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One, two, three — not only you and me. Three Ivy League

universities will share this year’s football title. Penn, Harvard and Dartmouth — all 6–1 in Ivy play — are all champions. The Ivy title has not been split since 1982, when the same three schools shared it. This year, Harvard’s Justice Shelton-Mosley won Rookie of the Year, while Penn’s Al Bagnoli won Coach of the Year.

an event titled “Hard Hats for Hillary” hosted outside Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 announced a five-year, $275 billion nationwide plan to rebuild infrastructure. Clinton also picked up an official endorsement from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.

of Clinton, former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 is in the midst of a fundraising push — consisting of more than 20 events in 14 states in a month — for his wife’s 2016 presidential bid. This week, Clinton will visit Los Angeles and Seattle. The Clinton team aims to raise $100 million for the campaign by the end of the year.

The Governor’s Ball. The

Yale College Democrats will host Gov. Dannel Malloy this evening for a conversation about his second term.

Malloy, one of the nation’s most progressive governors, is gearing up to head the Democratic Governors Association for the upcoming election cycle. Tonight’s event will take place in the Branford Common Room at 7 p.m.

Getting Coq-y. The Tyng cup

is in full swing, and Berkeley College is in the lead. Morse, with 27 percent participation, is in second place. Last year the intramurals cup went to Timothy Dwight, while Davenport took the title in 2014.

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Nations’ 2015 Climate Change Conference COP21, which begins today, will be held in Paris. The Yale Student Environmental Coalition has sent two delegates to the conference: Amanda Mei ’18, a Production & Design editor for the News, and Justin Myles ’17.

’Tis the season. The New Haven Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism will host the annual city tree lighting on the historic Green at 4 p.m. tomorrow evening. The event will feature live performances, refreshments and a Ferris wheel.

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1988 University Secretary Sheila Washington announces a revised schedule for Old Campus gate closings to enhance security. With the new schedule, gates to Old Campus will lock at 12:30 a.m. on weeknights and 2 a.m. on weekends.

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After eight consecutive seasons of falling short to its archrival from Cambridge, the Yale football team could not flip the script against Harvard, dropping a 38–19 contest at the Yale Bowl. Page B1

Forty-nine faculty members, including two residential college masters and dozens of senior professors, have signed an open letter defending the controversial email by Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis that featured in national headlines over the past month and sparked weeks of campus protests.

The letter, authored by physics professor Douglas Stone, argues that Christakis’ email — which criticized administrators’ efforts to encourage students to be mindful of culturally appropriative costumes — was a modest and reasonable attempt to spur campus debate.

It pushes back against students who consider Christakis’ email irresponsible and insensitive and claims that some protesters have “recklessly distorted” the message in order to cast it as an endorsement of racist speech. Next Yale, a newly formed coalition of students of color and their allies, has demanded that Christakis and her husband, Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis, apologize for the email and resign from their posts.

“The email … did not express support for racist expressions, but rather focused primarily on the question of whether monitoring and criticizing such expression should be done in a top-down manner,” the letter states.

Stone told the News that the Halloween email was a useful contribution to campus dis-

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CT budget talks move forward

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Two weeks ago, a leak of the state Republican leadership’s plans to fill Connecticut’s $350 million budget gap threatened to put talks with Gov. Dannel Malloy and the Democratic leadership in Hartford on ice. Still, after a series of marathon sessions last week, Democratic and

Republican leaders expressed confidence that they will complete a deal before the end of the year.

In a joint press conference Tuesday after a meeting with leaders from both chambers of the General Assembly, State Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said the parties had moved closer to an agreement on state budget

College name choices fall to Corporation

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Now that University President Peter Salovey has announced initial action steps in response to concerns about racism and discrimination on campus, the Yale Corporation will soon make decisions of its own.

On Nov. 12, Next Yale — a coalition of Yale students of color and their allies — presented Salovey with policy demands with the goal of fostering a more inclusive Yale. While Salovey adopted some of those demands and modified or passed over others in an email to the Yale community on Nov. 17, he did not have direct jurisdiction over two of Next Yale’s requests: naming the two new residential colleges after people of color and renaming Calhoun College. Those decisions fall under the purview of the Yale Corporation, which is expected to reach a consensus of its own by the end of the academic year.

Salovey simultaneously serves as president of the

University and chair of the Yale Corporation, the governing board and policymaking body for Yale.

As per Salovey’s recent policy announcements, Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 will organize open meetings between Corporation members and the Yale community. However, the Corporation will reach its decision as a whole during a closed-door meeting. Students interviewed expressed frustration with the Corporation’s lack of communication so far, but Salovey said its members look forward to hearing from the Yale community about specific names as well as more general values.

“The Corporation is very interested in hearing from members of the Yale community their views on the naming of the new colleges as well as whether or not to change the name of Calhoun College,” Salovey said. “I don’t want to speak for the Corporation, but SEE CORPORATION PAGE 6

cuts — an issue that has cleaved through Hartford’s political scene in recent weeks. Following talks with Malloy Tuesday, party leadership met without the governor to further discuss the caucuses’ plans for the state budget. Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven, said the leaders have agreed on some line-item cuts and have found “commonal-

ity” on other broad topics. The leaders are planning a special session for the week of Dec. 7 to address the budget deficit, said House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden.

“We’re moving substantially closer to an agreement, I think,” Looney said at the press conference. “We had hopeful and productive discussions [Tuesday], and we’re going to con-

tinue those. We think we have narrowed a lot of the differences between us and are moving closer.”

The specifics of any deal between the four caucuses — two in the Senate and two in the House — remain unclear, and caucus leaders have so far declined to publicly reveal SEE BUDGET PAGE 4

Med school tackles diversity issues

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Alpern’s email came after medical school students called for the administration to address issues of diversity.

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Ten days ago, in an email to the medical school community, Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern

responded to student demands for increased diversity and inclusion at the School. In his email, Alpern discussed many issues recently raised by students and announced several new measures to improve the

School’s diversity.

Alpern’s plan includes the creation of the position of chief diversity officer for the school and the formation of a StuSEE MED SCHOOL PAGE 6

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think President Peter Salovey’s recent email announcing changes aimed at “a more inclusive Yale” has bought only a pause in unrest on campus.

Rewarding any behavior encourages more of it. The Next Yale movement protested and demanded, and the Yale administration gave lots of money to its causes and intellectual ground to its views.

The movement says racism is bad, as if that’s controversial. It claims on the basis of uncheckable “lived experiences” that racism not only exists at Yale — a reasonable assumption for any large institution — but is everywhere at Yale. The movement then pushes solutions that it, as the self-appointed arbiter of racism on campus, knows are necessary to correct the problem.

As others have written on these pages recently, it is difficult for many people with a sense that something is wrong with this movement to speak up. Being against those who are against racism — and who claim it pervades Yale’s culture — makes one, of course, a bedfellow of racists.

But agreeing, as everyone does, that racism is wrong is different from agreeing with the worldview and goals of those who now claim a monopoly on opposition to and knowledge about racism.

And that worldview and those goals, if they become Yale’s, will harm our school.

This movement has lauded a student who screamed at a teacher that she wanted not an intellectual space, but a “home.” The movement has demanded that its subjectivist definition of racism be conditioned into students and faculty. Some of its members have cursed at students of color who disagree with its message. And the movement has asked that students be required to take classes — normally forums for rigorous debate — that it seems eerily sure will cure them of their troglodytic views.

Yale administrators have been able to avoid certain illadvised changes to University policy because they have administrative power. But it does not matter how many times administrators tout Yale’s unshakeable commitment to free speech if debate at Yale becomes intolerant, uncivil and emotional. Yale can remain technically tolerant and still lose the sort of discourse it ought to encourage.

Yale needs a campaign of administrators, faculty and students against the aspects of the movement which, if it advances, will harm the University’s intellectual life. A few points need making: First, the University’s mission of pursuing truth through debate means that “emotional and intellectual safety” are

secondary concerns.

The right of people to speak their minds and the charity afforded to arguCOLE ments made ARONSON in good faith are paraNecessary mount. Furand proper ther, using emotions instead of reason for argument is shoddy.

This does not mean telling students who feel hurt to simply stop feeling hurt. It means that personal feelings ought not be permitted to prevent discussion of difficult issues. Students asking to be kept safe from discomforting ideas are making requests opposed, as such, to the University’s ideals.

Second, even if yelling at faculty is permitted by Yale’s free speech policy, it is disgusting. Our teachers at Yale are venerable scholars. We are here to learn from them and with them. To treat them with disrespect is to demonstrate contempt for the University’s mission.

Third, Yale’s pluralism — the same pluralism without which some of the members of Next Yale might by now have received expulsion notices — is anchored in specific virtues: the courage of people to speak up, honesty in thought and debate, reverence for a common intellectual project and a belief in the American ideal of a society based on philosophical claims, rather than a tribe or ethnicity.

I imagine that many members of Yale’s faculty do not think it their role to simply impart their opinions to students. But this admirable restraint is self-undermining if applied to all matters. To wit: if professors do not enter the battle for Yale’s intellectual culture against the recent protestors, they may someday be unable to teach students what they want to teach. They will be shouted down in class, accused of “bias,” will come under pressure to drop controversial parts of their curricula, etc. The professors I know are brave people who would never cave to such demands. But that won’t matter if students lack the integrity or curiosity to take their classes in the first place.

Yale’s leaders should fight to save it from the cheap authoritarianism of “intellectual and emotional safety.” Otherwise the storms of “progress” will conquer our beloved school, leaving copies of the Woodward Report fluttering in the wind.

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Lessons from Paris A

little over two weeks have passed since three darkclad men entered the popular Bataclan Theater in Paris’ 11th arrondissement and opened gunfire from AK-47 assault rifles after purported shouts of “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) rung through the 1,500-person concert venue. In the Bataclan, 89 lives were lost amid a coordinated attack that perpetrators executed on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as “Daesh” in Arabic. Elsewhere in the city, other Daesh agents conducted suicide bombings and synchronized shootings that upped the total death rate to 130, making this attack the deadliest in France since World War II and the deadliest in Western Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

I have spent seven years of my life living and traveling throughout the greater Middle East region, and I have also dedicated a substantial portion of my academic career to researching counternarratives to Daesh propaganda. Thus, I feel obliged to enumerate two lessons that the Paris catastrophe teaches.

First and foremost, mainstream news outlets are complex information machines oiled by a heavy Eurocentric bias. Take, for instance, the plane crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Press releases in the immediate aftermath of this event quickly highlighted the number of West-

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ern passengers on board, and failed to account for other ethnicities. This same blatant bias drove our news apparatus to disproportionately elevate coverage of Paris while neglecting terrorist attacks in other countries. Three days prior to the Paris attack, 43 died and 250 were wounded in a double suicide-bomb operation in a Shiite quarter of Beirut.

The next day, a Daesh combatant blew himself up at a funeral in Baghdad, killing 18 and wounding 41. Perhaps most strikingly, al-Shabab slaughtered 147 innocent university students in Kenya in April of 2015.

The events that unfolded in Beirut, Baghdad and Kenya are just as heartbreaking as Paris.

The modern Western press has, to a significant extent, failed its readership when its coverage unjustly amplifies the voices of Western Caucasians and teaches future generations that people of color in third-world countries do not matter. That’s a dangerous delusion to harbor. Yalies should keep in mind that the Frenchflag adorned profile pictures dotting Facebook are a distortion of reality.

To be sure, one should not understate the novelty of this situation. Paris deserves moderately more media attention because Daesh was able to infiltrate this safe and prosperous Western European capital. Put simply, it’s easier to bomb Beirut and Baghdad than it is to bomb

Paris. This is not a cozy truth, but it’s the truth nonetheless. To see the reality of media coverage for what it is, we must both recognize the brazenness of this attack and also realize that the West frequently neglects the narratives of other, non-Western countries.

The second lesson that Paris teaches revolves around the public’s relationship to Islam. With Daesh riding a wave of recent and continuous success, including bombing a Russian airliner on Oct. 31 and developing a chemical weapons branch, it’s easy for us to automatically categorize Islam as an inherently violent religion. One must realize that Daesh’s radical utilization of Salafi jihadism is considered an anathema to almost every other Muslim in the world. One must also realize that at different points in history other religions provided fodder for barbaric movements on par with the ruthless tactics that Daesh exhibits. Islam has approximately 1.57 billion followers; almost all view it as a force for peace in the world. Granted, I am not naively beholden to Islam: As a transgender man who spends two months each year in Jordan, I am hyperaware of the religion’s troubling strands of conservatism. Despite the rampant discrimination that I face in the Middle East, I greatly admire and respect its cultural focus on collectivism.

