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Harvard bomb threat unfounded

Pray for Paris. In a surprise visit, Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 flew to Paris today.

His trip was prompted by Friday’s terror attacks that left 129 dead. Upon arriving, the secretary met with a small group of U.S. and French officials before speaking publicly at a ceremonial lighting of the U.S. embassy, which was lit to resemble the French national flag.

“Tonight,” Kerry said, “we are all Parisians.”

Another “damn email.” But

this one was not written by the candidate herself. In a 2013 email, which has recently been made public, longtime Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 aide Huma Abedin refers to her boss as “often confused,” according to an article posted by The Hill yesterday.

Carson on Syria. GOP

presidential candidate Ben Carson ’73 announced his position regarding the status of Syrian refugees at a press conference Sunday night. On Monday, he urged Congress to stop funding programs that allow refugees to enter the country — a stance that goes against that of President Barack Obama.

On the contrary, Gov Dannel

Malloy announced yesterday morning that Connecticut will continue to accept Syrian refugees despite the decisions of 27 other governors, 26 of whom are Republican, to prohibit Syrian refugees from coming to their states.

An intergalactic role. Producer

J. J. Abrams recently revealed details about Lupita Nyong’o’s DRA ’12 character in the upcoming film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Nyong’o will join the franchise as Maz Kanata, an alien pirate queen.

Maz, a CGI character, will have a highly computerized look, similar to the character of Yoda.

The information gap. Casey Lartigue, co-founder of Teach North Korean Refugees, will give a talk at 7 p.m. today in WLH 119. Lartigue’s organization, which is a nonprofit, aims to educate refugees from North Korea and help them successfully transition to life in the United States.

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1899 The Yale football team heads to Boston for the 20th iteration of the Game. The next day, the game ends in a 0–0 tie after neither side scores.

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“In lieu of the recent tragedies in Paris, Beirut and other parts of the world, I feel like this threat weighed deeply on a lot of people. Many of my peers and myself included got calls from concerned friends and family members,” Harvard sophomore Chris Zhang said. “I personally was not too scared of the threat itself, simply because threats like this one have happened in the past, but just

Over the past two weeks, some of Yale’s student tour guides have found themselves in a difficult position: negotiating the line between communicating honestly with prospective students and preserving the University’s image in the face of ongoing unrest over racial tensions on campus.

As widespread media coverage of demonstrations against racial discrimination continues, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has begun reevaluating the ways in which it relays information to prospective students about diversity at Yale.

For all of November, Yale’s campus has been engaged in an emotionally charged dialogue about confronting racism within Yale’s gates, with students, faculty, administrators and alumni taking part in a movement for an improved racial climate. One significant complaint that students of color have repeatedly raised is that the Yale experience advertised to them during the admissions process has not proved true to reality.

Though the University markets itself as a home for all students, some argue that this message is overshadowed by pervasive racial discrimination on campus.

In response to these conversations, the Admissions Office held two meetings last week for its tour guides, including one that was also open to recruitment coordinators, senior presenters and senior interviewers.

At the meetings, students discussed ways in which tour guides convey information about diversity on campus, as well as how the tour guide program can improve to promote diversity within itself.

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Review’d. The New York

Times reviewed “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush” — author Jon Meacham’s biography of the former president and 1948 Yale graduate — over the weekend.

Writer Jennifer Senior describes the Bush portrayed

by Meacham as “competitive, forward-rolling and hellbent on the prize” even though “there seemed nothing overtly appetitive about him.”

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Four buildings surrounding Harvard Yard were evacuated after a bomb threat was emailed to the Harvard administration.

BY MICHELLE LIU AND SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTERS An investigation has been launched into the origin of an unsubstantiated bomb threat at Harvard Monday.

Schools officials announced early Monday afternoon that the administration had received a threat via email. In response, the university evacuated people from the four targeted buildings in and around Harvard Yard — including the Science

Center, philosophy building Emerson Hall, visual and environmental studies building Sever Hall and freshman dormitory Thayer Hall — as national and local security officials searched the area. Katie Lapp, Harvard executive vice president, said law enforcement determined that the four buildings were safe and confirmed at 5:40 p.m. that the bomb threat was a false alarm.

The source of the threat has not yet been identified, Cambridge Police Department spokesman Jeremy

Communities weigh in on campus climate Professional schools Internationals assess unique role address race relations

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER While students and administrators in Yale College have spent the last two weeks engaged in racerelated conversations and demonstrations, those at the Yale Divinity School and the School of Management have hardly remained silent.

In a Wednesday email sent to the Divinity School community, Dean of the Divinity School Gregory Sterling acknowledged the pressing nature of current campus issues, affirmed divinity school students’ efforts in response to those issues and invited the school to a session held last Friday where students could air their concerns before administrators.

School of Management Dean Edward Snyder also sent an email to the SOM community last Thursday, calling the school’s attention to the recent campus events and inviting the community to one student-led and one administration-led conversation on race. Beyond these administrative responses, students at the two professional schools have also supported undergraduates in their efforts to make campus a welcoming place for all students.

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“To say [the events taking place at Yale] are distressing is an understatement. The tension has not eased this week,” Sterling wrote in his Wednesday email. “I want to lend my voice to those who are expressing deep concern over the issue of racism and the need to address it. I also want to acknowledge those of you who have been active in raising these issues in respectful, positive ways.”

In his email, Sterling also noted the importance of administrators listening to students at times like these.

Sterling wrote that he knew a number of his students were hurting and he wanted to understand their pain.

Almost all of the school’s top administrators were present at the Friday listening session, Sterling said, adding that the session lasted an hour and a half longer than scheduled.

Nicole Tinson DIV ’16, who attended the session, said some students talked about their experiences being students of color, and some proposed ways in which the school could become a more welcoming space for students of all backgrounds.

Another attendee, Tony Coleman DIV ’17 said that at the session, students SEE PROFESSIONAL PAGE 6

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The international student community gathered last Wednesday to discuss its role in campus dialogues.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER After over 1,000 attendees packed into Battell Chapel last Wednesday to learn about issues faced by students of color at Yale, a smaller contingent of students met later that night in the Branford Common Room to voice a different perspective: that of Yale’s international students.

More than 80 students attended the discussion, which was hosted by the International

Students’ Organization and the Office of International Students and Scholars. International Peer Liaisons and past head counselors of the Orientation for International Students were also in attendance. The meeting, which lasted four hours and stretched late into the night, allowed attendees to contemplate the role of international students within ongoing campus conversations about racial tensions at Yale. The following day, the International Students’ Organization released

a statement affirming its support for students of color as well as any other students who have felt discriminated against at Yale. The statement highlighted the different challenges faced by international students looking to speak on racism, due to the different ways in which race, class and ethnicity intersect in their home countries. It also called on the University to provide better resources for the wellbeing of the international SEE INTERNATIONALS PAGE 6

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“You don't want any of the freedoms on campus to change because right now, your freedom comes first.” 'ALUMNAFORSTUDENTSOFCOLOR' ON 'ARONSON: THE “NEXT” WORSE YALE'

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Healing Yale?

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ale is at risk. If Yale is careful about addressing its ills, it could become a more inclusive and diverse environment, in which a range of views are sought and welcomed. If it is not careful, it will become a place with a divided student body and a fractured faculty, putting people into “for us” or “against us” categories. It will also become a place where people are afraid to speak their mind.

Many thoughtful people have suggested measures that can help Yale to heal. With respect and humility, I would like to suggest some others as well. I am aware as I do so that there are many more important issues in the world. Nonetheless, Yale was a transformative experience for me. In addition, I love teaching and advising at Yale and hope, therefore, that I can make a minor contribution to Yale’s healing.

First, I hope that we will communicate better with each other on matters of importance, both at Yale and beyond. Yale’s leadership has begun to communicate more regularly with the community on such matters. This is good, even if necessitated by crisis. A lack of communications by Yale’s leadership on these matters gives the impression that the leadership does not understand or is not concerned about them. It would also be good if Yale’s administration could help to lead us on critical issues of the day, as Gregg Gonsalves wrote in his column last week (“Connecting the Dots,” Nov. 12).

I HOPE THAT THOUGHT LEADERS AT YALE, ESPECIALLY THE CHAPLAINCY, CAN HELP US TO HEAL. Second, I hope that other thought leaders at Yale, especially the chaplaincy, can help us to heal. All religious groups are concerned with compassion for the less fortunate, charity, injustice and inequity. There are many ways that Yale’s religious leaders, individually and collectively, can use their moral authority to keep these matters at the top of our community’s agenda. When presidential candidates bash Muslims and immigrants and when AfricanAmerican churches are set on fire, for example, Yale’s chap-

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lains can speak to the Yale community about these injustices. I also hope that Yale’s chaplains, more frequently acting collectively, can help to lead our community on other critical questions of social justice. They do not have to agree on the solutions to these issues to raise our consciousness of them.

Third, Yale has failed for decades to address diversity in the faculty. I arrived at Yale in 1967 when diversifying Yale was a central issue. I am embarrassed that almost 50 years later, Yale is still setting up task forces on diversity. The new initiative on diversity is welcome. It could also be valuable — but only if it leads to specific and measurable changes in Yale’s hiring and retaining a more diverse faculty. The alumni and students must now hold the Yale Corporation and the administration accountable for achieving in a timely way transparent and measurable goals on faculty diversity. If not, we will be discussing the same issues at not just my 50th reunion, but at my 75th, as well.

Lastly, one of Yale’s key aims is to educate enlightened citizens. I hope that an important part of this will be to encourage many more Yale students to look beyond themselves and see the world through the eyes of other people. The best way to do this is to ensure that students engage in immersive experiences in another culture. Yale seriously lags other institutions in the extent to which Yale students study abroad or take a semester immersing oneself in another culture overseas or within the U.S. Some Yale students might go to school in Dakar or Delhi.

Others might go to Berea or Baltimore. Sensitivity training will be valuable. However, no amount of such training can build one’s ability to appreciate people from other cultures like an immersive experience living with people different from oneself for more than a summer.

Yale is in trouble. Some students are optimistic that a “new community” is being formed.

Other students tell me that the student body is splintering and polarizing, that longstanding friendships are breaking apart and that intimidation is in the air. I believe that our community now faces conscious choices about where it wishes to take Yale. I hope we make the right choices.

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activism to discourse. President Salovey, for example, encouraged a “community-wide dialogue” about Calhoun in an email sent out to undergraduates. Robert Rosenthal and Louise Brown, professors at Wesleyan, write that much of activism now is focused on discourse and lobbying as opposed to direct protest and confrontation. Even with all of this discussion, Yale still manages to have egregiously high rates of sexual assault (which disproportionately affects women of color), a lack of minority professors and a student income contribution that severely disadvantages low-income students.

STUDENTS WILL DO LITTLE TO HELP THE WORLD IF THEY STOP AT DISCOURSE. We need action.

Lately it seems as if our campus has been moving towards a culture of activism. Recent movements such as Next Yale, Fossil Free Yale and Students Unite Now have made an effort to

organize. Last Monday the March of Resilience showed that over 1,000 of us were able to gather in solidarity and organize quickly (although it wasn’t a protest).

Additionally, about 160 protests took place across the country over the course of 2014. As Yale students, we have the power to take up the torch of student activism.

Although “rational discourse” is beneficial, it can often prove inadequate: Liberation strategies should be a combination of discourse and activism. Movements combating forms of oppression gain traction through both. Writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, W.E.B. DuBois and Gloria Steinem have been essential for cultivating critical consciousness through writing, but this is only one side of the coin.

