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Trump swept the state, while Clinton won by a narrow margin.

Newest Nieman. Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post’s former Tehran bureau chief who was jailed for 18 months in Iran after being accused of espionage, will spend next year at Harvard.

Rezaian will be a fellow for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

Discuss the divide. Grammy award-winning hip-hop artist Lecrae will visit Battell Chapel tomorrow to give a talk titled “Knowledge Through Narrative: Bridging the Racial Divide in America.” Students can reserve seats online.

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out a narrow victory against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, extending her delegate lead and deepening uncertainty about Sanders’ viability as a candidate.

With 99 percent of the state reporting early Wednesday, Clinton had secured 51.7 percent of the vote in Connecticut, receiving 27 delegates, while Sanders garnered 46.5 percent and the other 24 delegates. Trump, meanwhile, whipped the Repub-

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS Republican Donald J. Trump won a commanding victory in Connecticut’s presidential primary Tuesday, cementing his position as the front-runner for the Republican nomination as the primary election cycle winds down.

Democrat Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, meanwhile, eked

lican field, with 57.7 percent of the vote to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s 11.7 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s 28.5 percent. Having secured over 50 percent of the vote, Trump received all 28 of Connecticut’s delegates.

Both Clinton and Trump took New Haven, with Clinton receiving 57.3 percent of the Democratic vote while Trump swayed 45.4 percent of SEE PRIMARY PAGE 4

“We out here, we’ve been here, we ain’t leaving, we are loved.” More than 1,000 students chanted in unison as they marched toward Cross Campus last November, holding banners and signs of solidarity to protest racial injustice on Yale’s campus.

Just months earlier, in the same space, 150 Yale students had gathered for a similar cause.

The “Unite Yale: Rally for Student Power” last March brought together student organizers from various corners of the University advocating for several causes — a better racial climate, fossil fuel divestment, mental health reform and financial aid policy changes.

For many students, the Unite Yale rally is already a distant memory compared to last

UPCLOSE fall’s upheaval. But November’s events — which attracted significantly more attention than Unite Yale, sending shockwaves across campus and the nation at the time — may be fading from popular consciousness too. In the weeks following the March of Resilience, national news teams packed up their equipment and were soon gone without a trace. Thanksgiving followed, and when school resumed after break, campus appeared to have returned to a state of tranquility.

Change did come out of the November mass mobilization that student organizers branded SEE ADVOCACY PAGE 6

FAS Senate drafts diversity report A NA LYS I S

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interview with The New York Times ahead of the release of her new movie “Money Monster,” director Jodie Foster ’85 revealed that after all of her success, she still fears failure.

The Times characterized the film, which stars George Clooney in the lead role, as “a meditation on failure.” “Failure is a big one for me — people in spiritual crisis, in a moment in life of total self-hatred,” Foster said, explaining her inspiration for the movie.

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he mass mobilization of students last fall in protest of Yale’s racial climate was momentous at the time, but months later, Next Yale student organizers must decide how to sustain that energy and use it productively.

What approaches have different student activist and advocacy groups taken to effect change on campus, and is one method better than another?

MONICA WANG reports.

Who are they voting for?

One, two Streep. Writer Michael Schulman has chosen Meryl Streep DRA ’75 as the subject of his new book, a biography titled “Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep” — in stores now. Schulman tells several stories about Streep’s early career and time at Yale.

He reports that Streep’s acting chops earned her quite a bit of fame at the Yale School of Drama. She was so popular that her last name became a verb — to “Streep it up” meant to step it up.

Under Armour uniform designs for two fall sports teams unveilved

Within and without the system: advocacy at Yale

The other four. Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland and Pennsylvania also held state primary elections today.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump took all four states, in addition to Connecticut, and completed a five-state sweep. Democrat Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 won in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, but her opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders defeated her by 12 points in Rhode Island.

The John F. Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics at Harvard conducted a spring poll of millennials — young adults, age 18 to 29 — which found that support for the Democratic party among young people has increased dramatically since last spring. In 2015, 55 percent of respondents said they would prefer Democratic control of the White House, but that share rose to 61 percent in the most recent poll.

UNDER WRAPS

Report demonstrates senate’s growing influence

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate’s draft report about diversity and inclusion has highlighted the senate’s growing ability to obtain and analyze new information as well as its increasing communications with University administrators.

In previous reports about faculty conduct standards and the expansion of the new residential colleges, the senate, which is in its inaugural year, has often highlighted its limited access to

key information. However, in this latest draft report, the senate has successfully obtained never-before-seen statistics about junior faculty hiring and retention from the Office of Institutional Research, which keeps historical data about the University. This is the first time the senate has obtained a significant set of data that was specifically analyzed at its request. The drafting of the report also reasserts the senate’s role of bringing faculty voices to matters of University governance and SEE SENATE PAGE 4

Statistics reveal “lost decade” for women, minority hiring

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER According to never-before-seen data on junior faculty hiring trends and tenure rates among women and underrepresented minorities, the last 10 years have been a “lost decade” in Yale’s ongoing push for faculty diversity.

A new draft report by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate — which includes newly compiled statistics from the Office of Institutional Research, a survey of current FAS professors and a historical analysis of diversity initiatives at the University since the late 1960s — paints a stark contrast between the “golden years” of 1999 to 2006, when faculty diversity

was a top priority, and the last 10 years.

Anthropology professor Doug Rogers, who serves on the senate subcommittee that authored the report, said the statistics show dramatically increasing faculty diversity in the early 2000s, and just as dramatically decreasing diversity since the 2008 financial crisis. The report also found through its survey that faculty members’ experiences of Yale’s academic climate differ significantly based on gender and ethnicity.

“Rather than any overt ill will, we see an accumulated pattern of thousands of small decisions at all levels — decisions that persistently, if largely unconsciously, have cast the diversity of the SEE REPORT PAGE 4

Financial aid office continues communications reforms

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Instead of a lengthy booklet, domestic students admitted via regular decision this year who qualified for financial aid received a streamlined, twopage document offering supplementary information to their individual packages on financing their Yale educations.

The new insert is designed to replace the 16-page document that has accompanied financial aid award letters in the past, and that had been sent to students admitted to the class of 2020 through the early action program. The change builds off of communications reforms made earlier this academic year, when Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi announced that his

office had redesigned the financial aid award letter to be more transparent and more easily understandable for admitted students and their families. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the new insert complements the modified letter and is meant to provide information in a more efficient way.

“We’ve really tried to streamline and improve our communications to [admitted] students and really make [communication] clear at the request of Yale students,” Quinlan said. “I think this effort is another step forward in making financial aid communications more transparent and easily accessible to students and parents.”

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The new insert is the latest communications reform from the financial aid office.

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.COMMENT “If there is money, don't sugarcoat it in misdirection rhetoric.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

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he world seems to be shifting. Waking up.

Suppressed resentment comes to the fore as more people discuss systemic oppression. Racism surfaces. Sexism surfaces.

This could not have been more obvious on Saturday when Beyoncé released her new album “Lemonade,” a tour de force of black feminism, cultural criticism and innovation. A poignant scene in her visual album shows black mothers of slaughtered children — including Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Gartner — holding pictures of their sons. Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity voicing her opinions on racial justice. Janelle Monae, who is set to preform at Spring Fling this weekend, criticizes police brutality and racism throughout America through songs like “Hell You Talmbout.” TaNehisi Coates, who is known for discussing the role of race in American identity, received the National Book Award for his work “Between the World and Me.” Meanwhile, politicians such as Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 have been forced to reckon with their previous actions — calling black youth “super predators” being a particularly egregious example — which have resulted in the perpetuation of racist attitudes. Racism is no longer an issue on the periphery of mainstream consciousness; it has become central to the American psyche.

RACISM IS NO LONGER AN ISSUE ON THE PERIPHERY OF MAINSTREAM CONSCIOUSNESS Then why isn’t Yale changing with the times? If so many of us are disturbed by institutions that reify imperialist and white supremacist values, then shouldn’t a college that professes to develop our “moral and creative capacities” challenge systems of oppression?

According to a recent survey conducted by the News, the majority of students enrolled at Yale believe that the University should change the name of Calhoun College.

John C. Calhoun was a notorious proponent of slavery in the United States. After serving as our vice president, Calhoun led pro-slavery factions in the 1830s and 1840s.

Coming from South Carolina, he did not question the morality of slavery because he thought that its spread would

remove poor whites from the countryside. In 1837, he gave a speech entitled “ S l a v ISIS DAVIS- ery a Positive Good,” MARKS in which he offered sevThe dark eral paternalistic side justifications for the physical and intellectual superiority of whites.

In light of this context, it is extremely disturbing that one of the world’s leading educational institutions has a significant building named after such a man. While some may argue that a name merely signifies a specific object, names do have serious implications.

For example, we wouldn’t say that the word “whore” has the same connotation as the term “sexually active woman.”

So why would we say that a building named after a proponent of slavery would connote the same thing as a building named after an influential woman of color? Many feminist theorists say that negative representations of black and brown people in the world, and positive representations of white supremacist figures, result in “symbolic annihilation.” This means that harmful representations make it difficult to imagine a world in which we can reject racist values; in other words, they kill black political imagination.

Keeping the Calhoun name lauds values of white supremacy by placing a symbol of oppression in a position of prominence. Although some may argue that removing his image will result in an “erasure of history,” I would argue that we could still remember his harmful legacy by creating an art exhibition or residential college seminar explaining why he was such a problematic figure.

Yale has the opportunity to set a precedent for higher education. With all of its resources and qualified faculty, it can create a pedagogical model that is critical of the power structures that oppress black and brown bodies in America. The mission statement of Yale College claims that “the aim of this education is the cultivation of citizens with a rich awareness of our heritage to lead and serve in every sphere of human activity.” Perhaps, as the academic year comes to a close, Yale will begin to practice what it preaches.

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

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GUEST COLUMNIST MADDI CONLIN

Find success, not yourself A

s the academic year winds down, an omnipresent and absurd question is inevitably directed at freshmen all across campus: What have you learned in your first year at college? Or rather, what would you have done differently? So I’ve decided to publish my answers to these questions, in the hope that my advice will be of some use to generations of freshmen hence.

To start out on a positive note, I’ve experienced a great deal of academic success. I managed all of my time impeccably, beginning each paper and problem set at least one month in advance.

I’ve effectively set the curve for all of my peers in more than one class. This year, my lab work has led to a revolutionary new drug that will almost certainly cure AIDS. I’ve also been involved with numerous artistic exposés on racial inequality, and in my free time I volunteer as a kindergarten teacher at local a New Haven school, where I speak to children in four languages (five if you include the second dialect of Mandarin I have mastered).

Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I cannot yet speak Italian or French.

My extracurricular pursuits proved more of a mixed bag. On the one hand, I joined a myriad of activities to challenge my

broad interests: I’m involved in the Bulldogs Racing team and Chabad at Yale; I’m also a saxophonist in the Yale Jazz Ensemble, and I’m active in Model U.N., where I single-handedly led Yale to victory with my eloquent speeches. I experienced my fair share of obstacles, however. I was unable to join the debate team, because they compete in both American Parliamentary and British Parliamentary style; regrettably, I am only comfortable with the former.

I managed these extracurricular activities decently well, so I decided to expand my social horizons, becoming the first woman to join the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon, setting a new record for my recent keg stand of four days, 20 hours and 59 minutes. I barely even felt buzzed afterwards. I also have an excellent boyfriend that I met at Camp Yale, with whom I have regular and wholesome sex. I had little difficulty making friends outside of my group activities, and flirted with the idea of pursuing a career in politics. But alas, that ship has sailed, since I am not already a member of the Yale College Council. All prefrosh should take heed: Don’t let your relationships and academic life get in the way of your political ambition.

