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Chi Psi withdraws bid for house

HBDean. Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean ’71 turned 66-years-old yesterday. Students in Dean’s GLBL388 class, The Politics of Foreign Policy, celebrated the occasion by buying him a cake, despite the obvious opportunity to bring in another kind of baked good for brownie points.

Yale, you tease. Yesterday, the Washington Post published an op-ed by a high school senior named Amanda Graves, in which she called Yale out for its practice of “[reaching] out to thousands of students with fancy brochures.”

The University’s end goal, she claimed, is simply to perpetuate its exclusivity because it has no intention of admitting students like her.

Well played, Ms. Graves.

Constructive competition.

Over the course of this week, students will be able to participate in the Harvard-Yale Ebola Challenge by donating loose change to add to the amounts accumulated by both their residential college and Yale, overall, through a donation center in Commons.

Beat Ebola, beat Harvard — it’s all good.

FOOD ALLERGIES Students say new dining hall precautions are ineffective.

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In letter to Salovey, WFF examines UWC

BY NICOLE NG AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS

nity on Lake Place, said littering and unreasonable noise have been a continuous issue.

“We think that adding another fraternity to Lake Place is the worst idea imaginable,” he said.

According to a Nov. 11 article in the New Haven Independent, four female law school students who live on Lake Place wrote a letter on Nov. 7 to the Zoning Board say-

In response to recent scrutiny of the University’s sexual misconduct policy, the members of the Yale Women Faculty Forum’s Steering Committee sent a letter to University President Peter Salovey 11 days ago voicing concerns and suggestions about the process.

The letter, sent on Nov. 7, outlined three recommendations to improve the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct and posed larger questions of gender equity at the University. The recommendations, outlined in a statement from the WFF provided to the News, suggested a general review of UWC procedures, a reconsideration of confidentiality policies and an effort to address structural issues of climate, diversity, leadership and equity across the University.

“It’s important that people don’t think this is just about sexual misconduct — it’s not,” WFF Chair and Yale School of Medicine professor Paula Kavathas said. “The conversation today is, how do we create the environment that will lead to all people thriving at the institution and achieving gender equity and diversity?”

One day after the letter was sent, Salovey responded to the WFF. “I found the letter quite constructive, and I am delighted to be collaborating with the

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Yale’s chapter of Chi Psi withdrew its Board of Zoning Appeals application tor its 13 Lake Pl. property.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Amid complaints from neighbors and the University, Yale’s chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity withdrew its Board of Zoning Appeals application for its 13 Lake Pl. property.

In an Oct. 31 letter addressed to the Zoning Commissioners and

obtained by the News, Associate Vice President for New Haven Affairs and University Properties Lauren Zucker expressed the University’s concerns that Chi Psi would further exacerbate existing complaints about trash and noise along Lake Place. Currently, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Delta Phi occupy two houses at 73–79 Lake Pl. and 23 Lake Pl., respectively.

Nicolas Medina LAW ’16, who lives adjacent to an existing frater-

Look the part. A piece

posted by TheBoola.com has been circulating online, showcasing nine Yalies and their fall fashion choices.

The looks ranged from the conventional sweater and jeans to the more pronounced poncho. Bean boots should figure prominently in the next edition on winter.

If you dare. Secret Snapta,

a project that connects random Snapchat users in the Yale community, went live yesterday. Through the app, one receives a picture in return for any one he or she sends out — we’re still reeling from the addition of Yale Campus.

Is Yale attractive? A final

solicitation for the Yale Composite Portrait Project went out yesterday, hoping to aggregate Yale facebook photos for a face-averaging project.

Remember: Some of us have come a long way from when we took those shots in high school.

Playing nice. SportzEdge.

com profiled two prominent figures in Yale-Harvard history: former captains Bud Talbott, class of 1914, and Charley Brickley. The article credited the football players with building a culture of sportsmanship in the old days of the Ivy League. We suspect that Talbott, who once helped the Elis take down Notre Dame, had more to do with that than Brickley.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2011 The New Haven City Plan Commission approves the proposed site plan for the University’s two new residential colleges, despite a stalled fundraising campaign.

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Yale, Harvard gear up for The Game

BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale College Council President Michael Herbert ’16 will not take no for an answer.

To prepare for the 131st edition of The Game — slated for next Saturday in Cambridge — Yale has organized transportation and housing for its students, Harvard has arranged for a Friday night party in Harvard Yard and Herbert has released a

video on YouTube challenging Harvard Undergraduate Council President Gus Mayopoulos to a boxing match on YouTube.

Herbert said he posted the video in an effort to push Harvard to approve the fight.

“The more pressure we put on Harvard, the more likely it is that this will happen,” Herbert said. “Harvard has been talking the talk, now it’s time for them to walk the walk.”

In the video, which has

Early apps fall 1.2 percent

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER While the number of Yale’s early action applications fell by 1.2 percent from last year, the pool was more diverse.

This fall, the Admissions Office received 4,693 early action applications for the class of 2019, 57 fewer than in 2013 for the class of 2018. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said that despite the slight drop in early applicants this year, the University has seen a 9 percent overall increase in early applications since 2011. Both the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College saw increases in their early decision applicant numbers this year — 5 and 10 percent, respectively. However, Brown University’s early application numbers dropped 2 percent this year. Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell have not yet released their early application numbers.

But Mark Dunn, director of outreach and recruitment for the Admissions Office, said that his objective is not to increase

been viewed more than 3,500 times since it was published on Sunday night, YCC Saybrook College representative Chadd Cosse ’17 outlines why he believes Yale historically trumps Harvard. At the end, Herbert appears and declares his challenge to Mayopoulos.

Mayopoulos said the boxing match would be fun on the one hand, but he also said the Harvard administration has informed him that it would

pose legal and safety issues. He added that safety concerns are real, as he would not want to “damage Herbert’s face in any way.”

Friday night entertainment also includes a party in Harvard Yard at 9:00 p.m., Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said in an email to all Yale students. A party the night before the game is nothing new — last year, the YCC threw a party in Commons.

Harvard freshman Alex Kaufman said he does not anticipate a large turnout at the Yard because there has been little advertisement for it.

Dylan Gastel ’18 said he does not plan on going to the party at Harvard Yard. Instead, he said he hopes to find better parties elsewhere.

The main attraction, the football game, will cost Yale SEE THE GAME PAGE 6

State fiscal climate calls for hiring freeze

the number of applicants to Yale but instead to help the best students from the greatest variety of backgrounds consider Yale during their college search process.

“I have always appreciated that the leadership here in the Admissions Office and at Yale has never tried to reduce this goal to a numbers game,” Dunn said.

How can you compare this year’s numbers with last year’s when the deadline was extended?

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BEV TAYLOR Founder, The Ivy Coach Bev Taylor, founder of The Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said last year’s early application numbers cannot be compared with this year’s, since many SEE EARLY ACTION PAGE4

Governor Malloy has called for a statewide public hiring freeze to salvage Connecticut’s finances.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With the state facing a projected cost overrun of $59 million, Gov. Dannel Malloy has called for a statewide public hiring freeze in an attempt to improve Connecticut’s finances.

The freeze was announced last week in a memo from Secretary of the Office of Public Management Ben Barnes to the heads of all state agencies. In the memo, Barnes said that estimated revenues for fiscal year 2015 are currently projected to run significantly lower SEE HIRING FREEZE PAGE 6

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“If we make all the stores for rich people the people of new haven will .COMMENT have no choice but to become rich!” 'XX' ON 'UNIVERSITY PROPERTIES TO OPEN yaledailynews.com/opinion SEVEN NEW BUSINESSES'

GUEST COLUMNIST KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG

Not all finance is banking Y

ou certainly don’t have to go far to find blatant criticism of many Yalies’ choices to work in finance. But this column is not about re-scrutinizing these career choices.

This column is about the Yale campus’s criticism of finance as an industry. Behind our criticisms of students’ decisions is skepticism of finance as a livelihood.

It provides no societal good, is a waste of our Yale educations and is heartless, the critics say.

Even as someone who has worked at two major investment banks, I totally get it. Considering the negative press, enormous criminal investigations and immoral behavior that have plagued investment banks, this skepticism makes sense.

According to the Office of Career Strategy, 149 members, or 11 percent, of the class of 2014 went into finance.

Twelve of these 149 are at boutique investment banks; 73 are at the largest banks (Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Capital One, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo). Together, that means 85, or 57 percent, of Yalies in finance went into investment banking!

After the 57 percent, the group breaks up into much smaller segments of various types of firms — none of which comes close to the 57 percent in banking. In other words, no other type of finance work can claim nearly as big of a presence at Yale. This is both an outgrowth of, and reflected in, the on-campus recruiting that goes on at Yale: The majority of finance information sessions focus on banking.

The dominance of banking skews how Yalies think of finance as a whole. Banking is the sector of finance that has experienced the worst problems, doles out the kind of mind-numbing Excel and PowerPoint work that many consider a waste of a Yale education and that needs the most reform.

The problem is that we apply our criticisms of the sector of finance that's most visible on campus — banking — to all of finance.

But finance doesn't equal banking, and claiming that it does lacks nuance. There aren’t numbers, but it's generally accepted knowledge in the industry that the vast majority of people working in finance in the U.S. work in some subset of investment management, not in banking.

Investment managers are in charge of managing money (for institutions or individuals) to, ideally, increase the money’s value. They decide what to invest in, and in what proportions.

Investment bankers provide banking services for large companies: They help them go public, buy or merge with other com-

panies and issue stock or debt.

Investment banks also contain divisions that trade and sell securities like stocks, bonds and foreign exchange rates.

So why does this distinction matter? Well, because in investment management — the other, huge slice of the finance industry that gets little attention at Yale — the criticisms don’t hold up.

The bone-crushing 4 a.m. nights aren’t general practice. The hierarchy where junior employees do only the presentation and number work isn’t the norm.

Perhaps most importantly, investment management’s societal benefit is easier to see. It’s often hard to perceive how banking helps our economy or society.

What good is there in helping two tech companies merge, selling interest rates or facilitating one oil company’s purchase of another?

On the other hand: How does a pharmaceutical company get money to manufacture a new drug? How does an industrial company get money to make greener engines for cars?

How does a tech company have the money to make computers cheaper, allowing them to be more widely distributed? These are important questions for any society hoping to innovate and improve quality of life.

The short answer is the money comes when investment managers, and the general public, invest in the company’s stock or bonds. Investment managers decide which companies have the most compelling business plans and products, and back them by buying the company’s stock and bonds. The socially beneficial work of the innovative companies of our era — such as Apple, Facebook, GE, Merck and Pfizer — would be impossible without investment managers directing money into these companies.

Counter-examples abound — like hedge funds that profit by betting against companies — but the core of investment management, which is about backing strong companies, is alive and well.

When we criticize finance, we should focus on specific players for specific reasons, backed by facts. Inhumane hours, heedless risk and poor decisions at investment banks certainly deserve close scrutiny and denunciation.

But calling the entire industry of finance socially harmful and heartless ignores an important truth: People in financial services — and especially in investment management — allow the pioneering, and socially relevant, companies of the day (and their employees) to carry out their work.

KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG is a senior in Davenport College.

Contact her at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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COUNTER-POINT GUEST COLUMNIST BEN ACKERMAN

S TA F F C O L U M N I S T MARISSA MEDANSKY

New colleges, new opportunities

A not so modest proposal

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lthough I am not quite sure why, 12 is such a nice number. Perhaps that is why the idea of 12 residential colleges here at Yale feels so right; perhaps that is why saying, “14 residential colleges,” does not seem to have the same pleasant ring as “12 residential colleges.”

