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Harvard-Yale under the lights

Welcome to The 132nd Game.

The Yale football team will battle Harvard for the 132nd time at the Yale Bowl. Students can pick up tickets from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Payne Whitney Gym today or at The Game on Saturday. The Yale College Council will hold its annual tailgate at 11 a.m. at the Bowl, and kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. The News wishes the Bulldogs the best of luck.

A call to action. Democratic

Views from the other side.

Hot off the press. Paprika,

a School of Architecture magazine, launched a kickstarter campaign to raise $15,000 yesterday. The funds will give the magazine the security to publish 20 issues next year and will guarantee its editorial independence.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Purple Crayon of Yale is partnering with Harvard’s IGP improv troupe to host a joint show. The free show is open to everyone who can fit inside LC 211 at 9 p.m. tonight.

The improv show is one of many joint student events with Harvard groups tonight.

The Yale Glee Club will give a concert with their Crimson counterparts at Woolsey Hall.

All Roads Lead to Toad’s.

Toad’s Place will host special dance parties tonight and tomorrow night in honor of Harvard-Yale weekend. The event on Facebook already has over 3,500 attendees. How will the age-old rivalry translate on the dance floor?

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 Jerald Stevens ’63, Yale’s vice president for finance and administration, announces that Jonathan Edwards and Timothy Dwight are Yale’s two wealthiest residential colleges.

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Faculty divided on free speech In classrooms and offices across campus, faculty have watched as students and administrators debate racial tensions on campus, freedom of expression and where the two intersect, if at all. While most have been less vocal than their students about the issues at hand, professors interviewed said the faculty is deeply divided about whether recent controversies threaten free speech on campus.

Many students, administrators and commentators across the country have argued that ongoing demonstrations and conversations on campus revolve around Yale’s long history of racial discrimination and should not be framed as attempts to censor dissenting viewpoints.

But others see the campus outcry — which was partially triggered by an email from Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis that defended students’ rights to be offensive — as an attack on free speech. A recent petition endorsed by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program calling on University President Peter Salovey to defend the freedom of expression garnered more than 700 signatures, including more than 400 from alumni, staff and faculty.

Although top Yale administrators have sent emails reaffirming the University’s commitment to free speech and highlighting the importance of the Woodward Report — a 1974

biography of former President George H.W. Bush ’48, “Destiny and Power,” author Jon Meacham writes that the elder Bush can do a spot-on impression of fellow Yale alum and presidential successor Bill Clinton LAW ’73. Bush has mixed views on Clinton. “He’s just shameless,” Bush says to Meacham. “But outgoing and gregarious. I like the man.”

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson ’73, who has been criticized for his views regarding Syrian refugees in the United States, continues to stand by his position. At a campaign event in Alabama yesterday, Carson deemed it “unwise” to welcome refugees.

Policy advisor AnneMarie Slaughter delivers two talks on strategy

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First impressions. In his

presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 called for an accelerated plan to defeat the Islamic State yesterday.

This plan, which includes establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrians and increased deployment of special operations troops on the ground in the Middle East, is more radical than that proposed by President Barack Obama.

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Amid campus turmoil, alumni fundraiser cancelled

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS The week before the 132nd playing of the Harvard-Yale football game, the University cancelled its fifth annual alumni fundraiser, citing recent campus racial controversies.

The Harvard-Yale participation challenge, in which both universities compete to see which can garner the most

alumni donors, has typically run during the 10 days leading up to The Game. In the past, Yale has secured donations from thousands of alumni through the competition: 3,870 in 2014, 3,999 in 2013 and 1,010 in 2012, according to the event’s Facebook page. University spokesman Tom Conroy said on behalf of the Yale Office of Development that the event’s organizers — both the Yale and Harvard College alumni funds — agreed

After backlash, Dems reverse CEP suspension

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After an uproar within its base, the Democratic leadership of the Connecticut State Senate has reversed its proposal to suspend the Citizens’ Election Program to balance the state budget.

With the state facing a daunting budget deficit, the Democratic leadership of the General Assembly proposed a slate of $350 million in budget cuts on Monday. Included in that slate was a proposal to suspend the CEP, which funds candidates’ campaigns for state legislature and statewide office, for the 2016 elections. But outrage within the Democratic rankand-file forced Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, to unveil a new set of budget proposals that would keep the CEP. The Democratic backlash against the proposal to cut the CEP — which was founded after a series of high-profile corruption cases in Connecticut that culminated in former Gov. John Rowland’s resigna-

tion — came swiftly after Monday’s announcement. In a news release Wednesday, State Elections Enforcement Commission Executive Director Michael Brandi said the commission, which administers the CEP, would oppose any budget that suspended the program.

“There should be no question that if the CEP is defunded and suspended for 2016, clean elections in Connecticut are over,” Brandi said in the release.

“If, as some have said, candidates ‘could revert back to the old 2005 system’ then we’re talking about returning to the same environment that created the need for the CEP in the first place.”

Brandi added that the proposed suspension would deliver a “mortal wound” to the CEP, leaving it without adequate funding for the 2018 elections.

Secretary of State Denise Merrill also registered her opposition to cutting the CEP, asserting in a Wednesday statement that clean elections are important in preventing corSEE DEMOCRATS PAGE 4

to call off the fundraiser due to intense national scrutiny of recent campus events, which include heated discourse among students about the racial climate at Yale. Funds raised by Yale through the challenge, though often modest, traditionally go toward the University’s annual fund.

“Given the current volume of discourse on social media and in the press, the leaders of both the Yale Alumni Fund and The Har-

vard College Fund felt that, in order to enable our communities and conversations to focus on the issues impacting our students, this was not the best time to send numerous and broad solicitations,” Conroy said.

Harvard’s Office of Communications did not return a request for comment about the cancellation.

Many Yale graduates have spoken out against recent student demonstrations, lead-

ing to questions about how national perceptions will affect alumni donations. An open letter to University President Peter Salovey from the Committee for the Defense of Freedom at Yale — a coalition of students, faculty and alumni — garnered 485 alumni signatures as of Thursday night. The letter denounced the student protests and called on the administration not to SEE ALUMNI PAGE 4

Yale and the national media

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National media have painted contrasting pictures of conversations on campus.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Within the span of five days, a crowd of students surrounded Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway on Cross Campus, University of Missouri president Timothy Wolfe resigned under pressure from the football team and hundreds of Ithaca Col-

lege faculty and students publicly condemned their president’s handling of campus racism.

These demonstrations quickly made headlines in every major national publication, and battles lines were soon drawn: while conservative pundits framed the protests as an issue of freedom of speech, left-leaning writers used the history of discrimi-

nation at American universities to defend the protests as a long-overdue reaction to institutional racism. The past two weeks’ coverage of Yale’s protests in particular has highlighted how the national media can shape the direction and discussion of a developing story, both for a national audience and on campus.

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A more perfect union A O

n March 18, 2008, Barack Obama gave the most important speech of his political career. ABC News had found clips of the then-senator’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright delivering tirades against the American government, including a clip, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, in which Wright echoed Malcolm X: “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

When Obama’s denunciation of Wright’s sermons was not enough to sate his critics, he delivered a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Obama tried to explain the greater social and cultural context of Wright’s frustration with the institutions that had failed him.

“The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through — a part of our union that we have yet to perfect,” Obama said, nearly eight years ago. His words are no less relevant today.

THE RACISM THAT REMAINS UNADDRESSED IN AMERICA IS QUIET AND INSIDIOUS In the past few weeks, many earnest, socially conscious white people have expressed dismay at the recent unrest at Yale. Some have cast it as a conflict between political correctness and free speech. Others see it as evidence of coddled college students and knee-jerk liberal sympathy for minorities. Woven through these columns and conversations is the same doubt: “It’s Yale. How bad can it be? Is the melodrama necessary?” These questions miss the bigger picture.

The twilight of the Obama administration has presided over a series of setbacks to racial equality. Many American institutions aren’t as equitable as we might hope.

Between the Supreme Court’s excoriation of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the consequent slew of statewide voter ID laws, the astronomical rates of black male incarceration and widely covered shootings of young, unarmed black men, we are far from the “postracial” society many spoke of after Obama’s election. The furor that erupted at Yale and other universities across the nation should be understood in

the greater context of American racial politics. “Peaks in racial progress tend to come NATHAN in concert KOHRMAN with valleys of backAt the seam lash,” wrote Jelani Cobb in 2013, covering the VRA decision for the New Yorker.

Yale students do not face the worst racism in America, but the existence of racism in America’s most privileged institutions is nonetheless pernicious, if at times inadvertent. Racism can exist anywhere in America. Microaggressions — which became parody fodder for certain members of the media — may seem trivial in the grand scheme of American racial politics. But the attitude that some prejudice is too small and too complicated to address is lazy for a school that commits itself to excellence, and a union that commits itself to equality.

In his response to the 2013 VRA decision, Jelani Cobb wrote, “We’ve entered a new terrain … where we must muster evidence of bias in increasingly vast volumes to warrant policies applied in ever narrowing circumstances; where nothing qualifies as what we once called racism, and commitment to this perspective is all but data-proof.” This is both a challenge and a privilege. Flagrant racism — the racism of “Whites Only” signs and angry segregationist mobs — is no longer acceptable in America. But like a pathogen it has mutated. The racism that remains unaddressed in America is quiet and insidious.

It has marbled over centuries into the pillars of institutions that represent and serve people of all colors and creeds. It is harder to see, particularly if you’re white, and can spring from myopia or naivete. But its consequences are as denigrating and dangerous as ever.

It is our generation’s responsibility to face this more subtle racism. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We are further along that arc, closer to justice, but countless complexities and challenges remain to work through. We should not settle for a union or a University that is good enough, but one that is as perfect as it can be.

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Freeman” is emblazoned on the inner lining. A quick Google search shows that Pearlie spends her Sundays ministerAUSTIN on ChiBRYNIARSKI ing cago’s northwest side, Guns and but otherwise the coat butter is shrouded in mystery.

I picked up the coat for $20 in the secondhand wilderness of St. Charles, Illinois, out shopping with my cousins after our holiday feast. I knew right then I would bring the coat back with me to complete my freshman year at Yale, to show to my suitemates and anyone else who’d get a kick out of it. Months later, it was announced that Macklemore would be gracing the Spring Fling stage. It was then that I knew the coat was blessed.

