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CROSS CAMPUS Poll-itical animals. According to a new Quinnipiac University poll, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Donald Trump are ahead in Connecticut. Of Republicans likely to vote in the primary next Tuesday, close to 50 percent say they will support Trump. 51 percent of likely Democratic voters say they will cast ballots for Clinton, while 42 percent say they will support Sen. Bernie Sanders and another 6 percent are yet undecided. Voices from Newtown. A new

Clinton campaign television ad stars Erica Smegielski, the daughter of the school principal who was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. Smegielski’s mother, Dawn Hochsprung, was one of 26 victims. In the ad Smegielski says, “No one is fighting harder to reform our gun laws than Hillary.” Clinton’s proposed reforms include ending legal immunity for gun-makers whose merchandise is used in violent crimes.

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In sports, gender imbalance persists

recent lawsuit filed by the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, alleging gender discrimination, has continued a national conversation about gender imbalance in athletics. At Yale, disparities between men’s and women’s sports — in both fan support and coach salaries — continue to prevail. DANIELA BRIGHENTI reports.

On Feb. 20, the Yale men’s hockey team celebrated its senior night at a sold-out Ingalls Rink. The Bulldogs defeated Clarkson University, 3–1, in the presence of 3,500 fans from the Yale and greater New Haven communities. Just a week earlier, the Yale

UPCLOSE women’s hockey team’s class of 2016 had its own senior night, played in their last home regular season contest against conference opponent Cornell University. There was one key differ-

ence: This time, just 444 fans showed up to the game. The disparities extend beyond Ingalls Rink. Yale men’s teams in general bring overwhelmingly more fans to the stands than women’s teams. And on the sidelines, head coaches of men’s teams last

year made nearly $40,000 more, on average, than those of women’s teams — the secondhighest wage gap in Ivy League athletic departments. Much of the discrepancy stems from a larger societal trend: Nationwide, members of women’s sports teams get paid less than their men’s sports counterparts. Most recently, a federal complaint filed by members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team alleged wage discrimination based on gender, noting that the women on the team make at least 40 percent less than players on the men’s national team, despite

Bowman ’18 elected YCC Vice President

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Yale Summer Session invites students to stop by Cross Campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m today to learn about summer courses and enjoy a free doughnut from the Orangeside truck. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the second draft registration date will include all young men who have turned 21 in the past seven months. The new rules will include many Yale students in the draft. The president’s statement follows the U.S. Army’s call for younger recruits. Follow along for the News’ latest.

more prominent success on the field. Interviews with Yale head coaches, athletics administrators and over 45 students, including 30 athletes of both genders across 27 of Yale’s 35 varsity teams, shed light on the current state of women’s sports at the collegiate level — and at Yale, specifically.

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Rankine, famed poet, to join faculty BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER

Yale students swabbed their cheeks and joined the bone marrow registry for the Mandi Schwartz drive. Since the annual drive began in 2009, 5,299 have signed up, and 30 lives have been saved with patient-donor matches. The peak number of students to register in a single year was 921 in 2010.

Two (Tru)men. Two Yale students are among this year’s Harry S. Truman Scholars. J.T. Flowers ’17 and Sean Moore ’17 were recognized for commitment to public service. Flowers, a global affairs and ethnicity, race & migration major, is the founder of nonprofit A Leg Even, which works to promote the success of lower-income Yale freshmen. Moore, a political science major, serves on the board of the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project.

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(Y)AAAS. Seven members of Yale’s faculty were recognized as 2016 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The professors — Mark Hochstrasser, Shelly Kagan, Samuel Kortum GRD ’92, Scott Miller, Vladimir Rokhlin, Robert Schoelkopf and Peter Schuck — represent disciplines ranging from biochemistry to philosophy. They are among 213 new fellows.

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president,” Bowman told the News shortly after the polls closed. “I am super appreciative to everyone who came out to vote… I am really happy to see that so many people came out.” Bowman also thanked the team that worked with him on the campaign and expressed his excitement to begin working with Peter Huang ’18 — who was elected president in the general election — to initiate the

Renowned African-American poet Claudia Rankine will join the Yale faculty this coming fall, to excitement and fanfare from both professors and students. Rankine, who is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, has authored five volumes of poetry and two plays. Her most recent work, “Citizen: An American Lyric,” is an award-winning book, written mostly in verse, with artwork and images interspersed. Some chapters recall Rankine’s own experiences, while others explain and critique historic and contemporary racial incidents. It holds the distinction of being the only book of poetry to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. Rankine, who currently chairs the English Department at University of Southern California, will serve as an adjunct professor of English and African American Studies at Yale. Faculty members and students interviewed were overwhelmingly excited about Rankine’s arrival, and students in particular hailed the timing of her hire, given recent campus discussions about faculty diversity. “I’m positively over the moon that Clau-

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Christopher Bowman ’18 defeated Kevin Sullivan ’18 in the runoff election to become the next YCC vice president. BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER In a runoff election that closed Wednesday night, Christopher Bowman ’18 was elected Yale College Council vice president for the 201617 school year. After last week’s general election ended in a close call between Bowman and Kevin Sullivan ’18, the two candidates again faced off in a twoday election that ended with Bowman taking 59.42 percent of the vote,

while Sullivan won 40.58 percent. Bowman also led last week’s election, though by a narrower margin of just under 5 percentage points — not enough to secure an outright victory. In the runoff, 1,109 students voted and 53 abstained, compared to 2,633 votes cast in the general election, with 763 abstentions for the vice presidential race. “I am obviously incredibly excited and incredibly honored that the student body put their trust in me for this next year to be their vice

Donor looks at big picture BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS Stephen Schwarzman ’69 has been actively communicating his broader vision for the Schwarzman Center to University leaders since donating $150 million to Yale in May 2015, though he has been publicly uninvolved in the project’s details. While he has remained in close contact with senior administrators since his historic donation, Schwarzman has not taken a hands-on approach to the center’s planning. Nor did he directly engage with the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee, a group of students, faculty and administrators who released a report of recommendations for the center in February. During meetings with University President Peter Salovey, Senior Counselor to the

President and Provost Linda Lorimer and other high-ranking administrators, as well as representatives from the architecture firm working on the project, Schwarzman has underscored his vision for a central student center, he told the News. He has also emphasized the importance of engaging those across campus in creative ways, through events such as a February Thinkathon and other listening sessions with the Yale community. Still, Schwarzman told the News in February that while he will speak out against ideas for the center he disagrees with, it is ultimately not his job to manage the project. “I usually make my voice heard, if there is something going on that seems illogical or could be accomplished in a more expeditious way,” SchwarSEE SCHWARZMAN PAGE 4

Tax bill threatens local groups BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER After over a century of performing concerts in Woolsey Hall, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra may have to stop calling the performance venue home. The orchestra’s executive director, Elaine Carroll, recently received an email from a University official who informed her that Yale may have to prohibit the orchestra from using Woolsey to avoid taxes. The University has claimed that should S.B. 414 — a controversial state bill focused on Yale’s property taxes — pass the Connecticut General Assembly, Yale would be forced to revoke access to facilities for many of the local groups which currently hold events on campus. The bill’s proponents, including state Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, and state Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, said the bill only seeks to clarify current tax regulations for commercial property held by Yale. But the University has repeatedly argued that the bill would allow municipalities like the cities of New Haven and West Haven to tax Yale’s academic property. “We respectfully submit

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Yale says the New Haven Symphony Orchestra may lose access to Woolsey Hall if S.B. 414 passes. that the legislature consider the impact of the unintended consequences to New Haven’s performing arts community and the general community before enacting legislation that could limit our and other not-for-profit organization access to Yale facilities,” Carroll and NHSO Board of Directors President Robert

Santy wrote in a follow-up letter to New Haven’s state delegation, addressing the concerns raised by the University. Carroll told the News that given both the NHSO’s large size and its financial restrictions, finding another performance SEE TAX BILL PAGE 4

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here is finally an expiration date on the debate over “master” as the title for residential college leaders. As University President Peter Salovey told the News on April 11, “I can say it is my intention to make these announcements while students are on campus this semester, and not during exams.” This is good. The time has come to resolve the debate about “master.” This timeline alone already demonstrates some thoughtfulness from the Yale Corporation. Releasing the decision during or after finals week would have been a guerilla attack on the academics of students of color (many of whom already necessarily prioritized Next Yale throughout the fall). Releasing the decision over summer when students are away from Yale would have been simply cowardly — an obvious effort to choke campus discussion just to keep “Yale” out of the headlines. And waiting until next year would validate the University’s reputation of having a stagnant, opaque and detached bureaucracy. Knowledgeable, articulate people on both sides of the conversation have already spilled intelligent ink — in DOWN, in the News and on Facebook. The debate has happened already. Those who want to change the title cite America’s history of slavery. A master in a Master’s House often makes students of color feel unsafe or unwelcome in their collegiate home. In opposition, those who want to keep “master” cite its nonracial ties to the Oxford and Cambridge system. Moreover, they cite concerns over free speech and the importance of accepting discomfort at college — Socrates’ gadflyism, so to speak. But rather than repeat the same debate, let’s just agree the “they do it at Oxford” argument is utter bogus. Harvard and Princeton have recently dropped the “master” title, thus shriveling the “peer institutions” claim. And although proponents of this viewpoint claim “master” carried no initial intentional baggage of slavery when Yale adopted it from Oxbridge in the 1930s, if there were voices of color included in this pre-Civil Rights era conversation — one wonders — would we ever have called it a “Master’s House”? The United Kingdom has a radically different history with domestic slavery. The connotations of “master” across the two countries are simply not commensurable. It is time to change “master.” Why? Because it’s just not that important. This symbolic debate has detracted and distracted from more pressing issues for far too long, and both the student body and the Corporation have much bigger fish to fry. Allowing this word to remain in purgatory has already given enough fodder to Internet chatter. To those peering into Yale’s campus, this unresolved issue

made (and still makes — the clock is ticking toward finals) the Corporation seem weak and i n d e c i s ive . AMELIA But more NIERENBERG perniciously, the comClose to ments section on any home article written about this topic has condemned student activists as whiny and ineffective. Neither critique is valid — student activists are not “SJWs” (social justice warriors) and administrators are not utterly spineless. Yet these conversations about collegiate activism have titillated hordes of internet commentators, both liberal and not, for far too long. Everyone trying to get across this bridge has had to contend with trolls. From within Yale, this debate reads a lot like bullying on the part of the Corporation, which exists to steward Yale — approving the expansion of Yale College, newly endowed professorships and selecting future University leaders. By not prioritizing this naming conversation, the Corporation implicitly has not prioritized students of color. And this seven-month stretch since Pierson’s Dr. Stephen Davis publicly asked people not to call him “master” has seemed more like a petty silent treatment than dialogue between rational adults. Changing “master” would be a small step toward thawing institutional racist permafrost. This could be a moment for Salovey and the Corporation to symbolically acknowledge that yes, students of color are out here. And yes they have been here, and yes, they are not leaving. And yes, most importantly, they are loved and respected by the University. If “master” is a “microaggression,” then changing it would be a “microprotection.” “Master” is a tiny thorn to extract from an already stinging paw — a way to make Yale more hospitable to our entire community. No one thinks this is the second coming in combating campus racism. But that is the whole point — it’s “micro.” If small changes like this accumulated, they actually could make a big difference in Yale’s racial climate. Revoking “master” is such an easy gesture of faith for the Corporation to make that it would be silly not to change it. It would have no impact on the practicalities of running a residential college, but would be an important symbolic victory for students of color. Listening to students — it’s not a hard thing to master. AMELIA NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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n the 17th century, a woman named Margaret Cavendish wrote some crazy stuff. Despite the fact that women weren’t supposed to write or publish at that time in Britain, she got her rich, noble husband to publish her fanciful work. One of her greatest texts, “The Blazing World,” is a dreamy utopian work of fiction in which the protagonist is transported to a different world where she meets all sorts of beings. She becomes the empress of this new, blazing world, and she spends her time pursuing her intellectual interests. Cavendish creates a fictional world according to her own will for the purpose of transcending the restrictions of her own life, and she encourages her readers to do the same. To me, Cavendish was a true feminist hero of British literature (though the word “feminist” had yet to exist when she lived). I didn’t know what Yale was going to be like before I got here, so I told myself stories. I imagined myself into a self-indulgent reality. For the most part, the Yale I’ve experienced has been tenfold more provocative, more exciting, more painful and more formative than I could’ve imagined. And yet, there is power in the self-indulgence of fiction. As my time here draws to a close, I want to enjoy the best of parts

of Yale, the lackadaisical courtyard afternoons; I want to ignore the institutional injustice and all the ADRIANA complicated anger. I want MIELE to create a Yale that doesn’t Check quite exist, but maybe it yourself could: Blue State never runs out of cider for your chaider order. That clique stops pretending they don’t know your name. Your nemesis studies abroad for the rest of senior year and you don’t have to see her trendy haircut ever again. Your favorite professors literally adopt you as their child. Barracuda’s Happy Hour lasts forever. Nobody ever has class before 2 p.m. on Thursdays. At Woads, the boy who looks like a late ’90s heartthrob approaches you and calls you fascinating again, and then maybe you make out afterwards. Grades are eliminated, and we develop a self-motivational learning environment where people do the reading for fun. Don’t worry, we would be less pretentious than Brown. Your dean isn’t constantly busy, so you meet three times a week to discuss the emotional

authenticity of character developments in Friday Night Lights and Gilmore Girls. You get nine hours of sleep every night. The Skull and Bones tomb is converted into an academic building for Ethnicity, Race and Migration. You get to do that mattress slide thing from the “Princess Diaries 2” on the steps inside of Woodbridge Hall. The Whiffenpoofs get a different name that is pretty much anything else. Yale pays to install InDesign and Photoshop on your computer for the rest of your life, and it doesn’t slow it down because your hard drive is expanded with magic. People go to East Rock without needing to show it off on social media. Like, people go to East Rock if they want to, and it’s just a thing they do, like walking to Walgreens. The Pundits pull a prank. It’s funny. The student income contribution is eliminated. Yale Dining orders sushi from Sushi on Chapel every other Saturday, but not tuna rolls because tuna is endangered. The Yale University Art Gallery hosts monthly sleepovers, and you can cuddle with your friends in sleeping bags at the foot of a Pollock painting. You triple-major in Architecture and

