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Students hold financial aid speak-out

It’s finally here! After weeks of waiting, spring break is upon us. Whether you’re staying in the Have or heading to Hawaii, the News wishes you a safe and restful break.

examination of the semester is 56 days from today. If you’d like a lighter course load after break, make sure you head to your dean’s office before the 5 p.m. drop deadline to avoid the ambiguous “W” on your transcript.

All about the Dance. Bulldogs fans can join the men’s basketball team in Payne Whitney on Sunday at 5 p.m. as the players discover where they will play their first NCAA tournament game and who their first opponent will be.

The Bulldogs are heading to the Big Dance for the first time in 54 years after claiming the Ivy League championship at Columbia last weekend.

Down with the Big Green. For sports fans who prefer goals to baskets, the men’s hockey team will play in the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals against Dartmouth at Ingalls Rink this weekend in a best-of-three series beginning Friday at 7 p.m.

Don’t press snooze. If you have plans Sunday morning, don’t forget to move your clocks one hour forward for Daylight Savings Time. You’ll lose one hour of sleep in exchange for the promise of summer coming soon.

Your time is now. While

Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 looks to secure the Democratic nomination in primaries across the country, Yale sophomores interested in becoming the next Yale College Council president are invited to an information session the first Tuesday after spring break.

Campaigns for all elected offices will begin on April 7.

2020 Vision. At noon today, the next class of freshman counselors will be announced.

The lucky (or not-so-lucky) few will turn down senior suites for freshman dorms starting in the fall. High school students anxious to live with them will hear their fate by April 1.

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1971 Dean of Undergraduate Affairs John Wilkinson announces that students wishing to live off-campus would have to pay $150 for the privilege.

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Tribal nation sues state for building rights

BY HAYLEE KUSHI AND KATHERINE MCCLEARY CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS

Save yourselves. The first final

The doctor is in. Former presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson ’73 is set to publicly endorse Donald Trump’s presidential bid in Miami this morning. According to The New York Times, Carson described Trump as a “thinking individual,” despite contrary claims made

by Trump’s competitors in Thursday night’s debate.

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ing to the whole group their struggles with the financial aid expectation. Among the attendees was Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi, who arrived around 15 minutes before the event ended.

“There is rage here,” Jesús Gutiérrez ’16, an organizer for SUN, said in a closing statement. “The [student effort] is the policy that has been creating all these experiences, and we are actually in front of the place

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation — whose members reside in one of the country’s oldest reservations — and MGM Resorts International are suing the state of Connecticut for the right to open casinos.

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, officially recognized by the state but not the federal government, hopes to build a casino on non-reservation land in Connecticut. Currently, federal law only permits federally recognized tribes to build casinos on reservation lands. Special Act No. 15-7, a Connecticut act passed June 19, blocks all parties besides federally recognized tribes from applying for a license to build casinos anywhere in the state. Schaghticoke Tribal Chief Richard Velky filed a lawsuit Monday, arguing that Special Act No. 15-7 is unconstitutional. Special Act No. 15-7, and not federal law, is barring the tribe from building a casino.

“Under the Equal Protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions, the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation should have the same right to pursue this economic opportunity as anyone else,” Velky said at a Monday press conference.

Casinos operated on reservations serve as economic opportunities for Native nations, whose citizens often live in impoverished communities and lack economic opportunities, Velky said.

He said that if his nation is able to open a casino, he will ensure the jobs that come from

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Roughly 100 students gathered outside Student Financial Services to protest the student effort expectation.

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Student Financial Services employees watched from the windows as roughly 100 students congregated outside their building Thursday afternoon for a “speakout,” in which student activists called yet again for the administration to eliminate the student effort, a yearly sum that students on financial aid must contribute to their educations.

The event was organized by Students Unite Now, the same organization that launched a website on Monday featuring a report criticizing Yale for its failure to eliminate the student effort, as well as over 100 emotionally charged student testimonies about the hardships the student effort has created for them.

The website, financialaidatyale.org, received 12 endorsements from various campus groups. At the speakout, around 20 students took turns over the course of an hour describ-

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FAS Senate reveals faculty discontent

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER “Contempt.” “Duplicity.”

“Bogus.”

These are just some of the words professors have used in recent months to characterize the University administration’s approach to policymaking, as faculty discontent about a perceived centralization of authority and information has come to the fore in two recent reports from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate.

Last November, the FAS Senate — which was founded in July 2015 in part due to frustration about a lack of faculty governance — released a report on the proposed guidelines for adjudicating allegations of faculty misconduct. Three months later, in February, it released another report on the planning for the two new residential colleges. Both reports revealed that certain groups of faculty members harbor significant concerns about the state of faculty governance at Yale, as well as a deep-

Luther House to sell, expand ministry

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Luther House, Yale’s Lutheran campus ministry, has announced that it will sell its 27 High St. location, which has served as the organization’s namesake, home and gathering place for over 40 years.

Following a Feb. 14 meeting between the student board and other student members regarding the possible sale, the house’s Directing Committee distributed a March 3 email to its student and donor communities explaining the final decision. Considerations included the cost of upkeep, the house’s needed repairs and reduction in funding from the national ministry. The house has not yet been placed on the market, nor has it been officially appraised.

When it does sell, the money will go toward expanding the ministry, and campus events

hosted by Luther House will continue uninterrupted, current Luther House Director pastor Kari Henkelmann Keyl said.

The sale may even provide further opportunities for campus engagement, Keyl added.

“Luther House has always been a student ministry and not a building — the building has been one part of the ministry,” Keyl said. “Not having a building to maintain means we can be more present on campus, that I’ll have more time to be bringing students together to be asking the kinds of deep questions you can’t always ask in the classroom. So I’m really excited about the possibilities that are opening up.”

Though the board has long considered selling the house due to high maintenance costs, recent upkeep has detracted from Keyl’s time for ministry SEE LUTHER HOUSE PAGE 4

seated suspicion of administrative overreach and opaque decision-making. Among some faculty members, there is also a concern that the FAS has become increasingly seen as merely one of 12 teaching units at Yale, rather than as the focus of the University.

Historically, it has been difficult to gauge the FAS faculty’s general attitude toward various University issues, due to the diverse range of opinions and concerns across divisions and ranks among over 1,000 profes-

sors and lectors. In its inaugural year, the senate, which is composed of 22 elected members, has worked to distill all these voices and present recommendations that best serve all FAS members’ needs. To this end, the senate has distributed several surveys, conducted independent research and drafted policy recommendations. Senators have pointed to the concerns that have emerged from the group’s work as evidence of the need to have such a body in the first place.

“This disconnect between faculty and administration is really problematic. Decisions are being made that have very, very significant impact on education, which is what the faculty is here to think about. But these decisions are coming from the top down,” French lector and senator Ruth Koizim said.

“When questions are asked, the administration just says, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ But when decisions are being made that SEE FACULTY PAGE 6

Ivy League adds basketball tourney

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS With an outright Ivy League title in 2015–16, Yale was the only men’s basketball team in the country to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament solely by winning a regular-season conference championship.

Following an announcement from the Ivy League, the Bulldogs have officially become the last team ever to do so.

The eight Ivy League presidents have approved a fourteam postseason tournament to determine the conference’s bids to the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament, the league announced in a Thursday press release. With the decision, the Ivy League joins all other 31 NCAA Division I conferences in implementing a league tournament. The Ivy League will continue to award its official championship to the team or teams with the best record in con-

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Yale and Princeton would have been the top two seeds in the fourteam tournament this year. ference play, as it has done since a title was first awarded in the 1956–57 season.

“A tournament is a great

opportunity to showcase the competitiveness of the SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 6

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ake no mistake — sexual violence is a pervasive problem on our campus. Though the Yale administration has made steps to foster a more positive sexual climate, recent developments show that toxic attitudes persist among Yale students. To be clear, sexual violence happens because people don’t care about consent — not because they don’t understand it. However, it seems that there is no shortage of ex post facto rationalizations regarding consent that invalidate the experiences of survivors, trivialize the occurrence of sexual assault on our campus and ultimately prevent us from having a serious and supportive campuswide discussion. Therefore, during this difficult time of hurt for some and utter confusion for others, Yale’s definition of consent can illuminate our community standards and lead the way toward a more productive discussion about what really constitutes sexual assault. So, for those of us who didn’t pay close enough attention at the Communication and Consent Educators’ “Myth of Miscommunication” workshop freshman year, or who may just need a refresher, here’s a crash course on consent.

According to the University, consent is defined as “positive, unambiguous and voluntary agreement to engage in specific sexual activity throughout a sexual encounter.” Let’s begin with “positive.” In a nutshell, consent is not the absence of refusal, but the presence of agreement. In other words, it can never be inferred from the lack of a resounding “no.” Neither silence nor nonresistance makes for a consensual sexual encounter. A clear “yes,” or affirmative consent, is the only way to go.

Now, on to “unambiguous.”

Contrary to popular belief, affirmative consent can be given non-verbally. Body language is one of the primary ways that humans communicate, so we are exceptionally skilled at reading each other’s in-the-moment signals. Therefore, just because someone doesn’t say “no” doesn’t mean they’re not communicating. We can easily see if someone is or is not willing to engage in a sexual encounter through their body language.

In fact, given the rigidity of social scripts, which perpetuate expectations about how sexual encounters are “supposed” to go and thus constrain our abilities to devise exit strategies, it’s often easier for people to communicate their true desires via body language. It’s up to the rest of us to pay attention to those signals and respect them. Consent is not tricky — either you have it or you don’t. If you’re not sure, just ask.

Along with “positive” and “unambiguous,” consent must also be “voluntary.” In other words, it cannot be obtained via threat, coercion, force or incapacitation. If a person is asleep or otherwise mentally or physically incapacitated (for example, as a result of alcohol, drugs or some other condition), they lack the ability to give consent. On our campus and indeed on many college campuses throughout the United States, the role of alcohol in sexual encounters seems to be a major source of confusion and anxiety for many students. To be clear, people can give consent when they are intoxicated — unless they have reached the point of incapacitation. Given that we’ve taken Yale’s crash course on alcohol consumption, we should all know what incapacitation looks like. However, if you’re at all concerned that someone is too drunk to have sex, you probably shouldn’t have sex with them.

Consider calling Yale Health instead.

Finally, consent must be continuous. Consent is neither a binding contract nor a blanket promise. It must be given “throughout a sexual encounter,” and can be denied or renegotiated at any point in time.

Consent can be rescinded during a sexual act. Consenting to some sexual acts does not automatically mean consenting to others. Consenting to a sexual encounter today does not mean consenting to a sexual encounter tomorrow — or the day after that, or the day after that. Being in a relationship with someone also does not give you carte blanche on consent. No one is ever entitled to someone else’s body. Ever.

Ultimately, as far as understanding the occurrence of sexual violence on our campus and supporting our classmates, friends and significant others goes, reminding ourselves of the definition of consent is a good place to start, though certainly not the place to finish. Consent is pretty low bar. Instead, we should be striving for mutual enthusiasm in each of our sexual encounters. At the end of the day, Yale students are responsible for the campus climate.

Our high community standards mean absolutely nothing if we are not committed to them. Our words and actions define the bounds of the acceptable and establish the norms that shape every single one of our college experiences. It is up to us to ensure that these norms are built on mutual respect, understanding and, above all, enthusiastic consent.

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ast fall, a taxi driver remarked to me that Yale’s Thanksgiving break was only one day long when he started driving in New Haven in 1968. It was only later that I realized the significance of his quip. Back in 1968, the vast majority of Yale students would have come from the Northeast, making a longer break unnecessary.