In the ’60s and ’70s demonstrations against the Vietnam War and racism in the American South proved necessary for real change. Without sit-ins, peaceful protests and grassroots organizing, it’s hard to see how the 26th Amendment or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could have passed. Yale has brought activists to campus in the past. In the ’80s, LGBTQ students held protests in response to discrimination. DeRay McKesson, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, also visited Yale. However,

the activism on campus today does not approach the level we saw in the 1960s and early ’70s.

But in the later 1970s, economic downturns discouraged student activism and caused more students to focus on “safer” preprofessional majors.

This decline in activism, however, doesn’t mean that all of our problems have been solved. Now, there is more wealth inequality than ever. In 2012, the share of income held by the top 1 percent of Americans exceeded 20 percent. Moreover, the average net worth of white Americans is about 13 times greater than that of black Americans and 10 times greater than that of Hispanic-Americans. Police brutality against black and brown bodies persists in many parts of the country. The marginalization that women, people of color, LGBTQ and other communities experience on campus is not without context.

Students will do little to help the world if they stop at discourse. “Rational discussion” is of little use to people who have been denied a voice. Real change requires both discourse and action.

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at isis.davis-marks@yale.edu .

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Stephanie Addenbrooke

very day I open my mouth to speak. I raise my hand, the professor calls on me, I reply. I respond when my friends ask me questions. When we speak it should be a symbiotic back and forth, a dialectic.

However, this dialectic doesn’t come so easily to me; I know that before I even open my mouth, my words will be tainted, marred by my thick lips and dark skin. I make my voice louder to compete — I scream. I scream about white supremacy, capitalism, ableism and sexuality so that my peers can understand my plight.

Every time I scream on this campus people sit there and pretend to sympathize. They tell me they care about ideas and discourse, but after a while they look away.

In an email Erika Christakis tells students to look away when they see something offensive, but I can’t. I can’t look away from the racist and sexist tropes that are omnipresent in the media; I can’t avert my eyes when someone calls me a n---.

At Yale it’s always about discourse, but for whom? How are we supposed to talk if no one will listen? In light of debates over the use of the title master, Calhoun College, SAE and Christakis’ email, it’s clear that some voices are louder than others.

In our generation, it seems as if there has been a shift from

Listening to the other side O

n Sept. 24, the worldfamous moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt stepped up to the podium in WLH 119 to give Yale a presentation on two models of education: Strengthen U. and Coddle U. Strengthen U. is centered around the idea that truth and knowledge are above all else; trying to expand your understanding of the world, the beliefs you hold and the ways you think are all paramount to your education. Strengthen U. believes that pushing students’ intellectual boundaries helps them to arrive at truth.

At Coddle U., nobody should ever be made to feel uncomfortable, so anything that a student deems “insulting” or “offensive” is so by definition. All forms of diversity — racial, geographic, ethnic (except ideological diversity of course, this plays no role in a college students’ development) — are valued.

Exaggeration aside, Haidt’s actual point was that most liberal arts institutions fall more into the category of “coddlers” rather than “strengtheners.” While his characterization was a bit hyperbolic, I do strongly believe that Yale embodies the spirit of a “coddler.” As a conservative senior, I have seen Yalies on both sides of the political spectrum

repeatedly avoid ideas and opinions that they don’t like. This goes beyond the average person who simply doesn’t agree with someone else in an argument or discussion; some students don’t want to have the discussion in the first place.

At an institution as intellectually rigorous as Yale, this is a tragic waste of our tuition money and time. One of the best things about Yale is that we are surrounded by brilliant and engaging people. To actively avoid expanding your knowledge or engaging with the opposition squanders the incredible opportunity that we have been given.

Yet that is exactly what’s been happening. Think of activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom many students demanded be disinvited from campus. Or John Ashcroft, the former attorney general whose scheduled talk had nothing to do with his controversial views on torture. What engaging and worthwhile discussions we could have if only students were to go to these talks — and ask tough questions! At the very least, students would gain a better understanding of their opponent’s arguments and how to counter them.

It is just as if not more pernicious when students silence themselves. When I was a CCE

my sophomore year, some of us in the program disagreed about certain policies. For example, someone suggested that alcohol may, in some cases, in some way, slightly, change something about one’s sexual desires. We were immediately and vehemently shot down, both by the administrative heads and the other students, and it was made clear that the topic was not up for discussion.

Most troubling of all, students self-censor when they believe they are in the presence of opposition. The most unbelievable example of this came when I was watching the second Republican debate in September in Silliman’s movie theater. An audience member asked if there were any Republicans in the room, and a few meek freshmen raised their hands. She responded by saying, “O.K., then I’ll just keep my opinions to myself.” This was unfathomable to me! Where else, if not in college, while watching a debate with 15–20 other members of your small community, could you have a sound, reasonable discussion about the issues?

So my plea is this: when you find yourself in the presence of someone who disagrees with you about an issue, say something!

Start a conversation. Ask them why they feel that way. Explain

a different side of the issue that they may not have considered.

And if you see someone being shut down because others don’t feel their point is worth considering, speak up. It doesn’t matter if you actually agree with their point; what matters is that you help them and others engage in a discussion about it and become more informed as a result.

I’ll leave you with a personal anecdote. The same day that Jonathan Haidt gave his talk, I ended up getting into a discussion with a friend (and fellow conservative) about the relative merits of upholding tradition. He argued that traditions, such as gender roles, naturally keep order and protect society. I argued that many traditions (e.g., segregation) change over time and have been proven “wrong” or immoral as cultures evolve. After about 45 minutes of discussion, we realized that what we really disagreed about was how much evidence is necessary to say that traditions are generally useful.

The next morning as I was biking through the Silliman courtyard, he waved in my direction and shouted, “See you, friend!”

And we’re still friends today.

ELI FELDMAN is a senior in Silliman College. Contact him at eli.feldman@yale.edu .

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Dems propose state budget cuts

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The state’s Democratic leadership released its slate of proposed budget cuts Monday afternoon, unveiling a plan that would bring the budget back into the black.

The state faces a budget deficit of between $350 million and $370 million for fiscal year 2016.

The Democrats’ proposal — which includes suspending the state’s clean election program and reducing Medicaid funding — would resolve $350 million of that deficit while protecting mental health and disability services, state Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said in a statement. The Democrats are the third of the three factions in Hartford to make their proposals public — Gov. Dannel Malloy released the administration’s list of proposed cuts on Thursday and the Republicans followed suit the next day.

The bulk of the Democrats’ proposed cuts falls under the category of “Legislative Reductions” — funding cuts to public services made by the state legislature — which would total just over $105 million. The cuts would also give Malloy authority to find another $89 million in savings across the state budget and would use $35 million from the state’s rainy-day fund to close the budget gap.

“In addressing the projected revenue shortfall, our plan continues to make essential investments in education funding, mental health and developmental disability services and municipal aid,” Looney said.

Among the Democrats’ proposals is the yearlong suspension of the Citizen’s Election Program for the 2016 election cycle, which they say would save the state $11.7 million. Established in 2005 after former Gov. John Rowland resigned following corruption-

related charges, the CEP provides full public financing to candidates for statewide office and the General Assembly.

The Democrats would also accept $30 million in Medicaid cuts proposed by Malloy earlier in the fall, despite House Speaker Brendan Sharkey’s, D-Hamden, insistence in a Friday press conference that Democrats’ cuts would “protect those folks that need help the most.” Malloy’s proposed Medicaid cuts, announced in September, drew criticism from the Connecticut Hospital Association.

In a Monday press release, Sharkey contrasted the Democrats’ proposed cuts with those presented by the Malloy administration, which drew attention for their reductions in funding for hospitals, Medicaid and mental health centers.

“Democrats remain committed to reversing most of the governor’s cuts to hospitals and social services, from both a human perspective as well as the need to better recognize our health care industry as an important driver of our economy,” he said.

The Democrats’ cuts bear some resemblance to those proposed by the Republican leadership Friday. Both political parties have proposed establishing an Office of Overtime Oversight to keep overtime costs low. Democrats say limiting overtime costs will save the state $10 million in FY 2016.

But the Democrats will not back the early retirement incentive program that accounts for $80 million in savings in the Republican plan. Sharkey said such a program would create long-term stress on the state’s pension system that would outweigh any short-term savings.

The Democrats say their plan goes beyond merely short-term solutions to the budget gap. Sen-

ate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, said in a statement that the plan would enact changes to the state’s tax structure to benefit Connecticut businesses.

“Our plan takes into account the needs of businesses by making adjustments to our tax structure, helps consumers by repealing the propane tax, makes good on our commitment to improve our transportation system and protects funding for education and municipal aid,” Duff said.

The Democrats’ proposals include the extension of a wide array of tax credits, ranging from credits for new businesses in designated economic growth areas called “Enterprise Zones” to the creation of a property tax credit for businesses that create jobs in urban areas.

Republicans and Democrats have used similar rhetoric in making the case for their cuts, and both parties have been careful to make their proposals distinct from the politically unpopular slate Malloy has advanced in recent months. While Sharkey vowed that the Democrats will seek to protect the least advantaged, House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, said Friday that Republican cuts will avoid “cutting from people who need [help] the most.”

Other similarities between the political parties’ proposals include an emphasis on transportation investment and a prioritization of mental health services.

The parties say this transportation investment is necessary to expand the base of high-paying jobs in the state. The rejection of Malloy’s cuts to mental health services will set the stage for continuing budget negotiations in Hartford in the coming weeks.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

State gears up for snowy roads

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER As another frosty season looms ahead for Connecticut, the state has geared up to combat the approaching ice and snow.

Gov. Dannel Malloy and state Department of Transportation Commissioner James Redeker announced Friday that the state has provisioned the DOT with 114 new plow trucks, along with other supplies and support equipment to bolster its current fleet of snow- and ice-fighting vehicles. The new plow trucks will replace 114 old ones that have been identified as overdue for retirement. Both Malloy and Redeker stressed the importance of maintaining Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure over the winter, given the close relationship between the state’s economy and transportation networks.

“It’s great to finally retire the last Model T we had and see this new equipment,” Malloy said at a press conference Friday.

The state’s current fleet consists of 632 trucks, 275 of which need to be retired, according to a release from Malloy’s office.

The state will auction a number of the retired trucks and keep others for spare parts. Along with the 114 new plow trucks, the DOT has also purchased two trucks dedicated to clearing the guideway for CTfastrak — a bus rapid transit system that runs between Hartford and New Britain. This upcoming winter will be the first full winter season during which CTfastrak is operational.

Following the purchase, Connecticut’s winter fleet will include 634 trucks; 205 trucks operated by private contractors are also on call by the DOT in case the state’s plow crews require additional assistance.

The state allocates approximately $30 million each year for snow and ice removal, Redeker said.

He added that the state spent well above the $30 million allocation last winter, which had record-breaking cold and snow statistics, including the coldest February on record for many towns across the state.

Fred Campagna, senior meteorologist at WTNHTV, told the News earlier this month that the odds of this winter being as severe as last winter are “pretty slim.”

Officials remarked on the cost-friendly nature of the new trucks. The DOT purchased each truck for about $150,000, approximately $32,000 less than each truck they replaced, Malloy said. With recently purchased tandem wing plows, the trucks can also efficiently clear more road space than the old trucks.

According to Malloy, these new trucks have been designed with the safety and comfort of the crews who operate them in mind. He said that before purchasing the trucks, the DOT consulted with the snowplow crews, adding that the comfort and safety of the crew contributes to the efficiency of clearing the roads.

A number of these new enhancements stem from an initiative Redeker led in 2011 to improve the state’s truck fleet, according to a statement from the governor’s office. During that time, Redeker had conversations with truck drivers to better discern the state of the DOT’s fleet.

