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Students protest Buckley talk

Perceptions 301. Ben Carson ’73, 2016 presidential hopeful and former Yale Corporation member, is fielding questions about an anecdote he wrote in his 1990 autobiography “Gifted Hands,” which stated he was the only student who did not walk out during a “Perceptions 301” psychology exam. When cross-checking Carson’s story, several national news outlets found that such a class never existed at Yale.

Her blunt opinion. But

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’17, who was present at the event and posted the quotation online just after 4 p.m. According to seven other attendees interviewed, the remark was followed by laughter in the crowd, although students present gave different accounts of how many audience members laughed. Lukianoff is president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit organization committed to defending individual rights on American college campuses. In addition to speaking at the Buckley conference, Lukianoff was also a guest at a Silliman College Master’s Tea Thursday evening about the importance of free

Two more years. Scot X Esdaile was re-elected state NAACP president over the weekend.

Delegates elected Esdaile, who has held the position since 2004, in a 79–3 vote.

Echoing the concerns about employment that were at the forefront of New Haven’s municipal election debates, Esdaile pledged he will strive to bring more jobs to Connecticut’s urban centers.

DOJ investigates Alexion for bribery

Scary girl. HBO “Girls” star Allison Williams ’10 will make her feature film debut in a new horror movie called “Get Out.” The film, developed by Jordan Peele of the comedy group “Key and Peele,” is about a young African-American man who visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s family estate, according to Marie Claire.

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1994 Ashley’s Ice Cream on York Street celebrates its 50th anniversary. The parlor, founded in 1979, was inspired by a Boston restaurant called Steve’s.

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speech on college campuses. He is the author of “Coddling of the American Mind,” an article in The Atlantic that Erika Christakis tweeted last week in response to criticism of her Oct. 30 email defending students’ rights to wear costumes that might be deemed culturally appropriative.

The conference, which was planned months before allegations of racial discrimination surrounding both Christakis’ email and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon party attracted national attention this past week, was open to the entire Yale comSEE BUCKLEY PAGE 4

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Protesters left signs outside Linsly-Chittenden Hall after the Buckley conference Friday.

After a comment made by speaker Greg Lukianoff during a private William F. Buckley, Jr. Program conference on free speech was posted on the Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” Friday afternoon, over 100 students gathered around Linsly-Chittenden Hall to voice their anger.

“Looking at the reaction to [Silliman College Associate Master] Erika Christakis’ email, you would have thought someone wiped out an entire Indian village,” Lukianoff said, according to Gian-Paul Bergeron

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Following allegations of racial discrimination at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon party held Oct. 30, Dwight Hall has withdrawn its endorsement of the “Movember” campaign — originally supported by Dwight Hall in coordination with SAE, Chi Psi, Sigma Nu and Delta Kappa Epsilon — and cut ties with all fraternities on campus for the remainder of the semester.

“After learning of the allegations about Friday night’s events, the Dwight Hall Student Executive Committee decided to end its own publicity for the Movember campaign and to suspend its relationship with fraternities at this time,” Shea Jennings ’16 and Jonathan Yu ’16, co-coordinators of the Dwight Hall Student Executive Committee, told the News in a statement.

According to the statement, Dwight Hall had already recommended that individual fraternities handle their own publicity for the Movember campaign — a monthlong initiative aimed at promoting men’s health, including raising money for prostate cancer and other health-related issues — before the alleged SAE incident occurred, citing an apparent lack of enthusiasm from the fraternities. However, in light of the recent SAE allegations, Dwight Hall decided to formally end its own publicity as well and to suspend its relationship with Yale’s fraternities.

The suspension of the relationship reaches beyond the Movember fundraiser. SAE President Grant Mueller ’17 said fraternities will no longer have access to other volunteer opportunities previously available through Dwight Hall. He added that the relationship between the organizations will be reassessed at the beginning of next semester.

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Clinton also made national headlines this weekend when she proposed loosening restrictions on marijuana for medical research purposes. During a speech in South Carolina, the 2016 presidential candidate called for reclassifying the drug from Schedule 1 — a class including heroin — to Schedule 2. “We need to do a lot more research so that we know exactly how we’re going to help people for whom medical marijuana provides relief,” she said.

It’s going to be lit. The Yale College Democrats will host David Litt ’08, who worked as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, in a conversation titled “Writing the Obama Era.” At the event, which will take place at 7 p.m. tonight in the Branford Common Room, Litt will discuss his stint at the White House and his time as a campaign field organizer for Obama.

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Party girls don’t get hurt.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump made a splash on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend. His appearance on the show resulted in the best ratings for “S.N.L.” since January 2012. In fact, Trump’s episode, which featured musical performances by Sia, did 47 percent better than Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 October episode. Trump hosted “S.N.L.” for the second time this weekend. His first appearance was in 2004.

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The U.S. Department of Justice targeted Alexion — a pharmaceutical company relocating to New Haven in January — for bribery investigations last month, continuing the government’s yearslong trend of looking into pharmaceutical companies for overseas bribery.

In October, the DOJ joined the Securities and Exchange Commission — which had already begun an inquiry in May 2015 — in investigating Alexion for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to the company’s quarterly SEC filing. The FCPA, a 1977 law prohibiting bribery of foreign officials, served as the basis for the DOJ’s recent requests for documents and the SEC’s May subpoena to the biotech company. The sixmonth investigation into Alexion is among the most recent events in the government’s decadelong trend of cracking down on pharmaceutical companies for FCPA prosecutions, said Rebecca Hughes Parker, an attorney and managing editor of The Law Report Group, a legal issues publication. Though Alexion’s SEC filing does not reveal why the government suspects FCPA violation, if the company is charged it may face a settlement of several million dollars.

“The government thinks that there is a lot of bribery going on. They found it and they started learning more,” Parker said. “When they find a scheme like that, they think that the same scheme is happening in other similar companies in the industry. The more they find the more they keep going.”

Biotech workers abroad are especially susceptible to FCPA violations because of their frequent interaction with foreign health workers, Parker said. Due to the public nature of many foreign health care systems, health SEE ALEXION PAGE 6

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University President Peter Salovey met with about fifty students and other high-ranking administrators at Woodbridge Hall.

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER For six days the Yale administration remained silent as two controversial incidents catalyzed conversations about race and discrimination on campus. Then, on Thursday and Friday, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and University President Peter Salovey broke their silence. Now they and

other University leaders are working to form policies that will create a more inclusive and welcoming campus. Regarding the actions of the administration and the student body, as well as interactions between the two, Salovey, senior administrators and minority student leaders spoke on the administration’s prolonged silence, response and a productive way forward.

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The two incidents that set off the conversations of the past week both occurred over Halloween weekend.

Just after midnight on Saturday, Silliman Associate Master Erika Christakis sent an email to all Silliman students pushing back against the Intercultural Affairs Council email SEE ADMINISTRATION PAGE 6

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GUEST COLUMNIST CHANDLER GREGOIRE

The silent teammate I

t’s no secret that the sailing team is almost entirely white. Sailing, one of the most expensive sports, appeals to a certain demographic, and yacht clubs have a long history of being exclusionary organizations. But I love sailing!

My favorite part of Yale is the time I spend on the Long Island Sound, getting away from classes and campus for four hours each day. Leaving aside my worries and joining this magical bubble in which there were no problems, this little place of extreme privilege, in my otherwise restricted life.

It was new and exciting and I loved how people treated me.

All of a sudden I was important. People listened to me and cared what I had to say. Plus the oysters were delicious.

But I still found myself avoiding any topic that might cause problems with my team.

I didn’t address financial aid — or why I couldn’t afford to go to Sushi on Chapel every week. I didn’t address the poor neighborhood in Queens in which I grew up, simply saying “Oh, I’m from the city.” I didn’t address my race, and how it shapes my existence at Yale, and how different I feel from my team because of it. I love this sport, and so I had to choose: remain silent so I could enjoy my time on the water or speak up and risk losing my favorite part of Yale. I followed a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, too scared to hear what they actually had to say regarding my race, class and condition. But I secretly wondered if they liked hanging out with me because I was the token minority friend that somehow exculpated them from any racism.

This past week has been unbelievably challenging, as I could no longer avoid conversations regarding race with my teammates. On Wednesday, when we sailed in from a beautiful fall day on the Long Island Sound and one teammate asked me what I was doing that night, I answered honestly: “attending the open dialogue forum hosted at the Afro-American Cultural Center.” While we derigged the boat, he admitted with curiosity: “I just don’t understand why it’s so hard to be black on campus.” At first, I was upset, angry and troubled by the fact that someone I was so close to could not understand how difficult it is to live in my skin. I began to explain that while he may think racism is over, others, who do not share the benefits of his white skin, are reminded every day that this place is not ours, that we are different, that we are the other and that we are not wel-

come here.

Reflecting on the events throughout this week, I cannot help but feel guilty. I feel guilty that I never spoke up when my teammates’ words and actions hurt me. I feel guilty that I chose easy conversations over important ones. I feel guilty that I loved my new position, my place of importance, regardless of the emotional strain of pretending to be someone I’m not has caused me. I would put on fancy dresses and speak politely to wealthy, old white men, but always wondered if they thought of me as slightly less human than my blonde roommate. But this week I couldn’t do that anymore, not with everything happening on campus. Not with their comments about my race and my community. Not with their hurtful responses to my pleading for understanding and acceptance, which served only to shut down conversation and invalidate my feelings and my concerns.

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Attack racism, not Christakis I

am scared for my school.

Watching the video of students’ confrontation with Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis, I found myself fearing that the students would use physical violence against him.

Thank goodness, they didn’t, but the realization that this was even a possibility at a place like Yale is utterly terrifying.

I will neither attack nor defend either the Intercultural Affairs Council’s or Associate Master Erika Christakis’s email.

Those are jobs for someone else. What horrifies me was the response to Master Christakis’s defense of his wife. After chalking up the ground within view of his bedroom window, Christakis found himself in the center of the Silliman courtyard with students who pretended to debate him. We all want our opinions to be correct, obviously, and we have a deep-seated desire to express them. In debate, every side must have the right to contribute and be heard; this is the foundation of rational discourse.

But on Thursday, in a literal act of intimidation, students started

While we continue to have these conversations on campus I cannot help but notice the missing voice: the nonwhite athlete. We cannot speak up. And even now, I worry how this column will be received by my team. I’m scared they will see it as an attack on their character. But this is about so much more than any individual comment or person. It is about the collective environment of my team, but more importantly of Yale athletics. We are thrown onto predominantly white teams and expected to look away when we are offended because we have no other option. We are left isolated, torn in one direction by the deep love and respect we have for our teammates, but in another by being the other on a team that is blissfully ignorant of the racism that remains ingrained in our diverse University.

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down the quickest path to mob rule and authoritarianism.

Many students have claimed that Master Christakis was dismissive of them. Given that he had the forbearance to stand and be attacked for hours, and invited every Sillimander who signed a petition demanding his removal to have dinner with him and his wife, I am at a loss to guess what would have been a sufficiently receptive response.

But even if he had been arrogant and derisive, he would not have deserved the treatment he received. Master Christakis does not deserve a certain level of respect because he is a college master; he deserves it because he is a human being.

This man was surrounded outside his own home by dozens of students, who called him “f---king disgusting.” They jeered, “We know where you live.” What is happening?

Christakis’s opponents were so aggressive that I expected him to be physically attacked. Even in the absence of violence, the insults and threats hurled at him would have surely made some

men burst into tears. Christakis had more fortitude, especially considering the added emotional burden of defending the wife he loves. Tactics like these undercut the valid arguments the protesters have made: it rather flips the power dynamic when dozens of taunting students surround a lone college master. To call this behavior childish would be insulting to children. Such bile can only come from minds poisoned by the certainty that anyone who calls for moderation is evil.

As a private university, Yale is not bound by the First Amendment. But freedom of speech is as much about culture as it is about law. We need an atmosphere in which nobody fears voicing controversial views. Demanding the immediate removal of administrators for doing nothing more than sending a poorly worded email is antithetical to this ideal.

And to focus on a single email, when people go to bed hungry and cold on the New Haven Green every night, is petty.

To those who claim that some voices matter so much that

intimidation and repression are justified, I say: You are wrong.

The acceptance or rejection of coercive tactics is a choice that will literally decide the fate of our democracy. Our republic will not survive without a culture of robust public debate. And the far more immediate threat is to academia: how can we expect to learn when people are afraid to speak out? Will we have the courage to face our opponents openly, even at the expense of our feelings, or will we dig the grave of civic discourse?

Emotions do matter in debate.

We talk about things because we care about them. But we cannot let our desire to speak up override others’ right to do the same.

Should we channel our noble rage into passionate advocacy for what we believe in? Absolutely.

But should we allow it to slide into the persecution of everyone who disagrees with us and abandon the sanctity of free expression? Never.

CONNOR WOOD is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at connor.wood@yale.edu .

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Free speech, not disruption L

ast Friday, the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program hosted its fifth annual conference on “The Future of Free Speech.” Planned over six months ago, the daylong conference brought together 14 distinguished guests from policy, journalism and academia to discuss contemporary issues of free speech. The prospect of our panelists speaking freely, however, did not sit well with everyone at Yale.

The unrest began when a student in a yellow t-shirt rushed to the front of the lecture hall during a panel. When other attendees told him to sit down, he refused and instead taped posters across the wall. A Yale police officer stationed outside entered the room and asked the student to leave.

“You’re going to have to carry me out,” the student said. The officer obliged.

