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Well endowed. The Bulldogs

may have fallen to Harvard in the 132nd rendition of The Game, but Yale dominates the endowment game. In its article “Harvard’s Sick of Losing to Yale and Has a Plan to Fix Endowment,” Bloomberg Business reports that Harvard’s returns over the past five years have been bested by Yale’s by 4 percent.

Land of opportunity.

According to the criteria developed by Measure of America’s “Opportunity Index,” Connecticut is the state with the third-most access to opportunity. The Constitution State is beat by Vermont and Massachusetts.

Measure of America’s assessment considered education, civic health and job access, among other factors.

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Harvard, Princeton abolish “master”

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temporary hotel housing.

The city and Northland also committed last week to finding or creating 301 new federally subsidized apartment units in New Haven. The 301 units will replace the 301 units that previously housed residents at Church Street South. After Northland and the city find the new units, former Church Street South tenants will be given first pick in leasing them. Officials have not yet released a timeline for the availability of new

Over the past two weeks, Harvard and Princeton have decided to stop using the word “master” in their residential college housing systems.

On Tuesday, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana sent an email to all Harvard students announcing that undergraduate residential “house masters,” with the support of Harvard President Drew Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, had unanimously expressed a desire to change their title. As such, Harvard College will soon launch a process that culminates with a suggested replacement title, to be announced at some point early next year. The Harvard announcement comes less than two weeks after Princeton University announced it would immediately change the title of “master of the residential college” to “head of college” amid discussions about racism and discrimination on college campuses nationwide, including a call by student activists to remove the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from campus buildings and the School of Public and International Affairs.

At Yale, the University has yet to decide whether to replace the title of master, months after religious studies professor Stephen Davis sparked campus dialogue on the subject when he asked students in his college to refer to him as the “head” of Pierson College rather than the “master.” In an email to his students,

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He got a big ego. James Franco

GRD ’16 launched “Rando Franco,” an iPhone app that compiles photos, videos and social media posts from the actor, yesterday. The free app already has 19 five-star reviews. Its description begins, “Things are about to get… weird.” Rated 12+ for frequent and intense profanity and crude humor.

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Church Street South units suffered from structural damage, moldy water and chronic leakages.

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER After hearing an announcement last week from Northland Investment Corporation and public officials, several Church Street South residents looked to the sky in gratitude.

City officials, representatives from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and Northland — the private developer that has owned the condemned complex since 2008 — told residents last Tuesday that they would all be receiving por-

table vouchers, federal money to offset the cost of rent at any new home the residents can find. Northland and public officials originally planned to screen and find homes for each displaced family. But the announcement means that Church Street South tenants will select their own housing.

Units at Church Street South have suffered from structural damage and unlivable conditions, including moldy water and chronic leakages, for at least a decade. After several residents filed litigation last summer, Northland moved 58 families into

The day has arrived. Rumor

has it Grand Strategy will announce which juniors have been accepted to the course today. There will inevitably be several broken hearts around campus tonight, but fear not. If you didn’t get this GS, applications for the Yalecoordinated internship at Goldman Sachs will open on Dec. 14.

It was lit. New Haven hosted its annual tree-lighting ceremony on the Green to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season. In addition to live performances and refreshments, the event featured a camel and several alpacas.

Rated RB. The first performances of hip-hop and contemporary dance group Rhythmic Blue’s fall semester show “Rhythmic Blue Presents: RBXXL” are scheduled for this evening at the Off-Broadway Theater at 41 Broadway. The group will also perform Saturday night.

Confronting the Model Minority Myth. The Asian

American Cultural Center hosts a teach-in at 7 p.m. this evening in LC 102. At the event, the first panel focuses on issues of discrimination and the second explores activism and resistance. Panelists include Timothy Dwight Master Mary Lui and WGSS professor Inderpal Grewal.

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Under new coach, five quit men’s soccer

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Although the Yale men’s soccer team finished its 2015 season last month with 29 players on the roster, five players have since quit the team, and others are considering doing the same.

The program, which ended its season with a 1–14–2 record, saw significant changes in its coaching staff this year following former head coach Brian Tompkins’ retirement at the end of the 2014

season. After a similar 1–13–3 record in Tompkins’ last season, new head coach Kylie Stannard, who previously worked as associate head coach at Michigan State, pushed to change the culture and mentality the team had developed under Tompkins.

His actions, however, received mixed feedback from players.

Some found themselves unable to adapt to Stannard’s new coaching style, which involved a higher level of intensity and negative criticism than players had

Yale pilots carbon charge program

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Yesterday, Yale became the first American university to introduce a program of carbon charges.

The program, which charges buildings on Yale’s campus that exceed a target amount of carbon dioxide emissions, was unveiled in April 2015 by Yale’s Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force. And on Nov. 19, at a White House summit on climate change, the University officially pledged to implement it. The six-month-long carbon charge experiment, beginning with December’s energy bill, is one limb of a larger network of climate change programs that bring Yale in step with President Barack Obama’s carbon emissions goals at the ongoing United Nations Conference on Climate Change taking place this week in Paris. Dozens of Yale faculty and students, including 60 students from Yale College and the School of For-

seen in previous years.

NEW PRIORITIES

The first piece of Stannard’s new approach, according to many players, involved elevating soccer to a higher priority for members of the team.

Stannard said he always told the team that, in order of importance, family comes first, academics second, and soccer third.

He believed additional activities, such as job searches or other clubs, should not be given as

much weight.

Although players agreed that a certain level of commitment was necessary to improve the program, reactions to Stannard’s approach were varied.

“There was definitely an increased focus on ensuring that soccer is the number one priority of the guys on the team over things like friendships and jobs,” said a senior soccer player who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic.

Forward Keith Bond ’16 bond highlighted the fact that none of the team’s coaching staff had any experience coaching in the Ivy League prior to this year. He said it took the coaches time to adjust to the type of student-athletes who play in the conference compared to other Division I leagues around the country.

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Malloy visits Planned Parenthood

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estry & Environmental Studies, are traveling to Paris over the course of this week to attend additional conferences on the topic of climate change.

“The pledge is to do better than we already are,” said Yale Office of Sustainability Director Virginia Chapman, who represented Yale at the White House last month. “As far as we know, Yale is the only institution planning to test an internal carbon charge.”

Over 200 colleges and universities signed the White House pledge to move toward low-carbon energy, but each school made further commitments that varied from institution to institution, Chapman said. In addition to beginning the carbon charge experiment, Yale pledged to expand its sustainability plans to more fully include the academic community by increasing teaching and research on climate change, instead of simply targeting

Days after a shooter at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado killed three people, Gov. Dannel Malloy visited the organization’s Connecticut headquarters Monday morning in a show of support.

Malloy — who met with Judy Tabar, the president and Chief Executive Officer of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England — said his visit to the clinic was intended to demonstrate solidarity with the organization, given the shooting and the recent verbal attacks Planned Parenthood has born from conservative politicians across the nation. Such partisan attacks, Malloy said, bear some responsibility for inciting acts of violence like the one in Colorado. He added that this year there has been a “frontal attack” on Planned Parenthood.

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t’s a common Thanksgiving activity to go around the table and say what you’re thankful for. Having just come back from Thanksgiving break, I figured I might as well act on that tradition, and, in a way, clear up a misconception that seems to have arisen regarding Yale and Yalies — namely, that we’re terribly ungrateful.

Back at home, everyone had heard of the racially tense atmosphere on campus. They had heard of the march, the protests, the tears and yelling.

Everyone had their own opinions on the matter, and everyone had questions to ask. But the one question that stuck with me was something along these lines: “If Yale gives you so much, why do you hate it?”

This sentiment seems to be fairly widespread. There was even a change.org petition titled, “Dear Yale, if your students cannot handle rigorous debate and ideas, enroll us instead!”

AFTER ALL, IT’S A COMMON A MISCONCEPTION THAT THOSE FIGHTING FOR CHANGE ARE THE SELFISH ONES, THAT THEY’RE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES I thought about that question, that idea, for a while, and the only thing that came to mind was Scott Stern’s farewell column in the News ["If you love Yale, critique it," Apr. 20, 2015]. In it, he wrote that if you love Yale, you should criticize it. And I think that advice rings truer today than it has before.

This notion that the outcries that have recently echoed throughout campus represent some rejection of Yale as a whole, or some wish to get away from Yale, is, as far as I can tell, false. It’s not that we can’t “handle” Yale, or that we don’t wish to be here. Those students who could be seen crying and screaming, those whose behavior so many have been quick to call “disrespectful” or “overly-emotional” aren’t coming from a place of hate or ingratitude.

We know precisely what we have and where we are. And we’re thankful for it. We’re thankful that cultural centers even exist, we’re thankful that our peers are on the whole

s u p p o r t ive and we’re thankful that we’re b l e sse d with a tremendous amount of privilege.

LEO KIM W e ’ r e s e l f- awa re On us enough to know how fortunate we are to be at Yale, and I don’t think anyone is so blind as to claim that they’re worse-off as a Yalie than so many less-advantaged people in the world. Such a claim would be flat-out ignorant.

But it’s precisely because we love Yale that we feel the need to speak up. It’s because Yale is our home, and one that we love so much, that we feel the need to make it a better place.

Gratefulness doesn’t entail an inability to pursue improvement. Of course I can be grateful for all that Yale has given me. But that is completely compatible with trying to make Yale an even better place, to make sure that it gives even more to those who come after me.

In fact, I think that one’s love for a place should motivate one to improve it. Of course I could sit by and let Yale continue doing what it’s done in the past, and be passively grateful for that. But someone who cares about an institution does not sit by and refuse to push it toward necessary change.

Fidelity to the status quo isn’t a sign of gratitude or affection; it’s a sign of laziness and an unwillingness to improve. It’s a sign that we don’t care about Yale, but rather, we only care about what Yale can give us at the moment.

After all, it’s a common a misconception that those fighting for change are the selfish ones, that they’re doing it for themselves. In fact, it’s precisely those who are fighting that don’t care about their own day-to-day lives. They know that their day-to-day lives won’t change immediately. They know that it probably won’t be changed by next year, or by the time that they graduate.

The ones fighting care about what Yale can be for future generations, and what Yale can do to better itself.

Those who challenge the status quo are grateful. And it’s precisely because they’re grateful that they feel the need to change the institution that’s given them so much. They hope that one day, Yalies will have even more to be thankful about.

erhaps no time of the year is quite so distinctive as Christmastime.

From shopping malls to neighborhoods, decorations pop up everywhere as communities embrace this special holiday. An entire genre of music becomes relevant once again, and children’s faces take on a rosy glow.

My favorite Christmas movie is “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a Frank Capra film from 1946. It follows the journey of George Bailey, a well-meaning community leader who finds himself down on his luck. As he is about to attempt suicide, an angel appears and shows him what the world would be like had he never been born.

I don’t want to spoil too much for those who haven’t seen it, but the movie’s message of community and helping others epitomizes the best of Christmas.

When I think of Christmas, I think of the scene at the end where everyone gathers in support of Mr. Bailey. The entire town joins together in song and pitches in some money to save him from a debtor’s prison. It is a very heartwarming moment.

However, this year’s Christmas reminds me of a very different scene in the movie: the one where the bartender yells at the clearly inebriated protagonist, “Mr. Bailey, why do you drink so much?” For Yale students,

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Christmas at all.

The canary in the coal mine that finals would threaten Christmas came last year when the provisional academic calendar had exams running until Dec. 23 — keeping some students on campus until Christmas Eve. That schedule met vehement student opposition, culminating in a YCC proposal to start and end classes one week earlier. The proposal received more support than any in YCC history, with ninety-two percent of students in favor of starting school earlier. If student opinion at the time was a Christmas tree, preserving the status quo would have been the equivalent of dousing it in gasoline and lighting it on fire. Moving classes up one week would have started classes only one calendar day earlier than they started the pre-

for a full reading period and also a joyous Christmas.

At present, the start of the academic term is based on Labor Day. Classes begin the Wednesday before, and all other key dates are arranged accordingly.

Although for most years this framework makes sense, when Labor Day pushes the end of exams to Dec. 22, the calendar should be adjusted. After all, it does not make any sense to prioritize a Monday off from work over Christmas. For those years in which a conflict arises, classes should start one week earlier.

Under this model, the earliest that classes would ever begin would be Aug. 18, only two days earlier than two years ago.

Not even a militant atheist wants to pay twice as much to get home and fight the holiday travel. The current framework for setting the calendar does not take into account the cultural and economic priorities of students.

Hopefully, the calendar can be remedied in the long term. For future Christmases, instead of studying for exams, we can enjoy the company of family in our homes. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful life?

MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

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vious year. Alternatively, the former proposal would have dragged exams on six days longer. Fortunately, some measure of relief was provided when the administration agreed to shorten reading period by a day to send the last students home on Dec. 23. But the situation is still very regrettable.

I know of many students, including myself, who picked their schedule based on the date of a class’s final. However, some students did not have that luxury; for example, foreign languages, which all students are required to take at some point, are holding their exams on the 22nd. Further, I know of some courses, such as "Conservation Biology," that moved their final exam to the last day of classes and out of the finals period so that students would not be stuck on campus for so long. By interfering with Christmas, a holiday cherished by thousands of Yale students and billions of people worldwide, the current schedule undermines Yale’s academic mission. People aren’t picking courses based on their passions; they are picking them based on Christmas.

YCC’s fight last year was noble. But it is time now to ensure that future students do not face the same bad choices, and put in place a framework that ensures

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of course, the answer is the ridiculous academic calendar! It forces many students to remain on campus until Dec. 23 and, especially for international students, threatens their ability to celebrate

nevitably, Thanksgiving with the family is a holiday of questions. What’s your major?

What are you ever going to do with that? Where’s your boyfriend? Is he Jewish? (He’s not?

Is it serious?) Will you raise your kids Jewish? (Make sure you raise your kids Jewish. Don’t not raise your kids Jewish.)

Once the questions for which I do not yet have answers for abate, we get to more basic ones: How many people are in your suite?

When are you cutting your hair?

And, finally, when are you going back up to school?

“I’m going home Saturday night.”

My dad grimaced a little with hurt. I’m going home. My flippant little answer gave voice to his permanently-empty-nest truth: home, for me, has unexpectedly become Yale. When I return to New York, I bring an overnight bag, and worry about my probably parched plant back in New Haven. My “home” is no longer my childhood home: it’s now a different place, my first home as an adult. To my parents, calling Yale “home” carried the weight of my adulthood: I am probably not going to live with you, parents, ever again.