Of course, I wore it to Spring Fling, and before performing “Thrift Shop,” Macklemore called me out, saying he wanted to wear the coat on stage, so I stripped it off. The coat surfed over the crowd to the rapper. He put it on, talked about how bad it smelled,

threw it back and the coat and I were reunited. Freshman year had ended, and I feared the coat’s story had ended along with it.

OUR TAILGATING OUTFITS ARE NOT SUBSTITUTES FOR OUR IDENTITIES, BUT RATHER REFLECTIONS OF THEM But then, during my sophomore year, The Game was at Yale, and the coat reared its head once again. Thereafter, my coat would travel among friends who needed it for a party here or a photo there.

I feared that maybe the coat was taking on a life of its own.

Did people only like me for my furs? Or did it exert some magic, seductive power on them as it did on me?

This past summer, comedian Brandon Wardell tweeted, “summer is hard 4 ppl [sic] who have a collection of cool jackets

as a substitute for a personality.”

I feared that maybe I was one of these people, substituting decadent pelt for persona, an anxious freshman looking to impress his friends.

Yet presentation does not have to come at the expense of personality. Steve Jobs had his turtleneck, and Hillary has her pantsuit. Our tailgating outfits are not substitutes for our identities, but rather reflections of them.

Over the past few years my coat has developed a little bit of a reputation, so much so that more confidants than I could count on one hand have asked if it will be making an appearance this time around. One friend sarcastically said, “If that coat could talk!”

Well, it would probably talk a lot about my time at Yale. One mentor of mine went even further, stating, “It’s so fun. It’s so Yale.

It’s so you.”

Sometimes I wonder if Pastor Freeman ever wonders what her coat is up to. If she doesn’t, though, at least heaven does, smiling down on Yale and the coat. I’ll see you at the tailgate, fur and all.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column runs on Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

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Pause to reflect

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ext week, we pause. Surrounded by smiling faces, by welcoming aromas, by an irresistible sense of wellbeing, we pause over our plates to offer words of gratitude, to acknowledge what we are lucky to have and what we are proud to be.

This year, we pause a second longer. We pause to reflect on events that have shaken the campus to its core, leaving students, administrators and millions around the nation questioning the University and what it stands for. We pause to reflect on the voices that have at once decried injustice and whispered hope. We pause to reflect on the long overdue abandonment of silence — for silence is anathema to the possibility of change.

It is all too easy to get overwhelmed by the negativity of the past few weeks, but we would be remiss not to acknowledge and give thanks for the strides that have been made in such a short time. Though much work remains

to be done, President Salovey’s email represents an affirmation of the administration’s dedication to concrete reform. Perhaps just as encouraging is the students’ dedication — I, and I’m sure many of you, have been part of countless marches, teach-ins and suite discussions about the role of the individual at a time like this.

But while we should pause to reflect on the power of our voices, we should also reflect on the obligations we have beyond this campus. It is natural to prioritize our own issues over all else, but a student body like Yale’s has a duty to do better. The last two weeks have proven that we have the strength to incite change not only at Yale but also on campuses across the nation. But we can’t afford to stop there.

It reflects poorly on us when, after leveraging our social media capital to demand real change from the administration, the most we can do for France is to

create a temporary profile picture. It is a worrying sign that, as we rally for change on campus, we say nothing about the need for change two hours south — a front page poll in The New York Times shows that half of New Yorkers are “barely getting by.” And as state governments in our country turn desperate Syrian refugees away, our campus has done little more than grumble, too caught up in the injustices we face to empathize with the injustices of others.

I do not mean to discredit the efforts of various organizations and individuals on campus to reach beyond Yale’s walls.

But you can’t help but notice the conspicuous lack of outraged opeds, of charged demonstrations and animated protests, of campuswide discussion and moves to make change on these issues. Are we so wrapped up in ourselves that we ignore the struggles of others, even when those struggles run parallel to our own?

We have proven our power. We have made our voice heard. But we do a great disservice to the world when we choose to remain silent on topics that don’t fit in our bubble.

So as I pause this Thanksgiving, I will reflect not only what has happened, but what must happen beyond our campus gates. I will pause to consider my duty to expand my horizons and to cut through the silence. I will pause to give thanks for the platform, the peers and the resources that have been given to me, that ensure my voice can — and will— resonate beyond the University.

And despite the tumult still raging and the changes that must follow, I will pause to give thanks for the unity of the student body in the face of adversity. These past weeks has left me prouder than ever to be a student at Yale.

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

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My coat, my self

h, The Game. My favorite confluence of Harvard and Yale, second only to the Ivy League Snapchat story. It’s a time where Yalies from across time and space convene at the Yale Bowl to watch basketball or something, drinking in the crisp November air and even crisper Natural Ice. Perhaps the most valuable part of The Game is not the 11 or so minutes of playtime, but rather the hours of debauchery leading up to the kickoff. For any true Yale student, the tailgate is the focal point of the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and just as our boys are uniformed in that grey-tinged Yale Blue, the tailgate attendee requires a certain uniform. Tailgaters trade helmets for wigs, shoulder pads for cutoff sleeves and navy for neon. The outfit is essential.

Over the past few years, I’ve curated a unique tailgate outfit drawer of my own — some items were inherited, some were procured with great intention. The most iconic article is a billowy fur coat. At 6-foot-3, I cannot keep it from dragging on the floor with a regal flourish that would make Louis XIV envious. Jaws drop at the sight of this coat. It’s just that striking.

I have few clues as to the coat’s provenance. “Pastor Pearlie

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a senior in Saybrook College. His column usually runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

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Reflections on the revolution

hat the American university is in crisis is a statement that now commands wide agreement.

What are students complaining about? That Yale and other elite universities are mired in outdated conventions and ideas, which exclude and discomfit students who don’t “fit the mold.” For conservatives, and even for many moderates, these claims are mysterious: There are few institutions in American life that are so utterly beholden to the left and its principal tenets. But that doesn’t seem to impress the radicals.

And so what happens is that students’ particularized grievances — an “insensitive” administrative email, perhaps, or an alleged “white girls only” party or, at Mizzou, a “poop swastika” drawn in a public bathroom — are transformed into abstract condemnations of entire schools. A university’s “racial climate” — which can include anything and everything about it — is deemed insufficiently “sensitive” or “inclusive.”

Of course, nebulous accusations that an entire institution is “insensitive” are nearly unfalsifiable, especially when these charges are ultimately grounded in feelings or, as the phrase goes today, students’ “lived experiences.” Indeed, it sometimes seems that the unfalsifiable nature of so many of these muzzy claims is quite deliberate. It is virtually

impossible to quarrel with feelings. Muddled language makes for muddled minds, and muddled minds make for easy, unanswerable indictments.

Our administrators, who ought to act with prudence and foresight, appear helpless in the face of these indictments. Consider President Salovey’s email to the Yale community this week.

Without any fight or pushback — indeed, with no thoughts as to burdens versus benefits — he capitulated in most respects to the demands of a small faction of theatrically aggrieved students.

Within his prolix “letter to the community,” there was but one good idea: a reduction in the student income contribution, which rather ought to be done away with entirely and replaced with something like the law school’s career options assistance program.

Aside from this, three main proposals stand out: the further funneling of resources toward the “intellectually ambitious and important fields” of race, ethnicity, gender, inequality and inclusion; the doubling of cultural house funding; and mandatory diversity training for faculty and staff, as well as new orientation programs that “explore diversity and inclusion.”

These are all bad ideas, for many reasons. But if President Salovey sees any downsides, one would never know it from his message.

The only hint of reservation that can be found in Salovey’s email is his brief assurance that our commitment to eradicating racism and discrimination in no way “conflicts with our commitment to free speech.” Although one would hope that this assurance is valid, it is also largely beside the point.

What is wrong with Salovey’s plan for Yale, and the direction in which he is taking our fine university? The diversity behemoth is an enormous waste of academic time and energy. The cultural houses arguably contribute to campuswide racial balkanization at least as much as they diminish it. Mandatory diversity training presents a grave threat to intellectual honesty and rigorous inquiry, because it assumes the truth of propositions that must ultimately be tested by empirical study. The proliferation of hyper-ideological “studies” majors takes us further, as Glenn Loury put it, “onto a slippery slope that slides down into intellectual mediocrity.” The growing amount of time Yale students spend thinking about racial injustice is taken away from acquiring useful analytic skills and concrete knowledge in a broad range of subjects vital to our world’s future, and from learning to think carefully, rigorously and quantitatively, including about race and social inequality. These shortcomings have little to do with threats to free speech.

The true crisis of the American university is one of cowardice and craven capitulation. If free speech is to have meaning, people must have the courage to speak.

My suspicion is that many students and faculty agree with at least some, if not most, of these assertions. Yet few dare to say so.

And even fewer will argue for their merits.

That refusal to speak up is unfortunate. Campus radicals see themselves as moral crusaders, as champions of a secular “social justice” creed. They are not nihilistic relativists without a point of view. Rather, they want the university’s authorities to accede to their vision, to accept their point of view and their grievances without resistance. But that presents the university with a true “teachable moment” — to show our socalled activists, gently but firmly, why their view of reality, of the university’s role and of what’s best for society’s future, is shallow, hollow and misguided.

H. L. Mencken once said that democracy tends to degenerate into a “mere combat of crazes.”

He might just as well have said the same about the modern American university.

Do those who run Yale care to prove him wrong?

ISAAC COHEN is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at isaac.n.cohen@yale.edu .

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Upped security for Harvard-Yale

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Due to the later kickoff and high-profile nature of the event, security forces will be on high alert Saturday afternoon when thousands of students and alumni flood into the Bowl for this year’s Harvard-Yale football game.

The Yale Police Department, New Haven Police Department, West Haven Police Department, Connecticut State Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigations and New Haven’s Office of Emergency Management are all coordinating to ensure that the expected 40,000 to 50,000 students and alumni in attendance are kept safe.

Although no students interviewed expressed concern for their safety this weekend, Deputy Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Janet Lindner said in an email to the News that security plans remain a high priority.