In the past half-century, and particularly in the last decade, Yale has become more diverse on many fronts: race, gender, geography and socioeconomic status.

We ought to celebrate this diversity. Since the mission of the University is not just to produce, but also to diffuse, knowledge, its composition must extend beyond a narrow elite.

But diversity should not lead to complacency, for it can create new challenges. And as the controversies of last fall demonstrate, diversity alone cannot answer some of the most pressing questions about inclusion and equal opportunity.

Although diversity is undoubtedly a force for good, it can create new cleavages within the student body. As such, new efforts are required to sustain a sense of solidarity. At the inaugural Sophomore Brunch last Saturday, Yale College Dean Jonathan Hollo-

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way commented on the importance of new traditions in forging common ex p e r i e n c e s amongst an e ve r - m o r e JUN YAN diverse class.

CHUA While few attendees The paid attenwallflower tion to Holloway’s speech, he made an important point. Without fresh attempts to build a shared identity, Yale College runs the risk of fragmenting, especially when the new residential colleges open.

Because old assumptions and practices are no longer shared by all students, as they once were when most Yale men (yes, they were all men) came from a handful of prep schools, Yale’s esprit de corps may progressively weaken over time.

One indicator of this phenomenon is the expansion of Greek life at Yale. To be sure, the growth of sororities and fraternities is a national trend, and I disagree that there is anything inherently unhealthy with them. But their rise speaks to a pent-up desire for a sense of community, which

is no longer as readily available in the residential colleges.

More students are living offcampus, undermining the centrality of the residential college to the Yale experience. And because students are specializing earlier in their academic careers, and extracurriculars are taking up more time, they are increasingly boxed in to tiny subcultures throughout their time at Yale.

None of these trends are catastrophic. But they do have the potential to fundamentally transform Yale’s culture, segmenting and homogenizing everyone’s social universe.

This shift raises an even bigger issue: How can Yale empower everyone to fully participate — and feel welcome enough to participate — in the life of the college?

The hallowed institution of the Saybrook long table illustrates this conundrum. Sure, everyone can technically sit in the dining hall and talk to whomever is across the table. And this happens at start of freshman year.

But after a while, fewer and fewer Saybrugians come to the table.

Even if they are physically present, people get left out of conversations.

Let me reiterate: Diversity is a positive good, to appropriate

John C. Calhoun’s infamous line.

But its power can’t be harnessed if students from diverse backgrounds don’t interact in meaningful and substantive ways. That is Yale’s big challenge, both now and in the years to come. Unless we tackle the problem of fragmentation head-on, diversity will become just another piece of corporate-speak, concealing the fault lines which divide Yale and society at large.

The good news is that there are historical precedents for coping with this challenge. In the 1920s, a rise in Yale’s enrollment alongside the growth of fraternities led to a decline in the social cohesion of Yale’s undergraduate body. There was a need to “prevent [Yale] from becoming an amorphous mass,” the thenUniversity Provost Charles Seymour wrote. With a little copying from Oxbridge, and a generous donation from Edward Harkness, class of 1897, Yale received the residential college system, as we know it today.

Just as Yale has confronted social fragmentation before, it can do so again.

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

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Two states, many sides

LUCIA BACA is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at lucia.baca@yale.edu .

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ew skills are more difficult to master than having real conversations about divisive topics. It seems easy in your head; you know what’s right, so all you have to do is articulate it clearly (perhaps loudly) enough for your interlocutor to grasp.

But the more you care about the topic, the more forcefully you try to voice your opinions, and the less likely you are to change anybody’s mind.

This pattern is especially evident in discussions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The tone is always acerbic, the stakes and tempers always high. This both scares off quiet voices and draws in people who either feel a personal stake or relish a fight.

When people talk about Gaza and international law and who is more wrong, they often end up prioritizing rhetoric over problem-solving. To enter the conversation, you ante up: family, identity, religion, intellectual pride, worldview. The facts stop being used to enlighten and start being used to bludgeon.

We don’t pretend that we’re immune to such vices ourselves.

But these pitfalls are by no means inevitable. If anyone can summon the willpower and graciousness to overcome them, it should be Yale students.

The first step is to recognize

where your own impulses are coming from. When you want to invite a hard-line speaker, submit an editorial smack-down to the News or even write a call-out on Overheard at Yale, ask yourself: Am I trying to educate and foster conversation? Or to score personal points and stoke my own ego? Ask yourself how your actions will be perceived by others. Will they anger or provoke?

Will they create common ground or a battleground?

Instead of casting blame, start by fostering a shared sense of purpose. For all the vitriol that has been flung back and forth, the 20th-century experiences of Jews and Palestinians have much in common. Both communities know what it means to be without a national homeland. Both have known intractable conflict and suffered from fractured communities. Both have struggled to reconcile religion with modernity. Both have flourishing diasporic communities around the world. Finally, both have the (admittedly abstract) goal of peace in their hearts. Cooperation is surely possible.

But it won’t happen without dialogue. We need to be able to describe what hurts us without assigning blame, and we need to correct our actions without feeling resentful. This needs to go

both ways.

Dialogue also involves a recognition of the fact that gray areas exist — and, frankly, there may be more gray than black-andwhite on either side. To be “proIsrael” does not equate to being “anti-Palestinian,” or vice versa.

Our belief in the necessity of a national homeland for the Jewish people does not signify an acceptance of all political opinions espoused in, or actions taken by, the state of Israel. Blindly accepting everything that a state does is simply poor judgment; painting the issue as black-and-white harms everyone involved.

We at Yale are lucky to have multiple pathways to discuss the pertinent questions surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we in the Jewish community are lucky to have communal leadership that welcomes all voices. Middle East Resolution through Education, Action and Dialogue brings together Jews, Israelis, Palestinians and others for weekly conversations about the topics that, for ideological and personal reasons, are some of the hardest to broach.

The Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale supports summer travel to Israel, where students have worked for the Israeli parliament as well as for organizations dedicated to aiding African refugees

(a taboo topic in Israel). J Street U brings students together to advocate for a two-state solution. Yale Friends of Israel strives to bring Israeli culture to Yale’s campus, often through speakers ranging the whole political spectrum.

These organizations and opportunities continue only because of the civility with which we approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Any cause without room for conversation and introspection is sure to fail. As pro-Israel students, we seek a secure Jewish state. But we do not view this position as in conflict with the justified demands for Palestinian statehood. To see the two as diametrically opposed, without recognizing that most of our beliefs fall somewhere in the middle, is frustrating at best and dangerous to both sides at worst. As Yale students, we cherish our ability to foster debate and dialogue about all ideas, even those with which we strongly disagree. Let’s not place Israel and Palestine in opposition to each other. It’s too important.

BERNARD STANFORD is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at bernard.stanford@yale.edu .

GABBY DEUTCH is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact her at gabrielle.deutch@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.”

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CORRECTIONS

FAS Senate approves three reports

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

The article “Public response to basketball team escalates” incorrectly called David Hartman the chief of New Haven Police Department; in fact, he is the NHPD spokesman.

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

The article “Men’s basketball captain expelled for sexual misconduct” incorrectly stated that the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct chose not to hear an appeal; in fact, when the respondent is a student, the provost decides whether to grant an appeal.

Ice cream, dairy store opens on Chapel

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Arethusa Farm Dairy opened its doors on 1020 Chapel St. Thursday morning to the sweet aroma of waffle cones.

After two months of interior renovation, managers at Arethusa decided to host a soft launch of the store Thursday to assess if any work is necessary before Arethusa’s grand opening in the upcoming weeks, co-owner Tony Yurgaitis said. Yurgaitis, who bought a Litchfield, Connecticut dairy farm also named Arethusa in 2002, was approached by University Properties roughly one year ago to replace oil and pasta vendor Extra Virgin Oil, which formerly held the Chapel Street location. In addition to the Chapel Street shop, Yurgaitis also owns a farm-to-table restaurant and retail store in Bantam, Connecticut. To ensure the Litchfield farm has a stable business model, all three of Yurgaitis’ dairy stores source their raw ingredients from this farm. “[Arethusa co-owner George Malkemus] and I are putting this investment into the farm,” Yurgaitis said. “But we want to get the business on its feet so that it will be sustainable for future generations. The farm itself is not supporting itself. The retail and the restaurant supports itself.”

Elm City customers entering the store Thursday could choose from 10 ice cream flavors, including maple walnut, coffee, sweet cream and toasted almonds.

The store also offers pantry staples, such as a pint of whole, chocolate or coffee milk for roughly $2.50 and a half-gallon for roughly $4.00. The store’s cheese case stocked gourmet offerings such as Camembert, Bella Bantam and Tapping Reeve ranging in price from $10 to $18 a pound. Students looking to stock up on groceries can also purchase a tub of maple yogurt, sour cream or butter in the $4 to $6 range.

The store ships its products, which are manufactured without preservatives, every day from production facilities in Litchfield, store manager Krista Torello told the customers entering Thursday. Yurgaitis noted that Arethusa’s cows and cheese have won national and international recog-

nition. Their breed, Holstein, was named supreme champion of the 2004 World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin. Arethusa’s cows continue to qualify for the World Dairy Expo and win accolades for breed and milk quality, Torello said.

Yurgaitis — who made his fortune as vice-president of the shoe company Manolo Blahnik and recently launched a shoe line with Sarah Jessica Parker — said he had been thinking about expanding the market for Arethusa’s products even before UP approached him. UP’s request seemed like an opportunity to grow Arethusa’s reach from the small, seasonally tourist towns of Litchfield and neighboring Bantam to downtown New Haven, he said.

Yurgaitis said he is aware that the former tenant of the Chapel Street property closed after less than a year of business, but said olive oil and ice cream are two vastly different businesses. Yurgaitis also emphasized the quality of Arethusa’s products, noting that it contributes to his business’ viability.

“They’re so different,” Yurgaitis said. “Ice cream shops become a part of the community.

People sit outside and have ice cream and bring their kids. Our products are also incredible.”

Several customers interviewed on Thursday expressed satisfaction with the taste of Arethusa’s products, as well as the reasonable serving size, given the price.

Awa Franklin ’19 visited the store, just a few minutes away from her Old Campus dorm, with a friend. She said she found the price of $3.25 for the smallest size of ice cream comparable to an average ice cream parlor.

The store saw a steady stream of customers walking in and out on Thursday, Torello said. She added that the store will open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. most days before switching in the next several weeks to longer summer hours.

“Pretty much all day long we’ve had people coming in continually, asking questions and trying samples,” Torello said.

“The community response has been tremendous and the word is spreading.”

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

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate voted to approve and adopt three reports on the planned residential college expansion, faculty conduct standards and parental-leave policies at its monthly meeting Thursday evening.

The quick-fire approval of the three reports follows months of work by various subcommittees in the senate. The college expansion report had been discussed at a previous meeting, and following minor revisions, the final draft was approved in an up-or-down vote at Thursday’s meeting. The faculty conduct standards and procedures were also the subjects of discussions at previous senate meetings, and the final, approved report contains six resolutions that summarize the senate and the FAS’s stance on the contentious issue. The parental-leave policy, which clarifies faculty expectations and calls for equity between genders and faculty ranks, was the only new report, and it too was approved without much contention.

The FAS Senate is only an advisory body and has no actual policymaking power. Its reports help inform FAS members about current issues and offer recommendations to the administration for future action.

“There were three reports that were up for discussion and voting, and we voted to adopt all three reports,” FAS Senate Chair and history professor Beverly Gage ’94 said. “The plan is to send these reports out separately to the faculty and administration over the next few weeks.”

