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Major contest for top-ranked Yale
Time to choose. After a week
of heavy campaigning, the deadline to cast a ballot in this year’s Yale College Council elections is tonight at 9 p.m. Students can also vote online for next year’s Sophomore Class Council and Junior Class Council presidents.
Clinton LAW ’73 went on the defensive in last night’s Democratic debate as Bernie Sanders criticized her ties to wealthy donors and Wall Street Banks. Despite the attacks, Sanders — a New York native — would need a landslide victory to defeat Clinton in the state’s primary on April 19.
Editorial Board published an op-ed yesterday for visiting prefrosh that called Yale an “arts and crafts college.” We’re not mad: The News happens to think Yale’s two free art galleries are pretty nifty.
Take it back. The Yale Communication and Consent Educators are hosting their annual Take Back the Night Speak Out at 1 p.m. on Cross Campus for students to share experiences of sexual violence and sexual respect. Attendees can arrive at 11 a.m. to decorate the space with chalk before the event. Join the revolution. Students
can listen to talks by sleep experts, hear tips for napping and view yoga demonstrations at tonight’s Sleep Revolution event at the Schwarzman Center starting at 6:30, sponsored by The Huffington Post. Each attendee will also receive a free copy of Arianna Huffington’s new book, “Sleep Revolution,” which promotes the importance of healthy sleep.
DT in CT. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump will be holding a rally at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford tonight in preparation for the Nutmeg State’s winner-take-all primary on April 26. An Emerson College poll earlier this week showed Trump with a commanding lead in Connecticut, at 50 percent support.
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t is rare for two top-five national teams to battle during the regular season, and it is even more uncommon for those matchups to include Yale. The Yale men’s lacrosse team, undefeated through 10 games, travels to Brown on Saturday for a game with large Ivy League and NCAA implications. PAGE 10
Elm City tests emergency response BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER On Thursday afternoon, students at James Hillhouse High School trickled through the school’s indoor gymnasium to receive what could be lifesaving medicine: Tic Tacs. Relabeled as doxycycline and ciprofloxacin, two types of antibiotics,
the boxes of Tic Tacs represented a lighthearted element of what was actually a serious test of New Haven’s response to a public health emergency. Over 200 students enrolled in Hillhouse’s New Haven Law, Public Safety and Health Academy participated in the mass dispensing drill — the city’s first — for a simulated health emergency coordinated by
local, state and federal agencies. Hillhouse High School was the site of one of five similar drills that took place throughout Connecticut on Thursday. Agencies present included the New Haven Department of Health, the New Haven Police and Fire Departments, the Cornell ScottSEE DRILL PAGE 6
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This is the first year in recent history during which Dwight Hall has endorsed a candidate in the YCC presidential election.
For the first time in recent history, Dwight Hall has endorsed a Yale College Council presidential candidate. After a vote by around 50 Dwight Hall Student Cabinet members on Wednesday night, the organization supported Peter Huang ’18 for YCC president based on his service platform, which entails creating a more
centralized resource for service opportunities at Yale through increased communication between Dwight Hall and the YCC. Dwight Hall chose to endorse a candidate this year out of a desire to provide more representation for the many Yale students involved with service, according to Dwight Hall Co-Coordinator Anthony D’Ambrosio ’18. “In our first year of endorsement, we really wanted candidates to
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University leaders discuss cultural heritage BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER
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With two new residential colleges opening in fall 2017, the composition of the increased undergraduate population remains unclear. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions, however, has already begun planning for the future. Because the Admissions Office’s promotional materials — including the University’s iconic admissions video, “That’s Why I Chose Yale” — all currently advertise Yale’s 12 residential colleges, they will need to be updated, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. The Admissions Office will begin producing the updated materials this summer and into the fall, as around 200 students in the class of 2021 — nearly all of whom will be admitted in next year’s admissions cycle — will be placed into the two colleges, which remain unnamed. Other than necessitating logistical changes, the increase in student population may also allow the Admissions Office to re-evaluate its admissions priorities and strategy. “Admissions is upstream from a lot of the other work of the college,” Quinlan said. “These are issues we’re going to have to deal with next academic year before Yale College expands.” The Admissions Office will begin holding two separate instances of Bulldog Days next year, as limited hosting capabilities and overcrowding at events will make it difficult to have the entire admitted class
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acknowledge the importance of service on campus,” D’Ambrosio said. “[The presidential candidates] have certainly done that thus far, and we’re really happy and excited to endorse [Huang].” The Dwight Hall vote came after cabinet members heard two-and-ahalf minute speeches from each of the five candidates regarding their respec-
year’s Olympics-themed Relay for Life will kick off today at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The cancer fundraiser begins with opening ceremonies at 7 p.m. and culminates in a luminaria to honor those who have battled or are currently battling cancer.
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On Wednesday, renowned scholars and leaders from more than 30 universities from around the world gathered on West Campus as part of the United Nations Global Colloquium of University Presidents to discuss challenges and strategies related to the preservation of cultural heritage. Those in attendance came not just from the sponsoring universities — Yale and five of its peers — but also from foreign institutions like the University of Ghana and Shandong University. They discussed, among other things, how to address natural or man-made disasters, how to respond to climate change and how to formulate conservation training and education. The conference on West Campus came after several campuswide events, many of which focused on the preservation of cultural heritage, including workshops, panel discussions and high-profile speakers, such as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and UNESCO Director Irina Bokova. University President Peter Salovey said the various parts of Yale involved in researching cultural heritage allowed for an effective conference that fit his vision of a more unified Yale. “We are uniquely qualified to host such a conference,” Salovey said. “The cross-collaboration that I am pushing even further as president between the arts, collections, humanities and sciences leads to innovative thinking on policy issues such as those involving the protection of cultural sites and artifacts in the face of war and terrorism, climate change and natural disasters, looting, natural aging and tourism.” Stefan Simon, the director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, said the most important outcome of the conference was a unanimous commitment from university officials pres-
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1980 Kline Chemistry Laboratory fails a safety test after one student contracts anemia and several others complain of toxic odors in the lab. A report by Yale’s Safety Department indicates that leaks in ducts and drains, poor fume hoods and a lack of nighttime ventilation may have allowed toxic gases to permeate the building.
Pho Ketkeo, city’s first Laotian restaurant, to open on Temple Street
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henever the subject of U.S. presidential elections pops up, Yale proudly boasts that five of its alumni once called 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. home. Unsurprisingly, our campus is filled with many a budding politico, and nothing makes this more apparent than Yale College Council election season. We’ve hosted debates; we’ve heard campaign slogans; we’ve even read media endorsements. If you took the time to peruse the lofty campaign platforms, you would assume that the Yale community is on the verge of making an important decision — one that could determine the future of the University. But are we really? I have no doubt that student representation is important. My friends involved with student government do seem to put in a lot of effort, and I believe that individual YCC members really are trying to change the way that Yale runs for the better. But as an institution, the YCC has done a terrible job of explaining what they do, why they matter and what their limitations are to the broader campus community. For the vast majority of us, interactions with the YCC come in two forms: the errant email asking about a survey/ task force/insert-bureaucratic-term-here and Spring Fling. Those of us who have taken the time to open a YCC email or two often find ourselves asking a simple question: What ever happens to those task forces and surveys? To find out, I took a brief look at the YCC website. I certainly chuckled when the first thing to pop up was a giant banner encouraging me to download Ublend, an app that YCC tried to convince us would be the next big thing back in August. I pressed on, clicking the conveniently named “Projects” tab. A collage of blue tiles filled in my screen with catchy names like “Credit/D/Fail Reform” and “Seminar Access for Sophomores” (that one certainly would have been useful back during shopping period). The page promises to help track projects as they move through six pre-defined phases, each with a corporate-sounding name. Clicking on any one of them returns a one-paragraph summary of the project along with its current status. These summaries are generally vague, and the status descriptions are unhelpful. The “Freshman Advising Improvement” project, for example, is simply listed as “Dead.” Does that mean that the YCC no longer cares about improving freshman advising? Or does it mean the administration shut the project down? The remaining statuses are some variant of “Presented to Council/Administration.” Is that it? What did the council say? What did the administration say? What was the debate about? What’s
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going on? When will the project move to the next step? What are the next steps? For the few SHREYAS projects that come to TIRUMALA have fruition, the only tangible Rhyme and results seem to be lengthy reason reports urging Yale to change one thing or another. Somehow, I can’t imagine the administration responds to such reports with much more than a “Duly noted” and a pat on the back for report’s authors. The website doesn’t inspire confidence in the YCC to do anything more than complain — or, more accurately, complain and then write up those complaints in lengthy reports that are forgotten as soon as they’re written. You couldn’t be faulted for assuming that the YCC cares more about selfcongratulation than policy proposals.
PEOPLE DON’T CARE ABOUT THE YCC BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S DOING
SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .
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lipping through the Yale Bluebook can be a deeply perplexing endeavor. Six hundred and sixty-eight pages long, the book contains every single course offered to undergraduates. The courses one would expect to find are there: in math and science, language, history and literature. However, these can only fill so many pages, and they have recently been dwarfed by bastardized versions of traditional liberal arts classes. The “History” Department, for instance, offers such courses as “Cartography, Territory and Identity,” described by its instructor as an “exploration of how maps shape assumptions about territory, land, sovereignty and identity.” Alas, it turns out we are all mistaken in thinking we learned to read maps in the third grade. Once the Yale student gains sufficient confidence in his ability to identify countries and bodies of water, he can move on to a study of “photography’s discursive identity as an experimental and evidentiary medium in the sciences,” or, in the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, an examination of “reproduction as a process that is simultaneously biological and social, involving male and female bodies, family formation and powerful social institutions.” I point out these course descriptions not only due to their sheer absurdity (though this they do not lack), but also because
I know that isn’t true. If the candidates running for the presidency this semester are any indication, there are certainly many Yalies in the YCC that are genuinely concerned about the future of the University. But we never see the fruits of their labor. There’s no easy way to obtain information about YCC activities. The website is useless. And that would be fine if we were kept in the loop through emails or other channels. But for most YCC projects, we aren’t. There’s really no way for a constituent to understand what the YCC is doing without attending council meetings, which is an unacceptably high barrier to entry. What would it be like if the only way to keep up with government were to sit in on a congressional session? Perhaps campus publications should take a more active role in informing students about the YCC. In the real world, the media serves as a check on government. But so do the people. And at Yale, the people don’t care, because they don’t know what the YCC is doing. If we want real reform on this campus, that needs to change.
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they reflect the systematic, nonsensical narrowing of the academy that has taken place in recent decades. The humanities, which used to be the study of life’s deepest, most meaningful questions, now restrict themselves to inconsequential, easily solvable problems. Many have attributed this phenomenon to the difficulty of gaining tenured teaching positions at universities. The more specialized one’s field of knowledge, the easier it is to stand out. So academics choose to delve deeply into niche topics in order to distinguish themselves. But it has always been difficult to rise through the ranks of academia; what has changed is society’s view of the humanities. The study of history, literature and philosophy has come under attack in recent decades, viewed by its opponents as a trivial pursuit when compared with the study of science or math. Politicians from both sides of the aisle, including President Barack Obama and Sen. Marco Rubio, have attempted to push people away from the liberal arts and into more technical fields. In response to their devaluation, professors of the humanities have tried to mimic their colleagues in STEM fields, using esotericism to rescue themselves from irrelevance. The more they can pinpoint problems and purport to answer them by scientific means, the more respect they will garner from their detractors.
Society, as a consequence, loses out on academics who deal with overarching questions about the trajectory of history, the human condition and the foundations of society. Such unfashionable professors do not sound as sophisticated as postmodernists who use phrases like “semiotic dissonance,” “multivocalities” or — my personal favorite — “phallogocentricism,” a portmanteau coined by Jacques Derrida to describe the simultaneous privileging of the phallus and rationalism (both equally unjust). In his 2010 book “Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and Diplomacy,” Yale professor Charles Hill delineates the results of this perversion of traditional liberal arts study. Hill points out that “the hegemony of the social sciences, particularly political science, which by self-definition must confine itself to a narrow band of problems capable of scientifically replicable solutions — [leaves] the biggest questions beyond its reach.” As a result, the functioning of the state has become overly bureaucratized, with security analysts and policy wonks who can analyze data pertaining to their particular fields, but cannot evaluate how we ought to use that data or fit it into a broader political philosophy. Though this trend is most pronounced in politics, the narrowing of the American mind has consequences far beyond the
political sphere. As Hill notes, only the traditional humanities — particularly literature — can teach us how the world really works. When we enter life after college, as politicians, businesspeople, lawyers or journalists, we will have to act quickly, making difficult decisions without knowing what the result might be. If the goal of a liberal arts education is to teach us how to think, the current pedagogical approach simply will not cut it. Running geographically specialized regression analyses on voting patterns will not teach us how we ought to structure society. And deconstructing “vectors of oppression” will not teach us how we ought to live our lives. As academics have shrunk their scope, so has society as a whole. We live in a time of tweets not books; of singles, not cohesive albums. We as a generation experience life through an atomistic lens. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this narrow mode of thinking, we have to remember that life is more than the sum of its parts. When our thoughts and actions become fragmented, we lose the internal core of self that allows us to succeed on a large scale. DANIEL TENREIRO-BRASCHI is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at daniel.tenreiro-braschi@yale.edu .
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Please appropriate my culture J
ulia Roberts did it wrong when she traveled to Bali to “eat, pray love.” Most of the island’s three million annual visitors come to do just two things: party and get “blessed.” With Hindu temples in seemingly equal proportion to rooftop bars, Bali is a spring break hotspot. Travel agencies offering “exotic adventure tours” and vendors selling sarongs and cheap souvenirs all pander to such visitors, creating a warped performance of Indonesian culture. In Bali, cultural appropriation drives economic growth. The term “cultural appropriation” simply describes the adoption or use of aspects of one culture by people from another. The term got a bad reputation last semester at Yale when it was used to describe a different phenomenon: cultural misappropriation. The line between the two is narrow, but there is a division nonetheless. At what point does appropriation become misappropriation? In my mind, it all has to do with intent. One who wears a Halloween costume to mock another culture ought to be told off. But it is hard to argue that a tourist who loves Indonesian fried rice and visits a Hindu temple dressed in a traditional batik has malicious
intent. Rather, tourism is a form of appropriation that can allow us to celebrate one another’s culture. What is regrettable however is that the Balinese have deliberately adjusted their culture in order to cater to foreign tastes. We see this phenomenon worldwide. In Shanghai, westernized Chinese food (think fortune cookies and chop suey) has become wildly popular among wealthy expats. In Indonesia, the popular “Balinese Monkey Dance,” lacks any real historical significance, and serves solely as a performance piece for Western tourists.
AT WHAT POINT DOES APPROPRIATION BECOME MISAPPROPRIATION? To me, there seemed to be a disconnect between what the Balinese think visitors want to see and what they actually want
to see. I certainly didn’t take a 30-hour flight to drink Starbucks iced mochas on the beach, or to see a staged “cultural” performance. I came for the real deal. But I soon realized that there are plenty of foreigners who do come to Bali for henna tattoos, cheap souvenirs and a new Facebook cover photo. It’s simple supply and demand: Utterly dependent on foreign visitors, the tourism industry has adapted to provide whatever is desired. Authentic or not, the economic value of tourism in Bali is indisputable. The industry accounts for the largest portion of the island’s GDP, employing tens of thousands of people. As a result, Bali’s standards for education, nutrition and infant mortality far outperform Indonesia’s averages. If you travel farther inland, away from the resorts and seaside restaurants, you’ll see a very different Bali. Dirt roads lined with small convenience stores and Hindu temples are interspersed with the occasional street cart vendor. Devoid of big hotel conglomerates, infrastructure outside of Bali’s coastal areas is weak. The sarong sellers and henna
artists depend on narrowminded tourists who come to Bali for “cultural” experiences. In many Balinese temples, squatters earn their livelihoods by selling things to visitors. At Goa Gajah, a Hindu temple, I was unwittingly “blessed” by a woman who splashed holy water on my head and then demanded payment. So is Bali just an unfortunate casualty of globalization? Though we usually think of the phenomenon in a positive light, it seems that foreign exposure has done nothing but spoil local culture. But perhaps, one could argue, $6 billion in tourism revenue can justify such crime. So to the spring breakers who head to Bali, Cabo, Ibiza and the like: don’t just travel to “eat, pray love.” Tourists play an important role in shaping the development of such regions. In order to retain the integrity of the world’s cultures, it is crucial we seek out authenticity. Cultural appropriation is a powerful tool. If done responsibly, it has the potential to drive economic growth and facilitate cross-cultural exchange. SEJAL VALLABH is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at sejal.vallabh@yale.edu .
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The article “SOM holds 12th annual health conference” misstated the date of the conference. In fact, it was held on Friday, not Saturday. THURSDAY, APRIL 14
The article “Higher One sells two major divisions” incorrectly stated that the Institute for College Education and Success singled out Higher One’s services for criticism; in fact, the organization did not criticize Higher One, but recommended that the U.S. Department of Education be wary of Higher One services. The article “Taherian recognized for foodservice at Yale, across New Haven” misstated Rafi Taherian’s title; in fact, he is the Associate Vice President of Yale Hospitality. It also misstated the number of retail facilities that Yale Hospitality operates on campus.