But whatever the case might be, Yale will no longer be a place of a dozen residential colleges beginning in August 2017. With the opening of two new residential colleges (which I hope will be named to reflect the vibrancy and diversity of our campus), Yale will undergo its largest transformation in decades; it is this transformation that we, students and stewards of our university, must embrace and shape.

Although the construction of new residential colleges poses serious concerns — about space and campus culture, amongst others — that we cannot be negligent about adequately addressing, we must not lose sight of the fundamental fact that two new residential colleges will greatly benefit Yale undergraduates.

The new residential colleges will make Yale more diverse and vibrant. With a larger student body, Yale will be able to absorb more students from more diverse backgrounds. Such diversity of experiences will not only make intellectual conversations in classrooms and in dining halls more stimulating, but will also allow for more robust and varied student organizations.

The new residential colleges will strengthen Yale’s community. By housing freshman within the two residential colleges, broader, intercollege communities will be established on campus as first-year students will have more incentive to interact with peers living outside Old Campus. For upperclassmen, the new residential colleges will eliminate or reduce the number of students forced into annexed housing; as a result, residential colleges will be more likely to retain and fortify their own communities.

The new residential colleges will make Yale more established. With more graduates, Yale’s alumni network will expand, thereby providing more career and post-graduation opportunities for undergraduates. Although there will be challenges at the Yale Office of Career Strategy — many of which unfortunately already exist today as a result of the poor restructuring efforts last year — a greater depth and breadth of alumni will allow for more mentorship of students and will attract more recruiters onto Yale’s campus.

The new residential colleges will strengthen Yale’s athletics.

Whatever you believe about ath-

letics at Yale, collegiate sports play an important role in American culture. With more students, Yale will have space to recruit more athletes, thereby strengthening our teams and improving Yale’s intercollegiate standings. Reflecting upon the recent success of Yale’s football and hockey programs, better, more victorious sports teams will also improve our campus community and help grow the sometimes lacking Yale spirit.

The new residential colleges will make Yale more accessible. With 15 percent more students, Yale will become available to more of those who seek it.

Although some worry about the change in admissions acceptance rates, we must not be so selfish. As Yale consistently creates socially minded leaders, more Yale graduates will help make a better world — something that will benefit us all.

The new residential colleges will strengthen Yale’s financial standing. Although certainly not at the forefront of the average student’s mind, the establishment of new residential colleges will make Yale more financially solvent. With more students, not only will there be a larger number of students paying tuition, but there will also be a broader network of donors. Over time, Yale will be able to foster more relationships with friends, parents and alumni to strengthen financial aid, fellowships and professorships.

Although I certainly paint a rosy picture of a larger Yale, I would be remiss if I did not mention the pains that growth will impose on our community and on our campus. After 2017, students, faculty and administrators alike will all surely experience significant challenges.

Whether regarding increased demand for services (including shuttle buses and Yale Health, just to name a few) or increased use of Yale’s historic facilities (by both classes and student organizations), we must anticipate and address the upcoming changes to campus life.

It is with regard for these issues that us students must play a larger role. The Yale College Council, specifically, must be a better advocate for students; it must work with students and administrators to understand where potential problems will occur, and it must propose solutions that will further the interests of students.

Inevitably, two new residential colleges will be built; we should, therefore, embrace them as we welcome our freshmen each fall: with open minds, open hearts and open arms.

BEN ACKERMAN is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at benjamin.ackerman@yale.edu .

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uring a September interview on the News’ “Everybody Has a Story” program, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway offered one assessment of the College’s institutional culture. “Yale is really good at providing resources to do all these different kinds of activities, from academic to purely social,” Holloway observed.

“It’s really not good at — itself or asking of students — to ask the question: Why? Just because we can, does that mean we should?”

In the segment, Holloway had been speaking about the relationship between academics and extracurriculars in undergraduate life, a discussion prompted in part by William Deresiewicz’s controversial new book “Excellent Sheep.”

Holloway’s criticisms, however, also work well as a searing indictment of the University’s behavior in light of the upcoming Yale College expansion. Thanks largely to a $250 million donation — the largest ever in the College’s history — from Charles B. Johnson ’54, Yale will open two new residential colleges in the fall of 2017, eventually increasing the total undergraduate population by 800 students.

But just because we can, does that mean we should?

Increasing access to Yale’s body of knowledge and resources is a noble goal, but any push to increase the size of the college must be weighed against its consequences, from educational costs of increased course sizes to social costs of larger clubs to literal costcutting measures. The 2014 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Yale College Expansion emphasized the importance of cost neutrality in economic terms when committee members wrote that because the 800 new students will generate a yearly revenue of “roughly $30 million,” the “increased operating costs associated with supporting these additional students cannot exceed that amount.”

While University President Peter Salovey has called the $500 million expansion “modest,” his rhetoric understates the potential impact of a project marred by inherent uncertainty. “The skeptics are correct to view this move as a big and risky one,” wrote the members of the Study Group to Consider New Residential Colleges in their 2008 report.

“And of course no one of the present generation can be certain whether this is the right move.”

The current state of many aspects of Yale College sug-

gests that, even if growth may one day prove desirable, the time is not now. Expansion will exacerbate preexisting crises of faith over faculty size, access to physical resources like dance studios and study spaces and the relationship between students and administrators more broadly.

That’s not even mentioning the elephant in the room: The fact that the existing residential colleges vary wildly in the quality of services they offer students.

Worse yet, the faculty’s recent decision to bring Harvard’s introductory CS50 computer science course to Yale sets a troubling precedent as to how sustaining the college expansion may change the character of the College. The 2012 Report of the Committee on Online Expansion cautioned against policy changes that would dilute the quality of Yale’s educational offerings.

But similar changes have been proposed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Expansion’s 2014 report, demonstrating that the political demands of expansion have eroded formerly principled stances.

Standing athwart the residential college expansion will not stop the inevitable, no matter how much students yell. Our only recourse now is to embrace every possible resource we have been given to voice our opinion in the process and to demand additional avenues of representation. We also must, as soon as possible, begin conversations within the study body about areas of expansion that administrators have not, will not or cannot focus on. In just a few years, today’s freshmen will be tasked with determining how their publications, societies, teams and clubs will adapt to the increase of the student body. Making these transitions as smooth as possible will require careful preparation.

Campaigns to name the new residential college after esteemed alumni like Grace Hopper have seen unprecedented levels of student involvement. It’s time to carry that passion over to asking meaningful questions about what the college expansion will mean for the student body, and how those answers mean we should adapt. We cannot wait for administrators to take the lead. As Holloway has suggested, if we don’t ask and respond to “why?” no one else will.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a senior in Morse College.

Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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New city task force looks to improve image

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER In the time since its inception this summer, a city task force dedicated to revamping New Haven’s image has concentrated its efforts on improving parking access and street safety.

In 2002, 2005, 2012 and then again this past spring, Market New Haven — a public-private partnership jointly supported by the University, Yale-New Haven Hospital, City Hall and several local businesses — surveyed residents living in a 50-mile radius of the Elm City to gauge their opinions on topics ranging from safety to economic vitality in the city.

Market New Haven’s most recent survey this year indicated that citizens believed that New Haven had improved as a city but still felt that safety issues needed to be addressed, according to President of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce Tony Rescigno.

In response to these results, this past summer Mayor Toni Harp called on city officials and Yale administrators to form a task force to discuss ways to address these challenges and improve perceptions of the Elm City.

“The mayor asked, ‘Why don’t people have a good image of New Haven, and what can we do to fix the actual issues that people are complaining about?’” said City Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, who is also a member of the task force.

City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer dubbed the task force “an outgrowth of Market New Haven” that addresses both micro and macro issues, ranging from maintaining street lights to bringing down violent crime.

Vice President of New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander ’65 said that, in response to the specific concerns raised in Market New Haven’s spring survey, two of the main factors discouraging people from visiting New Haven include parking access and panhandlers. Though Alexander does not serve on the task force, Assistant Director of New Haven and State Affairs Lauren Zucker is a regular attendee of its meetings.

Alexander said the city planned to address the issue of panhandlers by investing more in homeless shelters to keep citizens off of New Haven streets. Nemerson added that the task force has discussed implementing parking promotion programs that would offer restaurant-goers free or validated parking to draw more people to New Haven eateries.

“Often times when people who haven’t spent time in New Haven think of crime and urban blight when they think of the city,” said Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, former Ward 10 alder and the main challenger to Toni Harp in the 2013 mayoral election. “We should be working harder to highlight what’s great about this city.”

Yale has been an especially strong contributor to Market New Haven, an organization formed in 2000 to promote the Elm City’s

major attractions, including the Connecticut Open and improve the perception of the city through advertising, public relations and event planning.

According to Alexander, the University provides about $250,000 of Market New Haven’s $1.5 million yearly budget.

“Yale decided that they wanted to take a very strong role,” Nemerson said about the founding of Market New Haven. “I think they realized that the student body and the faculty were being influenced by the fact that people thought New Haven wasn’t a great place.”

Alexander added that the image of city is important for Yale when recruiting employees.

Nemerson said that since 2000, cooperation between the University, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the city to address city issues has continued, but Harp’s perception task force hopes to address the city issues causing negative public perception of New Haven instead of focusing on advertising campaigns.

City officials have also underscored the importance of the media in portraying a positive image of New Haven.

Adam Joseph, spokesperson for the Connecticut Senate Democrats, said there are many city initiatives — including programs organized by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees and investments in transportation — that residents might not notice due to lack of media coverage. He added that New Haven competes with other major cities in the state to attract residents, employees and businesses.

“The city is more than police officers, parking tickets and snow removals. It’s a million different pieces and programs that sometimes don’t get attention, and folks feel like they don’t get the attention they need,” Joseph, a spokesperson for former Mayor John DeStefano, said.

After the task force was formed, Rescigno arranged a meet-and-greet between Harp and Kevin Corrado, publisher of the New Haven Register.

Community officials and business owners were present at the meeting, focused on discussing the media’s role in presenting the city in a positive light.

“We are not trying to alter the news in any way, but if the city does well, then all of its parts, including the Chamber of Commerce and the businesses and the newspapers, do well,” Rescigno said.

Elicker added that a positive reputation would drive New Haven’s economy by drawing businesses and residents to the city, and a healthy economy would allow the city to allocate resources to address crime and public safety.

Market New Haven’s spring study surveyed 820 state residents.

Eddy Wang contributed reporting.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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A city task force has concentrated its efforts on improving parking access and street safety in New Haven.

YUAG to display YCBA works

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER Although the Yale Center for British Art is scheduled to close for renovations in January, it will continue to display some of its most famous works by collaborating with the Yale University Art Gallery.

Expanding on the first phase of the Center’s “Building Conservation Project” that took place in the summer and fall of 2013, the upcoming renovations will begin this winter and involve refurbishment of the building’s lecture hall and gallery spaces on the second and fourth floors. The project will also include various infrastructural improvements, such as upgrades to electrical, mechanical, plumbing and telecommunications systems. Constance Clement, deputy director of the center, said that the project will encompass renovations on a larger scale than anything previously undertaken at the center.

“It’s a really complex and comprehensive project,” Clement said. “It’s going to be challenging, but everyone is excited about the fact that we’ll be able to completely rehang the collection when it’s all over, and to see the collection in new ways.”

The center will be closed to the public until the project’s scheduled completion in

February 2016, though select access to certain collections and resources will continue on an appointment-only basis.

Through collaborations with the gallery, visitors will also be able to view a number of objects from the YCBA collection that will be featured alongside pieces from the gallery in an exhibition titled “The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860.” In addition, several dozen centerowned works will be incorporated into the YUAG’s European Painting galleries.