This sense of my house as an Airbnb is due, in part, to Yale’s residential college system. Residential colleges quickly become our new homes: where we do our

laundry, go bra-less in the dining hall and sometimes go to bed without brushing our teeth.

Although some may feel differently once they arrive, the admissions brochure allure of Yale comes from its homey atmosphere — residential college family, residential college parents, residential college laundry machines. Yet this HomeAway-From-Home model also ruptures emotional ligaments of childhood, prodding us — Yale’s undergraduate hermit crabs — into different, bigger shells: the shells of adulthood. In part, this is intentional. College is supposed to flex the muscles of independence, to plant the seeds of the forty-year-olds we will one day be.

So what are those seeds?

Yale is in the business of producing global leaders. With more than ten percent of the student body coming from abroad, and many more of us intending to disperse across the country and the globe, we are preparing for lives far from our childhood bedrooms. To continue the agricultural metaphor: Yale grows tumbleweeds.

This eventual cosmopolitanism is, as the late Harvard political philosopher Samuel Huntington wrote in his essay, “Dead Souls,” common for elites — particularly at an elite institution such as Yale.

In a nutshell, Huntington wrote

that American elites have more internationalist concerns than their counterparts in the general public. For example and by generalization, elites generally believe social security lies in “supporting international trade and migration" and "encouraging minority identities and cultures at home.”

By contrast, the general public believes social security lies with fueling “existing patterns of language, culture, association, religion and national identity." Elites hold allegiance to multi-national corporations, view international law as paramount to national law and prioritize transnational ideologies. This is very different than those who move back home after graduation — or never leave home at all.

In other words, Yale produces a fleet of well-educated turtles: alumni who carry their homes and histories on their backs wherever they go. We’re not only physically moving away from our homes, but also divorcing ourselves from the ideologies tethering us to our roots and folks in our community.

Huntington does not praise this Dead Souls identity, and neither should we. Our distance from the American public — distance manifesting socially, economically, politically, morally, religiously — undermines our democracy and, by extension, civil society in general. If we, the

decision-makers, have different values from our home communities — the majority — then the eye atop of our proverbial pyramid wobbles dangerously. This detached Yale adulthood exposes a fatal flaw in our elite education: disconnect.

Herein lies the crisis of the Ivory Tower — once we’ve climbed up, it’s nearly impossible to scamper back down. As a 2012 Washington University in St. Louis survey found, most Americans live within a twentyfive-mile radius of their mothers.

By contrast, adults with a college degree more often resettle elsewhere after graduation — with a Yale degree, that radius expands further. Leaving home — it’s naturally part of becoming an adult.

Replacing home, losing home — that’s not, but it is for us. At Thanksgiving tables, we as Yale students should not feel (as too many of us have felt) distant and foreign from the faces and opinions surrounding us. Yale’s permanent repotting of its undergraduates creates turtles, hermit crabs, tumbleweeds. Pick your poison, but the metaphor holds: Yalies move out, up, up, and away — for good, although maybe not for better.

AMELIA JANE NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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Ed Sec praises Salovey’s policies

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER University President Peter Salovey has a high profile supporter of his recent policy responses to concerns about racism and discrimination at Yale: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

In a Nov. 23 article by Mic, an online news source tailored for young people, Duncan said he personally called Salovey to thank him for taking “very significant action” through the policy steps Salovey announced on Nov. 17. Salovey said his conversation with Duncan focused on Yale’s specific response to racial concerns as well as the potential for a larger nationwide dialogue.

“I would characterize the telephone call as covering two things: the Secretary expressed his support for the approach that Yale is taking as described by the policy announcement on the Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving, and he spoke about the ways a conversation about the challenges faced by many colleges and universities might be organized,” Salovey said.

In the Mic article, Duncan contrasted the response of the Yale administration to that of the University of Missouri, calling the latter a “flipped situation” in which senior administrators seemed to not be engaged with or understanding of student concerns, though he added that he is not aware of all the details.

Duncan also told Mic that his department is unsure of what its role should be in responding to these controversies, but is still exploring a series of potential policy responses to address racism at colleges and universities.

But all six education experts interviewed by the

News said that individual colleges and universities, rather than the Department of Education, should enact policy responses that directly address issues of racism on their campuses.

Richard Elmore, an education professor at Harvard, said that while politicians and public officials may push for publicity for national policy changes, he believes doing so would be a mistake.

“I think nationalizing an issue like this during a period in which political discourse has become toxic and largely uninformed by any real grasp of the history or economics of race in America would be a major error,” Elmore said. “It is unbelievable to me that anyone living and working on a college or university campus over the past two decades couldn’t have seen this situation coming; it has been a visible part of the culture for a long time.”

Elmore added that each institution has its own unique issues and should therefore search for specialized solutions.

Howard Gardner, a Harvard professor of cognition and education, said because the country is divided on educational and racial issues, he is pessimistic about the likelihood of a national response and would prefer that individual campuses establish policies of their own. Through this “bottom-up” experimentation, policies that prove most effective would spread naturally, he said.

Elizabeth Carroll, the director of Yale’s Education Studies Program, said it would be difficult for the Department of Education to establish policies that combat discrimination on college campuses directly. However, she said

there is room for an indirect response.

“My instinct is that [the Department of Education] should continue to do better promoting access to college through student financial aid policy — something I know they have been focusing on over the past few years in light of the student-loan crisis — to better support more underrepresented students,” Carroll said. “This would put more students who want to attend college in the position to do so, thus helping campuses better mirror our country’s demographics.”

Harvard education professor Danielle Allen said national policy could be used to foster more diverse faculty bodies, adding that the government could achieve this by ending the war on drugs and investing in early-childhood education.

Allen said that other than that, the Department of Education should advise colleges and universities rather than enact policies at the national level.

“Beyond enforcing the existing law, it would be a mistake to deploy a regulatory framework, as the administration has done in the context of sexual misconduct,” she said. “The Department of Education should help colleges and universities understand how to do the necessary work.

Much of this work is, however, about an evolution in the institutional culture on each specific campus and this must be achieved organically, within the context of the processes and practices of each institution.”

Duncan will step down from his Cabinet position by the end of the year.

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

YPU debates ethnic studies requirement

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Amid ongoing student conversations about race on campus, the Yale Political Union held a debate Tuesday night to discuss whether Yale should make courses in ethnic studies mandatory for all undergraduates.

On Nov. 12, a coalition of students called Next Yale marched on University President Peter Salovey’s house to submit a list of measures the administration should take to improve the racial climate on campus, including an ethnic studies distributional requirement for all Yale undergraduates. In a Nov. 17 email, Salovey announced several steps the University would take to address student concerns, including a new center for ethnic studies. But his email did not address Next Yale’s demand for mandatory ethnic studies courses.

At the event, which attracted roughly 150 people, students from across the political spectrum presented a variety of arguments in support of and against the resolution. After roughly two hours of debate, attendees voted 37 to 32 in favor of requiring ethnic studies.

Aia Sarycheva ’16, former president of the Independent Party, delivered the first speech in the affirmative, arguing that the academic study of racial issues is essential for promoting racial understanding.

“Inserting diverse viewpoints by itself is not enough,” Sarycheva said.

In order to implement the requirement, she said, Yale could either add an additional requirement or convert one of the existing humanities or social societies requirements to an ethnic studies requirement.

However, students on the political right disagreed with Sarycheva.

Some argued that, were Yale to make ethnic studies mandatory, it should implement requirements for religious studies or Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies as well.

Students also disagreed on the question of whether such a require-

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Attendees of the YPU debate voted in favor of an ethnic studies requirement for Yale College students. ment would be effective at promoting real racial understanding on campus. For example, some posited that students would be inclined to take easy courses and would not engage sufficiently with the material out of disinterest. Still others thought that while ethnic studies courses are valuable, they should not be required.

“No one denies that ethnic studies are important,” said Thomas Gould ’19, who attended the debate. “The importance of ethnic studies doesn’t necessarily mean that it should be mandated as part of the curriculum.”

Anthony Deaconn ’19, another attendee, also said that while a Yale education serves to promote students’ understanding of other cultures, the University should not make that understanding mandatory.

Students on the political left, by contrast, argued for the virtues of an ethnic studies requirement.

Layla Treuhaft-Ali ’17, chair of the Party of the Left, said in a speech that because Yale has a duty to prepare its students to solve problems in the world, it should require ethnic studies so that graduates can more adequately address issues of race in society.

Students also said that making ethnic studies mandatory would

send the message that the administration considers issues of race especially salient. Floor Leader of the Left Clifford Carr ’17, who also delivered a speech Tuesday, said an ethnic studies requirement would demonstrate administrative support for the discipline’s merits.

“A distribution requirement is particularly important because it sends a powerful message that in order to have had a Yale education, this is something you have to have studied,” Carr said. “It’s acknowledging that [ethnic studies] is something that is a valid and important method of analyzing the world.”

After the event, YPU President Simon Brewer ’16 told the News that the debate was intended to be the start, rather than the end, of a conversation. He said he hoped students would continue to talk about the issue in various other contexts on campus.

“People raised good points about how, in some respects, questions of race and ethnicity are inescapable even if sometimes they are submerged,” he said. “You need a language to talk about them so that they are no longer submerged.”

The YPU was founded in 1934.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

Wellness Project names recipients

BY MONICA WANG AND PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In November, Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews announced that the Wellness Project — an initiative to promote mental health and wellness on campus — had selected 12 out of 50 applications for the project’s student wellness grants, which can provide up to $1,000 in funding for student projects.

Established at the beginning of this semester, the Wellness Project is tasked with advancing students’ well-being through “innovative programs, opportunities for self-discovery and growth and the cultivation of a compassionate campus culture.” Individual undergraduate, graduate and professional students, as well as student groups, were eligible to apply for the grants by Oct. 16. The chosen applications represent a variety of initiatives across many of Yale’s schools. According to Goff-Crews, the grants represent only one aspect of the project. Members of the Wellness Project Committee — composed of 22 students, faculty and staff — are also working with the Office of LGBTQ Resources, Yale Health, Yale Dining Services and other branches of the University to enhance student wellness at Yale in various ways. Still, Goff-Crews, committee members and student grant recipients interviewed all expressed their excitement about the projects supported by the wellness grants, which range from a graduate mental health focus-group study to bonsai tree workshops, a DeStress Fest on Science Hill and a gong meditation concert.

“These grants represent inspiring ideas for wellness submitted by students and student organizations from across the University,” Goff-Crews said. “I am excited about their potential to benefit Yale College, graduate and professional school students and to help

shape a culture of wellness at the University.”

According to Director of Communications and University Events Heather Calabrese, students who applied for the grants were notified of the committee’s decisions by email on Nov. 13 and will receive formal letters with more details about their awards by the end of the semester. Applications for funding were reviewed by a subcommittee of the Wellness Project Committee based on project feasibility, community impact, target audience, student affiliation by school and the project’s relationship to wellness.

The subcommittee then recommended the selected projects to the entire committee for final assessment.

Bryan Yoon FES ’18, facilities and healthcare committee chair for the Graduate Student Assembly, said he has received funding for two proposals he submitted on behalf of the GSA. One is called DeStress Fest on the Hill, an event for science graduate students that will feature therapy dogs, snacks and stress-relieving activities on Science Hill. The other project will be a focus-group study which aims to identify causes of stress within the graduate student population. Yoon said the GSA received $450 for the DeStress Fest and $1,000 for the focus-group study — less than the original proposals requested — and added that the GSA is looking for other ways to secure additional funding and support. Yoon said the Wellness Project also gave the GSA advice and feedback during the drafting of his proposals.

Audrey Luo ’17, co-president of Mind Matters, an undergraduate group that aims to raise awareness about mental health issues at Yale, said her organization received funding to host Kay Redfield Jamison, a prominent Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist who has suffered from bipolar disorder since her early adulthood. She added that the funding will allow the speaker event to be larger in

GRANTS WELLNESS PROJECT ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS (School of Music) A series of 10 workshops to help with the physical demands of practicing all day that focus on posture, body movement and ergonomic music playing.

MIND MATTERS: KAY REDFIELD JAMISON TALK (Yale College) Talk with a respected psychiatrist and researcher at Johns Hopkins who has written about her experience of bipolar disorder and her resultant suicidal thoughts.

BONSAI TREE WORKSHOPS Small workshops in which students will receive a small bonsai tree and will be taught about the art and cultivation of the “tree of life.”

WALDEN PEER COUNSELING PUBLICITY (Yale College) Funding will support of publicity efforts for Walden Peer Counseling, whose counselors are not allowed to publicly talk about what they do due to the anonymous nature of their work.

MINDFULNESS ON THE MEDICAL CAMPUS (School of Medicine) Funding will bring a large-scale speaking event to the medical school and create a meditation and reflection room in the medical library.

GSA DESTRESS FEST (GSAS) Funding for a mental health focus-group project to investigate the causes of stress in graduate students and DeStress Fest — an event which will bring therapy dogs, food and relaxing activities to Science Hill.

PEER CONVERSATION SERIES AT YALE LAW (Law School) A 3-part peer-facilitated conversation series in which law students will discuss their purpose as law students and their career goals.

GONG MEDITATION CONCERT (GSAS) Funding will bring the Conduit Ensemble, a Hartford-based gong meditation group, to campus for a student concert.

MONTHLY POWER HOUR (Yale College) A monthly “power hour” event designed to improve spiritual and emotional wellness on campus.

SOM ZEN MEDITATION (SOM) Funding for meditation practice sessions.

FEMINIST ADVENTURE CLUB (School of Art) A student interest group that will hold monthly outings to local New Haven outdoor activities sites.

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scale and reach an audience beyond Yale College. “[Jamison’s] illness started when she was in college,” Luo said. “That is very relevant to Yale — at least to undergraduates — in the sense of dealing with [mental illness as a student] and also with stigma because that’s everywhere.”

Janine Stockford GRD ’19, who submitted a proposal to host a gong meditation concert on campus, said she received $1,000 in funding, the full amount she sought. Stockford added that musicians from the Conduit Center for Sound Meditation & Wellness, which provides sound meditation ser-

vices, will come to Yale in the spring to help students engage in a “unique musical relaxation experience.”

