’ve really captured it,” and that was just a huge relief.

Now I’m doing the same thing; I’m working on a book that may contain material that’s set in the 1930s … it’s like a compulsion.

Contact ORIANA TANG at oriana.tang@yale.edu .

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icknamed “America’s Funniest Muslim” by CNN, Azhar Usman has attracted attention and praise for his work as a comedian. Yester-

day, he spoke with WKND about how he found himself in comedy and the trials and tribulations that have resulted.

Q: What do you think of your nickname “America’s Funniest Muslim”?

A: I think it’s ridiculous. It’s a function of the way the media works — often, the way something gets framed takes on a life of its own. As an artist, it’s a dangerous thing [to] have to play the game. An affiliate of CNN, CNN Turk, put out this hourlong bit of stand-up and called it “America’s Funniest Muslim.” To me it was like, yeah I’ll use it for marketing purposes, but I don’t really believe that.

Dave Chappelle is a Muslim, and in my book, he’s not only one of the funniest people on Earth but certainly America’s funniest Muslim. I take it as a compliment from CNN, but at the same time I don’t take it very seriously.

It creates an unnecessary amount of pressure. I guess the good news is that I use it as motivation.

Q: What was your background in comedy?

A: I’ve always been a fan of stand-up, but never in a million years imagined that I’d have a career in [it]. I was a lawyer before and dot-com entrepreneur before that.

In law school, I got the bug to do stand-up. I didn’t have the courage to go [onstage], but I watched stand-up [open] mics. I graduated and moved to Minneapolis [to practice] law. Coming back home [to Chicago] and getting married — it was a lot of life changes, and I was working on my dot-com startup. We sold that business in April 2001, but by that time everything had slowed down and I finally had time for myself. I went to a bookstore and found a book on stand-up comedy. I got serious about it, and I finally hit an open mic in 2001.

I can’t say what changed inside me, but it was a time for new things in my life. I was newly married, out of law school, just wrapped up a dot-com startup. With my life in flux, it felt like the perfect opportunity to do something I hadn’t done in years.

Once you get that involved, [comedy] is a very addictive art form. I never looked back. I used to go to this summer camp as a kid since I was like 12 or 13, and I went there for five or six summers straight. We’d have a campfire every night, and my friends and I would come up with these sketches. I always had this comedic performer side to my personality.

Q: How do you fold in issues facing Muslim-Americans, such as Islamophobia, to your comedy routine?

A: As far as the content and material, I’ve been wrestling with this a lot. On the one hand I resent feeling boxed in, like I have to be the Muslim guy. Because of the way stand-up and comedy work, clearly there’s a gaping hole in American pop culture; there’s a voice that’s completely absent, and it’s a voice that is so necessary because there’s so much discourse about Muslims and Islam.

So on one hand, I resent it because why can’t I just be a comic? On the other hand, it’s what I want to talk about. That’s a big part of my life and who I am and my experience. I kind of wrestle with my ambivalent feelings with having to wear that cos-

tume or superhero outfit and [meet people’s expectations]. On the other hand, I don’t mind because I want to talk about it. In following work, there’s always going be more latitude to explore more facets of my identity that don’t have to do with religion and identity politics.

Q: Do you think starting out being known as the “Muslim comic” will make your future more restrictive in that people will expect that from you?

A: Yes and no. So much of crafting one’s own persona is really up to the artist to frame that [identity], and I’m trying to play that role now for however long I feel comfortable doing that. I’m perfectly aware that at a certain time it’s a matter of pivoting in the right way. There are plenty of examples of people in entertainment who can be pigeonholed for something but over time if it’s meant to be and their stand-up is mainstream funny, there’s always a chance to pivot and do a crossover move. I believe a Muslim-American comedian can transition and find a larger audience.

Q: As a Muslim-American, what are your thoughts on today’s political climate and rhetoric towards minority groups?

A: I think the Trump-inspired hysteria — I wouldn’t even call it Trumpinspired — I’d say he’s a megaphone for hysteria that already exists in our culture. So much of it is politics of fear; American politics has been driven by politics of fear for long time. Muslims are just the flavor of the month. In World War II it was the Japanese, and Black Americans have had more than their fair sure of fearmongering and hysteria. Today, there are almost two Americas. Obama had that famous line “There is no Red America there is no Blue America there is only the United States of America.” That’s a good sound bite, but it belies reality, given that the two most talked-about candidates are Trump and Sanders that represent two completely different Americas.