Refugee studies course to host awareness events BY KZ ZHENG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Students taking “Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies” this semester will host a series of events next week to raise awareness about refugee issues and critique conventional representations of refugees. The class, a seminar crosslisted between the Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs, was instituted this semester after the instructor, Quan Tran, was made a lecturer in ER&M. It is the first course at Yale to explore critical refugee studies, a growing multidisciplinary field that examines the social, political and cultural critiques of refugeeism. Since February, the class has been coordinating events to comprise “Rethinking Refugees Week”, which will include a teach-in discussing key themes from the course, a tabling session and photo campaign on Cross Campus and an interactive art activity mapping students’ homes alongside those of refugees. The events were created by students in who opted for end-of-term service projects over research papers. “Critical refugee studies is not only a theoretical endeavor, but also something that’s generative for students to test out some of the ideas in class,” Tran said. “The service project is an opportunity for students to translate what they learned and foster a different kind of thinking about refugees.” Tran said refugee studies is traditionally more geared toward the legal aspects of refugee migration or humanitarian care. Critical refugee studies, Tran said, complicates popular understandings of refugees and complements other refugee studies courses already offered at Yale, such as “Migration, Memory and Law” and “Refugee Law and Policy” — courses both offered last fall. Tran added that critical refugee studies is unique because it highlights the agency of individual refugees and provides an alternative to top-down perspectives. Ishrat Mannan ’17, a student in the class, said planning the events has given students in the class a better introduction to refugee representation and related issues. “Students are given a chance to feel empowered by the role they can take, whether that is contributing to advocacy, raising awareness to their peers and the community or investing time and energy to refugee causes,” Mannan said. The teach-in, scheduled for April 20, will address representations of refugees as threats and victims. Participants will watch videos of certain refugee narratives followed by small-group discussions where participants will discuss keywords including complex personhood, human rights and the citizen/refugee binary. Eric Phung ’17 said taking the course has taught him how to reframe discussions on refugees and has encouraged him to open similar modes of thinking to others interested in refugee discourse. A photo exhibit — “(Re)presenting Representations: Refugee as Visual Subject” — will be on view during the teach-in and other events during “Rethink-
ing Refugees Week”. The photos come from advocacy groups, media outlets and humanitarian photographers, and will have been edited by students to critique visual representations of refugees. “These are narratives of pain, loss or victimhood, or of threat and otherness that erase not only the nuance of refugeeness but also the agency of refugees,” Catie Liu ’18 said. The next day, students in Tran’s course will be canvassing across campus through a photo campaign. They will also collect signatures to encourage Yale to increase recruitment of undergraduate refugees and encourage the Connecticut Legislature to accept more refugees and strengthen infrastructure for refugees’ transitions. Next Friday, “Stories Without Borders,” an interactive art project, will be held on Cross Campus. Participants will randomly select and read a brief text written by a refugee. Then, they will draw a line from their home to the refugee’s homeland on a borderless map.
The service project is an opportunity for students to translate what they learned and foster a different kind of thinking. QUAN TRAN Lecturer, Ethnicity, Race and Migration Daad Sharfi ’17 said the purpose of the project is “to compel students to reimagine refugees as individuals with complex personhoods and unique stories, using the voices of refugees themselves.” Not only does the activity ask participants to engage with refugees’ personal voices and self-representation, Sharfi said, but it also helps students “begin to consider the role that borders and nation-states play in our impressions of refugeeness.” Many of the student organizers interviewed emphasized that “Rethinking Refugees Week” wants to spark conversation about conventional media representations of refugees as helpless victims. Sharfi said that the mainstream media rarely provides a platform in which refugees can assert themselves, adding that it is important to engage with narratives in which refugees own their self-representation. Harper Loonsk ’18, co-president of the Yale Refugee Project and former intern for the International Rescue Committee, emphasized that working on refugee-related issues and taking refugee-related classes is and has always been relevant — “yesterday, last year and last decade.” “Each of these [displaced] peoples and their countries have experienced complex and prolonged violence, which has led to the forced migration of millions of people,” Loonsk said. Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, a New Havenbased organization dedicated to refugees in the community, resettles approximately 200 refugees each year. Contact KZ ZHENG at karen.zheng@yale.edu .
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Admissions hosts African education conference BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The Office of Undergraduate Admissions put together a three-day conference this week for leaders from educational nonprofit groups in Africa — the first-ever event of its kind. In partnership with Education Matters, a Zimbabwebased nonprofit organization, the Admissions Office hosted representatives from 21 organizations dedicated to providing mentorship and guidance opportunities for high-achieving, low-income students from across the continent. At the HALI Indaba, which took place from April 12 to 14 in Harare, Zimbabwe, leaders from the organizations discussed program design, selection criteria for the individual programs and how to write strong letters of recommendation for colleges in the U.S., among other topics. This year, the organizations are supporting 871 African students through the college process, nine of whom were accepted by Yale.
“The Yale Admissions Office is incredibly excited to be part of this gathering,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. “As part of our deepening commitment to bringing the most talented students from Africa to Yale, I have hopes that this summit and future collaboration will help strengthen college guidance and support for students coming to the U.S.” Director of International Admissions Rebekah Westphal attended the conference, which derives its name from the acronym HALI — short for “highachieving, low-income” — and “Indaba,” widely used in Africa to mean “gathering.” Westphal also served as one of HALI Indaba’s head organizers along with Rebecca Zeigler Mano from Education Matters. Some of the participating organizations included Bridge2Rwanda, Akwanya and Our Moon Education. These programs vary in their length and degree of support for students, with some providing monthslong mentoring oppor-
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HALI Indaba brought together 21 non-profit organizations dedicated to supporting high-achieving, low-income African students.
tunities and others focusing more on short-term SAT workshops and college applications advice. The organizations in general aim to prepare students for their transition to life at an American college by giving the students rigorous instruction in English, going over cultural differences and explaining what the expectations for students will be once they arrive in the U.S. Admission to these programs can be extremely competitive — sometimes even more so than acceptance to Yale. Bridge2Rwanda, for example, accepted 40 students out of over 1,000 applicants, according to Westphal. “For most graduating seniors in high school, it is a dream to be a Bridge2Rwanda Scholar,” said Chaste Niwe ’19, who participated in the program before coming to Yale. “Applications forms get shared on social media, people talk about it, and it is hard not to learn about especially for students from the main cities.” Niwe said Bridge2Rwanda guided him through all aspects of the application process, from helping him improve his English and providing SAT classes to paying the fees for each application. He added that he was glad organizations like Bridge2Rwanda were coming together to share ideas for their work, as they have the ability to change the lives of individuals and families. The HALI Indaba was funded by the Higherlife Foundation, a nonprofit organi-
zation that is dedicated to creating educational opportunities for children in Africa. The Higherlife Foundation has also given funding to the Yale Young African Scholars program, a five-day academic and mentorship program for high school students in Africa. The program was inaugurated last summer and will be running this summer in Ghana, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. Erin Schutte ’12, the director of Yale Young Global Scholars, which administers YYAS, attended the HALI Indaba as well. “This is a fantastic example of how Yale can act as a convening power of like-minded organizations across the continent who are dedicated to educating the next generation of African student leaders,” said Ted Wittenstein ’04, who oversees YYAS. Westphal said the HALI Indaba was directly related to Yale’s increased focus on Africa in recent years, which University President Peter Salovey affirmed with his announcement of the Yale Africa Initiative in 2013. The Yale Africa Initiative seeks to expand scholarship on Africa, increase the number of African students at Yale and establish partnerships between the University and African institutions. According to Westphal, the number of students admitted to Yale from Africa jumped to 25 two years ago from its historic number of around 15. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
Divinity School partners with youth ministry BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER The Yale Divinity School joined forces with the Yale Youth Ministry Institute last week, creating a partnership that seeks to educate communities about faith ministry that focuses on adolescents. In an April 8 email, YMI — a campus program that hosts lunches and lectures about how to reach high school students through the Christian faith — announced it is officially integrating into the Divinity School. While the school previously hosted YMI events, the new partnership expands the resources available to Divinity School students. According to divinity students interviewed, YMI helps connect Yale with religious communities across New England, emphasizing the importance of caring for youth in the church. “[YMI] creates ongoing community of sharing and learning and support I think a lot of us have come to rely on,” said Taylor Bolton DIV ’16, who works with YMI. “It creates these relationships across what would otherwise seem to be barriers, but we have been brought together through this shared mission of helping our youth.” According to YMI Founding Director Rev. Harold Masback, YMI’s monthly events connect Divinity School students with acclaimed theologians and provide resources to community members from in and around New Haven who might not otherwise be able to learn about youth ministry. While collaboration between the Divinity School and YMI began through a series of lectures in 2012, YMI was never officially part of the larger institution. Then, in 2015, after a philanthropic organization gave a $4.2 million grant to the Divinity School’s Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling decided to formally bring YMI under the school’s wing. Around $1.3 million of the total grant — which sponsors a three-year research project into a “theological account of joy and the good life” — is set aside for research specifically focused on the flourishing of adolescents, which overlaps with YMI’s mission. Through the grant, YMI will now be training youth-group leaders through a series of summer conferences that address concerns like suicide or eating disorders using faith. Masback founded YMI —
formerly known as the Youth Ministry Initiative — after his experience with leading a youth group in New Canaan, Connecticut where he said he witnessed “suffering” among adolescents and fewer young people involved in church communities. “We are not caring for our kids well enough,” Masback said. “They aren’t participating in our churches, they are not being brought up in the faith because we are not presenting the faith with passion and creativity, so our numbers are going down. As our numbers are going down and the young people are not in our church, they are out there in these highly competitive places where they are evaluated and appreciated based on their performance … And the answer is, bring this back together.” Masback said adolescent members of his youth group told him in 2001, “We are dying.” Students and faculty involved with YMI consistently listed suicide, depression and eating disorders among the most pressing issues teenagers face. According to a 2015 Centers for Disease Control report, suicide was the second-leading cause of death in young adults between the ages of 10 and 24 in 2012. In a recent essay on the plight of young people in the U.S., Masback stated that college students have a 50 percent chance of becoming depressed, and 10 percent will consider suicide — rates that have doubled and tripled, respectively, since the late 1980s. The statistics confirm what Masback and others said they have observed through their work with YMI and beyond — that adolescents are suffering. Masback said he believes there is a correlation between the increased adolescent suffering and fewer millennials attending church. He also cited a 2015 report from the Pew Research Center showing that 35 percent of adult millennials are unaffiliated from a specific religion. “I absolutely do think that there is a correlation between the health and stability of youth and their attendance in a youth group or a church standing,” Bolton said. “I don’t know that there is a negative correlation between not going to church and being depressed, but I can say that there is a positive correlation between going to church and being healed in certain ways.” Issues of depression and suicide impact adolescents from
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The Youth Ministry Institute has begun the process of integration with the Divinity School. both impoverished and affluent communities, said Sarah Farmer, an associate research scholar at YCFC. She said the church can bring joy into the lives of struggling youth. However, Farmer said the church often has difficulties connecting to young adults, and many adolescents do not seek help by themselves. Youth ministry sets up a community of “unconditional love,” Bolton said. Though other student groups and activities in high school can provide important support, they often create performance-based environments in which student are valued on their achievements, Masback said. He added that youth ministry provides a way for young people to find joy and resilience amid the struggles they are facing. Students in YMI can learn how to lead the types of youth ministry Masback described. Divinity School students who participate in YMI are paired with local churches, Jason Land DIV ’17 said. Students integrate themselves into church communities, not only leading conversations about faith but also attending community events and leading service projects to become “around-the-clock mentors” for young adults. Land, a former member of Masback’s youth group in New Canaan, said he joined YMI because he wanted to continue the work he had done as a social worker in Philadelphia. “I am not trying to come to these places and say, ‘I am from Yale, so I have a plan that
I want to institute that is only considering my goals and what I want to accomplish rather than the community and culture that already exists,’” Land said. “Some people can graduate and never really engage the local community, but YMI, the way that it is set up, forces us to get to know people if not in the New Haven area, in surrounding towns and cities. It has been beneficial for me that way.” Though the program started as a way to help divinity students develop youth ministry, it has evolved into a way to train lay ministers, youth-group leaders and volunteers who might not otherwise receive professional education, Masback said. Rev. Aracelis Vazquez Haye DIV ’12, a chaplain at Connecticut College and practicum instructor in YMI, spoke to her experience working in Latino churches where the church leadership is often untrained and working there only parttime. Through YMI, these kinds of leaders have the opportunity to learn from scholars and receive further training, she said, calling the relationship between YMI and church communities a “fruitful partnership.” “At Yale, it is really hard sometimes to bridge the gap between the city on the hill and the community that surrounds us,” Bolton said. “We as an organization try to bridge that gap as much as we can.” Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .
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“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” MALCOLM FORBES ENTREPRENEUR
Students weigh possibilities for increased enrollment NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 on campus for the same three days. But the increase in student population will also change the processes that happen behind closed doors: Quinlan said that in particular, the last two weeks of the admissions process in March, during which admissions officers gather to make final decisions on applicants, will change next year when Yale is able to accept more students. He suggested that additional room in the class will allow admissions officers to consider applicants differently in the final review process. “Some of the more difficult decisions that we had to make this year might look different next year,” Quinlan said, but he declined to comment on what these changes in application review may be. With a projected 200 additional students per class over the next four years, the Admissions Office has the opportunity to drastically change the composition of Yale College by increasing the representation of any specific group of students by ethnicity, geographic origin or academic interest. Quinlan said no decisions have been made on this front and that conversations between him and senior administrators are ongoing. Quinlan emphasized that in addition to institutional priorities, the composition of the freshman class is dependent o n the year-to-year applicant pool. For example, he cited larger numbers of incoming students interested in STEM in recent years, explaining that the increase is a response to the shifting interests of applicants and the pool as a whole, rather than a single administrative decision. Students suggested various ways the Admissions Office could fill the additional spots, though ideas ranged from increasing ethnic diversity to simply keeping it the same. Patrick Peoples ’18 and Abby
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The two new residential colleges are set to open in fall 2017. Cobb ’16 both said Yale should increase the percentage of underrepresented minorities at Yale. Joey Balsells ’18 agreed that the Admissions Office could use the opportunity to augment diversity, adding that Columbia,
which has an undergraduate student body roughly one-and-ahalf times the size of Yale’s, has a more diverse student body than Yale does. “Yale does a good job with diversity, but we could always do
more,” Peoples said. Still, Steven Roets ’17 said he did not think a change needed to be made to the composition of each class, but he questioned how Yale would work to unite a larger, more spread-out group
of students. As the two new colleges have the capacity to house freshmen, there will be a higher proportion of new students living away from Old Campus, he said, with the new colleges much further away from the current
center of campus. This year, Yale accepted 1,972 students for an acceptance rate of 6.27 percent. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
President plan future collaboration COLLOQUIUM FROM PAGE 1 ent to collaborate more deeply. Chief of Staff to the President Joy McGrath said she expects followup conversations to take place in the coming weeks and for initial projects and collaborations to take shape in the near future as well. McGrath said that toward the end of the conference, following expert presentations, scholars and presidents in attendance broke into two respective groups to discuss the theme and ways to collaborate around it. “One interesting idea about why collaboration is so necessary in this field is that because it is a new field, no one university can bring the discipline or technology or educational programming
to bear on this complex problem,” McGrath said. In explaining the importance of the preservation of cultural heritage, Simon said it provides certain groups of people with a source of identity, economic growth and reconciliation. Deputy Chief Communications Officer Michael Morand said in keeping with Salovey’s vision for a more engaged campus, the University prioritized holding more than just “highlevel closed door meetings” over the past few days. He added that the University viewed the UNGC as an opportunity to involve the Yale community through various public events, such as the Ban talk. Jon Atherton, communications officer for West Campus, said five
satellite workshops facilitated by the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, held earlier in the week, provided the stimulus for discussion among university leaders at Wednesday’s conference. “The process is to engage the wider community and then take those themes into the room for discussion on Wednesday,” Atherton said. Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs Donald Filer said more than 200 faculty, students and staff helped the University prepare for the UNGC and activities leading up to it. The IPCH currently comprises six laboratories. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .
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“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs.” PAUL SIMON AMERICAN MUSICIAN, SINGER-SONGWRITER AND ACTOR
Laotian eatery to open on Temple Street BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s first Laotian restaurant — Pho Ketkeo at 21 Temple St. — will open its doors to the public in a grand opening Saturday. The restaurant, the brainchild of a mother-daughter duo, will serve Laotian specialties such as pho, curry, sausage and a crepe called dan xeo. Co-owner Christine Son, who is half-Chi-
nese, will open the restaurant with her Laotian mother, Ketkeo Rajachack. She said the restaurant will also serve Thai cuisine, which can be found at several other locales downtown. Son and her mother added Thai staples to the menu to draw in New Haven residents already familiar with that cuisine, Son said. “New Haven is an up-andcoming city,” Son said. “I’ve been noticing that it’s kind of the food mecca in Connecticut, which is
what led me to want to open up here.” She added that the growing economic vitality of downtown New Haven, as well as the customer base of college students from Yale and the University of New Haven, contributed to their decision to open a restaurant. The eatery’s grand opening will be the culmination of a decade of work for Rajachack in her second business as a caterer. Rajachack, who received only a
third-grade education and soldered microchips at Microwave Video Systems for 20 years, said she catered five to six events per month as a side business for additional income. Rajachack decided to devote herself full-time to the catering business after Microwave Video Systems laid her off last March, Son said. Rajachack’s new job in Fairfield paid her only half of her previous income, so Son advised her mother to focus instead on
her cooking business, she said. “Every day she got home from her daytime job and then catered for the Laotian community,” Son said. “So I told her since she was working full-time that she might as well open a restaurant.” Once open, the restaurant — which sits across the street from Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas — will bring the Elm City the citrus and herb tastes of Laotian cuisine. Son said that compared to Thai cuisine, Laotian food uses
fewer coconut-based and sugar ingredients. Roger Lopez ’18, who enjoys both Laotian and Thai cuisine, said he looks forward to visiting Pho Ketkeo when it is open. “It’s definitely not what you would find in a diner in the Midwest,” he said. “But it’s probably tastier if you can handle the spice.” Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
Study shows higher than expected climate change rate BY CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTER Climate change will progress more rapidly than previously thought, according to new research by Ivy Tan GRD ’16. Tan’s study on the speed of progression of climate change was featured in the April edition of Science Magazine. Her research, which she carried out in conjunction with assistant professor Trude Storelvmo and lab researcher Mark Zelinka, was prompted by her priorresearch on the statistical relationships between mixed-phase clouds and aerosols through satellite observations. Tan realized that modern climate models have underestimated how much ice is in mixed-phase clouds, leading to her discovery that climate sensitivity —the degree to which the atmosphere reacts to carbon dioxide— is actually somewhere between 5.0 and 5.3 degrees Celsius, rather than the previously believed 2.0 to 4.7 degrees Celsius. “[The topic of the research is] at the heart of climate change right now,” Tan said. “Clouds are one of the leading uncertainties.” Tan, who studies geology and geophysics at Yale, explained that levels of ice and liquid in mixed-phase clouds change as levels of CO2, a greenhouse gas, increase in the earth’s atmosphere. Storelvmo referred to this as an “intuitive process” through which ice clouds become liquid clouds, causing them to be more reflective than they were before. Most popular climate models, she said, have overestimated the amount of ice available to transform into liquid, which overestimates the cooling power of the clouds. Simply, Zelinka said, clouds are not helping mitigate global warming and are increasing climate sensitivity. Storelvmo stressed the importance of urgent action, encouraging citizens to adopt climate health as a cause rather than assuming an attitude of hopelessness. “I hope that [the study] communicates a sense of urgency in terms of reducing emissions and reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere,” Storelvmo said, “Because we now know we will have more warming for a given CO2 amount.” In the study, the group looked at the Community Earth System Model from the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, which is the most commonly accepted climate model, Storelvmo said. Zelinka noted that updating this particular model will have a strong effect on future model simulations. Z elinka said the scientific community will now pay more attention to the issue of inaccuracies in climate models, as he believes a “striking” result such as this one calls for validation through repetition.