Last January, Winter Storm Juno caused Malloy to declare a state of emergency, banning travel on state roads.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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Malloy and Redeker said maintaining the state’s transport infrastructure is important for the economy.

Law enforcement, community leaders meet to bolster relations

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Law enforcement officials from across the country, state and city met with African-American community leaders at a Monday forum to discuss how to strengthen police relationships with minority communities.

The four-hour forum — hosted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut and the Greater New Haven Clergy Association — featured keynote addresses from NAACP Chairwoman Roslyn Brock and James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. State and local law enforcement officials, regional NAACP leaders, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, clergy members and professors from Yale Law School and Yale College also spoke at the forum. Deirdre Daly, Connecticut’s U.S. attorney, opened the forum by acknowledging the challenging divide between communities of color and law enforcement. Though speakers addressed strategies to close this divide, the forum focused on early intervention policies as a means to prevent violent crime and gang activity. New Haven, and Connecticut at large, were lauded for

their progress in these areas.

“We in the African-American community have to give new light and life to the narrative that black lives matter when we are the ones doing the killing,” Brock said. “We must double down on our efforts to end gun violence in our neighborhoods, but we must also address aggressive policing by those charged to serve and protect us.”

Brock commended Gov. Dannell Malloy for his legislative record, including the Second Chance Act — which legislates the distribution of federal grants to organizations that aim to cut recidivism — and law enforcement accountability laws. Brock also recognized the impact of student activism at universities across the country.

“When we try to quash and not support the activism of young people who are standing up for what they believe in, yearning to be free and to be heard we do a disservice to the democracy we have in this nation,” she said.

The first panel discussion focused on the effect violent neighborhoods have on children and the early interventions that could prevent them from entering a life of crime.

Youth educators should pay

attention to the four indicators that suggest a child could be at risk of trauma, said Gemma Lumpkin, executive manager of district strategy and coordination for the New Haven Public School superintendent’s office. These indicators include chronic absenteeism, bad behavior at school, academic failure and general evidence of trauma, she said.

Lumpkin noted that education experts are now more aware of the harms of excluding children from class because of tardiness or absences. Instead, she said, the strengths of emotional and mental support as a necessary alternative are becoming more recognized.

Given the high poverty rates in New Haven, the impact of poverty on childhood education must be examined, Lumpkin said.

“Our young people need to be a priority, and they’re not,” NHPS board member Alicia Carballo said.

The second panel gave attendees an overview of how civil rights investigations and prosecutions are conducted. Lieutenant Dave DelVecchia of the Connecticut state police and Michael Gustafson, the first assistant U.S. attorney, noted that Connecticut’s laws have been changed to make

such cases more fair. Such changes include the institution of body cameras on police officers, which was passed into law in October, and the passage of legislation that requires investigations involving law enforcement to be conducted by prosecutors who are not from the district in which the incident occurred.

Gustafson said it is illegal for law enforcement officials to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution. But in civil rights cases, Gustafson said, it is often difficult to prove an officer deprived someone of their rights intentionally.

Panel members were asked questions about alleged and proven incidences of civil rights violations at the hands of police.

Concerns about systemic, willful deprivation of civil rights were also discussed.

Ndidi Moses, an assistant U.S. attorney and the civil rights coordinator for the Civil Division at the U.S. Attorney’s New Haven Office, said her office aims to help eradicate institutional and systemic racism. But given the nature of civil rights cases, she said, this pursuit can be lengthy.

The third panel addressed Project Longevity — a nonprofit com-

mitted to decreasing gun violence in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford — and the impact partnerships between law enforcement and the community can have. Andrew Papachristos, an associate sociology professor at the University, said this impact is most salient during a process Project Longevity refers to as a “callin.”

During “call-ins,” a group of young men are invited to meet with a group of people from their community to hear their advice on how to break free from a life of crime.

Among these community members, at least three perspectives are featured, the panel explained: the “voice of law enforcement,” the “voice of pain” — which could be a mother who has lost her child to gun violence — and the “voice of redemption,” an individual who has walked away from crime.

The program links participants with social services, if desired. But if the offer is refused, law enforcement officials vow to hold that individual accountable for subsequent acts of violence.

“It’s focusing on those that are both most violent and those that are most at risk and realizing that those people are the same person,” New Haven Police Chief Dean

Esserman said.

The effectiveness of Project Longevity’s tactics was shown in an October study conducted by Michael Sierra-Arevalo GRD ’18, Yanick Charette, a postdoctoral associate at the Law School, and Papachristos. The study found that the implementation of Project Longevity is associated with fewer shootings and homicides.

Though Project Longevity is not the sole answer to the problem of violent crime in New Haven, Papachristos said it is a step in the right direction.

Comey, who spoke toward the end of the conference, said there is a rift between law enforcement and communities, which he described as two diverging lines.

He said each time a police officer is attacked or killed in the line of duty, one line veers further away from the other. Similarly, any time there is a perceived or real misstep by the police, the other line pulls away.

Comey said cities like New Haven provide a sound opportunity for law enforcement officials and community leaders to bend those two lines back together.

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

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Monday’s forum brought together law enforcement officials and leaders in the African-American community.

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onday evening, hundreds of students gathered in front of the Women’s Table with posters and other art for a “Vigil in Solidarity,” showing their support for individuals affected by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad and Ankara. The event — which was co-organized by La Société Française, the Arab Students’ Association, Yale Friends of Turkey, the Office of International Students and Scholars and the Chaplain’s Office — included a candle-lighting ceremony, several student performances and a minute of silence for the victims of the international tragedies. KEN YANAGISAWA reports.

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“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON TRANSCENDENTALIST

Sanders adviser talks econ policy, politics

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With just under a year left until the presidential election, Yale students got the chance to discuss pressing national economic questions with a top adviser to a major presidential candidate.

Stephanie Kelton, an advisor to Bernie Sanders, outlined the motivations and details behind the Democratic presidential candidate’s chief economic policies and also highlighted the broader economic challenges

facing the United States at a discussion Monday. Kelton, who also serves as the chief economist for the Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee, joined the Yale College Democrats and a group of roughly 40 students in the Branford Common Room.

Kelton underscored that Sanders’ chief initiatives — which include raising the minimum wage to $15, implementing shorter work weeks and breaking up the big banks — are aimed at creating a groundswell of support that can sustain a “politi-

cal revolution.”

“In terms of explaining his ideas in a really clear and compelling way, I think there’s nobody better,” Kelton said in an interview with the News. “And I think the demographic that he is dealing best with is young people.”

She added that one of the more complex economic issues Sanders has championed is financial sector reform. He is dedicated to reforming systemically dangerous institutions that can “bring down the entire national economy,” she said.

Sanders’ main economic policies were just some of many topics Kelton and attendees touched on throughout the talk.

Kelton also took time to discuss her perspectives on the field of economics at large and potential challenges for the country going forward, drawing on her experience as an economics professor at the University of MissouriKansas City.

Kelton, who called herself “very nonconventional” in her economic orientation, criticized what she sees as deficiencies in the way economics is

currently taught in universities — including in economics textbooks, which she said are “written for a world that no longer exists.” Conventional wisdom in economics revolves around the flawed assumption that the world economy still operates under a gold standard, she said.

In addition, she said, economics has become increasingly inaccessible to those who do not specialize in the discipline.

“People can’t read the [American Economic Review] anymore, because it is all stats and economics and agent-based

modeling,” she said. “There [often] aren’t people anymore … there are just agents.”

Kelton also took time to reflect on the major economic challenges facing the United States. The discussion focused on the $18 trillion debt the U.S. faces and its impact on the discord between Republicans and Democrats on the topic of infrastructure. Kelton said that while Democrats and Republicans used to be able to agree on the issue, the debt has impeded progress, leading the American Society of Civil Engineers to give the country a D+ grade for its infrastructure.

“Everyone understood, yet today we can’t do infrastructure, because no one can figure out how to pay for it,” Kelton said.

In terms of explaining his ideas in a really clear and compelling way, I think there’s nobody better.

STEPHANIE KELTON Advisor to Bernie Sanders Attendees interviewed after the talk expressed differing opinions about what they had expected to hear from the talk.

Sarah Merchant ’17 said Kelton provided valuable insights on current fiscal policies and economic strategies. But Sang Ik Han ’16, an economics major, said he was hoping to hear more about the mechanics of economic policy, but he felt that Kelton focused instead on a dialogue that was more accessible to a general audience.

Yale College Democrats President Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News, moderated the talk, and said the Dems had been very interested in bringing her to Yale.

“She was a really powerful advocate for [Sanders] here today,” Blackmon said. “I think she gave really great insight on why he’s doing things as well as how this works on a mechanical level.”

The Dems will host Gov. Dannel Malloy on Nov. 30.

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Stephanie Kelton, an economics adviser to Bernie Sanders, spoke about how economics has become less accessible to the average consumer.

Contact NATALINA LOPEZ at natalina.lopez@yale.edu .

Yalies sweep creative writing award

BY SARAH STEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Friday, the Norman Mailer Center announced the recipients of the 2015 Creative Non-Fiction Writing Award — and this year, all 10 honorees were former or current Yalies.

The Norman Mailer Center, in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, holds yearly competitions in creative non-fiction writing for high-school students, two-year and four-year college students, and high-school teachers, as well as one college competition for poetry. This year, the winner, four finalists, and five semifinalists of the Four-Year College Creative Non-Fiction Writing Award Competition were all from Yale.

“This is part of a pattern that has been going on, rather excitingly, for a long time and has built to this absolutely improbable climax of the sweep,” English professor Anne Fadiman said.

As Fadiman and Fred Strebeigh ’74, another English pro-

fessor, pointed out, Yale has historically been successful when it comes to writing awards.

According to Strebeigh, nonfiction writers at Yale achieved a similar sweep in another writing contest run by The Atlantic magazine in 2010. Throughout the history of the Norman Mailer writing awards, which began in 2009, 50 percent of all winners and 41 percent of all honorees in the creative non-fiction section have been from Yale, Strebeigh said.

The writing competition began as a way to acquaint young writers with the works of Norman Mailer, as well as his commitment to writing, according to Lawrence Schiller, president and co-founder of the Norman Mailer Center. The Center was founded by Schiller and Norman Mailer’s wife, Norris Church Mailer, after Mailer’s 2007 death, and the creation of the competition followed soon after. Schiller said that the only requirement of the competition is that submissions are in English. Competitors come from all

over the world.

“It grew within the first three years to be worldwide,” Schiller said. “We were surprised ourselves when we started getting entries from English-speaking schools and foreign universities throughout the world.”

There are these amazing professors … who really push students to think in creative ways.

ERIC BOODMAN ’15 Winner, Norman Mailer Four-Year College Non-Fiction Creative Writing Competition Schiller said there are typically between three and six thousand submissions from high school students, college students and teachers combined.

The total number of submissions for this year’s five divisions of creative non-fiction and poetry was about 4,100, he said.

Schiller also emphasized that students from all disciplines can apply; in fact, several of this year’s finalists from Yale major or majored in something other than English. Five students and faculty interviewed agreed that the sweep in the competition is a testament to the quality of creative writing professors and classes at Yale. Several finalists mentioned classes taught by professors Fadiman, Cynthia Zarin, Strebeigh and Caryl Phillips as their inspiration, and finalist Devon Geyelin ’16 described English 120 as a “must-take.”

“There are these amazing professors … who really push students to think in creative ways and to do cool things with nonfiction,” said Eric Boodman ’15, winner of the four-year college non-fiction creative writing competition. “I think that’s part of the reason that so many students from Yale won.”

