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CROSS CAMPUS Character Vitae. New York

Times columnist David Brooks — better known around these parts for teaching “Humility” — publishes his newest project today. Entitled “The Road to Character,” his book and seminar both attempt to define a life well lived. So one can essentially learn the same material either way — it just depends whether you’d rather spend $20 on a book or pay the lifelong costs of therapy to recover from your classmates in “Humility.”

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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations faces an uncertain future.

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Preps’ preferences. Yesterday,

Bloomberg sat down with Prep for Prep CEO Aileen Hefferen to discuss the state of the program, which helps groom minority students hoping to attend top colleges. The piece included a graphic that broke down the eventual college choices of the program’s alumni: Wesleyan, Harvard, Yale and Columbia took the top four spots, in that order.

It is pretty. The Undergraduate

Admissions Office continued its “Inside the 12 Residential Colleges” series on social media last night, electing to crown Branford “Yale’s most iconic.” The attached photo of Harkness in springtime makes a convincing case, we’ll admit.

Contender or pretender? The

U.S. Universities Debating Championship has been taking place at the University of Alaska Anchorage over the past few days, and, last we heard, the Yale contingent made it to the final round against Brown, Harvard and Morehouse.

“Nothing matters.” That

seems to be the logic behind Google’s hiring process, at least according to human resources executive Laszlo Bock, who was interviewed

by Time Magazine yesterday.

Though Bock acknowledged that Google once prioritized Ivy League candidates, he pointed out that the software giant isn’t so picky these days, even de-emphasizing the importance of college grades.

Drop the Hammer. Even though he’s a campus regular, English Department Chair Langdon Hammer ’80 GRD ’89, will receive guest of honor status at today’s J.E. master’s tea. He, like Brooks, is also promoting a book that comes out today.

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n the last year, the Yale School of Medicine has been hit with accusations of harassment, intimidation and bullying. But it is issues like promotion, tenure and largely white, male leadership that women and minorities struggle with on a day-to-day basis. Amaka Uchegbu reports.

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER

In one of the Yale School of Medicine’s smaller auditoriums, roughly 50 female faculty members gathered to push the school for answers.

UPCLOSE It was around 2008, and promisingly, the Dean’s Office — led by Robert Alpern — had agreed to meet with the women to explain why the findings of the school’s compensation committee report were now being made confidential.

Under former medical school dean David Kessler, everyone knew average salaries by rank and department because the report was published for all to see. But when Alpern took over, the reports became confidential.

According to Senior Research Scientist in the School of Public Health Nancy Ruddle GRD

’68, the data showed clear gender inequities in salaries, but women at least they knew the nature of the injustices they were facing.

The meeting culminated in a resounding wave of disappointment.

Answers to the women’s questions never came, nor did Alpern, who sent his deputy dean for finance and administration in his place, said three senior women who were there that day.

“We didn’t meet with [Alpern]. We met with his posse,” said one woman who was present but did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation she added that Alpern’s disinterest in transparency was evident simply by looking at the room.

An entire row of the auditorium, they said, was lined with lawyers.

EQUAL TREATMENT?

As clinicians in white coats and blue scrubs weaved between

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The Yale School of Medicine has come under scrutiny for its tenure practices. the tables of a busy cafeteria at Yale-New Haven Hospital, two senior women — who, between them, had spent over 30 years at the School of Medicine — recounted the early years of Alpern’s tenure.

Over the course of Alpern’s decadelong tenure, women and minority faculty at the medical

school have grown accustomed to opacity from the administration.

The most recent example, of course, is the school’s treatment of the Michael Simons MED ’84 case. The former chief of cardiology and former director of Yale’s Cardiovascular Research Center was publicly accused of

sexually harassing and intimidating his junior colleagues on the front page of The New York Times in November 2014.

The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct recommended that Simons be removed from his leaderSEE UP CLOSE PAGE 6

With Howard, student life administration to grow

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Burgwell “Burgie” Howard, Northwestern University’s current assistant vice president for student engagement, will leave his current post at the end of the school year for a newly created position at Yale focused on student engagement and well-being.

In an email to the Yale community Monday morning, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews

announced that Howard will come to Yale in August. Once on campus, he will collaborate with Holloway’s and GoffCrews’s offices and play an integral role in planning for the two new residential colleges.

“I recognize that this expansion of the undergraduate student body is historic, and that was part of the appeal for me: to be part of a really positive transition for the University,” Howard told the News. “I think it’s going to be very manageable, but I also recognize there is a history and an understanding of how people have oper-

ated Yale for 300 years, and we want to do this with grace, in a way that is in keeping with who Yale is.”

The email from Holloway and Goff-Crews did not specify Howard’s exact title. But in an email to the Northwestern community last week, Patricia Telles-Irvin, Northwestern’s vice president for student affairs, said he will serve as associate vice president for student engagement and senior associate dean of the college.

Holloway could not be reached for additional comment Monday.

Yale startups find their footing

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER As a sophomore at Yale, Paul Gu was impatient to do something “real.” Although he was working on several small entrepreneurial projects on campus, professional entrepreneurship seemed like a “distant dream.” Daniel Friedman, a

classmate of Gu’s, also said entrepreneurship was rare on campus, and that there were very few people with whom they could brainstorm ideas.

That same year, 2011, professional entrepreneur Paul Thiel launched the Thiel Fellowship — a program that grants $100,000 to its winners to drop out

of college and pursue their startup dream. Gu and Friedman saw this as an opportunity they could not pass up; the possibility of realizing their entrepreneurial ambitions while staying on campus seemed remote.

Both were selected as SEE STARTUP PAGE 4

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The men’s and women’s golf teams dominate weekend tournaments.

At med school, diversity lags behind the times

She has a nice personality.

Paul Krugman ’74, Brooks’s colleague at the Times, couldn’t care less about personality when it comes to politics. In his Monday column, Krugman suggested that, as parties grow further and further apart, voters identify the candidate that they believe will stand most firmly for his or her policy views, rather than seeking the one they deem most pleasant.

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The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute has encouraged startups.

While at Northwestern, Howard oversaw aspects of student life ranging from multicultural affairs to religious and Greek life. Before his 10 years in Evanston, Ill., Howard also held positions at Dartmouth College, Santa Clara University, Colgate University and Bowdoin College. The size of Yale’s student body is a “happy medium” for Howard, he said, blending the ambition and creativity of a large research university like Northwestern with the intimacy of a smaller liberal arts school like Bowdoin.

Julia Watson, a senior at Northwestern and president of its Associated Student Government, praised Howard’s commitment to connecting with students instead of simply attending programming or leading meetings. Junior Nick Crance, president of Northwestern’s chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, said he has sought advice from Howard regarding his fraternity, and that Howard conveyed the depth of his care for students.

Howard said he does not yet SEE HOWARD PAGE 4

New commission reviews urban violence

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Youth and Urban Violence Commission had its first meeting Monday to address trends in the criminal justice system and review current research that sheds light on causes of urban violence.

The Commission, chaired by Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, was first announced on March 24. The stated goal of the commission is to review the root causes of urban violence and to propose programs that will continue to drive down crime. The panel comprises 26 experts and community leaders from throughout Connecticut, including Yale Law School professor and director of the Yale Justice Collaboratory Megan Quattlebaum and Yale sociology professor Andrew Papachristos.

At Monday’s meeting, the commission reviewed current state crime statistics and discussed potential causes of violent crime.

“First and foremost, our goal is to actually reduce crime. What-

ever we do, at the end of the day, if it reduces crime, it’s probably a good thing,” Michael Lawlor, the under secretary for the Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division at the Office of Policy and Management, said at the meeting.

Lawlor added that the commission also hopes to reduce spending and restore confidence in the criminal justice system.

Overall crime in Connecticut is at a 48-year low this year, according to a March 24 press release from the governor’s office. Still, Malloy said the state could do more to further reduce violent crime in Connecticut.

Lawlor said the commission’s main goal is to have experts in fields relating to urban violence weigh in on root causes of and solutions to high-crime rates in certain communities.

At the meeting, Quattlebaum addressed the issue of legitimacy — the extent to which community members accept police SEE URBAN VIOLENCE PAGE 4

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n less than a week, hundreds of high school students will descend upon campus for Bulldog Days, eager to learn about how Yale could shape their lives over the next four years. Yet it is likely that Yale has already shaped the lives of many Bulldog Days attendees, beginning long before they even applied — because of how the University’s admissions process influences the choices that many affluent high school students make.

It is well known that the college admissions process gets a little bit more insane every year for the American upper-middle class. It is now commonplace for high school students to apply to over 10 schools, and for some to try for as many as 20 or 30. Some independent college counselors now charge over $40,000 a student, an amount that fearful, upper-class parents are willing to fork over in exchange for a better shot for their children at the Ivy League.

Yet nowhere is the growing insanity of the college admissions process more apparent than in the number of high school students who literally organize their lives around the quest to get into a top university.

Many Bulldog Days attendees will have spent years planning how to get into Yale: what subjects to study, which activities to join and how to spend their free time. Because of this, Yale’s application process and admissions criteria have far-reaching effects, far beyond the makeup of the Class of 2019. The way that Yale evaluates high school students influences the lives they lead, the habits that they develop and the identities that they form.

What sorts of pursuits does a Yale applicant learn to value?

He sees that the application section for extracurricular activities has 10 spots, and learns to value doing as many things as possible. He realizes that there’s a limit of 150 characters for describing each activity, and learns to value doing things that look good. He knows that he'll need a stellar academic record to be accepted, and learns to value sleepless nights and caffeine. He hears that top universities look for students who have demonstrated leadership, and learns that leadership is a credential that one lists on a form rather than the process of convincing people to follow one’s visions.

He writes one personal statement after another, and learns to treat his emotional life as a thing to be packaged into 500-word narratives.

High school is a time when we form our identities and take on responsibilities, yet many of America’s brightest high school students spend their time scrambling from one activity to another, without time for introspection or self-care. When they finally apply to colleges, they are encouraged to write about things that are meaningful

to them, yet many have been taught to care about achievement and status above all else. By the time that SCOTT they arrive at GREENBERG Yale as freshmen, some The Segue are entirely burnt out, and some ready to repeat the cycle of overachievement and meaningless leadership positions all over again.

None of these problems are, strictly speaking, Yale’s fault.

The University has always been clear that its admissions decisions are based on holistic criteria, and it is clear that high school students who drive themselves crazy trying to get into Yale are misunderstanding the admissions process in one way or another. But Yale considers itself a leader among universities, and is at least partially responsible when students across the country learn the wrong lessons from the admissions process. The Admissions Office should forcefully clarify to prospective applicants that overachievement and empty credentials are no way to spend their time in high school.

As loyal readers of this column know, I trust Yale’s administration a great deal: I believe they’ve steered this University well for the past 20 years and are generally responsive to student concerns. But I have much less trust in the Admissions Office — not necessarily because they make bad decisions about who to admit, but because they participate in a system that ruins high school for so many American teenagers.

This is why I was one of the first undergraduates to submit a FERPA request to review my admissions records, and why I was so disappointed when the Admissions Office announced recently that it would be deleting the records in question to prevent more students from viewing what application readers had to say about them. The standard argument for the Admissions Office’s high level of secrecy is that, if high school students were fully aware of the criteria Yale uses to judge applicants, they’d be able to game the admissions process. But, frankly, students are already gaming the admissions process — by short-changing their own high school experiences. Some additional transparency could force the Admissions Office to confront the actions it incentivizes and the values it promotes among America’s high school students and Yale’s future undergraduates.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. His column runs on Tuesdays. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST KIKI OCHIENG

Equal pay for equal work F

or graduating seniors, starting salaries are an alltoo-common concern, but for soon-to-be alumnae, figuring out next year’s salary may be a little more stressful than for our male counterparts.

