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Cultural Connections sees high demand

50 most. Boston Consulting Group released its annual list of the 50 most influential companies yesterday. The top three spots went to Apple, Google and Tesla Motors, in that order. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, received an honorary degree from Yale at the University’s 314th commencement.

Carson missile crisis.

According to poll numbers released by Quinnipiac University yesterday, support for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson ’73 is quickly declining amid recent scrutiny of his understanding of foreign policy. Since Quinnipiac’s November survey, Carson has fallen seven points from 23 to 16 percent.

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Classics dept decries admin “raid” on funds

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sity and inclusion. While his email did not specifically mention Cultural Connections, students and administrators are discussing the ways in which the increasingly popular program could benefit from additional funding, as well as the role it plays in shaping the experiences of students of color on campus.

Cultural Connections has evolved

Every year for the past four years, Classics professor Andrew Johnston has encouraged students taking his ancient history and Roman culture courses to spend their summers participating in a renowned archaeological excavation project at the ancient city of Gabii in Italy, where Johnston runs the field school.

But every year, Johnston has watched as dozens of interested students are denied the chance to do so due to a lack of financial support — despite the more-than-$50,000 annual budget of the Tarbell Fund, an endowed Classics departmental fund specifically designated “for the support of instruction in classical archaeology.”

Instead of funding students to join the archaeological excavation as its indenture, or contract, specifies, almost all of the Tarbell Fund’s budget this year will go to paying for repair work in Phelps Hall, according to Classics department chairman Kirk Freudenburg. Other endowed funds in the department have also been redirected to pay for the University’s general budget, Classics professors interviewed said.

At a Nov. 18 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate meeting, Freudenburg presented a report criticizing the administration’s “aggressive” financial strategy over

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My name is Kerry, I’m so very. At a State Department

press conference yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 spoke for NATO saying member countries were ready to cooperate with Russian forces to bolster the military response to ISIL’s presence in Syria. Kerry spoke after attending two days of meetings in Brussels, which houses NATO’s headquarters.

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Demand for the Cultural Connections pre-orientation program has grown significantly in recent years.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Over the past month, through protests, marches, teach-ins and open forums, students have advocated for greater resources for minority and underrepresented students at the University. But many students may feel the need for such support even before setting foot in New Haven for the first time: the demand for the

pre-orientation program Cultural Connections has steadily increased since the program’s inception, with several dozen students turned away this year.

In light of recent demonstrations about Yale’s racial climate, University President Peter Salovey promised in a University-wide email on Nov. 17 to increase funding for cultural initiatives on campus, including orientation programs that explore diver-

Do you want to move back to LDub? Several residential

college deans have sent out Freshman Counselor applications for the class of 2017. Each year, roughly 300 students apply to be FroCos and about 100 are accepted.

The application process includes an interview. Apply by midnight on Friday, Jan. 29.

Sassy. The South Asian

Society at Yale invites community members to an open forum at 8 p.m. in WLH this evening. The conversation will consider recent campus events through the eyes of South Asian students, focusing on racial microaggressions and the role of South Asian students in the Yale community.

Wedding No. 2. Marnie, Allison

Williams’ ’10 character on the hit HBO show “Girls,” will get married in the show’s fifth season, which is scheduled to premiere on Feb. 21. Williams herself recently got married to longtime boyfriend Ricky Van Veen, who is the co-founder of College Humor, in Saratoga, Wyoming.

Party Up (Up in Toad’s).

Rapper DMX will perform at Toad’s Place tonight at 8 p.m.

DMX, who is known for his 1999 hit single “Party Up (Up in Here),” has sold over 30 million records worldwide, which makes him one of the most successful hip-hop artists of all time.

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1990 The history department announces that it will require professors to restrict course enrollment based on the availability of teaching assistants. According to the new policy, enrollment will be limited to 36 students per TA. Follow along for the News’ latest.

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Less debt burden at elite law schools

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER After the publication of Stanford Law Professor Deborah Rhode’s ’74 LAW ’77 new book, “The Trouble with Lawyers,” in June, debates surrounding the cost of law school tuition have returned to the national spotlight.

In her book, Rhode exposes many problems in legal education, ranging from the oftentimes excessive expense to the marginalization of professional ethics.

For instance, Rhode notes in her book that the average in-state tuition at a public law school has grown 1,000 percent over the past 25 years.

Rhode told the News that

Med school adjusts faculty salaries

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After controversy earlier this year regarding gender issues at the medical school, Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern outlined the process behind this year’s changes to faculty salaries, including alterations intended to alleviate gender discrepancies in compensation.