Fadiman and Strebeigh said another important aspect of Yale’s writing culture is the prevalence of student publica-

tions on campus. Fadiman said Yale’s “incredibly robust and exciting extracurricular scene” allows students to gain experience with reporting, writing and editing, fostering students’ creativity. Boodman said editing with other students at periodicals, such as The New Journal, helped him make his pieces the best they could be.

Boodman submitted three pieces, all of which he had written for writing classes at Yale.

One was about a woman who restores violins, another on a tuberculosis epidemic at YaleNew Haven Hospital and a third about a live tarantula, Mabel, at the Peabody Museum. Contestants were judged based on all of their submitted work, rather than on a single piece of writing.

Almost all the other honorees’ pieces were either originally written for an English class or published in one of Yale’s many publications.

“I think if you’re interested in creative writing here, you’ll definitely find someone to support you and you’ll find venues

on campus in which to publish and people who work for them who are excited to have you,” said finalist Jennifer Gersten ’16, a former editor of Yale Daily News Magazine.

Though Yale is known for its “tremendous non-fiction creative writing,” this had no influence on the results of the competition, Schiller said. The judges had no knowledge of school names, or even the names of the students, when evaluating submissions. Only after the winners, finalists and semifinalists were decided did they realize that all happened to be from Yale.

Students and faculty credit Yalies’ success in writing to the opportunities provided to them on campus, which are open to all.

“There’s no higher barrier to writing than thinking that you can’t write,” Gersten said.

Submissions to next year’s competition can be up to 15 pages single-spaced and will be accepted in the spring.

Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

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“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”

HILARY CLINTON AMERICAN POLITICIAN

International students take different approach INTERNATIONALS FROM PAGE 1 student population.

“We would like to acknowledge that our statement release has been delayed — not because we have not recognized the significance of the movements that have been happening around campus — but because it has taken time for us, as international students, to understand our role and place within this movement,” the statement read.

During the discussion, international undergraduates said

their experiences with race and discrimination in their home countries often differ from the experiences of Americans. ISO Vice President Reem Hindi ’17 noted that, prior to arriving at Yale, many students had never identified as either white or as a student of color — so when they are asked to do so at Yale, she said, it can cause confusion.

Camila Franco ’18, who attended the discussion, said that currently in America, race is the focus of most discrimination, but in other countries,

people may discriminate more on the basis of class or nationality, regardless of skin color.

She added that some international students have had limited exposure to distinctions between what it means to be black, African or African-American.

Some who find themselves labeled minority students at Yale have never experienced being in the minority before. In Swaziland, where Wabantu Hlophe ’18 is from, black people are the majority, he said. His experiences and struggles as a black

person have been different from the struggles of black people who were born and raised in America, Hlophe said. Yet American problems with race also extend to foreign students studying here, he added.

“On the one hand, as a black student, I wholly agree [with] and support the efforts by students of color,” Hlophe said. “At the same time, my race doesn’t fully characterize my experience and my relationship with systems of oppression or the realities history has given us today.”

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Students said a physical social space, beyond OISS, would serve international students of color.

ISO Cultural Council Chair Frankie Andersen-Wood ’18 noted that there is a disconnect between the image that Yale markets to international students and the reality of the student body’s composition.

“I came to Yale and was surprised there that there were so many Americans because it doesn’t quite match up with the brochures describing Yale as an international university,” she said. “I think international students maybe haven’t contributed their opinions as much to the discussion, and there are so many reasons why, some don’t understand and some don’t know how they fit in.”

Students at the discussion suggested a number of solutions to address these discrepancies.

ISO President Yuki Hayashi ’17 said adding an educational component to international student orientation about how race is viewed in America could help mediate different understandings about the definitions of race and discrimination. As long as international students live and attend school in the United States, it is important that the international student community understands what racial discrimination means here, she said.

Attendees also pointed to Yale’s cultural centers as an insufficient source of support for international students. They highlighted the need for a physical space of support similar to the cultural centers, beyond the current Office of International Students and Scholars, specifically for the wellbeing of the international student population.

While Yale provides the cultural centers as resources for students of color, the centers

often cannot cater to the international community in the same way they do to American students of color, Hindi said. For example, she said, while international students from Africa may be part of the Afro-American Cultural Center, the experiences of an African student are different from those of an African-American student. International people of color are falling through the cracks because they do not identify with the cultural centers, Andersen-Wood said.

Franco said the creation of an international student center, with the capacity to hold social events like the Af-Am House does, would provide a site of social support for international students of color. While international students currently have access to the Office of International Students and Scholars, which provides administrative functions like arranging visas, the office does not offer as many free open spaces for student use, Franco said.

Hayashi cited the physical location of the office on Temple Street as another constraint, adding that not only is it separated from the cultural centers, but it is also inconvenient for students to casually go there and discuss their problems.

“I think a component of what is happening, of the movements, is making an inclusive community,” Hayashi said. “I just want to make sure international students of color are included in that inclusive community that people are trying to make.”

11 percent of Yale College’s freshman class last year was international.

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

SOM, Divinity students offer perspectives PROFESSIONAL FROM PAGE 1 talked about the lack of faculty diversity at the Divinity School, as well as the lack of visual representation for people of color in the school’s buildings. For example, Coleman said, all the portraits hanging on the walls of the school’s common room feature only white faces.

Sterling said students also voiced the need for a spiritual advisor on sensitive issues, increased financial support for students for underrepresented groups and concerns for personal safety in light of recent campus events. For example, one student said she had heard that there have been at least three instances of death threats received by students at the University over the preceding weeks, Sterling said.

Coleman said the atmosphere at the listening session was emotionally charged, with students shedding tears and voicing anger. He added that the session gave him the impression that race-related questions have been pressing at the school for a long time, and that it was the first time students at the Divinity School were given a voice in this way.

Sterling said the administration will craft a statement and hold a town hall meeting to give a formal response to students’ concerns, but that will not happen until December. He added that the school may hold another listening session or conversation specifically for those who may not have had the chance to speak at the last session. “[The school has] been doing a lot, but there is still a long way to go,” Sterling said. “There are still problems, and I will be the first one to acknowledge that.”

Bailey Pickens DIV ’16 said students also decried the ignorance of most faculty on nonglobal or minority theologies. For example, she said, one student at the session heard from professors that certain final papers on minority theology did not qualify as “real projects.”

Pickens added that the school has “no concept” of traditions outside of Western Christianity, not even Eastern or Orthodox Christianity, let alone African or South-American Christianity.

Sterling said the school currently has no Latina-, Latino- or Asian-American professors, but is in the process of filling a newly created position in Latina and Latino Christianity Studies.

In addition to the Friday listening session, the Divinity School community also responded to recent events through studentled initiatives.

Tinson, one of the organizers and moderators of the racial sensitivity teach-in held at the Battell Chapel last week, said she devoted her time and energy to these issues over the past few weeks because she knows that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“What happens downtown impacts what happens at the Div School, as well as in New Haven and anywhere around the world,” Tinson said, “I cannot sit idly by when I know there is a world of issues impacting communities of color everywhere.”

Following the joint campuswide email sent by University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway last Tuesday, Coleman wrote a letter to the Divinity School community, both as a call to action and to critique the email sent by the administration.

In the letter, which was also posted in several public spaces at the Divinity School, Coleman said debates about recent campus events are not about questions of values — such as the values of diversity or free exchange of ideas — as the joint email stated, but rather about moral questions on how to build a campus that respects all and protects students from violence.

Coleman said he wrote the letter because he was “deeply troubled” by the joint email and also because he felt the Divinity School had not done much in response to the energy and passion captivating the campus.

“As students interested in morality from scholarly perspective, or students interested in moral leadership as ministers, it’s our duty and responsibility to respond to these issues of violence and injustices,” Coleman told the News.

AT THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

In an email to the SOM community on Thursday, Snyder wrote that campus events concerned the entire University and raised questions for the school.

“I recognize that this message comes well into the semester when students and faculty are focusing on their courses and our staff are incredibly busy,” Snyder wrote. “Nevertheless, based on

my communications with several of you and on my own experience, I recognize that it is impossible and indeed inappropriate to compartmentalize when important issues around campus raise highly relevant questions for us about diversity and learning.”

In the email, Snyder invited SOM students, faculty and administrators to two discussion events to be held at SOM in the following weeks. The first of these events, held Monday night, was a community discussion on the United States’ history, as well as the legacy and current state of issues of race, said Tiffany Gooden, director of community and inclusion at the SOM. Gooden added that because about 40 percent of the SOM student body comes from abroad, not all students enter conversations about race with the same understandings and perspectives on racial issues. The Monday event was designed to provide students a chance to ask any questions that confused or troubled them. The conversation was student-run and spearheaded by a multicultural group at SOM called “Liaison,” which holds regular conversations at SOM on issues like race.

Emika Abe SOM ’16, who helped organize yesterday’s event, said the Liaison dialogue was an private conversation for the SOM community in order to ensure students feel comfortable to speak freely and openly.

The second of the SOM events, an informal forum on race, is being organized by the SOM Dean’s Office and will be held on Dec. 1, Gooden said.

Besides the two conversations mentioned in Snyder’s email, Gooden said that there will also be a student-led lunch dialogue on Thursday for students not comfortable with speaking and asking questions in large group settings.

Gooden said many of the members of SOM’s Black Business Alliance — a student group aimed at promoting awareness on issues of particular interests to minorities — have worked to support undergraduate students who have been most impacted by these issues. D’Andre Carr SOM ’16, leader of the alliance and an employee at the African American Cultural Center, declined to comment on his involvement.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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Professional school students and administrators have joined recent race-related conversations on campus.

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“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.”

STEPHEN HAWKING ENGLISH THEORETICAL PHYSICIST AND COSMOLOGIST

Yale debuts on-demand MOOCs

BY ALICE ZHAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In 2014, Yale first launched Massive Open Online Courses on Coursera, an education platform that partners with the nation’s top universities to offer online classes for anyone in the world to take. Now, one year later, Yale has begun to offer its first “ondemand” MOOCs — courses which have rolling registration so students can join in at any time.

Coursera developed ondemand MOOCs in recent months to address issues of accessibility among its users.

Lucas Swineford, Yale’s executive director of digital dissemination and online education, said Coursera had previously operated on a session-based model, where students who wanted to take Yale MOOCs but who had missed the registration deadlines would often have to wait until the classes finished to re-enroll for the next cycle. In addition to the new on-demand MOOCs, Swineford highlighted Coursera’s new “auto-cohort” feature offered for on-demand classes. This allows Coursera to register a new group of students about every three weeks so students can enjoy the freedom ondemand offers but also retain a classroom feel. This year’s Yale on-demand courses include “Introduction to Negotiation” by School of Management professor Barry Nalebuff, “A Law Student’s Toolkit” by Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres ’81 LAW ’86 and “The Global Financial Crisis”

by SOM professor Andrew Metrick ’89 GRD ’89 and Timothy Geithner, former secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

“Our main goal is to amplify the impact of Yale’s great teachers,” Swineford said. “We want to extend the reach of some of this incredible educational material from the best Yale faculty members.”

Although Ayres, Nalebuff and Metrick have never taught online courses before, all three said they felt optimistic about what their on-demand MOOCs could achieve.

Ayres stressed the flexibility that on-demand MOOCs offer students. His course, which lasts just three weeks, aims to give a brief introduction to the terminology and concepts lawyers and legal academics use to craft their arguments. He said his ondemand class especially benefits students who are only interested in some of the topics he covers.

Since students can enroll in the course whenever they want; they do not have to take the entire course to access a specific set of lectures. Ayres said he has also attempted to make his lectures more “modular,” meaning students do not have to have viewed previous lectures to understand current course material.

Nalebuff also spoke to the benefits on-demand MOOCs offer students. In particular, he stressed how students could learn at their own pace.

