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Race teach-in draws large crowd

#InSolidarityWithYale is trending on Facebook as thousands of social media users post statuses, articles, photos and videos about recent events at Yale and the University of Missouri. The hashtag, which appeared on Facebook late Wednesday afternoon, had climbed to the second trending spot by the end of the night.

Vets visit. Veterans visiting

the Oval Office replica at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas yesterday were surprised when former President George W. Bush ’68 himself welcomed them inside.

Bush, who holds an annual golf tournament for veterans called the Warrior Open, said “One of the things that I’m dedicated to for the rest of my life is helping vets.”

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ANALYSIS: The uncertain role of master

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS

tal health and its impacts on communities of color, addressing white and male privilege and the importance of taking ethnic studies classes. During the forum, panelists not only shared their experiences regarding race, but also recommended many concrete courses of actions for both students and administrators.

At the end of the teach-in, recognizing that racial struggles are not unique to Yale, the event’s organizers invited a student at the University of

Cries and shouts echoed throughout the usually calm Silliman College courtyard as more than 100 students engaged in a public confrontation with Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis on Thursday.

Many saw this heated gathering as yet another symptom of a deteriorating residential college community within Silliman.

The clash was sparked by an email sent over the Halloween weekend by Associate Master Erika Christakis pushing back against the Intercultural Affairs Council’s discouragement of culturally appropriative Halloween costumes. In several Silliman community meetings last week, students voiced concerns about their own well-being and safety within the college. Most of all, they spoke out about the divisive role the Christakises have played in the Silliman community. Some said Nicholas Christakis has not engaged with Silliman students since becoming master this year, while others said the associate master had “no right” to send an email that would make certain community members feel uncomfortable.

However, Christakis told the News that the master is responsible for serving the intellectual and moral needs of students and argued that his wife’s email did just that.

Instead of viewing the confrontations and discussions as symptoms of fractures in the community, he said they were positive learning experiences for everyone.

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All hawkeyes on us. According

to The Huffington Post’s pollster, which tracks dozens of polls in Iowa to anticipate the results of the upcoming caucus, Yale alums are in the lead on both the Democratic and Republican sides in the Hawkeye State. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 is leading the Democrats with over 50 percent, and Ben Carson ’73 leads the GOP candidates with over 27 percent support.

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Battell Chapel was crowded past capacity Wednesday evening for a teach-in on race at Yale.

BY MONICA WANG AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Crammed into pews and lined up against the walls, members of the Yale community filled Battell Chapel past its 1,100-person capacity on Wednesday evening for “A Moment of Crisis: Race at Yale Teach-In,” a forum dedicated to educating the community about the issues faced by people of color at Yale.

The teach-in, which followed more than a week of open forums, discussions and rallies in response to racial

controversies on campus, was organized by the University’s four cultural centers: the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Native American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center and La Casa Cultural. It was originally scheduled to take place at the Af-Am House, but due to the high unexpected turnout, was moved to Battell. The three-hour event was primarily composed of four panels — each featuring different students, professors and professionals — which discussed topics that included valuing women of color at Yale, men-

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afternoon, Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 will speak about the United States’ diplomatic strategy in Syria — a nation striving for peaceful political transition and fighting against the terrorist group ISIS. Kerry’s remarks will be livestreamed on the State Department’s website at 2 p.m.

Huck you. During an

appearance on Fox News, GOP candidate Mike Huckabee made a sexist comment that was doubly offensive to his wife and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen GRD ’71.

“My wife’s name is Janet,” Huckabee said. “And when you say Janet yellin’, I’m very familiar with what you mean.”

Power to the people. African

American Studies professor Kobena Mercer and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway will host film director Stanley Nelson for a screening of “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” — Nelson’s documentary about the impact of the Black Panther Party. The documentary, which has been selected for Sundance 2015, will be shown at SSS 114 at 6 p.m. tonight.

Take me home. Tonight, American music producers Cash Cash will perform at Toad’s Place along with Tritonal as part of their fall tour. Tickets are on sale online.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1985 Two Davenport juniors found the Sexual Assault Survivors Support System — a peer-counseling program for victims of rape on campus.

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Pool project seeks lead donor

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER After fundraising efforts within Yale’s swimming and diving community encountered difficulties in raising sufficient funds for a new aquatic center, the University has begun looking elsewhere for the remaining $38 million for the $47 million project.

The project, initially approved by the University’s Office of Development on Mar. 28, 2014, had received $9.1 million in donations as of Oct. 16, according to Yale Swimming and Diving Association President Matthew Meade ’87. Meade is part of a six-person alumni committee, Fast Water in our Future, formed in September this year with the main goal of working more closely with the University and the development office to further the progress of the project, which entails the replacement of the current Kiphuth Exhibition Pool with a much bigger twopool facility.

In its most recent meeting with the development office on

Oct. 16, the committee was notified that the University would begin to look outside of the swimming and diving community for potential new donors, Meade said. Previously, fundraising efforts had focused on a list of just over 100 alumni from the swimming, diving and water polo teams. The University also identified the need to find a lead donor, who would contribute a large share of the project’s budget, in the coming months.

“The Office of Development, [Director of Athletics] Tom Beckett and I have been making best efforts to identify and secure a lead donor for the pool, but have not yet been successful,” University President Peter Salovey wrote in an Oct. 8 letter, obtained by the News, to a three-person alumni steering committee, separate from Fast Water in our Future, that has been spearheading efforts to build a new pool since the project began.

Salovey added that securing a lead donor remains a top priority, and that Yale’s administrators will SEE POOL PAGE 6

Alumni fundraising efforts to replace the Kiphuth Exhibition Pool have been moving slowly.

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Harvest imposes event restrictions

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Branford College students who were looking forward to partying at Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant during their college screw this weekend will have to change their plans.

Harvest has previously been a popular destination for Yale events: it hosted Saybrook Screw on Oct. 3 and was slated to host the Yale College Council’s “Harvest Hoedown” on Oct. 17. But after concerns

arose about overcrowding and underage drinking, Harvest has decided that it will no longer allow anyone below 21 years of age in the bar area after 11 p.m., and will no longer host gatherings other than private events of under 100 people — precluding many college screws and other larger events. Harvest Hoedown was relocated to Box 63 American Bar & Grill the day before the event was set to take place, and Branford Screw, which was also scheduled to be at Harvest, has since

been moved to Kelly’s Gastropub.

“The manager was incredibly nice, and since Harvest is a new restaurant, Yale is still testing the waters with them, because Yale is the landowner,” Branford College Council President Joe Crosson ’16 said. “In the past few weeks, there were a couple of transports from Harvest to Yale Health and Yale-New Haven Hospital, so the restaurant is already a bit on thin ice.”

Crosson added that when

working with Harvest, the two major concerns the restaurant brought up were the expected number of guests at the event and ensuring there was no alcohol consumed by minors.

Wilson Siguenza, Harvest’s owner, said the prospect of underage drinking is a matter the restaurant takes seriously.

Initially, Crosson said, the Branford College Council worked with Harvest to address the possibility of underage drinking. The council agreed to exchange half the

alcoholic drink tickets provided by the restaurant for an open soda bar in order to lower the amount of alcohol in circulation. The council also promised to check Yale IDs because fake Yale identifications are not as common as other forms of fake IDs, he said.

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expense of our credibility.

I think sometimes of how we revere people who know: those who know their major when they come for Bulldog Days, who know which candidate will be the Republican nominee, who know the answer to that very challenging math problem, who know when to walk and who know when to run. And it seems to me that in knowing, we may be shortchanging the magic of finding out, of discovering, of honoring our own limitations so that we can actually learn and improve ourselves.

PERHAPS, THE MORE COMPETITIVE THE SETTING, THE MORE INTENSE THE PRESSURE EXISTS TO KNOW This seems especially pertinent in the wake of recent events on campus that have captured our attentions and dominated our conversations.

Everyone seems to “know” what happened that night at the SAE doorstep. While the actual events itself may fall secondary to the broader, and more important, conversation they stimulated, we must not lose sight of the things that remain uncertain. This is in no way to doubt the narratives of others, simply to remind ourselves that not all facts have to be conveyed as gospel. In other words, it’s okay not to know.

This can be applied to many of the campuswide debates, whether it is the proper title for “Master” or the right name for Calhoun. Our inability to admit the inadequacy of our knowledge drives us to make damaging and short-sighted statements.

I don’t know if I can convince you to challenge our status quo of “knowing.” We were accepted into Yale on the basis of how little we didn’t know, and shaking this mindset is easier said than done. However, I strongly suspect — dare I say, I know — that such a change will foster more meaningful interactions and fuel more creativity.

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ecent events have rightfully provoked intense campus activism surrounding racial injustice. I stood among hundreds of my peers on Cross Campus this past Monday and watched the black community stand in solidarity against discrimination. In the midst of this fierce dialogue lies a less discussed cause of transgenderism. Over the past several days, students across the University hosted “Trans Week” — a necessary series of events that aimed to erode the stigma surrounding gender variance on campus. Most Yalies did not experience this cacophony of celebration. They understandably directed their activism toward matters that touched upon relevant personal concerns. Nevertheless, extending empathy beyond pressing personal matters is the most morally righteous responsibility a bystander should uphold. I’m calling on all Yalies to channel a portion of their current activist energies to our cause, which is dangerously small in numbers and still largely misunderstood in greater society.

An earlier opinion piece I wrote for the News elicited overwhelmingly positive feedback, demonstrating that Yalies have the capacity to extend their empathies to less familiar causes. It was a transgender call of action to the administration, which has already implemented a few minor, yet crucial, policy changes in recent weeks.

Amid this newfound surge of positivity among the campus’s transgender climate, l heard an excruciatingly painful comment in response to my previous piece. And now, I feel obliged to ask for a second transgender call to action — this time, directed toward the student body.