I MANAGED THESE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES DECENTLY WELL, SO I DECIDED TO EXPAND MY SOCIAL HORIZONS, BECOMING THE FIRST WOMAN TO JOIN THE FRATERNITY SAE In addition, I play several varsity sports, my favorite of which is women’s track and field. I led the team to a victory in the 800meter race at nationals with a time of 1:15.96. I am also captain of the fencing team, the softball team and the squash team. I considered joining the women’s ice hockey in the fall, because I had too much time on my hands (I was getting a full three hours of sleep each night). Sadly, the

team didn’t have space for me this year, so I’ll have to settle for being a four-sport athlete for now.

Disappointed by these failures, I resolved to begin my senior thesis a few months early.

I’ve been working with various professors, including Paul Bloom, Sydney Altman and Peter C. B. Phillips to craft an interdisciplinary project that draws on psychology, biology and economics.

All in all, this year has been a bit of a let down. I’m rather embarrassed that I will only graduate in two years, not one, and I feel as though I’ve let my peers down by not creating a “perfect Yale” for all of them in the 8 months I’ve been here.

Finally, I really cannot believe that my GPA is only a 3.92, after maintaining a 4.0 all through high school (unweighted).

I’ve written this piece so that incoming freshmen won’t make my same mistakes. All you bright-eyed prefrosh still have a chance. Don’t waste your first year as Yalies on “finding yourself,” “personal development” or “sleep.” Focus on what really matters.

MADDI CONLIN is a freshman in Davenport College. Contact her at madeleine.conlin@yale.edu .

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The Yale I love F

ive years ago I had to answer, “Why Yale?” In my application, I wrote about the things I thought would matter most to me here — the peer group, the proximity to New York, the loom in the Morse basement (I since learned that only students in Morse have access). In my final column for the News, I’d like to revisit that question.

From Directed Studies to the Shulman Seminars, the humanities lay at the heart of my Yale, pumping blood through all disciplines and departments, providing the most persuasive reasons for being here. It may be easiest to fill the new residential colleges with those students who will flock to CS50 and the labs across the street.

But as so many resources shift to STEM, remember the centuries of resources that have accumulated in our libraries and galleries and among our faculty.

On any given winter afternoon years from now, I hope the Beinecke reading room will be filled with undergrads looking up from their archival boxes to take in the view of the snow-topped Isamu Noguchi sculptures.

When answering “Why Yale?” the first time, someone gave me this piece of advice: It’s not what you bring to the campus that makes you the most desirable applicant. Rather, it’s demonstrating that you will make the best use of its resources once you arrive. Unlike other admission adages, this advice remained relevant long past my senior fall in 2012. I’ve loved Yale the most when I feel it’s telling me a secret: looking out onto High Street from the nook in the Art Gallery’s European gallery or attending a lecture in the Com-

parative Literature Library.

Let this criterion of curiosity hold for future applicants.

Fill this camCAROLINE pus with students equally SYDNEY excited about its resources Selfand strengths, old and new. absorbed Do not treat the humanities as stable and stagnant; opportunities for fresh academic inquiry and expansion exist in areas studied at Yale for centuries, such as classics, and in newer disciplines, such as ethnicity, race and migration.

Though flashier projects may capture our attention, there is perhaps no project more important than faculty development.

We’ve been told that studentfaculty ratio has never been more favorable as Yale has prepared in recent years for the influx of 800 new undergraduates. The current ratios do not only impact class size, but also professors’ ability to dedicate time to their students outside of the classroom. This time has enabled me to find mentors across disciplines who challenge me, encourage me and guide me through Yale, down paths that I would not have been able to find on my own. My academic advisor imparts career advice while I listen to her son practice piano. I go on used-book-hunting day trips with the professor who advised my independent study. I’ve been persuaded into research projects in fields far from my interests.

I deeply worry about the expanded class size once the new

colleges open and the impact that it will have not only on students’ ability to get into a seminar, but also their ability develop a relationship with professors beyond a two-hour weekly discussion. Reconsider the end to the hiring surge: Surely there must be some empty offices to fill in the Schwarzman Center.

THE YEARS AHEAD PROMISE TREMENDOUS CHANGE FOR YALE. LET IT BE A TIME FOR THIS INSTITUTION TO FACE ITS MANY PROBLEMS WITH COURAGE, AND INSURE THAT THE BEST PARTS OF YALE TODAY REMAIN THE UNIVERSITY’S STRENGTHS IN THE FUTURE Perhaps this column reads like it’s trying to say too much. It is. I keep running notes to track

my column ideas. By the time this one makes it to print, I’ll probably have deleted all those unrealized fragments or moved them into some sentimental folder. I’ve always imagined that nobody actually reads these columns or anything I publish.

Then someone will stop me on the street, shoot me an email or write a nasty comment, and I’m reminded that I have a readership and a relationship with those readers that I do truly value. I won’t have that again, and it’s difficult and strange.

To the News’ Managing Board of 2018: Please continue pushing to create stipends so that nobody has to choose between a student job and the job of being a student journalist. To the University: Remove the burden of the student income contribution, in part so that all student organizations, whether activist groups, performing arts organizations or community service programs, do not lose the talent that can’t afford the time it takes to participate.

The years ahead promise tremendous change for Yale. Let it be a time for this institution to face its many problems with courage and insure that the best parts of Yale today remain the University’s strengths in the future. Even in words, I cannot pin down and document everything I do not want to leave behind upon graduating; the people and things that I know I will miss when I no longer live here. But the most terrifying thought of all is the thought of returning to find them gone.

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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The article “Group aims to support LGBTQ athletes” incorrectly stated that Timothy Cox ’17 will be a peer liaison to the Yale LGBTQ Co-op; in fact, he will work with the Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources.

Documentary profiles black women in medicine

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER A crowd of over 125 people packed the auditorium of the Anlyan Center at the Yale School of Medicine on Tuesday evening for a screening of the documentary “Black Women in Medicine,” which profiles the careers of seven female African-American doctors who are prominent in their respective medical fields.

The screening, which was organized by the medical school and New Haven nonprofit URU The Right To Be, was followed by workshops at which participants discussed the challenges of translating conversation on these issues — which include a lack of diversity in the medical field and unwelcoming environments for women and people of color — into action, and of recruiting and retaining physicians of color. The documentary, which was partially filmed on the campus of the medical school, is part of the “Changing the Face of Medicine” initiative, led by URU The Right To Be. Executive Director of URU Crystal Emery produced and directed the documentary, which will air on public television in the United States in September 2016. In addition to the documentary, the campaign includes the biographical photo essay “Against All Odds: Celebrating Black Women in Medicine,” as well as visits to schools in the New Haven area. It aims to increase the percentage of African-American doctors in America from 4 percent to 7 percent by 2030.

After the screening, Emery said that increasing the proportion of black women doctors represented an opportunity to heal the American public, adding that such significant change needs to begin at an individual level.

“We have to change the face of medicine so that it reflects the demographics of America, but in that change a healing begins, and what I have to say to you is that healing starts with you,” Emery said. “It starts with the love for truth and decency and honesty and each of us [is] an agent for change.”

She went on to praise the doctors featured in the documentary as “extraordinary” women who did not allow the labels of race or gender to define their careers, and also likened her own experience of being a black woman with a disability to that of black women in medicine, noting that she did not allow others

to “define who [she is] or what [she] is capable of.”

Mayor Toni Harp, who addressed the crowd before the screening along with Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern and Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine Gary Desir, said she was inspired by the work ethic and determination Emery had shown in making “Black Women in Medicine.”

“When you knock on [Emery’s] door, it says ‘I can’t’ doesn’t live here, so if all of us have the spirit of doing things that are in our hearts, then it will help us achieve our goals,” Harp told the News.

Cassandra DeFelice, project coordinator at URU The Right To Be, also praised Emery’s tenacity in creating the documentary, as well as her passion for celebrating black women doctors who can serve as role models for young people in the community.

Desir also praised the interest generated by the documentary and the large turnout on Tuesday evening and spoke of the importance of having physicians from minority backgrounds who could encourage and mentor others, adding that aiming for a diverse workforce was an excellent and necessary goal, given the diversity of the U.S. population.

Desir said that having a physician who is a black woman means that a people of color “[will] probably get better care [because they’ll] feel much more comfortable,” in certain cases.

He added that one goal of having the film screening at Yale was to promote awareness within the medical school community of the unique challenges faced by minority medical school students and doctors.

After the screening, Emery told the News that increasing participation of minorities in medicine requires that everyone be exposed to the possibility of a successful career, such as those portrayed in “Black Woman in Medicine.”

“Change is hard, but it’s inevitable, and we have to educate everybody about the possibilities,” Emery said. “These women’s stories are the American dream, and if they can succeed what else what can we do?”

Asian-American, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic or Latino students compose roughly 40 percent of current Yale School of Medicine students.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

Payne Whitney, library hours expanded

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTERS The University announced on Tuesday that expanded access to Payne Whitney Gymnasium during the academic year will become permanent, and a one-year pilot program will test out increased access to Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library over the summer and during the October and spring breaks.

The announcement, emailed to the Yale community by Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews, comes eight months into the one-year pilot program at Payne Whitney that raised the gym’s operating hours from 92 to 106 hours per week, extending the facility’s closing time every day of the week during the academic year.

The changes in library hours will include extended hours during the summer at Sterling as well as additional hours at Sterling and Bass Library during October and spring breaks, according to Library Communications Director Amanda Patrick.

Although the announcement noted that the pilot program “will continue through the academic year” after the summer, this refers only to the October and spring break extended hours, as weekly hours during the academic year, which are already longer than the new vacation hours, will remain unchanged.

The gym extended closing times by one hour on Monday through Thursday, three hours on Friday and three and a half hours over the weekend.

Library closing times, meanwhile, will move from 4:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the summer. It remains unclear how late the library will stay open for breaks during the academic year; though Patrick said full details were available on the library website, the calendar on the website does not list hours for Sterling or Bass past August 27.

Payne Whitney and the two libraries are open to all students across the University, but the extensions are designed primarily to benefit graduate and professional students, who do not have access to the 24-hour gym and library facilities in the residential colleges.

The changes were chiefly a result of multiple years of campaigning by the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, which included a 2013 petition by the two groups to extend gym hours.

“These extended hours benefit [graduate and professional school students] greatly, as their schedules often have them working later or earlier than the average undergraduate, or through breaks when Yale College may be out,” said Steve Reilly GRD ’15, a former GPSS president who lobbied for extended hours. “More often [students] are looking to

work across disciplines, and study spaces in the library may be the only buildings [students] from different schools have access to.”

In an interview with the News in February, Associate Athletic Director of Payne Whitney Gymnasium and Physical Education Duke Diaz said the Yale administration would decide whether to continue the new schedule based on demand from gym-goers.

He and other athletic administrators had been compiling attendance records this year to assess the level of interest in the new hours. Diaz could not be reached for comment on Tuesday night following the announcement.

The GSA and GPSS have worked on the issue of gym access for at least the past five years, and the petition in 2013 included a formal report to administrators calling for extended gym hours to improve the health and fitness of graduate and professional students. The joint GSA-GPSS report found gyms at Ivy League schools, not including Columbia, stay open for an average of 112.2 hours per week, more than 20 hours above the previous Yale total. The Dodge Fitness Center at Columbia, which was not listed in the report, is open for 114 hours, making the average for the full Ivy League 112.4.

The new hours do not move Yale from last in the Ivy League in terms of weekly gym hours during the academic year. Harvard is seventh with 108 hours each week, while Princeton has the most, at 126.5 hours.