“The students have much more control,” he said. “They can rewind or jump ahead.”

Nalebuff’s class also retains the student-to-student interaction Coursera’s traditional session-based classes foster. Nalebuff said students would not only have the chance to analyze negotiations but also to shape their own with other students using case studies.

However, Nalebuff expressed concern that on-demand MOOCs could interfere with productive student learning.

Since scheduling is up to the learner in the on-demand format, he worried that some students may fall behind or lose focus.

While “The Global Financial Crisis” is an adaptation of a popular on-campus class Metrick and Geithner taught at Yale,

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Former University President Richard Levin is the CEO of Coursera.

Metrick said he does not believe the course’s on-demand format will affect student learning. He said he was more worried in the shift in medium itself — students might not learn as effectively simply by watching lectures online. However, Metrick said the online discussion forums offered by Coursera may provide the necessary platform

for student-student interaction and enable him to monitor how well students are progressing through his class.

History of Art professor Diana Kleiner, the founding director of Open Yale Courses — Yale’s first foray into the online education — saw Yale’s new ondemand MOOCs as a positive step forward, especially in the

area of accessibility. Nevertheless, she cautioned Yale from offering exclusively on-demand MOOCs, even if they prove more popular among students because of convenience. In particular, she stressed the importance of a multioptional learning platform, especially since Yale has only delved into online teaching recently.

“I think we are still in a ‘let all flowers bloom’ stage of online education development,” she said. “Courses need to meander and ebb and flow.”

Former University President Richard Levin is the current CEO of Coursera.

Contact ALICE ZHAO at alice.zhao@yale.edu .

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“At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.”

JODI RELL AMERICAN POLITICAN AND THE 87TH GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT

Admissions responds to campus debates TOUR GUIDES FROM PAGE 1 “As with all content on campus tours, the Admissions Office does not provide a script or specific required talking points around any issue,” Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said.

“The Admissions Office’s message to guides was simple and consistent with our existing policy: Continue to share your authentic experience with our visitors, and trust that the Admissions Office values your thoughts and feelings on these issues, even if they are not universally positive about Yale.”

Tour guides interviewed said if students asked them about the racial climate at Yale, they would acknowledge that discrimination exists on campus but emphasize that students will face similar problems at any college. The Admissions Office has encouraged students to remain authentic in their interactions with prospective students, they said.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said it is far too early to tell if application numbers will be affected by recent campus events.

Tobias Holden ’17, a tour guide and recruitment coordinator, said many tour guides have said they feel uncomfortable lying about parts of their experiences in order to spare the reputation of the University. But he noted that there is no such expectation from the Admissions Office.

He said the office has agreed to make changes to the tour guide training program to focus on sharing honest stories, rather than on crafting narratives favorable to Yale’s image.

“The leaders of the tour guide program and other admissions officers have made it clear that we should never feel like we’re being asked to be inauthentic, and that

clearly something is wrong with the way guides are being trained if we feel that way,” Holden said.

Holden said the Admissions Office is putting time and thought into how it markets Yale to prospective students, ensuring that the information it conveys is as true to students’ experiences as possible.

For example, the Admissions Office could be more effective at communicating about issues of race on campus by focusing more attention on the cultural centers, Holden said.

He added that some tour guides have suggested sending out promotional materials about the cultural centers and adding a stop about them on the campus tour, which currently does not include any information about them.

Admissions staff have already set up follow-up meetings to discuss items introduced last week by the student admissions workers, Quinlan said.

Hannah Gonzales ’16, one of two head tour guides, said a fundamental part of being a tour guide is being able to share honest, insightful responses with prospective students. Even if tour guides have not personally utilized resources like the cultural centers or Office of LGBTQ Resources, she said, they should be equipped to discuss them in detail on a campus tour.

“Even though it’s not perfect, I love Yale,” Gonzales said. “I hope [prospective students] can look aside from that and see that Yale is working on it and still consider coming to Yale.”

Early Action applications to Yale were due on Nov. 1. The deadline for students applying Regular Decision is Jan. 1.

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

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The Admissions Office has encouraged tour guides to be honest about their experiences with race relations on campus.

Bomb threat at Harvard ruled unsubstantiated HARVARD FROM PAGE 1 the fact that something we’ve seen on the news could possibly happen so close to home was definitely concerning.”

Harvard University Police, the Cambridge police and fire departments and officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Massachu-

setts Bay Transportation Authority arrived on campus following the threat. Officials searched both the Yard and all four buildings, informing students that each building was safe over the

course of the afternoon.

Students said Monday’s evacuation reminded them of a similar threat made two years ago.

In 2013, Harvard student Eldo Kim issued a bomb threat that

forced students to evacuate the same four buildings. He emailed Harvard officials, an HUPD associate and the Harvard Crimson president with the threat half an hour before he was scheduled to

take a final exam.

Some students said in light of the similarity between the two threats, they were not overly concerned about the severity of Monday’s incident.

“Nobody was really worried, especially since apparently the buildings that were called in are the exact same ones Eldo Kim called in with the last bomb hoax,” Harvard sophomore Mack Andrews said. “I feel like almost everyone feels that it’s a hoax.”

Though students said a number of afternoon classes were cancelled after the alerts began, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean for Administration and Finance Leslie Kirwan sent an email to faculty encouraging them to hold classes in Sever and Emerson halls after police cleared the buildings later in the afternoon.

Harvard student Henry Tsang was among the students who had a class cancelled that afternoon.

Tsang said students circulated a number of emails through campus mailing lists to offer freshmen — the primary residents of the buildings in close proximity to the Yard — spaces in upperclassman houses to relax, hang out or do work.

Yale Chief of Police Ronnell Higgins said the Yale Police Department was in contact with the Harvard Police Department throughout the day and they continue to monitor the situation.

In 2003, a bomb threat shut down a street adjacent to the Yale Bowl on the day of the annual Harvard-Yale football game.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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The Monday email threat comes two years after former Harvard student Eldo Kim emailed a threat to the same four buildings in and around Harvard Yard.

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 4:30 PM Global Justice Program Work-In-Progress Workshop. The Global Justice Program workshop provides a forum for presenting work in progress on international issues and domestic issues resonating across many countries. The workshop combines normative and empirical inquiries into a wide range of topics including social justice and labor rights, global financial markets, illicit trade, migration, and rule of law. 230 Prospect St., Seminar Room.

8:00 PM Invasion of the Bee Girls. Join us for our third installment of the Zombies, Maniacs and Monsters movie series with a screening of the 1973 exploitation-science fiction film, “Invasion of the Bee Girls”. This B-movie is known for flipping the gender norms of the genre, with powerful women stalking and seducing men for their own nefarious purposes. Come see how a State Department special agent and a librarian grapple with a hive of genetically altered women-insects in this campy thriller on a VHS from Yale University Library’s Horror and Exploitation movie collection. Bass Library (110 Wall St.), L01.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 4:30 PM The British Empire as an Effect of Global History. A talk by Richard Drayton, the Rhodes professor of Imperial History at Kings College London. Part of the Naval and Maritime Initiative at International Security Studies. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 119.

4:30 PM Stephen Best: “My Beautiful Elimination.” Stephen Best is associate professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of “The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Profession” (2004), and is currently at work on a project on slavery and the limits of historicist critique, entitled “Unfit for History.” Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 211.

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SPORTS Women place third SQUASH FROM PAGE 14 without captain and top-three veteran Fenwick, who suffered a groin injury the previous day.

The Bulldogs, however, happily accepted the trial.

Kah Wah Cheong ’17, Dembinski and newcomer Yohan Pandole ’19 claimed victories at the No. 1, 3 and 9 positions, respectively, but Harvard won four matches against other Bulldogs to take a 4–3 lead late in the match. Just one match away from a team defeat, McClintock then faced a daunting challenge after falling 10–2 in the fifth game. For eight straight points, McClintock and his Eli teammates were just one unlucky bounce from defeat.

McClintock, however, survived all eight of those match points and two more later on, winning the fifth game 14–12 in what was, according to Talbott, one of the biggest comebacks ever seen in the Brady Squash Center.

“I played my match today for my boys,” McClintock said on Sunday. “Everything I did out there on court came from deep within.”

After McClintock’s triumph, all eyes turned to Arjun Kochhar ’18. Kochhar was able to claim a 3–1 win, thereby sealing the match for the Bulldogs.

The Eli men have now defeated Harvard in the final round of two consecutive Ivy Scrimmages, though in last year’s regular season, the Crimson ultimately defeated Yale 7–2 when it counted.

“Always feels good to get a victory over Harvard, even if it’s in a preseason match,” said Kochhar.

“We weren’t to our full strength today with our captain unable to play due to injury, but the boys could still get the job done. I think that shows just how deep

our team is and how we can rely on each other if one of us is struggling.”

The young and developing women’s team capped off an encouraging weekend with a third-place finish. On Saturday, the No. 5 Bulldogs decisively handled No. 7 Columbia by a score of 8–1. Later that evening, however, No. 1 Harvard — last year’s CSA champion — swept the Elis, sending them to the third-place match against Princeton.

Yale was able to bounce back and claim a narrow 5–4 win against their feline foes in a match that saw contributions from both freshmen and veterans. Georgia Blatchford ’16, Jocelyn Lehman ’18, Shiyuan Mao ’17 and newcomer Emily Sherwood ’19 claimed victories for Yale to make the score 4–4 heading into the ninth match, with Celine Yeap ’19 on the court.

Yeap sealed the victory for Yale, and, like McClintock, needed to escape from multiple match points for her Princeton opponent.

“I saved two match balls in the fifth to clinch the winning point for the team,” Yeap said.

“At match ball down I looked out from the court, my teammates were cheering for me, and I could not bear to disappoint them.

They were the reason why I kept going.”

Talbott said he has been impressed by the women’s team improvement over the past few months of training, and that he believes that his team will “surprise some teams” in 2015–16.

The Yale men and women can now prepare for their season opener against Franklin & Marshall on Dec. 5.

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

“Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.”

KOBE BRYANT FIVE-TIME CHAMPION

Yale cruises to win BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 play of the remaining Yale (2–0, 0–0 Ivy) starters left little doubt about the game’s outcome. Captain and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 made three-pointers from seemingly every point of the arc and point guard Makai Mason ’18, who has taken over the starting point guard position previously held by graduate Javier Duren ’15, again left Yale fans asking “Javier who?”

Three days after pacing Yale with 23 of the team’s 70 points against Fairfield, Mason scored the first seven points of the game to catalyze the Elis’ attack against Sacred Heart (1–1, 0–0 Northeast).

“I think if I didn’t do it, somebody else was going to do it,” Mason said of his hot start. “It was nice to try to be aggressive at the start and jump-start the team to the early lead we had.

I think we did a real good job

to start on defense, too, which really helped us lead.”

But after Mason’s outburst to open the game, Sears took over.

He scored six quick points when Mason and forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 went to the bench, including an impressive alleyoop from Montague on a fast break that forced a Sacred Heart timeout.

The Pioneers committed 16 fouls in the first half, including a technical foul by reigning Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week Quincy McKnight with 9:46 remaining in the period. The Bulldogs capitalized on the calls, scoring 15 points from the free-throw line en route to a 26–37 day from the charity stripe.

“We’ve been able to get to the free-throw line, and I think that’s a big part of [our earlyseason success],” Jones said.

“We’re very difficult to guard because of our size and athleticism inside.”

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Sears returned to form Monday night, scoring 27 points in 30 minutes.

Bulldogs sink Lions in N.Y. SWIMMING FROM PAGE 14 rivalry of sorts for the two swimmers, as Shahar edged out Kaminski by just 0.09 seconds in last year’s Yale-Columbia meet. “[Shahar] is a really good competitor, and she had a really good race,” Kaminski said. “I’m glad I got to compete against her early on in the season because it’s a great lead-up to [the Ivy League Championship Meet] to see how everyone else is doing. I’m excited to race her again.”