At a town hall meeting Wednesday, Alpern explained that for the past several years, adjustments to faculty salaries at the medical school have taken into account education, seniority, median salaries for other private schools and productivity, among other factors. He went on to explain, however, that the medical school dean’s office undertook a more detailed review of faculty compensation last summer, which has resulted in higher salaries for certain faculty and a narrowing of the gender pay gap at the medical school. Alpern said that salary adjustments were made for 4.4 percent of male faculty members and 10.5 percent of female faculty members, and that the average increase in compensation amounted to roughly $15,000. He added that these increases, which were communicated to these faculty in September, were retroactive to July 1.

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many of the problems identified in her book — particularly those of unmanageable tuition costs and resulting debt burdens for students — are applicable to elite law schools such as Yale’s. But law school administrators interviewed said the problem is actually less severe at top universities, due to school-specific loan repayment programs and better

job prospects.

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While graduate students receive stipends from their universities to cover their cost of living, law students usually finance their expenses through loans.

Loan forgiveness programs at law schools ease the burden of these loans.

According to Jill Stone, Yale Law School’s director of financial aid, the school’s tuition fees have increased between 2 and 3 percent annually over the last five years. However, Stone added, the rising fees were matched with scholarships and loans which increased at the same rate. CurSEE LAW SCHOOL PAGE 6

Hill garden seeks funds to grow

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER On a vacant lot in the Hill neighborhood, long-time resident Jamilah Rasheed tends to tomatoes and peppers, along with fruit trees and flowers. Rasheed’s work at the Field of Greens community garden in New Haven over the past two years has helped feed families in the surrounding neighborhood. Now,

Rasheed is looking for funds to keep the garden growing for another year.

Field of Greens is one of 526 gardens around the world participating in a new fundraising initiative called SeedMoney. This initiative, established by sustainable food nonprofit Kitchen Gardeners International, kicked off Nov. 15. It incentivizes participating groups to raise funds for a “challenge grant,” in which groups aim to raise either $200 or

$400 and are randomly selected to have their funds matched by KGI. Field of Greens has until Dec. 16 to complete its fundraising goal on the SeedMoney website. Rasheed said the money from the fundraiser will go toward building new plant beds and buying soil and seedlings for the upcoming spring and summer.

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Jamilah Rasheed tends the Hill neighborhood garden alongside volunteers from the Elm City community.

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few months ago, I got lunch with one of those people you hang out with at the beginning of Yale but not much during the middle. I met Jess at Columbia’s Prospie Days, where we mostly discussed Yale.

We Skyped in July before we came here and exchanged emails and wrote each other Tumblr posts.

As Yale commenced, Jess pursued Greek life, and I hung out with people who wrote plays and built sets (not mutually exclusive, but different enough).

In Atticus on a rainy September day, we caught up on the past three years, contextualizing each other’s snarky tweets that we had favorited earlier. Because we happen to be Latinas, we had some parallel experiences. I was amazed by how easily we could recognize the nuances of one another’s lives. It was like visiting a childhood friend’s home, where you know exactly what part of the drawer to find the forks.

In the last month, I’ve needed these kinds of connections. I was exhausted by communicating with people who just didn’t get it. And most of the time, the people that happened to be least understanding were white. Some people accuse me of “being racist” for making such a statement, but it’s just true.

TO HIM AND OTHERS, I SAY WE'VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING During my four years here, I attributed my lack of involvement with La Casa to the demographics of Latinos on Yale’s campus, which are mostly composed of people with roots in the Caribbean and Central America. South American cultures are distinct from other Latin American countries and each other.

Lumping us into one space isn’t entirely successful. All the cultural centers have similar divisions within their own walls, and those who fit into multiple ethnic categories struggle with choosing between the houses.

It’s never easy to be considered an “other.”

I’ve talked to the press a lot this semester about my experiences. I would describe most of these interactions as positive, but I finished each conversation drained. I was speaking about my own experiences, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was speaking on behalf of everyone affected by racism in elite settings. I’ve felt this way many times, and it’s a burden that I carry in seminars and senior societies. One journalist asked me about people’s hesitance to even interact with the

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media — why don’t they just want to be heard?

To him and others, I say we’ve already been talking.

ADRIANA We’re talking at bars and MIELE tombs and off-campus Check apartments.

We’re talking yourself at club meetings and academic offices. We’re talking and talking and talking, and maybe you haven’t heard us because you didn’t have to listen until now.