From Patricia Arquette’s Oscar speech on the gender wage gap to the recent controversial ruling against Ellen Pao in her gender discrimination lawsuit, women’s rights in the workplace have been a hot topic in the last few months. And rightly so. Today, women make 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

The median weekly earnings for American female doctors working full-time is $1,497 versus $2,087 for men. Women in architecture and engineering earn 83.7 cents to a man’s dollar. The gender pay gap stretches across almost every industry. Even in nursing, a profession where women outnumber men 10 to one, men out-earn women by nearly $7,700 per year in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 in hospitals. From blue-collar to white-collar jobs, women aren’t getting equal pay for equal work.

While the world these days tells us to “lean in,” it isn’t all that simple.

The wage gap stems not only from the persistent underesti-

mation and under appreciation of women’s contributions in the workplace, but also from stigma surrounding salary negotiations.

Even if a woman knows her worth, negotiating a salary can come with a cost. For years, studies on salary negotiation have shown that the social cost of negotiating for higher pay is greater for women than it is for men. Before we chime in to criticize women for not “leaning in,” we must recognize that women’s hesitancy to ask for a raise often stems from an intuitive sense of the risks.

But the burden of advocating for equal pay should not be shouldered by women alone.

We can start by recognizing women’s worth in the workplace.

According to popular gender stereotypes, when men are assertive, they are often called “leaders.” When women do the same, they risk being labeled “bossy” or “pushy.” Men are expected to be ruthless and women nurturing. Because we expect women to fulfill the “mother hen” role, we are less likely to reward them for being a team player.

A recent study by New York University psychologist Madeline Heilman found that male employees were continually viewed more favorably than women when giving the same help to a colleague. As Sheryl Sandberg recently noted in The

New York Times, this means that women “do the lion’s share of office housework” — with little recognition. It’s time to acknowledge the contributions of women and compensate them fairly. Men can help by volunteering to take over some of the group tasks. By doing so, we can give women more opportunities to have their voices more fully heard.

Ellen Pao, interim CEO of Reddit, has a rather innovative idea for the private sector: eliminate the salary negotiation process entirely. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Pao noted that “men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate.” Most government jobs have fixed salaries based on title and years of experience. Because these salary rates are public information, workers can easily compare pay, reducing the likelihood that bias will impact compensation. Thus, it should come as no surprise that the wage gap is considerably smaller in the public sector. According to the Office of Personnel Management, between 1992 and 2012, the gender pay gap for public sector workers fell from 30 percent to 13 percent for white-collar workers and 11 percent for General Schedule workers.

Finally, we can more directly

confront our unconscious biases. Everyone has them. Taking an Implicit Association Test will quickly disabuse you of the notion that you are the most forward-thinking, progressive person at work. And that’s okay — as long as you work at recognizing and correcting these preferences. Google is a great example of a company at the forefront of this movement in the tech industry. Google made efforts to encourage its employees to confront their biases with the hope that that awareness could help level the playing field.

Today, women make up the majority of college graduates and hold the majority of management and professional positions, but according to the World Economic Forum, I’ll be 102 years old by the time the gender wage gap closes in the United States. While laws like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 are a good first step towards equal pay, they clearly aren’t the only solution. In order to make sure women are recognized for the vital role they play in the home and the workplace, we must confront the problem at hand.

KIKI OCHIENG is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. She is a coorganizer of Equal Pay Day Discounts at Yale. Contact her at akinyi.ochieng@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST JT FLOWERS

Discussing race on campus

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ast week, I witnessed a malicious attempt to tarnish the good name of a friend of mine, Neema Githere ’18, via the anonymous social forum “Yik Yak.” The assailant branded her as a presence that “scales back the progress of …

Blacks who have worked hard to make a name” for themselves at Yale, imploring her to “get out of [her] ‘everything is racist bubble’ and into the real world.”

Despite being a freshman, Neema has established herself on campus as a prominent and poignant voice in conversations surrounding cultural awareness, inequality and the institutionalized marginalization of different minority groups—causes that I would venture to say are aligned with the moral principles of most students.

How, then, could the positions of such an outspoken activist for equality be misconstrued as the baseless, radical, overly-sensitive platitudes of a “race warrior” born two generations too late?

Conversations around race and privilege are becoming more contentious by the day. It is now easier than ever to publicize one’s opinions, which are subsequently consumed, digested and discussed by friends and strangers alike. Unsurprisingly, the result is often a greater degree of polarization, as differing sides approach topics of debate eager to disprove one another rather than to engage in constructive dialogue. When applied to discussions on race

taking place on college campuses across America, the aforementioned pattern has proven particularly destructive.

In an era stained by demographically skewed police brutality, racist fraternity chants and accusations of using the “race card” as a means of dodging personal responsibility, students of color are feeling increasingly isolated both within and outside of university walls. Campus-wide debates, countless diversity initiatives and world-class education have failed to adequately address the host of micro and macro-aggressions that shape our everyday realities. Born of this systematic failure is an unimaginably powerful sense of anger and frustration, one that rears its head in everything from campus protests to cathartic Facebook posts. It is scathing in its critiques of campus policies, those who deny its validity and the implications of unrecognized privilege. This anger is every bit as justified as it is visible.

However, it is divisive as well.

There is a significant difference between an act of racism and something that can be interpreted as racist. Oversensitivity does, in fact, exist, and it comes at the expense of progress.

Issues of race are too often dichotomized into that which is racist and that which is not, ironically ostracizing those whose comments or actions have been categorized under the former. In actuality, many acts interpreted

as insensitive transgressions are carried out by unwitting offenders.

You might ask: But how could they possibly not be aware?

The reality is that on campuses like ours, a significant number of students live completely unaffected by these issues. Their actions are frequently the result of lack of exposure rather than malicious intent, which — while no justification for ignorance — is tremendously important to acknowledge when reacting to a perceived offense. By immediately branding such individuals as racist, we breed a defensiveness that festers until it becomes impossible to cut through.

I am not attributing what was said about Neema to such defensiveness; we can all agree that those attacks were as bigoted as they were ignorant. However, it is imperative to recognize that the simplistic, rash and accusatory framework for response outlined above has proven equally as close-minded.

Many would retort that people of color are not responsible for educating others on how to be conscientious citizens, and that the impetus for change rests instead on the self-volition of the unaware. Such a stance is naively expectant, waiting for change to come from those who have no reason to seek it out in the first place.

In the words of Princeton student Stanley Mathabane, “If people were to look at the realities of

marginalized populations, there would be no way for them to not realize their implicit role in reinforcing the prejudice that exists in the world.”

The question is thus: How do we get people on all points along the spectrum to look at these problems without turning away due to pride or ego?

In the weeks to come, members of our community will inevitability take part in the national conversation on race. None of us wants to see a repetition of what happened to Neema Githere, or to watch the University we love devolve into a battleground populated with two staunchly opposed and equally narrowminded sides. If we truly hope to avoid such an outcome, we must continue to build on what makes our campus such a dynamic place: its capacity to serve as a collective space dedicated to progress.

We must facilitate an exchange of ideas rather than attack those who come to these discussions in earnest, regardless of whether their previous behaviors are grounded in the deeply entrenched assumptions we are so diligently working to uproot.

That doesn’t mean skipping off into the sunset hand-in-hand; it just means being willing to acknowledge our differences, sit down at the table and speak.

JT FLOWERS is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact him at javaughn.flowers@yale.edu .

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“There haven’t been organized protest, but I have heard of protest where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.”

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Following protest, GESO writes to admins

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER After protesting on the steps of Warner House last week, the Graduate Employee and Students Organization is now seeking a definitive response from two deans in the graduate school.

GESO, the unrecognized grad-

uate student union — submitted a letter to Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley and Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Yale College, the Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Pamela Schirmeister on Monday, criticizing the funding and teaching policies that affect graduate students in their final years of study.

The letter contains 16 graduate student testimonies that express continued frustration with a general lack of funding, a problem they claim will be exacerbated

by Yale’s plans to support sixthyear humanities and social science students and to restructure teaching fellow stipends.

“Yale’s policies on funding and

teaching have changed recently in ways that are affecting the lives of our members,” GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said.

The testimonies addressed three major issues: incompatibility between teaching stipends and non-Yale funding sources, imminent pay cuts for seventhyear students and reduced fund-

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Jacob Wasserman and Maxwell Ulin joined other students in a protest in support of the Graduate Employee and Students Organization.

Harp signs workers’ rights resolution

ing for sixth-year students in science departments.

GESO Organizer Ed King ’15, a graduate student in the English Department whose testimony was included with the letter, said he was excluded from Yale’s sixth-year funding guarantee on the grounds that the Mellon Fellowship he received would compensate for a Yale stipend.

“I want Yale to honor the initial agreement,” King said.

Meanwhile, Michelle Morgan GRD ’15 said the reduction in teaching stipends for seventhyear students will make it difficult to pay child support fees and other monthly expenses while also finishing her dissertation.

“I decided to file a grievance to participate in this because I am both a student and a mom,” Morgan said.

In the past, graduate students were able to obtain additional years of funding through sources like the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Scholar Program and the Social Science Research Council, the letter said. Now, GESO claims that Yale counts these funds as a replacement for, not a supplement to, teaching stipends.

James Super GRD ’18 said it is often difficult to secure outside sources of funding — which he must do as long as the University continues to neglect sixthyear funds for graduate students outside the humanities and social sciences. Compounding the problem, he added, is that fields like his, geology and geophysics, are often underfunded due to a broad preference for “hard science” disciplines.

The letter goes on to note that faculty research grants from within the University often do not, in themselves, provide sufficient funding.

“There are a lot of people who

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BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER Flanked by over 20 workers’ rights activists, Mayor Toni Harp signed a resolution in support of a state Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights Monday afternoon at City Hall.

Domestic workers, whose responsibilities range from cleaning to housekeeping to childcare, are currently excluded from Connecticut’s anti-discrimination and sexual harassment laws. The DWBOR, which received support from the Board of Alders at a Feb. 26 hearing, would remove this exclusion and also grant domestic workers basic protections, including minimum wage entitlement, termination provisions and restrictions on maximum working hours. Advocates hope to pass the bill by early June, which marks the end of this year’s legislative cycle.

“In 2015, many domestic workers are immigrant women who have had few options, with language and cultural barriers preventing equal footing with employers,” Harp said at the event. “The resolution signed today underscores our unified determination here in New Haven to have our legislators in Hartford act to protect the basic workers’ rights of domestic workers.”

Harp’s support of the bill is especially significant given the high density of domestic workers in New Haven, Joanna Vincent LAW ’15, a student who works at Yale’s Legislative Advocacy Clinic, said. Ward 26 Alder Darryl Brackeen said this is the first time that the Harp administration was addressing the issues surrounding domestic workers.

Harp also stressed the growing role of domestic workers in the American economy, given that the baby boomer population is now aging and the need for assistance in the household is increasing.

Vincent said the resolution is likely to hold sway among Connecticut’s legislators.

“This is the extra nudge we need to pass the bill by the end of the legislative cycle,” said Vincent. “There is no cogent justification for the bill not to pass.”

The Legislative Advocacy Clinic represents the Brazilian Immigrant Center branch in Bridgeport, which was well represented at the event.

Iame Manucci, campaign manager of the DWBOR, echoed her sentiment, adding that only “political complacency” would prevent the bill from passing. She acknowledged, however, that the bill would receive opposition from private companies who benefit from the “exploitation” of domestic workers. The hearing in front of the Board of Alders came in the wake of five domestic workers suing a house cleaning company, Auntie Bella, for alleged wage theft.