The Bulldogs claimed the next two events with 1-2-3 and 1-3 finishes in the 200-yard butterfly and 50-yard freestyle, respectively. Midway through the meet, the divers again took to the boards, 1-meter this time, and once again MacRae came out on top. Her comfortable first-place finish was followed by Olivia Grinker ’16 in second and Walsh again claiming a spot in the top three. Sherman’s score placed her in fourth, but her score was counted as exhibition because of the maximum of three divers allowed per team. “[Walsh] had a really great performance,” MacRae said. “Her improvement throughout the season is already noticeable, and she has a lot of potential to do really well in the upcoming meets.

She learned a new dive last week that she did at Columbia, the back 2 1/2 pike, which has really high [degree of difficulty], so it was exciting to see her try it in the meet.”

The swimmers then came out ready to finish off the victory — the rout was so severe that, like last week, the Elis’ times in the last two events were not counted

because Yale had already clinched the victory.

Yale proceeded to win five straight events: Hindley in the 100-yard freestyle, Du in the 200-yard backstroke, Kaminski in the 200-yard breaststroke, Fabian in the 500-yard freestyle and Maddy Zimmerman ’18 in the 100-yard butterfly.

On Saturday, the men started off with the 3-meter diving event, where Wayne Zhang ’18, a staff reporter for the News, and James McNelis ’16 secured second and third with scores of 295.20 and 292.50, respectively.

The Yale swimmers missed out on a first-place finish in their first event — the 200-yard medley relay — by just 0.07 seconds, but were able to secure second and third.

The Bulldogs were able to push back after the early loss and claim first in the next five events, many of which featured close finishes.

Kei Hyogo ’18 and captain Brian Hogan ’16 were able to replicate their strong performances from last week in the 1000-yard freestyle, clinching first and second, respectively. Scott Bole ’19 kept up the heat by placing first in the 200-yard freestyle event, where fellow freshman Adrian Lin ’19 claimed third.

“We had to focus on our individual swims,” Hogan said. “We won the next couple of events, and that gave us a lot of momentum.”

A notable performance came next in the 100-yard backstroke, with a 1-2-3 finish for Yale. Shawn Nee’s ’18 49.16 finish earned the sophomore a pool record at the Uris Pool, breaking an Ivy

record previously held by David Jakl.

Other wins for the Bulldogs included that of Derek Kao ’18 in the 100-yard breaststroke and Hyogo’s 200-yard butterfly.

The men missed out on a first-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle, the final event before the diving break. After the first half of the meet, the Elis held a 93–57 lead.

In the 1-meter event, McNelis and Anthony Mercadante ’17 claimed second and third.

Following the break, the Bulldogs earned five wins in the next seven events. Victor Zhang ’16 and Oscar Miao ’17 found the podium in the 100yard freestyle, and Nee was able to claim another backstroke event, the 200 this time, for his third first-place finish of the day. Jonathan Rutter ’18 and Kao clinched the 200-yard breaststroke, and Hyogo and Hogan once again found themselves with close finishes in the distance swimming — Hyogo outtouched Hogan by just under a second in the 500-yard freestyle.

With the meet’s winner already decided, the Elis missed out on firstplace finishes in the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley, but were able to come back and claim the 400-yard freestyle relay to finish the day.

The Bulldogs will take a 15-hour bus ride to North Carolina to compete in the Nike Invitational in Chapel Hill at the end of this week.

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

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The Eli women more than doubled the score of Columbia and tallied 13 first-place finishes in 16 events.

Sacred Heart went on a run near the end of the first half and cut what was at one point a 15-point lead to single digits, but back-to-back threes from Montague in the final 2:18 kept the Bulldogs ahead by a comfortable margin.

As the final seconds of the half ticked away, guard Nick Victor ’16 got his hand on a missed Pioneer three and tipped the ball to Mason, who lobbed a high-arcing pass to a wide-open Sears. The Plainfield, New Jersey native slammed home the assist as the buzzer sounded, with Yale entering the half ahead 51–33.

Although Victor did not score in the contest, playing limited minutes due to foul trouble, he secured 11 of Yale’s 35 rebounds.

“It probably won’t be the last time [Victor contributes rebounding without scoring],” Jones said. “I don’t think officials knew another number to call in terms of fouls. He only played 22 minutes but he got two fouls with his hands up. He does a great job for us and he’s a big part of why we’ve been so successful this year. He’s bought into his role and he does a great job with it.”

The halftime break did little for the Pioneers as Yale cruised to victory in the second half, handling the few modest runs Sacred Heart mustered with relative ease. With Sears only on the court for 11 minutes in the second half, Mason scored 10 more points to finish the night with 20, his second-consecutive 20-point game.

Montague also added two three-pointers in the second half to round out his 15-point effort.

Mason’s former AAU teammate, Sacred Heart’s Cane Broome, tried his best to keep the Pioneers close. The two point guards battled back and forth throughout the contest, with Broome, coming off a

27-point game in the Pioneers’ season-opener, erupting for 21 second-half points to lead all scorers with 32 points.

While Broome had little support from an injury-depleted roster missing three starters, Yale benefitted from contributions across the board.

Jones expressed his satisfaction with guards Khaliq Ghani ’16 and Anthony Dallier ’17, who came off the bench and each scored nine points to lead the Bulldog reserves. In the frontcourt, forward Sam Downey ’17 added four points and three rebounds while forward Blake Reynolds ’19 scored his first career basket to go along with three nifty assists.

The 24-point, five-assist performance from the bench was a significant improvement from Yale’s first game, in which the bench contributed just two of the team’s 70 points.

“What you’ll notice is that most times, when you play at home in your own building, there’s a comfort level,” Jones said. “I think that’s a big part of being good at home, and one of the reasons teams win a lot at home … we hope that gaining confidence and doing well at home means that the same guys can go out on the road and do the same thing.”

The Elis will be back in action Thursday, when they travel to Lehigh for a nonconference game against the Mountain Hawks. Jones described Lehigh as “a November Ivy League game,” comparing the team favorably to top conference teams like Columbia and Harvard.

Tip-off in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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

Dooney ’16 qualifies for NCAAs CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 14 ton College. However, to qualify for the national meet, Yale needed a third-place run or better. Yet the Elis did prove their might in the Ivy League, coming out on top of many Ancient Eight foes, including Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell, who were also top-ten finishers on Friday. Providence and Syracuse would ultimately take the two spots and will continue their postseason runs.

Friday’s race included several impressive finishes for the Bulldogs. The team’s top two finishers throughout the season, Frances Schmiede ’17 and Dana Klein ’18, both posted quick times, placing 13th and 22nd in the race, respectively. Less than a second behind Klein was Meredith Rizzo ’17, who shaved more than 50 seconds off her Heps time to come in third among the Elis, her highest finish in the team’s top five.

Schmiede, Klein and Rizzo all earned All-Northeast Region Honors for being among the first 25 runners to complete the course.

“We had a number of athletes really step up with outstanding races,” Reagan said. “Though we were disappointed with our team finish, the depth and talent of our team was truly showcased on Friday.”

Rizzo was followed by young standout Andrea Masterson ’19, who finished in 43rd place, and Reagan, who capped off the top five. Reagan’s time of 22:01.2 was less than a minute behind Schmiede.

Of the Elis’ top seven runners at Regionals, none are seniors and all will compete with the team in the 2016 season.

“As such a young team, everything we were able to accomplish this year proves that we are capable of competing at the highest level,” Reagan said. “With everyone returning, we are strong contenders for the Ivy League title and a national appearance next fall. This time, it won’t go unrealized.”

The men’s race saw an extremely competitive field, even more so than in recent years. The Bulldogs tied sixthplace Providence with 169 points, but narrowly lost the tiebreaker to the Friars. Last year, Yale earned the same final position in the regional race, but with a score 31 points higher than the 2015 finish. The Elis were also within 20 points of fourth-place Dartmouth and fifthplace Columbia, but the Bulldogs were

outside the qualifying positions.

Leading the men’s team on Friday, just as he has consistently all season, was Dooney. With a quick time of 30:46.3 in the 10K, he crossed the finish in eighth out of 247 runners.

“I’m obviously very pleased with how the race went personally,” Dooney said.

“I was able to conserve some energy and get through with as little damage done as possible, which hopefully will serve me well for next weekend. While not qualifying as a team is tough, all the guys put themselves in the best position possible to achieve that goal.”

Following Dooney were two other Bulldogs who have posted big seasons for Yale, James Randon ’17 and Cameron Stanish ’18. The pair completed the race just eight seconds and three places apart, in 23rd and 26th, respectively.

Dooney and Randon were awarded AllNortheast Region Honors for breaking into the top 25. Although he just missed the cutoff, Stanish posted a placement 30 higher than the one he earned in the 2014 race his freshman year.

The Elis’ top five was rounded out by Adam Houston ’18 and Duncan Tomlin ’16. Tomlin’s 60th-position finish was just 70 seconds behind Dooney.

Syracuse and Iona, the top two finishers, dominated the meet, with seven of the top 10 runners hailing from the two New York powerhouses, advancing to the NCAA Championships. There are 13 at-large bids available for teams who do not automatically qualify, although Yale will not receive one of these offers.

However, Dooney’s placement will secure him a chance to compete in Louisville as an individual qualifier for the second consecutive year.

While Regionals marks the end of the postseason for the Bulldogs, runners see this season as evidence of the programs’ growth and their potential in seasons to come.

“Although we aren’t going to Nationals, we really raised the expectations we have for this program,” Stanish said.

“With our third-place finish at the Ivy League championships, we have proven that this program is capable of going after Ivy League titles and nationals berths.”

Dooney will race in the national meet on Saturday, Nov. 21 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“You still want to be known as a good person.

You’re a person a lot longer before and after you’re a professional athlete. ” DEREK JETER FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER

THE DARTMOUTH

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College has highest student-athlete graduation rate

Admins address concerns about financial aid, tuition

BY RACHEL FAVORS In the NCAA’s recently released data from its annual student-athlete graduation rate survey, Dartmouth College, along with Samford University, led Division I institutions with Graduation Success Rates of 99 percent for student-athletes who enrolled in 2008. This rate is 13 percent above the GSR for all of Division I athletics.

All academic institutions offering athletic aid are required as a condition of NCAA membership and by federal law to report studentathlete graduation rates. In 1995, however, the Division I Board of Directors established the GSR because of its desire for a rate that more accurately represented the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate. The NCAA student-athlete graduation rate is the proportion of first-year student-athletes who entered a school on institutional aid and graduated from that institution within six years.

Currently, the federal graduation rate considers transfer students to be nongraduates at both the college they left and the one from which they will eventually graduate, whereas the GSR accounts for studentathletes who transfer from their original institution and leave in good academic standing. If the student-athlete does not leave the college in good academic standing, they are assumed to have not graduated, NCAA Associate Director of Public and Media Relations Michelle Hosick said.

Since the first GSR released in 2001 for student-athletes starting college in 1995, the Division I GSR has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent.

“ I t ’s difficult to say with ce r ta i n ty why the rate has increased, DARTMOUTH h o we ve r, the Division I members have adopted a number of academic reforms in that time period, including enhanced academic criteria for incoming freshmen, strengthened progress-toward-degree requirements current student-athletes must meet and the Academic Progress Rate, a real-time metric that tracks team success every term and has penalties associated with it for teams who don’t meet benchmarks,” Hosick said.