The parental-leave policy report, which has not yet been made public, is a broad and

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transparency in the planning of the two new residential colleges. There were three revisions to the report since it was last presented at the February FAS Senate meeting: an update of the count of FAS ladder faculty members from 660 to 651, a new section about the expected difficulty of maintaining the size of small seminars with the planned 15 percent increase in the undergraduate population, and the inclusion of more ideas from various senators about the colleges in general in the report’s conclusion.

The main themes of the report remained unchanged, and it still criticizes the University’s plan to accommodate 800 new undergraduates without significantly altering the academic structures and resources currently in place.

The approved conduct standards and procedures report, which addresses criticism of proposed mechanisms for addressing faculty misconduct, contains six resolutions and a series of more detailed summaries and recommendations.

While the report has also not yet been made public, Gage gave the News a summary of the six major points.

The first states that “the conduct standards themselves as currently formulated and the draft procedures are inadequate and unacceptable to the FAS faculty.” The report also notes that while the senate accepts the need for some kind of standards to govern faculty behavior, the final standards and procedures must be better tailored to target specific, identified forms of misconduct.

The resolutions also state that, should a new committee be convened to review the standards and procedures in light of faculty criticism, the commit-

tee should be chaired by a member of the FAS. Other FAS members on the committee should be appointed in consultation with the senate, the report says. This potential committee should be empowered to revise both the draft procedures and the standards themselves, the latter of which are already approved and printed in the Faculty Handbook. The existing, administratively appointed committee that drafted the current draft procedures is made up of mostly faculty members from across the schools, not just the FAS, and it is already chaired by a FAS member: psychology professor and Trumbull College Master Margaret Clark.

Another resolution reiterates the senate’s stance that the final drafts of the standards and procedures should be brought to the FAS body for a binding vote; the new standards were approved by top administrators without full faculty consent last fall, drawing ire from several faculty members. Still, Gage acknowledged that giving the FAS faculty final say on the procedures may be potentially complicated, as the standards and procedures are currently University-wide policies, not just FAS-specific ones.

The final resolution suggests that this committee should describe the specific kinds of misconduct that the standards are being used to address, in order to clarify how alleged misconduct by faculty members will be adjudicated.

“The report is really an attempt to synthesize faculty opinions and the process by which we can move forward regarding this issue,” Gage said.

The senate will have its next meeting on April 14.

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

Commission battles Elm City homelessness

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Members of the Homeless Advisory Commission gathered in City Hall on Thursday to discuss new strategies to combat homelessness.

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comprehensive evaluation of Yale’s parental policies, according to ad hoc report committee chair and history of science professor Bill Rankin. Gage said the report sheds light on the inconsistencies between how parental-leave policies are officially defined and how they are handled in practice. For example, she said, a ladder-faculty member can have his or her tenure clock stopped for a year during parental leave. However, this pause in the tenure clock may work against the candidate during a future tenure review, as it may raise expectations for the candidate’s productivity.

Many of the report’s recommendations speak to fundamental questions about the relationship between the University and its faculty, between parenting and the tenure process, and between the ladder and nonladder faculty, Rankin said.

“Our goal is for Yale to have the most competitive and progressive parental policy of any university in the country,” Rankin said. “We compared Yale’s policies to those elsewhere, identified a number of specific concerns, and issued point-by-point recommendations for revision.”

Rankin said though the committee was especially mindful of the importance of these policies in the recruitment and retention of female faculty, it considered faculty of all genders, as parenting is not exclusively a women’s issue.

The other two reports that the senate approved had already been discussed at previous meetings, but required revision before the body would approve it for distribution to the larger FAS faculty.

The new college report is intended to summarize professors’ concerns with a lack of

New Haven’s Homeless Advisory Commission convened Thursday evening to discuss the future of New Haven’s homeless population.

In its weekly meeting, the commission addressed flaws in New Haven’s current approach to helping the homeless and considered the steps it could take to effectively battle the problem of chronic homelessness, particularly among youth. One of the key areas of discussion was New Haven’s relationship with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which obligates state boards of education to work with city boards of education to identify and serve homeless children. According to John Huttner, chair of the city’s Homeless Advisory Commission and present at the meeting, the act requires that school staff be taught about rights provided to students under the McKinney Act and trained in identifying homeless students. After this process of identification, homeless children can be provided with services such as free transportation to and from school as well as permission to attend their school of origin, regardless of the district their family resides

in. During the meeting, members of the commission also identified strategies to improve access to affordable housing and to end chronic homelessness.

“The McKinney Act ensures that homeless children have access to the same level of education as those who are not homeless,” Huttner said. “This includes free school lunches if they can’t afford it and full access to all courses and activities offered to mainstream students.”

While the act was met with enthusiasm when it was set forth in 1987, the number of homeless children being identified by Elm City school staff has dwindled greatly in the past couple of years. Huttner pointed out that rather than the falling number being a function of a decreasing homeless population, it is a consequence of the city’s current failure to adhere to the McKinney Act. Huttner said this is partly due to the termination of the state’s homeless-coordinator position, a role mandated by the act to ensure the creation of policies that give homeless children access to public schooling. The position was terminated about two years ago, Huttner said, and local schools have since adopted a more lax approach toward edu-

cating staff in line with the act.

He added that a lack of funding means that local school boards are often unable to provide services to students they identify as homeless.

The meeting also addressed the issue of providing the homeless with permanent housing. Carmen Brown, shelter director for New Reach — a nonprofit agency that shelters homeless families — spoke about the difficulty New Haven residents face when looking for affordable housing.

“In New Haven, it’s really difficult to find affordable housing,” Brown told the News.

“Apartments that are being built right now are pretty much luxury apartments, and they’re very expensive.”

In the meeting, Brown talked about a project called “Zero: 2016,” which aims to create a system that houses homeless individuals within 30 days. Through coordination between local nonprofits and housing providers, the project aims to end chronic homelessness in the Elm City by the end of 2016.

Jesse’s Homeless Outreach Project founder Jesse Hardy, a self-described “man of action” and a strong advocate for a hands-on approach to countering homelessness, also attended Thursday’s meeting.

His initiative regularly organizes drives and fundraisers to provide food, clothing and shelter to New Haven’s homeless population.

“We’re the ones that organized free haircuts for the homeless on the New Haven Green,” Hardy said, describing his 2013 outreach project.

Hardy advocated for providing affordable housing to the homeless, arguing that doing so would cost the taxpayers less in the long run because the city could avoid other costs associated with supporting a growing homeless population, such as medical expenses.

“I say give them apartments. It’s going to be cheaper for the taxpayers. Say if you give somebody an apartment, its going to cost about $13,000 to $14,000 a year,” Hardy said. “But can you imagine the cost of putting someone in prison, or paying for them when they’re in hospital? That would cost $20,000 or at least $30,000 a year.”

Hardy said he plans to hold an event in April called Operation Love Affair, during which he will provide the homeless with “a bunch of spring clothing, summer clothing and good food.”

Contact ZAINAB HAMID at zainab.hamid@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Wall Street has become a veritable casino.” MAURICE ALLAIS FRENCH ECONOMIST

Schaghticoke sues state for right to build casino LAWSUIT FROM PAGE 1 the new venture go to Schaghticoke Tribal Nation citizens.

“To us, tribal gaming is about creating an economic opportunity for an impoverished people and if we were permitted to pursue gaming, we would use that opportunity to create jobs for us and for the surrounding commu-

nities,” he said.

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, which resides on a 400acre reservation in Kent, Connecticut, was granted federal recognition in 2004. This status was revoked just a year later because the state of Connecticut argued that the nation does not fulfill enough of the requirements for it to qualify for federal recognition.

A June 29 revision to the federal recognition application process blocks Native nations from pursuing federal recognition more than once.

But more than 10 years on, Velky said controversy remains around the true reason behind his tribe’s swift loss of status.

“The state has a long history of discriminating against the Scha-

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Casinos economically empower tribal nations by providing jobs and revenue to the nations’ citizens.

Students protest aid policy FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 1 that is keeping it that way.”

Students reiterated challenges that have repeatedly been raised in relation to the student effort, including on SUN’s website and at a December town hall forum where Storlazzi and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced that the student effort would drop for all students starting the next academic year. The protesters’ main objections lay in the charge that there are “two Yales” — one for students who receive financial aid and one for those who do not — and that the contribution reinforces inequality along class lines. The student effort, currently set at $6,400 per year, limits extracurricular and summertime opportunities for students, as well as puts additional strain on their academic performance, students said. Next year, the summer portion of the student effort will drop from $3,050 to $1,700 for students with the highest need and to $2,600 for all other students on financial aid.

In a speech, Matthew Massie ’17 contended that Yale’s financial aid policy actively harms low-income students who come from weaker secondary-school

backgrounds, as the financial contribution expected of them can take away from time they would otherwise spend studying. Furthermore, the student effort has prevented Massie from becoming more involved with extracurricular activities on campus, he said. “[Coming to Yale] was a step up that I was not totally prepared for,” Massie said. “Yale fails to give us the resources for this and makes it as hard as possible to make this stuff up.”

Speakers also raised other issues, including access to mental health resources and the difficulty of obtaining on-campus jobs, which are guaranteed to students receiving financial aid but some of which are highly sought-after and turn down many applicants. In December, Next Yale — a coalition of activist groups on campus — submitted a list of demands to University President Peter Salovey that included better mental health resources specifically for minority students.

Gutiérrez told the News that the event came together as a result of conversations among students about the negative effects of the student effort.

While these discussions have

been happening for the past four years, he said, there is now an unprecedented level of consensus on campus that the student effort needs to be abolished entirely.

The last time SUN staged a largescale event about financial aid was March 2015, when around 100 students gathered in front of Woodbridge Hall to share their stories and to deliver a petition with over 1,000 signatures to University administrators.

Storlazzi, who listened to final speeches from the entrance of SFS but did not address the crowd, said no one from SUN had contacted his office to discuss the financial aid policies, adding that he did not know beforehand that the speak-out was going to happen.

“We always want to hear stories that our students tell,” Storlazzi told the News after the event. “I’m so grateful that Yale is a place that allows this kind of congregation and open speech.”

Gutiérrez and Storlazzi spoke briefly after the event, but the two did not discuss a potential meeting in the future to continue the dialogue about the student effort, according to Gutiérrez.

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

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The speak-out on financial aid policy was organized by the student activist group Students Unite Now.

ghticoke,” Velky said in a March 4 press release. “The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation seeks equal treatment under the law and that does not exist under Connecticut Special Act No. 15-7.”

He added that the state fought their federal recognition in 2005 because Connecticut did not want another casino at the time.

But he said Special Act No. 15-7 appears unfair now the state is granting licenses for more casinos.

The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribes — which are the only two entities allowed to build casinos in the state of Connecticut, on or off reservation lands — announced plans last September to build a joint commercial casino to compete with the $950 million casino that MGM Resort International plans to build in Springfield, Massachusetts. Already, the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribe — dubbed “The Privileged Tribes” in the case document available on the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s official website — run Foxwoods Resort Casino and the Mohegan Sun Casino respectively. Both casinos are located on their respective reservations and bring substantial revenue into the Native nations as well as the state of Connecticut.

At a news conference after the announcement of the revision, Gov. Dannel Malloy said the revision represents a big victory for the state of Connecticut, not-

Assistant Attorney General Robert Deichert that MGM Resorts International based their legal complaint on a misinterpretation of the law.

The Schaghticoke tribe is now partnering with MGM Resorts International to sue for the ability to build off-reservation casinos.

While Velky is committed to a successful suit and a new casino in the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation reservation, not all Schaghticoke tribal members share his ambition. Ruth Garby Torres, a citizen of the Schaghticoke Nation said that Chief Velky’s views do not reflect those of the whole tribe.

