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A kidnapping. After stealing
the Princeton Glee Club’s mascot — a stuffed tiger — last Friday, the Yale Glee Club presented the PUCG with a list of demands to be completed if want to see Tiglet again. One of the demands was to record PUCG singing their mascot’s song with “bulldog” replacing “tiglet.” PUCG obliged and thanked Yale for “writing the world’s most polite ransom note.”
Colorad-Oh no. In a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 trails at least 11 points behind the leading GOP candidates in Colorado — a state that has held crucial swing votes in past presidential elections. The candidate with the largest lead over Clinton is Marco Rubio, who has 52 points to her 36. Youngers of Zion. The News
announces an unbiased endorsement of Matt LloydThomas ’16, former managing editor, and Yuval Ben-David ’16, News staffer, for leadership of Grand Strategy. The pair is the first all-Jewish ticket in U.S. history. A detail-oriented leader, Lloyd-Thomas corrects those who call his Nantucket reds “salmon pink.” Ben-David is no less impressive — he’s gone fishing with Miya’s owner Bun Lai. Clear the air. In conjunction
with the Great American Smokeout, Tobacco-Free Yale will host its campaign kickoff at the Schwarzman Center Rotunda today at noon. The event offers information on smoking cessation programs and health screenings. The first 300 attendees are promised free water bottles.
Town-gown. Student groups, including FWDYale, Students Unite Now, the Yale College Democrats and the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, will host “Talk of Our Town” — an event designed to inform interested Yalies about organizing and advocacy opportunities in New Haven — at 7 p.m. tonight in LC. For the children. FIMRC Yale
has partnered with Froyo World to support medical relief for children. A portion of today’s proceeds will go to FIMRC Yale. The group teased their fundraiser with a photo campaign on Cross Campus yesterday. In a state of crisis. The News
was deeply saddened at 8 p.m. last night to learn that our neighbor, Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea, did not have a functioning espresso machine. Here at 202 York St., we are lost without our caffeine.
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Yale employees called for the University to spend a greater portion of its $25.6 billion endowment on increasing campus diversity in all areas, from mental health resources to faculty hiring. Roughly half the crowd then rose and marched to Cross Campus. The event came two weeks after the University announced a $50 million
With mounting pressure on universities across the country to respond to student demands for more inclusive campus environments, University President Peter Salovey developed and released related policies just 12 days after students presented him with initial demands. While meeting with roughly 50 students on Nov. 5 to discuss racism and discrimination on campus, Salovey promised to announce policy changes by Thanksgiving break to address the concerns and demands of students of color. Next Yale — a coalition of Yale students of color and their allies — worked to hold him accountable through various gatherings, marches and demonstrations, as well as a deadline of their own: Nov. 18. With a day to spare, Salovey emailed the Yale community on Tuesday detailing policies that will affect areas that include financial aid policy, funding for four cultural centers and faculty hiring. The multilevel bureaucratic structure of universities like Yale requires widescale consultations and several stages of approval for major policy changes, typically preventing such rapid action. This time, the administration responded to student demands within the week.
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Around 400 students filled SSS for a teach-in held by GESO and Next Yale. BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday, graduate students met with administrators to discuss issues of racism, inclusivity and diversity. Hours later, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization and Next Yale, a fledgling student group focused on addressing issues of race at Yale, held a teach-in
on how the endowment could be used to address those issues, demonstrating that the controversies of the past few weeks are not unique to Yale College. The teach-in brought around 400 people to Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall to hear New York Times columnist Victor Fleischer discuss the purpose of university endowments. After he spoke, students and
Early applications show increased diversity BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER While the number of students applying through Yale’s Single-Choice Early Action program remained stable this year, the pool was more diverse, with more applicants from underrepresented groups. Yale received 4,662 early applications for the class of 2020,
a marginal drop from the 4,693 early applications received last year. But Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the University attracted more minority students this year, with the largest increase seen among African-American applicants. The number of applicants who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and self-identify as African-American has grown
Elm City welcomes Syrian family BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER In the midst of national debate about accepting Syrian refugees into the United States, New Haven has recently welcomed a Syrian family. The family of three — a mother, father and their four-year-old son — are refugees from Homs, Syria, Gov. Dannel Malloy said at a press conference in City Hall Wednesday. The family originally intended to settle in Indiana, but Gov. Mike Pence’s refusal to take in Syrian refugees after 129 people died in terrorist attacks in Paris forced immigration authorities to find a new location for the family. Connecticut, Malloy said, was happy to take the family. The Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services resettlement agency coordinated their Wednesday arrival to New Haven. IRIS has settled a total of 22 Syrian families in New Haven. Malloy said he met with the family members —
whose names are being withheld due to security concerns — before the press conference in City Hall. He said he told them through a translator that he was proud to have them in the state. “We have an obligation to the nations of the world to do our part,” Malloy said. “It was the right thing to do, and, frankly, if you believe in God, I think it’s the moral thing to do.” Malloy said the family fled Homs, a site of fierce fighting throughout the Syrian civil war, four years ago when their son was less than a year old. They lived in Jordan for three years while waiting to gain entry to the United States. Malloy said that the refugee placement process typically takes 12 to 18 months. Pence’s refusal to take in Syrian refugees is the latest disagreement in an ongoing feud between him and Malloy. After Indiana passed its Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which contained controversial clauses SEE REFUGEES PAGE 6
nearly 8 percent since last year and over 31 percent since 2013. The early applicant pool also reflects increased geographical diversity. Applications from the South and Southwestern sections of the U.S. increased on the whole from last year, with a 20 percent and 19 percent increase in the number of applications from Texas and Georgia, respectively. The applicants come from all 50
states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 88 foreign countries. Still, Yale’s early application numbers have not seen a major increase since 2013, while the application pools of its peer institutions have continued to grow in size over the past two years. Princeton had a 9.4 percent increase to 4,164 in early action applications this year, while Har-
vard’s numbers skyrocketed last year to 5,919 from 4,692, though its numbers for the class of 2020 have not yet been released. The University of Pennsylvania also saw a record high number of early decision applicants, with a 2.5 percent increase. The other Ivy League schools have yet to release their early action or early deciSEE APPLICATIONS PAGE 4
Cultural center funding to increase BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Following University President Peter Salovey’s Tuesday announcement of an expanded role for Yale’s four cultural centers and a doubling of their budgets, students and administrators are discussing the ways in which specific changes can be made to improve the centers’ mental health resources, physical facilities and staffing levels. According to Salovey’s campuswide email, titled “Toward a Better Yale,” the University’s four cultural centers — the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, La Casa Cultural and the Native American Cultural Center — will each see their program budgets double to help them better support undergraduates and extend their resources to graduate and professional students. Addressing calls for better mental health resources catered to the experiences of minority students, Salovey also announced that mental health counselors from Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling department will schedule specified hours at each cultural center. Additionally, MH&C staff members will receive multicultural training, and the administration will also work
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The cultural centers are discussing how to enhance mental health and staffing support for students of color. to diversify the group of clinicians. There are currently 26.5 full-time equivalent clinicians at MH&C, and 20 percent are clinicians of color, according to Deputy University Press Secretary Karen Peart. T h e c h a n ge s, wh i c h responded to demands from Next Yale — a coalition of students working to improve the racial climate on campus — come on the heels of heated discussion last spring about the state of Yale’s cultural centers. An external review in December
2014 found that several of the centers were neglected by the administration and in physical disrepair, and administrators promised in April to increase the centers’ budgets and oversight. Korean-American Students at Yale President Ho Kyeong Jang ’17 said counseling hours at each center will make mental health services more accessible to students of color and help reduce the stigma attached to SEE CENTERS PAGE 6
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ast Friday, the National Panhellenic Conference, a umbrella organization for sororities, finally withdrew its support for the Safe Campus Act, long after virtually every national anti-sexual violence group had condemned it. As a member of Greek life at Yale, and co-founder of Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale, the NPC’s previous support for the bill had long been a source of frustration and anger for me. The Safe Campus Act would ban universities from investigating reports of sexual assault themselves and prevent them from punishing offenders unless the victim reports the attack to the police. It would be nothing short of disastrous for victims of sexual assault. The representatives proposing the bill ostensibly do so on the grounds that colleges are ineffective at investigating sexual assault, and favor the accuser over the accused. While there are undoubtedly problems with college investigative processes, in truth, this legislation is based on an insidious distrust of victims, and a wildly irrational belief that false rape claims are the real problem with sexual assault on campus. But, The Safe Campus Act would not limit universities’ abilities to investigate and punish any other crime. Someone who had been physically assaulted would still be able to report the incident to the university, utilize an internal investigative process and see the perpetrator punished by their college. The singling out of sexual assault as the one crime for which police reporting would be mandated speaks to the suspicion often directed at victims. Those who argue that students falsely report sexual assault in order to exact some petty revenge or get attention frequently use the myth of false rape claim to derail the conversation. They maintain against all evidence that these people willingly face the threats, social ostracism and vitriol that are often directed at victims that come forward. Making police reporting the only option open to victims would be catastrophic. The pervasiveness of victim blaming and indifference to sexual assault within the police force is well documented. According to a 2015 article in USA Today, there is a backlog of 70,000 untested rape kits in police departments across the country — evidence that could lead to thousands of prosecutions if utilized properly. And an investigation earlier this month by The Guardian found that hundreds of police departments systematically destroy rape kits after a certain time has
elapsed, removing the possibility that victims receive justice. The police force has long been a perpetrator of violence and discrimination against women of color and individuals with non-binary gender identities, two groups that are disproportionately at risk of sexual violence and disproportionately unlikely to report it. According to the advocacy organization “Know Your IX,” many states do not recognize rape against someone of the same gender, or rape against men, as a crime at all. Additionally, given the likelihood that there are no direct witnesses, it is extremely hard to find someone guilty of rape using the “beyond reasonable doubt” standard of evidence used in courtrooms. At the college level, however, the standard used is “preponderance of the evidence,” since the most serious penalty is expulsion — not jail time. Since the stakes are lower, victims are more likely to come forward and see their attackers punished.
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istory is rich with fierce rivalries and intense hatreds of all kinds, spanning individuals, institutions and fictional characters. Yale University, of course, is no stranger to this reality, thanks to our illustrious history with Harvard University. Indeed, we have come to the time of the year when our rivalry against the behated Crimson reaches its apex for the playing of “The Game.” At Yale, we are certainly on the right side of this rivalry. In the history of The Game, we lead the series 65–58. And beyond the football, Yale has an even more decided advantage. It goes without saying, but Harvard is a very bleak place to go to school and is permeated by a spirit of general misery. F. Scott Fitzgerald even called Harvard students “sissies.” As I know from my experience last year, they wimp out of boxing matches for improv shows and hide behind the prestige of their school’s name to mask their
Rather than legislating the issue, we should be holding colleges accountable to improve their existing reporting processes for sexual assault and support for victims. Given the recent number of fraternity assault scandals, it is no coincidence that the North-American Interfraternity Conference had long supported the bill in spite of widespread criticism. By mandating police reporting, the government takes responsibility away from colleges, rather than pushing them to explore new ways of improving their sexual climates. Constraining a university’s ability to help victims limits the options of survivors in how they choose to move forward. Being sexually assaulted is one of the most disempowering experiences an individual can face. The Safe Campus Act would slash the already limited agency afforded to survivors. It is a piece of legislation designed to protect the attacker rather than the victim, and the powerful rather than the marginalized. If passed, it would send a clear message to survivors that the institutions charged with keeping them safe fail to do so.