The DWBOR — proposed by The Connecticut Domestic Worker’s Taskforce — has garnered support from organizations including the National Domestic Workers Alliance, JUNTA for Progressive Action and New Haven Legal Assistance. If the bill is successful, Connecticut will become the fifth state to pass a DWBOR, according to Manucci.

Several of the domestic workers present at the event shared their stories of mistreatment in the workplace.

“I worked for four years in a variety

of jobs,” said Maria Lima Rodriguez.

“I was paid as low as $2.80 an hour. 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. all week. Meal breaks?

No chance.”

Nina Siqueira talked about her daughter, who came to America as an au pair, through a translator. She said she was fired without notice and left “homeless, alone and unable to support herself.”

Manucci herself was 10 years old when she moved to the U.S. Her mother worked as a housecleaner, but her employers extended her job duties far beyond her pay. She worked without meal breaks, Manucci said, and her body broke down under the physical toll.

Manucci said domestic workers are especially vulnerable to wage theft given that a significant number of them are undocumented immigrants.

Vincent voiced her agreement, adding that many undocumented domestic workers are afraid to speak out against their mistreatment.

Natalicia Tracy, executive director of the Brazilian Immigrant Center, said the plight that domestic workers face creates a cycle of poverty that must be fixed.

“Most of the time, a domestic worker can’t even provide for her own family, her children and herself,” said Tracy. “This creates a cycle of poverty … it is our moral obligation to change the culture and to treat all workers with respect and dignity.”

The National Domestic Workers’ Alliance estimates that there are 42,000 domestic workers in Connecticut.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

NELC faces nebulous future

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER

Mayor Toni Harp, front center, signed the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights with supporters behind her this Monday.

do get external funding, but it’s not something you can rely on,” Super said. “It would be nice if there was a way that science could be included in this extension of sixth year funding.”

GESO’s letter also requests that the administration pay all teachers on an equal scale based on hours worked and calls for greater student input in the allocation of University Dissertation Fellowship funds. The organization originally sent the letter to Provost Benjamin Polak on Thursday, but has not received a formal response from him, Cooley or Schirmeister.

In an email to the News, however, Schirmeister justified Yale’s reasons for implementing the funding changes.

“We understand the new nonstipend teaching rates may cause financial difficulty for some seventh-year students,” Schirmeister said.

Schirmeister cited the fact that Yale has never provided financial aid packages for seventh-year students, and said the University cannot afford to do so without dramatic reductions in the number of enrolled students. She then recommended that students increase their teaching workloads in order or visit the financial aid office to manage their resources and seek loans.

She did, however, maintain that outside scholarships do not prevent students from receiving sixth-year funding from Yale and that students in science departments are “routinely funded for a sixth year already,” though she did not specify any sources.

In 2003, graduate students voted down a proposal to officially recognize GESO as their union.

While the committee charged with evaluating possible futures for the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department has finished its consultations, the department’s future has yet to be decided.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler, who charged the committee in fall 2014, will be meeting with its members twice in April, and then with University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak as soon as their schedules allow. Gendler said she aims to have a decision about next steps for the study of NELC at Yale made before July 1.

“We will be using the careful work that they’ve done to try to make an informed and thoughtful and respectful decision,” Gendler said. “Every configuration brings with it benefits and challenges.”

Gendler explained that the committee was asked to explore many possible scenarios for the department’s future, but emphasized that the committee itself will not offer a recommendation. The committee consulted every member of Yale’s NELC department, current and former graduate students and a number of leading NELC faculty from outside Yale. Classics Department chair Kirk Freudenburg, who chaired the four-person committee, declined to divulge any details of its findings.

Despite the committee’s efforts, several students and alumni in NELC have expressed serious concerns about the University’s commitment to the department, and in particular about the possibility that the department will be restructured.

“I came to Yale for its NELC Department, so Yale’s tepid attitude towards such a famous and historic department is disconcerting,” NELC major Sergio Tang ’17 said.

One graduate student, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic, expressed concern about potential restructuring of the department, but added that there are more worrisome issues — such as the department’s tense environment.

Earlier this year, NELC alumna Alice Slotsky GRD ’92 created a petition advocating against any restructuring of the department. The petition, which was shared with the committee in March, garnered nearly 700 signatures, more than double its original goal. Slotsky told the News in February that it is imperative that the NELC

department is not “weakened or damaged by restructuring.”

Gendler said she, Salovey and Polak will consider all possible options for the department, including the possibility that its current configuration is the optimal one.

“We’re open to the possibility that the department is structured in the absolutely optimal way. We’re open to the possibility that a radical restructuring is what would be the best way to preserve this exciting and important legacy going forward. We’re open to the possibility that small changes are the best way to go forward,” she said. “What we are committed to doing is preserving Yale’s leadership in the study of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.”

Still, NELC professor Benjamin Foster said the committee’s work came with the one caveat that the department would remain approximately the same size — a rule that limits the department, which Foster said sorely needs an additional faculty member in Arabic.

Foster said he believes the committee’s work has taught administrators a great deal about the department. Citing last year’s decision to relocate Semitic languages from NELC to the Religious Studies Department, Foster said the University has made “clueless” and “arbitrary” choices about NELC in the past. Foster added he hopes that this thorough education on the work of the department will help administrators make smarter decisions.

“If anything, this has been a positive experience in the sense that it’s about time the University knew who we are and what we do,” Foster said. “Maybe now they’ll do a better job.”

But both Foster and the anonymous graduate student said the committee’s work will lead to a top-down administrative decision. There has been no indication that the department’s faculty or students will have any final say in the department’s future, which Foster said is “unusual” given the generally consultative nature of academic life. He added that when the department is informed of the decision in July, there will be little time to make changes before the beginning of the school year.

Assyriology professor Eckart Frahm said he believes Yale needs a strong NELC department, but declined to comment further. Acting NELC department chair Christina Kraus declined to comment.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”

ROBERT KIYOSAKI AMERICAN AUTHOR

YEI sees record number of applications, growth in startup culture STARTUP FROM PAGE 1 inaugural Thiel Fellows, and since then, each has founded his own startup.

Four years later, the fellowship continues to attract college students across the nation. But today, building a startup at Yale has become a much more feasible goal for student entrepreneurs, and some have succeeded in doing it. With the increasing efforts of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and the growing dominance of technology in startups, fewer Yalies have felt it necessary to leave campus to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.

Still, student entrepreneurs on campus have differing views on what exactly the formula for the “Yale startup” is — whether more importance is given to institutional support, tech skills or outside-the-box thinking.

LAYING THE PAVEMENT

Founded in 2007, the YEI has developed a significant presence in the Yale community by offering a series of mentorship and funding opportunities. There are currently 80 active YEI companies that have raised over $135 million dollars in funding and created over 350 jobs, according to YEI Communications Officer Brita Belli. However, much of the institute’s work involves not the immediate creation of companies and jobs, but rather the establishment of a support infrastructure for student ideas from a grassroots level.

The institute provides several levels of support, ranging from walk-in office hours with experts in the field to the Venture Creation Program — which involves

access to mentorships and small grants to early-stage companies. Startups in more advanced stages of development are offered a chance at the YEI Fellowship.

Selected fellows participate in a competitive 10-week summer program that offers up to $15,000 in grant money, as well as a support network of mentors, incubator space, workshops from expert speakers and the opportunity to pitch to investors. This structured support system has gained traction over the last few years, and this year, the YEI Fellowship saw a record number of applicants — 58 applications representing 138 applicants from across Yale, Belli said.

BATA, a startup that produces vegan and gluten-free chocolate snacks, is one student project that hatched under the guidance of YEI. Georgiana Wagermann ’15 said she and her co-founder Tess Maggio ’16 first attended some YEI workshops before taking part in the Venture Creation Program, where they received professional mentorship.

“Meeting with these mentors always challenged us to think in different ways, in addition to providing us with clear next steps,” Maggio said.

Wagermann and Maggio added that throughout the past year, they were able to run sale trials both in the undergraduate and the School of Management student bodies, which provided them with important data for improving the product. They will continue developing BATA as YEI fellows this summer.

During the summer after her freshman year, Olivia PavcoGiaccia ’16 obtained the YEI fellowship. There, she said she

learned how to get her startup LabCandy, which produces lab gear aiming to attract young girls to the sciences, off the ground by talking to hundreds of potential customers: young girls, mothers and women in STEM. By the spring of 2014, as a sophomore, Pavco-Giaccia was ready to officially launch her company.

TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

While many fledging startups at Yale seek support from the YEI, student entrepreneurs have also found other ways to break through. The rising popularity and use of tech in startups, coupled with recent efforts to revitalize the Computer Science Department, have provided other avenues for student entrepreneurs. Tech tools and resources on campus have lowered the barrier of entry for student startups and lessened the need for fledgling entrepreneurs to go through the YEI. In fact, several tech-based student entrepreneurs interviewed said YEI may not be the ideal place to begin a startup for everyone.

Rijul Gupta ’15, a co-founder of Hive, a geographically based networking application, said he has heard horror stories about students approaching YEI too early.

He said that while the institute provides great advice for business plans and marketing, this may distract entrepreneurs from perfecting their product. Instead, Gupta and co-founder Jimmy Park ’17 took matters into their own hands.

Park said the Hive team has adopted a student-driven approach in both its strategy and

funding. He said he and Gupta developed their trial-and-error plan by reading entrepreneurship textbooks and worked with minimal funding by cutting down on unnecessary expenses.

While some startups spend thousands of dollars hiring contractors to design their application or develop marketing plans, Hive was entirely developed in-house, Gupta said.

Huddlr, another studentdeveloped social media application, has also been a largely independent initiative. The ninestudent team is completely in charge of the application design, marketing plans and software updates, according to co-founder Ivan Fan ’14.

Friedman said he believes the changes Yale is making in the computer science program have the potential of cultivating a more entrepreneurial culture on campus.

Fan said the Yale community may be even more conducive for developing a tech startup than that of more entrepreneurially oriented campuses, such as Stanford and MIT. Students at these universities are bombarded with new ideas and applications, he said, and they are less likely to be excited about new things. At Yale, many students have expressed excitement about new projects like Huddlr — because they are still novel and infrequent.

Further, the relatively small number of startups at Yale has made recruiting easier.

“Students are getting increasingly excited about working on startups at Yale, but there aren’t that many established ones,” Fan said. “The result is that there are a lot more people wanting to get

involved than there are startups to soak up the talent.”

Still, the founders of both Hive and Huddlr said that more can be done to further support techbased ventures at Yale and even in the New Haven area.

Gupta said the Yale administration does not actively cater to entrepreneurship — an attitude he called “creatively destructive” — as much as some other universities. In particular, he listed MIT and Stanford as schools where there is significant top-down support of entrepreneurship. At MIT, the Media Lab has generated many startup ideas, while Stanford has made great use of its proximity to Silicon Valley, Gupta said.

Fan said funding opportunities in New Haven are more rigid and limited. He said there are only a few funding sources in the area, including the YEI, which often have their own agendas.

While several tech-based applications may not directly seek help from YEI’s support system, the institute has recognized the importance of coding and computer science and has been active in facilitating interest in this area, YEI board member Robert Bettigole ’83 said. The institute cosponsored the first Yale Hackathon five years ago in order to promote interest in coding in the New Haven area, he said.

THE X FACTOR

And yet, Yale’s startup community has yet to catch up to those at Stanford and MIT in quantity and capital. According to a July 2014 Forbes article, more than 130 companies began at MIT, ranked second on the list, compared to the YEI’s 80 startups.

StartX, a startup accelerator for Stanford students and alums, has supported 191 startups and raised $420 million by the end of 2014, outstripping YEI’s $135 million.