Instead, people ask us for proof. How does racism affect your everyday life? Um, have you ever taken an AP history class? Because everybody loves referencing the Iliad and ignoring Don Quixote.

How does sexism affect you?

My answer: Google it and start reading.

Someone recently told me that she thinks people of color are sometimes alienating white people. This is probably true.

What’s even truer is that this is just a fraction of the alienation that some of us face every day.

And I just want to say to those who are upset and feel threatened: Deal with it.

I could be angry for the rest of my life. Part of me will always be angry. But I also want to happy and productive and listen to “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” by Mariah Carey on repeat. Being angry is consuming. I might dislike reading colonialist poetry by white men from New England, but sometimes that’s my homework, and I have to graduate with 36 credits.

I got a message from a childhood friend on Facebook this weekend. We haven’t spoken in years, but she said she’s been following the events at Yale, reading my posts and thinking of me. I haven’t answered yet, mostly because there’s so much I want to say. I want her to know that I’m writing a play and when I write, I imagine it taking place in the home she once inhabited: a lakeside apartment where I spent many nights watching Hugh Grant movies. Hearing from her, I was reminded of the kinship you feel with those you grow up with. These connections are the sorts we yearn for in trying times.

In an interview last year, the singer-songwriter A Fine Frenzy describes one of her songs as a tune about common human need. “We all want a witness to our life,” she said.

To me this means, we all deserve to be around people who understand us. We are meant to be truly seen.

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s a scientist, I often see professional work cited years after it is published. Now, however, Walter Riemann ’77 and I are seeing cited our 40-year-old co-authorship, the 1975 Woodward Report. We were the two undergraduate signatories.

Those were different times.

No complaints from our fellow students that the report should discuss “micro-aggressions,” or emotions that were “disrespected” by Halloween costumes.

No. The Vietnam War had killed 55,000 young Americans.

Black Panthers were on campus urging the murder of police.

William Shockley, a Nobel laureate, had come to Yale to debate: “Resolved: Society has the moral obligation to diagnose and treat tragic racial IQ inferiority.”

Yale’s response had not been sterling. True, the Panthers spoke freely at Yale. But the speech of Vietnam General William Westmoreland was canceled following threats of violence. William Shockley was shouted down by students chanting: “Shockley, Shockley you’re a liar, we will set your pants on fire.” And although Shockley eventually debated William Rusher, Rusher afterwards was covered with spit by Yalies outraged that he had debated Shockley.

In the 1970s, a “do-unto-others” argument was offered to persuade would-be censors to allow anyone to say anything, no matter how “offensive.” Its logic recognized that power to censor can change hands. Thus, if you have the power today to suppress

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speech that you find offensive, you should not use it, because next year, someone else might have that power and suppress your speech. The civil liberties of all individuals are secure only in a culture that deeply respects everyone’s civil liberties, no matter what is said or who is in power.

Others sought a middle ground, saying: “Well yes, free speech is fine, and we can have it, but only after censorship is used to empower the disempowered.”

But this contradicts reality. Censorship is the exercise of power by the empowered. Free speech is how the disempowered become empowered.

But there was a better argument for free and open discourse, one rooted in the history of ideas and how they emerge, in science and culture.

Let’s begin with Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist, who noted that “science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” “Science alone [teaches] the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers.”

For the modern world, this means that knowledge cannot be discovered in any community who finds persuasive an argument that begins with the phrase: “97 percent of experts agree … ” But there is more. The community must also value discomfiting realities more than comfortable falsehoods. For example, its culture must agree that it is better to know that we evolved from “disgusting lower life,” than to hold the likely false (but comfortable) view that we are divinely created.

From these observations comes a conundrum: If experts can be wrong, and if we value knowledge, how can we possibly uncover the errors of experts and discover what is true? Especially if the experts are supported by political power, including the power to censor the 3 percent who disagree?

The Enlightenment, following experience with Galileo and many others, sought “free speech” to solve this conundrum. Let any and all ideas be expressed by anyone. Fight the ideas out in public, unconstrained by political power.

Maybe not this year, and maybe not even in this generation, but eventually, the truth will emerge.

This solution has had many successes. A generation ago, about 97 percent of experts, supported by “big money,” agreed that ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food. Billion-dollar drugs were sold based on this falsehood. Yet unpoliticized science found truth. And ulcers are now treated.

Censorship is bad because it deprives the censors themselves of their route to discover truth.