Aneesha Ahluwalia ’16, a member of the Wellness Project Committee, said she was glad that the selected projects will target different audiences and have different goals, adding that she hopes the initiatives will reach a lot of people within Yale community.

“The Wellness Project aims to cultivate and promote both mental, physical, social and emotional well-being on campus, and it is nice to see that there are initiatives that will address each of these compo-

nents,” she said. “There are also some specific initiatives that aim to bring in speakers or host workshops to foster dialogues about well-being on campus, which is another goal of the Wellness Project.”

According to Calabrese, all grant recipients will be required to complete a brief report on their project’s impact before the end of the spring semester.

She added that the report will be used by the Wellness Project Committee to determine the appropriateness of future funding initiatives.

Ahluwalia said the grants encourage students to take initiative and get involved in shap-

ing the wellness culture on their campus.

“I think it is incredibly important for students to be involved in the Wellness Project, and to identify where they feel there are gaps in what is currently being offered by the University,” she said. “There are a lot of wonderful and promising initiatives that were proposed and these grants may be the only possible source of funding for them, so I hope that the grants continue to be offered.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu.

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FROM THE FRONT Peer institutions drop “master” MASTER FROM PAGE 1 Davis cited the title’s racial and gendered implications as reasons for his discomfort.

University President Peter Salovey said the decisions reached by Princeton and Harvard will aid Yale in reaching a decision of its own.

“I am confident that Yale will come to a decision about the title ‘master’ in a reasonable amount of time,” Salovey said. “The recent decisions at Princeton and Harvard represent information that is useful for our discussions.”

There have previously been discussions about the word “master” at Harvard: The position was originally called “master,” but the word “house” was added years ago to deflect unfortunate associations. However, Harvard house masters told the News in August that the word has not been a topic of much contention at the university because students rarely address them by their official title. Instead, students call them by their first names, or by nicknames.

In his email to the student body, Khurana — who also is head of Cabot House — said the decision to move away from the title of master brings the university into line with the values and demands of the 21st century.

“The desire to change this title has taken place over time and has been a thoughtful one, rooted in a broad effort to ensure that the College’s rhetoric, expectations and practices around our historically unique roles reflects and serves the 21st-century needs of residential student life,” the email read.

Alexander Kaufman, a sophomore at Harvard, said he supports changing the “house master” title. Though he said he has not yet had the chance to discuss the decision with many of his peers, he said

“Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.” RICHARD CARMONA AMERICAN PHYSICIAN

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Harvard and Princeton will no longer use the term “master,” but Yale has not yet decided. he expects the administration to be widely applauded in striving to make the Harvard community more welcoming.

Changes in the college’s rhetoric may seem minor, but the effects of slight adaptations can be widely felt, he added.

The Princeton administration decided to abolish the title “master” two weeks ago as students began to call for racial justice at the university.

A P r i n ce to n so p h o more, who wished to remain anonymous, told the News that when the university announced the title change, students had not explicitly asked for the abolishment of the title “master.” She said the Princeton administration had taken the step as a pre-emptive measure after hearing that there would be a sit-in at the president’s office later that day.

Salovey said he, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and the Council of Mas-

ters have been discussing since August whether the title of master should change, and expect to reach a conclusion later this academic year.

Meanwhile, many of the other residential colleges’ masters have issued statements to their own students telling them to use whatever form of address they prefer, although none have pushed back on the term ‘master’ as explicitly as Davis did.

University Vice President and General Counsel Alexander Dreier said only the Yale Corporation can officially change the title of master.

“For the title “master” to be officially changed, the Yale Corporation would have to amend the Corporation Bylaws,” he said.

Still, Salovey said he suspects the Corporation will look for input from him, Holloway and the masters before taking any action to change the University bylaws. In

addition, Holloway told the News last month that masters can call themselves whatever they want within their college communities.

Julia Zhuang ’17 said she expects Harvard’s and Princeton’s decisions to matter to University administrators because Yale is constantly comparing itself to its peer institutions, especially Harvard and Princeton.

The Council of Masters will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on Friday, Holloway said, adding that he expects that Harvard’s and Princeton’s decisions will strongly impact the discussion.

“I am sure that our peer institutions and their decisions will become a central part of the conversation,” he said.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

been disgraceful, and, I think, not unintentionally inciteful, not because it’s deep, but because they’re trying to incite people,” Malloy said. “What transpired in Colorado is disturbing to any right-thinking individual.”

The Whitney Ave. building — Planned Parenthood’s Southern New England headquarters — employs roughly 60 people, Tabar said, adding that the facility provides vital resources for women’s health that often cannot be found elsewhere.

Tabar said Planned Parenthood, which serves 60,000 patients annually in Connecticut, has no plans to suspend activity at the New Haven clinic in light of the Colorado shootings. She said the organization has not altered its operating schedule at any point after the shooting, which many around the country have described as an act of terrorism.

Tabar added that the New Haven location had “strong security measures” even before the shooting and that the facility’s staff is routinely trained to deal with dangerous situations.

“This was a terrible tragedy — our hearts go out to the families of the loved ones who were lost,” she said. “It’s a difficult time, and yet we’re back at work. We were back at work Saturday morning seeing patients. We’re healthcare providers, and our patients count on us.”

Tabar said the New Haven facility sees roughly 8,000 patients each year across a total of 12,000 visits, making it one of the busier branches in the state.

She said the services Planned Parenthood provides extend far beyond the abortion operations for which it has garnered criticism — many patients, she said, come to the facility for potentially life-saving screenings for

breast and cervical cancer.

Malloy had harsh words for politicians across the nation calling to defund Planned Parenthood or otherwise reduce access to its services.

“What we have is individuals who would use their own belief system … and then use distorted information to try to deny women in our country access to good healthcare,” he said. “It’s wrong, it’s got to stop, and folks who are using this kind of rhetoric should be punished at the ballot box.”

Malloy, who has supported Planned Parenthood throughout his political career, said the vast majority of services the organization provides focus on health issues unrelated to abortion and cater to people of all genders.

Political leaders in Connecticut and the New Haven area have traditionally been supportive of Planned Parenthood and its services. U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who represents New Haven County, has made women’s health issues a centerpiece of her quarter century in office.

DeLauro sent an October letter to former House Speaker John Boehner calling on him to stop House investigations into alleged illegality at Planned Parenthood after videos surfaced that appeared to show Planned Parenthood representatives discussing the selling of fetal parts. In the letter, DeLauro said Planned Parenthood was “the victim of an entrapment scheme,” devised by political opponents aiming to reduce access to crucial health services.

Planned Parenthood has 17 locations in Connecticut.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Yale pledges to improve sustainability efforts CARBON CHARGE FROM PAGE 1 Yale’s facilities and its carbon emissions. Current academic programs that focus on climate change include the Energy Studies Program through the Yale Climate & Energy Institute, which is in its third year, and the environmental studies major.

The carbon charge program, which is at the heart of Yale’s environmental goals, comes after a recommendation by the Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force earlier this spring that Yale implement such a program within the next three years.

Yale’s pledge now moves the carbon charge program from a recommendation toward a reality, although the program remains merely in the preliminary planning stages.

The program establishes a competition between all campus buildings to reduce emissions. All 365 of Yale’s buildings will eventually be divided into units, like residential colleges or academic buildings, and each unit will be charged for any excess carbon emissions. Only 20 Yale buildings, divided into four or five units, will participate in the pilot program. The April report said that while individual units will be charged, the entire program will not incur any significant net charges for Yale, since rebates given to more efficient building units will balance the charges for less efficient buildings. Because the program is experimental, the exact division of the building units and the system of charging has yet to be worked out, although students across the University have already begun to brainstorm.

For example, James Ball FES ’16, a professional school coordinator at the Office of Sustainability who studies sustainable housing, said that Kroon Hall — the F&ES building that could be considered one unit under the carbon charge program — would compare its own emissions over the next year to its average emissions over the past three. If Kroon Hall exceeds its usual carbon emission average, Ball said,

F&ES would be charged $40 for each ton of carbon. However, if Kroon Hall performs better than its usual average, the F&ES unit would get a rebate.

“It’s innovative and it’s a zerosum game,” Ball said of the program. “There are winners and losers.”

According to Chapman, Yale will be evaluating the effectiveness of different pricing schemes in the piloting of the carbon charge program. More information detailing the specifics of the pilot program will be released by the end of the semester, she added.

But while Yale takes steps on its own campus, students and faculty are addressing climate change on a global level as well, attending the Paris talks which aim to draft a universal agreement to take serious steps toward slowing global warming. Since he took office, Obama has sought the aid of colleges and universities to make commitments similar to Yale’s recent pledge. In Paris, Obama aims to strike a deal that commits the United States to reducing roughly 27 percent of its carbon emissions in the next 15 years.

Chapman said the White House summit was designed to generate momentum in the days leading up to the UN conference.

As Yale positions itself as a leader in the effort against climate change, both on campus and worldwide, students emphasized the importance of collaboration between students and administrators.

“There needs to be high-level commitment and then there needs to be bottom-level participatory work,” Ball said. “This is just one side of a broader sustainability effort.”

Martha Longley ’18, a research assistant at the Office of Sustainability, said she thinks Yale is already perceived as a leader, adding that she hopes other schools will follow the example Yale set with its recent pledge.

Longley is traveling to Paris to deliver a presentation at an event held by the International Alliance of Research Universities simulta-

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Starting this month, Yale is piloting a carbon charge program across 20 buildings. neously with the UN conference.

Like Ball, Longley emphasized the need for student involvement in making Yale more sustainable. The Office of Sustainability funds many student projects and employs the Sustainability Service Corps, a group of students who advocate for more environmentally sound practices on campus.

In recent years, student groups like Fossil Free Yale have criticized Yale for continuing to invest in fossil fuels. While some

FFY members said they see Yale’s pledge a sign of progress, they pointed out that the pledge does not address the role of divestment in fighting global warming.

FFY organizer Elias Estabrook ’16 called elements of the pledge “commendable” but said it has a “significant hole.”

“There’s no real mention of Yale’s role as an institutional investor,” Estabrook said.

Yale Law School professor Jonathan Macey LAW ’82, who chairs the University’s Advisory

Committee on Investor Responsibility, said he supports the pledge, noting that it aligns with a letter Chief Investment Officer David Swensen sent to Yale’s fund managers last fall urging them to focus on climate change in making investment decisions.

On Tuesday night, F&ES professor Ben Cashore made a Skype call to Kroon Hall from Paris, sharing his thoughts on the climate conference with an audience of several dozen students and faculty. He said that while

there was a lot of enthusiasm at the conference, he questioned whether anything would actually be achieved.

“Perhaps we have a little bit too much excitement,” Cashore said.

According to the Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force report, Yale directly or indirectly emits around 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.”

MARGARET SPELLINGS PRESIDENT-ELECT OF UNC

New Haven Promise award to grow

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER New Haven students bound for the University of Connecticut discovered their scholarship fund had grown Tuesday — the same day tuition hikes for the next four years were proposed.

Gathered in the black-box theater of the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School yesterday morning, students and community members, including former New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., heard UConn President Susan Herbst announce that as of next fall, all New Haven Promise Scholars who attend UConn will receive an additional $5,000 each year in scholarship money from the university.

This partnership between UConn and New Haven Promise is firm. It’s something with the potential to make positive changes.

SUSAN HERBST President, University of Connecticut New Haven Promise, a scholarship program that covers up to the full cost of college for highperforming students at city public schools, is funded by Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital as well as the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and Wells Fargo bank. Herbst said UConn expanded its scholarship, which has sent 132 students to UConn in the last three years, in order to better serve its recipients.

“This partnership between UConn and New Haven Promise is firm,” Herbst said. “It’s something with the potential to make positive changes throughout the state of Connecticut, which struggles with one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation.”

New Haven Promise Executive Director Patricia Melton ’83 told the crowd Tuesday that UConn’s announcement was delivered in a fitting location: Five years ago New Haven Promise was announced in the same blackbox theater.

Melton reminded students that the application for this year’s

scholarships opened Tuesday, jokingly adding that she hoped applicants would crash the organization’s servers with their submissions.

Other speakers, like Mayor Toni Harp and University President Peter Salovey, stressed the importance of the partnership between New Haven Promise and UConn, noting that the initiative promotes the success of New Haven students, many of whom come from ethnic-minority backgrounds.

At a separate press conference later that day, UConn Chief Financial Officer Scott Jordan unveiled a series of proposed tuition hikes over the next four years.

These hikes, which would go into effect next fall if approved by the university’s board of trustees, would increase in-state tuition by approximately 7 percent each year. The Hartford Courant reported Tuesday that in-state tuition would rise from the current figure of $10,524 to $13,799 by fall 2019.

Promise Scholars at UConn receive, on average, $14,894 in scholarships and grants each academic year, the organization reports.

The current total cost of attendance for a Promise Scholar at UConn amounts to $26,438 per year.

New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 asked how many of the students present in the theater Tuesday were applying to UConn. To cheers and applause, almost every student raised their hand.

Harries cited the city’s growing high school graduation rates, college matriculation rates and high school retention rates as evidence of NHPS’s promotion of college enrollment through programs like New Haven Promise.

Herbst also announced the President to President Scholarship Program Monday, which awards $8,000 over two years to high-performing students who transfer from an in-state community college to UConn.

New Haven Promise awarded scholarships to 253 students in the class of 2015 from a pool of 535 applicants. Forty of these students currently attend UConn, and three attend Yale.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Accidental drug-related deaths rise

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER

GRAPH CONNECTICUT ACCIDENTAL DRUG INTOXICATION DEATHS

By the end of this month, the Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner’s Office expects that the number of accidental drug-induced intoxication deaths to rise by 22 percent from last year’s rate.

The number of deaths due to accidental drug overdose is expected to rise from 558 deaths last year to 679 by the end of this year, and the number of accidental heroinrelated deaths is expected to increase from 325 last year to a projected 387. Between January and September this year, there were 290 heroin-related deaths in Connecticut, and deaths related to other pharmaceutical opioids are also on the rise. The state expects a 95 percent increase in accidental fentanyl-related deaths by the end of the year. The chief medical examiner and professors at the School of Public Health agree that the increase in heroin-related deaths in Connecticut is noteworthy.

But different approaches to data collection raise questions about which substances pose the largest problem for Connecticut.

