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Gov. Rick Scott offered Yale a new home in the Sunshine State in a statement released yesterday. Scott’s invitation came in response to a proposed Connecticut bill to tax the University’s $25.6 billion endowment. “We would welcome a world-renowned university like Yale to our state,” Scott said. Yale was founded in 1701 — 144 years before Florida became a state.

One in a millennium. Rabbi

Adin Steinsaltz — a prominent Jewish philosopher heralded

by Time as a “once-in-amillennium scholar” — spoke with Law School professor Anthony Kronman in a conversation titled “The Seven Questions of the Universe” yesterday. Steinsaltz, who founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, has translated the Jewish text, the Talmud, into several languages.

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n November, the University announced a $50 million dollar faculty diversity initiative.

Yet in the ensuing months, faculty members have continued to raise concerns about the efficacy of this latest effort in addressing systemic issues within the hiring, retention and climate for underrepresented minority faculty members.

VICTOR WANG reports.

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BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER On Nov. 3, 2015, the same day administrators announced a headline-grabbing $50 million faculty diversity initiative, Karen Nakamura GRD ’01, a renowned interdisciplinary scholar of gender and disability studies, sent the University her resignation letter.

The irony is almost self-evident: Nakamura, a tenured professor involved in the Anthropology, East Asian Studies, Film Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs, was one of only a few scholars studying disability issues at Yale and embodied the very

diversity the initiative seeks to foster. Yet despite repeated calls from her colleagues for the University to retain her, Nakamura has left Yale for the University of California, Berkeley, where she is now the chair of Disabilities Studies. UC Berkeley will provide her with new, centrally located lab space devoted to researching disabilities.

While it is unclear whether this financial support was the main motivation for Nakamura’s departure, her colleagues suggested that Yale was unwilling to offer even a modest counteroffer. Nakamura declined to comment.

“Nakamura very much enjoyed being here … but she was treated so shabbily by the administration,” anthropology professor Bill Kelly said.

“It would’ve taken such a small percentage of the initiative’s money to keep her here.

Buckle up. The William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale will host two immigration policy experts in a debate titled “Syrian Refugees in the U.S.: A Humanitarian Obligation or a National Security Threat?”

Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute will debate Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in WLH. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1942 Director of Athletics Ogden Miller announces that the University’s varsity baseball, tennis and golf coaches will be let go with no intent to replace them.

The dismissals are a result of financial pressures brought on by the war, Miller says.

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So when we get an email about a $50 million initiative, we just roll our eyes.”

Under the new plan, Yale will provide up to $25 million University-wide to support half the salary of any new hires who increase faculty diversity. Individual schools will provide the other half. The initiative will also invite visiting scholars and increase funding for graduate student research.

But the $50 million sum, while hefty, pales in comparison with similar initiatives at peer institutions with far smaller endowments: Columbia University has dedicated more than $80 million to faculty diversity over the past decade, and Brown University recently announced a $165 million Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.

And while Columbia’s and Brown’s initiatives have been widely praised, Yale’s new ini-

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The Graduate School held a meeting for students to discuss the AAU survey results.

BY MONICA WANG AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS Around 25 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences gathered in a mostly empty LinslyChittenden Hall classroom Tuesday night to discuss newly available data on the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment at the Graduate School.

The meeting was the latest in a series of town hallstyle events led by administrators at Yale’s graduate and professional schools to discuss the school-specific results of a sexual climate survey conducted by the Association of American Universities last spring. The

aggregate results of the survey, which lumped together 3,364 responses of all graduate and professional students at the University, were released last September amid national headlines.

The meeting last night, however, focused on the disaggregated graduate schoolspecific results of the survey — numbers that administrators say will not be made public anytime in the near future.

The meeting was led by a panel of four administrators who handle issues of sexual misconduct on campus: University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler, Graduate School Title IX Coordinator Carl Hashimoto, Assistant Dean of

Student Affairs Melanie Boyd and University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct Chair David Post.

Spangler opened the meeting with a short presentation focused on the aggregated results of the AAU survey, as well as the Graduate Schoolspecific data. The panelists spent the following hour answering attendees’ questions that ranged from the risks of retaliation facing students who report sexual misconduct to tangible steps the Graduate School can take to establish a positive climate at Yale.

“The fact that we’re actually having these kinds of conversations gives me real SEE AAU PAGE 4

tiative has generated skepticism. Last fall, a committee of 33 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors met four times in secret with top administrators to raise concerns about the lack of detail and research in the initiative’s planning. Interviews with more than 20 professors, many of whom served on that committee, revealed doubts about whether the University’s new initiative will do anything to address longstanding problems with Yale’s hiring, promotion and retention of diverse faculty members — problems that have repeatedly been raised over the last few decades to little effect.

“I wager that three years from now, Yale will be $50 million poorer and the faculty will be even less diverse than it was in 2004–2005,” said African SEE FACULTY PAGE 6

Law school releases diversity report

Grad school hosts AAU meeting

Not just brick oven pizza.

Got the magic in me. The Yale Magic Society and the Yale Leadership Institute jointly present Dr. Tom Verner, president and founder of Magicians Without Borders, for an evening of discussion and magic at 8 p.m. tonight.

Magicians Without Borders performs shows for children in refugee camps, orphanages and hospitals worldwide.

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YDAce. Members of the Yale Debate Association picked up prestigious awards at the North American Universities Debate Championship and the Pan American Championship over break. At the NAUDC, Henry Zhang ’17, Evan Lynyak ’17 and Megan Wilson ’17 all placed among the top 10 speakers. Lynyak and Zhang earned first and second place, respectively, at PanAms.

There’s another reason to make the trek to Ezra Stiles College now. Following in the footsteps of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Alpha Theta, Stiles has recently acquired a Snapchat geotag. The geotag — which is blue and includes the college’s mascot, a moose — was live yesterday evening, but it is unclear whether it will be a permanent fixture on Stiles’ campus.

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A year after the Coalition of Concerned Students protested Yale Law School Dean Robert Post’s annual State of the School address in March of 2015, Post has shared a report on the state of diversity at the school.

After the protest, Post appointed a committee of faculty and students to produce the report and recommend initiatives regarding diversity and inclusion. Members also examined the coalition’s list of demands, including changing the school’s mission statement to include a commitment to diversity and the hiring of an inaugural diversity dean. The committee has met with Law School faculty, the student group Alliance for Diversity, student leaders and other allied student groups over the past year. Including feedback from meetings, surveys and a town hall meeting, the 13-page report identified student concerns surrounding student and faculty diversity, limited transparency in terms of mentoring and stereotyping comments made in classrooms. It also explained the school’s progress in tackling those issues and offered about 60 recommendations, which include setting aside space in the school for Muslim students to pray and developing a schoolsponsored prize that honors faculty mentorship.

“Yale Law School has been no stranger to the conversations and controversies that have enveloped schools across the country around

issues of diversity and inclusion … Many of the committee’s recommendations are so compelling that we have taken the unusual step of implementing them even before the report was issued today,” Post wrote in the March 23 email announcing the report. The report was composed over the past year, and many of its recommendations were implemented before its release, including the hiring of a diversity consultant and the building of a website dedicated to diversity at the Law School.

While the Law School is comparable to its peer institutions in terms of the racial and ethnic diversity of its students, the report raised concerns about the small number of black students in the class of 2018, as well as the limited enrollment of black and Latinx students over the past few years.

According to statistics from the American Bar Association, 5 percent of first year students at the Law School in 2015 were black.

That figure was 7.5 percent in 2014 and 8.5 percent in 2013.

To address student diversity, the committee recommended involving more faculty and affinity group alumni in recruiting minority students. In response, the admissions office hired five diversity representatives to help with outreach and recruiting over the year the report was compiled.

Law School Associate Dean for Admissions & Financial Aid Asha Rangappa LAW ’00 said the diversity representatives, in addition to SEE LAW SCHOOL PAGE 4

Lyon ’17, star goaltender, to depart for NHL

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Yale men’s hockey goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 has elected to leave Yale before his senior season and sign a contract with a professional hockey team, the New Haven Register reported Tuesday night.

Lyon, who went undrafted in the NHL Entry Draft during his three years of eligibility from 2010 to 2012, is currently entertaining offers from “at least a dozen teams” and will decide on an option by the end of this week, the Register reported, citing anonymous sources. Bob McKenzie from The Sports Network, a

Canadian news organization, also wrote in a tweet yesterday that Lyon had interest or offers from at least 12 NHL programs.

Lyon made a strong case for top college netminder in the country in both his sophomore and junior seasons. Last year, he led the nation in save percentage, shutouts and goals-against average — setting new school records in all of those categories — and earned first-team honors for the Ivy League, ECAC Hockey and New England, in addition to being named a finalist for the Mike Richter Award, given to the top college goaltender.

After passing on multiple NHL

offers following his sophomore season, Lyon finished his junior year ranked second in the country with a 0.936 save percentage and first with a 1.64 goals-against average. He repeated many of his sophomore year recognitions — first-team All-Ivy, first-team All-ECAC and being named a Mike Richter finalist — and added the honor of finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, which goes to the best college hockey player in the nation.

With the departure of Lyon, who has started 93 of the 98 Yale games in his three-year career, the starting goaltender position would likely be handed off to Pat-

rick Spano ’17, who has appeared in nine games during his three years with the team.

The Elis will also have two younger goaltenders who could possibly fill Lyon’s spot in the net in the coming seasons. Sam Tucker ’19 has been on the roster for the past year, although he did not play any minutes this season.

The Bulldogs have also acquired an incoming freshman, Corbin Kaczperski, who announced on Feb. 18 that he will attend Yale this fall.

According to the Register, Lyon will be the first Bulldog during the 10-year tenure of head coach Keith Allain ’80 to turn profes-

sional before his senior year.

Another NHL contract out of Yale this year has already been made official, but for a player who has finished four seasons as a Bulldog. The Boston Bruins announced on Tuesday that they signed a two-year entrylevel contract with defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16, who was drafted by the program in the fifth round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. The contract begins in the 2016–17 season.

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ith the recent controversy surrounding the Yale Men’s Basketball team, I have been thinking more about the problem of campus sexual assault and the sexual climate at Yale. I am not writing to comment on the actions of any members of the basketball team or the Yale administration. Rather, I want to suggest a practical way that Yale can reduce the number of sexual assaults on campus.

Much of our discourse about sexual assault revolves around the claim that we need to teach men not to rape women.

Indeed, some men at Yale may feel entitled to women’s bodies and harbor backwards attitudes about a women’s right to say no. However, I imagine that it would be difficult to find a man on this campus who actually believes that rape is okay.

Sexual assault occurs when men stop caring that rape is bad.

According to data collected

by Yale, almost 20 percent of freshmen and 24 percent of seniors report drinking enough “to forget where they were or what they did within the last month.” With nearly 5500 undergraduates, that means that over 1000 undergrads black out in a given month.

Many at Yale know of incidents where people have gotten blackout drunk, resulting in the destruction of property, fighting and other undesirable activities. And most accept without question that alcohol played a role in bringing these events about.

So why don’t we believe the same thing about sexual assault? Beyond anecdotal evidence, one study found that 25.6 percent of college-aged men who became sexually aggressive during a date report “heavy drinking” during the date. Another study found that 74 percent of rape perpetrators admit to drinking alcohol prior to the incident.

We should stop ignoring the role of male binge drinking in sexual assault. Rather than just lecturing men about why rape is wrong, we should also strive to create a culture that discourages men from getting blackout drunk.

Currently, Yale offers an online alcohol education course called “Think about it” to show students the potential consequences of drinking. While this program is a good start, two modifications could increase its efficacy in preventing alcoholrelated cases of rape: The course should spend (much) more time on empirical studies that link heavy drinking to higher rates of sexual assault; it could also discuss cases in which alcohol

appeared to play a role in sexual assault. In addition, the program should be done in-person, in a fashion similar to the “Myth of Miscommunication” and “Bystander Intervention ”training we received as freshmen and sophomores.