“It’s safe to say that not everybody thinks this is a good idea,” she said.

She said the leadership of the tribe is failing and leaders are not thinking about the tribe as a whole. She added that the members of the tribe are concerned about the way this lawsuit may affect the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s relationships with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the Mohegan Tribe of Indians and the Connecticut state government.

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s land was granted back to the Schaghticoke in 1736 by the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut.

ing that the fine print has yet to be finalized. Federal recognition allows tribal nations to claim reparations that could take resources and economic opportunities away from the state.

“These changes ensure that previously denied tribal groups in Connecticut will not get another bite at the apple, and that any future petitioners will not be advantaged because the core criteria the federal government employs to recognize a tribe has not changed,” Malloy said.

Director of Communications at the Office of Gov. Malloy Devon Puglia told the Connecticut Mirror last March that allowing nations to reapply for recognition would negatively impact the state economy.

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation is not the only entity taking Connecticut to court due to Special Act No. 15-7.

MGM Resort International filed a lawsuit against the state of Connecticut Aug 4. following the announcement of Special Act No. 15-7. They argued that the gaming act, which grants federally recognized tribes exclusive rights to build casinos in the state, violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause and section 20 of article first of the Connecticut Constitution by giving preferential treatment to the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes. But the suit was dismissed shortly after due to claims from Connecticut

Contact HAYLEE KUSHI at haylee.kushi@yale.edu and KATHERINE MCCLEARY at katherine.mccleary@yale.edu .

Luther House to be sold

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Luther House will be selling its 27 High St. location.

LUTHER HOUSE FROM PAGE 1 work on campus, pushing the Directing Committee to make a final decision, said Bradley Abromaitis GRD ’19, a Luther House board member. The March 3 email estimated that necessary structural repairs would cost up to $80,000 and said that a recent change in local tax policy requiring the house’s student residents to pay up to $8,200 a year also compelled the board to sell.

Housing at the nine-bedroom Luther House is available to students through Dwight Hall.

In the past, funding for Luther House has come from the National Lutheran Campus Ministry, which historically has had a strong network of campus-based organizations, according to Jonathan Laven DIV ’17, a ministry intern. Recently, however, funds have been reduced due to changes in the mainline Protestant church, Abromaitis said. Laven referred to recent Pew Research Center studies that show a national decrease in church attendance, adding that the house’s sale is part of an overall trend in concerns about the financial feasibility of maintaining church property nationally. Fewer people filling the pews, Abromaitis said, means that donations go down, causing financial trouble across the board.

Laven added that this does not necessarily indicate a lack of

interest in religion and campus ministries, but that it does limit the resources allotted to campus organizations. And part of this trend can be attributed to the secularization of society, Abromaitis said.

“We are living in a more secular body, so things are changing in the dynamic of the student body,” Abromaitis said.

“There are probably less students admitted to Yale in general that are religious on the one hand explicitly, and [on the other] who are Lutheran.

We are looking at ways in which to appeal our ministry to a broader religious audience. We describe ourselves as a place for seekers, questioners and doubters.”

As structural changes affect the church at a national level, Luther House will use the sale of the building to redefine its role in the Yale community, Abromaitis said, including looking for ways to engage in a dialogue with the University’s other Christian denominations and religious groups while also extending conversations to agnostic and atheistic communities. Student members of Luther House are discussing new places to meet, and traditions such as the Taizé evening prayer in Dwight Chapel will continue independent of the house. Keyl said that she hopes the ministry may continue to use the space for once-a-week gatherings even after the sale.

Laven described student reaction to the decision as “mixed,” and Keyl added that there has been “sadness” over leaving the house and its community garden, which has provided organic produce not only to those living at the house, but to the nearby restaurant Rubamba and the food pantry at Christian Community Action. However, Laven said that many students believe having the Lutheran ministry’s presence expanded through campus rather than being landed several blocks away can help spread resources and scope.

“I am excited by the kinds of possibilities that the sale opens up,” said David Clauson DRA ’16, a congregant at Luther House. “Part of the reason for the sale of the house is to free up resources used to grow and expand the ministry across campus. I think that the idea is exciting, to have a set of resources that were being used on the maintenance of the house and the space that can now be deployed in other areas … You will see new things pop up in new spaces, and new connections being made between Luther House, the campus Lutherans and other campus organizations.”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed in 1988.

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

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“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” JIMI HENDRIX AMERICAN MUSICIAN

Headstone to honor alum in unmarked grave

BY NITIYA RAYAPATI STAFF REPORTER Only one African-American performing artist was sent to World War I France as part of the Proctor Party, a small group of black women who provided services ranging from catering to entertainment for 100,000 troops from the American Expeditionary Forces. But today, she lies in an unmarked grave in New Haven’s Evergreen Cemetery.

Elizabeth Foxwell, staff editor at the Catholic Historical Review, is looking to change this.

Helen Hagan, who graduated from the Yale School of Music in 1912, was a composer and pianist who travelled to France in 1919 .Foxwell, currently based in Washington, D.C., was editing a book about American women in WWI when she discovered that Hagan was buried in an unmarked grave. She launched a crowdfunded campaign via the online platform “CrowdRise” to raise $1,500 to install a tombstone. Although she is now just $245 away from her target, Evergreen Cemetery’s board of directors decided Sunday to move ahead with the installation of a grave marker regardless of the outcome of the campaign.

“For a proper grave marker that would recognize Hagan’s place in music as well as her World War I service commitment, it would be a substantial contribution,” Foxwell said. “I thought it should be a collaborative effort.”

Foxwell noted that as an African-American classical performer, Hagan was a pioneer.

When Hagan was younger, she played the organ at the Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church, which has stood since 1820 and

is the oldest African-American Congregational United Church of Christ in the world. Hagan then matriculated at the Yale School of Music, winning a substantial monetary prize in 1910 for her performance talent. Hagan also performed with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.

Foxwell said Hagan’s service in France was a significant commitment. Travelling required her to forgo around eight months of concert revenue. Foxwell said she read a letter authored by Hagan that outlines her financial difficulties funding an advanced degree to enable her to teach. “[These women] really should be lauded for their tremendous hard work and what they had to accomplish with not a lot of resources,” Foxwell said.

Hagan’s only surviving composition is her 1912 concerto in C minor. Foxwell said Hagan composed other pieces for the pianoforte and for the violin that have not been recovered.

Paul McCraven, a member of Evergreen Cemetery’s board of directors, said the cemetery considers it important to celebrate the life and accomplishments of such a unique woman.

“We’re definitely very excited,” McCraven said. “We would love to have a ceremony in the fall when the marker is placed.”

The crowdfunded campaign has brought about a new awareness of Hagan’s achievements.

Associate Dean of the School of Music Michael Yaffe said he was excited about the recent attention given to Hagan, whose musical and compositional talent was often overlooked because she was an African-American woman.

“I think [the push for a grave-

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Hagan currently lies in an unmarked grave in Evergreen Cemetary. stone] is so important,” Yaffe said. “She wasn’t a name familiar to me, but now she is.”

Lucy Caplan GRD ’20, a graduate student in American Studies and African American Studies, came across Hagan’s name while researching for her dissertation

on African-American classical musicians in the early 20th century. After learning of the push for a tombstone, Caplan said the situation presents an opportunity to think about how Hagan’s story is a part of Yale’s story.

Caplan added that she would

love to see a performance of Hagan’s surviving concerto on campus.

“There’s been lots of discussion on campus this year about which aspects of its history Yale chooses to acknowledge,” Caplan said. “Recognizing the histori-

cal achievements of a student of color is a salient issue.”

Hagan went on to teach at what it is now Tennessee State University.

Contact NITIYA RAYAPATI at nitiya.rayapati@yale.edu .

New Haven may benefit from Probuphine recommendation

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER A scientific advisory panel recommended in January that the Food and Drug Administration approve Probuphine, an implant that slowly releases the prescription drug buprenorphine, as a treatment for patients with opioid-abuse disorders. The panel’s recommendation comes in the midst of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls a national drug overdose “epidemic,” with opioid overdose death rates reaching 9.0 per 100,000 in 2014. Approval of the Probuphine implant has the potential to help cities across the country, including New Haven, which had a total of 84 heroinrelated drug overdose deaths from January to September 2015.

Developed by the New Jerseybased Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, the Probuphine implant is inserted under the skin in the upper arm and slowly releases buprenorphine — the most commonly used medication to treat opioid-dependence — to help dependent patients maintain sobriety for six months.

If approved, Probuphine would be the first FDA-approved implant and longest-acting treatment for opioid addiction. Although the panel voted to recommend that the FDA approve Probuphine, the decision was far from unanimous. Some members of the panel expressed concerns about proper dosing and the dangers of making any changes to stable patients’ treatment regimens. However, several national and Yale-affiliated addiction researchers said Probuphine, as a rehabilitative treatment, can have several advantages for opioid abusers, including consistent controlled dosing and easy administration. The FDA is scheduled to make a decision by May 2016.

“Medication offers the best chance for people with opioid addiction to sustain recovery, but … the few, current options are not enough to address the tremendous needs of the vast population dealing with this complex disease,” said Braeburn Pharmaceuticals President and CEO Behshad Sheldon in a January press release.

In the release, Titan Pharmaceuticals President and CEO Sunil

Bhonsle said that “new treatment options for the millions of patients and their families suffering from opioid addiction are desperately needed.”

Richard Rosenthal, medical director of addiction psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Institute of Mental Health, has been working on addiction research for decades, contributing to two published randomized clinical trials of buprenorphine implants.

These trials demonstrated that buprenorphine implant treatment was superior to a placebo and not inferior to sublingual buprenorphine, a common form of buprenorphine administration in which tablets are placed under the tongue.

Rosenthal emphasized that while sublingual buprenorphine can be a lifesaving treatment, the buprenorphine implant Probuphine offers additional benefits for many patients. With the implant, patients cannot miss doses — a common mistake that often leads to drug cravings — and there is no chance of children accidentally ingesting the drug. It would also be very difficult for patients to

share or sell their buprenorphine, he said.

“The bottom line is that [buprenorphine] works,” as a treatment for patients with opioid-abuse disorders, Rosenthal said. “Relapse rates are very high” for patients with opioid-abuse disorders, he noted, and patients receiving medical treatment have higher rates of successfully maintaining long-term sobriety.

Brent Moore, a researcher at the Yale School of Medicine who was not affiliated with the scientific advisory panel that recommended Probuphine’s approval, said that buprenorphine maintains relatively stable, consistent levels in blood when taken regularly, which is advantageous in controlling drug cravings. He added that unlike methadone treatment — in which patients must obtain daily methadone doses in a clinic, a practice that can carry stigma — buprenorphine can be taken at home.

Moore noted that for the vast majority of opioid-dependent patients, treatment with medication was markedly more effective than abstinence-based reha-

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bilitation methods. He said that for patients who had regularly used opioids for more than a year, withholding medications like buprenorphine or methadone is “almost borderline unethical.”

Moore noted that preventing people from using opioids for the first time could help curb the rising overdose rates. However, he said that for those who are already dependent on opioids, “buprenorphine can help people with longterm addiction feel normal and help them function.”

The panel’s recommendation comes during a time of rapidly increasing overdose rates, the majority of which are caused by various prescription and illicit opioid drugs. A January Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report from the CDC stated that the United States is “experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths.” According to the report, opioid overdose deaths have risen across all racial groups and genders, going from 7.9 per 100,000 in 2013 to 9.0 per 100,000 in 2014 — a 14 percent increase in just one year. In the past three years, heroin overdoses have more than tripled.