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Game is in Cambridge, everyone knows it is always lame. Also, they are poor hosts more generally and last year had some kind of bizarre and classless display at halftime where they mercilessly hacked at an inflatable bulldog with hatchets. Yale must come to a place where we decide to stop being Pepsi to Harvard’s Coke and start being America to Harvard’s Britain, ending the current erroneous dynamic. We’re clinging to the “We Suck” prank and a Crimson feature entitled “The Cult of Yale,” both of which are at this point over a decade old. We haven’t won The Game since 2006 and, as I stated earlier, are losing our edge in other ways. It’s time for Yale, at an institutional level, to have a sense of pride! First, our ill-fated experiment with Harvard’s CS50 should end. I have written on this topic previously and do not feel the need to elaborate further, but con-
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sidering the massive failure the course has been, there is no need to continue the trial. If the administration refuses to give Yale’s computer science department enough resources to support its own course, future students should refuse to take CS50 and those already in the course should leave honest (and therefore scathing) reviews. Second, the administration should stop forcing the Yale College Council to throw Harvard a party in Commons the night before The Game. Our YCC Events Committee, led by the irreplaceable Amour Alexandre ’17, will undoubtedly put together something terrific. However, because of the expensive cost YCC incurs to rent Commons, it will absorb a significant chunk of their budget. Considering that Friday night will represent many Harvard students’ first exposure to an open party, and the fact that Toad’s is hosting a dance party, the YCC shindig is redundant and unnecessary. It would have been a better use of our student activities fee to save that money for a different occasion when fewer social options were available to Yale students. If nothing else, the event in future years should be something more confrontational, less like a dance and more like Spain’s Tomatina. Lastly, and most importantly, we should commit to consistently putting together a football team that can dominate Harvard, year in and year out. Today’s players and coaches consistently outperform expectations given the recruiting and budget constraints imposed on the program. But Yale can do right by our athletes, and by tomorrow’s gridiron warriors, with a few fixes. Invest more in the program, providing second-to-none facilities, expanded training staff and putting giants out there who can destroy the Harvard players. The cost should even be partially subsidized by profits from selling beer in the Yale Bowl (another one of my ideas from an earlier column). Yale is in a transitional moment, a moment enriched by one of the most intense displays of community solidarity in our campus’s history. The recommendations in this column are certainly of a less serious nature than many of the questions currently facing campus. Nevertheless, the time has come for Yale to seize its proper place in our greatest rivalry. So this weekend, let us all shout, “Boola boola!” MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .
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social awkwardness and inflate their egos. Just this year, one of their employees even stole $80,000 of u n i v e r s i t y MICHAEL money to buy HERBERT Legos! You would Scoop of think, given these facts, Herbert that we as an institution would laugh at our pitiful rival and rise above. Yet in reality, the opposite is happening. Yale takes on an inferiority complex and acts like Harvard’s little brother. We screen their classes on projectors and throw parties for their students. These gestures are not reciprocated, however. You can’t find “The Cold War” on a Harvard projector, and although they do put together some kind of event when The
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hadn’t come to the New Haven mayoral debate expecting fireworks. Everyone knew incumbent Mayor Toni Harp was going to win re-election in a landslide. But the forum had a tense moment when her opponent Ron Smith, former city clerk and Newhallville alder, criticized the new wave of “luxury apartments … going up in the hood.” He cited Winchester Lofts in Newhallville as one example, whose units are unaffordable to many residents of the Elm City. “You know good and well,” he said, his voice rising, “we can’t afford $1,900 a month.” I thought, as many did, that Mayor Harp won the debate. But looking back a month later, Smith’s anger is the one moment from the debate that I remember because it cut through the political theater to expose an uncomfortable truth. Right now, developers and employers are making exciting investments in New Haven. I sit on the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team, a neighborhood advocacy group for the area surrounding and including Yale. In just the past two months, three developers have visited us to discuss building new apartments in the area. But while New Haven is a city on the rise, not all New Haveners are rising with it. Even as scores of new apartments open down-
town, names on waiting lists for affordable housing number in the thousands. Now, after deplorable conditions were exposed at the Church Street South apartments in The Hill neighborhood, the complex’s uncertain future means 301 units of subsidized housing are in jeopardy. Because of the controversy, the issue of safe, affordable housing has been brought into sharp focus. In the short term, we must preserve the affordable units at Church Street South — but it’s also time for a broader conversation about housing in our city. There is nothing inherently wrong with building luxury apartments in New Haven. More development means more property tax dollars for our cashstarved city, meaning more money for parks and after-school programs that benefit everyone. Modern, attractive housing options will incentivize businesses to relocate and remain here in New Haven, creating jobs in neighborhoods that need them badly. But there’s a problem when luxury housing starts to replace affordable housing, when we prioritize penthouses for professionals but fail to provide enough affordable housing for workingclass families in the Elm City. The lack of affordable housing doesn’t just hurt families stuck on waiting lists. Neglectful or downright
criminal affordable housing landlords can exploit renters with no other options, forcing them to choose between living in disgusting, often unsafe conditions or living on the street. The newest wave of development isn’t going to help New Haveners struggling to pay the rent. At The Novella, a new apartment complex at the corner of Chapel and Howe streets, rent for a studio apartment starts at $1,400 a month. There’s no evidence that the market rents at other luxury developments, like Metro 301 on Crown Street, will be much different. Some developers have committed, as part of their agreement with the city, to include “affordable housing” in their apartment complexes. But instead of taking such promises at face value, we should dig deeper and ask for more. When most developers say “affordable housing,” they mean they will rent a proportion of their apartments at rents below market rate. This is a good strategy to help middle- and working-class families, but in a city where so many workers are un- or under-employed, these options are not nearly enough. One friend of mine on the Community Management Team characterized it this way: “They’re taking $1,500 studio apartments, renting them out to students at the med school for a thousand bucks a month,
and calling it affordable housing.” So what should we do about Church Street South, the sprawling complex near Union Station? Investigators recently found that it was so poorly maintained that its residents needed to be moved into hotels on the property manager’s dime. In light of the situation in the city, we can’t afford to lose the 301 units of affordable housing it provides, especially the rare affordable multi-bedroom units that can house large families. The complex is owned by Northland Investment Corporation, which has neither shown interest in respecting the basic human dignity of its tenants, nor in preserving all the affordable housing units in its plans for redevelopment. It should sell the complex to someone who will do both, such as the nonprofit group Preservation of Affordable Housing, which has offered to buy the complex and expressed interest in redeveloping it as a mixedincome community and preserving all affordable units. The preservation of these units is an important step, but it is not the full solution to housing in the city. We need to build — and in this case, rebuild — a New Haven that all New Haveners can afford. FISH STARK is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at fortney.stark@yale.edu .
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Med students issue demands BY MONICA WANG AND PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Monday, students at the Yale School of Medicine presented a list of demands to the school’s administration regarding issues of inclusion and diversity at the school. The letter requests a response from Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern as well as the creation of a joint faculty-student committee to implement the demands by this Friday. The letter, addressed to both Alpern and the administration at large, acknowledged, as an inspiration, the recent efforts of Next Yale — the undergraduate coalition which last Thursday presented a separate list of demands to University President Peter Salovey — as well as the work of other student activists across the country. According to the letter, which had been signed by 92 medical school students, 91 other Yale affiliates and 17 others as of Wednesday night, the signatories’ concerns arise from discrimination in the medical school’s intellectual, social and physical environments. The six demands and 35 subdemands, cover a wide range of issues, including curricular reform that is “anti-oppressive,” diversification of the faculty and student bodies, financial aid advising and mental health services for minority students and a new means of reporting biases to the school’s administration. “Inspired by the brave examples of Next Yale, other students at Yale and campuses across the country, we, students of color and partners in solidarity, write to demand sustainable reforms to foster a YSM in which all identities are valued,” read the letter’s opening lines. “We respect President Salovey’s response to the work of Yale undergraduates and his commitment to better serving all students at Yale University.” Alpern could not be reached for comment, but according to Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart, the dean intends to share a plan shortly with the medical school community to address the issues identified in the letter’s demands. In the letter, students described ways in which the “formal curriculum” of the medical school misrepresents and underrepresents people of color while remaining silent on the way in which medicine is complicit in propagating health disparities. Students added that the “hidden curriculum” — learning done outside the classroom — forces students of color to bear microaggressions perpetrated by peers and instructors and to work within a community where women and people of color are underrepresented within the faculty and student body. Curtis Perry MED ’18, who signed the letter, acknowledged Next Yale’s role in motivating medical school students to strive for a more inclusive community. “Next Yale has definitely encouraged YSM students to try to push Dean Alpern to improve YSM faster and further,” Perry said in a Wednesday email to the News. “I am confident that the demands he received will help guide these reforms.”
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A m o n g t h e m ea s u re s demanded were the creation and maintenance of a “genuinely inclusive” learning environment. To achieve this end, students called for an online bias reporting system through which they could report incidents of inappropriate behavior. The results of this system would be monitored in real time and used to hold offending parties accountable and inform retraining and curricula for the school’s community. The letter also demanded increased diversity among the school’s faculty. It called for the creation of a joint initiative between the medical school and Yale-New Haven Hospital aimed at increasing the recruitment and retention of female, minority and LGBTQ residents and faculty, as well as the creation of a visiting rotation clerkship program for students from underrepresented groups. In addition, the letter called for increased support for the wellbeing of minority students through a series of measures, including increasing the funding and staffing of the medical school’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, hiring additional mental health and financial aid professionals dedicated to working with students from minority backgrounds, as well as the expansion of the Yale Basic Health Plan to include dental and optometry service for students. In a Wednesday afternoon email to alumni and friends of the medical school, Alpern described the efforts currently underway at the School to address diversity and inclusion, but did not directly address the students’ letter. Ben Artin SPH ’18 MED ’18, who signed the document, said that the particular importance of the demands lay in the way in which they connected the wellbeing of various members of the medical school community. “I am firmly of the opinion that the way health care workers treat each other is deeply connected to how they interact with patients,” Artin said. “As a result, what I find particularly important is not any demand in isolation, but the fact that these demands connect [the] wellbeing of students, educators, providers, researchers, patients and patient populations.” Artin said that because structural inequities perpetuate denial and silence, facilitating safe ways to acknowledge and discuss inequities is crucial to addressing them, and a bias reporting system would help accomplish this. “While I have overall found the Yale [Physician Associate] program and [the Yale School of Public Health] to be a welcoming and accepting environment, I have also experienced and witnessed behavior that I find objectionable,” Artin said. “My impression is that no such behavior was maliciously intended, but it takes more than lack of malice to create and sustain an environment of equality and respect.” Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .
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Holloway balances several roles BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway stood on top of the Women’s Table two weeks ago today and tearfully apologized to hundreds of students gathered around him. “It is clear that what I’ve been trying to do quietly and behind the scenes has not been enough,” Holloway said. “I don’t expect your faith that I’ll do better, but I want you to know that I’m going to try my damnedest.” In the days following the impromptu Cross Campus gathering, Holloway — the first black dean of Yale College — has become a focal point in the ongoing debate over racially charged controversies that have rocked campus since the end of October. The day’s events were a vivid illustration of the challenges black administrators face in balancing administrative responsibilities with the symbolic imperatives of African-American leadership. Over the last two weeks, Holloway has been criticized by students who believe that his failure to issue a prompt public statement about the campus debate let down a community that needs his support. But several scholars of African-American history have defended Holloway, arguing that the burden of change should not fall so heavily upon his shoulders. Holloway’s appearance on Cross Campus was the emotional climax of a week that exposed racial fissures dividing the student body, as outrage over a series of racially charged incidents over Halloween weekend generated national headlines. It was also his first public acknowledgement of the unrest, six days after students began protesting the alleged rejection of a group of minority women from a Sigma Alpha Epsilon
party because the party was “white girls only,” as well as an email from Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis that defended students’ rights to wear culturally appropriative costumes. Students expressed frustration that Holloway did not respond to the Halloween incidents with the same urgency that he has addressed other major campus controversies. Last October, Holloway circulated a campuswide email just hours after three swastikas drawn in chalk were discovered on Old Campus. Holloway, who teaches a course on African-American history from emancipation to the present, has also been criticized for failing to advocate for the renaming of Calhoun College or the discontinuation of the title “master.” In an interview with the News, Holloway said he has tried not to take students’ criticism personally, but he said some of the comments have left him deeply saddened. “The people who expressed disappointment were people I had explicitly said I would mentor,” Holloway said. “That they felt betrayed is a difficult thing to hear.” He added that as a professor, he has the freedom to explore his academic field and express his own opinions. As a dean, however, he does not speak for himself or for a specific community within Yale, but rather for the institution as a whole. Livvy Bedford ’16, a student in Holloway’s African American Studies course, said she appreciates the complexity of his role on campus but found his reluctance to speak publicly about the race-related controversies deeply ironic, as he has spent much of the semester lecturing about black activism. Frances White, the black former vice provost of faculty
development at New York University, said African-American leaders in higher education sometimes hesitate to publicly advocate for students of color for fear of pushback from critics who are uncomfortable with non-Caucasian authority figures. “The dangers are people will misunderstand your motive, will think that you’re being unfair to other people,” White said. “A black dean almost always has a problem with authority.” In the weeks following the Cross Campus gathering, Holloway has taken a more active role in the debate, holding meetings with students and sending two campuswide emails about the racial controversies. On Nov. 6, the day after the confrontation, Holloway sent an email that explicitly expressed his support for the idea that students should be sensitive about potentially offensive Halloween costumes. But his recent actions have not satisfied students who feel he should be doing more to support the African-American community during a traumatic period. “That email was about a week late,” said Lauren Dawson ’16. “In that way, he had failed us. He failed in that role.” Donald Rodriguez ’15, an alumnus who marched with current undergraduates at a 1,000-person strong demonstration last week, said Holloway is obliged to serve all students on campus regardless of their race. But he added that as a black man Holloway should work harder to address issues that white administrators might not fully understand. The student leader of a campus group that represents people of color said Holloway has not done enough to support policy changes, such as the renaming of Calhoun, demanded by the black community.
“It’s important that he listens to our community just as much as the alumni or the donors or the other members of the board that he has to deal with,” said the student, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic. The student leader added that calls for Holloway to improve faculty diversity — an effort which does not fall under the purview of the Yale College dean — are in fact reasonable demands of an official who should feel obliged to vouch for the black community with other administrators. But two African American Studies professors said Holloway has no obligation to vocally advocate for black students on campus more than he would for other students. “The history of race in America and at Yale belongs to all of us and is an issue for all of us,” said Emily Greenwood, who co-authored a faculty open letter declaring support for diversity on campus . “It is not for him to carry the burden of advocacy alone.” Matthew Jacobson, another co-author of the letter, noted that Holloway has handled the campus unrest with far more delicacy than administrators at the University of Missouri, where recent protests over racist incidents on campus forced the resignation of the college president. S t i l l , H o l l oway h a s acknowledged that he needs to better advocate for a constituency that looks to him for leadership. “Professor Holloway has a voice, but it’s harder for Dean Holloway to have the same voice,” he told the crowd at the Cross Campus gathering. “[That’s] probably wrong. And I’ll do better.” Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .
Court grants motion to forcibly medicate Wang BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday, Judge Thomas O’Keefe Jr. ordered for Lishan Wang — who has been awaiting trial for the murder of Vajinder Toor since 2010 — to be forcibly medicated so he is mentally fit to stand trial. Wang, who allegedly shot a Yale-New Haven Hospital postgraduate fellow in 2010, was deemed incompetent to stand trial and to represent himself in court by a panel of psychiatrists from the New Haven of Court Evaluations in April. The doctors found that Wang was suffering from psychotic symptoms and personality disorders including schizophrenia, “self-grandiosity” and “significant rigidity of thought.” Last month, Wang’s court-appointed health care guardian Gail Sicilia, and Mark Cotterell — a doctor at the psychiatric hospital in which Wang has been treated — testified in favor of placing Wang on psychotropic drugs to counteract his delusions and enable him to stand trial. This motion, submitted on behalf of the state, was granted Wednesday, despite opposition from Wang and his attorney, Thomas Ullmann. O’Keefe said his decision followed Spell v. United States, a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court precedent ruling that accused criminals can be forcibly medicated as long as stringent conditions are met. “He’s extremely ill and we’re trying to return him to competency. This is the only alternative,” O’Keefe said. “It is with great reluctance and caution that I order this.” Though Ullmann said he agrees that Wang is mentally ill, he said he will appeal O’Keefe’s decision because there are alternative, less invasive ways to bring Wang to competency. Ullmann voiced concerns about the potential side effects of Olanzapine and Ziprasidene, the medication that would be used on Wang, and argued that
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Lishan Wang has been awaiting trial for murder since 2010. a 50 to 70 percent efficacy rate does not constitute “clear and convincing evidence” — the legal standard for this motion to be granted — that Wang will be brought to competency. “It is very difficult for medical personnel to give guarantees,” O’Keefe said, noting that such guarantees are not required. “I think a 50 to 70 percent success rate is a substantial likelihood of restoration.” According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s Spell v. United States court opinion, forcibly medicating a defendant is only constitutional if the crime being trialed is serious, if the medication will not hinder the fairness of the trial and if there is clear and convincing evidence the defendant will be substantially more likely to be rendered
competent after being medicated, among other conditions. While Ullmann disagreed this threshold of evidence had been met, O’Keefe said he agrees with the doctors who said Wang’s medication is “necessary and medically appropriate.” “I think it is substantially unlikely that the side effects will negatively affect the defendant’s ability to assist council,” O’Keefe said. He added that Wang has not cooperated with health care providers while being treated at Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital Eugene Calistro Jr., who presented this claim in court Wednesday, said that while Wang can be polite and pleasant, he has also been known at the Hospital as “dismissive” and “argumentative,” and has
accused Whiting staff of racial discrimination. “Quite frankly this surprised me because my initial impression … is that Dr. Wang is intelligent, respectful, cooperative and doesn’t fit the image of the people who appear in court with this issues of competency,” O’Keefe said. “He is a rare case — he is the rare case that they talk about in Spell.” Though Ullmann argued that this noncompliance is part of Wang’s mental illness, O’Keefe said forcible medication is the only remaining method to make Wang fit for trial. O’Keefe granted Ullmann’s petition to stay his motion for 20 days and allow him time for an appeal to be filed. Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Early app numbers released APPLICATIONS FROM PAGE 1 sion numbers. Though Yale’s early action pool hit an all-time peak of 5,556 in 2008, Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is less interested in the total quantity of applications received than their quality and diversity of backgrounds, experiences and interests. He cited the Admissions Office’s outreach efforts as possible reasons for the increase in applications from underrepresented minority groups. Those efforts include the Yale Ambassadors program, which sends current students to high schools to speak with standout students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, and the Multicultural Open House, which invites students and their families to campus to learn about Yale’s academic and cultural offerings. “Although it is impossible to draw direct causal relationships between specific outreach programs [and] the students who choose to apply, I continue to believe that programs like the Yale Ambassadors, the Multicultural Open House and our targeted mailing campaigns to high-achieving low-income students have a positive effect on encouraging students from all backgrounds to apply to Yale,” Dunn said. College admissions consultants interviewed said minor fluctuations in Yale’s application numbers, such as this year’s change, are insignificant. Michael Goran, director of California-based private education consulting firm Ivy Select, said these numbers vary from year to year and are not indicative of any long-term trends in student interest in Yale.