The commenter posited that Yale’s ROTC program has the right to exclude transgender students based on the dubious premise that gender dysphoria is an inauthentic condition.

They drew this theory from the former chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Paul McHugh. In 2014, McHugh penned a harsh article in The Wall Street Journal that claimed gender dysphoria, the condition of identifying with a gender different from one’s biological sex, is a delusion akin to a sense of fatness that victims of eating disorders harbor — among other ludicrous accusations. McHugh’s long-standing anti-transgender zeal pushed Johns Hopkins in 1979 to close their sex reassignment depart-

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ment, which most likely would have been one of the best in the world today.

It will take another full column to rebut McHugh’s erroneous theories. The fact of the matter is that McHugh is wrong, and he has inflicted terrible pain onto an already suffering population from his comfortable seat of old white male privilege. Let me be clear: Gender dysphoria is a terrifyingly real condition, one that cannot be therapized out of its inhabitant. Waxing poetic, it is an emotional tsunami that hits the body’s beaches with such ferocity to blind the eyes from the most vivid shades of joy. I dream of confronting Mr. McHugh one day. I would tell him that his legacy as an oppressor will be harshly judged by more progressive generations to come. These generations will push the arc of the moral universe more toward justice.

But, my fellow Yalies, you already harness the capacity to push this arc. You can convert the intellectual laziness and moral corruption of yesterday into intellectual rigor and moral righteousness of tomorrow. There are two steps you can take to do this:

First, understand transgenderism in a clinical and emotional sense. “Transgender” is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of gender identities.

Some transgender individuals seek to transform into the gender opposite of their biological sex; other transgender individuals are comfortable living in a space between “male” and “female.” Gender is also a spectrum and can be fluid. From an emotional standpoint, being transgender (despite recent societal advances) is a tremendously difficult burden to shoulder. Even the most subtle indications of stigma in a surrounding environment etch a notion of undue shame onto the mind, deepening a well of shame that can lead to serious mental health consequences.

Second, apply this basic understanding of transgenderism to real life. Treating transgender people with respect involves using their correct name and preferred pronouns.

The best way to do this is to ask us how we self-identify instead of simply making aassumptions.

Many different sets of pronouns exist to convey a point on the gender spectrum. Many choose

the binary “he/him/his” and “she/her/hers”; others select “they/them/theirs” to indicate a middle point on this continuum.

These two steps are basic building blocks to cultivating a respect for gender-variant individuals on campus and beyond.

Implementation is your choice: I urge you not to be walking paragons of 21st-century elitist ignorance. Whether you are fiercely conservative, anarchic, marxist or liberal, you can flex the intellectual muscles of these political identities while still maintaining a deep sense of respect for all human beings. You should not be paying $60,000 for an education only to succumb to a flawed mindset that still shames people for acting on their authentic and profound feelings. Itch the status quo. Ruthlessly question it. We are navigating some of the most uncharted, murky and treacherous cultural waters in recent history. Help us navigate these waters. My fellow Yalies, this is a second transgender call to action.

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at isabel.amend@yale.edu .

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Connecting the dots

MRINAL KUMAR is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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The power of not knowing don’t know if I agree with “Freakonomics” authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, who make a strong case for “I don’t know” being the three hardest words in the English language to say. I used to say it without hesitation, often facing very little penalty.

“I don’t know,” I said when my second-grade teacher, Ms. Fay, asked me about the whereabouts of a letter she had sent home to get signed by my mother. “I don’t know,” I insisted, when my toys found their way out of the closet and onto the floor minutes after my room had been cleaned.

And I have said “I don’t know,” (and likely, so have you) when responding to questions like “And who do you think this sinkful of dishes is waiting for?” As I got older and wiser, a shoulder shrug conveyed my ignorance of things I chose to be clueless about. Can’t we all relate to a time in our lives when not knowing was our default response?

So when did having an answer, any answer, become so important? Perhaps, the more competitive the setting, the more intense the pressure exists to know. And that may partially explain the culture on this campus — one where many of us automatically posit on topics we often have little expertise on. Maybe admitting to not knowing compromises our sense of worthiness to actually have been chosen to be part of this rarefied setting.

But the same trend exists when we leave the Yale bubble.

Take my experience asking for directions from locals when I spent two weeks traveling in China. My few encounters always left me feeling duped.

Spoken with the certainty of a zen koan and with more hand gestures than an air traffic controller, many would give me directions to my desired destination. The Chinese people I spoke with never said they did not know — even when the route they mapped never took me to where I needed to be. I suppose people, both in the U.S. and abroad, tend to favor conveying certainty over confronting the possibility of selfdoubt. This allows for a false sense of mastery of an environment.

Thus, what used to be a comfortable stance for many of us has morphed into a painful declaration of incompetence. It feels better to have an answer, even a fudged one, than embrace the ambiguity that “I don’t know” can generate. Maybe it helps us find order in a madly accelerating world, even if it comes at the

the 31% statistic?”

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uring this week’s March of Resilience in New Haven, I was in sitting up on the seventh floor of the main building at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health overlooking East Baltimore.

From high above you could see the devastation of this part of the city: boarded up buildings, trees growing through the crumbling edifices. As I sat there looking out of the windows of this great institution, the colleague I was visiting mentioned how Baltimore has the highest AIDS mortality in the country.

As I traveled back to New Haven, I read the denunciations online of the students at Yale as spoiled brats and enemies of free speech. While some conceded that racism on college campuses is a real phenomenon, what was striking in most of these commentaries was the desire to change the subject, to focus on the tactics employed by students rather than the issues they raised.

These writers found it necessary to pivot away from race as quickly as possible.

The response from President Peter Salovey was far better, acknowledging the issues of free speech involved but also accepting blame for failing students of color on this campus. In the midst of all this, news emerged

that one of the only queer women of color on the faculty, Karen Nakamura GRD ’01, would be moving to UC Berkeley — just the latest in a series of high profile departures, including the poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84, who is moving to Columbia next year.

Clearly, Yale has failed more than its students.

But I wonder if President Salovey’s conciliatory tone is meant to manage the protests in another way. I wonder if it’s meant to contain the discussion with the hopes that no one will connect the dots and recognize that the cries of Yale students of color are linked to the decimation of communities from East Baltimore to New Haven and connected to the racism that endures in American society.

Forty-five years ago, another Yale president, Kingman Brewster, opened up the gates of this University to the hundreds of people who flocked to New Haven to protest during the trial of Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins. President Brewster proclaimed at the time that he was dubious that the Panthers could get a fair trial anywhere in the U.S. and Henry Kissinger, then secretary of state, remarked that Brewster was one man whose assassination would benefit our country.

Clearly Yale and its leadership haven’t always shied away from civic responsibility beyond the confines of the University.

Yale has a race problem, but it doesn’t stop outside the gates and granite of Yale. It just gets worse. We live in a city that bears the wounds of racism deep into the bone. I work in public health, so I count these scars in the rates of infectious and chronic diseases, but the toll can be enumerated in crime rates, unemployment or educational opportunity. What responsibility do we as a university have to the city we call home, to a nation where voting rights are under siege, millions of black men are in jail for nonviolent offenses and hundreds die at the hands of police across the country each year?

Over 25 years ago, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — an organization to which I belonged — invaded St. Patrick’s Cathedral to protest the Church’s stance on condoms. Was the demonstration a ham-handed one, violating others’ right to worship freely?

Yes it perhaps was a mistake. But we were in the midst of an epidemic and then, just as now, people criticized us for what we did.

They wanted to change the subject. But that one tactical error didn’t obviate the need to take on the Church and its deadly oppo-

sition to safer sex.

I hope the protesters at Yale continue their work. Everyone at Yale should feel safe. This isn’t a call for intellectual coddling, but to ensure you are free from having a gun pulled on you by police because you’re a young black man walking across campus, free from sexual harassment and assault in your dorm room, from having homophobic slurs shouted out in a locker room at Payne Whitney.

Yale doesn’t have to be a place of political correctness, but it should be a place where we treat each other with basic human kindness and decency. When we don’t, it is right and just to say we deserve better.

But then let’s connect the dots, and stand up — starting with President Salovey — for more than just Yalies. Let’s stand up together for the millions of Americans who are paying with their lives, at the hands of a virus or a service revolver, or wasting away in a prison cell or on the unemployment line, simply due to the color of their skin.

GREGG GONSALVES is a 2011 graduate of Berkeley College. He is a lecturer and research scholar at the Yale Law School and a Ph.D. student at the Yale School of Public Health.

Contact him at gregg.gonsalves@yale.edu .

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College construction braces for winter

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11

A previous version of the article “Students question cultural sensitivity at FES” incorrectly labeled the Pinchot Fellowship as a one-year fellowship and mistattributed a comment made at a town hall to F&ES Dean Peter Crane.

Harp honors veterans at ceremony

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp and Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 joined New Haven residents Wednesday morning inside the Center Church’s whitewashed and mahogany pulpits to celebrate Veterans Day at the Elm City’s official service.

Around 80 people — approximately 20 of whom were veterans — listened to Harp and Blumenthal not only praise the city’s servicemen, but also call on the Elm City and state governments to strengthen support for Connecticut’s former soldiers. In particular, Blumenthal said the government should prioritize medical work for posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury research.

“Our nation really needs to do better in keeping faith with our veterans,” Blumenthal said. “We need to leave no veteran behind, especially when it comes to the silent battle wounds.”

Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Veterans Committee, said the government must support initiatives that reduce the backlog in disability claims in Veterans Affairs hospitals. Over half a million veterans at a single time have waited to receive disability compensation or pension claims in the past two years, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

Blumenthal added that the government should also prioritize innovations in prosthesis, skill-training programs and mental health care.

Harp expressed similar views in her statement. While she called on adults to educate their children on the importance of the holiday, Harp also said the government must do more to ensure that veterans receive public education and employment benefits.