Similarly, a January 2014 report about library access, compiled by the Advocacy Committee of the GPSS, found that graduate and professional students are “consistently dissatisfied with library accessibility and the availability of study space.” The report again showed shorter operating hours at Yale in comparison to its peer schools — only Yale and Princeton lack a staffed library that remains at least partially open 24 hours a day to graduate and professional students.

Joori Park GRD ’17, former chair of the GSA, said last year the student assemblies prioritized the pilot program extending gym hours, a decision that postponed the library extension until this year.

“These two initiatives are the product of advocacy work on your behalf,” GPSS President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18 wrote in a Tuesday email to all graduate and professional students. “These changes in policy represent small but tangible steps forward for graduate and professional school students at Yale.”

In her email, Goff-Crews said the University will advertise the extended library hours next year and then analyze the results in discussions with administrators and student leaders.

Though the new library hours will remain unchanged for most weeks during the aca-

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Payne Whitney will remain open for 106 hours per week during the academic year, with a weekday closing time of 11 p.m. demic year, Mo said that hours during undergraduate vacations were the most important issue for graduate and professional students.

“Graduate student research has long been disrupted by the tying of the library hour schedule to the undergraduate academic calendar,” GSA President Elizabeth Salm GRD ’18 said. “Most graduate students do not leave during academic breaks, such as the October Recess, and many stay in New Haven over the summer … The changes to the library hours proposed go a long way toward fixing this issue.”

The University has recently taken steps to create a more welcoming environment for graduate and professional students. Earlier this year, administrators unveiled plans for the Schwarzman Center, a new $150 million student center designed partly for the graduate and professional student community, which has often argued that facilities on campus cater primarily to undergraduates. GPSS member Lauren Tilton GRD ’16 said the University’s “uneven allocation of resources” has frustrated graduate and professional students over the years and that the extended hours represent a step in the right direction.

“There are certain things that undergraduates have access to that we do not but are equally as important to us,” Mo told the News. “The extended hours help to address those concerns.”

The lengthy duration of the students’ lobbying effort can be attributed partly to the difficulty of building new funding into the University budget,

student representatives said.

Last year, the one-year pilot program at Payne Whitney needed to be approved by University Provost Ben Polak, as the extended hours required additional funding for staffing.

Patrick said the new library hours will also require funding for energy usage and evening shifts for library staff.

“The University’s budget takes a long time, even once people have agreed that something is a good idea,” Tilton said.

All four gym-goers interviewed outside Payne Whitney Tuesday night expressed enthusiasm about the extended hours.

Taylor Church ’17, a member of the Yale club women’s water polo team, said her practices at the gym typically end around 10 p.m., sometimes after Payne Whitney’s original closing time. With the extended hours, she said, team members feel more comfortable leaving the gym late at night because they can consult security guards on their way out.

Juan Carmona, a staff member at the Yale School of Medicine, said he had trouble finding time to work out during the old hours.

“When they closed at 9 p.m. or even earlier, it kind of sucked,” Carmona said. “ I had to cut my workout short.”

There are 6,859 graduate and professional students at Yale, and 5,453 undergraduates, according to the University website.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

NHPD partners with theft database

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER

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The film “Black Women in Medicine,” which was screened on Tuesday evening, profiles seven African-American women doctors.

The New Haven Police Department has become the first department in Connecticut to register with LeadsOnline, a service that allows police to better track down thieves, the NHPD announced on Friday.

The adoption of LeadsOnline requires the owners of Elm City second-hand dealers — such as pawnshops, precious metal stores and scrap dealers — to record their transactions in the LeadsOnline website at the end of each day.

While most activity at secondhand dealers is legal, thieves often sell stolen items to these dealers, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said. By allowing police to easily track items sold in these stores along with the people who pawned them, LeadsOnline helps the police department to catch criminals who have sold stolen goods.

Ten other Connecticut police departments — including the Yale, Branford and East Haven police departments — have followed the NHPD in registering for the service.

The NHPD began looking into the service over a year ago, and held its first training session for officers immediately after the Friday conference.

NHPD Chief Dean Esserman, LeadsOnline representative Erin Hunt and officers from Connecticut police departments showed their support for the new partnership at a Friday press conference at NHPD headquarters.

“We’re taking the next step in our fight on crime, which is a partnership with our surrounding police departments to adopt a new technology called LeadsOnline that we think will make a difference in tracking potentially stolen technology,” Esserman said.

Members of the New Haven community can register valu-

ables they currently own in the LeadsOnline database. If the item is stolen, the owner can use the LeadsOnline website to send information about it directly to the police department.

The LeadsOnline program is already widely used on the West Coast, NHPD Assistant Chief Achilles Generoso said.

Generoso added that the technology was recently adopted by the New York City Police Department. Philadelphia police began using the technology in 2012.

“We hope to get the whole state using LeadsOnline, which will make us more effective than ever,” Generoso said.

The more police departments that register with LeadsOnline, the more effective the service becomes, Branford Police Department Captain Geoffrey Morgan said. When only one of two neighboring police departments uses the service, a criminal can steal

valuables from a citizen of the county that uses LeadsOnline and sell them in the neighboring county where secondhand dealers are not required to record transactions in the database.

Morgan emphasized the importance of having New Haven lead the partnership between Connecticut police departments. Morgan said criminals from nearby towns like Branford often sell stolen items to second-hand dealers in New Haven.

“As you can imagine, a tremendous amount of what happens with precious metals and pawnshops occurs right here in the city of New Haven,” Morgan said. “To have them partner and come in on this program is certainly essential and it will benefit the entire region.”

LeadsOnline was founded in 2000 and is based in Texas.

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

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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” JAMES BOVARD LIBERTARIAN AUTHOR AND LECTURER

Trump sweeps, while Clinton wins narrow CT victory of the 80 Republican voters.

In the Wexler-Grant School in Dixwell — where students in Davenport, Pierson, Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges voted — Clinton took 57 percent of the vote.

In downtown New Haven, the primary was characterized by confusion about voter registration deadlines and polling places. Several voters interviewed at the NHFPL some of whom were Yale students, said they were turned away and told to go to either Wexler-Grant School or the Hall of Records, the two other voting locations for Yale students living on campus.

Many students who voted at the NHFPL in last November’s local elections erroneously returned there on Tuesday, only to be told that their polling location for state and federal elections was at one of the other two polling places for students on campus.

The numbers of Republican voters in the heavily liberal New Haven, which has only 2,712 registered Republicans, were low. Billy Roberts ’19, one of the few who cast a Republican ballot, said he voted for Kasich.

“I anticipate Donald Trump win-

PRIMARY FROM PAGE 1 Republican voters in the Elm City.

Trump’s victory in Connecticut was part of his sweep of the five states voting Tuesday — Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Maryland — while Sanders nabbed Rhode Island from Clinton.

Sanders performed well in rural Connecticut, but those advantages were erased by Clinton’s heavy victories in Fairfield County and urban centers across the state.

But results in two of the three polling places for on-campus Yale students ran against the grain: At the Ives Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library — the polling place for students registered in Berkeley, Calhoun, Silliman, Timothy Dwight and Trumbull colleges — Sanders won two-thirds of the vote. Only 10 Republicans voted, eight of whom went for Kasich.

Results from the Hall of Records, which is the polling place for students on Old Campus and in Branford, Jonathan Edwards and Saybrook, were closer. There, Sanders won 51.4 percent of the 1,203 votes cast, with Kasich taking 57.7 percent

ning the nomination, but part of the reason I came out to vote was that I hope there might be a contested nomination,” Roberts said Tuesday afternoon. “The more support other contenders receive, the less likely [Trump] will become the nominee.”

According to poll moderator Sonya Gilliam, Wexler-Grant — one of the polling stations farther from Yale’s campus — saw slight bumps in voter turnout during common commuting hours. Gilliam said there was otherwise no significant influx of voting throughout the day.

Missed registration deadlines stopped some students from voting. Connecticut has closed primaries, which require any voter switching parties before a primary to do so three months in advance. Voters must be registered with a party five days before a primary to be able to vote.

Karl Notturno ’17 said he failed to register as a Republican in time to vote on Tuesday. Notturno said he had intended to cast his vote for Trump, and cited a feeling of “frustration” with an “incompetent” political establishment.

Parker Liautaud ‘16, who lives in

FAS Senate works with OIR SENATE FROM PAGE 1 opening channels of communication with top administrators: Members of the senate’s executive committee met with three members of the Yale Corporation during the Corporation’s last visit to campus in early April, and the Corporation has expressed an interest in reading reports adopted by the Senate, according to classics professor and senate executive council member Emily Greenwood, who chaired the senate subcommittee that authored the diversity report.

“The draft report shows how the senate and the administration can work together to address critical issues, and also how the senate can help to push for action where action is most needed,” Senate Chair and History Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Gage ’94 said.

In order to analyze the state of diversity in faculty hiring and tenure trends, the committee worked extensively with the OIR and the FAS dean’s office to break down relevant statistics in new ways. Anthropology professor Doug Rogers, who served on the subcommittee and who is one of two professors in charge of analyzing the report’s data, said that though the OIR could not provide all the data the committee had hoped for, it put substantial manpower into the senate’s request. The office was eventually able to provide a set of new data in a short timeframe. Rogers added that the OIR staff collaborated with committee members in person to interpret data and explain the availability of different statistics.

The new statistics helped the committee ask better questions, look for trends and focus on efforts to improve, Rogers said.

Assistant Vice President for Strategic Analysis and Institutional Research Tim Pavlis said the office broke down data specifically for the report. Most notably, Pavlis said, the OIR provided historical trends on hiring and advancement to tenure for assistant professors — information that was previously unavailable.

“The committee told us the questions they wanted to answer, and we were able to identify data — some of which had not been analyzed in this form before — that best answered those

questions,” Pavlis said.

In addition to highlighting the senate’s growing power to secure relevant data, the report also represents the renewed emphasis on faculty ownership and responsibility that has emerged from the FAS Senate’s creation in 2015.

Throughout the report, the subcommittee emphasized how FAS professors can contribute to important University conversations, and how FAS departments and individuals can take on the responsibility of promoting faculty diversity. The composition of the subcommittee itself demonstrates the senate’s approach in incorporating a diverse range of faculty voices: all three academic divisions — humanities, social sciences and sciences and engineering — are represented in the subcommittee. The report states that members of the committee speak in different voices and reflect their diverse academic backgrounds and training.

“As studies on diversity in educational institutions have shown, to recognize the exigency of a moment is not enough. Much depends on how thoughtfully and expeditiously commitments to diversity and inclusion are put into practice,” the report wrote in reference to student protests in the fall and the administration’s subsequent statements about diversity. “We make this point not as a criticism, but to acknowledge that faculty in FAS have a shared responsibility for interpreting and implementing our University’s commitment to diversity.”

Greenwood said the senate, which was created to give a collective voice to the FAS faculty, has unified professors in their efforts to address various issues of governance. “[The creation of the FAS Senate] means that faculty in different departments and divisions can collaborate nimbly and share information and ideas,” Greenwood said. “FAS faculty have always played leading roles in working for greater diversity at Yale, but they have tended to do so in smaller groups.”

The FAS Senate will host the University’s first-ever “State of the FAS” event in Kroon Hall’s Burke Auditorium on April 28 at 4 p.m.

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

Davenport, expressed discontent with the how far away his polling location in Dixwell is from campus, speculating that the distance would lead to lower turnout.

“It’s going to take me an hour to vote,” Liautaud said at NHFPL, where he had originally gone to vote.

“It makes no sense, because my residence is much closer to here than it is to there. It’s not a grave injustice, but it’s kind of a pain.”