Another student soon wrote about the incident on the Facebook group “Overheard at Yale.”

Comments on the post identified our event’s location. “Run through,” one recommended.

Protesters lined up outside the lecture hall. Some demanded that we immediately add speakers of their choosing to the conference. Others tried to get into the lecture hall, which was oversubscribed and required preregistration. Police stood guard at the doors to ensure our symposium could go on as planned.

The professed reason for the protest was an off-color joke made by one of the panelists, Greg Lukianoff. “Given the reaction to Erika Christakis’s email, you would have thought she burned down an Indian village,” he said, referring to an email sent a week prior about Halloween attire.

Whether or not the remark was in poor taste is beside the point. As the Woodward Report, a cornerstone of Yale policy, makes clear, free speech is about the ability to “think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable and challenge the unchallengeable.” In any case, the protests did not conclude when Lukianoff left the stage.

For nearly two hours, the crowd outside grew in size and volume. Social media attacks on our organization intensified.

When I offered the protesters leftover cookies — intended as a nice gesture — I was called a “white colonizer” and told to stay in the hallway to be “educated.” As audience members exited the lecture hall, protesters chanted, “Genocide is not a joke,” called attendees “traitors” and “racists” and, in at least one instance, spat on an attendee affiliated with the Buckley Program.

Our entire conference on free speech had come under attack.

Some would argue that free speech is merely a political right

enshrined in our Constitution.

So long as the federal government isn’t censoring anyone, it has been achieved. Yet this conception treats free speech as if it arose in a vacuum — as if it is a fact of life rather than a normative ideal.

The Constitution is an aspirational document, which states principles and a vision for our society. For free speech to be actualized, it must be an active and tangible part of everyday life. It can only exist in a culture of intellectual humility that recognizes that the whole truth is seldom expressed in prevailing views.

The university has always been essential to this project.

It can foster a climate for intellectual expression that is open, honest and civil. It is no coincidence that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin — two pioneers of free speech — also founded universities.

Yet last Friday, we saw how delicate this climate is. What good is the First Amendment when people are shamed for holding dissenting views?

Those protesters who called me a “white colonizer” and posted on Facebook “unfriend me if you disagree” are creating a campus culture that is hostile to free expression and the exchange of ideas. It is a culture in which students and faculty are afraid to voice their opinions. It is a culture of conformity, intimi-

dation and silence.

I did not agree with everything our speakers said. Nonetheless, it was when I disagreed that I encountered new views and perspectives — and found myself reconsidering my own.

Free speech is not just about persuading others; it’s about understanding and articulating ourselves.

What does it say when holding an event on free speech requires the presence of several Yale police officers? Fortunately, the Buckley Program is in a financial position to incur these costs, yet not every student organization is.

I worry that other students seeking to stand up for free speech may find their events dictated by the whims of protesters. Ultimately, we completed our conference, which included a fantastic keynote address by Sen. Ben Sasse.

The Woodward Report called the “free interchange of ideas” indispensable to the fulfillment of a university’s mission.

At Yale, we must work together to vigorously defend free speech as the report envisions. We must make an effort to engage in meaningful and respectful dialogue — even with those that vehemently disagree.

ZACH YOUNG is a junior in Silliman College. He is president of the Buckley Program. Contact him at zachary.young@yale.edu .

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G.K. CHESTERTON “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

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With rights go obligations I

believe freedom of speech is essential to the fabric of any respectable university.

Because we have freedom of speech does not mean we are obliged to use it in every instance.

I am a WASP who married into a Jewish family. It would not occur to me to dress up as Shylock from “The Merchant of Venice,” wearing a costume with a big hooked nose and dollar bills coming out of my pockets.

When I was a freshman here 48 years ago, two of my roommates were African-American. It would not cross my mind to dress up in black face as Amos from “Amos N Andy.”

Because of these experiences and human ability to generalize, I would

also not dress up in a big sombrero and a fake handlebar moustache, or wear an abaya. I would not masquerade as a toothless “hillbilly” from Appalachia or a person in a wheelchair.

WE MISS SOMETHING WHEN WE FOCUS ONLY ON RACISM AND “VICTIMHOOD” We miss something when we focus

only on racism and “victimhood.”

Both exist on campus but the real issue in this case is cultural ignorance.

It pains me to say this, since I adore this First Global (millennial) generation, which after all elected our first black president.

I am disappointed because there is still so much ignorance about the history of groups other than our own.

History matters and it leaves wounds that transcend generations.

Amusement using stereotypes does reflect a structural racism. That doesn’t mean we are all racists, but it does mean that our cultural ignorance continues to contribute to the structural racism that exists in every society, including our own.

There is another aspect of this. We talk a lot about rights: the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to make our own reproductive choices.

With rights go obligations, which we rarely speak of or even consider.

What are our obligations to each other as human beings and members of different groups?

We have a right to free speech. We also have an obligation to use that right with care and thoughtfulness.

HOWARD DEAN is a 1971 graduate of Pierson College and former governor of Vermont. He is currently a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

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Replace wounds with discourse Y

ale had a rough week. A woman reported two Fridays ago that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity hosted a “white girls only” party.

Hundreds of students confronted Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis last Thursday about race at Yale. And dozens protested outside the William F. Buckley Program’s conference on free speech this weekend.

Hundreds of students of color and their allies exhorted Yale to improve.

Yale should heed (much of) their message while deploring (some of) their methods.

Many students on Cross Campus expressed anger about the alleged — since Yale is investigating, I won’t speculate on the truth of the claim — “white girls only” party and the treatment of minority students generally. A discussion about racism at Yale should include an acknowledgement that a university with so many students feeling so much pain is failing somehow. That said, the reaction to the alleged party is evidence that Yale has already developed some checks on flagrant bigotry. Hours after the initial allegation, hundreds took to social media to sympathize with the alleged victim, SAE’s president was in contact with the Yale administration and, days later, hundreds convened on Cross Campus in solidarity with Yale’s women of color.

While such blatant bigotry is heav-

ily publicized when it occurs, subtler forms of discrimination appear to be much more common.

Co n se rva t ive s especially should admit this. InstiCOLE and peoARONSON tutions ple develop behaviors over centuries.

Necessary It’s not credible to and proper suggest that racism will disappear from Yale’s community just because it’s now populated by liberal Democrats. The difficult question is what counts as racism.

One view of this question was aired to Holloway last Thursday. Students grieved about unsolved mental health problems, the lack of minority faculty in certain departments and callous freshman roommates. I was not in Silliman College later that day but I understand that similar things were said to Master Christakis, along with complaints about the email his wife, professor Erika Christakis, sent the Silliman community two weeks ago.

The view of many students was, in effect, that the important thing about an action is how it is received, not the intention behind it.

This view’s main problem is its lack of charity. By divorcing action from actor, it gives a general warrant for

people to judge what others say and mean on completely arbitrary and expansive grounds. Was Christakis authorizing students to wear offensive costumes, or making minority students unsafe? Or was she expressing that perhaps certain costumes are, even if in poor taste, meant in jest, rather than in harm? A plain reading of her email yields the latter interpretation. And we consider people’s intentions all the time in everyday life. When someone asks, “How was your day?,” one doesn’t think, “She wants to subject me to miserable reminiscences of the six things that went wrong before lunch.” One thinks, “She cares how I’m doing .”

The lack of charity inherent in judging actions independent of intentions is already having consequences.

Many students’ behaved reprehensibly toward Holloway and Christakis, though neither man means students harm. We cannot have a university if students say, “What the f---k have you been doing?” and impute racial betrayal to the Yale College dean, or when a student commands a teacher to be quiet. Whatever conversation Yale has over the coming months, all Yalies should condemn this sort of abuse. And Yale administrators harm their students when it permits them to say such ugly things to authority figures without consequences. That’s simply not how adults behave.

I still think there is something to

the view that racism is a matter of reception, rather than intent. Further, those who hold this view and are in pain now deserve acknowledgement. No good discussion can occur without their input. But people who hold that view cannot be permitted to shut down other people from expressing their views simply because they offend. Then, a debate becomes a shouting match, and justice becomes the advantage of those who feel the most strongly. If a difficult discussion leads to cursing and insults, then Yale has failed to instill its students with a respect for the pursuit of truth.

Yale has to proceed along two paths. Too many feel too much hurt.

Many students’ wounds need binding.

But a wound is not itself an argument.

This doesn’t mean it isn’t important: it’s cruel and wrong to tell a suffering friend their feelings don’t matter. But Yale needs a vision for moving past ameliorating pain and toward developing a university based on inquiry and respect. That requires malice toward none, and charity for all.

The world is indeed watching Yale — to see whether it can elevate students past the plane of grief to the plane of discourse, which is the University’s plane par excellence.

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST RACHEL WILKINSON

Trying times A

s a senior this year, I’m spending a lot more time than before reflecting on my Yale experience. Looking back, I can’t help but feel incredibly lucky to have spent the past three years here. Yale and Silliman in particular have come to feel like home in a way I could never have imagined on my first day of freshmen year. My love for Yale is a big part of the reason I became a freshmen counselor — I wanted to share my love for Yale with new students and help them to love it too. Watching my freshmen make new friends and find their place in this incredible community has been one of the greatest joys of my time at Yale.

But as a Black female student on this campus, my love for Yale is complicated. These past few days have been trying times for many students, students of color in particular. Erika Christakis’s email, perhaps unintentionally, trivialized students’ very real concern about the consequences of culturally appropriative behavior. Her argument also privileged the rights of certain students to express themselves through offensive costumes over the rights of other students to feel safe and respected. Like many people, I felt hurt by her message, but even more hurtful were the responses of many students who leapt

to her defense without acknowledging the ways in which cultural appropriative and degrading costumes cause real damage to their classmates.

I REFUSE TO BECOME APATHETIC ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH MARGINALIZED PEOPLE ARE MADE TO FEEL FURTHER MARGINALIZED ON THIS CAMPUS The next night when I heard from friends and read online about a Black freshmen girl being harassed and denied entrance to SAE on the basis of race, I felt even more hurt. As even more students leapt to the defense of SAE and denied the veracity of her story of discrimination and numerous others like it, I was heartbroken. But at no point was I surprised.

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Yale is not somehow immune to the systems of racism and misogyny that shape our world. My status as a Yale student hasn’t protected me from racist behavior on this campus, and my Yale degree won’t protect me from racism in whatever office I work in or neighborhood I live in after graduation. One of the most important lessons I learned in my time at Yale is that systems of oppression are ubiquitous, and that no combination of good intentions and advanced education will ever make someone immune from the tendency to perpetuate racial biases. As author Junot Díaz once said, “White supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced people that it exists always in other people, never in us.”

But just because oppressive systems are ubiquitous, that does not mean that offensive behavior is unavoidable. Yale as a community isn’t immune to racism or sexism, but I do believe our community is special.

We care deeply about one another, and we should hold ourselves and others to a higher standard of behavior.

We should recognize that each of us has the potential to perpetuate racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and other forms of oppression in our day-to-day lives. Recognizing that, we should be thoughtful and deliber-

ate about our actions so as not to perpetuate systems of oppression inadvertently. As Dean Burgwell Howard reminded all of us, offensive actions, even when well-intentioned, send a much stronger message than any apology issued after the fact. His message, which responds to years of student activism pressuring the administration to help make Yale a more inclusive place, is itself evidence of the power of our actions.

I love Yale, and because I love it, I want it to do better. I refuse to become apathetic about the ways in which marginalized people are made to feel further marginalized on this campus, and I refuse to become fatalistic about our ability to make things right.

When I see the bravery of my classmates who publicly tell their stories of discrimination, who call out administrators who trivialize their concerns, who condemn racism and sexism on campus and off, they inspire me. They remind me why I love this place. Yale isn’t special because it’s free of injustice — it’s special because whenever one of us musters up the courage to call out injustice, we never have to do it alone.

RACHEL WILKINSON is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at rachel.wilkinson@yale.edu .

YOUR THOUGHTS. YOUR VOICE. YOUR PAGE.

GUEST COLUMNIST SOPHIE RUEHR

To white women A

fter attending the forum Wednesday night at the Af-Am house, talking with my friends who are women of color and standing in the Silliman courtyard to hear students address Master Nicholas Christakis, I feel drained. At night before bed, I think about what I, as a white woman, can do to support and love the women of color on this campus. I know many of the white women around me are asking similar questions.

But this is exactly what we shouldn’t be thinking. I should not feel drained by these conversations; the women who are voicing their sadness, anger and pain are so much more tired by these discussions than I can feel or understand. I need to get out of my own head and spend my energy listening to the voices around me that go unheard most of the year. Only through listening can I learn, and only through learning can I hope to combat hatred on this campus and beyond.

So, white women: listen first.

THE WOMEN WHO HAVE COME FORWARD AND WHO ARE LEADING THESE DISCUSSIONS ARE MORE THAN COURAGEOUS; THEY ARE GENEROUS. THEY HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY TO EDUCATE US ABOUT RACISM And don’t just listen in forums and large group discussions. Reach out individually to women of color you know. Remind them of your love and support. Many black women on campus have made themselves vulnerable before the entire community by sharing their experiences. Commend your friends for their bravery and for taking on a burden that shouldn’t be theirs to carry in the first place. It takes a lot to be a Yale student, and even more so for someone who must constantly fight for the right to be heard and respected.

The women who have come forward and who are leading these discussions are more than courageous; they are generous. They have no responsibility to educate us about racism. That is our own responsibility.