“We must do all we can to respect all that veterans have

done,” Harp said. “We must recognize the service of the veterans.”

Harp added that prioritizing veterans is especially important considering that as of November, around 8 percent of Connecticut’s population has veteran status. The state is home to over 250,000 veterans.

A performance from the Unity Boys Choir of New Haven followed Harp’s and Blumenthal’s speeches. The two government leaders sat in silence as all faces turned to listen to the children’s choir sing the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

Several veterans also took the stage to speak. Frank Alvarado, a Vietnam War veteran who now collaborates with state veterans organizations to help former servicemen establish new businesses, moderated the event.

Our nation really needs to do better in keeping faith with our veterans.

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Mayor Toni Harp and Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 called for more support for Connecticut’s retired soldiers on Veterans Day.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS

SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL LAW ’73 Charles Pickett, an Iraq war veteran and a teacher at the Sound School, delivered the closing remarks, calling on New Haven citizens to recognize veterans’ service to the country.

“We need not only peace with other nations, but also harmony with each other as well,” Pickett said. “When both cheeks have been slapped and push came to shove, it was our veterans who took up the defense for our great nation.”

The gathering inside the church Tuesday morning was followed by a ceremony placing wreaths on the War Memorial on the New Haven Green.

Winter is coming, and with construction of the two new residential colleges roughly 30 percent complete, construction workers are sealing the walls and bringing in space heaters so they can continue building through the cold and snow.

After breaking ground in April, the University remains on track to complete the construction of the colleges by fall 2017, University spokesman Tom Conroy said. The winter weather will not impede construction of the new colleges but will instead alter the kind of work being done on the buildings, he said. Walls and windows will be covered with plastic tarp as construc-

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

tion focuses on building interior spaces. University President Peter Salovey said these changes arrive as the new colleges take a more recognizable shape.

“We’re at the stage where we can see the shapes of the buildings, the rooflines, the courtyards and where they will be,” Salovey said. “It’s very inspiring, and it’s clear they are going to be beautiful — you can tell that already.”

Salovey added that while construction is on schedule, he is hoping for a mild winter so that it is easier for workers to remain on their current timetable.

Over the winter, Conroy said, construction can continue by sealing parts of the buildings. He added that there have not been discussions of severe winter weather damag-

ing the new colleges. According to a construction worker who asked to remain anonymous due to workplace policy, this winter’s work includes installing ceilings and “sheer rock” on the inside of the buildings. The outside of the new colleges will be built in the spring, he said.

“Work is underway now to enclose, for the winter, part of the project area, and this will allow workers to make progress on interior spaces during the winter months,” Conroy said. “The plan is to install some walls and then cover them with insulation and plastic that allow a little bit of heating in those areas so the workers can work. That will allow work to continue over the winter that we probably would not have been able to do if the area was not cov-

ered.”

Conroy said the workers will transition from interior to exterior work in the spring, citing the eventual installation of brick exteriors as an example.

Students have also noticed the colleges taking shape.

Yuxuan Ke ’19 said that on recent walks up Prospect Street toward Science Hill, he has been impressed by the structures.

“They look more concrete,” Ke said.

The new colleges were designed by the architecture firm of Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Alders approve development plan

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders voted unanimously in favor of New Haven Vision 2025 — the city’s decadelong development plan — on Nov. 5, assuring local development projects that their growth is supported by the city.

New Haven Vision 2025, a

200-page plan for housing, economic, transportation and environmental development, lays out broad goals the city will aim to achieve by the year 2025.

The document incorporates the Hill-to-Downtown development project, a plan that will link Union Station and Yale-New Haven Hospital with new apartments, stores and office space by

placing commerce between the areas. The board voted to include this addition to the plan as a show of support for the project, which will bring multiple benefits to city residents, Westville Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99 said.

“H ill-to-Downtown has been an important collaboration between elected officials, city

staff and local residents,” Marchand said. “Including the Hill-toDowntown plan in the resolution that would authorize the plan seemed a good opportunity to give our approval, affirmation and recognition of all that work.”

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itized community support for the project since its earliest stages, said Stephanie Odenath, senior director of strategy and development at RMS Companies. The alders’ vote reaffirmed the managers’ belief that the project can only be successful with public support, she added.

RMS met with several different community management teams as RMS’ plans have taken shape, Odenath said. She added that RMS representatives know that they must serve the community’s needs to succeed. Hill-toDowntown developers are still in talks with different building, zoning and community officials to take the project from the planning stages to reality, she said.

“We have to get through the whole permitting and zoning process first,” Odenath said. “We don’t want to be an intruder and we want to do things the way the community wants and to find a way to make them happy.”

Though the Hill-to-Downtown project is a prominent part of New Haven Vision 2025, it only concerns a few blocks of the city. The plan also provides guidelines for the completion of the Farmington Canal Greenway, a recreational trail that runs through Science Park, the preservation of historic homes in Dwight and increasing the commercial and residential offerings downtown.

The plan’s guidelines reflect community needs, better understood after several years of research, Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison said. She added the authors of the plan left much room for flexibility because the next decade could bring unfore-

seen trends. These changes will require the city to adapt its course of development, she said.

She added that the city’s general developmental goals would stay the same because of the plan’s flexibility.

We don’t want to be an intruder and we want to do things the way the community wants.

STEPHANIE ODENATH Senior Director of Strategy and Development, RMS Companies “This is a 10-year plan and there are going to be all types of changes,” Morrison said. “There are going to be socioeconomic changes and [changes to] places, people and things that can happen between now and then. You can’t be so specific and so precise that there is no room to go in and put in new ideas.”

With the plan’s passage, the city can now ask the state and other agencies for development funding, Morrison said.

She added that the comprehensive plan shows grant-givers where New Haven is headed and assures them that different elements of the city’s development, such as transportation and housing, share cohesive goals.

The Board of Alders’ vote was the final hurdle before the plan’s implementation.

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

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FROM THE FRONT A master’s role

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Actions by Nicholas Christakis and Stephen Davis have raised questions about the role of a college master.

MASTERS FROM PAGE 1 Still, Alois Cerbu ’18 said students grew upset when the Christakises resisted recognizing that the email had hurt members of the Silliman community.

“Fundamentally, what hurt students in Silliman was that the Christakises’ response did not initially acknowledge students’ pain,” he said.

The disparate reactions expressed by some students and Christakis in light of the past week’s events suggest their disagreement reaches far beyond just the content of the specific email.

Instead, it stems from different understandings of the role a residential college master should play.

The official description of a residential college mastership on the Yale College website provides a sweeping generalization of the position.

“The master is the chief administrative officer and the presiding faculty presence in each residential college,” the description reads.

“He or she is responsible for the physical well-being and safety of students in the residential college, as well as for fostering and shaping the social, cultural and educational life and character of the college.”

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who previously served as master of Calhoun College, said the master’s role was designed to allow individual masters to be independent actors in Yale’s larger administrative framework.

“Masters are tasked with taking care of their students, but the point is to let them wander and explore,” Holloway said.

He added that masters are tasked with building a community — a broad directive in contrast to the residential college deans, who must adhere to undergraduate academic regulations.

University President Peter Salovey said individuals can approach the role of master in unique ways.

“Being a master has both an institutional role but is also an individual’s personal take on how they want to carry out that role,” Salovey said. “It is not a cookiecutter position. I think the position has a lot of room for each master to bring his or her talent, areas of interest and personality.”

But beyond general areas of responsibility, an underlying tension in the role has come to light in the wake of recent events within the Silliman community. What happens when students perceive that a master’s attempt to shape the intellectual culture of the community clashes with his or her responsibility to create a safe and welcoming environment for students?

WHAT HAPPENED IN SILLIMAN?

In defending his wife’s email to the News, Christakis reiterated his vision for his role and for the Silliman community. Chris-

takis said that when he met with Salovey last spring before becoming a master, they discussed a role that would foster intellectual and moral discussion in the community. He added that he believes colleges are intimate and personal communities where students can be themselves but also engage in intellectual debate. Erika Christakis’ Halloween email, part of which asked students to engage with one another if they encounter costumes they find offensive, is an extension of that vision, he said.

However, as a result of Erika Christakis’ original email and the couple’s handling of student reactions since, some Silliman students said they feel unsafe and cannot sleep in their own rooms.

Many have called for Christakis’ removal as master because he cannot create a healthy community within the college.

Students said Christakis has not made enough of an effort to integrate himself into the Silliman community. For example, he does not have an office in the college and has not held any events for Silliman seniors. Students also said Christakis does not know many students’ names — a sign that he is disconnected from the college.

Holloway said the balance between making the college a safe space for students and a place for intellectual stimulation is a “tough one.”

“Christakis has a real vision of a residential college as a place for intense intellectual engagement and that’s great,” Holloway said.

“But there needs to be trust first.”

Holloway said Christakis, like any new master, needs to build a rapport with students before raising potentially sensitive new discussions. In order to implement the “lovely philosophy” of setting the college’s intellectual and moral tone, masters have to build trust in the community through day-today activities and interactions, Holloway said.

Christakis said he does not think there is a conflict between tending to the daily needs of students and generating intellectual discussions. When asked how he would respond to students who do not see Silliman as a home anymore, Christakis said, “You should go talk to those students then.”

Zach Young ’17, a Silliman College student, said it is clear to him that masters should have intellectual roles in their colleges, as they are often among the most distinguished professors at Yale. He added that he finds the idea of a master being asked to either apologize or resign for stating his or her opinion disturbing and antithetical to the spirit of a university.

MASTERS’ ROLE AND VOICE

Erika Christakis’ Halloween email, which made clear her stance on censuring potentially offensive costumes, also raised the question of individual college masters’ autonomy in taking political and social stances.

In mid-August, Stephen Davis — the head of Pierson College and chair of the Council of Masters — made a controversial decision independent of the other college heads, asking his students to no longer refer to him as “master.”