Lisa Hodermarsky, a curator of prints and drawings at the YUAG who worked on assembling the “Critique of Reason” exhibit, explained that collaboration between the two institutions began with discussions of ways to keep much of the YCBA’s core collection on view, amid the center’s need to close for renovations.

“A lot of our ‘greatest works,’ including works by Turner and Stubbs and Constable and Blake, will be in [‘The Critique of Reason’],” said the YCBA’s Deputy Director of Collections Scott Wilcox.

Opening in March, “The Critique of Reason,” will be the first-ever major exhibition coorganized by the two institutions, Hodermarsky said, adding that the show will bring together over 350 objects across a wide

variety of media, including medals, lithography and examples of early photography. Cassandra Albinson, the YCBA’s curator of paintings and sculpture and another of the exhibition’s curators, added that roughly 70 paintings and an approximately equal number of “works on paper” from the center’s collection will also be featured in the exhibition. Artists represented will include Joseph Mallord William Turner, William Blake and Francisco de Goya.

Jock Reynolds, director of the YUAG, said that the gallery’s recent renovations have given them an understanding of the challenges involved in keeping collections on display while exhibition spaces are under construction. He added that several of the gallery’s curators suggested that a collaborative exhibition could combine some of the most important works from both institutions.

In addition to those works featured in “The Critique of Reason,” a collection of approximately two-dozen objects from the center will be integrated into the YUAG’s galleries of European painting, said Laurence Kanter, the YUAG’s chief curator of European art. He noted that though the list of objects to be featured in the galleries has not yet been finalized, it is likely to include works by Peter

Paul Rubens, George Stubbs and Thomas Gainsborough. Kanter added that if the YCBA’s conservation project remains on schedule, works from the center’s collection will be on view at the YUAG through November 2015 before moving back to the YCBA for reinstallation.

Wilcox said he thinks that integrated display of pieces from both collections could change the way visitors typically experience objects from the YCBA’s collections, adding that because the center specializes in art from a single national school, it often looks for ways to present its objects in a broader context.

“Our French paintings always hang more or less next to one another, and the YCBA’s British paintings always hang more or less next to one another, and so by virtue of this hanging in a new context, we hope people will come away with a new way of looking at and thinking about these objects,” Hodermarsky said.

YCBA Director Amy Meyers said she hopes that the partnership between the two institutions will lead to future collaborations.

“The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860” will open on March 6, 2015.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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The Yale Center for British Art will be closed for renovation it will continue to display some of its most famous works.

TF jobs uncertain in history department

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Next semester, upper level history graduate students may find it harder to find teaching positions in the department.

While graduate students in history are guaranteed two years of teaching, students say that once those years are over, it becomes increasingly difficult to find positions as a teaching fellow, which are the only source of income for many students.

And though administrators say that no policy changes have been made, graduate students say that the history department registrar, Marcy Kaufman, has been instructed to apply restrictions on the allocation of teaching fellow positions in order to minimize costs.

In an email obtained by the News, sent on Nov. 12 to history graduate students who are not in their teaching years, Kaufman said “[her] ability to place nonteaching year students in history courses may be negatively affected going forward.”

During their two guaranteed teaching years, students’ salaries remain constant regardless of how many total sections and students they teach, said Abbey Agresta GRD ’16, a graduate student in history and a member of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization’s Steering Committee. However, she added, once students complete those four semesters, their salaries depend on how many sections they teach — and teaching only one section is a pay cut from the salary given during the teaching years.

A graduate history student who communicated with the

registrar and asked to remain anonymous said that in the past, the history registrar had tried to be mindful of these income issues by having teaching-year students teach only one section, while not in their teaching year students were given the opportunity to be assigned to more than one section. That, in turn, allowed the not in their teaching years students to benefit from the dramatic salary difference between teaching one and teaching more than one section.

They added that from next semester on, students not in their teaching years will no longer be allowed to teach any sections before all the teaching year students are placed in two sections.

Pamela Schirmeister, associate dean of the Graduate School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said there has been no change in policy. Schirmeister wrote in a Monday night email that she does not know why the registrar would send out such an email to non-teaching year students, explaining that programs have always had the same ability to assign students to teaching positions within their own departments. While there may not always be the same number of positions available, the guidelines for allocating them have not changed, she added.

These restrictions, said five graduate students interviewed, are likely to have negative impacts on both graduates and undergraduates.

Michael Blaakman GRD ’16 said the situation has been on the downhill slope for some time.

“It is definitely getting harder and harder for students in the sixth year and above to get teaching positions,” Blaakman said.

“It gets harder every year. This policy is just another step in the direction the administration’s been headed for at least the past four years.”

Agresta said that while she has not received any communication from the department, she heard about the changes from older graduate students.

Mattie Fitch GRD ’15 also said she thinks the policy is part of the effort to cut costs and avoid supporting graduate students in their seventh year.

“This is a policy change that will affect the working conditions of many graduate teachers in the history department, and it’s troubling that it was made without input from teachers or from students,” said GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18.

Still, Schirmeister added that the guidelines regarding teaching fellow allocations, which are designed to provide students with good teaching experience, have been in place for many years.

“Graduate students who are no longer on the financial aid package are not guaranteed teaching, but almost without exception, they are able to find teaching assignments, if not in their home department, in adjacent programs,” Schirmeister said.

History Director of Graduate Studies Carolyn Dean also said that to her knowledge there have not been any variations in the allocation of teaching fellow positions in the department.

But according to both undergraduates and graduates, the current teaching fellow allocation process is fraught with other potential problems as well.

Richard Anderson GRD ’15

said that under the current policy, most teaching fellows have to teach a class outside their area of expertise at least once. Anderson said that this is generally not optimal for the teaching fellow, or for the undergraduates who are learning from someone who is not an expert in that field.

History major Jonah Bader ’16 said that in his experience, sections are always richer when the teaching fellow is an expert on the subject.

Robert Peck ’15, also a history major, said that he has seldom had a good experience with teaching fellows in the history department. They sometimes do not seem to be interested in the class or able to explain what is going on, he said.

Agresta noted that the process could be a lot more transparent than it currently is, adding that the initial assignments that go out are not necessarily guaranteed.

Anderson, who is Canadian, also suggested that uncertainty regarding teaching positions may be a particularly significant problem for international students, some of whose visas depend on having guaranteed teaching positions.

Additionally, Agresta said she thinks that more senior, nonteaching year graduate students, whose teaching will be limited by the future policy, often make the best teaching fellows.

“The upper year students are the most experienced teachers and the most expert scholars that the department has,” she said.

“It’s a shame not to actually use them to teach history.”

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

WFF submits recommendations on UWC to Salovey UWC FROM PAGE 1 WFF in improving diversity and gender equity at Yale,” he said.

University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler declined to comment. Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd could not be reached for comment Monday evening.

Beyond a general review of UWC procedures, the statement specifically called for a reconsideration of the role of a final decision maker in reviewing cases and deciding sanctions.

As Yale’s system of charging a single individual — for example, the provost or dean, depending on the case — with reviewing appeals puts that individual in a “difficult position,” the WFF suggested a three-person panel instead.

“In light of the experiences using the current procedures, it is time to reconsider the methods of decision making and how to disseminate information about processes and outcomes,” the statement said.

In addition, the statement expressed concerns that Yale’s procedures lack certain standards, including specific terms for a decision maker’s recusal and the need for a decision’s justification.

The WFF suggested that having information on punishments and requiring decision makers to provide reasoning for modifying those sanctions could be useful in situations where the decision maker must balance competing concerns — for example, if penalizing a respondent could cost him or her their visa.

In its second recommendation, the statement suggested that the UWC’s current blanket policy of obligatory confidentiality — specifically that individual complainants are required to keep decisions confidential — should instead be determined on an individual basis. Since the community needs information on cases and their resolutions in order to understand the UWC process and its challenges, the University must find ways to make the knowledge available, the statement added.

“The current practices, shaped by federal regulations, are not sufficient to facilitate the development of shared norms about the problems presented,” the statement said.

Astronomy professor and WFF steering committee member Meg Urry said that while respecting confidentiality in sensitive cases is important, it cannot come at

the cost of the University community’s trust.

She added that the Nov. 1 New York Times story about sexual harassment charges against the School of Medicine’s former cardiology chief, Michael Simons MED ’84, seemed to reveal “a lot of mistrust” by the medical school community in senior administrators’ decision-making.

“In a University whose leadership is dominated by senior white men, and you see the benefits and accommodations being offered to senior white men, it creates the possibility that others in the University imagine there’s preference,” Urry said. “There has to be a sense of trust which is built by information, not just friendship.”

In a third point, the statement raised concerns about the gender climate at the University as a whole, beyond cases of sexual misconduct.

“We hope that the debate about sexual misconduct, both at Yale and nationally, does not eclipse the structural issues of which sexual misconduct is a part,” the statement said. “Problems about climate, diversity, leadership and equity have concerned faculty at the Medical School, as well as at other professional schools, for a long time.”

While the statement acknowledged moves the University has made to improve the climate for women — for example, convening a Gender Equity Task Force at the medical school, creating a University-wide deputy provost for faculty development and diversity, and releasing a report last week by the Yale Visiting Committee on Diversity — it also warned that in the past “many committees and many reports have accumulated without producing sufficient change.”

How do we create the environment that will lead to [...] achieving gender equity and diversity?

PAULA KAVATHAS Chair, Yale Womens Faculty Forum In addition to the diversity report, at least seven different reports have been written within the last 10 years addressing issues of gender equity and sexual harassment on campus. Some of the reports’ findings were never made public, said WFF steering

committee member and School of Medicine professor Shirley McCarthy. In particular, McCarthy cited a report that analyzed equity in faculty salaries.

She added that committees do not help much in promoting gender equity.

“A number of faculty feel that often committees are just a way to push the problem to the side,” McCarthy said. “I believe that institutional values change when leaders believe in [them] ... Leadership at the top is critical.”

Kavathas said one structural change Yale could implement is setting a goal for increasing the number of female chairs at the School of Medicine and instituting a means of holding administrators accountable to that target.

According to Salovey, the WFF, in the letter, also thanked him for participating in the Gender Rules conference at the School of Management on Nov. 1, expressed support for his attendance at the first meeting of the School of Medicine’s new Gender Equity Task Force, and expressed “delight” at the appointment of a deputy provost for faculty development and diversity.

Kavathas added she is optimistic that significant change will follow these discussions, as

the opportunity for real change at the University is at a level she has never seen before.

“It is a combination of both what’s happening nationally in terms of conversations, but also something unique that is happening at Yale’s campus, in terms of conversations we are having now that we have not seen in the past,” Kavathas said.

Specifically, she cited the Gender Rules conference organized by WFF and Yale Women on women’s access and equality, the Yale Diversity Summit Report of Discussions and Recommendations — produced in February 2014 by an ad-hoc committee — and Salovey’s commitment to diversity as some of the initiatives that have moved Yale toward a new level of commitment and engagement.

Urry said she recognizes that changes will not be automatic, but that Yale must commit to addressing problems of equity.

“I think as long as we lack gender equity then we are seriously deficient in being as excellent as we could be,” she said.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

Drop in early apps insignificant, officers say schools were forced to extend their deadlines last winter when the Common Application crashed. Last fall, Yale extended its early action deadline by four days.

Taylor added that this year’s early application numbers still saw an increase from the 2012 numbers — the last year Yale had a normal early admissions cycle.

“I would discount last year, because how can you compare this year’s numbers with last year’s when the deadline was extended by so many days in 2013?” Taylor said. “And now, you’re still seeing a rise in applications from two years ago. I might be concerned if [this year’s numbers] were less than the class of 2017, but the class of 2018 is an anomaly.”