We should also resist pigeon-

holing Islam as a violent religion for pragmatic reasons. There is a reason why Daesh is particularly attracted to attacking France: The terrorist organization highlighted Francois Hollande’s policy towards Islam as one of three motives for infiltrating Paris. Hollande has continued to uphold and celebrate laws that secularize the French state to the point of radicalism, banning the hijab, or Muslim head scarf, in public. This abnormal push for cultural uniformity, also termed “fundamental secularism,” goes against the diversity of human nature. In other words, enforced homogeneity will only exacerbate problems of fringe populations in a naturally heterogeneous society. Aggressive French secularism that disrespects religious variance encourages Islamophobia, which permeates France’s culture more so than other European countries.

Attacks on Muslims in France are on the rise, and unfortunately have only increased since Daesh bloodied Paris’ romantic streets.

The war being waged against Daesh is, in the long term, almost exclusively psychological. Heeding this second lesson is one of the best ways one can prevent Islamophobia from inciting young Muslims to sympathize, or even join, the Daesh cause.

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

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t has been several weeks since Yale exploded into protests and demonstrations due to racial tension on campus. President Salovey has assuaged the demands of Next Yale by instituting several changes on campus, including sensitivity training for administrators, increased funding for the cultural houses and new faculty diversity initiatives. While these top-down changes may be the most salient, I can’t help but feel that the conversations and marches and teach-ins were equally as important for having pushed people to engage with difficult issues.

On the individual level, we have wrought changes in our opinions and empathy through groundup conversations.

I haven’t emerged from these weeks with clarity on all issues.

I’m still confused about many things, such as how free speech and racism were intertwined with each other in the debate. In hindsight, I’m inclined to agree with Dean Holloway, who said to the New Yorker, “The students … aren’t questioning the rights of free speech. You’re hearing this incredible pain and frustration related to the issue of being constantly marginalized.” But most of my friends from back home see the recent events at Yale

entirely in terms of threats to free speech. And so the two sides end up talking past each other, with some thinking apples and others thinking oranges. We perceive the problems on different wavelengths, and lacking a common language, we descend into tense sparring and mutual misunderstanding.

I’m not moralizing about the valiant efforts of fellow students trying to achieve a better Yale.

Rather than advocating for one side or another, I want to examine our modes of interaction.

While it is important to vocalize the opinions we believe in, there is an equally important responsibility to put aside our opinions and listen. Particularly in a public arena or on a debating stage, we need to express our unvarnished opinions for the benefit of our listeners. But during oneon-one conversations, when we are the only audience, the dynamics are different. In this scenario, we should aim to bend our minds into the framework of the other person. We should be aiming for fluidity of thought.

This is extremely difficult, and yet so important. The best (and perhaps only) way for us to enlighten others is to actively see through their lenses, to bridge the wavelength gap. Deep within

our minds, we each have unique paradigms of the way the world exists and should exist. We’ve built into our worldviews a constellation of arguments that span our values, experiences and in this case, what we think about free speech and race. But only the tip of our ideological icebergs emerges in a given interaction. When we spar, all these unspoken frameworks remain in shadow to our opponents only to pulsate urgently behind our individual eyes. And so we become frustrated while we endeavor to change another’s perspective.

We want to overhaul their opinion during a single conversation, but these icebergs of thought takes months and years to move.

Our best course of action is to pour ourselves into our partner’s minds. And we should do this even when we see our opponents as insensitive, dogmatic and conservative (or liberal, take your pick). By seeing through the eyes of our “enemy,” we’ll paradoxically be more likely to have our own positions prevail. Our opponents will feel that we are truly engaging with them — and we are. We won’t come away morally damaged by momentarily seeing the world like those with whom we vehemently disagree. Instead, we’ll impercep-

tibly have modified our opponents’ understanding. And indeed, we’ll have gained nuance for our own thoughts in the process.

I’m not arguing for moral relativism here. I think that the events that transpired over the past few weeks, including President Salovey’s response, attest to the best traditions of Yale — a place of open ideas, conversation and slowly bending moral arcs.

I just want to fight back against our human tendency to view the issues as objectively about one thing or another. We think to ourselves, “We’ve heard the other side a million times.” We are exhausted by their insensitivity to our cause, and don’t see them as caring or enlightened people.

But this is not constructive. If I take away one lesson from the past few weeks, it’s that the best way to be a warrior for our own causes is to listen and momentarily adopt the war-song of our opponents. This doesn’t mean we are endorsing the positions we argue with. Instead, we are finally speaking the same language.

EZRIEL GELBFISH is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at ezriel.gelbfish@yale.edu .

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“By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you’d no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.” VICTORIA MORAN NUTRITIONIST

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A previous version of the article “Roberts leads through adversity” mistakenly reported that the Yale football team’s lone Ivy League win in 2012 was over Columbia University.

In fact, the only win came against the University of Pennsylvania.

Yale-NUS dining improves

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The old Yale-NUS dining hall was shared between the college and the National University of Singapore.

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER After moving to its permanent campus this fall, Yale-NUS now has its own dining hall and a new food vendor — improvements students say have improved the quality of dining services.

Before the move, Yale-NUS occupied a building of the National University of Singapore and shared a dining hall with the College of Alice & Peter Tan, a residential college at the university. A collegewide survey conducted in March by the Dining Advisory Committee found that students were dissatisfied with food quality in the shared dining hall. With its own dining halls on the new campus, one in each of the three residential colleges, the school now has more control over dining experiences. Administrators interviewed said having Yale-NUS-only dining halls helps build college identity, and students praised the improved quality of food.

“I really am grateful for the feedback mechanisms in place such as our Dining Advisory Committee … It has truly been hard work on the part of the dining hall staff getting things off the ground,” Regina Ng YNUS ’18 said.

The Dining Advisory Committee is comprised of students and administrators tasked with providing feedback on dining experiences. Roslyn Teng YNUS ’18, a member of the committee, said the college could not decide on the specific food vendor used

by NUS when the two schools shared dining hall space. Once the move to Yale-NUS’ independent campus was underway, the school chose its current vendor, SATS Ltd., in May after several rounds of food-tasting sessions with various dining vendors.

Yale-NUS Senior Manager of Operations and Dining Advisory Committee member Zoe Peters noted that Yale-NUS now has increased flexibility with its dining services. It can adjust the quantity of food provided based on the college’s calendar of events to minimize food waste, Peters said, adding that the school could also customize the menu to suit the Yale-NUS community.

Besides the flexibility offered by the new vendor, dining halls specific to Yale-NUS help foster a greater sense of identity at Yale-NUS, especially within each residential college, Peters said. She added that the school’s end-of-year dinner, when students at each college gather for a formal meal, illustrates how the dining space helps to bond the community.

Peters said Yale-NUS students voiced appreciation for being able to host more events in the space, such as evening study breaks, because they do not have

to share a dining hall with NUS. Interim Dean of Students and Rector of Elm College Brian McAdoo said the dining hall is the core of the community. McAdoo said students have taken advantage of the new space by setting up tables for discussion, language practice and even staging the occasional flash mob. Just as Yale-NUS’ residential college system is modeled after Yale’s, each Yale-NUS residential dining hall serves similar functions to those in New Haven.

“I have to say that the vision of the residential colleges’ dining halls set out by the Yale Dining team and our caterer is coming to fruition quite nicely,” McAdoo said.

Students interviewed praised the new dining hall for the buffet-style system and the healthier food choices.

According to Teng, at the shared dining hall, staff stationed at each food counter dished out a set portion of food and students could not select it for themselves. The new dining halls have adopted a self-serve buffet style.

Although the previous serving system allowed students and dining hall staff to bond, Ng said, it also resulted in tension when students were denied extra portions of a certain dish. However, Ng added that the new buffet makes portion control more difficult, and students who eat at the end of the dinner dining period find little food remaining.

May Tay YNUS ’17 said being able to choose her own portions of food reduces food waste. She added that there are a greater variety of healthy and vegetarian foods like grilled tofu, quinoa and sauteed mushrooms.

“I really appreciate that the food at the new campus is so much healthier, and so much more creatively so,” Tay said.

The dining options also provide students with dietary restrictions more choices, Tay said. She said that in the old dining hall, students on restricted diets such as vegan or kosher were often limited to mock meat or some “improvised meal cobbled together from random things available” that day.

Ng said that although she appreciates the healthier alternatives, she wanted to see a greater variety of other foods too. She recalled a period of time this semester when she was served boiled vegetables for three days in a row. Ng proposed that the school create a monthly dining hall menu to help the vendor organize their ingredients and students plan their meals.

On the weekends, the Elm College dining hall offers a made-to-order omelette station.

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

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER A new report by the Faculty of Arts and Science Senate has raised concerns about the University’s faculty-conduct standards and the review procedures for complaints of violations, with faculty arguing that they had insufficient input in the drafting of these rules.

The senate voted unanimously in a Nov. 19 meeting to adopt the report — which comes in response to the ongoing efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Standards of Conduct — and emailed the document to all FAS faculty Sunday evening. University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak charged the Ad Hoc Committee, which is composed of faculty members, in spring 2014 with formulating a code of conduct for Yale’s faculty. The committee’s work consists of developing the conduct standards — which were drafted and given to faculty for input in January before being finalized for the beginning of this academic year — and drafting review procedures in cases of faculty conduct violations.

The review procedures are still in draft form, and a preliminary version was presented at an FAS Senate meeting in October to considerable faculty opposition. The draft procedure reviews have been circulated among faculty and the deans of each University school have been invited to solicit reactions from their faculty. FAS Dean Tamar Gen-

dler, for example, has opened a website for comments and will also hold an open meeting on Dec. 16 for FAS faculty members.

Though the conduct standards are now official University policy, the FAS Senate report, which was written by a study group within the senate, still aims to modify the standards’ content. The report also outlines concerns with the content of the draft review procedures, as well as broader concerns about the lack of faculty input on an issue that the report’s authors say most affects the faculty body. While the conduct standards were open for online faculty feedback earlier this year, the comments were not made public.

The senate report called for faculty to have public and open feedback for the standards and the review procedures, and it also called for a faculty vote upon the final proposal.

“It is the view of the study group that subjects of direct concern to the faculty — in this case, the standards and procedures by which faculty conduct will be adjudicated — are rightly subject to faculty deliberation as well as a faculty vote,” the report reads. “The introduction of the new standards and procedures as an administrative policy (rather than as a process of collective deliberation and governance) tends to undermine rather than strengthen the standards’ legitimacy.”

The report listed three main recommendations to “enhance transparency and faculty gov-

ernance” within the standards process. The first calls for the administration to distribute the current standards and draft procedures to all University faculty, and to allow a 30-day period for faculty comment and input. The second recommendation asks for the Ad Hoc Committee to revise the drafts with this expanded faculty input in mind. Finally, the report recommends that Gendler call an FAS meeting to discuss and vote upon the final proposals for both the standards and procedures. Gendler, who has already scheduled such a meeting, was not available for comment.

But Gage admitted that the administration has the power to make the draft procedures official without considering the senate’s recommendations, although she said this would be unlikely.

“The administration could adopt the procedures without faculty recommendation,” Gage said. “It would be surprising to me, but that would be possible.”

Alternatively, Gage said, the administration could instead affirm the bylaws of the University, which indicate that the faculty “shall be the governing board of the school, entrusted with matters relating to the educational policy and government of the school.”

History, African American Studies and American Studies professor Glenda Gilmore, who wrote an Oct. 27 opinion piece in the News criticizing the draft procedures, also pointed to the Univer-

sity bylaws, stating that the administration should abide by the bylaws and provide for the faculty to govern itself in matters of faculty misconduct, rather than reserving ultimate power for the deans and provosts. She added that she was concerned with both the draft content and the way in which the code of conduct has been drafted.

“I am as concerned about the draconian nature of the draft Procedures for Violation of the Standards of Faculty Conduct as I am about the unrepresentative process by which the provost appointed the committee that wrote them,” Gilmore said.