Now, lawyers, politicians and other advocates respond poorly to these arguments. Try persuading Stalin that by advocating Lysenkoism and jailing dissident Darwinists, he deprived himself of the science needed to feed his population. Stalin valued his power more than truth; millions starved.

Or try persuading the Red Guard that by shaming professors in dunce hats for having insufficiently progressive views, they

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are depriving themselves of the knowledge they need to prosper.

Those students valued an ideology of virtuous equality over China’s economic success. Millions in poverty.

Or try persuading Vice President Albert Gore or Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ’78 that by disparaging “deniers” or prosecuting them under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, they are depriving themselves of access to climate reality. “Deniers” are correctly called “scientists,” and climate science will take years to recover from its current politicization before it can again uncover reality.

Of course, politics has missions other than knowledge. Yale does not. Its mission above all is the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge.

Therefore, Yale’s culture must value open discourse. Yale simply cannot have faculty being fired because powerful (for the moment) “disempowered” students find letters “offensive.”

Sensitivity training, cultural or otherwise, is not called for. Education is, in the history of ideas, the role of speech in developing those ideas, and why knowledge is valued over “safe spaces.”

That is, those today assaulting free speech at Yale need a liberal education.

Which, I assume, is why they matriculated at Yale in the first place.

STEVEN BENNER is a 1976 graduate of Branford College. Contact him at sbenner@ffame.org .

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am an alumna of Yale College and a descendant of slaveholders.

In our society, the first part of that sentence is a cause for celebration, and the latter a cause for silence. But both statements are true, and they are intertwined. By enslaving other human beings, my ancestors amassed wealth that, in turn, financed education.

On my mother’s side, at least one person has attended Yale in each generation since the founding of the College.

It was probably because they understood the value and power of education that my ancestors — if they were like most slaveholders, and I have no reason to believe otherwise — denied even the most basic education to their slaves. Elvira. Jack. Milley.

Rose. Tom. Dorcas. Judith. Chloe.

Mitchell. Sam. Sambo. Gabriel.

Sarah. Linda. Paul. Squire. Moll.

Patt. And maybe others. For all of the Yale diplomas in my family, not a single one bore these names.

Not a single one gave credit where it was, at least partially, due.

The last proceeds of my family’s slave ownership were spent long ago. But my ancestors left me a different kind of inheritance.

I grew up in a family of highly educated people. I received the gift of belonging, of walking onto the Yale campus and knowing that it really was built for people

like me. These gifts added to the gifts common to nearly all white Americans and denied to nearly all black Americans descended from slaves: the gift of knowing one’s history and origins; of seeing one’s culture, morality and physical appearance favorably portrayed; of getting the benefit of the doubt, even when acting stupidly or illegally; and of deciding when to think about race, or deciding that we’d rather not.

These gifts were useful at Yale, particularly at times when the campus and the coursework seemed daunting. Looking back, I feel fortunate that everyone in power — from my residential college leadership, to my professors, to the administration — seemed genuinely committed to my success. For me, Yale was a community.

Yale was not the same type of community for many of my black peers, who faced all of the same challenges that I did, and many more I did not. While they may have had their supporters, black students faced a daily battle against an institution and a student body that was subtly or overtly hostile to their presence on campus. At orientation, there was the Pierson welcome dinner my friends later called the “plantation dinner”: we mostly white students were served by all black, bowtie-clad servers.

On Old Campus at night, there were gates that were held open as I approached, but hurriedly shut in the faces of black students who “didn’t look like they went to Yale.” There were questions about why “all the black students” sit together in Commons (uttered by white students sitting together in Commons). There were MLKday “ghetto” parties at white fraternities. There were professors who did not look like black students, who mispronounced their names or confused them with other black students they did not resemble. There were people they were meant to call “Master,” and rooms known, not long ago, as the “Slave Quarters.” There was a college named after John C. Calhoun. That was not the only thing — for some people, it was not even the worst thing. But there was that, too.

Renaming Calhoun College will not change the discriminatory nature of the American education system. Renaming the college will do little for black people whose potential contributions to American society have been underestimated, written off and precluded. These people were never seen as students, much less students bound for Yale. But for black students who do make it to Yale — the ones who survive this system and thrive in spite of the obstacles it presents — renaming

Calhoun may make the Yale environment slightly more welcoming. This step would not be the end of our work. It would not be sufficient. But it would be a reasonably good place to start.

Those who oppose renaming the college argue that we should not hold Calhoun to anachronistic moral standards. We should not negate his less controversial accomplishments. We should not “erase” history in a misguided attempt to avoid uncomfortable conversations.