“For over a decade, these plans have included threat assessments and plans are developed accordingly,” Lindner said. “This year will be particularly complex because The Game will be played later in the day than it usually is.”

This year, The Game will start

later in the afternoon as opposed to at noon, with the second part of the game taking place after sunset.

Similar to Commencement, Lindner said, the security details for The Game are just one part of coordinating the largescale event. She added that specifics of the security details are kept confidential.

New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman explained that though the City of New Haven plans for other high-capacity events during the year, such as the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Labor Day Road Race, the HarvardYale game is always a bit different. This is mainly due to the large number of high-profile alumni that come to the game, some of whom require additional security measures. Hartman noted that there will be dignitaries at The Game on Saturday, but because of security reasons, could not divulge who.

Hartman added that in light of recent global terrorist attacks, the police are concerned with making sure that people feel safe. He acknowledged the need to address public anxiety following the attacks in Paris, and other global cities. On Nov. 13, in response to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and other cities

across the globe, Hartman said in an email that NHPD has asked all its officers to be on high alert, despite the fact that there are no specific, credible threats to the City of New Haven.

One notable difference between this year and previous years will be the presence of metal detectors that guests will have to walk through before entering the Bowl. Additional measures will be taken to restrict what guests can bring into the grounds, but Hartman explained that these measures stem from a death that occurred at the Yale-Harvard student tailgate four years ago.

Ethan Brill ’16 said the death four years ago was more concerning to him than recent security threats, including an unfounded bomb threat earlier this week at Harvard.

None of the 15 students interviewed said they were concerned about security around the game because of the global terrorist attacks that happened this week. Five students said they had not heard of the bomb threat at Harvard on Monday, and 10 said they were still not concerned about security despite that incident.

“I think because there’s so much enthusiasm and excitement around the game, that’s

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The YPD will amp up its security for the Harvard-Yale football game. not really the first thing you think of,” Azan Virji ’17 said.

There will be around 130 NHPD officers at the event, which is roughly equivalent to other major events such as the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. YPD did not respond to a request for comment .

Hartman explained that many of his officers will not only be doing their assigned jobs, but will also be looking out for any

CT hospitals work to reduce adverse events pened — that would now be reported.”

Thomas Balcezak, chief medical officer at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said that changes in definitions and addition of new events also impact the numbers.

“As a state and as a nation, we should be aiming for and expecting over time a reduction of events,” Balcezak said. “But those reductions of events, we should all hope, come from an actual improvement in care and not a reduction in reporting and detection and not a change in definition.”

Adverse events usually occur as a result of multiple, small errors that coincide, he added.

Balcezak further noted that there are potential errors “constantly bombarding the processes of care” when attempting to treat the patient. He then referenced James Reason’s “Swiss cheese model” as a compelling way to think about how errors happen.

The model compares layers of defenses set up to reduce risk of adverse events as similar to when a person stacks many slices of Swiss cheese, Balcezak explained. For the most part, the layers cover holes in other slices. But there is a possibility that all the holes align, he said. When this happens, errors can get through, reaching the patient and causing harm, Balcezak said.

“One patient being harmed unnecessarily is one patient too many,” said Lisa Freeman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, which advocates for patients harmed by adverse events.

She emphasized the importance of patients taking an active role in their medical experience, bringing lists of questions to doctors and working to weigh the risks of surgery prior to undergoing operation. “It’s been shown that when the patients are more engaged in their care, more involved, the outcomes tend to be

BY AYLA BESEMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A recent Connecticut Department of Public Health report indicates that adverse events — preventable incidents that occur during hospitalization, resulting in patient harm — are down 12 percent in state hospitals, though the frequency of certain surgical adverse events has increased.

The report, released in October 2015, covers the 2014 fiscal year, during which the Connecticut DPH received 471 adverse event reports, 80 of which occurred at Yale-New Haven Hospital. There are nearly 30 types of incidents that qualify for mandatory adverse-event reporting, and according to the DPH report, 89 percent of events fell into four categories, including perforations during procedures and retention of foreign objects in patients after surgery. While adverse events have decreased in these areas, there have been increases in some other areas, including surgeries performed on the wrong body part and incorrect surgery performed on a patient.

While an apparent increase in some adverse events may cause concern, these higher numbers more likely indicate greater transparency in hospital reporting than complacency in health care, according to state health officials interviewed. For instance, the apparent rise in surgery performed on the wrong site — up from nine incidents in 2012 to 15 incidents last year — is likely due to smaller, less severe events now being included in required reporting, as of 2013.

“If I cut off the wrong leg, there’s no way people wouldn’t have known about it,” said Mary Cooper, vice president and chief quality officer of the Connecticut Hospital Association. “It’s the minor procedures — someone puts an anesthetic block on the wrong eye for cataract surgery, but it’s caught before the surgery hap-

better,” she added.

Statewide organizations such as the Connecticut Hospital Association, as well as individual clinics, are working to bring the occurrence of adverse events to zero, Balcezak and Cooper said. One promising strategy is the use of a High Reliability model, a new protocol used across Connecticut hospitals that ensures standardized, quality care based on a science used in, amongst other things, aviation and nuclear power, Cooper said.

According to Cooper, the model has already been used to train 40,000 physicians in the state. While Freeman agreed that the High Reliability collaborative is a good start, she cautioned against placing too much faith in any one solution.

“We have to recognize that it is one tool, and no one tool is going to answer every need and every situation,” she said.

Hospitals now require stricter use of mandatory timeouts prior to surgery for surgeons to confirm the type of surgery and the patient identity, Balcezak said. They also conduct intensive root-cause analyses should something go wrong, he added.

Cooper also addressed the importance of accountability at hospitals.

“When someone does something wrong, it is approached with an algorithm that is fair and just and relies on a lot of science,” she said.

This algorithm includes educating surgeons who make mistakes and retraining those who work in more than one hospital and may operate under a different protocol.

“Adverse events can and do occur in the process of delivering health care. That’s a fact,” Balcezak said.

“It is all of our responsibility, everyone involved, to reach the goal of zero events of harm. That can be the only acceptable goal for us in health care.”

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

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suspicious activity.

“Their eyes need to be open even wider,” Hartman said. “If you’re on a traffic post, you’re not just policing traffic.”

New Haven’s Office of Emergency Management will also have an emergency action plan, Hartman said, which is something that also happens for other major events in New Haven.

New Haven and Yale’s bomb squad will also be present at

the event this Saturday. Hartman explained that this happens every year. He said that the bomb squad has to clear not only the Bowl before The Game, but also the surrounding area as well.

“There’s a lot of ground to cover to ensure people’s safety,” Hartman said.

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

City businesses respond to campus events

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Employees from local businesses voiced their support for Yale student demonstrations.

BY JIAHUI HU AND GRAHAM AMBROSE STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the wake of student activism for racial and gender equity on Yale’s campus, several New Haven business owners and employees have declared that they stand with Next Yale, a coalition of students calling for greater attention to racial issues on campus. But some remain unaware of the recent student action.

Employees interviewed — many of whom work on Broadway, Chapel and York streets — said they witnessed student demonstrations like the earlyNovember March of Resilience, an event organized after complaints of institutional racism on Yale’s campus.

Employees interviewed voiced support for the demonstrations happening outside their doors, though some said they felt disengaged from the movement because the student action does not have an effect on their daily operations. Although some workers said they possess little knowledge about recent campus tensions and challenges, they still said they support student action, which they said has a significant impact on the broader community.

“The protests have meaning,” said B-Natural Cafe employee Teila Chappel, who said she was aware of recent campus advocacy efforts. “A lot of people feel strongly about race, particularly how the police treat people.”

Managers at Junzi Kitchen — whose team is primarily comprised of people of color residing in New Haven — said many staff members have not been preoccupied with campus discussions because they have not yet experienced life on a college campus. But several older employees have dug deeper by educating themselves about the issues, chef Lucas Sin ’15 said.

Six employees from establishments including Ashley’s Ice Cream, The Green Teahouse and Sushi on Chapel said they were not aware that the stu-

dent activism has garnered national attention. Many said they had not heard that publications like The New York Times, The Atlantic or The Economist reported on recent campus controversies.

Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison — whose ward contains both Yale students and community residents — said she has seen a similar mix of both solidarity and disconnect from the happenings on campus. Morrison said her non-student constituents have not contacted her about the campus happenings, though she said she believes that they are still concerned.

“What is going on in the campus you would think that it would have a huge ripple effect in our ward, because we’re one city and in Ward 22 we are one ward,” Morrison said. “To be honest, I have not gotten any questions to me about what is going on in the campus.”

Morrison said several of her students in a course at Gateway Community College took the time to read about the issues on Yale’s campus.

Others, she added, had only heard about the controversies through wordof-mouth.

Morrison added that recent events on campus should be relevant to her ward because many of her constituents are Yale students. If resources for students of color are so neglected at Yale, disparities likely also exist at institutions with fewer resources, she said.

Gene Dostie, manager of the jewelry store Derek Simpson Goldsmith, expressed solidarity with the movement though she only learned about the specific complaints and demands of the protesters last week.

“I love people fighting the good fight,” Dostie said. “If people protest, you have to give them space to do it.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and GRAHAM AMBROSE at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .

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“Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.”

N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY INDIAN IT INDUSTRIALIST

Alumni fundraiser cancelled after campus controversies ALUMNI FROM PAGE 1 accept the demands of Next Yale, a student alliance that marched on Salovey’s house last week to present a list of measures the University should take to improve the racial climate on campus.

But another letter written by alumni expressed support for student demonstrators and had received 2,047 signatures as of Thursday night.

On Tuesday, Salovey sent out a campuswide email outlining numerous policy changes in response to the demonstrations, many of which were listed in the demands of Next Yale. The measures include additional funding for Yale’s cultural centers, more mental health resources for students of color and reforms to undergraduate financial aid policy.

Yale alumni interviewed held various opinions regarding the fundraising campaign’s cancellation.

“I’m not surprised that they would want to cancel [the fundraiser] because I imagine that [administrators] are aware that a lot of alums are upset,” Rek LeCounte ’11 said. “Especially now with the statement [Salovey] sent out, I would be very surprised if there was any way they could have gotten to their goal given the way things played out.”