The American Association of University Professors also offered its opinion on the draft procedures, at Gilmore’s request. In a Nov. 17 letter, Director of the AAUP’s Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance Gregory Scholtz pointed out several parts of the draft procedures that violate the AAUP-supported standards governing disciplinary actions against a faculty member. He said the review procedures appear “seriously inadequate” relative to the AAUP’s recommended best practices when a faculty member is accused of misconduct. Scholtz’s letter was made public at the senate meeting and has also been forwarded to administrators.

The FAS Senate was established in December 2013.

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

YCC selects inaugural Board of Trustees

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Council has finalized the first seven members for its inaugural Board of Trustees.

The trustees come from a range of positions at Yale, from faculty positions in the Yale School of Medicine to active members of the alumni network. The members are Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Women Faculty Forum Chair and School of Medicine professor Paula Kavathas, Senior Counselor to the President and Provost Linda Lorimer, former Chief Executive Officer of the Clinton Foundation Eric Braverman ’97 LAW ’02, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Association of Yale Alumni Steve Blum ’74 and former YCC Presidents Rebecca Taber ’08 and Brandon Levin ’14. YCC President Joe English ’17 said members were chosen to represent all aspects of both the University and College.

“Our goal was to get a crosssection of the Yale community, so we have members from the University, college administration, faculty, alumni community and also the YCC alumni community,” English said. “By gathering such a broad group of trustees, we hope it will

enable them to provide diverse feedback and guidance for the YCC.” The creation of the board was announced earlier this month, along with a $750,000 endowment which will be overseen by the board members. The entire group will convene once a semester to discuss future policy initiatives and ongoing projects. Members will serve renewable three-year terms, and next year’s YCC board will have the option of adding one or two more members, English said.

The seven trustees selected have engaged with the campus community on a number of different levels during their Yale careers. Lorimer is a former member of the Yale Corporation, having served from 1990 to 1993 before becoming secretary of the body, a position she held until 2012.

She also served as Yale’s vice president for global and strategic initiatives until stepping down last year. This past summer, Kavathas served on a faculty committee that reviewed the procedures of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct and recommended policy changes. She said her experience in helping shape University policy would carry over to her work on the YCC’s Board of Trustees, as the

YCC also influences University procedures.

Kavathas said she agreed to join the board because she enjoys working closely with undergraduates.

“I want to work with [the YCC] to accomplish their goals, and as time goes on, make some suggestions, but I am not starting with an agenda,” Kavathas said. “I think it’s great that there is this type of organization and I would like to help it be as successful as possible.”

In addition to having indepth knowledge about both the University’s and college’s many functions, each member also has experience working with the YCC. Taber is the most recent female president of the YCC. During Braverman’s time at Yale, he served on the YCC as chair of the Undergraduate Organizations Committee. The YCC also regularly works with the AYA to bring together current students and alumni, according to Blum. Blum cited this year’s first-ever reunion of past YCC presidents, organized by the AYA and YCC, as evidence of the strong relationship.

Bringing Blum onboard as a trustee was a natural step, English said.

“There really is a crying need for institutional knowledge

and continuity, and that’s what the Board of Trustees will try to be,” Blum said. “The AYA is charged with alumni relations … The YCC is a natural campus partner.”

The trustees met for the first time during the last day of classes before Thanksgiving break, Kavathas said. They met other board members and were briefed on the YCC’s current projects as well as prospective goals. The first full meeting of the board will be held in January, when they will be introduced to all the current members of the YCC executive board, English said.

During this meeting, he added, board members will also discuss the organization’s policy goals, policy reports that will be released in December and the bylaws which outline the responsibilities and obligations of the Board of Trustees.

“I am honored to have been tapped as one of the first members,” Lorimer said. “I am hoping we can be a useful sounding board as the YCC considers issues going forward.”

The YCC began compiling the Board of Trustees in October, and the last member signed on in November.

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

BOARD BACKGROUNDS OF THE YCC TRUSTEES Senior Counselor to President Member of Yale Corporation, 1990–93 Vice President of University, 2012–15 Linda Lorimer

Former CEO of Clinton Foundation Eric Braverman ’97, LAW ’02

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Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Assocation of Yale Alumni Steve Blum ’74

Women’s Faculty Forum Chair School of Medicine Professor UWC Member Paula Kavathas

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway

Former YCC Presidents Brandon Levin ’14 Rebecca Taber ’08 MAYA SWEEDLER/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF

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FROM THE FRONT

“I can write with absolute perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could.” IAN SOMERHALDER AMERICAN ACTOR

Fifty faculty members sign letter in support of Christakises FACULTY LETTER FROM PAGE 1 course and that the Christakises are model faculty members who deserve admiration rather than criticism for their efforts to promote intellectual debate on campus.

Stone added that dozens of his colleagues agreed with the content of the letter but declined to sign it for fear of provoking more controversy.

“We have an obligation to say something reasonable about this,” Stone said. “The silence of so many people in terms of really defending the Christakises has solidified the narrative that they did something wrong.”

The signatories of the open letter include a number of highprofile administrators, such as Calhoun College Master Julia Adams, Saybrook College Master Thomas Near and School of Management Dean Edward Snyder.

Joan Feigenbaum, Computer Science department chair who signed the letter, said students have subjected the Christakises to unfair ad hominem attacks.

“Disagreement is fine,” Feigenbaum said. “However, disagreement does not require verbal abuse.”

The faculty letter has drawn scrutiny from students and professors critical of the Christakises.

Brea Baker ’16, the president of the Yale chapter of the NAACP, said the faculty letter fundamentally misunderstands the responsibilities associated with the mastership of a residential college.

“If the Christakises are more tied to the idea of free speech and positive intent than they are to the impact of their words on the students they are charged with protecting … the roles of master and associate master are not for them,” Baker said.

Gerald Jaynes, professor of economics and African American Studies, said that although he does not believe the Chris-

takises are guilty of racism, he will not sign the open letter because the debate over Erika Christakis’ email is a distraction from more important issues, such as faculty diversity.

Christakis did not return request for comment.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway told the News earlier this month that many faculty members are concerned that student opposition to the Halloween email will have a chilling effect on free speech on campus.

Stone said he holds those concerns, adding that several colleagues warned him that the open letter would make him a target of the ongoing protests.

“It’s not good for our community to feel constraint in our expression of reasonable and relevant views,” Stone said.

“That’s unhealthy for Yale.”

Over the last month, the Christakises themselves have become focal points in the campus debate, as students and professors struggle to come to terms with the racially charged incidents still polarizing the University.

In early November, a group of students gathered outside the Christakises’ campus residence demanded an apology for the Halloween email. A video of the incident, in which one of the students can be heard swearing at Nicholas Christakis, provoked an angry social-media backlash from free-speech advocates after it was posted online. “[The open-letter signers] were very upset about the videos of the public shaming, and the way that Nicholas was treated by that group,” Stone said.

The week before the Thanksgiving recess, Holloway and University President Peter Salovey rejected calls from Next Yale to sanction the Christakises. In an email to the Silliman community, the two administrators announced that the Christakises will remain in their positions, lauding the couple’s “long-standing and deep

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Dozens of faculty members have signed an open letter supporting Nicholas and Erika Christakis. dedication to undergraduates.”

The faculty letter, released as a public Google document yesterday, praises that decision. It also calls for administrators to adhere to the principles outlined in the 1974 Woodward Report, a foundational document designed to promote free expression at Yale, and endorses widespread

demands for the University to improve faculty diversity.

“The letter expresses commitments to stand in solidarity with members of the community harmed by bigotry and to debate our educational policies,” Snyder said.

The open letter is the latest in a series of faculty petitions

related to racially charged controversies on campus. Hundreds of faculty members have signed an open letter spearheaded by anthropology professor Douglas Rogers — and co-authored by five faculty members — which was released Nov. 10 affirming their support for minority students.

A short notice posted last week on the website of the Sociology Department expressed support for Nicholas Christakis, but did not mention the Halloween email.

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

Dems, Republicans work toward budget plan BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 the specifics of their talks. But Fasano and Looney said Tuesday that revised figures from the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis have cast doubt on the merits of the retirement incentive program, a central part of the plans put forward by Republicans and Senate Democrats.

Republican and Democratic plans relied on last week’s OFA estimate that 1,800 state employees would retire under a retirement incentive program, saving the state $80 million in fiscal year 2016. But new figures from OFA released later last week indicate that the program would

save just over $40 million.

“That has been a little twist, if you would, that caught us all by a little bit of surprise,” Fasano said.

“We are reviewing that again in light of the new number. We’ve talked about that number and we have to revisit it since there’s not as much saving as we had thought.”

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, said the retirement incentive program remains on the table despite the revised OFA numbers. In a later press conference on Tuesday, Malloy said the revised figure for the program is an “eye-opener for everyone,” adding that the new figures will force the leader-

ship to seek other cuts from the budget.

Sharkey said the new figures will have no impact on the House Democrats’ plans, which do not contain any proposals for a retirement incentive program.

Instead, the House Democrats are proposing cuts to the state’s rainy day fund, special transportation fund and municipal funding.

After meeting with Malloy, the legislative leaders moved their conversation into a separate room. Klarides said this meeting allowed the leaders to discuss only the three sets of plans put forth by groups in the General Assembly.

“The governor had his pro-

posals, and the legislature had our separate proposals,” she said.

“We wanted to see where we could get and kind of flesh out some of the issues that we may have had with each other substantively.”

Malloy said he had no concerns about the leaders’ separate meeting and was encouraged by their discussions.

“I think that everyone is approaching this in good faith,” he said at the press conference.

“I don’t think that, before today, we made nearly enough progress, and I think that we need to try to speak with one voice, which begins by legislative leaders talking with one another … I think

that there’s now an opening for substantial progress to be made.”

Malloy added that he will continue to work on deficit reduction through increasing taxes and lowering spending.

Further meetings between Malloy and the legislative leaders are scheduled for early in the coming week. Fasano said the leaders plan to make the numbers in each caucus’ proposal more exact before talks resume.

Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, said the willingness of all four caucus leaders to discuss their differences has brought them closer to an agreement.

“I think we’re getting there,

and I think that if you work closely, in a bipartisan way, and if you have honest discussions like we have, that it takes a little bit longer, but at the end of the day, you get a better product,” he said at the press conference.

Fasano agreed, saying the frank discussions have evinced a “mutual respect among all of the leaders” and a shared desire to reach common ground.

The Democratic leadership recently reversed a proposal to suspend the citizens’ election program.

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

TIMELINE BUDGET TALKS

November

12 13 23 24

Throughout early November: budget talks between Malloy, Cuts proposed by Malloy Fasano and Klarides hold a the Democrats and the Republicans proceed in Hartford. and Republican leadership press conference officially are leaked to the CT Mirror. announcing their plans.

Malloy publicly announces Fasano accuses the his plans later in the day. Democrats of being the source of the leak.

Malloy warns lawmakers Democratic and Republican that time is running leaders say talks have reached short on a budget deal. a breakthrough before they break for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Week of December 7

Leaders have planned a special legislative session to pass the required budget cuts.

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“If I were mayor, I’d invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city.”

JANE BIRKIN ENGLISH ACTRESS AND SINGER

ULA demands meeting with Harp

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Forty immigrant-rights activists staged a protest and sitin Wednesday evening at City Hall to bring wage-theft allegations against Italian restaurant Goodfellas to Mayor Toni Harp’s attention and dispute the arrest of an activist during the previous week’s protest at the restaurant.

Members and allies of Unidad Latina en Accion, a New Havenbased immigrant-rights organization, gathered outside City Hall before entering the mayor’s office and demanding to meet with Harp. The protest occurred partly in response to the Nov. 20 arrest of ULA organizer John Lugo, who was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer after a protesting with a megaphone outside of Goodfellas. Activists at City Hall said Lugo’s arrest violated his right to protest, adding that ULA has led similar protests for 10 years in the Elm City. The protesters also criticized New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman for walking through a prior Goodfellas protest to eat at the restaurant roughly two weeks ago, alleging that the NHPD has engaged in collusion with the restaurant. On the night of his arrest, Lugo was released with a promise to appear in court. His court date was scheduled for Friday, but when he appeared the court issued a continuance. The date of Lugo’s next court appearance has not been released.

“Today we are here to tell Harp and Esserman — who walked right across our line and went on to eat at Goodfellas two weeks ago — that they need to be accountable,” said Joseph Foran, ULA member and one of the protest organizers. “We’re here and are going to make sure the New Haven Police Department ceases and desists collusion with Goodfellas.”