Turnout was high at the Hall of Records. Poll moderator Kevin Arnold told the News in the midafternoon that lines were long in the morning, but lightened up just after noon. At one point, he said, the line to vote stretched 50 people deep.

New Haven was one of 17 municipalities that did not participate in a test of Secretary of State Denise Merrill’s real-time reporting system, completed this month, which provides updated election results across the state on the state’s official website.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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Clinton clipped past Sanders in the polls to secure a ferociously tight victory.

Senate drafts diversity report REPORT FROM PAGE 1 faculty as a lower priority in times of strict budgetary priorities set at the highest levels of the University,” the subcommittee wrote.

The subcommittee, chaired by classics professor and senate executive council member Emily Greenwood, was created in January 2016 to report on the issue of diversity and inclusion in the FAS, with a particular focus on ladder faculty. Because the report is currently in draft form, it is not publicly available, but the committee shared a draft with the News.

The report highlighted a comparison between former University President Richard Levin’s 1999 faculty diversity plan, and subsequent years during which other, less successful diversity initiatives were implemented. From 1999 to 2004, while the size of the Yale faculty expanded by 10 percent, minority faculty in the FAS grew by 30 percent and women faculty in the FAS grew by 43 percent. The number of women faculty in sciences in the FAS also grew by 113 percent.

But that successful push was stunted and virtually reversed after the 2008 financial crisis, when University leadership shifted its budgetary focus to austerity and placed faculty diversity on the back burner. The newly available statistics show that the austerity measures disproportionately affected women and underrepresented-minority, also known as URM, assistant professors.

Although women have received an ever-increasing share of all the Ph.D.s granted in the last decade, the number of women hired as assistant professors at Yale has remained largely constant over the same period, at roughly 40 percent of new hires. Additionally, between 2000 and 2004, 14 percent of assistant professors hired were URM, but that number dropped to 10 percent between 2005-2009. URM hiring is harder to track after 2012 due to the introduction of a federal requirement that allows faculty to self-report race or ethnicity; some newer faculty did not report a race or ethnicity.

“Things become a little murky after 2012,” Rogers said. “So we have to guess a little on the trends after 2012.

In the very best-case scenario we see,

however, we are moving back to 2006 levels of underrepresented minority junior faculty in some divisions and some departments … We’ve lost a decade.”

An analysis of the overall junior faculty body, not just new hires, mirrors the recent stagnation in diversity efforts.

The report also contains new statistics about tenure rates broken down by gender, URM background and FAS division for all cohorts of assistant professors hired since 1985. Tenure rates for women in the FAS as a whole have consistently been 3 to 6 percent lower than they have been for men.

Although the report shows a nearly identical tenure rate for URM and nonURM assistant professors — 21 and 20 percent, respectively — this number could be skewed due to the small number of URM faculty members as well as the new self-reporting policy.

The number may still prove relatively accurate, though, as most professors hired after the policy change have yet to come up for tenure review.

We believe this lack of systematic data is a serious obstacle to attempts to diversify the faculty.

DRAFT REPORT FROM THE FAS SENATE Rogers said the data provided, although extensive, did not allow the committee to fully discuss the issue of retention, especially in recent years.

The committee recommended that the FAS dean’s office collect and analyze departmen t-level data and trends, rather than just aggregate data, as the latter may mask imbalances in tenure rates within different departments.

While the report’s historical and statistical analyses focus on faculty hiring and retention, the senate’s survey of over 300 professors helps shed light on more qualitative aspects of climate and experience for faculty members. The survey results show that faculty’s reported levels of satisfaction diverge sharply based on gender, race

and gender within division. Levels of dissatisfaction are highest among female faculty; faculty who identify as black, Latino or Asian/Asian-American; and nonladder faculty.

A majority of women and faculty of color said they sometimes, often or always felt excluded from informal networks within the faculty, that they had to work harder to be perceived as legitimate scholars and that they were burdened by more service responsibilities than their colleagues.

“A recurring theme in the literature on diversity in higher education is that numbers and headcounts of underrepresented faculty only tell part of the story,” Greenwood said. “In order for universities to better tackle inclusion, they need to understand and attend to how underrepresented faculty experience Yale at the departmental and divisional level.”

Beyond the immediate analysis of the statistics and survey, the report also highlighted the importance of diversity statistics in general.

The committee wrote that Yale does not systematically collect or analyze various kinds of data about the composition of the FAS. For the senate report, the OIR had to break down existing statistics in a way that it had never done before.

“We believe this lack of systematic data is a serious obstacle to attempts to diversify the faculty,” the committee wrote. “In many cases, Yale’s lack of publicly available data has not been an issue of unreleased data … but rather a lack of systematically tracking or calculating those data in the first place.”

To combat the lack of systematic data collection, the committee recommends that the FAS dean’s office begin tracking and publicly reporting on multiple dimensions of faculty compositions and diversity. This effort may involve the design and implementation of new systems for tracking faculty careers and “vectors of inflow and outflow at each critical juncture of a career.”

The report also contained a shorter section on how faculty diversity and inclusivity impacts the experiences of graduate students at the University.

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

New financial aid pamphlet streamlines communication FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 1 The insert outlines the next steps that students must take to obtain their financial aid, like submitting 2015 tax returns and verifying their tax information with the IRS. It also provides information about taking advantage of loans and obtaining outside scholarships and grants.

There are links to the Office of Financial Aid’s website for further explanations on several topics, like what happens to students’ financial aid if they choose to take a gap year or study abroad.

The changes in how Yale College communicates with admitted students are in response to a January 2015 Yale College Council report on financial aid, which

said that making the financial aid process more transparent was students’ most immediate concern that could be addressed by the administration. The report claimed that Yale’s communications used confusing terminology that would not adequately prepare students for what to expect once they committed to Yale.

For maximum clarification, the values for the student effort expectation — income from term-time work and a summer job that students must contribute to their educations each year — are featured prominently on the front of the new insert. Previously, this information could be found on the ninth page of the accompanying booklet.

The redesigned letter, which

was first sent out to students accepted through early action in December, used new terminology intended to be more transparent.

The new letter also breaks down a student’s total cost of attendance into direct and indirect costs, with new information explaining what each section means.

The financial aid office updated its website as well to address the recommendations outlined in the YCC report, which included a revised layout to make the site more user friendly.

Despite confusion among admitted students in the past, those accepted to the class of 2020, as well as their parents, said the University’s communications about financial aid this year have been clear.

Sean Lynch, an admitted student from Nebraska, said the information he received about his financial aid package has been fairly straightforward, adding that students can always go online for more information if they are uncertain about any of the policies.

Kassandra Boos and Evan Billups, two other admitted students from New Jersey and Oregon, respectively, agreed with Lynch. The only thing Boos said the insert did not clarify was whether students were able to take out loans to pay the value of their student effort expectations or whether they were required to work.

“I thought the breakdown was pretty clear between each cost,”

Boos said.

We’ve really tried to streamline and improve our communications to [admitted] students.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN Director of Undergraduate Admissions Crystal Clarkin, a parent of a student admitted from Connecticut, said Yale’s communications about financial aid have been particularly effective when compared to other schools her daughter is considering. She said

the documents did a good job of explaining students’ expected work requirements, adding that the reduced amount in the first year — $4,475 for most students, as opposed to $5,950 — was reasonable, as it gives students a chance to build up their savings while in college.

“You read some of the award letters from the other schools and you go ‘wait a second,’” Clarkin said.

The YCC’s report stated that 91 percent of Yale students said financial aid was either the most important factor or a very important factor in their decision to attend Yale.

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

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“Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.”

BILL AYERS AMERICAN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION THEORIST

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Panel discusses city all-boys school for men of color

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday, six education and social justice experts discussed the benefits that an allmale school for Black and Latino boys would offer New Haven.

The brothers of New Haven’s chapter of Omega Chi Psi hosted the community conversation, which focused on improving educational outcomes for boys of color in the city and drew a crowd of more than 60 community members, including half of the Board of Education, Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 and Mayor Toni Harp, the current BOE president. The discussion, hosted at King/Robinson Magnet School, centered on the ways opening an all-boys school for young men of color would foster a greater sense of community and love of learning among students.

“For boys in New Haven, given the difficulties we have in our community around gangs and violence, we really need to give them a safe place — a place where they can learn and test their intellectual muscle with-

out worrying about whether they’re judged for the color of their skin,” Harp said.

Before the panel discussion opened, Omega Chi Psi brother Glen Worthy showed the audience a news clip highlighting the success of the Eagle Academies for Young Men: a network of all-male secondary schools for students of color living in high-crime urban areas in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Cornelius Finley, a panelist who works for an education nonprofit, described his “lifechanging” experience at Morehouse College in Georgia, which exclusively enrolls Black men.

He said despite his upbringing in a dangerous neighborhood in Dallas, being a Morehouse student encouraged him to find his voice and separate himself from the “hood things” he nearly fell victim to at home.

While New Haven currently has no concrete plans to open a school like the Eagle Academies, former Superintendent Reginald Mayo, who sat on the panel, said the Elm City is ready for such a school. He noted

the success New Haven Public Schools has seen in its magnet schools, which allow students to receive specialized educations in numerous academic or professional areas including leadership, sciences and the arts.

Mayo said having an exclusive school for men of color would be an extension of the magnet school system by providing another option for the Elm City’s Black and Hispanic males, who already heavily populate NHPS. He highlighted the importance of choice for parents and children, which he said gives students a greater sense of ownership over their education.

Panelist Maysa Akbar, a clinical psychologist and the founder of Integrated Wellness Group — a culturally sensitive psychotherapy practice dedicated to supporting New Haven families — noted the importance of ensuring students have the opportunity to learn from teachers who look like them.

She cited one of her own studies, which found that children of color in the St. Louis metro area had a difficult time figuring out

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Derrick Gordon, the director of the Program on Male Development at the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, also spoke about helping students form their identities by cultivating communities that are sensitive to students from at-risk backgrounds.

“A number of kids in our communities might not come from the best situational context, but that doesn’t have to determine their trajectory,” Gordon said.

BOE member and panelist Che Dawson said while he supports the opening of a school like Eagle Academy in New Haven, he thinks the school’s stakeholders need to clearly define the type of student they would like the school to produce.

More than 80 percent of all NHPS students are Black or Hispanic.

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER In the latest iteration of Startup Grind New Haven’s monthly speaker series, 110 Elm City residents, students and entrepreneurs gathered at Gateway Community College Tuesday evening to hear Andrew Bartholomew ’09, vice president of Squarespace — a website creation tool — discuss his role in strategizing the service’s expansion.

The event, sponsored by local electricity company United Illuminating, included a networking portion prior to a fireside chat and a questionand-answer session with Bartholomew. In a conversation with Adam Muniz, director of Startup Grind New Haven — an organization powered by Google to connect entrepreneurs within regions — Bartholomew discussed the competition Squarespace navigates in the website creation tool industry. He also discussed his career trajectory and the role of data in his work, which includes everything from criminal investigation to scientific discovery. “[Websites are] an important tool to allow people to compete,” Bartholomew said.

“Looking professional is important to being taken seriously, and people need to craft their own story online.”

Founded in 2004, Squarespace now has over one million customers and has raised $78.5 million in venture capital funding. The company employs approximately 500 people spread over three cities: New York, Portland and Dublin.

Rohit Sharma, a director with the Economic Development Corporation of New

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

Haven, praised Muniz for attracting a diversity of speakers to New Haven and focusing Startup Grind New Haven’s events on their personal stories.

Future iterations of the monthly event will host speakers including the general manager of Uber Connecticut and the inventor of the Segway.