LeCounte said the cancellation was likely a “face-saving” mea-

sure by the administration to avoid an embarrassing loss to Harvard in the competition, which Harvard won last year. LeCounte added that alumni on both sides of the issue are frustrated by the way students and administrators have dealt with recent controversies.

Rebecca Steinitz ’86, who authored the letter in support of the student demonstrations, said the University considers the impact its decisions have on donations from all alumni, but added that older alumni typically have more resources than younger alumni do.

According to a 2013–14 report from the Office of Development, older alumni typically give more money and contribute at a higher rate than younger alumni.

Greg Lawler ’63 said alumni opinions may vary by age group, adding that there has been more sympathy and understanding for students on campus from recent graduates than older ones. He said that while he personally does not believe alumni gifts will be significantly impacted by recent events, administrators probably acted in this way because they believed donations would drop.

In fiscal year 2014, giving to Yale College through the Yale Alumni Fund raised more than $20.3 million.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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The fifth annual Harvard-Yale participation challenge was canceled this year due to recent campus controversies.

Dems reverse CEP suspension after backlash DEMOCRATS FROM PAGE 1 ruption, especially in an “era of dark money and Citizens United.” Two influential nonprofit organizations — the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and People for the American Way — joined her in putting out statements in support of the CEP. “We want to make it abundantly clear that no one in Connecticut thinks we should have more special-interest money in politics,” Connecticut PIRG Director Evan Preston said at a

Thursday press conference in Hartford with a group of Democratic lawmakers and nonpartisan nonprofits.

State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Gilford, said the CEP allows legislators to spend less time fundraising and more time interacting with their constituents. State Rep. Gregg Haddad, D-Mansfield, agreed.

Haddad, who has used CEP funding in each of his three election campaigns, said the program obviates the need for elected officials to ask for favors from lobby-

ists and special-interest groups, and instead makes them more accountable to their constituents.

State Rep. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, said he has heard concerns from dozens of constituents since the Democratic leadership proposed axing the CEP on Monday. He said his constituents have expressed their pride in the program and have asked him to do whatever possible to prevent its elimination.

“I heard from a staffer in this building that the problem is

that clean elections do not have a constituency,” Lesser said.

“But my phone has been ringing off the hook this week … voters from this state expect more from Hartford, and they look at this program as something we can be proud of.”

Suspending the CEP for the 2016 elections would have saved the state $11.7 million. The new slate of budget cuts also reverses the original Democratic proposal to put $35 million from the state’s Rainy Day Fund toward reducing the deficit and restores a pro-

posed cut of $17 million to the Special Transportation Fund.

In a Thursday release, House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said he is pleased that the Senate Democrats have proposed keeping the CEP and is confident that the state will be able to close its budget deficit without suspending the program.

The largest cut in the new proposals stems from a plan that originated with the Republicans — a retirement incentive program proposed by Senate Minor-

ity Leader Len Fasano ’81 last Friday. The Senate Democrats say the program would save $80 million in fiscal year 2016 and $96 million in the following year.

The Democrats are the last of the three groups in Hartford to make their proposals public. Gov. Dannel Malloy and the state’s Republican leadership announced their proposals late last week.

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

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

JODI RELL FORMER GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT

Yale aims to eliminate tobacco use over next year

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The recently launched Tobacco-Free Yale campaign, which held its kick-off event Thursday afternoon in the Woolsey Rotunda, aims to eliminate tobacco use at Yale within the next year.

The campaign, which is a collaborative effort between Yale Health, the Yale School of Medicine, the Yale School of Public Health and Yale Human Resources, plans to achieve this through smoking-cessation programs and increasing awareness of the benefits of quitting, as well as outreach to students, faculty and staff through campus representatives. The campaign will draw inspiration from similar initiatives at other universities nationwide, including the University of Kentucky, Ohio State University and the University of California system, which all prohibit tobacco use on their campuses.

Matthew Ribeiro ’15, a Woodbridge fellow involved in the campaign’s organization, said the aim of Tobacco-Free Yale is to move towards a culture that will support the absence of tobacco on campus, but that its more immediate focus was to make smokers who wished to quit aware of the resources available to them at Yale.

“We’re eventually moving towards a culture that will support that,” he said.

“We don’t want to implement anything without broad support. That is the whole point of our outreach program.

The goal of this is to provide [anyone who wants to quit] with the resources and the support needed to quit.”

University Deputy Vice President for

Human Resources and Administration Janet Lindner said the campaign follows many other efforts at Yale to curb the use of tobacco within the University community.

She said there are already several efforts on campus to limit tobacco use, including smoke-free grounds at Yale Health and the Medical School campus.

“The School of Public Health works on many aspects of smoking cessation and awareness, and a team has been conducting a pilot on [Yale’s] campus to assess how best to help smokers quit,” she added.

According to Lindner, the city of New Haven is also working to create a tobacco-free environment in its public parks and other areas across the city.

Because of Yale’s downtown location, it will be critical to get advice and support from city officials, Lindner added.

She said that the campaign is a public health campaign to help smokers who wish to quit do so and will not involve “smoking police.” Tobacco-Free Yale will involve outreach to different areas of campus through teams of volunteers called Tobacco-Free ambassadors, Lindner said, adding that the campaign would try various approaches to reduce smoking and would be assessed again next summer.

“There is no one-size-fits-all approach to becoming tobacco-free,” Lindner said. “Our goal is to try a variety of approaches, and to listen to what smokers, former smokers and nonsmokers have to say, and that will help us shape our approach at Yale. We will see how well we do and will assess the campaign next summer. Based on what we learn, we’ll develop our next steps.

Years ago, no one thought it was possible to have smoke-free office buildings, restaurants or bars, but today we accept it as a given.”

Lindner added that the campaign includes student advisors representing both the Yale College Council and the Graduate Student Assembly and will welcome student feedback throughout the year.

Lisa Kimmel, senior wellness manager of Being Well at Yale, said that the campaign will utilize a new telephonic coaching system developed at Yale — a personalized service that guides smokers through the process of quitting tobacco, free of charge. She added that the Yale-developed iPhone application “Craving to Quit,” which encourages quitting through mindfulness exercises, would be publicized as part of the campaign.

“We would really anticipate that more of faculty and staff and their dependents might utilize [the telephonic coaching system],” Kimmel said.

“For students, they have also very similar resources. But they mostly find more interest in using things like [Craving to Quit].That’s available free of charge.”

Kimmel added that the increased awareness of nicotine-replacement methods for smokers who wish to quit made now a good time for the launch of the campaign. She also acknowledged ongoing research at Yale regarding smoking-cessation methods as timely.

According to Ribeiro, over 1,100 university campuses nationwide have instituted tobacco-free policies.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

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The campaign aims to help smokers who wish to quit do so and will not involve “smoking police.”

BOE seeks test score improvement

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER

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Three months after the Connecticut Department of Education released New Haven Public Schools’ Common Core test results, Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 and the Board of Education seek to improve results for the coming year.

Last spring marked the first time NHPS administered the Smarter Balanced Assessments, standardized tests in English Language Arts and mathematics aligned to Common Core standards. The results showed that just 29 percent of New Haven students in grades three through eight performed at or above the Common Core standard for ELA, while only 14 percent of students performed at or above grade level in mathematics. Statewide, 55 percent of students scored at or above achievement level for ELA and 40 percent scored at this level for mathematics. But Harries said he is hopeful that results will improve in the second year of testing. In an effort to improve test scores, the BOE has focused on teacher-training and internal professional development for school administrators.

“I think teachers have spent a lot of time understanding those results.

I think they feel more confident in understanding what’s going to be tested,” Harries said. “I think it’s too early to say how different [upcoming] results will be, but certainly we are working hard to make sure results significantly improve.”

Harries said NHPS scored higher than other urban districts in the state. He added that the results of the tests improved as grade level increased, indicating that students are getting closer to reaching Common Core standards the longer they remain in the school system.

But, Harries said, improvement will be gradual because the implementation of Common Core standards is an ongoing process. He said the ultimate goal of the training is to ensure NHPS teachers are providing the highest quality and most personalized education possible to students.

“It is our challenge to ensure that all students can accelerate and actually meet standards of Common Core,” Harries said.

In response to last year’s results, which Harries called “unacceptable” in September, the BOE is pushing forth legislation to ensure NHPS administrators and teachers are better-equipped to prepare students for SBAC testing this year.

The BOE enlisted Area Cooperative Educational Services — an organization that works to improve public education in 25 member school districts across Connecticut — to provide monthly Common Core training to administrators and teachers. The agreement, which began Nov. 10 and will continue until June 30, will cost the school district up to $80,000.

“We in New Haven began to shift our curriculum a few years ago and have done a lot of internal professional development and

used groups like ACES and national experts in order to support our transition to the Common Core,” Harries said.

Leslie Abbatiello, ACES’ director of professional development and school improvement, said ACES is collaborating with NHPS and other school districts in southern Connecticut by helping teachers implement high-quality instruction aligned to Connecticut Common Core standards.

She said since Common Core and SBAC testing is still new to New Haven educators, the BOE hired ACES as a proactive measure to build NHPS educators’ capacities to teach the new curriculum and optimize teaching efficacy.

“Learning around the Common Core becomes about professional development for good high-quality instruction, which is not a destination at which one ever arrives,” Harries said.

Jennifer Ricker, who serves on the steering committee of Citywide Parent Team, a coalition of NHPS parents dedicated to providing feedback to the district, said her elementary school-aged children have done well since NHPS aligned its curriculum with Common Core standards. She said she is a proponent of Common Core in NHPS, though she thinks implementation of standards could improve.

Connecticut adopted Common Core standards in July 2010.

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“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”

MARSHALL MCLUHAN CANADIAN PHILOSOPHER

Faculty discuss the role of free speech in recent events FREE SPEECH FROM PAGE 1 document outlining the guiding principles of free expression at the University — they have also emphasized that the values of free speech do not conflict with a commitment to creating an inclusive community. But Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway told the News that many faculty members are still concerned about their freedom to voice controversial ideas at the University.

“I never saw this as a free speech issue, but I do see why people think it is,” he said. “It is understandable that faculty members are really concerned about students, who are angry, telling them rudely that their ideas are stupid. No one wants that.”