This year marks Dartmouth’s fourth straight year leading Division I athletics programs for GSR. Of the 24 NCAA-sponsored sports at the College, 19 had a 100 percent GSR. The college’s athletics department does an “outstanding” job in emphasizing the balance between athletics and academics, Director of Athletics and Recreation Harry Sheehy said. Sheehy said that the department always favors academics first.

“I think the philosophy here at Dartmouth is absolutely amazing for all of us involved with student-athletes,” women’s lacrosse head coach Amy Patton said. “We are all striving for excellence for them in academics and on the playing field.”

Patton said that many of the resources that assist athletes in their academic success are not athlete-specific, but rather those that are also available to the entire student body, such as the accessibility of professors and faculty

through office hours.

For all students, Dartmouth has an academic culture where “people want you to perform well” and where it is easy to receive help through office hours and tutoring services at the Academic Skills Center, women’s basketball player Lakin Roland said.

“As athletes, we have an extra layer of support through the athletic department,” Roland said.

We are all striving for excellence for [studentathletes] in academics and on the playing field.

AMY PATTON Head Coach, Women’s Lacrosse One of the programs specifically for student-athletes is the athletic department’s Dartmouth Peak Performance program, which assists students in balancing their academic and athletic pursuits, Patton said.

“Dartmouth Peak Performance is a program to help students balance their personal, athletic and academic lives,” Sheehy said. “Things like advising, study skills, academic support and success strategies are all covered with our student-athletes. We really want them to be able to have a well-integrated life here at the College.”

Women’s soccer player Jill Dayneka said the DP2 program is a support initiative that can include anything from strength and conditioning training and leadership building to sports psychology and academic assistance.

Assistant Athletics Director for Peak Performance Katelyn McPherson helps student-athletes with their academic lives by setting up tutors, speaking with professors about classes that athletes might miss because of games, helping freshmen select courses and coordinating their schedules to ensure that they do not take a heavy course load while in season, Roland said.

To further assist studentathletes, the college should continue to strengthen its current programs moving forward, Dayneka said.

Many women on the soccer team come in their freshman year feeling worried over how to manage their athletics with the pressure to be on a certain academic track, Dayneka said.

For Dayneka, the strengthening of the current academic support programs could help the student-athletes realize that much of their first year can be spent exploring the academic departments, campus organizations and their various interests.

Sheehy also agreed that the athletics department could enhance some of its studentathlete assistance programs, though he emphasized the department’s current level of success.

“There’s not a lot more young men and women that we could graduate over what we are already doing,” Sheehy said. “But with Dartmouth Peak Performance what we are really trying to do is set our students up for success after Dartmouth. When we look at our leadership training, community engagement and career planning programs, those are the things we want our students to be exposed to and carry forward with them.”

BY TALIA JUBAS The $350 health fee for students not enrolled in Cornell’s Student Health Plan will be included in eligible students’ financial aid packages for the next academic year, Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett said at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting.

“I am pleased to announce that for the next academic year and thereafter, we will include a $350 student healthcare allowance in the cost of attendance and in financial aid calculations,” Garrett said, attributing the success of the shift largely to student advocacy.

Garrett and Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, responded to student concerns in an open-forum question-and-answer session.

In her first semester on campus, Garrett said she discerned themes in the demands coming from the student body and described administrative efforts, including the addition of the health fee to student aid packages, to address those recurrent concerns.

Shivang Tayal, Student Assembly international representative at large, said there are a number of international issues that have yet to be resolved. Despite Cornell’s “sizeable international student body,” university resources have not been put toward the needs of this community, with most recent initiatives being “largely student run,” according to Tayal. A central concern is that, unlike other minority groups on campus, the international student community does not have an advocacy center, he said.

Responding to Tayal, Garrett said while international students share many of the same issues as the general student body, it is clear that there are “other factors that

are unique to international students,” Garrett said.

In addition, a task force is CORNELL working to advance “Global Cornell” initiatives and address particular concerns of the international student community, such as housing over break and summer storage, according to Lombardi. In discussing housing, Lombardi also endorsed a move to distinguish program houses from the general pool of North Campus housing to address the distinct needs of program houses’ minority residents.

“We need to understand what is the right housing situation for Cornell today and for Cornell in the future,” he said.

Questions about financial aid were raised throughout the session, weaving into the discussion the challenges facing minority and international students on campus.

Pointing to recent tuition crowdfunding campaigns, Student Assembly industrial and labor representative Ben Bacharach asked Garrett and Lombardi about what discussions on financial aid are occurring at the administrative level.

Garrett replied that while looking into these student crowdfunding campaigns, the administration discovered that some of the students are undocumented, and therefore ineligible for financial aid under current university policies. Policies on international student aid — which free up funds only after domestic financial aid packages have been disbursed — are being reviewed, according to Garrett.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Study questions preventative qualities of syringe

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER Recent research from the Yale School of Public Health indicates that a widely accepted strategy to decrease the transmission of the hepatitis C virus through needles may not be as effective as hoped.

The study clarified the effectiveness of low-dead-space needles and syringes which are recommended preventative measures against contracting HCV from injections. Although the researchers observed a moderate decrease in transmission with LDS syringes when compared to high-dead-space syringes, it was nowhere near as low as the transmission rate in insulin syringes, the safer standard, said Robert Heimer GRD ’88, professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at the Yale School of Public Health and co-author of the study.

“It’s a better alternative, but it’s not good enough,” Heimer said.

Syringes and needles used to inject drugs come in many forms; insulin syringes, for example, have fixed needles that cannot detach, while other syringes have detachable needles. Syringes with detachable needles are larger and often used in order to attain higher injection volumes, Heimer said.

However, syringes with detachable needles have high dead space, a measure of how much liquid is retained in the joint between the syringe and needle even after injection. These needles can retain over 20 times more potentially infectious liquid than fixed-needle syringes, Heimer said.

Various LDS needles and syringes have been designed to minimize the dead space — for example, some include a plunger that extends all the way to the base of the syringe, said William Zule, a fellow and senior health analyst at RTI International who was not involved in the study.

The LDS needles and syringes have been recommended by public health organizations as a safer alternative to HDS needles and syringes. The World Health Organization recommends that needle and syringe exchange programs offer LDS syringes, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria supports the purchases of LDS syringes, said Sarah Russell, coordinator of the communications department at the WHO.

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In the study, Heimer and his colleagues tested various combinations of LDS and HDS needles and syringes and compared them to an insulin syringe control.

First, they measured the amount of residual liquid in each syringeneedle pair. Then, they loaded each pair with HCV-infected plasma and tested for the presence of HCV immediately after injection and after storing the syringe for a week at room temperature.

Their results showed that, as expected, insulin syringes with fixed needles retained only 1.3 microliters, the lowest volume among the combinations tested.

It also had the lowest infec-

tivity — only 47 percent of the syringes were HCV positive. HDS syringes retained over 10 times as much liquid and 98 percent of the syringes were HCV positive.

However, among the LDS pairs, which were designed to decrease the transmission of HCV, 65 to 93 percent of the syringes were still HCV positive. “[If someone uses a contaminated LDS syringe,] they’re still going to be at considerable risk of being exposed to HCV,” Heimer said.

According to the study, the presence of HCV dropped in all syringes with time in storage.

LDS needles were shown to be somewhat more effective than

LDS syringes, but still allowed for greater transmission of the virus than the insulin syringes.

Zule noted that the retention of liquid in the syringes has important implications outside of drug use as well — dead space causes dosing problems when small volumes of medicine are being injected, he said. He has studied the same phenomenon through simulations, but without the laboratory measurements of HCV retention that the Yale study included.

“The evidence from [Heimer’s] study is critical,” Zule said. “It points to the limits of what we can achieve.”

Zule said he does not think

these results mean that achieving effective LDS syringes is impossible. Rather, he said LDS syringes are a step in the right direction, but not the final solution.

Similarly, Russell said, although LDS syringes may not be 100 percent safe, the reduction in risk is still substantial.

Zule said he thinks the LDS syringes would be more effective at preventing HIV transmission, because the virus is present in lower quantities in the blood.

Heimer said he is still in the process of carrying out a parallel study to measure the effectiveness of LDS needles and syringes in decreasing the transmission of HIV.

He said his next steps will be to talk to manufacturers about ways to further decrease the dead space in syringes with detachable needles and to advocate for increased access to drugs that treat HCV infections.

“If you want to control the epidemic, we need more clean syringes,” Heimer said. “People will continue to inject drugs, so we need ways to keep those people safe.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were over 29,000 cases of acute HCV in the U.S. in 2013.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

Study shows relationship between happiness and stress in couples

BY SHUYU SONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER According to a recent study conducted by professors from the Yale School of Public Health and University of Texas at Dallas, both elderly partners in a happy marriage experience more stress than members of unhappy couples of ages older than 50, although the source and level of the stress differ between husband and wife.

The research paper studied how spouses with partners who have arthritis and lower back pain deal with the distress that come from their partners’ physical pain. The research found that the happier the marriage is, the more vulnerable elderly couples are to distress about their spouses’ physical pain. However, gender influences how each partner reacts to the physical pain of the other and whether their stress is directly related to that pain.

Epidemiology professor and study co-author Joan Monin, along with her colleagues, epidemiology professor Becca Levy and University of Texas at Dallas professor Heidi Kane surveyed 45 elderly couples in the New Haven community. Researchers asked participants to self-report their stress level over the course of seven days. They found that stress levels were higher in marriages that were reported as harmonious. But in general, the male partner in a happily married couple experienced more stress regardless of his partner’s health conditions, while the stress level of the female partner rose when she thought that her husband was in pain.

“I thought that [the] wives would stress more … because women are generally more attentive to emotions,” Monin said. “But I didn’t expect older husbands to be more distressed on a daily basis.”

Monin said the consistent distress of the husband might originate from his uncertainty about what actions to take when his spouse experiences pain. Another source of the distress might be the husband’s unwillingness to see his partner in pain, but further research is required to confirm these hypotheses, Monin pointed out.

Monin said the research may help couples who are close to each other feel more compassionate about their partners without increasing their own stress. She added that the research could lead to new approaches that people can use to deal with stress, such as problemsolving therapy and regulation of emotions as a couple.

“There has been a lot of work on negative emotion contagion. There’s still work [to be done] on caregiving.”

Monin said.

Environmental health professor Martin Slade SPH ’01, whose research focuses on people’s perception of stereotypes and how it affects the actual aging process, said that the studies he has conducted record participant’s marital status. He added that his research found that people who generally have more negative perceptions of the aging process would live shorter lives than those who have more positive perceptions.

Monin emphasized that future research could focus on helping older husbands reduce their stress level.

Since the stress of the wives is more dependent on the pain of their husbands, improving mental and physical health on the male side would improve the general happiness on both sides.

The study, named “To Love is To Suffer,” was accepted by the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences on July 5, 2015.

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

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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

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Avoidance in tasks predicts Autism Spectrum behaviors

BY RACHEL TREISMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Infant avoidance during a novel tactile task may be a predictor for autism spectrum disorder behaviors, according to a new Yale coauthored study.

In the study, parents of adopted children painted their ninemonth-old infants’ hands and feet and pressed them on paper to form flowers. The researchers collected observational data on the infants’ negative reactions — the expression of unpleasant feelings or emotions — and avoidance behaviors such as looking away from the task or physical resistance to the task. Researchers concluded that since touch is essential in early social interactions, avoiding physical contact during infancy might predict impaired social development, a main indicator of ASD. “Our findings suggest that avoidant responses to touch during infancy may specifically predict deficits in social development, such as autism spectrum behaviors,” said Micah Mammen, lead study author and doctoral candidate in child clinical psychology at Pennsylvania State University.