Though city spokesman Laurence Grotheer informed the group that Harp was unavailable because she was in another meeting, the activists refused to leave until Harp or a scheduler confirmed a time to meet with them.

Grotheer told protesters that the judicial department, not the

mayor, is responsible for dealing with Lugo’s arrest.

ULA organizer Karim Calle told Grotheer wage theft had been occurring at Goodfellas since 2007. She gave him a copy of ULA’s report listing allegations of wage theft and discrimination against workers at Goodfellas over the last decade.

Claudina Lara, an activist with Make the Road Connecticut — a Bridgeport-based Latino and immigrant-rights organization whose members also attended last week’s protest — said the group would not leave until Harp came out to speak with them.

Although Harp did not ever appear at the protest, Grotheer eventually confirmed a meeting for Wednesday morning.

“Why is it when she wanted to get voted into office she could step out of meetings, her face was everywhere?” Lara said.

During the sit-in, which lasted more than an hour, former Goodfellas employee and ULA supporter Emily Gallagher spoke of her personal experiences with wage theft when she worked at the restaurant from 2005 to 2007.

She said she had filed two separate complaints with the Connecticut Department of Labor for not receiving overtime payment and receiving checks that bounced. She said the investigation began over a year after she filed the complaints. Gallagher said it is “shameful” that the owner of Goodfellas is allegedly still withholding workers’ wages 10 years later.

Victorya McEvoy, an Elm City resident and ULA supporter, said she attended the protest and sitin because she “values justice” and thinks wage theft is one of the city’s largest impediments to residents achieving a high quality of life.

“New Haven, which claims to be a progressive city, an inclusive city, a quality city, a supportive city, is allowing these people to be trampled by the elite,” McEvoy said. “If I want there to be a fair wage policy in my city, I show up.”

After the sit-in at City Hall, the group migrated to Goodfellas and continued the protest outside the restaurant.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

REBECCA KARABUS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Members and allies of Unidad Latina en Accion, an immigrant-rights organization, gathered outside City Hall to protest wage theft.

Activists stage vigil for climate change

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER More than 30 New Haven residents and environmental activists gathered on the New Haven Green for a vigil Sunday evening to urge the Elm City to take action against climate change.

The event was hosted by a coalition of Elm City environmental justice organizations including Connecticut Fund for the Environment, New Haven/ Léon Sister City Project — a nonprofit that promotes sustainable development in Nicaragua and Connecticut — and Fossil Free Yale. The vigil marks the start of

“12 Days of Xmas: No More Fossil Fuels,” a series of daily events hosted by the coalition that will run until Dec. 10. The vigil coincided with the beginning of the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, a two-week-long summit during which UN members draft an international plan for climate change action.

“Due to terrorist threats, people are no longer able to stand in the streets of Paris to call for stronger climate action,” said Emily Wier FES ’17, one of the event’s organizers. “That is why our voice here in New Haven is so important.”

Wier said the Paris Conference aims to lay out a plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2020 and to determine the dollar amount developed countries should pay developing countries for the loss of land and income due to climate change they caused through carbon emissions. She said while the international community has already pledged $100 billion to compensate for climate-change induced disasters in the developing world, she does not think this amount will cover the extent of damages inflicted.

Shannon Laun, an attorney at the Connecticut Fund for the

Environment, a New Havenbased environmental nonprofit, highlighted the importance of local efforts in combating climate change worldwide. She noted that in 1990, Connecticut was the first state to pass a climate-change law that mandated energy efficiency in housing and transportation.

Gov. Dannel Malloy formed the Governor’s Council on Climate Change — a coalition of agency heads, representatives from nonprofits and business leaders who hope to curb climate change — this spring. GC3 will release a preliminary report outlining suggestions for com-

bating climate change in January and a comprehensive climate-change plan next summer, Laun said.

Laun said while statewide efforts are underway, New Haven’s 2014 climate plan is outdated and in need of revision. She said CT Fund for the Environment has asked Mayor Toni Harp to update the city’s climate action plan by the end of the year and implement strategies that will reduce the Elm City’s environmental impact.

Fossil Free Yale representative Chelsea Watson ’17 said she and other FFY members have called on Yale administrators to

divest from the fossil fuel industry, which the organization considers a chief driver of climate change.

“The impacts of climate change and environmental pollution are happening now,” Watson said. “Our politicians need to know that when they delay action on climate they are making decisions that jeopardize the lives of millions today.”

A 2015 UN report found that extreme weather has killed more than 600,000 people since 1995.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT College names governed by Corporation

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

LUTHER BURBANK AMERICAN BOTANIST

Med school dean addresses diversity concerns MED SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1

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The Yale Corporation is expected to make a decision on the name of Calhoun College by the end of this academic year.

CORPORATION FROM PAGE 1 I believe the interest is as much about the principles involved in naming and remembering as it is about specific suggestions for the names themselves.”

While students have often criticized the Corporation for being out of touch with campus climate, Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith noted that Corporation members have a personal link to Yale: They all hold a Yale degree and many have children at the College. She added that she expects the Corporation to take the campus climate into account during its deliberations.

“I think the context always shapes decisionmaking, and [the Corporation] will not make a decision without carefully reflecting on that context,” Highsmith said. “They will want to do something that

is responsive, responsible and helpful.”

Salovey said the Corporation is considering input from all members of the Yale community who share their ideas or opinions, adding that the body will have a thorough conversation about those points of view at one of its future meetings.

Given the limitations of Salovey’s power, Akinyi Ochieng ’15 — a former peer liaison for the African American Cultural Center — said she was pleased with the announcement of community-wide meetings.

“What he did was put the ball in their court publicly — it’s on the Corporation to make the change, to come together and act on the greater interests of the Yale community,” she said.

Tobias Holden ’17, a student of color who has been present at many of the discussions and demonstra-

tions of the past month, said the Yale Corporation failing to publicly respond to the events of the past month — especially given their stewardship of the University and jurisdiction over some of Next Yale’s demands — has led him to worry that all of its members have not yet fully heard the voices of concerned minority students.

Karleh Wilson ’16, a member of Next Yale who has met with Salovey on two occasions, said it is critical that powerful University figures, including Corporation members, be made more accessible and transparent to students. “[Salovey] needs the support of other people who have more power — the people who pull the strings he can’t pull,” she said. “I know President Salovey doesn’t have the power to do everything by tomorrow, but I need to know who is

stopping these things from happening and to talk to them.”

History professor Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02 said recent conversations on race and discrimination would inevitably influence the Corporation. However, he said because these decisions will impact the University for decades to come and new student concerns likely will emerge before then, the Corporation must think in the long-term.

But beyond these specific issues, what matters most is that students feel as if they are being listened to, he said.

“In the end, one thing is most important — people need to feel that they’ve been heard and that their voice matters,” Gitlin said.

The Yale Corporation is composed of 19 members.

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

dent Diversity and Inclusion Group to advise the dean, as well as a re-examination of the structure of the existing Office of Multicultural Affairs, which works to increase the school’s sensitivity to minority concerns and issues in medical education and practice. In his email, Alpern announced that the School’s Curriculum Committee will assess teaching related to health disparities and social justice issues, as well as support University training of medical school administrators to better recognize and combat racism and bias.

Alpern’s email came three days after dozens of medical school students submitted an open letter calling for the administration to address issues of diversity and inclusion at the medical school. In the letter, which has been signed by 98 members of the medical school community and 133 others, students submitted six demands and 35 subdemands, which include “antioppressive” curricular reform, diversification of the faculty and student bodies and the creation of a new means of reporting biases to the School’s administration.

In his email, Alpern said the subjection of certain students at the medical school to microaggressions and other negative behavior was “intolerable for them” and “unacceptable to everyone at the Yale School of Medicine.”

Referring to University President Peter Salovey’s Nov. 17 email announcing changes for the University, Alpern wrote that the medical school supports the president’s commitment to diversifying Yale.

Addressing the issue of faculty diversity at the medical school, Alpern said the administration’s efforts to diversify the faculty have not been as successful as hoped.

“The medical school administration has long recognized the need to expand the diversity of the School’s faculty, but while their commitment to this aim has been great, success at recruiting a more diverse faculty has not,” Alpern wrote. He added that the administration had engaged the search firm Witt/Keiffer and appointed a search committee to select a YSM chief diversity officer.

Alpern’s response drew a positive reaction from Woody Lee, associate dean for multicultural affairs at the medical school, who said the message was “strong” and “timely.”

“Dean Alpern has issued a strong and timely response to the Yale medical community that makes it clear that he has listened, learned and now committed himself to an accountable role in leading the medical school in creating an environment that welcomes and supports everyone equally,” Lee said.

Lee added that Alpern understands the scope of this challenge and has taken important steps to bring institutional processes and resources to bear on a broad range of institutional policies and practices. In an email to the News, Alpern said he anticipates the search process for the chief diversity officer will last about six months, adding that the officer will be involved in every aspect of faculty diversity from recruitment to career development.

In his message to the medical school community, Alpern said the Office of Multicultural Affairs is an important resource at the School, and acknowledged student concerns that the office

lacks resources.

“An important resource for our minority students is the Office of Multicultural Affairs,” he wrote. “Over the past decade, the office has assumed additional responsibilities and students have raised concerns that the office is undersupported. Woody Lee and I have discussed this and he has agreed to consider a reorganization of the office, including a staffing plan.

Any additional staff requirements will be addressed.”

Lee said that the term diversity now covers a broader range of identities and interests than imagined when the office was originally formed 20 years ago.

“Reorganization will mean expanding our capacity to support individual and affiliated organizations without diluting our historical mission to recruit and serve students underrepresented in medicine,” he added.

Lee said Alpern has committed to an institutional process through the medical school’s Curriculum Committee to assess whether the new curriculum, which was brought in this year, adequately addresses issues of structural racism and health-inequity issues which students raised in the demands they submitted. He added that Alpern would prepare a plan to bolster the curriculum if it was found that the curriculum did not adequately address these issues of study.

In his email, Alpern said communication was “paramount” to addressing the issues raised by students. He also said that, in addition to existing monthly meetings with student leadership, he proposes the formation of a “Student Diversity and Inclusion Group” which would meet with him regularly. “[The group will represent] the many student affinity groups,” Alpern said in the letter. “I would meet regularly with this group to discuss the progress we are making in addressing these issues.”

The letter was met with “cautious optimism” from Ben Artin SPH ’18 MED ’18, who signed the Nov. 16 open letter, who described Alpern’s message as “compatible with meaningful and lasting improvements to the culture of Yale and YSM.” Artin added that Alpern’s response and the students’ letter have differing levels of detail, citing as an example the students’ specific demand for longitudinal health-justice courses and Alpern’s more general commitment to curriculum assessment. He said, however, that he does not find this surprising or inherently troubling.

“The students and the dean bring different perspectives, and [the] success of this effort will hinge on aligning those perspectives and following through,” Artin said. “I see the students’ demands and the dean’s response as the beginning of what I hope will be a pivotal and productive process.”

Artin said that for the improvements to become a reality, everyone at the medical school must make a lasting commitment, put in some hard work and maintain an ongoing dialogue. He added that he was honored to be a part of the process and to have many like-minded peers.

The Yale School of Medicine had a total enrolment of 1,223 students, as of June 2014.

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

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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A FOUNDING FATHER

NHFPL hosts write-in for novel challenge

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER In a bare-walled room in New Haven Free Public Library’s Mitchell Branch Saturday morning, four women typed frenetically at their computers, all with the same goal: to write 50,000 words before the end of November.

The women, along with roughly 400,000 other participants worldwide, were participating in a “write-in” as part of National Novel Writing Month.

The initiative, which is in its 17th year, encourages writers to get their ideas down on paper by challenging them to complete a 50,000 word novel by 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 30.

This weekend’s event, intended to support writers pursuing the challenge, was organized by librarians at the Mitchell Branch and Municipal Liaison for the Valley-Northeast region of Connecticut Betsy Hellman, a local volunteer who represents NaNoWriMo — the nonprofit that organizes National Novel Writing Month — in their region. Municipal liaisons also facilitate other support programs for NaNoWriMo participants, including pep talks and online forums.

Participants in Saturday’s write-in said NaNoWriMo creates a community for budding authors who would otherwise be treading the difficult path to publication alone.

“Writing can be a very isolated project where you are spending a lot of time by yourself going through the ups and downs of the process,” write-in participant Yvette Williams GRD ’03 said.