This year’s decrease in early applications is trivial, former admissions officer at Yale and private college counselor William Morse ’64 GRD ’74 said.

He added that more importance should be placed on yield-rates — the number of students who actually decide to matriculate. Early applicant numbers are often inflated due to the wide misconception that applying early to a school increases the chance of an applicant being accepted, which is not the case with early action programs, he said.

Dunn echoed this sentiment, saying that the Admissions Office does not read too much into certain early action fluctuations because there is no benefit associated with applying early.

“I think there’s a misconception, especially with Harvard, Yale and Princeton, that if you apply early, you have a better chance,” Morse said.

“These colleges are just as selective and set just as high a standard for their early applicants.”

But five of the seven Yale students interviewed said they applied early to

the University because they thought it would increase the likelihood of their being accepted.

According to Quinlan, the Admissions Office received applications this year from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 80 foreign countries. He said the Admissions Office noticed some continuing trends, which they will examine more closely once they have a full applicant pool in January.

The University received more applications from African American and Latino students this year, Quinlan said, making for a more diverse early action applicant pool than in years past. He added that certain states have been steadily sending an increasing amount of applicants to Yale each year, replacing patterns seen in previous applicant pools. For instance, for the first time, more Californian students applied early this year than students from New York.

Dunn said that while it is difficult to determine the reason for this trend, it is encouraging to see that so many high-achieving students in California are looking 3,000 miles away in their college search. The Admissions Office conducts a variety of outreach events in California, including group information sessions, STEM forums and student ambassador visits, which may play a role, he added.

“Initial evaluation of the applications indicates that the pool, as usual, is very strong, with some of the best prepared secondary school students in the world,” Quinlan said. “Overall I’m very satisfied with the quality and the quantity, and I’m looking forward to reviewing the applications over the next few weeks.”

Early action decisions are released in mid-December.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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“I’ve got an allergy to looking too neat.”

ALEXA CHUNG ENGLISH MODEL

New Haven commended for LGBT inclusion

BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the second year in a row, New Haven has earned a perfect score on the 2014 Municipal Equality Index, a metric for LGBT inclusion.

Administered by The Human Rights Campaign — a civil rights organization that promotes LGBT equality — the MEI evaluates 353 US cities according to 47 criteria across six categories. New Haven was one of the 38 cities awarded with a perfect score of 100, standing out in comparison to Connecticut’s average score of 74 and the national average of 59.

“This is the second year that New Haven has received this rating from the HRC, which I believe is a testament to New Haven’s combined continued efforts, whether individual, government, Yale University or business, to be inclusive,” said Joshua O’Connell, the co-president of the New Haven Pride Center.

In September, New Haven hosted a gay pride festival, holding the opening ceremony at City Hall for the first time in the event’s history. O’Connell attributed Mayor Toni Harp’s involvement in the city’s revived festival, which came back after a two-year hiatus, as a new development that symbolizes the city’s commitment to its community. He added that the development helped New Haven maintain its score.

While the three Yale LGBT community members interviewed found the score exciting, they also expressed doubts that Yale is as inclusive as New Haven as a whole.

Parmesh Shahani, a Yale World Fellow and author of the book “Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India,” said he viewed New Haven’s score as an opportunity for Yale to improve its own LGBT

inclusion efforts.

“My experience on Yale’s campus has been that it is not actively anti-LGBT, but neither is it proactively welcoming of LGBT students, faculty and staff,” said Shahani, who has been at Yale since this August. He attributed his to what he has found to be a small number of people on campus who are openly gay and a lack of oncampus activities that would promote inclusion.

Shahani explained that while he was a graduate student at MIT from 2003–06, the University organized an annual retreat for all LGBT student groups and allies.

The retreat featured information sessions and workshops, making him feel that he was welcome at the University, he said.

“I really feel that Yale can up its game. It needs to explicitly commit its intent to the LGBT community by allocating more money,” he said.

Alexander Borsa ’16, the president of the Co-Op, Yale’s undergraduate LGBTQ umbrella organization, said that Yale is a liberal institution that welcomes the LGBT community, but he agreed with Shahani in that there is still room for improvement. He referenced mixed-gender housing for underclassmen and LGBT competency training for Yale Health workers as issues the administration still needs to address. He said that many students have had “damaging” encounters with Yale’s mental health workers because the workers had not received adequate training.

He went on to explain that while he is excited to learn of New Haven’s perfect score, he worries that the implications of that score can be misinterpreted.

“A score like that implies that everything is right and everything is done or perfect,” he said.

What was not explicitly noted in the MEI was the presence of

UNH debuts co-op program

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Starting this January, New Haven’s public service departments will usher in student interns from the University of New Haven in the debut of its Public Safety Cooperative Work/ Education Program.

The Elm City will fund positions for 10 UNH students studying criminology or forensic sciences to spend one semester away from classes, working 35 hours per week in either the fire, police, emergency medical services or communications departments.

Through their internships, students will perform tasks for the city such as creating databases for emergency response units and analyzing crime and fire data.

Mayor Toni Harp and UNH president Steven Kaplan announced the co-op last Thursday.

City officials point to the mutually beneficial nature of the program for both students and the New Haven public safety departments. Meanwhile, students interviewed agreed that the co-op has potential for success — but only if it achieves buyin from its target audience.

“There might be students who are just so eager to get in a work field that they just might want to [participate],” said Lauren Balestrieri, a sophomore in UNH’s College of Criminal Justice. “I think if it were more well known it would gather interest.”

Balestrieri said that while interning in the Elm City is popular among students studying criminal justice, many might feel apprehensive about leaving campus for a semester. She added that many students in the criminal justice school would rather stay on campus for eight consecutive semesters than postpone graduating.

While all students interviewed agreed that the opportunities provided in the co-op have the potential to garner widespread student interest, only one of five students in the college of criminal justice and forensic sciences interviewed said that they were aware that the co-op was starting this school year.

UNH sophomore Carlos Soto

said that despite the program’s slow start in gaining popularity on campus, the co-op would soon be embraced alongside existing programs with the FBI and New Haven Police Department.

Attaining buy-in from the students starts on campus, said City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer, adding that the college, not the city, has traditionally been responsible for recruiting students for internships within New Haven.

According to Grotheer, the Public Safety Cooperative is the most recent in a series of collaborations between UNH’s college of criminal justice and Elm City public safety departments. He said that in addition to providing field experience for students, programs like the co-op help the city build a pool of potential public safety employees.

“For a student, [the co-op] would cement his or her interest in public safety, so it could indirectly lead to employment in the city,” Grotheer said.

But, he added, interning through the Public Safety Cooperative does not guarantee employment.

In addition to the cooperative, the city partners with UNH through a Command College that trains police chiefs and command staff to be supervisors as well as through Project Longevity, which aims to reduce gang violence in Connecticut.

Harp said on Thursday that the cooperative is a boon for the future of Elm City’s emergency response.

“This new demonstration of the alliance between the city of New Haven and the University of New Haven builds on the growing reputation of each,” Harp said.

“The co-op program announced today cements the importance of preparing new public safety professionals with effective, realworld, public-safety experience.”

Pharmaceutical company Alexion and the Connecticut Junior Republic have also joined the cooperative and will sponsor three students this year.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

MAP MUNICIPAL EQUALITY INDEX SCORES CT average = 74 National average = 59

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bonus points. Though cities are scored out of 100 points, some 120 points are available to cities, with 20 points allotted in bonus categories for cities to make up in deficits. Despite its perfect score, New Haven failed to earn a single

point in two categories: transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits and city contractor equal benefits ordinance.

New Haven earned bonus points in optional categories such as providing services to people

living with HIV/AIDS and having openly LGBT elected and appointed municipal leaders.

Recognizing this inconsistency, O’Connell said that there certainly is more New Haven can do, but added that it is definitely

taking on a leadership role.

The New Haven Pride Center celebrated its 18th anniversary yesterday on Nov. 17.

Contact MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .

Allergy procedures continue to raise concerns

BY VIVIAN WANG AND JINGJING XIAO STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two years after Yale Dining implemented new picture-based allergen labels, some students with allergies still doubt its ability to accommodate their needs.

In December 2012, responding to a student’s allergic reaction to mislabeled food, Yale Dining added allergen stickers to its food labels, which had previously only included ingredient and nutritional information. The stickers depict common allergens such as egg, soy and fish to help students with allergies identify foods that could be dangerous to them.

Despite these changes, however, the system has seen little improvement, said Robert Batista ’15, who suffers from food allergies and wrote a column in the News three weeks ago titled “Don’t Trust Yale’s Food.” “[Before,] ingredient lists were usually more complete, but allergen listings were either not there or obviously wrong,” Batista told the News. “Now it’s reversed — ingredient lists are not even there sometimes and the allergen labels are these pictures. It was something they advertised as an enhancement. I wouldn’t

say it’s worse, but it’s definitely not any better.”

Batista, who has several food allergies, criticized the frequent mislabeling of foods that could trigger reactions — for example, mixing up butter and margarine — as indicative of Yale Dining’s “lax and generally apathetic” attitude toward allergy accommodations.

Meeting the needs of students with allergies is of utmost priority for Yale Dining .

CATHY VAN DYKE SOM ’86 Director, Residential Dining Alexa Little ’16, who suffers from a severe tree nut allergy, voiced similar concerns. Little said that in addition to having trouble finding breads and desserts that are nut-free and not cross-contaminated, she has been frustrated by her attempts to ask members of Yale Dining to improve its accommodations.

Little said she began emailing various dining hall managers last spring, and she

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Some students have called into question Yale Dining’s labeling of allergens and nutritional information.

has also contacted Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 and Director of the Resource Office on Disabilities Judith York — asking them to have accommodations ready for her when she returned to campus in the fall.

In emails Little provided to the News, both York and Van Dyke told her there was no need to make preparations in advance and reassured her that appropriate accommodations would be ready when she arrived on campus.

However, Little said that when she arrived on campus in August, nothing was ready, and her diet was still restricted to the limited items that she was sure were not cross-contaminated.

While Van Dyke did not respond to requests for comment specifically on labeling issues, she wrote in an email that she has worked individually with many students with food restrictions.

“Meeting the needs of students with allergies is of utmost priority for Yale Dining,” she said. “There is no single aspect of my job that is more important to me.”

Dining hall managers interviewed said they often take extra precautions to protect students with allergies. Silliman Dining Hall manager Caroline Lacy said the nut-allergy warning appears even on desserts that are nut-free, because Yale Bakery makes its desserts in shared ovens and cannot guarantee that they are free from cross-contamination.

Student dining assistant Horacio Herrera ’15 said that each dining hall is given two nutrition cards for every dish, one of which can be updated on site.

Lacy added that students with concerns should ask their individual dining hall managers, who are knowledgeable about the food that they serve.

But Little said she was frustrated with this suggestion, which she said was also offered by Van Dyke and other administrators she spoke to. She said having to wait for food to be specially prepared for her — another suggestion Van Dyke gave — is “socially isolating.”

Evy Behling ’17, another student with allergies, said that while she has not had any seriously negative experiences with Yale Dining, she also finds the lack of consistent labeling problematic. She added that she, too, sees having to seek special attention as an inconvenience.

“It’s always an option to ask the manager to get things in detail, but it can be very irritating to have to do that all the time,” Behling said. “You want to just grab your food and eat like any other person without allergies.”

Between 60 and 120 students at Yale have reported food allergies, according to various Yale Dining surveys.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu and JINGJING XIAO at jingjing.xiao@yale.edu.