I have a section in my show where I talk about suffering from a condition called double consciousness; Dubois coined it that Black people are being pulled in two different directions, one that loves America and the other that hates it. America itself suffers from a double consciousness; you can’t be the empire and at the same time stand for the little guy. There’s a fundamental lack of integrity, dissonance and discord. It’s a conflict of interest. The U.S. is the empire on the planet today; it’s the most powerful nation on earth.

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you’re the empire and simultaneously want to talk about caring for human rights and civil rights, it doesn’t compute — that fundamental conflict of interest that puts power over everything else often leads to strange and irreconcilable paradoxes.

I’d say that Muslims right now and the culture of fear around Muslims today is an example of one of those paradoxes coming out; there are so many Americans who are liberal, open-minded and understand that Islam isn’t evil-teaching, and that those that practice it preach mercy and understanding and peace. Those that are caught up in fearmongering and say the Quran is violent book. How do you resolve the paradox? I’m not holding my breath that we’re going to be solving that in my lifetime, since same rhetoric has been going on since Civil Rights movement. We celebrate Black history month and everyone rallies around Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, but Black teenagers are being shot in the streets.

America has shown time and time again that it does not have the solution or the answer to address pervasive racism, really ubiquitous white supremacy and white privilege that is baked into every institution in the U.S. It’s a type of structural racism built in everywhere, and access to power in the U.S. is a function of access to housing, education and economic opportunity. As long as there are structural limits, so long as that playing field is not level there is pervasive bias and racism. I’m raising four children and raising them in an America that I believe won’t be able to resolve the tension between Islam and tensions around Muslims crafting their own space. I’m not holding my breath.

Q: What are your thoughts on the presence (or lack thereof) of MuslimAmericans in American creative fields?

A: I think it’s a function of community maturity. By the way, people often say “the American Muslim community,” but I don’t believe there is such a community. It’s really communities. Large slices of those communities are sophisticated professionals, and they work in industries like medicine and even law, engineering, computer science, business and so on. Large sections of American Muslims tend to gravitate towards those fields, which are generally seen as much more stable professions.

Working in the creative fields — such as being an artist, performer, comedian, writer, director, actor, what have you — those tend to be far less stable professions and tend to have far less well-defined career paths. You can’t go to college for a degree in comedy and then have a job waiting for you. That’s just not how it works.

It has more to do with the riskaverseness of the young communities than with any type of inherent cultural attribute.

Further, there are more and more American Mus-

l i m s entering creative fields, particularly in the entertainment industry.

That is definitely an upward trajectory, and I expect there’s going to be more and more. There’s only a matter of time before representation in creative fields begins to mirror the actual percentages. We’ll definitely see greater representation in creative industries.

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Q: What were barriers that you faced as an American Muslim in comedy?

A: There are not many barriers I’ve felt or experienced that were explicit. No one told me I couldn’t do stand-up or couldn’t do comedy just because I’m an American Muslim. No one discouraged me or prevented me or created any sort of impediment. Perhaps the barriers were more structural in nature — for instance, the lack of representation of American Muslims in acting or creative fields. If I’m trying to get into [TV or film] acting, there are just not a lot of parts for people like me — people who act like me, talk like me, people who look like me and have my background and my experience.

The type of comedy that I do and am trying to do — highly politically charged and politically astute stand-up from an American Muslim perspective — is not a path that has been paved.

It’s not that there is a barrier per se, but there’s really no road map as to how do it.

The bigger challenge is really the interior barrier: the self-doubt, insecurity, feeling that maybe my experience is too far off the beaten path and people will [not find it] accessible or relatable. Those internal doubts and battles that I think every artist faces on some level — those are more significant barriers that I’ve faced and tried to overcome in my career.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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alies might know Cole Citrenbaum ’17 and Jacob Reske ’14 by their current names, but the current Spizzwink(?) (Citrenbaum) and former member of A.Squared (Reske) are now channeling their a capella

talents in a different fashion: the pair’s recent single, “Falling,” was released at the end of January. “Falling,” now a viral hit, has launched Opia — the duo’s stage name — into the spotlight. WKND spoke with Citrenbaum and Reske earlier this week, as they waited for a flight in New York.

Q: What are the two of you doing in an airport right now?

CC: It’s super secret, but we can give you the backstory first of how things got to be in a super secretive place.

JR: We are traveling to a destination unknown right now.