“The type of support and the community that [NaNoWriMo] provides can be very encouraging.”

Williams, a part-time writer, discovered NaNoWriMo after

seeing a flyer advertising the 50,000 word challenge in the NHFPL’s Ives Main Branch.

Though Williams had previous experience writing poetry and academic pieces, she said she had never tried novel writing before because she was intimidated by the length of novels. NaNoWriMo gave her the confidence to start, she said.

“A lot of people here at the library ask how they can be published, so I definitely think there was a very strong interest group for this sort of event,” Mitchell branch librarian Soma Mitra said.

Saturday’s event was the second in a two-part event series hosted at the NHFPL. The first, held Nov. 7 and also co-organized

by Williams, was a NaNoWriMo kickoff event which included writing workshops.

Williams said New Haven consistently sees a higher turnout in NaNoWriMo events than other cities in the Valley-Northwest area of Connecticut. She attributed this higher participation rate to the relative size of New Haven and the fact the Elm City has more accessible library branches.

Miranda Bailey-Russomano, a New Haven native currently attending college in Vermont, is tackling the challenge for the fourth time this year. She said in all the years she participated in National Novel Writing Month, she has never gone to a write-in because libraries are difficult to reach via public transport from her college.

“I have always wanted to go to [a write-in] and in New Haven they are pretty local for all residents,” Bailey-Russomano said.

“Since I was home for Thanksgiving break, it was a good opportunity to get some writing done in the company of others.”

In 2013, NaNoWriMo drew 444,514 writers from over 200 countries and produced 2.5 bil-

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National Novel Writing Month tasks aspiring writers to complete a 50,000 novel in a month. lion words in total. This year, NaNoWriMo hopes to extend the initiative’s reach even further.

Charles Muir, literary director for Full Coverage Writers and municipal liaison for the Fairfield County region, said although he recognizes the positive impact of

National Novel Writing Month, he hopes that the organization eventually “evolves that style and mindset into a year-round, month-to-month challenge.”

ESPN Associate Producer and Municipal Liaison for the Northern Connecticut region Kather-

ine Seelig said she would like to see more groups included in the challenge.

“Rather than more events, I would love to see NaNoWriMo reaching more people,” Seelig said.

National Novel Writing Month

shares its name with NaNoWriMo, a nonprofit supporting aspiring writers, which was established after the 2004 challenge.

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

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” JACQUELINE WOODSON AMERICAN WRITER

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

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Six years, no Rhodes Scholars

Paxson releases diversity, inclusion plan draft

BY ADAM FASMAN When the American Rhodes Trust announced the recipients of the 2016 scholarship this past weekend, Columbia students failed to make the cut for the sixth consecutive year.

Though Columbia students have consistently made it to the final rounds of the competition, Columbia has not produced a Rhodes scholar since the 2009–10 academic year.

This year, the Rhodes trust named two scholarship finalists from Columbia, but ultimately, neither won the award.

Scott Carpenter, associate dean of Global Education and Fellowships, pointed out that Columbia is consistently represented in the final rounds of the competition for the scholarship.

“I think our most objective measure of success is the fact that we get finalists every year,” Carpenter said. “In terms of that finalist round where things are decided, I don’t have a sense of why students are selected or not from whatever schools.”

Carpenter also noted that at the time of publication, one Columbia student had a pending application in an international Rhodes pool.

This year, Harvard University produced five Rhodes Scholars. The other Ivies outpace Columbia’s success in cultivating Rhodes Scholars.

Only the University of Pennsylvania is on par with Columbia, this year winning their first

scholarship in seven years.

B u t despite ColumCOLUMBIA bs tie aa d’ ys performance in the preliminary round, students interviewed by the Spectator said that they find Columbia’s recent lack of success in the Rhodes competition disconcerting.

“It is of course alarming that it’s been so long since a Columbia student received a Rhodes Scholarship,” Catherine Jenkinson said. Jenkinson applied for both a Rhodes Scholarship and a Marshall Scholarship. “I wonder why that could be, because I certainly don’t think that it’s because there’s a lack of people who would make for good Rhodes Scholars at Columbia.”

Sahng-Ah Yoo, an alumna currently engaged in graduate study at the University of Oxford, said she has heard the same sentiment echoed by her peers abroad. Yoo ultimately chose not to apply for the Rhodes.

“I was talking to a couple of Rhodes Scholars in my grad program who are from other schools and they kept asking, ‘Why are we not seeing any Columbia students?’” Yoo said. “And it is a little weird that, out of at least all the Ivies, we’re one of the only ones who hasn’t significantly produced

any scholars in this area.”

Still, both past and present applicants praised the support they received from the Office of Fellowships.

“They’re very helpful. They want to see you get fellowships,” Alex Randall, another Rhodes applicant, said. “So really, anything that they can do to help, they will do.”

Some cite the small size of the office as a factor in Columbia’s lack of success. Two staff members of the office left in February and October. They were later replaced by Carpenter and Jodi Zaffino, current program coordinators for fellowships. At the time, Carpenter was reassigned from his previous post at the Office of Global Programs.

Julian NoiseCat, a Rhodes finalist from last year currently studying at Oxford on a Clarendon Scholarship, agreed that the people in the office are effective, but believed the office needed to expand.

“I think that the people we have in the fellowships office are great people,” NoiseCat said. “They’re very good at preparing student but I think that maybe they need more to work with — more people, more funding, more dedication to trying to win some of these things from Columbia.”

However, when asked if the office plans to expand in the face of these complaints, Carpenter said, as Dean Michael Pippenger said last year, that he did not believe it was necessary.

“We’re well-staffed. We have a great staff,” Carpenter said in response to a question about potentially expanding the office. “We’re able to do the outreach that we need, the individual work with student applicants that we need, both in general and specific ways, and in terms of finalist preparation, which is an important step.”

Applicants interviewed also said that the office could do more to encourage students to apply to fellowships like the Rhodes.

“I don’t know if everyone who could be Rhodes Scholar is applying through Columbia because there isn’t that much of a push,” Jenkinson said.

Yoo also felt like the office could have done more to reach out and foster potential applicants.

“I didn’t really think I was qualified for the Rhodes,” Yoo said. “Mostly, I think, because no one ever told me I might be.”

Carpenter and his office are increasingly aware of the perception among some students that they are unqualified for Rhodes Scholarships, and said they are hoping to work on expanding the pool of candidates for the next cycle.

“There is a perception sometimes that they’re sort of these unreachable heights, and that’s not always the case,” Carpenter said. “So I certainly feel like that is one area that we will hope to do this next cycle is recruit more applicants.”

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

Graduate board shuts down Fox Club

BY THEODORE DELWICHE AND NOAH DELWICHE The graduate board of the Fox Club, one of Harvard’s historically male final clubs, shut down the organization’s house earlier this month just weeks after undergraduate leaders decided to add women to their membership for the first time and a day after a party there prompted controversy among alumni.

“In light of recent events involving conduct unbecoming [of] members of the Fox, the board of directors has closed the Club immediately until such time as it sees fit to reopen it, but not before Jan. 1, 2016,” an email, signed by the Fox’s board of directors, told club affiliates on Nov. 14.

The email, one of several pieces of internal club correspondence recently obtained

by The Crimson, did not specify exactly what had prompted graduate members to close the club. But it came a day after undergraduates threw a party that proved controversial when photographs of the event circulated among alumni, according to one club graduate member, and two weeks after nine women were scheduled to be inducted into the off-campus social organization.

Together, the correspondence indicates that the Fox’s historic move to accept women has met several roadblocks, including pushback from club alumni, some of whom have raised concerns about the membership change, even before the party controversy on Nov. 13.

Shortly after undergraduate club leaders told alumni that they had moved to go coed, graduate board members called for a special meeting to discuss the change and stipulated that the fall’s class of new members—including nine women— would remain provisional until they are approved. Now, their clubhouse closed, the Fox’s transition remains in flux.

“POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER THE CLUB REOPENS” The Fox Club’s abrupt closure came at the tail end of the fall semester’s process for selecting and inducting new undergraduate members. The club was scheduled to host alumni at its building at 44 JFK St. for

a black-tie initiation dinner at 6 p.m., according to an invitation.

When H u g h HARVARD Nesbit, the head of the Fox’s graduate board of directors, emailed other club affiliates about the club’s closure on the afternoon of Nov. 14, however, he stipulated that the “initiation” event, originally scheduled for that evening, would be “postponed until after the Club reopens.”

Shortly before the Fox’s building was closed, according to an active graduate member of the club, some club alumni had reacted negatively to a party that Fox undergraduates had held that Friday. Photographs of the students were circulated among graduate members.

The day following the club’s closure, on Nov. 15, Nesbit wrote in an email addressed to a “Fellow Fox” that the previous day’s “decision by the board of directors was made with due deliberation and unanimity.”

“All of us need a little time and space to reflect on what it means to be a member of the Fox,” Nesbit, who did not respond to a request for comment, wrote in the message.

“Reasonable people of differing views can reason together toward a common goal, the welfare of our Club. Without that, what do we have?”

“DIFFICULT DECISIONS FACING THE FOX CLUB” Weeks before the graduate board formally closed the clubhouse, though, there were signs of discord between undergraduate and graduate members of the Fox unrelated to the November party.

The undergraduate Fox Club leadership moved to accept women to the more-than-100year-old social organization in October, even though undergraduate club members who had advocated going coed in 2014 had already faced pushback from graduate members.

When club officers described their decision in an Oct. 19 letter to graduate members, they pitched it as a decision of their own, but one expedited by

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The Fox Club’s house was shut down earlier this month. pressure from Harvard administrators, who have become increasingly critical of singlesex social organizations, and particularly male final clubs, which are not recognized by the college. Under this scrutiny, the male Spee Club invited women to participate in the final club selection process, known as punch, for the first time this fall.

The Fox undergraduates’ Oct. 19 letter indicated that they had gone ahead and asked a group of women to join the club before receiving formal graduate board approval.

Fewer than two weeks after the undergraduate letter was dated, on Oct. 30, the Fox’s graduate board of directors wrote an email of their own, maintaining that new members’ full acceptance to the club was pending, a policy evidently applied to both the club’s new male initiates as well as the nine women. That message indicates that there had been push-

back from graduate members in response to the membership changes.

“In view of concerns expressed by the grad board and other Club members, the undergraduate board has agreed that all new members will be initiated as provisional members for the remainder of this academic year, with such memberships to be converted to permanent memberships only after confirmation by the grad board and graduate association that appropriate house rules, policies and procedures are in place to their satisfaction,” the board of directors wrote on Oct. 30.

Graduate members of the Fox were also scheduled to meet this past Sunday at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge. That meeting, detailed in a Nov. 4 email sent on behalf of graduate club members to “Friends of the Fox,” was convened to discuss membership policies and the “difficult decisions facing the Fox Club.”

BY BAYLOR KNOBLOCH A working draft of Brown University’s action plan for diversity and inclusion released Thursday night outlines investments totaling more than $100 million over the coming decade that will “promote diversity and inclusion and confront the issues of racism, power, privilege, inequity and injustice that are part of the Brown experience for so many members of our campus,” the action plan states.

The document, titled “Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University,” was originally set to be released at the end of the month in its final form. But after the alleged assault of a visiting Dartmouth student who was a delegate to the Latinx Ivy League Conference by a Department of Public Safety officer Saturday, administrators opted to share a working draft of the document this week and field community input.

An online feedback form will be available until Dec. 4, at which point the university will review the submitted comments, modify the plan and release a final version by the end of the semester, Paxson wrote.

The university committed to creating a center for firstgeneration college students by fall 2016 and hiring a new dean “dedicated to working with and supporting first-generation and low-income students,” according to the plan. Additionally, the plan states the university will increase funding for low-income students to access needed goods and services such as health insurance, textbooks and laptops.

The Office of Campus Life and Student Services will double the money available through its Emergency Fund. The plan also states the university will increase access to housing and dining services during breaks.

The plan details efforts to increase diversity in hiring, bolster support services on campus for students from historically underrepresented groups, implement faculty and staff diversity and sensitivity training and foster research, teaching and discussion on issues of diversity.

The document reiterates the university’s commitment to hiring 55 to 60 faculty members from historically underrepresented groups by the 2024–25 academic year, which would double the current number of such faculty members. It will do this through more cluster hiring, continued support for the presidential postdoctoral fellows program and a new program aimed at attracting visiting senior scholars from historically underrepresented groups.