“The prescription opioid epidemic is driving the heroin epidemic,” Rosenthal noted. “The largest component of people who use heroin started out with prescription pain medications.”

Because prescription pain medications are usually much more expensive than heroin, people who have become dependent on prescribed opiates have an incentive to switch over to heroin, he added.

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, heroin has become increasingly available in recent years and is a particularly high threat in the Northeast. Because heroin’s purity has increased, it can more easily be snorted or smoked, methods which are more appealing to new users, who are more likely to be averse to injecting drugs intravenously, according to the National Heroin Threat Assessment Summary released by the DEA in April 2015.

Even though the population of heroin users is smaller than the populations of other illicit drug users, heroin use is growing at a faster rate and is much more likely to cause fatal overdose than other drugs, the DEA report noted. Since opioids slow users’ respiratory rates and can induce vomiting, users can suffocate quickly, the DEA report noted. According to the report, in response to increas-

ing rates of fatal opioid-related overdoses, many law enforcement agencies are training officers, who are often the first responders in overdose cases, to administer naloxone, a fast-acting drug that can reverse the effects of opioid overdose.

However, even as overdose rates have skyrocketed, public opinion has become increasingly accepting of drug addiction as a brain disease. Rosenthal indicated that the brain chemistry of an addict differs from that of a non-substance abusing person. “[An addicted patient’s] biology — especially their brain biology — has changed,” Moore said. “How they respond to reinforcing stimuli is different” from how nondrug dependent people respond to reinforcing stimuli. Both Moore and Rosenthal emphasized that even though cultural attitudes toward addiction have shifted significantly, drug dependency still carries stigma.

Kevin Garcia ’16 and Jack Zakrzewski ’16 know firsthand the gravity of opioid-related drug overdoses. As EMTs in New Haven, both Garcia and Zakrzewski have responded to overdose calls. Garcia noted that some overdoses occurred in unexpected areas, such as nicer, suburban neighborhoods, a reflection of the changing demographics of drug users. Hallmarks of opioid overdoses include slowed or absent breathing, pinpoint pupils, slowed pulse and loss of consciousness, according to Garcia. “I’ve been [called to] numerous fatal overdoses,” he said.

Zakrzewski, who said he has seen many drug and alcohol related problems while working, noted that addiction’s impact extended beyond the users themselves. He said he found the effects of substance abuse are most painful in the context of families, especially “when it’s the parents calling for the kid or the kid calling for the parents,” and cited a case where a school-aged child overdosed after accidentally ingesting some type of opiate drug that belonged to a parent. Both Zakrzewski and Garcia said they view addiction primarily as a brain disease.

Though the FDA often follows the recommendation of the advisory panel, it is not required to do so.

In the United States, prescriptions for opioid drugs have quadrupled since 1999.

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

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“Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York …”

RICHARD III FROM SHAKESPEARE’S “RICHARD III”

FAS profs dissatisfied with admin. role FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 impact us and our students, we need to be privy to the discussions. It is an ongoing struggle.”

A LACK OF TRANSPARENCY

The senate itself was born out of many of the same concerns about administrative centralization that persist today, in particular the University’s controversial decision in 2011 to open a campus in Singapore. Faculty members at the time criticized the administration for failing to meaningfully consult the professors. In December 2013, FAS professors voted in favor of creating an advisory senate that would serve as a vehicle for faculty concerns. The senate officially launched this fall.

The body has focused its attention on two issues: the residential college expansion plans and the faculty conduct standards and procedures. After gathering faculty comments on both topics, subcommittees in the senate have produced independent reports and recommendations. A particular theme in both reports has been the faculty’s desire to receive increased information and to have more concrete input in University decision-making.

FAS Senate Chair and history professor Beverly Gage ’94 said the lack of communication and transparency between administrators and faculty members is the reason the senate was created in the first place, and it is thus not surprising to see these very concerns repeatedly raised in the various forums and surveys.

Of the over 300 FAS faculty respondents to an October survey, 77 percent said they did not have enough information about the new college expansion. The comment section revealed the extent of faculty frustration in this regard.

One commenter wrote, “The absolute lack of interaction with faculty on this [matter] leaves me feeling utterly disenfranchised by a process I would find otherwise exciting. Over the past five years or so, administrators at this University have treated faculty with dismissiveness, bordering on contempt.”

“Planners at the University should talk to faculty at all levels,” another wrote. “They might realize that this University is filled with smart and engaged people who have the future of the col-

lege in mind.”

FAS Dean Tamar Gendler said it has been challenging for her “leanly staffed” office to do both research and policy work as well as communicate everything it is doing to the faculty. She said her office will hire a Woodbridge Fellow for the next academic year to increase communication with faculty members.

She added that the logistical information regarding the new college expansion is not confidential, and she said she passed it along to the senate immediately following its request.

Decisions are being made that have very, very significant impact on education, which is what the faculty is here to think about.

RUTH KOIZIM FAS Senator and French Lector Much of the faculty’s frustration appears to stem from the administration’s decision to cap the FAS ladder body at 700 members as Yale plans for a 15 percent increase in its undergraduate population. More than a dozen comments questioned the validity of this cap. Gage, who chairs the senate subcommittee on the college expansion, said the senate was not privy to information about how the number was determined.

Other comments suggested that faculty members do not feel informed about how the expansion plan will affect individual departments and resources, such as teaching assistants and student advising.

Anthropology professor Bill Kelly, who was on an administrative committee about the FAS ladder cap, said the 700 number was “bogus” and “cannot be defended.” He added that the administration so tightly controls information and matters of budget that it is difficult for faculty to act in decisive and proactive ways.

“Until both administrators and faculty members have equal access to information, there cannot be equal partnership in gov-

ernance,” Kelly said.

Similar concerns have been raised about the University’s decision to create new faculty conduct standards and procedures, which have been a major source of tension among FAS members for more than a year.

While some faculty members are troubled by the content of the standards and procedures, others questioned why they are necessary at all.

“Without any … evidence on the frequency or severity of misconduct, it is not possible to appraise the need for the proposed standards,” economics professor and FAS Senate Deputy Chair Bill Nordhaus wrote.

FAS GOVERNANCE

Faculty members have also questioned the impact of faculty governance in recent policymaking, particularly regarding the role and appointment of ad hoc faculty committees.

In recently released faculty comments regarding the conduct standards and procedures, faculty members called for a more active role in the drafting and approval of these policies. Some criticized what they called a hierarchical process in which the president and the provost gave ultimate approval for the standards, only considering faculty feedback in a cursory way.

The administration has pushed back against this criticism, stating that policy changes are usually drafted by ad hoc committees made up of faculty members. University President Peter Salovey said the University has had multiple committees over the years with significant faculty participation. For example, the committee that drafted the conduct standards and procedures is made up of mostly faculty members from across the schools, and is chaired by psychology professor and Trumbull Master Margaret Clark.

But faculty members interviewed said these types of committees do not represent true faculty governance, because the committee members are often handpicked by administrators such as Salovey and University Provost Benjamin Polak.

“On some issues, such as the Singapore case, there is a sense that committees are appointed and stacked in certain ways, and the outcomes are predetermined,” Gage said. “This is not

truly deliberative.”

Koizim added that she can often predict the small group of faculty members who will be called upon to serve on committees. This selection method does not represent the full range of views in the FAS, and some appointments have been “questionable,” she said.

Kelly criticized the way in which these administrationappointed committees generate policies and only submit them to faculty for comment afterwards.

“That’s administrative, not faculty governance,” Kelly said.

“Faculty governance is a myth.”

In response to these concerns, the senate has created an internal Committee on Yale Committees that vets and suggests faculty members who are qualified to serve on these ad hoc committees. Gendler said this senate committee will offer important advice about certain ad hoc committees, although there are still some committees that require administrative selection.

JUST ONE OF 12

FAS professors have also expressed concern that the FAS is losing its historic influence on University policies, as the administration shifts toward more University-wide policymaking that equally involves all 12 teaching units: the FAS faculty as well as faculty from the professional schools. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said he has heard faculty members raise this issue and said this concern may be an unintended byproduct of Salovey’s goal to unify Yale.

“The president came in with the goal of creating a unified Yale, which means trying to have all the different schools be more in conversation,” Holloway said.

“The unintended effect is that the FAS realizes it is one of 12 units, and it may be a culture shift.”

Gendler noted that the FAS teaches two-thirds of students at the University and is thus central to the University’s thinking, but she added that the administration needs to make sure that all the other constituencies feel valued as well.

However, some faculty members interviewed said the FAS should be able to determine and vote on its own conduct standards, rather than be subject to University-wide conduct standards.

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History professor Beverly Gage ’94 is the current FAS Senate Chair.

Gage said FAS concerns may diverge from University-wide policy, adding that the senate feels strongly that the FAS should be able to vote on its own conduct standards. In its November report, the senate recommended that the entire FAS body be allowed to vote on the final draft of the procedures, rather than having them approved by administrators alone. Gendler has agreed to this recommendation. However, because the standards are University-wide, the FAS could vote against the conduct standards but still potentially be subject to the policies if other schools approve them.

Koizim said she believes the University-wide policy was implemented to stifle dis-

sent from the FAS, as the other schools do not have senates and have not strongly objected to the conduct standards.

Still, Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith emphasized that the FAS Senate represents only the FAS and not Yale’s faculty as a whole.

“The hope is that the new FAS advisory senate will help with participation on the part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

That’s not the faculty of the University,” she said. “That’s about not quite half of the University.

When we speak about faculty, we have to speak in broader terms than that.”

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

Postseason tournaments added for Ivy League basketball BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 league at a time when everyone has developed and is hitting stride,” Yale women’s basketball forward Nyasha Sarju ’16 said. “I think it is a wonderful idea, and I only wish I could have experienced playing in the Ivy tournament.”

Until this change, the Ivy League’s NCAA Tournament bid was awarded to the team with the

best record in conference play. If any teams finished with the same number of wins and losses, as the Yale and Harvard men’s teams did last year, they were named cochampions and played a singleelimination playoff for the berth at a neutral site.

In that playoff last season, Yale fell to Harvard, 53–51, the day before NCAA Tournament brackets were announced. That game was played at Penn’s Palestra,

where the inaugural Ivy League tournament will take place on March 11 and 12, 2017. After that playoff, the league will evaluate it and select a site for the following year. Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris did not rule out the possibility of a neutral, nonIvy League site.

Television rights to the tournament have not yet been settled, according to Harris.

“As far as television and digital

opportunities, those are things we are going to explore fully,” Harris said. “Revenue, frankly, was not part of the conversation.

We did this because it was the right thing to do.”

Despite their share of the Ivy title and 22–10 overall record, which included a win over thenreigning national champion UConn, the 2014–15 Bulldogs were not invited to any of the four major postseason tournaments:

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The Palestra was packed for the 2015 one-game Ivy playoff game — the last ever of its kind — between Yale and Harvard.

the NCAA Tournament, National Invitation Tournament, CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament and College Basketball Invitational.

The NIT guarantees a spot to any conference regular season champion that does not win its tournament and does not earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. The policy did not apply to the Ivy League, but will in the future with the introduction of the tournament.

“I was stunned and disgusted, at the same time, at how it worked out,” head coach James Jones said a week after his team was snubbed. “I just can’t understand how this team was not seen in a higher light.”

According to Harris, the fourteam, two-day basketball playoff was modeled on the Ivy League men’s and women’s lacrosse tournaments, which began in 2010. Ivy League baseball and softball also hold a postseason, with the top teams from two fourmember divisions competing in a Championship Series for the Ivy League Championships and bids to the College World Series and College Softball World Series.