Anthropology and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, but it’s totally manageable. Your outfit is always weather appropriate in the very temperamental climate of Connecticut. When you say you’re going to get up early to do work, you actually get up early some of the time. You find a way to miniaturize every junior and sophomore and frosh whom you adore, so that they are the size of Beanie Babies, and you can hug them all at once, and you can feed them apple cobbler, and you can tell them that it’s going to be okay, and you can make them go to sleep before midnight like you wish you had done, and you can tell them to do what makes them happy and you can tell them tequila over vodka no matter what. Perhaps they write their own columns. They make Yale better. It’s okay to sometime imagine and describe a fantasy world. This makes living out the last of your time here more bearable. We spend so much time meditating on real injustices, and sometimes it’s okay to get outside of our own heads. It makes it easier to leave knowing that you did what mattered the most. ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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his year I’ve worked with two professors in the late stages of their teaching careers, and, because they have each dedicated their entire careers to teaching, their lives as well. We tend to view figures like them as the embodiment of wisdom and knowledge, and the many reminders of mortality that proliferate in their lives — all the body’s big and small betrayals — heighten this effect. We can also view them as holdovers from a different time, members of the academe’s old guard, here for us to push back against and challenge. But I have to say that, above all, the most striking lesson I’ve learned from these two men has been coming to recognize the profound pleasure that they take from their work and their lives: their exemplary capacity for joy. When English professor Harold Bloom GRD ’55 laughs at a scene read from Shakespeare, his glee runs so deep the whole room can feel it. No level of fatigue or discomfort can take this pleasure from him. Similarly, when mathematics professor Michael Frame discovers two ideas that bounce

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off each other in inventive and productive ways, or when he walks into a bookstore, a similar pheCAROLINE n o m e n o n occurs. Joy SYDNEY makes both of them decades Selfyo u n g e r in secabsorbed onds. These moments remind me of the extraordinary potential for joy in the narrowest slivers of life, something all to easy to forget at as a 22-yearold, for whom living is relatively easy, and the difference between a good day and a bad day often trivial. In so many things, I hesitate, I waffle, I weigh the pros and cons. Yalies can be so terribly riskaverse, and this trait presents itself in a wide range of circumstances. Often, the moments I am most joyful — a snow day, Woads, the opening of new dairy store Arethusa — are the most trivial.

The extraordinary opportunity of Yale I write to say how much I appreciated Leland Stange’s ’19 recent guest column on gratitude (“A culture of gratitude”, April 6). It reminded me of my own feelings when I was a freshman here many years ago. All financial aid freshmen donned white jackets and working side by side with dining hall staff — something good for town-gown relations as we enjoyed each other’s company — served food to fellow students, in my case, in Pierson dining hall. Because freshmen in those days were only male, we were called “bursary boys.” My roommate went off to Paris to study

As my columns regularly highlight, yes, true friendship contains true profundity, but I find profound joy in the intellectual pleasures of the everyday much less regularly. Why? Now that the sun has finally returned to the Elm City, I’ve been thinking about the word “bask:” sitting outside the Art Gallery, catching up with friends on Cross Campus, shopping at the farmers’ market. To find joy in something requires a willingness to soak it in, to appreciate the time it takes. These two professors’ capacity for basking in an experience gives them the ability to take such deep pleasure in such small moments. I am trying to be a better basker, to find pleasure in smaller and quieter activities and routines. When a day or a week seems structured by a checklist rather than blocks of time, the greatest satisfaction stems from accomplishment, from having less to do rather than doing any particular thing. My roommate aggressively warned against mentioning both my thesis and even the idea of a thesis in this column, but here

it can’t be helped. To be sure, I basked in the moment I turned in my thesis, but that’s not the point I’d like to make here. Instead, I return to a moment a few weeks ago when I found a journal entry in an archive that altered the direction of my paper slightly but significantly. In that moment, I was reminded of the glee that Frame and Bloom share, of the pleasure of catching a partial glimpse of an idea fully formed in the mind of another, of the joy of discovery. I basked in the passage, reading and rereading. Still, I don’t think I would have felt the same had I found the words simply printed in a book — a more ordinary pleasure could not suffice, but I’m working on it. I won’t graduate college with knowledge that extends decades beyond my experience, but in this one sense I hope to have grown just the smallest bit wiser beyond my years.

for the summer while I worked on construction to get through school the following fall. I was certainly very aware that the economic circumstances for some of those around me were very different from my own, just as they were in the world outside Yale. But my only feelings — as I reflect back to those times — were ones of overwhelming gratitude for the opportunity to receive one of the finest educations in the world in an institution that had been created and sustained by enormous amounts of effort by a great number of people over scores of years. Those feelings carried over to later life when I was lured out of

retirement to strengthen Yale’s host community. So during a time when a sense of entitlement seems to set in very quickly in some quarters, it lifted my spirits to read a column from a freshman who feels as I did as a freshman, and is thankful for all that our University offers for those of us who are fortunate enough to have the extraordinary opportunity to be educated at Yale.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a senior in Silliman College. Her column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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A graphic incorrectly stated that Joanna Lew ’17 will continue to serve as women’s fencing captain next season. In fact, next year’s captain is Katherine Miller ’17.

New faces join Yale investment committee BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The two newest additions to the committee that oversees Yale’s endowment are a venture capitalist and a successful banker. Ann Miura-Ko ’98, a cofounder of the venture fund Floodgate and “the most powerful woman in startups,” according to Forbes, has joined the Yale Corporation Investment Committee, along with Wells Fargo Chief Financial Officer John Shrewsberry SOM ’92. The new members, who were first listed in the 2015 endowment report published this month, take the place of long-time committee members G. Leonard Baker ’64 and Stefan Kaluzny ’88, both of whom lead successful private equity firms. Formed in 1975, the Yale Corporation Investment Committee meets four times a year to set the endowment’s allocation of assets. It also approves or rejects investment guidelines proposed by the Yale Investments Office, although the office, along with Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, oversees direct management of funds and the implementation of the strategies discussed by the committee. “I am grateful that [Shrewsberry and Miura-Ko] have joined other accomplished alumni with special investment expertise in service to the University,” University Provost Ben Polak told the News. Polak declined to comment further, noting that he does not comment on individual appointments to the committee. Swensen declined to comment on the new appointments, and neither Shrewsberry nor Miura-Ko could be reached for comment. The committee, which usually has between 10 and 12 members, always includes at least three Yale Corporation fellows. The current Corporation members are Kevin Ryan ’85, Paul Joskow GRD ’72 and Douglas Warner ’68, who chairs the committee. The Corporation’s bylaws state that committee members may invite non-Corporation members with investment experience to serve on the committee. According to William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the institutional investment firm Commonfund Institute, Yale selects new members to ensure the committee represents a diverse range of industries and experience. “There’s a huge number of people who would love to be on this committee,” Jarvis said. “Swensen has made it clear that there’s a bench [for membership].” Miura-Ko becomes the second-youngest member currently on the committee, after hedge fund director Carter Simonds ’99. Baker left the committee after 26 years of service because he had reached the University-imposed retirement age of 72. Kaluzny had served since 2010. Jarvis emphasized that sitting on the committee requires a great deal of time and energy from committee members, who must read extensive reports on the endowment and understand the fundamentals of Yale’s portfolio policy. For example, in June 2015 the

committee approved increases in the fixed income target asset allocation from 5 percent to 8.5 percent, demonstrating a renewed trust in assets like bonds. Additionally, the committee approved the separation of the private equity asset class into leveraged buyouts and venture capital. “It can be a little bit daunting,” Jarvis said of the committee’s responsibilities. Yale takes advantage of its broad alumni base working in business, economics and venture capital when assembling the Corporation Investment Committee. Smaller institutions and schools with specializations in fields like nursing or art have a harder time finding alumni with investment experience to sit on investment committees, Jarvis said. “A university with a big, wellestablished business school … will be able to draw on alumni,” Jarvis said. “Part of Yale’s [investment] success is the result of a very carefully developed network of alumni [and] pedigreed individuals.” Shrewsberry and Swensen first met through Shrewsberry’s work at Wells Fargo. Shrewsberry has also been active with the Yale School of Management’s advisory board. While many financial experts credit Swensen with the success of Yale’s endowment, Jarvis said the makeup of the Corporation Investment Committee is also essential in keeping the University’s investments on track. He said committees like Yale’s should have a balance of older members who have a long institutional memory and younger members with expertise in emerging industries. The Yale Corporation Investment Committee is composed entirely of alumni from the private sector, with the exception of Salovey, who holds ex officio status. Yale’s in-house and alumnibased investment management structure is unique among other U.S. colleges and universities. Yale’s 11.5 percent endowment return for fiscal year 2015 was well-above the average national endowment return of 2.4 percent. The 2015 Yale Endowment Report, released earlier this month, underscored the importance of entrepreneurial and venture capitalist alumni in keeping Yale’s venture capital assets performing above the market average. According to a 2015 study of endowments from the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute, 43 percent of the 812 institutions studied said they have substantially outsourced their investment management to external firms and consultants. “The use of outsourcing has been increasing for a number of years,” the study said. “84 percent of the study population reported using a consultant for various services related to investment management.” Shrewsberry becomes the second current committee member who did not graduate from Yale College. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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BY VICTOR WANG AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS In the wake of a report released last month that revealed the lack of ethnic and political diversity among Yale Law School professors, the law school community has begun a conversation about why that gap exists, and how to address it. The report, which was written by a committee of faculty and students over the past year and disseminated in March, addresses diversity and inclusion within law school students and the faculty body. According to the report, although the law school’s faculty diversity levels are comparable to those of peer institutions, students still have concerns about racial, gender and political diversity among professors. After the release of the report, law students interviewed by the News voiced concerns about the lack of specificity in the section on faculty diversity, as compared to the section on student diversity. While the student section offered concrete suggestions for improvement, the section on faculty simply urged the administration to reconsider its approach to faculty diversity “more systematically” than it has in the past. Law school administrators highlighted steps they have already taken steps to improve faculty diversity, such as extending offers to the most diverse slate of faculty in recent memory for next year, and soliciting funding from the University’s new $50 million faculty diversity initiative. “[The lack of specificity in the faculty diversity section] is both intentional and inevitable,” said James Forman LAW ’92, a law professor and one of the co-chairs for the committee. “It is the faculty that makes the decision about who to hire. All [we] can do is to raise consciousness, put pressure and make sure the faculty understands that the issue is important. I don’t think you will ever be in a scenario where you find much more concrete information than what we got in the report.” Still, four law school students interviewed agreed that they would have liked to see more details, such as a timeline for implementing faculty diversity initiatives. The report highlighted issues of diversity both in identity as well as in scholarship and ideas. While the committee found that Yale’s diversity numbers are “roughly comparable” to those of peer institutions, members also said they were “especially concerned” about the number of black and Latinx faculty