Indeed, faculty members interviewed expressed a wide range of perspectives on the validity of the free-speech narrative in the context of recent events — not only Christakis’ email, but also the resulting backlash.

THE EMAIL CONTROVERSY

Many who believe free speech at Yale is in danger have focused heavily on students’ actions in response to Christakis’ Oct. 30 email. But faculty members said the content of the email itself raises interesting questions about freedom of expression: namely, whether her email should have framed the discussion about culturally appropriative Halloween costumes within the narrative of free speech at all.

Christakis sent her email in response to an earlier email from the Intercultural Affairs Committee that asked students to consider whether their Halloween costumes could be offensive. Christakis’ email suggested that it was inappropriate for the administration to restrict students from wearing certain costumes, noting that students should be able to choose what they wear and talk about their choices with each other.

But economics and African American Studies professor Gerald Jaynes said the IAC email never should have triggered a conversation about freedom of speech in the first place. The IAC email merely asked students to be thoughtful about what they wear and did not actually restrict them from wearing anything, he said. Christakis’ email framed the IAC’s request as a free speech issue with the intention of being provocative, he said.

“I do have concerns about a situation where a person is encouraging students to be obnoxious and provocative on purpose to set up confrontations,” Jaynes said. “If a substantial idea is being presented, then of course we should encourage it. But a student walking around with a stupid Halloween costume is not expressing an important idea.”

Philosophy professor Jason Stanley, who co-wrote a Nov. 13 article titled “When Free Speech Becomes a Political Weapon” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, agreed that the original IAC email was about civility and mutual respect, and he questioned why this message was interpreted as one about free expression. The natural hypothesis, he said, is that some are changing the subject in order to avoid more difficult topics, adding that “free speech” has become a code word to tell minority students “to suck it up.”

But all six faculty members interviewed agreed that Christakis had the right to send the email in the first place, regardless of its contents.

“She had every right to send the email,” Holloway said. “It was unusual, and I was not happy with it. I would not have sent the email, but her right to send it needs to be respected.”

THE ENSUING DISCUSSION

Students’ responses to the Christakis email have even further divided the faculty. While some say student reactions — including a heated confron-

tation with Silliman Master Nicholas Christakis in the Silliman courtyard two weeks ago — have sought to limit freedom of expression, others believe the defense of free speech has only been brought up to minimize students’ worries about discrimination.

Philosophy professor Shelly Kagan said Yale has to be a space where people are able to put forth opinions and hypotheses that may be “deeply, deeply offensive” to other members of the community. He acknowledged that recent racial discussions are not merely free-speech issues, but he said there is certainly a free-speech component to ongoing controversies.

During forums and discussions over the past several weeks, some minority students have said their emotions and experiences are not up for intellectual debate. Kagan said discussing emotionally fraught issues, such as race, is a delicate matter, but he argued that all sides should have the space to talk.

“Is somebody hurt? That is not up for debate; that can’t be challenged,” he said. “The claim doesn’t stop there, however.

Minority students go on to say that their pain has been caused by certain kinds of behavior of other members of the community. At this point, that claim can be challenged and discussed.”

Kagan added that minority students do not owe him an explanation of their experiences but said those students cannot expect him to believe their claims if they do not back them up in discussions.

David Leffell ’77, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine who signed the petition in defense of free speech, echoed Kagan’s argument that discussions do not invalidate minority students’ experiences.

“I have no doubt that students at Yale experience racism, and that needs to be addressed aggressively and thoughtfully,” he said. “The problem is that when one stakes out an a priori

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Some faculty members argue that students’ reactions to the Christakis email are attempts at censorship. position, it is not an invitation to open discussion on ways to address the concerns.”

But other professors interviewed said the outcry about the freedom of expression is simply a way to deflect marginalized students’ exercise of free speech — something they have not always been able to do.

Stanley said minority and underrepresented students have not historically enjoyed a freedom of expression equal to that of white students. He pointed to the University’s poor faculty diversity as a broader context in explaining the dynamics of campus discussions about race. The dearth of faculty members of color means that minority students receive less affirmation and that their concerns are taken less seriously, Stanley said. The only way they can be heard is by raising their voices, he added.

“These students are looking for respect, and the response is ‘free speech,’” Stanley said.

Holloway said the increased awareness of minority students’ voices illustrates an interesting reversal in the freedom of expression among different groups in the community. Some

people may complain that there has been a “chilling effect” on the free speech culture on campus, he said, but there has always been a chilling effect on free speech — it has simply historically been directed at people from marginalized backgrounds.

“Free speech in a pristine lab is one thing. But the fact is, if you represent the norm of your society and you have lots of family resources behind you, you have more freedom of expression than those who are socially and financially constrained,” Holloway said. “Marginalized people are now exercising their free speech, and it is free speech other people don’t like.”

Kagan acknowledged that it can be difficult for students to exercise decorum when discussing sensitive subjects, which may have led to some of the criticism of student activists. In his own conversations with students these past weeks, he said, his temper flared and he said things he later regretted. Therefore, while Kagan disagreed with the students’ behavior during the Christakis confrontation, he is sympathetic given the emotional stakes of the discussions.

The question of equal access to free speech appears in the Woodward Report as well. C. Vann Woodward, the chairman of the committee that authored the report and a Yale history professor at the time, wrote in the report’s introduction that some felt free speech should await “the establishment of equality or the liberation of the oppressed.”

Still, Steven Benner ’75, one of the authors of the report, told the News he does not agree with this view. He said it is impossible to determine who gets to decide who is “the powerful” and who is “the powerless.”

Despite the many nuanced views expressed by faculty members, some said this is the time for them to listen and learn about their role in campus discussions rather than speak out.

“My perspective right now is one of listening for advice on how to balance the right of free speech against the obligation of anyone, in a leadership position in a democratic society, to be accountable,” history professor John Gaddis said.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Yale under national media scrutiny MEDIA FROM PAGE 1

THE SHIFTING NARRATIVE

Although much of the Yale community has pointed to a history of racism at the University as the main reason for the recent demonstrations, several major news outlets described the origins of the protests more narrowly in an alleged “white girls only party” at Sigma Alpha Epsilon on Oct. 30 and in an email from Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis concerning culturally appropriative Halloween costumes.

During a race teach-in held on campus last week, student activists decried the media’s coverage of recent race-related discussions and controversies, arguing that campus events had been framed in a way that was unfair and damaging to the minority student community. Student discontent largely stemmed from the national media’s early coverage of student activism as a challenge to free speech on campus.

Aaron Lewis ’16, a web developer for the News, wrote a Nov. 8 article on the website Medium titled “What’s really going on at Yale.” He told the News he wrote the article because he found early media coverage one-sided and incomplete.

According to Lewis, the first article about the Yale protests that went viral was authored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education — an organization which vigorously defends free speech on college campuses — and did not paint a complete picture of the events that led up to the protests.

In his own article, Lewis criticized FIRE for describing the student rallying as a protest in response to just the Christakis email. The reality, he wrote, is that students have been discussing serious racial issues on campus for “many, many years.”

“But chronic racism isn’t newsworthy,” Lewis wrote. “It quietly whittles away at the hearts and minds of people who feel like they’re not being heard.”

Lewis told the News that

many journalists overlooked the fact that free speech and antiracism advocacy are not mutually exclusive. He added that as the week went on, publications like Vox, Slate, The Atlantic and The New Yorker did a better job of correcting the narrative. But problems with the initial coverage may have betrayed the trust of many students on campus, he said, leading them to be skeptical of the press.

“It takes time to understand the full story,” Lewis said. “It’s tempting to publish as quickly as possible, but oftentimes some media organizations sacrifice accuracy for speed and virality.”

Holloway, who gave interviews to The New Yorker and The New York Times last week, also expressed disappointment at the national media’s depiction of campus events as a freespeech issue.

In an interview with the News, Holloway said while the national media is more patient than social media and waits longer before commenting on an issue, the press has only recently improved its coverage and begun to truly understand what is going on at Yale.

“It is unfortunate the media didn’t take the time to understand what is really happening on the ground,” he said. “But after a week of focusing on free speech, they have turned the narrative around and realized there is a lot more going on.”

THE ALLURE OF THE FREE SPEECH SPIN

Professors and journalists interviewed said the national media’s eagerness to characterize student activism as a freespeech issue may have stemmed from a desire to find a new angle or to narrate a national trend.

In journalism, many editors follow a “rule of three” for assigning stories, said Yale political science professor and managing editor of The Washington Spectator John Stoehr.

“When you see three things happen, it’s a trend,” said Stoehr, referring to the events at Yale, Mizzou and Ithaca College. Even

though the protests occurred over several days at colleges with differing histories of racism, the press united the disparate threads into a single story, he said.

While the SAE party and Christakis email may have fueled students’ sentiments that the University is not an inclusive space for people of color and minorities, Stoehr said the national press glossed over the nuances of events at Yale in order to draw connections between the protests at Yale and those at other schools. When a photographer for a campus newspaper at the University of Missouri was blockaded from taking pictures of protesters, several writers suggested that protests were silencing free speech, both in Missouri and at Yale.

“I think Yale’s news was caught up in the momentum of what happened at Mizzou,” Stoehr said.

Elite universities like Yale are bellwethers of cultural winds, he added, and when it comes to the national media, things that happen at Yale are more likely to be news.

English professor and New York Times bestselling author Steven Brill ’72 LAW ’75 said the national press painted the Yale protests in the context of free speech because many campus publications did not report much about free-speech concerns.

“I think there are free-speech issues,” Brill said. “It seemed as if the concerns about the [freespeech] side were not given the weight that they should have been.”

Still, he acknowledged that Yale students are concerned with more legitimate grievances about racism at Yale than just Halloween costumes. He echoed Stoehr’s hypothesis that the media was looking for a trend in drawing up their stories.

Additionally, freedom of expression on college campuses has historically been a hot-button issue.

Freedom of speech on college campus became an issue dur-

ing protests of the Vietnam War at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, Stoehr said. Following these protests came the idea of political correctness — the policing of language and the reclamation of derogatory names in order to empower marginalized people.

In the early 1970s, wealthy conservatives who felt threatened by these activist movements began to create a “conservative media establishment,” Stoehr said. Conservative think tanks and political writers condemned what they called the liberal censorship of American colleges.