The new tournament was formatted to minimize the amount of class student-athletes will miss, Harris said, and will cause “no net increase to student-athletes’ time across the board” because each team will be required to play one fewer nonconference game.

“We think that showcasing Ivy League athletics during March Madness, when the nation is focused on college basketball, provides us a terrific opportunity to showcase our unique brand of college athletics,” Harris said in a media teleconference on Thursday afternoon. “It provides yet another venue to highlight the competitiveness, athletically,

and also the stories of our fabulous student-athletes.”

According to Yale Associate Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett, the addition of a postseason tournament is a “winwin” because although studentathletes will get to experience the “thrills and heartbreak” of a postseason tournament, the 14 regular-season games, which determine the four qualifying teams, will still be meaningful.

In February, Yale men’s basketball forward Justin Sears ’16 noted that the winner-takes-all mentality meant that teams eliminated from title contention would just “phone it in.” With the addition of a tournament, teams in or near the top half of the standings will have added motivation to win games late in the season.

Players and administrators interviewed were largely satisfied with the announcement, and noted that the postseason tournament will add to both the excitement and competitiveness of the Ivy League season.

“The excitement of March Madness now includes the announcement of an Ivy League postseason basketball tournament,” Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “We are thrilled with this news. The women’s and men’s basketball teams in the Ivy League will now have the added excitement of striving to make the four-team postseason tournament.”

The Yale men’s basketball team has placed in the top four of the Ivy League for each of the past 16 seasons, while the women’s team has done so for six of the past seven years.

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

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YUAG explores art and human rights

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER Casts of trees, black-andwhite photography and colorful paintings were the focus of a human rights-themed talk at the Yale University Art Gallery on Thursday.

The event, “Despite Everything: Contemporary Art Students and International Human Rights,” drew approximately 40 Yale students and community members. It was held as part of JUNCTURE, a yearlong initiative in art and human rights through the Schell Center at the Yale Law School. JUNCTURE was conceptualized over the summer of 2014 to address broad questions about art, ethics and human rights. In April 2015, JUNCTURE accepted applications for research fellows, who were then awarded summer funding to travel to various locations of interest and create art. Of the five MFAs that were selected, three attended the event to discuss their work and speak on a panel. David Kim, JUNCTURE’s deputy director and curator, moderated the discussion. He said JUNCTURE’s work will continue next year with speakers planned for the fall semester.

“You don’t have to be an expert to be a witness to suffering,” said Eddie Aparicio ART ’16, one of the featured artists.

Aparicio’s work took him to El Salvador, then back to his hometown in Los Angeles. A painting and printmaking student, his art uses trees to record situations that pertain to human rights.

His artwork was driven by an interest in how the indigenous people of El Salvador — where his family is from — and Guatemala farm rubber. He said rubber

farming in the region is now being taken over by factories. He added that he visited Guatemalan factories, requesting rubber samples and asking questions about the workers’ safety.

After shifting his focus to his own neighborhood, he returned to Los Angeles to cast molds of trees, which he said represent witnesses of gang violence. He noted that evidence of graffiti on the trees sometimes shows up in the molds. “[The art] became an echoing of how I think of graffiti as people trying to have a voice that are disenfranchised,” Aparicio said.

Although he hopes that later in his career he can “branch out” into more political commentary, Aparicio said he is currently focused on learning about the world through research and creating his art.

In Asmara, Eritrea, Eli Durst ART ’16 captured photographs of people and buildings. After befriending Eritrean immigrants who his mother worked with, he became interested in Eritrea’s colonial history and the human rights violations its people face.

According to Durst, these violations include indefinite military conscription and a lack of freedom of the press.

His art focuses on the relationships between people and the landscapes they inhabit.

Durst explained that he does not see himself as a photojournalist and he feels he has “no claim on objective truth.”

“I felt a pretty intense guilt for not being an immigration lawyer, for not being in a field that can really tangibly effect people,” Durst said. “I still feel guilty.”

Tomashi Jackson ART ’16 focused her art on violence in

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A panel of artists gathered in the Yale University Art Gallery to discuss how their art explores human rights issues.

Houston. She utilized video, photography and painting to explore power structures and police brutality in America.

Part of her work included reenacting “stress positions” — the positions Black teenage girls arrested last summer in McKin-

ney, Texas, were placed in during heated interactions with the police. She originally intended to act out the scenes with white artists where the original interactions between the police and Black teenagers occurred. But she abandoned the idea out of safety

concerns following the controversy surrounding 2015 arrest and death of Sandra Bland.

Jackson explained that while reviewing the risk assumption forms her peers needed to go abroad, she noted that she felt her safety was equally jeopardized.

“All the language about what could happen in another country is very accurate for the United States right now,” she said.

The YUAG opened in 1953.

Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

Architecture Ph.D. program launches website

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER

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The Yale School of Architecture’s Ph.D. program launched its own website in February.

The Yale School of Architecture’s Ph.D. program is now the school’s only academic program with its own dedicated website.

The five-year doctoral program, which has been offered since 2009 and currently enrolls nine students, had a soft launch of its website in October 2015. Officially announced by the School of Architecture two weeks ago, the website was not publicized at first as adjustments to the site’s content were still being finalized. The website provides viewers with brief biographical descriptions of the program’s students and faculty as well as event information.

Director of Doctoral Studies at the School of Architecture Alan Plattus ’76 said the website was spearheaded by a current Ph.D. candidate, Eugene Han ARC ’20.

“A big part of our reasoning for launching the website was to establish an idea about what the program is,” Han said. “We had to speak amongst ourselves, meaning the Ph.D. students, and develop a unified front, a consolidated message about what the Ph.D. program is really about.”

Prior to the website’s official announcement on Feb. 19, the Ph.D. program only had an outline of its offerings and policies on the School of Architecture’s main website, which ran alongside the school’s other academic programs. While the main website’s information is still available, Gary He ARC ’21 said that compared to when he applied to the program last year, prospective applicants now have a much clearer idea of the program’s administrators and students’ current studies. Comparable architecture Ph.D. programs at other universities had online information as extensive as excerpts of students’ dissertations, he said, and while Yale’s program would not necessarily want to include that much information, prospective students now have a better sense of the candidates and professors involved and how big the program actually is.

Surry Schlabs ARC ’17 said the new website allows the Ph.D. program to extend its presence not just within the University, but also to other schools, providing a much-needed public forum. Previously, the only

publicity method available for the Ph.D. program comprised internal emails and physical posters, but now events like the Ph.D. dialogue — a series of talks headed by Ph.D. candidates — can be broadcast to a wider audience, he said.

“The Ph.D. program is obviously a new program, so a lot of people don’t really know about it,” He said. “Some of us had expressed that there’s a sort of opacity even when we applied ourselves about what the program is, what goes on, and the website is an attempt to try and make those things better.”

Han said the actual process of getting the website online only took a few days as he had developed a number of websites in the past. Currently under his management, the website’s address only costs $5 a year, he said. Han added that while he currently has sole administrative control over the website, he plans to pass it on to someone else when he graduates and eventually give publishing rights to students and faculty so that the site can become a collaborative effort.

The site has over 100 visitors a month now, he said, and is based off of WordPress.

The Ph.D. program is still relatively small compared to similar programs at peer institutions. Still, Schlabs said that Yale’s program is unique because it requires students to already have a professional background in architecture.

Ph.D. candidates are asked to split their time between theory, history and studio courses, he said, and by doing so, Yale successfully merges both theory and practice in the field. Harvard’s equivalent doctoral program currently enrolls 34 candidates.

“Yale is a remarkable place with a pretty exceptional intellectual culture,” Schlabs said.

“When it was time for me to pick a place to come for my Ph.D., Yale was near the top of my list and I was already so familiar with how the University worked and had previously built relationships with the faculty here.”

To be considered for the Ph.D. program, applicants must have a master’s degree in architecture or a related field and two years of professional experience in architecture.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Bacchanal student organizers fear public safety changes will ruin event

BY CATIE EDMONDSON When the theme of this year’s Bacchanal, “They Don’t Want You to Bacch,� was released, it was recognized as a tongue-incheek reference to the administrative oversight and stipulations that dogged last year’s spring concert. As a result of those stipulations, a series of changes to Bacchanal were implemented that students felt significantly damaged the event billed as the most fun day of the year.

But students overseeing the planning of Bacchanal anticipate that students’ experience this year may be worse than last year’s criticized concert, the result of being forced to engage in what they described as a rigid and uncommunicative working relationship with Columbia’s Department of Public Safety.

John Murolo, director of special operations and events and Public Safety’s point person for Bacchanal, was not made available for interview.

In a series of interviews with Spectator, students working to organize this year’s event described feeling stonewalled and dismissed by Public Safety as the office continued to mandate a series of requirements — including a new stage set-up and the use of a wristband system that last year resulted in hourlong wait periods — that they feel will jeopardize the experience and, in some cases, the safety of students who will attend the spring concert. These fears are not unfounded — Public Safety plans to direct crowds of students into six compartmentalized areas separated by barricades. “Worst case, from a student perspective, you’re going to be divided from your friends, there are going to be long lines, you’re stuck in a hot, very caged-in, somewhat claustrophobic dead zone, and there are going to be gates everywhere,� Jesse Van Marter, the safety chair of the Bacchanal committee, said.

Though the students proposed a series of alternatives in the attempt to preserve the integrity of the event, Public Safety has been ultimately unwilling to make any compromises or changes based on students’ concerns, according to the students.

For Ben Kornick, who is currently serving his second year as the president of the Bacchanal committee, this year’s experience is simply a continuation of a trend of increased administrative intervention that has diminished the concert experience students are able to enjoy. “If there’s not a precedent that student leaders’ voices matter in the conversation, they can continue to make Bacchanal more and more safe in their minds. In our minds, some of the decisions are unsafe,� Kornick said. “But ultimately, they’ll continue to restrict Bacchanal.�

“CAGED ANIMALS�

In following Public Safety’s requirements, organizers of the event expect that students will experience a markedly different concert than in years past.

For the Bacchanal committee

and Columbia College Student Council President Ben Makansi and EngiCOLUMBIA n e e r i n g Student Council President Caroline Park, who are also working to plan the event, the most concerning change to the annual spring concert is the expected implementation of a new stage and crowd space design, in which the audience will be directed into six fenced-off areas on Low Plaza. “The people who get there first will be able to go in the first partition, and [Public Safety] will fill up the first partition,� Van Marter said. “Public safety will close it, they will fill up the next partition, and so on.� “It’s going to be very constricted and really hot,� Park said. “You’re going to feel like caged animals.�

The design created by Public Safety is intended to reduce safety issues incurred from pushing within the crowd. However, the students involved with planning Bacchanal maintain that the design itself is unsafe.

It is expected that if students need to leave the section to use the restroom, receive medical attention or get food and water, they will be unable to return to their spot and will be forced to re-enter in a different section.

Students will also be required to pick up their wristbands the day of the concert, a continuation of a change made last year that received heavy criticism from students, who reported waiting in lines for up to four hours. Organizers this year anticipate that students will “easily� wait at least one hour to receive their wristband.

Students interviewed by Spectator largely assailed the changes and said that should such changes be implemented, it would ruin their Bacchanal experience and could potentially create dangerous situations.

Ricardo De Luca Tuma, a resident adviser, said that the design seems to contradict advice students are told to follow on Bacchanal, including staying hydrated and using a buddy system. “It seems counterintuitive — you might get disbanded from your friends, you won’t have anyone to take care of you, you can’t get water,� De Luca Tuma said. “It’s a moment when we should come together and watch out for each other as a community, and that’s not what this structure is promoting.�

De Luca Tuma added that he anticipates that should these changes be implemented, students will likely be more upset than they were last year. “I’d like to see what in the past happened to warrant this much change, especially since the changes last year weren’t successful in many ways and weren’t pleasing to the people,� he said.