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FROM THE FRONT

“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity” B.R. AMBEDKAR INDIAN JURIST

After Herbert’s challenge, Elis ready for game THE GAME FROM PAGE 1 students $20 for a ticket and $50 for a second ticket. Mayopoulos said he believes the high ticket pricing is a measure that was implemented this year because of a seating shortage. Herbert said he thinks this steep cost is unfair to students.

“This isn’t the Patriots Giants — there’s no reason for it to cost $50. I think it’s overpriced and I apologize to students,” he said.

Students at Yale and Harvard had mixed views on the $50 price tag.

While Zoot Garbasz ’18 said it might prevent alumni from coming, Tyler Caldwell ’18 said he feels indifferent on the matter.

For transportation to Cambridge, Associated Student Agencies has organized bus rides that can be purchased at $23 one-way.

ASA Manager Miles Richardson ’15 said in an email to the News that by working with the Yale College Dean’s Office, Academy Bus Co., and various student agencies, his organization has tried to keep prices low while maximizing sales.

However, prices still rose from two years ago, Richardson said, which he attributed to a rise in costs for transportation.

Eight out of nine students interviewed said they plan on using ASA transportation to get to Harvard. Garbasz said taking the bus makes it easier for her to

coordinate travel plans with her friends.

But Chris Reese ’18 said that most athletic teams are renting their own busses so they can travel together.

Housing will be free of charge, though, because all Yale students can stay in their “sister college” at Harvard, Herbert said. Caldwell said he is taking advantage of this option.

“I’m staying in my sister college because I don’t know anyone at Harvard,” he said. “Since my college will pair me up with someone, that makes things easy for me.”

Calhoun Master Julia Adams said in an email that she is grateful that Kirkland, Calhoun’s sister college, has been so hospitable to her students.

Another housing option for Yale students is to stay with Harvard undergraduates whom they already know. Kaufman said he and other Harvard students are open to hosting old friends from Yale because doing so gives them a chance to catch up.

“I’m hosting three to four people for The Game,” he said.

“I’m really looking forward to it as I think it’ll be a great opportunity to catch up with friends I haven’t seen in a while.”

The Game will be televised nationally on the NBC Sports Network.

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

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Yale students have criticized the high price of this year’s tickets for The Game at Harvard.

Non-critical hiring to cease

Neighbors object to new frat house CHI PSI FROM PAGE 1

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Now that the election is behind him, Governor Malloy has had to deal with Connecticut’s budget deficits.

HIRING FREEZE FROM PAGE 1 than the budgeted amount. To address the problem, Barnes added that all hiring for non-critical positions will cease, effective immediately. The governor will soon reveal a list of additional spending cuts.

The timing of the freeze — just over a week after the conclusion of a close gubernatorial race — is no coincidence, said Gary Rose, the chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University.

“Now that the election is over, it’s obvious that [Malloy] has to deal with the issue,” Rose said, adding that statewide polls suggest that the hiring freeze would be the most popular method of addressing the budget deficit.

Malloy is also preparing for future budget deficits by not dipping into the state’s roughly $400 million rainy day fund, according to Fred Carstensen, the director of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis at the University of Connecticut. Carstensen added that Malloy knows he might need the money next year, noting that the deficit for fiscal year 2016 is currently projected at around $1.3 billion.

Joseph McGee, the vice president of public policy and programs at the Business Council of Fairfield County, agreed with Rose and Carstensen, saying that the mat-

ter is a simple one: The state is facing a deficit, and Malloy must balance the budget.

But the budget cuts have raised concerns in some quarters, particularly regarding infrastructure investment and the Department of Transportation. Carstensen said that, by restricting infrastructure development, the hiring freeze will hurt Connecticut’s economic competitiveness with other states.

Bureaucratic agencies always want to have larger budgets and more personnel.

JOSEPH MCGEE Vice president of public policy programs, Business Council of Fairfield County He also said that about $5 billion has been budgeted for the DOT’s capital projects, but a lack of personnel at the DOT has stopped the state from moving ahead with those projects.

Carstensen emphasized the importance of hiring new engineers to allow infrastructure investment to proceed. He noted that because of the dearth of engineers, the state has not yet issued bonds for the project.

“It’d probably cost around $30 million to hire engineers for all 200 open positions,” he said. “That’s nothing. That’s pocket change — a rounding error in a $20 billion state budget.”

McGee, however, partially disagreed with Carstensen on the engineering issue.

He said that though infrastructure development should be a primary focus for the state, the hiring freeze is simply too small to have a major effect on Connecticut’s economy.

The freeze may run opposite to the interests of public unions across the state, but Rose noted that these unions were never enormously supportive of Malloy in the first place. He was optimistic, however, that the unions would accept the freeze without significant protest.

“Bureaucratic agencies always want to have larger budgets and more personnel,” he said. “There’ll be some grumbling, but the public employee unions will probably realize that it’s the least painful way. I don’t think it’s going to cause too much of a conflict.”

Connecticut is one of only 14 states where Democrats control the State Senate, State House of Representatives and Governor’s Office.

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

ing they feared a new fraternity would increase cases of sexual harassment in the area.

Medina supported this, adding that women living in the area have the right to feel safe in their neighborhood.

“We have gotten the impression that the fraternity men on Lake Place disrespect women on a regular basis,” he said. “This is unacceptable.”

Zucker, in her letter, wrote that the fraternities share a street populated with graduate students, their families and other local residents, expressing her concern that the presence of a third fraternity would be a detrimental addition to the community.

“Over the years, these community members have consistently reported issues associated with trash and noise from the existing fraternity homes on Lake Place,” Zucker wrote in her letter. “Yale strives to be a good neighbor in the New Haven community and a concentration of fraternities on any one street may not further that goal.”

As a result, Zucker wrote, the University had concerns about Chi Psi’s pursuit of the 13 Lake Pl. property.

However, Chi Psi members interviewed said they were unfairly grouped with other fraternities on campus. They added that they withdrew their application on Nov. 10 because the complaints would only prolong the already arduous zoning application process.

“I have no comment on DKE or ADPhi, but I think it’s a mistake to lump all fraternities together,” Yale College Council president and founder of Yale’s chapter of Chi Psi Michael Herbert ’16 said.

Jack Belcaster ’16, current Chi Psi president, said the fraternity also chose to withdraw its application because the house needed to undergo extreme renovations. Still, he added that before the complaints from neighbors and the University surfaced, the application process had been progressing smoothly.

Several members of the neighborhood even supported Chi Psi ownership of the property, Belcaster said. However, when the city’s Planning Committee heard the opposition from the four female law students, it decided not to recommend that the zoning proceed despite previously giving the group a positive recommenda-

tion, he added.

Baker Duncan ’48, a former member of Chi Psi, bought the house in February and made plans for it to be transferred to the national fraternity over time as the property was renovated and passed through the Board of Zoning Appeals. However, after the fraternity decided to withdraw the application, Duncan sold it to another buyer on Friday, Herbert and Belcaster said.

“I still thought we could win the zoning position whereas [Duncan] did not think it was possible,” Belcaster said. “Once that was settled, we were all on board with moving forward, and we’re very excited with where we are right now.”

He rb e r t a n d Be l ca s te r both said they felt frustrated that complaints about existing fraternities’ behavior were assumed to be relevant to Chi Psi. Those complaints, they said, did not acknowledge Chi Psi’s distinct identity as a fraternity.

We think that adding another fraternity to Lake Place is the worst idea imaginable.

NICOLAS MEDINA LAW ’16 Belcaster said unlike the other fraternities on campus, Chi Psi emphasizes brotherhood events — including camping and paintball outings — rather than social events. Herbert added that fraternities at Yale — ranging from the Christian fraternity Beta Upsilon Chi to ADPhi — are not all uniform.

Belcaster said that Chi Psi reached out to the graduate students who submitted complaints as well as to the University. While the graduate students declined to have a discussion with the fraternity leaders, both Herbert and Belcaster said the University submitted a new letter in favor of the organization, though it is now unnecessary given the fraternity’s withdrawal.

The Yale chapter of Chi Psi was founded in 2014. An earlier chapter of the fraternity was disbanded in 1963.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Business leaders cannot be bystanders.”

HOWARD SCHULTZ AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN

T H E C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

No Red Tape initiative will fight sexual assault

BY ANGELA BENTLEY

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Michela Weihl is helping organize the Safer Bars initiative as the group’s prevention program coordinator for No Red Tape.

No Red Tape Columbia is bringing the fight against sexual assault off campus and into local bars.

No Red Tape is launching a new initiative called the Safer Bars program to teach bystander intervention strategies to staff at Morningside Heights bars. No Red Tape partnered with nonprofit Collective Action for Safe Spaces, which has a similar program in bars across Washington, D.C. “A lot of people, myself included, sort of take it as the norm — like when you go to a bar, you should expect some level of sleazy behavior and for some people that means maybe they don’t go to bars as often. I definitely don’t spend that much time in bars partly because of that,” Michela Weihl, the prevention program coordinator for No Red Tape, said. “I think this is an exciting opportunity to sort of shift what that norm looks like.”

CASS came to Columbia in October to train nine No Red Tape members, who are finalizing the curriculum that No Red Tape will offer to bar employees in twohour training sessions starting in January.

Over the coming weeks, No Red Tape will be contacting local bars to discuss having them participate in the program, and the nine people trained by CASS will hold practice trainings for other interested students to get involved. No Red Tape is also soliciting stories from people who have experienced sexual assaults at bars to

include in the trainings.

R a u l Quines, general manager of COLUMBIA The Heights Bar and Grill, expressed interest in the idea of having further training to respond to instances of sexual assault for his bar staff.

“Our bouncers have, as a part of their training, been taught ways of handling customers, but it’s nothing very intensive,” Quines said. “If you go to any bar or restaurant, there are issues with this.”

Weihl said that participants will be asked to share stories about the different behaviors they’ve witnessed at their establishments. The training curriculum also includes a number of bystander intervention strategies, including distracting a potential perpetrator.

“Just by diverting the perpetrator’s attention for a second, you can change the scene,” Mirella Blum, one of the students trained last month, said. “Diverting their attention will either make them forget what path they were on or will give the future victim a chance to get away.”

CASS has been teaching bystander intervention to bar staff in Washington, D.C. under its Train the Trainers program since early 2013.

“The response [in D.C.] is really positive. I think that one of the most important things that the workshop does is open

up a conversation in the bars and restaurants that we go to. It is something that people don’t talk about enough,” Zosia Sztykowski, CASS’ director of community outreach, said. “No one really knows what their colleagues are doing to help keep people safe.

We think that opening up these conversations is really valuable.”

Quines, however, focused on the value of the program as a tool for violence prevention.

“I would like to see such things to educate establishments,” Quines said. “The most important thing, beyond safety, is awareness that an initiative is in place empowering a bartender or bouncer in response to different human encounters.”

For Mel’s Burger Bar owner Steven Kay, however, sexual violence is something he worries more about after his customers leave the bar.

“Within the four years we’ve been here I’ve not experienced any problems — knock on wood.

Any physical occurrences are usually all-men, and even that is rare,” Kay said, referring to bar fights. “It’s something we take very seriously. We like to think people are safe here.”

“There have been times I have had bartenders make sure they [the customers] get home alright.

I’ve even given cab fare to some to get home,” he added.

For No Red Tape, the initiative is still more about creating a dialogue among bar staff about sexual violence in their establishments rather than just addressing individual incidents that call for intervention.

THE DARTMOUTH

Dever examines faculty diversity

BY ERICA BUONANNO In her first months at Dartmouth, provost Carolyn Dever has advanced initiatives including faculty diversity and experiential learning.

Dever said the College must hire faculty from underrepresented backgrounds and build relationships with historically black colleges. Although this might involve expanding the size of the faculty, Dever said she is not pursuing expansion for its own sake.