Currently, “Think about it” only includes two videos, each about one-minute in length, discussing the possible consequences of blacking out. To my knowledge, none of the videos explicitly mention sexual assault. This is a heavy topic to bring up during the first few weeks of freshman year, but one look at Yale’s most recent Title IX sexual assault report illustrates the enormity of this problem on campus — and the need for drastic measures to combat it. If scaring some freshmen is the price we pay for significantly reducing the number of sexual assaults on campus, I think it would be well worth it.

Specifically, we need to stress to male students that, even if they know rape is bad, alcohol can lower inhibitions to the point that they no longer care.

They should also be informed about the legal, academic and social consequences of being accused of sexual assault, even in cases where the university cannot find sufficient evidence to prove misconduct occurred.

Ideally, students will make a conscious effort to stay well below the threshold for complete loss of inhibition and/or memory while drinking, and less alcohol-related rapes will occur — even if self-interest is their only motivation.

All freshmen must complete the “Think about it” program before arriving on Yale’s campus. Unfortunately, since incoming freshmen presumably watch these videos alone before being introduced to Yale’s drinking culture, it is easy to treat them as a simple formality. Students may not take the videos seriously or fully understand the Yale-specific situations presented. This is especially true for those who have never tried alcohol before coming to Yale. It would be better for students to arrive on campus and hear about cases about blacking out or binge drinking that resulted in embarrassment, regret and most importantly sexual assault.

Other factors of course play a role in sexual assault, and these need to be addressed. But in the meantime, there’s no good reason not to take this one step to reduce the incidence of sexual assault.

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ho did that much work over Spring Break? I know I didn’t. I kept telling myself that I would, although I mostly ended up reading, planning my summer and catching up on the news.

I mainly read articles about the election.

As the election season heats up, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the candidates are unimpressive. In 2011, when Donald Trump demanded to see President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, I never would have imagined that he would now be leading the Republican primaries. Surely, the former host of “Celebrity Apprentice” would never be a viable presidential candidate for most Americans. I was wrong.

But, in spite of Trump’s volatility and inexperience, he still continues to win a number of primaries (although he seriously trails behind Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 in nationwide support, according to a March 21 CNN poll). His inconsistent and abrasive statements — on everything from immigration to women’s rights — make me cringe, but I’m not the only one. His inability to appeal to women, nonwhite and college-educated voters is causing friction amongst Republicans.

While some may find Republican candidate Ted Cruz more palatable, I find him to be just as unappealing because of his fundamentalist views on religion, his

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promises to repeal universal healthcare and his denial of women’s reproductive rights.

Although John ISIS DAVIS- Kasich — who appears to MARKS be the most moderate of The dark the three — continues to side hang on, the reality is that he’s only won Ohio so far.

I know that many self-identified champions of the right may read this as an attack on the Grand Old Party, but I’m not exactly moved by the Democrats either. Although Gloria Steinem, Lena Dunham and others have championed Democratic frontrunner Clinton for her political experience and her identity as a woman, some of her positions on foreign policy and race give me pause. Clinton’s support for the “Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,” which was passed under her husband’s presidency, largely institutionalized mass incarceration in the nation. In addition, candidate Bernie Sanders’s initial lack of focus on racial issues, as well as his mixed track record on voting for immigration reform, make me reluctant to “Feel the Bern”.

I seem to be out of options.

I’m not trying to tell you all not to vote. Although my analysis

of the candidates appears fairly pessimistic, I will most likely weigh between my options in the end and vote for either Sanders or Clinton. I would never encourage people not to vote or express their political opinions when so many people — particularly people of color — are disenfranchised by mass incarceration and by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to invalidate parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. However, as Yale students, we should keep our priorities in mind when it comes to political engagement. This summer, many of us will tirelessly run around with shiny pamphlets clutched between sweaty fingers, canvassing for our candidate of choice.

Many other Yalies will don suits and ties as they make their way to prestigious internships in Washington DC. At some point in the future, a select few of us may hold elected office like many of our esteemed alumni. While these actions may validate our identities as the coffee-drinking, button-down-shirt-wearing, educated liberals that many of us aspire to be, our efforts may not be doing much to create real change in our political system.

The influence of factors such as campaign finance, low voter turnout, voter registration restrictions and lobbying in politics make it difficult to determine how much control the average citizen truly has over national politics. Don’t fool yourself: Campaigning is not activism.

Instead of playing into the electoral game, I think that our time this summer would be better spent advocating for issues that we care about and participating in community organizing.

Prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment, women’s rights movements helped galvanize necessary support to enact the right to vote into law. When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was not a random act of kindness.

No, it was a reaction to a shifting political climate that was catalyzed by the actions of activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Even in this election season, Sanders did not seem to take as firm of a stance on racial issues until Black Lives Matter activists staged an interruption at one of his rallies. Community organizing is more than marching in the streets. It’s doing things for our communities such as engaging in education programs, providing needed materials like food and clothing and supporting local unions. Such actions help our communities more than handing out pamphlets can.

Focusing on the issues — not on the race — is what will make America Great Again, even if it perhaps never was.

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at isis.davis-marks@yale.edu .

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he late George Pierson ’26 once asserted that “Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.”

But how accurate is this description?

When we come to Yale as freshmen, we swear allegiance to our pre-assigned residential colleges.

We are told that our colleges will be our homes for the next four years.

Yet many spend those four years searching for acceptance into new communities. Some find their social niche through their major.

Others compete for membership in extracurricular activities. But perhaps the most extreme manifestation of this drive to belong is the proliferation of Greek life and secret societies on campus.

I wasn’t part of a fraternity or a society while I was an undergraduate. But I had friends who were, and they treasured the intense bonds formed with one another over drinks, stories and deep conversations. I am happy for anyone who has the opportunity to experience such intimacy. But I can’t help but notice the irony: This intimacy is predicated on a kind of exclusivity. I’m not talking about social capital. Yalies — who pride

themselves on socially prohibitive levels of busyness — somehow find hundreds of hours to commit to rushing Greek life and joining secret societies, all in the name of meeting new people and experiencing a unique emotional connection. If we spent half this much time sitting in dining halls or going on coffee dates, we’d realize how simple it actually is to make friends and build relationships. So why do we put ourselves through so many superfluous social gymnastics?

The cynic might charge that we care more about gaining acceptance into exclusive communities with fancy names than we do about actual community membership itself. But I don’t think that’s it. The reason we subject ourselves to these histrionic rituals is that we don’t know how to build genuine rapport on our own.

Every year in Jonathan Edwards College, freshmen and sophomores participate in fireside chats.

They’re asked personal questions like, “What surprised you most about Yale? What lessons did you learn from last semester?” One by one, underclassmen disclose not only what excites them, but also what challenges and worries them.

As they begin to speak, they can sense the audience appreciating their candor and they grow more confident sharing their authentic identities. These sessions teach an important lesson about the power of emotional vulnerability. It gives us insight into our differences, and how they inform and enrich our community. At the same time, emotional vulnerability helps us discern the common humanity that lies beneath these differences.

It makes us feel less alone.

This feeling is ultimately what we seek in a community. We want to see others as they truly are, and we want to be seen in the same way.

But for whatever reason, we are afraid of acknowledging these fundamental human needs. We mask our desires for closeness and support with polarizing recruiting schemes and elaborate rituals.

We insist that all communities are equal, but that some communities are more equal than others and we will go to absurd lengths to join these more equal communities.

I suspect that many of us sense that this feeling is just beyond our grasp, something we’ll always have to reach for. We reckon that belonging can only be secured

after we prove ourselves once again, that we’ll only come by what we’re looking for upon conforming and achieving whatever is expected of us. Perhaps this is merely a holdover from adolescence, when we often confuse external validation with genuine belonging.

And that is unfortunate. Many of us chose Yale over similar schools because it promised us a sense of unconditional belonging. It’s why the idea of a community — the idea of Yale — appealed to us when we arrived on this campus. It’s why this idea still appeals to us now. Yet in many ways, the choices we make and the institutions we venerate undercut the Yale we love. We allow our insecurities to vitiate Pierson’s ideal.

Connection isn’t something that just happens to us. It’s a decision we can all make. It’s an action that we can all take. Yale already offers us everything we need to thrive. But only if we take Yale up on that offer.

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

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The article “Bate, renowned anthropologist, dies at 55” misspelled Bate’s surname.

The article “Heavyweight, women’s crew off to promising start” misstated the ranking of Ohio State University’s program.

The article “Quality of life up in the Elm City” incorrectly stated the median annual household income in New Haven.

In fact, it is $38,482.

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Student candidates headline BOE forum

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER With elections taking place next week, the seven New Haven Public Schools sophomores vying for the open student seat on the Board of Education have laid out their platforms and are reaching out to district students for support.

Last Wednesday’s candidates’ forum at the New Haven Free Public Library gave the seven candidates the opportunity to answer questions posed by moderators Suzanne Lyons, chair of the aldermanic Committee on Student Elections and member of the BOE College and Career Pathways Department, and Earle Lobo, who represents the city’s youth services department on the committee. In between remarks

by Mayor Toni Harp, Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 and current student BOE representatives Kimberly Sullivan and Coral Ortiz, each candidate told the district why he or she deserves the seat at Wednesday’s forum.

The election will run from Thursday, April 7 to Friday, April 8 at all NHPS high schools.

“I think for the candidates, it really gives them the opportunity to shine, but also to really reflect on their motivations and aspirations for the position,” Lyons said. “The forum was a great way for the candidates to start engaging in the process and articulating their views.”

The seven candidates — Jacob Spell and Dwayne Carson of the Hyde Leadership School; Alondra Martinez-Lopez, Melady Morocho and Tyron Houston of High School in the Community; Joseph Lampo of Wilbur Cross; and Yeimy Morales of Hill Regional Career High School — all had the chance to speak before a crowd of roughly 30 at the March 23 forum. Many of the students highlighted their affinity toward leadership, diverse backgrounds and the desire to give constituents a voice.

Lyons said each student had the chance to make a two-minute opening statement before proceeding to answer questions compiled by her, the committee and audience members. Questions ranged from asking candidates to describe their leadership experience to articulating how they would galvanize student involvement in the district.

“The school system is very different than the school system that we were in, so it’s very important to us — those of us educated in

a different time, for a different world — to hear from you,” Harp said at the forum. “Your voice is very, very important to us.”

Though state law prohibits the student members from voting in the BOE, they perform roles similar to those of full board members, such as attending board meetings and reporting constituents’ concerns. The election is intended to mirror a real municipal election, Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, who also sits on the student elections committee, said last month.

The candidates’ forum enhanced this year’s campaign season by attracting student engagement and making the second student election resemble city elections more closely than last year’s, according to committee community representative Rachel Heerema.

But the committee still struggles to engage student voters, Lyons added. She said candidates reach more voters by visiting schools and attending district events than by going to events held by the committee. “[The forum] will afford the candidates the opportunity to share their inspiration for running and their ideas on impacting education across the city,” Harries said in a press release distributed before the event.

This year marks the second year of student BOE elections, which came to fruition after a multi-year push by school board stakeholders, community members and legislators, leading to a 2013 referendum and revision of the New Haven City Charter.

Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 oversaw last year’s inaugural student election, which took place in early June.

In order to qualify for candidacy, each of the seven high school sophomores had to collect 100 signatures: 50 from students at their own schools and 50 from students across the district. The city charter calls for one junior and one senior to sit on the BOE each year. Although two students were elected last year — Sullivan, a then-junior at Sound School, and Ortiz, a then-sophomore at Hillhouse High School — only one sophomore will be elected from now on to maintain the two positions. This year’s victor will take Sullivan’s seat once she graduates at the end of this school year in compliance with the charter.