I hope that [the study] communicates a sense of urgency in terms of reducing emissions. TRUDE STORELVMO Associate Professor, Geology & Geophysics “I would anticipate that there will be other studies trying to do similar things to see if this is a robust result or a oneoff thing,” Zelinka said. Tan said that her work and that of other researchers in the field will likely lead to policy changes in the future. She brought up another study, published by Nature in March 2016, which addressed a new climate model’s discovery that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not as stable as it was previously thought to be. Often overlooked details relating to changes in the atmosphere showed an expedited rate of water level rise, according to Tan. This finding, like Tan’s research, arose out of oversights of atmospheric processes that were more detailed than commonly understood. Tan expressed disappointment, however, that landmark discoveries such as hers and that of the March 2016 Nature publication, which came to light in quick succession, were too late to factor into a recent monumental policy decision. The U.N. announced on April 7 that more than 130 countries will sign the Paris Climate Deal on April 22 after deliberation at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in November and December of last year. Contact CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .
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Tan’s research suggests that popular climate models have overestimated the cooling power of clouds.
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When Is a Book More Than a Book? Glen S. Miranker, b.s. ’75 Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 pm Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall A longtime bibliophile and former chief technology officer of Apple, Miranker has been building his extraordinary collection of Sherlockiana since the late 1970s. In this lecture he will explore his passion for book collecting, and particularly, for tracking down the backstories that he describes as part of the thrill of the chase.
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“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” ARNOLD H. GLASOW AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN
City stimulates medical emergency DRILL FROM PAGE 1 Hill Health Center and the Yale-New Haven Health System. “[The drill] is the implementation of a state system in a New Haven scenario,” said Berit Mann, the site manager of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in West Haven. “If the state of Connecticut Health Department gets an alert, they’ll send it out to other departments. Then the Feds and state departments will coordinate with local communities.” The Floyd Little Athletic Center at James Hillhouse High School was chosen as a dispensary due to its central location, large gymnasium and high population density, Mann said. Students interviewed said they had been told the drill was meant to simulate a situation in which a pandemic broke out. In advance of the drill, the municipal government crafted a unified command system in which representatives from the police, fire, health, safety and emergency operations departments jointly organize relief efforts, explained Rick Fontana, the deputy director for the City of New Haven Office of Emergency Management Operations. “If you know anything about
New Haven, it’s that we’re prepared,” Fontana said. “The police department, fire department, all of them — we’re always ready.” Thursday’s drill represented just one scenario, Fontana said, adding that the city is equipped to deal with a host of similar situations. The exercise was not established in response to any particular incident, but rather as a test of New Haven’s ability to comply with state emergency response practices.
If you know anything about New Haven, it’s that we’re prepared. RICK FONTANA Deputy Director, New Haven Office of Emergency Management Operations As opposed to the protocol for an emergency such as a fire or break-in, the Unified Command — which was illustrated on a whiteboard at the drill — allows several agencies to work together in an organized response. It is part of the standardized incident control system, a hierarchical system that is used to coordinate emergency responses. With representatives from nearly all agencies present, the
dispensing process took less than the three hours allotted for the drill. The four-step process, which progressed efficiently thanks to the efforts of over a dozen volunteers, required students to fill out a form with identifying and health information, present the form to staffers, pick up medicine from one of several tables and turn in the form on their way out. Though there were only four tables where medicine was being handed out, Mann said that in the event of a real emergency, additional dispensaries would be established in the gymnasium. In a state of emergency, a dispensary at James Hillhouse High School can provide medicine to approximately 250 local families. In that situation, Fontana explained, antibiotics from one of the Centers for Disease Control’s three sites would arrive in Connecticut before being sent out to local governments for distribution. Yale University would distribute its own medicine to members of the Yale community, he said. The Hillhouse New Haven Law, Public Safety and Health Academy began enrolling students in the 2014–15 academic year. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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Students at James Hillhouse High School participated in a test of the city’s response to a public health emergency.
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Dwight Hall has endorsed Peter Huang ’18 for YCC president.
tive service agendas. In his speech, Huang discussed a plan to strengthen the connection between Dwight Hall and the YCC by clarifying which organizations under the Dwight Hall umbrella, such as the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project and the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, have resources that the student body can access. Huang’s platform also recommends using the YCC to connect more service-oriented Yale students with Dwight Hall member groups that target their interests. For example, if a Yale student wanted to hold an event for the broader New Haven community, Huang told the cabinet Wednesday night he believes it would be easier for the student to attract attendees if he or she had more access to the Dwight Hall service groups that do outreach in the city. “Student government, especially YCC president, should understand which Dwight Hall groups exist, so that if we want to consult a specific group for a government initiative, we have access,” Huang said. “I think we should apply the Day of Service format to focus community service outreach events and expose Yalies to specific organizations.” While D’Ambrosio did not know the last time Dwight Hall endorsed a YCC presidential candidate, he said it was the first time in at least a decade. The idea developed among the Dwight Hall Student Execu-
tive Committee after last year’s YCC elections, when committee members agreed that candidates in previous years did not give service enough attention in their platforms, D’Ambrosio added. However, all of this year’s presidential candidates have included service in their platforms, which D’Ambrosio suspects would not have happened without “pressure” from Dwight Hall.
Student government, especially YCC president, should understand which Dwight Hall groups exist. PETER HUANG ’18 YCC Presidential Candidate “We approached this situation coming from the perspective of the largest student organization on campus that traditionally has not been catered to in YCC elections,” D’Ambrosio said. “Dwight Hall involves thousands of students a year — more than half of Yale’s student body. So many people’s main form of extracurricular activity comes from the Hall, so a lack of representation is really not fair.” Huang said his meeting with Dwight Hall was educational and eye-opening, helping him realize the role both Dwight Hall and community service have at Yale.
The Dwight Hall co-coordinators decided to hold a vote for endorsement among cabinet members as part of its efforts to give the cabinet — which is comprised of representatives from Dwight Hall’s many member groups — a more prominent role. Cabinet members narrowed down the candidates to two finalists, Huang and Sarah Armstrong ’18, before deciding on Huang in what D’Ambrosio called a “contested” race. D’Ambrosio said he liked ideas from all of the candidates, and that the renewed emphasis on service is the most important result of the endorsement process. In previous years Dwight Hall and the YCC had minimal interactions with each other, according to D’Ambrosio, but he hopes the two bodies will further engage with each other through initiatives such as the Day of Service, Freshman Olympics and other programs and events. “As one of the largest presences on campus, Dwight Hall should certainly hold candidates accountable for their platforms regarding service,” Dwight Hall Public Health Network Membership Coordinator Kaylie Chen ’19 said. “We are looking forward to working closely with the YCC in the upcoming year.” Voting for Yale College Council elections ends at 9 p.m. on April 15. Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .
Are you a great public speaker? Do you want to practice and improve your public speaking skills?
If so, sign up for the Yale College Public Speaking Competition.
There are separate competitions for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and prizes of $1,000, $500, and $250 are awarded in each category. If you are interested in competing, please apply online at http://yalecollege.yale.edu/yale-undergraduate-public-speaking-competition.
The deadline for submission is Friday, April 22 at midnight. The competition will take place on Monday, May 2 in SSS 410. Speeches will be given in alphabetical order in each class group (by last name). Applicants will be assigned to a block of time in the late morning or afternoon and must be available for that entire time block which is generally 1-2 hours long. All speeches must be original works created by the student and they must be delivered from notes or recited from memory. They must be between 5-8 minutes long; longer or shorter speeches will be disqualified. Rules, based on the terms of the endowments that fund them, are listed here:
The Buck-Jackson Prize: Awarded to a sophomore for the best original oration on a subject of a patriotic nature. [Note that this does not need to be on an American subject]. The Henry James TenEyck Prize: Awarded to orators among the junior class on a subject of the speaker’s choice. The David C. DeForest Prize & Townsend Premiums: For the senior[s] “who shall write and pronounce an English oration in the best manner.” [Note that there are no special requirements for an “English oration”.]
Questions can be directed to student.affairs@yale.edu.