Here is my proposal: If we must keep Calhoun’s name on the college, then let’s also honor the contributions of the human beings he enslaved. Let’s cover the walls with their names. Let’s write them large. Let’s chisel them into the stone.

In his Freshman Address this year, Dean Holloway urged students to recognize the people — “coaches, professors, administrators, custodians” — whose “sacrifices have brought [them] here.” Why do any less for the people whose lives, and whose children’s lives, were stolen and torn apart so that Calhoun could succeed? That is not erasing history — it is telling it more completely.

MAURA FITZGERALD is a 2008 graduate of Pierson College. Contact her at maura.fitzgerald@gmail.com .

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Uber rates down, drivers up in arms

A previous version of the article “Bradley recognized for work in global health” misquoted Katherine Wiltshire, executive director of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. In fact, Wiltshire said Elizabeth Bradley “has improved quality of care in hospital settings.”

A previous version of the article “YPU debates ethnic studies requirement” incorrectly stated the leadership roles of two students in the YPU. Aia Sarycheva ’16 is former president of the YPU, and Clifford Carr ’17 is former floor leader of the Left.

Study looks at intern shifts

BY MANASA RAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In response to a lack of concrete data on duty hour requirements for internal medicine residents, the Comparative Effectiveness of Models Optimizing Patient Safety and Resident Education organization launched an ongoing study that requires first-year interns at Yale-New Haven Hospital and 62 other internal medicine programs to participate in 28-hour shifts.

The internal medicine residency program at YNHH is participating in the study, which began July 1 and will end June 30, 2016, in order to gain information on how to best train residents, according to Mark Siegel, program director of the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program. Siegel stated that this particular study offers the medical education community — and society at large — an opportunity to answer key questions about the best way to educate resident physicians while focusing on the key outcomes of patient safety and resident, particularly intern, well-being.

While controversy continues in the medical community as to whether longer resident shifts or handoffs — when a physician transfers patient duty to the next doctor on call — are more error-prone, resident directors at YNHH all agreed the study’s question is an important one to investigate. The internal medicine program at YNHH hopes to use the data to optimize training methods in the future.

Siegel also pointed out that shorter work shifts with strict regulations on when a resident must leave the hospital could have a negative impact on an intern’s well-being, because interns are then under pressure to finished their work faster.

“There may be some concerns about intern safety when completing overnight shifts,” Siegel said. “There is significant observational data that [intern safety is] compromised by shorter work shifts. They might be stressed out by work compression — having to leave hospitals by certain deadlines. With all this as background, there is a lot of uncertainty in the educational community regarding the best way to train interns. This is an opportunity to answer those questions.”

YNHH Pediatric Residency Program Director Andrea Asnes agreed that studying workhours is important for the medical community. As a program director, Asnes said the length of her residents’ shifts “plagues” her, adding that the well-being of her residents is “always on [her] mind.” She recalled that her own experience as a resident in New York staying at the hospital past her regulated 24-hour

shifts to check on her patients in the morning was a “powerful experience.”

Asnes said that from an educational standpoint she prefers longer work shifts to an increased number of handoffs between doctors, but stated that it is hard to argue with the science of sleep and the fatigue data that has been collected. Adding that both methods have inherent flaws, Asnes said the YNHH pediatric residency program has worked to include ways of standardization to make handoffs safer including “talk back” of patient data — a method shown in studies to decrease errors in handoffs. During a “talk back,” the next doctor on call will physically repeat the information back to the departing doctor, thereby confirming its accuracy. Granted that her residents had the option to refuse participation on their own grounds, Asnes said she would have loved to have the pediatric residency program participate — like the internal medicine program — in a study similar to this one, and is “deeply interested” in the results.

Zi Wang, a postgraduate year one internal medicine resident, is an intern who ranked the YaleNew Haven internal medicine program high on his match list as an applicant. When applying to different residency programs, an applicant will rank their preferences while the residency program does the same for their applicants. Wang, who knew he would be required to participate in the study if matched with the Yale-New Haven program, said he did not believe participation in the study would largely impact his training outcome and was interested in the study as he applied to programs.

Wang added that although the ethics of the study do not bother him personally, he could see both sides of the argument on informed consent since the match system ultimately decided if he and other residents who were subjects in the study would have to participate.

He added that in his experience, fatigue sets in during the twentieth hour of a shift.

“In the last eight hours, you are really unable to take in any new information or learn anything. You may miss things and you are really on autopilot. At the end of my shift, I feel sometimes I am [not as] good of a clinician,” Wang said.