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“The Yale brand is out there and it’s just a matter of who wants to apply in that given year,” Goran said. Brian Taylor, director of Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said the increased diversity of the pool shows that Yale’s outreach efforts to minority students have been effective. He also noted that a school’s early application numbers are important for college rankings such as the list published by U.S. News and World Report, which factors acceptance rate into its rankings. He pointed out that Yale’s early acceptance rate has increased in each of the last three years. The early acceptance rate for the class of 2017 was 14.4 percent, while for the class of 2019 it was 16.0 percent. Parke Muth, former associate dean of admissions at the University of Virginia and an independent college consultant, also said the numbers reveal a successful outreach strategy by the Admissions Office for recruiting racially and geographically diverse students. However, he noted that because the early application pool is relatively small,
percentage changes in demographics may not be as informative as they would be with a larger sample size. “It does seem like the efforts on [the Admissions Office’s] part … demonstrate that they are very interested in recruiting students who may not have previously looked at the Ivies as a destination,” Muth said. Developments like increased engagement of regional admissions officers in the areas they cover may have contributed to the increase in diversity, he said. Muth added that while Yale seems to be making an effort to reach a wider applicant pool, it is focusing its outreach on students who may have a legitimate chance at admittance, rather than using outreach as a way to artificially boost its application numbers. He said some universities have drawn criticism in recent years for sending promotional materials to students who are not qualified enough be admitted. Admissions decisions for early action applicants will be released in mid-December. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
“Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” DEREK BOK FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GESO, Next Yale hold teach-in TEACH-IN FROM PAGE 1 initiative to diversify its faculty over the next five years and the day after University President Peter Salovey announced a slew of University-wide changes to improve diversity and inclusion on campus. “We gather today to learn about how Yale’s investment and spending policies affect our campus, our city and beyond,” GESO supporter Charles Decker GRD ’17 said at the teach-in. The teach-in followed a nearly two-hour long meeting between graduate students and Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley. Graduate students at the meeting criticized the graduate school administration’s lack of transparency in faculty hiring and promotion practices. At the meeting, Debayan Gupta GRD ’17 said many graduate students see Salovey’s Tuesday email as “damage control” after recent student protests and demonstrations called on the administration to make Yale more inclusive to underrepresented groups. Gupta voiced concerns that many other graduate students echoed in the meeting, stating that retention among minority faculty is a problem at Yale because many people of color do not feel fully welcome on campus. Specifically, Gupta criticized Yale for maintaining the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 700 members, arguing that this seemingly arbitrary figure limits the number of faculty of color who can be hired. “The idea that we need to keep our faculty levels at 700 is something most of us disagree with on a very basic level,” said Gupta. “If you’re forced to hire a lot of people to look after the diversity issue, you have a systemic problem.” Cooley was joined at the meeting by University Secre-
tary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews and Michelle Nearon, assistant dean and director of the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. At the meeting, graduate students repeatedly asked about Yale’s guidelines for awarding tenure, alleged discrepancies in promotions along gender and racial lines and the four new faculty positions Salovey pledged to create in the FAS in his Tuesday email. Goff-Crews said while the University is already addressing the issue of faculty diversity, she does not think Yale is as inclusive as it could be. In response to concerns regarding the tenure process, Goff-Crews conceded that Yale needs to be more transparent. “We’re here to listen mostly today. We all recognize that Yale needs to be a better place for inclusion,” Cooley said. “These are real commitments, these are huge investments. These are heartfelt plans.” Half an hour later, graduate students at the teach-in again called on Yale to be more inclusive. The teach-in marks another collaboration between GESO and an undergraduate activist group. Students Unite Now, whose major focus has been for Yale to eliminate the student income contribution, also participated in the discussion in SSS. In his August op-ed in The New York Times, Fleischer wrote that the $480 million paid to Yale’s endowment managers is an example of an elite university “hoarding money.” At the teach-in, Fleischer said endowment managers are only concerned with increasing the endowment, not with how the endowment is spent. “Endowments should be used
to advance human capital and not the building of financial capital,” Fleischer said. “You should measure the success of the endowment in how the money is spent and what it’s used for.” After Fleischer’s talk, graduate students, undergraduates from SUN and Next Yale and New Haven elected officials, including two alders, discussed issues ranging from financial aid to unemployment in the city. Next Yale organizer Cathleen Calderón ’17 said despite Salovey’s Tuesday email, questions remain about whether more faculty of color will be hired to support the influx of students caused by the two new residential colleges. Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks, who is also an organizer for the labor advocacy group New Haven Rising, demanded that Yale offer more jobs to New Haven residents. “Yale has the money. We want Yale to solve our job crisis,” Marks said. Local 35 organizer Brian Wingate, who also serves Beaver Hills as an alder, said he stands in solidarity with Next Yale, GESO and Local 34 in trying to make Yale more inclusive for students, teachers and employees. At the end of the teach-in, Next Yale organizers read out the same list of demands they read to Salovey at a midnight march to his home Thursday night. The event ended with a march to Cross Campus, where protesters wrote suggestions for how the University could spend the endowment. “Pay graduate students a living wage,” read one note. “Hire black poets,” read another. In the fall of 2014, there were 462 tenured faculty in the FAS. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.” FRIDA KAHLO MEXICAN PAINTER
Hill-to-Downtown jumps hurdle BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Hill-to-Downtown — the city’s plan to link Union Sta-
tion and Downtown with new commerce — cleared a hurdle Wednesday night. The five members of the City Plan Commission present voted
four to one to approve a rezoning proposal for the 20.6 acres between Union Station and Downtown. The proposal to change the area’s zoning from
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general business to BD-3 — a categorization which encourages high-density, mixed-use and pedestrian-friendly development — will go before an aldermanic committee on Nov. 30. The proposed BD-3 zoning plan will also allow for lab space as New Haven pushes to attract biotech companies. “The completion of the Alexion building, that is also in the BD-3 zone, is an opportunity as a community to take advantage of its historic addition and the new interest we’re getting from biotech companies,” said City Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81. “This zone is specifically set up to take advantage of companies looking to move into the city.” Edward Mattison LAW ’68, the head of the commission, said he voted for the plan because it allows concerned community members to continue providing input via the Board of Alders. Executive Director of City Planning Department Karyn Gilvarg — who was present at the meeting though she is not a member of the commission — said the time come for the Hillto-Downtown project to move forward. The city released the original plan in 2013 after one year of discussion between city officials and community members.
Westville Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99, the only member of the five-person commission to vote against the proposal, said that a special Hill-to-Downtown committee should be created before the project moves forward. The committee should hear community concerns on the issue and bring their findings before the commission, Marchand said. While the BOA has already approved the creation of the committee, members are yet to be officially appointed. “It’s an important procedural issue I feel we need to respect,” Marchand said. The commission voted after a public hearing that allowed community members to speak about the proposal. Members heard from a range of individuals, from high-ranking city officials to concerned parishioners at Saint Anthony’s Church. The two parishioners who testified said the zoning would allow for high-rises near their church that would cast shadows over its parking lot. Blocking light to the lot would make it icy, a safety hazard for many of the church’s older parishioners. Furlow and Hill alder Dolores Colón said many of her constituents had also voiced concerns over parking shortages. Many living in her ward are not able to park in front of their homes because others have already
snagged the spots on the curb, she said. The competition for parking spots, Colón said, considerably impacts the quality of life for her constituents. But changing the zoning to a BD-3 would only exacerbate the parking shortage because of its less stringent requirements for developers to build parking spots, she said. Colón said that a parcel of land included in the zoning proposal is located across the street from a senior residence and should not be zoned as BD-3. She added that several other blocks should likewise not be a part of the 20.6-acre zoning proposal. “We don’t want all these different parcels that make up the 20 acres to be under the same umbrella right now,” she said. RMS Companies is currently the only private developer committed to the Hill-to-Downtown plan, but there is potential for other companies to join in the future. Because of the project’s uncertain nature, the city should be cautious making long-lasting zoning changes that cover such a broad swath of land, Colón said. RMS is creating five properties across four blocks in the area. New Haven has 45 different boards and commissions. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
Law School project pushes for portraits of females BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER “Seventy-four portraits hang in the halls of Yale Law School. Only six feature women.” These two sentences appear on the cover of the guide to the Portraits Project, a yearlong initiative by Yale Law Women — a student organization aimed at enhancing the status of women at the Law School — to promote equal visual representation of women at the school. Published in August and disseminated to the student body this fall, the guide detailed the achievements of the six alumnae featured in the portraits, highlighted the harm of visual disparities and proposed candidates for new portraits. Students interviewed said they noticed the lack of women’s portraits at the Law School and praised the project for raising awareness of the issue. “We hope that [the project] will prompt alumni to sponsor the creation of new portraits of women, and to increase dialogue around this issue within the law school community and beyond,” said Kathryn Loomis LAW ’16, chair of the seven-member Portraits Project Committee. Loomis also noted the parallel missions of the project and the email sent out by University President Peter Salovey to the Yale Community on Tuesday. In his email, Salovey said that in recent years Yale has celebrated the contributions of women by increasing the number of portraits of women across campus, and that the University will continue to broaden the visible representation of campus diversity. The guide acknowledged that although alumni portraits are only one factor shaping gender dynamics at the Law School, portraits hang in important and noticeable spaces such as the school’s two largest lecture halls, the Alumni Reading Room and the main stairwell. The guide
also incorporated studies on the alienation of female law students, as well as social science research on the effects of visual underrepresentation more broadly. Loomis said members of Yale Law Women have long been troubled by the dearth of females represented in the portraits, adding that the project’s launch in the fall of 2014 was sparked by a student not affiliated with the group who raised the same concerns. The six portraits currently hanging include Carolyn Dineen King LAW ’62, the first woman to serve as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ellen Ash Peters LAW ’54, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Connecticut and Patricia McGowan Wald LAW ’51, the first woman appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
We hope that [the project] will prompt alumni to sponsor the creation of new portraits of women. KATHRYN LOOMIS LAW ’16 Chair, Portraits Project Committee Former Yale Law School Dean Guido Calabresi ’53 LAW ’58, during whose tenure two of the portraits of women were painted, said that the rules governing the portraits go back well before his deanship. There are two categories of portraits, Calabresi said. One is the automatic category, meaning that no permission is needed for putting up the portraits, and the other category is up to the discretion of the dean. Portraits which fall in the automatic category feature alumni or faculty members who have served as president of the United States, justice of the Supreme Court and chief judge of one of the circuit
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Yale Law Women is promoting greater visual representation of women at the law school. courts, Calabresi added. Regardless of the category, portraits other than those of former deans must be paid for through outside funding, which usually involves alumni sponsorship. Because the Law School does not actively seek funding for portraits, individuals have to take the initiative to raise funds for a portrait of someone, he added. Calabresi said that so long as outside funding is secured, the school will “no doubt” put up portraits of prominent women. The Portraits Project guide proposed names for new por-
traits, which include Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 — former secretary of state and presidential candidate — and Marian Edelman LAW ’63, the first African-American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. According to the guide, women and men graduate from law schools nationwide in almost equal numbers. But women make up only 34 percent of the legal profession and earn 78.9 percent of what male lawyers earn in the United States, the guide said.
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According to the guide, numerous studies over the last four decades have documented the feelings of alienation that are common among women in law school, and the detrimental effects of that alienation on women’s achievement. “Visual representation can serve as an important medium of feelings of inclusion or alienation,” the guide said. But although Calabresi said it is important to make people feel they are welcome at the school — which should be made clear by every possible symbol, including portraits — he noted that “alien-
ation” is a stronger word than what he would use. Of the six law students interviewed, five said they are aware of the Portraits Project and said there is a lack of portraits of women at the law school. “When I came for the Admitted Students Weekend [in April], I was shocked by the few female portraits on the wall,” Christina Ford LAW ’18 said, adding that putting up more portraits of women is “a small change that can have big impact.” Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.” DESMOND TUTU SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
ANALYSIS: Unusually swift policy changes ANALYSIS FROM PAGE 1
MOVING QUICKLY
Salovey said crafting new policies is often a slow process because the University relies on a decision-making model of shared governance and local authority. For example, he said faculty usually need to take the lead on issues of curriculum and hiring. He also said the chairs of programs and departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as the deans of professional schools, have considerable authority and autonomy in setting their priorities. However, Salovey said the recently announced policies were able to be developed and settled upon more rapidly because the planning for many had begun previously. “In the case of the initiatives announced on Tuesday, we were
able to move quickly because inclusion and diversity have been priorities for us for some time,” he said. “As a result, some good ideas were already on the table. And as I engaged University faculty and administrators, many more good ideas came to the fore, some of which they had been hoping to implement for quite some time.” Still, Karleh Wilson ’16, a member of Next Yale who has met with Salovey on two occasions, said she believes the administration responded with policies as quickly as it did because of student pressure and similar movements occurring at other universities across the country. “The main thing was the student pressure: it was obvious we weren’t going to back down,” she said. “We spoke directly to [Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway] and President Salovey in a way that they’d never seen before. We
shared our tears and our stories and showed them how they failed us, and our 1,200 person March of Resilience showed how much power we have … Second, this is a national movement happening right now … We reached a boiling point and we couldn’t take it anymore, and now we are standing in solidarity with our fellow students at other universities.” Sam Chauncey ’57, who served as University Secretary during the 1960s and ’70s, said Yale’s president used to hear student demands much more frequently. As a result, the president did not adhere to student-mandated deadlines — though Chauncey said he does not fault Salovey for doing so — and would respond by meeting some demands immediately, considering and studying others and simply rejecting those that were obviously impossible. Chauncey said while this strat-
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On Tuesday, Salovey announced policies he hopes will foster a more inclusive campus.