But Bettigole maintained that the strength of Yale’s entrepreneurship lies in the University’s liberal arts education.

“People come to Yale because of its liberal arts education,” he said, though he admitted that this was a generalization. “We have a special environment where many liberal arts majors are also interested in business and entrepreneurship.”

Several student entrepreneurs interviewed, including those in tech startups, echoed this sentiment. Fan said that while coding and tech skills are important, they are ultimately a means to an end.

Yale’s liberal arts education provides decision-making skills and big-picture thinking, two crucial attributes of entrepreneurship, he said.

The YEI 2015 fellowship winners are an eclectic mix of ventures, ranging from a web application that sends children’s stories to parents via text message, to a home-cooked food delivery service.

Yong Zhao FES ’15, a YEI fellowship alum, explained why the fellowship attracts such diverse proposals.

“Technology is just one area of entrepreneurship, and there are many other gaps to be filled, including food and art,” he said.

“Because Yale is a liberal arts school, people here aren’t as techoriented and think of all sorts of things to do.”

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

Northwestern admin to focus on student life at Yale HOWARD FROM PAGE 1 have concrete plans for the expansion of Yale College because he hopes to first solicit community input after his arrival in New Haven before formulating any ideas. But he added that his priority is to ensure a level of consistency across the residential college experience, regardless of where students are placed. Additionally, Howard said, he wants to help Yale look in new directions when shaping policy, noting that after 25 years working in university administration, he has gained awareness of trends in higher education and is eager to implement new ideas from institutions across the country.

“Oftentimes, the Ivy League schools do not look beyond the Ancient Eight for ideas, and in many cases, they’re not actually doing some of the most innovative work in the country,” he said. “For the amount of money that we charge at these schools, students deserve the best that we can offer. If the best is something that is being done at a Big Ten school or a Pac-12 school or a community college, and [it] can be done in a way that is consistent with the culture of [Yale’s] campus, we should definitely take advantage of that.”

The email, which comes just weeks after the announcement that Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry will leave Yale at the end of this year, made

clear that Howard is not a replacement for Gentry.

Instead, Yale College will conduct a nationwide search for Gentry’s successor in the coming months, with the help of the Yale College Council and the rest of the student body. In fact, Howard said that while he was initially interviewing for the position, he was under the impression that he would be working alongside Gentry, whom he has known professionally for several years. Gentry did not return request for comment Monday.

Goff-Crews did not speak to how student life responsibilities will be divided among Howard, herself and Gentry’s replacement. However, she said she is excited to work with Howard on behalf of the student community in general, and the undergraduate population in particular.

Howard added that he was not involved in the decision to create a new student life administrative position. The email explained that Howard will work with the new dean of student affairs on broad issues of student life.

Howard’s wife, Northwestern psychology professor Jennifer Richeson, will join Yale’s Psychology Department in 2016.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu

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Burgie Howard will step into a newly created position at Yale focused on student engagement and well-being.

Urban Violence Commission holds first meeting URBAN VIOLENCE FROM PAGE 1 authority. She highlighted adolescence as a time when individuals develop their views of legal authority, adding that positive contact between juveniles and police can help build trust between officers and the community.

Papachristos presented data about the specific demographics that are most often victims of gun violence, and how gun violence concentrates in social networks.

Lawlor told the News before the meeting that a key part of the mission of this commission is to address the root causes of different kinds of gun violence.

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The goal is to reduce violence by direct intervention, by appealing to the group’s sense of logic and reasoning.

STACY SPELL Part of the commission’s responsibilities includes identifying how current policies about unemployment, health care access and school discipline influence risk factors for youth violence.

Both Lawlor and Papachristos

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cited Project Longevity, a community and law enforcement initiative that aims to prevent violence in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford, as an example of an intervention that has effectively addressed root causes of violence in communities.

According to Stacy Spell, the project manager for the New Haven branch of Project Longevity, the initiative does not engage in disciplinary action but instead seeks to help their clients — those engaging in group violence — become productive members of society.

“The goal is to reduce violence by direct intervention, by appealing to the group’s sense of logic and reasoning,” said Spell.

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to establish positive social networks, as well as provide access to educational opportunities, health care and employment through partner services.

Spell said, however, that although people often point to a lack of employment as a root cause of violence, creating more jobs does not necessarily prevent violence. He said, instead, that he supports an entrepreneurial spirit, and that when an individual cannot find a job he or she should make his or her own job.

Spell suggested starting a business by working with community organizations such as the Elmseed Enterprise Fund.

The committee is scheduled to submit their final report to Malloy by the end of the year.

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“And some had sworn an oath that she / Should be to public justice brought; / And for the little infant’s bones / With spades they would have sought.” WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ENGLISH POET

Despite opposition, juvenile justice bill passes committee

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Despite Republican opposition, a bill requiring parents or guardians to be present when juveniles are questioned by police passed through the state Judiciary Committee Thursday.

The bill passed 24–20 after facing the scrutiny of Republican legislators during a Judiciary Committee meeting last Thursday. Many Republican lawmakers said they had no issues with most provisions of the bill — which include raising the age required to transfer a case from a juvenile to an adult court from 14 to 15, and clarify-

ing that a child offender will not be shackled in court appearances unless otherwise determined by a judge for safety reasons. But several Republicans voiced concern with one part of the bill that would render 16 and 17-yearolds’ statements to the police inadmissible, unless made in the presence of a parent or guardian.

“None of the research I’ve seen suggests that a 17-yearold has any difficulty discerning between the truth,” state Rep. John Shaban said at the meeting. “So if a 17-year-old makes a confession, makes a statement or makes an admission that is the truth, that should stand.”

Shaban added that this sec-

tion of the bill goes “too far” and would “do more harm than good.”

State Rep. Toni Walker of New Haven defended the bill, noting that brain development continues up until the age of 25. She cited studies that show that adolescents fail to adequately weigh risk factors when making decisions. She acknowledged that children who are 16 and 17 still require guidance and training.

Republican legislators pointed out that other responsibilities granted to 16 and 17-year-olds — through driving laws and laws defining the minimum age at which individuals can enlist in the military or become emanci-

pated from their parents — are at odds with the age restrictions set forth in the provision.

If a 17-year-old makes a confession … or makes an admission that is the truth, that should stand.

JOHN SHABAN State Representative, CT Republican state Rep. Rosa Rebimbas noted at the hearing that there is already a state

law that questions the circumstances under which police obtain statements from juveniles. She, along with Shaban, said this existing provision adequately addresses concerns about juveniles’ maturity.

The majority of the testimony submitted for the bill does not focus on the provision of the bill involving police questioning but is instead centered on support for the juvenile shackling provision.

However, the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice has supplied testimony against the police questioning provision, stating that imposing such a blanket rule over 16

and 17-year-olds will place an unnecessary burden on police, who would have to seek out a parent or guardian in order to obtain a statement. The written testimony also said the provision is too broad in its current language, as it applies to statements made by teenagers for any case, whether that is criminal or civil, or even a motor vehicle case.

Earlier this year, Sen. Chris Murphy informed the U.S. Judiciary Committee that this proposed bill from the state could be used as a template for a national bill on juvenile shackling reform.

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

Anaya Sushi expands menu, plans to add hours for ramen

BY ANDI WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Anaya Sushi, on Chapel Street, has seen an increase in customers after a recent expansion of the all-you-can-eat menu.

Since expanding its allyou-can-eat menu last week, new Chapel Street restaurant Anaya Sushi has experienced a surge of customers.

Anaya, a Japanese restaurant that offers a $21 all-youcan-eat option, opened three months ago on Chapel Street.

Owner Soraya Kaoroptham, who also owns York Street Noodle House nearby on York Street, said she wanted to attract a significant number of customers, particularly Yale students and faculty, through the all-you-can-eat option. But the popularity of the expanded all-you-caneat option has slowed down the service and has posed new challenges for Kaoroptham’s business.

Seeing the restaurant’s popularity, Kaoroptham said she also plans to open a late night ramen house in Anaya’s space when the sushi restaurant closes for the night. The proposed ramen restaurant would be open from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily, according to the owner.

The all-you-can-eat menu was recently upgraded to include a new section of special rolls and other items.

During the past four days, as more and more people noticed the menu expansion, the restaurant has seen its busiest days since the place opened in January, according to Kaoroptham. While the surge in customers has spurred business, some students said they experienced a slower service when eating at the restaurant.

Bo Malin-Mayor ’15 said that he had a bad experience at the restaurant when dining with a group of roughly 15. While the food was fine, it took over an hour to get all the food ready, he said.

“They were not ready to prepare the large amount of food our group ordered,” Malin-Mayor said.

Kaoroptham said that although she did not plan to hire more sushi chefs, she planned to address the

slow food preparation times through other measures, such as dividing sushi preparers into two groups so that one exclusively makes classic rolls while the other makes special rolls. She said this specialization will likely increase the serving speed.

Of 25 students interviewed, five said they have been to the restaurant. All but one said they had an overall positive reviews about the place.

Hannah Yang ’18, a staff reporter for the News, said she highly recommends the place after going with a group of 10.

She said they ordered multiple rounds did not mind that the service was not particularly fast.

We will have 15 new special rolls. And part of the reason is to respond to the new competition.

RIRI BONG Manager, Sushi Mizu Kaoroptham said that, despite the popularity of the all-you-can-eat option, the restaurant would not compromise the quality of the food.

Fresh seafood is shipped to the restaurant every three to four days from New York City or Boston, Kaoroptham added.

Riri Bong, the manager of Sushi Mizu, another allyou-can-eat sushi restaurant, said Anaya Sushi has diverted away from her restaurant some loyal customers who had previously celebrated birthdays and graduations at Sushi Mizu. But Bong said Sushi Mizu is still different from Anaya Sushi, as the former offers Hibachi options that the new restaurant does not have.

“Next September, we will have 15 new special rolls,” said Bong. “And part of the reason is to respond to the new competition.”

Contact ANDI WANG at andi.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.” W.H. AUDEN ENGLISH POET

Women and minorities struggle to break into med school’s leadership UP CLOSE FROM PAGE 1 ship positions, but Provost Benjamin Polak decided to issue an 18-month suspension instead.

After mounting criticism and media coverage of the incident, the decision was reversed. But, faculty learned, Alpern had been aware of the allegations and had, according to faculty members cited in the Times, swept it under the rug.

Alpert vehemently denies these accusations to this day.

Besides the dismissal of Simons, the UWC findings and subsequent press coverage brought about a more fundamental change. There was a clear shift in how the administration approached women and minority issues at the school, faculty interviewed said.

Since the scandal broke, for instance, Alpern has hosted at least three town halls dedicated to exploring the climate at the medical school and has also implemented a series of initiatives aimed at preventing more abuses of power.

But faculty interviewed said the scandal also highlighted the fact that women and minorities are not well represented in positions of power. Furthermore, they said, the lack of diversity in the school’s leadership has contributed to the persistence of a climate that at best harbors unconscious biases and at worst is downright hostile to women and minorities.

“I definitely feel like there was gender bias in leadership decisions as did my colleagues at the time,” said Director of the Center for Innovation and Global Health at Stanford University Michele Barry, who left Yale in 2009 after 25 years on the faculty for that very reason. Though some behavior is unconscious, she added, it still contributes to a negative climate.

PERFORMING POORLY COMPARED TO OTHERS

The school first started admitting women in 1916, and since then, the number of female medical graduates has increased to roughly half of the class of 100 students admitted each year. But leadership at the school does not reflect its admit pool.

The number of women in highranking professorship and leadership positions lags behind the admissions and acceptance rates, as well as the proportion of women in leadership at other medical schools. In 2013, a third of tenured medical professors at Stanford were women.