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

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BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER Pharmacists, social workers and other health care officials weighed in on a state bill that would establish a surcharge on the manufacture and distribution of opioids — including legal and illegal pain relievers such as morphine, codeine and heroin — at a public hearing of the state Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee this Monday.

The bill, titled S.B. No. 5 and sponsored by state Sen. Joseph J. Crisco Jr., would use the money raised from the 6.35 percent surcharge to provide grants to Connecticut prevention and treatment programs for opioid abuse.

The bill comes in response to a national opioid epidemic and an increase in the number of prescriptions for opioids written in Connecticut over the past two decades.

2015 saw a 56 percent increase in the use of Schedule II drugs, which consist primarily of opioids, since 2009, according to data from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. In Connecticut, 723 people died of a drug overdose in 2015 — double the

number of overdose deaths in 2012.

“The opioid prescription problem is not new,” said pharmacology professor Robert Heimer GRD ’88, who has been studying opioid use in Connecticut for 25 years. “It’s been a problem for probably 15 or 18 years. But with the increasing number of overdose deaths outside the urban centers, there seems to be some urgency on the part of state officials to act on this.”

G ov. Da n n e l M a l l oy responded to the issue last year by signing a bill strengthening prescription monitoring and prescribing practices.

As the finance committee held its public hearing on Monday, Sen. Chris Murphy visited abuse treatment centers and met with law enforcement officials to discuss addiction in the state.

The public hearing revealed conflicting opinions about the new bill among health care workers and officials. Pharmacists and pharmaceutical company representatives generally opposed the bill on the grounds that it would overburden pharmacists and manufacturers. They also argued that the bill’s taxation process

— which would be the first of its kind in Connecticut — is complex and would be difficult to implement.

David Benoit, a pharmacist and member of Connecticut pharmacy support organization Northeast Pharmacy Services, said the bill could create a “barrier to care” by driving up the cost to patients for prescription opioids. Benoit also noted that restricting access to opioid medications could cause patients to use illegal, nonprescribed opioids such as heroin. “[W]e are equally interested in the sound prescribing of opioids,” Benoit said.

“We would like to see a significant reduction in nonmedical uses of opioids. However, we are concerned that constraining access and the supply of these medications leads to an expansion of heroin abuse, which is at least equally undesirable.”

But representatives of abuse treatment and prevention programs generally favored the bill, providing counterarguments to the testimony of pharmacists and pharmaceutical representatives.

In her testimony, Con-

necticut Prevention Network President Ingrid Gillespie said the prescription of opioids, and not the restriction of access to opioids, leads to heroin use. Gillespie cited a statistic from the American Society of Addiction Medicine that 80 percent of new heroin users became addicted after misusing prescription pain relievers. She noted that data reveals a correlation between opioid sales and overdose deaths.

“Contributing to the rising death rate has been an overall increase in the availability of prescription medications, especially opioid analgesics,” Gillespie said. “The rates of sales for opioids, opioidrelated deaths and treatment admissions have all increased between 1999 and 2010.”

She said Connecticut is facing an “opioid crisis,” adding that the Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services lacks sufficient funding to fight this problem.

There were 34 opioid deaths per 1,000 residents in New Haven between 2012 and September 2015.

Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

Alders grapple with city budget

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Members of the Board of Alders’ Finance Committee sparred with City Hall officials on Tuesday evening over funding for the Mayor’s Office, in the first of the year’s workshops on Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed budget.

The Mayor’s Office has requested $1,144,978 for fiscal year 2017, a slight increase on the $1,128,818 budget approved by the Board of Alders last spring for fiscal year 2016. The increase of just over $16,000 comes from shifting a current part-time receptionist position to fulltime. Chief of Staff Tomas Reyes Jr. told the committee that moving the position to full-time would obviate the need for the Mayor’s Office to rely on receptionists from other departments and would allow the Mayor’s

Office receptionist to handle a heavier workload.

While committee members raised few objections to the proposal of the full-time receptionist, they questioned Reyes and Mendi Blue, director of development and policy, about the utility of the city’s spending on the Mayor’s Office, especially in the city’s grant-writing department.

“Since we have approved this new [grant-writing] position, I haven’t seen the number of these grants and all these different things … that this position was supposed to bring in,” Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison said.

“Are we getting the best bang for our buck?”

Blue, whose job as director pays $116,000 annually, said the department has brought millions of dollars to New Haven through its grant-writing.

“The office has provided quar-

terly reports to [the Board of Alders],” Blue said in response to Morrison. “The office has either led or been actively involved in over $20 million worth of funding since its creation.”

Blue added that the grantwriting department has also assisted local nonprofits in securing tens of thousands of dollars in grant funding.

Annex Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr. disputed Blue’s claim that the department had provided timely reports to the alders. He said although the department is required to submit quarterly reports to the alders, it has failed to do so at least once within one quarter of the department’s creation.

Paolillo raised concerns that grant-writing in the city’s administration had grown beyond the remit that the alders approved two years ago with the

creation of the Office of Development and Policy.

“Part of the grant-writing piece, for us, where it becomes different from the discussion two years ago is that the police department now has a request for a grant-writer position,” Paolillo said. “Now we see other grant writers mysteriously popping up in other departments that are coming to us asking for them to be contracted full time.”

Are we getting the best bang for our buck?

JEANETTE MORRISON Dixwell Alder The meeting’s other major point of contention concerned the city’s information and tech-

nology department. Harp has proposed that the department, previously under the Department of Finance, be granted independent departmental status, with a new Chief Information Officer making an annual salary of $145,000. As the head of an independent department, the CIO would report to the mayor instead of the city controller.

City Controller Daryl Jones justified the salary as the sole means of recruiting a CIO competent enough to deal with the challenges of the role, noting that $145,000 is in fact below comparable salaries.

“Frankly, with $145,000, I’d like to attract somebody,” Jones said. “It’s very difficult. We will be very fortunate to attract somebody. Normally, a CIO position is around $250,000 to $300,000, given the size of our organization.”

East Rock Alder Anna Festa said she thought the $145,000 salary was too high — a salaryestimator website said $81,000 annually is the regional median for a position of that status.

For Westville Alder Adam Marchand, the connection between hiring an expensive new CIO and improving the city’s IT services was hard to fathom.

“One of the things that constituents have mentioned to me is that the city’s website is pretty archaic,” Marchand said. “I don’t know how hiring a $145,000 CIO is going to fix that more than hiring a $57,000 web developer.”

The Finance Committee will hold a second workshop on the city’s budget Wednesday evening in City Hall.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Grad students decry AAU results AAU FROM PAGE 1 hope,” said Lisa Brandes GRD ’94, assistant dean for student affairs and director of graduate student life.

But three students who attended the meeting expressed concerns about the low turnout. Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18, the president of the Graduate and Professional School Senate and one of the event’s organizers, said she had hoped the session would attract similar turnout to the crowd of hundreds that flocked to a meeting held last fall about race-related issues on campus.

“We advertised the hell out of this,” Mo said, adding that multiple emails were sent to all graduate and professional school students over the past month informing them of the event. Mo also speculated that the low turnout could be attributed to upcoming department-by-department meetings centered on the AAU survey results, some of which are scheduled for this week.

The discussion at the meeting focused partly on the resources available to those who have experienced sexual misconduct: Title IX coordinators, the UWC, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education program and the Yale Police Department. Spangler emphasized that all complainants receive confidentiality and that complaints do not necessarily involve a formal disciplinary process. The administration is developing and implementing various strategies to curb sexual misconduct and develop a better environment on campus, Spangler said.

Renewed discussion about sexual misconduct on campus started last fall after the release of the AAU survey, which showed a higher-than-average rate of sexual misconduct at Yale, generated national headlines and prompted widespread calls for reform to campus culture. Around 13 percent of Yale’s graduate and profes-

sional school women reported some form of sexual assault, compared to more than 28 percent of undergraduate women.

In a communitywide email on Sept. 21, University President Peter Salovey described the figures as “extremely disturbing” and “counter to our most fundamental values.”

“I was pretty distressed about the results,” Spangler said at the meeting. “The results of that survey have inspired a lot of conversation on campus.”

“The aggregate data already indicate we have work to do to make the climate at Yale better.”

LYNN COOLEY Graduate School Dean The deans of each of the 13 graduate and professional schools have held town hallstyle meetings over the last four months to discuss schoolspecific data with their students and faculty. But although all the school-specific survey results have been presented to students at the individual schools — including the graduate school numbers, which were on display at the meeting — the figures will not be made public, according to administrators. The numbers for overall instances of sexual misconduct at the graduate school were marginally lower than the aggregate totals for the entire graduate and professional student population, which are available online. But although the numbers were shown and discussed during the meeting, they are not currently available to the general public.

“The aggregate data already indicate we have work to do to make the climate at Yale better,” Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley told the News before the meeting. “Releasing school-specific data would

naturally focus people’s attention on comparisons between schools, which would not necessarily be helpful. We would rather concentrate on planning steps to make improvements throughout the campus.”

According to Spangler, Westat, the outside firm that developed and conducted the survey, could provide only limited school-specific information due to the relative sizes of the different schools. Still, Spangler said, the available information was shared with all of the graduate and professional school deans during the fall semester.

In her remarks at the meeting, Spangler added that each school has taken a slightly different approach to presenting the disaggregated data — a process that fell under each dean’s discretion.

“Culture is really local. Each school has done it differently,” she said.

But Mo told the News that GPSS representatives at each school are working to persuade individual deans to release the school-specific numbers with the ultimate goal of compiling an overall report detailing the school-by-school breakdown of the AAU data.

“It’s important to have an idea of not only what are the experiences of each of the students at the individual schools, but how those different experiences will require different solutions,” Mo said.

Chris Geissler GRD ’20, who attended the meeting, said he did not think it was crucial to release the school-specific numbers.

“Specific data has a place,” Geissler said. “But fundamentally these are issues that affect the entire campus.”

The AAU survey polled nearly 800,000 students at 27 universities across the country, including every Ivy League university except Princeton.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

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Law School diversity report released LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 serving as contacts for prospective and admitted students, have helped plan the upcoming Admitted Students Weekend, which will include an additional day dedicated to addressing the needs of underrepresented groups both at the law school and in the legal profession.

The report also noted the lack of progress in boosting faculty diversity. In 2003, there were three black nonclinical faculty.

Currently, there are two black faculty members outside the clinics and one who works within them.

The number of Latinx faculty increased from zero to one during the same time period. According to the report, students were also concerned about political and methodological diversity of the faculty. For example, there is a lack of conservatives on the public law faculty and zero critical race theorists, according to the report.

“In light of these facts, we are reluctant just to issue a statement of values one typically sees in committee reports. It is time for the dean and the faculty to rethink the fundamentals and approach these issues far more systematically than they have done in the past,” the report stated. It also called for a more inclusive hiring process, although it did not spell out specifics. The hiring committee for nonclinical faculty has made visiting and permanent offers to seven faculty of color for fall 2015 and spring 2016, two of whom teach critical race theory, according to the report.

The committee also proposed a minimum baseline for faculty mentoring in small groups in order to provide a level ground for new students without a professional network. When students enter the Law School, all enroll in a small class of 16 students. James Forman LAW ’92, law professor and one of the co-chairs for the committee, said because of the small size of these groups, small group professors are expected to take on extra responsibilities, such as establishing particular relationships with students and writing recommendation letters for them. The purpose of a min-

imum baseline is to clarify the “unstated assumptions” about mentoring responsibilities, which have not been explicitly identified to date, Forman added.

“These are our norms, but we have slipped from them,” the committee wrote with regard to faculty mentoring in small groups.

Forman said by “norms,” the committee meant that it was not coming up with a brand new idea, but rather was advocating a return to the school’s longstanding commitment to faculty mentoring.

Heather Gerken, law professor and another co-chair of the committee, said the Law School faculty has been receptive to its recommendations on increased faculty involvement in diversity and inclusion efforts. She added that “every single person” who spoke at a faculty meeting with the committee chairs before the report was released commended the report and brainstormed about future actions.