These concerns became especially prevalent after Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, filmed and released a video of a Silli-

man student shouting at Silliman Master Nicholas Christakis, and after protesters at the William F. Buckley Jr. Program’s conference on free speech spit on a conference attendee. Several national magazines and newspapers began to draw links between the protests against racism and the silencing of free speech. After the video circulated online, Lukianoff wrote a Washington Post op-ed describing his experience at Yale titled, “On the Front Lines of the Fight For Free Speech at Yale.”

An article in The Atlantic

by Conor Friedersdorf painted Christakis as a victim, writing that “in the face of hateful personal attacks like that, Nicholas Christakis listened and gave

restrained, civil responses.”

Karoli Kuns, a blogger for the political commentary site “Crooks and Liars,” said the trope of campuses being completely liberal and squelching free speech is a myth fabricated in large part by think tanks, who regularly defend their arguments with partisan research that they send to journalists.

“When you send that stuff to reporters routinely, it does shift their perception of events as they’re happening,” Kuns said.

“The words ‘non-partisan’ don’t mean anything anymore.”

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at finnegan.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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“True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.” MONICA CROWLEY TALK RADIO PERSONALITY

Racial debates transform “Overheard”

BY JACOB STERN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over the past few weeks, the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” has rapidly transformed from a source of comedic relief to a forum for impassioned discussion of controversial events on campus.

The group, which was founded in 2013 by a staff columnist for the News, Tyler Blackmon ’16, invites Yale community members to share the “crazy, random and downright strange things [overheard] on a daily basis at Yale,” according to its official Facebook description. Photos of campus dogs and quotations overheard on Cross Campus are frequent posts. But following allegations of racial discrimination on campus over Halloween weekend, the group exploded with discussion of these events, with students frequently posting updates on new developments, such as administrators’ emails, and heatedly debating issues of race, free speech and the relation of the two.

The change did not go unnoticed among students, some of whom were thrilled by what they perceived to be a newly productive, informative use of the group, while others grew frustrated that the posts did not conform to the established humorous nature of the page. Others complained that the posts were not strictly related to things “overheard” or “overseen” on campus.

“[The group’s role] has changed over the three years that I’ve run Overheard. It has constantly been evolving,” said Blackmon, who remains its sole administrator. This evolution has clearly manifested itself in the past few weeks, he added.

“There were lots of events happening on campus that brought up a lot of feelings for people and they needed a space to let out a lot of those feelings, and Overheard became that space.”

In light of recent campus events, emotional and ideological expression proliferated on the page, including students’ personal experiences with racism and personal beliefs.

Students’ responses to these posts demonstrated that students disagree as to what sort of content belongs on Overheard and, more generally, what function the group should perform.

Elijah Gunther ’18 said that although highly personal posts may lie outside the group’s purview, they can be at least partially beneficial under certain circumstances.

“Overall I don’t think that’s the role [of the group], but I think it was good all the same,” he said. “It helped spread the message and awareness, but at the same time it often turned into heated arguments that really weren’t supposed to be there.”

Others, like Noah Silvestry ’19, reacted more positively to the discourse that occurred on Overheard.

“Whereas I think a lot of the time social media becomes a way for people to sculpt their image in a kind of

contrived way, I think the way the discussions have unfolded on Overheard have allowed people to have a discussion in a more mature, less emotional way,” he said.

Responding to some students’ objections about the inclusion of serious material on Overheard, Austin Strayhorn ’19 said the group should not be limited to any specific subject matter. Content on Overheard should be representative of students’ daily experiences, be they serious, comedic, unflattering or even disheartening, he said.

He did, however, note that this freedom does not give members the right to “monopolize and abuse the space … as a platform for any agenda, political or otherwise.”

Blackmon said the merits or disadvantages of the group’s transformation are less important than recognizing the inevitability of that evolution. Already, in the nearly three years since its founding, it has changed significantly, he said: Originally the group included just a few hundred members, and it now boasts nearly 8,000. In its early stages, all posts were purely textual; now members supplement the written word with photographs and videos.

“I think it will continue to change even after I have turned over the reins to someone else,” Blackmon said. “It will continue to change.”

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

IRENE JIANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

“Overheard at Yale” has recently become a prominent forum for discussion of racial issues.

New partnership tackles preventable car crash injuries in children

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER

IRENE JIANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Buckle Up for Life will provide 700 car seats annually to the New Haven community.

A new partnership between Buckle Up for Life and the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital could save hundreds of Connecticut children from death or severe injury sustained from car accidents.

Nationwide, three out of every four car seats is installed incorrectly, greatly reducing their efficacy and putting kids at risk of unnecessary injury or death in automobile crashes, said Gloria Del Castillo, child passenger safety expert and senior outreach specialist for Buckle Up for Life. To help combat this trauma sustained by children, the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital will implement Buckle Up for Life, an injury prevention program that trains parents on correct car seat use for their children.

The program, created over a decade ago, has demonstrated its effectiveness in multiple cities across the United States, Del Castillo said. The partnership with Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, announced Nov. 4, will provide 700 car seats annually to the New Haven community.

“Buckle Up for Life was first conceived in 2004 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in response to a very serious issue,” Del Castillo said in a Tuesday email to the News. “The medical staff kept seeing children come in the emergency room with devastating injuries from crashes — injuries that could have been prevented or greatly reduced if they had only been buckled up or properly secured in a car seat.”

Yale-New Haven Children’s Hos-

pital will work with Buckle Up for Life in New Haven to increase the safety of city children, according to the Buckle Up for Life press release Nov. 4, 2015. The program takes a “whole family approach” – children, teenagers and adults – to get everyone to use the appropriate restraint while in the car, said Pina Violano, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital’s Manager for Injury Prevention, Community Outreach and Research.

“We want everybody from every age to buckle up correctly,” she said.

Because of the partnership, Buckle Up for Life now has over 700 car seats a year to put out into the community, she added.

Violano emphasized that parents do want to keep their children safe, but that they may not always have the necessary information to do so.

Selecting a proper car seat — a choice which should be based on children’s height and weight — and installing it correctly in different car models, can be challenging even for highly educated caregivers, she added.

In a Monday email, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Community Educator Monica Lucas, said that not every “car seat or vehicle seat is made the same.” She noted that some car seats fit differently in different cars, creating room for error for parents and caregivers during installation.

Buckle Up for Life is designed to address these challenges. Violano noted that the simplified way the program provides the materials is a key component in its success. Parents are required to attend educational sessions in order to receive a

free car seat, since a car seat’s efficacy is highly dependent on correct installation, she said. The Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital’s partnership fits into the larger Buckle Up for Life framework, which typically reaches families by partnering with local children’s hospitals and community organizations, Del Castillo said.

Del Castillo highlighted the importance of trained specialists working closely with the entire family to educate them about all aspects of vehicle safety in a culturally sensitive way. For instance, in many cities the program is taught by Spanish-speaking child passenger safety technicians.

“Our approach is also effective because we get the buy-in from community leaders who endorse our message and help us make safety a priority in their communities,” she said.

Nevertheless, the program does grapple with various challenges.

Lucas cited education and genuine community involvement as two variables in Buckle Up for Life’s success.

She noted that some people “just hear the word ‘free’ car seat and … don’t always fully grasp the educational component” of the program.

Other times, Buckle Up for Life can be difficult to implement due to a shortage of CPS-certified technicians, she said.

According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, unintentional motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of injury death among children ages five to 14.

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Alumni company iXperience teaches practical career skills

BY CAMERON HILL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When Aaron Fuchs ’09 graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, he, like many Yalies, found himself in New York working in finance. He spent just two years with a hedge fund before returning to his native South Africa in 2013 to found an educational summer academy. Called iXperience, the academy gives courses in technology, finance and consulting and bills itself as “a life-changing career accelerator.” iXperience hosts two programs: one geared toward South African college students and one for American college students.

Fuchs said the program for South African students challenges the traditional South African education system. With universities currently emphasizing theoretical education styles, Fuchs said his program provides necessary practical education.

“One of the biggest problems we have in South Africa is the unemployment rate … [and] that the education system is kind of outdated and old-fashioned,” Fuchs said. South Africa’s official unemployment rate was 25 percent in 2014.

The international summer program, which began as a coding academy, now hosts six courses — two in coding and one each in data science, user experience design, finance and consulting. The program, which costs $8,500 for an eight-week session, according to the iXperience website, takes place in Cape Town and is currently geared toward students from the United States’ top 15 colleges and universities, Fuchs said.

Each course encompasses an intensive four-week instruction period — comparable to a condensed semester-long college course, Fuchs said — followed

by a four-week internship in the chosen field.

Students at Yale and other top institutions flock to consulting and finance; 16.6 percent of the Class of 2014 went into finance, and Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company were the three largest employers of 2014 graduates, according to the Office of Career Strategy’s First Destination Survey: Class of 2014.

But according to Fuchs, students are not being adequately prepared for careers in these fields. iXperience aims to provide its students with real-world skills for these professions and an idea of what people in those sectors do on a day-to-day basis, he added.

“The general trend is that these are the industries that most graduates are actually going to as a career, yet we find it really strange that they have absolutely no experience or education in any of these fields,” Fuchs said.

Fuchs mentioned that he felt underprepared for his career, and that career services channels can be difficult to navigate.

The Director of Education at iXperience, Rafi Khan ’15, was a computer science major, the director of HackYale and an Education Studies Scholar. Fuchs contacted him as a junior, and Khan decided iXperience was the right fit, he said. Like Fuchs, Khan said he felt a lack of support from Yale when choosing a career.

He noted that while Ivy League schools and other top universities hail college as a time to intellectually explore, career education is an important missing facet.

“I think iXperience, in the end, fulfills a niche that is not currently fulfilled by top liberal arts universities around the world,” Khan said.

However, Khan said he holds a positive view of Yale’s ability to provide connections among

alumni. It was through the Yale network that Khan could look for jobs internationally, he said.

Fuchs also noted that iXperience is about more than just career preparation — cultural learning is built into the philosophy at the program in Cape Town. Students are encouraged to explore the city, and participate in cultural excursions ranging from shark cage diving to surfing, he added.