“I think there should be no context in our society or in our university in which an African-American student, professor or staff member — or any person, for that matter — should be asked to call anyone ‘master,’” Davis wrote in an email to the Pierson community. “And there should be no context where male-gendered titles should be normalized as markers of authority.”

Although the Council of Masters had been planning to discuss the title at the start of the semester, Davis chose to proceed unilaterally.

Though he emphasized that he was speaking generally and without reference to Davis, Salovey said he believes it is best for the Council of Masters to enact policy changes rather than individual college masters.

“I think issues of policy or implementation of Yale College policy or the creation of new policy where there isn’t guidelines are most effectively discussed by the Council of Masters as a whole rather than individual masters deciding on policies individually,” he said.

Sam Chauncey ’57, who served as University Secretary in the 1960s and 1970s, said masters have become much more involved in the lives of their students over the past 60 years, even sometimes filling a parental role. As a result, it has become more difficult for them to express their opinions, he said.

“On the one hand, the master has become more parental, and secondly, there seems to be a feeling that the master’s job is to support you in your expressions of your opinions, but seems to not allow them to have the same opportunity,” Chauncey said.

Chauncey added that as parental figures, masters who exercise their right to free speech must do so respectfully.

History professor Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02 said the primary responsibility of masters has always been to foster a sense of community, but fulfilling that responsibility has grown more difficult over time.

“Masters maintain a community and a culture and an identity, so in some sense they are professors but also local parents,” he said. “But it’s become more of a challenge to help maintain community and be inclusive because we aren’t as neatly social as we once were — people feel more isolated. It’s harder for everyone to feel included, but that’s still the goal and it needs to be the goal.”

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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“I don’t even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.” PRINCESS DIANA BRITISH ROYALTY

Donation meter installation halted

BY JAMES POST CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Feeding the new donation meters at City Hall will not stave off parking tickets, but it will help fight homelessness.

The initiative, “Give Change to Make Change,” is part of an effort

to address the problem of panhandling in New Haven. City and Town Green Special Services District officials said they planned to install donation meters — devices resembling parking meters that accept cash donations, but do not serve as parking meters — to collect money at City Hall and the

New Haven Free Public Library in January. But due to potential inclement weather, the expected installation date of the donation meters has been pushed to spring 2016. Still, the initiative will begin to accept electronic donations through Parkmobile — an application that typically allows

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The donation meters, which were originally slated for installation in January, are expected to arrive this spring.

mobile payment for parking meters — by Dec. 1. Officials say that the donation meters will discourage panhandling by providing residents with more opportunities to give money directly to organizations that fight homelessness.

The Board of Alders unanimously approved the initiative in September of this year, but the city is still finalizing its contracts with Parkmobile, IPS Group Inc. — the city’s parking meter provider — and United Way of Greater New Haven, a service organization that will channel the funds toward groups that address chronic homelessness, according to Doug Hausladen ’04, director of New Haven Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking.

One of the initiative’s goals is to shift donations away from panhandlers and toward social services endorsed by the city.

Winfield Davis, Town Green Special Services District executive director, said making the shift requires the city to “start a conversation” and educate the public about the services available to New Haven’s homeless population.

“One thing that I’ve learned from practitioners in social services agencies is [that], not all the time, but often, people panhandling are panhandling to support a certain habit,” Davis said.

“Are we really doing them a favor by allowing them to stay in that position, or should we help them get to a better place? This is really about a way to change people’s mind about the best way to give.”

Hausladen said inspiration for the initiative came from IPS Group Inc., a San Diego-based company that provides donation meters to cities across the country. The donation meters the company installed in San Diego raised approximately $10,000 in four years for Make Change Count, a program that fights homelessness. In Denver, the meters have raised more than $200,000 since 2007 and have contributed to the success of the city’s Road Home program, which also fights homelessness.

IPS Group Inc. will provide the Elm City with 10 free donation meters and will permit credit card donations with minimal transaction costs, Hausladen said. He added that financial goals for New Haven’s initiative will be set after the program’s first full quarter.

Hausladen said the city is also working with the Town Green Special Services District on an education campaign to be launched this winter. The education campaign is designed to teach residents about homelessness and panhandling.

“We are creating handbills that are education-based and high-

light the need for people to put their donation dollars into the current services that are already being provided rather than seeing a good intention go toward a not healthy long-term decision,” he said.

Peter Schaller, United Way of Greater New Haven communications director, said installing the meters means that United Way can ensure that donations go to the places in the city where they are needed most, such as homeless shelters. He added that money from the meters will be directed to United Way of Greater New Haven’s 100-Day Challenge to End Chronic Homelessness, an initiative created to provide housing for most of Greater New Haven’s chronically homeless population.

Downtown Alder Abby Roth ’90 LAW ‘94 said she thought the initiative would create incentive for people to give to the community.

“I think there’s a lot of very generous people who care about the city of New Haven and who want to help people in need,” Roth said. “I think they’ll be excited to have a vehicle to do it where they know the money will be used for legitimate purposes.”

The United Way was founded in 1887 in Denver.

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

Three-day pop-up boutique opens on Temple

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For three days only, New Haven residents will be able to buy clothing from For Tomorrow — a multilabel online clothing retailer — in a brick-and-mortar store.

The pop-up store, located at 23 Temple St., was launched in collaboration with Project Storefronts, an organization run by the New Haven Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism that provides artists with empty retail spaces for creative projects. The store, which will remain open until Friday evening, will stock menswear and unisex pieces from five fashion designers based in Australia and New York.

The three-day event combines fashion with architecture by curating structurally inspired clothing labels and housing these pieces in a temporary store space with an innovative design.

“Designing a space in relation to a fashion concept is really fun,” said Madelynn Ringo ARC ’16, who designed the venue. “It’s an experiment that allows me to try something real rather than something in a studio, and also to use the city of New Haven as an incubator.”

Adam Muniz, entrepreneur and founder of For Tomorrow, manages the fashion and retail aspects of the project. He said he selected the designers to feature in the store based on their artisanal quality, referring to garments that display an inven-

tive use of materials and are not mass-produced. New Yorkbased designer label “Brute,” for instance, produces jewelry that draws on elements of architectural design for inspiration, he said.

Ringo said she and Muniz tried to collaborate with The Shops at Yale — a conglomerate of stores in the Chapel and Broadway districts — but were turned down.

Although the pair turned to Project Storefronts for retail space a year ago, the city organization only found a space for their project last week.

Elinor Slomba, project manager of Project Storefronts, said the organization aims to match creative entrepreneurs with vacant and underutilized spaces.

She said this endeavor is valuable because it allows entrepreneurs to test out business ideas in a low-risk environment.

Project Storefronts covers the cost of rent and utilities, and subsidizes other expenses entrepreneurs they partner with face during their project.

Slomba attributed the lastminute nature of securing a location to the reluctance of local property owners to confirm rental spaces long in advance. Owners do not know when their spaces will be sold, and “don’t want to bet against themselves,” she said.

Both Ringo and Muniz said most Yale students are unaware of how willing Project Storefronts is to connect them with temporary storefronts.

“Any student can apply to have

a space, but not a single one has over the span of a year,” Muniz said. “People just don’t know about it, but the city really wants people to apply.”

Rochambeau, a participating label in the pop-up, evokes a progressive fusion of sportswear and street clothing with a distinct New York flavor.

The design duo behind the label, Joshua Cooper and Laurence Chandler, met Muniz at Men’s Fashion Week in Manhattan. Items from their fall collection are available at the store, including utilitarian funnel-neck parkas laced with metal-reinforced elastic drawstrings and chunky, exposed knit pullovers.

“We are excited to follow Adam’s efforts to see this come to life and can’t wait to hear the feedback from the launch of the pop-up,” Chandler said.

Muniz and Ringo hope their pop-up project sets a precedent for future arts-related events in New Haven.

According to Slomba, it already has.

“The other day, someone else approached me who wanted to bring together a collection [of clothing] around a certain aesthetic to create a gallery-like atmosphere, directly inspired by Adam’s project,” she said.

Price points at the pop-up store start at $40 for T-shirts and reach up to $1,800 for higher-end editorial pieces.

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

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The pop-up store draws designer labels from New York and Australia.

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FROM THE FRONT

“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” DENNIS RODMAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER

Hundreds attend teach-in at Battell Chapel TEACH-IN FROM PAGE 1 Missouri to speak over the phone.

The student, Ayanna Poole, is a founder of the Concerned Student 1950 organization, which has figured prominently in the school’s own fight against racism in recent weeks and pressured President Timothy Wolfe to step down on Monday.

“It was important to not only educate the larger Yale community about issues people of color face, but [also to discuss] how we can be more strategic in addressing these issues,” said Nicole Tinson DIV ’16, one of the teach-in’s organizers and moderators. “This is not an overnight process, but organizing this teach-in was a great first step.”

The forum centered around four panels that each focused on a different topic, but it opened with two spoken word poems performed by black female students.

The first highlighted the lack of support that black men offer their female counterparts. Both poems brought audience members to their feet in a standing ovation. University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway both attended the teach-in.

In the first discussion, which was about women of color, panelists, including African American Studies professor Vanessa Agard-Jones ’00, spoke about the intersectionality of black women’s fights for equality, as their identities are not encompassed entirely by either the civil rights movement — which is dominated by black men — or the femi-

nist movement — which is dominated by white women. They also spoke about their personal experiences with racism, both on and off campus. They asked everyone to learn about black women’s history and culture and to be mindful of microaggressions.

In the panel about white and male privilege, the panelists, who included white men and men of color, shared their experiences with understanding systemic racism. Some admitted that they had been blind to issues of systemic racism growing up, while others urged white men to acknowledge and understand that they are products of the structure of white privilege.

The third panel focused on the issues of mental health, microaggressions and their impacts on communities of color on campus.