Forman said most of the faculty members he consulted were happy to take on additional duties and would be willing to mentor if the school provides training and assistance on how to do so.

Instead of accepting the Coalition of Concerned Students’ proposal for a diversity dean, the committee recommended that the school hire a consultant to examine its diversity issues. The school has recently hired Sharon Brooks LAW ’00, the Law School’s former associate dean in charge of student affairs and the Career Development Office, as the consultant of diversity and inclusion for one year. Forman said the position could become permanent.

Brooks said she will work primarily on projects relating to the admissions office and the Office of Alumni Affairs, helping the Law School move forward on some related initiatives outlined in the committee’s report and appendix.

In addition, she will be researching what resources and support exist at other universities and the legal profession more broadly to address these issues, Brooks said.

All four Law School students interviewed said they are aware of the report and praised the committee for raising significant

issues related to mentorship and classroom climate. Still, one student said what matters most is accountability. The report does not include a timeline on when the initiatives will be implemented, the student said. The section on faculty hiring is vague and lacks specific found elsewhere in the report, such as sections concerning student diversity, the student added.

Indeed, the report stressed the importance of implementation and accountability. Committee members said they were concerned to discover a 2003 faculty report that mirrored many of the findings and recommendations offered by the 2016 report.

“We felt strongly that more progress should have been made in the 13 years since the report was issued,” the March report said.

Forman said while there is of course a risk that “the 2003 problem” might happen again, he is optimistic about what the recently produced report can achieve. The major reason for his optimism, he said, is the enthusiasm with which his colleagues met the report, as well as a communitywide commitment to improving the situation at the Law School.

The report also recommended the dean to convene a committee similar to the one that produced this month’s report at least every three years. It also recommends creating a diversity website, hosting a yearly lecture on diversity and giving out awards for innovative ideas to boost diversity at the Law School.

Gerken said the committee was “obsessed with” ensuring that the report starts a long-term conversation at the Law School.

“This report is incredibly unusual,” Gerken added, “In 15 years of teaching, I’ve never seen a committee report discuss progress already made.” She said the dean and his staff have been proactive about the committee’s suggestions and implemented a large percentage of them even before the final report was issued.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

O’Gara ’16 signs with Bruins HOCKEY FROM PAGE 1 identifying areas of my game that I needed to focus on and make sure I’m working on every day,” O’Gara said. “They never pressured me to leave school early and understood the importance of getting my degree, which I promised my mom after these four years.”

O’Gara said he is moving to Providence on Wednesday night and that, beginning on Thursday, he will practice with the Providence Bruins. He plans to keep up with class work and graduate from Yale in May while simultaneously contributing to a potential Bruins playoff run.

In the 2014–15 season, the defenseman led all Bulldogs with a plus-minus of +15 and was picked

as ECAC Hockey’s Best Defensive Defenseman, an accomplishment he also achieved in the 2015–16 campaign.

Forward John Hayden ’17, who led the team with 16 goals this season, is also attached to an NHL franchise. Hayden was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the third round of the 2013 draft. The Connecticut native did not comment on his own decision to leave Yale or stay for his season, but he expressed pride and encouragement at seeing Yale players competing professionally.

“I’m confident they’ll all have success at the next level and I can’t wait to watch their games in the near future,” said forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18, who represented the United States at the World

Juniors Championships over winter break. “Playing professionally has been a goal of mine for as long as I can remember, so if the opportunity presents itself after graduation, I’d love to play pro hockey.”

Other than O’Gara and Hayden, forward Matthew Beattie ’16 is the only player on Yale’s current roster to have been drafted by an NHL team, having been selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the seventh round of the 2012 draft. Beattie missed his senior season and part of his junior year due to injury, making an NHL run unlikely.

Daniela Brighenti and Maya Sweedler contributed reporting.

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Spikeball added as IM sport

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BY REBECCA KARABUS AND CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTERS

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In Spikeball, players can pass to teammates up to twice before attempting to hit the ball off the circular net in the center of the game.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER A newly popular outdoor game, currently played on lawns, beaches and college campuses across the country, has joined the ranks of intramural sports at Yale.

Spikeball, a team-based sport that features players hitting a ball off a trampoline-like net, was introduced this week as the newest addition to Yale’s intramural options, which now include 25 sports. IM secretaries from all 12 residential colleges voted over spring break to replace coed volleyball — a spring sport that has equivalents in the fall and winter — and implement Spikeball as a pilot program this year, in hopes of increasing student participation and excitement within Yale’s IM program as a whole.

“I think IM Spikeball is inclusive, simple and fun,” head student IM coordinator Adam Jenkinson ’18 said. “It will add some excitement to IMs that will increase participation, something that never hurts an organization that needs students to run.”

The idea of introducing IM Spikeball was first proposed in a meeting between IM secretaries

from all 12 residential colleges the week of March 7, Director of Club Sports, Outdoor Education Center and Intramurals Tom Migdalski said.

At that meeting, all IM secretaries present were in favor of adding Spikeball to the list of IM sports, Jenkinson said. He added that the “overwhelming support” from the secretaries was a crucial factor in approving the sport.

Soon after the affirmative vote over spring break, the Yale intramural program purchased new sets, which are produced by a single company, Spikeball Inc., that began selling them in 2008.

Kai Takahashi ’16, an IM secretary in Berkeley College, said because volleyball is already offered as an IM sport every other season, Spikeball was a good alternative to add.

“Spring volleyball is only 4v4, rather than 6v6 play [as in the fall in winter], and more importantly, we [offered] volleyball all three seasons,” Migdalski said. “So it makes good sense to drop spring volleyball and replace it with something more fresh and exciting like coed 3v3 Spikeball.”

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program this semester, which means Spikeball will not count for points in the Tyng Cup. Spikeball will be evaluated at the end of the school year to assess its popularity among students and whether any changes need to be made to the game’s rules and format, Takahashi said.

This spring, Spikeball will be played as a 3v3 sport, with games going to 21 points under rally scoring, which allows both the serving team and receiving team to score points.

Each contest will feature representatives from two colleges playing just a single game.

Currently, games are scheduled to take place at the IM fields, but the IM secretaries have discussed the possibility of playing at other locations on campus in the future, such as residential colleges or Cross Campus, Takahashi said.

The last time an IM sport, croquet, was introduced in a pilot program, it was not popular enough to make it through more than its first year. Spikeball advocates do not believe their sport will see the same fate.

“I played Spikeball for the first time last fall when

I hopped in on a game being played by an absolutely incredible group of Branfordians. I’ve loved it ever since,” said Clare Ham ’17, an IM secretary in Branford College.

“People who’ve played and enjoyed Spikeball were very excited about making it an IM sport.”

Takahashi expressed a similar view, and said he imagined Spikeball would be popular because many students already play the game around campus outside of IMs. He added that the sport could potentially attract a “different crowd” to IMs that did not previously participate in other games.

Spikeball is offered by multiple other universities in their intramurals programs, Migdalski said, noting that the Yale IM program has adopted the University of New Haven’s Spikeball rules.

IM Secretaries, referees and supervisors have all received a set of the rules, and there will be printed sets for reference on site this week as students prepare for their first games of the spring IM season.

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

The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority officially partnered on March 22 with Common Ground High School, a West Rock charter school that aims to inspire environmental leadership among students.

The “adoption” of CGHS by the RWA, a nonprofit organization that supplies water to Greater New Haven, formalizes the relationship between the school and the RWA, which has existed since 2011 in the form of after-school and summer programs.

Going forward, the RWA plans to sponsor guest teachers, offer job shadowing, support teachers and donate to the charter school.

Although the RWA has worked in conjunction with CGHS for many years, city spokesman Laurence Grotheer said the official adoption was inspired by a comment Mayor Toni Harp made during a chamber of commerce meeting to RWA President and CEO Larry Bingaman about the value of business-school partnerships.

“Common Ground High School’s purpose of cultivating habits of healthy living and sustainable environmental practices aligns with the RWA’s vision of being an innovative water utility that sustains life, strengthens our communities and protects resources for future generations,” RWA Communications and Outreach Manager Kate Powell said.

The adoption aligns with the “conscious capitalism” movement Bingaman said the RWA sought to incorporate into its company in October. The movement encourages businesses to see themselves as serving a purpose higher than turning a profit.

Harp praised the collaboration between the RWA and CGHS at a Tuesday press event at CGHS, highlighting the positive impact the additional resources and mentorship will have on Elm City students interested in pursuing careers in sustainability.

“It is extremely beneficial, and will be, going forward, for additional resources to supplement public education,” Harp said. “It seems there’s a story every day about how public sec-

tor resources are stretched — we welcome the idea of these adoptions and encourage more potential adopters to ‘pay it forward’ in this way.”

Powell said it is important to reach out with potential future employees because close to half of the RWA’s employees will be eligible to retire within the next five years. The partnership will provide the RWA with the opportunity to introduce students to careers in the sustainable water industry.

We welcome the idea of these adoptions and encourage more potential adopters to ‘pay it forward’.

TONI HARP Mayor of New Haven Harp lauded the adoption for its potential to provide students with on-the-job training, giving students an advantage in the increasingly competitive job market. She emphasized the value of real-world experience as a supplement to traditional schooling.

The RWA has provided similar educational opportunities through an annual week-long environmental careers summer camp since 2011. RWA Development Assistant Kate Cebik said the camp teaches students about future careers in the field of public water utilities through activities like wading into the Mill River, which starts in Cheshire and flows through Hamden and New Haven, to collect water samples and specimens. She added that the campers also have the opportunity to work directly with Bingaman. The RWA sponsors an extended version of this same program throughout the school year so that interested students can have a more rigorous introduction to public water utilities.

The RWA provides an average of 46,000 gallons of water to 430,000 consumers every day.

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FROM THE FRONT

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

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Despite $50 million initiative, faculty diversity lags FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 American Studies and American Studies professor Glenda Gilmore. “I can only hope that I’m wrong.”

NUMBERS DON’T LIE

By all accounts, Yale’s faculty diversity statistics are cause for concern.

“Without a doubt, the numbers are not good,” Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas said. “It’s not at what we would like it to be.”

Of the 655 ladder professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 24 are black, 62 are Asian, 18 are Hispanic, two are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders and one is Native American, according to Yale’s Office of Institutional Research. Together, they comprise 16.5 percent of FAS ladder faculty members.

These are the numbers that University administrators cite when asked about Yale’s faculty diversity. But some faculty members say these percentages — already low — may still overstate minority representation.

Technically, Asian-Americans and internationals do not fall under the definition of “underrepresented minorities.” If these two groups are removed from the count of faculty, the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty in the FAS drops to a mere 6.6 percent.

Even using Yale’s metrics, the University’s faculty diversity has deteriorated recently.

In the 2011–2012 academic year, 17.6 percent of FAS ladder faculty members were minorities — 1.1 percent more than now. That year was a high point for underrepresented minorities as well, with Latino, black, Native American and Pacific Islander professors making up 8.2 percent of the faculty. By any metric, Yale is doing worse than four years ago.

The University is also doing worse than its peer institutions with similar diversity initiatives.

In 2011–2012, Yale outpaced Brown in its percentage of minority faculty, 17.6 percent to 16.6.

Today, minorities comprise 18.4 percent of tenure-track faculty at Brown — 1.8 percentage points more than at Yale. At Columbia, the contrast is even starker, with minorities making up 23.5 percent of tenured or tenure-track faculty members. If Columbia included international faculty members in this count, as Yale does, the number would shoot up to 38 percent.

“We presented these numbers and comparisons with Brown and Columbia to the University years ago, and little happened. It’s not that they didn’t know,” said former English and African American Studies professor Elizabeth Alexander, who left Yale for Columbia in 2015. “Why does the campus have to explode for faculty diversity to be addressed?

Why do faculty of color have to push for this? This should be coming from the top leadership.”