Fuchs contrasted this idea of a holistic approach to education to the more one-dimensional style found on college campuses, and noted that cultural immersion was more possible when in a foreign country.

“One of the big parts of the program is the lifestyle that we create for the students,” Fuchs said. The program fosters an “inspirational” learning environment, the kind of environment a university might not always provide, Fuchs said. Further, iXperience fosters connections among students from many different universities, which Fuchs described as one of the program’s greatest benefits.

Mechanical engineering major Alex Tenn ’16 attended an iXperience coding course during the summer of 2014. After taking CPSC 112 at Yale, Tenn saw iXperience as an immersive introduction to a more practical form of coding, he said.

“It laid the foundation of confidence so that I can tackle any coding project that I want, now,” he added.

Total, iXperience accepted about 140 students last year, and Fuchs said he plans on growing the program to around 300 this year. The program is currently accepting applications for the summer of 2016.

Contact CAMERON HILL at cameron.hill@yale.edu .

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“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.”

WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Slaughter talks foreign policy strategy

BY RACHEL TREISMAN AND CAITLYN WHERRY CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS On Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, small crowds gathered in Luce Hall to hear AnneMarie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the state department, discuss strategies for foreign policy and building social networks. The two talks came as part of a series called “The Strategy of Connection” during which Slaughter also spoke about her upcoming book, which covers the same topics.

The power of networks […] is because they honor the human desire to be heard and seen as a peer.

relations is more traditional, but the modern geopolitical landscape makes the web network strategy necessary too. In addition, Slaughter highlighted the necessity of the web networks when dealing with terrorism.

She added that terrorist groups are largely built through close, personal relationships and that the key to dismantling their networks is to “disrupt their peer groups” and provide positive alternatives for participating in these groups.

During both talks, Slaughter examined China, Syria and Ukraine through both lenses,

demonstrating how the chessboard and web models present slightly different views of the countries’ problems and the best ways to solve them. She discussed the pertinence of these countries strengthening their existing defense and communication networks by incorporating a distributed power structure.

While Slaughter said web networks are relevant to U.S. foreign policy, they are equally applicable on lower social levels, including on Yale’s campus. Since a web network derives its power from individual players wanting to be recognized as equals, the net-

work plays an important role in instances ranging from terrorist organizations to student clubs.

“The power of networks — the way in which networks are successful — is because they honor the human desire to be heard and seen as a peer,” Slaughter said.

After taking questions from the audience Wednesday, Slaughter said both strategies are ways to further the United States’ foreign policy objectives, although they work within different time frames. Chessboard policies are calculated and are enacted quickly, while web policies are longer-term and involve

establishing connections for an eventual payoff.

“I really wish that more people could have been here because I think the different paradigm that [Slaughter] is talking about can change your way of thinking so dramatically,” said Connie Gersick, a fellow of Branford College and visiting scholar at the School of Management. “So many people don’t question the chessboard approach, and we really need the network way of thinking, too.”

Marilyn Wilkes, director of communications at the MacMillan Center, said the center

tries to pick speakers who will be informative and well-regarded by students. Jordan Blashek LAW ’18 said he was excited to hear about how Slaughter thinks about network theory and relates it to policy planning and thinking broadly about the world.

The final lecture in Slaughter’s series, entitled “Power, Policy and Leadership in a Networked World,” will be held in Luce Hall at noon Friday.

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu and CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER President and CEO, New America Slaughter is currently the president and CEO of New America — a think tank that focuses on public policy issues — and a former professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. At Wednesday’s talk, Slaughter read an excerpt from her book and discussed two different foreign policy strategies — the “chessboard” and the “web.”

The chessboard world, she said, is more black-and-white and has been the traditional strategy of American foreign policy. The web world, on the other hand, refers to a network of interconnected and moving parts. The chessboard world tends to focus on countries as actors and the web world on individuals, she said at both talks.

“We’re investigating tools of diplomacy and development through dual lenses,” Slaughter said.

According to Slaughter, the chessboard view of international

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Honesty is the best policy.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDING FATHER

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

School sees new faculty replacement policy

BY JESSICA SPITZ Assistant professor of English and comparative literature Anahid Nersessian left Columbia for the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014.

“It was a great hire, and we all felt very disappointed when she left,” English and comparative literature department chair Sarah Cole said.

Soon after Nersessian’s departure, Cole followed the procedures necessary to request a replacement hire from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

But to her dismay, the department’s request was denied.

“Not to be able to say, ‘Okay,

we’re going to go out and replace that,’ makes one feel as if the departm e n t ’ s COLUMBIA just going to start to shrink and wither away,” Cole said.

Last spring, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences implemented the Timely Replacement Policy, which promises to maintain the size of the Arts and Sciences faculty. But department chairs have expressed concern that the policy does not guarantee that faculty members who

left before the policy was implemented, like Nersessian, will be replaced.

The size of the Arts and Sciences faculty has fluctuated over the past 10 years and decreased over the past two years to about 553 members, from its peak of about 558 members in the 2013–14 academic year. Given that most faculty members teach between two and four courses per year, a loss of five faculty could potentially translate to a loss of 10 to 20 course offerings each year.

Before the establishment of the policy, which allowed for 21 authorized searches this year to replace vacancies, there was

no specific time frame for the administration to replace faculty who had departed, or any guarantee that the FAS would get a replacement. Because of this, FAS departments were often left wondering if and when they would be able to hire new faculty members after retirements, unsuccessful tenure cases or other faculty departures.

“It led to a sense of insecurity about whether you could continue the same curriculum,” said Pamela Smith, professor of history and former history department chair. “You wouldn’t be able to offer the classes that you needed to offer for the ways in

which the fields in the department had been set up and were conducting themselves.”

The Policy and Planning Committee of the FAS initiated discussions in fall 2014 to formulate a plan that would address this problem, and the Timely Replacement Policy was finalized and implemented in the spring.

“We’ve been in this kind of stasis, and so there was no firm policy for how departments were to recover or to grow,” Haruo Shirane, chair of the East Asian languages and cultures department, said. “So this [the Timely Replacement Policy] is really good because it allows the

most important positions to be filled in a timely way.”

But a major concern for department chairs is that the policy is not retroactive, meaning that any faculty departures prior to the time the policy was implemented are not guaranteed to be replaced. In FAS, 18 of the 27 departments have a lower number of faculty than they did at their peaks over the last 10 years.

Given that the normal course load for each professor is four per year, departments that lost several faculty members prior to the implementation of the policy struggle to maintain course offerings.

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Yale Harvard Glee Club Concert Jeffrey Douma & Andrew Clark, Conductors

Friday November 20, 2015 7:30 pm Woolsey Hall

Featuring premiere performances of exciting new choral works by Martin Sedek, Kathleen Allan, and Dan Rubins, as well as folk music, spirituals, and college songs

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SPORTS

“You can always tell a Harvard man when you see him, but you can’t tell him much.”

ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY 13TH PRESIDENT OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Perfect start continues

The boys are back in town MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 lot of teams in our league,” Allain said. “They’re really big, and they want to play a puck-possession game down low in the offensive zone and kind of grind you down.

It’s really going to be a matchup of our quickness against their size.”

The following night, the Bulldogs will face a Colgate team arriving in New Haven fresh off a Friday night game at Brown. The Raiders dropped both games of a home-and-home this past weekend against Cornell, and their only conference win has come against Princeton, which has finished in the basement of the ECAC Hockey standings each of

the past two seasons.

Nevertheless, Yale will have to deal with the quickness of the Raiders only 24 hours after combating the physicality of the Big Red. The two New York teams’ dramatically different styles — the Cornell roster lists 15 skaters who weigh more than 200 pounds, while Colgate has just three such players — may present an unusual challenge for the Elis.

“Colgate plays a little bit more like we do,” Allain said. “They have quick, dynamic forwards.

They pressure the puck well and they’re good in transition, so there’ll be two completely different opponents from Friday to Saturday night.”

But by the end of the weekend, the Big Red and the Raiders will have at least one thing in common: they will have each played a game at Yale.

And for the Bulldogs, who have been waiting for months to take the ice at the Whale, those games cannot come soon enough.

“I’ve even had other opponents who said that this is their favorite place to play,” forward JM Piotrowski ’19 said. “All the anticipation’s there, and [Friday] is finally here.”

Both games are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

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

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 nearly compiled a quadruple-double in Yale’s contest Thursday night.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 the Bulldogs finished the game with 12 rejections. “[Montague] is shooting the ball phenomenally, and Brandon [Sherrod ’16] is a strong finisher,” Sears said. “So all the extra attention I draw leaves easy looks for those guys since I can just drop it off for them [for assists].”

Montague, the team captain, led both teams in scoring, finishing with 21 points thanks to 6–9 shooting from behind the arc.

Coming off a season in which he led the Ivy League with a 43.5 percent mark from long distance, Montague has hit on 13 of his 23 attempts thus far in 2015–16, which translates to a 56.5 percent clip.

“Hitting a couple shots early really got me in rhythm, so I just kept shooting with confidence,” Montague said. “[Lehigh] went under a few screens and guys found me on the perimeter, and I just let it go. The rim felt extra wide tonight.”

Entering the halftime break, the Elis held a six-point advantage by a score of 36–28. Sears and Montague combined for 20 of Yale’s first-half points, while

forward Sam Downey ’17 contributed seven points off the bench.

Downey capped the first 20 minutes in style, hitting his first career three-pointer at the buzzer to carry the Elis into the locker room on a 12–3 run after a back-and-forth first half.

Although the Elis ended up leading for all 20 minutes of the second half, Lehigh lingered within striking distance for much of the period.

Paced by a combined 39 points from the duo of guard Austin Price and center Tim Kempton, the Mountain Hawks made their strongest push for the win with a 9–4 run late in the second half.

Lehigh’s Kahron Ross capped the run with a layup to bring Lehigh within three points, 66–63, before Mason took over. The starting Yale point guard finished Thursday’s action with 12 points, nine of which came from the charity stripe.

“We put the ball in [Mason’s] hands and he did a great job of handling it [by] making the right plays,” Jones said. “He’s extremely quick and strong, so Lehigh had to foul him to try to stay in the game.”

