NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 102 · yaledailynews.com
MONTAGUE EXPELLED FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT sports publicity announced in a press release that Montague would not return to the team. Last Thursday, Montague’s father told the New Haven Register that his son had been expelled from the University for “ridiculous” reasons. A formal complaint was filed against Montague with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct in November of 2015, several months after an incident of alleged miscon-
BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Jack Montague, former captain of the Yale men’s basketball team, was expelled from the University for sexual misconduct, the News confirmed on Wednesday. Montague’s status in the University was changed to withdrawn on his academic record on Feb. 10. Two weeks later, Yale
duct occurred. The decision to expel him was made on Feb. 10, 2016, and a week later the UWC chose not to hear Montague’s appeal of the decision, according to sources familiar with the facts of the case. It remains unclear if the November formal complaint was the only complaint brought before the UWC. The student who filed the November complaint declined to comment for this story. Montague also declined to comment.
When a member of the Yale community files a formal complaint of sexual misconduct, the UWC appoints an impartial factfinder to interview relevant parties and compile a report of the events in question. After the report is completed and presented to the UWC secretary, the UWC chair — currently ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Post — selects a five-member panel from the larger 30-member UWC body to
conduct a hearing. At the hearing, both the complainant and the respondent are permitted to make a 10-minute statement and are then interviewed by the panel. Additional witnesses may come before the panel at the panel’s discretion. After the hearing, the panel votes via secret ballot on whether the respondent has violated University policy; if a majority of panel members believe such a violation has occurred, the panel
Chalk-in supports survivors of sexual violence
recommends a penalty. That recommendation is then presented to the relevant decision maker — Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, if the respondent is an undergraduate — who has the option to accept, reject or modify the panel’s conclusion or recommended sanctions. Both the complainant and respondent may appeal the final decision. Although the UWC’s proceSEE BASKETBALL PAGE 6
College term bill to rise 3.9 percent BY DAVID SHIMER AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS
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Hundreds gathered on the steps of Cross Campus to chalk messages of support for survivors of sexual violence. BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS As temperatures rose to the mid-60s and students flocked outside to enjoy the sun, hundreds congregated in front of Sterling Memorial Library to show their support for survi-
vors of sexual violence on campus. Two student groups, Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale and the Yale Black Women’s Coalition organized the “chalk-in” with funding help from the Yale Women’s Center. Approximately 450 students attended the event over
Schwarzman, colleges to shift campus center
the course of four hours, etching hundreds of colorful messages on the steps of Cross Campus, such as “We are not victims, we are survivors” and “We stand with you.” The event was intended to open a dialogue about the current sexual climate at Yale, rather than focus on recent cam-
pus events surrounding the Yale men’s basketball team, according to USAY co-director Helen Price ’18. After weeks of rumors and allegations surrounding former basketball captain Jack Montague, the News confirmed on Wednesday that he was expelled for sexual misconduct. But Price
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GESO rebrands itself Local 33 BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS
BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS While the two new residential colleges and the Schwarzman Center were not conceived in tandem, taken together, they will make strides toward shifting the center of campus toward Science Hill and Hillhouse Avenue. The two new residential colleges will open in the fall of 2017 and the Schwarzman Center will be completed in 2020, placing two major campus structures in Yale’s northern end. In the past, students and administrators have noted that Prospect Street and Hillhouse Avenue often feel detached from popular areas like Cross Campus and most of the residential colleges — a complaint these two projects have the potential to address. While administrators and students on the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee interviewed emphasized that there is no overarching strategy geographically linking the
emphasized that Wednesday’s chalk-in was not specifically in response to Montague’s expulsion, but instead to the sexual climate on campus. “This is something that people have been dissatisfied with for a long time,” Price
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The group formerly known as GESO rebranded itself Local 33 at a convention Wednesday evening.
Carson’s two cents. Former candidate Ben Carson ’73 wrote a column in the Washington Post yesterday. “So much more than the White House is at stake,” he said, referring to frontrunner Donald Trump’s chances at clinching the GOP nomination.
I’m in Miami, trick.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Sen. Bernie Sanders debated in Miami last night. One of the key issues of the debate, sponsored in part by Spanish language network Univision, was immigration.
Yale College’s term bill will rise 3.9 percent, with the cost of attendance increasing from $62,200 to $64,650, for the 2016–17 academic year. While the undergraduate financial aid budget will also grow to accommodate the increase, costs will once again rise for many students. The Yale Corporation approved the term bill increase at its most recent meeting, which took place the weekend of Feb. 13. The overarching term bill includes tuition as well as room and board, which will be set at $49,480 and $15,170 and increase by $1,880 and $570, respectively. This year’s rise in the term bill is essentially the same as last year’s increase of 4 percent, the rate at which the term bill has been increasing for the past several years. While Yale has embarked on several costly ventures in recent months, such as a $50 million faculty diversity initiative, Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said these initiatives are “fairly unrelated” to the term bill’s increase, stemming instead from the rising costs of living and salaries of faculty and staff. Over the past 20 years, the Yale College term bill has increased steadily. The cost of an undergraduate education was just $28,880 in 1996–97, as compared to $43,050 in 2006–07 and $64,650 for 2016– 17. Although the price of a Yale education continues to rise, O’Connor said the University’s main priority is affordability.
The quality of the University should be going up if the cost is.
In the heat of the crowded Omni Hotel ballroom last night, before a crowd of over 800 supporters, Yale’s unrecognized graduate student organization — formerly known as the Graduate Employees and Students Organization — was rechristened Local 33. With the rebranding, the organization, which has clashed with Yale over its union status since 1990, has now further affiliated itself with the University’s two recognized blue collar unions, Local 34 and Local 35. The three groups have worked closely in the past and are all funded by the national labor union UNITE HERE, but only members of Local 34 and 35 have negotiated and signed contracts with Yale. The renaming of GESO as Local 33 is Yale graduate students’ most direct attempt to obtain union status since the organization failed its last attempted vote in 2003. The name change comes as
“The objective is to try to keep the cost as low as possible but also to provide the proper education and research facilities that Yale needs to be a world class institution,” O’Connor said. “While the term bill went up, so did the amount of financial aid. That means that for most, Yale has become very affordable.” Still, seven of seven students interviewed said they disapproved of the rising cost of a Yale education, with many citing an added burden on middle class families and the fact that the quality of a Yale education is remaining more or less the same while costs are increasing. “The increases are bad because I don’t know how much the University is improving to raise it that much,” Nathalya Leite ’19 said. “The quality of the University should be
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Her(manos) Campus. The Kappa chapter of La Unidad Latina had a demonstration on Cross Campus — at the spot of the afternoon’s chalk-in — last night, reciting slam poetry and calling on its members to support sexual assault survivors.
Get 2 on College Street.
R&B singer Tinashe will perform in the Elm City tomorrow night. The hit artist will appear at College Street Music Hall at 7 p.m. Friday. Tinashe will be one of four performers at Brown University’s Spring Weekend this year.
MINSUN CHA ’17
Conspiracy theory. Elon Musk, a Yale honorary degree recipient, denied rumors that several influential CEOs and politicians met at the American Enterprise Institute’s World Forum to plot against Trump. Musk tweeted that the meeting was not secret.