CC: The current reason we are in an airport is a little bit on the DL. We’re taking a bunch of meetings in LA to figure out what the future of Opia is going to look like.

JR: I think we can say we’re going to LA. CC: Yeah, we’re going to LA. Q: What can you say on the record?

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CC: What happened is Jacob and I — we met during my Bulldog Days. And we became friends slowly. I discovered that Jacob’s an absolutely amazing producer. Last year, I was working on the Spizzwinks(?) album — the a capella group that I’m in — and I was like, “Oh, we need to get someone to produce the record. We should call Jacob because he’s an amazing producer.” I was on the creative team for the album, so I ended up spending countless hours with Jacob in the studio, just hanging out recording “oohs” and “aahs” for a capella.

JR: So many hours of Spizzwinks(?) shenanigans with the two of us in my apartment.

Naturally we bonded over that.

CC: Jacob showed me a couple of projects he’s working on — we both produce and write songs and play instruments, stuff like that. I was like, “Oh, shit, you’re fucking amazing.” Oh, this shouldn’t be in the interview. “You’re absolutely amazing, we should do something together.” And we just happened to both be in LA serendipitously last summer, working our respective jobs. I would take the LA city bus across town, and Jacob and I would write songs together. We had fun recording music together, and then we released one of the songs we worked on last summer about a month ago. Basically what happened was, we sent an email to a blog that we read pretty regularly, it’s kind of like, “Oh, maybe they’ll read [the email] or whatever.” And the blog responded right away

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saying, “We love your track.

We’re going to post it on our homepage right now.” Jacob and I were like, “Whoa, this is crazy!”

JR: We were kind of floored with the response we got from just a few people. I’ve put out music before under a couple different projects, and this, for whatever reason, just had a great response from the first day. I was about to fly back to LA because I’ve already graduated and I live in LA now, and I thought, you know what, I just had a hunch, like maybe I should stay in New Haven to see this through with Cole for a little bit. We were right. The next couple days, it surpassed our wildest expectations. We got on this blog called Hype Machine, which is this aggregator for hot music at the time, and then we got on this playlist called New Music Friday on Spotify, and a bunch of others, and it just went nuts from there.

CC: At our peak, we hit number two for most viral song on Spotify.

JR: We got used to our lives as answering the phone all the time with all these industry people. The Monday after, someone said, “You know, a lot of people are going to email you about this song,” and we said, “No way, you’re kidding us!” And then Monday morning came and we realized he was totally, totally right.

CC: We opened our inbox — JR: Soooo many emails. It was crazy.

Q: What was the craziest thing you found in there?

JR: What hasn’t been crazy?

CC: My favorite email we’ve gotten so far was totally unrelated to the music industry.

It was someone saying their future child was conceived to our song, which I thought was pretty hilarious.

JR: It was like, “Yo, bro, my wife is pregnant thanks to your song.” You’re kidding me.

I [replied], “Are you serious?”

He never responded.

CC: The most crazy thing too is we’ve heard from our friends from different places.

One of Jacob’s friends was in the Copley mall in Boston the other day and was like, “Oh

my God, I’m in the mall, and your song just came on.”

Q: You’ve talked about the crazy outreach that’s made its way to you after the song blew, but what about more legitimate offers?

JR: That’s something we’ve been learning on our feet — the music industry, how it works and the timeline of it.

Cole and I have done music projects independently, and Cole has a lot more experience in the industry than I have. He lived in LA in high school, he pursued a career as a singersongwriter, and he got to know a little bit of a taste. For me this is all new. It’s this constant battle to distinguish who really likes you as a person, who likes the music and you vibe well with, who’s bullshitting you. But that’s just the music industry.

CC: We can’t go into too much of the details about particulars. We’ve heard from a million different labels and we’re trying to find the right management team right now.

JR: Until a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t even really know what a manager did. Now we need one, and apparently we need a lawyer too. That’s news to me. Never thought I’d need a lawyer, but I’m happy to have a family that can protect you and have your back. I certainly don’t know anything about the legal stuff. I think it’s going to be great. We’re learning on the fly.

Q: If the lawyer and the manager are your family, is the album the baby?

ton of people are going to listen to it. If you add up our different views across different platforms, we have over 1.5 million views in the last month … So it’s cool that we have this platform, but when we bring in friends at Yale and make the Yale music scene a part of this project, that’s taken us by surprise. It’s been a really fun collaborative process.