The plan also commits to doubling the number of graduate students from historically underrepresented groups within the same period of time.

To further this goal, the Graduate School and Alpert Medical School are currently looking to fill administrative positions to oversee targeted diversity recruitment efforts.

Additionally, the plan states that the university will add two or three staff positions in the 2016–17 academic year that will work with the Brown Center for Students of Color, the

Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and the LGBTQ center.

The plan also recommends creating a Native American and PeoBROWN Indigenous ples Initiative to help recruit faculty members and postdoctoral fellows who do work in this area.

The document mentions the piloting of several professional development workshops related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and identity this January for faculty members, staff members, graduate students and administrators. The development of these workshops will draw on faculty members and compensated grad students with relevant expertise.

The plan does not explicitly state whether such workshops, once finalized, will be mandatory for faculty or staff members.

The university is also developing an orientation program for new faculty and staff members that looks at those topics and their intersectionalities.

Beyond these measures, individual departments will be responsible for developing and implementing specific training programs and professional development opportunities suited to their specific needs.

The document also states that the university will “examine the need for additional diversity and sensitivity training for all officers in the Department of Public Safety,” but it does not commit to any changes in relation to campus police.

The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice will both be expanded in order to provide additional resources for and strengthen “interdisciplinary scholarship on issues related to structural racism and social justice,” according to the plan.

The BrownTogether comprehensive campaign identified the two centers as fundraising priorities, the plan states, and the university is seeking $10 million in gifts for each.

With support from the Provost’s Office, CSREA will launch a series of events on “How Structural Racism Works,” with the first taking place in December. This project will be one of several efforts to spark university-wide discussion on power, privilege, identity and structural racism, with the goal of making “Brown a leader on understanding and addressing structural racism in our society,” the plan states.

The plan also proposes doubling the number of sophomore seminars centered on power, privilege, inequality and social justice.

Going forward, the university will develop a call for proposals next month to start the process of finding an external firm to design a campus climate survey to gauge bias and discrimination more effectively.

The Office of Institutional Diversity will release an annual public report that will track the success of initiatives laid out in the action plan, and a Diversity Inclusion and Oversight Committee will form this spring to coordinate these efforts.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 11:45 AM The Outlook for the Indian Economy: A Conversation with Arvind Subramanian. Arvind Subramanian is chief economic advisor to the Government of India. This is a Colloquium on Business and Society and a Global Network for Advanced Management event. Advance registration required.

Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.), Rm. 4410.

4:30 PM Diplomacy in the Age of Globalization. This is a talk with Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States (2009–present) and David Jacobson, United States ambassador to Canada (2009–13). Provost’s House (35 High St.).

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 4:00 PM Russia Today: Russians Look at their Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy. The Russian Studies Program of the European Studies Council presents a talk by Sophie Shevardnadze, correspondent for RT Russian TV network, as part of its contemporary speakers series, “Focus Russia.” Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.), GM Room.

4:30 PM Boycott (USA, 2001) 118 min. Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Followed by a panel discussion with director Clark Johnson, Swarthmore President Valerie A. Smith and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. 5:15 PM Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.

In this epic history of extermination and survival, history professor Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the 20th century, and reveals the risks that we face in the 21st. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room.

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ale’s buildings are as pretty as its students are busy, but the walkways students rush around on do not always come to mind when considering the University’s beautiful architecture. Alongside the towers, archways and courtyards that make up Yale’s campus, pedestrian walkways are sometimes as stunning as the striking Gothic architectural details. Take a moment to look at walkways — they may appear in a new way. KATHERINE LIN reports.

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NFL Jets 38 Dolphins 20

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SPORTS QUICK HITS

YALE FOOTBALL SEVEN EARN ALL-IVY IN 2015 First team: C Luke Longinotti ’16, CB Spencer Rymizsewski ’17 and DT Copache Tyler ’17 Second team: K/P Bryan Holmes ’17 Honorable mention: DE Marty Moesta ’17, S Cole Champion ’16, and LB Matthew Oplinger ’18

NFL Seahawks 39 Steelers 30

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MONDAY

ISABELLA HINDLEY ’19 IVY SWIMMER OF THE WEEK Hindley may be a newcomer to collegiate swimming, but she certainly did not show it in Yale’s win over Columbia earlier this month. After winning two individual events and serving on two winning relay teams, Hindley was named Ivy League Swimmer of the Week.

“[Justin] Sears ’16 is really good. He could be an outstanding player in our league.”

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Harvard dominates Yale in 132nd Game

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER A Yale football season that began with significant hype ended, as the eight prior seasons have, with at least one of the Bulldogs’ goals unrealized.

Outplayed for all but the first four minutes in its final game of 2015, Yale suffered a 38–19 loss to Harvard on Nov. 21 in a contest that was nothing like the thriller finish from a year before. The loss marked the Elis’ ninth-consecutive defeat in The Game — now the longest streak ever in the 132game series.

Yale (6–4, 3–4 Ivy) finishes its season tied for fourth in the Ivy League, while Harvard (9–1, 6–1) joined Penn and Dartmouth in a three-way tie for the conference championship, the first time that has occurred since those same three teams split the title in 1982.

“It’s pretty disappointing,” head coach Tony Reno said. “I thought we had plenty of opportunities in this game to have a different outcome, and we didn’t capitalize on them. Give credit to Harvard for what they did with their opportunities.”

The Elis gave the crowd of 51,126 at the Yale Bowl hope when, three-and-a-half minutes into the game, quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 connected with slot receiver Christopher Williams-Lopez ’18 for a 28-yard touchdown, the sophomore’s first career scoring reception.

But the atmosphere changed just 48 seconds later when Harvard wide receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley — now the Ivy League Rookie of the Year —

caught a 53-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Scott Hosch to tie the score. That was the start of 31 straight points from the Crimson that put the game out of reach. Two touchdowns from the Bulldogs in the final 15 minutes of play, one from a Roberts run and one from an eight-yard reception by tight end Stephen Buric ’16, ultimately did little to affect the final outcome.

Many of the issues that plagued the Elis all season — injuries, an inconsistent running game and difficulties defending against long passes — came back to hurt the team at the end of an up-and-down 2015 season.

Yale surrendered 508 yards to the league’s highest-gaining offense, and although the Elis put up 444 yards themselves, they went just 5–18 on third-down conversions, including four three-and-outs on the five possessions following the first score.

Reno, whose record at Yale is now 21–19, said lack of consistency on both sides of the ball led to the team’s downfall. Much of this inconsistency was unavoidable: With at least 42 players injured or ill at various points this season, the Bulldogs frequently had to get creative with their personnel, moving players around and introducing freshmen — most notably cornerback Marquise Peggs ’19 and wide receiver Kyle Marcinick ’19 — earlier than they normally might have.

“This team really achieved with the personnel we had,” Reno said. “They taught Yale football how to play through adversity and how to just play the next play and not worry about anything

FOOTBALL

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After an early touchdown put Yale up 7–0, Harvard proceeded to take control of the game and win 38–19 — its ninth-straight victory over the Bulldogs. else we couldn’t control.”

The 444-yard effort from the Eli offense was due mainly to Roberts, who, with his team playing from behind for the majority of the game, completed 38 of 65 passing attempts — both career marks — for 410 yards and two touchdowns in addition to his rushing score.

Roberts finishes his career

Road tests wear down Bulldogs

after rewriting the record books in just two-and-a-half years. In addition to leaving as Yale’s alltime leader in passing yards and total offense, he will graduate with his name atop several other statistics: most completed passes in one season, most yards in one season, most touchdowns in one game, most touchdowns in one season, most 300-yard games

and highest completion percentage in both an individual game and an entire season.

“At the end of the day, it would’ve been awesome to end on a win,” Roberts said. “I’m very proud that Coach Reno gave me the opportunity to come here and play, very thankful for getting this opportunity. I feel very blessed to be here. But it’s not the

way I wanted my career to end.”

Though the large deficit was a major reason for Roberts’ 65 passing attempts, another was the fourth injury to a running back that Yale suffered on the season. Running back Dale Harris ’17 came off with an injury in the third quarter, and with felSEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3

Yale slips against defending champ

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18, who leads the team with 18.6 points per game, scored 24 against SMU.

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team entered the Thanksgiving break boasting a 3–0 record, but after three consecutive losses to Southern Methodist University, Duke and Albany, the Bulldogs now sport a 0.500 record following a week of valuable road experience.

MEN’S BASKETBALL The Elis (3–3, 0–0 Ivy) proved they could hold their own against some of the nation’s top teams, as demonstrated by a narrow 71–69 loss to now-

No. 25 SMU and a tremendous first half against No. 6 Duke, though the Bulldogs eventually fell 80–61 to the defending national champions. In the final contest of the challenging road trip, however, the Elis failed to pose a threat in an 88–54 defeat at the hands of Albany on Sunday while playing without forward Justin Sears ’16, who averages 16.6 points per game, second-best on the team.

“If we have all of our pieces together, we are really good,” head coach James Jones said. “We can play at a really high level, and I think that we can comSEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

STAT OF THE DAY 6,182

Forward Stu Wilson ’16 recorded a goal and two assists during Yale’s three-game Thanksgiving break.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After two periods on Saturday night, the No. 10 Yale men’s hockey team had an upset opportunity when it held a 3–2 lead over defending national champion and current No. 1 Providence. But like every other opponent the Friars have faced this season, the Bulldogs were unable to claim victory.

MEN’S HOCKEY Yale (5–2–2, 3–1–2 ECAC Hockey), fresh off a three-point conference weekend at the beginning of Thanksgiving break, scored three consecutive

goals on Saturday. But the Elis allowed two early goals in the final frame to surrender their lead and, ultimately, the game.

“We didn’t play our best game [against Providence],” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “To be successful, we have to stick to our plan for all 60 minutes, and [Saturday] we weren’t consistent.”

The loss to Providence (9–0–3, 2–0–2 Hockey East) — Yale’s second defeat of the season — followed Yale’s home opening weekend on Nov. 20–21, in which the Elis skated to a scoreless tie against No. 16 Cornell and a 3–1 victory over Colgate the next day.

In front of a sold-out Ingalls Rink

crowd against Cornell (6–1–2, 4–1–1 ECAC Hockey), the stars of the night were the goaltenders at both ends of the ice. Yale netminder Alex Lyon ’17 stopped all 28 shots fired at him, and Cornell goalie Mitch Gillam, who prevented all 30 Eli attempts from reaching the net, earned himself ECAC Player of the Week honors after his performance.

Multiple power-play opportunities for either side failed to surmount to a goal, leaving both teams off the board for the full 60 minutes of regulation time.

In the five-minute overtime period — marking the Bulldogs’ third conSEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF YARDS YALE FOOTBALL QUARTERBACK MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 PASSED FOR IN HIS CAREER. Roberts moved into first all-time in Yale history thanks to his 410-yard performance against Harvard.

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“The difference in winning and losing is most often, not quitting.”

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Elis top Merrimack

27th loss for Hartford VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B4 ion, as captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 served out the final few points, contributing her last ace in Yale blue.

Fuller, and the rest of the talented senior class that claimed three Ivy League championships in their time in New Haven, will not be easily replaced. In addition to the leadership void left by the departure of Fuller, the Bulldogs will sorely miss four-time first-team All-Ivy outside hitter Kelly Johnson ’16 and AllIvy honorable mention middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16. Nonetheless, the returning Bulldogs said the mindset that the class of 2016 passed down will serve them well moving forward.

“The seniors have all led by example during their careers here,” libero Tori Shepherd ’17 said. “They’ve shaped this program to be one of the most hard-

working and competitive in the Ivy League.”

Looking ahead to next fall, Yale will rely on upperclassmen stars such as Crawford, Gibbons and outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17, but the Bulldogs will also need younger players to step into larger roles. Besides secondteam all-Ivy outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19, who led the Bulldogs with 253 kills in her debut campaign, and libero Kate Swanson ’19, the rest of Yale’s freshman class received limited playing time this season.

Against Hartford, though, the other three members of the class of 2019 got a chance to display the skills that they will add to next year’s Yale roster. Malias recorded a season-high seven kills with no errors, and middle blockers Kate Aitkenhead ’19 and Shreya Dixit ’19 combined for four kills and a 0.500 hitting percentage.