College President Phil Hanlon addressed recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty at a faculty meeting last month, noting that the College has committed $1 million to this goal. In five years, the College aims to have minority and international professors comprise 25 percent of its faculty, Dever said

at the October meeting.

In the Ivy League, D a r t mouth has the highDARTMOUTH est proportion of white faculty, at 84 percent, according to the 2013 College Fact Book.

Columbia University follows, with 82 percent; Yale University 80.1 percent; the University of Pennsylvania 79.5 percent; Cornell University 79 percent; Harvard University 79 percent; Princeton University 79 percent; Brown University 77 percent, according to the most recent data available on each school’s website.

As talented academics from underrepresented backgrounds are in high demand, recruitment can be a challenge, Dever said. She said, however, that while Hanover

is “not particularly diverse,” every location presents its own challenges. When she was at New York University, prospective faculty were concerned with the city’s high cost of living, and at Vanderbilt University some applicants were not interested in living in Nashville, she said.

Vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony said the Provost’s office is focusing on recruitment and retention so the College can create a supportive community in which students, faculty and staff can be mentored throughout their career development.

The provost’s office seeks to partner with foundations and funding agencies that have innovative programs for developing talent in different academic fields, Anthony said.

Another academic goal is expanding exposure to Thayer

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Suit alleges race-based policies

BY THEODORE DELWICHE The legal defense group Project on Fair Representation announced a lawsuit Monday morning against Harvard University for “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies” in its admissions practices, according to a copy of the filed complaint published by a newly formed offshoot of the group.

“Harvard’s undergraduate admissions policies and procedures have injured and continue to injure Plaintiff’s members by intentionally and improperly discriminating against them on the basis of their race and ethnicity in violation of Title VI,” the complaint reads. The complaint cites as the plaintiff Students for Admissions, Inc., a newly formed nonprofit law group that includes students and parents who wish to challenge the use of race in admissions practices and calls for a

permanent injunction on Harvard’s policies they allege are discriminatory.

HARVARD The suit comes more than six months after Edward Blum, the director of POFR, launched a site seeking students who claim they were not admitted to Harvard because of their race to participate in a potential lawsuit.

Similar sites were also launched for students who were denied admission to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A complaint against UNC was also filed on Monday.

“It is especially disconcerting that public data shows that Harvard has purposefully limited the percentage of Asian-American freshman it

admits,” Blum wrote in a press release. “In fact, the number of Asian-Americans Harvard admits today is lower than it was 20 years ago, even though the number of highly qualified Asian-American applicants to Harvard has nearly doubled.”

Blum could not be reached for comment on Monday afternoon.

Blum’s comments mirror findings from a 2013 analysis accompanying an opinion piece published in The New York Times of demographic statistics for Harvard’s enrollment data over nearly two decades that may indicate an Asian “quota.”

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons said in March that Harvard does not use quotas in the admissions process.

University General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano wrote in a statement that the University’s admissions policies are “fully compliant” with the law.

Engineering School beyond those pursuing engineering degrees.

Thayer dean Joseph Helble said Thayer has begun searches for new faculty members who will help design new engineering classes for non-majors based on their expertise and interests.

In January, the provost’s office will announce a new central resource for experiential learning, director of action-based learning programs Gail Gentes said. This will fall under the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.

Gentes, who was appointed to the position last fall, said she spent the year collecting data and cataloging Dartmouth’s experiential learning opportunities. She also studied other institutions’ efforts, noting that schools have different conceptions of experiential learning.

The formal initiative, which

has not yet been named, will develop new courses, work with faculty seeking to redesign existing courses and offer programming to students, Gentes said.

The whole point of the clusters is to identify significant issues in which Dartmouth can have an impact.

CAROLYN DEVER Provost, Dartmouth College She added that she hopes this resource will encourage faculty members to assess the impact of action-based learning on campus.

Gentes said that the imple-

mentation — which she hopes will occur in the coming months — depends on hiring a viable candidate to lead the initiative, but she added that she is also interested in finding a “faculty champion” of the initiative.

DCAL interim director Lisa Baldez said that, following a period of broad discussions about the importance of experiential learning, now is the time to talk more specifically about teaching and learning. This aligns with Dever’s focus on academic excellence, she said.

“She sees, and I see teaching and learning at the center of that enterprise,” Baldez said, “and so the idea is to think much more intentionally about what it is that good teaching and learning is, how we do it, and propel Dartmouth to a national leadership role in terms of enhancing teaching and learning.”

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THE GAME

“Gentlemen, you are now going out to play football against Harvard. Never again in your whole life will you do anything so important.” T.A.D. JONES 1908 FORMER YALE FOOTBALL COACH

Yale’s “hardest hitter” on the rise

BY JULIA YAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Cornerback Dale Harris ’17 has 39 tackles this season, including 10 in the game against Princeton on Saturday.

The Yale football team has enjoyed success this year largely due to its prolific offense, which ranks first in the Football Championship Subdivision in total yards per game and fourth in points per game.

But Yale’s defense is not to be overlooked. In the Bulldogs’ 44–30 win over Princeton, the defense put up three sacks, harassed Princeton quarterbacks Connor Michelsen and Quinn Epperly into just five net yards per pass play and held the Tigers to just 2.7 yards per carry.

A large part of that defensive success is cornerback Dale Harris ’17. Harris finished with a season-high of 10 total tackles, enough for third on the team. Harris noted, however, that it was difficult for the defensive backs to communicate amidst the loud, enthusiastic game environment.

“I think that [for] the defensive backs, the most important thing is communication,” Harris said.

“Some parts are difficult because it’s so loud and there is so much going on.

Sometimes it’s hard to look at the guy and have the correct call.”

Even before the Princeton game, the Brooklandville, Maryland, native has stood out this season. Harris has started all nine games this year and ranks fifth on the team with 39 total tackles.

After his inaugural season was cut to just five games due to a meniscus injury, Harris said that staying healthy has helped him improve. Harris also remarked that playing with the same group of players in the secondary — including fellow sopho-

mores Foyesade Oluokun ’17, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and defensive leader Cole Champion ’16 — has helped him become better.

“The speed of the game increased a lot [from high school to college],” Harris said. “You have to react faster.”

Harris also said that he has gradually progressed throughout the season, both physically and mentally. He noted that watching film after practice and studying the playbook have helped him tremendously.

Dale is not only a great cover corner, but he is the hardest hitter we have on defense.

JACKSON STALLINGS ’17 Among teammates, Harris is known for his power and strength. Tight end Jackson Stallings ’17 said that the team is blessed to have him in the defensive backfield.

“Dale is not only a great cover corner, but he is the hardest hitter we have on defense,” Stallings said.

Offensive lineman Khalid Cannon ’17 echoed a similar sentiment, saying that Harris is essentially a linebacker playing corner.

Harris agreed that he is a hard hitter on the field.

“I definitely like to look at football as a physical game,” Harris said. “I played linebacker in high school, so I always enjoyed hitting people.”

On top of playing linebacker, Harris made extensive appearances on the other side of the ball, rush-

ing for 1,578 yards and 28 touchdowns in his senior year of high school. He averaged over nine yards per carry and led his team to a league championship.

Since he changed positions to cornerback, Harris is still relatively inexperienced with playing in the defensive backfield. Harris said he owes much of his growth to the leadership and support from fellow defensive back Champion. The junior ranked second in total tackles on the team a year ago. He was also named to the All-Ivy second team last season and is the oldest and most experienced player among Yale’s defense.

Though Yale’s defense is young, Harris said that it is definitely maturing.

“We are starting to really play as a collective group; we are starting to communicate more,” Harris said. “I just want to be the best defense in the league. I think we have a defense capable of doing that.”

A f te r Ry m i szews k i ’s injury in the Elis’ game against Penn earlier this season, the Bulldogs’ defense has gotten even younger, but freshmen Jason Alessi ’18 and Hayden Carlson ’18 have had a big impact, according to Harris.

In anticipation of the Bulldogs’ final game, Harris said that the team is ready to go against the Crimson.

“I would say the goal for defense every week is to compete every play as if it is your last,” Harris said. “I think that allows the defense to be unstoppable.”

Yale will compete for an Ivy League title at Harvard this Saturday. Kickoff is at 12:30 p.m.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

A strong number three — RC3

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale football team’s offense has shown fans in its 8–1 start that if a team wants to put up 43.0 points a game and own the highest-gaining offense in the entire NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, it is going to need a diversity of weapons.

Under head coach Tony Reno’s spread offense, the Bulldogs have set up a consistent formula for success. If opposing defenses stack the line of scrimmage to stop Tyler Varga ’15, captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 can catch passes over the middle. If defensive backs follow Randall in double coverage, fellow receiver Grant Wallace ’15 can take advantage of single coverage along the sideline.

And if, by chance, opposing defenders are able to match up with those senior playmakers, one piece to the puzzle remains to overwhelm them: wide receiver Robert Clemons III ’17.

An exceedingly positive presence on the field and the future leader of the Eli wide receiv-

ing corps, Clemons has been a strong weapon for quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 in his sophomore season. He is third on the team in receptions with 25 grabs for 271 yards and three touchdowns, one of which was the first score for the Bulldogs in their 44–30 win over Princeton last weekend. “[Clemons] fits into the offense perfectly,” Randall said.

“He runs great routes, he’s fast on the outside and he’s actually a physical blocker. He’s done a tremendous job for us this season as a sophomore.”

Clemons, whose full name lends itself perfectly to the nickname “RC3,” plays as the spread offense’s Z-receiver, lining up on the opposite sideline as the X-receiver Wallace.

In that role, the Laguna Beach, Calif., native has shown off his ability as a multidimensional receiver with a combination of speed, strength and athleticism.

On his second touchdown of the season, for example, he took a direct route to the end zone. On a second-and-long, the wideout simply beat his Colgate defender

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in a foot race for a 68-yard score despite a defensive pass interference call on the play.

And last week in the first quarter, Roberts lobbed up a ball in the end zone that only Clemons could get to, as he leapt over a Tiger defensive back to bring the pass down and tie the score at seven.

“My job on the offense is just to do my one-eleventh, as we like to say,” Clemons said.

“Whether it’s blocking or catching, whatever it is, my job is to block for our backs and catch whatever balls I need to catch.”

That production has come about despite Clemons never catching a pass as an Eli before this season and playing running back in high school.

In his freshman campaign, Clemons utilized his speed solely as a kick returner, returning 29 kickoffs for 579 yards in eight games.

While he dealt with a shoulder injury that kept him off the field for most of spring practice, coaches decided to open up the kick returning role to incoming freshman Jamal Locke ’18 and move Clemons to a receiving role.

“Receiver is definitely a more intricate position, and you have to know more,” Clemons said.

“In the spring, I just sat in the sleet and snow [during practice] and learned the offense.”

Clemons also spent the entire summer in New Haven, as many players do, to train before his sophomore season.

Since his return to the field, Clemons has caught a pass in every single game of 2014, peaking at performances of 98 receiving yards against Cornell and 58 yards last week.

“I had no expectations for him this fall because I didn’t know what to expect,” wide receivers coach Art Asselta said. “He’s a guy who’s really surprised us and bought into what we’re doing.”

Both Randall and Asselta stressed the amount of work that Clemons has put in since his injury in spring to rise up and become a top-three Eli receiver.

In fact, Asselta used the word “coachability” to describe

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Wideout Robert Clemons III ’17 has 25 catches on the year, third-most on the team.

Clemons’ biggest strength.

They also highlighted his positive presence in the locker room.

“He’s definitely a vocal guy,” Asselta said. “Sometimes you can’t get him to stop talking.

The guys love being around him, because his attitude is so good.”