So, white women, educate yourselves. Lex Barlowe ’17, in her opening statements to the crowd at the Af-Am house on Wednesday, read a document written by the Black Student Alliance at Yale about changes that need to take place on campus to cultivate a more inclusive and safe environment. One demand was that an Af-Am and WGSS class be mandatory for all Yale students. Even if these classes are not currently mandatory, make them mandatory for yourselves. Go out and read about how racism operates in the lives of people around you. Read writing by black women, and read a lot of it. Read Audre Lorde.

Read Claudia Rankine. Read Elizabeth Alexander, an amazing professor who’s leaving Yale this year (shoutout again to BSAY, who also demanded an initiative to retain faculty of color). Read, and forget about yourself while you do so.

On Thursday, Master Christakis interrupted students instead of listening to them.

I do not believe that he meant to be so condescending and uncaring to the students he addressed. Intention is not all that matters, of course. He caused students a lot of pain, students for whom he is supposed be an advocate, and for that he owes an apology. But Master Christakis’ response also shows a lack of understanding. He obviously did not understand what it means to confront racism with respect and sensitivity. He should be listening, not talking, like Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. He should be reading black women’s writing, not tweeting from the Silliman Twitter account.

White women, after you‘ve listened and read, it’s time to remember your role in all this. We need to step up. Many of the black women on campus are exhausted. As white women, we can use our privilege to support the black voices around us. We do not face the same violence and hatred as women of color do. As white women, we need to get in faces, we need to yell, we need to get angry and fight back.

But enough about what white women can do. We need to direct the conversation back to the experiences of people of color on this campus. At this moment, black women, who are so vital to our community, are hurting.

Yale should learn to care for the women of color here, who, through speaking out, make our campus a better place.

SOPHIE RUEHR is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at sophie.ruehr@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

EPICTETUS GREEK SPEAKING STOIC PHILOSOPHER

Dwight Hall breaks ties with fraternities DWIGHT HALL FROM PAGE 1 Chi Psi President Taylor Rogers ’17 said the fundraiser was only one part of a larger effort to expand collaboration between the Greek community and Dwight Hall in order to facilitate an increased impact on the New Haven community. While Rogers said he does not think the decision to cut off ties with all of the fraternities is necessarily fair, he added that he places no fault on Dwight Hall. The sad part for him, Rogers said, is that Dwight Hall’s decision is understandable.

“It disheartens me that our group, which has no part in any of this, is being punished, and the money that was going to be raised is not going to be raised anymore,” Rogers said.

“I also understand, though, that [fraternities] are an entire community, and we represent something … and right now we longer have that support.”

The SAE incident has prompted larger discussions about Greek life at Yale, as several different Greek organizations have considered their role in promoting a diverse and inclusive campus.

Yale’s four sororities, which are not directly affected by the Dwight Hall announcement, have been taking steps to address the current situation and contribute to the creation of a more inclusive and safe space at Yale. The Yale Panhellenic Council, a representative government that coordinates formal recruitment for the sororities, alongside the presidents of the sororities — Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Phi — is hosting a discussion for women within the Panhellenic community on Tuesday night.

“The conversation on campus the last couple of days reminds us that we as a sorority have a responsibility to promote inclusivity,” said Mary DuBois ’17, presidentelect of Theta. “Theta is taking this issue seriously and we are seeking an active role in bettering the campus climate.”

DuBois added that Theta sent members of its executive board to the open forum at the Afro-American Cultural Center that took place last Wednesday. The sorority will also hold a conversation about diversity and inclusivity within the sorority and welcomes possible collaboration with other campus organizations.

According to an internal Pi Phi email obtained by the News, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Pi Phi cancelled a mixer that was originally scheduled for this past Saturday. The fraternity decided not to host any events “in light of the recent scrutiny of Greek life,” the email said.

Fraternities have also been working to promote change within their own organizations. In addition to attending the same forum at the Af-Am House, Rogers said he recently sent an email to leaders of the Greek community soliciting interest in the possibility of an interfraternity council. Such a collaboration, which does not currently exist, would help fraternity leaders recognize and address flaws in the current fraternity system, he said.

Similarly, Mueller said SAE is currently awaiting administrative approval to host an open forum to address the issues of race, socioeconomic status and sexuality relating to Greek organizations on campus.

Still, in light of recent events in response to SAE’s alleged “white girls only” party, Mueller said the campus climate has grown increasingly tense. On Friday, he flew home to Houston, Texas, because he did not feel safe on campus. He returned last night. Mueller said he was spat on by a male student and added that he did not attend any of his classes last week because many of his classmates were the same people who confronted him during the forum held at the Af-Am House last week. Mueller said Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, Mueller’s residential college dean and several other administrators told him it may be best for him to be removed from the situation.

In the meantime, Dwight Hall has stood firm on its decision, with leaders emphasizing that the organization does not condone racism, misogyny or any other form of discrimination.

“As a student-led organization that works to further social justice, we are committed to hearing and validating the voices of marginalized members of our community,” read the end of the Dwight Hall statement announcing the suspension of fraternity partnerships. “We welcome the opportunity to work with any individual or group that shares this commitment and is willing to demonstrate it through words and actions.”

Founded in 1886, Dwight Hall is the country’s largest campus-based and studentrun service organization.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Dwight Hall has suspended its relationships with Yale’s fraternities for the rest of the semester.

Hundreds protest Buckley program talk BUCKLEY FROM PAGE 1 munity but required prior registration, and the deadline was in October. Opening remarks for the daylong conference were given by Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis, who has also elicited heavy criticism for his defense of his wife’s email.

Other speakers included former Federal Election Commission Commissioner Bradley Smith and U.S. Sen. Benjamin Sasse GRD ’04, and over 250 students, alumni and donors attended the conference, according to Buckley Program President Zach Young ’17.

Before the comment was made, Edward Columbia ’18 — a white male who did not register

for the event — walked into the room and began putting up signs along the front of the room which read “Stand with your sisters of color. Now, here. Always, everywhere,” according to Columbia and Bergeron. They both said a security guard asked Columbia to leave because he was not registered and because he was putting up posters, but he refused to do so. Shortly after, Lukianoff made the comment about the Indian village, and Columbia shouted at Lukianoff and asked him why he thought it was funny, according to Columbia.

While Columbia resisted, the guard dragged him outside of the room, where he was pinned down and handcuffed before being taken to a squad car, Colum-

bia said. Both Bergeron and Columbia said the officer used an appropriate amount of force.

Columbia was given a citation, which he called “a mere slap on the wrist,” and said he will appear in court, though he declined to specify when this will happen.

“I couldn’t let the joke go. It was too f---ed up,” Columbia said. “All of the officers treated me well, and I feel bad for putting a security officer who was just doing his job in a position where he had to drag me out. But I also wonder whether I would have been released so quickly … if I weren’t a white male.”

Some Buckley fellows present at the event gave a slightly different account. They said they were not bothered when Columbia

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Protesters rallied after hearing that a speaker had made a joke about genocide.

put up signs and only asked him to leave when he interrupted and shouted at the speaker. The signs were taken down after Columbia’s removal.

The online Facebook post led a group of Native American women, other students of color and their supporters to protest the conference in an impromptu gathering outside of LC 102, where the Buckley event was taking place. Officers from the Yale Police Department stood in front of the entrance, announcing that the event was at full capacity and that no one who had not registered would be allowed to enter.

The situation escalated when Young and another attendee left the room where the conference was taking place to offer food to the protestors in the hallway.

Students demanded that a representative from the protesters be allowed to join the conference and voice their views. But one attendee engaged with the protesters, stating that unregistered students were not allowed into the room and adding that speakers within the conference were entitled to their views as well.

The standoff quickly became confrontational, with speakers on both sides raising their voices. Young said he did not stay to address the protesters because he was busy organizing the event.

He stressed that the protesters were not allowed into the event because they had not registered.

“I will share the University’s policy on free speech,” Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, who arrived near the end of the conference, told the crowd. “You have a right to free expression, and so do the people inside. As long as there’s a clear path [to allow attendees to leave the conference] you can hold up your signs.”

Howard reminded the student protesters that any attempt at blocking the attendees’ departure would risk arrest, which the students acknowledged.

Around 5:45 p.m., as attendees began to leave the conference, students outside chanted the phrase “Genocide is not a joke” and held up written signs of the same words. Taking Howard’s reminder into account, protesters formed a clear path through which attendants could leave. A large group of students eventually gathered outside of

the building on High Street.

According to Buckley fellows present during the conference, several attendees were spat on as they left. One Buckley fellow said he was spat on and called a racist. Another, who is a minority himself, said he has been labeled a “traitor” by several fellow minority students. Both asked to remain anonymous because they were afraid of attracting backlash.

Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, a Native American student and one of the leaders of the protest, said she has spoken to the fellow who said he was spat on.

She emphasized that spitting is “disgraceful” and not the message the protestors were looking to convey, but she confirmed that it did happen.

“The spitting happened,” she told the News Sunday night.

“Our movement is founded in the idea that all people’s voices should be heard. We cannot maintain the integrity of this message whilst questioning or silencing other accounts.”

An emotional rally soon followed as the last attendees emerged from LC and left the conference. Bullhorn in hand, Bear Don’t Walk shared her anger with the crowd, which had grown in size, about the comment made at the Buckley event.

She expressed despair that this comment came on the heels of discussions about racial issues on campus.

“About an hour ago, we were sitting at the Native American Cultural Center and we were talking. We said today was one of the only days we felt okay on this campus,” Bear Don’t Walk told the crowd. “Then we looked at our Facebook feed and we saw this message about what someone at this freedom of speech conference said. But we rallied and we gathered here to tell them that this is not okay.”

Ending on the chant “We out here, we’ve been here, we ain’t leaving, we are loved” — a phrase that was also used during Thursday’s gatherings on Cross Campus with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway — protesters soon dispersed. Before leaving, protesters left their signs along the building’s walkway.

Buckley Fellows interviewed said the Facebook post misrepresented what occurred during

the conference. Connor Wood ’19 said while there was laughter following Lukianoff’s comment, many attendees were made uncomfortable by the statement.

Gabriel Ozuna ’15 added that most audience members were Yale alumni and donors who were not fully aware of the past week’s racially charged events.

“Although I think the protesters misinterpreted the ‘Overheard at Yale’ post, I think the protest is a good sign of healthy debate and free speech at Yale,” Woods said.

In a statement to the News, Young wrote that the protesters’ actions have highlighted the need to protect free speech on campus.

“The protesters yesterday underscored the need to vigorously promote a culture of free expression at Yale,” he wrote.

“Disagreement is not grounds for censorship, disruption or intimidation.”

Speaking with the News Saturday, Young said organizers of the event had taken appropriate and responsible precautions. He said he had contacted the YPD several days before and was in communication with Holloway and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews before and during the event.

Yale Native American Arts Council President Emily Van Alst ’16 said the comment mocked a cultural genocide. Everyone should have the right to free speech, she said, but there is a distinct line between free speech and hateful, hurtful, racist speech which results in violence.

Bear Don’t Walk said the protesters followed all the appropriate rules and formed a path for the attendees of the Buckley event. However, she did acknowledge that it is difficult for students to have productive discussions in such emotionally charged situations.

“Things got heated on both sides,” she said. “It’s hard to have constructive discussions when there is a large group of people who are passionate and emotional about what’s at stake.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu, VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Sugar is the new tobacco.”

CYNTHIA KENYON MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST

AACC hosts talk on naming of colleges

BY SHUYU SONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Asian American Cultural Center hosted an event Monday to discuss the renaming of Calhoun College and the naming of the new residential colleges.

Almost 50 students, many of whom were Asian American, came to the hourlong discussion. At the talk, Alex Zhang ’18, co-chair of the Asian American Studies Taskforce, challenged participants to think about whether the center should only support naming the colleges after an Asian-American candidate or support any candidate of color.

Students at the talk decided that the best course of action would be to communicate with the other cultural centers and reach a consensus.

“A name by itself probably won’t alleviate racial conflict, but it can be meaningful to people in lots of other ways,” said Jessica Liang ’17, co-coordinator of the AACC, in an email to the News.

Seyoung Lee ’16 spoke about the larger symbolic meaning of a college’s name, stating her belief that debates about naming the new colleges after a candidate of color should not be exclusive to minority communities. She said plenty of white students on campus would also be sympathetic toward naming a college after a candidate of color.

“We need to somehow engage with that 50 percent of the student population,” Lee said during the talk. To engage students from all communities, Lee suggested creating some sort of campuswide notification system to pub-

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Students gathered at the Asian American Cultural Center to discuss the naming of the new residential colleges and the name of Calhoun College. licize these types of events on campus.

Austin Strayhorn ’19 said Calhoun College should be renamed after an African-American candidate, as the name “Calhoun” impacts the African-American population in particular. He and his friends felt very uncomfortable wearing shirts and carry-

ing items with the name Calhoun emblazoned on them, he said.

“It’s becoming a problem for just being in Calhoun and the administration is not taking a strong position by endorsing a hyphenation,” Strayhorn said. At the beginning of this month, Calhoun College Master Julia Adams, who had previously declined to

take a public position in the dispute, called for the college to be rechristened Calhoun-Douglass College, after the 19th-century African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

However, Zhang said there is only so much the administration could do to alleviate the dissatisfaction.

Yale to go tobacco-free

BY DAVID SHIMER AND PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over the next year, Yale will become the fifth of 26 universities in Connecticut to take steps toward eliminating tobacco from its campus.