Cultural centers consider plans CENTERS FROM PAGE 1 mental health issues, especially for the Asian-American community, which he said is known for stereotyping mental health problems. Because of the location of Yale Health, Jang added, some students are deterred from seeking help due to the extra time investment they must make. But NACC Peer Liaison Katie McCleary ’18 stressed the importance of having more mental health professionals of color at MH&C in the first place. “We need professionals who can understand our experiences. We need professionals who will not judge us based on our ethnicity or stereotype us,” McCleary said. “It will not help students of color unless more mental health professionals of color are hired.” Jang noted that he would like to see a mental health professional designated at each center — one demand Next Yale made of Salovey when the group gathered outside his house at midnight last Thursday. Good mental health resources, La Casa Head Peer Liaison Cristal Suarez ’16 said, would “affirm the experiences of students of color” and make sure that they are heard and believed. Suarez said she finds it encouraging that the administration has renewed its commitment to improving mental health services. In addition to the support MH&C clinicians will now provide at the cultural centers, AACC Director Saveena Dhall said the centers may also employ private practitioners to offer extra care for students of color. “Yale Mental Health is working with the cultural centers to figure out a plan to create mental health liaisons with the houses. We’re also in conversation — though details haven’t been
worked out — to have mental health presence in the house, [which may include] local counselors who are in private practice and have expertise in dealing with Asian and Asian-American issues and Asian and Asian-American college-age students,” she told the News. Beyond investing in more mental health resources, the centers will also be able to use their increased budgets to improve their physical conditions and administrative staffing — two measures Dhall called especially important. In fact, Dhall explained, staffing and facilities go hand in hand with each other. Expanded facilities could mean offices for new staff members within the centers as well as spaces for mental health counselors to hold private and group sessions. With the increased funding, Dhall said, there are many possibilities to reimagine the space that already exists. “Twelve graduate and professional student groups work with the AACC this year, and we already have 45-plus u n d e rg ra d u ate groups … so we want to make sure that if we have a community of nearly 4,000 Asians and Asian Americans [at Yale], our facilities are able to accommodate all activities,” she said. Suarez expressed similar sentiments, noting that though La Casa underwent essential renovations over the summer — including repairing loose electrical wiring in the basement — additional maintenance is still needed to render the center a “fully functional and safe space” for all students. At the NACC, McCleary said, the funding could be used to fund math, science and writing tutors and to bring in a Native spiritual advisor available to students practicing the ways of the Native American Church.
Jang said the increased AACC budget could go towards a regular Asian American Studies conference like the one held this spring, a new publication or even grants to draw more ethnic studies students and researchers to the University. Still, several students interviewed emphasized that increased funding for the cultural centers is only the first step. “While this is a significant step forward for the cultural centers, I am cautiously optimistic about the form that these changes will take,” AACC program series co-coordinator Hiral Doshi ’17 said, noting that she is unsure what effect doubling the budget will have in terms of specific changes. “I hope the administration will continue to work with us to make sure the changes can be implemented as effectively as possible.” McCleary added that discussions should take place within each cultural center to identify the best ways to use the additional funding. These discussions can then help each community formulate center-specific priorities, she added. Both Doshi and Dhall said they recognize that determining and implementing specific changes will take time. “Our president has said that these [changes in the cultural centers] are our priorities, and we are going to take time and work towards figuring out the details. I don’t have as many details, but I have commitment,” Dhall said. “Now we have to work together, with the input of my community, my students, my own expertise having been the dean of the AACC for so long, as well as the alumni in town, as we think about the next phase.” Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .
egy made sense decades ago, modern times have presented Salovey with newfound challenges and heightened scrutiny. He said the fact that every one of Salovey’s actions will be broadcast on the Internet within seconds may have influenced the way he approached the policy response process. “We were thinking of the responses as something going only to students and groups of students,” Chauncey said. “We knew they might have broader implications, but our goal was to respond to the people who made requests or demands to us. I think President Salovey legitimately has to try to respond not only to the people who have made requests or demands, but he has to consider the implications of having a mass audience as well.”
A NATIONWIDE TREND
Yale’s swift response to student activists’ demands joins a growing national trend in which university administrators have felt pressure from student protests and national media scrutiny to take action, or to at least acknowledge student demands and concerns. Over the past two weeks, for example, Georgetown University and Princeton University have both witnessed student activism about race and discrimination on campus, as well as subsequent administrative action. Administrators at these universities have also been pressured to respond swiftly or preemptively to student demands in part because the activists have aligned themselves with national student movements that have attracted significant media attention. On Nov. 12, 250 Georgetown students and other activists gathered in a demonstration of solidarity with student activists at Yale and Missouri, according to a Nov. 15 article in The Washington Post. The next day, around 50 people participated in a sit-in outside Georgetown President John J. DeGioia’s office to call for
the renaming of two buildings named after two former university presidents who had organized the sale of Jesuit-owned slaves in the 1830s. On Saturday, DeGioia announced the decision to rename the buildings based on a recommendation he received from the university’s Working Group on Slavery, a panel of administrators, faculty and students appointed to examine slavery-related sites on campus. Although the panel was appointed in September — before the recent national discussions about race on college campuses — some student activists at Georgetown believe DeGioia appointed the group to pacify them while stalling on a renaming a decision, according to the Post. A student organizer of the demonstration and sit-in told the Post the momentum from student protests at other campuses helped expedite the name-change decision at Georgetown. Wednesday morning, the P r i n ce to n a d m i n i s t ra t i o n announced it had replaced the title of “master” — used for faculty members who help run the university’s residential colleges — with “head of college.” The announcement on the university website made no mention of student pressure in the decision. Later that day, a group of minority students and their allies called the Black Justice League organized a sit-in at Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber’s office to submit a letter of demands to improve the experiences of black students on campus. These demands include the university administration’s public acknowledgement of Woodrow Wilson’s racist legacy and the renaming of Wilson residential college, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs and any other buildings named after him. The group also demanded cultural competency training for all staff and faculty, and a cultural space on campus dedicated spe-
cifically to black students, to be named at the students’ discretion. In the letter, the students wrote that they crafted these demands in this “unique time” in hope of a quick administrative response. While Yale has cultural centers for students of specific races and ethnicities, Wilglory Tanjong — a Princeton sophomore and member of the Black Justice League — told the News in September that Princeton provides minority students with just a single center. “The center is extremely far from the center of campus, and the way to support minority communities is not to shove all minorities into one building,” she said. The letter said national student movements would help speed administrative response to their demands. “While we are grateful for the collaboration we have had with faculty and administration in the past, we make these demands during this unique time to expedite these processes,” the letter read. A sophomore at Princeton, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue, said while the removal of the title “master” was not technically linked to the student sit-in, some students believe the administration made the announcement after hearing that the sit-in would happen. According to a Wednesday article in The New York Times, Eisgruber refused to sign the student letter, disagreeing with the renaming and mandatory cultural competency training for faculty. In response to his refusal to sign the demands, students remained in and outside of his office, despite warnings of disciplinary action, late into Wednesday night. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .
CT to host Syrian refugees REFUGEES FROM PAGE 1 allowing business owners to refuse same-sex couples service, Malloy signed an executive order banning state-funded travel to Indiana. Malloy cited that dispute in his speech in City Hall, saying that the “homophobic” RFRA has left him “no longer surprised by anything [Pence] does.” Malloy added that he believes Pence has no legal standing to refuse the admittance of refugees to his state. Stephen Glassman, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, agreed with Malloy. He said in a statement that the federal government, not the states, determines who can enter the country. Malloy has been vocal in advocating to accept Syrian refugees. Appearing in an interview on MSNBC with Chris Hayes Tuesday, he defended President Barack Obama’s plan to accept at least 10,000 refugees over the next year and criticized the 31 governors who have vowed not to allow refugees into their states.
“The Americans are generous people, and they understand what’s written on the Statue of Liberty,” Malloy said. “We’ll return to this common-sense situation, but a lot of governors got ahead of themselves, didn’t bother to do their homework … and jumped on the political bandwagon.” Noting that the terrorists who committed the massacres in Paris came from France and Belgium, not Syria, Malloy questioned why Republican governors have criticized Syrians in the days following the attacks. . But not all Connecticut politicians are on board with accepting the refugees. In a Monday statement, House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, questioned Malloy’s stance. Klarides said that, while the federal government must play the lead role in determining immigration policy, Connecticut homeland security experts should also have a say in who enters the state. She added that officials must bear in mind the safety of Connecticut residents when making any deci-
sions about the refugees. State Sen. Joe Markley, R-Southington, said in a Tuesday release that he heard concerns from constituents about the prudence of allowing Syrian refugees to enter Connecticut. “People are very concerned about it, and I share their concerns,” he said. “To my mind, it doesn’t make sense under the current circumstance to invite in a group of people who we can’t properly screen. Even the director of the FBI admitted that it’s a virtually impossible process to vet people adequately.” Malloy said in City Hall that the United Nations has recommended the United States take in roughly 23,000 refugees. So far, only 7,000 refugees have been approved for entry and only 2,000 have settled in the United States. A rally in support of accepting Syrian refugees is scheduled for next Saturday at the State Capitol in Hartford. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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Malloy said Connecticut will welcome a family of Syrian refugees after they were denied entry to Indiana.
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“Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.” THOMAS VILSACK U.S. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Harp defends Hillhouse academies BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp is defending the decision of New Haven Public School officials to divide James Hillhouse High School into three separate academies, despite concern from some Board of Education members, district parents and students. After an internal audit in April 2014, Hillhouse was transformed from a comprehensive high school into three academies — each with a separate focus on law, entrepreneurship and college and career readiness — to which students must apply. The school’s division led to the appointment of three separate principals for each academy, which sparked criticism from Elm City leaders and NHPS administrators who said that divided leadership would be ineffective. Harp visited Hillhouse in early November to hear from school administrators, teachers and students amid criticism of the high school’s division. But despite the opposition, Harp insists the new system at Hillhouse still needs more time to prove itself. “The three academies operating at Hillhouse remain relatively new and as such warrant more time and continuing support,” Harp said in an email to the News. “I embrace the idea of providing NHPS students and their families educational options to consider and expanded opportunities to specialize while still in secondary school and this model does all that.” Following her visit, Harp said the old comprehensive model had failed due to high rates of absenteeism and insufficient classroom rigor. She added that students and parents are gradually accept-
ing the new model, which allows students to pursue specialized courses of study. Poor communication surrounding the implementation of the academy system — especially the introduction of a fourth academy focused on social media and the arts this fall — is partly responsible for students’ initial negative perceptions of the academy system at Hillhouse, Harp said in a radio interview with WNHH. She said some seniors she met with felt the academies were isolated from each other, causing students to feel detached from the rest of the school.