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A Yale Law School report has sparked conversation about racial and ideological faculty diversity. members, as statistics show almost no improvement over the last decade. In 2003, there were three black faculty members outside of the clinics, which provide more practical rather than academic training. Now, there are two black professors outside of the clinics and one within. In approximately the same time frame, the number of Latinx faculty members has increased from zero to one. Forman, who has taught at the school for only four years, said he has not been at Yale long enough to comment on why little progress has been made in terms of hiring black and Latinx faculty. One potential difficulty could be that faculty of color are disproportionately interested in topics that might not overlap with the broader interest of the institution, Forman said. For example, he said, when he talked to colleagues about topics related to race, they asked him how the topic would relate to groups of other races beyond the one immediately concerned. “It does not need to go beyond certain groups. The study on African Americans is important in and of itself,” Forman said. “You have to get people to believe that. If people don’t believe that, then there is trouble for faculty diversity.” Jay Pottenger LAW ’75, a clinical law professor who serves on the hiring committee for clinical faculty, refuted the claim that clinical hiring at the law school has a bad track record. For example, Pottenger said, from 2003 to 2015, the school hired three minorities in the clinical ranks, two of whom are tenured. The school’s last tenure-track hires for clinical faculty have been two men of color, and

two women, one of whom is a Sikh, he added. No faculty from the nonclinical hiring committee responded to requests for comment. Law school professors and administrators also pointed out recent progress in faculty diversity. Yale’s new $50 million faculty diversity initiative, which was announced by the Provost’s Office in November, allows the deans of all schools, including the law school, to submit proposals to help fund hires of diversity candidates. Yale Law School spokeswoman Janet Conroy said the school applied for the initiative and has been awarded funding support for two of its visiting clinical faculty members for next academic year. Law professor Heather Gerken, another co-chair for the committee, said the faculty has plainly embraced the report’s recommendations, just as it embraced other recommendations on student diversity and mentoring. Gerken added that professors have not only begun an ongoing conversation on faculty diversity — precisely what the committee’s recommendation hoped to spark — but has also voted for the most diverse slate in recent memory, with seven offers to faculty of color on the nonclinical side. Half of the clinical visitors next year will also be faculty of color. Pottenger said next year’s visiting scholars will include six women, of whom one is Latina, one is South Asian and one is African American. “The faculty possesses deep expertise in hiring — more expertise than we possessed on the committee — and we had faith that the faculty would take up this recommendation. It obviously

did,” Gerken said. “I’ve been stunned, in fact, by how much progress has been made — it’s exhilarating to see.” But for all the discussion of ethnic diversity, less was said about ideological and academic diversity — another problem area pointed out by the report. For example, the report said there is a shortage of faculty who specialize in poverty law or teach courses on civil rights. The report also noted the dearth of conservatives in the public law faculty. The dearth of conservative opinions at Yale has rarely been addressed in reports concerning diversity in the FAS or the student body. Georgetown Law School professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz ’92 LAW ’99, who identifies as a conservative, said Yale Law faculty is “almost entirely” left of center politically. “The reason for this extreme imbalance is certainly not a lack of plausible candidates; there are several prominent right-of-center scholars who are eminently qualified to teach at Yale,” Rosenkranz said. “The most plausible explanation for the ideological imbalance is that this very liberal faculty prefers to hire colleagues who share their own views.” Rosenkranz, who has written about the lack of conservative faculty in top American law schools, said the dearth of different viewpoints is harmful to both conservatives and liberals, as it leaves liberal students and faculty unable to test their ideas against advocates of other sides. Yale Law School has more than 70 full-time faculty. Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

Former resident appeals re-entry decision BY AMY CHENG AND JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER In a continuation of his efforts to re-enter the country, deported Connecticut resident Arnold Giammarco has started the process of appealing the ruling from Connecticut District Court Judge Vanessa Bryant that prevents him from testifying at a public hearing in Connecticut he was subpoenaed to. Giammarco filed an April 12 notice of appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in opposition to Bryant’s April 1 ruling, which disallowed Giammarco and fellow deported Connecticut resident Paolina Milardo to re-enter the country from Italy. The two had been subpoenaed in February to testify at a public hearing that would address the consequences of Connecticut’s immigration laws on immigrant families. Connecticut state Sen. Eric Coleman, D-Hartford, and state Rep. William Tong, D-Stamford, of the Connecticut General Assembly, issued the subpoenas partly because the residents had experienced deportation in 2012 and 2011 respectively, due to prior

criminal convictions. Claire Simonich LAW ’16, Avinash Samarth LAW ’16 and Aaron Korthuis LAW ’17 from legal aid group Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization — who defended Giammarco’s and Milardo’s petition before Bryant in a March 28 hearing — have been assisting Giammarco in his case. Simonich and Korthuis both signed Giammarco’s notice of appeal. Milardo decided not to pursue the appeal, for reasons Simonich could not disclose. “We were very disappointed that the decision meant that Mr. Giammarco couldn’t come back to testify before the legislature,” Simonich said. “This legislature represented him for 50 years. They found his testimony was necessary, and he was perfectly willing to come.” In the April 1 ruling, Bryant dismissed Giammarco’s case on the grounds of a “lack of subject matter jurisdiction”; Bryant argued that her district court did not have the legal authority to amend the federal government’s decision to deport Giammarco and Milardo. She also explained that video conferencing — an alternative to in-person testimony proposed by the Immi-

gration Customs Enforcement — is a viable option. Giammarco and his legal team are required to submit an addendum within 14 days of the April 12 filing of the notice of appeal, Simonich said. The addendum will contain a basic outline of the argument behind Giammarco’s appeal. Simonich added that by the end of May or beginning of June, Giammarco and his legal team will have to submit a brief, which will contain the fully developed argument of the appeal. “We’re working on that now, but we haven’t finished it yet. The big arguments are still developing,” Simonich said. “It’s not guaranteed [the appeal] will go to oral argument, but we do have a right to appeal a dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, which is what we have done.” Simonich said that if the appeal does reach an oral argument, it will likely take place in the fall. Nicole Navas, a spokeswoman of the U.S. Department of Justice, declined to comment on the case to the News. Apart from his efforts to return for the public hearing

on immigration, Giammarco is also in the midst of pursuing a case for his naturalization. In 1982 Giammarco filed an application to become a U.S. citizen, which the Department of Homeland Security never adjudicated due to its nonfiling policy — a policy that allowed the government not to consider certain immigration cases. This policy has since been abandoned. Bryant, who presided both the petition and the naturalization case, gave Giammarco “a favorable ruling” on March 17, according to Simonich. Bryant ruled against the government’s motion to dismiss Giammarco’s pursuit of citizenship and compelled the government to adjudicate Giammarco’s case in a reasonable amount of time. Simonich said that the federal government was given 60 days to adjudicate Giammarco’s naturalization. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit includes districts from Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Contact AMY CHENG at amy.xm.cheng@yale.edu and JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“No matter what heights you achieve, even if you’re Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.” JAMES CAAN AMERICAN ACTOR

Bowman ’18 wins YCC VP runoff BOWMAN FROM PAGE 1 policies proposed during campaign season. In his campaign, Bowman promised to use his managerial role in the Council to hold the YCC to high standards. In particular, he said he hopes to increase transparency and facilitate communication between Council members and the Yale public, as well as encourage representatives to engage more with their respective colleges. Another major component of Bowman’s campaign was the creation of a “director of student outreach” whose role would be to serve as a liaison between the YCC and the undergraduate community. “The message of my campaign was a YCC that reaches out to all students and not just a select few,” Bowman said. “I think we were able to do that, and I want to continue doing that next year to ensure that we as the YCC don’t leave anyone behind.” Sullivan extended his congratulations to Bowman but said he was disappointed in the results, especially given the fact that he was endorsed by a number of organizations, including the Yale Women’s Center and the News. He also said that he saw himself as the more qualified candidate, but he acknowledged that Bowman could be seen as equally qualified by the Yale student body. He said he does not think he will be continuing involvement with the YCC next year. “I think I was burnt out after seeing the runoff in the first place,” Sullivan said. “I didn’t campaign as hard as I could have. … I am just glad to have it behind me now.” Huang said he has worked closely with both vice presidential candidates since his freshman year, and found Bowman’s platform to coincide with his own ideas. “I think that is very good in the sense that our priorities are

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intense, haunting read and said Rankine exemplifies the daring intelligence both departments wanted to find in their search. Both Goldsby and English Department Chair Langdon Hammer praised Rankine’s use of multimedia. Hammer said Rankine is an innovative and intellectually challenging teacher who is involved not only in poetry but also in film, theater and visual art. He added that she will make connections across departments and programs. The news of Rankine’s expected arrival was shared on the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” Wednesday afternoon and generated much student enthusiasm. Rianna Johnson-Levy ’17 said Rankine will help boost the morale of students wishing to study African-American literature and poetry, especially in light of recent faculty departures, including that of English and African American studies professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84. Still, she said some students have concerns about the temporary nature of Rankin’s hire. “I know many students are worried though about her status as an adjunct professor and what that says about the future of her career at Yale and the commitment of the University to retaining her,” Johnson-Levy said. Citizen won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, among other prizes.

venue would be difficult. Yale currently provides Woolsey at a rate much lower than market value, Carroll said, though she declined to name a specific figure. Likewise, the Symphony anticipates a 30 percent reduction in state funding, she said, referring to recent budget cuts from the state legislature. The University has informed NHSO and several other local organizations about the bill, which University spokesman Tom Conroy called a “threat to their access [to University facilities] posed by the legislation.” While Conroy did not provide a list of all organizations potentially affected, he cited examples such as youth hockey held at Ingalls Rink and artistic performances during the annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Charges for these events are intended only to cover expenses, not generate revenue, Conroy said in a statement to the News. This “incidental use” does not imply that the venues involved are commercial in nature, he added. The bill defines commercial activities as any of the following occurring on University property: rents or other payments; fees collected for admission or use of any sports or entertainment facility; fees, charges or royalties for any goods designed, produced, manufactured; and fees or charges for any services rendered to the public or any forprofit entities. Current state law allows municipalities to tax commercial college and university property generating $6,000 or more income annually. “The current language of S.B. 414 would require Yale, in order to preserve its freedom from taxation for these buildings, to curtail use of these buildings by individuals without a Yale affiliation,” Conroy said. “This outcome would be disappointing because Yale seeks to be a good neighbor and to contribute to civic life by making the campus accessible to the community.” S.B. 414 moved forward in the Connecticut legislature by a 28 to 22 vote from the state’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee April 7, and the bill now awaits debate on the full state Senate floor this session. Speaking with the New Haven Independent, Lemar described the University’s communication with local groups as a “scare tactic,” adding that he thought the University has misinterpreted the bill. Looney said in a statement that the General Assembly is currently modifying the bill’s language to narrow its scope. “The goal of the legislation is to remove the ambiguity that currently exists in state statute,” Looney said. “Technology transfer of academic research into commercial application was not within the contemplation of the legislature at the time the statute was modified in 1834. We must evaluate all exemptions in a contemporary context.” Legislators and other proponents of S.B. 414 have previously voiced concern that commercial activity has been proceeding in the University’s nontaxable buildings. They say the bill will help clarify the boundary between the University’s academic research and research which will have commercial purposes. Conroy asserted that the University does not house any startup businesses based on the discoveries or inventions of Yale faculty. Although Yale has reported services the West Haven-based Center for Genome Analysis provides for small biotech startups as unrelated business income, the University considers this “incidental use,” given that the startups do not have the capacity to perform these services in-house. “The availability of this service makes Connecticut more attractive to bioscience companies, but Yale is prepared to terminate the service if the General Assembly believes it is an inappropriately commercial activity in an academic building,” Conroy said. The University has lobbied aggressively against the bill since a March 22 public hearing in front of the finance committee. In the past few weeks, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Richard Jacob has emailed University staff, while Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 has reached out to Connecticut-based alumni and written an editorial in the Hartford Courant. The University paid $4.5 million in property taxes in 2015.

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Bowman said his campaign team focused on addressing voter apathy in the days leading up to the runoff. aligned,” Huang said of Bowman. “That makes it easier for us to focus on things that I want to focus on instead of having to figure out how we can compromise on our priorities.” Though Huang said his vision for how the YCC would be structured is closer to Sullivan’s, he added that does not disagree with Bowman’s goals, and looks forward to working together to reduce inefficiencies within the Council next year. Ideas include changing the frequency and structure of meetings, as well as the duties of certain members on the Executive Board. Sydney Wade ’18, who worked on Bowman’s campaign and currently

serves as the Ezra Stiles representative on the YCC, said Bowman’s team used the runoff time to spread his platform to as many students as possible, especially in light of concerns about voter apathy, given the presidential elections had already concluded. Of nine students interviewed, six said they were aware the runoff was happening, but only one had voted. Micah Osler ’18 said he voted in the general election but abstained during the runoff because he felt it would be unfair to vote, as he was not sufficiently educated on either candidate. Kate Tanawattanacharoen ’19, another of Bowman’s team mem-

bers, praised his organizational skills and understanding of administrative tasks — traits she said often go unappreciated in public elections, but that will be invaluable in the efficient running of the YCC. “I know he and [Huang] will work really well together … producing and pushing for meaningful policy ideas that actually come to fruition,” Wade said. “I think both [Huang] and [Bowman] have really good ideas in terms of … increasing the transparency of YCC, making sure we are effective for the student body.” Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

Rankine to join English, Af Am depts. RANKINE FROM PAGE 1 dia Rankine is joining Yale’s faculty,” African American Studies Department Chair Jacqueline Goldsby said. “Rankine’s a tremendous talent. It’s thrilling to bring a poet working at the peak of her powers to teach here. Our problem will be a great one to have: how to manage these course enrollments.”