The study, which has main sites at the University of Pennsylvania, John’s Hopkins and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ,was approved by the National Institutes of Health, according to Gary Desir, interim chair at Yale-New Haven’s Department of Medicine.

Contact MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu .

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Uber drivers do not share Uber management’s belief that lower fares will ultimately increase drivers’ earnings.

BY JACOB STERN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though Uber users in Connecticut are celebrating recent rate reductions, local Uber drivers have voiced grave concerns about the changes potentially lowering their already meager earnings.

The cuts, which went into effect Nov. 23, apply to the entire state except Hartford County, where Uber already lowered prices in mid-August.

Matthew Powers, Uber’s Connecticut general manager, said the cost reductions represent one more step towards the company’s goal of becoming the most affordable, reliable and safe transportation option for consumers in Connecticut.

But New Haven drivers interviewed said the cuts do not have the economic well-being of local Uber drivers in mind.

Many noted that because Ubers are already much cheaper than taxis, adding further cuts does more harm than good.

“Myself and the rest of the drivers, we’re struggling now,” said one driver who requested to remain anonymous for fear his account would be deactivated. “It’s just not right what they’re doing to us. While they’re making millions and millions of dollars, we’re making just a little bit.”

Uber uses a three-part pricing system — combining perminute and per-mile components with a base fare — to calculate the total cost of a ride. The company’s recent rate reductions affected all three of these elements. The per-minute rate decreased from $1.50 to $1.10, the per-mile rate fell from $0.18 to $0.16 and the base fare dropped from $2.00 to $1.75.

Powers said the resounding success of the Hartford County rate cuts prompted the decision to reduce prices statewide. He said the decrease of the price per ride was more than compensated for by a sharp increase in the volume of rides.

“Drivers ended up being much busier than they were previously and more of their time was monetized,” Powers said, adding that drivers in Harford ended up making 35 percent more money.

Powers said New Haven Uber drivers are already serving more customers and earning more money. But he acknowledged that the spike in ride volume over the past couple of weeks may also be due to Thanksgiving travel, not the new reduced rates.

Still, New Haven drivers remain unconvinced that lower-priced rides will benefit them.

A second driver, who also requested anonymity to avoid losing his job, expressed frustration with how Uber treats its drivers. Though Uber calls its drivers “partners,” the driver interviewed said the relationship between drivers and Uber management is far from egalitarian. He said this fact is even truer now, given the cuts.

“They’re letting us drown,” the driver said. “That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.”

But Powers said drivers will benefit from the reductions in the long run, noting this is not the company’s first time operating with lower rates. California and Texas have also lowered their ride rates over the past year.

In spite of Powers’ assurances, William Scalzi, president of the West Haven-based taxi company Metro Taxi, said the reductions will be catastrophic for Uber drivers. Many, he said, are already thinking of leaving the company.

“We had drivers who left here to go to Uber when [the company] first came here,” he said. “Now those drivers are calling us on a continual basis because they want to come back.”

Uber began operating in Connecticut in 2014.

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

Dixwell teen center in progress

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Toni Harp accepted a $7,500 check Tuesday afternoon earmarked for The Escape — a teen center in Dixwell set to open in March.

The new facility will provide New Haven’s 13- to 24-year-old youths with a variety of enrichment activities, educational resources and health services. The grant, given by Wells Fargo, will fund The Escape’s costs, which include $385,000 in construction and around $100,000 in yearly operating costs, New Haven Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett said. The 32,000-square-foot facility has been under construction for the past month in a property owned by the neighboring Bethel AME Church on Goffe Street.

“In the past, the city moved away from providing safe spaces from youth and that was a mistake,” Bartlett said.

“On any given day, there are a lot of kids on the Green and on empty lots, just wandering around without access to productive experiences.”

The Escape will also house 15 beds for homeless youth, Bartlett said. The shelter spaces for teens will take a step toward helping the 420 youth without permanent homes in New Haven, Bartlett said.

Bartlett added that the city has already obtained all $385,000 necessary for renovations to The Escape’s future home. The City Youth Services Department has also set aside an additional $100,000 of its own funds to begin youth services. Bartlett said the depart-

NEED FOR A TEEN CENTER IN THE CITY THE BREAKDOWN 420 teens in the city do not have a permanent home.

Around 67 percent do not have a college education or higher.

21,500 students are in the New Haven Public School system.

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ment will continue to seek funds, as it did by applying for the Wells Fargo grant.