A GAME OF SLOTS

For the first time in its history,

the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program is conducting faculty searches to recruit top scholars studying issues of diversity and ethnicity, who are often also of minority descent.

ER&M’s historic hiring troubles underline how Yale’s faculty hiring system, also known as the slot system, has failed to support interdisciplinary and nontraditional departments. And the new faculty diversity initiative does little to change the system, Gilmore said.

The University allocates resources for faculty hiring by assigning each FAS member a “slot.” Most of these over 700 slots are controlled by individual departments. Slots free up when a faculty member retires or leaves, and departments can fill vacant slots with administrative approval.

The FAS also holds six “pool” slots, which a faculty committee can give out at its discretion to any department to encourage diverse hiring. When hires made on pool slots leave, the committee can reassign the slot to any department.

Traditionally, there have been six pool slots. But Tamar Gendler, the inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said her office has added four more pool slots specifically to hire candidates who bring “excellence and diversity” during the current and following two academic years. In addition, one pool slot was designated in November to support faculty whose work addresses the

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histories, lives and cultures of unrepresented and underrepresented communities, bringing the total number of pool slots to 11.

The combination of the departmental and pool slots creates stability and flexibility for long-term departmental development, Gendler said.

But most faculty members interviewed said that while the slot system makes sense in theory, in reality it is confusing and frustrating, especially in hiring and retaining minority faculty.

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Chair Margaret Homans said she found it “irksome and surprising” that her program was unable to immediately replace assistant professor Vanessa Agard-Jones following the announcement that she was leaving for Columbia. Since Agard-Jones was hired through a pool slot, WGSS has to reapply to keep the position.

“I think the system is benignly designed to foster diversity, but it’s not working,” Homans said.

“It’s clearly a disaster.”

Under the slot system, larger and more established departments have more departmental slots and thus more hiring power.

Newer departments — such as those that study ethnicity or identity — are naturally at a disadvantage.

According to Gendler, departmental slot assignments are largely a historical matter. The original configuration was determined in 1992 and has remained largely unchanged since then, she said.

But this means that traditionally marginalized departments still have largely the same limited hiring power that they did over two decades ago, despite growing student interest. “[The number of slots] is an embarrassment,” WGSS professor Inderpal Grewal said. “WGSS has been here for a while, but it is Yale’s attitude towards women and gender studies that leads to the program getting very little attention and respect. This attitude is not a reflection of society at large.”

Before student protests last fall surrounding structural racism on campus, the ER&M program, which first offered undergraduate majors in 1998, had virtually no say in faculty recruitment. Even Yale’s African American Studies Department — one of the leading departments in the country — only has one full faculty appointment and thus has to rely heavily on joint appointments or pool slots.

“Since we’ve been here for 50 years and we are one of the leading programs in the world, why not give us the permanent resources to maintain that stature?” African American Studies Department Chair Jacqueline Goldsby GRD ’98 said.

Gendler said department chairs can submit proposals to turn pool slots into departmental slots, although she has not received such a proposal in the past.

Goldsby said she is currently in the process of submitting one for Af-Am Studies.

“Units that promote emerging fields of study are best off, for the long run, being shaped by departmental lines that remain in that unit’s permanent control,” Goldsby said. “Pressing for — and

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winning — that policy change is a crucial area for administrative activism, so far as I’m concerned.”

Some faculty members said they are worried that the new $50 million initiative will not resolve the paucity of slots for departments that study and attract diversity.

“My big hope would be that the initiative really puts the funds toward departments where minority scholars are: Af-Am, ER&M and WGSS,” said Marcus Hunter, a former assistant professor in the Sociology Department who is now at UCLA. “That is where diversity is really happening. But it’s the last place that gets that kind of attention when efforts come around to support diversity.”

Alexander said the competitive structure of the initiative may unfairly put historically diverse departments on the same footing as “other departments who have mostly only hired white people for decades.”

Gendler said she does not differentiate by department when submitting names of candidates to the provost for consideration for the initiative.

ASSESSING ACCOUNTABILITY

While the onus to diversify faculty often falls upon individual departments themselves, some professors noted that certain departments simply have not made diversity a priority. And the administration, they said, has not held these departments accountable for this — a failing that may dilute the efficacy of the new initiative.

Several professors pointed to the Political Science Department as a prime example of a lack of motivation and accountability in addressing diversity.

Over the past four years, the department has turned down the opportunity to hire four black male professors. Additionally, a recent informal list of 70 potential faculty hires in the department had five women and no underrepresented minorities, according to a faculty member in the social sciences who requested to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the subject.

The Political Science Department’s hiring strategy exhibits a pattern that undermines or completely ignores diversity, the professor said.

“People just give lip service.

They don’t actually value the kinds of approaches and research minority faculty tend to do,” the professor said. “In political science, black faculty tend to contribute to racial inequality and racial power. If you do not consider these [research areas] as legitimate or important, when you have a general search, black faculty are competing on unequal terrain.”

One of the black candidates who was ultimately turned down, the professor said, was a renowned scholar who had an accomplished resume but gave a weak talk during his interview process. Rather than giving him another opportunity, the department decided not to hire him.

“I think more eyebrows should have been raised,” the professor said. “Shouldn’t we have lingered on this longer, given that we have zero black men? We are effectively scuttling any opportunity

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to hire a black man. It’s been really demoralizing.”

Political Science Department Chair Steven Wilkinson said the department already has some of the nation’s leading political scientists working on gender, race and the concept of difference.

But he admitted that it needs to do more to recruit top minority scholars. Hiring another scholar who works on issues of immigration and diversity is a departmental priority, he said.

Other departments have taken broader, more concrete approaches to increasing diversity. Yale’s English Department has become very “forward-looking” and recognizes that the field can no longer just be Euro-centric, Goldsby, also a professor in the English Department, said.

And in the Anthropology Department, Kelly said, the search committees look beyond American universities to create a diverse candidate pool. If the search is done correctly, there should be no conflicts between the best faculty and diverse faculty, Kelly said.

Some have pointed to the varying successes of different departments as evidence that the administration has not systematically held all department leaders and senior faculty accountable for promoting diversity.

Economics and Af-Am Studies professor Gerald Jaynes, who led a review of faculty diversity in 1991, said the administration needs to be proactive in changing the attitude of certain departments that have not approached diversity with the appropriate alacrity.

“At this stage in 2016, if a field of knowledge is not attracting a diverse set of people, one should have serious questions about that field and the leadership,” American Studies professor Michael Denning said. “The leadership and senior faculty in a lot of fields are not setting any examples.

The real question is how the University should hold the different disciplines and departments accountable to how well they are attracting diversity.”

Gendler said there are already incentives and checks in place for departments to engage in building diversity. For example, departmental search committees must have an internal diversity officer, who makes sure the candidate pool is diverse.

“We presume that departments are doing work in good faith,” she said. “Departments that do not make concerted efforts for diversity are not in a good position to ask for pool slots for any hirings.”

Still, concerns about accountability persist, and several professors are worried that there will be no mechanism within the new $50 million initiative to ensure that departments participate.

Grewal said departments have control of the kind of searches they make, and the diversity initiative would not have much effect if departments already have a particular vision for their work that does not include a diverse faculty.

Gendler said the initiative does not change the process of faculty searches and hires but simply allows her office to craft more competitive salaries and research-related packages when offers are made. There is no extra incentive and accountability to ensure that departments participate in the initiative, she said.

“A robust diversity program must hold [departments] accountable … Provost Polak and Dean Gendler control faculty hiring slots and search authorizations and can use that power as diversity management tools,” Gilmore said. “In my opinion, neither seemed to realize that they would have to develop a structure to hold departments accountable for diversity.”

Even when departments do succeed in recruiting underrepresented minority scholars, keeping them at Yale can present a more significant challenge.

Those who have worked to promote faculty diversity at Yale say the University’s problems with retention are well known and entrenched, and partially a product of Yale’s unique tenure system. When Jaynes authored the 1991 faculty diversity report, its recommendations pointed out retention issues. But in the ensuing 25 years, the University has still not done a good job of retaining minority faculty, he said.

“If we had been able to retain even half of the minority faculty we recruited, we would have pretty good statistics,” Jaynes

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red carpet,” said a minority faculty member who asked to remain anonymous.

Gendler is leading a faculty committee to re-examine the decade-old tenure process, with particular attention toward the loss of minority faculty members.

She said she hopes the faculty will consider revisions to the system to address the problems with the mismatch between the tenure clock at Yale and other institutions.

Still, some faculty members have suggested that challenges with retention stem primarily not from the tenure clock, but from more systemic biases, such as the devaluing of minority scholars and their scholarship and mentorship work.

When American Studies assistant professor Birgit Rasmussen, who specializes in Native American literature, was denied promotion by the Humanities Tenure and Promotion Committee in 2014, several faculty members in the department raised concerns about scholarship bias.

“If you in an undervalued field — even if you are the most brilliant scholar — you will be undervalued,” Jacobson said.

Professors also noted that the tenure review does not place enough emphasis on the mentorship roles of minority faculty, who often take students under their wing. Because of Yale’s low number of minority scholars, the service and mentorship burdens disproportionately fall on a small number of women faculty and faculty of color.

“Everyone says it’s good when you help the undocumented student who came to you in the middle of the night, but that sort of mentorship and service is not taken into account in promotions,” a minority professor said.

“I am called on to do everything — I am not going to turn down a promising black student who needs a senior advisor. That is the biggest area of frustration for being a woman and minority faculty member.”

Amy Hungerford, divisional director for the humanities, said the committee is careful to ask many questions about service during the review process, but noted that the committee is currently taking steps to make these discussions more concrete.

But for all their work mentoring others, minority faculty themselves often lack mentorship.

A 2014 diversity summit report, which was conducted by outside experts and scholars, noted that there is too little accountability among department chairs and deans at Yale for mentoring junior faculty. The report noted that this deficit can affect the general climate for minority faculty, and it suggested that the University develop more concrete mentorship strategies.

“You have to be more concerned about whether junior faculty are happy,” Jaynes said.

“You have to ask what the climate might be for different junior faculty members. We need more concrete mentoring structures in departments.”

Gendler said junior faculty

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said.

In 2006, Yale launched a faculty diversity initiative that aimed to hire at least 30 new professors from minority backgrounds and another 30 female professors. Between the start of the initiative and November 2011, Yale successfully hired an additional 56 minority and 30 female faculty members. But after a series of departures, Yale ultimately only retained 40 of those new hires — fewer than half.

The new $50 million initiative similarly does not propose an explicit plan for retention, although part of the budget may be used for retention efforts at the dean’s discretion, according to Gendler.

Retention issues have particularly plagued the Anthropology Department, which over the last five years has lost eight faculty members — seven of whom were female or underrepresented minority professors. But that department’s retention woes are not unique, and three highprofile departures in the Af-Am Studies Department this past year brought the issue of minority faculty retention to the fore of discussions about diversity at Yale.

Bribiescas acknowledged that retention is a challenge but suggested that the issue is not systemic.

“When it comes to retention cases, every case is personal and unique and every case is a challenge,” Bribiescas said. “The faculty needs to be aware that in addition to some retention cases where faculty members leave, there are numerous cases where we successfully retain faculty. But these are not publicized because the details are confidential.”

Bribiescas and other administrators have often said that faculty members’ decisions to leave Yale may involve a personal dimension, such as a preference to raise young children in New York rather than New Haven, or job opportunities for faculty spouses. But in many cases — such as Nakamura’s — they seem to relate more to Yale’s climate and culture.

And Yale’s unusual tenure system only exacerbates the problem.

Yale has an unusually long tenure clock, which means that professors are often not reviewed for tenure until their eighth year.

Assistant professors who are promoted to the associate level often do not receive tenure. At most of Yale’s peer institutions, the tenure clock is typically 6 to 8 years, and associate professors receive tenure as they work toward a full professorship.