The panel included Berkeley College Master Marvin Chun and a professional mental health counselor. Chun compared being different to carrying a backpack while running at the same pace as everyone else. He also admitted that the University has failed to protect its students from threats and inaccurate media portrayals, especially in the last week, and needs to restore students’ trust. Panelists also reiterated many students’ calls for a diverse mental health staff, noting that people of color need counselors who understand their specific experiences.

During the final panel, students and faculty involved with ethnic studies on campus spoke about its pedagogical importance as a way for people to understand

others who come from different backgrounds. Speakers called on the administration to reform the structure of ethnic studies programs at Yale, such as the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program — which currently is not a fullfledged department and as such is not able to hire its own faculty members.

“Many Yale students graduate without ever thinking about taking an ethnic studies class, and the panel brought that into question,” Alex Zhang ’18, a speaker during the ethnic studies forum, told the News. “Why do national media outlets cover issues influenced by race, day in and day out, while students are never taught a language with which to analyze these issues? We forced the audience to think about these things.”

Attendees interviewed said the teach-in’s informational and educational mission was the main reason they attended.

“I want to make sure that I’m moving towards the informed camp and moving myself away from the ignorant camp,” Molly Zeff ’07 SOM ’16 said. “This is a fight that’s only going to be possible if the people who most benefit from systemic racism, which include myself, are fully aware of the people who most suffer from systemic racism.”

Mojique Tyler ’19 expressed similar sentiments, adding that he could not sit idly by while his community is experiencing problems and challenges. In particular, Tyler said he needs to support women of color. Describing himself as a black, atheist and Jewish

Harvest restrictions limit Yale events HARVEST FROM PAGE 1 area after 11 p.m. The new provision was a significant constraint, as the majority of Branford students who would be attending the event are under 21, Crosson said.

He added that after both parties realized the new guidelines were not ideal, the college’s initial deposit of $300 was returned.

“Harvest didn’t want to mess with the Yale administration, because [Harvest is] already at a point where its liquor license could be taken away,” Crosson said. “In the past, people had a good time [at Harvest], but there just happened to be some incidents and underage drinking is a huge problem for a new establishment.”

Harvest didn’t want to mess with the Yale administration, because [Harvest is] already at a point where its liquor license could be taken away.

JOE CROSSON ’16 Branford Screw is not the first event that has been forced to relocate at the last minute. Over 1,100 people were invited to the YCC’s Harvest Hoedown through Facebook, and 448 people indicated that they would attend the event, which was ultimately relocated.

YCC Events Director Amour Alexandre ’17 said she could not speak to the reasons why Harvest said it would no longer be able to host the Harvest Hoedown.

Siguenza said an event of such magnitude would make it difficult to monitor underage drinking.

“It’s very easy for a student of legal drinking age to slip an alcoholic drink or a drink ticket to an underage student, especially if the restaurant is crowded,” Siguenza said. “Even if we pushed the limit, the restaurant can only fit at most around 150 people, and having over 1,000 people invited to attend the event was way over capacity.”

Crosson, who is unaffiliated with the YCC, said the YCC did not cap its event, and that the large number of expected attendees would have been unfeasible for Harvest. He added that, to his knowledge, the Yale administration reached out to Harvest and told the establishment that it could not hold such a large event.

The last Yale-affiliated event to be held at Harvest was Saybrook Screw at the beginning of October.

Saybrook College Council Activities Committee Co-Chair Magdalena Zielonka ’17 said there were no issues during or after the event, adding that she was only recently made aware of Harvest’s new policy through a friend.

“Establishments that hold a liquor license understand their responsibilities and the implications of service to minors,” Yale Deputy Chief Communications Officer Michael Morand said. “The University is sensitive to such issues and University Properties reminds tenants of their responsibility to the community to set and maintain high standards.”

Harvest officially opened on Halloween of 2014.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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The line to enter Battell Chapel for the teach-in extended onto the street. individual with one parent who is white, Tyler also said the struggle of identity that the forum touched upon was relevant to his own experiences.

Many said they left the teach-in more knowledgeable and appreciative of the experiences of their fellow students of color.

Olivia Pascal ’18 said she especially enjoyed the mental health and ethnic studies forums.

Although mental health has been at the center of many discussions on campus, she said, the community rarely considers how a diverse staff in the mental health services offered on campus would make it better for students of color facing cultural- and ethnic-specific issues. The ethnic studies forum also taught her why it is important for people who have been

“steeped in white culture” to take ethnic studies and understand the culture of fellow students at Yale, Pascal added.

“I think the teach-in was transformative. The unprecedented number of people there revealed what is ultimately at stake: love, hope, community,” Zhang said.

“It showed President Salovey and Dean Holloway that student activism is a force to be taken seriously, that faculty and administrators are standing behind students in support, that there are things worth listening to that have been ignored for far too long.”

Both Salovey and Holloway lingered in Battell Chapel after the event ended to converse with organizers and attendees.

“I want to hear the voices of our students and our faculty on

these issues. I think they’re critical, especially for making Yale a better place,” Salovey told the News, adding that these diverse voices are critical to Yale’s educational mission. “I think there are so many voices that can be inspiring to the Yale community that we don’t hear regularly, either because they aren’t listened to or because they’re speaking from the margins, and I think it’s very much time to place them … That’s the biggest takeaway for me today.”

Battell Chapel is Yale’s largest chapel and serves as a space for Sunday services of the University Church in Yale.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Pool project lacks donors POOL FROM PAGE 1 continue to work closely with Meade and Fast Water in Our Future to ensure the project’s progress. The steering committee for the project consists of swimming alumni Steve Clark ’65, Tim Garton ’64 and Greg Lawler ’69.

Neither Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill nor Director of Athletics Development Alison Cole ’99 returned requests for comment on the status of the funding for the project.

Former YSDA President Kristin Krebs-Dick ’93, a member of Fast Water in our Future, stressed the importance of acquiring the necessary funds to make the new aquatic center a reality. She explained that the current Kiphuth Exhibition Pool is universally recognized as outdated, and that Yale cannot host any more than one competing school for swim meets.

The new pool would allow for the hosting of the Ivy League Championships, which currently rotate between the pools of Harvard, Princeton and Brown.

The new pool would also benefit those outside the Yale community, Krebs-Dick said, because all Payne Whitney Gymnasium members would have access to it. She added that because its use will extend outside the swimming and diving community, it makes “total sense” to look for potential donors outside that athletic community.

“If you look at the pools at Princeton, University of Texas, Ohio State, all are named after individuals that weren’t varsity swimmers,” Meade said.

“Development has said it will

pledge outside the swimming and diving program and identify potential donors who want their name on the pool.”

Meade said the project does not currently have a timeline because it depends so heavily on securing a lead donor.

Though a Feb. 24 email sent

by Clark to a group of swimming and diving alumni presented the possibility that the University itself would contribute funds to the project, Beckett said last Thursday that University funding is not currently being considered.

“That’s the philosophy of the University, and that’s been the case for maybe a decade, that the University wants all the projects to be donorfunded, and we work to make that a reality,” Beckett said.

“That is currently the status of the project.”

Though three swimmers interviewed said that they have enjoyed using the Kiphuth Pool, all three noted the potential benefits of a new pool,

including the ability to host Ivy League championship meets.

The current blueprint for the new pool, which is available on the Yale athletics website, shows a nine-lane, 54-meterlong competition pool and a 50-by-70-foot diving pool, as well as a connection to the practice pool that currently resides on the third floor of Payne Whitney. The new pool, replacing the Kiphuth Pool, would require an extension off the back of the location of the current pool, which is on the south side of Payne Whitney and is six lanes by 25 yards.

“I love the [Kiphuth] Pool, and some of the best moments of my career have been in that pool,” men’s swimming and diving captain Brian Hogan ’16 said. “What it lacks in size and new technology, it more than makes up for with character and history. And it’s a fast pool, too.”

Women’s swimming and diving captain Emma Smith ’16 said that the team was notified

during the 2013–14 season of the new pool project.

Member of the women’s swimming team Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 said that although Yale’s swimming program provides a “great environment to succeed,” facilities are a major factor when potential swimming recruits choose their schools.

“The current pool is beautiful and historic, and I love swimming in the [Kiphuth] Pool,” Chintanaphol said.

“However, the facilities are inadequate for hosting championship meets.”

Member of the women’s swimming team Pauline Kaminski ’18 added that the swimmers have not been given a specific timeline or date for when the aquatic center might be finished.

The Kiphuth Pool seats 2,871 spectators.

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

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“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

ADA LOVELACE BRITISH MATHEMATICIAN AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Yale Center for Research Computing tackles data problems

BY MELINA DELGADO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Center for Research Computing is helping solve big problems — big data problems.

Starting Nov. 2, the center partnered with a consortium of universities and industry partners headed by Columbia University on a $1.25 million research project with the U.S. National Science Foundation to tackle challenges facing data analysis in the northeastern United States. Yale’s center, a new facility unveiled just this semester, is equipped with sustainable, state-of-the-art computational infrastructure capable of applying advanced computing and data processing throughout Yale’s research community.

“Yale, alongside 40 other universities and industry partners, will form a consortium through which data, tools and ideas will be shared in domain-specific areas,” said Kiran Keshav, executive director of the Yale Center for Research Computing. He added that three Yale faculty and researchers will be serving the project on the steering committee and in the areas of energy generation and storage and discovery science.

Big data is really big, so it’s difficult, time-consuming and often expensive to store the data.

ANDREW SHERMAN ’71 GRD ’75 Senior Computational Research Scientist “Big data” is a term for massive sets of information collected from a variety of sources, including weather sensors, lab

machines and observational equipment, said Andrew Sherman ’71 GRD ’75, senior computational research scientist in the Yale Computer Science Department. The project aims to work on correcting inefficiencies in data collaboration, in order to optimize the solutions to current challenges in science.