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Rankine’s hire is the result of a joint search between the English and the African American Studies Departments. Goldsby said both departments have a long tradition of studying poetry and decided to join forces to seek out a “leading figure” in black poetry, which she called one of the most exciting, vital spheres in contemporary literary culture. Following the search, Rankine has been hired

COURTESY OF CLAUDIA RANKINE

Renowned African-American poet Claudia Rankine will join Yale’s faculty this fall.

through a creative arts appointment on a renewable five-year contract. Rankine said in an email that her decision to come to Yale was a hard one, but she looks forward to engaging with both students and faculty. “It was a difficult decision, but given my interests I accepted this offer because there are a number of scholars and artists involved in a similar line of inquiry,” Rankine said. “Selfishly, I look forward to being in conversation with all of them, especially those in the category of students who are not known to me yet.” She added that she is putting together a course on whiteness for the fall term. Professors and administrators interviewed hailed Rankine’s hire as a “transformative” moment for the University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler described Rankine as one of the “most distinguished living poets in the English-speaking world,” while English and American studies professor and Humanities Divisional Director Amy Hungerford said Yale’s faculty and students have been admiring, teaching and writing about Rankine’s poetry for years. There was particular excitement from both students and professors about Rankine’s critically acclaimed work “Citizen.” Alicia Lovelace ’17 said Rankine’s words have stayed with her ever since she heard Rankine speak about “Citizen” in New York. “Yale needs professors like Claudia Rankine, now more than ever,” Lovelace said. Goldsby called “Citizen” an

Schwarzman guides center vision SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 zman said. “But Yale is the driver of the project.” Salovey said Schwarzman interacts with him and others “regularly” in person to plan the center. Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor emphasized that Schwarzman is known for closely monitoring his philanthropic projects. Just this semester, she said, Schwarzman has met with Salovey a few times to discuss the center. Schwarzman’s other prominent

donations include a $100 million gift to the New York Public Library in 2008, and the establishment of the Schwarzman Scholars fellowship, which will welcome its inaugural class this year. “He has been very involved in the planning,” O’Connor said. “He’s not a person who writes a check and walks away.” Still, Salovey said Schwarzman understands that the University will make the final decisions regarding construction and programming. Elizabeth Leber, a partner at

Beyer Blinder Belle — the architecture firm selected to design the Schwarzman Center — spoke positively of the firm’s interactions with Schwarzman. “Our work relationship with Mr. Schwarzman is proactive and very helpful to the process. He and the advisors who he has brought to the project have been engaged on a regular basis through meetings and conference calls,” she said. Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said the key vision for the center stems from Schwarzman’s understanding of

the space as one where students can come together. The advisory committee and the architect are trying to bring this feeling into reality, Howard said. Five of 12 undergraduate, graduate and professional students on the advisory committee interviewed said they have not personally interacted with Schwarzman or seen him at any of the committee meetings. “I think he simply wants to help create a center for all Yale students that can be a hub for intellectual, artistic and creative activity on campus. How that is

ultimately realized has largely been left up to the Yale community,” said Skyler Ross ’16, who sits on the advisory committee. Ross added that Schwarzman did not need to be physically present for the committee to fulfill its mission of gathering student input and providing recommendations on planning. Ree Ree Li ’16, who also serves on the committee, said because the group did not work closely with Schwarzman, its members had the freedom to think creatively and were not limited to one person’s ideas.

“He tends to want most things to be ‘excellent,’ and this project is no exception, and the only measure of its excellence will be how well it serves Yale students,” said Daniel Leibovic ’17, a representative on the committee. “He is allowing Yale to handle the project independently.” Schwarzman has a net worth of $10.7 billion, according to Forbes. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.â&#x20AC;? RICHARD ROGERS BRITISH ARCHITECT

City reviews science building plan BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER The impending construction of a new Yale science building will not create parking issues for the Elm City, University officials stressed at a City Plan Commission meeting Wednesday evening. At the tail end of the threehour-long meeting, city plan commissioners and staff heard from University officials on Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest iteration of a building that has been in planning since the 1990s. Yale is seeking approval for a site plan review that features a proposed six-story building of 280,300 square feet, primed to replace the current J.W. Gibbs Laboratory on Science Hill. Unlike previous construction plans, this new plan for the Yale Science Building does not require the approval of zoning variances. At the advice of the city plan staff, the commission opted to table the item until next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting, citing the need to discuss stormwater calculations with the Engineering Department and Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parking plan with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Traffic, Transportation and Parking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every month this project gets delayed, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a month people do not have a paycheck in their pockets,â&#x20AC;? Associate Vice President and Director of New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker said. Although the new building will be larger than the current Gibbs building, that additional space will not be occupied by more people, Zucker said. Instead, the space aims to alleviate overcrowding and will accommodate an array of specialized equipment, extra washrooms and other needs for new laboratories. Zucker also acknowledged

â&#x20AC;&#x153;the elephant in the roomâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an ordinance passed by the Board of Alders in January 2016 enabling the BoA to review large-scale development plans by entities like Yale and YaleNew Haven Hospital regardless of how much parking those plans entail. This ordinance altered previous regulations allowing alders to review plans which changed parking by 100 or more spaces. The 291 parking spaces for Gibbs would not change with the new project. The Yale Science Building is the first new project presented to the commission since the ordinance passed, Zucker said, adding that the project will have no impact on parking and would thus should not be held up by parking concerns.

Every month this project gets delayed, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a month people do not have a paycheck. LAUREN ZUCKER Associate Vice President and Director of New Haven Affairs The University has already presented the plans to both the Newhallville and East Rock community management teams, Zucker said. Responding to an earlier query from Newhallville Alder Brenda Foskey-Cyrus regarding the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity to create jobs, Zucker added that it will open up 280 construction jobs. At the beginning of the meeting, over 20 members of Local 455 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which represents New Haven-area labor and construction workers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; gathered outside the meeting room in support of the project.

Ralph Inorio, the secretary and treasurer of Local 455, said large-scale projects such as the science building were â&#x20AC;&#x153;fruitfulâ&#x20AC;? for the unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s membership. He added that the University, which Inorio praised for ensuring jobs for city residents, had previously notified the union of the commission meeting. Executive Director of the City Plan Department Karyn Gilvarg asked University developers how Yale intended to handle parking for construction workers. Officials present said the number of workers at the site would peak at 230, with all contractors, subcontractors and individual laborers parking their vehicles at the PiersonSage Garage on the corner of Whitney Avenue and Edwards Street. Construction for the project, previously called the Yale Biology Building, had been postponed in early 2009 due to the economic downturn. But demolition of the Gibbs building is now slated for fall 2016, with construction spanning from February 2017 to the beginning of the academic year in fall 2019. Zucker noted that construction on the project will â&#x20AC;&#x153;ramp upâ&#x20AC;? as other projects, such as Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two new residential colleges, begin to wrap up. Commissioners on the board voiced no serious objections to the new proposal at Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to hold this up a great length,â&#x20AC;? commissioner Edward Mattison LAW â&#x20AC;&#x2122;68 said. The City Plan Commission will hold its next meeting May 18. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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Instructor criticized for comments BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER David Katz MPH â&#x20AC;&#x2122;93, founder of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and a voluntary clinical instructor at the Yale School of Medicine, is facing criticism this week from doctors and health care professionals around the world for his quoted comments about investigative journalist Nina Teicholz in a recent article published in the Guardian. The article, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sugar Conspiracyâ&#x20AC;? by journalist Ian Leslie, describes the history of research into the causes of obesity, claiming that in recent years, scientific evidence has increasingly shown obesity to be a result of excessive sugar consumption, rather than fat consumption. In response to Teicholz, who holds that sugar constitutes the main cause of obesity, Katz was quoted in the Guardianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s April 7 article as saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nina is shockingly unprofessional â&#x20AC;Ś I have been in rooms filled with the whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who of nutrition and I have never seen such unanimous revulsion as when Miss Teicholzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name comes up. She is an animal unlike anything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen before.â&#x20AC;? Since the publication of the article, several health care professionals have urged Katz to apologize to Teicholz for his comments, both online and in letters to Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health Paul Cleary. Angharad Powell, a general practitioner practicing in Wrexham, United Kingdom, wrote to Alpern on April 9, accusing Katz of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;highly sexist, personal and vitriolic attack on the character of Miss Teicholz,â&#x20AC;? and urging Alpern investigate the matter. In an email to Cleary, Jim Greenwald â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a medical director of the SpecialtyHealth clinic in Reno, Nevada â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said the comments were â&#x20AC;&#x153;utterly reprehensible,â&#x20AC;? and expressed his wish that Yale take corrective action against Katz. He added that Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments were an embarrassment to Yale, which he identified as one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading medical institutions. Gearoid Ă&#x201C; Laoi, a histopathologist who retired in 2009 from the Mercy Hospital in Cork, Ireland, also suggested, in a letter to Cleary, that Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s description of Nina Teicholz negatively represents Yale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This man needs to be severely censured, and if I were in Yale, I know what I would do,â&#x20AC;? Ă&#x201C; Laoi wrote in his letter to Cleary. Cleary declined to comment for this article. In an email to the News, Katz denied making public comments about Teicholzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

character, and said he has only ever criticized inaccurate content in the public domain. He added that he had no recollection of being interviewed by the author of the Guardian article and did not give permission for the publication of the comments about Teicholz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If [the interview] did take place, I certainly did not authorize the use of any such private comments about my personal experiences for publication,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They would have been explicitly off the record. Their publication suggests that this journalist was working at the behest of [Teicholz] all along, or in her service, and was willing to violate the ethics of journalism.â&#x20AC;? Leslie maintained that Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarks were made on the record, but could not be reached for further comment Wednesday. In his email, Katz went on to describe Leslieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article as â&#x20AC;&#x153;misguided and revisionist science.â&#x20AC;? Leslie reported in his article that despite requests, Katz did not cite examples of Teicholzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unprofessional behavior. But Katz said that Leslie never asked him for proof of Teicholzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavior. Katz added that he presumed Leslie did not ask him to substantiate his claims about Teicholz in order to write in the article that Katz failed to produce evidence for his comments.