Connecticut’s Chief Medical Examiner James Gill said in the past few years heroin, not other pharmaceutical opioids such as oxycodone, has been the largest problem in the state. But Lauretta Grau — a clinical psychologist at the Yale School of Public Health who collected data on the subject — said the increase in heroin- and morphine-related deaths, as well as pharmaceutical opioid deaths, increased significantly between 2009 and 2014, indicating that drug-abuse problems extend beyond just heroin. And Yale pharmacology professor Robert Heimer GRD ’88 said though he would not describe the increasing number of drug-related deaths as an epidemic, there is a major problem with substance abuse in the United States, and opioids are just the most obvious example of an increase in selfmedication in a substantial portion of the country.

“Don’t blame it all on heroin. Heroin is cheaper, but let’s not demonize just heroin, it’s a problem across the board. There’s more deaths that are involving pharmaceutical opioids and heroin,” Grau said. “I don’t think that

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going in and limiting the number of pharmaceutical opioids is the answer either. It’s complicated.”

Grau said different methodological approaches were applied to draw conclusions about whether opioids other than heroin are rising at a statistically significant rate. For example, Grau included both accidental deaths and deaths of undetermined causes in her data, whereas the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office only used information regarding accidental intoxication deaths.

The drug-related death that has seen the greatest expected percentage increase since last year is combined use of fentanyl and heroin. Fentanyl is a narcotic pain reliever that can be administered transdermally through a patch or an injection, orally or nasally.

Last year, toxicology reports detected heroin and fentanyl together in 37 deaths. By September of this year there were already 69 accidental fentanyl and heroin related deaths, and the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office predicts that the number will rise to 92 by the end of the year. These numbers are included in the count of both heroin-related deaths and fentanyl-related deaths.

Fentanyl-related deaths generally are expected to increase from 75 last year to 146 by the end of the year, according to data from the Chief Medical Examiner’s

Office. Between January and September this year there were 110 fentanyl-related deaths.

“The fentanyl that we are seeing is from illicit fentanyl made in clandestine labs. It is sometimes mixed with heroin but it also can be purchased separately,” Gill said. “As there is no FDA on the street, people addicted to drugs have no guarantees about the dose, quality or composition of drugs that are bought on the street.”

Heimer explained that sometimes heroin and fentanyl are cut together to increase the rush that the user experiences. He said longtime heroin users often complain that the quality of their heroin is decreasing, when in reality this perception is due to decreased sensitivity to the substance.

Including heroin, the reach of illicit drugs is spreading. “[Illegal opioids are] in all but 17 of the 169 towns in Connecticut. Between 2009 and 2014 all but 17 have experienced at least one overdose of an illegal opioid,” Grau said. “It’s spreading. There are very few communities aren’t affected by it.”

Heimer said interpreting numbers around illegal opioid-related deaths has to be done very carefully because many factors could contribute to the increase. He explained that one potential contributor to the spread of drug use is the sale of prescription medica-

tion to suburbanites by people who then buy heroin at a lower price.

“It’s a self-arranged substitution therapy,” Heimer said.

Heimer said another contributing factor is the increased availability of opioids. He said doctors feel compelled to help patients with symptoms of chronic pain.

Because medication is cheaper than physical therapy, doctors have begun to rely more heavily on prescription drugs.

All three medical experts agreed that increasing understanding of drug addiction as a disease and destigmatizing it is paramount to countering these increases.

“Just like any disease, it affects all social strata and areas of our state. It took decades for medicine and society to recognize that chronic alcoholism is a disease. So is drug abuse,” Gill said in an email to the News.

Grau said there needs to be a more coordinated and concerted effort to not just address substance-abuse problems, but also to acknowledge that often those suffering from substance-abuse addiction are also struggle with housing, insurance and other issues that extend beyond simply obtaining treatment.

The data from the Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner’s Office was updated Nov. 17.

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

Harp, Harries set to close achievement gap

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp and New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 took a step Tuesday morning toward closing Connecticut’s education achievement gap, which is one of the widest in the country.

Harp and Harries signed a letter of intent to bring Citizen Schools — a program that works with public middle schools to give all students additional hours of schooling — to three NHPS schools in the next academic year.

Between now and April, the city and Citizen Schools must seek NHPS, community and financial support in order to make the program a reality. The organization will a sign an official contract with the city if they achieve these goals. Citizen Schools, which has reached 5,300 students across seven states, has seen a good deal of success in underprivileged schools since its 1995 launch, Citizen Schools President Emily McCann said. Students who participated in Citizen Schools graduate at a 20 percent higher rate than students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds who did not participate, she said.

“Middle school is one of the very best times to influence a child’s life because the brain is really growing,” Harp said. “Citizen Schools has it right. What happens oftentimes in normal education is that middle school is not addressed in a way that takes advantage of children’s time to grow.”

The letter of intent is a public commitment to exploring an offi-

cial partnership between the city and Citizens Schools, said Special Advisor to Citizen Schools Nell Kisiel.

The program’s flagship concept — extended learning time — aims to close the wide gap between upper- and middle-class children’s access to non-classroom educational enrichment such as music school, language lessons and tutoring.

Children from middle- and upper-income backgrounds already benefit from 6,000 additional hours of learning time, compared to peers from lowerincome families, by the time they enter middle school.

Students at schools enrolled in Citizen School gain 300 to 400 additional hours of academic support and enrichment programs each year, McCann said. Mentors in the program — community volunteers or recent college graduates in AmeriCorps — lead students in various educational enrichment activities including mock trial, robotics and journalism. The program also helps reinforce the curricula students learn during formal school time.

Boston native Vidya Ganga participated in Citizen Schools’ mock trial program during her three years in middle school.

Now enrolled in a crime and justice program at Suffolk University, Ganga said Citizen School helped her set the educational goals that enabled her to pursue a legal career.

“I worked with lawyers for six weeks and then presented in front of a judge,” Ganga said. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I learned that I wanted to be in a

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Boston-based education program Citizens Schools could soon come to the New Haven. courtroom, speak and be a lawyer in the future.”

NHPS has extended school days with mixed success over the past few years, Harries said, citing student and teacher burnout as obstacles to the initiatives’ success. Citizen Schools is unlikely to face these problems, Harries added.

New Haven professionals

will also have the opportunity to share their skills with Citizen Schools students. Laura Pappano — a journalist who founded an after-school journalism club at East Rock Community Magnet School — said Citizen Schools offers a structure that allows local professionals to share their skills, whether they be public speaking, solar-car engineering or com-

puter-program design.

Employees at John Hancock Financial in Boston have supported Citizen Schools in their city by teaching a class about the college application process, Hancock Program and Events Coordinator Rita German said.

Alexander Donovan SOM ’16, who has taught in public schools with former Citizen Schools

teachers, said the program gives young graduates interested in education a valuable opportunity to get a taste of teaching before committing to the profession.

The first Citizen Schools programs were in Boston, Massachusetts.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.”

BILL MCCARTNEY FORMER AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER AND COACH

Mixed feelings on new men’s soccer coach MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 1 he met his players was that the academic rigor and commitment at Michigan State were equal to Yale’s. Simpson noted that Stannard used this idea as an argument for holding players to the same standards that his former Michigan State players faced.

“Kylie values soccer as the sole commitment as to why you’re here, [that] this is Division I and it’s supposed to be your primary commitment,” Simpson said. “For [other] D-I schools that is true, for the Ivy League it is not true. We don’t receive scholarships, and when you are applying, [soccer] is seen as an extracurricular. We face the same standards and have to get in academically.”

Simpson, who is considering leaving the team, said that he and others who are contemplating quitting are doing so partially because the new priority on athletics is taking them away from other opportunities on campus.

Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said the desire to explore something else at Yale is generally the reason why athletes decide to leave their sport.

The senior who asked to remain anonymous added that although Stannard might have known in theory that the time spent in academics at Yale was larger than at other programs, he does not think Stannard understood this reality until he took his position at Yale.

Still, Bond said Yale is not the only Division I school that places a strong emphasis on academics, and that many of these peer schools have seen success in their soccer programs during a time when Yale’s team has struggled.

“I have no doubt that Coach Stannard will move on from this season considerably more aware of what it is like to coach in the Ivy League and at an institution like Yale,” Bond said.

Stannard said it is natural for differences to arise within the team regarding how specific players react to certain coaching ideas or philosophies, and that if some players decide that they want to spend their time doing other things, that is a personal choice that he respects.

However, Simpson said the coaching staff misunderstands the main reason certain players quit the team. While Stannard said players left to pursue other activities, Simpson said players chose to depart more due to disagreements with the coaching staff.

One of the five players who quit the team at season’s end, who also wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic, said his decision to leave the team was a direct consequence of the treatment he received from the head coach. Two other players who quit the team could not be reached for comment.

Simpson expressed similar frustrations, and also took issue with the treatment of players’ injuries since Stannard’s arrival.

In a game against Brown on Nov. 7, Simpson was hit on the head with eight minutes left in

overtime. Simpson said although it was clear from the way he staggered on the field that he had a concussion, he was not pulled from the game and instead played for the remainder of the game — during which he received three additional hits to the head. Simpson said another player experienced a similar situation with a concussion earlier in the season.

Though Simpson questioned Stannard for the decision to keep him in the game, Stannard and head athletic trainer David DiNapoli said that this would have been a decision for a medical professional to make, not a coach.

Simpson said he continues to have impaired vision in the peripheral field of his right eye, and has consistent difficulty associating and disassociating images.

He added that he does not know whether this condition will be temporary.

“It is now 22 days out from my concussions and I still have symptoms,” Simpson said. “So the question becomes, why was I not removed from the game knowing I was most likely concussed?”

Stannard said that he leaves decisions like this one to his athletic training staff, and that Simpson went through the “full protocols” after the game.

Sports medicine intern for men’s soccer Ashley Leverone said she could not disclose information about specific players’ injuries due to medical privacy laws.

DiNapoli said the standard procedure for potential concussions is for an official to stop play and wave medical staff to the injured player, after which the player would be removed and tested for a concussion. DiNapoli added that the main risk of keeping a player on the field is that he or she may sustain additional hits while continuing to play, which could increase the risk of traumatic brain injury.

“The medical staff has complete authority to remove an athlete from competition,” DiNapoli said. “In the case of soccer, removal would be at the discretion of the [medical doctor or physician assistant at the game], in conjunction with the athletic training staff.”

A WINNING MINDSET ABOVE ALL

After four consecutive seasons of Yale placing in the bottom half of the Ivy League under Tompkins, Stannard made competitiveness a main focus upon joining the team.

In practices and games, on and off the field, Stannard highlighted the importance of players performing at a high level at all times.

“The new mantra this season was ‘someone is always watching, the coaches are seeing everything,’ which dictated whether you played or not,” Simpson said.

“It was a lot more pressure, and we definitely felt the walls closing in.”

Under Tompkins, who had served as head coach since 1996, the team’s main focus had been its style of play, such as a strong commitment to ball possession, the senior who asked to remain anon-

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With first-year head coach Kylie Stannard promoting an entirely new culture in the Yale men’s soccer program, five players have quit the team.

ymous said.

But in Stannard’s first season, the player said, the emphasis was more on winning games — regardless of the way the Bulldogs did so.

“In terms of in games and practices, there was an increased focus on the importance of results and getting the result in any way possible rather than the style of play,” he said.

Stannard also sought to improve the team’s physical fitness, often holding demanding practice sessions in the spring and fall, Bond said. He added that the increase in fitness sessions combined with limited sleep led to complaints from some team members.

Stannard also worked on providing direct feedback to players on their progress adapting to the team’s new style. After practices and matches, the coach would provide each individual player with a grade, Simpson said.

Although practice grades were private, match grades were made public for the first half of the season, and these grades helped determine who would be playing in upcoming games.

Bond said he found the grades helpful, but he added that many players felt their match grades did not align with how they felt they had played.

“The grades were used to see where guys stacked against one another,” Simpson said. “It was subjective to that type of a feedback system, of the mantra of ‘a player who doesn’t produce in practice won’t play.’”

Simpson said that after the team’s first four games — all of which were losses — he had a conversation with Stannard in which the coach told Simpson that he, personally, was responsible for the team’s poor performance in the beginning of the season. After

that, Simpson was benched and freshmen goalkeepers started in his place.

During that time period, Simpson tore his quad while training for goal kicks and wound up missing seven total games either due to benching or injury.

“The way I am, I always have high expectations and demands for all the guys,” Stannard said. “I try not to single out certain individuals but occasionally it happens.”

Though several players took issue with this style of coaching, Bond said that he never felt uncomfortable when speaking with the coach. According to Bond, Stannard’s honesty may have been problematic for some, “especially those who were not very good at taking criticism.”

The anonymous senior added that much of the tension within the team was due to misunderstandings that naturally occur under a new coach, and that in general there were not major conflicts between Stannard and his players.

But the player who left the team said he took issue when, during games, Stannard highlighted the team’s mistakes rather than providing constructive criticism. “[Stannard] had no problem telling us that he was embarrassed of being part of the team, that he had the opportunity to be part of a bunch of other Division I programs, and he wished he had taken on that responsibility instead of trying to pull us out of the cellar,” Simpson said.

When asked whether, after a one-win season, he regretted his decision to coach Yale, Stannard did not give a definitive answer.

“It’s been a really good learning experience for me, but frustrating at the same time,” Stannard said.

“We’re all really competitive and

want to do better. I’m very thankful for the opportunity to be here and excited for the future of the program.”

Players also worried that if they voiced any concerns to the coach, they might face negative consequences such as a reduction in playing time, Simpson said.

The player who quit the team said that players were more likely to accept advice from student leaders — such as captain Philip Piper ’16 and other seniors on the team — than from their new head coach.

“I don’t think getting angry at us when we know we’re not doing well helps anyone,” the player said. “I think I can speak for everyone that we were more comfortable talking to each other than [to Stannard] or even the other coaches when it came to anything we wanted to discuss.”

LOOKING AHEAD

Despite significant setbacks, including consecutive one-win seasons and multiple players leaving the team, many believe the current hardships will eventually lead to a better and improved soccer program.

“I think this has been a great learning opportunity for me, the coaching staff and players to get to know the league even better,” Stannard said. “I think it has been a very positive step in the right direction for the future of the program.”