At Yale that year, that figure was just under one in five. Even with the arrival of Mary O’Connor — Olympic rower and professor of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine — who will become the first director of the school’s new musculoskeletal center, Yale will have one of the the lowest percentages of female medical school leaders as compared to its peer institutions.

For minorities, the picture is even more concerning. Underrepresented minorities — which the National Institutes of Health define as American Indians or Alaska Natives, Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos and Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders — make up a greater proportion at the Yale School of Medicine than at medical schools nationally. Approximately 20 percent of the medical school’s incoming class have been minorities over the past 10 years — elsewhere in the country, that figure hovers around 12 percent. But few of those 20 percent remain at Yale post-graduation.

“With us, our primary goal was to get a medical degree and move on,” said Dean for Multicultural Affairs Professor Forrester Lee MED ’79 Lee, explaining how many minority students in his years at the school viewed Yale as a “stopover.”

“We didn’t think we’d get a strong connection with the University,” he said.

Though he added that student sentiment has been changing over time, the statistics tell a different story.

Only 3.3 percent of tenured professors at Yale medical school are minorities. There were no Hispanic or Latino associate deans at the School in 2014 and there is only one minority department chair currently.

According to professor of child psychiatry and neurobiology Flora Vaccarino, there is a perception that leadership at the medical school functions like an “old boys’ club” with women and

physicians of color struggling to gain access to what another faculty member called the “House of Alpern.” Though the majority of faculty interviewed, including Vaccarino, said the bias was unintentional, they still agreed that it was present.

Opinions differed on whether Yale’s climate was uniquely hostile, but all faculty members and administrators interviewed agreed that multiple factors, ranging from unconscious bias to blatant abuses of power, hamper the success of women and minorities in all sectors of working life.

BARRIERS FROM THE BEGINNING

Professor of pharmacology and comparative medicine Anton Bennett reclined in his swivel chair and paused.

He had clearly been asked why so few minorities are in leadership positions many times before.

“When people talk about these problems, they often start at the level they’re interested in, like, ‘Why don’t we have enough minorities applying for a certain faculty position?’ ” he said. “But I think the problem starts way before then.”

Bennett, who sits on one of the school’s appointments and promotions committees, stressed that because there is such a small pool of women and minorities who reach his committee’s desk, it is difficult to promote them in high numbers.

He explained that barriers, such as a low number of role models and potential mentors who have had similar experiences to minority faculty members, make it harder for minorities to be promoted in equal numbers to their white male peers.

Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86, the director of the Yale Cancer Center, physician in chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital and head of the search committee that chose O’Connor, sees it similarly.

“If you ask any chair, they would love to find more [women and] minority candidates for positions,” Lynch said.

But almost all of the faculty members and administrators interviewed stressed that academic medicine poses unique challenges to women and minorities that do not exist in the other schools at Yale.

Women often must carry the burden of family care even with the most understanding of spouses said professor of medicine Lisa Sanders MED ’97. This makes it harder for them to do what it takes to be eligible for promotion she added. But, women at Yale medical school are far more poorly represented in leadership positions than they are at Yale’s peer institutions.

Stanford University School of Medicine has almost double the proportion of female tenured professors than Yale. And with only 7 percent of chairs, section chiefs and division chiefs being women, Yale in 2013 had the lowest raw number and percentage of women in administrative positions at its medical school compared to seven similarly ranked schools.

Of those other schools — Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern — Duke had the lowest percentage of tenured female professors at 17 percent in 2013, one percentage point lower than Yale that year. The average percentage of tenured female professors at those schools was 26 percent in 2013.

Of the medical school’s 2,433 faculty members, roughly 150 are minorities. Not a single department chair or dean at the medical school is African-American.

THE FALSE SECURITY OF TENURE

At the medical school, faculty members can be required to generate over 75 percent of their salaries from outside sources such as grants. But the ability to do this while working to get promoted depends on how supportive a faculty member’s department chair or section chief is, said multiple faculty members interviewed.

Amy Justice, professor of medicine and of public health and section chief of General internal medicine at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, listed the potential areas in which unconscious discrimination can negatively affect junior faculty’s chances of getting promoted.

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be promoted, any gender biases held by these senior faculty members are only amplified.

“When you look at who gets resources and who doesn’t, who gets extra salary support as they get their grant revised and resubmitted versus who gets more clinical time if their grant is refused, how do you know if it is because someone is a woman or minority?” Justice asked rhetorically.

One source, who asked to remain anonymous so that it does not sound as though she is complaining, emphasized that she has had to fight for better lab space and an equitable salary. She echoed the importance of these intangible resources.

In order to be able to do the things that promotions depend on, the women said, faculty members need to have both the time off clinical work in order to conduct research, as well as salary support to fill in for the lost wages that would normally be earned through clinical work.

This leeway is granted by chairs and section chiefs at their own discretion, and while faculty interviewed said it should be in every chair’s interest to make sure their faculty members are doing well, accountability structures are needed to ensure that faculty members are not falling through the cracks is scant, they noted.

That could, technically, be an issue for all faculty members, but those interviewed — including section chiefs and department heads — said women and minorities suffer most from the hierarchical structure and lack of accountability.

“When [processes] are vague, unclear and subject to interpretation, that is when unconscious biases come into play,” professor of psychiatry Cindy Crusto said.

“I’m not going to say [unconscious biases] don’t exist — they are what a lot of junior [women and minorities] have to grapple with.”

THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE CHAIR

Bennett, who serves on the Appointments and Promotions committee, said the promotions process begins long before application packs are presented to his committee.

Prior to this, department chairs and section chiefs, decide whether an applicant should even be up for promotion.

Though Alpern emphasized that promotions committees, which assess scholarly excellence, are typically fair, he also said most faculty wanting a promotion are turned away at the department level, before they are even able to request letters of recommendation to make it to the desk of the promotions committee.

“The main filter for promotions occurs at the department level,” Alpern said. “Ninety-five percent of decisions not to promote people are made by departments,” he added, referring to an anonymous ballot that is cast by

tenured faculty members in the candidate’s department before the candidate can move on to the promotions committee.

According to Crusto, as a result of that vote, junior faculty are in a vulnerable position and are dependent on their section chief or chair. Even if the chief or chair has voted against promoting the candidate, they must advocate on behalf of the candidate during promotions committee deliberations.

Justice added that women and minorities also face additional barriers against having their research respected. Compared to men, women tend to be more drawn to applied or clinical research rather than to basic science investigation. The latter is more highly valued in traditional academic settings, including Yale.

WHEN THINGS GO (VERY) WRONG

Crowds swelled in the medical school’s Harkness Auditorium in the town hall that followed the Times’ breaking story on the Simons scandal in November 2014. Faculty members from all demographic backgrounds stood to speak about their own experiences, relaying other instances of abuses of power to the dean that they said contribute to a negative climate at the medical school.

Later, during a phone call with the News, Alpern released a quiet sigh.

He said he was surprised at the number of people who were concerned about the climate at the school when the Simons story broke.

“I have 2,500 faculty,” he said, adding that though he hears anecdotes, he can only address issues that are brought to the attention of the Dean’s Office.

Only a week after the story was published, the Gender Equity Task Force, chaired by professor of medicine and associate dean for faculty development and diversity Linda Bockenstedt, held its first-ever meeting. The Task Force had technically been established in July 2014, but, Alpern said, members had only then found time in their schedules.

Faculty interviewed expressed concern that the school’s recent drive to improve the climate for women and minorities and increase their numbers in leadership positions was motivated by crisis management.

Furthermore, they said, such abuses had happened multiple times before on Alpern’s watch.

“I thought Simons’s behavior was extreme — but was it highly unusual? No,” Ruddle, a woman who was involved in early activism about salary transparency during Alpern’s early years, said frankly.

While the Simons issue was brewing, only one month earlier, a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination was filed against the school’s chair of genetics, Richard Lifton.

The plaintiff in the case left the

school in 2004 and claims to have been passed over for more than 70 professional positions following his exit. This is despite the fact, the plaintiff notes, that his speciality area is in high demand nationally. According to the lawsuit, which lists Lifton and the school as defendants, Lifton was preventing the plaintiff from getting future employment due to his ethnic background.

“Dr. Richard Lifton … [was] responsible for my not being hired in my professional clinical cytogenetics field, and for the alleged coercive, ceaseless and reckless retaliation,” the lawsuit read.

Lifton was unavailable for comment.

Then there is the issue of Robert Udelsman, chairman of the board of the Yale Medical Group, the School of Medicine’s chair of surgery and surgeon-in-chief of YNHH. According to two anonymous sources, Udelsman shoved a female employee in the operating room during a surgical procedure and has thrown surgical equipment in the direction of others.

Udelsman later faced disciplinary action for his actions but is still at the school.

One source explained that Udelsman’s actions were due to him becoming annoyed with “inefficiencies” in the operating room.

“I think that in times of extreme frustration with system issues that have not been addressed despite multiple requests — people blow their stack,” the source said, adding that Udelsman was “unfortunately pushed in an unfortunate situation.”

When these statements were relayed to another faculty member, that faculty member, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid jeopardizing his or her own career prospects, responded by noting, “Whenever [Udelsman] does anything, people say, ‘It’s just Rob.’ They just tolerate it.”

The same faculty member described Udelsman as an “ass,” adding that the medical school leadership is aware of his behavior and has chosen not to act on it.

Another faculty member, in fact, even called Udelsman a “crony” to Alpern’s face, standing up at one of the town hall meetings and alleging that the chair gets away with his behavior because Alpern regularly plays tennis with him.

Kimberly Davis ’85 SOM ’12, section chief of trauma, surgical critical care and surgical emergencies and trauma director at YNHH, acknowledged the existence of this perception.

“I think [Alpern] is perceived of having several cronies that may or may not behave well,” she said.

“Having said that, I would caution you that there are two sides to every story, and some people may have an unfair reputation.”

In an interview with the News, Alpern rejected accusations that he grants leeway to administra-

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tors with whom he shares sporting interests, adding that the vast majority of chairs and section chiefs recruit people whom they want to see succeed.

They would not intentionally prevent a person from advancing, he said.

Like Lifton, Udelsman was also unavailable for comment.

OPENING THE DOORS TO THE “HOUSE OF ALPERN”

Though the school has had a rocky year, faculty interviewed revealed that they were optimistic that the Dean’s Office is at least aware of the problems with women and minorities in leadership and is looking to fix them.

In a March 25 email to the medical school faculty, Alpern updated faculty on the efforts to improve aspects of the school’s climate, including diversity in leadership positions. He listed the streamlining of mentorship programs across departments as one of the many steps to increase the breadth of individuals leading the school.

Numerous faculty members have also suggested additional measures. Alpern noted that the tenure track for research scientists normally takes 10 years, but can be paused for a year or two for women to take maternity leave and for men to take paternity leave. But professor of cell biology, section chief of digestive diseases and director of the Yale Liver Center Michael Nathanson suggested pausing that clock for longer.

Professor of neurobiology and of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and chair of the Section of Comparative Medicine Tamas Horvath has suggested improving anonymous reporting structures. Right now, he said, many people fear that they will suffer from retaliation if they report abuses of power, which may decrease what things end up being reported, he said.

But some faculty members argued that nothing will change until the leadership does.

One female faculty member who left the University after being passed over for a less qualified male candidate for the position they were vying for said she was “shocked” by what has happened at Yale since she left. She added that the stories she has heard about misconduct, harassment, intimidation, bullying and everyday “put downs” make her surprised that Alpern is still dean.

“I think he’s outrageous,” the person said. “I think he should be out.”

But some faculty at the school remain optimistic.

“I think that if I played tennis and asked Dean Alpern to play, he would be more than happy to have me as a doubles partner,” Bennett said with a smile. “But I play golf.”