If [the interview] did take place, I certainly did not authorize the use of any such private comments about my personal experiences for publication. DAVID KATZ MPH â&#x20AC;&#x2122;93 Founder, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center Katz did not respond to request for comment on whether he had contacted the Guardian with regard to the article or whether he felt he owed Nina Teicholz an apology for his remarks. Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health who sat on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee with Katz, praised Katz as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;much-valued colleague,â&#x20AC;? adding that Katz had been outspoken against â&#x20AC;&#x153;special interest groupsâ&#x20AC;? who have attempted to undermine the dietary guidelines. Hu said that in the past, Katz had raised legitimate concerns about Teicholzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work and qualifications, and

that his comments in the Guardian should be interpreted in this context. Teicholz denied Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accusations that she had influenced Leslie to write the article, calling these suggestions â&#x20AC;&#x153;pure fantasy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had nothing to do with the Guardian article other than being interviewed for it,â&#x20AC;? she said to the News. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This line of attack by Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to accuse me of being part of a cabal or some kind of master plotâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;exists only in his own mind.â&#x20AC;? Alpern said that Katz is not permanently employed by the University but by the Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is not part of the Yale-New Haven Health System. Alpern added that because Katz is a voluntary faculty member, he is employed on a temporary, year-by-year basis and is not answerable to the Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. Faculty at the Department of Internal Medicine did not respond to request for comment on Wednesday night. Alpern went on to say that other than in the name of the center, there is no connection between the medical school and the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, of which Katz is the founding director. According to Alpern, the nominal relationship stems from a 1998 decision to attach the Yale name to the center. Gary Desir MED â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80, interim chair of the Department of Medicine at the medical school and a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Standards of Conduct, said that although Katz is a voluntary faculty member rather than a ladder faculty member, he does not condone Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments about Teicholz. Desir said that the medical school Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office investigates each case of alleged faculty misconduct on a case-bycase basis, and he criticized the personal nature of Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments regarding Teicholz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually engage in ad hominem arguments, which seems to be what [Katz] is engaging in,â&#x20AC;? Desir said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our faculty engages in vigorous debate, but we also always keep it collaborative. This is not something that we would condone.â&#x20AC;? Alpern said that although he is not in a position to judge which scientific basis for obesity is correct, he was unhappy with the negative controversy attracted to the University by Katzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments in the Guardian article. He added that he had responded to Powellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter. Katz is a two-time diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, according to his website. Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

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“I looked the word up in the dictionary, it said: Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.” CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE NIGERIAN NOVELIST

Men’s and women’s sports show disparities in attendance, coach salaries at Yale ATHLETICS FROM PAGE 1

GRAPHS FINANCIAL COMPARISON OVERALL EXPENDITURES Expenditures allocated to Yale teams in 2014–15

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HEAD COACH SALARIES Average head coach salaries at Yale in 2014–15

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IVY LEAGUE COMPARISON Average salary gap between men’s sports head coaches and women’s sports head coaches over the last 10 years

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Athletics Tom Beckett cited factors such as budget, equipment, team culture and coaching. He added that the athletic department’s goal is “to strive to win championships in all programs.” “We seek to create equal opportunities to support all of our athletic teams,” Beckett said. “Often we make strategic investments in programs in order to improve or sustain, their win-loss record.” On the issue of budget, specifically, numbers available through the U.S. Department of Education show that men’s and women’s sports are treated relatively equally at Yale. Without counting the $3,205,058 spent on football — which necessitates very high expenses but has a self-supporting budget — expenditures on men’s sports totaled $7,769,336 in 2014–15, and women’s sports expenses were only slightly lower, percentage-wise, at $7,418,521. Still, data show a discrepancy in the salaries of coaches, whom the majority of people interviewed, including Beckett, described as an important factor for seeing success on the fields. College coaches are responsible for recruiting athletes, developing their skills and, during games, strategizing against opponents. The best of them, such as Nick Saban of Alabama football or Geno Auriemma of Connecticut women’s basketball, command salaries well into the seven-figures. At Yale, the average salary for a head coach of a men’s team in 2014– 15 was $123,564. For women’s teams that number was nearly $40,000 lower, at $83,824. Similarly, Yale assistant coaches for men’s teams earn an average of $61,278, while those for women’s teams make $37,239. Here, too, football, a sport with high expenses and no women’s team equivalent, plays a role in skewing these numbers. But with 16 head coach salaries included in the average for men’s teams and 18 for women’s, Yale football head coach Tony Reno would have had to command a salary of $719,664 to cause the disjunction entirely. Beckett said those 2014–15 figures represent just a “one-year snapshot” of the athletic department, and that statistics over time are a more accurate representation of Yale expenditures on coaches’ salaries. But over the past five years, the wage gap at Yale has averaged $39,352, second-highest in the Ivy League, and over the past 10, it averaged $27,758, again the secondhighest in the conference. Princeton, with a 10-year average difference of $13,931 between men’s team and women’s team head coach salaries — and a narrower gap of $5,563 last year — has historically had the most equivalence in salaries. Cornell, at $37,783 over the past 10 years, has shown the biggest differences. Beckett said that when determining a coach’s salary, the department considers experience, time of tenure and competitive performance, as well as data on positions at comparable institutions from the Western Management Group, which compiles data using surveys of participating institutions. Women’s lacrosse head coach Erica LaGrow said that factors such as longevity, experience and results are used to decide who is hired and how much they are paid, regardless of gender. Still, a member of the women’s swimming and diving team thought that increasing the expenditure on head coaches of women’s sports would be helpful in equalizing the department. “Women’s teams need good coaches and better recruiters so our teams can make similar gains that our male programs have done in recent years,” the swimmer said. “Numbers like that — a pay gap of $40,000 — help indicate that women’s and men’s teams do not get the same level of coaches and recruiters.” The head coach of a women’s team, who asked to remain anonymous, said a coach’s salary raise is always directly related to his or her team’s performance. “But if you don’t get the things you need [in order] to be successful, it becomes kind of a cycle,” the coach said. “Some of the teams are always going to get that percentage [raise].” Some students interviewed speculated that the disparity in wages might be related to the difference in revenue made by women’s and men’s teams. Auriemma, for example, makes $2 million, while UConn men’s basketball head coach Kevin Ollie makes $3 million. Auriemma himself has explained publicly that

the difference is due to the fact that Ollie’s program brings in more money than the UConn women’s team does. Revenues for Yale men’s sports, not including football, totaled $7,794,993 in 2014–15, while those for women’s sports was $7,433,085. However, this data is not entirely useful in examining external revenue from sources such as ticket sales and fundraisers. Former Senior Associate Athletic Director Forrest Temple told the News last year that revenues allocated to teams include annual endowment yield, in addition to annual giving and team-specific revenues. Still, Beckett did not list revenue as a determining factor for a coach’s salary. He also said endowments for coaching positions — which exist for more than half of Yale teams and are nearly evenly distributed across teams of both genders, including men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s hockey and women’s lacrosse — do not play a role in determining compensation.

AT PRINCETON: MORE MONEY, SUCCESS, FANS

Princeton is a notable exception to the Ivy League’s wage gaps, with a difference of men’s and women’s sports coaching salaries more than three times smaller than at the average Ancient Eight school over the last five years. The school has had the highest salary for head coaches of women’s teams in the 2014–15 school year, at $104,195. Columbia, the Ivy school with the second-highest such average, pays the head coaches of its women’s teams’ nearly $20,000 less, at an average of $86,060. Princeton has also won the most Ivy League Championships in not just women’s sports, but also men’s sports over the past 10 years. Women at Princeton tallied 57 Ivy titles between 2005–06 and 2014– 15, and the men have recorded 51 over the same period. At Yale, these numbers are 18 and 15, respectively, and Yale has also recorded three Ivy titles — men’s squash, men’s hockey and men’s basketball — thus far in the current school year. Notably, in the three sports for which Yale men’s teams have garnered significant attention and success — basketball, hockey and lacrosse — Princeton’s women have been competitive on a national level this year. In addition to their atlarge bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament, the Tigers finished No. 7 in women’s hockey and are currently ranked No. 11 in women’s lacrosse. That success has translated to more fans in the stands. In the 2015– 16 season, the number of spectators at Princeton’s women’s basketball games averaged 1,158, according to Princeton’s public attendance records. While that is still just about half the number of fans who gather for the Princeton men’s basketball team — which was undefeated at home, and finished second in the Ivy League to Yale with a 12–2 conference record — it is nearly six times larger than the average fan base at Yale’s women’s basketball games.

IN RECRUITING POLICIES, LITTLE CLARITY

The best coaches are often the strongest recruiters. Coaches at Ivy League schools, especially, are tasked with the challenge of recruiting talented players while also conforming to a unique set of conference policies. The Ivy League enforces a cap on the number of athletes a school may recruit, in addition to academic standards that each class of recruited athletes must meet. The Academic Index, established by the Ivy League in the 1980s, gives college applicants a score, generally thought to have a maximum of 240, corresponding to their high school GPAs and standardized test scores. According to a 2012 New York Times article, Ivy League schools cannot admit a recruited athlete with an AI below 176, with very few exceptions, and the overall group of recruited athletes at a school cannot have an average AI lower than one standard deviation below that of the school’s entire student body. In late 2011, Beckett told the Times that his department gives each coach a target AI to meet with his or her recruiting classes. Now five years later, when asked if these targets vary between men’s and women’s teams, Beckett told the News only that a “set of individual and cohort-based academic standards” exists both for Yale and the Ivy League. He added that all admissions decisions are made by the Yale Office of Admissions, and he declined to comment further. Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the AI is not something the Admis-

sions Office heavily considers, as the office does a “holistic review” of each applicant. He added that he did not think there is any connection between Academic Index policy and team success. “All the recruited athletes, as a group, have an AI that is close to the AI of the enrolled students,” Quinlan said. “To me, there’s no difference between reviewing a male applicant and a female applicant.” The anonymous women’s team coach, however, contended that recruiting decisions made in the athletic department often advantage certain teams over others. The coach described a prevalent “hierarchy” in the Yale athletic department, in which benefits are often given to the department’s “favorite sports.” “If you have someone like a [world-class athlete] that you’d like to get in there, [the athletics administration] says that they will try to help you, but I don’t think they try as hard for some of the sports as they would for a number one hockey player from Canada,” the coach said.

DISPARITY IN THE STANDS

Perhaps the most visual representation of the divide in men’s and women’s sports comes in attendance numbers. Both nationally and at Yale, fan presence at male sports events overshadows that at women’s events. “I feel the athletics department treats both men’s and women’s sports very similarly as both are held in high regard on campus, [but] I do notice that there is a much higher turnout for men’s games as opposed to women’s,” men’s hockey forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 said. “Not always, and not in every sport, but that seems to be the case at times, especially with hockey.” Yale athletics keeps public attendance records only for select spectator sports: baseball and softball, basketball, field hockey, football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer and volleyball. Senior Associate Athletic Director of Ticket Operations Jeremy Makins referred to this data when asked about attendance numbers. For sports that are not ticketed, these numbers are procured by both “headcounts and estimates,” he said. For all teams that have a men’s and women’s equivalent, attendance numbers are heavily skewed towards the men’s events. In the 2015–16 season, an average of 1,459 fans flocked to watch Yale men’s basketball home games. For women’s games, that figure was 208. In the 2014–15 lacrosse season, 907 fans attended men’s games on average, compared to 281 for women’s contests. Attendance records show that soccer is the sport with the most equivalent spectator numbers. Still, the men’s attendance average of 863 last fall was nearly twice that of women’s soccer, which averaged 480 fans per game. The majority of students interviewed said they do not frequently attend Yale sporting events, but most noted that when they do, they tend to watch men’s teams. Some student-athletes speculated that scheduled game times could influence the number of students present, as more fans may be available on Friday or Saturday nights, for example, than earlier in the afternoon. When teams that share a facility compete on the same day, coaches and athletic administrators must work together to determine the order of the games, Senior Associate Athletic Director Andy Dunn said. In basketball and hockey, time conflicts have happened between zero and three times per year over the past six seasons. In each case — five times in basketball and six in hockey — the men have played in the evening and the women have played earlier. The Yale athletic department charges non-students for tickets to both men’s and women’s hockey, in addition to football, both basketball teams and men’s lacrosse. Men’s hockey goalie Patrick Spano ’17 thought that money may be involved in the department’s scheduling decisions. “[The athletic department] knows that the guys’ games are going to bring in more fans and so they want to put it on prime time,” Spano said. “If the girls’ teams were going to make more money [and get as many fans] they would put them in the 7 p.m. slot. Saturday at 2 p.m. most people are probably busy.” Dunn said in an email to the News that game times are “strategically chosen” in order to maximize the ability for fans to attend games. But he added that while increased attendance does positively affect revenue, providing an “exceptional game-day atmosphere” for stu-

GRAPHIC DISPARITIES IN AVERAGE HOME GAME ATTENDANCE men’s team

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The Yale men’s basketball team, which won an Ivy title this year, drew an average of 1,459 spectators to home games.