He added that he has spoken with other Yale coaches this year who have been in the same situation of trying to turn a program around, and that many had similar experiences with players leaving because they did not agree with the program’s new path.

Bond said it is important that the team remain patient going forward, as he said the hard work

put in this year coupled with the team’s talent will eventually translate into wins.

“I think in the short term the multiple leaves are definitely going to make things tougher,” the anonymous senior said. “But I think the model Coach Stannard is trying to create in the long term is going to be successful whether or not all the guys currently on the team stick with it. The guys that stick with it and the new recruits will create a culture of winning in the long term.”

When a program sees multiple departures in a season, Beckett said the administration will add a recruiting spot, if possible, and encourage additional students to walk on to the team — two possibilities they will explore for the men’s soccer program.

Associate athletic director Jeremy Makins, the administrator in charge of men’s soccer, declined to comment.

Simpson said some recruits for the class of 2020 have voiced concerns when visiting campus, and that current players have been honest in informing them of the overall atmosphere in the program.

For Simpson, this involved telling recruits that the program was headed in a positive direction despite its record this year, but that joining the team meant making soccer a top priority.

When asked, Stannard said he had not heard of any concerns from recruits.

“There’s not much we can do besides be really supportive of the guys that are staying with us,” Stannard said. “We are just going to have to work with the group we have and the group we have coming in.”

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

New promises for Church Street South families VOUCHERS FROM PAGE 1 housing units and vouchers.

“We received permission from HUD headquarters in Washington to expedite the next step of the process by providing portable vouchers,” Rhonda Siciliano, HUD deputy regional administrator, said. “We have also already begun the process of reaching out to landlords and housing organizations in Connecticut to see if they would be interested in accepting the budget authority that Northland is currently receiving so that we can transfer the subsidy to them to preserve the affordable housing.”

PORTABLE VOUCHERS FOR A PRESSING PROBLEM

Northland and public officials announced this fall that all 58 families in hotels would be moved into apartments by Thanksgiving. But two days before Thanksgiving, only 10 families had been relocated.

Northland and public officials instead announced they would expedite the process of moving families out of Church Street South by granting portable vouch-

ers to all families still at the complex. Northland and the city have not yet announced when the vouchers will be released.

The original plan to move families into apartments had proved to be a more lengthy and slow process than HUD, Northland and the city expected, Siciliano said.

She noted that the housing market in New Haven offers few vacancies, especially for the familysized units many residents need.

Siciliano added that scheduling convenient apartment visits for the families also lengthened the moving process.

The process of finding new homes also lagged because Northland negotiated monthly rather than yearly contracts with landlords, said Amy Marx LAW ’00, attorney at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Marx said the model Northland used to move families was originally designed for emergencies such as Hurricane Sandy or Hurricane Katrina.

In these situations, families plan to move back to their original homes in the near future, necessitating monthly contracts.

Many New Haven landlords — who are unfamiliar with monthly

leases because standard leases are yearlong — hesitated to rent to Church Street South families, Marx said. She added that she and her team worked to convince landlords to enter the temporary leases with Church Street South residents.

“Eventually there was a realization by HUD, Northland and the city that this process is not very efficient or fast enough,” Marx said.

Northland and public officials now hope to move all families in temporary housing to apartments

by Christmas, Siciliano said.

Thirty-four former Church Street South families remain in hotel rooms at this time, she added.

LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS

The announcement Tuesday also stated a new commitment to replace all 301 affordable housing units for New Haven that Church Street South provided. Northland and public officials have already sent letters to dozens of landlords in the area asking if they would like to receive a fraction of the $3.1 million in federal housing grants given to Northland to subsidize affordable housing at

Church Street South.

In return for the grant money, those landlords would agree to provide affordable housing units.

Siciliano added former residents of Church Street South would be offered the first pick of the newly subsidized homes.

“There are 301 brick-and-mortar units at Church Street South,” Marx said. “The funding and those units would continue to exist in some form throughout New Haven.”

Ten landlords in New Haven have already responded to Northland and public officials’ offers, Siciliano said. She added Northland, HUD and city officials will meet with residents in the near future to explain the plans.

The promise to replace Church Street South’s units, Marx said, created an essential commitment on behalf of Northland and the city to preserve affordable housing in the city. This promise was not included in previous announcements.

Many Section 8 residents — those who live in federally subsidized housing — who are given vouchers after being sent away from failed housing projects are

unable to find long-term affordable housing, Marx said. The competition for affordable housing, as well as hurdles to navigating the market, such as limited English proficiency and disabilities, present formidable challenges for families moving out.

The city and Northland’s announcement to preserving affordable housing in New Haven helps ensure that families at Church Street South are guaranteed housing years down the road, Marx said.

“It is critical that these 301 units be built somewhere with the right to return for these families,” Marx said. “A year out from now if someone is not able to use their section 8 voucher, there would be a serious risk of homelessness.”

Marx added that the new housing units in New Haven should include the family units that Church Street South had provided. Three, four or five-bedroom apartments are scarce in the affordable housing market even though many New Haven families need them.

As public officials seek new allies for affordable housing in the city, the eggshell-white com-

plex still stands. Preservation of Affordable Housing, a Bostonbased housing nonprofit organization, offered to purchase the complex and preserve affordable housing on the premises. But Northland has not responded to the offer, POAH Executive Director Bart Lloyd said.

Northland bought the location in 2008 with the intention to build mixed-income apartments on the complex. Under Northland’s plans, around 20 percent of the units would have been affordable housing units. But the contract fell through in 2011 when Northland did not agree to the Board of Alders’ request that 28 percent of the units be affordable housing.

“I was in New Haven on Thanksgiving morning, at the railroad station, and walked the site,” Lloyd said. “However, I do not think we are on the owner’s radar screen as a viable option.”

Northland did not return request for comment on its future plans for the complex.

The Church Street South complex was built in 1969.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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Second Wesleyan drug distributor pleads guilty

Bradley recognized for work

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Ten Wesleyan students overdosed on AB-Fubinaca sold to them by Eric Lonergan.

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Former Wesleyan student Eric Lonergan pled guilty on Monday to charges of distributing synthetic drugs that caused multiple student overdoses.

Lonergan pled guilty in federal court in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and one count of conspiracy to distribute MDMA, commonly known as Molly.

Like Zachary Kramer, another Wesleyan student who pled guilty to the same charges last month, Lonergan’s charges stem from an investigation into the distribution of controlled substances that caused multiple Wesleyan University students to overdose in February, according to Tom Carson, United States Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut spokesman. Lonergan, who was released on bond after he was arrested on May 22, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant in Hartford on Feb. 25. The charge of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and the charge to distribute MDMA, carry a maximum term of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $1 million.

Lonergan’s distribution started almost a year before students overdosed on drugs they purchased from him.

Beginning around November 2013, Lonergan began selling a substance he referred to as MDMA to students on and around Wesleyan’s campus, according to Carson’s press release. During the summer of 2014, Kramer began selling MDMA to Wesleyan students. Later that year, Kramer started purchasing what he believed to be MDMA from Lonergan and distributed it to Wesleyan students, according to Kramer and Lonergan’s joint indictment. Lonergan used a chemical test on the substance he sold to prove to Kramer that he was selling high-quality MDMA, Carson said in the release.

In December of last year, Kramer took over for Lonergan as the primary supplier of Molly on campus. He still received bulk quantities of MDMA from Lonergan, which Kramer then broke down and distributed in smaller doses.

“This defendant trafficked in a drug that caused multiple overdoses and nearly took the life of one Wesleyan student,” U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly said in Carson’s press release. “As evidenced by this

investigation and prosecution, Molly and other synthetic drugs are clearly not innocuous party drugs. Students who use synthetic drugs can never be certain what they are ingesting. Wesleyan students who bought these drugs from this dormroom chemist literally risked their lives by relying on his purported expertise.”

Michael Sklaire, one of Lonergan’s attorneys, declined to comment on the case.

In September 2014, Lonergan provided students with several grams of a substance he claimed was MDMA, according to Carson’s press release. After a party that same month where the students ingested Lonergan’s drugs, the group of students who ingested them became ill.

They claimed to suffer from effects such as extreme lethargy and extreme irrational fear, and two were transported to the hospital. One student saved the 0.1 gram capsule she had purchased from Lonergan and gave it to the Middletown Police Department, according to the indictment.

A toxicology report revealed that the contents were AB-Fubinaca — a Schedule I controlled substance — and 6-MAPB, an analogue of MDMA. None of the sample was found to be MDMA. The Drug Enforcement Administration defines a Schedule I controlled substance as the most dangerous class of drug because of its high potential for abuse and the potential for severe dependence.

Carson said 11 individuals, including 10 Wesleyan students, overdosed on the substance on Feb. 21 and many were transported to the hospital. Two of the students were in critical condition and one had to be revived after his heart stopped.

All of these students obtained the purported MDMA through individual distributors whom Kramer directly supplied, he added.

Though many who possessed the drug tried to destroy the substance, one distributor failed to do so, and Middletown law enforcement seized it as evidence.

Once again, laboratory testing revealed that the substance was AB-Fubinaca, not MDMA, according to the release.

Two people died in Connecticut last year due to accidental overdoses of MDMA, according to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.

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

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Epidemiology professor Elizabeth Bradley is one of 10 women recognized by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame this year.

BY ANDREA OUYANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Nov. 12, the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame recognized professor Elizabeth Bradley GRD ’96 as a Global Impact Honoree.

The honor, awarded to 10 women this year, recognizes women who have made important global contributions to their fields. The ceremony, held at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, honored Bradley for her expertise in global health and health management, which has strengthened healthcare systems in both the U.S. and developing countries. She has worked for almost two decades on designing ways to maximize positive health outcomes despite limited resources. “[The honor] is given to a woman who is widely known within her field, who is a leader, and who has had an impact not only in Connecticut but around the globe, and obviously Betsy [Bradley] brings that tremendous leadership,” said Katherine Wiltshire, executive director of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame.

“This is a woman who has remarkable integrity, who has done incredible work, who is quality of care in hospital settings but is also working to better the health systems around the world, and [those qualities] really spoke to us.”

According to Wiltshire, an initial pool of around 50 to 70 nominees is narrowed down by an honorary advisory committee to a final list of roughly 10 honorees each year.

Each finalist embodies the values of the annual theme. This year’s theme, “Connecticut Women — Global Impact,” celebrated women who had made distinguished contributions, not only in the U.S., but also abroad.

Bradley’s current work in health care management focuses on Ethiopia, where she works to provide the best possible care with the most cost-effective use of resources. She also aims to establish good management principles at the level of

primary care in Ethiopia with the potential to serve hundreds of thousands of people.

“We are trying to bolster, through strong management and strong data, [the health resources] at ‘the last mile,’” Bradley said. This “last mile” — the distance from the health care provider to the individual consumer — is the hardest stage in the resource distribution process. Bradley emphasized that improving hospital culture and management could save lives at the hospital level in the U.S., while community-based, outpatient and other first-line forms of health care could help achieve positive health outcomes more broadly in developing countries.

Bradley has also served as master of Branford College since 2011 and as director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute since 2009, when she first founded the institute.

In addition to those positions, Bradley will become the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy in January, taking over from current director and history professor John Gaddis. According to Bradley, the purpose of the program is to teach undergraduate and graduate students how to apply “lessons from the humanities to achieve large ends by scarce means.” Bradley added that the Grand Strategy program stresses the importance of utilizing resources where they are most effective, a principle that she has incorporated in her work elsewhere. She noted that this practice can be applied toward a number of different fields, such as security, climate sustainability, economic advancements and health.

This versatility is part of what makes Bradley unique as a researcher, said Leslie Curry, senior research scientist and lecturer at the School of Public Health, who has been a friend and colleague to Bradley for almost two decades. Curry cited Bradley’s ability to expand theories in management into practical health care applications and practices as a key strength in her research.

“She has been able to develop a high-level conceptual, theoretical project [that was also] a seminal work in health care,” said Curry, referring to Bradley’s work in using “positive deviance” — a method in which high-performing organizations function as a template for crafting practical improvements in an area of interest such as health care quality. With this approach, Bradley analyzed organizations that consistently demonstrate exceptionally high performance in caring for patients with heart attacks, to generate and test hypotheses about what improved patient-care performance.

Bradley said using this technique, she was able to make changes to hospital practices that helped lower mortality rates and increase the percentage of patients who received their needed treatment from 30 to 90 percent. “[Bradley is] incredibly transparent and open in the way that she works in academia,” said Curry, who co-authored a paper with Bradley on positive deviance. “She has a gift for connecting [to individuals] in different settings and contexts.”

Bradley’s colleagues praised her energy and devotion to her work.

They noted her intense passion as a motivating force in her work ethic.

Rafael Perez-Escamilla, professor of epidemiology and a colleague of Bradley, said she is a highly assertive, energetic scholar who thinks outside the box.

Perez-Escamilla, who has worked with Bradley to develop models for scaling up family health interventions, said he could not think of anyone more deserving of the honor than Bradley.

“I’ve seen her sketch out her ideas on a napkin in a diner,” said Curry, referring to Bradley’s tirelessness in serving others. “[Those were] precious moments, just watching her create something and go.”

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“Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country’s security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.”

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U.S. Ambassador to Jordan discusses ISIL threat

BY SARAH STEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Speaking to a packed room of over 100 students and other members of the Yale community, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells addressed the threat of the Islamic State and Jordan’s role in defeating it.

The tea, which took place Tuesday afternoon in the Timothy Dwight master’s house, focused on the effect the Islamic State, also known as ISIL and Daesh, has had on Jordan and other countries in the Middle East. Before becoming ambassador to Jordan, Wells served under former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 as well as President Barack Obama. She has also worked as an ambassador in Moscow and in government departments dealing with Egypt, North Africa, Russia and Central Asia.

“I’m going to spend the rest of my professional life grappling with ISIL,” Wells said, adding that the situation will affect everyone in the students’ generation as well.

According to Wells, ISIL intends to create a caliphate — a form of Islamic government that claims authority over Muslims worldwide — that reaches from North Africa to South Asia. The group already controls a region roughly the size of the area between New Haven and Washington D.C., Wells said. It differs from other terrorist organizations in that it has its own military, currency and courts, but like others, it governs with an emphasis on violence.

ISIL’s attempts to instill fear in civilians extend throughout the Middle East as well as the rest of the world, she continued, noting that the most prominent recent example of its violence — the attack on Paris last month — just scratches the surface of the

terror ISIL has been spreading.