Alpern was reappointed for a third time as dean in 2014.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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No Red Tape projected phrases like “Rape happens here” and “Columbia protects rapists” onto Low Library.

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“It was all so unreal,” Evan Caplinger, a prospective student, said. “It was the juxtaposition of the school spirit and this striking message against the school. It was invective against the administration and it’s policies.”

After prospective students left the event in Low Library and headed toward buses on Amsterdam Avenue for a tour of the city, No Red Tape members were allowed to begin projecting the text on the library again. The text — which was projected by Illuminator, a politically-oriented arts collective that paired with the group as one of its many collaborative art projects — read, “Columbia has a rape problem,” “President Bollinger: Carry that weight,” “We deserve a safe campus,” and “Do you want a rapist as your RA?” When prospective students returned from their bus tour around New York City, prospective students told Spectator that they were ushered directly along Broadway from their buses to Lerner Hall. As prospective students entered Roone Auditorium, a number of No Red Tape members distributed fliers that advertised the group’s Teach In scheduled for tomorrow at noon in 509 Knox Hall.

Activists said they planned their protest to coincide with

Days on Campus because it was the most likely time that administration would feel obligated to react to activists’ demands. No Red Tape has previously staged four protests in February at undergraduate admissions info sessions, for which nine members of the group received warning letters from the Office of Judicial Affairs on potential violations of the Rules of Conduct.

“This is the University’s chance to show off shiny Columbia,” No Red Tape member Julia Crain said. “If we can do anything while these people are here that’s when they’ll feel most pressure to make active change.”

It is so hideous to look at a survivor in the face and say you’re an oppressor.

ZOE RIDOLFI-STARR Member, No Red Tape Crain also said that the intention of the event was to raise awareness among incoming freshmen about the issue of sexual assault on college campuses in general.

“Prospective students have a right to know if they will feel safe at a school they attend,” she said.

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“We are arming them with questions they should ask for their own well-being. Here and at any school, they have a right to know the truth about how schools handle these cases.”

As the scrutiny on sexual assault policies intensified at colleges and universities across the country over the past year, activists have criticized Columbia’s sexual assault policy, which was revised in August. Columbia is also currently under investigation of Title IX and Title II, following a federal complaint filed last April against the University alleging violations of Title IX, Title II and the Clery Act. But administrators have defended Columbia’s policies, with EVP for University Life Suzanne Goldberg telling New York Magazine last year that she thought Columbia’s policy was “one of the best in the country, with more resources dedicated to supporting survivors and other students affected by genderbased misconduct than most.”

Prospective students interviewed on Sunday night had mixed thoughts about the protest.

For some, like Andrew Murphy, a prospective student, No Red Tape’s action was a reminder of the activism that appealed to him about Columbia in the first place.

“It was powerful,” Murphy said. “It definitely conveyed a

message where a lot of people’s voices can’t be heard in an institution like this where voices should be heard.”

Veronica Brusilovski, a prospective student, said it was abrasive for administrators to hide students from the protest.

“They are trying to make sure that we don’t know, even though we do,” she said. “Obviously, we are connected online, we see everything that is going on, we read the papers, it’s in every single publication in America right now.

Obviously we know.”

Still, others said that they were apprehensive about No Red Tape’s protest.

“It seemed super invasive,” prospective student Peter Wright said. “I’m here for a day.”

Sebastian Espinosa, a prospective student, said that No Red Tape’s protest could make Columbia and its handling of sexual assault cases seem worse to prospective students than they actually are.

“Kids are coming here to learn about the school, learn about its positives,” he said. “It’s going to deter people from wanting to come to Columbia, seeing all this strife, when there may also be strife at other schools and people may simply be complacent.”

A university spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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C o r prew asked a number of activists for their UNIs during the protest.

COLUMBIA When activists asked Corprew if they were violating the Rules of University Conduct, which are currently under review and govern protests on campus, Corprew audibly told them, “It’s not about the rules, I just need your UNI.” It’s unclear if Corprew attended the event in a role to enforce the Rules of Conduct, as it was not immediately known whether Corprew served in an official role as either a presidential delegate — an individual appointed by university president Lee Bollinger — or a divisional delegate — an individual appointed by a dean or director of a school program. The Rules of Conduct say that these delegates “have principal authority for the enforcement of these Rules. They shall warn individuals and groups whose actions may violate these Rules and may declare their belief that the demonstration is illegal.”

As prospective students left Low Library at 9 p.m. to board buses for a city tour on Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street, the Marching Band formed a passage-

OPINION.

While prospective students moved between events during Sunday night’s Days on Campus programming, No Red Tape projected phrases like “Rape happens here” and “Columbia protects rapists” onto Low Library.

Activists said they held the event to coincide with the visiting weekend for prospective students in order to educate incoming first-years about sexual and dating violence on college campuses.

But the activists were met by a bit of pushback from Residence Hall Director Aaron Hukari and Graduate Hall Directors Rainikka Corprew and Meghan Chidsey, who arrived at the protest at approximately 8 p.m., just as the protesters were setting up the projection. A number of Public Safety officers also were present during the protest.

Corprew, who declined to comment, physically blocked the projector from displaying messages onto Low Library, telling activists the projection was a safety hazard because the light was blinding to individuals inside Low. As Corprew attempted to block the projector, she audibly told the activists, “I feel like I’m being violated in the same way that you’re defending women’s bodies … It’s like you’re becoming the oppressors.”

Corprew declined to comment to a Spectator reporter at Sunday night’s protest, and she did not immediately respond to a followup email from a reporter asking for comment.

No Red Tape member Zoe Ridolfi-Starr said that the way Corprew handled the protest was “disappointing.”

“It is so hideous to look at a survivor in the face and say you’re an oppressor,” she said. “To try to use the vocabulary and the rhetoric we have put our personal stories on the line to put ourselves on the forefront of people’s attention here and to use it against us is disgusting.”

Corprew and Public Safety officers later told activists to wait until prospective students left campus before projecting onto the library again. Activists complied, and in response, activists held banners reading “Carry That Weight” and “Columbia Protects Rapists” over Low Steps and ledges by Kent Hall.

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SPORTS

“I’ve got four pairs of cowboy boots.”

JORDAN SPIETH SECOND YOUNGEST ALL-TIME WINNER OF THE MASTERS

Yale has mixed weekend TENNIS FROM PAGE 12

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The Bulldogs were swept by Columbia and Cornell in New York last weekend.

In the women’s action, Columbia and Cornell traveled to the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center to face the Bulldogs in New Haven.

The match on Saturday against Columbia (11–7, 3–2) began in Yale’s favor as the Elis (8–9, 2–2) captured the doubles point behind a strong performance from Madeleine Hamilton ’16 and Ree Ree Li ’16. The duo defeated the No. 78 ranked pair of Tina Jiang and Crystal Leung 8–3. The Elis also received an 8–5 doubles victory from Carol Finke ’18 and Sherry Li ’17. However, the Bulldogs were unable to win a match in singles

Mixed bag for Elis on water

play, dropping the decision 6–1 to Columbia.

“The team competed well on Saturday,” Hamilton said. “Unfortunately, [we] came up short in some close games that cost us the match.”

The Elis were able to bounce back on Sunday, defeating Cornell 4–3 and moving to 0.500 in the Ivy League. The win avenged an earlier loss to Cornell (9–7, 3–2) this spring at the ECAC Championships. Hamilton fell behind after losing the first set in a tiebreak before battling back and clinching the overall match victory with a 6–7(3), 6–4, 7–5 win.

Captain Hanna Yu ’15 defeated

Cornell’s Dena Tanenbaum 6–0, 6–2 in No. 1 singles, while Li and Finke were the other two singles winners, both in straight sets.

“The win was huge for us because it showed that we could win close matches,” Ree Ree Li said. “We will have three really tough matches going forward and the match with Cornell will give us confidence for those matches.”

The women’s team will be back in action this Friday in an away match against Harvard, while the men’s team will host the Crimson at 1 p.m. on the same day.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

Two tourney wins for Elis

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All five of the women’s crew team’s boats won by at least 20 seconds on Saturday against Dartmouth and BU. CREW FROM PAGE 12 son, but the times are a reflection of getting more comfortable on the water as we get further into the season,” Demmerle said.

This week, the Bulldogs can look forward to racing on their home course, as they compete on the Housatonic for the first and penultimate time this season.

Welcoming No. 8 Princeton, last season’s surprise Ivy League Champions, the women have an excellent chance to compare themselves to one of their strongest competitors.

The other team to watch out for, No. 2 Brown, will be coming to Derby, Conn. on April 27.

Though Demmerle said the team is excited to get to race at home, she added that they are preparing for this weekend like any other week. Despite the strength of the competition, Demmerle said, Yale will not be projecting this week’s races ahead to the Ivy League and NCAA postseason races.

“Every time we line up against another team, regardless of the team, we focus on going as fast as we can between the start line and finish line,” she said. “As a team, in every boat, we have done a good job of staying internal during races to do this.”

MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT WINS, LIGHTWEIGHTS FALL

After a week off, the heavyweights returned in full force to defeat Dartmouth and earn the Olympic Axe for the 12th consecutive year.

Yale has won the Axe every year since the series’s conception in 2004, and this year saw the Elis take four of the five races.

The first varsity eight finished almost seven seconds ahead of the Big Green, the team’s largest margin of the day. The second varsity won by five seconds, and the third varsity snuck out in front to take the race by 1.6 seconds. The fourth varsity was the only boat to finish second, as it was sandwiched between Dartmouth’s fourth and fifth boats, though it finished only 1.3 seconds behind the former.

Members of the heavyweight team could not be reached for comment.

Traveling from Overpeck Park, New Jersey, to Ithaca, New York, the lightweight team traversed over 220 miles to race 2,000 meters. Well into their Ivy League season, the lightweights lined up against inter-conference foes Columbia and Penn the first day and Cornell the second.

Facing 10 to 15 mile per hour headwinds, the Elis’ first and second var-

sity boats finished second to Columbia by the smallest of margins: three seconds for the first boat and two for the second. The third varsity boat’s win was the Bulldogs’ only top finish on the day.

“The conditions at Overpeck Park were a challenge, but one all crews had to deal with,” captain Matt Cecil ’15 said. “We were just happy to have another chance to test ourselves against some fast crews regardless of the conditions.”

Sunday featured better conditions but similar results. Cornell’s first varsity came back after a strong Yale start and eventually finished eight seconds ahead of the Bulldogs. The second and third varsity boats lost by six and 3.9 seconds, respectively.

Despite the back-to-back second place finishes, the Bulldogs took positives from their performance.

“Our takeaway, win or loss, is to keep improving and focus on our next opponent,” Cecil said.

The lightweights have the opportunity to race twice more — both times at home — before heading to Eastern and IRA Sprints, the equivalent of postseason races.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

At the Princeton Invitational, the Bulldogs finished 15 strokes ahead of Temple, the second-place team.

GOLF FROM PAGE 12 those of the men’s team. Three of their players were in the top 10, with Elisabeth Bernabe ’17 tying for first place.

“I just felt like every part of my game was solid,” Bernabe said. “I think that as long as my confidence is up and continues to grow, I’ll do well.”

Other top-10 players were Jennifer Peng ’18, who placed fourth, and Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17, who returned to the fields after being sidelined with an injury for a seventh-place tie.

Captain Marika Liu ’15 said the opening of the Yale Golf Course was critical for the team’s win. She added that Yale also had a stacked roster at this tournament with the return of Wongwaiwate, a

key starting golfer.

“It was key for our captain Marika to lead the team as she has done so successfully this season, and for Sandy to come back and do well after her injury,” head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 said. “Practicing on grass is different than what we’ve had to play on — indoors, and on mats. That made a huge difference for us this weekend.”