The three academies will continue with continuing efforts to integrate the students enrolled in the three academies. LAURENCE GROTHEER City Spokesman City spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that while the school is divided and students are enrolled in only one academy, they are still able to take courses taught in any of the school’s other academies if a class has empty seats. “It’s not that there are three silos housed at Hillhouse High School,” Grotheer said. “The three academies will continue with continuing efforts to integrate the students enrolled in the three academies.” Grotheer said the mayor has acknowledged ways in which the integration of these three academies could be improved to allow stu-
dents to take advantage of more opportunities offered in each academy. He said the mayor is working with the leaders of all three academies to work toward unity among the academies and their principals. Yet some New Haven residents, including newly elected BOE member Edward Joyner, have called for an end to Hillhouse’s tripartite leadership. Joyner said Hillhouse’s three-principal system reflects poor leadership and management by the Board of Education and superintendent, adding that any organization should have one leader. “There has to be autonomy of command in any organization,” Joyner said. He pointed to Bridgeport Central High School, which manages its large student body of almost 1,600 — nearly 700 more students than Hillhouse — with one principal and three assistants. Grotheer said Hillhouse’s new structure is gaining popularity among Elm City residents. He said they are adjusting to Hillhouse’s new model and have shown gratitude for the mayor’s dedication to improving the academy system. “There is a process underway and I think, rather than any pushback, there has been a show of appreciation for the mayor’s personal interest in advancing this process and acknowledgment that any adjustments to what is still a relatively new arrangement might take a little longer,” Grotheer said. Hillhouse is the oldest public high school in New Haven. Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .
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Mayor Toni Harp visited Hillhouse High School to hear residents’ concerns about the school’s academy system.
State grant to grow home ownership BY NITYA RAYAPATI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven residents may soon play a larger role promoting home ownership in their neighborhoods, as part of phase II of the Neighborhood Renewal Program, an initiative which creates housing opportunities for lowincome families and encourages investors to enter the housing development market. Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, executive director of the Livable City Initiative — a housing agency committed to growing grassroots participation in development that leads the NRP — briefed the city’s Community Development Committee Wednesday evening on how New Haven can use the $3 million state housing grant it applied for in October. Neal-Sanjurjo said the Connecticut Department of Housing grant will take the NRP, which began after a $1.5 million grant from the same state department, into a second phase of growth. She said the money will help the NRP promote home ownership in Newhallville, Dixwell, and West Rock. “I believe [the program] will give the residents an opportunity to once again be involved and get some development from
the development corporations. This is an excellent start to get the development corporations up and running in these three sections of New Haven,” Frank Douglass, Dwight alder and chair of the Community Development Committee, said. Most of the phase II grant funds will subsidize workforce housing development and will facilitate development of neighborhoods with residents earning between 80 and 120 percent of the area’s median income, according to NRP’s official summary report. Funds will also go toward a building rehabilitation program to make homes more energy efficient and a workforce housing down payment assistance program to help workingand middle-class people become homeowners. The Livable City Initiative hopes to work more closely with neighborhood groups in the second phase of the NRP. “We’re trying to work with the management teams and with neighborhood groups to establish their priorities for home ownership,” Neal-Sanjurjo said. “There is a predominant number of rental units throughout the city. In order to really make any impact in those neighborhoods, we have to counteract this
with affordable housing for home ownership.” The Livable City Initiative has met with development corporations such as the Greater Dwight Development Corporation, an influential firm in the Dwight area. The GDDC consists of residents who liaise with their neighbors to determine the development goals their community shares. The Hill-to-Downtown Community Plan — an initiative similar to the NRP — has seen a similar shift in focus toward community input. A recent amendment to the Hill-to-Downtown Community Plan involves the creation of a steering committee to represent neighborhood residents in a similar way to a development corporation. “Many years ago, each neighborhood had [a development corporation],” Neal-Sanjurjo said. “They work. They’ve worked here in the past, and they work across the country every day.” According to the October City Plan Commission Advisory Report, the AMI in the Newhallville/Dixwell, Hill, and West Rock areas is currently $83,400 for a family of four. Contact NITYA RAYAPATI at nitya.rayapati@yale.edu .
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The city government applied for a $3 million grant from the State Department of Housing last month.
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“You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity” BOBBY SEALE AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST
T H E C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N
Students deliver demands to President Garrett BY SOFIA HU Black students and their stories of racism on Cornell’s campus were the focus of the entire Trillium food court, where nearly 150 students gathered to hear and deliver short speeches Tuesday afternoon. For roughly 15 minutes, students shared anecdotes, from being singled out as the “black girl in the back” of the room during a guest lecture to being told that Ujamaa Residential College is like a “cell block.” Additionally, students delivered speeches on the history of racism at Cornell and in solidarity with the University of Missouri and other college campuses. “The founding mission of Cornell University is that any person can find instruction in any study. Yet, while Cornell touts its compositional diversity, the campus environment is not conducive to the overall success of students of color and many other students whose cultural or socioeconomic backgrounds do not fit the mold of the historically wealthy, white university population,” said Noelani Gabriel, delivering a speech written collectively by a group of students. The speech calls on the university to “work with all deliberate and appropriate speed to grant the demands of its students who are demanding a fair shot in the game.” “If this institution truly expects to uphold the values of Ezra Cornell’s utopian institution on a hill, it will realize that ‘any student, any study’ should not be an empty quip, but a promise of a full, wholehearted and steadfast commitment to ensure that every student in every school and college has the resources, the love and the support to survive and thrive the rigors of our institution and the trials and triumphs of life,” Gabriel said. “It is time for Cornell to be on the right side
of history.” Fo l l o w ing the speech and a historical recount of racist events on campus, CORNELL students, one-byone, shared brief personal experiences with racism. “Just last week, in my intro swimming class, a couple friends of mine were talking about where we live. They live on West Campus [and] Collegetown, and I said where I live. I lived in Ujamaa Residential College, and one of those people said, ‘You live in a cell block?’” a student said. “No. I don’t live in a cell block. Ujamaa is not a cell block. Ujamaa is not ‘the hood.’ Ujamaa is not a prison. Ujamaa is my home.” Another student recounted how she applied to be a campus tour guide, thinking it would be an opportunity to help bring students of color onto campus. When speaking with a coworker, the student was told that she was a “diversity hire.” “I am not your token every time some inner city bus [comes to campus] and wants to schedule a tour for campus,” the student said. Students around the dining hall spoke, until other students on the second floor of Trillium launched into speeches expressing solidarity with University of Missouri and other college campuses and calling on students to support their movement. “We urge you to reflect on your place and power in this university. Though our numbers are small, our impact is and will continue to be immense,” another student said. “Do not let injustice go unheard, because you all have the rightful and deserving place on this campus. Support your black peers at this time and galvanize in solidarity with Black
MICHAELA BREW/THE CORNELL DAILY SUN
Noelani Gabriel delivers a speech on the history of racism at Cornell written collectively by a group of students. Students United and our efforts.” The speeches ended with a chant that quotes AfricanAmerican activist Assata Shakur: “It is our duty to find for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains. And we will lose them.” By 1:20 p.m., the more than 150 black students and allies funneled out of the building, marching in silence towards Day Hall.
Once there, students delivered a seven-page letter with demands addressed to President Elizabeth Garrett, who was not in her office at the time. In an interview with The Sun later that afternoon, Garrett said that while the university is committed to diversity and inclusion and has made progress through Towards New Destinations initiatives, there remains progress to be made. “I don’t think any of us are
satisfied with where we are with respect to making sure that all of our students feel that voices are being heard, that we’re discussing important issues, that we’re bringing all of their perspectives on those issues,” Garrett said. “You talk about all the tensions on campus — this is a reflection of issues we’re dealing with in larger society.” Garrett, who met with students at Ujamaa Residential College on Tuesday evening, said the
discussions she has had with students have been productive. “Every discussion that I’ve had with students has been productive and brought up important issues, indicated a willingness to work together with faculty, staff, administration and students,” Garrett said. “It’s going to take some time for us to continue with these discussions. We have a lot of work to do, but I also think that as an institution, we’ve actually accomplished some things.”
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T H E D A I LY P R I N C E T O N I A N
Students rally in support of peer school movements
Students “walkout and speakout”
BY MEG P. BERNHARD Dozens of students and Harvard affiliates gathered in the Science Center Plaza on Wednesday afternoon to rally in support of black student activists on other college campuses, where mass protests against racism have erupted in recent weeks. Protesters, who began their rally around Harvard Yard at 3:30 p.m. after some students walked out of their afternoon classes, then marched to Porter Square and met students from Tufts in a movement they have dubbed a “National Day of Action.” Seve ra l a d m i n i s t ra to rs, including University President Drew Faust and Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, joined students on the Science Cen-
ter Plaza on Monday. The Harvard protesters, many donning black on WednesHARVARD d ay, jo i n peers at several other colleges in hosting rallies and marches in support of student demonstrators at Yale, the University of Missouri at Columbia and Claremont McKenna College. A series of controversies on those campuses have instigated debate this month about the experience of students of color there and how administrators have responded to allegations of racism, as well as the role of the freedom of speech. Jay Harris, the dean of under-
graduate education, informed faculty members of the planned walk-out and march in an email earlier in the day, encouraging them to inform teaching fellows. “I am writing to let you know that many of our students plan to leave their classrooms today at 3:15 in a show of solidarity with Black students nationwide,” Harris wrote. “We know that many of you will want to join with our students in these challenging times.” Allegations of racism at peer schools have prompted protests that have spanned days. At Yale, students have held a number of highly attended marches, prompted both by a student’s claim that a male student had said his fraternity’s Halloween party was for “white girls only,”
and a separate email from Erika Christakis, who oversees a residential college at Yale alongside her husband Nicholas. In an email to her college’s residents, Christakis — who is a former master of Harvard’s Pforzheimer House — challenged an earlier message from Yale administrators advising students not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes, and some students responded with outrage. At Mizzou, students have also protested incidents involving racism and have criticized the response from the university’s officials. Timothy Wolfe, the Missouri system’s president, as well as Mizzou’s chancellor, said they would step down under pressure from protesters last week.
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A Harvard student holds up a banner during a rally at the Science Center in support of Black student activists at Yale and the University of Missouri.
BY HANNAH WAXMAN Students occupied the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber in Nassau Hall, demanding that the university acknowledge the racist legacy of former University President Woodrow Wilson and provide a cultural space dedicated to black students, at around 11:50 a.m. on Wednesday. The “Walkout and Speakout” protest, organized by the Black Justice League, began at 11:30 a.m., when nearly 200 students convened outside Nassau Hall. The organizers demanded cultural competency training for faculty and staff, a space explicitly dedicated to black students and acknowledgement that Wilson’s racist legacy is impacting campus climate and policies. The students then moved into Nassau Hall and filled the hallway, chanting, “We here. We been here. We ain’t leaving. We are loved.” Some of the students carried sleeping bags with them. Asanni York, one of the organizers of the protest, explained that the group views protest as necessary in changing the racial climate at the university. “At this point, it’s time to make something happen. A sit-in hasn’t been done on Princeton’s campus in 20 years. It’s time to make something happen.” He added they would not leave until Eisgruber signed the document with the group’s demands. “We are tired of talking to people. It’s conversation, conversation, conversation.