A Nov. 2 media release from the Data Science Institute at Columbia University announced that the NSF proposed to divide the country into four regional hubs. The NSF Program Solicitation outlines the budget for these regional hubs: a maximum of $1.25 million is awarded to four projects, one for each region, for up to three years.

Columbia and Yale’s partnership in this larger consortium represents the Northeast.

Kathleen McKeown, a computer science professor at Columbia and director of the Data Science Institute, described the northeastern region of the U.S. as “an ideal laboratory for testing the potential for data science to improve lives.” She said the Northeast Hub will extract insights from large amounts of data to eventually bring tangible results.

The Northeast Hub has six areas of focus: health, energy, cities and regions, finance, education and discovery science.

Sherman will represent Yale in the area of discovery science, which analyzes large-scale data using powerful computing to discover relationships within data sets and bring insight into scientific problems such as genomics, high-energy physics, astronomy, climatology and the study of the human brain.

However, the project’s aim is not to deploy large-scale solutions just yet, Sherman added.

There are still many difficulties with big-data acquisition and application, he said.

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“Big data is really big, so it’s difficult, time-consuming and often expensive to store the data, compute with the data or move the data around,” Sherman said in a Tuesday email to the News.

“We’re really in the infancy of development of the techniques to analyze such huge quantities of data [and] so many of the techniques we have today … may not be able to scale up to handle the sizes of data sets required for

discovery science in the future.”

In the health sector, the project intends to improve harnessing data from social media, patients, environmental sensors and other sources to improve individualized treatment, the press release stated.

Just as discoveries about the human genome have begun to transform health care, Sherman said, scientists will be able to make rapid progress in discovery

science with the sharing of data using computers, networks and data storage facilities.

The press release also highlights other initiatives which aim to make current governmental systems more efficient. The press release further noted that public services can be optimized to make cities and regions more equitable, sustainable and resilient. Data analytics can also help facilitate better understanding

of financial markets and improve education through feedback on teaching techniques and online courses, according to the release.

The Northeast Hub will hold its first workshop on Dec. 16 at Columbia to discuss corporate data analytics and how companies in the Northeast can benefit from it.

Contact MELINA DELGADO at melina.delgado@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“Don’t hit tin.”

HASHIM KHAN PAKISTANI SQUASH LEGEND

Experience, new coach to impact season W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 and her staff have the ability to bring us to that next level in the Ivy League.”

Last April, former head coach Chris Gobrecht left the Bulldogs unexpectedly, taking a new position as head coach at the Air Force Academy. To replace Gobrecht — the winningest coach in Yale history — the Elis made the decision in May to bring back Guth, a former Yale assistant who most recently served as an assistant coach at Northwestern.

While the Bulldogs will be playing under new leadership, the personnel on the court will be nearly identical. After Halejian, the team’s only senior, went down with her season-ending knee injury, the Bulldogs responded in remarkable fashion, rattling off seven consecutive victories.

“Halejian left big shoes to fill in a lot of ways,” Wyckoff said.

“However, we had experience last year playing without her … Other people were able to step up and collectively fulfill that huge role [Halejian] played, and we were able to succeed with that, so we are only building from there.”

Coming into the 2015–16 season, Yale returns a whopping 89.9 percent of last year’s scoring, including four players who averaged at least seven points a game.

Wyckoff leads the returning crop of talent, as the senior scored a team-high 10.4 points per game during the Ivy schedule.

“There’s obviously a ton of senior leadership that our captain [Wyckoff] brings to the table and leading us from the point guard perspective,” Guth said.

“Every senior, from [guard] Nyasha Sarju ’16, who’s been playing phenomenally, to [forward] Meredith Boardman ’16, and what she brings from an intensity and

KRISTINA KIM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 led the Bulldogs in scoring during the Ivy portion of the 2014–15 season. She was the only Eli to average more than 10 points per Ancient Eight contest. competitiveness perspective, and [center] Emmy Allen ’16, who can get up and down the court with the best post player in the country … that entire senior class brings something special.”

Yale will also look for an impressive sophomore encore from guard Tamara Simpson ’18, who led the team with 2.3 steals per game and also added nearly nine points per contest. Simpson won three Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards last year for her efforts and could very well boost her play to All-Ivy status in her second campaign.

In the frontcourt, Yale is anchored by forward Katie Werner ’17 and center Emmy Allen ’16. Werner started all 28 games,

averaging a team-high 6.2 rebounds per game to go along with 7.4 points per game. Allen was a defensive force, contributing one block and nearly one steal per game while acting as the Bulldogs’ most effective rim protector.

Beyond those major contributors, the Elis will look to guards Lena Munzer ’17 and Mary Ann Santucci ’18 for additional scoring. Munzer shot higher than 90 percent from the free-throw stripe in 27 games while Santucci shot 30 percent from three-point range in 13 Ivy League starts.

Although Yale returns many experienced upperclassmen, the Bulldog freshman class could also boost the Bulldogs’ Ivy hopes.

Yale hosts Scrimmages

The class of 2019 includes three newcomers — guard Paige Vermeer ’19, guard/forward Gabby Nelson ’19 and forward Alexandra Maund ’19.

Just as the freshman players will attempt to break into the rotation of established players, Guth hopes to help the Bulldogs climb out of the middle of the Ivy League pack. In the preseason poll, Yale was projected to finish fourth in the Ivy League, behind No. 25 Princeton, Penn and rival Harvard.

“Our mission is to compete at the highest level possible, and to win an Ivy League championship,” Guth said. “We have a bunch of other goals in mind besides that, and as a coaching

The Eli women hope to make up for the loss of several key graduated players from last year’s squad.

SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 our year for both the Ivy League and Nationals,” Thomas Dembinski ’17 said. “If we can leave this weekend with a strong result then we are sending a message to every other school letting them know just how serious we are about this year.”

Last year, the Yale men’s team was set off course early in the season when Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and Zachary Leman ’16 — both projected to start at the top third of the ladder — suffered seasonending injuries. Their return to the lineup this year, as well as the fact that 11 of the team’s top 12 players from last year will return for this season, will be crucial to the team’s success.

Though the Eli men were ranked No. 6 by the CSA heading into the season, both players and associate head coach Pamela Saunders expressed higher national ambitions for the year.

“The Bulldogs are coming out strong with the intention of winning the Ivy League and National Championship titles,” Saunders said.

To do so, it will likely be important for the Elis to improve at the top of the ladder, where last year the top three players won just 47 percent of their matches com-

bined. The returns of Cheong and Leman, in particular, will aid in that goal.

In addition to those experienced veterans, the men’s team welcomes newcomers Jay Losty ’19, Jonathan Kovac ’19 and Yohan Pandole ’19, all of whom will likely see time on the varsity courts. A CSA preview projected that Kovac and Pandole may play in the middle three, while Losty may see time at the bottom third of the ladder.

“Obviously I have learned a lot [in the preseason], and the team we have this year is deep and competitive, which makes us all better on court,” Kovac said.

The CSA gave the women’s team a No. 5 national ranking going into the season, as the Bulldogs hope to recover from the graduation of No. 2 Shihui Mao ’15, No. 3 Issey NormanRoss ’15 and No. 6 Anna Harrison ’15.

Jenny Scherl ’17, who was named All-Ivy last year for her performance at the No. 1 ladder spot, returns to play a major role in 2015–16, while captain Annie Ballaine ’16 will provide senior leadership alongside two other members of the class of 2016, Georgia Blatchford ’16 and Amanda Roberts ’16.

The team will seek to maintain its winning percent-

age from last year in the middle and bottom thirds of the ladder — 75 and 81 percent, respectively — but the top third, which won 62 percent of its matches in 2014–15, may see a tougher challenge.

“While we are rebuilding our team, we are using this time to gain the experience necessary to win an Ivy League and national title in the next two years,” Saunders said. “We are confident that we can finish in the top three nationally and in the Ivy League. Given the leadership and work ethic our team currently have, we are confident that we will rise beyond the expectations that others might have of us.”

Three freshmen, Caroline East ’19, Emily Sherwood ’19 and Celine Yeap ’19, as well as sophomore transfer Ashley Suan ’18, join the squad to fill the holes left by last year’s seniors. All four have international competition experience.

To kick off their seasons, the men will play No. 6 Dartmouth at 10 a.m. on Saturday, while the women face off against No. 11 Cornell at 12:30 p.m. All Ivy Scrimmages will take place at the Brady Squash Center.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

sity of all aspects of preparation, whether in practice or the weight room.

“One major change coach Guth has definitely implemented is the intensity factor,” Simpson said. “It’s created a fearless mindset for us … we don’t fear anyone and we are working the hardest I’ve probably ever worked before.”

After the Bulldogs open their season on the road, they will return home to face New Haven opponent Division III Albertus Magnus on Sunday.

Lisa Qian contributed reporting.

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

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staff our job is just to help achieve that goal. We’re more focused on short-term goals than the entire mission, but we really do have high expectations for our program.”

In addition to their typical Ivy slate, the Bulldogs will have to navigate a difficult nonconference schedule. Yale opens at Dayton, who finished just outside the preseason Top-25 coaches’ poll, while also facing No. 20 North Carolina, women’s National Invitation Tournament runner-up West Virginia among other major conference schools.

Despite the impressive list of teams slated to face the Elis, Simpson credited Guth’s attention to increasing the inten-

sider.com, which is awarded to the Mid-Major Player of the Year.

With 47.6 percent of the team’s scoring having graduated, Sears must continue to be effective using his self-described “unorthodox” playing style while also adjusting as opposing defenses try to limit him.

“The motto Coach Jones has always had is ‘next man up’ so once someone graduates, someone is going to step into the previous seniors’ roles,” Sears said.

“I think we have a group of guys whose roles will be expanded this year and can replace what we lost from last year.”