A local Wells Fargo employee will also join The Escape Teen Center’s board of directors, Wells Fargo District Manager Kimberly Chamberlain said. Employees at the bank will also volunteer at The Escape by teaching budgeting and saving lessons, she added.

The Escape in New Haven is a response to over six years of pressure from youth and community leaders to create a safe space for youth, Beaver Hills Alder Claudette RobinsonThorpe said. She added that the coalition of support from the city and private donors, such as Wells Fargo, will help ensure the project’s success.

“It takes a village to raise our children and I think we’ve got all the important players on board,” Robinson-Thorpe said.

The city modeled The Escape in New Haven after The Door, a nonprofit in New York City that provides recreation, education and health services to youth, Bartlett said. The Door serves over 10,000 youth each year and has operated for over 43 years.

Teens at The Door easily discover resources they did not realize they needed because it places of all of its services under one roof, The Door Director of Communications Kristin Rubisch said. For example, students coming to the center for afternoon recreational activities have discovered that they can also obtain college application guidance or legal services, Rubisch said.

The Door has provided academic and employment services such as GED classes, college prep and job training to more than 1,500 young people in the past year. The Door also

connected around 1,500 youth to counseling and provided crisis support to around 1,100 youth who ran away or were homeless; 7,000 also received general health services.

“What we are really hoping for is to help young people seize opportunities and to become self-sustaining adults,” Rubisch said. “Even at 20 years old, youth face so many challenges in New York City with unemployment, not being able to finish schools and homelessness. So many obstacles prevent them from living sustainable lives as adults.”

New Haven is not the first to emulate The Door’s model.

Two organizations — one in Stockholm and the other in Ottawa, Canada — sought The Door’s help in creating similar youth services facilities.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” CLAUDE MONET FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER

Classics profs criticize use of dept funding CLASSICS FROM PAGE 1 the past eight years of appropriating his department’s restricted, endowed funds for purposes he said do not align with how donors intended the money to be used.

Regular departmental expenses, such as librarian salaries and faculty research budgets — which had previously been paid from the University’s central administrative budget — are instead being paid with the department’s restricted funds. In total, Freudenburg said, the department has paid more than one million dollars toward these departmental expenses since 2008. Other Classics professors interviewed confirmed that what they described as an administrative “raid” on funds is damaging the quality of the department.

“When I came to Yale 10 years ago, I did so under the impression that we were expected to stand toe to toe with our competition by doing exceptional things, by having big ideas, developing programs, providing magnificent opportunities for our students and so on,” Freudenburg said at the senate meeting. “In fact, for the past several years, the only bold initiatives I have been able to undertake as chair of Classics have had to do with finding ways to eliminate and slash away at the very things that have helped make the Department of Classics at Yale one of the best in the country.”

In his presentation, Freudenburg referred primarily to former University President Richard Levin’s “all funds” budgeting initiative, which was instituted after the 2008 financial crisis to compensate for the drop in the University’s endowment and remains in place today. The budgeting strategy stipulates that more restricted funds — such as departmentally endowed funds — should be used before less restricted funds for the most effective deployment of resources, according to FAS Dean Tamar Gendler. Freudenburg, however, said the administration’s centralization of his department’s endowed funds has severely damaged its ability to do “important and necessary things” for the department’s students. He said the all funds budgeting model should no longer be used, as the endowment has fully recovered since the recession, and he recommended that the FAS Senate hold the administration accountable for its use of departmental funds — not only in the Clas-

sics department, but also in many other departments at the University.

Gendler, who said she has not been given a detailed version of Freudenburg’s remarks, defended the use of all funds budgeting. She said using more restricted funds before less restricted funds is a method for “responsible stewardship” of University resources and provides support for the University’s core academic mission.

Still, Freudenburg’s report extensively detailed how the all funds budgeting initiative has crippled his department’s finances. For example, starting from the spring of 2008, the department has been required to pay a Capital Allocation tax — essentially rent for the offices in Phelps Hall, Freudenburg said.

The amount was supposed to be capped at $50,000 a year but has now risen to more than $57,000.

Freudenberg called the tax “odd,” describing it as asking the department to pay for “being a department and doing our jobs.” In 2010, the department became responsible for paying for all research funds for almost all of the department’s members, and in 2011 it was tasked with paying a significant portion of the salary and benefits of Classics Librarian Colin McCaffrey. These expenses had previously always been paid by the administration, according to the report. Other added expenses include the salary and benefits of an administrative assistant in the Yale University Art Gallery, the stipend of a graduate student and the salary of the department’s lecturers.