For the Bulldogs to bounce back in 2016 and return to the form that won them five consecutive conference titles, veterans and inexperienced players alike will need to build on the progress shown in the season-ending winning streak.

“We want to be the hardest working team in the Ivy League, and this spring we’re going to train like it in both the gym and the weight room,” Steinberg said.

“Our team showed vast improvements in the last few games of the season, so we will take the momentum from those wins and carry that into our spring training. We’re really excited for the future of this team.”

Yale finished the season tied for third place in the Ivy League, one game behind co-champions Harvard and Princeton.

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

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The Bulldogs’ return to conference play on Friday, nearly a month after their last ECAC contest.

W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 move the puck quickly and make simple plays in our own end.”

During the first matchup between the two teams earlier in the season, the Bobcats scored twice in the first period.

This time around, despite the 3–0 defeat, Yale was able to keep Quinnipiac scoreless up until 16:48 minutes into the second period.

At that point, Bobcat top scorer Taylor Cianfarano scored the first goal for her team. Nearly a full period later, Quinnipiac forward Nicole Connery extended the lead with another goal for the Bobcats.

“There are definitely improvements that we’ve

made since we first played against Quinnipiac this season,” Drexler said. “But there are some things that we still need to work on and put together before we can get to where we want to be as a team.

Before we can worry about scoring goals and getting pucks on net, we need to take care of our defensive zone first and go from there.”

With less than four minutes left into the third period, Yale was two goals down and pulled goalkeeper Hanna Mandl ’17 out of the net for an extra player on the ice. Yet the Bobcats took advantage of their offensive momentum and scored one last goal on the empty net.

Mandl had saved 25 out of the 27 shots taken by Quinnipiac, leaving her with a 0.871

save percentage after this weekend.

The Nutmeg Classic ended with the Bobcats taking the Championship title for the fifth time in the last six years.

Forward Eden Murray ’18 was named to the all-tournament team while Yetman ended the weekend by being named one of the all-tournament defensemen.

“We’re getting better everyday,” Yetman said. “And it’s exciting because we have so much potential.”

The Bulldogs will go back on the road to play against Rensselaer this Friday and Union on Saturday. Both contests begin at 3 p.m.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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Yale’s 3–0 win over Hartford, which finished the Elis’ season, came 10 days after the team’s penultimate match.

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The Bulldogs picked up three double-digit wins during the Thanksgiving break while dropping two tight contests against a pair of power-conference opponents: North Carolina and West Virginia.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 and struggled to knock down shots.”

Yale made just 46.7 percent of its attempts from the charity stripe, leaving Wyckoff to say that the team could and should have won the game.

Despite the loss, Sarju said the game still served as a confidencebuilder despite the number of mistakes made and the caliber of Yale’s opponent. Besides leaving points at the line, Yale shot

just 36.4 percent from the field and yet was still just five points behind with 2:05 remaining in the contest.

Following the exhausting weekend of action, the Bulldogs took a short break from the eight-team event to fly back to New Haven and return to their winning ways against Holy Cross (1–5, 0–0 Patriot). Once again, four Bulldogs scored in double figures to propel Yale to a 69–59 victory. Wyckoff recorded a double-double while Sarju led the

team in scoring for the fifth time in six games.

Throughout the first half, momentum shifted back and forth between Yale and Holy Cross, with the lead changing five times. Yale trailed for the majority of the third quarter, but the Bulldogs outscored the Crusaders 22–9 in the fourth, bolstered by nine points from Sarju and two three-pointers from guard Meghan McIntyre ’17 in the final period.

Yale survived a 26-point out-

burst from the Crusaders’ captain and leading scorer Raquel Scott, her second-highest total for the season and the most Yale has allowed a single player in the seven games this year. On top of Scott’s prolific scoring day, Yale coughed up the ball 22 times, its highest count of the season.

Four days following the victory over Holy Cross, the Bulldogs drove an hour east to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut to play the final leg of the Challenge against West Vir-

ginia (4–2, 0–0 Big 12). In its fifth and final game of the Thanksgiving break, Yale dropped a 70–60 affair, again coming tantalizingly close to an upset of a power-five conference opponent. West Virginia, which has made seven of the past nine NCAA Tournaments, found itself just three points ahead of Yale with 1:04 remaining after Simpson split a pair of free throws. However, the Mountaineers outscored Yale 7–0 in the final minute of action to pull away for the victory.

Wyckoff led Yale with 15 points, including a 7–8 day from the freethrow line, but the Bulldogs could not overcome a combined 38 points from reserve Teana Muldrow and New Haven native Bria Holmes.

Following the three-win week, the Bulldogs will continue their nonconference schedule Tuesday night against Manhattan in the Bronx.

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“I will be ready [if needed], and I’ll be prepared to play quarterback for this football team.”

BROCK OSWEILER BRONCOS QUARTERBACK WHO DEFEATED THE PATRIOTS

Three-point weekend before loss to No. 1

Injury-riddled Elis fall short

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secutive contest to head into extra time — Yale narrowly outshot Cornell 4–3, including one from the Elis that hit the crossbar, but none of the seven shots could find the net to win the game.

“We expect to win every game, so it wasn’t the ideal weekend,” Hayden said. “But we learned a lot and will use the lessons to help us move forward.”

The Elis rebounded the next day in a decisive victory over a weaker Colgate squad (4–10– 1, 1–5–1). The Bulldogs got off to a quick lead with a goal from defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 two minutes into the game and would never look back, winning 3–1 while outshooting the Raiders 40–20.

Yale built on its lead in the second period, putting up another two goals to establish a three-score advantage. Hayden found the back of the net on a one-timer 8:23 into the period, while defenseman Charlie Curti ’19 took advantage of Bulldog power play to score his first collegiate goal off a pair of assists from forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 and forward Stu Wilson ’16.

Curti is the third freshman to find the net this season.

“Cornell was a tough defensive opponent and the scoreboard proved that,” Hayden said.

“We elevated against Colgate and kept our composure when the game seemed to get undisciplined.”

Late in the third period, Lyon was just three minutes from turning in a flawless weekend when Colgate defenseman Ken Citron scored to spoil the accomplishment. On the weekend as a whole, Lyon saved 47 of the 48 shots he faced and now stands with a 0.937 save percentage in 2015–16.

A week later, however, the break ended on another note for the Bulldogs. Though this past weekend’s schedule had just a single game on it, it was perhaps the toughest weekend that Yale has had thus far, as Providence is currently undefeated 12 games into the season.

The Friars steadily built a lead

low rusher Deshawn Salter ’18 still battling a persistent neck injury, the running game finished with just 34 yards on 19 attempts.

The rushing performance, Yale’s worst in five years other than a minus-14 yard showing against Columbia this year, came against what Reno called the best linebacking corps that the Elis faced all year.

Harvard was much more effective running the ball, particularly in the second half.

Despite missing top running back Paul Stanton Jr., who suffered a knee injury in the team’s Nov. 14 loss to Penn and sat out the final game of his career, the Crimson found success with a trio of rushers. Hosch led the team with 11 carries for 61 yards, and the Smith brothers — Semar, a sophomore, and Seitu, a senior — added another 110 yards on 31 carries. “[I was] really impressed and really happy for the Smith brothers to be able to play together in the backfield,” Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said. “I thought the offensive line probably played their best game of the year. Overall, just our resiliency and our conviction, those intangibles have been the trademark of this team.”

Murphy also complimented his quarterback, comparing Hosch favorably to NFL quarterback Tom Brady in his ability to make good decisions despite not being the most athletic player on the field.

That honor could go to Shelton-Mosley, who finished with five receptions for 119 yards and two touchdowns, as well his eight-yard rushing touchdown.

Although Shelton-Mosley will continue giving the Bulldogs trouble for another three years, Williams-Lopez demonstrated that he can also become a serious weapon. The sophomore, who spent all of last year on the junior varsity team, led the Elis in receiving yards for the final three weeks

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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 posted a shutout against Cornell. in the first period, scoring two goals within the first 11 minutes.

A one-timed shot off the stick of forward Cody Learned ’16 with 1:53 left before the first intermission kept the Elis from being shut out in the first period. “[Carson] Cooper ’16 and Frankie did a great job on the forecheck causing a turnover and retrieving the puck,” Learned said. “Coop made a good pass to me in front of the net and I just tried to shoot it as quickly as I could before the goalie was set.”

Although Providence outshot Yale 11–10 in the second period, the Bulldogs would prove to be much stronger in the frame, in large part due to a five-minute major called on Friar forward Brandon Tanev after a hard hit from behind on forward Joe Snively ’19. The ensuing power play handed the Elis an advantage they would capitalize on to take the lead.

Scoring his fourth goal of the year, forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 tied up the game with a one-timer set up by captain and defenseman Mitch Witek ’16. Just 19 seconds later, on the same power play, Wilson also found the back of the net to give Yale the lead. The power-play goals, the Elis’ ninth and 10th of the season, pushed Yale’s power-

play success rate to 25.6 percent.

“Our power play has had a good start to the year,” Learned said. “We’re excited any time we draw a penalty because we know our power play has a chance to score. It’s a huge asset to our team when the power play is having success.”

Yet the Bulldogs could not hold on. Providence responded early in the third with a pair of goals of its own to retake the lead, which it would not relinquish for the remainder of the game.

Hitchcock noted that after the two power-play goals, overly defensive play from Yale ultimately led to the team’s late downfall.

“We seemed to try too hard to hold onto the lead rather than continue to take it to them, which proved costly,” Hitchcock said. “We play our best when we are aggressive and use our speed, and that was something we failed to do in the late second period and early third period.”

The Bulldogs will be back at Ingalls Rink this weekend to take on Quinnipiac and Princeton, in their last two ECAC Hockey matchups of 2015.

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YEAR-TO-YEAR COMPARING YALE FOOTBALL 2014 8–2, 5–2 Ivy

2015 6–4, 3–4 Ivy

OFFENSE 41.1

POINTS PER GAME

23.5

323.6

PASS YARDS PER GAME

268.0

247.9

RUSH YARDS PER GAME

122.4

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13

DEFENSE 29.9

POINTS ALLOWED PER GAME

24.2

265.3

PASS YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME

256.9

145.5

RUSH YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME

131.5

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of the season and set a career high against Harvard with 169 yards on 13 receptions.

“I thought [WilliamsLopez] played really well,” Reno said. “He’s really grown from that point to the end, had a great game two weeks ago and played well against Princeton. He’s become very reliable for Morgan [Roberts] and runs great routes, catches the ball really well too.”

In his six career games — the first of which came after zero practice time due to a preseason injury — WilliamsLopez has 60 receptions for 576 yards, averaging 9.6 yards per catch.

He is one of the many bright spots for an Eli team that often started just two seniors on defense and three on offense

this past season. Captain and safety Cole Champion ’16 expressed confidence in the Elis’ future after a season that will be remembered more for the number of injuries Yale sustained than the number of wins the team posted.

“As far as this season, a lot of things happened that we couldn’t control,” Champion said. “That’s really what we believed, that we couldn’t control it, so all we have to do is keep working. I’m incredibly proud of Team 143 and the way they reacted to all the adversity we faced. I think we’re in a better place now than when me and Morgan [Roberts] got here.”

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Yale tested by top teams in 0–3 week M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 pete with almost any team in the country when we have all of our pieces intact.”

The Elis came within two points of notching a noteworthy upset last Sunday over undefeated SMU (4–0, 0–0 American) in Dallas. Yale held the lead for more than 26 minutes of the game, including a 40–32 advantage at the half. The Bulldogs shot 54.2 percent from the field in the first half, during which point guard Makai Mason ’18 scored 16 of his career-high 24 points.

Led by 14 points in the second half from forward Jordan Tolbert, who provided the Mustangs with a much-needed spark off the bench, SMU took a 52–51 lead with 8:35 left in the game after Tolbert knocked down the second of four consecutive foul shots for the Fort Worth, Texas native.

SMU led from that point forward, but the Bulldogs kept the game interesting down the stretch. Sears banked home a three-pointer with two seconds left in the game to pull the Bulldogs within a point of the Mustangs, but Tolbert hit one of his two free throws with just a second left to go to push the final score to 71–69. Tolbert’s missed second attempt caromed off the rim and the clock ran out on Yale’s upset bid.

“I think our team played very physical and smart against a team like SMU,” captain and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 said. “They have players at every position that can take over a game, and we did a good job of slowing down their offense and we battled on the boards. If we can do that, we can win a lot of games.”