Jones mentioned guard Nick Victor ’16, a regular starter two years ago who was severely limited by injuries last season, and forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 as players that could contend for starting spots.

Sherrod returns to the Elis after spending the 2014–15 season traveling with his a capella group, the Whiffenpoofs. As a junior two years ago, Sherrod averaged 6.8 points per game and 4.3 rebounds per game. The 6-foot-6 Sherrod will provide much-needed height and athleticism to the Yale frontcourt, which seeks to replace Townsend and Cotton, who combined for nearly 10 rebounds per game last year. “[Sherrod’s] athleticism, leadership and his strength down at the basket are going to help us out tremendously,” Jones said.

“We missed that part of him last year … so we’re happy to have him back.”

Sherrod missed a season in which the Bulldogs came mere seconds away from locking up an elusive NCAA Tournament berth — twice. Back-to-back heartbreakers against Dartmouth and Harvard, which saw the two conference opponents score goahead baskets with 0.5 and 7.2 seconds remaining, respectively, shut Yale out of March Madness for the 53rd year in a row.

To add insult to injury, Yale was not given a bid to the National Invitation Tournament. At the time, Jones told the News he felt “stunned and disgusted” by the postseason snub.

Despite the frustrating close to the campaign, the team says it has put last season behind it and has begun to look forward to a

new year. This focus on the future began with last year’s recruiting class, which included six players from across the country.

“As a class, we bring a lot to the table,” guard Trey Phills ’19 said.

“As far as last year’s team, they bring a lot back as well, so [the freshmen’s] role is pushing each other in practice and developing a little bit. In the years to come, we’re up to something. We’ve got some stuff in store.”

Along with Phills, an all-state player from Charlotte, North Carolina, guards Alex Copeland ’19, a McDonald’s All-American nominee, and Thomas Ryan ’19 will provide depth in the backcourt. Forwards Eli Lininger ’19, a fellow All-American nominee, Matt Greene ’19 and Blake Reynolds ’19 round out Jones’ crop of newcomers.

The freshmen will have their first opportunities to contribute during the nonconference portion of the team’s schedule, an especially difficult one in 2015– 16.

After knocking off the defending national champion, UConn, on a last-second three-pointer from Montague last season, the Bulldogs will have the chance to

replicate the feat on Nov. 25 when they travel to play the 2015 champion, Duke.

Duke is one stop on a 10-day road trip that takes Yale to four different states. In addition to that Thanksgiving road trip, which includes a trip to Dallas to face Southern Methodist University, the team will also head west in December to compete against Illinois and the University of Southern California.

“There are definitely going to be some tough challenges on the road, playing … teams that are definitely high-caliber and will test us before the Ivy League,” Montague said. “Hopefully we can knock one of them off and see how our team competes against top-level teams.”

The Bulldogs begin their regular season on Friday as they take on Fairfield in the annual Connecticut 6 Classic at 3 p.m. Yale was tabbed as the top team in the coaches’ poll for this year’s season-opening event, hosted by Central Connecticut.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Guard Makai Mason ’18 will attempt to fill the void at point guard left by the graduation of guard Javier Duren ’15.

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SPORTS

“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”

JERRY TARKANIAN AMERICAN BASKETBALL COACH

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW YALE 22–10 11–3 Ivy (T-1st)

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COLUMBIA

in preseason poll

The reigning Ivy League co-champions return an experienced corps that includes reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Justin Sears ’16. A team that finished second in scoring and in points allowed in 2015 is determined to shake off the heartbreak of last March and, under the leadership of captain Jack Montague ’16, win a league that is wide-open. Picked to win the league — and therefore go dancing in March for the first time in 54 years — in the preseason media poll, Yale opens its season with high expectations.

13–15 5–9 Ivy (T-5th) At Yale

Feb. 5

Hosts Yale

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Yale’s strongest challenger might be just a Metro North ride away. With last year’s league-leading scorer, Maodo Lo, returning after a summer playing with the German national team, the Lions would be dangerous even if they were not getting Alex Rosenberg back. Rosenberg, who missed all of last season with an injury, returns two years removed from earning first-team All-Ivy honors and setting a school record with 227 free throws made. Yale closes out its season at Columbia, and as last year’s title went down to the final game, the March 5 matchup could have championship implications.

March 5

HARVARD 22–8 11–3 Ivy (T-1st) At Yale

Feb. 26

Hosts Yale

Feb. 13

The biggest headline this offseason in Cambridge came on Sept. 2, and it did not involved Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker’s highly talented 2019 recruiting class. Harvard announced that senior guard Siyani Chambers, a three-year starter, would miss the entire 2015–16 season with a torn ACL. Without Chambers, the five-time defending Ivy champions only return two starters from last season’s team that narrowly lost to North Carolina 67–65 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Senior guard Agunwa Okolie and junior forward Zena Edosomwan lead an inexperienced, though talented, starting five which also includes freshmen Corey Johnson and Tommy McCarthy, a three-star ESPN recruit.

At Yale

Jan. 29

Hosts Yale

Feb. 20

13–18 4–10 Ivy (T-7th) At Yale

Jan. 16

Hosts Yale

Steve Donahue, a former Penn assistant coach from 1990 to 2000, replaced Jerome Allen in March as the head coach of the Quakers. Donahue inherits a young Penn squad whose roster of 15 players includes 11 freshmen and sophomores.

Senior center Darien Nelson-Henry, sophomore guard Antonio Woods, junior guard Matt Howard and sophomore forward Sam Jones lead a balanced offensive group. With all the youth on the roster, Donahue has an excellent starting point to begin his tenure as head coach. When Yale plays at Penn on Feb. 20, perhaps more intimidating than the Penn players on the court will be the court itself: Yale lost out on an NCAA tournament bid in a loss to Harvard at the Palestra.

After finishing at the bottom of the Ivy League last season, the Bears were selected to improve to fifth in the preseason media poll. Senior forward Cedric Kuakumensah, the two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, returns needing just 17 blocked shots to become the all-time Ivy League career leader in that category. While the Bears did graduate Brazilian forward Rafael Maia, the league-leader in rebounding last year with 8.7 boards per game, junior guards Tavon Blackmon and Steven Spieth, along with Kuakumensah, form an experienced starting unit that could upset any Ivy League opponent in 2015–16.

Feb. 6

Jan. 30

Hosts Yale

DARTMOUTH

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Dartmouth finished fourth in the Ivy League behind Harvard, Yale and Princeton in 2014–15. With the loss of last season’s top two scorers, Alex Mitola — a transferee to George Washington — and Gabas Maldunas, a pair that combined to average 23.6 points per game, the Big Green may see another middle-of-the-road year. Forward Connor Boehm, who can score in a variety of ways as evidenced by his 0.436 three-point shooting percentage last season, will be the go-to man in Hanover. Bohem contributed 13 points in an exhibition with Keiser University on Oct. 29. Dartmouth opens its regular season on Nov. 14 with a tough contest against Seton Hall.

14–15 7–7 Ivy (4th) At Yale

Feb. 27

Hosts Yale

Feb. 12

CORNELL At Yale

At Yale

5

Jan. 23

13–17 5–9 Ivy (T-5th)

The fact that the Princeton women’s basketball team, undefeated in regular-season play last year, opened this year ranked No. 25 nationally has slightly overshadowed the fact that its male counterpart is also a formidable team. After finishing third last season, the Tigers return three experienced forwards, each of whom averaged more than 10 points per game last season. On the strength of its big men alone, Princeton can contend for the title. Look for Princeton’s February matchup against Yale to play a significant role in the league’s final standings.

16–14 9–5 Ivy (3rd)

Feb. 19

BROWN

7

PENN 9–19 4–10 Ivy (T-7th)

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PRINCETON

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2014–15 standings 1 HARVARD YALE 3 PRINCETON 4 DARTMOUTH 5 COLUMBIA CORNELL 7 BROWN PENN

Coming off a 13–17 season in which the Big Red won five of its 14 league contests, Cornell does not appear to have made significant strides in the offseason. Last year’s leading scorer, forward Shonn Miller, whose 16.8 points-per-game clip was more than five points higher than anyone else on his squad, finished his senior year at Cornell and elected to take a final year of eligibility at UConn. Guard Robert Hatter, who averaged 26.5 minutes of game time, is the team’s most experienced player on the roster. Consider this a rebuilding year for Cornell.

Hosts Yale

March 4

11–3 11–3 9–5 7–7 5–9 5–9 4–10 4–10

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW in preseason poll

PRINCETON 31–1 14–0 Ivy (1st) Hosts Yale

Jan. 30

At Yale

Feb. 19

After a historic 2014–15 campaign in which the Tigers cruised to an Ivy League championship and went 30–0 in the regular season, it comes as no surprise that Princeton, now ranked No. 25 in the nation, was picked by the media to repeat its Ivy title this year. Princeton has won the conference championship in five of the past six years and this season returns four of five starters, with the lone exception being 2014–15 Ivy League Player of the Year Blake Dietrick, who earned an honorable mention on the All-America team. Princeton head coach Courtney Banghart, the 2015 Naismith Coach of the Year, enters her 10th season at the helm this year.

YALE 13–15 7–7 Ivy (T-3rd)

Hosts Yale

Jan. 16

At Yale

Jan. 23

PENN 21–9 11–3 Ivy (2nd) Hosts Yale

Jan. 29

At Yale

Feb. 20

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As the Bulldogs never saw a senior play during last year's Ivy League season after star guard Sarah Halejian ’15 tore her ACL early in late 2014, this year's Eli squad looks exactly the same, at least on the court, as it did for most of the 2014–15 season.

But the leading voice from Yale's bench will be entirely different, as Allison Guth enters her first year as head coach following the departure of former coach Chris Gobrecht. With an additional year of experience for its players — led by captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 — and an entirely new coaching staff, the possibilities for Yale are undoubtedly wide-ranging.