JR: I used to do production for 1701 Records [on campus] so at one time I was really in tune with the music talent at Yale and I’m a huge fan of it. If there’s anything I want more from anything else, especially overall in life, it’s to see music that our friends made, and we both made, at Yale, equally succeed.

CC: We’ve been really fortunate to have this great break, and it’s really important to both of us to involve the people we think are talented, our friends at Yale.

JR: I was reading a WKND article from a few years ago about a 1701 record, and the review says, “Who knows, maybe some of them will be the next big thing?” I looked at the names, and a lot of them are going to be the next big thing. They’re all popping up right now.

CC: Jacob just choked on a noodle.

JR: I’m eating airport udon noodles right now.

CC: Put that in the interview.

Q: Remind me which airport you’re in right now.

CC: That’s a really good analogy, actually.

CC: We’re in JFK right now.

We’re headed to LAX.

JR: On the creative side, Cole and I are both pretty equally and in various different ways contribute to the creative aspects of the album. When it comes down to it, I probably produce the music more than I songwrite, and Cole probably songwrites more, but the rules change a lot. We also have been working with a couple of our friends. Something we’ve been doing is getting some of our friends from Yale to play on the record. Expect to see that in the future.

Q: Would you call this a work trip?

CC: It’s really special because for the first time at Yale, ever, for either of us, we’re going to put out our next song, and a

CC: I guess it’s a business trip.

But it’s also a fun trip.

Q: Are you doing anything for fun in LA that isn’t making music or talking about music?

CC: I want to drag Jacob surfing, because I’m from Ventura and I love going surfing and I actually brought Jacob out for the first time over the summer. Maybe in the next couple of days we’ll get a little bit of time to get out into the water.

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

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ake Sullivan ’98 LAW ’03 is Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 top foreign policy advisor, a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the Iran nuclear negotia-

tions and a visiting professor at Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale (and serving as editor-in-chief for the News), he attended Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi ’53 LAW ’58 and Justice Stephen Breyer. In 2008, he advised for Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign before working for Barack Obama in the general election and ultimately advising in the Obama administrations. He left in 2014 to return to Yale Law School, and was married in New Haven in June 2015. Sullivan took a 20-minute pause from his extraordinarily busy day to chat with WKND.

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Q: What do you think is the biggest challenge in the campaign?

Q: How did you get your start in politics, and is that the career you envisioned?

A: I always thought I’d be involved in some form of politics, whether supporting local congressmen or maybe one day working in Washington, but I never really had a clearly defined sense of what that would look like. My first political job was interning for Rep. Martin Sabo, from the sixth district of Minnesota, where I grew up. And I did that while I was at Yale — I spent a summer back in Minneapolis, interning for him. When I was in law school at Yale, [I worked] on Paul Wellstone’s reelection campaign for the Senate in 2002. That was the campaign where, shortly before the election, he died tragically in a plane crash. And then in 2006, I ended up back in Minnesota again, working for Amy Klobuchar, who was running for Senate. [I was] just helping her out, mostly informally — I spent just a few weeks on the campaign full-time. But when she won in 2006, she asked me to come out to Washington with her, to help get her office up and running and help manage her transition into the Senate. I did that at the end of 2006 and into 2007, at which point I got an opportunity to go work on Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign. I guess the rest has unfolded from there.

Q: What does a typical week look like for you, with the campaign in full swing?

A: I have a totally unpredictable schedule. It changes hour-tohour and certainly day-to-day, but it involves a mix of being in Brooklyn — which is where the campaign headquarters are and where I manage the policy team — to being on the road with the candidate. I’ve traveled with her to some of the early states, and I’ve traveled to more than a dozen states just on my own, representing the campaign in one capacity or another. So some combination of those three things, but it means a lot of time living out of a suitcase.

Q: How do you balance all those roles — what’s the secret?

A: I think the most important thing is to just maintain transparency and open communication with all of the people I deal with on the campaign, without regard for hierarchy, without regard for who holds what position. The more information you provide and seek, the more capable you are of making a positive impact. It really is about trying to engage with people across the entire operation.

Q: What is the biggest difference between policy work for a campaign and the type of policy work that happens within government?

A: I’d say the single biggest difference is that when you work in government, you’re not merely advocating a position; you’re executing decisions, you’re putting policy into practice in the real world and it ends up having real impact on real people.