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“The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.” ED MARKEY U.S. SENATOR FOR MASSACHUSETTS
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Porcellian Club criticizes final club scrutiny BY C. RAMSEY FAHS The Porcellian Club, Harvard’s oldest final club, broke its public silence Tuesday for the first time in recent memory to criticize Harvard College administrators for their recent efforts to make final clubs go coed and modify membership policies. In a statement emailed to The Crimson, the graduate board president of the 225-year-old all-male club, Charles M. Storey, broadly criticized the college’s management of sexual assault prevention and its actions toward final clubs. While the Porcellian has historically kept a low profile, Storey wrote that present circumstances drove the club to make public statements. “To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time an officer of the PC has granted an on-therecord statement to a newspaper since our founding in 1791,” Storey wrote in an email. “This reflects both the PC’s abiding interest in privacy and the importance of the situation.” The Crimson published an article in 1984 including brief comments from the undergraduate president. In a tone modulating between restrained and pointed, Storey’s statement defended the Porcellian’s single-gender character, broadly outlined the club’s financial aid program and diversity of its membership and called for Harvard affiliates to “come
together and ask the college to protect freedom of association at Harvard.” S to rey ’s HARVARD s t a te m e n t comes one day before a planned Wednesday meeting between Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana and final clubs’ graduate board leadership, the first since a university-wide report excoriated final clubs for perpetuating “a culture often inimical to Harvard’s mission.” The language of Storey’s statement was, at times, similarly severe. “I sincerely hope that the administration will not set the precedent of creating a ‘blacklist’ of organizations that students cannot join,” Storey wrote. “Such McCarthyism is a dangerous road that would be a blow to academic freedom, the spirit of tolerance and the long tradition of free association on campus.” Storey also wrote that the Porcellian believes it “is being used as a scapegoat for the sexual assault problem at Harvard despite its policies to help avoid the potential for sexual assault.” The Porcellian, which claims U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes among its membership, has a long-standing
members-only policy that bars guests from entering their Massachusetts Avenue clubhouse. That policy, Storey wrote, “greatly reduce[s] the potential for sexual assault.” However, citing qualitative and quantitative data, the university’s sexual assault prevention task force sharply criticized male final clubs for a high prevalence of “nonconsensual sexual contact.” Among undergraduate female seniors “participating in the final clubs” — including women who attend male final club events and seniors who are members of female final clubs — 47 percent reported having experienced “nonconsensual sexual contact,” according to a university-wide sexual climate survey. While Storey wrote that he “unequivocally” supports Harvard’s aim of reducing sexual assault on campus, he added that to the best of his knowledge “no allegation of sexual assault has ever been made against the Porcellian Club.” “Sexual misconduct is absolutely unacceptable in all its forms but it is not an issue at the Porcellian Club,” he added. Overall, Storey argued that the report conflated “the issues of sexual assault, gender equity and exclusivity.” Steven Hyman, the chair of the task force which produced the report, declined to comment on Storey’s criticism of the report. “Given our policies, we are
mystified as to why the current administration feels that forcing our club to accept female members would reduce the incidence of sexual assault on campus,” Storey wrote. “Forcing single-gender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease the potential for sexual misconduct.” Khurana declined to address Storey’s criticisms directly, writing that he would “not comment directly on a statement that I have not seen.” Still, he restated the college’s criticism of single-gender social clubs. “The college has for many months made it clear that the behaviors and attitudes espoused by unrecognized single-gender social organizations at Harvard College remain at odds with the aspirations of the 21st-century society to which the college hopes and expects our students will contribute,” Khurana wrote in an emailed statement. “In addition, as stewards and trustees of Harvard College and role models to our students, the college has a responsibility to protect our values and our students’ well-being, even in the face of perceived short-term challenges of changing the status quo,” he added. The Porcellian’s statement disagreed and defended single-gender organizations. “We believe in the need for, and the value of, single-gender institutions for men
and women as a supplement and option to coeducational institutions,” Storey wrote. Storey wrote that the Porcellian has not entirely ruled out a coed move, but believes such a choice would fall beyond the purview of Harvard administrators. “As a club that is completely independent of Harvard, which accepts no funding from Harvard, which owns its own property and believes fervently in the right to self-determination, that decision is ours, not Harvard’s, to make,” he wrote. Storey also defended the club’s membership make-up, writing that members are “elected without regard to socioeconomic background, religion, national origin, race or sexual orientation” and that the Porcellian’s membership “reflects the diversity of the male population of Harvard College.” The Porcellian also offers some form of financial aid — consisting of a dues deferral program — to almost half of its undergraduate members, according to Storey. The Porcellian’s statement come at a time of intense administrative scrutiny for Harvard’s historically independent and traditionally all-male final clubs. The all-male A.D. Club recently adopted a no-guest policy similar to the Porcellian’s. Khurana has adopted a much sharper tone toward the clubs than his predecessors since he began his tenure in the fall of 2014.
Last semester, both the Spee Club and the Fox Club added women to their ranks, though the Fox Club’s female members still hold “provisional” membership. Despite the ramp-up in administrative pressure, Khurana has largely chosen to stay silent on his plans for single-gender social organizations, emphasizing only that “there is nothing off the table.” Storey wrote that Khurana has been similarly nonspecific in responding to questions from graduate board presidents. “Since we heard that the university was considering taking some form of action against the independent final clubs … we have reached out to university officials to discuss the matter,” he wrote. “Our efforts have gone unanswered. The administration has declined to respond to our most basic questions.” He wrote that the club had questioned whether new rules would be “equally applied” to fraternities, sororities, male final clubs and female final clubs, and whether new rules would differentiate between organizations that host parties, and those “like the Porcellian Club, the A.D. and the sororities,” which do not. Storey and other clubs’ graduate leadership will meet with Khurana Wednesday, according to an emailed invitation from Associate Dean of Student Life David Friedrich.
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when a financial aid award is made w h a t courses students COLUMBIA may sign up for,” Valentini said. “But we recognize that the fees for taking the courses are an expense that students encounter and that we should recognize that when we talk about financial aid to our students.” Students who don’t receive financial aid but who struggle to pay the cost of course fees will continue to be required to pay additional costs. “We only have two categories — those who receive financial aid and those who don’t. In the category of those who do receive aid, the awards have many different magnitudes depending on [the Office of Financial Aid’s] assessment of [a student’s] need,” he said. “We don’t have a middle category in which we can address educational expenses that might occur for students who aren’t receiving financial aid.” Previously, for students in several science and arts departments, the additional fees for required courses often proved onerous. “I know a bunch of students who have dropped the visual arts major because they couldn’t afford it,” Smita Sen said. The visual arts major requires an additional $455 in studio fees at minimum to complete courses required for the major. However, studio fees could amount to as high as $625, without taking into
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account the cost of materials for each class. According to Carrie Gundersdorf, director of academic administration for the visual arts program, course fees are used for materials, tools and equipment for labs. For some classes, the money from course fees is used at the instructor’s discretion, though it is intended to go toward covering demo materials, museum entrance fees for a field trip and materials for a project. However, Sen said that many of her professors have not used the money from these fees to cover the cost of materials, which can be cost-prohibitive. “They have money from every single student, and what ends up happening is that you have these teachers say something like, ‘We have all this money, let’s go buy food or take you to a museum,’” Sen said. “That’s not really the goal of what that money should go to. It should go to making materials more affordable or bringing in interesting speakers or getting access to some sort of restricted materials or books, something that really could enrich the experience of the course.” Sam Duncan, a visual arts major, said that the additional fees have discouraged many of her friends from enrolling in visual arts courses. “I know a lot of people who have asked me to recommend courses to them, and when I told them about the additional fees, they’ve said, ‘I can’t take it, I can’t afford that right now.’ It’s disappointing to everyone,” Duncan said. Film students bear the highest costs — at minimum, it will
currently cost approximately $560 to fulfill the major, and at maximum it can cost students up to $875 in additional fees. Course fees, which individually range from $30 to $150, cover costs of equipment for screenings (projectors, maintenance of equipment, the films themselves — whether as 16mm, DCPs, Blu-Rays or DVDs). Fee variation is due to the different needs for projecting equipment and upkeep — for example, classes held in Dodge 511, the largest screening room on campus, have the highest additional fees attached. In the sciences, additional fees are also considerable, although these charges are added exclusively for labs. Lab fees for the chemistry major can at most amount to $480, while mechanical engineering labs can amount to $475 in additional fees. These fees help to defray the costs of projects engineering students are required to complete. Wednesday’s decision to waive these fees is expected to lift the burden that course fees previously placed on students. Valentini said that both he and SEAS Dean Mary Boyce hope that the decision will alleviate stress and pressure for students who find themselves burdened by having to pay additional fees for their classes. “They’re not facing an uncertainty anymore about, ‘What’s the cost of my curriculum going to be?’ We will now be waiving those fees,” Valentini said. “That reduces an uncertainty, and I think reduces stress and allows students to engage more effectively with their academic lives.”