While Startup Grind New Haven’s previous six events were held at city co-working space, The Grove, Tuesday’s was the first to be hosted at Gateway Community College, allowing the event to be free of charge and open to students who otherwise may not have attended.

[Websites are] an important tool to allow people to compete.

ANDREW BARTHOLOMEW ’09 Vice President of Squarespace “Startup Grind New Haven [is] critical to shaping and growing a vibrant economic landscape that is knowledgebased and tech-enabled; one that is impactful locally but also connected globally,” Nicole Grant ’98, economic development specialist at UI, said. “We want to nurture the efforts to enable this kind of ecosystem in our service territory and neighboring communities.”

Grant added that UI chose to sponsor the Startup Grind’s event featuring Squarespace to support the expansion of dialogue among a broader community of entrepreneurs.

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“Most activism is brought about by us common people.”

PATRICIA HILLS COLLINS AMERICAN PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

To sustain momentum, activism requires collaboration ADVOCACY FROM PAGE 1 “Next Yale”: just five days after students marched to University President Peter Salovey’s house to deliver demands for a more inclusive campus, Salovey sent an email promising a “Better Yale” and outlining policies the University would implement to make it a reality. But while Salovey’s response answered some student demands, more symbolic issues on which students also demanded change, such as the title of residential college master and the naming of Calhoun College, have yet to be addressed.

Months after the bursts of student activism last semester, student organizers are now confronted with the question of how best to sustain the movement’s momentum. Interviews with Next Yale student organizers, leaders of other student activist and advocacy groups and administrators both current and past show that opinions diverge: To create lasting change, is it better to apply grassroots pressure from the outside or to work within the established system? Or does the most effective advocacy do both?

PRESSURE FROM THE OUTSIDE

Though the group captured national attention last fall, this spring, Next Yale is no longer a daily presence in the lives of student organizers. The group met once at the beginning of the semester and has not formally assembled since.

Student organizers told the News that Next Yale was never meant to be institutionalized: It has no distinct leadership structure and is not registered as a student organization. Instead, it is a coalition of students who joined together and supported each other under the specific circumstances last fall.

“I would describe Next Yale not as an established organization but very much as a group of students who came together out of necessity,” said Yuni Chang ’18, a member of the Asian American Studies Task Force who was active in Next Yale. “It was a group of people born out of immediacy.”

The group’s structure — or lack thereof — is reflective of its approach to effecting change on campus. Next Yale’s organizers said the movement was successful because it exerted bottom-up pressure on the administration rather than working via slower, more conventional pathways like the Yale College Council or advisory committees.

Chang acknowledged that student activism is not completely independent of the Yale institution and its operating system, but said she and other Next Yale organizers believe the most effective strategies take place on a grass-roots level, within networks of communities that trust each other.

Several student organizers said they saw Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and the cultural center directors as allies of the movement, but they understood the limitations of the administrators’ roles. Haylee Kushi ’18, who was active with Next Yale and serves as treasurer for the Association of Native Americans at Yale, said working from the outside is more effective because administrators are wary of support-

ing activism publicly, as they may jeopardize their positions if they are too vocal.

Kushi added that while she thinks administrators like Holloway are sympathetic toward many of the demands that Next Yale outlined, Holloway does not have the power to make important institutional changes, such as the renaming of Calhoun College, on his own. Even Salovey, who many students view as the most powerful individual on campus, must answer to the Yale Corporation.

It is therefore critical for students to show the Corporation that they are putting pressure on Holloway, Salovey and other administrators, Kushi said.

Founded in the fall of 2012, Fossil Free Yale — a group of Yalies organizing for climate justice on campus and fighting for Yale to divest its endowment from the fossil free industry — has also employed more activist tactics in the years following its creation.

According to FFY Policy Director Hannah Nesser ’16, who joined the group several months after it was founded, the group initially worked within administrative channels. By the spring of 2013, FFY had developed a report about fossil fuel divestment for the University’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. Later that fall, FFY compiled a petition with around 1,000 student signatures and conducted a referendum through the YCC, in which 83 percent of respondents voted for divestment. The group was organizing on the grass-roots level at the time, Nesser said, but it was not opposing the administration.

But that approach changed in fall 2014, when Salovey sent a University-wide email explicitly stating that Yale would not divest from fossil fuels. According to FFY Communications Director Chelsea Watson ’17, that was when FFY’s tactics became more confrontational. The group had “done everything the administration asked” but still received a flat “no,” Watson said.

Since then, FFY has held rallies, orchestrated a sit-in in Woodbridge Hall and, most recently, protested during United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech at a University colloquium. That same day, Yale’s Chief Investment Officer David Swensen announced that two separate fund managers had divested a total of $10 million from the fossil fuel industry, although he cited financial, not ethical, reasons for the decision.

“It’s only when we risk the prestige of Yale and the ability of the administration to maintain this ivory tower that [administrators] feel compelled to take action,” Nesser said. “Student activism has the potential to change how the University functions.”

Lex Barlowe ’17, a Next Yale student organizer who was also active in Fossil Free Yale, said both members of Next Yale and FFY understand that because of the way Yale’s decision-making structure works, it is necessary to put pressure on the system from the outside. Last November was about displaying student power and challenging the Yale institution, Barlowe added.

Rather than working with the administration, both Next Yale and FFY student organizers said

they have focused on coalitionbuilding amongst themselves.

Watson emphasized that building friendships, not just working relationships, in FFY is critical to maintaining the group’s spirit. Activism is exhausting and requires hard work, Watson said, and students infrequently receive the results they seek.

“It’s very easy to get burned out, so one of the important elements of sustaining activism is having moments when we rest, reflect and bond with each other,” Watson said.

Similarly, by bringing together students from all four cultural centers and advocates for causes from different corners of the University, Next Yale student organizer Nat Aramayo ’17 said, Next Yale ultimately built a sense of trust among organizers. Barlowe also emphasized that community building and connecting people both within and across communities are important for sustaining the momentum from last fall.

Sebi Medina-Tayac ’16, a Next Yale student organizer and peer liaison for the Native American Cultural Center who is also a staff reporter for the News, said there has been and always will be sustained student advocacy for change on Yale’s campus. Next Yale’s lack of action this semester should not be seen as a failure, he said; rather, the spirit and tools of activism will be passed between students, from one generation to the next, via the relationships they build.

For example, the Association of Native Americans at Yale, the Asian American Studies Task Force, the Black Student Association at Yale and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán all collaborated to host the first-ever intercultural colloquium at the Asian American Cultural Center last Friday, during which students presented their academic work in ethnic studies. Such a dialogue had previously been unheard of, Kushi said.

Chang also said Next Yale has provided a solid foundation for future collaboration and activism.

“If you build relationships with other student organizers, and those relationships are based on a deep love for a more just world, then those relationships will sustain you as well as a community of people who care and want to do something to change the status quo,” Chang said.

ADVOCACY FROM WITHIN

But not all student activist and advocacy groups on campus eschew established structures as the primary vehicles for change. Many see raising awareness through semester-long and sometimes yearlong educational programming as the first step to improving the campus climate.

They recommend working alongside administrators — or at least not in opposition to them — as the best strategy for making a longlasting impact.

Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale, founded by Helen Price ’18 and Anthony D’Ambrosio ’18 at the beginning of this school year, aims to promote a healthier sexual environment on campus. Several women of color who were active members of Next Yale last semester sit on USAY’s board.

“While the Next Yale focused on

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Abolish the title “master”

Name both new residential colleges after people of color Rename Calhoun College

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specific racial issues, it also paved the way for broader conversations about improving Yale’s safety and inclusivity,” Price said, adding that sexual violence affects women of color at a disproportionate rate.

“We’ve been lucky to benefit from the work of Next Yale.”

Unlike Next Yale, however, USAY is structured: Price and D’Ambrosio co-direct a board of 10 people, hold regular meetings and work toward a long-term vision for the organization. Several USAY members are also student representatives on the Undergraduate Title IX Advisory Committee. The group has partnered with Communication and Consent Educators and other organizations to plan events that have attracted the support of University administrators such as University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd.

USAY is still in its first year of existence, but D’Ambrosio, who also serves as Dwight Hall’s cocoordinator, said USAY has plans to join Dwight Hall in the future and tap into the resources of Yale’s larger, more institutionalized community of service.

“Our goal for the next 20 years is to bring the conversation to everyone at Yale. We want to create a space where people can discuss what’s going on [with Yale’s sexual culture],” D’Ambrosio said.

Both D’Ambrosio and Price said they are confident USAY’s values will live on, regardless of particular events or even the specific climate at the moment.

Mind Matters is another student-led advocacy group that works within established channels to engage members of the

Yale community. Mind Matters Co-President Eli Feldman ’16 said the organization is not an activist group, because policy change has not been a central part of its mission. Instead, through speaker events, forums and other programming, Mind Matters hopes to educate students about mental health issues on campus and serve as a liaison between individual students and the mental health community. Feldman himself sits on Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling Advisory Committee for Yale College and has worked closely with administrators to discuss policy changes regarding mental health on campus.

Throughout his time at Yale, Feldman said he has seen many students react “like fireworks” to emotional events but then “simmer down very quickly.” Despite what happened last fall, Feldman said campus has already decreased its engagement with topics of race this semester. The issue with activism at Yale, he added, is that too often it is fueled by emotion but not substantiated with goals, foresight and effective planning.

“Protesting and getting [the administration’s] attention to an issue is valid,” Feldman told the News. “But eventually people stop being angry because they can only do that for so long. Collaborating and working with the administration is a smarter approach. It’s more likely to get what you want.”

According to Holloway, student organizers face the challenge of navigating the various spheres of the University that operate on different time frames: undergraduates work within a four-year window, while administrators usually think in blocks of five to 10 years.

Additionally, the Yale Corporation makes decisions by taking 40- to 60-year blocks into consideration, and tenured faculty members also tend to think in much longer time frames.

To have long-lasting change, Holloway emphasized, student organizers should focus on working with administrators.

“Let’s say I am really sympathetic to everything the activists were calling for in the fall. If they’re not able to secure a structural change with my help within the next three years or so, there will be a different dean, and that person will certainly have different values. Things will be of different importance to him or her,” he said.

“If there’s no structural change by which that dean has to abide, the change may as well not have happened.”

groups like Next Yale and Students Unite Now, led to a YCC town hall last December at which Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced that the student summer income contribution will drop starting next school year.

YCC President Joe English ’17, who has made financial aid reform a top priority of his tenure, said this change was a product of a combination of student efforts.

Next Yale and Students Unite Now, the latter of which focuses primarily on eliminating the student effort, played important roles in putting pressure on the administration and bringing financial aid issues to the forefront, English explained. The YCC’s responsibility is then to work on proposals for concrete policy changes, he said, although the council also contributed to advocacy efforts and took actions to reform the existing system.

“In my view and in the view of a number of administrators and other students, activism is a catalyst. It gets the ball rolling,” English told the News. “But what keeps the ball rolling are action items, policy conversations and concrete, tangible solutions. That’s what sustains [the momentum].”

English added that most administrators, students and student groups are on the same side and want to make Yale a more inclusive environment. In order to “move the needle,” English said he believes that it is in everyone’s best interest to collaborate. The YCC offers both institutional memory and access to administrators, English said, and the YCC wants to help translate activism into advocacy and concrete steps.

Nevertheless, Next Yale student organizers did not elect to work with the YCC in the fall. A small group of Next Yale student leaders did meet with Holloway and Uni-

versity President Peter Salovey, but Next Yale operated independently of the YCC and other established mechanisms.