ISIL affiliates seize territory, kill Muslims and promote violence through manipulative propaganda, she said.

“The threat of Daesh is not limited by geography,” Wells said.

In fact, many of ISIL’s supporters have been reached worldwide through social media.

Wells estimated that ISIL has taken control of 50,000 to 90,000 Twitter accounts to promote itself and has about 230,000 mentions online every day. But many Western supporters of ISIL who join through these technological platforms have no idea what they are getting themselves into, Wells said.

Nevertheless, Wells said she has hope in Jordan’s ability to fight back against ISIL. She called the country an “invaluable ally” to the United States against ISIL, as Jordanian citizens show support for Christianity and other religions, as well as all eight schools of Islam.

They also push back against violence against minorities and have welcomed Syrian refugees with open arms.

According to Wells, ISIL has threatened to invade Jordan and attack the king, but neither the king nor the Jordan citizens have shown fear. Jordanian citizens’ tolerance of others and unwillingness to succumb to ISIL make Jordan a model for other countries, she said.

“Jordan’s vision and promise is the greatest threat to Daesh,” Wells said. “We have got to invest in these ‘islands of decency.’”

However, she said, the influx of refugees to Jordan has begun to overwhelm the country’s infrastructure, which is only one of the challenges currently facing Jordan. Economic troubles include loss of tourism and trade with Iraq, as well as youth unemployment as high as 35 percent,

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At a Timothy Dwight Master’s Tea, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells discussed Jordan’s role in the fight against ISIL. Wells said. School textbooks often promote discrimination of the “other” and unauthorized mosques are known to promote violence. These difficulties can contribute to a lack of hope and subsequent support of ISIL, Wells explained. The only hope that Jordanians have is to remain true to their values.

Wells explained that the war against ISIL is political and ideological as well as military.

Because this is not a “conventional battle,” Wells said overcoming ISIL will require exten-

sive negotiations between Middle Eastern countries. Progress in defeating the group will take months and years.

The United States government is deeply invested in Jordan’s success, Wells said, and added that even students can get involved by voting for congressmen who favor international support and having awareness about the issue.

Students interviewed said they appreciated Wells’ eloquence and vast knowledge on the situation in the Middle East.

Nolan Crawford ’19 said that hearing the firsthand perspective from Jordan influenced what he knew about the conflict with ISIL, as all his previous information had come from classes taken at Yale.

Zoe Rubin ’16 said she was struck by Wells’ emphasis on morality as a winning force. “[The people of Jordan] need to win this battle of ideas by demonstrating their moral values,” she said.

During the question and answer session with Wells, sev-

eral students also mentioned misunderstandings about Islam due to ignorance as a hindrance in the fight against ISIL, and Wells agreed that the issue has been misinterpreted as a problem with Islam.

“This is not about Islam,” Wells responded. “It’s about terrorism.”

So far in 2015, at least 56 people in the U.S. have been charged for ISIL related activities.

Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

Policy analyst talks global food crisis

BY CAITLYN WHERRY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday afternoon, policy analyst David Rieff spoke to a crowd of law school students about global hunger.

At the talk held at the law school, Rieff examined the difference between famine and chronic hunger, as well as issues with the philanthro-capitalist approach to ending hunger — one which involves corporations in humanitarian issues. Rieff also gave the audience of roughly 50 students his theory on how best to address these issues: granting greater power to local governments.

“Humanitarian action — its big brother or sister is development,” Rieff said. “This book is exploring food systems today.

It looks at the [food] price spike of 2008, often called the Global Food Crisis.”

Rieff said that one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century has been “the neutering of famine.” There has been a famine recorded in some part of the world every 15 or 20 years since the time of the Babylonians, he said. However, the last major famine in Europe was in 1944-5, just at the end of World War II. He said more parts of the world seem exempt from famine today because there are many international entities, from private corporations to the World Bank, that intervene to prevent famine.

Rieff also addressed the modern world’s approach to solving problems. He said that the cutting edge of capitalism today, what he called “techno-capitalism,” lies in the Silicon Valley. He thinks the influence of technocapitalism has created an attitude of quickly engineering a solution to a problem without considering what approach would be best in the long-term. These scientific and technological solutions are appropriate in cases of famine, Rieff said, because they are “time-limited events” that will eventually end. But he does not see chronic malnutrition as a single-action event, and therefore must be handled differently.

“I wanted to expose people to [Rieff’s] argument that democratic government is the answer rather than philanthro- capitalism,” Law School professor David Singh Grewal LAW ’02, who

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Policy analyst David Rieff spoke to Law School students about global hunger Tuesday afternoon. moderated the talk, said.

Philanthro-capitalism has encouraged this single-action approach to problem solving, Rieff said. He singled out the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as an example of an organization controlling this kind of philanthropic action. He pointed out that the Foundation’s interest in agriculture has given it control over most agricultural grants, which are the primary source of funding for schools like the University of California, Davis and Cornell University. This is emblematic of the privatization of the food industry, which previously received a significant amount of government funding.

Rieff also addressed another common approach to ending hunger — the anti-globalization movement, which criticizes corporate capitalism and advocates for a more efficient economic system based around human decency. He said that while he understands the idea of the antiglobalization movement, he does not see this as a feasible answer.

Instead, he proposes a less extreme solution to this problem.

“I am for the recreation of the power, authority and supremacy — if I dare say it — of the democratic state over corporations,” Rieff said.

Rieff cited the Brazilian government program Fome Zero, or

the Zero Hunger Program, which was introduced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2003, as an example of a government taking initiative to end its country’s hunger crisis. Since the beginning of this program, Brazil has brought 30 million people out of hunger, he said.

When a student asked about why he promotes the expansion of democracy, Rieff said he thinks the modern representation of democracy is not democracy at its fullest potential. He blamed conservative figures such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher for this downfall.

Rieff also said he does not see poverty and hunger as “left versus right” issues, nor as “good rich versus bad rich” issues, as he believes everyone has the best intentions when dealing with these epidemics.

Mark Bomford, director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program, said he was glad Rieff shared less conventional ideas about how to solve the global food epidemic.

“I think [having Rieff come to speak] is representative of a larger, more ambitious approach to food issues at Yale. It’s refreshing,” Bomford said.

Rieff has written a total of 11 books on humanitarian policy.

Contact CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON THIRD U.S. PRESIDENT

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

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

Report outlines Gen Ed overhaul

Activities Board responds to allegations

flexible in their schedules and take courses they are interested in.

BY KARL M. ASPELUND AND MEG P. BERNHARD Harvard undergraduates would be required to fulfill distribution requirements, complete a quantitative-based course and take fewer general education courses in new, consolidated categories as part of a drastically altered General Education program, should members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote to approve a new proposal in the coming months.

On Tuesday, members of the committee tasked with reviewing the college’s General Education program — previously deemed “failing on a variety of fronts” — will present their final report and “major proposals” for the program following more than 18 months of review. Faculty will discuss the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting — the last of the semester — and likely vote on the proposal, which The Crimson independently obtained, in the spring semester.

The final report outlines a threepronged vision of the new program.

If adopted, students would take four Gen Ed courses from new subgroups different than the existing categories, a departmental course in each of the three divisions of FAS, and an “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning” or other quantitative departmental course.

The proposal — which will be presented to the faculty by philosophy professor and Committee Chair Sean Kelly — gives no indication as to what undergraduate class could first graduate under the new Gen Ed program.

In order to ensure that the program is implemented successfully, review committee members also recommend that professors be offered financial support for teaching in the program, and that Gen Ed course section sizes should be capped at 14 students with a target of 12. A “good General Education program will require financial support from the administration and buy-in from the departments,” the committee wrote.

Last May, the review committee issued an interim report outlining a series of administrative and structural faults manifest in the existing program, including the unwieldy section size of many Gen Ed courses and the sheer number of courses that count for Gen Ed credit. Perhaps most notably, committee members wrote that program currently has no place in the college’s identity.

These “major proposals” for the new program greatly diverge from the current system, which has been in place since 2009 and requires students to take courses in eight different Gen Ed categories. Ultimately, committee members wrote, they hope to mix three existing Gen Ed aims: to prepare students for “a life of civic and ethical engagement”; to have students learn about a “range of disciplines”; and to allow students to be

HARVARD

THE NEW GEN ED

Under the new program, students would be required to take a breadth of distribution courses across FAS divisions — the natural sciences or SEAS, social sciences and arts and humanities—and four Gen Ed-specific courses, a mixing of two models that committee members have deemed vital to a student’s undergraduate experience.

In their preliminary report released last spring, committee members wrote that in its current iteration, the Gen Ed program is a “chimera: It has the head of a Gen Ed requirement with the body of a distribution requirement.” In meetings over the past semester, faculty members on the whole disapproved of solely requiring students to take courses distributed across divisions.

The proposed program aims to be different than simply a set of distribution requirements. Faculty and administrators would create new Gen Ed courses for the program — of which Gen Ed courses deemed “successful” in the current program could be a part — and those courses would be separated into a set of four “broadly divisional” tags. These new categories include: “Individuals, Societies, Histories”; “Science and Technology in Society”; ”Aesthetics, Culture, Interpretation”; and “Ethics and Civics.”

Three tags are designed to align “roughly” with the three divisions of FAS, and the fourth, “Ethics and Civics,” would be based on the current “Ethical Reasoning” category.

According to the report, committee members also combined existing categories when creating these new tags: “Aesthetics, Culture, Interpretation” combines the current “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” and “Culture and Belief” requirements; “Individuals, Societies, Histories” combines “Societies of the World” and “United States in the World”; and “Science and Technology in Society” combines “Science of the Living Systems” and “Science of the Physical Universe.”

A course can fall under a maximum of two tags, but, just as under the current program, a student can only count each course for one of the four Gen Ed requirements. Ultimately, the courses would all “aim to prepare students for a life of civic and ethical engagement with a changing world,” according to the proposal.

Departmental or “back of the book” courses would not count for the Gen Ed Course requirement. Instead, students would also be required to take three “distribution courses” across the FAS divisions of “Arts and

Humanities,” “Social Sciences” and “Natural Sciences.” Courses in a student’s concentration would not count for this requirement, according to the report. Courses from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences could count for the “Natural Sciences” requirement.

Under the new program, the current “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning” Gen Ed requirement would become its own, separate quantitative requirement and take on a similar structure to the current expository writing and foreign language requirements. A faculty committee would craft courses specifically designed for the EMR category, but courses from departments such as mathematics and statistics could also fulfill the requirement. The proposal says courses satisfying EMR “would be available at levels appropriate for students with varied quantitative backgrounds.”

AN ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE

In an effort to alleviate the various resource constraints that have plagued Gen Ed, the proposal for the reformed program offers a series of recommendations to improve implementation and administration, stating that a “good” Gen Ed program will require “financial support” from administrators and “buy-in” from departments.

Notably, the proposal suggests that sections in Gen Ed courses should have a maxi mum of 14 students and a recommended size of 12, which aligns with demands from a graduate studentled campaign begun to decrease section sizes and lessen teaching burdens of teaching fellows. The campaign has received endorsements from many FAS affiliates, including 11 departments, the Graduate Student Council, the Undergraduate Council and numerous committees and individual faculty members.

The proposal also outlines specific support and incentives for TFs, including training programs, supplemental pay for teaching in the Gen Ed program and performance awards. Some TFs they feel overworked and stressed from the large pressures on them, and faculty members have acknowledged using Gen Ed courses to hire TFs from their departments.

Further, committee members suggest placing significant resources for technical support, course development and administration. They also suggest creating a “pedagogical community” for faculty members and teaching fellows teaching in the program.

The proposal concludes by noting the need for departments’ commitment to Gen Ed, stating that searches for faculty positions should “take into account needs of Gen Ed.” The proposal also states that administrators should offer incentives for departments to offer courses in Gen Ed.

BY CAUVERI SURESH The Activities Board at Columbia responded on Monday to allegations of bias brought against them three weeks ago regarding the representation of black, Latinx, and Native-American student groups within the board. ABC denied allegations of bias in the amount of funding allocated to those groups, but committed to ensuring that they are properly represented and feel that their voices are valued.

ABC oversees over 150 student groups, including performance, cultural, preprofessional, academic, competition, special interest, publication, media and performing arts groups.

Jesus Mora-Valle, the representative for black, Latinx, and Native-American student groups, first raised concerns in an email sent on Nov. 12, citing specific instances within the ABC boardroom that demonstrated bias.

“We are done sitting through meetings where our diverse voices are singular; meetings where our culture is not respected, meetings where our values are deemed insignificant, where insensitive comments are rampant and all I can do is sit there calmly and listen,” Mora-Valle said in his email.

Mora-Valle did not immediately respond to Spectator’s request for comment.

At a subsequent community forum a week later — which ABC held in place of its usual board meeting — over a dozen identity-based groups attended to show solidarity with the concerns voiced by black, Latinx, and Native-American student groups.

After the forum, MilVets Vice President Pete Kiernan said that common thread of the concerns raised at the forum was ABC’s lack of transparency.

“There’s no accountability,” he said.

In light of these claims, ABC President Jared Greene said that the board has dedicated more time to thinking about the specific issues that were brought up by Mora-Valle and the student groups, as well as potential solutions.

“We were extremely concerned ourselves about a potential bias,” Greene said. “For there to be a possibility that those decisions that we’re making, votes that we’re casting, budgets that we’re deciding on are skewed against groups because of their identity, race, religion, activities, focus, interest … if true [is] an unacceptable fact.”

On Monday morning, ABC released a statement including its findings after looking at data from the past three years to find evidence of bias in the way that the board votes on budgeting, as a follow-up response to the email sent by Mora-Valle in November.

“When you’re looking at allocation increases and decreases over the past

three years, you really don’t see any trends of bias,” Greene said.

From 2013 to 2015, Greene said the board found COLUMBIA that funding allocation for black, Latinx and Native-American groups — all of whom are represented by MoraValle — received a greater increase and a lower decrease in funding compared to other groups, and that cultural groups in general fared better than other groups.

Greene noted that the amount of data was small, but said that if there were trends of bias, they would have been apparent in the specific data points that were analyzed.