For young, midcareer faculty members, the prospect of job security elsewhere is often too appealing to pass up.

“You are asking people who are top scholars in their fields to accept the unknown here,” Asian American Studies specialist Mary Lui said. “That is truly difficult.”

Junior faculty members of color are especially likely to be poached, Jacobson said, due to the high demand for excellent scholars who also bring diversity to institutions.

“Other institutions roll out the

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mentoring is a priority of her office and setting up a robust mentorship structure will be one of the first tasks of the new deputy dean of diversity in her office, when the position is finalized.

But despite these efforts, some faculty members who recently left Yale said the administration simply seems indifferent to diverse faculty departures.

“The Yale senior administration does not feel any special urgency to retain the faculty who bring diversity to it,” said a senior professor of color who left the University within the last year.

“It’s telling that none of the faculty who left that I have talked to received exit interviews from the senior administration. The assumption appears to be that our leaving is just part of the natural process of faculty coming and going, and that there is no need to examine the process by which faculty are retained and promoted at Yale.”

Five former faculty members interviewed had differing accounts of the seriousness of the administration’s efforts to retain them. Gendler said the FAS addresses competing offers for junior faculty by considering early promotion and crafting “strong retention packages” that may include salary, research and programming support. But these packages only seem to materialize in some cases.

“In my case, tremendous effort was taken to retain me,” a recently departed minority faculty member said. “Part of the problem is that I was able to watch the ways in which little effort was taken to retain others. The fact that some efforts to retain minority faculty are not taken as seriously as others matters.”

Former professors said the University relies too much on its

reputation in its retention efforts.

Two professors no longer at Yale said even though they received offers from leading departments at other institutions, the administration maintained that they should be “honored” to be at Yale.

Alexander said that while she was proud of the work of the Af-Am Studies Department and her role as department chair during her time at Yale, she left because of imaginative new opportunities at Columbia and at the Ford Foundation. She also said she had a sense of frustration about the broader project of diversity building at the University.

“Did I feel that along with my colleagues devoted to these issues that I was not made a true partner in positive change? Yes. Did I leave because of a series of absolutely wonderful opportunities that I was recruited to … after 15 great years at Yale? Yes,” she said. “I went away not angry, but feeling that it was not the right moment for me to build further at this university. I hope that now is the moment for bold chance at the University I love so much.”

Although none of the $50 million from the new diversity initiative is specifically earmarked for retention, Gendler said the additional funding will give her more flexibility to provide competitive retention packages.

STACKING UP

While Yale professors have pointed out the ways in which the new diversity initiative may fail to address the University’s myriad issues with hiring, retention and climate, they have also identified the scale and strategies of Columbia’s and Brown’s initiatives as potential models.

Both other initiatives have much more funding, for one.

Columbia’s consists of $85 million over the past decade, and Brown’s is worth $165 million — more than twice the cost of Yale’s initiative, even though Brown’s endowment is less than an eighth of Yale’s.

Yale’s initiative, Homans noted, really only consists of $25 million, since the other $25 million is coming from the schools themselves. Other professors said they were unsure how much of the budget would go toward hiring FAS faculty, as opposed to professors at the professional schools.

“My view is that it’s a start.

Brown University’s commitment is much larger, of course, so Yale’s has been overshadowed,” Grewal said. “But of course if it’s $50 million for the entire university, including the professional schools, it may not be enough. We wait to see what the share of FAS will be.”

Columbia’s and Brown’s initiatives exceed Yale’s not only in price, but in planning and scope as well.

Columbia’s diversity initiative consists of five different investments over the past decade, each of which is earmarked for a specific area of the university. The initiative, which has won awards such as the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from a higher education magazine, has also focused its attention on specific kinds of diversity at different points in time. For example, the university announced an LGBTQ initiative — the first of its kind among peer institutions — this past January.

Columbia Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Dennis Mitchell, who oversees the diversity initiatives there, suggested that an institution must go beyond monetary commitments in order to build a diverse faculty.

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It must pay close attention to creating and nurturing an inclusive climate, which includes a critical mass of faculty from historically underrepresented groups, Mitchell said.

Brown’s initiative is much newer — the finalized plan was announced three months after Yale’s — but the university has already provided a detailed and concrete plan in the form of a 67-page document. $100 million of the $165 million allocation, for example, will go toward creating 25 new endowed professorships.

According to Liza Cariaga-Lo, Brown’s vice president for academic development, diversity and inclusion, the university aims to double its underrepresented minority faculty within five years.

The initiative also includes emphasis on departmental accountability, a defined numerical goal for faculty diversity and a specific structure for faculty mentorship.

“We strongly believe that we can make pronouncements and set goals, but the intentional work to hire professors is really done in the departments,” Cariaga-Lo said. “Our plan aims to increase deliberate accountability within departments.”

She added that each department at Brown is required to submit individual diversity inclusion plans by June. If they do not do so, the university will not approve its faculty hiring plans.

Jacobson said in order for Yale’s initiative to make lasting change, it must similarly reimagine the University’s intellectual culture.

“The natural momentum of the place is very conservative,” he said. “To disrupt that, you have to go against the grain.”

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

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SPORTS

“When Tiger was winning every major, nobody said he was bad for golf.”

GENO AURIEMMA UCONN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH

Elis racing toward nationals

Yale finishes at NCAAs

SAILING FROM PAGE 12 ner ’18 and Woods.

The women’s team also competed in the Joseph R. Duplin team race regatta at Tufts, an atypical racing configuration in the women’s division, which usually focuses on fleet racing. Isler, Knapp and Huebner skippered with crews Woods, Johnson and Caroline Colwell ’18. After a 4–3 record in the first round robin of the eight-school competition, the team proceeded to the final

four, where it only lost one race to Dartmouth, which eventually won the regatta. After losing to Dartmouth, Yale proceeded to win its next two races to finish in a three-way tie with Brown and Tufts at 6–4. Yale took second place in the tiebreaker to earn the Elis a third-place result.

“Everyone is improving as we move onto fleet racing,” assistant coach William Healy said. “We have another month to go [to qualifiers], so we still have a lot to do, but things are

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Bella Hindley ’19 competed in three events at the NCAA Championships, including a 39th-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle.

SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE 12 championships in the mile swim.

The 1,650-yard freestyle event is the longest race at the NCAAs and it doubled as the top event for each Yale swimmer. Hogan’s performance put him at 18th, matching his finish from his sophomore year. Besting the senior, though, was Hyogo, who bettered his 15thplace result from last season by finishing eighth.

“I’m definitely going to miss being a part of this team, and was aware of that feeling all weekend, but watching [Hyogo] swim gave me a lot of confidence about the future of the program,” Hogan said. “He has the talent and work ethic to carry this team to new heights, and I’m excited to see him do it.”

Hyogo was able to make a push toward the eight-person podium when other swimmers slowed in the latter stretches of the mile. In the final 200 yards of the event, Hyogo managed to overtake six swimmers, jumping from 14th to eighth en route to becoming Yale’s first All-American since 2009.

The pair of Hyogo and Hogan took second and third place at Ivies in the mile, finishing only behind Penn junior Chris Swanson, who also won the event at the NCAAs. “Taking part in the meet was by itself an accomplishment and receiving the eighth-place award

was truly an honor and a memory I will cherish,” said Hyogo, whose times in all three events were faster at Ivies. “While I did achieve the main goal I set for myself this season, I did add time in all of my events since Ivies and a number of exceptional swimmers underperformed … To reach the next level, I would need to be able to compete with the nation’s top swimmers at their full potential and still come out on top. I think that is a good thing to keep in mind for next year’s season so I can continue to grow as a swimmer and hopefully have a higher podium finish at next year’s NCAAs.” The Bulldogs will be looking forward to next season as three of its five nationals competitors are underclassmen, a promising sign for both teams after the women placed second and the men finished fourth at this year’s Ivies.

For Fabian and Hogan, however, the two seniors had a bittersweet close to their final NCAAs. “The four seasons I have spent representing and competing for Yale women’s swimming have been the best four years of my life,” Fabian said, “and I am immensely grateful for the many wonderful experiences I have had along the way, for my incredible and dedicated teammates and for the brilliant coaching staff.”

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The Yale coed and women’s sailing teams are working toward defending their three 2015 national championships.

Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .

Fencing season concludes FENCING FROM PAGE 12 ers up north for the competition, with newcomers Walter Musgrave ’19 and Skyler Chin ’19 representing the Bulldogs.

Musgrave won seven bouts in the men’s saber event, finishing 21st overall. The Escondido, California native earned two victories over Ivy League opponents, and one 5–3 win over fifth-place finisher Fares Arfa of Ohio State.

Chin finished 21st in the men’s épée event, also winning seven bouts, including a 5–4 victory

over Porter Hesslegrave from Columbia and a 5–1 dismantling of Zsombor Garzo from Penn.

“I am particularly proud of our two freshmen that competed this past weekend,” men’s team captain Derek Soled ’16 said. “They both were able to achieve several wins against the top fencers in the country, and it is especially great that they will be returning next year as leaders on their squads.”

Columbia won the national championship with 174 won bouts across the six differ-

ent weapon and gender combinations. Princeton came in third, Harvard placed seventh, Penn finished eighth and Cornell earned 15th. Brown, which both Yale teams defeated at this year’s Ivy Round Robins, was the lone Ancient Eight squad to place below Yale, finishing 23rd.

Six seniors will graduate from this year’s Yale men’s team, and four will graduate from the women’s squad.

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

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The Eli men and women, competing at nationals as one team, finished 17th overall.

coming along really well. We are getting into the meat of our season here, so now with everyone through their midterms, they can be a little more free mentally to work hard during practice and charge ahead from here.”

Additionally, the coed team kicked off spring break at the Ice Breaker fleet race regatta hosted by Connecticut College. Eric Anderson ’16 skippered A division into sixth with crews Amelia Dobronyi ’17 and Claire Rossi de Leon ’19, while Knapp and Charles Skoda ’17 sailed to third in B division.

The team’s consistent performance throughout — the B division claimed four consecutive first- or second-place finishes in the 13-race event — led to a first-place tie with Tufts at 148 points each. Yale lost in the head-to-head tiebreaker, taking second in the event.

The following weekend, another coed group took second at the Graham Hall Team Race regatta in Annapolis.

Skippers Ian Barrows ’17, Malcolm Lamphere ’18, Mitchell Kiss ’18 and Nicholas Baird ’19 rotated throughout the event with six different crews including Meredith Megarry ’17, for whom this was the first event of the 2015–16 season.

Losing only three races out of the 20 sailed, Yale’s 17–3 mark was second only to Georgetown’s 18–2 record.

“We tried to make sure that everybody had the opportunity to sail and practice with different people without changing it up every single race, which is important for the team for future competitions,” said crew Clara Robertson ’17, who competed in 19 of the 20 races.

“The rotating plan gave people the chance to learn both on and off the water. In off races, we could learn from our coaches and from watching, and internalize the previous races.”

A similar crop of sailors traveled to the Coast Guard Academy for the Jan T. Friis Team Race on March 26. The Bulldogs lost only two races out of 11 on Saturday, one of which was to Stanford, whom Yale eventually beat in a tie-

breaker sail-off for second.

Boston College took first with a 10–1 record, with its one lost race coming against Yale.

Though the Elis were en route to winning the regatta with three wins in the final four on the second day of competition, the race was called due to the official 3 p.m. cutoff time, negating Yale’s three Sunday wins and giving Boston College the victory. Meanwhile, skippers Klingler, Anderson, Christopher Champa ’18 and Nicolas Hernandez ’19 sailed at the Boston College Team Race, capping off spring break sailing with another Yale victory. Eli sailors won every race in the first round robin, before finding themselves in a tie for first at 11–4 with Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Yale took the victory in the tiebreaker.