“Including measures of responses to touch in the study of early social interaction may help to identify young children at greater risk for social impairments.”

Researchers noted a positive correlation between infant avoidance behaviors and negative responses during the flower print test, but determined that only avoidance significantly predicted ASD behaviors. They also distinguished between avoidance as a reaction to the unpleasantness of the tactile experience and avoidance in infants who were emotionally aroused but did not want to be touched at that particular moment.

“The findings suggest that it is the behavioral avoidance of a novel tactile experience, and not a distress response to this challenge, that predicts autism spectrum behaviors,” Mammen said.

According to Mammen, data was collected from participants in the Early Growth and Development Study, a nationwide prospective study of adoptive families. Penn State and Yale are two of several collaborating universities on this study. David Reiss, Yale clinical professor in child psychiatry and study co-author, said Mammen saw an opportunity to investigate a more specific topic in early childhood development: the importance of touch in parent-

infant relationships, which was not the main focus of the study.

“Adoption studies allow us to distinguish genetic and prenatal influences on human development from postnatal influences,” Reiss said.

According to Reiss, researchers can track the infants who participated in the study to see if they exhibit ASD behaviors, but it is unclear whether any will actually meet the diagnostic criteria for ASD later in life.

The Early Growth and Development Study tracks children through age nine, so researchers can examine trajectories from early behaviors to later symptom patterns, Mammen said.

Jenae Neiderhiser, psychology professor at Penn State, explained that although there is a connection between avoidance behavior and social development, there is still some ambiguity in this relationship. It should be explored through further research, she said.

“We do know that abnormal sensory functioning is one of the diagnostic criteria for ASD,” Neiderhiser said. “There are studies that have made these links, although the majority have been done using clinical populations, which, to some extent, decreases our ability to understand how normative variation in touch sensitivity may be related to risk for symptoms that may increase risk for problems in the children, but that do not lead to a diagnosable ASD.” Questions also remain about the effect of genetics and parenting behaviors on the tactile avoidance that influences social development, researchers said.

“Further research should examine pathways between tactile avoidance and social deficits, as well as genetic and parenting factors that could affect these pathways,” Mammen said.

These findings carry implications for children on the autism spectrum, because the sooner ASD-type behaviors are recognized, the sooner professionals can intervene, Reiss said. He added that interventions seem to be more effective the younger children are.

“The current study makes an important contribution to research on the importance of touch for human development,” Mammen said.

The study was published in the Infant Mental Health Journal on Nov. 4.

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .

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New app studies quality of life in cardiomyopathy patients

BY ANDREA OUYANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER There is an app for everything, it seems — even clinical studies.

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have launched an iPhone application for a clinical study that will better examine quality of life for people suffering from or at risk for cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the

heart muscle and its function are abnormal, making it difficult for sufferers to participate in strenuous physical activity. The surveybased app, released at the end of September, is called the Yale Cardiomyopathy Index. Michele Spencer-Manzon and E. Kevin Hall, researchers at the School of Medicine, developed the app using the ResearchKit library — an open-source software frame-

work that assists developers in creating iPhone apps for medical research. The team spent five months creating the app, a process that involved coding, developing consent procedures and setting up a secure server on which to store study participant information, Spencer-Manzon said. According to the developers, the app will help assess the condition in patients and help them

better understand how to improve their quality of life.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as one in 500 adults may suffer from cardiomyopathy.

The disease is often caused by a genetic component, particularly in pediatric cases, Hall said.

Researchers hope the app will yield information about how cardiomyopathy impacts quality of

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life, Spencer-Manzon said.

“It is harder in the time we have in the visit to capture a patient’s experience of illness, and we know that understanding this is critical to how [patients] do,” said Spencer-Manzon.

To better quantify participants’ quality of life from day to day, the app asks questions including how far participants can walk in six minutes, or how they rate their ability to manage everyday tasks that require physical activity, Spencer-Manzon said. She added that these measures are specific to quality of life in patients with cardiomyopathy.

The app’s questions vary depending on the age of the participant, which can range from two to 80, and the survey is retaken several times over the period of a year. For children ages two to seven, parents fill out the survey. Older children fill out the survey themselves, with additional survey components to be completed by parents and physicians.

The team of two is the smallest yet to develop a research-based app using ResearchKit, according to the researchers involved. Hall, who has computer programming experience, personally wrote the app, typing some 15,000 lines of code. “[Writing the app ourselves] allowed us to pivot much more quickly during development,” Hall said. “If we decided a first attempt didn’t work well, we just changed it.”

Although open-source, the ResearchKit platform currently only works with Apple devices, and there is concern that there may be bias in the population with Apple devices, Hall said. He

added that he also expects there to be selection bias in those participants who have sufficient interest in their own health to find and enroll in such trials.

Another more general concern involves fostering and retaining participant interest in clinical study apps, particularly those apps studying more specific or rare diseases. Hall noted that the first five apps released via ResearchKit received significant press and participants, with a drop-off in sign-ups for subsequent apps.

Ultimately, the researchers hope that the Cardiomyopathy Index will allow them to reach more participants over a wider geographical range at lower costs.

“If we can see what factors are influencing our community as a whole, we can help better take care of patients,” Spencer-Manzon said. “Maybe there are things we could be doing better.”

Hall said he hopes that in the future, such clinical trials will also include a means for users affected by a study’s condition to share experiences and communicate with each other.

“I think in five years we’ll know a lot more about the benefits and shortcomings of mobile-based medical research,” Hall said. “If we can come to a point where we both facilitate medical research, but also facilitate participants to form supportive communities amongst themselves, I think there will be great promise [in this form of technology].”

The Yale Cardiomyopathy index can be downloaded from the App Store on Apple iPhones.

Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .

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Yale triumphant in home opener MEN’S BASKETBALL

Elis topple Harvard in Scrimmages

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Setting the tone for a season in which the Yale men’s squash team returns eight of its nine 2014–15 starters, the Bulldogs came away with a first-place finish at home in the Ivy League Scrimmages this weekend.

SQUASH A 5–4 victory over Harvard in the tournament’s final — including a miraculous eight-point comeback in the fifth game by Liam McClintock ’17 — highlighted the weekend for the Yale men. The women’s team also finished strong with a narrow win, taking down Princeton in their tournament’s consolation match

to secure third place.

“The men dug deep to beat Harvard,” head coach David Talbott said. “Playing without captain Sam Fenwick ’16, we competed really well.”

The men — ranked sixth in the nation by the College Squash Association — began their conquest Saturday with an effortless 9–0 sweep of No. 11 Dartmouth, but the Elis faced adversity in their next two matches. Taking on No. 5 Columbia, Yale brought the match’s scored to 4-4 before T.J. Dembinski ’17, playing at No. 4, was able to gut out a five-game win for the Bulldogs.

On Sunday, the men faced off in the Scrimmage finals against No. 2 Harvard. The Bulldogs were SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

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Forward Justin Sears ’16, left, and point guard Makai Mason ’18, right, combined to outscore Sacred Heart 34–33 in the first half.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS In the Yale men’s basketball team’s home opener, forward Justin Sears ’16 played how one might expect a reigning Ivy League Player of the Year to perform, propelling the Bulldogs past Sacred Heart 99–77.

Coming off a disappointing

six-point performance against Fairfield on Friday in the team’s season-opening win, Sears wasted little time in making his presence felt Monday night.

The senior knocked down a jump shot less than five minutes into the opening half to score his first two points of the game and never looked back. When the final whistle was blown, Sears had racked up 27 points,

snatched six rebounds and dished out five assists.

“I talked to Mr. Sears after the first game of the year and I don’t think he played his best basketball [then],” head coach James Jones said. “I think he wanted to make sure he got off to a good start to help our team get off to a good start and show what he’s capable of doing.”

Sears suffered from foul trou-

The Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams continued their Ivy League success this weekend with a pair of wins at Columbia, marking the second season in which Eli squads began their conference seasons 2–0.

SWIMMING & DIVING The dominant performances Friday and Saturday featured 13 first-place finishes for the women and 10 for the men out of 16 events in each meet. The Eli women more than doubled Columbia’s score with a 197– 98 victory on Friday, and the men similarly brought home a decisive 190–110 win on Saturday.

“Our momentum continued in the Columbia meet with a solid performance from the divers and the swimmers,” diver Lilybet MacRae ’17 said. “In the past few years, Columbia has been one of our tougher competitors, but this year we beat them pretty significantly.”

The women’s meet began with 3-meter diving, where Yale’s women swept the boards: MacRae took first with a score of 319.28, Hannah Walsh ’19 placed second and Kelly Sherman ’16 locked up third place.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER

MacRae’s performance constituted yet another pool record for the junior diver, who already had the pool record for the 1-meter event from her freshman year.

“I’m surprised that I was able to break the pool record, because one of my six dives didn’t go well,” MacRae said. “This dive, my back 2 1/2, is currently my weakest dive, and it’s an area I’m trying to focus on and improve throughout the season.

Besides that, I’m really happy.”

The swimmers opened up strong with the 200-yard medley relay, in which Yale’s A and B squads were able to take first and third. The Elis claimed first place in five of the next six swimming events, starting with a sweep in the 1000-yard freestyle.

The 1-2-3 finishes of Eva Fabian ’16, Cailley Silbert ’18 and captain Emma Smith ’16 earned the Bulldogs 16 points.

Yale’s freshmen had notable showings in the next few events. In the 200-yard freestyle, Bella Hindley ’19 and Carrie Heilbrun ’19 found first and third, respectively, and in the 100-yard backstroke, Jacquelyn Du ’19 brought home the gold.

In the 100-yard breaststroke — the sixth event of the meet — Columbia swimmer Jennifer Shahar grabbed the Lions’ first win, out-touching Paulina Kaminski ’18 by just 0.17 seconds. The meet continued a SEE SWIMMING PAGE 10

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Liam McClintock ’17 pulled off a near-impossible comeback in the fifth game of his match to help Yale beat Harvard 5–4.

Season ends at Regionals

Swimmers continue perfect start

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

ble last week and shot 0–5 in the first half before picking up just six points in the second against Fairfield. On Monday, however, Sears jumped out to a quick start with 23 points, including five free throws, on 9–12 shooting in the first half.

In conjunction with Sears’ dominant performance, the

In Friday’s NCAA Northeast Regional, both the Yale men’s and No. 29 women’s cross country teams failed to qualify for the NCAA National Championship in what was their culminating meet at Franklin Park. Men’s captain Kevin Dooney ’16 is the lone runner representing the team as an individual qualifier this Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, after a eighth-place finish overall.

CROSS COUNTRY Coming off a historically successful Ivy Heptagonal Championships meet two weeks before, the Eli teams once again proved to be competitive with the region’s best, as the women placed fifth against 37 other teams and the men placed seventh against their field of 28 schools. Competing in a high-stakes conference where only the top two receive automatic bids to the season’s final meet, both teams missed the qualifying mark, ending their postseason hopes.

“Though our hopes for a National bid were not realized, I truly cannot express what an extraordinary season we have had this fall,” Kelli Reagan ’18 said. “We began in August with hopes for a mediocre season at best as

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The Eli women beat their 2014 showing at regionals by five positions, but they still could not qualify for the NCAA National Championship as a team. our top two returners were out with injuries and ended up with a secondplace Ivy finish, a National ranking and a serious chance at qualifying for the National meet.”

Earning its best finish since 2005,

the women’s team placed five positions better than it ran in Regionals last season, posting a score of 156, just 14 points behind fourth-place BosSEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF POINTS THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM SCORED IN MONDAY NIGHT’S SEASON-OPENING VICTORY OVER SACRED HEART. Yale averaged 67.6 points per game last season, with a single-season high of 102 against Division III opponent Daniel Webster.