On Thursday, University President Peter Salovey sent an email to the Yale community announcing that the University would become tobacco-free. Students widely criticized the timing of the email announcement, as the administration had at that point remained silent about two controversial incidents that drove campus discussion on race and discrimination. The email came around 4 p.m. on Thursday, less than an hour after a three-hour protest held on Cross Campus about issues of race and discrimination on campus. Salovey told the News he wishes the long-scheduled date of release had been changed, but still thinks the initiative is important for the health of students, faculty and staff on campus. Salovey said that the Schools of Public Health and Medicine have long been interested in establishing the initiative, which will include awareness events and smoking cessation support programs. Organized by the Department of Human Resources and Administration, the initiative will hopefully benefit both smokers and the rest of the Yale community, Salovey added.

“The idea is not just to have cleaner air for everyone to breathe, but to make it easier for people to quit,” Salovey said.

Two posts on “Overheard at Yale” — a popular Facebook page

— expressed student frustration with administrative silence on two incidents: allegedly discriminatory behavior at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon party on the weekend of Halloween and a controversial email sent by Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis about culturally appropriative Halloween costumes. One contained a screenshot of President Salovey’s announcement and another showed an edited version of the email, altered to announce that Yale would “become a racism-free campus.”

Tobacco researchers and public health activists have applauded the announcement of TobaccoFree Yale, with many calling it a positive step forward for the wellbeing of the University community.

Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the nature and structure of the campaign.

In a Sunday email to the News, Ruth Canovi, director of the American Lung Association for Connecticut, said she welcomed the initiative. She said that the program would not only reduce risks to campus associated with secondhand smoke but would also prevent students from starting to smoke cigarettes, adding that college students were among the most likely members of the population to smoke for the first time.

“We know that cigarette smoking rates are higher in the 18-25 age population than in youth,” Canovi said. “In 2012, almost 32 percent of 18-25 year-olds nationwide smoked cigarettes, while 6 percent of 12-17 year-olds smoked cigarettes. College is often a time

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The kick-off event for Tobacco-Free Yale takes place on Nov. 19 in the Woolsey Hall Rotunda.

that people pick up the habit of smoking; tobacco-free policies on our college campuses can help change that.”

Sherry McKee, psychiatry professor and director of the Yale Tobacco Treatment Clinic, said that she expects the initiative to be well-received by smokers among the student body, staff and faculty.

She noted that nicotine replacement methods are not as effective for women as they are for men but that varenicline, the most effective medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration, works equally well for men and women.

Marc Potenza, director of the Yale Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, said that the TobaccoFree Yale campaign marks an important step in the University’s historical attitude toward tobacco.

He noted that 100 years ago, certain tobacco brands carried the Yale name, and called the current initiative a “stepwise progression from [Yale’s] idle perspective [on tobacco-related health issues]” that has resulted from an increasing understanding of the negative health effects of tobacco consumption.

Grace Kong, an associate research scientist in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine who is involved with Yale’s Tobacco Research in Youth, said now is the appropriate time for a campaign of this nature due to the increased use of non-cigarette tobacco products among college students. She added that she expects the campaign will not only focus on cigarettes but other popular tobacco products including hookah, cigars, cigarillos, e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.

Stephanie O’Malley, director of the Division of Substance Abuse Research in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, said that now was a great time for the implementation Tobacco-Free Yale because of recent anti-tobacco measures instituted by the city of New Haven, which include steps toward the prohibition of smoking in schools, parks and other city-owned property.

The rate of tobacco use among adults in Connecticut is 16.5 percent, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The rate of tobacco use among Connecticut high school students is 13.5 percent.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Halfway through the discussion, Zhang encouraged all participants to make a pledge with him to participate in future events hosted by other cultural houses.

Almost all students raised their hands in support of the pledge.

Zhang said he did not want to be among the few trying to engage with other cultural houses.

“I want my friends, people whom I just met in these events and other students to be part of the movement,” Zhang said.

The announcement for the names of the new residential colleges is currently set for April.

Contact SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

Refugees learn safety, civil rights

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Around 15 refugees were taught how to avoid scams, report crimes in their native languages and navigate interactions with law enforcement during a Thursday seminar with New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman.

The refugees were clients from Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — a New Haven program that resettles refugees and other displaced people — who attended the meeting as part of a monthly wellness program, according to IRIS social worker Amanda Bisset, who organizes the program.

Though Thursday’s meeting was intended to be a crash course in safety, the United States’ laws and law enforcement, it also aimed to build trust between refugees and the police.

“For us as a police department to go to these groups and talk to them about their safety has a selfish element, but it’s a good one,” Hartman said. “We want people to interact with us. We don’t want them to wait until something bad has happened.”

Bisset said it is important for refugees to be comfortable interacting with law enforcement and to know what their rights are. She noted that many IRIS clients are from countries with high rates of corruption and where the police and government are not trusted.

Bisset said some of her clients voiced concerns that they could be targeted or distrusted by law enforcement because they are from a different country.

“Officer Hartman did a great job of reinforcing the idea that they should all be treated equally by law enforcement,” she said.

Hartman said NHPD does not check the immigration status of people they interact with unless it is relevant, such as if individuals were victims of a hate crime.

He said refugees are more likely to fall victim to certain crimes, including robberies, because people assume refugees cannot open bank accounts and will be carrying large amounts of cash on their person. He added that

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Hartman said refugees are more likely to be the victims of crimes like robbery and fraud. refugees are also at heightened risk of being victims of phone scams. Some companies exploit refugees who do not know about American customs by asking them to share sensitive information such as debit card numbers or visa numbers over the phone.

Often, Hartman said, all it takes for someone to be preyed upon by a criminal is having a foreign accent.

He stressed to the refugees that it is important for them to report crimes because this prevents others from becoming victims of the same perpetrator.

“We have to make sure that people aren’t discouraged from reporting crime because of a language barrier,” Hartman said.

Hartman told clients at the meeting that NHPD is capable of handling 911 calls in languages other than English. In addition to potential translators at Yale or the New York Police Department language bank, Hartman said there are officers at NHPD who speak Spanish, French, Hindi and Punjab, among other languages.

Adam Echelman ’17, the president of Yale Refugee Project — which matches Yale student mentors with refugees between the ages of

15 and 28 — said it is harder for refugees to learn English and overcome these language barriers when they are over the age of 18 because they cannot enroll in traditional schooling. In adult education courses, Echelman said it is harder to make friends to practice English with outside the classroom.

“High school is a really great place to practice English, but it’s also a great way to make American friends,” Echelman said. “If you’re enrolled in an adult education course, it’s not the same.”

Bisset said though many of these topics are covered in Thursday’s meeting is taught to refugees when they first reach the United States, Thursday’s meeting was a helpful follow-up.

She added that the topics IRIS’ program focuses on each month are based on clients’ needs.

“Any information that we can provide to our clients as their adjusting to this new country is empowering to them,” Bisset said. “It was a wonderful event.”

IRIS changed its name from Interfaith Refugee Ministry to IRIS in 2007.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.” BUDDHA SPIRITUAL LEADER AND TEACHER

Admins respond to campus concerns ADMINISTRATION FROM PAGE 1 asking students to be thoughtful about the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes. Later on Saturday, a Yale College student posted on Facebook about women of color being turned away from a party at Sigma Alpha Epsilon the previous night on the basis that the party was “white girls only.”

While Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews said she learned of the SAE incident late Halloween weekend and subsequently touched base with the Yale College Dean’s Office to determine how Woodbridge Hall could offer support, Salovey said he did not hear about it until “later the next week.”

Salovey said he knew of the controversy around Christakis’ email by the end of the weekend.

Taken separately, Salovey said he at first viewed the two issues to be solely Yale College concerns.

“What I had heard about later in the week was an investigation was happening to try to find out what happened,” Salovey said, referring to the party at SAE. “And normally the communication about those kinds of incidents — let’s assume in isolation, a controversy around a memo written about Halloween to Yale College students and an investigation of incidents of bias or discrimination at a fraternity — normally those would be handled entirely in Yale College with the dean being the communicator.”

But Salovey acknowledged that his office should have better anticipated how students would feel and react to these two issues together. That became clear on Thursday, he said, as students surrounded Holloway on Cross Campus voicing their concerns and questioning the silence of the administration.

Akinyi Ochieng ’15, a former peer liaison for the Afro-American Cultural Center, said the two incidents exposed tensions long in existence.

“I think that the two events were catalysts for revealing frustrations and unheard voices,” she said. “It’s not that students of color are trying to attack white students. It’s that they are trying to voice their pains and have other students say ‘I understand and I will try to do better’ and hold other people accountable in trying to do better. That to me is what this is about.”

Though Salovey was off campus during the Cross Campus gathering Thursday when hundreds of students addressed Holloway with their concerns, he said it led him to realize how upset students were and that he should hear from them directly. So while students were talking with Holloway, his office began setting up an evening meeting with affected students from across the Yale College community.

6 P.M. – 10 P.M. ON THURSDAY, NOV. 4

About 50 students gathered in the Corporation Room of Woodbridge Hall at 6 p.m., spending roughly four hours talking with

Salovey, Holloway, Goff-Crews and Salovey’s Chief of Staff Joy McGrath.

Salovey said he began by apologizing to the students not only for their painful experiences, but also for asking them to share those experiences yet again. Ultimately, he said, he heard a “painful relating” of what it can be like to be a member of an underrepresented minority group at Yale College.

“The telling of those experiences was very emotional and rather quickly led me to feel that the Halloween memo and the SAE allegations were just the precipitating events of this week, but in fact we had larger issues to discuss,” he said.

Spending almost all of the meeting listening to students, Salovey said he also tried to communicate to those in attendance that they truly belong at Yale.

Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, a Native American student who attended the Thursday meeting, said President Salovey spent most of the meeting listening — a welcome change.

“President Salovey was mostly listening, which is important because the administration has not been,” Bear Don’t Walk said.

“He did not make any promises but he said he would take the recommendations into consideration. He offered us condolences.

He talked to us a little bit about how the administration works. I left with a little better idea of how things work, but I still left feeling that the struggles of people of color need to be addressed with the same urgency as other topics.

We became more educated about each other, acknowledging that the stakes are different for each of us.”

Salovey said while improving Yale’s culture is not necessarily the burden of students, he requested their help in doing so.

One student in attendance, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the meeting, said the meeting left a permanent mark on everyone present.

“I’ll remember it until the day I die,” the student said. “I don’t think the word ‘powerful’ does an adequate job of encapsulating the emotion and the sentiment in that room, the dynamic that we all experienced. I think that President Salovey and the other administrators present experienced it as well. It was incredible.”

Goff-Crews said she and the other administrators present spent most of the meeting listening and absorbing the candid, personal and sometimes painful experiences students chose to share. She said her focus is now to address the issues those present raised.

At the meeting, a member of the Black Student Alliance at Yale read a list of possible steps the administration could take to address current dialogues on campus. The actions fall under three general categories: administrative response to the incidents of the past week and related events, initiatives for the interests

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Over the past week, students criticized administrators for their silence on controversial campus incidents regarding race. of Black women, Black people and other people of color and student input on administration and faculty hiring and training practices.

Looking back on the meeting, Salovey said the experiences of students present had constituted a failure for him.

“I would say that to have about 50 minority students in a room with me saying to me that their experience was not what they hoped it would be, I take personal responsibility for that and I consider it a failure,” he said.

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Holloway and Salovey met one of the BSAY requests by emailing the Yale College community on Friday about the events of the past week and future steps.

In a Friday morning email, Holloway said he had absorbed the words and emotions shared with him on Cross Campus. He wrote that he not only takes seriously the allegations against SAE and is in the process of investigating the incident, but also that he supports the content of the IAC’s original email.

“Let me be unambiguous, I am fully in support of the email message that went out from the IAC to the Yale community,” he wrote.

“I understand that some, maybe many of you, found the tone offputting or even pedantic, but the intention of the message was exactly right: we need always to be dedicated to fashioning a community that is mindful of the many traditions that make us who we are.”

Though he did not mention SAE or Christakis in his email

to the Yale College community Friday afternoon, Salovey told the News that if SAE is found at fault, the University could punish the fraternity in a variety of ways. Possible actions range from a formal reprimand to prohibiting SAE from recruiting student members on campus, he said.

Salovey said that like Holloway, he supports the message sent by the IAC. “I support everything that was in Dean Holloway’s message to the community,” he said. “I see the pain that certain kinds of costumes cause some students on our campus, and I think we want to create a campus environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued, and that kind of pain should be not a typical experience.”

In his email, Salovey also said the Thursday night meeting left him deeply troubled, and he said he would announce at least some policy response by Thanksgiving.

Salovey told the News he will sit down with leaders of Yale College and the University at large to think about what steps they can take to build off the “concrete and actionable” suggestions he received Thursday evening.

“Good examples of actions that can be taken immediately: complete the investigation of the SAE incident and communicate it,” Salovey said. “[The students] asked Dean Holloway and me to send emails acknowledging the pain that this community was experiencing right now, and we’ve done that. Ask mental health professionals to better serve the minority communities by working with the

cultural centers, and they have been on site since [Friday] afternoon. There were issues about [University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct] procedures and the alcohol protocol at Yale Health that they want us to look into, and we will. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to figure out a way for students to provide input with respect to our newly announced faculty diversity initiative. Another good example is create a more obvious mechanism whereby students can report situations where they feel they’ve experienced bias or discrimination.”