The Yale men’s hockey team regularly plays in front of sold-out crowds, but fewer fans attend the women’s games.

dent-athletes was still the most important. Meanwhile, in soccer and lacrosse — sports in which nearly every men’s home game is scheduled on the same day as a women’s home game — the team that plays earlier varies throughout the year. Still, these sports both feature an average attendance disparity of at least 44 percent during home games. “There tends to be a tradition where girls and boys go to watch boys’ games, but the same is not to be said for women’s games,” women’s soccer midfielder Margaret Furlong ’18 said. “It just doesn’t seem to be a huge part of our campus’s culture to go all out for women’s games.”

year than at any other time recently have earned national headlines for their success. Achievements this year include an NCAA basketball tournament berth and an upset victory in the first round; a national team championship in squash; and No. 1 rankings in lacrosse and crew, both heavyweight and lightweight. But this year, all of these squads are men’s teams. Assuming the Yale men’s lacrosse team makes the NCAA tournament this season — a near certainty, given the team’s current 10–1 record and No. 4 national ranking — Yale will have earned eight tournament appearances in men’s basketball, lacrosse and hockey over a span of the past five years. By comparison, Yale’s women’s teams in those same three sports have earned zero NCAA tournament berths in the past eight years, one since 2004 and four since 1984. Still, Beckett said several women’s teams have achieved notable performances in the 21st century. In the last five years ending in 2014–15, Yale women’s teams have won 11 Ivy League Championships, mostly in two sports: The Yale women’s tennis team won three conference titles from 2011– 13, and the Yale volleyball team won five from 2010–14. Yale also added championships in field hockey, women’s golf and women’s squash, all in 2011. Women’s squash also won a national championship in 2011, and female sailors were part of three national championships — coed fleet racing, coed team racing and women’s fleet racing — last spring. “These ebbs and flows of female and male competitive success are consistent with the national landscape of college athletics,” Beckett said. Still, multiple students noted a perception that there has been a large discrepancy in competitiveness this year, perhaps because success has come from the more high-profile male teams on campus. Men’s lacrosse, basketball and hockey games are by far the most well-attended Yale sporting events, other than football. “I think that people show up more to male’s sports because those male teams at Yale have seen more success,” said one member of the Yale women’s swimming and diving team. Marks said that when teams are doing well relative to other teams in the country, their games are “more exciting” and draw more people to

A NATIONAL DILEMMA

That trend extends beyond Yale’s campus. Both non-athletes and student-athletes on multiple Yale teams highlighted that discrepancies in attendance are prevalent nationwide, not just at the Yale level. Viewership for men’s and women’s NCAA Division I Basketball Tournaments prove as much. Just this year, 17.8 million viewers tuned in for the men’s final, while only 3.0 million watched the women’s contest. Just before the finals, an op-ed written by Andrew Zimbalist in The New York Times highlighted the inequality in the NCAA basketball tournament — which rewards men’s teams’ conferences for their victories in the tournament but does not offer the same for women’s teams’ conferences. “Over at the men’s tournament, the NCAA pays for success: Each game a team plays (not including the championship) earns the team’s conference roughly $260,000 this year plus $260,000 each of the five following years,” Zimbalist wrote. “By contrast, a win in the women’s tournament brings a reward of exactly zero dollars. That’s right, zero dollars.” The fact that two of the most popular sports traditions in the U.S. — the Super Bowl and March Madness — focus primarily on male teams only furthers the gender gap in sports, women’s fencer Joanna Lew ’17 said. Women’s golf head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 also noted that two of the more popular American sports are football and baseball — both of which are male only. “When it comes down to it, boys’

[and] men’s sports always felt like they’ve had a bigger presence since I was very young, and I think because of that fact we’ve just, in a way, been programmed to gravitate towards men’s sporting events,” women’s lacrosse goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said. Multiple athletes said the reason for this may be simply biological. According to several students, the attention given to men’s sports is deep-rooted in society because male athletes tend to hold inherent physical advantages over females. Even some female athletes interviewed said men’s sports can be more exciting to watch because of the athletes’ physical abilities. “Men’s squash is faster-paced, and their points are longer,” women’s squash player Georgia Blatchford ’16 said. “Even as a woman, I would have to say that for the most part men’s squash is more exciting to watch. It can be frustrating, because as a woman I feel like I devote so much time and energy to my sport, but my physical capabilities are just biologically different than a man’s.” An anonymous female athlete said the faster-paced play of men’s sports is due to men often being “fitter, stronger, faster” than their female counterparts. Because of the faster pace, the athlete said, she generally prefers watching men’s sporting events. Spano agreed, noting that the different physical traits can make men’s sports more appealing than women’s sports. “I can understand why men’s professional leagues are more popular in general,” Spano said. “Men’s sports are faster and more aggressive and that appeals to more sports fans.” Yet others wholeheartedly disputed the notion that women’s sports should be considered on a different level than male sports. Women’s hockey captain and forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said despite “traditional notions” that lead to a larger fan presence at male sporting events, she finds that whenever she invites friends — many of whom are male Yale athletes — to her hockey games, they enjoy the experience and come to other games again later in the season. “It is, I hope, obvious that it’s not a superior experience to watch men’s over women’s, and I hope that over time the fan bases will equilibrate,” Lew said. “It will take people noticing the inequality and acting

on it, though. It’s culturally passed on that we watch men’s basketball, football, et cetera.” For some students, the larger presence of men’s sports on campus is exactly what motivates them to attend games in the first place — creating a cycle wherein higher fan presence at some games motivates even more students to go to those games, furthering the imbalance. Davi Lemos ’19 said he chooses to go to the sporting events with the highest attendance, because he enjoys feeling part of a crowd instead of just watching. That means he usually attends men’s sports, he added, because those teams bring more people to the stands. “I think that at times it is much more fun to go watch boys you know play their sports because it is a much more social event,” Furlong said. “But it is sometimes difficult to raise the same attention for women’s sports.”

MORE WINS, MORE FANS

One way to break the trend, some students said, is to convince spectators that they have a chance to see an important win. Multiple students interviewed said they make the decision to attend a game based on the team’s competitiveness; teams with a chance to win a championship tend to play more meaningful and exciting contests, making their attendance feel more worthwhile. At an international level, for example, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has drawn fans to women’s soccer in record numbers because of its performance. On July 5, 2015, the USWNT defeated Japan, 5–2, for its thirdever Women’s World Cup title. Nearly 27 million viewers across the United States tuned in for the final, making it the most-watched soccer match, men’s or women’s, in U.S. history. The viewership record likely had much to do with the difference in competitiveness between the U.S. women and their male counterparts: The U.S. men’s national team has not made the World Cup semifinal since 1930, the first-ever playing of the event. The women, meanwhile, have placed in the top three for all seven Women’s World Cups in history. But at Yale over the past few years, the opposite trend has emerged in nearly every sport that draws a high number of fans. Perhaps more Yale teams this

the stands. She noted that this is true for both women’s and men’s sports. For example, the Yale volleyball team has been consistently at the top of the Ivy League for the past decade, with five consecutive conference titles between 2010 and 2014 and a third-place showing this past year. Bulldog fans have responded to this success with more support than for any other women’s sport — in the 2015–16 season, an average of 528 fans were present at Yale’s 10 home volleyball games. By contrast, the Yale women’s basketball team — which placed sixth in the Ancient Eight this season after finishing third or fourth for the prior five years, and also plays its conference games in John J. Lee Amphitheater on weekend nights — brought an average of just 208 fans to its 15 home games this year.

A WORK IN PROGRESS

At Yale, some change has begun among both individual teams and student organizations with the goal of increasing attention toward women’s sports. Recognizing the higher number of spectators at men’s squash matches, David Talbott, the head coach for both men’s and women’s squash, took action to try to level attendance numbers. After he took over the women’s program in 2005, Talbott changed the structure of squash matches so that men and women now compete simultaneously. He said having both teams in the Brady Squash Center at the same time showcased women’s squash to spectators who normally only attend the men’s games. “Attendance for male events has been predominantly stronger and that’s one way we have addressed it,” Talbott said. “When you play both at once you can get people to support both and realize [women’s squash] is not only just as exciting but the level is just as high. It’s just another way of putting the product out there in front of people.” But Talbott recognized the unique circumstances of squash facilities and noted that the same cannot be done for all sports, many of which play at venues where only one game can be played at a time. Beckett said the department has added additional staff recently to focus on social media and marketing efforts for all of Yale’s athletic programs. One of those hires this year was assistant athletic director for external operations Erica Egan,

who now manages Yale athletics’ social media accounts. Egan said she decides what to post on the accounts based on what teams are in-season and performing well, regardless of gender. Still, the anonymous women’s team head coach cited difficulty getting support from the athletics administration. The coach said whenever the team wants its events to be promoted, program members have to be the ones actively seeking out publicity. The initiative does not originate from the athletics department, according to the coach. “I should not have to constantly beg, plead, try to do things to make my team better and it shouldn’t just be that way,” the coach said. “If they have tiers or have to limit something for you they should tell you. You should know that ahead of time. You shouldn’t have to go in and keep asking and asking and keep getting turned down.” The Whaling Crew, a student group on campus supporting Yale athletics, is also doing its part to improve attendance at women’s events. Former Whaling Crew president Matthew Sant-Miller ’17 highlighted as an example a cookout the group hosted on Old Campus this fall, meant to build excitement before the volleyball team’s home opener. “In my personal opinion, the biggest challenge is the wide-scale societal bias towards male sports over female sports,” Sant-Miller said. “However, by continuing to enthusiastically support women’s sports, I hope that the Whaling Crew will help increase attendance and slowly start to erode this bias at Yale.” The group has also hosted a tailgate for the Yale men’s and women’s soccer games against Harvard in the fall, and other tailgates for Yale baseball and softball doubleheaders last Saturday. Multiple female athletes interviewed also said they themselves could do more by attending more women’s games and encouraging their friends to go as well. “The next time a friend asks me to hang out and watch TV, I should switch on a women’s game and not a men’s,” Lew said. “I think that if we want the broader community to appreciate the seriousness and worth of women’s sports we need to lead the way. That being said, more money and publicity never hurt.” Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” OSCAR WILDE PLAYWRIGHT

Police violence documentary screened BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER A Wednesday viewing of award-winning documentary “Peace Officer” prompted a discussion about police-related violence and the militarization of the police force among members of the Yale and Connecticut community. The film, which was directed, written and produced by Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber, was screened in LinslyChittenden Hall, followed by a panel discussion featuring Yale Law professor Tracey Meares, legal director of the ACLU of Connecticut Dan Barrett and New Haven Police Department spokesman David. B. Hartman. The event, co-organized by the Yale Film Study Center and Connecticut Public Television, drew around 40 attendees. Archer Neilson, client relations and special projects manager at the Yale Film Study Center, moderated the panel, asking questions about race, weapons and tactics of the police force and the influence of federal programs on police violence. “The level of competence that I saw, or lack thereof, was actually astonishing,” Meares said of the Farmington, Utah police force, which was the subject of the film. Christopherson and Barber’s movie followed Dub Lawrence, a former police officer and sheriff in Davis County, Utah and current investigator of policerelated crime. His latest case: the murder of his 36-year-oldson-in-law, Brian Wood, by the SWAT team he assembled while serving as sheriff. According to the interviews shown in the documentary, Wood locked himself in his car with two handguns after suffering an emotional breakdown. Following an argument with his wife, he physically attacked

her for the first time. Relatives interviewed in the documentary said he was plagued with guilt. The police were called to the scene and a SWAT team showed up. The team spent 12 hours trying to verbally and physically coax Woods to get out of his car and then to surrender himself to the police. As the 13th hour approached, the SWAT team changed tactics and fatally shot Wood. Throughout the stalemate, Wood did not shoot any police officers and was unarmed by the time he was killed. Yet the police told Wood’s family he committed suicide. “I was surprised that there was no mention of negotiation, at all,” Hartman said. “I don’t want to sit here and sound like I’m defending the New Haven Police Department, but we don’t operate this way.” In normal situations, Hartman said, the police will negotiate “forever” rather than open fire. He described one of his own experiences that involved standing out in the rain for more than six hours talking to an alleged criminal and a hostage inside a house. Finally, he said, the police realized that the person had left and that he had been talking to a window. However, the officers never opened fire. One of the problems highlighted in the movie was the militarization of the police force, which could encourage an overzealously “dangerous” reaction from officers, Neilson said. The film described the history of SWAT teams, which were established after a series of racially charged riots in Los Angeles in 1965. Traditionally, SWAT teams have been armed with militarylike weaponry such as armed vehicles, assault weapons and bayonets. Barrett explained that “police and prosecutorial machines in the United States have been

drastically affected by the preferences of the government.” He cited the 1033 program of 1997, which allowed the federal government to transfer excess military equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies. According to Meares, though, the federal government is not the only organization to blame for the militarization of the police. She said that in the case of the August, 2014 shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, for example, the police force’s military equipment was not supplied by the federal government — the police force bought it themselves. “There’s a dynamic, because of all the guns in this country, that feeds into the use of violence by the police force,” Meares said. Barrett also introduced a discussion on mental health, an issue central to the film. He said Wood, who was already panicking about the potential felonies that he had committed, was psychologically “escalated” by the actions of the police. He called the police’s action in the film “an alarming reaction to a mental health crisis.” Meares said that people expect the police to treat them with respect, rather than perpetrate violence. She mentioned that after several unwarranted actions against civilians, communities may lose trust in the police force. “One thing we know is clear from the research that I’ve done: People expect the same from police officers, no matter their own race, gender, sexual orientation and the like,” she said. “Peace Officer,” which won both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, will air Monday, May 9th at 9 p.m. on PBS. Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

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Art nonprofit to host auction

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Creative Arts Workshop will hold its second Hats Off charity auction May 14. BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER Amidst colorful paintings, knit and metal works and a variety of ceramic pieces, a bird and button covered hat is on display at Creative Arts Workshop, a nonprofit community art school on Audubon Street. The hat — one of about 20 that will be auctioned off in May — is awaiting its runway debut. Creative Arts Workshop will host its second Hats Off charity auction May 14, with proceeds supporting CAW’s mission to give people of all ages and talents a space to learn and create. During the auction, hats designed and decorated by Connecticut artists will be modeled by drag queens before being sold to the highest bidders. Attendees, who must purchase a $50 admission ticket, are encouraged to make their own hats, wear them to the auction and sell them, with proceeds also going towards CAW. The first Hats Off event was held five years ago, but the art school decided to bring it back this year, with the hopes of making it an annual event. “Artists are hermits a lot, it is nice for them to be with other people when they work,” New Haven artist Liz Pagano said, explaining that she is eager to support CAW.