In addition to Mason’s late

spurt, Sherrod contributed four points during the final two minutes of the game, including slamming home a dunk with 1:26 to play on an assist from Montague. The play forced a Mountain Hawk timeout and extended the lead to a gamehigh 14 points.

Sherrod was the fourth Yale starter to reach double digits in the scoring column, accumulating 10 points to go along with seven rebounds. Yale’s fifth starter, guard Nick Victor ’16, added nine points in addition to his second-consecutive 11-rebound performance.

Victor led the Elis on the glass and keyed Yale’s 48–26 rebounding edge over the Mountain Hawks.

The win marked a positive beginning to a difficult stretch of road games for the Bulldogs over the next 10 days, during which the team will play Southern Methodist University, Duke and Albany.

Tipoff in Dallas on Sunday against SMU is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. The Mustangs garnered 105 votes in the latest AP poll, placing them just outside the nation’s Top 25.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

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Cornell’s main strength is its size, while Colgate wins its games with fast play and elusiveness.

Elis travel to Minnesota

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In 2013–14, the last time Yale faced off against Minnesota, the Bulldogs dropped two games by scores of 5–1 and 4–1.

W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 rara ’16 said. “Getting to play them back-to-back allows us to focus on how we can shut them down and play to our strengths to defeat them.”

Minnesota’s defense is nothing to scoff at either. The Golden Gophers have only allowed 1.25 goals per game this season, the fourth-best rate in the country. Leading that high-rank-

ing defensive effort is goaltender Amanda Leveille, who has performed well in net and sits in sixth place in the country in goals allowed per game.

Yale’s offense can pose a threat, though, as the Bulldogs have tallied 2.67 goals per game this season — 15th-best in the country. Moreover, the Elis have done so against stiff defenses; the Elis scored four goals against Quinnipiac’s sixth-ranked

defense before posting three goals against Harvard’s secondranked defense.

An added benefit for the Bulldogs is that they were off from action last weekend, granting them an extra week to focus solely on the defending champions.

“We have been able to spend the past two weeks focusing specifically on systems to counter the Gophers,” forward Jamie

Haddad ’16 said.

Minnesota is just another challenge in a series of tough opponents early on for the Bulldogs. Yale has already faced four teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the country, as well as Dartmouth, which was ranked No. 10 at the time of the two teams’ tie two weekends ago.

The Elis also played their previous five games within a nineday time frame. Since then, the

team has had 12 days off to rest up in preparation for this weekend’s battles. The team feels that, with the time to practice and improve, they have what it takes to take down the numberthree team in the nation.

“Over the past two weeks we have worked hard and feel ready for our opponents,” forward Brittany Wheeler ’18 said.

Yale has a small history of dethroning the national cham-

pions. The Bulldogs defeated the 2013–14 national champions, Clarkson, on Jan. 30 last season in a 3–2 affair. In that same season, however, Yale dropped two games to Minnesota by scores of 5–1 and 4–1.

The puck will drop at 8 p.m.

Friday night on Minnesota’s home ice.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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BULLETIN BOARD

TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

Showers likely before 7am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny.

SUNDAY

High of 48, low of 43.

High of 52, low of 31.

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 2:30 PM Center for International and Professional Experience Summer Opportunities Fair. Explore your options for summer and beyond. Learn about internship, study and funding opportunities in the U.S. and abroad. Chat with staff and student alumni from the Office of Career Strategy, Study Abroad, Yale in London, Yale Summer Session and Fellowship Programs to find the experiences that are right for you. Silliman College (505 College St.), Dining Hall.

5:30 PM Yale Haskell Group: Computer Music Concert. The Yale Haskell Group is putting on a concert of computer music.

Come to learn about computation and composition, our current work and how to get involved, and just listen to good music. Arthur K. Watson Hall (51 Prospect St.), Euterpea Studio.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 4:00 PM New Play: “Best Lesbian Erotica 1995.” “Best Lesbian Erotica 1995” combines fantasy and nightmare, dallying in erotica’s blissful ribaldries until colliding with one of the darkest hours in U.S. history. By turns funny and moving, the play ultimately asks, “How do we carry on after losing our innocence?”

Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel St.).

8:00 PM “Merrily We Roll Along” by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. “Merrily We Roll Along” is a musical about Broadway composer and Hollywood producer Frank Shepard, playwright Charley Kringas and theater critic Mary Flynn. The show opens in 1976 at a film premiere and ends in 1957, giving audiences the chance to journey backwards through the trio’s lives, witnessing — in reverse — Frank’s meteoric rise to fame and the deterioration of his friendship with Charley and Mary.

University Theater (222 York St.).

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SPORTS YALE MEN’S SOCCER POSTSEASON HONORS Two Bulldogs were recognized as honorable mention All-Ivy selections. Captain and defender Philip Piper ’16, the only Bulldog to start all 17 games this season, was joined by midfielder Nicky Downs ’19, who tied for the team lead with six points.

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Playing at home for the first time all season, the No. 10 Yale men’s hockey team will also be looking to secure its first four-point weekend of 2015–16 with two conference contests against Cornell and Colgate.

BY DAVID WELLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After three weeks, six games and 1,036 miles on the road, the Yale men’s hockey team is coming home.

For the first time this season, the No. 10 Bulldogs (4–1–1, 2–1–1 ECAC) will hit Ingalls Rink as they host Ivy League foe Cornell (5–1–0, 3–1–0) on Friday night.

Yale will again look to defend home ice on Saturday when Col-

gate (4–7–0, 1–3–0) arrives to challenge the Elis.

“It’s kind of a dream come true to play in the Whale,” freshman forward Andrew Gaus ’19 said.

“We showed up in August and have been practicing and working out here every day, but to actually play a game here will be pretty amazing.”

The Bulldogs come away from last weekend’s slate having tasted defeat for the first time in the 2015–16 season. Nevertheless,

after the Bulldogs’ first negative result of the season — a 3–2 overtime loss at RPI of which head coach Keith Allain ’80 said “I thought we were the better team” — Yale bounced back the following night in Schenectady, New York with a 2–1 overtime win over Union College.

The team looks to build on the lessons it learned in New York as it prepares for another pair of ECAC Hockey opponents. The Big Red is knocking on the door

Star efforts push Yale to 3–0

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER On a night in which forward Justin Sears ’16 flirted with a quadruple-double and guard Jack Montague ’16 knocked down six three-pointers, it was the play of Makai Mason ’18 down the stretch that clinched the first 3–0 start since the 1950–51 season for the Yale men’s basketball team.

MEN’S BASKETBALL In the Bulldogs’ first tight contest of the season, Lehigh (0–3, 0–0 Patriot) cut what

was once a 12-point Yale (3–0, 0–0 Ivy) lead to just three with 3:40 remaining. Mason then scored seven of Yale’s next nine points, part of an 11–0 run that catapulted Yale to a 79–67 victory.

“We are a veteran team and we kept letting each other know that we are up, and [there was] no need to panic, [because] we’ve controlled the whole game,” Montague said. “We are a very poised team with a lot of experience, so being able to push out the lead late was huge for us.”

Through Yale’s first two games against Fairfield and

Sacred Heart, the Bulldogs held at least a 13-point edge for the final 10 minutes of each contest. Despite the brief scare in the second half against Lehigh, head coach James Jones’ squad remained in control for much of the contest thanks to multiple stellar individual performances.

Sears, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, filled the stat sheet in spectacular fashion, racking up 16 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and an astonishing eight blocked shots. As a team, SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 12

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Captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 scored a career-high 21 points Thursday night against Lehigh.

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of the USA Today Top 15 and has only lost to No. 2 Quinnipiac, which boasts an 11–0–0 record.

And though the Raiders of Colgate have struggled in the early going, Allain and the Bulldogs are well aware of the possibility of another tight weekend of conference play.

“I think the way our league is, every game is going to be a onegoal game going into the third period,” Allain said. “So the more comfortable you get in that envi-

ronment, the more successful you’ll be.”

First up for Yale is Cornell, which sits second among Ivy teams in the ECAC Hockey standings. Though it lost both its 2014–15 All-ECAC skaters to graduation, each of whom is now playing professional hockey, the Big Red has not missed a beat.

Cornell’s scoring defense is almost as formidable as its top10 unit from last season, currently placing 11th nationwide.

Moreover, though it ranked in the bottom 10 of Division I in scoring offense a year ago, Cornell is now tied for eighth in the country in that same category.

On top of the team’s impressive metrics, the squad from Ithaca will bring its typical size to Ingalls — just six Cornell skaters stand under six feet tall, compared to 11 Bulldogs.

“They play differently than a SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 12

Elis face defending national champs

BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Friday and Saturday, the Yale women’s hockey team travels halfway across the country to compete against the reigning national champions and current No. 3 Minnesota Golden Gophers in back-to-back games.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Yale (1–4–1, 1–2–1 ECAC) will have its hands full against Minnesota’s (11–1–0, 9–1–0 WCHA) prolific offense. The Golden Gophers have racked up 79 goals in 12 contests this season, making them the highest-scoring team in the nation. In fact, Minnesota’s roster is comprised of five of the top 14 goal-scorers in all of Division I women’s hockey.

“To become the best, you have to play and beat the best,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said.

“And our challenging schedule allows us the opportunity to do so, while also challenging us to improve and raise our level of play as a team to that of a championship program.”

Making the already-challenging task ahead even more difficult is the fact that Yale has accumulated the third-most minutes in the penalty box in the nation this season. Should that trend continue this weekend, Yale will have to fend off Minnesota forward Dani Cameranesi, who leads the country with six power-play goals.

Cutting down on the team’s penalty minutes will cut into

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Forward Jamie Haddad ’16 has notched a goal and two assists for the Bulldogs in 2015–16. the margin between Minnesota’s top-ranked offense and Yale’s defense, which is tied for last in defense, having allowed a nation-high 4.33 goals per game thus far.

“Minnesota is a really good

hockey team, but we have worked hard in practice these past two weeks and feel confident going into this weekend,” captain and forward Janelle FerSEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 12

THE NUMBER OF CURRENT STARTERS ON THE HARVARD FOOTBALL TEAM WHOM YALE HEAD COACH TONY RENO RECRUITED WHILE AT HARVARD. Reno, who recruited current seniors from the southeastern U.S., has a last chance to defeat his recruits in The Game on Saturday.