Austin Park said he would still attend Bacchanal despite the changes, but expressed frustration.

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“Do we really have to be typical Columbia here?� Park said. “Why can’t it just run smoothly for once?�

FALLING ON DEAF EARS

The Bacchanal committee, Park and Makansi said that they fought against these changes, pushing back against the stage design and wristband system, but the alternatives they suggested and concerns they expressed ultimately fell on deaf ears. “I think that [Undergraduate Student Life] has been incredibly receptive — if we want to talk, they’re always there to sit down and talk. Really where the gap in communication comes in is when we try to meet with Public Safety,� Park said. “Because they’re making all these decisions and to not sit down and explain it to us or to give it to us without justification, that’s when the issue comes up.�

Students involved in the planning of the event also articulated in interviews that they had hoped Undergraduate Student Life would push back against some of Public Safety’s recommendations.

Even so, in an interview with Spectator, Dean of Undergraduate Student Life Cristen Kromm and Assistant Director of Student Community Programs and Bacchanal’s adviser Aaron Gomes repeatedly said that they must and will continue to defer to Public Safety’s recommendations when it comes to matters of safety. “I think the students put together some ideas that made sense to me, but I don’t have the background or experience in concert planning,� Gomes said. “I don’t have the experience to say that the one that is proposed now is not a good idea.� “The role of Public Safety here is to tell us what is safe,� Kromm said. “And so if that design is what Public Safety puts forward, that is what we need to move forward with.�

Van Marter told Spectator that he believes Undergraduate Student Life’s ability to question Public Safety’s recommendation is inherently restricted. “[Gomes] is a good advocate for us, but sometimes it seems like he can’t advocate for us as strongly as we would like because of the position he is in and having to maintain his relationship with campus partners for other clubs he manages,� Van Marter said. “So when it came to later in the year and we looked to interface with these campus partners more directly, I think it becomes a big session of, a combination of being stonewalled and led on.�

When asked if they felt their ability to advocate for the students planning Bacchanal has been constrained by their need to maintain working relationships with Public Safety, Kromm and Gomes declined to comment.

REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE

Though three independent sources privy to Bacchanal planning meetings confirmed that Murolo told students he would always be willing to meet with them, students said they have

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Bacchanal organizers said that students’ experiences this year may be worse than last year. been unable to set up a meeting with him outside of the two planned event review meetings, which Gomes and Kromm confirmed. They also complained that, although they had been working to set up an event review since early fall, they were unable to have such a meeting until February.

Gomes and Kromm declined to comment on why they thought students had been unable to meet with Murolo despite his reassurances of availability.

But at event reviews — the only time they’ve been able to communicate face to face with Murolo — students said that he has yet to make any compromises or changes to the concert in response to their concerns, and though nothing is final yet, has made no indication that they should expect any such changes in the future. “We kept offering compromises closer to [Public Safety’s] end. With every no, there was something that we tried to meet them halfway on, and it came to the point where we tried to meet them three-quarters and they still said no,� Park said. “Their idea of a compromise is essentially no.�

In interviews with Spectator, the Bacchanal committee, Makansi and Park outlined the alternate proposals they presented to Kromm, Gomes and Public Safety. Had Public Safety been willing to compromise, the students said, this year’s concert could have looked very different.

In an emailed proposal to Gomes, Kromm, Facilities, Risk Management and Public Safety obtained by Spectator, the Bac-

chanal committee, together with Makansi and Park, offered alternatives to the cross-hatch design they believed would be safe.

Although students said Public Safety said their proposals were read and that the office is continuing to work on the proposed stage design, they do not anticipate that the design will change.

In lieu of distributing wristbands, the committee, Makansi and Park proposed implementing a system that would allow students to swipe in and out of the concert space. When a certain number of students would leave the event, a new group of students could enter the venue. “The idea is to accommodate the flow of students in and out of the plaza. No one is in disagreement that there should be a maximum of 4,000 students on the plaza at any one time,�

Makansi said. “But what we do think is that there should be a way to allow students to enter the plaza as other students leave the plaza, so that more than 4,000 students have access to the plaza, but there’d be no more than 4,000 students on the plaza at any given time.�

For Public Safety — and Kromm and Gomes — giving more than 4,000 students the expectation that they will be able to gain entry to the concert is unsafe. “For the people who are standing at that front gate, if there are people who are saying, ‘I see three people leave,’ but there are 55 people waiting to get in — managing that crowd from

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Students involved with the planning of the event largely said in interviews they found the experience to be disillusioning. But for Kornick, it has also established a dangerous precedent and prompted concerns about what future Bacchanals will look like. “All of those changes we saw last year were implemented and students weren’t very happy about it, but at event review, we heard, ‘Best Bacchanal ever, we finally have a method that works,’� Kornick said. “Then we saw these changes this year. Now we’re going to have this Bacchanal, and it’s going to be the safest one yet, it will be the model — until next year. What happens next year?�

For Park, the experience only underlines what she described as a common truism among Columbia students. “I think it says something that when everyone reflects back on their Columbia experience, everyone says that their freshman year experience was the best year for Bacchanal,� Park said. “I think this sets a really negative precedent for what should be the best day of the year — it turns it into a really negative experience.�

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SPORTS

“They say the toughest thing is staying in the Major Leagues once you get there. And I would agree with that.”

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Breaking down Selection Sunday M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Spokane, Washington.

In the three phases of the selection process, the 36 atlarge teams — teams that did not earn an automatic berth by way of winning a conference tournament yet are selected by the NCAA Tournament Committee to participate — are chosen first, then the entire field is seeded and finally placed into the bracket, which will determine the location and date of the first round games for the Bulldogs.

Yale may play on either Thursday or Friday.

YALE AGAINST TOP TEAMS

In recent years, the Elis have played a rigorous slate of nonconference games, and the team has put together some noteworthy performances during those contests.

Two years ago, the Bulldogs

toppled the University of Connecticut, the then-defending national champions, 45–44 on a last-second three-pointer. The memorable win marked Yale’s first over historically dominant UConn since 1986, and it snapped a streak of 13 consecutive wins for UConn over its instate foe.

Meanwhile, Yale faced two powerhouses this season in Southern Methodist University and Duke. The Elis lost both contests, though in the 71–69 loss to SMU, which came in the midst of a nation-best 18–0 start for the Mustangs, Yale controlled much of the action.

While it is possible the Elis can play Duke again — the Blue Devils are currently projected to be about a No. 4 or No. 5 seed — they will not be seeing SMU. Due to NCAA violations ranging from academic fraud and unethical conduct, the Mustangs will

not be participating in the postseason this year.

Yale struggled to overcome Duke’s 2–3 zone defense after carrying a lead into halftime versus the Blue Devils. Following the game, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski praised the Bulldogs and forward Justin Sears ’16, who he said could be “an outstanding player” in Duke’s Atlantic Coast Conference. Sears is tied with point guard Makai Mason ’18 as the leading scorer on the team with 15.8 points per game.

The team also battled USC this season, a team that rose as high as No. 21 in the AP Poll, in a December contest that was within single digits with fewer than five minutes remaining.

Although Yale went 0–4 against top nonconference opponents this season, its strength of schedule and Ivy League domination garnered

them seven votes in last week’s AP Top-25 Poll, more votes than all but seven other teams outside of the top 25.

“We do three things. We defend our behinds off, we block out and rebound like nobody’s business and we share the ball,” Yale head coach James Jones said on Tuesday. “Those three things are what Yale basketball is made of right now. And when we stick to that routine — when we do that — we’re dangerous.”

IVY LEAGUE TRACK RECORD

The Ivy League has made some noise in the NCAA Tournament in recent years.

Although the only Ancient Eight team ever to advance to the National Championship was Dartmouth back in 1944, the Ivy champion has advanced to the Sweet 16 as recently as 2010.

That year, a Cornell team seeded No. 12 dispatched a No. 5

Whale of a weekend ahead

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Forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 returns to the lineup this weekend after missing 11 games this season. tect the puck coming to the neutral zone, you’re going to be in trouble.”

The Bulldogs, on the other hand, will be sporting their healthiest squad since December, thanks to the returns of forwards Andrew Gaus ’19 and Ryan Hitchcock ’18. Gaus has been absent from the lineup since Jan. 10, while Hitchcock, who was injured by a hard and suspension-inducing hit from Princeton defender Tommy Davis on Feb. 26, still holds the fourth-highest point and goal total on the team despite missing 11 of the last 18 games.

A practice schedule that included extra days off, as well as Yale’s first weekend without a contest in over two months, was also restorative for the team at large, according to players.

“All of last week was fantastic,” captain and defender Mitch Witek ’16 said. “I think

it’s as much of a mental break as anything. You can separate hockey and the rest of your life, and be able to come back and 100 percent ready to go.”

If past contests are indicative of the upcoming series, Yale possesses the upper hand. Although the Big Green established a quick 2–0 lead in the first period during a Nov. 7 game in Hanover, the Bulldogs dominated the scoring in the remaining minutes, surging ahead to take the contest 4–2.

The teams last collided on Feb. 5 in what would be an even more decisive victory for the Elis. In the 5–1 routing, forward Stu Wilson ’16 scored two goals in the opening six minutes, setting the tone for the rest of the game.

But Dartmouth, whose first loss to Yale came during a 3–7–1 start to the Big Green’s season, sports a 0.619 winning percentage in the 2016

calendar year, fourth-best in the conference. And Yale knows that in the ECAC — and especially in a playoff atmosphere — nothing can be taken for granted.

“I think we’re confident every time we go in to play a game,” forward JM Piotrowski ’19 said. “It’s ECAC, anybody can beat anybody. You see upsets happen all the time.

We’re definitely not overlooking them. They did what they had to do to get the chance to play us, so we have to respect that and take it for what it’s worth.”

Games one and two are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, respectively. If necessary, game three will be held on Sunday at 5 p.m.

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

underdog teams can overachieve and deliver on the promise of March Madness.

S i n ce t h e to u r n a m e n t expanded to 64 teams in 1985, No. 12 seeds are 42–78 in the first round, while No. 13 seeds are 25–95 and No. 14 seeds are 20–100.

Looking to follow in the footsteps of Harvard, which has won a first-round matchup in two of the past four NCAA Tournaments, Yale has reason to believe it can achieve similar success.

Selection Sunday begins at 5:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on CBS. The Yale men’s basketball team will host a viewing party at the John J. Lee Amphitheater, with doors opening at 5 p.m.

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

Bulldogs take on Stags

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 [Dartmouth] is that they’re battle tested. They’ve played in and won two playoff overtime games, and there’s something to be said for that experience,” Allain said. “And I think one of the negatives is, hopefully, they’ll be fatigued.

They played three long games on the weekend, and they’re going to have to play a couple this weekend here. We’ll see which one of those things comes to the forefront.”

Last weekend raised additional questions for Dartmouth at the individual level as well. The Big Green’s goaltending situation, in flux all season, still appears unresolved: James Kruger started games one and two against the Raiders, giving up four goals in the latter, while Charles Grant took the net for game three.

And the conditions of two veteran skaters for the Big Green may also be up in the air. Defender Ryan Bullock missed all three games against Colgate, while first-team AllIvy forward Jack Barre sustained an upper-body injury in Friday’s first period and missed the rest of the series.

The Dartmouth reported that as of earlier this week, Big Green head coach Bob Gaudet did not expect either senior to be available against the Bulldogs.