That attitude will likely come into play next season, when younger receivers such as Locke

and Ross Drwal ’18 will look up to Clemons, rather than the graduating Wallace or Randall, as a leader.

Asselta said he can already see this leadership in Roberts among the freshmen. Clemens, however, demurred, choosing to focus on playing out the season.

“I do what I can to try to be a leader, but as of right now, we have great senior leaders on the

receiving corps,” Clemons said.

“I’m probably still one of the listeners … because I still have a lot more to learn from [Randall and Wallace] before I go.”

Clemons will play his final game alongside Randall and Wallace at Harvard next Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 12:30 PM Art in Context: Sculpture and Empire in Victorian Britain. Gallery talk by Tim Barringer and professor of the history of art Paul Mellon. This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837– 1901. Free Admission. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.), Meet in the main lobby.

7:30 PM Participatory Projects in French Libraries: A New Challenge for Public Services. This talk will be about how participatory projects conducted in French libraries are changing our relationship to the public and services, our definition of the skills of librarians and perhaps even our role in the development of new forms of democracy. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), International Room.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 2:00 PM Film: “In God’s Land” by Pankaj Rishi Kumar. After taming a former wasteland through hard work and sweat, the settlers created a community. Now the clergy owns the land, and the settlers must decide how to deal with the dispute. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 4:50 PM “Afghanistan: Stories from a Country at Crossroads.” Talk by Poynter Fellow Mujib Mashal, co-sponsored by the Yale Globalist. Mashal will talk about the realities of life in Afghanistan and the challenges of extremism in South Asia.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 5:30 PM “Shaping Humanity.” Artist John Gurche’s new book, “Shaping Humanity,” focuses on his work for the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Human Origins. The fossil record has shown that human evolution has not been a process where all of the features we consider human evolved slowly together in tandem. Making sculpture that reflected the adaptive milieu of each species of human ancestor was Gurche’s task, and he details the moments in the creation of each of 15 sculptures for the new hall. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.)

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Quality of life compromised in kids with OCD

BY KELSI CAYWOOD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While researchers have known for some time that adults with Obsessive-Compulsive

Disorder have a lower quality of life, a recent study has found that children with OCD experience a similar drop in quality of life.

The new study is one com-

ponent of a larger Scandinavian treatment study — the Nordic Long-term OCD Treatment Study — that explores the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy as opposed to selec-

tive serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications on quality of life. Whereas studies traditionally focus on symptom reduction, this study was unique in its focus on quality of life in chil-

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dren. It also was distinguished by its scope — according to the study abstract, it was the largest quality of life pediatric OCD study ever conducted. The study was published on Oct. 29 in the Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Journal.

“We found that quality of life was markedly reduced in children with OCD, especially in those with comorbid psychiatric disorders,” said Per Hove Thomsen, a clinical professor and researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark.

The research is part of a twostep randomized control study assessing 135 children and adolescents, Thomsen said. Selfreports and caregiver’s reports on a health-related questionnaire provided comprehensive data about the children’s quality of life. The researchers also assessed social competence and school functioning and compared the data they compiled to an age-and-sex matched sample from the general population.

“We suggest that assessment of quality of life [be] included in future studies on OCD,” Thomsen said.

But, according to James Leckman, a Yale professor of child psychiatry, psychology and pediatrics, studying quality of life in children with OCD is often difficult because many children demonstrate OCD symptoms even when they do not have the disorder. He added that parents often do not have their children diagnosed until they have exhibited aggressive symptoms. Furthermore, not all families have access to psychiatrists who can diagnose the disorder.

Leckman added that though this study focuses on OCD at large, the disorder manifests itself in significantly different ways — from collecting and hoarding to cleaning excessively to having intrusive thoughts where the child fears that their family will be harmed.

Variety in OCD is not the only difficulty facing researchers. Studies involving youth are often complicated because

the child might be hesitant or unable to share about their symptoms. This creates a reporting problem — children are only fully capable of explaining their experiences after their symptoms have been treated, Leckman said. The study also noted that a family's ability to respond effectively to OCD symptoms is hard to gauge.

“This is a situation where largely unwittingly, parents, in an effort to relieve their child’s anxiety, will offer reassurance whenever the child is asking for the reassurance, in a compulsive way,” Leckman said. “And in doing so, that actually creates the need for the child to ask even more frequently.”

Similar issues compound treatment, Johns Hopkins professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Marcos Grados said. Grados noted that parents often do not act until the child’s behavior becomes physically disruptive within the home.

If the child him or herself is not motivated to work on addressing symptoms, it is unlikely that therapy will be successful, Leckman said, noting that treating OCD is "easier said than done." “[OCD] definitely [has] an impact on the life of the children and their families,” Grados said.

Because the study sample consisted mostly of relatively well-educated families of Caucasian origin, future research will need to address cross-cultural, demographic and socioeconomic differences to understand OCD’s impact on children’s quality of life, the study abstract noted.

The study is registered in Current Controlled Trials; Nordic Long-term Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study.

According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, one-third of adults with OCD developed symptoms as children.

Contact KELSI CAYWOOD at kelsi.caywood@yale.edu .

Monkeys more selfish than once thought

BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Monkeys are not as selfless as many think, according to a study from Yale’s Comparative Cognition Lab. In an experiment aimed at figuring out monkeys’ willingness to share, researchers placed computer screens in front of their capuchin monkey study participants and had them complete a touchscreen task that led to food being delivered to other monkeys. Surprisingly, results showed that the capuchin monkeys, thought to be prosocial and cooperative from previous research, did not end up delivering food to a partner.

The study was published in the journal Behavioral Sciences in April.

“First, we wanted to test the consistency of capuchins’ prosocial preferences, which few primate studies had done,” director of the lab and study co-author Laurie Santos said. “But second, my student Lindsey [Dreyton GRD '17] hoped to develop a touch screen prosociality task that we could use to test other questions, like whether monkeys showed reciprocity and tracked others’ intentions during prosocial behaviors.”

This experiment is based on a common test, in which monkeys have the option of delivering food to a partner or not. Either way, the monkey still receives a food reward for himself or herself. Results have generally shown that monkeys are prosocial, meaning they are willing to give to others even when it does not benefit them.

However, across different species and situations, there have been some mixed results, with some monkeys responding prosocially in some situations but not in others. Specifically, Dreyton and Santos’s experiment showed that the capuchin monkeys did not significantly prefer the prosocial action of giving food over the selfish action of not sharing food.

“This study shows that many of the phenomenon we aim to study may depend in large part on the paradigms we develop to probe these phenomena,” Co-Director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center Evan MacLean said. “Animals doing

something in a particular context doesn’t necessarily allow us to make generalized comments about the nature of the species.”

The puzzling results of this study show that primates’ prosocial preferences are not always consistent from one situation to the next, Santos said. In fact, there is significant variation among individual monkeys of the same species, a phenomenon that merits further research, she added.

Based on the touchscreen aspect of the study, in which capuchins used a computer to receive or give food, psychology and neurobiology professor Steve Chang noted that animal cognition can also depend on the animal’s understanding of the task at hand.

First, we wanted to test the consistency of the capuchins' prosocial preferences.

LAURIE SANTOS Director, Yale Comparative Cognition Lab According to Chang, the study’s results show the scientific community that, in order to come to a broader understanding of primate behavior, the animals have to be studied in varying contexts, performing different tasks.

It is possible that there may be more individual variability in prosociality between individual monkeys of the same species than previously thought, Santos said. She added that she is also interested in looking at whether the contexts that influence humans’ prosocial behavior affect primate behavior, too.

“Ultimately, the best science draws on convergent lines of evidence that allow us to look at a question from multiple angles,” MacLean stated. Answering those questions, he added, will require further research.

Capuchin monkeys generally live in groups of 10 to 40 members.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

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“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.”

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Influenced by others, less at fault

BY SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER People tend to think that others are less at fault when their actions have been influenced by third-party actors, a new Yale study has found.

In a five-part study, researchers presented subjects with different cases in which a person was placed in a situation controlled by a third party who caused them to commit an immoral act. Subjects were asked if their view of the actor’s moral responsibility was impacted by the third party’s intent to have that action happen.

On average, participants thought a third party influencing an actor made the actor less at fault. The study is the first to demonstrate the human perception of the conflict between manipulation and free will. The study was pub-

lished in the journal Cognitive Science on Nov. 9.

“There is this deep causal relationship between the manipulator and the manipulee, so we might not be able to explain exactly what happened in that situation with the distribution of blame,” said Jonathan Phillips GRD '16, the first author of the paper and a student in philosophy and psychology at Yale. “It’s more of what were the agent’s intentions and how we causally reason about the events that occur.”

Researchers gave participants one of two vignettes, both based on a food shortage in a poor country. In the first version, the government intentionally destroyed farming machinery and burned food stores in order to cause a food shortage.

When citizens found out that a neighboring village still had

food, they attacked and raided the village, and the government — planning all along to start a war — was pleased. In the second version of the vignette, the government accidentally destroyed farm machinery, unintentionally causing a food shortage. When citizens learned that a neighboring village had food, they raided that village, and the government — having failed in its attempt to create a prosperous economic program — felt bad. After each vignette, participants were asked whether the workers or the government should be blamed for the attack on the village. Participants said that the workers were significantly less at fault in the first scenario.

Phillips added that this study shows that when someone is influenced or manipulated into committing wrongdoing, peo-

ple often do not see them as fully morally responsible.

According to Fiery Cushman, Harvard psychology professor and director of the school’s Moral Psychology Research Lab, Phillips’ study adds a new layer to a typically two-dimensional situation. Cushman said that since its foundation in the 1930s, moral psychology has only focused on the agent — what the agent did and what the agent meant to accomplish.

“This study shows a third thing is important: Was someone else manipulating [the agent]?”

Cushman said.

Even if the agent’s actions and intentions are the same, whether he or she is being manipulated into committing that action changes others’ perceptions of whether or not they are fully at fault.

Cushman described this small nuance of manipulation with an anecdote about a mother and a grandmother. If a mother steals drugs of her own free will, she is morally responsible. But if a mother steals drugs of her own free will at the prompting of the grandmother, the grandmother is now morally responsible. The end result is the same, but the manipulator is seen as the cause of the behavior.

“Our moral intuitions seem designed to direct blame to the person whose behavior we need to change,” Cushman said.

The study has both theoretical and practical implications, Yale cognitive science and philosophy professor Joshua Knobe said. It impacts people’s concept of free will because it showcases people almost as “tools for someone else’s will.” On a more practical

level, the study’s findings could be applied to trials concerning entrapment — when police trick a person into committing an illegal act. The hearings for these cases rarely consider intention at all, Phillips said.

This study is one of many on morality and intentions that Phillips hopes to conduct. While this study shows that intentions do influence blame, future research will delve into why this slight difference has such an impact on human perception.

The study was conducted using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk machine, a crowdsourcing tool frequently used in game theory and psychology studies to draw participants from all across the U.S. Contact SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN at sofia.braunstein@yale.edu .

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Q&A: Tackling Emotions at Facebook

BY SUZANNE XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Marc Brackett is the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a faculty fellow at the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and a senior research scientist in the psychology department.

He is the cocreator of RULER, an evidence-based program aimed at improving school classroom environments. He has previously received the Joseph E. Zins Award for his research on social and emotional learning. He is currently working as a research consultant with the Facebook Protect and Care team, which strives to create a respectful online atmosphere for Facebook users and decrease online bullying. The News spoke with Brackett about his role in the project. your research, how QWithin are you finding communica-

tion impacted in a virtual environment, and how can you create empathy without actual contact?