“From what we’ve seen of the YCC, ultimately they are under the thumb of the administration in a way that independent student organizers are not. If we were to collaborate with the YCC, they would encourage us to take a more traditional route of negotiating with the administration, trying various bureaucratic channels to reach and reason with them,” Chang said. “Historically, reasoning never worked in this relationship. If that had worked, they would have given us what we wanted a long time ago.”

Aramayo emphasized that working within the system often takes too long and is unproductive.

With a one-year deadline, Aramayo said, it is difficult for elected YCC student representatives to enact any substantial reforms.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, A ra m a yo expressed doubts about the YCC’s efficacy. “[There’s] the sense the YCC doesn’t actually have any power or any sort of say in what the administration does,” Aramayo said.

Still, Holloway urged students to consider the YCC as an accessible avenue for action.

“I’m doing all that I can to affirm the YCC as the pathway to talk to me,” Holloway told the News, noting that he meets with the YCC president and vice president every three weeks or so, which is more than his predecessors did. “I really hope that people will get invested in the YCC and that future officers of the YCC will continue to be collaborative in their approach to the administration.”

And despite the student organizers’ decision not to work through YCC channels last semester, some acknowledged that they are seeing positive changes within the YCC. This year, Kushi said,

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The March of Resilience was the most visible iteration last fall of recurrent student activism at Yale. three out of the five candidates for YCC president approached ANAAY and attended a meeting to better understand the group’s position. That has never happened before and would not have happened without last semester’s momentum, Kushi said.

A CENTER OF COLLABORATION

The new Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration is an example of how external pressure and internal cooperation, rather than being mutually exclusive, can go hand in hand to achieve the same goal.

Many Next Yale student organizers interviewed agreed that the RITM center, which was announced in Salovey’s Nov. 17 email, is one of Next Yale’s greatest victories. The center, which will have an annual budget of $600,000 and support summer fellowships, will facilitate scholarship on ethnic studies; the inter-

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FINDING A MIDDLE GROUND?

When the YCC was established in 1972, student representatives wanted to ensure that undergraduates had “a legitimate voice in Yale’s governance,” according to the body’s website. But recent campus activism has tested whether the council can truly bridge the gap between students rallying outside and administrators working inside.

One of the YCC’s usual approaches is to solicit student input and write reports that it then presents to the administration. The council did this with its 2015 report on financial aid policy, which detailed dissatisfaction with the student income contribution and other aspects in need of reform.

The report, along with calls for change from student activist

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section of race, gender and sexuality; and Native and diasporic communities — programming that students have demanded for decades.

“I do think we won with the creation of the new center in collaboration with faculty of color who have worked in these cross-disciplinary areas,” Chang said. “The center is a very substantive result of the movement last semester.”

But University administrators have been proposing and planning such a center for years. The movement may have elevated the center on the administration’s list of priorities, but the decision to establish an academic center on race and ethnicity was not made overnight.

“A core group of dedicated students, faculty and staff are working on the logistics of how you make change happen. A moment of protest and activism might be the catalyst for conversation, but where the actual change happens is during the quiet periods,” Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said. “You can’t change campus climate overnight. It takes a gradual process of education, awareness, resource allocation and management.”

Although student organizers and administrators employ different methods, their mutual work toward similar objectives is a recurring theme in Yale’s history.

According to Henry “Sam” Chauncey ’57, who served as special assistant to former University President Kingman Brewster between 1963 and 1972 and secretary of the Yale Corporation from 1973 to 1982, when Yale began to increase the number of minority students at the University during the 1960s and 1970s, the administration also wanted to work with these students to “establish them here at Yale.”

Senior administrators, including Chauncey himself, were assigned to work with Black students on a number of issues. ThenProvost Charles Taylor partnered with a group of five Black students and faculty members to create the African American Studies department in 1969. That was the same year the University established the Black Cultural Center, the predecessor of today’s Afro-American Cultural Center. Chauncey said he also encouraged Black students to take on a more active role in bring-

ing more minority students to Yale, and these students were “a tremendous help” in recruiting and admissions.

During all of this, Chauncey said, the Black student leadership never let the administration forget its goals and did exert pressure, though the ultimate objective from both sides was to work together.

“I think we had wonderful working arrangement with the Black students which resulted in a wonderful major, a first-rate cultural center and the students being involved in taking a major role in the recruitment of new students,” Chauncey said.

David Wilk ’72, an alumnus who witnessed the period of change Chauncey described, said Brewster’s administration was “brilliant at co-opting the middle,” and collaboration led to real changes in Yale’s climate.

Aramayo said many Next Yale student organizers today are “always willing to work with the administration” but added that students often face the question of access. Students had to demand administrators’ time in order to speak with them, Aramayo said.

Barlowe also emphasized that by demonstrating student power first and then approaching the administration, student organizers can put forth a more compelling agenda.

“If you build a lot of power behind [your cause] through organizing, and then you go to the negotiating table with the administration, then you’re going to be more persuasive and powerful,” she said.

The process of change is “a marathon, not a sprint,” in the words of Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, a Next Yale student organizer and head peer liaison for the Native American Cultural Center.

And student organizers acknowledged that it is impossible for them to work completely apart from the Yale institution.

Their very identity as Yale students make them part of the system, some students said.

“Participation in the cultural centers, and their many advocacybased organizations like MEChA, ANAAY and BSAY, is itself working with the administration to make changes, as the cultural centers are a function of the dean’s office,” Medina-Tayac said. “Obviously, we have a more direct line of

communication with our [cultural center] deans, who this year especially have been firm advocates for student needs … [The rest of the administration] needs more pressure from students and the media to act in a meaningful way.”

Afro-American Cultural Center Director Risë Nelson said she sees herself as an active advocate for students both at the Af-Am House and across campus who seek positive change through “institutionalized policies and procedures.”

To sustain activism, Nelson said it is important to have discussions at every level of the institution and encourage collaboration between students, faculty members, administrators and alumni.

“We all must actively work toward that goal [of a better campus climate that supports all students] because we are all members of this community,” Nelson said. “I think the University has had to revisit some tough existential questions — what is the Yale experience? What does Yale stand for? — especially as we seek to be leaders in creating equity in our world class education, teaching and research.”

Barlowe said putting pressure on the system is not necessarily a rejection of the system. The act of demanding change at Yale, Barlowe added, is a show of faith in the institution’s ability to reform and become more attentive to the needs of traditionally marginalized communities.

And so, Medina-Tayac added, students of color on this campus will continue to work both within and outside of University-sanctioned venues to achieve their goals.

In sustaining the momentum of activism and making productive changes on this campus, perhaps neither just external pressure nor internal deliberation is enough.

Administrators and student organizers alike recognize that they need a combination of approaches.

“Historically, change only happens when both student activism and taking time to work inside the system exist, and the same applies to Yale,” said Alex Zhang ’18, cochair of the Asian American Studies Task Force. “You can be defiant while working with administrators.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“I definitely have found a balance. I’ve had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.” SERENA WILLIAMS NO. 1 RANKED WOMEN’S TENNIS PLAYER

Uniforms of two teams revealed

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Yale volleyball liberos will wear solid gray uniforms, as opposed to the blue and white shirts of the other Bulldog players on the court.

UNDER ARMOUR FROM PAGE 12 duce a piece of equipment or footwear for a certain sport, teams may use another brand as long as it is not Adidas or Nike — the two direct competitors of Under Armour. Fencing uniforms, volleyball shoes and field hockey cleats fall under this category, among others.

“The slight problem with fencing as a sport is that the uniforms that we use in competition are only really manufactured by a few companies that specialize in producing them,” men’s fencing captain Reed Srere ’17 said. “As of now, there is no fencing-specific equipment manufactured by Under Armour. My thinking was that perhaps we could also get patches that display the Under Armour symbol, so that we could be representing them

at least in spirit.”

The only team that will not be cladding Under Armour apparel in any form next year will be the Yale men’s basketball team, which has a contract with Nike through the end of the 2016–17 season.

Student-athletes will not be the only ones in brand new apparel next year. According to Laseau, the entire department will be given Under Armour items to wear. He said that particularly when recruiting new athletes, staff members and coaches have been instructed to wear only Under Armour products.

Torre, coaches and sports administrators have worked directly with the design team at Under Armour to decide what the new uniforms will look like, Torre said. He added that student-athletes do not partici-

pate in this process because Yale designs are “always traditional across the board.”

Laseau said the team’s reaction has been largely positive with regard to both the new uniform and the deal itself, which he said will give the department and Yale athletics a “more cohesive look.” Other teams that have not seen their uniforms are excited, both for a potential new look and an increase in team gear.

“We have not been able to see the new uniforms, however we do know that we will be seeing a huge increase in the amount of gear and apparel that we will be receiving,” Yale football defensive back Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 said. “We have tried some gear, cleats and gloves, and guys seem to like the new equipment. I think that the switch to Under Armour is exciting.”

Elis look towards postseason

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Yale’s No. 2 coed and women’s sailing teams are looking to continue their dominance at the national championships next month, after winning three titles in 2015.

SAILING FROM PAGE 12 means the wind was changing angles a lot [which] makes sailing more difficult,” Knapp said. “On Sunday, the breeze switched to a steadier breeze out of the south, and we got off the starting line with really good boat speed.”

Four of Yale’s six Reed Trophy competitors came away from the weekend with individual accolades, as Klingler was named a First-Team All-New England Skipper and Johnson, Knapp and Huebner were each named to their respective All-New England Second Teams.

Meanwhile, the coed team, which earned two national championships of its own in 2015, scattered itself across the northeast in three regattas, enabling many of the members of the Bulldogs’ squad to participate in the weekend’s multitudinous competition.

Yale raced three boats in New York, finishing in sixth place out of 20 competing teams, one spot behind Dartmouth but ahead of Ivy foes Harvard and Penn.

Skipper Ian Barrows ’17 and crews Natalya Doris ’17 and Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 finished fourth in the A division, while skipper Nic Baird ’19 and crews Doris and Charlotte Belling ’16 topped the B division with a dominant weekend performance. Yale’s B team only had two non-top-five finishes in its 11 races.

Commandeering a Full Rig Laser boat for the first time in his career, Christopher Champa ’18 finished 15th in the C division.

Excluding the C division results, and Champa’s debut in the solo boat, Yale

would have finished in third place, and just one point out of second overall.

The Eli delegation at the Boston Dinghy Cup enjoyed a comparable weekend of competition to its New York counterpart, finishing seventh out of 17 teams.

The Bulldogs’ highest finish came from skipper Nicolas Hernandez ’19 and crew Caroline Colwell ’18, who finished second in the C division with a pair of firstplace results in the nine-race weekend.

“The conditions this weekend were tough, as they always are on the Charles, but our team sailed really well and it was a great end to the regatta season,” Colwell said. “We had some tough races, but we walked away knowing that we sailed smart and, as always, learned a few things.”

The coed Bulldogs team added a third top-10 finish to the weekend’s record, taking ninth place out of 18 schools at the Morris Trophy. The two Eli boats finished seventh and ninth in the A and B divisions, respectively.

Following the coed team’s final regional competition at the New England Dinghy Championships next weekend, the entire Yale sailing squad will turn its attention to the monthlong preparation for the national championships.

“The minute [that] finals end, we go into a pretty intense postseason period,” Knapp said.

The women will kick off competition in San Diego on May 24 and the coed team on May 31, with both teams looking to defend their 2015 national titles.

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

Though most players were excited about the deal and their new gear, several student-athletes expressed hesitation with some of the Under Armour products that they will be required to wear.

For example, Furlong said some on the women’s soccer team have worried about the switch to Under Armour cleats, as many wear Nike cleats and have been doing so for their entire soccer careers.