That is the most rewarding kind of work, and it’s also very high stakes work. People depend upon your good decision-making. In a campaign, it’s more about arguing for a position, advocating for a position, staking out a set of principles, a set of policy ideas.

But it’s not until you’re elected that you actually have the opportunity to go ahead and implement them and see what works and what doesn’t, make adjustments, learn from mistakes and build from successes.

Q: Do you have a particular theory or particular principles that guide your policymaking?

A: Well, it really depends. In the foreign policy space, my core principle is that the fundamental project of American foreign policy over the next two decades is to secure and sustain American global leadership, because I deeply believe that a world America leads is a world where everybody ends up better off. Certainly where U.S. interests and values are protected, but

where the interests and values of our friends and of people across the world are also protected. For me, that’s the cornerstone — what’s it going to take to ensure that the United States maintains a leadership position in global affairs, even as the world changes around us? On the domestic side, I think the fundamental question — the touchstone of everything — is whether a policy is going to contribute to strengthening the middle class or to hollowing out the middle class. That is the question that I ask about any domestic policy issue.

Q: What do you think is the biggest misconception about working in policy?

A: That’s a good question. I think the biggest misconception is that there are clear right or wrong answers on policy.

Many times in policy — especially in foreign policy — the choice is [among] a series of imperfect options. And any option you select is going to have weaknesses and blind spots and warts, and your critics are going to have some good points to make. What I worry about, with the nature of the political debate today, is that people shout at each other and say, “You’re an idiot for having proposed that policy, can’t you see it’s got these shortcomings?”

But I think a fair assessment of most policy choices, particularly in national security, is that there is no such thing as the ideal or the perfect policy choice. We have to live in a world where we embrace and execute policies that are just in their nature imperfect. If people understood that better, I think there would be more civility and more common sense in our decision-making and our debate, but unfortunately the filter through which most people experience and see policy, both on the campaign trail and in government, has become highly polarized.

Q: How do personal interactions help shape big policy decisions?

A : I t ’s interesting — one thing a campaign affords a candidate or their staff, that governing doesn’t quite as much, is more opportunities to be out there meeting with and hearing the stories of people who are experiencing challenges in their lives and looking for help. The Secretary, from very early on in this campaign, has had the opportunity to hear from people who say, “My family and my community are being ravaged by the epidemic of substance abuse,” or, “I used to have to pay a handful of dollars for my prescription drug, but now I have to pay thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars for those same drugs.” Down the line, being able to hear people’s stories and put a face to the policy challenges that we’re grappling with — it makes a big difference. It takes it out of statistics and white papers, and that’s incredibly important for us to remember. It’s easy for us to lose sight of that in Washington, but in a campaign, we have the constant reminder that this really matters.

A: The biggest challenge in any campaign, and particularly this year’s, is to be able to cut through the enormous amount of noise generated around the presidential campaign and really try to have a substantive debate about the issues and what it’s going to take to make sure that this country and its people can truly succeed.

The biggest challenge I see on the campaign — and of course, I’m biased as the policy guy — is the difficulty of pushing through the cable and social media chatter to try to engage with the American people in a serious conversation about real issues that impact their lives and the future of this country. We obviously haven’t cracked the code on that. But there have been moments when the Secretary has been able to break through on policy, and those have been some of the most gratifying moments for the campaign, from my perspective.

Q: What is it like to know big political actors personally and to be on the inside in that way?

A: Having dealt with a lot of significant public figures, the thing that gets lost and stripped away in the cov-

erage of them is that they are real human beings. I know that sounds a little bit cheesy, but these are people with strengths and weaknesses who have to grapple with hard decisions every day, whether you’re talking about someone in government or someone running for political office. And I have found, by and large, both with the people I’ve worked directly for but also many people whom I’ve had to spar with over issues like the Iran Nuclear Deal or whatever it may be, people are really just trying to do the best they can for the things that they believe in.

And the caricatures that emerge around people — not just the people I’ve worked for but for others too — [are] really unfortunate. There’s been a corrosive aspect to our politics that ends up demeaning us all. If people got a chance to really interact with someone like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Amy Klobuchar in the way that I’ve had the opportunity to do, I am confident that they would come to see just what extraordinary people each of them are, and the same would hold true for many people on the other side of the aisle as well. You make your careers in American politics these days much more by your capacity to take someone down than to build them up. I think we should collectively as a national community be pushing back against that.

“Being able to hear people’s stories and put a face to the policy challenges that we’re grappling with — it makes a big difference.”

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