Dartmouth’s attack did still manage to light the lamp 10 times without Barre last weekend. But it did so against a Colgate defense that allowed 3.57 goals per game this year, good for worst in the ECAC. The Elis’ mark of 1.66 paces not only the ECAC, but all of Division I. Nevertheless, Allain noted that the Yale defense will need a focused effort against Dartmouth’s offense, which he described as up-tempo and opportunistic.

“They get four guys in on the attack, and so they’re really dangerous that way,” Allain said. “If you don’t pro-

and then a No. 4 seed before falling to No. 1 Kentucky.

But history does not often repeat itself. Assuming Yale is assigned a No. 12 seed, the team is fighting the odds to advance as far as that Big Red squad did.

However, No. 12 seeds have had their fair share of first-round success. Nine of the last 20 teams seeded 12th have pulled off opening-round upsets against the No. 5 seed. Of those nine teams, just two — Oregon in 2013 and Richmond in 2011 — won their Round of 32 games to advance to the Sweet 16.

Just last season, only four teams ranked as a No. 11 seed or lower made it to the second round, highlighted by No. 11 UCLA’s Sweet 16 finish. However, there were six the year before that, and examples like No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast in 2013 and No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth in 2011 demonstrate that

sive firepower to a squad that averaged less than 10 goals a contest last season. This year’s offensive unit features Villanova transfer Charlie Horning and freshman attackman Colin Burke. Burke, who has scored a team-high 14 goals this season, ranks third nationally among freshmen in goals per game.

The Bulldogs, who have outscored their opponents 52–24, are looking to keep things simple versus the Stags.

“It’s about sticking to the fundamentals and doing the little things right,” Quinn said.

Yale’s offensive has begun to heat up as of late, scoring a combined 27 goals in its past two contests. Against St. John’s, the Elis needed a half before they got going, overcoming a 5–1 halftime deficit in large part thanks to a stretch of seven unanswered goals in the third quarter.

Several Bulldogs will look to replicate the success they had against Fairfield last year. Midfielders Mike Bonacci ’16 and Eric Scott ’17, as well as attackman Ben Reeves ’18, all scored twice in the overtime victory. The game-winning goal came with 1:01 remaining in overtime as Bonacci found Scott, who zipped the ball pass the goalie from the left side with a sidearm rip.

Bonacci credited the coaching staff for the Bulldogs’ unblemished open to the season, but he added that it is up to the players to take care of business on the field.

“We need to stick to what we do, which is play unselfish and execute the game plan,” Bonacci said. “We have a great group of coaches and they put us in a position to be successful every week.”

Opportunities could be abundant against Fairfield’s vulnerable defense, which is giving up nearly 11 goals per game, one year after finishing fourth in the nation with 7.47 goals allowed per contest on average.

Despite facing a barrage of shots, Fairfield goalie Tyler Behring has held his own in net by averaging

more than 13 saves per game, which is the seventh-most nationally.

Yale will also look to gain additional possessions by dominating ground balls. The Bulldogs picked up 31 of 47 in last season’s meeting between the two schools.

In addition, Fairfield has struggled this season to secure the ball effectively, having only picked up 22.7 ground balls per game, which ranks tied for 62nd among 68 Division I teams.

Beyond the matchups, both teams will also have to deal with the task of their third game in eight days.

“Midweek games make the weekend tough,” Reeves said.

“Guys are banged up and tired.”

Saturday’s chapter of the local rivalry will begin at 1 p.m.

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

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Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 leads the team with 11 goals already this season.

Ivy season ramps up against Brown, Columbia W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12

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Attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 currently has 16 points, coming from 12 goals and four assists.

Stony Brook team,” captain and defender Kate Walker ’16 said.

‘I think our performance [Tuesday] shows us what we’re capable of when we’re at our best.”

In three of the Elis’ last four games, they played defenses that are ranked in the top 10 in goals allowed per game, with Massachusetts fifth, Stony Brook sixth and Cornell eighth. The Bulldogs averaged 5.33 goals per game against those opponents, which collectively allow right around that mark at 6.00 goals per game.

George Washington, on the other hand, is 77th in the nation defensively with 12.40 goals conceded per game. The game should be a chance for Yale’s leading scorers, attackers Hope

Hanley ’17 and Tess McEvoy ’17, to pad their stats more than they have been able to early on.

“I think [our attackers will be successful] if we simply play our game and the attack drives hard and shoots the way I know they can,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said. “We have a ton of incredible shooters on our team, believe me.”

With the Colonials’ only victory coming against the winless Mount Saint Mary, Yale appears to have the edge. Still, George Washington will have one advantage on its side in the contest that it has not had all year: Saturday’s game will be the Colonials’ first game of the year at their home in Washington, D.C., where they went 5–3 in 2015 despite a 1–7 road record. One of those five home wins included a 13–5 top-

pling of Yale in the Bulldogs’ first game of the year.

After the game, Yale will return to Ivy League play for two games, both of which will be on Saturdays during spring break.

The Elis host Brown on March 19 and Columbia on March 26. “[Against George Washington] we’re going to try and get some positive energy and momentum for when we get back to Ivy League play,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “We also want to get back to how we played in the first half of the Stony Brook game and play well on both ends of the field for the full 60 minutes.”

Both of the Elis’ Ancient Eight games should be competitive.

Yale finished sixth in the league last season with a 2–5 Ivy record, and Brown and Columbia tied for

last with 1–6 marks.

This season, Brown, the first of the Bulldogs’ two opponents, has three wins, one more than Yale. But all three of the teams the Bears defeated had losing records, and none were Ivy League opponents. Columbia, meanwhile, has historically remained at the bottom of the Ivy League standings, having won only three Ancient Eight games in the past decade.

“I really do think they’re winnable games,” Marks said. “If we play the way we played against Stony Brook, they most certainly will be.”

Yale’s game against George Washington will begin at 1 p.m.

Saturday in Washington, D.C. Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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What to know for the NCAA Tournament MEN’S BASKETBALL

Yale hosts Dartmouth to begin postseason

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS The last time the No. 7 Yale men’s hockey team played a game, according to head coach Keith Allain ’80, “seems like a million years ago.” But even back then, Yale and Dartmouth might have been playing against each other. The programs first met in 1907, a 4–2 Bulldog victory, and have faced off 212 times since.

MEN’S HOCKEY In other words, there is little that this historic rivalry has yet to experience. But come Friday night, it will see another one of those rare firsts: a playoff series in New Haven.

The Elis (19–6–4, 14–5–3 ECAC Hockey) open their post-

season by hosting the Big Green (16–15–1, 11–11–0) in a best-ofthree ECAC Hockey Tournament quarterfinal this weekend, marking Yale’s first action since Feb. 27. In the teams’ only other postseason meetings, both of which were early-round conference matchups in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth knocked off Yale two games to one in 2005 and swept the Bulldogs in two contests a year later.

This time, second-seeded Yale received a bye in last week’s first round and watched as Dartmouth, the seventh seed, edged Colgate 2–1, with the Big Green needing three overtimes across its two victories to secure a trip to Ingalls Rink. “[One] of the positives for SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 10

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The highest-ranked team the Elis have faced this season is No. 19 Duke, which Yale was leading for much of the first half before it fell 80–61.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The last time the Yale men’s basketball team played in the NCAA Tournament, it was one of 25 teams competing for the national championship. This season, the Bulldogs return to the Big Dance for the first time since 1962 as one of 68 teams from across the country.

On March 13, or “Selection Sunday,” the Elis will learn what seed they are, who they are playing and where they will compete. The team’s seed — a number between 1 and 16 that indicates the team’s strength within its regional bracket — will determine its opponent, as the No. 1 team plays No. 16,

No. 2 plays No. 15 and so on.

The Bulldogs could be assigned to play at one of the eight spots around the country, which range from Spokane, Washington, to Providence, Rhode Island.

Here is what Yale fans should know in advance of Selection Sunday.

SEEDING AND LOCATION

While not technically a science, bracketology — the system of predicting March Madness matchups — can provide the casual fan with a rough estimation of Yale’s seeding forecast. Since higher-ranked teams are given priority with regards to location assignments, it is unlikely that the Bulldogs will receive the loca-

tion of their choice.

In recent projections, the Bulldogs have been seeded in the low teens, generally somewhere between a No. 12 and No. 13 seed. Yale was ranked 43 in the latest NCAA RPI rankings, which, if those rankings were used, would make the Elis a No. 11 seed for the tournament. Based on the KenPom rankings, Yale could make a case for a No. 10 seed, as the Bulldogs are ranked 39th in the nation.

A No. 10 seed would put the 2015–16 Eli squad in rare company. Since the 1994 tournament, Ivy League schools have been given seeds that range from No. 11 to No. 15, with the lone exception being a 1998 No. 5 Princeton squad that lost

In-state rival challenges perfect start

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After receiving a scare on Tuesday night from St. John’s, the Yale men’s lacrosse team recovered and picked up its fourth consecutive win to open the season. Standing in the way of the Bulldogs’ second 5–0 start is in-state foe Fairfield, which has taken Yale to overtime each of the past two seasons and will test the Elis again on Saturday.

per game, will face a talented Fairfield offense. The Stags return midfielder TJ Neubauer, who has scored a combined five times in his last two meetings with the Bulldogs.

The senior is already off to a hot start to the season thus far.

Neubauer has scored 11 goals in Fairfield’s first six games, including a four-goal effort this past Tuesday in the Stags’ 13–9 win at Georgetown.

Fairfield has added offenSEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 10

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The Bulldogs’ performance in the ECAC Hockey postseason will help decide their seeding in the NCAA Tournament.

Three “winnable” games over spring break

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The start of the 2016 season has been rocky for the Yale women’s lacrosse team, which currently sits at 2–4 on the year. The team looks to get the ball rolling Saturday at George Washington before jumping back into two Ivy League games that are projected to be tight battles.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S LACROSSE The Elis (4–0, 0–0 Ivy) prevailed last year, while Fairfield (2–4, 0–0 Colonial) triumphed two years ago.

Despite the Stags’ lackluster beginning to this season, Yale understands the challenge Fairfield poses.

“With the last two games going to overtime and the proximity of our schools, I think we have a little bit of a rivalry with them,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “I’m expecting a really tough game.”

Yale’s defense, which ranks third in the country with an average of six goals allowed

in the second round.

Regardless of the actual seeding, it may be even harder to predict where Yale will end up playing its first round game.

As a No. 14 or No. 15 seed, there is little likelihood that the Bulldogs would play at a location close to New Haven.

However, as a No. 11 or No. 12 seed, the tournament could be more favorable to the Bulldogs.

The closest locations to Yale include Brooklyn, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island.

The other possible sites for the first round games are Raleigh, North Carolina; Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Denver, Colorado; and

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Yale is 4–0 to start its season, including a 13–8 comeback win over St. John’s on Tuesday night.

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The Bulldogs (2–4, 0–1 Ivy) are coming off a 13–7 loss to No. 8 Stony Brook that, despite the final score, the team saw as a positive result because Yale held a lead deep into the first half against one of the nation’s premier teams. The Elis will look to parlay that momentum into their game this weekend against a struggling George Washington program (1–4, 0–0 Atlantic 10) before attempting to win multiple games in a row for the first time this season in conference games against Brown (3–2, 0–0 Ivy) and Columbia (2–2, 0–1) during the following weekends.

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After facing many difficult opponents, including No. 8 Stony Brook on Tuesday night, Yale faces more evenly-matched teams over spring break.

THE NUMBER OF WAYS AN NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET CAN PAN OUT AFTER THE 64-TEAM FIELD IS DETERMINED. For the first time in 54 years, the Yale men’s basketball team is one of the teams that fans will consider on their March Madness brackets starting Sunday.