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BY CARTER BRACE Last May, the five faculty members on the ad hoc committee on grading practices and grade inflation proposed eliminating the registrar’s minimum five-student enrollment for courses in order to counteract Dartmouth’s swelling course medians. The consequences of having a course cancelled and being forced to teach in a later term, they argued, motivated faculty to lower rigor to make sure enrollments are sufficient. Yet the administration has upheld the policy, reserving the right to cancel courses that fail to meet the five-student minimum. Several professors interviewed expressed concerns about keeping this policy in place, citing the value of small seminar classes and the issues caused by the policy, such as grade inflation and uncertainty about faculty teaching loads. In practice, most courses with enrollments below the minimum receive exemptions that save them from cancellation. The reasons for exemptions vary, ranging from courses that are required for majors and graduate students, to new course offerings and those taught by visiting or new faculty, which students may not take because they are unfamiliar. This spring, only two of the 33 undergraduate courses with fewer than five students were cancelled, Registrar Meredith Braz wrote in an email. The two courses had zero students enrolled, and Braz added that only a few courses are affected by this policy each term. If a faculty member’s course is cancelled,
they are obligated to teach an ex t ra course during a future term, a disruptive flaw DARTMOUTH of the policy that multiple professors criticized. English professor Ivy Schweitzer, who taught a class of four students this winter, noted that professors who plan to be off certain terms to conduct research may instead have to teach another course under the existing policy. “If the college really wants us to be active scholars, which they do, then they have to preserve our time for research,” she said. Some professors expressed a belief that financial considerations are what have kept the policy in place even after the ad hoc committee’s recommendation. Engineering professor Elsa Garmire said lower enrollment minimums are in place to prevent Dartmouth from losing too much money on particular courses, in a desire to keep tuition costs down. “We advertise that our classes are smaller but that means that — in principle — they’re more expensive,” she said. The policy first appeared in the ORC/Catalog for the 1999–2000 academic year. The policy contains no accompanying written explanation. During that period the endowment grew rapidly, especially during the 1999 fiscal year when the endowment grew 15.4 percent, suggesting the policy may not have originally been put in place due to financial considerations.
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Key matchup for Yale, Brown M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 nament, and it will also provide each team with an opportunity for a quality win to impress the NCAA tournament selection committee. “The Brown game has been hyped up a lot, but we’re trying to boil it down,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “It’s first and foremost an Ivy League game and worth as much as any other in the conference. I think our teams have developed a nice little rivalry. The media enjoys the storyline between us, but we’re not caught up in that.” Indeed, the storylines are rich. Perhaps the biggest narrative entering the weekend is the standoff between Brown’s prolific offense, which averages 16.9 goals per game — over three more than any other team in the nation — and a Yale defense that is ranked third in the nation for only giving up 6.6 goals per game. Brown’s starting attackman trio of Dylan Molloy, Kylor Bellistri and Henry Blynn has scored 104 of the team’s 169 goals this year. Molloy, a junior, averages 3.4 goals per game, tying him with Villanova attackman and Princeton transfer Jake Froccaro as the nation’s leading scorer. Remarkably, Molloy is also tops in the nation with 3.4 assists per game. However, if the Bulldogs focus all their attention on Molloy, they may get burned by the seniors Bellistri and Blynn, who have scored 3.3 and 2.7 goals per game, respectively, ranking them fourth and tied for 15th in the nation, respectively. Brown’s fast-paced play will prove a tough task for a Yale defense that has yet to allow more than 10 goals in a game this season. “Brown plays an up-tempo style that it is very confident in and is difficult to prepare for,” Yale defensive coordinator Andrew Baxter said. “We need to adhere to our details defensively and make sure that we have a sense of urgency for 60 minutes.” When Yale plays the aggressive defense Baxter described, it has had success taking the ball away from opponents. The Bulldogs have caused a nation-
best 9.8 turnovers per game this year. Despite Brown’s hot start to the season, the Bears have been sloppy with the ball at times, turning it over 15.6 times per game, ranking them a paltry 55th out of 68 Division I teams. The pairing of a Yale strength and Brown weakness may prove decisive in the Elis’ favor should they earn a few extra possessions. Goaltending will also be key to stopping the Bears’ assault. Phil Huffard ’18 has missed the last two games with a knee injury, but is hoping to get back on the field for the Ivy League showdown. “My knee is feeling a lot better, but I’m still probably a game-time decision,” Huffard said. If Huffard is unable to play, the Bulldogs will turn to goalie Hoyt Crance ’19. The freshman has saved 15 shots and allowed only six goals during Huffard’s two-game absence, good enough to earn him Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors this past Monday. While much of the attention entering the game centers on Brown’s offense and Yale’s defense, an equally interesting battle will take place at the opposite end of the field. The Bulldog offense ranks in a tie for sixth in the nation in scoring, led by attackman Ben Reeves ’18, whose 2.7 goals and 2.3 assists per game combine to rank him ahead of all Division I players except Molloy in points per game. Brown’s best solution for Reeves and the Yale offense resides in the net. Goalie Jack Kelly leads the nation in save percentage, having turned away 63 percent of opponents’ shots. Although Kelly leads the nation in his craft, Brown’s most valuable asset against the Bulldogs overall may be at the faceoff X. Midfielder Will Gural has won 68 percent of the faceoffs he has taken this season to distinguish himself as the nation’s third-best faceoff man. Gural will take draws against Yale midfielders who have combined to win just 50 percent of their draws. A large deficit at the X, and thus in controlling initial possession, could spell trouble for the Bulldogs against Brown’s quick-striking attack. The Bears, whose sole loss
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Yale currently possesses the lone undefeated record in Division I men’s lacrosse. this season came on April 5 in overtime versus nonconference opponent Bryant, have proven their ability to put together pronounced runs of dominance during Ivy League play. Brown scored eight unanswered goals to close out its game with Princeton on April 2, and then followed that up with 11 unanswered scores in just over 23 minutes against Penn last Saturday. Unsurprisingly, Brown won both games, each by an 11-goal margin. Meanwhile, Yale defeated Princeton and Penn in a pair of thrillers, with each finishing 11–10 in the Bulldogs’ favor. The discrepancy in how Yale and Brown have competed against
Yale seeks road win W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 Wahle is a freshman who has started every game, but has the 11th-lowest save percentage in the nation with a 36.8-percent mark. And in the Big Green’s last three games, Wahle has stopped just 31.7 percent of the shots sent her way. By comparison, Marks, in her first full season as a starter, is 27th in the nation with a 47.8 save percentage. Either because Dartmouth’s defense is allowing particularly good shots
or the shots are simply not being stopped, the Big Green is 83rd out of 110 Division I teams and last in the Ivy League with 11.55 goals allowed per game. Yale, with an 89th-best scoring mark of 8.42 goals per game, will seek to increase that average against a weak defense. Still, traveling up to Hanover has proved particularly difficult for teams this season. Dartmouth has yet to cede a game at ScullyFahey Field, and confounding the difficulty of the task ahead of the Bulldogs is their
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these two mutual opponents does not have the Eli players worried, ahead of what will be the de facto Ivy League regular season championship game. “The transitive property does not apply in lacrosse,” midfielder Mike Bonacci ’16 said. “That is not to say Brown is not an excellent lacrosse team, but individual matchups are so important in this game that it is tough to predict how a game will go simply based on how two teams played against another.” Saturday’s game is set to begin at 1 p.m. in Providence. Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu .
extra innings to propel the Elis past the Big Red. Politz and Ford are scheduled to take the mound against the Crimson in Saturday’s games. The starts will be each pitcher’s seventh of the season, and both sport 3–3 records. In 42.2 innings this spring, Politz has a 3.59 ERA and 31 strikeouts, both of which are team highs. Ford is not too far behind the freshman, accumulating a 4.38 ERA and 26 punchouts in 39 innings of work. “The first game is very important to set the tone for the weekend,” Politz said. With Politz and Ford on the mound for the Bulldogs, Saturday’s contests should feature strong pitching all around, as the Crimson have two reliable right handers, Nick Gruener and Sean Poppen, set to open the series. Gruener is 4–2 with a 3.21 ERA, having thrown four complete games this season, while Poppen has recorded a 3.31 ERA this spring. Although he was tagged with the loss in Harvard’s 4–3 defeat against Columbia last weekend, Poppen gave up just one run and three hits in his fiveinning outing. The Bulldogs will start righthanders Mason Kukowski ’18 and Chris Lanham ’16 on Sunday. Kukowski ranks third on the team behind Politz and Ford in innings pitched and strikeouts, but he has not recorded a victory in the six games he has started this spring. In his last start, which was the first game against Cornell last weekend, the sophomore gave up just two runs on four hits before being taken out after the fourth inning. Lanham also pitched last weekend, and although his outing was in relief for starter and captain Chris Moates ’16, Lanham did the bulk of the work. He entered the second game against Cornell in the second inning and lasted 5.2 innings, surrendering three earned runs in a thrilling 9–8 win for the Elis. “We’ve played good defense all year, but our pitching staff seemed to have gotten comfortable right before Ivy play, and our bats also got really hot,”
Kukowski said. “With a hot start this year, we have great energy at all of our practices, and we are confident that we will win during every game no matter if we’re down or up.” While Yale’s bats have heated up during conference play — the Elis are batting 0.284 against Ivy teams and 0.242 against non-Ivy opponents — the opposite has happened for Harvard. The Bulldogs’ pitching staff will take on a Crimson lineup that, despite its 0.266 average in nonconference action, has hit just 0.212 during its Ancient Eight games while averaging just 4.13 runs per game. Harvard’s offense is led by third baseman John Fallon, who tops the Ivy League both with five home runs and 21 RBI through 26 games. Along with fellow sophomore designated hitter Matt Rothenberg, who is hitting 0.367 this season with 10 RBI, Fallon will be the biggest worry for the Bulldog pitchers. Freshman outfielder Ben Skinner was also impressive last week for the Crimson. He was awarded the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award after tallying a 0.417 batting average in five games, including two apiece against Columbia and Penn. Skinner totaled three extra-base hits and three RBI last week. For the Bulldogs at the plate, White has been strongest against Ivy League teams this spring. The Laguna Niguel, California, native is hitting 0.279 with 15 RBI on the season, though his average has increased to 0.300 in Yale’s eight conference contests, during which he has recorded 10 of his 15 RBI. Adams, who usually hits from the leadoff or second position in the lineup, leads the team with an overall 0.365 batting average, while Slenker is a power threat in the heart of the Eli order. “I think the lineup is coming together really nicely with everyone contributing,” Slenker said. The opening pitches for Saturday’s doubleheader are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., while Sunday’s games will begin an hour earlier. Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .
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own 1–5 away record this season, as opposed to its 4–2 mark at home. “Perhaps it’s a consistency problem in that you never know which Yale women’s lacrosse team is coming to play, but otherwise I just don’t know,” Marks said. “We’re certainly looking to reverse this statistic for our very last away game.” The game will begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .
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Yale, which is 1–5 on the road, travels to Dartmouth, a team that is undefeated at home.
nonetheless. To open up against the Quakers, the Crimson fought tooth and nail for an 11–10 extra-innings win. Facing a one-run deficit in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Crimson managed to both tie and win the game thanks to a Penn fielding error and three well-timed singles. In the final game of its weekend, Harvard once again came with bats swinging. The Crimson claimed a 10–2 triumph in only five innings. At the plate, Harvard has impressive numbers. The team has a strong three-four combo in its lineup with outfielder Maddy Kaplan and third baseman Meagan Lantz. As a freshman, Lantz
leads the team in RBI with 29. Her batting average is 0.381, sitting just below Kaplan’s team-leading 0.417. These two powerful hitters will pose a threat to Yale pitchers this weekend. When Yale’s offense performs as it is capable, the team has success. The team will look to build on last Sunday’s hitting performances against Cornell to knock the Harvard pitchers off their game. The Yale lineup starts with a bang. Leadoff hitter Brittany Labbadia currently owns a batting average of 0.287 and 13 RBI so far this season. Allison Skinner ’18 has a team-leading 16 RBI, just three more than Labbadia. This weekend’s Harvard series serves as the first of three fourgame tests for the Elis, who will
both enjoy the advantages and suffer the disadvantages of familiarity. As Yale’s biggest rival, Harvard is both known and unknown: The two teams have not seen another since April of last year, when the Bulldogs lost three of four games to their Cambridge opponents. “A lot of people believe in playing with faceless opponents, but I like the edge that comes along with rivalry games,” Shelby Kennedy ’19 said. “I am really looking to see our team rise to occasion and use the energy in our favor.” The first game is slated to begin at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at the DeWitt Family Field in New Haven. Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .
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BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER After sweeping Princeton and Cornell last weekend, the Yale baseball team has assumed the top spot in the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division. The Bulldogs can extend that lead this Saturday and Sunday when they host rival Harvard for a pair of doubleheaders at Yale Field.
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The Bulldogs can lock up a share of the Ivy title with a win over Brown, their penultimate conference opponent. BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER College men’s lacrosse fans have circled Saturday’s matchup between Yale and Brown on their calendars since the start of the season. The clash, now just one day
away, has only increased in hype throughout the past few weeks. The two Ivy League foes enter the game in Providence, Rhode Island having outscored their opponents more so than any other programs in the country, and their rank-
ings have accordingly risen to near the top of the national polls. While No. 4/5 Brown (9–1, 3–0 Ivy) features the nation’s leading scorer and goaltender, No. 1/2 Yale (10– 0, 4–0) boasts the lone undefeated record in the nation and possesses an opportunity to
claim a share of the Ivy League regular season title with a victory. Saturday’s contest will go a long way in deciding homefield advantage in the Ivy League Men’s Lacrosse TourSEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 8
While the Elis (11–19–1, 6–2 Ivy) have gotten off to a surging start, the Crimson (9–19, 2–6) dropped all four games of its Ivy Leagueopening weekend and went 2–2 last weekend, resulting in its current last-place standing in both the division and the Ancient Eight as a whole. “We always want to beat Harvard,” third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 said. “It’s a big weekend for us since we are in the same division. However, we approach it like every other league weekend.” Against Princeton last Friday, right-handers Scott Politz ’19 and Chasen Ford ’17 each tossed complete games in Yale’s 6–3 and 6–1 victories, respectively. The Bull-
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The Elis are currently at the top of the Red Rolfe Division standings with a 6–2 Ivy record.
Divisional implications in rivarly matchup BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTNG REPORTER The Yale softball team aims to push its record above 0.500 for the first time this season as it enters Ivy League North Division play against Harvard.
SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (11–23, 4–4 Ivy) are coming off a pair of hard-fought losses to Quinnipiac (14–18, 0–2 MAAC) on Wednesday. The two games were played in memory of Chris Labbadia, the brother of Yale shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 and Quinnipiac assistant coach Lynn Labbadia. Regaining composure after the emotionally intense matches, the team will look to prove its effectiveness in the Ivy League over the course of the four-game set.
“This series is incredibly important,” outfielder Rachel Paris ’17 said. “We are currently in last place in our division, so winning this series will help us make up some ground.” Harvard (16–13, 6–2 Ivy) sits at second place in the North Division standings, just below undefeated Dartmouth (20–10, 8–0). The Elis will have to perform exceptionally well to keep the Crimson’s bats in check: Harvard currently stands at second in the Ivy League in runs scored and runs batted in, while Yale sits at the bottom in both. The Bulldogs’ pitching, however, holds up next to the Crimson’s. Harvard’s overall earned-run average is 4.01, while Yale’s is a slightly lower 3.98. Additionally, Yale arms have tossed more innings than any Ivy League rival, total-
ing 227 innings, thanks to four extra-inning games in conference play so far. Still, Harvard has the potential to dominate on the mound. With five pitchers on the roster, the team has more variety in pitchers than Yale does. Crimson ace Taylor Cabe has pitched a total of 67.2 innings this year and has an ERA of just 2.90. She has been even more successful in conference matchups, where her ERA rests at 1.75. Only Yale’s Francesca Casalino ’18 and Brown’s Katie Orona have lower Ivy ERAs. Outfielder Sydney Glover ’17 said the Bulldogs will have to come together to deal with Harvard’s impressive pitching staff. “When we string singles together, we score,” Glover said. “We can’t rely on a huge hit from one person. We all
have to contribute in a small way to get big results.” Entering competition this weekend, Harvard has a lot to celebrate. The Crimson is coming off of two doubleheader sweeps of Columbia and Penn at home. The weekend had its share of exciting moments, including a walkoff and two games cut short by the NCAA mercy rule, which is invoked if one team is ahead by at least eight runs after five innings. In the first contest last weekend, Harvard pitcher Morgan Groom threw a shutout against Columbia. Groom’s teammates scored eight runs, allowing the game to end in only five innings. The second game was a much closer 4–3 victory, but it belonged to the home team SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8
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Thanks to gritty conference wins against Columbia and Penn, the Yale softball team sits at 0.500 in conference play.
Yale seeks third Ivy win at Dartmouth BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team travels north to face Dartmouth on Saturday in an attempt to end its three-game losing skid while becoming the first team to beat the Big Green on its home turf.
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Both Yale and Dartmouth enter the game on three-game losing streaks, with three games left in the season.
The matchup between the Bulldogs (5–7, 2–2 Ivy) and Big Green (5–6, 1–3) marks the second of a four-game stretch at the end of the regular season in which Yale plays solely Ivy League foes. The Elis have limped into this
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final stretch, now coming off three losses in a row. Much of the same can be said about Dartmouth, which, likewise, has lost its last three games. The battle in New Hampshire, then, will be over which team can begin to put together a strong end to its season. “I think [the game is] an important factor in setting the tone against Penn and Harvard in the next two weeks,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said. “This is a very good Dartmouth team, and beating them after a solid 60 minutes of play will give us nothing but some serious momentum.” In order for the Bulldogs to win, they will need to stop Dart-
mouth senior midfielder Jaclyn Leto, who has done it all for her team. In addition to leading the Big Green in draw controls (34) and causing the most turnovers (14), her 38 goals top the Ivy League and are tied for 20th in the nation. Dartmouth relies heavily on the talents of Leto, who has scored 20 more goals than midfielder Taryn Deck, the Big Green’s second-leading scorer. Even with such a talented leader on the field, Dartmouth is 75th in the nation with a middling 9.09 goals per game. “[Leto] is someone that we will definitely be on the look out for in the game. She’s a serious threat
for Dartmouth, but we won’t change how we play,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “We are going to work together as a unit, and that’s how we will find success Saturday against Leto and the Dartmouth attack.” But Yale has its own offensive juggernaut, attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, who leads the Eli attack in a similar way. McEvoy has scored 32 times this season — 19 more than any other Eli and on 43 more shots. McEvoy will look to exploit what has been Dartmouth’s biggest issue this year: goalkeeping. Dartmouth goalie Charlotte SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 8
THE COMPOSITE WINNING PERCENTAGE OF THE YALE AND BROWN MEN’S LACROSSE TEAMS. The Bulldogs (10–0) and Bears (9–1), two of the top teams in the nation, will play in a decisive contest in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday.