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CROSS CAMPUS Snow Fall. In case you missed
the white chunks on the ground, New Haven saw a decent amount of snow over break, signaling the beginning of everybody’s favorite time of year. Don’t let the brief thaw fool you — we’re due for more as early as Tuesday.
Staying active. Protests
against the no-indictment decision in the Michael Brown case continue today on Cross Campus, where the Black Student Alliance at Yale will be gathering at 12:01 p.m., hands held up. The demonstration will eventually proceed to the New Haven Court House to join another, citywide protest.
Power hour. United Nations
Ambassador Samantha Power ’92, a former magazine editor for the News, will be speaking in Levinson Auditorium this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Returning to campus as a Chubb Fellow, Power earned a Pulitzer Prize before joining President Barack Obama’s Cabinet.
The Ivy Factor. Fox News’s Bill
O’ Reilly dispatched reporter Jesse Watters to The Game to quiz Yale and Harvard grads on current events. Though representatives from both camps floundered on questions about ObamaCare and the Ukraine Crisis, the only person to answer everything correctly was, in fact, an Eli.
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On the 16th anniversary of the unsolved murder of then-Yale College senior Suzanne Jovin ’99, investigators will convene to reexamine her fatal stabbing. The Jovin investigation team has scheduled a community meeting at Wilbur Cross High School for Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. The event is intended to allow members of the public to come forward with any information they may have regarding Jovin’s murder, which remains a cold case. The 21-year-old Yale student was found
dead near the corner of Edgehill and East Rock Roads on the night of Dec. 4, 1998, with a slit throat and 17 stab wounds to the back of her head and neck. “The purpose of this community meeting is to find people in the community who may remember details which, to them, may seem inconsequential but could be important to the investigation,” said Mark Dupuis, communications and legislative specialist at the Office of Chief State’s Attorney. “We will not be making any announcements or discussing any details of the investigation.”
The team probing the murder — which includes representatives from the New Haven Police Department, the Division of Criminal Justice, the Office of Chief State’s Attorney’s Cold Case Unit and the Office of the New Haven State’s Attorney — will seek information on three principal leads, the New Haven Register first reported. The first concerns a passenger in a taxi near the scene of the crime. At 9:30 p.m. on the night of the crime, less than 30 minutes before police were alerted to Jovin’s murSEE JOVIN PAGE 4
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Elis come close, but fall short In the 131st Harvard-Yale game, the Bulldogs fought valiantly, coming back from a 17-point deficit to tie the Crimson in the fourth quarter. But Tony Reno’s bunch could not seal the deal, with Harvard intercepting the final pass of the game to clinch a 31-24 victory. PAGE B1
We get it. A group from
Boston.com tried the same trick, asking Game tailgaters basic SAT questions.
Numbers *sometimes lie.
On Saturday, The New York Times published a piece discussing the meaning of plummeting admissions rates at the nation’s top universities. According to the article, wider application pools are partly responsible — ultimately, good students will face good odds, it concluded.
hockey game pitted Stu Wilson ’16 against his father, Wayne Wilson, the head coach of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s team. Though the younger Wilson already came away victorious, he clearly wanted more, having fired off three shots on-goal.
Dubious honor. Last week,
Movoto Real Estate named New Haven Connecticut’s most dangerous city. “There are some areas best left avoided. Unless you like crime,” the site said.
Still got it. George H.W. Bush ’48 made an appearance on the Houston Texans’ Kiss Cam over break. A true politician, the former president gave the people what they wanted, to much applause. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Harvard approves joint CS50 project BY EMMA PLATOFF AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS CS50 is coming to Yale. Harvard approved the joint venture — in which students at Yale will watch live or archived lectures of the popular Harvard computer science course — Harvard computer science professor David Malan announced to his CS50 class last Monday. “So the rumors are indeed true,” Malan said during his final fall lecture last Monday. “For the first time in history students at Harvard and Yale alike will be able to take a course called CS50 this coming fall 2015. We will put aside the rivalry.” Harvard’s approval was the last step in the process of finalizing the joint venture after Yale faculty voted overwhelmingly to bring the course to New Haven earlier this month. Following Harvard’s approval, Yale Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum confirmed that Yale will introduce the course for the first time in fall 2015. While Yale students will watch Malan’s lectures from afar, they will participate in sections and office hours in New Haven. According to Yale computer science professor Holly Rushmeier, Harvard’s decision to approve the venture does not come as a surprise. Indeed, Yale computer science professor David Gelernter said “they’d have been crazy not to” do so. “They have a successful course and can only make it more successful by adding some Yale-Harvard rivalry and — even better — some Yale students,” he said in an email. “Yale undergrads are the best around when it comes to creative entrepreneurship and independent thinking; and we can learn a lot from Harvard about this sort of hypermodern, high production value Disneyland course.” Computer science and mechanical engineering professor Brian Scassellati will direct the course at Yale, and Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis said Scassellati will work to build a program akin to the popular Harvard course. Scassellati will recruit undergraduate learning assistants to staff the Yale version of CS50, and Feigenbaum said in November that the training for these assistants will begin in the spring. The course will also be overseen by current Harvard senior Jason Hirschhorn, a longtime CS50 teaching fellow who will work full-time at Yale after his graduation. Hirschhorn said a top priority will be to integrate CS50 with the preexisting Yale Computer Science Department infrastructure and other “robust [computer science]
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Amidst criticism, Yale stands by Schmidheiny BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Although Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny emerged victorious from a prolonged court battle, faculty and experts maintain that Yale should rescind his 1996 honorary degree. Earlier this month, Schmidheiny’s conviction regarding thousands of asbestosrelated deaths was overturned in the Italian Supreme Court. Schmidheiny, who was a majority shareholder in Eternit Genova, a company that controlled four factories in Northern Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, was convicted in 2012 and sentenced to 18 years in prison for negligence in over 3,000 deaths due to asbestos exposure. However, the Italian Supreme Court nullified this ruling on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired in the charges filed. Although members of the Yale community have called upon the University throughout the legal proceedings to rescind the honorary degree it bestowed upon Schmidheiny nearly 20 years ago, the University has repeated it would not revoke the award. “It is a scandal that Yale has protected this
guy despite the pleas they have been receiving from so many parties both in the outside world and within the Yale community,” Barry Castleman, a witness for the prosecution in the case and author of “Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects,” wrote in an email. “Regardless of the arbitrary basis for the dismissal of the case, it is clear from the statements of the prosecutor and others that Schmidheiny is guilty of the acts charged and only evaded responsibility through the use of a legal technicality.” Castleman called upon Yale to submit the issue of the honorary degree to an independent expert faculty and alumni committee, tasked with fully reviewing and making recommendations to the Yale Corporation on the matter. Castleman joins a multitude of other voices calling for University action in the case of Schmidheiny, both on campus and across the Atlantic. Over 50 alumni have signed a petition urging the University revoke the degree. In addition, Concetta Palazzetti, the mayor of the Italian town Casale Monferrato, wrote an open letter, along with 34 other mayors of SEE SCHMIDHEINY PAGE 6
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Authorities re-examine Jovin case BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER
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Students petition Yale to rescind Cosby degree BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER As allegations that comedian Bill Cosby serially sexually assaulted women proliferate, some inside and outside the Yale community are calling on the University to rescind Cosby’s honorary Yale degree. Inspired by an editorial posted on Inside Higher Ed on Nov. 25, Marissa Medansky ’15, a former opinion editor for the News, started an online petition calling on University President Peter Salovey to rescind Cosby’s honorary doctorate, which was awarded in 2003. On Sunday evening around 9 p.m., the petition had 198 signatories. Though many interviewed, including Medansky, acknowledge that rescinding of the degree would be purely symbolic, the petition’s backers spoke to a broader purpose: confronting Yale with an opportunity to demonstrate its
support for victims of sexual assault. “If Yale can’t do the right thing in this black-and-white instance, how can we have faith that the University will adjudicate more ambiguous cases of assault and harassment in goodwill?” Medansky said. Medansky added while it is unlikely that Cosby will ever stand trial, society has an obligation to take sex crimes seriously, even though the legal system is still behind. In an editorial published on the website Inside Higher Ed, Jonathan Beecher Field, an associate professor of English at Clemson University, called on 17 colleges and universities — including Yale — to rescind honorary degrees granted to Cosby. In an email to the News, Field said he is dismayed by the pervasiveness of rape culture on college campuses and the lack SEE PETITION PAGE 4
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BREA BAKER No justice, no peace
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ne nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
[some.]” I salute the flag of a nation that will allow a man to murder a boy in broad daylight, leave his body lying in the street for four and a half hours, and go on paid vacation until a grand jury ultimately decides not to even arrest him. The murder caused enough pain. But a biased grand jury, combined with the purposeful ineptitude by the prosecuting attorney and the irresponsible media, added insult to injury. I have a brother. I have a brother with skin so many shades darker than my own that most people don’t believe we are related. He’s 13, which means he’s going through his “I’mtoo-cool-for-everything” stage. I have a black teenage brother, which means that he is one runin with the cops away from being a hashtag and I from being the grieving family member pleading with the justice system to do their job. So when I see young boys like Michael Brown being demonized in the media to excuse police officers like Darren Wilson, my heart
breaks because I have a brother and it could very much be him. Preparing young boys for racial profiling and prospective police brutality is unfortunately an important facet of black life in America. Question: What do you do if a police officer stops you? Answer: Put my hands in plain sight. Make no sudden movements. Use ma’am and sir. Do not talk back or get angry — this will only be used against you. Be respectful. Always say you are on your way home (and mean it). Give them what they ask for. Do not resist arrest. Remain calm. We are guilty until proven innocent and are constantly trying to remind America that black lives matter. But we are constantly presented with evidence to prove otherwise: Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Amadou Diallo, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Michael Brown. We are at war with the conscience of America, a country where we can vote but might be killed by a police officer while we are unarmed. Lyndon Johnson once said, “The next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights is … not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.” My fight is not over, and until I can recite the Pledge of Allegiance without sarcasm, I will continue. “Lift every voice and sing / ‘til Earth and heaven ring / ring with the harmonies of liberty.” BREA BAKER is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact her at brea.baker@yale.edu .
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ichael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot in August by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. More than three months later, last Monday night, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict Wilson. The news triggered protests in Ferguson and across the country. Many pointed to inconsistencies in the evidence presented to the grand jury. Others asked what role racial animus played in the initial confrontation between the two men, and in the subsequent judicial process. Meanwhile, the hashtag #blacklivesmatter tore across social media. To further this discussion, four students have shared their reactions to events in Ferguson.
TYLER BLACKMON What's a white person to do?
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rewrote this column three times, and even after the third draft, I almost decided to toss it altogether. Because the question of how I, as a young white person yearning for change, should react to the controversy around Ferguson is enormously complicated and fraught with the temptation to make what should be a conversation about black America instead about white America. But ultimately, it is a question we must be bold enough to answer forthrightly. And so I give my thoughts here from the perspective of a white American who lives in an overwhelmingly white part of the South in the hopes that others in similar settings might find how I have proceeded helpful. First, we must admit that we are not experiencing pain. Though we may, and probably should, work with those who have been hurt, white people in America will never have to bear the burden of systemic racism that prevents black Americans from living as free a life as we do on a daily basis. We can be disappointed by the result of the grand jury decision, but to act as if Ferguson and America’s tendency toward racial oppression has caused us significant pain is dishonest, arrogant and ultimately offensive to black America. Second, because this pain is not our own, we should rarely, if ever, allow our own voices to drown out black voices demanding valida-
tion in the wake of tragedy. Black lives matter. But black voices also matter, and we should allow those who have experienced discrimination to lead the conversation as we move forward. Third, and this is the tricky one, we should do whatever we can to amplify — not usurp — black voices. Though it may appear in our Yale circles that black voices are all around us, a fair amount of segregation remains in America’s communities and social networks. In the absence of widespread black voices, amplify the black voices you have heard and read about, and leverage your white privilege for good. As someone who has unique access to all-white spaces (think the Thanksgiving dinner table filled with white relatives), you have the opportunity to address subtle acts of racism in places where they fester most. Use these opportunities to reshape the narrative. Take what will inevitably start as a conversation about looting and riots and turn it into a conversation about how each of us can treat all Americans equally, regardless of skin tone. Finally (and perhaps most importantly), we must change ourselves. There is not a person alive who has not thought racist thoughts. And being brutally honest with ourselves about our own microaggressions against people of color and especially black Americans will help each of us to realize just how often we perpetuate a culture of racial discrimination. After listening to several black voices myself, I have found these steps to be most helpful, though certainly not exhaustive. And I hope that anyone reading this will do their own research and listen to as many voices as possible first before acting. Only then can we ensure Michael Brown did not die in vain. TYLER BLACKMON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .
wish I could say that upon reading the evidence reviewed by the grand jury in the Ferguson case, I felt satisfied that there wasn’t probable cause to indict Darren Wilson. I wish I could say that I had no reason to suspect that Wilson and the grand jury were affected by racial prejudice. But I can’t. The fact is our nation’s history is marred by racism; examples of anti-blackness are everywhere. I say this with full knowledge that as a relatively light-skinned Latino, I am in the same racial category as George Zimmerman, the PeruvianAmerican man who was acquitted of all charges by arguing selfdefense for his 2012 killing of the black teen Trayvon Martin. After Zimmerman’s acquittal in 2013, a powerful statement circulated on Twitter: “A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect.” Those words have never resonated more truly for me than when I learned of the grand jury’s decision last Monday.
SARA MILLER Demilitarizing our communities
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ollowing the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, Governor Jay Nixon ordered 2,200 soldiers of the Missouri National Guard into Ferguson, Missouri, 150 miles from my home in Waynesville, Missouri. In a state of emergency, it’s not uncommon to dispatch members of the National Guard to areas of need. In 2005, the National Guard responded to Hurricane Katrina. In the 1990s, the National Guard was dispatched following the Bosnian War to aide in peacekeeping. And in 1992, the National Guard helped control riots in Los Angeles. I've never had reason to question the involvement of the National Guard when they’re called to keep order, until I received a phone call from a close friend, a First Lieutenant in the Missouri Army National Guard. “Guess where I’m going? Ferguson.” Made sense, I thought. Anticipating the Ferguson community’s justified anger and disbelief, it made complete sense to me that our governor would dispatch the Guard to attempt to maintain some semblance of peace. “We’ve never been trained in riot control,” he then told me. Wait, what? Hearing the fear in his voice, I immediately became terrified and furious.
I’m not an expert, and I can’t pretend to know the intricacies of how the grand jury came to this unfortunate conclusion. I can, however, consult the expertise of legal analysts like Lisa Bloom LAW ’86, who told MSNBC: “We wouldn’t be the land of mass incarceration if every case was treated the way this case was treated … there’s no question Darren Wilson received special treatment … this prosecutor bent over backwards to ensure that there would not be charges filed.” The news media painted Michael Brown as a criminal who allegedly stole cigarillos from a nearby convenience store. Many took these allegations as sufficient justification for Darren Wilson to shoot Brown multiple times, including in the head. James Holmes, the white suspect in the shooting death of 12 people in Aurora, Colorado, was taken into custody alive. And he had been armed with several guns. Darren Wilson should have been indicted. Michael Brown should not have been killed. The simple fact is that these men’s respective racial identities determined the course of events, and to think otherwise is to be blind to America’s race problem. I wish I could say I was surprised on Monday evening when Darren Wilson walked free. But I wasn’t. JAVIER CIENFUEGOS is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at javier.cienfuegos@yale.edu .
Don’t get me wrong: The most important issue in the Ferguson case is how blind we’ve become as a country, carelessly believing that the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to our Constitution ensure equality for all races. But first to ignore discrimination, and then ignore the danger in militarizing previously untrained troops in a contentious and angry city, is only asking for more unnecessary pain. Wilson, a trained police officer, shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. National Guard troops equipped with weapons arriving in Ferguson to help already militarily equipped local and state policemen only perpetuates our country’s excessive militarization of domestic law enforcement and encourages the feeling of mistrust we have in our government. Dispatching the National Guard sends a message: This situation is different, and we have the power to control it. Though annual riot control training is required of members of the National Guard, this training has been largely overshadowed by training for deployment overseas. “My only concern is that the level of training [of the National Guard] may not be what you’d want,” James Carafano, a retired Army officer and vice president of the Heritage Foundation, told the Washington Post. “This is a situation where it’s very sensitive, and you want to get it right the first time. You can’t really learn on the job.” So Nixon, what message are you sending by putting weapons into the hands of troops — teachers, firemen, regular citizens — who put on a uniform for one weekend a month? And are you promoting peace, or demonstrating just how dangerous our law enforcement can be? SARA MILLER is a junior in Pierson College and a former photography editor for the News. Contact her at sara.miller@yale.edu .
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Ten Yalies win Rhodes, Marshall Scholarships BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Ten Yale students were recognized with Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships this year, two of the most prestigious academic awards for study in England. Last week, four Yale students were named to the Rhodes Scholars class of 2015 — more than any other college in the country. Jordan Konell ’15, Jane Darby Menton ’15, Matthew Townsend ’15 and Gabriel Zucker ’12 were chosen from a pool of 877 students to attend the University of Oxford for two to four years of fully funded postgraduate study. Additionally, six Yalies were awarded Marshall Scholarships this year — the highest number of Yale winners in over 30 years. Benjamin Daus-Haberle ’12, Edmund Downie ’14, Katherine McDaniel ’14, Sarah Norvell ’15, Miranda Rizzolo ’15 and Rahul Singh ’15 will receive full funding from the British government to study at the U.K. institution of their choice for two to three years, in any field of study. While Yale students were especially successful in winning the awards this year, winners interviewed said they experienced shock and disbelief upon finding out they had been selected. “I don’t know why I got picked, and I think anyone I interviewed with could have gotten picked,” Konell said. “It was an incredibly accomplished, impressive group of people who are all really down-to-earth and doing amazing things.” Administrators interviewed said Yale students typically make a good showing in national fellowship competitions. Katherine Dailinger, director for national fellowships at the Yale Center for International and Professional Experience, noted that Yale students have a strong commitment to service. The Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships emphasize service, Dailinger said, attracting many Yale students to apply. “There are always a great many applicants here for scholarships such as [the Rhodes and Marshall] and this, without taking anything away from those who win, does make a difference to the odds of there being a winner at Yale in any given year,” she said. However, many winners attributed Yale’s success in these competitions to the comprehensive guidance provided to them by the University. Rizzolo said the support she received from Dailinger and CIPE was “unbelievably helpful.” Downie echoed this sentiment, saying he could not imagine going through the Marshall or Rhodes application process without Dailinger’s guidance. Both the Rhodes and the Marshall application processes are known for being particularly strenuous. The initial applications are due in August and interviews continue through the end of November, with several written and interview components. However, recipients interviewed said they were still surprised by aspects of the process. “The [Rhodes] interview process was not like anything I had experienced before,” Townsend said. “A cocktail party on Friday, followed by a full day of interviews and deliberations from 8 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.” During the Rhodes interview process, Konell said interviewers were not directly interested in his accomplishments and studies, but instead challenged him to better understand his understanding of race, racial politics, cities and his life experiences. “It wasn’t so much to see what I’ve done, but to see how I think about what I’ve done, and to see how I think about the things that I care about,” said Konell, who plans to study com-
parative social policy at Oxford. Singh, a marksman in the state of Connecticut, said the first four questions of his Marshall interview were not about his field of study, economics, but about pistols. The interviewers were interested in whether he had thought through the ethical implications of his actions beyond his course of study, he said. Rizzolo, who will study classical acting for the professional theater at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, said Marshall interviewers stressed the ambassadorial component of her application, questioning how funded study in England would allow her to strengthen U.K. –U.S. relations. “As someone in the arts, I had to approach that question from a different angle than someone studying public policy or the sciences — fields with really pragmatic results,” she said. “I had to justify why I think theater and storytelling are important.” Although the four Rhodes winners from Yale all received the same scholarship, their intended fields of study differ dramatically. Townsend, a member of the Yale men’s varsity basketball team, said he has always been interested in food policy and nutrition-related diseases, which is why he plans to study medical anthropology next year. Konell said he wanted to study in Oxford’s comparative social policy program, which will provide him with a qualitative and quantitative research-based background for understanding the things he cares about. Following Zucker’s graduation, he conducted fieldwork in Pakistan and Indonesia at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and intends to study social intervention and policy at Oxford before pursuing a Ph.D. in economics, according to the Rhodes Trust website. Because Oxford’s Modern Middle Eastern Studies program has a strong language component, Menton, a former managing editor for the News, said she preferred it to other similar programs that she looked at the in the U.S. and U.K. She said that because she did not take Arabic at Yale, she wanted a program with intensive Arabic, and most graduate programs either require knowledge of the language in advance, or do not have a strong language component to the degree. While recipients of the Marshall will receive funding to study and live at any British university of their choosing, the majority of this year’s winners from Yale will join the Rhodes scholars studying at Oxford next year. Rizzolo, who is doublemajoring in English and Theater Studies, recently produced the faculty-staged reading of Euripedes’ “Iphigeneia at Aulis.” She will attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art next year to study classical acting for the professional theater. Rizzolo said she spent the summer studying classical theater at another school in the U.K. and really liked the British acting technique. Singh, an economics and mathematics double-major, will pursue a Master of Science in econometrics and mathematical economics at the London School of Economics before pursuing the MSc in computational statistics and machine learning at University College London. “Because of this scholarship, I have the opportunity to study something that people in my field don’t usually focus on. I think it will enrich the work I do later on,” he said. Last year, three Yale students were awarded Rhodes Scholarships, and four Yale graduates received Marshall Scholarships. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .
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The two new residential colleges have added $7.6 million to city coffers through building permit fees. BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Decades after the Board of Alders nixed Yale’s plans to build new colleges, city officials say that the Elm City will reap benefits from the two new colleges currently under construction. The new colleges — slated to cost $500 million — have added $7.6 million to city coffers through building permit fees, an amount nearly equal to the total that the city brought in through permit fees last year. And while the $7.6 million is a one-time payment and Yale will not owe the city any other comparable sum to move ahead with construction, the influx of students from the colleges could stimulate the local economy, said City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer. “There will be that many
more students to frequent the city’s shops and restaurants,” he said. Grotheer added that the new colleges could specifically produce increased sales tax revenue through more student shoppers and increased income tax revenue from flourishing local businesses. While Grotheer said that the project may not bring any more direct revenue to the city, he also noted that Yale may owe the city additional fees to connect to the sewage system or to access fresh water from the Regional Water Authority. Despite the potential benefits to the Elm City, Budget Chief Joe Clerkin said the city’s Finance Department cannot yet predict whether or not any portion of the Yale’s payment will be used up to ensure a balanced city budget, or if it will be funneled into the city’s “rainy day”
emergency fund. “At this point, I wouldn’t go beyond saying that we are going to balance the budget,” Clerkin said. “There are a lot more factors that will go into determining whether it will be a good fiscal year or a bad one.” While the construction of the new colleges will be the largest building projects in the Elm City during this fiscal year, Clerkin underscored that the city relies on property taxes and parking revenue because both are recurring, while the gain from the permit fee is a “one-time revenue.” Yale does not pay property taxes to New Haven because University property is exempt. Nonetheless, due to the 2005 voluntary payment agreement, Yale’s contribution to the city will increase as the total number of beds and employees on campus increases.. Clerkin said that the $7.6
million dollar addition to the general fund could also help alleviate some of the budgetary pressures that arise during a harsh winter. He said that the funding could potentially help pay for Fire Department overtime hours — a budget pressure the city faced last year. He also specifically cited snow removal as an area that could benefit from the additional funding, especially considering the unpredictability of winter weather conditions in the area. However, Deputy Director of Operations of the Emergency Operations Center Rick Fontana said that he was optimistic that his center, which supervises snow removal in New Haven, would operate within the mayor’s proposed budget for snow clearing this winter. Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
IN BRIEF Brown decision slammed in protest on New Haven Green Protesting racial injustice in Missouri, New Haven and at large, well over a hundred gathered on the New Haven Green early this evening in the wake of a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager. The protest, organized by the Connecticut branch of ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) — a national justice coalition — came less than a day after it was announced that Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for killing Michael Brown. “We believe we have to fight against racism in all of its forms and police brutality is an epidemic across all parts of the country,” said Chris Garafa, the organizer of the rally. In front of City Hall, protesters argued that Brown’s killing and the grand jury’s failure to indict Wilson, represented a broader pattern of racism in the United States. In particular, the protesters focused on the justice system and what they called its unfairness to blacks. The most significant implication of the Ferguson decision, Garafa said, is the deepening of the divide between the police force and the black community.
Lockdown lifted at Albertus Magnus
Champion ’16 elected football captain
Exactly one year after Yale locked down following a warning of a gunman on campus, a threat of violence caused Albertus Magnus College to do the same. The lockdown started this afternoon after a man threatened the financial assistance office. Following the recommendation of the New Haven Police Department, the college’s New Haven campus locked down and afternoon and evening classes were cancelled. By 2:20 p.m. today, the lockdown was lifted, according to NBC Connecticut. The man was a night student who did not attend class and tried to get his money back. In addition to threatening the financial aid office, he also threatened Mayor Toni Harp and Hamden Mayor Scott Jackson. Following the threats, police arrested the man and are now holding him in Westville. Officers from the NHPD, North Haven and Hamden police departments are investigating the threat. While the college’s campus on 700 Prospect St. was locked down, classes at Albertus Magnus’s East Hartford campus ran as scheduled.
There is no better way to make a statement about your goals than by naming a player with the last name “Champion” as your leader. Just a few days after the close of its most successful season since 2007, the Yale football team has already turned the page toward the future by electing defensive back Cole Champion ’16 to captain the 2015 squad. Champion, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida native, has started every game for the Bulldogs since week four of his freshman campaign and will enter his senior season with 125 solo tackles, 205 overall tackles and four interceptions in his career as a Bulldog. He follows in the footsteps of previous captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15, who led an 8–2 Eli squad and also broke the record for receptions in a Yale career with 219 grabs in his four years. The defensive back, who is the 138th elected captain, enters his new role with arguably the most leadership experience under his belt out of all juniors on the team. In 10 games this season, Champion was the only player starting in the secondary who was not a freshman or sophomore. As is tradition at Yale, only one player can serve as captain for each varsity team.
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FROM THE FRONT
“It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.” LEON ASKIN AUSTRIAN ACTOR
16 years on, new clues sought in Jovin case JOVIN FROM PAGE 1 der, a female passenger rode a taxi from the Blatchley Avenue area to Newhallville. The taxi’s route cuts through Whitney and Prospect Avenues, one of which Jovin would have had to travel up to reach Edgehill and East Rock from Phelps Gate, where she was last seen. The second concerns an individual who communicated with the couple that found Jovin’s body. A recording of the call made to police at 9:55 p.m. to notify authorities of Jovin’s murder may also lead to an additional witness. The couple that heard Jovin’s screams and found her body called 911 and spoke to police. But another person driving by was overheard on dispatch asking the callers if they needed help. Investigators believe the person in the vehicle may have seen or heard something relevant to the crime. Finally, authorities are looking for an individual from whom Jovin was, according to her own email correspondence, planning to collect study materials for the Graduate Record Examinations the night of her murder. The only suspect whose identity has been made public in the case is James Van de Velde ’82, a former political science lecturer at Yale and Jovin’s senior thesis adviser, who was questioned days after the killing. On June 6, 2013, Michael Dearington, the New Haven state’s attorney, confirmed to the News that Van de Velde was no longer a suspect in the Jovin case. In 2013, Van de Velde settled a 12-year defamation lawsuit against the city and the University. Since then, no new suspects’ identities have been disclosed to the public. New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said he was not aware of the upcoming meeting but agreed with Dupuis that though the Jovin murder is a cold case, it remains an ongo-
ing investigation. He said details of such cases are typically not revealed. “There are cold cases that are decades old that are solved from time to time,” Hartman said. “As a case gets older the possibility of new leads arising is weaker, but that does not mean at all that things don’t happen.” Franz Douskey, a resident of the greater New Haven area and a former creative writing professor at Yale, said he has pushed
for a public forum to discuss the Jovin case for 15 years. His interest in the case stems from being a former resident of East Rock, the neighborhood where Jovin’s body was found. Although he taught at Yale while the victim was a student, Douskey said he did not know Jovin. Douskey has privately organized periodical meetings at Gateway Community College since Jovin’s murder. These forums, attended by community
members and investigators, have followed a similar format to the upcoming gathering at Wilbur Cross — inviting people to share information regarding the murder. “I’m all for [the meeting] because, no matter how it happens, we really need to get information out,” Douskey said. “There might be somebody who has some information but has been reluctant to speak up. Some folks have been here a long time.”
TIMELINE EVENTS IN THE JOVIN CASE INVESTIGATION
December, 1998 Within a week, the investigation team identifies Jovin's senior thesis adviser James Van de Velde ’82, a lecturer in the political science department, as a prime suspect.
Dec. 4, 1998 Suzanne Jovin '99's body is found at 9:58 pm.
Douskey said he plans to attend the forum on Dec. 4 to urge investigators to go house-to-house to hunt down any fragment of pertinent information on the case. The investigators have the access and the authority to ask people to talk if they know something, he said. Students from James Hillhouse High School applied the houseto-house approach on Saturday and walked around the East Rock neighborhood where Jovin was stabbed. They passed out flyers
advertising the upcoming meeting and calling for community members to come forward with further information on the leads outlined by Jovin’s investigation team or any other aspect of her murder. Jovin was a member of Davenport College and studied political science and international relations at Yale. Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
Dec. 4, 2014 Jovin investigation team to hold meeting at Wilbur Cross High School to urge community members to come forward with any new information.
July, 2008 Investigation team distributes a sketch to seek the identity of a man seen running near Huntington Street and Whitney Avenue at the time of the murder. Oct. 8, 2014 Board of Alders approve a resolution to set up a Cold Cases Unit in the NHPD.
Dec. 11, 2007 Connecticut District Court Chief Judge Robert Chatigny reopens Van de Velde’s state lawsuit.
June 6, 2013 Michael Dearington, the state's attorney for New Haven, confirms to the News that Van de Velde is no longer a suspect in the case. Van de Velde settles his lawsuit with the city and the University.
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Petition calls on Yale to rescind honorary Cosby degree COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES WITH TIES TO BILL COSBY Berklee College of Music: The college removed Cosby's name from a scholarship, according to Berklee spokesman Allen Bush.
Temple University: Temple says Cosby will remain a member of the its Board of Trustees. Cosby was an undergrad at Temple.
High Point University: Cosby named to National Board of Advisors in July; university reportedly removed Cosby's name and photograph from its web page of board members.
Spelman College: Cosby donated $20 million to the historically black college in 1988. The college declined to comment to the International Business Times on whether it will keep Cosby's program and his name on the academic faculty.
Clemson University: Associate professor Jonathan Beecher Field writes an editorial for Inside Higher Ed calling on 17 colleges and universities — including Yale — to rescind their honorary degrees granted to Cosby.
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PETITION FROM PAGE 1 of response by university administrators. Field said rescinding Cosby’s degree would be a way for Yale and other universities to “communicate that the voices of rape victims matter.” While the University has never rescinded an honorary degree before, student and alumni signatories say the administration should not simply default to a precedent. David Kimmel GRD ’16, who signed the petition, said recipients of honorary degrees should be role models for the rest of society, a title Cosby can hardly claim in light of the allegations
against him. “When it comes to an honorary degree, we’re honoring someone as a human and citizen,” Kimmel said. “The insistence that [rescinding a degree] has never been done in the past is not a valid reason for not taking moral action in the present.” Many members of the Yale community are working every day to improve Yale’s sexual climate, and rescinding Cosby’s honorary degree would send an important message to those people — and the survivor community more generally — that the University stands behind them, said Women’s Center Public
Relations Coordinator Annemarie McDaniel ’16. When asked about the petition, though, Salovey was noncommittal. “Rape and sexual assault are abhorrent criminal acts. They are not tolerated at Yale. Allegations that a person has engaged in such acts are serious. The online petition and other voices that call for Yale to revoke the honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby because of such allegations against him therefore warrant serious consideration,” Salovey said. “Yale has never rescinded an honorary degree, and many would agree that it would be
inappropriate to do so based solely on these allegations.” “I am committed to ensuring that Yale is a place that is supportive, safe and respectful for all, and where the voices of sexual assault survivors are heard and acted upon. I am committed to that work, as are many faculty and staff dedicated to those efforts. I appreciate that Yale students share their concerns directly with me and other campus leaders,” Salovey added. It remains unclear how other universities, many with stronger ties to Cosby than the awarding of an honorary degree, will distance themselves from the famed actor
and comedian. Last week, however, Berklee College of Music reported it would withdraw Cosby’s sponsorship of its online extension school. In another Inside Higher Ed article, Berklee spokesman Allen Bush said, “College officials should be aware of the perception that campuses are unsafe … and that awareness should include partnerships and how they are perceived by students.” Bush could not be reached for comment as of Sunday night. High Point University, which named Cosby to its National Board of Advisors in July, reportedly removed Cosby’s name and
photograph from its webpage of board members. Still, Cosby retains strong ties with Spelman and Temple Colleges. In 1988, Cosby gave $20 million to Spelman, and the college has endowed chairs and a building named after Cosby and his wife. A Change.org petition created by a Temple alum is calling on the university to end its relationship with Cosby, who was an undergraduate at Temple and remains a trustee as of midNovember. That petition has been signed by over 1,000 people. Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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“Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities and be intentional about new habits.” KRISTIN ARMSTRONG ROAD BICYCLE RACER
Students debate Ferguson on online forums
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Students and city residents responded to the Ferguson decision on the streets and on social media. BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER When news broke that a grand jury had declined to indict a white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, Yale students — most of whom were away from campus for Thanksgiving — took to Facebook. “Even though I was in New Mexico, far away from most major demonstrations, the texts, pictures and updates I was receiving mimicked the solidarity I would feel had I attended a rally or protest,” Anya Markowitz ’17 said. Markowitz said that the discussion on Facebook, while imperfect, has been a crucial outlet for her personal engagement with the Ferguson case. Others said they approved of how debates conducted on Facebook tackling issues of race, the criminal justice system and inequality were conducted. With countless posts and comments appearing in the days after the decision, some said they were pushed to quickly jump into a debate charged with emotion. “I told myself I wouldn’t get involved in arguments about race and minority issues on Facebook, but I couldn’t help it when I saw some of the opinions that people posted on those forums,” Ivonne Gonzalez ’16 said. “I reacted aggressively because these issues mean a lot to me.” In order to voice her own frustrations, Claire Zhang ’15 said she wrote an essay that she published on her Facebook profile, in which she drew upon literature to convey her disappointment with the decision to not indict Wilson. Quoting David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison, Zhang argued that “we need to know and we need to be aware.” Seeing others expressing the same sentiments on Facebook as her own, Zhang added, made her comfortable sharing her own opinion. “Students, I think, are more willing to listen and reconsider their opinions and paradigms, especially during this stage of life where we’re
really trying to figure ourselves out and think about these things,” she said. While Markowitz said that Facebook makes it easier to mindlessly respond to a comment and antagonize someone who shares an opposite opinion, she agreed with Zhang, adding that Facebook helps fight apathy because it offers a tool to feel less immobilized by grief or sadness. Still, Zhang suggested that online forums can prevent students from sharing opinions perceived as unpopular, therefore preventing a fair debate. “If you only have a feed of the same ideas over and over, that can be a little dangerous, so I think it’s important to try to share as many opinions as possible,” she said. Eshe Sherley ’16 said that conversations about Ferguson will inevitably begin shortly after students return to campus. On Monday at 12:01 p.m. — the time Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9 this year — nearly 500 students are expected to walk out of classes, meals and other events as part of a national public demonstration against the grand jury’s decision. Aria Thaker ’15 said she will be attending the Walk Out after being unable to attend demonstrations while at home in New York for the Thanksgiving break. “I hope to stand in solidarity with the people of Ferguson and all the people at Yale, especially those in the black community, who are affected by police brutality,” she said. Hershel Holiday ’18 said that especially on a campus as diverse as Yale, it is important for people to step back and objectively examine the debates without inserting their personal biases. “Ultimately what needs to happen in talks about race is for people to learn how to be uncomfortable,” he said. “So many conversations about race relations either are smoothed over or don’t happen at all, because white people want to feel comfortable around their minority friends and co-workers.” Contact STEPHANIE ADDEBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .
Freshman scholar program expands BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Freshman Scholars at Yale, a program that brings a small cohort of incoming freshmen to the University each summer, is expanding to its largest size yet. For the summer of 2015, 48 students from under-resourced high schools, first-generation college families and low-income backgrounds will be invited to participate in FSY, up from 35 students last summer. Two years ago, in 2013, the Admissions Office invited 33 students to participate in the pilot version of FSY. Participants lived and studied on campus for five weeks in the summer for no cost — fulfilling coursework, attending seminars and engaging in activities designed to ease their transition to college. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said a rigorous assessment of the first and second years of the program indicated that FSY successfully reduces the adjustment period for these incoming freshmen once they arrive full-time in the fall. Administrators are excited to extend this opportunity to more students, he said. “All signs pointed to an incredibly successful program and incredibly successful students,” Quinlan said. “The program is truly top-notch and ready for expansion.” Dean of Yale Summer Session William Whobrey said data from the Freshman Orientation Survey indicated that FSY participants were much more prepared to engage in the orientation process and become part of the advising system than other Yale freshmen. They knew how to interact with faculty and college deans and were able to hit the ground running in the fall, taking advantage of the Univer-
sity’s resources from the very beginning, he said. There is still potential for growth after this summer’s expansion, Whobrey said. He added that given the current program model they plan to continue to use, the next expansion would be to 60 students. “To some extent, that’s a budget issue,” Whobrey said. “But there are also questions about what still constitutes an effective program in terms of size. How big can a program get, while still allowing students to get to know each other?” While former participants of FSY interviewed were enthusiastic about the expansion, many expressed similar concerns about the program becoming too large. Dustin Vesey ’17, who participated in the inaugural FSY program, said he is both excited and worried about the program expanding to such a large number of students. “The goal is to help freshmen become acclimated to life at college before they get here, and if that can reach more students then it definitely should,” he said. “That being said, I feel like our group [of 33 students] got so close because of the size. I don’t know if 48 will be too big, and I really hope it doesn’t take away from the intimacy of the program.” But Viviana Andazola Marquez ’18, a participant in last summer’s FSY program, said she doubts the intimacy of FSY will be largely affected by the expansion. Participants will form strong connections by virtue of being on campus together when hardly anyone else is around, she said. Even if FSY expanded to 100 students, Marquez added, the program would retain its intimacy. FSY Dean and Ezra Stiles Col-
lege Dean Camille Lizarribar said the main changes to next summer’s program will be logistical. Housing and group trips for FSY will be altered in order to include 12 extra people, but the goals and the structure of the program will remain the same, she said. “I don’t think the idea is to change anything,” Lizarribar said. “The idea is to include more people who will benefit from the program by being able to engage a little bit earlier with Yale.” She added that because there are now roughly 70 students on campus who have participated in FSY, these students will begin to play a larger role in the program. Next year, students from the first summer will be able to do work as FSY counselors, Lizarribar said. Whobrey said the balance between intimacy and expansion will be monitored as the program moves forward, and that FSY will stay at 48 students for at least the next two years. He added that similar programs at Yale’s peer institutions are generally capped at 50, and that he personally does not think the program should grow much larger than that figure. Kerry Burke-McCloud ’17, who participated in the pilot FSY program, said he is confident that next summer’s program will be just as effective as it has been in the past, regardless of the expansion. “If you increase the number of students, then you increase the number of students who will be prepared for Yale’s challenges,” McCloud said. “How could you lose?” FSY is jointly run by the Admissions Office and the Yale College Dean’s Office and is supported by Yale Summer Session. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .
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In 2015, 48 incoming freshmen will be invited to FSY, which is jointly run by the Admissions and Dean’s Offices.
In needle exchange programs, users led the charge against HIV BY AMAKA UCHEGBU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On the 26th World AIDS Day, as groups across campus and organizations across the world pay tribute to activists who were instrumental in stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS, the Yale researchers who pioneered New Haven’s Needle Exchange Program are celebrating those who made the program possible — the substance users themselves. Founded in 1989, the program — which led to a decline in annual HIV infections in New Haven by 33 percent — has been held up as the gold standard for needle exchange programs across the state and nation. These programs allow intravenous drug users to exchange used needles for clean needles. “Both active [drug] users and people in recovery were integral in the movement to authorize [needle] exchanges in Connecticut and New Haven,” said Elaine O’Keefe, professor of public health and executive director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale. O’Keefe, who previously served as the New Haven AIDS Director and managed the NEP, said that while the role of People who Inject Drugs in such programs is rarely discussed, those people best
understand the needs of the PWID community and how to effectively reach out to them. Because of those skills, they were crucial to the success of New Haven’s Needle Exchange Program — now called its Syringe Exchange Program, as well as reducing deaths from Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. Robert Heimer GRD ’88, professor of epidemiology and director of the Emerging Infections Program at the School of Public Health, highlighted the impossibility of running successful disease control programs without understanding the “psyche [of PWIDs], their wants, their fears.” He drew a comparison with similar programs that struggled to get off the ground in New York, noting that there were numerous stumbling blocks to getting help. PWIDs had to travel all the way to downtown Manhattan to a building opposite police headquarters and had to put their name on a wait list to even get into the methadone program. According to George Bucheli, an employee of the syringe exchange van — which is stationed throughout New Haven so that IV drug users can exchange needles — who has worked for the program since 1993, even small barriers to access can have large impacts. “As an addict, I empathize,” he said. “There has to be a bed available, they might need a photo ID,
you need insurance — the stars need to align for you to get help.”
GAINING USERS’ TRUST
On the day the program launched in New Haven, only three or four PWIDs showed up to the needle exchange van. But by the end of the first year, recovering and active substance abusers were spearheading the expansion of the program, assuring PWIDs that it was a safe place to go to. With their help, the program now supplies clean needles to nearly one in eight of all active drug users in New Haven. The success of the program came as a surprise — O’Keefe noted that funding had only been allocated for one year, and it was not intended as more than a pilot program. In 25 years, the program has grown dramatically. It took more than 50,000 unclean syringes out of circulation in 2013 and returned the same number of clean ones. Bucheli, who is recovering from addiction to multiple substances, explained that in the early days, a lack of discussion around HIV/AIDS and its link to IV drug use ignited a response from the PWID community, which began an underground syringe exchange program before it was legalized in Connecticut in 1990 and the NEP program began.
Bucheli noted that when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, the substance-using community chose to go into survival mode, as opposed to panicking.
There has to be a bed available, they might need a photo ID, you need insurance — the stars need to align for you to get help . GEORGE BUCHELI Employee of the syringe exchange van Ambritt Myers-Lypell, a current employee of the program who has been in recovery for nearly 30 years, explained that her motivations for getting involved with the program were centered on giving back to community. Losing relatives to HIV/AIDS inspired her to take a more active role in preventing its spread, she said. While Myers-Lypell had worked at drug treatment programs before, the time she spent in prison after killing her abusive husband opened her eyes to the destruction that comes with drug abuse. Today, she said, New Haven’s drug program is about more than disease preven-
tion. “It’s not just about clean needles — we also do drug treatment, food, clothing, HIV testing and linkage to people who are positive,” she said, referring to a practice in which newly positive patients are referred to other HIV/ AIDS patients for support.
MOVING FORWARD
Heimer added that the program also receives funding for a subset program that refers addicts to drug rehabilitation programs. In the first two years, the rehabilitation referral services have reached 400 people. PWIDs were also crucial in increasing the accessibility of the NEP services through stationing vans in visible places, said Kaveh Khoshnood SPH ’89 GRD ’95, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and program director of the Global Health Studies Program at Yale College. He noted that PWIDs extended the reach of the program to populations that researchers alone would not have known how to contact. “Users gave clean needles to those who were too sick or had huge abscesses and couldn’t walk [to the van sites],” Khoshnood said, adding that drug users told the New Haven Health Department where to place vans to make
them visible enough to be found by users, but not so visible that users would be too frightened to approach them. Still, Myers-Lypell said, there is more to be done to cull the tide of HIV transmission among PWIDs. “We need a cheaper, mobile van staffed 24 hours a day,” MyersLypell said. While researchers said that stigma around needle exchanges has decreased significantly since the creation of the program, past users disagreed. Myers-Lypell said that despite its success controversy about the program remains. Bucheli pointed to the recent funding cuts in the Connecticut programs as evidence. In the last six months, a number of programs across the state have shut down because of financial constraints, he said. Moving forward, Myers-Lypell expressed concern that the program’s reach simply is not large enough. She said she sees young professionals from the suburbs coming into the city to access clean needles — the vans do not make it out to the suburbs. The Syringe Exchange Program operates five days a week and conducts home deliveries on Wednesdays. Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.” WILL.I.AM AMERICAN RAPPER
Harvard approves joint CS50 venture CS50 FROM PAGE 1 and hacker communities” on campus. “The CS50 community and culture are certainly unique,” Hirschhorn said in an email. “I’m very much looking forward to helping to put a Yale twist on them so as to meet, and maybe even exceed, the exceptional ones that already exist for students in Cambridge. I daresay my allegiances will be tested.” Malan said that once Yale approved the course, he and his team at Harvard only needed to think through the implementation details before announcing the news last Monday. He added that CS50 has long been available as OpenCourseWare — course lessons created by universities and published for free using the internet — via a Creative Commons License. Any new material that Scassellati or Malan create this year will be similarly made available online. Scassellati said he is happy to have final approval to move forward, but also identified several logistical challenges he will need to tackle: training the undergraduate learning assistants and finding room space for potentially packed evening office hours. The unpredictable size of the course will be an additional hurdle, he added. “We are all anxious to get started, but we also want to make sure that we do this right the first time,” he said. “We are working hard behind the scenes to put all of these pieces in place so that we can begin to make public a more comprehensive view of what this experiment will look like.” Still, student reactions to the decision were mixed, expressing excitement for the new course but noting that adding CS50 does not alleviate problems with Yale’s Computer Science Department. Computer science major Aileen Huang ’17 said that bringing CS50 to Yale is a “lazy way” of getting around the department’s problems, including issues with understaffing and few electives. Her sentiment, she said, is shared by most of the other computer science majors she knows. “CS50 is merely a band-aid solution,” Huang said. But computer science major Daniel Pearson ’15 said that the increased interest in computer science resulting from CS50 will be worthwhile even at the loss of one faculty member to another introductory course. The under-
staffed department is a separate issue from CS50 that should still be addressed, he said. Electrical engineering and computer science major Kimo Hon ’15 said it has been clear for years that Yale’s introductory courses have not been up to par, adding that by this point, the computer science department should have created a CS50 of their own instead of “importing one from Harvard.” “I would be very disappointed if the University does not press on with adjusting the hiring policies for the Computer Science Department and expanding offerings for students,” Hon said. “The size of the faculty has been a huge limiting factor in what we have been able to offer and the number of students we are able to accommodate.” Although Pearson said he has no problem with the implementation of CS50 at Yale, he and Hon agreed that CS50 is not a course fashioned directly for computer science majors. Pearson added that CS50 will be helpful in attracting students who have never been involved with computer science before and for students interested in the tech industry. “If someone who is not a computer science major takes our current intro [computer science] class it is kind of a dead end,” Pearson said. “It doesn’t lead to a place where you know what to do with it, like how to make anything. [CS50] may not be for [computer science] majors but will be helpful in improving technology on Yale’s campus.” Computer science major Jessica Yang ’16 said that she is concerned that CS50 will adversely affect the gender ratio within computer science at Yale. “In some ways CS50 epitomizes the worst of hacker culture,” Yang said in an email. “The last thing we need is more ‘dude-bros’ looking to make a quick buck off a sexting app joining the [computer science] department.” Still, other students took the opposite position. Computer science major Alex Reinking ’16 told the News in November that he hoped that CS50 would attract more female students to the major just by the large number of students the course attracts. “At Harvard, there are more than 700 people taking the class. They can’t all be men,” Reinking said. Regardless, professors interviewed at both schools were mainly pleased to hear the news.
The joint venture is a historic change, Harvard professor of computer science and electrical engineering Woodward Yang said. He added that he hopes it will help the Ivies continue to attract and educate future leaders. Computer science professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jim Aspnes said he looks forward to seeing CS50 at Yale. Aspnes said that while it is hard to predict how introducing CS50 will affect the rest of Yale’s Computer Science Department, he hopes it will make computer science accessible to more Yale students. Lewis said he is thrilled by the
development, adding that CS50 is a great course and can only be good for both schools. He also explained that Yale CS50 students will be invited to attend CS50 events in Cambridge, like CS50 Puzzle Day in September and the CS50 Hackathon in December. At the end of the semester, there will be a CS50 Fair on both campuses, he added. However, some professors also recognized drawbacks to importing the course. Computer science professor Michael Fischer, who is not involved with the venture, said that introducing CS50 will, in the short term, reduce the depart-
ment’s ability to offer other courses and also take focus off other serious departmental issues like necessary curriculum revisions and the dearth of faculty and graduate student teaching assistants. “The joint venture is billed as an experiment,” he wrote in an email. “It is unclear is what the criteria for success are and how the results will be evaluated, both by Harvard and by Yale. It is also unclear what each school hopes to learn from the experiment, except perhaps that by combining forces this way, both schools might save money and get by with fewer faculty.”
The big question, he added, is how well students will learn in this new environment. Yale computer science professor Drew McDermott said in an email that he hopes that importing CS50 will help alleviate some of the department’s problems. “If [introducting CS50] convinces the administration that we are open to new ideas, it might get them to take our problems seriously,” he said. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .
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Yale’s computer science department will introduce Harvard’s CS50 for the first time in fall 2015.
After court decision, Yale stands by Schmidheiny 1975- Schmidheiny becomes CEO of Eternit Genova, which operated factories in Northern Italy
1993- Four of Eternit's former managers in Casale Monferrato, a town in Italy, are convicted for asbestosrelated deaths
2012- Italian criminal court convicts Schmidheiny with sentence of 16 years in prison and $100 million in fines.
December 2013- Yale states in letter that it will not rescind Schmidheiny's honorary degree
June 2013- Turin court of appeals affirms guilt, adds two years to sentence. 1986- Eternit factory in Italy closes
1996- Yale awards Schmidheiny honorary degree
TIMELINE EVENTS IN SCHMIDHEINY’S CONVICTION SCHMIDHEINY FROM PAGE 1 neighboring municipalities, calling for University President Peter Salovey to take action. “We consider it unacceptable that a criminal such as he is, a man who has shown no respect for human life, should be allowed to continue to bear the sign of your appreciation and honor,” Palazzetti said. Still, University administrators have maintained that Yale will not revoke the degree. University spokesman Tom Conroy wrote in an email that Yale stands by its decision, and
the recent legal decision has not changed its stance. He added that the University has never revoked an honorary degree on grounds other than academic and other fraud. “Yale does not currently believe that ongoing legal proceedings in Italy provide cause to reconsider the judgment made by the committee in 1996,” he said. Conroy’s language is nearly identical to the wording used by University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews in a December 2013 letter to Christopher Meisenkothen, the attorney represent-
ing some of the victims affected by asbestos illnesses. Meisenkothen said the University response has been unacceptable since it has simply regurgitated the same “vacuous” talking points since the fall, rather than engaging the issue. He added that Yale’s history of never revoking an honorary degree is not a reason not to do so now. “It is a prestigious world class institution that prides itself on being global and smart and sophisticated, and all they have been doing here is being ignorant and unsophisticated and provincial,” Meisenkothen said. “It is an
insult to injury … [for Schmidheiny] to be given an award for eco-friendly business practices and environmentalism — it’s a slap in the face to the victims.” He added that while there may be debate on whether Schmidheiny should have been awarded the degree in the first place, the recent court decision should not have bearing on Yale’s responsibility to act in rescinding the degree. According to the 1996 profile accompanying his honorary degree, Schmidheiny was recognized as one of the world’s most environmentally conscious business leaders. The document cited
November 2014- Italian Supreme Court overturns verdict and acquits Schmidheiny
his achievement in introducing technology to replace asbestos in his company’s products. Elisabeth Meyerhans Sarasin, a spokeswoman for Schmidheiny, wrote in an email that her client welcomed the verdict from the Italian Supreme Court. She added the defense maintains he is not responsible for the asbestos related deaths. “Stephan Schmidheiny is regarded worldwide as a pioneer who implemented the safest possible methods for asbestos processing,” she said. “His responsible industrial activities prevented thousands of people from con-
tracting an asbestos-related disease.” Regarding the future of the case, Castleman said the next step for the victims may be to go to the European Court of Human Rights and appeal the decision of the Italian Supreme Court. According to Yale News releases in 1996 and 1997, the Avina Foundation — which Schmidheiny serves as president for — made multiple donations to Yale, although the size of these gifts were not disclosed. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
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Black Friday brings Broadway business
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Stores on Broadway offered shoppers promotions in an effort to attract customers from outside of New Haven on Black Friday. BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Following the grand opening of seven new shops surrounding Yale’s campus, stores in the Broadway Shopping District offered Black Friday promotions and attracted a multitude of customers from beyond New Haven this past weekend. University Properties hosted the grand opening for all seven businesses last Tuesday to ensure that the stores could open their doors before holiday shopping — the time of year when businesses conduct the majority of their transactions. While store owners interviewed said that they expe-
rienced smaller-than-expected crowds overall this year, they noted that many visitors came from outside the city specifically for Black Friday. Stores across Connecticut are no stranger to experiencing influxes of customers during the holiday season, as Connecticut residents are ranked fifth in the nation in terms of spending, according to financial information website WalletHub. Stephanie Smith, an associate at Lou Lou on Broadway, which opened last Tuesday, said she thinks the shops along the street provided New Haven and Connecticut residents a good alternative to mall shopping on Black
Friday. She said that the area, although somewhat crowded, was not nearly as hectic as a mall. Stores along the street offered a variety of promotions and deals to attract customers, including Emporium DNA’s 20 percent discount on purchases of $500 or more. The Shops at Yale also offered free parking on Broadway in their center lot to incentivize travel to downtown New Haven. Sandra Morantin, a manager at Thom Brown on Broadway said that, although few people came out to shop Friday morning, a sizable crowd emerged around noon. Karen Cocce, a manager at Emporium DNA, agreed that the traffic on Broadway was “a little soft” for
a Black Friday. Ivy Wanta ’17 said it is difficult for stores in college towns to have successful Black Fridays because most students are home. Although the Broadway Shopping District attracted many visitors over the weekend, store owners interviewed said they are still awaiting students, who they believe will make up a sizable percentage of their customer base. But, in recent months, Yale students have raised questions about the target demographic for four of these stores on Broadway in particular — Kiko Milano and Emporium DNA at the coveted One Broadway Location, and Barbour and Lou Lou further down the street.
“We want visitors, students, locals, everyone to come in here,” said Jackie Riviera, manager at Kiko Milano. “We want students to come in here because our prices are affordable.” Cocce said she feels Emporium DNA is relatively unknown among students at the moment, but that she expects students to shop at the store. She added that, since University Properties conducted research about student consumer preferences prior to choosing Emporium as a tenant, she thinks that students will likely be interested in the store’s available brands. The Black Friday and Small Business Saturday promotions
were the first of multiple events hosted by the Shops at Yale to promote holiday shopping in the area. Yesterday, the Shops unveiled the Holiday Window Installation by Paier College of Art on Broadway to make the area more enticing. The Shops also sponsored the opening of a “Holiday Gift Wrapping Lounge” at 286 York St., which offers a gift-wrapping service by volunteers to benefit housing the homeless. 53 Broadway, the former home of Educated Burgher, and 21 Broadway, the former location of A1 Pizza, remain vacant. Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .
New pizzeria offers fast service BY HANNAH YANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Dubbed the “Chipotle of Pizzerias,” Red Tomado is serving wood-fired pizzas from its first location on Church Street. The new restaurant, which opened earlier this month, serves wood-fired pizzas that are made through an assembly line. Customers choose their own ingredients, then watch as each selection is added to their pizza, starting with five different sauces and moving to a variety of toppings and cheeses. “Everything is visible to the customers,” head chef and restaurant owner Dominick Mirabile said. “You can see us from when we’re stretching your dough, all the way until we’re putting your pizza in the oven. We’re a very different place than most pizzerias.” He added that his goal is to provide good customer service while serving sustainable meals in a “fast gourmet environment.” Red Tomado opened three weeks ago, and has recently announced plans to expand to other cities in Connecticut and New York. Its location next to Buffalo Wild Wings, at 72 Church St., is accessible to both Yale students and New Haven locals. Mirabile said he chose New Haven as a starting point because he wanted to introduce his product in a city where customers already have high expectations for pizza. “We wanted to show customers that we could start our first store where pizza was given birth,” he said. “If we could be successful here, we could be successful anywhere.” Red Tomado is the latest among a growing number of restaurants in New Haven that offer quick, fresh meals prepared in an assembly line. This model exists in local restaurants such as Chick-Lets,
Mediterranean grill Pitaziki, the two Tikkaway Grills and Chipotle. Student brand manager for Chipotle Monica Chen ’15, who markets Chipotle to Yale students, said she thought this model fulfills a growing demand. “I think the popularity of quick service restaurants like Chipotle is a national, if not global, trend,” she said. “There’s this desire people have to play a role in constructing their own meals nowadays, even when eating out, and businesses like Chipotle or Red Tomado really make that happen.” Mirabile echoed this sentiment, noting that Red Tomado customers like that they can get quick meals without compromising quality. The restaurant’s pizza oven is custom-made from Italy and can heat an 11-inch pizza in 90 seconds. On average, said Mirabile, making a pizza takes only about two to three minutes, allowing for fast and efficient service. For Yale students, an affordable pizza option could be a welcome addition to the local restaurant scene. Gabrielle Roberts ’18, who ate at the restaurant yesterday, said Red Tomado fills a void in New Haven’s restaurant scene. “I feel like there are two types of restaurants around here: the really good but pricey ones, and the quicker, more casual ones,” Roberts said. “The second type isn’t often done with pizza, but it can be really convenient for a lot of students.” Prices on Red Tomado’s menu range from $5.75 for a classic pizza to $9.25 for the clam pizza. For customized pizzas, customers can choose between a traditional crust, a pizza bowl or a calzone, and then pay extra per topping. Contact HANNAH YANG at hannah.yang@yale.edu .
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AROUND THE IVIES
“The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.” DAVID SUZUKI ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST
T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N
Divestment suit plaintiffs speak out BY KRISTINA LORCH Six of the seven student plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit last week that seeks to compel Harvard University to “immediately withdraw” its holdings from fossil fuel companies discussed their decision to take legal action during an informational meeting held Tuesday afternoon at Harvard Law School. Kelsey C. Skaggs, one of the Harvard Law students involved in preparing the suit, said that the decision to file a suit came after many attempts at dialogue with the university over the past three years had gotten “absolutely nowhere.” The plaintiffs, who refer to themselves as the Harvard Climate Justice Coalition, will be representing themselves pro se, or without legal representation. Joseph E. Hamilton, another Harvard Law student working on the case, said the group made
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this decision because they felt it was “more appropriate” to represent themselves as students of
the university. According to Hamilton, the lawsuit is the first of its kind in the fossil fuel divestment movement. The only other divestment suit led by students was filed in Oregon over the University of Oregon’s investments in companies profiting in apartheid South Africa, Hamilton added. Skaggs, Hamilton and Alice M. Cherry, the third Harvard Law school student among the plaintiffs, began research for the case in January of this year, they said. The case is based on two counts, the first of which argues that the university is mismanaging its funds as a public charity,
and the second of which claims that the university is intentionally investing in “abnormally dangerous” activities. Addressing the lack of precedent for this kind of case in Massachusetts law, Cherry said, “There’s a long history of tort law expanding liability [of defendants].” Cherry cited the decision to begin holding hospitals accountable for the negligence of their doctors as an example of increased liability following a suit. Examples like this, the plaintiffs say, give them reason to believe that Harvard could be held liable for environmental damage caused by investing in fossil fuel companies. Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Benjamin A. Franta, another one of the plaintiffs in the case, served as the group’s scientific advisor and compiled the scientific information that makes up part
of the group’s legal argument. “Harvard has tried to make a virtue out of greed, saying ‘We have to do this,’” Franta said of the university’s decision to continue investing in fossil fuel companies. “We’re asking for Harvard to throw their lot in a trajectory that will help us in the future, and not hurt us,” Franta added. In addition to Franta, Skaggs, Hamilton and Cherry, there are three undergraduate students also listed as plaintiffs, and “future generations” are included as an eighth plaintiff. Harvard has not yet indicated how it will respond to the lawsuit. University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly stated that Harvard will not divest, arguing that such a maneuver would improperly politicize the endowment and detract from the university’s ability to support research and dialogue on ways to combat climate change.
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hese photos were taken at the tailgate right before the Harvard-Yale Game on Nov. 22. Enthusiastic Yalies flocked into the tailgate, holding up banners and cheering for our team. While we were painting the big “Y” on our faces, we knew Yale blue would always be our pride. WA LIU reports.
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NFL Seattle 19 San Francisco 3
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL BULLDOGS CLINCH NCAA PLAYOFF BERTH, DEFEAT HARVARD After taking down the Crimson in a 3–0 sweep on Nov. 21, the Elis broke the tie for the Ivy title and clinched a spot in the NCAA playoffs. The Bulldogs will face Arizona in the first round of the playoffs.
NFL Atlanta 29 Arizona 18
NFL Green Bay 26 New England 21
NFL Jacksonville 25 N.Y. Giants 24
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MATT TOWNSEND ’15 RHODES SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT After being inducted into Yale’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and carrying a 4.0 through his six semesters as a Bulldog, forward Matt Townsend was awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He is the eighth player in Yale basketball history to earn the honor.
“I think that [Yale] is the best basketball team in the Ivy League right now.” JOHN GALLAGHER HARTFORD MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014 · yaledailynews.com
In thriller, Bulldogs fall to Harvard THE GAME
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The Bulldogs tied up The Game with a 33-yard field goal with 3:44 left, but fell in the final minutes with a 35-yard touchdown pass. BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Up until the final seconds, it seemed like 2014 was going to be the year the Bulldogs did it. The Yale football team (8–2, 5–2 Ivy) entered the 131st rendition of the Harvard-Yale game boasting one of the most prolific offenses in the Football Championship Subdivision, still grasp-
ing a chance at an Ivy League title and facing the imminent graduation of several key players. If there was any season for the Elis to defeat Harvard (10–0, 7–0 Ivy) for the first time since 2006, it appeared as if this one was their best chance. Things still appeared that way when Yale led 7–3 after the first half, and they did again as the Bulldogs erased a 17-point defi-
cit in the fourth quarter to tie the score at 24 with just 3:44 remaining. But in the end, Harvard had one last trick up its sleeve that Yale could not overcome, clinching its eighth straight victory in The Game with a 35-yard touchdown pass from Harvard quarterback Conner Hempel to wide receiver Andrew Fischer in the final minute of the game. “It was a great football game,
Ranked foes rough up Yale
between two very good teams,” Yale head coach Tony Reno said. “Harvard made the play in the last drive, and we unfortunately didn’t. That was the difference in the game.” The last-minute 31–24 defeat put a disappointing cap on an otherwise impressive turnaround season for Yale. The Elis finished third in the Ivy League, holding an 8–2 record that directly
opposes the 2–8 showing with which Reno began his Yale head coaching career in 2012. Harvard, meanwhile, captured the outright Ancient Eight title and completed its 17th perfect season in program history. The Bulldogs had relied on their high-powered offense all year to outscore opponents, but much of its matchup with Harvard was instead a story of
defense and special teams. Harvard held Yale to its lowest point total of the season — which also tied the most that Harvard’s nation-leading defense had given up all year. In addition, the Eli defense held the Crimson to just three first-half points despite three Harvard chances inside the 30-yard line. SEE THE GAME PAGE B3
Second half run key to win BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER After a tight first half, the men’s basketball team used a decisive run coming out of halftime to topple Hartford and end the Hawks’ five-game win streak.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
tournament between the state of Connecticut’s top teams, the Nutmeg Classic is a competition between Connecticut, Quinnipiac and Yale, with a fourth team that changes from year to year. This year, it welcomed Clarkson, the defending national champion. “I believe that we give our opponents too much respect,” forward Hanna Åström ’16 said. “Quinnipiac is ranked No. 4 in the country right now and hasn’t lost a game all season. It’s easy to become intimidated by such a record
Yale (6–2, 0–0 Ivy) defeated Hartford (5–2, 0–0 America East) on Sunday afternoon 69–57, while playing in the Bulldogs’ fifth game since Nov. 21. Sunday’s game followed a game against No. 25 Providence on Friday night, in which the Elis, unable to overcome a seven-point halftime deficit, could not complete an upset bid. Looking to return to their winning ways, the Bulldogs faced a physical Hartford team, known for its tight defense that had allowed just 52 points per game on average following its season opener, when Sacred Heart scored 71. The Hawks arrived in New Haven with an impressive resume, having defeated both Dartmouth 53–48 and Quinnipiac 54–50 earlier this season. “I think it took us a while to adjust [to their defense] in terms of what was going on,” head coach James Jones said. “Their ball-screen defense is really the main part of it, and they’ve shown a couple different things that they do … We needed to find out the areas in which we could expose them and it took a while to be able to do that.” Neither team was able to control the game early on, with both struggling to put points on the board in the first half. The first period alone featured 10 lead changes, with neither side gaining an advantage of more than four points — showcasing the back-andforth nature of the game. Heading into the
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The Bulldogs took 74 shots against Sacred Heart in a 13–0 rout. BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team is now in the midst of its longest losing streak of the season as it comes off a week of playing against ranked competition.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (4–6–1, 1–3 ECAC) have lost their last three games, two of which were played in the annual Nutmeg Classic on Friday and Saturday. A
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The Bulldogs had a 10–0 run in the second half that lifted the men’s basketball team over Hartford for a final score of 69–57.
THE WINNING PRECENTAGE OF FOOTBALL HEAD COACH TONY RENO. In Reno’s three-year stint, he has taken the team from a 2–8 season, to a 5–5 season, to a 8–2 season. As a result, he has won a total of 15 games and lost a total of 15 games.
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“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” VINCE LOMBARDI LEGENDARY NFL COACH
Bulldogs win two, drop one
Elis sweep Stony Brook, Crimson VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B4 League history to head to the NCAA tournament for four consecutive seasons. “We did the unbelievable by winning five [conference titles] in a row. And we’re the only team to have done that, ever,” head coach Erin Appleman said. The key to the match, according to Rogers, was the Bulldogs’ relaxed yet confident mindset. The team’s only goal was to have fun, Rogers said. She added that the sold-out crowd also provided a huge boost to the team. “Collectively we played to our potential, and it really showed how much we’ve grown as a team throughout the season,” Johnson said. “It was just so much fun.” The Bulldogs rounded out the regular season with a nonconference match against Stony Brook (17–15, 7–5 AEC) on Tuesday. Yale won its sixth straight match in another sweep with scores of 25–17, 25–12 and 25–12. The Elis were dominant throughout all three sets and the matchup highlighted the performances of numerous Bulldogs.
Both Rogers and Johnson had double-digit kills and setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 had 33 assists. Outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 had nine kills as well, and six other Bulldogs recorded at least one kill on the night. The team as a whole also hit a season-best 0.400, while Stony Brook managed just 0.089. “The match was difficult to play because we should have been on Thanksgiving break, and we didn’t have a lot of fans here, and we already knew we were going to the NCAA tournament,” Rogers said. “In reality, it didn’t really matter whether we won or lost, but we wanted to finish strong.” With the regular season over, the Bulldogs will face off against the No. 11 national seed Arizona Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. Arizona finished its season with a 23–9 record, its most regular season victories since the 2000 season. Contact ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu and ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
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Though neither of them landed on the scoresheet, Stu Wilson ’16 defeated his father, Wayne Wilson, head coach of RIT, on Saturday. MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 empty-net goal in the final seconds of the match. “When I scored I was pretty pumped, but I was more excited to … get the win with the guys,” Baiocco said. “It was definitely something that I’ll remember but the win was more important.” The Bulldogs returned home for their second non-conference matchup of the season on Nov. 28 against RIT that ended in a 2–0 shutout for the Elis. Goalie Patrick
Spano ’17 saw his first start of this season and carried Yale with 21 saves on the night. Hayden notched his third goal of the season late in the first and O’Gara followed suit with his second on the year near the end of the second frame. Yale was able to fend off a last-ditch effort by the Tigers when they pulled their goalie in the final minutes of the game. Once again, the Bulldogs outshot their opponents, this time 31–21, and won the majority of face-offs as well. Obuchowski noted that the team continues to see
improvements as the season progresses. “Every game we are striving to get better and our efforts are starting to pay off especially getting a shutout for Spano was awesome,” Obuchowski said. The Bulldogs will continue their home stretch against Rensselaer and Union on Friday and Saturday. Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu and ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
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The Bulldogs edged out the Crimson for the first time this season, winning each of the three sets 25–21, 25–22 and 25–21.
Women’s basketball drops three WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 wolves to sink key open shots in the second half of the game. After losing to Alaska, the Bulldogs faced Boise State in an overtime game and fell once again 59–53. In the hard-fought contest, the Bulldogs led frequently and allowed no deficit over eight points. With 12 seconds remaining in the game and down by two, the Bulldogs tied the game with a layup from Tamara Simpson ’18 and sent the game into overtime. A jumper by Halejian and two free throws from Simpson allowed the Bulldogs start overtime with a 4–0 run. However, Boise quickly retaliated with a 6–0 run and clinched the lead. In the end, the Broncos excelled under pressure and finished victorious. Led by forward Deanna Weaver, who scored six of 13 points in overtime, the Broncos disoriented Yale’s defense and ended the game with a three-pointer from Yaiza Rodriguez at 00:16. Though the loss was disappointing, the overtime game against Boise State provided a good learning experience for the Bulldogs, particularly with respect to playing under pressure, according to Halejian. Lena Munzer ’17 agreed that despite the three consecutive losses, the Bulldogs learned from their mistakes and are ready for a rebound. “Although the outcome of the games were not what we wanted, there was a tremendous amount to take away from each game,” Munzer said. “We played relentless[ly] but just weren’t hitting shots. It feels good to be back in the gym now, and the losses are more motivating for the team right now.” Sarju agreed with Munzer, saying that the team put in a valiant effort but simply were not hitting the shots. She added that the freshman have given significant contributions and will prove vital to the team’s success. The Bulldogs will face Monmouth on Dec. 2 at home. JIAHUI HU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The women’s basketball team had their second-lowest points tally of the 2014 season against Washington, putting up just 51.
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“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” GORDIE HOWE FOUR-TIME STANLEY CUP CHAMPION
Football falls in eighth straight Game THE GAME FROM PAGE B1 But after forcing four Harvard fourth downs in the first half and benefiting from two fumbles by Harvard running back Paul Stanton, Yale ultimately failed to capitalize fully on its defensive opportunities. The Bulldogs scored zero points in the middle two quarters of the game, the first time all season that they failed to score in two quarters of a game. “We had a ton of missed opportunities in the first half, and I think the game would have been very different if we didn’t,” Reno said. “We drove the ball down the field and we didn’t finish drives … like we’d done all season long. We shot ourselves in the foot.” The Cantabs scored three consecutive touchdowns in the third quarter: first on a rush by Stanton, then on an end-around pass from wide receiver Seitu Smith to Fischer and finally on a 90-yard pick-six by linebacker Connor Sheehan. And once Yale came back to deadlock the two teams at 24, Harvard was able to march 78 yards in less than three minutes for the touchdown that gave Yale its second seven-point loss of the season. Fischer’s deep catch from Hempel, who was fighting through a shoulder injury in his last game at Harvard, will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most exciting ends to a Harvard-Yale game in the rivalry’s history. “It was a double-move, a slant-and-go basically,” Hempel said. “We’d been running slants all game, and [Yale’s cornerback]
just kind of bit on it, and [Fischer] beat him with his speed.” Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 and his offense then had 55 seconds and three timeouts to respond, something they looked poised to do when a pass to wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 brought the Bulldogs to the Harvard 26-yard line with 25 seconds on the clock. After secondhalf comebacks against Lehigh, Army and Brown this season, it seemed as if the Elis’ final game of the year could be just another instance of overcoming adversity. But those hopes soon came crashing down when Harvard defensive end Zach Hodges came through with a sack on Roberts, and then Roberts got caught trying to force a first down when defensive back Scott Peters picked off his pass at the 15-yard line. The play sealed the victory for his team and cued a rush of Harvard fans onto the field after one quarterback kneel. “There wasn’t a doubt in our mind that we could [win the game],” running back Tyler Varga ’15 said. “We were really just playing for each other out there, playing for our brothers, playing for the 142nd football team at Yale. The scoreboard is what it is, and I think we left everything out on the field.” Perhaps a central reason for the failure of that last drive was the Elis’ inability to utilize Varga, who tallied all three Yale touchdowns in his final collegiate game but got the ball just once in the last possession because the time crunch forced Yale to pass. Varga’s 30 carries in the game were good for 127 rushing yards,
a total that was modest for him but significant against a rushing defense that, before the game, had led the FCS and had not allowed that many yards to an opposing player since November 2012. With his three scores against the Crimson, two on the ground and one receiving, Varga broke the Yale record for allpurpose touchdowns in a season with 26. “We have a great offensive line, I think the best in the Ivy League, hands down,” Varga said. “So I think that’s a huge accomplishment for those guys up front who are blocking. I wouldn’t be going anywhere without those five guys up front.” Harvard’s defensive line held Varga to a season-low 4.2 yards per carry, and it also limited Roberts’s passing performance by sacking the junior twice and forcing him to run several other times. Roberts finished 26–48 with 305 passing yards, but only 133 of them came before the fourth quarter. On many plays, the Cantab defense pressured Roberts into squeezing a pass into tight coverage, a theme best exemplified by Sheehan’s pick-six during Harvard’s 21-point run. Roberts threw the ball outside to wide receiver Robert Clemons III ’17 at the 10-yard line, but Sheehan was right there to rip the ball out of Clemons’s hands and take it to the house. During Yale’s two touchdown drives in the fourth, however, fans saw Roberts playing at a different level. Varga’s second rushing touchdown of the day was set up by four consecutive com-
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The Bulldogs went for it on fourth down one time during The Game and were successful. pleted passes, the last of which was a 38-yard rainbow to wide receiver Michael Siragusa ’18 to the one-yard line. On Yale’s next possession, Wallace brought the Elis to the 10-yard line — losing a cleat in the process and being interfered with before making the catch — allowing Varga to score on a screen pass later in the drive. Just a few minutes later, it was
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again the senior Wallace who nearly set up the tying touchdown in the final seconds of the game. Despite losing their final game, Wallace, Varga, Randall and 17 other seniors will leave behind a program they have seen rapidly improve from a bottomtier Ancient Eight team to a serious contender. “The last time I sat [at Harvard] we were 2–8, and just
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WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 and I think that we definitely showed that on the ice. I know that our team is talented and hardworking enough to beat Quinnipiac or any other top-ranked team in the country, but right now we are our own biggest enemy.” In the first round, the Elis faced the Bobcats, suffering a 5–2 loss after failing to score until the third period. Yale then played against Connecticut on Saturday in the consolation game, which also resulted in a defeat, this time 3–1. Yale put the first goal on the board against Connecticut when forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 scored her second goal of the weekend. But the Huskies responded less than two minutes later to tie it up, and a goal in the second period proved to be the difference. UConn scored its final goal with just six seconds left against an empty net. Forward Gretchen Tarrant ’17 said that she noticed a significant rebound after they were knocked out by Quinnipiac, and she believes that they outplayed UConn the next day, but just did not get any good bounces. Yale did have more impressive statistics, taking more shots than the Huskies with 33 to Connecticut’s 21. Captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 agreed, saying that the team was unable to put the puck in the net against UConn. “We were definitely the better team out there Saturday afternoon, but we just couldn’t finish,” Kennedy said.
Yale played a clean game with no penalties against it, and Staenz scored the team’s only goal on a UConn power play. The Bulldogs entered the tournament coming off of a rough loss at the hands of the nation’s top team, No. 1 Boston College, on Tuesday. Yale was shut out by the Eagles 4–0. “Playing No. 1 Boston College was definitely a challenge,” Åström said. “We didn’t bring our best game that day and played sloppily from time to time. You have no room for mistakes against a talented team such as [Boston College] because they will take advantage of your mistakes and score.” Despite committing 10 penalties, Boston College still took an impressive 56 shots in the game, while the Elis only came away with 18. Yale goalie Jaimie Leonoff ’15 had 52 saves and a 0.929 save percentage. The Bulldogs have faced some tough competition over the last week. Both Boston College and Quinnipiac are ranked and undefeated. Åström pointed out that they also have different styles of play, though. The Eagles in particular are known for their creativity on the ice, while the Bobcats have simple but consistent play. Thanksgiving break was not entirely winless for the team, however. Yale crushed Sacred Heart 13–0 on Nov. 21, with nine different Bulldogs scoring goals and 74 shots taken. “Because of the skill gap, we have to
work hard to make sure we make that sort of game about us, and keep playing our speed and use the opportunity to get better,” Tarrant said. “Obviously it is always good to win a game, but ultimately, for what we are trying to achieve with the rest of the season, winning against teams like Sacred Heart is not something we are dwelling on.” Åström agreed that it is a good opportunity for many players to score goals and have fun, but also that a large discrepancy in skill can have a negative impact. She credits some of Yale’s inability to adjust to the high pace of Boston College to their previous win against Sacred Heart, where that level of play was not seen. The team will take on Union and Rensselaer this upcoming weekend, both of which are in the ECAC. According to Åström, playing with a higher sense of urgency is one of the most important aspects to practice this week. “We really need to stay focused and finish strong,” Tarrant said. “We will keep doing what we always do, which is to work hard and keep pushing each other to get better. This is a great group and it is exciting to be a part of a team with so much potential heading into the second half of our season.” These contests are the final two before the team begins play again in the first week of January with two Ivy matchups.
Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
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Yale faced two teams ranked in the top five over break: No. 1 Boston College and No. 4 Quinnipiac.
happy to be in the game,” Reno said. “Today we were playing for the league championship. This group … has done an unbelievable job of moving Yale football back to where it belongs, and that’s to be competing for a league championship year-in and year-out.”
locker room at halftime, Yale led by just two points, 27–25, but it was a lead that the Elis would not relinquish. The Bulldog defense held strong to start the second half as Hartford faltered, and Yale went on a 13–0 run for the first six-and-a-half minutes, making eight of its first nine shots. The Elis’ momentum could not be stopped, and the team pushed the lead to 20 points, 52–32, with 10:45 to play. “We had great energy,” Jones said. “The guys really shared the ball, they took care of it and we got good shots for everybody … It was the first time in the game where we got out in transition, and that really helped.” Forward Justin Sears ’15 concurred, noting that the team focused more coming out of the locker room, and its physical defense keyed the 10-point run, which led to the win. The game, however, was nowhere near done. With just over four minutes remaining in the game, the Hawks chipped away at the lead with their own 10–0 run, closing the deficit to single digits at 55–47. But eight points was the closest Hartford would get the rest of the way, as the Bulldogs took advantage of their opportunities at the free throw line to put the game away.
Sears led the way for the Elis with a double-double performance — 14 points and 11 rebounds — to go along with a team-high two steals and five blocks. Guards Jack Montague ’15 and Javier Duren ’15 and forward Matt Townsend ’15 all added double-digit figures on offense, scoring 13, 11 and 10 points, respectively. The Bulldogs also received solid performance from the bench, which added 15 points. Collectively, the Bulldogs shot 46.8 percent from the field, 35.7 percent from beyond the arc and 71.4 percent from the free throw line — numbers that are consistent with the team’s season averages. “I think that [Yale] is the best basketball team in the Ivy League right now,” Hartford head coach John Gallagher said. “They got a lot of answers for your questions … I think they played with great poise, great toughness.” Yale has a tough week-anda-half stretch ahead, with three straight road games featuring two ranked teams, No. 22 Connecticut on Friday and No. 16 Florida on Dec. 8. The Bulldogs head to Bryant on Wednesday to start the second half of their non-conference schedule. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .
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Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
Last Friday, the Elis fell 72–66 to Providence in a match broadcasted on Fox Sports 1 TV network.
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“Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn’t have won six NBA titles without a team.” MARK E. HYMAN AMERICAN JOURNALIST
Bulldogs go 2–1, take first shutout MEN’S HOCKEY
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BY MARC CUGNON AND ALEX WALKER STAFF AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS The men’s ice hockey team was busy over Thanksgiving Break, finishing a four-game road stretch with two points last weekend and starting a home sequence with a shutout victory against the Rochester Institute of Technology (4–8–2, 3–5–2 AHC) this past Saturday. The Thanksgiving break did not start off well for the Bulldogs, (5–2–2, 3–2–1 ECAC) who had trouble putting the puck in the net during last Friday’s matchup against Cornell (4–4–1, 3–3–0), despite outshooting the Big Red 34–21. The opening three goals of the contest were scored on power plays, the first of which came off of the stick of forward John Hayden ’17. Cornell fired back with one of their own two minutes later in the first period, and the Big Red managed to extend their lead with another goal midway through the second. Blueliner Ryan Obuchowski ’16 tied the game up after a bit of Cornell confusion behind the net, but it was not enough to prevent 3–2 win for the Big Red. Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 had 18 saves on the night and forward Mike Doherty ’17 had nearly a third of the Bulldogs’ shots on goal with 11 of his own. “Offensive production is one of our focuses right now and is something we need to improve on,” Hayden said. “Against Cornell we had multiple chances [to score].” The next night Yale took on the No. 9 Colgate (9–5–1, 3–2–1) in New York. The Bulldogs powered their way to a 3–1 victory on the back of Lyon, who had 28 saves against the Raiders. Yale got on the board first with buzzerbeater blast from defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 with just a second remaining in the first period. The next goal came late in the second, as forward John Baiocco ’18 put the puck past Colgate netminder Zac Hamilton for the first score of his collegiate career. The Raiders fought back with their first goal of the night midway through the third period, but the Bulldogs maintained clear control, putting away an
The Bulldogs earned their first shutout win of the season, defeating the Rochester Institute of Technology 2–0 on Saturday.
Bulldogs ready to rebound BY JULIA YAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER During Thanksgiving break, the Yale women’s basketball team traveled to the West Coast and competed against three non-conference teams: Washington, Alaska Anchorage and Boise State. The Bulldogs fell in all three matches.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (1–4, 0–0 Ivy) first faced the Washington Huskies at Seattle and lost 81–51. Despite a high-speed, aggressive offense, with captain Sarah Halejian ’15 scoring a team-high 19 points — moving her up to 14th on Yale’s all-time scoring list — the Bulldogs were not able to overpower the second-ranked Pac-12 team. In the first 17 minutes of play, the Bulldogs produced eight lead changes, thanks to consecutive baskets by Halejian and guard Nyasha Sarju ’16. Defensively, freshman forward Jen Berkowitz ’18 made an instant impact in her inaugural season, grabbing 10 rebounds and delivering a double-digit rebound performance for the second straight game. However, the Bulldogs were unable to stop the Huskies’ sophomore guard Kelsey Plum from scoring 28 points by herself. Along with Plum, three other players scored in double figures for Washington. Altogether, the Huskies shot an impressive 44.4 percent while the Bulldogs settled for 28 percent. Despite the loss, the Bulldogs had much to learn from playing against a
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Elis clinch NCAA bid
highly ranked Pac-12 team. “The team’s exposure to a Pac-12 team … will definitely benefit us for the Ivies,” Meredith Boardman ’16 said. The Bulldogs travelled to Anchorage, Alaska next to face Alaska Anchorage in the first round of the Great Alaska Shootout. Alaska Anchorage was known to be a strong opponent right away, having won all four games of its season by at least 36 points. In front of a crowd of 2,643, the Seawolves used a fast-paced offense to defeat the Bulldogs 72–63. Though the Seawolves started the game 11–0 with a relentless offense, Yale recovered in time and broke the streak with consecutive scores from Sarju and Boardman. Much back-andforth action followed, with Alaska leading by 17 with 5:23 remaining in the first half. In the final five minutes, the Elis slowed down Alaska’s offense and caught up on the scoreboard. By halftime, the Elis had closed up the gap with a 16–6 run and narrowed the deficit to seven. In the second half, the Seawolves continued their fast-paced attack and kept their lead until the end of the game. Offensively, the Bulldogs were led by guard Katie Werner ’17, who shot a perfect 100 percent from the field. Halejian followed right behind with 14 points of her own, a double-digit figure for the fourth straight game. Defensively, however, the Bulldogs fell in rebounds 44–38 and allowed the SeaSEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE B2
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The volleyball team held Stony Brook to just 12 points in two sets of its 3–0 sweep in their final matchup of the regular season. BY ERIN WANG AND ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS While The Game may have ended in disappointment for the Yale faithful, the Bulldogs can still boast of victory over Harvard in another arena. In their third matchup of this season, the volleyball team managed to best the Crimson (19–5, 12–2 Ivy) in a 3–0 sweep, securing its fourth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. ERIN WANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
In three difficult non-conference matchups, the Bulldogs dropped games to AlaskaAnchorage, Washington and Boise State.
VOLLEYBALL “That game was one of the most exciting games we’ve played all sea-
son,” captain and Ivy League Player of the Year Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “Even though the crowd was mostly Crimson, the atmosphere was really exciting and really loud.” All three sets were hard-fought, as Yale won by no more than four points in each of the games, with scores of 25–21, 25–22 and 25–21. Despite leading throughout the beginning of the first set, the Bulldogs found themselves tied at 18 before the five-time Ivy League champions found a way to reestablish control with kills from Rogers, setter Kelly Johnson ’16 and middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16. The second set followed a similar
pattern, beginning with an early Yale lead before Harvard battled back to a three-point lead late in the set. Once again, Johnson, Rogers and Midzik were instrumental in fending off the Crimson to clinch the second set. In the final set, Rogers had 10 kills to lift the Bulldogs to victory after being tied late in the game. The Bulldogs, who lost to Harvard in each of their first two meetings earlier this season, hit 0.234 to the Crimson’s 0.173. Rogers led the team with 19 kills and the Elis had three aces on the night. With this victory, Yale is the first team in Ivy SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B2