Only one weekend of competition remains before the coed New England Team Race Championship on April 9, which will allow the Bulldogs to qualify for the national championship in May. Additionally, both the women and coed teams have fleet racing qualifications at the end of April. Hernandez praised the spring break competitions for putting the team “on track,” and allowing it to be “surgical” about strategy during team races leading up to nationals.

“Instead of focusing on one bad situation, we try to learn something from everything,” Doris said. “We have worked really hard to make sure everyone is learning and everyone is really involved. The underclassmen have been really important because we practice with them, and when we do team races in practice, they are always the people we sail against. Having them do so well is exciting because it means the whole team is improving.”

The women’s team is scheduled to compete once this upcoming weekend while the coed team has three regattas planned.

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

California road trip GOLF FROM PAGE 12 between the two, though the Elis backtracked in the final round for scores of 328–315– 322.

Captain Joe Willis ’16 led the men, finishing the tournament at +12. The senior opened the tournament with a 78, hampered by a triple bogey on the fourth hole. Friday was a different story, however, as he recorded Yale’s lowest score of the entire tournament with a 71, consisting of two birdies and only three bogeys.

Through 15 holes, Willis was one under par, though he bogied the 16th and 18th; still, the three bogies were the fewest in a round of any Yale competitor on the weekend.

Eoin Leonard ’19, looking to build on a strong fall campaign, led Yale through the first day of competition with a 74, and would ultimately finish three strokes behind Willis for second best on the squad.

Trailing Leonard by one shot was Li Wang ’17, who finished the weekend at +16. Wang recovered well from a difficult +11 first round, which included a quadruple bogey on the first hole, to record a 73 and 72 the following two days on the par-70 course, including Yale’s only eagle of the tournament, on the seventh hole in the second round.

Leffew and Wang tied for the most birdies in the tournament as each tallied eight total. Leffew doubled his birdie total in the third round alone, racking up four en route to an impressive 72 after rounds of 79 and 77. In each of the three rounds, Leffew finished three strokes better on the front nine compared to the back nine.

“I struggled with my putting and chipping the first two days,” said Leffew, who shot four under-pars on par-

5s in the tournament. “After the second round, I worked on both and found something that clicked.”

Rounding out the men’s team, Jonathan Lai ’17 had a particularly strong back nine on Thursday, tallying three birdies in a four-hole span. He finished at +22, two strokes behind teammate James Nicholas ’19.

All four of Nicholas’ birdies on the weekend came on the back nine, with three coming on par-5s.

“This was freshman James Nicholas’ first time in the starting five since he divides his time between the football team in the fall and the golf team in the spring,” head coach Colin Sheehan said.

“It was good to see him join the other two freshmen, Jake Leffew and Eoin Leonard, as players capable of making a contribution to the starting five.”

On the women’s side, Elisabeth Bernabe ’17 paced Yale with a 240, which was 24 over par. The junior lowered her score each day of the tournament, shooting 83–79–78 on the way to finishing tied for 39th overall. She birdied the first hole of the course, a par5, in all three rounds.

Finishing close behind her were Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17 and Deanna Song ’16, who shot +26 and +27, respectively. Wongwaiwate struggled in a first round that included four double bogeys and a triple bogey, but she quickly recovered to tally a 78 and 79 the latter two rounds.

On the other hand, Song was the Bulldogs’ leader through two days, having shot a 77 in both rounds, but slipped in the third and final round, shooting an 89.

The other three Yale competitors were Jayshree Sarathy ’18, Sydney Babiak ’19 and

Sara Garmezy ’17, who would finish within four strokes of each other. Sarathy wound up at +31, shooting consistently in the low 80s, while her freshman teammate Babiak finished one stroke behind.

Babiak had a very strong first round finishing with a +6, including Yale’s lone eagle, but followed that up with an 84 and 86 the next two rounds. Garmezy, whose final round included both of her birdies for the tournament, shot 84–84–83, putting her at +35 for the weekend.

As a team, the Yale men performed very well on par-3 holes, placing them in the top half of teams in those holes with a 3.24 average, finishing 18 strokes over par. However, the Bulldogs ranked dead last on par-4s and fourth to last on par-5s.

On the women’s side, practically all of the Bulldogs performed significantly better on the front nine than they did on the back nine throughout all three rounds.

The men’s tournament winner was UC Davis, whose -13 was 10 strokes better than the nearest school, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. BYU, ranked No. 36, won the women’s tournament, shooting +24 as a team.

“While players didn’t play their best — in particular putting on the greens — we realize it was in the context of a very strong field during a very early stage of spring season,” Sheehan said.

The Yale men now have two weeks to prepare for the Princeton Invitational on April 9, while the women return to action April 1 for the Ole Miss Rebel Intercollegiate.

Contact SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS at sebastian.kupchaunis@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 11:45 PM Do Not Mess with Us! Guatemalan Students and the State, 1944–1996. Between 1944 and 1996, a period that included a revolution, counterrevolution and civil war, university students at Guatemala’s only public university helped transformed the meaning of social class, public space and political affect through their encounters with the Guatemalan and United States governments. This talk will focus on Guatemalan student activism in a period of intense repression and provide a new angle from which to consider the transnational dimensions of student uprisings across Latin America in the 1960s. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 202.

12:30 PM Gallery Talk, Checkmate: Dada Interventions in Art. To achieve their goal of integrating art into life, Dada artists and writers embraced play as an artistic tool. Acting on an anarchic impulse, they used board games as canvases and the cabaret stage as a performance space; they reconfigured words and phrases and — confounding the public’s expectations of art — displayed odd objects and found materials enthusiastically nailed and glued together. This talk explores the many forms of Dada play and their effects on later art by focusing on select objects in the exhibition “Everything Is Dada.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE Open Studios welcomes community into School of Art spaces

BY TÉA BEER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, the School of Art’s graduate departments of sculpture, photography, graphic design and painting and printmaking will welcome the local community into their studios.

The annual Open Studios event allows the Yale and New Haven communities access to the school’s spaces in Green Hall, 36 Edgewood Ave. and 353 Crown St., where artists from each department will be in their studios to show works in progress and discuss their artistic practices. According to Raza Kazmi ART ’16, a student representative for the department, Open Studios attendees will have the opportunity to experience the private studio spaces of artists from around the world and to speak candidly with those artists about their works, their departments and their studies at the School of Art. “This is a chance to see new and in-progress works by the

grads,” Kazmi said. “It’s a chance to see how these emerging artists are investigating and questioning both formal, conceptual and political issues in the world and in art-making.”

The event presents an opportunity to engage artists directly in conversation, Samuel Messer ART ’82, associate dean of the School of Art, said.

Open Studios broadens the dialogue surrounding student artists’ work and practice, he added, noting that it allows students to make contact with a diverse audience outside of the school itself.

“I encourage attendees to be at ease and feel free to roam the studio spaces,” Kazmi said. “Artists can be sort of shy sometimes, so maybe go up and talk to them first.”

By expanding the conversation beyond the School of Art, Messer explained, the event becomes an “exciting and fruitful place” for students to widen their perspectives on their own work.

Further, Messer added, he

thinks giving students the chance to discuss their work with the wider public helps the school to avoid academic insularity.

“Once out of school the conversations one hopes for are larger than the sometimes myopic ones found in academic programs,” Messer explained.

Along these lines, the event is also a chance for the School of Art to reconnect with the rest of the University, the New Haven community and attendees further afield, Kazmi said.

Kazmi added that in previous years, the amicable atmosphere of the Open Studios has helped build — or rekindle — ties between the school and its broader audience.

“Personally, I enjoy the elevated sense of community generated by the event,” he noted.

“It is easy to become isolated within one’s immediate community and lose contact with the world. Open Studios is a way to reconnect.”

Alexis Inguaggiato ’17, an undergraduate art major, said she is particularly excited for the glimpse “inside artists’ minds” that Open Studios presents, and for the opportunity to witness the graduate students’ artistic processes and working spaces.

Inguaggiato added that Open Studios showcases the passion of graduate students for their work, while providing a valuable opportunity for visitors to experience their creations beyond the traditional exhibition format.

“It is a great chance to get out of a pristine gallery and enter into the messiness and individuality of the workspaces,” Inguaggiato said.

Open Studios will take place on Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 1156 Chapel St., 353 Crown St. and 36 Edgewood Ave. Contact TÉA BEER at tea.beer@yale.edu .

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The annual Open Studios event welcomes interested visitors into School of Art students’ work spaces.

Second installment of MFA thesis exhibition opens in Green Hall

BY IVONA IACOB AND TÉA BEER STAFF REPORTER, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The second installment of the School of Art’s sculpture thesis exhibition opens Wednesday in Green Hall gallery.

Featuring pieces by six artists — Tommy Coleman ART ’16, Sam Davis ART ’16, Tim Sint Tillo ART ’16, Tammy Kiku Logan ART ’16, Alex Stevens ART ’16 and Jayeon Yi ART ’16 — the show presents a culminating body of work by students graduating from the sculpture department’s MFA program this May. It builds on its previous installment, on view from March 5 to 20, which included works by five sculptors: Raza Kazmi ART ’16, Virginia Lee Montgomery ART ’16, Douglas Rieger ART ’16, Constance Tenvik ART ’16 and Masha Vlasova ART ’16. According to Tenvik, the show was divided into two installments to ensure that each artist had ample space in which to exhibit his or her works. Tenvik said the exhibition will showcase a multifarious vision of contemporary sculpture, which may borrow and incorporate practices from other media, such as drawing, video art and performance in addition to more traditional forms of threedimensional expression.

“The Yale Sculpture thesis exhibition is for the 11 of us in class of 2016 to have an art show and sort of wrap up our time here,” Tenvik explained. “It’s a good chance for us to show our stuff to the Yale community and beyond. I’d say our group is quite varied … and each artist have spent their time here to nurture their own path … I hope visitors come and enjoy the various voices and that it can take them into a different zone.”

Both Tenvik and Sam Messer ART ’82, associate dean of the School of Art, emphasized the overlap between this installment of the sculpture thesis exhibition and the school’s Open Studios, which will take

place this weekend.

Messer noted that the Open Studios event — part of which will take place in studio spaces just upstairs from the show in Green Hall — will give viewers a glimpse into the processes by which the thesis works are created, allowing exhibition visitors a deeper understanding of the pieces on display.

“The MFA departments are similar to the laboratories one might imagine in a science lab,” Messer explained. “[They are] a place for experimentation, research and trial and error.

Bookend this with the Sculpture Thesis exhibition, work considered ‘finished.’ This juxtaposition for anyone in the Yale community could provide insight into the creative process of our students and artists in general.”

Kazmi echoed Messer and Tenvik’s remarks, expressing his hope that the unique convergence of the Open Studios and the thesis exhibition could give students, and members of the broader community, deeper understanding and awareness of sculpture as a medium.

In addition to providing an opportunity for wider audiences to gain a more nuanced view of sculpture, Tenvik said, the thesis exhibition presents a crucial learning opportunity for the artists themselves.

“I’ve learned a lot from dragging some of my stuff out of my messy studio space and into a bright and empty place, the conversation before and after the show has given me a lot to think about, and will hopefully help the development of my work,” Tenvik said. “I always learn from putting the work out in there. That’s when a dialogue really starts happening.”

A reception celebrating the opening of Part II of the thesis exhibition will take place on Saturday, April 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. in Green Hall.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu and TÉA BEER at tea.beer@yale.edu .

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The second installment of the sculpture MFA thesis exhibition is now on view in Green Hall.

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Art installation connects New Haven and Nairobi

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER A Shared_Studios portal connecting New Haven and Kenya has taken up temporary residence on Cross Campus as part of the weeklong AFRICA SALON. Taking the form of a golden shipping container equipped with audiovisual capabilities — including cameras, microphones, speakers and a giant screen — the portal allows people to speak directly with and learn from their counterparts halfway across the world. Organized in collaboration with Shared_Studios, a

multidisciplinary arts, design and technology collective that seeks to facilitate authentic cross-cultural dialogue, the portal will remain at Yale through Sunday, connecting visitors with the Kwani? literary community in Nairobi.