BROWN 10–18 4–10 Ivy (7th)

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Hosts Yale

Feb. 6

The Big Red returns four starters, highlighted by first-team All-Ivy member Nia Marshall, and 84 percent of its scoring as well as 84 percent of its rebounding from a year ago. Led by head coach Dayna Smith, now in her 14th season, the Big Red will likely rely on Marshall, who averaged 16.3 points per game and 7.3 rebounds per game last season, and, more generally, its squad's balance. Cornell boasted both the third-best offense and third-best scoring defense in the Ivy League last season.

Feb. 5

At Yale

March 4

Hosts Yale

Feb. 26

At Yale

Feb. 13

14–14 5–9 Ivy (6th) Hosts Yale

Feb. 27

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Looking to climb her way out of the Ivy basement, interim head coach Sheila Roux has a wealth of returning experience at her disposal. Although 11 of the team's 17 members are underclassmen, the Lions' six leading scorers from last season are back. The scoring will be led by the frontcourt, as forwards Tori Oliver and Camille Zimmerman averaged 16.5 and 14.7 points per game, respectively, in 2014–15. Oliver, a junior, was named to the All-Ivy second team last year, as she scored the fourth-most points in a single season in Columbia history.

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It will be the AnnMarie Healy show in Cambridge this season.

The senior forward and captain, who competed with graduated teammates Temi Fagbenle and Erin McDonnell for shots in 2014–15, still posted 13.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, good for second on the team. With those two former seniors graduated, Healy is likely to play the most major role for Harvard this year. Healy and fellow seniors Shilpa Tummala and Kit Metoyer hope to lead the Crimson to a better finish than last season’s 7–7 Ivy League record. The team was predicted to finish in third place again in the recent preseason media poll.

DARTMOUTH

Feb. 12

COLUMBIA Hosts Yale

14–14 7–7 Ivy (T-3rd)

At Yale

March 4

8–20 2–12 Ivy (8th)

HARVARD

5

At Yale

7

With a year under her belt as head coach of the Bears, Sarah Behn will seek to lead her team to a stronger close to the Ivy season this year. After opening league play with a 3–3 mark in 2014–15, the Bears stumbled down the stretch, dropping seven of their final eight contests. Experience will play a key role if Brown hopes to outperform expectations, as four of its five starters return as well as seven of its top eight scorers from last year. Guard Jordin Alexander, a senior, led the way with 15 points per game in addition to a team-high 2.5 assists per game.

Penn was picked to finish second in the Ivy League this year, right where it finished last season behind an unstoppable Princeton squad. But with four of its top players having graduated from that second-place Quaker squad, a repeat performance is by no means guaranteed. Penn’s four seniors last year — all of whom were captains — each played at least 400 minutes last season and combined for 41 percent of the team’s points. Center Sydney Stipanovich, who led the Quakers with 11.4 points per game last season, will play an even larger role this year alongside three other seniors who had significantly less playing time.

CORNELL 15–13 6–8 Ivy (5th)

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Following a season in which the Big Green posted its best record in six years, Dartmouth hopes to improve on that performance behind the scoring prowess of junior forward and guard Fanni Szabo. The Budapest, Hungary native led the Big Green for the second-straight season in 2014–15, tallying 16.3 points per game, and was named to the All-Ivy second team.

Szabo and forward Lakin Roland, who returns as a senior leader, combined to score 50.8 percent of Dartmouth's points last year. If the two can build off their performance last season and incorporate some of the team's younger talent, Dartmouth could be poised for another step up the Ivy Ladder this year.

2014–15 standings 1 PRINCETON 2 PENN 3 HARVARD YALE 5 CORNELL 6 DARTMOUTH 7 BROWN 8 COLUMBIA

14–0 11–3 7–7 7–7 6–8 5–9 4–10 2–12

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2 Comparative words 3 Nae sayer 4 Frequent companion 5 Dust motes 6 Calder piece 7 Featherbrained 8 SFPD ranks 9 Memorable temptation victim 10 Brief outline 11 __ cap 12 Beethoven’s “Für __” 13 Resilient strength 18 Anti votes 22 Name on a historic B-29 23 Cosecant’s reciprocal 24 Teach, in a way 25 Final notice?

26 Kids’ drivers, often 27 Valéry’s valentine 28 Printed words 31 It may need a boost 32 Roy Rogers’ birth name 33 Fork-tailed flier 34 Exploits 36 Smeltery waste 37 Hit or miss

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38 Three-sided blade 39 “ ... I’ve __ to the mountaintop”: King 43 Beaux __: noble deeds 44 Ice cream designs 45 Copper 46 Three-time 21stcentury World Series champs

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47 Billiards shot 48 Greek finale 49 Virile 50 Military unit 53 Tailless cat 54 Goad 55 British mil. decorations 57 Tom Clancy figure 58 Hawaiian dish 59 Org. in Tom Clancy novels

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SPORTS QUICK HITS

YALE SAILING ATLANTIC COAST ’SHIP AWAITS The Elis, ranked No. 2 in both women’s and coed, are slated to compete in the Atlantic Coast Championship in Maryland this weekend. The event, coming a week after Malcolm Lamphere ’18 won the Men’s Singlehanded National Championship, ends Yale’s fall season.

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ALEX LYON ’17 GOALIE OF THE WEEK The junior netminder, who led the nation in save percentage and goals against average last season, continued his hot start to 2015–16 by earning his second-straight ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week honor. Lyon stopped 62 of 66 shots in Yale’s three-point weekend.

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“We really believe that this is our year for both the Ivy League and Nationals.”

THOMAS DEMBINSKI ’17 MEN’S SQUASH YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

Lofty expectations for Ivy champs MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Forward Justin Sears ’16, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, averaged 16.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per game during conference play in 2014–15.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS A season after a pair of heartbreaking losses ended any NCAA Tournament hopes, the Yale men’s basketball team enters the 2015–16 season with a target on its back and weighty expectations on its shoulders.

Although the Bulldogs have since graduated starters Javier Duren ’15, Armani Cotton ’15 and Matt Townsend ’15, as well as

captain Greg Kelley ’15, this year’s lineup is ready for another run at the conference title.

Head coach James Jones returns an experienced and talented roster from last year’s titlewinning squad. The Bulldogs were recently selected as the Ivy League preseason favorite for the first time in the 31-year history of the league media poll.

“You’re proud of that for the reason that it’s the first time in the school’s history we’ve been picked first in the ballot,” Jones,

Ivy Scrimmages test high standards

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a pair of finishes last year that marked decreases in performance from the previous season, members of the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams have set their sights higher for 2015–16, seeking to rally back to the top tier of the national rankings.

SQUASH Last year, the Eli men finished No. 6 at the Collegiate Squash

the 2015 Ivy League Coach of the Year, said. “In something like nine out of the last 11 years, we’ve out-kicked our coverage.

They’ve always picked us lower than we’ve actually finished. It’s nice to get some recognition for a group that’s deserving, for one that won a share of the championship last year and is returning the Player of the Year.”

Forward Justin Sears ’16, that Ivy League Player of the Year, is back in New Haven for his final season, as is sharp-shooting

guard Jack Montague ’16. The pair combined to score an average of 23.7 points per game in conference play last season. Montague, who captains this year’s squad, led the Ancient Eight in three-point shooting, draining 43.5 percent of his attempts from beyond the arc.

Montague said he has been working on expanding his game and trying to create more opportunities for his teammates. Last year, he averaged 2.0 assists per game.

Joining Montague in the backcourt will be point guard Makai Mason ’18, Yale’s most impactful freshman in the 2014–15 season.

Mason was fourth on the team in scoring during Ivy play, highlighted by a team-high 19-point effort in the regular season finale at Dartmouth.

With Montague manning the shooting guard position, Mason will be expected to fill the void left by Duren, an All-Ivy first team performer last season.

“I think everybody is going to

do a bit more,” Jones said. “Makai Mason, who only played 20 minutes a game, I suspect he’ll be a guy who will be a standard double-digit scorer for us.”

In the frontcourt, Sears, already the 10th-leading scorer in school history, will be relied on to replicate his All-Ivy first team production. The Plainfield, New Jersey native was recently named to the Lou Henson Award Preseason Watch List by CollegeInSEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

Under Guth, Elis have high hopes

Association National Championship and third in the Ivy League, while the women claimed a No. 5 finish after placing fourth in the conference. Looking to improve from those results, the Bulldogs unofficially begin their season this weekend by hosting the Ivy Scrimmages, an eight-team tournament that will allow Yale to compete against Ancient Eight foes before their regular season begins in December.

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Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16, who averaged 7.3 points per game last season, is one of four seniors leading this year’s Yale squad.

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Sam Fenwick ’16 will captain the Yale men’s squash team, which holds lofty expectations for 2015–16.

After finishing tied for third in the Ivy League in 2014–15, the Yale women’s basketball team enters the season with a new coach, a deep and veteran-laden roster and dreams of the team’s first winning Ivy record since

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2013 and a seventh-straight finish in the top half of the conference.

W. BASKETBALL Last season, the Bulldogs lost team captain and leading scorer Sarah Halejian ’15 to a torn ACL before the Ivy portion

of the season commenced. Yale rebounded to finish 7–7 in the Ancient Eight despite the major loss, and in the process the Bulldogs developed much-needed experience that will benefit this year’s squad in head coach Allison Guth’s first year at the helm.

“I expect us to be serious contenders for the Ivy League

title,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “With a third-place finish last year and 12 out of 13 people returning, we have picked up where we left off from last year. Though we have a really tough pre-Ivy schedule, I fully believe that coach Guth SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

PERCENT OF THE YALE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM’S SCORING FROM LAST YEAR THAT IS RETURNING TO JOHN J. LEE AMPHITHEATER FOR THE 2015–16 SEASON. Guard Sarah Halejian ’15, last year’s captain, was the lone senior on last year’s squad.