“We’re talking about 12 or 13 groups over 164 groups over three years,” Greene said. “A few hundred points of data, I’m not saying that this is proving anything, but what we were looking for is any evidence of these trends, and we haven’t been able to see any.”

Greene said that cultural groups’ requests for funding often see fewer deductions than other groups. On average, he said that cultural groups see a $196 deduction from the initial request on average, compared to a $414 deduction for other groups.

ABC also responded briefly to specific concerns listed in the initial email, one of which was frustration at being the “lone Angry Brown Voice” — the only person of color speaking up for black, Latinx, and Native-American students at board meetings.

Greene said that this sort of sentiment has been a recurring issue within ABC and is one that he and the board are working to find solutions for.

“I’ve spoken to past people on the board, and it sounds like there is an actual issue with people feeling less welcome when it comes to expressing their position,” Greene said.

He added that the importance of increasing representation rests in increasing the voices of marginalized identities instead of simply having more votes on the board.

“Our decisions are most often unanimous or a very large majority of our board, so it’s not so much about having votes on the board, it’s more about having a voice, and so when people feel silenced, it’s a huge deal.”

Greene said that black, Latinx, and Native-American groups don’t have a lot of representation on ABC board, but that “there’s not a lot of control [ABC] can have over who gets on our board and doesn’t,” noting that the positions are elected.

“But when it comes to making people feel safe to speak on the board, that is something that we take very seriously,” Greene said.

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SPORTS

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

STEVE PREFONTAINE LEGENDARY DISTANCE RUNNER

Sports media at a crossroads even told domestic abuse victims that they should make sure not to do “anything to provoke wrong actions” in the summer of 2014.

Smith has since apologized for those remarks, and his role, along with Bayless’, on ESPN is unquestionably someone who is supposed to have opinions. Additionally, ESPN has every right to “embrace debate,” in its own words, through shows like First Take.

But as someone who is interested in entering the field of sports journalism, I am scared.

I’m scared that outlets like print newspapers and Grantland are being reduced or eliminated

BRONSDON FROM PAGE 14 make people think, Bayless and Smith take stances designed to inflame opinions and generate attention.

Of course, Bayless makes no bones about being an unbiased journalist — he repeatedly refers to his beloved Cowboys and other rooting allegiances. Smith, however, reached his national status as a reporter and will occasionally use his connections to pass information on to readers and followers. Yet this works against him, as showcased when he engaged Kevin Durant in a nasty public feud in early October and

while talking heads are embraced and emboldened.

I’m scared that my potential job could be in jeopardy just months after I sign on while Bayless is paid millions of dollars — his contract expires this upcoming summer, and estimates for his next deal range from $3.5 to $4 million.

I’m scared that shows like Outside the Lines, an Emmy Awardwinning program on ESPN that has aired for over 25 years, are being shunted between ESPN and ESPN2, with inconsistent time slots that reduce viewership.

I’m not saying that ESPN, or any other sports media company,

should solely devote its resources to money-losing ventures purely in the name of true journalism. At the end of the day, it is a business and ESPN does have a number of great outlets for quality storytelling. But any so-called Worldwide Leader in Sports must set an example by prioritizing good writing, good television and, most of all, good people.

Whereas media giants such as ESPN have more flexibility, newspapers are faced with little choice but to adapt on the fly, and yes, that sometimes can mean workforce reductions.

But we must continue to believe that readers want the best cov-

Elis stymie Jaspers

GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College and a former Sports Editor for the News. Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

with me. We changed from a team just showing up with high aspirations to being a team that people will stop and notice. We have the confidence to compete with these teams. By competing at the national level for three years, I hope I showed people that we can do it and we can make it with the best in the country. It’s a matter of having belief in oneself.

CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 14 four years as a Yale cross counQAfter try runner, how have you seen the program change over the course of your career?

A

The team has come an incredibly long way. To see the improvement in the last four years has been an awesome thing to watch and be a part of.

This year at Regionals was the first time we’ve seen our team put ourselves out there. We were right in the midst from the get-go. Ultimately it didn’t work out, but we put ourselves in the position that we need to be in. We can achieve what we’ve been trying to. I’ve learned an incredible amount about myself and the sport in the past four years, from having the team around me and all the different senior leadership.

forward to the winter, what QLooking changes happen as the team shifts from cross country to track and field?

A

The focus shifts a little bit because in cross country we all go out and race an 8K or 10K, but [in track] our team becomes more splintered, ranging from 800m to 10K races. Most of the team prefers track season. We definitely have high hopes and aspirations for this season. In terms of mentality, we’re not going to change much. Racing is still racing. We’re going to go out there and do what we’ve done all year and hopefully the results will stay [in the track season as well].

your opinion, what was the most QInmemorable race of this season?

A

Heps [in which Yale placed third out of eight Ivy League teams] was a standout. No one believed we would amount to anything. To run so well on a day that really mattered and to cross the line second [individually] at Heps … that’s a day that will always stick with me. I had a great group of guys behind me and we were able to pull it all off. It was an incredible thing to be a part of.

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Yale never trailed against Manhattan, registering its second-largest margin of victory on the season. and see her team cruise to victory, her players understand there is still progress to be made.

Sarju noted that room for growth is a positive, especially after such a one-sided victory.

“It is exciting that even though tonight was a great win we still have

support for Grantland after the announcement of its demise was truly inspiring. I remember feeling blown away by the positive messages, the statements of devotion and the incredible web of people across the country who loved consuming everything the site had to offer. That is what journalism can be. That is what sports media can produce. That is what I want to be a part of.

I just hope that those opportunities still exist.

Dooney reflects on season, career

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 struggle immensely at taking care of the ball, and Wyckoff described the offensive performance as sloppy. Yale committed 29 turnovers, the team’s highest total in six years dating back to a 31-turnover effort against Toledo on Nov. 29, 2009.

Since dropping to a season-low 12 turnovers against Fairleigh Dickinson a week and a half ago, Yale has turned over the ball 20.5 times per game in its last four contests.

“We are a very attack-minded team and we like to push in transition. Some of our turnovers were a result of difficult passes up-court that we can both do a better job passing and a better job catching,” Sarju said. “The turnovers we really cannot continue to have are the ones in the half court that are a result of not doing a good enough job faking passes and making good passes, and also of not coming to meet the ball with the ferocity necessary. We have to be more poised.”

Allen added that while turnovers are an inevitable part of the team’s playing style, reducing the number will be a top priority for the Bulldogs in their next game.

With less than five minutes remaining in the blowout victory, head coach Allison Guth substituted in two rookies, guard/forward Gabby Nelson ’19 and guard Paige Vermeer ’19, both of whom scored on a night in which every Eli who earned playing time contributed to Yale’s 62 points.

For Vermeer, it was her first collegiate appearance and her first career point.

“It was extremely nerve-wracking, [but] I had the time of my life out there,” Vermeer said. “I felt so lucky to have the opportunity to step out on the court.”

But after a night during which Guth was able to empty her bench

erage possible, and that outlets that produce such content will be rewarded.

In my time as an editor at the News, I strove to produce highquality content and to go above and beyond what was expected.

Sure, as a full-time college student, that didn’t always happen.

But thanks to amazingly talented reporters and dedicated staffers throughout the production process, there are many accomplishments that I can point to as great examples of quality journalism.

And those examples were justly lauded by fellow editors and readers alike.

The national outpouring of

so many areas which we can and must improve on,” Sarju said.

Yale will next play Army tomorrow at home in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

The game tips off at 7 p.m.

goals does the team have for QWhat the track season?

A

As a team, for one we obviously do not want to finish last place in the Ivy League. For whatever reason, we’ve had trouble. We definitely have the ability to move ourselves up in the rankings in the Ivy League a lot, with not being last again definitely the top goal. I don’t want to leave Yale being eighth in indoor and outdoor Heps.

legacy do you think you’re QWhat leaving behind?

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Hopefully, a good one. I think we have definitely changed the mentality [because of] myself and the five other seniors I’m lucky enough to have

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

IN CONTEXT HARVARD-YALE FOOTBALL RECENT HISTORY LONGEST WIN STREAKS IN THE RIVALRY

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 12:00 PM Javanese Gamelan: Concert and Lecture-Demo.

Gamelan, an orchestra consisting of predominantly gong- and metallophone-type instruments made from bronze, is wellappreciated throughout Indonesia and beyond. Gamelan music is considered essential for official ceremonies, life-cycle rituals, radio/TV broadcasts and various celebrations. Gamelan is now taught in Indonesian schools and colleges, and in several universities around the world. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Second Floor Common Room.

12:30 PM Secret Societies in Roman Syria: The Cult of Mithras at Dura-Europos. The extraordinary preservation of the archaeological remains at Dura-Europos, in modernday Syria, provides a vivid picture of a thriving multicultural city on the eastern edge of the Roman Empire. A variety of religious communities — pagan, Jewish and Christian — lived and worshipped together there in the decades before the city was conquered by the Sasanians. One of these communities worshipped the god Mithras, whose cult involved secrecy, initiation, and rituals that remain enigmatic. Lisa Brody, associate curator of ancient art, looks at the Mithraeum from Dura, which provides some of the best evidence for the cult. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

THINK ABOUT IT BY FRANCIS RINALDI

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 4:00 PM Hijacking Human Rights; or, History in the Passive Voice. Joseph Slaughter specializes in literature, law and sociocultural history of the Global South. His book “Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law,” which explores the cooperative narrative logics of international human rights law and the Bildungsroman, was awarded the 2008 Rene Wellek prize for comparative literature and cultural theory. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 317.

8:00 PM Yale Cabaret’s Boris Yeltsin. Portuguese playwright Mickaël de Oliveira’s provocative reimagining of Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” examines what would happen if Orestes has no reason to avenge his father. This world-premiere English-language production is an electrifying look at eroding moral codes that brings audiences face-to-face with the most terrifying and hilarious aspects of our contemporary, postcolonial culture. Yale Cabaret (217 Park St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE “Peerless” puts college admissions in the spotlight

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Sometimes, the world of college admissions really can be a matter of life or death.

The world premiere of Jiehae Park’s witty and fast-paced play “peerless” opens at the Yale Repertory Theater on Dec. 3 and runs until Dec. 19. Featuring a cast of five actors, the play’s storyline weaves together a number of themes in unexpected ways, allowing for surprise and suspense. Director Margot Bordelon DRA ’13 described the play as having truly a musical score, in which the rhythm and emotional authenticity of dialogue are equally important to the performance. The play explores the conflict between sisterhood and selfish interest, exemplified by the relationship between its protagonists, twin sisters M and L. Dean of the School of Drama and

Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theater James Bundy said the show is a high-adrenaline production due to the plot’s lifeand-death drama.

“The play explores the statement ‘I would do anything to get into college,’ and what the furthest you can go with that is,” said Amy Boratko DRA’13, the Rep’s literary manager. “It asks what the American Dream is, and finds comedy — until it’s not.”

The storyline of “peerless” shares common themes with “Macbeth,” Park said, adding that she chose her play’s title directly from one of its scenes.

Even so, Park stressed that Shakespeare’s classic tragedy was merely an inspiration. Her play, she explained, is not a modern retelling of “Macbeth” — it is more of a riff than an adaptation.

Many of the play’s themes touch upon the realities of Ivy League admissions, though

Boratko explained that “The College” around which the plot is centered remains nameless because of Park’s desire to convey that no particular university was necessarily a universal dream shared by all students, but instead a specific goal of the twins in the play.

“It’s such fun to do a piece here about the lengths people are willing to go to get into ‘The College,’ because Yale is considered one of ‘the colleges’ in the U.S.,” said Bordelon. “College admission requirements have become so absurd in the past decade, and this play really satirizes that whole process.”

But the storyline was not modeled on the playwright’s personal experience of applying to university, which was “relatively random and laid back,” she said.

Instead, Park explained, the play focuses on the experiences

of traditionally high-achieving students — the sort who, Park added, would be devastated if rejected from the colleges they were “supposed to” attend.

“This is a play about ambition for a community filled with ambitious people,” Bundy said.

“I think a lot of audience members are going to see parts of themselves in the characters.”

Beyond the realm of college admissions, Bordelon emphasized the overarching struggle between love and ambition as one of the play’s important themes. “[The message of the play] is not about one school, but about anything involving striving to the pinnacle,” Boratko said.

The performance runs for approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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The world premiere of Jiehae Park’s “peerless” puts college admissions drama center stage.

Visiting professor talks urban planning challenges

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a Tuesday evening talk, Orit Halpern bridged the gap between cybernetic theories and urban

planning challenges.

Titled “Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment and ‘Apocalyptic Hope,’” Halpern’s talk constituted the latest installment in the History of

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The latest “Modernist Forum” lecture discussed the historic “Architecture Machine Group” and contemporary challenges in urban planning.

Art Department’s “Modernist Forum” fall lecture series. Halpern, an assistant professor of history at the New School, presented a chapter on MIT’s “Architecture Machine Group” — a subdivision of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology architecture program — drawn from her forthcoming book, “Strange Agency: A History of Post-War Intelligence.”

“Dr. Halpern is an exciting, emerging voice in the field, and her research presents a really fresh take on art history and the history of science,” said Lucy Hunter GRD ’19, a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department and co-director of the Modernist Forum.

In her presentation, Halpern discussed several of the Architectural Machine Group’s projects, focusing on those that respond to “imaginary apocalypses, data and smart cities,” as well as those concerning the architecture of perception and interactivity.

As a case study of how she

thinks projects that place too much emphasis on data can transform something inherently dynamic — in this case, a city’s urban fabric — into a “ubiquitous, plain project,” Halpern highlighted South Korea’s Songdo International Business District, a new “smart city” currently under construction about 65 kilometers southwest of Seoul. She explained that the ads for the development suggest that the new district will be able to withstand future disasters, a claim she said she takes issue with, adding that she thinks that digital modeling and demos are useful for devising new technologies but do not allow their users to attack particular problems and instead present generalized idealizations.

“We’ve gone from sustainability to resilience. Resilience is now, how do we manage shock, to survive,” Halpern explained.

“We’re always running these demos for housing for the ‘other

half’ and other examples of prototyping in terms of resilience.”

Halpern highlighted that in many ways, the self-ordering system, which can organize itself according to demand, is the fantasy of future cities and urban constructions. She said the Tokyo subway system, where there is no central control, is an ideal system that organizes itself in such a fashion adding that “smart” is now often seen as equivalent to “sensing.”