Ochieng said the Halloween email and SAE incidents mark two poles of larger racial issues on campus, the first being a lack of diversity in the Yale administration and the second being a lack of empathy and understanding among students. She said having a more diverse faculty would help to address the former, commending the $50 million faculty diversity initiative announced last week.

Based on her experiences at Yale, Ochieng said offering specialized mental health services to students of color would be highly productive. Similar to one of the BSAY recommendations, Ochieng also said Yale should require students to take culturally oriented courses, acting as a leader in the Ivy League.

“I think mental health services that specifically recognize the needs of students of color are essential,” she said. “Another thing I would love to see, admittedly progressive, would be a cultural studies requirement

that has students take a course in Af-Am or WGSS or any other ethnic studies department to graduate.”

Goff-Crews also said in considering policy changes, her office’s priority is for Yale to be a community where all students feel safe, welcome and able to thrive. She added that administrators are working to make effective changes as quickly as possible. Goff-Crews said she and Salovey have remained in “close contact” with the Yale Corporation — the governing board and policymaking body for Yale.

Salovey said he sent Corporation members an email summarizing the events of the past week.

While the members will not be making policy decisions, Salovey said he always weighs their advice heavily.

Margaret Marshall LAW ’76, senior fellow of the Yale Corporation and former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, said Salovey and Goff-Crews have kept the Corporation informed regarding recent events and remain open to the board’s input.

“The president briefs the Corporation on important campus issues at every meeting of the Corporation,” she said. “He and the secretary also brief the Corporation between meetings, typically via email or telephone calls, as they have in the case of campus events of the past week. They are always open to any advice that Corporation members provide to them.”

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Alexion investigated for bribery ALEXION FROM PAGE 1 care workers are often considered government employees. This means that interactions between pharmaceutical companies and foreign health workers are often under legal suspicion of violating the FCPA. Parker added the trend began when the government began to discover bribery cases involving American pharmaceutical companies abroad, and then suspected that many similar cases existed. In recent years, several national governments have also begun to prioritize anti-bribery enforcement, though the U.S. remains the leading enforcer of such laws, Parker said. She added that government officials see bribery as one of the more difficult industry practices to eliminate once it takes hold.

Mead Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bio-Rad and Stryker are several pharmaceutical companies that have been charged with FCPA violations in the last two years. Mead Johnson and BristolMyers Squibb both settled with the SEC this year for over $12 million each after bribing health care

workers in China. In October 2013, Stryker paid $13.2 million for violations in five different countries.

Over a year later, Bio-Rad settled for $55 million in November after bribing Russian, Thai and Vietnamese officials.

Alexion representatives said in a Friday statement to the News that they are fully cooperating with SEC’s and DOJ’s orders. Alexion did not elaborate on the nature of the investigation. Legal news service Law360 reported the complaints stem from Alexion operations in Japan, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.

“Alexion has long been committed to operating at the highest level of business ethics worldwide and has a robust global compliance program,” Alexion Senior Director of Communications Kim Diamond wrote in the statement.

Alexion’s filings only reveal the company is under investigation for “grant-making” activities, which does not indicate the nature of the suspected violation. In most FCPA cases, biotech employees paid doctors to prescribe drugs or bribed health care officials to clear legal barriers for a drug, said SEC

Director of Enforcement Andrew Ceresney in a March 2015 speech.

Though certain cases are common, almost any act seeking to gain an unfair business advantage abroad by paying a health care worker would trigger the FCPA, Parker said.

Alexion has long been committed to operating at the highest level of business ethics worldwide.

KIM DIAMOND Sr. Director of Communications, Alexion The outcome of the investigation into Alexion will likely take at least another half year. Richard Cassin, an attorney and editor in chief of the FCPA Blog — a platform exclusively dedicated to FCPA cases — said most investigations last between one and two years, though some can last much longer. Both Cassin and Parker said that even if charged, Alexion

will likely settle with the SEC and DOJ rather than go to court.

Cassin added that around 150 companies are currently under investigation for the FCPA and that most investigations do not result in charges. In 2015, nine corporations have been charged by either the DOJ or SEC. The fact that the DOJ and SEC are investigating Alexion is not a significant development, considering the number of investigations launched each year, said Mike Koehler, an attorney and founder of the FCPA Professor blog — another platform dedicated to FCPA cases.

If the SEC or DOJ charges Alexion, the results of the investigation will become public. Until then, the investigation is kept private, Cassin said.

“The only way to find out more about an investigation is by what the company says,” Cassin said.

“The SEC and DOJ don’t comment.”

Dr. Leonard Bell MED ’94 cofounded Alexion in 1992 to commercialize his research at Yale.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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“The district is trying to define a new approach in a collaborative way,” said David Rosenberg, a partner at Education Resource Strategies, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that works to improve resource allocation in urban school systems.

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New Haven’s Board of Education is reworking its fund-allocation model to make resource distribution more equitable between schools.

The nine-person school funding committee tasked with improving the model — whose members include New Haven Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Victor De La Paz, three principals from around the district, New Haven Federation of Teachers Vice President Tom Burns and two NHPS parents — aims to propose an alternate funding model to Superintendent Garth Harries by Nov. 25 so it can be incorporated into next year’s budget.

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NHPS’ current funding model — which allocates funding by the size of the school and not the needs of the students — has led to a large spending disparity.

41 percent of NHPS schools receive per-student funding sums above or below $10,400 — the median amount of per-student funding across the district.

To ensure funding disparities reflect needs, the committee is considering a model that sets a standard student-teacher ratio for all schools in the district and allocates funding based on the number of teachers the school has.

Then, the remaining funding that is available will be distributed to individual students according to

their need, De La Paz said in an Oct. 22 meeting.

Engineering and Science University Magnet School parent Jill Kelly, who sits on the school funding committee, said the proposed hybrid model will ensure basic needs, such as a baseline teacherstudent ratio, are met.

Kelley said the level of stu-

dent funding, which would be set at a rate between $300 and $500 a year, is appropriate because it is not so high that a student’s choice to move schools would drastically impact a school’s budget.

But she acknowledged many unanswered questions persist around the new model, including how student-teacher ratios

and funding at individual schools would change.

“It’s all still a work in progress,” she said.

Roughly $9.4 million will be allocated as student funding across the school district.

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

Global Network welcomes second U.S. member

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Three years after its launch in April 2012, the Global Network for Advanced Management welcomed its second U.S. member school last Thursday: the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

The announcement came after a unanimous vote among existing GNAM members schools to accept Berkeley-Haas’ application. After the addition of Berkeley-Haas, GNAM — an international partnership of business schools founded by Yale School of Management Dean Edward Snyder in 2012 — now includes 28 member schools. Before Berkeley-Haas joined GNAM, the Yale School of Management was the only U.S. school in the network.

Administrators and students interviewed said Berkeley-Haas will add strength to GNAM. “Adding a U.S. school will reinforce that Yale SOM’s interest in GNAM is not to build a ‘hub-and-spoke’ model with Yale SOM at the center, but rather to develop a network of top business schools and change management education,” Snyder said. The “spoke-hub” distribution network is a system of connections in which all traffic moves along spokes connected to the hub at the center.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said it is reasonable to have a second U.S. school in GNAM given that the U.S. remains the world’s largest economy and pre-eminent market for management education.

Both Snyder and Bach referred to Metcalf’s Law — an economic theory of the network effect — when explaining the value Berkeley-Haas will bring to GNAM. Metcalf’s Law states that the community value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users increases.

“Having invested a lot in getting [GNAM] going, should we have kept it to ourselves, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned?”

Bach asked. “If [GNAM] is more valuable and dynamic as a result of Berkeley’s joining, then all members — including Yale — are better off.”

Dean of Berkeley-Haas Richard Lyons said his business school and Yale have “complementary, rather than competing” areas of expertise.

SOM is a major player on the East Coast, whereas BerkeleyHaas is situated in San Fran-

cisco, Lyons said, adding that the school’s proximity to Silicon Valley gives it a unique strength in startups and innovation.

Lyons added that the school plans to bring faculty from GNAM member schools to Berkeley-Haas to offer an upclose view of the entrepreneurship environment. The school will also run workshops to provide perspective on methods of teaching entrepreneurship in business schools that are rapidly changing, he said.

Bach also said that Berkeley-Haas’ strengths in innovation and entrepreneurship will contribute new areas of expertise to the network, adding that its strong presence around

the Pacific Rim will extend the GNAM’s geographic reach.

“The fact that such a prominent school as Berkeley-Haas would join GNAM shows how attractive the proposition of network-based business school collaboration is when compared to more traditional, usually bilateral partnerships,” Bach said.

Beyond the geographical distinction, Lyons said BerkeleyHaas’ unique strength also lies in its online platform; the Philanthropy University was launched by the school to offer free education on leadership in social entrepreneurship. Currently in its first academic cycle, Philanthropy University has half a million users around the world.

Lyons said member schools could utilize this online platform.

Since we think of the U.S. as a single entity, we are often guilty of thinking of it as a homogenous place.

KRISHAN RELE SOM ’17 SOM students interviewed praised the addition of Berkeley-Haas for the opportunities it will create for students at member schools.

“Since we think of the U.S. as a single entity, we are often guilty of thinking of it as a homogenous place,” Krishan Rele SOM ’17 said. “Haas’ membership in the GNAM provides us students with access to a different perspective from that of schools on the East Coast, exposure to a new diverse location in the U.S., and an opportunity to expand our understanding of the dynamics of business in a very diverse part of the U.S.” Rele added that although SOM will continue to play a strong role in the network as a founding member school, the addition of Berkeley-Haas may start to infringe on SOM’s appeal to foreign students within the

Global Network.

SOM’s GNAM student representative Nilofer Ahmed SOM ’16 said adding another U.S. business school to the network reinforces that business schools should go global to keep up with increasingly international student bodies and diverse workforces. Ahmed added that U.S. business schools are currently somewhat inwardly focused, in that they meet one another at American MBA events but rarely meet their European, African and Asian counterparts.

GNAM was founded with 22 member business schools.

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“If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard’s quality and not detract from it.� DEREK BOK FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARVARD

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Harvard defends affirmative action in Fisher brief

BY DAPHNE THOMPSON Harvard filed an amicus curiae brief in the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday, putting forth an impassioned defense of race-based affirmative action.

In the 27-page brief, Harvard urged the Court to continue permitting the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions processes, arguing that a

diverse student body is “a compelling interest that justifies ra c e - c o n s c i o u s HARVARD admissions in higher education.� Alternative, rigidly race-neutral policies, Harvard argued, would diminish the “excellence of the education Harvard offers.�

The amicus brief is the latest

statement in Harvard’s ongoing defense of its admissions policies, which have been widely scrutinized in light of a lawsuit filed last year accusing the college of discriminating against Asian-American applicants through its use of race-based affirmative action.

Edward Blum, the man behind both the Harvard lawsuit and the original Fisher v.

Texas case, said when asked for comment on Tuesday afternoon that he had not yet read Har-

vard’s brief.

Fisher v. Texas, first heard by the Supreme Court in 2013, involves a white woman who was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin and filed suit against the school alleging that its admissions department discriminates based on race in violation of the 14th Amendment. After the Court ruled that a lower court had failed to apply the right standard of scrutiny in examining Texas’s admissions policies, a circuit court decided

in favor of the university. Fisher appealed that ruling, and the Supreme Court opted to rehear the case. Oral arguments are slated to take place in December.

After the Supreme Court agreed to rehear Fisher, Harvard requested a delay of the lawsuit against it pending the Court’s ruling. In a motion, Harvard argued that Fisher “presents the Supreme Court with an opportunity to clarify the law governing how public universities may

consider race in the admissions process.�

Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard that postponement, and parties are currently awaiting word on the extent and nature of the lawsuit’s discovery period.

Experts have said that both the Harvard lawsuit and the Fisher case pose a significant threat to Harvard and peer institutions’ consideration of race as a factor in its admissions decisions.

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“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak.” ALLEN KLEIN AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN

Peabody hosts opening of “mystery” samurai box

BY JAMES POST CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday, before an audience of 300 people at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, a panel of experts associated with Yale, the Peabody and the Barnum Museum of Bridgeport, Connecticut, opened a mysterious red, leather-bound Samurai box and examined its contents.

When the Barnum received the box in 2003, no records or documentation came with it, and for 12 years curators left the box untouched, according to Adrienne Saint-Pierre, curator of the Barnum. The audience marveled and made audible gasps as Catherine Sease, senior conservator at the Peabody, and SaintPierre reached into the box and brought out, piece by piece, a complete set of Samurai armor.

Even though Saint-Pierre asked Quinnipiac University’s medical diagnostic imaging crew to take X-ray scans of the box beforehand, the objects were too dense to be properly imaged by portable equipment. Until the unveiling, no one was certain what was inside, Saint-Pierre said.

“The reason we wanted to do this as a public program is so that you all can be like a fly on the wall and see how a group of experts really looks at something for the first time,” Saint-Pierre said to the audience.

Aside from Sease and SaintPierre, the experts included Roger Colton, senior collections manager in the division of archaeology at the Peabody, Fabian Drixler, history professor, Robert Wheeler, Emeritus applied physics and physics professor and Kathy Maher, executive director of the Barnum. The panel, after inspecting the Japanese family crests — called mons — on certain pieces of the suit of armor, said they suspected that the suit in the box is actually an

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The single clue to the mystery box’s origin was the samurai crest painted in gold on the red leather cover, but on Saturday the contents was revealed for the first time in its recorded history. amalgam of parts from different suits of armor. Their initial assessment dates much of the suit to approximately the mid1800s, said David Heiser, head of education and outreach at the Peabody.