In addition to Mason’s 24 points and seven assists, Sears scored 15 points on 6–14 shooting, while Montague was the third and final Bulldog to reach double figures, with 13 points

behind a 3–4 night from threepoint range.

The Mustangs, meanwhile, were led by balanced scoring from their starting unit as well as the impressive offensive performance from Tolbert off the bench. Four SMU starters scored either 11 or 12 points, while Tolbert led the team with 17, including seven free throws.

Poor shooting in the second half hindered Yale’s effort. The Bulldogs shot just 35.7 percent in the second half, including a 6–12 mark from the charity stripe.

The Bulldogs got another shot at a national power when they traveled to Durham, North Carolina to face the Blue Devils (5–1, 0–0 Atlantic Coast) the day before Thanksgiving.

Yale began the game red-hot, scoring the first nine points of the game and opening the contest on a 13–4 run in front of a stunned Cameron Indoor Stadium crowd. Duke responded to take a 20–19 lead but Yale withstood the punch and answered right back, leading by seven with 5:04 remaining in the half.

Sears scored 10 points in the opening frame, while Mason and forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 each added eight points to propel the Yale attack. Guard Grayson Allen, who leads Duke with 22.7 points per game, kept the Blue Devils afloat during the first half, scoring 12 points, including 6–6 from the free-throw line.

An Allen dunk with 48 seconds left in the half was part of a 5–0 run that pushed the Blue Devils ahead 38–36 at the break.

In the second half, foul trouble and a stingy Blue Devil defense plagued the Bulldogs. After the close first period, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski utilized a 1–3–1 zone to quiet Yale’s attack.

“Their two guards demand attention on them all the time.

Mason did a great job beating us off the dribble in the first half,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s one of the reasons we went to the 1–3–1 zone, to keep him out of the

paint. Montague spreads you out the whole time.”

The Blue Devils took advantage of a 9–30 shooting performance by the Elis in the second half to outscore Yale 42–25 and pull away with the victory.

Sherrod and guard Nick Victor ’16 were each limited by foul trouble, with Sherrod fouling out of the contest less than halfway through the second period. In his 17 minutes of action, the former Whiffenpoof registered eight points and eight rebounds.

“We got into foul trouble and that was our demise,” Jones said. “With Brandon Sherrod and Nick Victor in foul trouble, that really hurt us because we were not able to go to the offensive glass as much. We weren’t as good on the offensive glass without those two guys, and that really hurt our second-chance opportunities.”

Sears carried the scoring load for the Bulldogs with a gamehigh 19 points. Duke, meanwhile, was paced by 17 points from guard Matt Jones and 15 points from forward Brandon Ingram, the number-three freshman recruit in the nation.

Krzyzewski commended Sears’ play following the contest, noting that the Plainfield, New Jersey native could wreak havoc in the powerful ACC. “I can see why they’re picked to win the Ivy League. [Justin] Sears is really good,” Krzyzewski said. “He could be an outstanding player in our league.”

With the victory, the Blue Devils extended their nonconference home winning streak to 119 games, an NCAA record.

In the final game of the road trip, Albany (4–3, 0–0 America East) handed the Bulldogs their third loss of the season in Yale’s most disappointing contest thus far. Yale competed without its star performer as Sears, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, was sidelined by illness.

“I did not think it was going to be that much of an adjustment,

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 missed Sunday’s contest against Albany due to illness. but certainly with the outcome and the way that we played, our emotions were not where they needed to be,” Jones said. “A lot of the times when one of your key players is out, others guys pick up and play at a greater level. We did not do that tonight.”

In his forward position, Sam Downey ’17 made his first career start. Downey scored five points and notched five rebounds in 18 minutes on the floor.

Without Sears, the Yale offense faltered in the first half against Jones’ alma mater, as the

Great Danes took a 45–27 lead into the half behind a 69.2 percent shooting performance.

The second half saw a nearidentical scoreline, as the Elis were outscored 43–27 by Albany.

Twelve Bulldogs saw the court in the second period, including a team-high 16 minutes from forward Blake Reynolds ’19, who has been the go-to freshman thus far for Jones off the bench.

The letdown performance ended the road trip for the Bulldogs, which began with a Nov. 19 win over Lehigh. Jones expressed

his excitement to finally play in front of the energy of a home crowd again.

The Bulldogs take the court again on Wednesday against Bryant. The 7 p.m. tipoff in John J. Lee Amphitheater marks the Elis’ first home game since Nov. 16 when they defeated Sacred Heart 99–77.

Maya Sweedler contributed reporting.

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“My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence.” MIKE KRZYZEWSKI COACH K

Busy break shows promise for Bulldogs

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team made the most of a busy Thanksgiving break, earning victories in three of the team’s five contests played in both North Carolina and Connecticut.

The Bulldogs (4–3, 0–0 Ivy) first traveled south to Chapel Hill to compete in the first leg of the Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge, an annual showcase event that included eight teams this season. Over a three-day period, Yale overpowered Iona and Fairleigh Dickinson with ease before falling to host and perennial powerhouse North Carolina in a close loss on Sunday, Nov. 22. The Bulldogs then returned home during the week, defeating Holy Cross at Yale on Wednesday before losing against another power-conference opponent, West Virginia, on Sunday at the Mohegan Sun Arena.

“Regardless of the caliber of the opposing team, we consistently came out of the gates hard, challenged defensively and executed offensively,” guard Tamara Simpson ’18 said. “There were lapses when the other teams went on runs, but this year especially we have been really good at refocusing in order to stop the other team, [fixing] our mistakes and [making] runs of our own.”

Yale never trailed in its 63–48 win over Iona (1–5, 0–0 Metro Atlantic), which saw three Bulldogs score in double figures.

Entering the contest averaging 21 points a game, guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 continued her hot start to the season by leading the team with 19 points, a gamehigh, while forward Jen Berkowitz ’18 and guard Mary Ann San-

tucci ’18 added 10 and 12 points, respectively. Berkowitz also posted 11 rebounds to complete her first double-double of the season. Neither side shot particularly well from the field — Yale hit 33.9 percent of its attempts as compared to 29.9 percent for Iona — but the Bulldogs were able to capitalize on trips to the free-throw line, making 16 of 19 attempts while Iona made just six of 10.

Against Fairleigh Dickinson (1–4, 0–0 Northeast), the Bulldogs one-upped themselves with four players scoring in double figures in the 77-58 win. In addition to Sarju, who again led all scorers in points with 14, forward Katie Warner ’17, guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 and center Emmy Allen ’16 each added at least 10 points. Defensively, the Bulldogs limited senior guard Kelsey Cruz, the Knights’ leading scorer who averages 19.6 points per game this season, to just eight points on the evening.

The Bulldogs only committed 12 turnovers against the Knights — the first time all season their turnover count has dropped below 15. Despite these improved numbers over the break, members of the team acknowledged that the season average of 17.4 per game has been one of their primary pitfalls.

“A major focus for our team has been to cut down on our turnover rate,” Simpson said.

“In order to do so, it really takes a team effort and a dedication to value each possession.”

Wyckoff echoed Simpson’s evaluation of attention to detail, adding that the team still needs to work on executing its transition defense while also committing to a “one and done mentality” by limiting opponents’

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Captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16, second on the team with 10.3 points per game, matched her season-high with 15 points against West Virginia. offensive rebounds.

In its third game in three days, Yale played the Tar Heels (4–3, 0–0 Atlantic Coast), who have made the NCAA tournament in

Volleyball dominates in season finale

13 of the last 14 years, including a run to the Sweet 16 last season.

Although the Bulldogs remained within striking distance of UNC for much of the contest, they

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BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER The Yale volleyball team offered fans a glimpse of the future in its season-ending victory over Hartford on Tuesday, Nov. 24, rolling to a three-set victory which featured major contributions from several underclassmen who will likely feature more prominently in next year’s Bulldog lineup.

VOLLEYBALL The Elis (15–9, 9–5 Ivy) closed out their Ivy League season with a pair of victories over Harvard and Dartmouth three weekends ago, and Tuesday’s win over the Hawks (2–27, 1–11 America East) enabled the team to end the year with a season-high four-game winning streak.

No Yale player exceeded eight kills in the match, but 11 different Bulldogs contributed to the offensive onslaught as the team hit for an excellent 0.333 percentage.

“We were able to try a bunch of different people and lineups which all performed really well,” outside hitter Megan Rasmussen ’18 said. “It was really cool to see that no matter who we put in, the team still looked awesome.”

Yale jumped out to an early lead

against Hartford and cruised through the first set. The frame appeared to be a tight one when the Hawks’ Rachel Moll pulled Hartford within 10–5, but Yale ripped off an impressive 15 points in a row, buoyed by four service aces from setter Kelsey Crawford ’18.

Crawford totaled five aces for the match, and the team recorded 13 over three sets, which toppled their season record of nine, set in a five-setter against Rice in September. In addition to Crawford, outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 showed promise as a server, recording four aces in the third and final set.

While the second and third sets were not as lopsided as the 25–5 first frame, Yale was never threatened in its quest to end the season with another tally in the win column. Crawford continued her serving streak from the first set as the Bulldogs jumped out to a 5–0 lead in the second, and outside hitters Gray Malias ’19 and Rasmussen combined for nine kills in the 25–13 set.

Yale allowed the Hawks to sniff the lead in the final set, as Hartford led 13–12 at one point. From there, though, the Bulldogs took control and were able to close out a 25–18 third set and seal the sweep.

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Elis win one, drop three Faced with three chances to pull off significant upset victories, the Yale women’s hockey team could only emerge victorious in the one game the Bulldogs were favored to win.

Yale’s 3–0 victory over Hartford was the volleyball team’s fourth sweep of the season.

were not content with the 70–63 loss.

“We do not feel like we gave ourselves the best opportunity to win against North Car-

Following 6–3 and 4–1 defeats at No. 3 Minnesota (15–1–0, 11–1–0 WCHA) a week earlier, the Elis (2–7– 1, 1–3–1 ECAC Hockey) finished second in the annual Nutmeg Classic Championship this past weekend, advancing to the final round with a 3–1 over Merrimack but falling 3–0 to No. 5 Quinnipiac on Saturday. The win over Merrimack marked Yale’s second victory in 2015–16, with the first coming against Quinnipiac earlier this year.

“Overall, our team is competing well this season,” defenseman Julia Yetman ’19 said. “But we know that we can be better. In a lot of games we have come up a little bit short, which is frustrating. I think we’ve realized that we need to start pushing ourselves more and worrying about all the little things that will make the

difference between winning and losing.”

Merrimack (2–14–0, 1–7–0 Hockey East), which is in its inaugural season, replaced Clarkson from last year’s Nutmeg lineup to take on Yale in the first round on Friday. Due to the newness of their women’s ice hockey program, the Warriors have a roster of 21 players, but they are nearly all freshmen.

Merrimack was able to hold the Elis scoreless for the entirety of the first period, but that deadlock did not remain long into the second, as forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 notched Yale’s first goal just three minutes into the frame. Yetman added a goal late in the period, her first career score, to increase Yale’s lead to two.

“We did a great job using our speed and conditioning to our advantage,” forward Gretchen Tarrant ’17 said. “They are a young team, and while they compete hard, they couldn’t keep up with our transition game.”

Merrimack brought the score closer with a power-play goal early in the third period, but when defenseman Mallory Souliotis ’18 responded with an Eli goal less than a minute later, the win was secured for Yale.

Yale’s defense contributed to

the win by allowing just one goal, but forward Kara Drexler ’18 commended the ability of the defensemen to also contribute on the other end of the ice against Merrimack.

“The team did a great job getting the defense involved in the play,” Drexler said. “Which shows with the two goals in the Merrimack game being scored by defensemen.”

Just after the game, Quinnipiac (11–1–3, 5–1–2 ECAC Hockey) defeated Connecticut 1–0, with its lone goal in the first period of their contest, setting up a championship game between cross-town rivals Quinnipiac and Yale. The playoff on Saturday was the third time that Yale and Quinnipiac lined up on the ice as opponents this season. The Elis lost 6–3 to the Bobcats in October before following up with a 4–3 a week later.

On Saturday, Yale reverted back to the latter outcome, struggling against their Connecticut foes and falling in a 3–0 shutout.

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Forward Eden Murray ’18 recorded five points in four games this past week, including a goal against Minnesota.