Pagano, who planned the first Hats Off event, conceived the idea six years ago after observing how much fun attendees had at a friend’s hatthemed birthday party. She said the levels of both imagination and excitement were high at the first Hats Off, adding that patrons were “laughing the whole time.” “It was so much fun and it had such a good buzz afterwards,” Pagano said. Pagano’s relationship with CAW began when she started taking classes as an emerging artist in the early 1980s. She now teaches printmaking classes and workshops and has created a hat for this year’s show. Ruth Sack, a New Havenbased artist who lives in Cheshire and teaches at CAW, is responsible for the bird and button hat’s creation. A multidisciplinary artist, she explained that she created the hat using a variety of trinkets she found at flea markets and in her studio. Most of the objects are vintage, she said, adding that she expects to set the starting price at close to $100. She said she feels that CAW gave her a place to connect with other artists and that her children have enjoyed taking classes there.

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CAW’s efforts to expand its artistic community do not begin and end with the auction. Jan Daddona, CAW development manager, said the organization provides financial aid to people from low-income backgrounds who could not otherwise afford to pay CAW’s tuition, which ranges between under $20 to more than $600 for various art classes and workshops. But Daddona said the tuition CAW’s students pay only covers about 45 percent of the nonprofit’s costs. “We tend to cut things to the bare bone,” said Daddona. “It’s hard to monetize what you do to make it available to your constituency.” Earlier this month, New Haven artist Sam Shevelkin held a fundraiser for CAW in conjunction with Ordinary, a bar on Chapel Street. In an email to the News, he explained that CAW has been an important part of his life and art since he started volunteering there when he was 16. He said there is no other place in southern Connecticut that provides the same quality of art facilities to the community. Creative Arts Workshop was established in 1961. Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

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Noting errors, UC revokes funding from four clubs

Cornell to “Ban the Box”

BY BRIAN YU In response to a series of rule violations that the Harvard Undergraduate Council’s Finance Committee had not previously identified, the committee was forced to revoke funding from four student organizations this week. Each year, the UC Finance Committee is allocated about $300,000, funded by a $75 undergraduate term bill fee, to distribute to student organizations in the form of grants. The Harvard Office of Student Life stipulates that the grants may not fund events that take place during shopping, reading and final examinations periods. UC Treasurer Samarth Gupta said he believes the policy ensures there will not “be many extracurriculars going on during reading period and finals so that students can focus on academics.” In practice, however, the UC has struggled to enforce that rule. Earlier this month, the UC voted to allocate funding for five events scheduled between April 28 and May 6, totaling $1,945 worth of funding. Reading period begins on April 28. In one case, the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra requested funding for their fourth concert, which according to the organization’s website is set to take place one day after reading period begins, on April 29. The organization requested $1,000 in funding for costs including venue rentals, programs and instrument rentals. The application also stated that funding from the UC would help allow free admission to the concert.

In their application for f u n d ing from the UC, the organization HARVARD re p o r te d that the event would end by April 27, one day before reading period begins. Harvard Finance Committee Chair William Greenlaw said that since the event is scheduled to take place during reading period, the group is ineligible to receive funding. Greenlaw also expressed concern over possible misrepresentation of information on the group’s grant application. “If Bach Society Orchestra has willfully misrepresented the date of their event to receive money, we’ll have to have a serious conversation about how to handle their grants in the future,” Greenlaw wrote in a message. In a statement to The Crimson, Bach Society Orchestra’s management wrote that “our grant team listed [April 27] as the end date because it represents our last rehearsal and thus the end of our preparations for the anticipated concert. While we certainly should’ve listed the end date as April 29, the period listed on the grant does encompass the vast majority of the preparation necessary for the concert.” “While this was certainly an oversight, characterizing it as ‘dishonesty’ would be unfair,” the statement added. The funding concerns come at a time when the UC’s Finance Committee has strug-

gled to enforce grant policy rules and debates further methods to hold student organizations accountable. The committee’s policy rules also state that “evidence of dishonesty when applying or interviewing for a grant is grounds for disqualification of a student group from receiving future funding from the [Harvard] Undergraduate Council.”

Sometimes, our enforcement isn’t perfect, so some groups slip through the cracks. WILIAM GREENLAW Harvard Finance Committee Chair In four other instances this month, organizations submitted requests for funding to the UC and accurately reported that their events were set to take place during reading period. Still, the Finance Committee and the UC as a general body voted to allocate funding for the events. “It just so happens that sometimes, our enforcement isn’t perfect, so some groups slip through the cracks,” Greenlaw wrote. In one of those four cases, Gupta had distributed a $400 grant allocated to the Harvard College Bolivian Association. Greenlaw confirmed that the UC “awarded them their grant in error.” In the other three instances — grants allocated to Tempus: The Harvard College His-

tory Review, the Harvard Ballet Company and Harvard’s Signet Society, a group of undergraduate artists and writers — the UC was able to revoke the funding allocation before the groups received grants, according to Greenlaw. “We won’t be able to give them funding it seems, but they won’t be punished for their honesty,” Greenlaw wrote. In the case of the Signet Society, the timing of the grant was not the only rules violation. The Signet Society is not an OSL-recognized student group, and UC rules stipulate that “only officially recognized student groups in good standing with the Office of Student Life may apply for UC grants.” When asked about Signet’s grant, Greenlaw confirmed that the Signet Society is not eligible to receive grants. Earlier this semester, the Signet Society received a $390 grant from the UC for their “A Little Night Music” event. “This is another problem with enforcement,” Greenlaw wrote. “The common app does not easily screen out nonrecognized student organizations, so we’re forced to take students at their word. This doesn’t necessarily mean Signet was being dishonest though. It just means that we might not have clarified the policy.” Gupta said he would consider advocating for a change to the reading period policy in the future, but that the council must follow the current rules. “We hate for them to not have their event, but the policy guide is pretty clear,” Gupta said.

BY TALIA JUBAS Cornell University Associate Vice President of Human Resources Allan Bishop has informed the Employee Assembly that the university plans to implement a “ban the box” policy — which would remove questions about an applicant’s conviction history on preliminary job applications — by July 1, according to EA Executive Vice Chair Tanya Grove. Grove shared Bishop’s announcement at the EA’s ad hoc meeting Wednesday afternoon, saying that although not all details have been decided, Cornell expected to advance the policy barring significant complications.

[The plan] represents a huge step forward toward ensuring that Cornell is a fair chance employer. GARRISON LOVELY President, Cornell Prison Reform and Education Project At the meeting, the EA also voted unanimously to pass a resolution in support of banning the box, which was previously postponed because it had not been sponsored within the body. Although the resolution retained most of its original text, the EA modified language to reflect the university’s confirmation of its willingness to adopt the “ban the box” policy.

Garrison Lovely, president of Cornell Prison R e f o r m and Education Project, said he was CORNELL “thrilled” with the university’s decision to pursue this initiative. “I met with Allan Bishop in the fall and he was open to ‘ban the box,’ but there were no concrete plans,” Lovely said. “This represents a huge step forward toward ensuring that Cornell is a fair chance employer going into the 2016 academic year.” The city of Ithaca recently removed the conviction question from job applications for governmental positions, and New York City legislation stipulates that employers inquire about criminal convictions only after they have extended a conditional offer of employment, according to the EA resolution. The resolution added that the university has already implemented these fair chance employment policies for its New York City campuses. Lovely said he hopes the university’s resolution will influence hiring practices beyond Cornell’s campus and help the initiative spread throughout Tompkins County. “As the largest employer in Ithaca and Tompkins County, this should be able to have strong impact on how other employers in Tompkins County receive calls to ban their boxes,” Lovely said.

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SPORTS

“Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.” RAY BOURQUE FAMED BOSTON BRUINS DEFENSEMAN

Darkness halts nightcap of doubleheader SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12

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Lauren Delgadillo ’16 went 3–6 in Yale’s midweek doubleheader, including an RBI.

Life at Yale off the rink O’GARA FROM PAGE 12 one of my seven best friends on campus. The “Dynamic” class of 2016, as we like to call ourselves, was born that day and we didn’t even think about shooting a puck, singing “Mr. Jones” after a win or living through a hung Sunday morning lift and skate for a second. I don’t think I will ever be able to imagine my Yale experience without the privilege of trekking to Ingalls Rink almost every day to play hockey. I mean no offense to the Yalies who do not play sports, because I admire my “Normie” pals for being able to make friends without being placed in a locker room with the same 26 people every single day, but I figure I wouldn’t have had a small fraction of the fun (because I wouldn’t have gotten in) during my time at Yale if it wasn’t for being a part of the hockey team. My Yale experience, on and off the ice, has been shaped by my being a Yale men’s ice hockey player. Despite the groans that statement may cause, I know deep down in the bottom of my heart I would not have the same love for Yale as I do right now if my experience had been centered around anything else. Being a Bulldog not only presented me with the chance to pursue my dream of playing professional hockey, but also provided me with experiences like playing at Madison Square Garden, making the NCAA tournament three out of four years, winning three Ivy League Championships, losing only twice to Harvard in 15 meetings and obviously beating Qpac only once (when it counted) with my best friends on campus. What solidified college being the stereotypical “best four years of my life,” however, were the times off the ice I got to share with my teammates. To name only a few: battling until 2 p.m. on Sundays, playing an irrational amount of sewerball, clowning at 380 Crown Castle, voting on the “guttiest” things, perfecting open bars, spamming the panlist, anchoring the Bullpen, fining the freshmen, telling Mitch Witek ’16 he smells bad, holding buddy’s talks, running the stairs at Ingalls, crashing Anthony Day’s ’15 car, beating the women’s soccer team in soccer, racing before Spring Fling, grinding through ropes courses, laughing at all of Dan O’Keefe’s ’17 jokes, winning on Saturdays at home and so very many more things that made Yale as incredible as it was for me. It was these things that made putting on my Yale jersey everyday feel like the icing on the cake instead of the actual cake, and I already miss it all beyond the description of words. So here’s a big thank you to everyone who actually read past all those inside jokes up there, and who have been a part of not only my Yale hockey experience, but also my Yale experience as a whole. It changed my life in all the greatest ways possible, and it’s still crazy to think it’s over. I will forever be enthusiastic, hard-working, disciplined, relentless and united thanks to Yale hockey, and I plan on carrying on those qualities through the rest of my life. ROB O’GARA is a senior in Saybrook College as well as a two-time All-American for the Yale men’s ice hockey team and a current member of the Providence Bruins. Contact him at robert.ogara@yale.edu .

Yale pushed across one run in the first inning and two in the second, thanks to some crafty base running and carefully played small ball. Shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 was the first runner to score after she was hit by a pitch to lead off the game. After stealing second base, Labbadia made it all the way home on an error on a bunt from Sydney Ginsberg ’18. “As a leadoff hitter, I always try to get on base in any way possible so that the team can hit me in,” Labbadia said. “Scoring in the first inning gives our team a lot of momentum.” Lindsay Efflandt ’17 conceded a run in the bottom half of the frame but Yale responded right away in the top of the second with right fielder Rachel Paris ’17 walking to start off the action. She was then doubled home by first baseman Lauren Delgadillo ’16, who coincidentally shares a first and last name with Sacred Heart’s center fielder. Later in the same frame, Yale’s Delgadillo crossed home on a single off the bat of left fielder Kennedy. Though Yale’s offense quieted down for three innings, Efflandt preserved the team’s 2–1 advantage, allowing just one hit between the second and fifth innings. The scoring resumed in the top of the sixth, when Kennedy drove in another run on a double. Yale tacked on an additional insurance run in the seventh inning when designated hitter Terra Jerpbak ’19

singled in pinch runner and captain Allie Souza ’16 to give the Bulldogs their fifth and final run of the contest, with the offense boosted by five Sacred Heart errors. Meanwhile, Efflandt finished off another solid outing in the pitcher’s circle, continuing a dominant run for the junior. In the completegame performance, she allowed only two earned runs on five hits. The outing was Efflandt’s fourth in the past five Yale game, during which she has tallied 28.2 innings while giving up just four earned runs. And while Yale cruised with relative ease to victory in the first game behind Efflandt, the second game of the day was marked by impressive pitching from both sides. Jerpbak took over on the mound, where she tossed four scoreless innings, striking out four Pioneers while allowing just two hits. “I just remind myself that my job is to pitch well and hopefully our hits will start to fall in,” Jerpbak said. “We usually are making good contact, just not getting the runners on or getting quality at-bats to score the runs.” However, Yale got a quality atbat when it needed one, when second baseman Laina Do ’17 knocked a run home on a third-inning double for the first run of the game. Jerpbak, whose season ERA now stands at 3.83, exited the game with a 1–0 lead, handing the ball over to Francesca Casalino ’18. Casalino struck out the side in

her first inning of work and continued to punch batters out over the course of her four innings. She sent seven Pioneers down on strikes, despite battling tendonitis in her right forearm that has developed over the course of the season due to overuse. She is one of Yale’s only three pitchers to have tallied innings this season. Combined, Casalino and Jerpbak struck out 11 batters and allowed five hits over the course of the nightcap. However, the game went into extras, Yale’s seventh such game this season, thanks to a two-out Sacred Heart rally in the sixth inning, sparked by a bunt single. Casalino then allowed a gametying RBI double, though that would be all the scoring for either team. After the eighth inning, the action was halted due to darkness, sending both teams home with a tie. Wednesday provided a nice change from recent history for Yale, as the Bulldogs had only won one of the five games played against the Pioneers over the past three seasons. On deck for the Elis is a fourgame set against Dartmouth, which is the lone team undefeated in Ivy play. The series will be played over the weekend in Hanover, New Hampshire with the first pitch scheduled for 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .

Offense erupts in blowout win BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 ’19 began the game strongly for the Bulldogs in his fifth career start, inducing swinging strikeouts for all three outs of the first inning. Wanger continued to befuddle the Wesleyan lineup, pitching ahead in the count in nearly every at-bat and allowing just two runners to reach scoring position. The freshman surrendered just three hits and struck out a career-high six batters in four shutout innings. “I definitely felt more comfortable out there today and I think a big part of that started with Andrew Herrera ’17 behind the plate,” said Wanger. “I also had better command of my fastball and off-speed pitches today and just focused on throwing to [Herrera’s] glove.” Four Yale relievers, Tyler Duncan ’18, Kumar Nambiar ’19, Mikey Sliepka ’18 and Sam Boies ’19 provided robust support out of the pen following Wanger’s strong outing, allowing a combined five hits and two unearned runs in the remaining five frames. Duncan earned the win for the Bulldogs, facing just eight batters in the scoreless fifth and sixth innings. Meanwhile at the plate, the Yale lineup continued its offensive clinic, working pitch-counts and capitalizing on its patience in the batter’s box. The Bulldogs, who drew nine walks on the day, followed a one-run fourth inning by batting through the lineup in the sixth, punctuated by a twoout RBI single by Moates. After nearly notching his first home run of the season when he blasted a towering fly ball just foul beyond the left field fence in his previous at-bat, the captain blooped a full-count offering into left to score third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 from second base. Center fielder Tim Degraw ’19 also contributed mightily at the plate on

Wednesday. The freshman reached base in all six of his plate appearances, adding a pair of walks and a fielder’s choice to his two singles and a linedshot double down the right field line. But out of the Bulldogs’ 14 hits against the Cardinals, the most impressive came off the bat of right fielder Harrison White ’17 in the sixth inning. Facing Wesleyan junior reliever Asher Young with Yale catcher Alex Boos ’18 on second base, White smacked a two-run homer into right field, driving in his 17th and 18th runs of the season, second-most on the team. “I really wasn’t trying to do a whole lot. I didn’t think too much, just tried to put a good swing on the ball and put as much barrel on it as possible,”

White said. “I got a hanging slider, recognized it and just stayed back well enough to drive the ball.” Boies, the fifth pitcher of the day for the Elis, finished the three-plus hours contest with a resilient final frame. Staring down Wesleyan’s cleanup hitter, sophomore Matt Jeye, after loading the bases with two outs, Boies induced a weak ground ball to second basemen Derek Brown ’17 for the final out of the game. With their nonconference competition now complete, the Bulldogs will head north to face Dartmouth in a pivotal four-game series this weekend. Owning a one-game lead over the Big Green for the top spot in the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division, the weekend will go a long way in deter-

mining Yale’s fate as it searches for its first division title since 1995. “We are just looking to take each game as they come and not think about the greater importance of this weekend,” right fielder Nate Adams ’16 said. “It’s hard to be successful if you make the game too big, so we are just going to focus on controlling what we can control, playing within ourselves and bringing a little joy to the diamond. If we play our game, the results should follow.” Each of Yale’s two doubleheaders this weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, versus the Big Green will begin at 12 p.m. Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

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Harrison White ’17, No. 5, went 2–2 with a walk, three runs scored and a two-run home run on Wednesday in Yale’s 15–2 win.

Yale sailing a global force SAILING FROM PAGE 12 Other notable Eli Olympic results include fourth place from Louise Van Voorhis ’90 in the 1996 Games, and fifth from Isabelle Kinsolving ’02 in the 2004 Games. Michael Schoettle ’54 is also a Yale alumnus who claimed gold, though he crewed for the winning team in 1952 prior to attending the University. A combination of factors contribute to Yale’s successful sailing program said head coach Zachary Leonard, who has overseen just under half of Yale’s Olympic sailors since he began coaching in 2000. Leonard and Fetter both discussed Yale’s location as unique in its ability to produce Olympic sailors. The coast of New England is home to a number of universities with competitive sailing programs that allow

for easy-access competition on the weekends, Fetter said. Furthermore, Yale’s program holds practices in an open-water area, letting competitors experience the types of conditions they would encounter in the Olympics, in turn attracting potential future Olympians to Yale as a result of its multipurpose venue. Other East Coast schools that sail in places such as the Charles River are not as applicable to the type of sailing faced in the Olympics, Leonard said. Fetter was attracted to Yale’s program in large part due to Dave Perry ’77, who brought top sailors from around the country to the University, despite the fact that sailing was only a club sport at the time. Though during Fetter’s Yale career the University’s sailing program lacked structured coaching, she said that

what Leonard and assistant coach Bill Healy have since accomplished with Yale sailing is “amazing.” For Leonard, the measure of his success as a coach is whether students are inspired to “enjoy” the sport, and are driven by their passion for sailing itself. “The passion for them to continue the sport is so great that it makes them want to take it to the highest level,” Leonard said. Fetter also spoke to the “success breeds success” mentality of Yale sailors who, while she was attending Yale, often trained and competed with fellow teammates who were simultaneously training for the Olympics. To sail at Yale, she said, was to be surrounded by peers who were thinking about and preparing for larger-scope competitions, providing an “expectation of top-notch

boat speed, boat-handling, and strategy at every practice.” Furthermore, both McNay and Leonard attributed the success of Yale’s sailors to the University’s mentality overall. The types of students Yale admits, Leonard said, are those who are “willing to take the less conventional path.” “As an institution, Yale students learn how to focus on their tasks and how to achieve at a high level,” McNay said. “The standard at which you are expected to perform in any activity you take part in at the University then has carry over to all activities and all parts of life.” The 2016 Olympic sailing competitions will begin on Aug. 5 and end on Aug. 21. Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

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Bulldogs wallop Wesleyan 15–2 BASEBALL

Much more than an NCAA title

pitched. O’Neill, who reached base in three of his five at-bats on Wednesday with four runs batted in, scored later in the inning on the first of five Wesleyan errors. Yale’s arms had little trouble either against the Cardinals, who lead the NESCAC conference with a 0.355 batting average this season. Benny Wanger

Reflecting on my Yale career, it would have been really easy to focus on winning the National Championship 4–0 over our friends over in Hamden (oops) my freshman year, but that does not represent all of what I will remember about Yale hockey. Many people, even myself sometimes, seem to forget that the 2012–13 season was only a fourth of a journey I will recall so fondly for a very long time. Coming to Yale as a freshman, I’ll always remember the moment I met my first teammate, Charles Orzetti ’16. For those of you that don’t know Orzetti, I would simply say that he has a “strong personality.” I, on the other hand, arrived at school a shy 6-foot-4 beanpole barely over 200 pounds, and there I was introducing myself to another “freshman” — one who was almost two years older than me, 20 pounds heavier than me and with a beard that actually covered most of his face (unlike anything I can still attempt to grow to this day). I was fortunate enough to survive to the point where I realized Zetti — who became the “Fireman” and my bus buddy — was just a big soft goof and

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Center fielder Tim Degraw ’19 tallied three hits and reached base six times overall on Wednesday afternoon. BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In its last five games, the Yale baseball team’s offense managed just nine runs and posted a pedestrian 0.189 batting average. But in their game against Wesleyan on Wednesday, the Bulldogs scored seven times in the first inning alone. The Elis went on to reach base 31 times in 52 trips to the

plate, routing the Cardinals (16 –8, 3–3 NESCAC) 15–2 in the Bulldogs’ final nonconference matchup of the season. The team’s 15 runs scored across five different innings represent its highest run total this year, as well as its largest margin of victory. With the emphatic win, Yale (13–22–1, 7–5 Ivy) distanced itself from a three-loss weekend against Harvard, and now enters its final eight games

of the season against Ancient Eight rivals Dartmouth and Brown on a high note. “This win gives us great momentum going into the weekend,” captain and designated hitter Chris Moates ’16 said. “We had a little bit of a dry spell hitting this past weekend, and it is really encouraging to see the way the team drove the ball all over the ballpark today.” Despite having scored just

nine first-inning runs in its 2016 campaign thus far, the Bulldogs wasted no time before punishing the Cardinals’ pitching staff, with six of Yale’s first eight batters reaching base. The Bulldogs already led 3–0 in the game before shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16 blasted a threeRBI double to left-center field, knocking Wesleyan starting pitcher Wilson Flower out of the game after just 0.2 innings

Sailing’s Olympic legacy continues BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Last week, sailor and Yale alumnus Stu McNay ’05 qualified for the 2016 Olympics, joining fellow Elis Thomas Barrows ’10 and Joseph Morris ’12 as

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SAILING McNay, sailing with crew Dave Hughes, secured his qualification with a bronze-medal finish at the

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The duo of Stu McNay ’05 and partner Dave Hughes will sail at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

470 Class European Championship held in Spain from April 7 to 12. He is now a third-time Olympian, having competed in both 2008 and 2012. Barrows, who qualified in February, also competed in 2008. After qualifications this year, Morris is the newest in a line of 11 Yale sailors who have found themselves Olympic-bound since 1964. “The unique thing [about Yale sailing] is the people involved and their attitudes towards achievement and success and commitment to a successful process,” McNay said. “No matter what level of achievement you have prior to your involvement in the program, you quickly become a lot better for all those reasons.” Three Eli sailors have claimed a total of five Olympic medals, with Jonathan McKee ’83 holding the sole gold medal after winning the Flying Dutchman class in the ’84 Games. McKee followed up his victorious ’84 campaign in 2000, nabbing a bronze medal in the 49er class, the same class in which Barrows and Morris will be competing this summer. J.J. Fetter ’85 also attended the Olympic games twice, claiming medals both times with a bronze in 1992 and silver in 2000, competing in women’s 470 class both times. Stephen Benjamin ’78 took silver in the 1984 Games in men’s 470s. Joining McKee and Benjamin in the 1984 Games was Eric Tulla ’70, who ranked 19th.

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Pitching leads Elis to win, tie

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Shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 scored the first run of the game in Yale’s 5–2 win over Sacred Heart. BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale softball team strung together quality performances at the plate and impressive command from the pitcher’s circle in a midweek nonconference matchup that served as an encouraging tune-up for this weekend’s league games against Dartmouth.

SOFTBALL Sparring with Sacred Heart

(11–27–2, 2–6 Northeast), Yale (13–26–1, 5–7 Ivy) rode its reliable pitching staff in the doubleheader as it bounced back nicely from a stretch of six games with only one win. The Elis won the first matchup 5–2 and then played the Pioneers to a 1–1 tie in a contest that was called after eight innings due to darkness. “Any games we go into, we have to focus on competing,” left fielder Shelby Kennedy ’19 said. “We have to stay within ourselves and our play and not overthink our competitor.”

The Pioneers’ disappointing overall record this season does not necessarily reflect the effectiveness of the team’s pitching, as Sacred Heart boasts a team ERA of 3.07. However, it was an oftunused senior, Kelli Licursi, who started the first game for Sacred Heart. Against Licursi, who entered the game having pitched only 0.2 innings all season, the Eli bats came out swinging. SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF RUNS SCORED IN THE FIRST INNING BY THE YALE BASEBALL TEAM IN ITS 15–2 VICTORY OVER WESLEYAN ON WEDNESDAY. Prior to that outburst, the Bulldogs had only scored a combined nine first-inning runs in their 35 previous games this season.