The idea for this event sprung out of Saint-Pierre’s visit to the opening of the Peabody’s “Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace” exhibit in March.

At the exhibit, Saint-Pierre saw boxes displayed before Samurai armor that were similar to the

one the Barnum owned.

“I thought this might be just the opportunity we need to assemble a group of people that is very knowledgeable about this material and help us with it,” Saint-Pierre said.

She then contacted Richard Kissel, director of public programs at the Peabody, and Heiser, both of whom were excited about the prospect of a public opening.

While the Barnum still owns the box, Saint-Pierre said she wanted the Peabody to host the

box opening because of the availability of experts on Samurai and Japanese history.

Heiser, who also emceed the event on Saturday, noted that it is rare to have an artifact with absolutely no documentation attached to it. But Heiser did add that the typical museum — including the Peabody, which has over 12 million specimens in its collection — contains a multitude of artifacts the current staff has not laid eyes on yet.

“There’s just too much. There

are worlds of discovery waiting in our own collections,” Heiser said.

People drawn by the mystery of the box packed into the Great Hall of Dinosaurs on the first floor of the Peabody. The Peabody staff installed a GoPro camera above the box in order to stream live video footage to a screen at the back wall of the hall so that everyone could see the opening.

Pat McCormick, senior executive assistant to the vice president of finance and business

operations and a regular visitor of the Peabody, said she had never seen anything quite like this.

“It was very exciting,” she said.

“The contents are so very special.

[It was] just beautiful.”

The Connecticut Humanities Fund provided a grant which funded both this event and the production of a video by Firelight Media Group LLC about the Samurai box.

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

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“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

EMO PHILIPS ENTERTAINER AND COMEDIAN

YHack attracts 1,400 hackers

BY MIRANDA ESCOBAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER From 6 p.m. on Friday through 8 a.m. on Sunday, the main gymnasium of Payne Whitney was teeming with a new crowd of athletes: hackers.

One thousand four hundred tech students, along with representatives from more than 30 sponsors and 60 Yale volunteers, settled in for one weekend of brainstorming, coding, rap battles and dance-offs. The gym was transformed into a hub of innovative tech activity, with long tables stretching all the way from the front to the back, lined with hundreds of glowing computer screens. Participants were also provided with materials to support them through hours of coding such as air mattresses, fleece blankets and a gigantic snack booth at the front of the room.

In its third year, YHack has progressively grown from just over 1,000 competitors last year to over 1,400.

“We think the hackathon is a really cool competition, but it’s really about bringing a community together who loves to build things and get their hands dirty,” said Kevin Tan ’16, co-director of YHack 2015.

Once students had been welcomed by the opening ceremonies, the room filled with the sound of fingers on keyboards and the buzz of conversations. Students worked in teams of four to create any project of their choosing. The final products ranged from augmented reality viewers to location-based storytelling apps.

In attendance were students of all global and technological backgrounds. International hacking experts worked alongside beginning CS50 students. Connor Dube ’19, one such first-time hacker, decided to come to YHack in the hopes of gaining valuable coding experience, he said.

“I’m here because I want to try comp sci,” Dube said. “I’ve never done it before this semester — I’m in CS50 right now.”

This year, the YHack planners said they took advantage of the popularity of CS50 and appealed specifically to CS50 students, encouraging them to attend simply by announcing the event in a CS50 lecture.

“I think [YHack and CS50] is a cool integration because [CS50 students] … learn basic programming and some technical web development, and those are super useful in hackathons,” Tan said.

In addition to 36 hours of coding, the event offered hackers an opportunity to interact with companies interested in recruiting tech students. In the center of the room was a long corridor of vender booths, staffed by representatives from over 30 companies, including Microsoft, Intel, Facebook and PayPal. This year, YHack also hosted companies not well-known for tech, such as The Huffington Post, JetBlue and Bloomberg. Interviewed representatives from many of these companies said they came to YHack to reach out to tech students and dispel assumptions that they weren’t interested in hiring tech workers.

“We’re looking for sharp new talent,” said Michael Steppagious, a representative from The Huffington Post. “We’ve gotten a lot of questions at this event about why Huffington Post is [at YHack], we don’t seem to be a tech company, but in fact our tech team is a big part of what The Huffington Post is.”

Despite the fact that YHack is only in its third year, it has grown to be one of the largest and most prominent hackathons in the

country, said Tan who co-directs the event with Jason Brooks ’16 and 60 volunteers. He added that YHack is so well-known that his team receives messages from prospective students, citing YHack as one of the main reasons why they are interested in coming to Yale.

YHack planners expressed that in addition to appealing to prospective students, they hope that YHack has the ability to change the overall reputation of Yale’s computer science curriculum.

“I think Yale has a bad reputation in tech that’s very misguided … I actually think [Yale’s tech program] is very good in a lot of ways,” said Robert Tung ’18, director of sponsorship for YHack. “Given that the interest in tech itself is growing, [YHack] perpetuates that and feeds off of that, so it’s a nice cycle.”

The winning group and recipient of the $3,000 grand prize was “Check Me Out,” creators of augmented reality goggles that instantly match a face in view to a person and their Facebook profile.

Contact MIRANDA ESCOBAR at miranda.escobar@yale.edu .

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YHack has grown to be one of the largest and most prominent hackathons in the country.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 5:30 PM Transitioning while at Yale: A Panel Discussion.

Come hear the stories of two people who have transitioned while at Yale, along with discussion from Jennifer Brackett, care coordinator at Yale Health, and Debbie Stanley-McCaulay, Yale’s chief diversity officer. Discussion will center on what we can do better as a community to support those of us who are transitioning. Office of LGBTQ Resources (40A Ashmun St.) Suite 124.

6:30 PM Interpreting Film Masterpieces. Pickpocket (France, 1959) 75 min. 35 mm. A part of the Franke Lectures in the Humanities, co-taught by Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 7:00 PM The Graduate Poets Reading Series: J.D. McClatchy.

Come hear poetry by J.D. McClatchy. Praised for his polished, erudite surfaces as well as the depths of thought, philosophy and feeling beneath the facade, McClatchy treats subjects as diverse as Japanese history, the body and his own autobiography. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 211.

7:00 PM Storytelling with Bear Bergman. Join Bear Bergman — an activist, performer, gender-jammer and award-winning author — for a unique storytelling performance centered on gender identity and the intersection of his Jewish and queer identities. Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (80 Wall St.), Second Floor.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 12:30 PM Yale Veterans Day Ceremony. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to gather on Beinecke Plaza to celebrate Yale veterans, past and present. Speakers include President Salovey, Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kim-Goff Crews and Yale Law School student and U.S. Air Force veteran Ashley Anderson. A brass quartet will perform the national and service anthems and echoing taps will be played. Beinecke Plaza (121 Wall St.).

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ast Friday, the Yale Hindu Students Council and the Yale University Chaplain’s Office hosted Yale’s 11th annual Diwali Pooja to celebrate Diwali, the ancient Hindu tradition known as the “festival of lights.” Yale’s celebration included a worship service led by members of the Hindu Students Council student board, a sparkler-lighting ceremony on Beinecke Plaza and a traditional Indian dinner. Hundreds of members of the Yale and New Haven communities participated in the free event.

ROBBIE SHORT reports.

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MAYA MIDZIK ’16 ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONOREE The senior blocker for the Yale volleyball team was named on Friday to the 2015 College Sports Information Directors of American Academic All-District team, which honors students for their performances both academically and athletically.

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MONDAY “The potential of this team is there. I think you’ve seen there are a lot of different games we can go out there and play.”

TONY RENO HEAD COACH, FOOTBALL

HARVARD FOOTBALL PERFECT SEASON INTACT After a 24–16 win over Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson is just one win away from entering The Game with a perfect 9–0 record for the second consecutive season. Harvard hosts Penn next Saturday with a chance to secure at least a share of an Ivy League championship.

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Revitalized Bulldogs thrash Bears FOOTBALL

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Returning to form after two straight Ivy League losses, the Yale football team dominated Brown on Saturday, combining season-high scoring with tight defense en route to a decisive 41–14 win at the Yale Bowl.

The running game, which scored four times, paced the Eli offense while the defense held the league’s leading passer, Brown’s Marcus Fuller, to just 165 yards through the air. A Yale team that has struggled to put points on the board in the past few weeks scored, it seemed, at will, particularly during a 24-point third quarter that saw the Bulldogs (5–3, 2–3 Ivy) score on offense and defense 11 seconds apart.

“The potential of this team is there,” head coach Tony Reno said. “I think you’ve seen there are a lot of different games we can go out there and play.”

Saturday’s game, which Reno said followed the best week of practice the team had this season, was also the best performance Yale fans have seen in several weeks. Forcing and then recovering a fumble on the opening kickoff, the Elis went on to score touchdowns on their first two drives. Running back Deshawn Salter ’18, back after missing last week’s game against Columbia due to injury, saw limited time as a short-yardage back but managed to run both scores in. Kicker Bryan Holmes ’17 added a field goal while Brown (4–4, 2–3) picked up two scores.

After halftime, Yale came out strong, rattling off 24 unanswered points to put the game out of reach and post its largest margin of victory since last sea-

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Running back Deshawn Salter ’18 highlighted the dominance of Yale’s offense with three rushing touchdowns. Salter was also second on the team with 45 rushing yards on 13 carries. son’s 38-point win over Cornell.

Brown held the ball for just over one-third of the game and netted just 257 total yards while turning the ball over four times.

On a day in which the offense played without six Week 1 starters, Reno truly put his “110-man strong” claim to the test and demonstrated the fluidity of his personnel. Of the four running

backs who took snaps yesterday, only one — Salter — was listed as a running back last season. Salter scored three of the team’s four touchdowns on the ground.

Austin Reuland ’16, a former wide receiver, and Jamal Locke ’18, a former cornerback, combined for 38 yards on 12 carries, while the game’s leading rusher started on Yale’s defense just a

week earlier. Starting cornerback Dale Harris ’17 moved to running back, a position he said he played in high school. Showing off impressive acceleration through the offensive line, Harris tallied 71 yards on just 12 carries while also picking up a touchdown, his first career score, despite having limited time to learn the offensive side of the playbook.

Yale survives early road tests

BY DAVID WELLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the Yale men’s hockey team never trailed en route to two seasonopening wins a week ago, the Bulldogs were forced to claw out of holes on both Friday and Saturday to earn a hard-fought three points in their first weekend of ECAC Hockey play.

bia game last week but could not because of an injury.

Harris’ explosive running provided just one highlight for an offense that racked up 443 total yards. Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 completed 68.3 percent of his passes, the second-best completion percentage of his season, SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3

Yale overwhelms Brown in senior send-off

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER As midfielder Nicole Wells ’16 and back Noelle Villa ’16 departed from Johnson Field on Saturday for the final time of their college careers, they ended their season in familiar fashion. For the fourth-consecutive year, the seniors and the Yale field hockey team finished with a win over Brown, this time in a resounding 6–2 rout.

MEN’S HOCKEY The No. 9 Elis (3–0–1, 1–0–1 ECAC) opened their conference schedule at No. 6 Harvard (3–0–1, 3–0–1), where the second goal of the night for forward Joe Snively ’19 with 35.8 seconds remaining in regulation led Yale to a 2–2 tie with the Crimson.

The next night, Yale came back from a 2–0 deficit at Dartmouth (1–0–3, 1–0–3) for a 4–2 victory.

“I think in the long run, [the test at Harvard] will be good for us,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “But it’s not something you wish for.”

Though Yale took four of six meetings from Harvard during the 2014– 15 season, the Crimson beat the Bulldogs when it mattered most. Harvard knocked the Elis out of the ECAC Hockey tournament in the deciding game of the schools’ quarterfinal series, with Harvard’s All-American forward Jimmy Vesey scoring the game-winning goal in the thriller’s second overtime.

The stage was thus set for the schools’ first matchup of the new season, and a sellout crowd of 3,095 that included U.S. Secretary of State John

“I was in the office quite a bit,” Harris said. “The coaches were there and were a tremendous help. They basically said go out there and told me to play, not think too much.”

Reno explained that he knew Harris was a two-way player when recruiting him. The coaching staff wanted to switch Harris to running back for the Colum-

FIELD HOCKEY The dominant effort extended Yale’s

(3–14, 1–6 Ivy) winning streak over the Bears (7–10, 1–6) to five games, dating back to 2011.

“The game was great not only because we came up with a win, but because our energy was so high and our play was incredibly cohesive and strong,” Carol Middough ’18 said.

The Bulldogs had only scored 14 goals all season entering Saturday’s matchup.

The six goals against the Bears doubled Yale’s previous single-game high in goals this season, which came in a 3–2 victory over Bryant on Sept. 18.

SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B3

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Forward Joe Snively ’19 scored his third and fourth goals of the season — and Yale’s only two goals of the game — at Harvard.

Kerry ’66 packed into the BrightLandry Hockey Center to see the game.

It did not take long for the rivals to renew acquaintances: Harvard forward Sean Malone pushed forward John Hayden ’17 into Crimson defender Clay Anderson following an offsides call 37 seconds into the game, sparking a shoving match at the con-

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test’s very first stoppage.

“I think all the times we played them last year built up a rivalry,” forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said before the game. “Playing the same people so many times creates some dislike.”

After scoring 12 total goals in two games the previous weekend, Harvard SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

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Villa, the team captain, notched her second goal of the season, and the fifth of her career, on Saturday.

GOALS THAT FORWARD JOE SNIVELY ’19 HAS SCORED FOR THE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM IN HIS FIRST FOUR GAMES AT YALE. The Hemdon, Virginia native netted a goal in each of Yale’s first two games last weekend, and he tallied both of the Elis’ scores in a 2–2 tie at Harvard on Saturday.

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SPORTS

“Winning isn’t always championships.”

MICHAEL JORDAN NBA HALL OF FAMER

Elis split weekend series

Griff ’19 PK not enough WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 ish out.”

Griff is one of the many bright spots for the Elis’ future. A very consistent season placed her fifth in the final Ivy League leaderboard in points with 16.

Additionally, Griff tied with forward and fellow newcomer Michelle Alozie ’19 for a team-leading six goals.

“Unfortunately we didn’t end the season the way we wanted, but it was still a great game and everyone played with such heart,” Griff said. “[The seniors] have been incredible mentors and they will be missed next year.”

Saturday’s contest doubled as Senior Day, as the graduating class of seven players was honored at Reese Stadium. Hagopian and Ames were recognized alongside captain and defender Ally Grossman ’16, defender Christina Bradley ’16, midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16, defender Ana Keusch ’16 and midfielder Eliza Loring ’16 before kickoff.

The class combined for a 27–29–9 overall record for the Bulldogs’ past four

seasons, leaving players like Ames with a mix of emotions, knowing that their collegiate careers have concluded.

“I can’t put into words how lucky I am to have been given the chance to play at an institution like Yale and I couldn’t have asked for a more memorable or touching senior night to go out with,” Ames said. “I’ve never known anything other than being an athlete, so closing this chapter in my life is pretty difficult.”

Ames topped the Ivy League in saves in the 2015 campaign, finishing with 78.

She finished three saves ahead of counterpart Christine Etzel, Brown’s keeper.

The contest also marked the final game for Brown head coach Phil Pincince, who retired after 39 years of leading the Bears. Yale head coach Rudy Meredith, who earned his 200th victory on Oct. 10 and has completed 21 seasons at the helm of the Elis, will take over as the longest-tenured head coach in the Ivy League.

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

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Any scenario in which the volleyball team captures its sixth-straight Ivy title includes having to win both games this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B4 Yale ended with a sloppy sequence, as errors from Wirth and setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 allowed Princeton to close out the victory. Crawford recorded 30 assists and seven digs in her first appearance in nearly a month, but her return was not enough to keep Yale competitive.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs took out some of the previous night’s frustration on a Penn team coming off of consecutive 3-0 victories.

Yale posted an excellent .374 hitting percentage in the four-set victory, recording only 12 errors against 67 kills.

“We passed and dug really well against Penn down the stretch, allowing us to have two to three hit-

ting options each play, making our sets unpredictable,” Rasmussen said.

“We were able to fire and hit from all angles.”

The Elis’ offensive outburst came from a number of sources, with four players providing at least 10 kills. Steinberg, Wirth and Johnson totaled 49 kills against only 10 errors, and Maya Midzik ’16 added 10 kills with only a single miscue. Crawford posted a season-high 53 assists and even added two key kills in the 25–20 first set Yale victory.

Moving into the season’s pivotal final two matches, the Bulldogs will look to translate the momentum from their dominating Saturday performance. While Yale needs some help to continue its championship run for another year, the Elis say they

are focused on beating Harvard and Dartmouth and letting things play out.

“I think this weekend is a chance for us to rise to the challenge and fight with all that we have,” Fuller said.

“We have a lot going for us this weekend: both games are at home with our fantastically rowdy crowd, it will be an emotional senior weekend, and we will be the underdogs … it’s just up to us to perform and control the match.”

Yale hosts Harvard on Friday before welcoming Dartmouth to New Haven on Saturday. Yale’s first two losses of the Ivy League portion of the schedule came against the Crimson and Big Green in early October.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

Loss and tie at home

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Midfielder Fran Steele ’19 started in 13 of 16 games for the Elis as a freshman.

Home finale results in draw

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good offense developed as Yale outshot Harvard in each period of the game. In total, the Bulldogs attempted 28 shots to the Crimson’s 21.

Saturday night provided a similar come-from-behind challenge for the Elis against Ancient Eight foe Dartmouth. Yale mounted another late-game comeback, this time succeeding in notching an equalizer to garner a 3–3 tie.

With only eight minutes remaining in the third period, the Elis faced a two-goal deficit against the Big Green (2–1–2, 2–1–2) but Yale’s offense caught fire and earned two goals to force the contest into overtime. “[I’m] really proud of the team to find a way to battle back,” Flygh said. “We were fatigued after playing five games in eight days so to find a way to battle back Saturday in the third says a lot about [the team’s] character.”

Dartmouth opened the contest’s scoring a little over three minutes into the game. Senior forward Lindsay Allen deflected a laser slapshot from defender Hailey Noronha past Mandl.

Fourteen minutes later, Souliotis launched a wrist shot, which Big Green netminder Robyn Chemago got a piece of but not enough to prevent the puck from sneaking past the goal line.

Those two goals comprised the first-period scoring, as the game headed into its first intermission at one apiece.

Midway through the second period, the referees blew the whistle on Staenz for holding an opposing player’s stick which sent the Swiss Olympian to the penalty box for two minutes. Nine seconds later, the Big Green pounced on the shorthanded Elis as forward Kate Landers unleashed a rocket which whizzed its way into the back of the net.

Dartmouth would capitalize on its next power-play as well, with forward Brooke Ahbe extending

essentially beat them at their own game. We became the aggressors, began playing the ball behind them and crashing the box on free kicks.”

With less than a minute remaining, Schwartz had plenty of time and space a few meters out from the 18-yard box, creating, essentially, a free kick from the spot. He sent the ball towards the far left side of the goal area, where Piper was ready to head the ball in.

Norhagen got a hand on the

ball, but was unable to control it as he tipped it into the net.

Yale had the momentum and better opportunities during overtime, outshooting the Bears 5–2. Schwartz nearly scored five minutes into the first period when he had only the goalkeeper between him and the net, but Norhagen blocked his shot with his leg.

“We almost could have sent them off with a win [because] we had a couple of good chances towards the end, but just having

an exciting comeback on senior night, and contending against a good Brown team that was competing for an Ivy League championship, was a good send-off,” midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 said.

The best Yale can finish now is sixth place in the Ancient Eight, which would require the Elis to beat Princeton next Saturday in New Jersey. That match kicks off at 4 p.m.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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Forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 scored her first goal of the season Friday night. the lead to 3–1 nine minutes into the third period.

Yale’s rally began soon thereafter as in the 13th minute of the period, forward Courtney Pensavalle ’18 cut in from the left side, and sent a backhand pass that split two defenders, setting up forward Brittany Wheeler ’18 for a one-timer that resulted in her first point of the season.

With time dwindling and a winless weekend minutes away, Yale escalated its pressure. Murray poke-checked the puck away from a Dartmouth defender in her own zone, Yip-Chuck corralled the loose puck and centered a pass back to Murray who released a wrist shot, which ricocheted off the near pipe and in to even the scoreline.

During the five-minute overtime period, Dartmouth mustered two shots to Yale’s one though neither team could earn a game-winner.

In the end, the 3–3 tie empha-

sized the disparity in the teams’ abilities to convert power-plays and extra bodies on the ice into goals. Dartmouth scored on two of four opportunities, while Yale failed to score on all five of its power-plays. Saturday’s inefficiency on the power-play followed up an identical 0–5 performance against Harvard the night prior.

“We need to improve our special teams, they can be the deciding factor in close games like we played over the weekend,” Flygh said. “We had plenty of opportunities this weekend and we need to make sure in the future we capitalize on them.”

The Bulldogs are off this weekend before returning to the ice for a pair of contests against No. 3 Minnesota.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu and KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs outshot the Bears 5–2 in the two overtime periods, but neither team could score.

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“Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.”

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA 18-TIME GRAND SLAM CHAMPION

Harris ’17, Salter ’18 lead ground FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 and for the first time since Week 2’s matchup against Cornell, did not throw an interception.

The recently maligned quarterback stressed that the team’s poor performance in its 17–7 loss to Columbia meant players had to return to film and make adjustments.

“If you try to think about yourself, [doubts] come into your mind,” Roberts said. “It’s not about me, it’s about Team 143.

Not one time this week was I worried about something I could do. There were no what-ifs.”

Roberts completed passes to eight different receivers in the first half, a statistic indicative of the team’s depth, he pointed out, en route to a 28-for-41 and 267yard performance.

His favorite target was slot receiver Christopher WilliamsLopez ’18, who had 13 receptions for 154 yards. Both numbers are career-highs for the sophomore,

who made a return from injury just three weeks prior.

“I wasn’t able to play the first four games, and coaches were really behind me when I came back,” Williams-Lopez said.

“Morgan worked with me, and I think, progressively, I’ve done whatever I can do to get better.”

The defense, a unit that has shown significant improvement over the last year, took a further step up against Brown, intercepting a season-high three passes and holding Brown’s two quarterbacks, who entered the game averaging 355.1 combined passing yards per game, to 207 yards through the air.

The defense’s aggressive press coverage also limited the Bears’ three top wideouts, all of whom ranked in the top five in the conference in yards per game, to a combined 17 catches for 186 yards.

“I challenged the defense before the game to go from good to great,” Reno said. “What we

did when we’re successful is we don’t give up big plays … Our defense is predicated on not giving up big plays and being a very physical, punishing defense.”

All three Yale interceptions came in the second half, including a 24-yard pick-six from cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 just 11 seconds after Harris’ score.

His touchdown marked Yale’s first interception returned for a touchdown since 2009.

Though the Bulldogs will not be winning the Ivy League this year, as they were eliminated from title contention on Saturday

by No. 13 Harvard’s 22nd consecutive victory, they still have two games on the docket. The victory over Brown gives Yale momentum to take into its final away game next week at Princeton.

Kickoff in Princeton, New Jersey, is slated for 1 p.m. next Saturday.

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

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Cornerback Dale Harris ’17 stepped in at running back, utilizing impressive accelaration to rush for 71 yards.

Three-point weekend MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 dominated puck control for most of the first period, outshooting the Elis 18–8 by the first intermission. Goalkeeper Alex Lyon ’17 denied the period’s best scoring chance for either team, stonewalling the close shot of Harvard’s Colin Blackwell with his left pad eight minutes in.

But momentum shifted early in the second period. After the Bulldogs killed off a Harvard power-play chance six minutes into the frame without allowing a single Crimson shot, the Yale offense started to take control.

The Bulldogs’ efforts were rewarded soon thereafter. A loose puck in front of Harvard’s net eventually rattled around to Snively, who raced across the slot and slid a backhand shot past the outstretched pad of Harvard goalkeeper Michael Lackey, who was making his first collegiate start. “[Being able to turn the momentum] is a testament to the maturity of our locker room,” captain and defender Mitch Witek ’16 said. “No one got rattled, everyone just stuck to our plan. It started to bounce the right way for us.”

Though Yale continued its control over the remainder of the period — the Bulldogs would outshoot the Crimson 12–5 over the second, and Kerry, a former Yale junior varsity player, described the Elis as having “shifts where they were in complete control” — Harvard responded with a goal of its own before the frame was over. A long slapshot off the stick of Harvard forward Luke Esposito appeared to deflect off defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 before ending up behind Lyon, evening the score at one with about five minutes left in the period.

The third period was closely fought, and neither side yielded much over its first 14 minutes. But Harvard broke the stalemate at that point, taking a 2–1 lead courtesy of an even-strength tally from Crimson forward Tyler Moy. Following a battle along the boards in the Harvard offensive zone, the puck came out to the junior, who skated towards center ice and beat Lyon low to the goalie’s stick side.

A flurry of Bulldog offense in the next few minutes yielded no equalizer, and Allain was forced to pull Lyon with under a minute left. After Lackey saved and held an Eli shot with just 41 seconds remaining, the Yale coach called his lone timeout. “‘Get a drink, take a breath,’” Allain said he told his players during the stoppage. “The play that we ran [after the timeout] we had already worked on this week in practice. It was just a matter of making sure everyone understood their roles.”

Though Yale lost the faceoff in Harvard’s zone, Hayden was able to take the puck from behind the Harvard net and find Snively moving towards the action. He sent a quick pass across the slot to the freshman, who rifled a onetimer into the open near side to even the score at 2–2.

It was the fourth time Snively had lit the lamp on the year in just 10 shots on goal.

“I knew [Hayden] was going to come around the net and throw it either at my feet or across, so I knew a puck would come out there sometime,” Snively said. “He put it right on my tape. I couldn’t ask for a better pass.”

A relatively uneventful five-minute overtime, in which Snively had the only shot on goal for either team, closed out the matchup.

Yale managed to keep Vesey off the score sheet and limited the North

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half resulting from a penalty stroke, which midfielder Maggie Mostoller was unable to convert. However, Brown did get on the board eventually at 38:50, thanks to an unassisted goal from midfielder Alexis Miller. Forward Hannah Roger later notched a goal with less than four minutes remaining in the contest.

Katz, who finished the regular season ranked second in the nation in saves and fifth in save percentage, stopped 12 of the 14 shots on goal she faced.

In the second half, two Yale freshmen added goals of their own. Forward Brooke Reese ’19 scored off an another assist from Smith, as did forward Katerina Toffoloni ’19. Smith finished the day with three assists in Yale’s offensive outburst while Toffoloni closed her season on a high note, scoring twice in the final two Ivy League games.

“I am so excited for the future and I hope that this game shows what the future holds for Yale field hockey,” Reese said. “I cannot wait to get back out on the field and score even more next season.”

With Wells’ assist in Saturday’s game, the senior moved into sole possession of 20th place on Yale’s career assist list.

Yale outshot Harvard 35–32 in the game, and 14–9 in the third period, but wound up tying the Crimson 2–2.

Yale began the game aggressively, earning a 1–0 advantage just 11:31 into the first half as Middough scored unassisted. The goal was Middough’s first of two that afternoon. She has been a consistent offensive threat for Pam Stuper’s squad: The Oceanport, New Jersey native leads the team with nine goals this season.

In the final contest of her career, Villa found the back of the net off a corner for her fifth career goal, providing for a fitting ending to the Bulldog captain’s time in New Haven.

Yale scored twice more in the first half to increase the lead to 4–0 to enter halftime firmly in control of the game.

Midfielder Lily Smith ’18, assisted by her twin sister midfielder Katie Smith ’18, notched Yale’s third goal — the first of her career — with 31:17 on the clock, and Middough scored again approximately a minute later.

“It felt really good to be leading by that much at halftime,” goalkeeper Emilie Katz ’17 said. “The team has been focusing on the process and working hard all season to hammer home details. Sometimes it’s hard to see the process when you are in it, but this game was exemplary of how far we have come this season.”

The Bulldog defense stifled the Brown attack for much of the game, with the only Bears threat in the first

Reading, Massachusetts native to only three shots in the contest, and Lyon and the strong defense in front of him kept a Crimson offense that entered the contest averaging six scores per game to just a pair of goals.

In a postgame ceremony, Snively was awarded the Tim Taylor Cup as the most outstanding player in the first Harvard–Yale men’s hockey game of the season.

“It’s pretty special to see a freshman come in and contribute right away,” Hayden said. “Obviously [Snively] is a great player and it showed in the first three games.”

The Elis then headed up to Hanover, New Hampshire, on Saturday for their second ECAC Hockey game, a showdown with a Dartmouth team that had lost 7–0 and 5–2 against the Crimson the prior week.

Despite the lopsided losses the previous weekend, the Big Green jumped on Yale early, scoring once in the first minute and again later in the first period to take a 2–0 lead. The opening was emblematic of the ongoing first-period struggles for the Elis, who have been outshot 55–35 in the opening frames of their first four games.

But that was all the scoring that Yale’s defense would yield, as Lyon turned away the final 22 shots he faced over the last 44 minutes of the game.

The Bulldogs both began and capped their comeback on the powerplay, scoring first midway through the second period. With just one second remaining on Yale’s third man advantage of the game, forward Stu Wilson ’16 knocked a bouncing, loose puck in front of the goal past several whiteand-green jerseys and into the net.

Forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 tied the score before the period was over with help from a long assist by forward Mike Doherty ’17, sending the teams to the locker rooms for the second intermission even at two goals apiece.

Wells, captain of the 2014 team, moved into sole possession of 20th all-time in Yale history in assists.

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Thirteen minutes into the third period and with the Elis again on the power-play, Doherty took a shot that Dartmouth netminder Charles Grant stopped, but the puck deflected off him straight into the air. Hitchcock took a swipe at the airborne puck and connected, poking it past Grant and giving Yale a 3–2 edge. After the play was reviewed for potential high-sticking, the call on the ice was upheld.

“Hitchcock’s goal was huge for us,” Witek said. “It was a tight checking game and we really needed to cash in on the power-play. It was a big momentum shift, exactly what we needed at the time.”

Later in the final period, replay continued to be unfriendly to the home team. Though Dartmouth managed to send a puck by Lyon with just over two minutes remaining, the officials ruled that Big Green forward Corey Kalk had kicked it before it crossed the line, a call that was confirmed by another video review. Thirty seconds later, Yale forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 sealed victory for the Elis with an empty-netter.

By shutting out the Big Green on the power-play, the Bulldogs extended their streak of successful penalty kills to eight. Yale and Harvard are the only two squads in the country that have yet to allow an opposing power-play goal.

“We’re a defensive squad, and you need a good [penalty kill] if you’re going to win some games,” Doherty said.

With their first weekend of conference games behind them, the Bulldogs will again hit the road for their final pair of away games before their home opener on Nov. 20. They face RPI on Friday and Union College on Saturday.

Hope Allchin contributed reporting.

Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

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“Most games are lost, not won.”

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Sixth-straight title in jeopardy

Bulldogs fall short in season finale

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a game uncannily indicative of the season as a whole, the Yale women’s soccer team conceded two early goals on Saturday and, despite a quick response, were unable to come back before the final whistle.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Brown (7–7–2, 3–3–1 Ivy) found the back of the net twice early on, producing two goals before the 18-minute mark. Less than a minute later, the Bulldogs (4–10–2, 1–6–0) drew a foul in the box and midfielder Sofia Griff ’19 finished the penalty to cut the deficit in half. Though Yale controlled the pace of play from that point forward, the Elis could not find the equalizing goal to send the game into overtime.

“I think we started the game with a very high level of determination and energy,” goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 said. “We controlled the game for the first 20 minutes or so, but unfortunately made two small errors that resulted in goals.”

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The Elis have struggled against set pieces all season long and Brown was able to take advantage of that trend to net the first goal of the night. Exactly 12 minutes into the game, the Bears went up 1–0 on a corner kick, making it the eighth time the Bulldogs have conceded a goal off a corner. The Bears’ second goal came less than six minutes later, when Erin Katz fired a shot from well inside the 18-yard box to extend the margin to two.

Immediately following Katz’s strike, it was a senior that initiated the Yale attack. Forward Paula Hagopian ’16 made it into the Brown box before being brought down illegally, allowing Griff to capitalize on the penalty kick.

“Another tough loss but the team worked so hard which was always great to see,” midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 said. “The seniors really came together for their last game and played so well together but we had two unfortunate slips. The work ethic was the strongest it has been all season which was a great way to finSEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2

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Defender Christina Bradley ’16 was one of seven Yale seniors honored on Saturday.

Chasing a sixth consecutive Ivy League title, the Yale volleyball team split a pair of road games at Princeton and Penn this weekend, dropping the Elis to fourth place in the Ancient Eight and leaving their championship hopes on life support.

The Bulldogs (12–9, 7–5 Ivy) needed two wins to keep pace with Ivy-leading Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth, who are all tied for second. Each team went 2–0 this weekend, leaving Yale two games behind Harvard and one game behind both Princeton and Dartmouth.

Yale dropped the first two sets in lopsided fashion to the Tigers (13–8, 8–4) on Friday and was unable to come from behind for the victory, rendering Saturday’s contest against Penn (11–13, 5–7) a must-win to sustain its slim championship hopes.

“Our loss at Princeton certainly didn’t help us,” captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 said. “[Princeton] really wanted to beat us and played like it.

We were hesitant and made errors, which unfortunately was what really hurt us in the end.”

While the Elis beat the Quakers on Saturday night, they still find themselves in need of two wins to close out the season and additional upsets to earn themselves a potential share of the conference title. Should Yale defeat both Harvard and Dartmouth next weekend, the Crimson must also lose to Brown on Saturday and Princeton must lose to either Cornell and Columbia in order for the Bulldogs to climb to

Late goals lead to mixed results

BY NICOLE WELLS AND KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Late-game comebacks highlighted the Yale women’s hockey team’s games this past weekend at Ingalls Rink. Yale fell to Harvard 3–2 despite a desperate push to draw level after a goal in the game’s final minute on Friday night before settling for a 3–3 tie on Saturday against Dartmouth in which the Eli offense came to life late with two third-period goals.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs demonstrated their resilience in the final minutes of both games, accruing a combined four goals in the two games’ third periods. But despite the third-period surges, the Elis came away without a win to show for their efforts. “[I liked] our effort in both games,” head coach Joakim Flygh said. “The team [is] showing that they are going to battle to the last second … we will keep improving and believe in our process that we have and we will get better.”

Scoreless for the first two

periods, the Bulldogs (1–4– 1, 1–2–0 ECAC) rallied in the last 20 minutes in an attempt to close a three-goal deficit against the Crimson (3–1–1, 3–1–1).

The first goal of the night for the Elis was scored within the first four minutes of the third period when forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 lit the lamp.

“Coach was not happy with our second period and sure let us know,” Staenz said. “He told us to make sure that we step up our game and come back with more energy like we did in the first period.”

However, any momentum from the goal plateaued for nearly the remainder of the game.

For this matchup, Harvard’s typical starting goalkeeper Emerance Maschmeyer was away in Sweden, where she was competing in the Four Nations Cup as a member of the Canadian national team. Therefore, goalie Brianna Laing stood in the crease on Friday.

However, Laing has served as a solid replacement in her two games played — she has allowed four goals in two Harvard victories.

Still facing a 3–1 deficit,

the clock ticked all the way down to 24 seconds remaining in the contest when Flygh called a timeout for his team.

Eleven seconds after the game resumed, forward Eden Murray ’18 found the back of the net with a backhanded shot, securing the second goal for the Bulldogs with mere moments remaining in the contest.

It unfortunately turned out to be a case of too little, too late for the Bulldogs. With goalkeeper Hanna Mandl ’17 pulled from goal, the following faceoff was won by forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17.

She pushed forward to challenge Laing but the Crimson goaltender turned away the puck, locking up the second win of the season for the Crimson.

“We really focused on playing a full 60 minutes of hockey, and out-working and challenging the other team all over the ice,” defender Mallory Souliotis ’18 said of the weekend’s pair of contests. “Starting in our defensive zone, we needed to have strong defense in order to translate to good offense.”

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the top of the standings. The complex scenario was made more difficult by the defeat at Princeton.

On Friday night, Yale faced Princeton, who now boasts a league-best five-game winning streak, in a crucial match for both teams. The Bulldogs allowed the Tigers to jump out to a 7–0 lead in the first set, buoyed by three kills from outside hitter Kendall Peterkin.

“We didn’t start the first set well, so we were trying to dig ourselves out of a hole the entire match,” outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 said.

“There were moments of great volleyball, but unfortunately we weren’t able to demonstrate that from the beginning.”

While the strong play of Steinberg and outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 carried the Bulldogs back to within a single point at 10–11, errors from Wirth and setter Kelly Johnson ’16 handed Princeton the momentum it needed and the Tigers eventually closed out the set with two service aces from outside hitter Kelly Matthews.

Princeton pulled away late in the second set, piecing together a 9–1 run to turn a 9–8 deficit into a 17–10 advantage in cruising to a 25–14 set victory. Facing a 2–0 hole, the Bulldogs took command of the third set, boosted by the inspired play of outside hitter Megan Rasmussen ’18, who recorded four kills in the frame, and Johnson, whose second kill of the set finished off a tightly contested 25–23 victory.

In the fourth, though, the Tigers were able to pull away late to claim the match.

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Forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 assisted on the game-tying goal Saturday against Dartmouth.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 contributed 20 kills over the weekend, including 15 in Saturday’s win against Penn.

Yale closes home season with tie

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A Yale goal in the 90th minute erased Brown’s 1–0 lead, ultimately securing a tie and a point for Yale in the standings.

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On senior night this past Saturday, it was only fitting that the play of two seniors, captain and defender Philip Piper ’16 and forward Avery Schwartz ’16, ultimately salvaged the result for the Yale men’s soccer team in a 1–1 tie with Brown.

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It was not until the 90th minute that Piper, assisted by Schwartz, equalized the score for Yale (1–13– 2, 0–4–2) to send the game into overtime. The Elis, unable to pull out the win over Brown (9–5– 2, 3–1–2) despite having several strong chances during the two overtime periods, earned their second Ivy League point of the season with the tie. The comeback prevented the seniors, all of whom started the match, from ending their soccer careers at Reese Stadium with a loss.

“The send-off for the seniors

was extremely special,” goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 said. “As an upperclassman, I have had the privilege and pleasure of playing with these guys for three years, and one senior [Pablo Espinola ’16] for 10 years, and since arriving, I have always looked up to them as role models on and off the field. Seeing them yesterday giving their heart out until the final whistle was an amazing moment.”

Yale went behind just six minutes into the game off a Bear throw-in. Brown midfielder Quinn English lobbed the ball into the box, and defender Tim Whalen headed it towards the net.

Although Simpson dove to his left, the bouncing ball eluded him and put Brown up.

As has been the theme this season, the Yale offense failed to muster much of a response during the first half but produced better chances in the second. In the opening frame, the Elis executed just three shots, two of which, although on goal, were easily saved

by Brown keeper Teo Norhagen.

Norhagen, a freshman, came to

Providence, Rhode Island, by way of Stockholm, Sweden, and has played on the Swedish national under-17 team.

“I think we started out pretty slow which ended up hurting us because they scored in the first five minutes,” forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 said. “But after the first 20 minutes of the game, we really picked it up.”

In the second half, the Elis pressed with renewed energy in search of an equalizer. Kenagy had a good chance 30 minutes in when he beat his marker to head the ball, but saw his shot pried away.

The best chances, however, came in the last five minutes of the second half. Defender Tyler Detorie ’16 almost capitalized on a scramble in the box, but his shot went high.

“The Brown team was very aggressive and very physical, winning the majority of balls in the air throughout much of the first half,” Simpson said. “Realizing this, we came out in the second half and SEE M. SOCCER PAGE B2