We try a n d p r o test; we m e e t w i t h t h e PRINCETON admini s t ra tion every other week,” York said. “We’re done talking. We’re going to be here until he signs this paper. We’re going to be here until things are met,” York said. He explained that the university administration has been addressing racerelated issues on campus “in a very white comfortist manner.” “They talk about issues without talking about the issue,” he said. “They stray away from making statements that make bold claims because they don’t want to make some people uncomfortable. But black students on this campus feel uncomfortable every day.” The protestors said that they plan to have students sign up for shifts in 30-person increments to continue the 24/7 sit-in. Leea Driskell, one of the student protestors, said that she felt that students do not get the voice they need to have in the administration, and if they do have that voice, it is not often heard. “The university has a tendency to throw money at things to silence us and to hold events to try to appease students, but it doesn’t directly meet our demands,” she said. Precepts in the African American Studies department were held in Nassau Hall.
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“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.” BILLY CONNOLLY SCOTTISH COMEDIAN
Scottish-born painter discusses career evolution BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER The School of Art hosted Thomas Lawson this week for the latest installment of its Monday Night Lecture Series. During his talk, the artist discussed the evolution of his creative practice throughout his career and the variety of influences he draws on in his work, which he described as influenced by his “day-to-day experiences.” Professor Anoka Faruqee ’94, who introduced Lawson, added that the artist — who is also the dean of the California Institute of the Arts’ School of Art — is a “prolific writer” as well as painter. “I am interested in the way in which imagery moves and survives through time,” Lawson explained. Born in Scotland, Lawson now lives in Los Angeles. For a portion of his career, the artist lived in New York, a city Lawson said he selected because of his desire for new experiences to fuel his art. At first, Lawson added, he was sentimental about leaving Scotland, noting that his first paintings completed after moving to the United States often featured nostalgic images of his native country, such as bagpipe players. As he adjusted to his new life in New York, however, Lawson said that he began to find sources of inspiration in his adopted city. He said that he became very interested in everyday things like “afternoon papers,” and began to make works that combined figurative paintings and photographs with tabloidesque titles. “New York had a lively but edgy presence, reflected in the newspaper culture,” Lawson said. After moving to New York, Lawson said he also began to travel frequently around the U.S. As a result of his travels, Lawson explained, postcards became a particular source of inspiration. On these trips, Lawson said that he would collect postcards to send or to keep as mementos of the places he visited. In particular, the artist said that he became attracted to postcards commemorating lesser-known sites. In addition to discussing his career as an artist, Lawson talked to attendees
about his time as the dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts. He said that he is influenced by the work of his students, who have, for example, helped him incorporate a more vibrant color palette into his own pieces. “As dean, I get to be among art and ‘art-thinking’ all day, and I am influenced by my students,” Lawson said. Amy Howden-Chapman, one of the talk’s attendees, said that she found the “span” of Lawson’s career particularly interesting, especially with regards to his move from New York to Los Angeles. Sara Cwynar ART ’16, a second-year photography student in the School of Art who also attended Lawson’s talk, said she appreciated the artist’s ability to bring together theory and practice, adding that she liked how Lawson was able to discuss theory in the context of his own body of work. The Yale School of Art was founded in 1869. Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .
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This week, the School of Art welcomed painter Thomas Lawson as its latest Monday Night Lecture Series guest.
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“Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.” MIKE KRZYZEWSKI DUKE BASKETBALL COACH
SMU, Duke among Thanksgiving break opponents M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 rebounds per game. “[Lehigh] really likes to push the ball and attack the rim, and they also have guys who can spread the floor with outside shooting,” captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 said. “They will be a tough team to guard, we need to understand their personnel and ‘do our job,’ as coach Jones says.” With the scoring capability of both Lehigh and Yale, which came a basket short of breaking the 100-point mark in its last contest, the game will likely be a high-scoring affair. Kempton will match up in the front court against Sherrod and forward Justin Sears ’16. Sears is coming off a 27-point showing against Sacred Heart on Monday, while Sherrod is averaging 7.5 rebounds over the first two games. Sherrod has also contributed doubledigit scoring in each game thus far, including a career-high 20 points against Fairfield. “[Sherrod and Sears are] both two really good guys at the basket and beyond,” Jones said after Monday night’s win over Sacred Heart. “They have great production and they took 16 free throws between the two of them [against Sacred Heart], so they’re putting pressure on players and getting their bench players involved in the game. I’ve been very impressed with their play. It’s the team who gets them the ball inside and makes it easier [for them].” Guards Makai Mason ’18 and Jack Montague ’16 have also
been consistent contributors early on for the Elis, accounting for 12 of the team’s 14 threepointers in the first two games while racking up 36 points per game between the two. The entire Yale starting backcourt — including Nick Victor ’16, who has grabbed 8.5 rebounds per game, and reserves Khaliq Ghani ’16 and Anthony Dallier ’17 — will be counted upon during the upcoming road trip. Following the contest against the Mountain Hawks, Yale will travel to Dallas on Sunday to face SMU, a team that won the American Athletic Conference a year ago, but fell to UCLA in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament after a controversial goaltending call gave the Bruins the 60–59 win. When the Bulldogs face the Mustangs, SMU will be without Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown, as the 75-year-old basketball legend will be serving the third game of his nine-game suspension following disciplinary action by the NCAA in late September. The NCAA came down hard on Brown and SMU, banning the team from the 2016 postseason and taking away scholarships for multiple infractions, including academic fraud and unethical conduct. Without Brown’s leadership on the bench, senior guard Nic Moore, last season’s AAC Player of the Year, will take on extra responsibility from the floor as he headlines the Mustangs’ attack. Moore averaged a team-high 14.5 points and 5.1 assists per game last season, but he was held to eight points
in SMU’s only game thus far, a season-opening 85–50 victory over Sam Houston State. In a game that will double as a homecoming of sorts for Victor — he is a Dallas, Texas native — Yale is facing SMU for the first time in school history. “It’s going to be an amazing atmosphere,” Sherrod said. “[SMU is] a tremendously athletic team so the game will be a great challenge to see how we stand up against some nonconference teams.” Although the atmosphere in Dallas may be electric, it will likely pale in comparison to the craziness that will take place on Wednesday when the Elis square off against another legendary coach, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski. In Cameron Indoor Stadium, home of Duke’s student section known as the “Cameron Crazies,” the Bulldogs will confront the iconic Blue Devils. Duke’s size and athleticism are areas of concern for the Bulldogs. Although guard Grayson Allen did not play well in a Tuesday loss to No. 2 Kentucky, the sophomore still leads the Blue Devils in scoring with 20.0 points per game through three contests, while upperclassmen Amile Jefferson and Matt Jones are each averaging at least 15 points per game. The Bulldogs will also have to match up against 6’9” freshman Brandon Ingram, the No. 3 recruit in last year’s recruiting class. With Ingram currently averaging 13.3 points per game from the small forward position, Victor, arguably Yale’s
best perimeter defender, will likely bear the responsibility of guarding the NBA prospect. Coach K, as Krzyzewski is known, has won an all-time best 1,020 games in his 40-year head-coaching career, including five national championships with the Blue Devils. “I think the team is most looking to gain experience against top talent and some of the best coached teams [Larry Brown and Coach K] in the country,” Montague said. “Hopefully we can pull off some great wins but our focus is just getting better together as a team. These non-conference games will really help us achieve that.” Montague and the Bulldogs know a thing or two about knocking off defending national champions. In a December meeting last season against the 2014 national champions, the University of Connecticut, Montague hit a corner three with seconds remaining to give Yale a 45–44 win, perhaps its most highprofile victory in recent memory. The game between Yale and Duke will be aired on ESPNU at 7 p.m. The final leg of the non-conference road trip for the Bulldogs concludes on Sunday, Nov. 29 with a contest against Albany in New York, which will be the fourth state that the Bulldogs will have played in during the 10-day stretch. Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .
WR injuries hamper Roberts FOOTBAL FROM PAGE 12 the Elis in August of 2013, Roberts told the New Haven Register, “This team is going places. I’d be shocked if we don’t see a championship in the next couple of years.” That prediction did not come to fruition, but one year later, Roberts did manage to break through as the leader of a historically dominant Yale offensive system. His record-breaking season, during a year in which the Elis finished 8–2, earned him a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team, and his performance in the classroom that same year made him an Academic All-Ivy honoree. “Aside from setting passing records, Morgan has played a pivotal role in transforming Yale football into the winning program it’s expected to be,” running back Austin Reuland ’16 said. “He has helped shape a culture filled with success and the ability to respond to all types of adversity.” Following the momentum of the 2014 season, Roberts decided to come back to campus over the summer to help prepare his offense for 2015. Reuland noted the quarterback’s strong
ability to lead the more inexperienced players, both with his words and with his actions. That summer, Roberts also lost his top two wide receivers in Grant Wallace ’15 and Deon Randall ’15, who were one-two in the Ivy League rankings with a combined 206.8 receiver yards per game. Just a few months later, Roberts faced additional adversity, as Clemons, last year’s third starting receiver, went down with an injury, and North Carolina State transfer wide receiver Bo Hines ’18, touted as a potential replacement for the class of 2015 talent, played just parts of four games due to a pair of injuries. Wide receivers Chris WilliamsLopez ’18, Myles Gaines ’17 and Michael Siragusa Jr. ’18 have also each missed time due to injuries this season. When the number of injuries was at its worst in the middle of the season, Roberts’ performance suffered markedly: Roberts threw three interceptions against Dartmouth and another three — all in the red zone — against Penn, and he was taken out for parts of Yale’s loss to Columba after completing just 12 passes for 24 yards. With many of the injured
Northeast) on Saturday. The Knights had a mixed season last year, finishing 10–20, but are led by center Erika Livermore, the reigning Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Year, and last week’s
Northeast Conference Player of the Week, guard Kelsey Cruz. Cruz leads the nation in scoring, albeit after one game, thanks to a 41-point effort against Manhattan. “FDU challenges you to prepare for multiple defensive
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Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 is scoring 9.5 points per game, in addition to snatching 4.5 rebounds per contest.
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Last week at Princeton, Roberts became the all-time Yale leader in career total offense despite playing just three years. players back on the field near the end of the year — but not Hines, whose status is still unclear — Roberts has led a significantly improved offensive performance in Yale’s most recent two wins. His 68.3 and 69.0 percent completion rates in wins over Brown and Princeton are second and third only to Roberts’ performance in Week 1, when Hines caught six passes for 68 yards before going out. “It is really hard to compare one season to another,” Rob-
erts said. “Last year we had the number one offense in the country and limited injuries. This year we have shown sparks of greatness, but did not put it all together until these past two games. I think my role on this team has changed to becoming a more vocal leader.” Roberts will play his last game at Yale, and his last Game, Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .
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Forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 is one of four Yale starters averaging at least 14 points per game this season.
looks and that’s exactly what we’ve done,” Guth said. After Fairleigh Dickinson, Yale will take on UNC, which has made 13 of the past 14 NCAA Tournaments. The Tarheels are coming off an extremely successful season that saw them finish 26–9 and make it to the Sweet 16 of March Madness. This season, the Tarheels are boosted by the addition of freshman guard Destinee Walker, a five-star recruit who was ranked 17th in her class by ESPN. Walker has already made an impact on the team —in its three games so far this season, she has played the most minutes on the team and is tied for the team lead with 19 points per game. Despite the high-profile matchup, the Bulldogs do not view this game as any different from the others on their schedule. “We approach games against big teams like UNC the
same as we would any other game. We focus on shutting down their best players and work on our defensive and offensive strategies in practice to counter whatever they might throw at us,” Wyckoff said. “Our motto is ‘respect all, fear none,’ which means preparing for each team as if they are a quality team that can potentially beat you, but knowing that no team is invincible and having confidence that you’ll win the game if you execute the game plan.” These three games constitute the first leg of the tournament and Yale will play each of its games on North Carolina’s campus. All proceeds from the tournament benefit the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .
he has seen since graduating, he has never seen the team’s fitness as a problem to be corrected, but that instead the issue is that the players have developed a culture of losing. “There aren’t many ways to gain a winning mentality without winning,” goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 said. “You can watch inspirational videos, have confidence in practice, even do mental imagery to see yourself compete at the level desired, but nothing replaces the emotional relief and confidence of a victory. Our mentality will change when we succeed in getting results.” With seven one-goal losses haunting the team — including six in which the Elis held their opponents scoreless in the first half — both Stannard and midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 noted a lack of focus late in games. Stannard said that the defense specifically, which allowed a league-worst 2.12 goals per game in 2015, was a central issue throughout the year. This was despite the fact that defense was much more of a focus for Stannard upon arriving in New Haven than it was for previous head coach Brian Tompkins, according to Simpson. “In [Tompkins’] practices, we didn’t focus particularly on one side of the ball or another, just simply played,” Simpson said. “With Coach Stannard, our efforts were much more defensive-oriented, reflected in games by our strength defensively in terms of team shape and also potentially showing some of our disconnect in transitioning into the attacking third.” Spelman, who was in his second season at Yale when Tompkins began his 19-year tenure, noted the crucial role a new coach can play in turning around a team. When Tompkins came to Yale in 1996, his program improved from a seventh-place finish in the Ivy League in 1995 to second place the next year. Although Stannard came from a Big 10 school, he does not believe that the different climate in the Ivy League — including more academic demands on athletes, he said — had a significant impact on the season’s result. He explained that while Yale and Michigan State play entirely different opponents, there is not a large difference from the standpoint of competitiveness
between teams. “At every level in Division I, there is no easy game,” Stannard said. “That is the same whether it is Michigan State or Yale or the ACC or whatever it is.” Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said in an email to the News that the goals and objectives for each athletic program are defined at the start of each year. He added that at the end of each season a review of all aspects of the program is conducted — none of which can be shared with the public, Beckett said. Senior Associate Athletic Director Jeremy Makins, the administrator in charge of Yale soccer, did not provide any additional information but said that the Yale athletics administration supports Stannard in any goals he has a coach. The Bulldogs’ poor performance in the last two years has also not seemed to affect the recruitment process, Stannard said. He said that because Yale has such “an incredible brand name” both nationally and internationally, the recruits who had already verbally committed to the program earlier this year have not changed their stance. “We’re getting interests, but we have to start being able to compete against those high academic schools that we compete with, even outside the Ivy League, like Duke, Notre Dame and Stanford,” Stannard said. “But believe it or not, we’re actually getting kids that have been in conversation with some of those places.” As of Nov. 18, Yale has five players verbally committed for the class of 2020, according to TopDrawerSoccer.com, a website that provides statistics for both highschool and college level soccer. Nine months before Stannard’s new recruits come to campus, former player Charles Paris ’12 said he is confident in the program’s ability to turn itself around. “This season was not great, last season was not great,” Paris said. “I would love to see more wins, but I think it’s coming. I hope it’s coming.” In addition to Stannard, Yale brought in two other new head coaches this fall: women’s basketball head coach Allison Guth and women’s lacrosse head coach Erica LaGrow. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .
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YALE WOMEN’S SOCCER THREE UNDERCLASSMEN HONORED When the Ivy League announced its postseason awards, three Eli newcomers were recognized. Midfielder Sofia Griff ’19 earned a spot on the All-Ivy second team, while defender Hannah Coy ’19 and forward Michelle Alozie ’19 received All-Ivy honorable mention selections.
“This year we’ve shown sparks of greatness.” MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 QUARTERBACK
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Stannard awaits better results BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND LISA QIAN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a new head coach and several talented freshmen this year, the Yale men’s soccer team finished its season with a 1–14–2 record — strikingly reminiscent of last year’s 1–13–3.
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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 spent his first two years of college football at Clemson, which is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation. BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER He was given 30 games as a Bulldog. Now that the ninth contest of the season has passed for the Elis, quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 sees his time to wear the Yale jersey ticking away, but not too quickly for him to leave an offensive legacy behind him when he leaves New Haven. Roberts, in his second year as the starting signal caller for Yale, already holds Yale records for highest completion percentage, passing yards and passing touchdowns in a season — 66.8
percent, 3,220 and 22, respectively, all of which came in 2014. Though Roberts stands at fourth in the Ivy League for passing yards this season, his performance last season and consistency as a starter made him, as of last week, the Yale leader in career total offense with 6,089 yards. Roberts can set the record for passing yards in a career with 261 or more against Harvard on Saturday. But his mentality and leadership, not his statistics, are what his teammates laud him for as the season draws to a close. “We call the quarterbacks the point guard of the offense,
and he truly resembles that in every way,” wide receiver Robert Clemons III ’17 said. “He leads the offense and keeps us together. Not only does he do that for the offense, but he leads the team by the example he sets in practice, in the film room and on game day.” A North Carolina native, Roberts was originally recruited to attend Clemson in nearby South Carolina, whose football program is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation with a 10–0 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference. As a third-string quarterback for the Tigers, Rob-
Hoops travels south BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A year after the Yale women’s basketball team participated in the Great Alaska Shootout during Thanksgiving break, the Bulldogs will limit their travel this time around and remain on the East Coast this season.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Beginning this weekend, Yale will participate in the two-week Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge with matchups against Iona, Fairleigh Dickinson and perennial powerhouse North Carolina. Coming off a dominant 67–34 win against Albertus Magnus and a tight 81–75 loss to Dayton, who made the Elite Eight in last year’s NCAA Tournament, the Bulldogs will look to improve upon their 1–1 record over Thanksgiving break. “These past two games have been very exciting to see how great our defensive intensity and offensive system are,” forward Meredith Boardman ’16 said. The three games will take place over three days, before Yale returns home for a midweek contest against Holy Cross in New Haven. The Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge will resume on Sunday, Nov. 29, when Yale takes on West Virginia at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 has been happy with the team’s ability to score early on but the offense has averaged 20 turnovers a game, a number Wyckoff and company will look to minimize. “We’ve done a good job pushing the ball in transition and looking for quick, easy buckets,” Wyckoff said. “Our offensive execution has also been good, but we definitely need to work on valuing the possession and not turning the ball over.” The Bulldogs’ (1–1, 0–0 Ivy) first game of the non-conference tournament is Friday night against Iona (0–2, 0–0 MAAC). Iona finished fourth last year in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference standings and this year, the Gaels have had to adjust to the loss of three-time conference player of the year Damika Martinez, a guard who is the all-time leading scorer in the MAAC. The Bulldogs will look to slow down senior forward Joy Adams — a two time All-MAAC first team selection — who has been counted on to fill the scoring void created by Martinez’s graduation. “Iona is an incredibly athletic and talented ball club,” head coach Allison Guth said. “They are aggressive and run great offense that showcases their multiple scoring threats. We hope to defend in a way that gets them out of their rhythm.” The next game in the challenge will be against Fairleigh Dickinson (0–1, 0–0 SEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 10
STAT OF THE DAY 6,089
The 2014 and 2015 seasons have been historic for Yale: The last time the program posted backto-back one-win seasons was 93 years ago. The season came as a disappointment to head coach Kylie Stannard, who came in fresh off helping Michigan State University reach the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals as an associate head coach. Stannard, in addition to current and past Yale players, noted the importance of giving a new coach time to develop a program under a new philosophy, adding that the team’s final record is only one of many standards for
erts saw more than enough talent in his former teammates to prepare him for Ivy League football when he announced his transfer in January of 2013. Roberts walked into a Yale football program rebuilding itself. In 2012, the Elis were only able to scrape out two wins, just one of which was a conference victory against a winless Columbia team. Nevertheless, Roberts saw promise in the team he had moved hundreds of miles to join. During his first preseason for SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10
gauging the success of a season. “I think a lot of positive stuff still occurred this past year,” Stannard said. “Our ability to fight until the end of the game was critical to give us a chance to try to get some results.” Stannard cited the team’s improved fitness — which has been one of his main focuses since coming to Yale — as a major contributor to the Bulldogs’ fighting spirit in the face of a one-win season. He added that the Elis were able to play hard throughout entire games, even those that went over the 90-minute mark. Douglas Spelman ’99 — a former men’s soccer captain and a current member of the Yale Soccer Association board — highlighted the importance of a winning mentality, which he said is difficult to maintain when no players on the current roster have played for a Yale team that finished above 0.500. He added that in all of the games SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10
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Defender/midfielder Ollie Iselin ’18 tied for second on Yale with two goals.
Yale embarks on high-profile trip BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team opened its season with two resounding wins over Fairfield and Sacred Heart by an average margin of 17.5 points, defeating the Stags 70-57 and dominating the Pioneers 99-77.
MEN’S BASKETBALL The Bulldogs (2–0, 0–0 Ivy) look to continue that momentum Thursday night against Lehigh, a game that marks the beginning of a challenging stretch of non-conference road games over Thanksgiving break. In addition to Lehigh, the Elis will face Southern Methodist, Duke and Albany all within a 10-day stretch. “We are taking all of these games as learning experiences before we get to the 14-game [Ivy League] tournament,” forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 said. “We have to make sure that each game, no matter how difficult or how crazy it gets, is one which we are learning from.” Although powerhouses No. 5 Duke, the defending national champions, and SMU, which garnered votes but did not crack the latest Top-25 poll, are looming, the immediate concern for head coach James Jones’ squad is a Lehigh team that lost to Syracuse last Friday in a competitive 57–47 contest. The Mountain Hawks also dropped a 98–89 decision to Canisius on Monday, though their 0–2 record may not clearly indicate their talent level, as
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Forward Justin Sears ’16 bounced back from a six-point season opener with 27 points against Sacred Heart on Monday. Lehigh returns an experienced team from last season’s 16–14 group and topped the preseason Patriot League media poll for the second time in four seasons. Through two games, the Mountain Hawks have been led offensively
by the duo of Tim Kempton and Austin Price, both of whom are averaging more than 16 points per game. Kempton, a preseason Lou Henson All-American, is also averaging 9.5 SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 10
THE NUMBER OF CAREER TOTAL OFFENSIVE YARDS THAT QUARTERBACK MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 HAS COMPILED AT YALE. Roberts became the all-time Yale leader last week at Princeton, and he is 261 yards away from doing the same in passing yards.