“All [the athletics department] said was that they are ‘catering to our needs as a distance program,’ which I guess is in reference to the fact that Under Armour isn’t historically known for making running shoes or racing spikes,” James Randon ’17, a distance runner for the Yale men’s track and field team, said.

In other sports, however,

Under Armour is thought to have a competitive advantage.

Men’s golf player Jonathan Lai ’17, for example, noted that Under Armour produces “some of the best golf gear out there.”

In fact, Under Armour sponsors golfer Jordan Spieth, who was the winner of last year’s Masters and U.S. Open Championship.

It has not yet been decided what will be done with the student-athletes’ old gear and apparel. Torre said the department is working on a plan, which will be announced once it is finalized. According to Laseau, a garage sale at the start of the fall semester is something the department has been seriously considering.

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

at the picture at the very bottom to the right, you can find my face, smiling and proud and so incredibly grateful for this opportunity.

Years will pass, new reporters and editors will filter in and out of the building, but that wall will remain, a memento to the time, sweat, blood and tears I poured into this endeavor. I didn’t write for the News because I wanted to pad my resume — I’m not working in journalism next year, and who knows if I will down the road? I did it because this has been my home at Yale.

A week ago, my best friend from high school pitched his final collegiate game. After four years pitching for a pretty bad team, he finished up with a complete game victory, throwing north of 130 pitches in a one-run victory. Watching his teammates mob him and celebrate after the final out was made was a sight to behold, one recreated at every Yale senior night I’ve been to. The jubilation, the years of work coming down to one last moment, the emotion, the finality, all of it produces something beautiful.

Well, I don’t really have a senior night, and I’m guessing my readers aren’t going to mob me after reading this. But this is the closest thing I have, and all of those emotions are still present.

Thank you for reading and for allowing me to write. But I’ll be sticking around this city for a while longer, so if you’re going to be in New Haven next year, let’s go watch a game together — only this time, I won’t be getting in with a press pass.

GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College and former Sports Editor for the News. Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

Success in the pitcher’s circle SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 earned runs.

Efflandt achieved those results with just three strikeouts on the weekend, and only one during her three-hit shutout on Sunday. She said that the low strikeout count has been a critical part of her performance this season, as her mechanical focus is on getting ground balls instead of punch-outs, the more traditional marker of a pitcher’s success.

“If you focus on striking out all of your opponents, it’s only a matter of time before they start hitting you hard,” Efflandt said “But if you’re keeping them off balance, they’re not hitting it hard, and you’re giving your defense the opportunity to get outs.”

Efflandt is particular about the mechanics even in warmups. Weisenbach noted that Efflandt always wants the catcher to stand up during warmups, rather than crouch.

Despite the untraditional nature of this quirk, Efflandt said it helps build her confidence on the mound. The position allows her to feel as if each

pitch is going in a straight line, which helps her work on her fastball mechanics.

Technical pitching details aside, players also highlighted the intensity and resiliency with which Efflandt approaches the game as reasons for her success.

Exactly three years prior to Saturday’s games in Hanover, Efflandt suffered an injury on the mound. She took a line drive to the face, breaking three bones. After her recovery, Efflandt began wearing a mask in the pitcher’s circle in order to continue pitching. On the anniversary of her injury last weekend, Efflandt was hit with yet another line drive, this one to the ribs.

Though the blow was not nearly as serious and did not keep her out of the game, Efflandt said it fueled her going into her Sunday afternoon start.

“Lindsay brings intensity to the team and really has been able to pull through during a variety of different circumstances this year,” captain and utility player Allie Souza ’16 said. “She is resilient and has the ability to set the tone for the team on the mound.”

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Efflandt has pitched in 32 of Yale’s 44 games this season.

Though certain of her intention to play college ball at a young age, Efflandt was less clear on where until her senior year. She noted that recruiters from Yale and other Ivy League schools reached out later in her high school career than other recruiters — some of whom were in communication with her as early as her freshman year of high school.

She said her interest in Yale was two-pronged. As a writer and an aspiring teacher, Efflandt saw in Yale opportunities not offered elsewhere, but she also noted that the familial, “close-knit” feel of the softball team as something that convinced her to become a Bulldog.

“I could tell that the girls in the program held themselves to the highest standards, not just as players but as competitors and student-athletes,” Efflandt, an English major, said. “It stood out when I was getting recruited.

It is one of the defining traits of the program, and I know it will remain that way.”

In her third season, Efflandt said that this perception held true, and she credited the team for creating an environment in which she able to perform as she does.

She highlighted the team’s dignity and class on the field, especially when competing in tense conference matchups.

“Being respectful of our opponents is very important to us.” Efflandt said.

“We aim to represent the Yale name with class.”

Teammates who have been able share in Efflandt’s ups and downs both this year and in the last two commented on her strong character. Utility player Maddie Wuelfing ’18 said Efflandt’s positive attitude has a big impact on the team.

Weisenbach also pointed to Efflandt’s openness, flexibility and ability to communicate as advantages. This is particularly important for Weisenbach, who makes up the second part of the Eli battery when Efflandt is in the pitcher’s circle.

Efflandt and Weisenbach, both juniors, will team up for the last times this season during six games this week.

The Bulldogs team will play their final nonconference games this season on Wednesday against Maine before playing a four-game home-and-home series with Brown next weekend.

Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .

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TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 12:30 PM Gallery Talk, Dadaists Painting with Scissors, Adhesives, Plaster, Paper… Dada artists rejected the concept of what constitutes a work of art and used random, everyday objects — from carpet tacks to pasta noodles — in their works.

Come explore some of the unconventional materials and techniques used by Dada artists — such as John Covert, Francis Picabia and Max Ernst — and discover the ways in which these methods embodied the artists’ revolutionary approach. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Everything Is Dada.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

6:00 PM Ethical Considerations in Health Care Policy. Dr. John Hughes discusses such questions as: Are we morally obligated to provide health care to all Americans? Is there an ethical obligation to limit the powers of pharmaceuticals and insurance companies? Is a “single-payer system” our solution?

The discussion will include selected works of art from the Medical Historical Library. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Medical History Library.

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7:00 PM The Creative Writing Concentrators’ Ball. Are we morally obligated to provide health care to all Americans The writing concentrators of the Yale College English Department cordially invite you to The Creative Writing Concentrators’ Ball.

Students will read their original works crafted during the 2015– 2016 year. Food will be served. Branford College (74 High St.), Commons.

THURSDAY, APRIL 28 1:00 PM Yale ROTC President’s Review. The annual review of the troops and awarding of academic and military honors for Yale Naval and Air Force ROTC by Yale University President Peter Salovey. Payne Whitney Gymnasium (70 Tower Pkwy.), Lee Amphitheater.

8:00 PM “La Vida de los Muertos.” Celebrate and learn about life and death as you journey with siblings María José and Juan in “La Vida de los Muertos”! Friends will rejoice, machetes will clash and the dead will come to life in this story told through Mexican folkloric dance and music. Presented by Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Yale. Off-Broadway Theater (41 Broadway).

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ARTS & CULTURE ARTISTS PRESENT GREEKINSPIRED SHORT FILMS

COURTESY OF MARY REID KELLY

Mary Reid Kelley ART ’09 and Patrick Kelley’s work features a black-and-white universe where Greek mythology and modern culture co-exist.

BY RACHEL AN STAFF REPORTER On Monday, artists Mary Reid Kelley ART ’09 and Patrick Kelley presented their videography, which fuses Greek mythology and modern culture, poetry and graphic novels.

As part of the School of Art’s Monday Night Lecture Series, the two artists discussed the inspirations and production process of three of their most recent films, including “Priapus Agonistes” (2013), “Swinburne’s Pasiphae” (2014) and “Thong of Dionysus” (2015). All three are based on the mythological theme of the Minotaur refashioned in a modern but fictional world, according to the artists.

The stylistically similar videos feature characters who exist in a flattened black-and-white universe. The characters, who are cartoons, are masked and speak in verse. The films are reminiscent of Greek plays, especially tragedies, with their prominent chorus, dramatic verse and mythological stories, Reid Kelley said during the talk. She plays most of the characters in the films, who are direct reconstructions of famous mythical figures such as Priapus, Ariadne and Dionysus.

“Priapus Agonistes” is based on the church volleyball games she witnessed growing up, dur-

ing which “gentle, professional men,” including her dad, “transformed into a caricature of male aggression,” Reid Kelley said. In the film, she pits the “Athens Baptist Church” against the “Knossos Presbyterian Fellowship” and satirizes the games. In it, the hero Priapus — the god of fertility who is known for his constantly erect penis — also appears and scores the winning spike for the Athenian team.

The second film, “Swinburne’s Pasiphae,” pays homage to the 19th-century British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, who was known for writing about scandalous topics and dark themes. The film follows the story of Pasiphae, the queen of Crete, who falls in love with a bull, fornicates with him and produces the Minotaur.

Lastly, the “Thong of Dionysus” focuses on Priapus’s encounter with the Minotaur and then Ariadne’s reflections on helping kill her half-brother and being left behind.

During the talk, the artists also discussed how multiple versions of the same myth exist due to the politics of ancient Greece. This film offered a new alternative to the myth, one that included a sorrowful abandonment, a rave disco party and an overly inebriated god.

Before each film, Reid Kelley discussed the various influences

Greek tragedies have had on her life. She specified the difference between the language she uses colloquially and the figurative language she writes for her pieces.

Reid Kelley added that poetry allows her to express herself, though that sometimes comes at the expense of clarity.

Greek theatrical masks were also a huge influence and are used prominently in the films, Reid Kelley said. However, instead of their traditional function — amplifying an emotion to make characters more sympathetic — these masks serve to hide the individuality of each character and force grander gestures for every expression.

“Masks cover the individuality of the performer, especially their eyes and expressions,” she said.

Reid Kelley also highlighted the personal aspects of the films.

According to her, families are the “prerequisites of a tragedy” and in the storylines, she emphasized “how family can make you mad.”

Patrick Kelley spoke briefly about the production and the collaborative nature of the film, especially the difficulty of using one actress for multiple characters. He also discussed the editorial aspect of using green screens and editing the shots to make the figures interact.

Contact RACHEL AN at rachel.an@yale.edu .

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“I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.” FREDDIE MERCURY BRITISH SINGER AND SONGWRITER

FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD SCREENED AT STUDENT FESTIVAL

COURTESY OF YALE FILM FESTIVAL

The Yale Student Film Festival, which just celebrates its second iteration, was entirely run by Yale students. .

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER Last weekend, 40 films from over 22 nations were screened at the Whitney Humanities Center during Yale’s second annual Student Film Festival.

The student-run shortfilm festival provides a forum for university-level filmmakers, both foreign and domestic, to exhibit their work. Festival director Travis Gonzalez ’16 said YSFF received over 1,200 submissions. While last year’s festival only included films made by Yale students, 75 percent of this

year’s films came from off-campus sources, according to YSFF event coordinator Emily Murphy ’17, who also noted that the festival ended with the premiere of five senior thesis films.

Anna Rose Canzano ’18, YSFF’s programming chair, commented on the much broader reach achieved in this year’s festival.

“Last year’s festival included only Yale films, in order to showcase the Yale film community and to strengthen it,” Canzano said. “This year, we opened submissions to undergraduate and graduate students from around the world, to engage the Yale film

community in a more global dialogue.”

YSFF is an entirely studentrun project, and planning for this year — its second iteration — started in September 2015, when Gonzalez and his team sat down with their advisers to identify a theme. Gonzalez noted that YSFF ultimately focused on films addressing various social issues.

Gonzalez added that choosing from among over 1,200 submissions was an arduous task, which the planning team divided into three stages: Individual, paired and group screenings that eventually filtered down to the more

than 30 selections that showed alongside the senior thesis films over the weekend.

“The movies we selected don’t emphasize spectacle, rather they’re very heavy, serious and more than [simply] documentary, full-fledged narratives,” Gonzalez said.

In addition to the film screenings, the festival included four workshops on craft and breaking into the film industry. Gonzalez also emphasized YSFF’s role in fostering relationships between current students and alumni in the industry, allowing for unique networking opportunities.

YSFF attendee Frankie Andersen-Wood ’18 said the quality of the films she saw especially impressed her. She especially praised “Pitter Patter Goes My Heart,” directed by Austrian filmmaker Christoph Rainer about a woman obsessed with recapturing her former lover, and the animated short “Taking the Plunge,” from a team of School of Art MFA students.

While Gonzalez noted that YSFF saw an increased number of attendees in its second year, Murphy added that organizers hope the project will attract an even larger audience in the future.

“I think that this festival was really successful in continuing to bring together the Yale filmmaking community, as well as showing how Yale film fits in with the rest of the student-film movements around the country and world,” Murphy told the News.

“I hope that, as the years go on, more and more people come to recognize the impact of film on art and culture, and I think this festival has and will continue to point more and more people in that direction.”

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

Y FASHION LAUNCHES NEW EDITORIAL BLOG

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Style enthusiasts gathered on Cross Campus last Thursday to celebrate the launch of Y Fashion House’s new editorial blog.

Featuring subsidized crêpes from Crêpes Choupette, a photo campaign, a raffle for free designer merchandise and stickers emblazoned with the group’s logo, the event represented Y Fashion House’s expanded efforts to create an on-campus hub for students interested in fashion, organizers said. Thursday’s festivities have helped attract, they added, at least 3,000 additional page views to the recently relaunched site.

“The blog is intended to inspire an ongoing fascination with the art of fashion, and an interactive conversation within the student body on the development of our personal relations to our dress,” Hazen Mayo ’19, a member of Y Fashion House’s publicity team, said.

Mayo also noted that she hopes the new editorial blog will establish a stronger recognition of fashion as an art form on campus.

Celine Tien ’17, Y Fashion House’s co-president, said she thinks the blog is a manifestation of the organization’s original mission: to expand students’ perception of what fashion is and can be.

“For me, fashion represents a source of empowerment and creates a platform to explore art and design in both mundane and abstract contexts,” Tien said.

Members said Y Fashion House’s expansion to an online platform represents an effort to create increased awareness and a more sustained campus presence for the organization, which, co-

president Ermal Hajrizi ’17 added, is growing extremely quickly.

“Along with expanding the blog, we have some major things planned for the upcoming semester that will give more Yalies the opportunity to get involved in the fashion scene on campus,” Hajrizi said.

Since Y Fashion House’s debut runway show in February, Hajrizi explained, much of the organization’s work has been conducted behind the scenes and involved planning new projects, like the launch of its new blog.

Kate Swanson ’19, editorial executive of the Y Fashion House blog, said she hopes to curate a website that appeals to readers from different backgrounds.

“We want to translate the fact that the fashion industry is endlessly diverse,” she said. “We want to write about fashion from movies to street fashion; emerging markets to industry competition.”

This diversity of content, she adds, stems from the diversity of Y Fashion House’s writers, who cover a range of perspectives on fashion, including through “international and religious lenses.”

Attendees at the Y Fashion Cross Campus gathering said they enjoyed the relaxed educational atmosphere of the event.

“The YFH event was an awesome way to relax, eat some solid crêpes, and learn about the flyest new organization at Yale,” attendee Chadd Cosse ’17 said.

Y Fashion House accepts submissions from any student interested in contributing content to the blog.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF Y FASHION HOUSE

After Y Fashion House’s premiere runway show in February, the group launched a new editorial blog about fashion.

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(15–28–1, 7–9 Ivy), who have already surpassed their conference win total from the past four seasons.

“She’s come in quite a few really tight situations where we’ve needed a pitcher to come in and just shut things down, and that’s exactly what she’s done on multiple occasions,” catcher Camille Weisenbach ’17 said.

Perhaps the most notable performance of Efflandt’s season came against Dartmouth, a team that entered the weekend undefeated in the Ivy League and had swept Yale for three straight seasons before this year. In Efflandt’s three appearances in Hanover, New Hampshire, Efflandt strung together 14.2 innings and gave up just two

I’ve been a numbers guy my entire life. I loved math as a kid, participating in math competitions from fourth grade up through my senior year of high school. Baseball statistics have always held a special place in my heart, as nine-yearold Grant decided he was going to break Theo Epstein’s ’95 record as the youngest general manager in baseball history after reading Moneyball. I constantly think of the numbers in my life, especially the way-too-high number of words left to write in my thesis.

But there is one number that has hung over my head lately: 156. This is my 156th, and final, byline for the Oldest College Daily.

In many ways, my time at the News has defined my Yale experience. I’ve spent hundreds and hundreds of nights at 202 York St. For two years, I worked as a reporter, learning from people I once considered legends, but I now call friends.

I served as an editor for a year, working with fantastically dedicated and talented peers to create a newspaper day in and day out. And now, in the twilight of my career, I’ve turned into a designated hitter, writing columns every other week.

When I first stepped onto campus in August 2012, a homesick freshman scared out of his mind by this Ivy League school, I had no clue what I wanted to do. I had always been intrigued by writing, and, most importantly, I knew I had a true passion for sports. So what better place to combine the two than the sports section of the News?

It’s hard to believe that, four years later, I can call myself an experienced sports reporter. I’ve traveled to California and Madison Square Garden, to Dartmouth and Penn and Harvard, to brand-new press boxes and the friendly-ifcold confines of the Yale Bowl press row. I’ve been on national radio and given interviews about the teams that I know so well. It almost seems like a dream.

Inside the Briton Hadden Memorial Building, there is a wall with pictures of the managing boards of the News over the last centuryplus. Right as you enter, if you look

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FAR LEFT: COURTESY OF CARLIN HUDSON ’18, OTHERS: DANIELA BRIGHENTI/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Both a Yale women’s soccer uniform, far left, and the Yale volleyball uniforms feature a gradient striped pattern. The designs of other uniforms are yet to be seen by teams.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER In January, Yale announced a historic deal with athletic apparel company Under Armour. Now three months later, all of the newly designed uniforms for Yale’s varsity teams are close to completion.

Uniforms for all of Yale’s fall sports have been designed and ordered, Yale Intercollegiate Equipment Operations Lead Assistant Jeff Torre said, and designs and orders for winter and spring sports are “about 75 percent done.”

The deal, which goes into

effect July 1, 2016, marked the first ever all-sports deal for Yale, meaning Under Armour will be the exclusive provider of apparel, footwear, uniforms and equipment for all Yale athletes, coaches and staff.

“I think the overall emotion was definitely excitement, because Under Armour is relatively new on the women’s soccer scene and therefore everyone is excited to see what type of gear we will be getting next year,” women’s soccer midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 said.

The Yale women’s soccer and volleyball teams are the only two teams who have seen their

new uniforms so far, according to interviews with members of every fall sports team.

Torre said the uniforms for all fall sports except football and field hockey have already arrived, and that once those two sets come in, the athletics department will hold an event to unveil the new designs.

The women’s soccer and volleyball uniforms, as shown in photos acquired by the News, feature gradient striped designs, which are different from the solid blue and white colors that Yale teams have typically donned. The soccer home uniforms, with solid white on

the shoulders and solid blue around the midsection, are particularly distinctive.

It is unclear whether the stripes will be a theme across all uniforms; Torre told the News in January that although the designs would not significantly change, there would still be noticeable differences in the new attire. Volleyball assistant coach Kevin Laseau said because the volleyball team begins its season early, on Sept.

4, a design was picked out of pre-existing Under Armour ones, and that it is possible the design could change in upcoming years.

Prior to the Yale–Under Armour deal — which is reportedly valued at approximately $16.5 million over 10 years — individual teams were in charge of acquiring their own apparel and equipment, which came from a variety of brands. Under the new partnership, Under Armour will produce uniforms for all Yale teams in addition to any other items necessary for their sports, with very few possible exceptions.

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Efflandt ’17 dominates in junior season

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Since the age of 10, Yale softball pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 had her sights set on playing college softball.

Over a decade later, Efflandt, now in her junior year at Yale, has not only realized that goal, but done so in remarkable fashion with one of the best conference seasons the Bulldogs have seen in recent history.

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Efflandt has a 1.42 conference ERA, second-best in the Ivy League.

Four weekends into the Bulldogs’ five-week Ivy League season, the CaryGrove, Illinois native has played a major role in Yale’s seven conference wins amid the most successful year of her college career. Efflandt

leads the team both with her 3.16 overall earned run average and her 1.42 conference ERA — the second-best such mark in the Ivy League.

Her performance against Ivy opponents of late has been even more stellar: Facing Harvard and Dartmouth over the past two weeks, the junior recorded a collective 1.16 ERA in 36.1 innings, including a complete game shutout last weekend against the Big Green, the highest-scoring offense in Ancient Eight play.

Efflandt credited her success to a change in focus she made this year. After two seasons of playing double duty for Yale as both a hitter and a full-time pitcher, the junior moved to the pitcher’s circle permanently in 2016.

The move appears to have been fruitful for the Bulldogs

Women’s sailing clinches nationals bid

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Entering this past weekend’s competition in New York and Boston, the No. 2 Yale coed sailing team had already clinched a trip to the Intercollegiate Sailing National Championships. And after sailing in Branford, Connecticut, over the weekend, the No. 2 Yale women’s sailing team matched the coed squad, punching its own ticket to San Diego for nationals.

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The coed team split up to compete in a trio of fleet races, finishing sixth in the Merchant Marine Academy’s Admiral’s Cup, seventh at MIT’s Boston Dinghy Cup and ninth at Boston University’s Morris Trophy. Meanwhile, on its home waters, the women’s team took home a fifth-place finish at the Reed Trophy, securing its spot in the national championship regatta next month.

“I’m really excited to be able to represent Yale this year at nationals as a freshman,” crew Kira Woods ’19 said. “We historically have a very strong women’s team … and I’m hoping I can help con-

tinue the tradition.”

For the women’s team, the weekend’s action at Yale’s McNay Family Sailing Center presented national implications — a chance to return to the ICSA Women’s National Championship, where the Elis claimed the national title a year ago. Yale, with its fifthplace performance, comfortably secured a qualifying spot, as the top nine finishers in the 16-school field earned berths to next month’s regatta.

Accustomed to a spot among the nation’s elite clubs, the Bulldogs delivered at the Reed Trophy, with the A and B division teams

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placing 10th and third, respectively. Skipper Casey Klingler ’18 and crew Emily Johnson ’16 finished the weekend with 10 firstplace finishes in 16 A-division races, while the B-division team of skippers Marly Isler ’16 and KB Knapp ’18 and crews Woods and Claire Huebner ’18 notched 10 top-five finishes of their own. The B team excelled on Saturday, a day marked by difficult wind conditions, carrying a first-place standing into Sunday. “[On] Saturday, wind was blowing out of the north, which SEE SAILING PAGE 8

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Claire Huebner ’18 was named to the All-New England Second Team after Yale’s fifth-place finish at the Reed Trophy.

THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE SCORELESS INNINGS WITH WHICH LINDSAY EFFLANDT ’17 FINISHED HER WEEKEND OF PITCHING ON SUNDAY. Efflandt allowed just four hits in that span against Dartmouth, the highest-scoring offense in Ivy League play this season.