The Cross Campus installation marks the second occasion a portal has been opened at Yale, this time facilitated by Ifeanyi Awachie ’14, curator of the AFRICA SALON festival.

According to M ichelle Moghtader, a member of the Shared_Studios team that helped bring the container to Yale, the portals help facilitate deeper connections than

other kinds of contemporary communications technologies allow.

“We have a lot of technology today, we have Facebook, Twitter, all these things that supposedly connect us to strangers,” Moghtader explained. “But we often connect to people who are much like ourselves. With the portals, we are hoping to create a space where you can step inside and connect with someone you wouldn’t meet otherwise in a safe way.”

The Cross Campus portal is staffed by members of the Shared_Studios team as well as Yale students, all of whom

serve as portal “curators.”

Houriiyah Tegally ’16, a senior working as one of these curators, said the team collectively sets up the portal and ensures that it runs smoothly throughout the week, remaining in touch with their colleagues in Nairobi.

In addition to handling the portal’s logistical aspects, Tegally said, the curators are also responsible for translation, distribution of conversation prompts to visitors and evaluation of participant’s reactions after their visits.

Tegally added that she thinks the portal curators’ work in facilitating conversations

helps bring together complete strangers from different parts of the world in a natural way.

“I think the point that this is trying to achieve is to put people in the same physical space to enable them to connect,” she explained. “Very organic, genuine conversations can come up from very simple prompts, such as ‘What would make your day better today?’ It’s the kind of interaction you have when you travel and talk to someone just because they’re next to you in real life, at a coffee shop.”

Diana Opoti, a Nairobibased fashion consultant and the executive producer of

“Designing Africa,” a television program that focuses on the growth of the African fashion industry, was one of the visitors to the Nairobi portal.

During her conversation, via portal, with the News, Opoti discussed her influential “100 Days of African Fashion” project, an Instagram series showcasing the work of contemporary African designers.

The portal will remain open until April 3 as part of the AFRICA SALON’s series of events celebrating contemporary African arts and culture.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.last@yale.edu .

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A Shared_Studios portal, installed on Cross Campus for the 2016 Africa Salon, links New Haven and Nairobi.

Podcasters discuss digital media as means of challenging status quo

BY SAMUEL LEE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Tuesday evening workshop on podcasting and digital music-making, held in Luce Hall, opened with a quote from poet and activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph: “Joy is a human right.”

The event, titled “The Sounds of Digital Joy: Black Women’s Sonic Space Making Online,” focused on podcasting and digital music as opportunities for interventions in culture and society. Co-led by Moya Bailey, a postdoctoral scholar of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Digital Humanities at Northeastern University, and Jalylah Burrell GRD ’16, a doctoral candidate in the American and African American Studies departments, the workshop constituted the second installment of a two-part program, “Digital Non-Neutrality Series: Decolonizing and Queering DH [Digital Humanities] Tools and Practices,” co-organized by T.L. Cowan and Marijeta Bozovic, two professors affiliated with Yale’s recently established Digital Humanities Lab. In her intro-

duction to the workshop, Cowan mentioned that the lab presents an opportunity to “de-center” the discipline of digital humanities at Yale, ensuring that it does not reproduce existing issues in academia that may persist in other fields. Throughout the discussion, Bailey and Burrell stressed ways in which the podcast and digital music production can exist as variations on the “de-centering” strategies Cowan highlighted, simultaneously discussing how podcasting can serve as another mode of academic inquiry.

“It is a theoretical practice in its own right,” Bailey explained.

“We can do something through podcasting that we can’t in other forms like scholarly papers.”

“The Sounds of Digital Joy” opened with a discussion, led by Bailey and Burrell, on the predicament facing some listeners of popular hip-hop: finding a balance between enjoying the music while still taking issue with a song’s misogynistic lyrics. More broadly, the speakers examined “the frustration circulating within the digital community” regarding the representation of

Black life in popular hashtags.

During the workshop, Burrell talked about the way in which her past experiences as a DJ in Hong Kong and New York City inform her current work as a scholar and digital arts practitioner. Music, she explained, “is a vehicle for skill, reportage and storytelling.” She also presented several of her mixtapes, which trace the development of Black feminism through the inclusion of voices such as Sonia Sanchez, a scholar and historian whom Burrell described as a “lost voice in academia,” and musician Laura Lee’s “Women’s Love Rights,” which she noted was “an explicitly feminist” album, in her estimation.

Similarly, Bailey discussed the podcast as “a collaborative medium” that furthers the notion that “conversation is where things get worked out.”

She presented excerpts from her and Burrell’s podcasts, “The Prescription” and “Love in Public,” to demonstrate examples of recordings that dealt with issues such as the presentation of the Black “South” in the recent Beyoncé single, “Forma-

tion,” in a conversational mode.

The workshop leaders also gave participants practical advice for recording effective podcasts, reminding them that one must be willing to modulate his or her everyday conversation habits to

accommodate the demands of the podcast as a “performative” medium.

“You should avoid talking over the other person in your exchanges and conversations,” Burrell said. “It’s a performance.”

The series was sponsored by the Yale DHLab, with support from a variety of other programs and departments.

Contact SAMUEL LEE at samuel.lee@yale.edu .

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BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a year in which the Yale women’s swimming and diving team finished second at Ivies and the men finished in the top four for the sixth consecutive season, a season of highlights came to a close over spring break when five Bulldogs competed at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.

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The coed and women’s sailing teams each picked up a victory out of seven total regattas over spring break.

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER In seven regattas spanning from Boston to Annapolis, the Yale coed and women’s sailing teams cruised to six top-three finishes over spring break.

With qualification for nationals looming for both teams and a spring season that emphasizes strategic team racing versus the fall’s fleet racing focus, the Bulldogs spent the break both training in Florida and competing up and down the East Coast against primarily other teams in the New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association. The

No. 3 women’s team nabbed a first-place finish at Navy the weekend of March 12 before third- and fifth-place finishes in regattas over the past two weekends. The No. 2 coed team, meanwhile, sailed in four regattas, three of which came down to tiebreaking face-offs for Yale. In the end, the team never placed outside the top two, earning one win and three runner-up finishes.

“What was really exciting was that it is really easy to see how much we improved just from having one week of sailing and practicing … during spring break,” crew Natalya Doris ’17 said. “At the [Bob

Bavier Team Race on March 5], we were making a couple of mistakes that we shouldn’t have been making … but after spring break we improved a lot and learned a lot, and now we’re just focusing on learning as much as we possibly can and working well with each other because we have national qualifiers in two weeks.”

The women’s team began its break in Annapolis, where it sailed to victory at the Navy Spring Women’s regatta, 11 points ahead of second-place Georgetown. The win marked the Bulldogs’ second consecutive victory of the spring season. Casey Klingler ’18

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and Emily Johnson ’16 sailed A Division, in which the duo placed first, while Marly Isler ’16 and Kira Woods ’19 cruised to second in B division. The Bulldogs returned to Annapolis the following weekend for the St. Mary’s Spring Intersectional, where they held onto a top-four spot for much of the regatta until losing the tiebreaking race to Stanford and falling to fifth. The previous weekend’s A division sailors again competed for Yale, placing sixth, while KB Knapp ’18 skippered to eighth in B with alternating crews Claire HuebSEE SAILING PAGE 8

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Yale’s men’s and women’s golf teams recently kicked off their respective spring seasons with the men opening at The Goodwin, hosted by Stanford, this past weekend and the women teeing off two weeks ago at BYU’s Entrada Classic.

The Yale men’s and women’s fencing teams concluded their seasons this past weekend with a 17th-place finish at the NCAA Championships at Brandeis University.

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Four Bulldogs represented the team in Massachusetts, combining to win 28 out of 92 bouts over the two days of competition.

Three of the four competitors were freshmen, demonstrating the potential of Yale’s two programs heading into next season.

“The team worked incredibly hard this season,” said women’s captain Joanna Lew ’17, the fourth Yale fencer to compete. “It was a pleasure seeing the freshmen come into their own as college fencers [this weekend].”

The winningest Yalie of the weekend, Lew won nine bouts in the women’s saber event, finishing 20th overall out of 24 in her weapon. Five of Lew’s victories, including a 5–4 win over Columbia’s Lena Johnson and a 5–3 besting of Penn’s Arabella Uhry, came against eventual top10 finishers in the event.

Lew’s teammate, Jenny Zhao ’19, finished 21st in the women’s foil event, winning five bouts.

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Elis place 17th at NCAAs

BY SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In a 26-school field consisting of seven ranked schools, including No. 1 Southern California, the men finished in last with a threeround score of 896, which was 56 over par. The women, meanwhile, finished 12th in a field of 14 schools shooting a 965, or 101 over par.

“We were obviously expecting to play better than we did,” Jake Leffew ’19 said. “At the same time, this was our first event after the offseason and we needed to knock off the rust.”

Despite the men’s final result, the Bulldogs did demonstrate improvement over the course of the tournament. After shooting a 305 on Thursday, Yale followed up with scores of 297 and 294 on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

The women also lowered their score between the first and second rounds, shedding 13 strokes

Distance swimmers Kei Hyogo ’18 and captain Brian Hogan ’16 represented the men while the women’s side sent Bella Hindley ’19, Cailley Silbert ’18 and Eva Fabian ’16 to participate at the premier event in collegiate swimming. Matching up against the top talent in the nation, Hyogo’s topeight finish in the mile swim stood out as the definite high point for Yale at the meet.

“This year’s NCAA was undoubtedly one of the fastest short-course yards meets in the history of the sport and it was truly a spectacular experience,” said Hyogo, who earned AllAmerican status for his performance. “Ivies is known for how competitive and intense it gets but the NCAAs bump every aspect of Ivies up a level — it’s a much bigger, faster and more competitive meet.”

The women swam first, with Hindley and Silbert competing on the first full day of the meet, March 17, in the 50-yard and 500yard freestyle events, respectively. Hindley’s swim was 0.04 seconds off of her Ivy Championship winning time, putting her at 39th in the 55-person field. With

her 22.62-second finish, Hindley had the eighth-best outing of any freshman in the nation.

Silbert was just under five seconds off of her third-place performance at Ivies, earning a 67thplace finish.

The women’s team officially finished its season two days later, with Hindley placing 43rd in the 100-yard freestyle, another event that she won at last month’s Ivies, and 10th among freshmen.

In the mile swim, Silbert managed to knock off two seconds from her previous personal best, setting a new career best and tying for 27th place. Fabian, meanwhile, finished in 36th place in her third year qualifying for the NCAAs, mirroring the duo’s 1–2 finish at Ivies.

“NCAAs was a fantastic experience,” Fabian said. “I am very proud of our performances, and especially proud of [Silbert] and [Hindley] for their incredible swims this season, and I am excited for their performances this spring and summer at [Olympic] trials.”

The two male participants kicked off their meet just days later, beginning with the 500yard freestyle swim on Thursday.

Hogan, who has now competed at nationals each of the past three seasons, earned his best career NCAA finish in the event behind a 28th-place result, and Hyogo swam to 41st in his second consecutive trip to the NCAAs. The following day, Hyogo took 28th in the 400-yard individual medley swim, 11th best among sophomore competitors.

The duo capped off the season with a great third day of the

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The Bulldogs won 28 of their 92 bouts at the NCAA Championships, including a few victories over top-10 fencers. an injured ankle, Zhao was able to defeat Notre Dame’s Nicole McKee, who finished 10th in the event, by a score of 5–0.

“NCAA Championships was definitely a great opportunity to compete against the top collegiate fencers in the United

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THE NUMBER OF MEN’S HOCKEY PLAYERS UNDER HEAD COACH KEITH ALLAIN ’80 WHO HAVE LEFT SCHOOL EARLY FOR A PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT DURING HIS 10-YEAR TENURE. Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 will reportedly become the first such player this week.