The next men’s tournament is on April 18, when Yale will host its Yale Spring Invitational at the Yale Golf Course. The women team’s next travel to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on April 24 for their three-day Ivy Championship.

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

Yale notches top-three finishes against Harvard TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE 12 In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Duncan Tomlin ’16 took first with a time of 9:13.69, nearly 13 seconds ahead of the next runner.

Yale’s sole victory on the field came from Luke Persichetti ’17, who took first in the hammer throw with a distance of 44.33 meters.

“Although we lost we are at a good spot moving forward,” said Brendan Sullivan ’16, who placed second in the pole vault with a height of 4.80 meters. “We had several first-place finishers and the meet served as a good springboard for a successful outdoor season.”

The women’s team, despite scoring 66.50 points compared to Harvard’s 89.50, improved over last year’s finish of 53 points to Harvard’s 87.

Leading the way for the Bulldogs was Garry, who took first place in two different events: the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 3,000-meter run.

In the steeplechase, Garry, with

a time of 10:24.71, came in over a minute ahead of the second-place finisher, Rachel Jones ’17, who finished with a time of 11:52.55.

Garry also led the field in a massive 3,000-meter run, as it was the only long-distance event the meet offered. Her time of 9:53.36 was more than five seconds ahead of the second-place Crimson runner.

In third, with a time of 10:03.64, was Dana Klein ’18.

Sami Glass ’18 (10:15.27) and Chandler Olson ’17 (10:19.40) finished fifth and sixth, respectively.

Emily Cable ’15 also had a strong day, taking first in the 400meter dash with a time of 56.96 and second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.39, just twohundredths of a second behind the first place finisher. She was the sole Yale runner in both events.

Shannon McDonnell ’16 took first in the 800-meter run with a 2:12.36. She led a field of nine runners, seven of which were Bulldogs. Frances Schmeide ’17 took third with a time of 2:14.46.

Two Elis placed in the top four in the 1,500-meter run. Emily

Waligurski ’17 took second with a time of 4:39.80, less than twotenths of a second behind the leader. Meredith Rizzo ’17 came in fourth with a time of 4:42.86.

Hurdler Mackenzie Mathews ’16 placed second with a time of 14.27 in the 100-meter hurdles and second again in the 400meter hurdles with a time of 1:11.94.

Though Harvard’s relay team was disqualified, Yale’s 4x100meter relay team still put on a strong performance. The squad, consisting of Cable, Mathews, Sydney Cureton ’16 and Katerra Logan ’17, ran the race in a time of 47.55.

In the field, the Bulldogs posted strong performances across the board. In the pole vault, Cathrine Shih ’15 took second with a jump of 3.50 meters. Renee Vogel ’16 also jumped 3.50 meters, but took fourth because it took her an extra jump.

Alisha Jordan ’15 took first in the triple jump with a distance of 11.78 meters. She also took second in the long jump with a distance of 5.57 meters.

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The men’s track team more than doubled their point total from last year’s Harvard-Yale dual meet, finishing with 62 points.

Meanwhile, Karleh Wilson ’16 took first in the hammer throw with a distance of 51.46 meters.

She also took second in both the shot put and the discus, throwing 14.44 meters and 40.66 meters, respectively.

“This meet is the oldest track and field meet in the nation, so it feels special to be able to partici-

pate in such a historic one,” Randon said. “We gave Harvard a real run for their money, and more than doubled our point total from last year, so we’re certainly happy with the results.”

The Bulldogs will travel next Friday to Charlottesville, Va. for the University of Virginia Invitational and to Princeton for the

Larry Ellis Invitational. Then, on Saturday, some competitors will return to New Haven for the Mark Young Invitational, while those competing in Virginia compete there for the second day of the meet.

Contact ADAM JENKINSON at adam.jenkinson@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Nurture, not nature behind somatic symptoms in teens

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BY SREEJA KODALI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Parental criticism can lead to adolescent somatic symptoms, a new study has found.

Researchers from Yale and the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden surveyed over 1,500 Swedish parents who were twins of the same gender and had similarly aged adolescent children.

They investigated whether the observed association between parental criticism and teenage somatic symptoms — physical issues such as vomiting, headaches or nausea that have no discernible cause — was causally

related. Their work, conducted in collaboration between multiple universities in the U.S. and researchers in Stockholm, confirmed that parental criticism is not only correlated with teenage somatic symptoms, but, in fact, causes them.

“It’s gratifying in science to get a much clearer, fixed finding.

What people have thought for some time seems to actually be the case,” said David Reiss, study senior author and professor of psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, in reference to the group’s discovery that parental criticism leads to adolescent somatic symptoms.

Though the association between highly critical parenting and adolescent somatic symptoms has long been observed, it was previously unknown if the relationship was causal.

Using twin parents to control for genetic factors and study environmental influences, researchers were able to isolate parenting style, instead of having to focus on genetic factors that may be at play. With nature held constant, it became clear that nurture was the driving force behind the symptoms.

That knowledge will make interventions easier, said Dorothy Stubbe, professor of psychi-

atry at the Yale Child Study Center, who was not involved in the study.

“If you have genetics, it’s harder to fight what comes naturally,” she said. “If it’s behavior, [that] can be fairly easily changed. This suggests there’s a very doable intervention that can be extremely helpful.”

Stubbe envisions parenting interventions, such as parent management teaching, that instruct parents to focus on their child’s strengths, so their children can more easily build selfesteem. Reiss sees something similar — a sort of family checkup when it comes to parenting

adolescents.

But the issue is not as simple as avoiding criticisms of children, insisted Hyun Jung Kim, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

There is still so much left unexplained, she said, such as the mechanism by which the criticism translates into the physiological symptoms, although it is suspected that this occurs through neuroendocrinological pathways.

“It’s very easy to criticize parents, [but] parenting is difficult,” said Kim. She said she thinks it is impor-

tant to remember how interrelated the mind and body are, and that any psychological issues that may come extremely critical parenting are going to lead to physical reactions.

Though the results were significant, it is important to remember that more research is required for the results to be generalized to other populations — and not just Swedish parents, said study senior author Brianna Horowitz, professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton.

Contact SREEJA KODALI at sreeja.kodali@yale.edu .

Numbers key in climate change messaging

BY NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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In persuading people of the scientific consensus on humancaused climate change, a new study shows that two factors are especially important for increasing awareness — providing numbers and soliciting estimates.

Researchers from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication analyzed the awareness of climate change amongst the general American public. Results from the study’s two experiments show that American adults have varying knowledge of human-caused climate change. But providing more quantitative information, as well as first asking participants to make estimates about the extent of scientific agreement on the existence of human-caused climate change both increased the likelihood that participants would make a more accurate guess about the degree of scientific consensus.

“This study affirms that it is important to educate the public that climate scientists (the experts) are convinced that human-caused global warming is happening,” Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Anthony Leiserowitz said in an email. “Very few Americans currently understand this, and this (and other studies) demonstrate that this is one important factor (among others) that constrains public acceptance and concern about the issue.”

According to research assistant at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Jenni-

fer Marlon, who was not involved in the study, understanding how sure scientists are about humancaused climate change “remains a major challenge in most parts of the country.”

The first of the two experiments involved providing the public with numerical data and with nonnumerical data to gauge what type of data presentation led survey participants to say that there is a higher level of scientific agreement. The experiment concluded that providing numerical statements led to more accurate estimates of the scientific consensus.

In the second of the two experiments, survey administrators collected respondents’ estimates about the extent of scientific consensus. They found that asking for those approximations beforehand led to more accurate estimates of the scientific agreement after.

“Our studies collectively show that presenting people (just once!) with a simple message stating that, ‘97 percent of climate scientists have concluded that humancaused climate change is happening,’ can lead to substantial shifts in people’s perception of the amount of scientific agreement on the issue,” research associate and lecturer in Princeton’s Adlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs Sander Van der Linden, who was not involved in the study, said in an email. “This change in people’s understanding of how many scientists agree in turn influences key attitudes and, ultimately, public support for the issue.”

Prior research involving surveys of climate scientists and empirical reviews of literature show that there is universal agreement among scientists that climate change caused by humans is a reality. However, when American adults were surveyed in 2013, only 42 percent agreed with the statement that scientists believe in the validity of global warming.

The survey also showed that 28 percent of respondents chose “do not know” in reference to their knowledge of climate scientists’ agreement.

According to Van der Linden, studies and research about climate change are not a simple matter.

He said scientists almost expect the general public to be confused or unsure about climate change research.

Because of that confusion, Van der Linden said, climate change messaging — specifically that humans are causing climate change, and that the phenomenon is occurring now — needs to be made clearer.

According to Leiserowitz, the team plans to study how long the educational effects will last.

“Do they only last for an hour, a day, a week, a month, or does it become permanent knowledge?” he said, noting that the result depends on the source’s reliability and how often the message is reinforced.

Over the last century, temperatures have risen roughly 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

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Fatigue in cancer patients can be predicted

BY GRACE CASTILLO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Scientists may be able to predict who gets tired, and when, according to a new study from Yale that examined over 500 cancer patients.

The researchers sought to identify risk factors among cancer patients in the hopes of better understanding, preventing and alleviating fatigue. In the process, they discovered that morning and evening fatigue are distinct phenomena. The study, which is the first to demonstrate a difference between the two, will be published in the multidisciplinary Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

“We looked at how the severity of fatigue is different based on [different] potential predictors,” said study lead author Fay Wright, who conducted the research for her dissertation at the College of Nursing at New York University.

Researchers were able to identify several risk factors for both morning and evening fatigue. For example, body mass index, anxiety and exercise habits displayed in reaction to stressful events and exercise habits were associated with morning — but not evening — fatigue. Those who had lower BMIs, displayed less anxiety or exercised more were less likely to be tired in the morning. Other factors, like sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms, contributed to both types of fatigue.

The team enrolled 586 patients, all of whom were over 18 years of age, had undergone at least one round of chemotherapy and had at least two more cycles of chemotherapy planned.

They examined patients’ fatigue with two surveys — one which the patients took within 30 minutes of waking up and the other just before going to bed — using the highly reliable Lee Fatigue Scale to track fatigue severity in patients.

Additionally, they gathered demographic and clinical data from patients, looking at traits ranging from the mundane, such as BMI, to the complex, like family situation and childcare responsibilities, Wright said.

The researchers then used a statistical method, which looked at fatigue over the course of the day

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and differences in specific predictors or characteristics that are directly associated with fatigue severity scores.

Wright noted that the study is particularly exciting because it is part of a larger, multi-site study, which means the data are more reliable. She said she thinks the findings are very close to being implemented on a clinical level.

According to Lingeng Lu, a researcher at the Yale Cancer Center, there is no doubt that the study could improve quality of life for cancer patients. In an

email, Lu stressed the effects of fatigue on patients’ lives, calling it, “one of the most frequent side effects of cancer and its treatment.”

“Fatigue has been recognized as the number one symptom experienced universally by cancer patients,” said Ruth McCorkle, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Nursing.

The study, he said, could be influential in helping clinicians identify patients at high risk of fatigue and help individual patients take action to reduce

the severity of the symptom.

McCorkle said that being able to differentiate between contributing factors was exciting and could help give fatigued patients a sense of control over their situation.

Wright gave an example of the more personalized approach that could come from these findings.

A clinician treating an overweight patient experiencing morning fatigue could recommend that the patient begin a regular exercise routine. Helping such a patient find a way to incorporate as much physical activity as com-

fortable into his or her daily life would address two of the study’s risk factors: decreasing BMI and increasing the amount of exercise in that patient’s life.