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I think that our goal for the work we do on Facebook is focused primarily to help kids navigate the unpleasant experiences that they have. So if they view stuff that they don’t like on their timeline, they can try to get it removed by reporting it.

And in that reporting, we help kids by giving them researchbased strategies to navigate the experience; for example, teaching them about compassionate communication in terms of making a request to the offender to take down the offensive content. That’s the primary content I have been doing with them with my colleagues.

we going to be seeing QAre these sorts of modifications in the near future?

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They are on Facebook already, so they are all available to any child who sees a photo or a message that they perceive as being unpleasant.

They can press the little “share” button on the corner, and then

it says, “I don’t like this” or “I want this removed.” Then there is a process they can go through that helps them first[ly] identify the problem, secondly identify the emotion associated with the problem and thirdly identify a possible solution or strategy to help manage the problem. did you structure your QHow study to test the effectiveness of the methods you just talked about?

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What we are looking for is feedback from kids that this experience is helpful or unhelpful. We are also looking to see if there are differences in completion rates of kids filling out these report forms when we ask them questions, and the way that we planned [testing that] at first was just standardized questions.

And what we are finding is that when you ask kids to describe their feelings and provide them with social messages to respond to the unpleasant experiences, they’re more likely to send those

messages out.

ing you gave in schools?

you find any unexpected QDid results?

of resources to help decrease bullying. But I think importantly you’ll see [in an upcoming paper] that most of the unpleasant experiences that kids have on Facebook are not as powerful or as mean as people think they are — they are mostly little things like a stupid photo that someone wants removed, as opposed to someone being threatened or stalked.

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you think that teenagers QDo are at a higher risk of mis-

have been involved in a Yes. So, we used the trainQYou variety of initiatives. What Aings that we do in schools as has been your favorite, and how have your previous experiences fed into this Facebook project?

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I think for me the most important work we do is the work on emotional intelligence at schools — how we train children and teachers to be more emotionally intelligent. And we’ve done randomized control trials in schools looking at the impact of emotional intelligence training on academic performance, on teacher-student relationships and on classroom environment. [That research] has shown that, indeed, providing schools with evidence-based approaches like ours, called RULER, does make a difference in these areas. [That research] is the most rewarding.

you think the options QDo given through Facebook will

have the same effect as the train-

a background or backbone … The work that we did for Facebook was rooted in all of the experiences research has presented to us.

For the work with Facebook, the thing that was most interesting was that teenagers, when they have unpleasant experiences, don’t want to reach out to their parents. They really want to solve it on their own or work with a friend.

the growing QConsidering presence of cyberbullying, do you think this project will be able to curb that issue, or do you think this project addresses a different problem?

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No. Right now we also are building a whole battery

communication or that it is just more publicized?

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No, it’s true. I think the adolescent brain is in a place where [adolescents] are easily excitable and when that’s the case, sound decision making becomes more complicated. So I think that teaching these [emotional intelligence] strategies and skills to adolescents is critically important.

Contact SUZANNE XU at suzanne.xu@yale.edu .

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PAIGE VERMEER WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COMMIT Vermeer, a 5–8 guard from Palo Alto, California, committed to play for Yale last week. She averaged 16.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 5.1 steals per game last season, and her brother Grant plays basketball at the Naval Academy.

JAVIER DUREN ’15 MAKING WAVES What happens when a player starts his season with a regular season careerhigh of 26 points? In Duren’s case, it lands him on the Ivy League Honor Roll.

Though the Elis fell in double overtime to Quinnipiac, the senior point guard netted 26 points and five boards.

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“On Saturday, every race was swum for the team. And in the end, winning is pretty awesome.”

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Nighthawks fail to see light of day in Yale rout

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER Looking to put Friday’s loss to Quinnipiac in the rearview mirror, the Yale men’s basketball team dominated Newbury, a Division III school, in its home opener by a score of 97–51.

The Bulldogs (1–1, 0–0 Ivy) got off to a strong start against the Nighthawks (1–2, 0–0 New England Collegiate), with guard Jack Montague ’16 scoring the first basket of the game on a threepointer, one of six threes for him on the night. The Elis looked to extend their lead early in the game, and two straight shots from behind the arc by guard Javier Duren ’15 put Yale up 15–7 less than eight minutes into the game.

Once they started scoring, the Elis never trailed for the rest of the game.

“One of the reasons you play a game like this is to have an opportunity to see some guys in live action,” head coach James Jones said. “You don’t have that luxury during a lot of the games during the year, so thankfully we had that luxury tonight, and I thought that most everybody performed well and played hard off the bench.”

Yale went to its bench early, replacing its starters as the lead was pushed to 10, giving many underclassmen their first action all season. Three freshmen — guards Makai Mason ’18, Landon Russell ’18 and Eric Anderson ’18 — got their first taste of college basketball and recorded their first career baskets. With Mason running the floor, the lead grew to 13 points at the 8:49 mark.

Both teams then went cold for a stretch of over four minutes before a layup by forward Justin Sears ’16 increased the lead to 15

with 4:55 left in the half. Montague capped the scoring for the Bulldogs with a three as time wound down in the first half, with Yale leading 34–19.

“In the first half we kind of settled for shots,” Montague said.

“We took too many outside shots instead of forcing it in the paint and working for our baskets.”

Jones was not satisfied with the effort shown in the opening period.

The coach said that in his locker room speech at halftime, he told the team that it was better than its current level of play and that he challenged them to go out and play.

“I thought we were really poor in the first half,” Jones said.

“I didn’t think we played with enough energy and zest and togetherness. The second half was much different. We played like I expected us to.”

The starters returned to the floor to start the second half, and quickly doubled the lead, as a solid defensive effort kept Newbury from making a field goal for nearly three minutes to open the period.

Yale’s lead first swelled to 37 points three minutes later on an offensive rebound and layup by forward Greg Kelley ’15, driving the score to 61–24.

“We have a lot of space [around the basket] because we have shooters like Jack on our team, so when I found my opportunities, I had a lot of space, I just went up strong,” forward Sam Downey ’17 said.

Montague agreed, saying that a lot opened up after the Elis picked up their energy on defense in the second half. He added that defensive effort led to getting the ball in transition and to scoring buckets.

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Captain Greg Kelley ’15 played 15 minutes off the bench and scored nine points to go along with eight rebounds.

“In the second half, our energy brought upon our offense more points in transition and more points from offensive rebounding and in the paint,” Montague said.

Newbury could not find any momentum, and the lead never dipped below 32 points for the rest of the game. As underclassmen took over the floor toward the end of the game, the lead grew to 40 points with three minutes to go. Downey finished the game with an emphatic dunk to cap off the emphatic victory.

“I think that one of the things

we want to work on is continue to think about our mindset going into a game, and getting ready to play,” Jones said. “I don’t think we were 100 percent ready to play the game ... If that happens in a game where the opponent is more formidable, we might have a difficult opportunity to win. We want to make sure we are ready to play every day from start to finish.”

The Elis shot at a clip of 41.2 percent in the first half, and only improved in the second half, shooting 59.5 percent from the field. The Nighthawks managed

only a 26.6 field goal percentage, with only one player making more than two shots from the floor.

Yale emptied the bench against Newbury, as 13 different players, from a roster of 15, saw game action, with all but two recording a basket. In a very balanced attack, only two Elis were on the floor for more than 20 minutes. Montague and Downey led the offensive effort for the Bulldogs, each notching 18 points on the night. Kelley made his mark on the glass, grabbing eight

rebounds, five of which were on the offensive end.

“We have a bunch of guys that can help us win games,” Jones said. “We just have to put the right guy in the right situation.”

The game was part of the Men Against Breast Cancer Classic.

The Bulldogs travel to Kent, Ohio, to finish the tournament with three games in three days beginning on Friday at 5 p.m. against Illinois-Chicago.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Underclassmen shine in first home meet

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After suffering incredibly close defeats at the hands of Columbia last season, the Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams came back with a vengeance this weekend, dealing the Lions a sound defeat in the Elis’ first home meet of the year.

SWIM & DIVE After falling to Columbia by

only six points last year, the Bulldogs won 174–126 on Saturday.

The women performed similarly, defeating the Lions 193–107 when they faced off. Yale’s freshmen and sophomores shined, but none more notably than diver Kei Hyogo ’18, who posted the second-best time in the country this season in the 1000-yard freestyle.

“We’re very happy with our performance,” Eva Fabian ’16 said. “Our rivalry with Columbia is always exciting and we’re

looking forward to the rest of the season.”

The three-meter dive started off the day for the women’s diving team, facing competition for the first time this season because the Bulldogs’ one previous competitor, Southern Connecticut State University, had no female divers. Lilybet MacRae ’17 took home Yale’s first victory by scoring 306.90 points, over 40 points higher than the second place diver, who was from Columbia.

Olivia Loucks ’17 and Kelly Sher-

man ’16 took third and fourth for Yale, respectively.

The first women’s swimming event, the 200-yard medley relay, went to Columbia. Yale’s A-team of Heidi VanderWel ’18, Paulina Kaminski ’18, Maddy Zimmerman ’18 and Kina Zhou ’17 were out-touched by only half a second. Fabian helped the Elis rebound, however, by winning the 1000-yard freestyle by an impressive margin of 16 seconds.

The Bulldogs followed Fabian’s first place finish with eight more

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The Bulldogs topped Columbia 193–107 in their Ivy opener in Kiphuth pool.

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victories in a row, all by sophomores or freshmen.

Zhou took home three victories on the day in the 200-yard freestyle, the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle. Her individual contributions alone gave Yale 27 points.

While Kristine Ng of Columbia took the 200-yard breaststroke over Kaminski by 0.27 seconds, Fabian answered with another victory, this time in the 500-yard freestyle. Columbia’s only other victory came in the 100-yard butterfly, as the Elis took the 200-yard IM and the 400-yard freestyle relay to end the meet.

“I loved competing for the first time at home,” VanderWel said.

“Being able to swim in the Yale pool and being a part of a team with so much unity and history is such an honor, and I felt so privileged to be swimming in my pool with my team.”

The men’s team had a similarly successful day, though Columbia took the first two events — the three-meter dive and the 200yard medley relay. Kei Hyogo ’18 gave the Elis their first win of the day, with a stunning time of 9:03.45 in the 1000-yard freestyle. Hyogo’s time was just 5.22 seconds behind the all-time pool record, set by a Columbia swimmer in 1982.

Teammates Brian Hogan ’16 — who holds the school record in the event at 8:52.88 — and Ben Lerude ’17 took second and third, finishing with times of 9:26.76

and 9:28.18 respectively.

The 200-yard freestyle ended in a photo finish, with the three top times separated by half a second. Rob Harder ’15 ended up with the victory and Jonathan Rutter ’18 took second. Columbia won the 100-yard backstroke, but the Bulldogs took the next two events, the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard butterfly.

While Columbia and Yale each won four of the final eight events, the Elis had far more top-three finishers overall, securing plenty of points for a meet victory.

This was the Yale freshmen’s first competition at home, which brought its own mix of emotions for the youngest Elis.

“Swimming often feels like quite an individual sport, but on Saturday every single race was swum for the team,” Rutter said. “And in the end, winning is pretty awesome.”

Rutter also mentioned that competing for the first time at home was a great experience, especially because a lot of fans were there to cheer the team on.

The women’s team has no more competitions until after Thanksgiving break is over, but the men will be heading to the Bucknell Invitational this weekend in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania for a three-day meet.

Competition begins on Friday, Nov. 21.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM WHO SCORED IN THE BULLDOGS’ 97–51 VICTORY AGAINST NEWBURY. Three players — guards Makai Mason ’18, Landon Russell ’18 and Eric Anderson ’18 — scored their first career points for Yale in the game.