She also referred to the Architectural Machine Group’s 1970 “Seek” exhibition, held at New York City’s Jewish Museum, which she said dealt with many of the same challenges that face urban planners. In the exhibition, a group of gerbils was allowed to roam in an environment of computer-controlled blocks. Contrary to what the experiment designers had anticipated, the programmers were not able to successfully anticipate the gerbils’ moves. They outsmarted the

computer, and the project created disarray.

Many students who attended the talk said that they found it refreshing to hear this highly specific discourse around the Architectural Machine Group bridging the gap between science and the issues surrounding architecture and urban planning.

Hunter explained that Halpern’s material, in her opinion, appeals to a wide variety of audiences because of its ability to bring together history, art and science.

“I thought it was really interesting looking at the way she ended with resilience or sustainability,” said Dante Furioso ARCH ’16. “It symbolizes the way that we think about our relationship to the world and our relationship to the future.”

Orit Halpern is the author of “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945.”

Contact NATALINA LOPEZ at natalina.lopez@yale.edu .

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Ballet company recasts holiday classic

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER This weekend, the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company will present excerpts from holiday favorite “The Nutcracker” alongside original student choreography.

The show, with performances on Friday and Saturday in Yale’s OffBroadway Theater, will include Nutcracker excerpts such as the “Waltz of the Snowflakes” and the “Waltz of the Flowers,” two popular numbers from the ballet. In addition, the performance will include works of original student choreography set to music and poetry, including songs such as Adele’s “Hello” and poems by Maya Angelou, producer Adriana Rodriguez ’16 said. It will also feature a live orchestra — something the company has done only once before, according to Nicholas Smith ’16, one of the show’s three directors.

“We are trying to address a diverse audience,” Rodriguez said. “Original choreographies vary from classical ballet compositions to modern ones.”

Planning for the production began at the start of fall semester, Smith noted.

From its inception, the show was a collaborative effort, cast member Lance Chantiles-Wertz ’19 explained, a

member of the cast. Isabella BerglundBrown ’19, another of the company’s dancers, explained that the group encourages original input from all of its members. Because the YUBC is run entirely by students, Rodriguez and Smith added, company members are deeply involved in all elements of production, including set, light and costume design, as well as practical details like reserving performance spaces.

“One of the things I think is really nice is the fact that making the cast list is really a group effort; anyone can choreograph, anyone can pick a song,” Berglund-Brown said. “It’s a very supportive group.”

Emily Amjad ’19, a YUBC dancer, said that she thinks this level of student involvement fosters an environment distinctly different from other “Nutcracker” renditions she has been involved in. Because of the role students play in planning, choreographing and producing the show, as opposed to being “fed” choreographies by a professor or teacher, the performance is imbued with a uniquely individual aspect, Chantiles-Wertz said.

Smith said that rehearsals for this weekend’s performances typically total about 10 or 15 hours a week, but noted that as the show approaches, members of the cast have begun practicing

for up to 30 hours weekly. Members of the orchestra who will play during the show — including musicians from a variety of student groups on campus, including the Yale Symphony Orchestra, Saybrook College Orchestra and Davenport Pops Orchestra — have begun working with the dancers as well, in common rehearsals where both parties can work together and perfect tempos, said musical director Patrida Rangchaikul ’17.

Rangchaikul added that the main reason the YUBC wanted a live orchestra to accompany its performance was the flexibility such an arrangement provides for dancers.

“The tempo of a live orchestra is more flexible,” Rangchaikul explained.

“It can accommodate the moves of the dancers better.”

Smith added that because of the nature of the Off-Broadway space, the orchestra will be close to the stage and visible to the audience, which will give the show a more intimate feel than traditional ballet performances, where musicians are typically in an orchestra pit separate from the audience.

The Off-Broadway Theater is located at 41 Broadway.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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This Friday and Saturday, the YUBC will present classics from “The Nutcracker” alongside new student choreographies.

Greece’s crime noir goes global

BY AYLA BESEMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Patricia Barbeito, a professor of English at the Rhode Island School of Design, spoke to a handful of Yale community members Tuesday about the global re-emergence of the “crime noir” literary genre and its implications as a tool for understanding globalization.

Entitled “Crisis Noir: Petros Markaris’ Detective Novels and the Greek Financial Crisis,” Barbeito’s talk discussed Greek author Petros Markaris’ trilogy of detective novels about Greece’s financial crisis, arguing that Markaris’ use of the crime noir genre challenges societal conventions and provides insight on Greek culture beyond recent headlines, which tend to focus on “traumatic” economic and political events. In her talk, Barbeito emphasized how artistic culture reflects an important aspect of Greek society often overlooked by the media — a view echoed by Hellenic Studies lecturer George Syrimis, who coordinated the event.

“Strangely, but also somewhat conventionally, the arts thrive in crisis,” Syrimis said. “There’s a big

gap in the coverage of what’s going on in Greece artistically; it’s a little secret that there’s been a renaissance in Greece the last five years.”

It’s up to the arts to come up with a new language to talk about the issues that people are confronting.

PATRICIA BARBEITO Professor of English at the Rhode Island School of Design The crime noir genre, which grew out of American economic turmoil in the ’20s and ’30s, has resurfaced and undergone reinvention in order to capture the modern moment, Barbeito said.

Crime noir reveals cultural anxieties on both governmental and familial levels, exploring the effects of communism, class and corruption.

Crime novelists from various countries play with the conventions of noir fiction, Barbeito said, using traditional character tropes

— such as the “square-shouldered, whisky-slugging, trench coat-wearing … hyper male” who often acts as a crime noir protagonist — to show changes in modern society. Markaris’ own experiments, while playful, work to capture the Greek crisis as a complex experience.

“In Greece, there is a real exhaustion with political and economic narratives,” Barbeito said.

“It’s up to the arts to come up with a new language to talk about the issues that people are confronting, and Markaris is picking up that torch with the Crisis trilogy in particular.”

Setting is integral to Markaris’ novels, which use geography as a way to understand character and culture, Barbeito explained. In Markaris’ novel, she noted, place functions as a character in its own right, posing the question of an environment’s “political potentiality,” and how that influences the way people interact within it.

Markaris’ Athenian “adopted home” provides a setting through which the novels’ protagonist Costas Haritos can explore the national psyche in light of capitalism’s failures, Barbeito said.

“Contemporary crime writers experiment with the conventions of the crime genre as entertainment,” Barbeito noted. “They insist, at the same time, on the political and cultural seriousness of their work.”

Barbeito argued that Markaris is part of a network of crime writers around the world, making his cultural observations pertinent beyond only Greece. She discussed Markaris’ particular focus on fostering understanding between Germany and Greece — influenced by his German education — for which he was awarded the Goethe Medal in 2013, Barbeito said.

Following the talk, Barbeito opened the floor to questions, engaging the audience in a dialogue on different interpretations of Markaris’ work. Maria Kaliambou, a senior lector in the Hellenic Studies Department, said that she found the constructive views and different readings of Markaris’ trilogy presented by audience members particularly engaging.

Gerasimus Katsan, a professor at Queens College in New York who attended the talk, praised Barbeito’s framing of Markaris’ work in the global context.

Kaliambou also emphasized the importance of the Hellenic Studies Department’s lec-

ture series overall, which through workshops, seminars and conferences, provides perspective to the Yale community about Greek culture both within Greece and beyond.

“Greece, or any other culture and community, cannot be reduced to numbers, which is what we have been hearing in the last years about Greece,” Syrimis said. “I want students to walk away knowing that Greece is not simply a bankrupt economy, but a vibrant, bright and hopeful cultural landscape.”

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

AALIYAH IBRAHIM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

A Tuesday talk highlighted the potential of Greek “crime noir” novels as a new lens through which to view the nation’s economic crises.

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EMILIE KATZ ’17 REGIONAL RECOGNITION Following a season in which the junior goalkeeper finished fourth in the nation in save percentage, Katz was recognized by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association for her stellar play. Katz was named to the All-Mid-East Region second team.

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Yale routs Manhattan

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First take or a good take

Yale 13–12 in the second quarter, the Elis still took a comfortable 37–23 lead into the locker room.

After a first half that saw Manhattan shoot just 22.2 percent, the Bulldog defense managed to clamp down even more on the Jaspers following the halftime break. Manhattan was held to just 13 points in the two quarters, including a sole successful jump shot out of 13 field-goal attempts in the third.

While Yale’s defensive effort certainly gave the team much to be happy about, the Bulldogs did

It’s no secret that the national media is in a state of flux. Print newspapers are increasingly cutting back, news websites are adding paywalls and the pockets of media organizations are leaner than in years past.

This holds true even in the wide world of sports, where industry behemoth ESPN recently laid off hundreds of employees in the wake of rising TV fees and falling TV subscription numbers.

In addition, beloved ESPN offshoot Grantland, which was started by since-departed (read: fired) Bill Simmons, was shut down in October despite numerous accolades and a list of contributors that reads like a Who’s Who of talented writers.

Locally, the New Haven Register recently let a number of copy and sports staffers go, including the reporter who I have had the pleasure of working alongside while covering Yale football and basketball in my time on campus. The struggling paper, whose national owner filed for bankruptcy in both 2009 and 2012 and which was almost sold this past summer to a private equity firm, failed to recap the Yale men’s basketball game against Lehigh. In addition, the Elis’ contests against SMU and defending national champion Duke were only included through AP wire stories rather than original pieces by Register staff members.

Meanwhile, if we take a 50-minute drive north to Bristol, Connecticut, home of ESPN, we can find one stark example of sports media that continues to succeed despite the grim landscape: First Take, a TV show that airs on weekday mornings.

Headlined by Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith, First Take purports to debate the day’s hottest topics in sports. But rather than a nuanced, informative debate actually designed to

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Forward Nyasha Sarju ’16 led Yale in scoring for the sixth time in eight contests, registering 12 points in the blowout win.

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team easily dismantled Manhattan on Tuesday night, winning by a score of 62–36 to continue an unblemished 3–0 start at home.

The Bulldogs (5–3, 0–0 Ivy) led from start to finish, and the defense in particular was exceptionally effective against the Jaspers (2–4, 0–0 Metro Atlantic), forcing 33 turnovers and limiting Manhattan to just 10–48 shooting that night.

For the sixth game this season, guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 led the team in

scoring, registering 12 points to pace the Elis. Guards Meghan McIntyre ’17 and Tamara Simpson ’18 joined Sarju in the double digits, tallying 10 points each.

“We came out with intensity on both ends of the floor from the tip,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “Our defense was what really allowed us to gain a big lead in the first quarter and we never let up the rest of the game.”

Center Emmy Allen ’16 added that improved free-throw and fieldgoal percentages — Yale shot 78.6 percent from the foul line and 42.6 percent from the floor — as well as

solid rebounding contributed to the team’s win.

The Bulldogs immediately applied pressure on Manhattan, jumping out to a 16–2 advantage within the first six minutes of action, a lead that the Jaspers were never able to overcome.

All five starters — Sarju, McIntyre, Simpson, Wyckoff and forward Katie Werner ’17 — scored in the opening run that ultimately saw Yale take a 25–10 lead into the second quarter. Sarju was at the center of Yale’s quick start, hitting all of her shots in the period en route to seven firstquarter points.

Although Manhattan outscored

Dooney ’16 races at NCAA Nationals

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Returning from his third trip to the NCAA National Championship in as many years, men’s cross country captain Kevin Dooney ’16 stands out as a top athlete at Yale. He earned a 61st-place finish at Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky, over Thanksgiving break and 34th in 2014, in addition to being awarded All-American honors last year and earning three career All-Ivy and All-Region namings. After another successful cross country season that included a second-place individual finish at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, he and many members of his team will make the transition to track, where they are hoping to bring some success from the fall with them. The News sat down with Dooney to discuss his cross country career and goals for the track season.

CROSS COUNTRY did the Louisville course QHow differ from the other Nationals races you participated in?

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The last two years it’s been in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Luckily, we’d been to [Louisville] for Pre-Nationals. Personally I preferred the Terre Haute course. I’m experienced enough with the race and I unfortunately am used to being there alone. It was nice knowing I had experience to rely on when the course is a little unfamiliar.

Indiana is purposefully built as a cross country course. Louisville is park land — there are many more twists and turns.

Q

What were your thoughts on your performance at this year’s Nationals?

A

Well, you never like to go backward. My summer training wasn’t as good as last year, and it’s such a competitive race. I was 11 seconds off being an All-American again.

[The performance was due to] a combo of rough travel and the way the race went out, incredibly hard. I paid the price. I did everything I could to hold on to the position I was in.

made the journey to QWhat Louisville “rough”?

A

For Nationals, you leave a little bit earlier [than for other events]. We flew out of Hartford on Wednesday [before a Saturday race]. We were supposed to connect in Atlanta, but there was a storm over Atlanta. We landed two hours late and missed our connection in Atlanta. Some sort of calamity of refueling and pilots not being there delayed the 12 a.m. flight to 6:45 a.m. My coach tucked me in on an empty bench in the Atlanta airport. We eventually got to Louisville at 9 a.m.

Thursday, which added 12 hours of travel and a lost night of sleep.

difficult to be an individual QIsqualifier rather than a member of a qualifying team?

A

The NCAA puts on a good show. There was a banquet at Churchill Downs this year. It was a fun opportunity, but it’s definitely hard when you see all the other teams there. Thankfully I had two coaches with me. There was an Ivy League table and stretching tent. On

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the men’s side, there were one Columbia and two Cornell individual qualifiers. It was nice to hang out together and not be completely on your own leading up to a race. You get used to doing everything as part of your team. It’s different, but I raced throughout high school as an individual most of the time so it’s not too much of a shock to me. stands out about QWhat Nationals compared to the other meets of the season?

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In terms of numbers, it’s a much bigger field. Beforehand there’s an increased level of atmosphere. There’s live music going on and lots of energy around the start line.

You know there’s so many good runners. You can’t take your foot off the gas. If you lose focus for a second then three people pass you. The number of people you have around you at all the time and the energy level stand out.

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Dooney, who captained the Elis this fall, placed 61st in a field of top runners at NCAA Nationals.

THE NUMBER OF TIMES MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CAPTAIN KEVIN DOONEY ’16 QUALIFIED TO RACE AT THE NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. Dooney’s best performance came in 2014, when he finished 34th, which earned him All-American honors.