The study could contribute to the medical community’s wider movement towards personalized medicine, according to both Wright and Lu. Because Wright and her team sequenced participants’ DNA markers related to inflammation and fatigue, they will be able to conduct preliminary research into different genetic factors that affect

patients’ differing responses to treatment.

The authors are considering publishing a separate paper looking at the researchers’ findings through a clinical lens, explaining how physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners can use the information to more effectively treat their fatigued patients.

The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.

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

Q&A: Ethical persuasion of patients

BY ANDI WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Oleksandr Dubov is a Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) Fellow with the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and a PhD candidate in healthcare ethics at Duquesne University. His most recent research is on the ethics of persuading patients to pursue certain treatments and how physicians should navigate that tricky territory. The News spoke with Dubov to hear his thoughts on standard practice of decision-making in critical care, the power of framing information and how doctors should responsibly use that power. problems does your QWhat paper seek to address?

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I try to examine decisionmaking in the critical care context by looking at the standard decision-making theory in medical care and how it comes into reality. There are many assumptions in the [shared decision-making] model. For example, the standard assumption in medical ethics is that you provide the patient all the information and act in the best interest of the patient. If you don’t do this, you can’t protect their autonomy. However, the research in social psychology shows that there may not be consistent decision-making.

you think there is anyQDo thing that can be improved

about the current decision-making model?

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Yes. I think there are two understandings of shared decision making — a narrower understanding and a broader understanding. In a narrower understanding of shared deci-

sion making, there’s a strict division of labor between the patients and the medical providers. Doctors bring medical information, families bring values and values are matched to the information. Here, the emphasis is on autonomous decisions. In the broader understanding, the emphasis is on enabling the patients and their families to participate. The division of labor is less strict, and the process is more open-ended.

In the broader understanding, the doctors take the patients personally.

In the narrower understanding, you assume that the patients and the families can understand information about options, and that they can make decisions independently. In a broader understanding of shared decision making, you believe that expressing preferences is a collaborative process. This [broader understanding] is what I try to explore more. you suggesting that docQAre tors should play a more active role and be more than information providers?

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Yes. I think what I try to do is to show that no matter whether they want it or not, clinicians always influence choice in the decision-making process.

If we know that we do have an influence, why don’t we be more confident about it and use it in a more positive way? There are two types of cases when influence can be put into practice.

The first type is when there is clearly one medically beneficial choice. For example, when you break an arm, there’s clearly one choice: You have to be cast.

There are some other cases when it is less clear what options are more beneficial. In these cases, clinicians should be aware of the fact that patients make some

predictable mistakes. They use some shortcuts in the decisionmaking that might, in the long run, hurt them or not be conducive to their values. While soliciting values in those cases may not be ethical [for the clinicians], what is ethical is to alert the patient of the mistakes they may make, and to help them avert biases.

They have values and they bring them to the table. As long as you provide the information, they can make an autonomous choice. People assume that even if patients make errors,

these errors are not systematic.

But behavioral economics have shown that there are some predictable errors that people make that hurt people in the long run.

What I want to do perhaps is to

explore those patterns and to see how they apply to medical ethics.

Contact ANDI WANG at andi.wang@yale.edu .

a medical ethicist, was QAs there a case that made a strong impression on you?

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Yes, a couple. I can think of an example of a university professor. She was 70 years old and she had a critical situation. She could recover after long rehab, and she could eventually live with her family. But she definitely could not go back to her own house because of concerns for care provision, and she was definitely not going to go back to teach. In communication with her clinician, she showed her hesitation to have the rehab. She was worried that she could no longer connect socially and intellectually to people. She rejected getting the rehab because she said that she did not want to have this kind of life. After a long consultation, she chose to have the rehab.

paper is part of your QThis dissertation. What other

areas of the patient-doctor relationship and medical ethics are you exploring? Do you want to develop this into a full model of decision making in critical care?

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What I want to do is to examine the assumptions people make in medical ethics.

For example, one of the assumptions is that people are rational, that people make rational choices. The second assumption is that patients and families know their preferences.

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Two first-place finishes for Yale golf

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER This weekend, both the men’s and the women’s golf teams swung to the top of their tournaments.

The men’s team traveled to Ardmore, Pennsylvania to play in the widely-recognized Princeton Invitational. After the first day of play, the Elis led the tournament by four strokes. In the second day, the Bulldogs increased their lead, eventually finishing first (+11).

Temple University came in second (+26), 15 strokes behind the Elis. With their third tournament victory of the season, the Bulldogs also marked their sixth win in the last seven years at the Princeton Invitational.

The women’s team traveled instead to East Providence, Rhode Island. to participate in the Brown Bear Invitational. Having completed the first round in first place and two strokes ahead of second place Princeton, the Bulldogs expanded their lead in the second round. They eventually finished +21.

“We’ve historically had a lot of success at the Princeton

event, and to see the tournament hosted on two of the best championship courses in the country had us fired up,” captain Will Davenport ’15 said.

“We definitely were pleased to win by a healthy margin, especially with the strength of the teams represented.”

The second-best finish earned by an Ivy League team was Princeton’s +33 performance — 22 shots behind Yale.

Davenport said he was very pleased that the team won with such a comfortable lead, especially considering the strength of the competitors.

In addition to winning the tournament, the Bulldogs had four players place in the top 10.

Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 tied for second and Joe Willis ’16 followed in fourth place. Li Wang ’17 and Davenport both tied for ninth.

Greenhalgh said that coming in second place individually was frustrating since he believed he could have won the event. However, he added that what matters the most is the win for the team.

“It is one of my proudest moments as a Yale golfer to see this team rise to the occasion

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Four golfers finished in the top 10 for the men’s golf team while three finished in the top 10 for the women’s team over the weekend. on the toughest tests and play driven golf,” Davenport said.

Willis agreed that the team performed well and said it was probably their best team round

of the spring.

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Women’s crew dominates, men split

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Dispersed throughout New England, Yale’s three crew teams managed to bring hardware back to New Haven after the women and heavyweights found success against Dartmouth. The lightweights, who took on three Ancient Eight foes in two days, were unable to come away with a win.

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For the 12th consecutive year, the Yale heavyweight crew team beat Dartmouth to claim the Olympic Axe.

Up-and-down results against N.Y. foes

The No. 9 Yale women’s crew team headed north to race Dartmouth and Boston University on the Charles River Saturday morning.

Despite some choppy water due to high winds, the Bulldogs dominated. All five boats won their respective races, and all of the margins of

victory exceeded 20 seconds.

“We did a good job of staying focused on the task at hand and not letting conditions distract us,” captain Nina Demmerle ’15 said, adding that despite the chop, the Elis approached the race as they would any other.

Clocking in at 7:12.80, the first varsity eight finished 25 seconds ahead of the second-place Terriers. The second and third varsity eights were 21 and 23 seconds faster, respectively, though it was the fourth varsity boats that clocked the most impressive finishes.

The fourth varsity A boat passed the finish line 48 seconds before the next competitor, and the B boat had a solid 55 seconds to kill before the next boat completed the race.

“We are always making changes throughout the seaSEE CREW PAGE 8

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The Yale women’s tennis team salvaged its weekend homestand with a 4–3 victory over Cornell on Sunday.

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the second week of Ivy League play, the men’s and women’s tennis teams battled against Columbia and Cornell. While the men lost both of their matches, the women split the weekend, losing to Columbia 6–1 on Saturday but bouncing back to defeat Cornell 4–3 on Sunday.

TENNIS Because the men’s and women’s teams share the CullmanHeyman Tennis Center, the teams must alternate every week between home and away matches.

It was the men who hit the road this weekend, and they were welcomed to New York City by a 4–0 loss to Columbia. The Lions (11– 5, 4–0 Ivy) entered their match ranked No. 22 in the nation and led by upperclassmen Winston Lin and Dragos Ignat.

“We fought really hard,” head coach Alex Dorato said. “It was a tough road trip, but we competed really well.”

Columbia won the doubles point to begin the match. Stefan Doehler ’18 and Fedor Andrienko ’18, who have performed well for Yale (11–9, 1–3) in doubles competition all season, lost the No. 1 doubles match by a score of 6–2.

After the pairing of Martin Svenning ’16 and Ziqi Wang ’18 lost its match to Ignat and Ashok Naray-

ana, Tyler Lu ’17 and Alex Hagermoser ’17 were not able to finish their match because the Lions had already clinched the doubles point, though they were only down 6–5.

Columbia then needed just three singles victories to win the overall match, which it received from the first three positions.

According to Dorato, the Bulldogs viewed the loss to Columbia as proof that they could compete with the top teams in the Ivy League. In the incomplete matches, Daniel Faierman ’15 was battling Columbia’s Shawn Hadavi close when his match was called, and Andrienko was playing in his third set against Mike Vermeer with a score of 6–3, 3–6, 1–1.

The challenging stretch of the Ivy League schedule continued on Sunday for the Elis as they squared off against No. 51 Cornell (11–7, 3–2). The Big Red relied on the double point and top position singles play to defeat the Bulldogs 5–2.

Yale received singles victories from Doehler and Faierman, with the senior coming away victorious in three sets against Cornell’s Colin Sinclair by a score of 2–6, 6–3, 7–6.

“Several guys on our team competed exceptionally well,” Wang said. “Faierman and Doehler both won in three tight sets.”

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Team struggles, individuals flourish on track

BY ADAM JENKINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a competition steeped in history, tradition and rivalry, the Bulldog track and field teams faced off against Harvard in Cambridge this past weekend in the their annual dual meet.

TRACK & FIELD Though both the men’s and women’s squads came up short in the final standings, each squad saw multiple top-three finishes and several victories.

Though these two teams go head to head every spring, this year’s meet was special. Once every four years, Yale and Har-

vard team up to go against Oxford and Cambridge in England, traveling for three weeks in the summer.

“The HYOC meet has been happening since 1891 on the men’s side. It is a meet with a ton of tradition and history,” women’s captain Kira Garry ’15 said.

“There is definitely something really cool about being able to compete with the Harvard athletes and travel for almost three weeks. For the seniors, it is an amazing way to finish our athletic careers representing Yale.”

The Yale men’s team scored 62 points compared to Harvard’s 99, but also had multiple top-three finishes.

Hurdler Paedyn Gomes ’18

continued his successful freshman campaign, taking second in the 110-meter hurdles by just fifteen-hundredths of a second.

His time of 14.38 was not only a personal best, but also the fastest ever by a freshman at Yale, as well as the eighth fastest time in school history.

Marc-Andre Alexandre ’17 also had a strong day, competing in four different events. He won the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.00, took second in the 200meter dash with a time of 21.68 and competed in both the 4x100meter and 4x400-meter relays.

Jacob Sandry ’15 took first in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:54.86. Matt Chisholm ’18 took fifth with a time of 1:57.67.

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In the 1,500-meter run, James Randon ’17 continued his domination, taking first with a time of 3:54.36. John McGowan ’15 took third with a time of 3:55.60.

Kevin Dooney ’16 took first in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 14:047.55. Cameron Stanish ’18 (14:53.15), Isa Qasim ’15 (15:01.21) — a staff columnist for the News — and Ryan Brady ’18 (15:05.79) took third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

Captain William Rowe ’15 brought home a first place finish in the 400-meter hurdles, winning with a time of 56.01, more than two seconds ahead of the second place finisher.

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Both the men’s and women’s track teams took first place in the hammer throw at the annual Harvard-Yale dual meet.

THE AMOUNT OF TIME IN MINUTES WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD CAPTAIN KIRA GARRY ’15 FINISHED AHEAD OF HER NEXT CLOSEST COMPETITOR IN THE 3000-METER STEEPLECHASE EVENT. Garry took first place in the event with a time of 10:24.71 at the Harvard-Yale dual meet.