However, Freudenburg noted that the amount of money the department has had to pay is not the only concern. He said the administration is taking advantage of loopholes in the restricted funds’ indentures. For example, the Horatio Reynolds Fund stipulates that no part of the fund may be applied to salaries of teaching staff. But the indenture makes no stipulation about librarians, so the administration used the fund to pay for the Classics Library librarian. Because of these financial maneuvers, Freudenburg said, the department’s largest fund, the Martin Kellogg Fund, is projected to run a deficit next year — the first in its history.

“Donors need to be warned: Leave any small opening in whatever indenture you write, and this administration will drive a truck through it,” Freudenburg

said. “The financial details that I have laid out above suggest that donors’ intentions are not treated as priorities by this administration, but as obstacles to be gotten around.”

Other Classics professors confirmed the impact the all funds budgeting system has had on the department’s students and faculty. Professor Emily Greenwood, the former Classics director of undergraduate studies, said Classics majors are missing out on opportunities to join excavation projects and visit overseas museums. There has also been a decrease in the number, range and ambition of conferences and colloquia hosted by the department. Greenwood added that faculty members have been forced to shelve many exciting initiatives due to financial constraints, and that these impacts will damage the department’s profile over time.

“As a department we do an excellent job with what we have, but it would be dishonest to pretend that areas of our teaching and research have not been undermined by the raid on our endowed funds,” Greenwood said.

Johnston said that a few years ago, the department could support any qualified, deserving Yale student who wanted to participate in the Gabii excavation project. Now, however, the department can only partially support two students at most. He said the administration has “handcuffed” the faculty and students by taking away the department’s resources.

Speaking more generally, Greenwood said there needs to be clear accountability when endowed funds are appropriated into the general budget, as well as a restoration of these funds when a budget surplus returns.

“An important part of the University’s financial ethos is … the safeguarding and shepherding of the endowment so that future generations of students and faculty can benefit from Yale’s academic and intellectual culture,” she said. “Depleting endowed funds in Classics and other departments and programs is a breach of this ethos; this is to condemn future generations of students to less excellent academic training.”

The Classics Library contains a working collection of over 25,000 noncirculating volumes.

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

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Classics department professors say the administration is appropriating departmental funds for its own purposes.

Field of Greens feeds neighborhood families

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Field of Greens grows a variety of produce, including tomatoes, kale, onions and peppers.

GARDEN FROM PAGE 1 that various projects are having with [SeedMoney],” KGI Founding Director Jason Doiron said.

“It’s a useful tool for a wide range of food garden projects serving people in need.”

The garden aims to enhance the eating habits of nearby residents, as well as encouraging neighbors — many of whom are recently arrived immigrants from countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Mexico — to befriend each other and form a stronger community, Rasheed said.

The poverty levels in the Hill mean people do not eat nutritious food, Rasheed said. The

Hill neighborhood has a 41 percent poverty rate, DataHaven reported in 2012. But with the garden’s produce, families have added more vegetables, like onions, sweet potatoes and cabbage, to their diets. The produce allows residents to spend less on groceries as well, which leads to more flexibility in their budgets, Rasheed added.

Rasheed established the garden after attending the 2012 New Haven Food Policy Council Food Summit. She chose a vacant lot on Arthur Street where two houses had been demolished. Before its transformation, the lot served as a location for drug dealing and dumping trash,

Rasheed said. After checking with the city to ensure that the location of the garden was legal, Rasheed enlisted the help of the New Haven Land Trust, Common Ground High School and the Livable City Initiative, which provided labor and funds to set up the garden.

According to New Haven Land Trust Executive Director Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, the garden is one of 45 that the Land Trust supports throughout the city. Elicker said the Land Trust provides gardens like Field of Greens with the “nuts and bolts” to operate, such as tools and sheds.

“The whole goal is to empower

community members to grow their own food, increase community engagement in their neighborhood and make their neighborhood a better place to live,” Elicker said. “Field of Greens is a great example of just that.”

Rasheed said although she and several other community members work in the Field of Greens year-round, ideally a separate family would maintain each of the garden’s beds. Rasheed has maintained efforts to reach out to residents, such as bringing produce door-to-door and teaching children in the neighborhood how to tend to the beds, she said.

While she still sees drinking and drug problems in the neigh-

borhood, the garden encourages residents to view the Hill in a positive light, Rasheed said.

“In the garden we have flowers and pretty colors, which gives people the sense that things can change and become better in this neighborhood,” she said.

Elicker commended Rasheed for her community outreach and the responsibility she has undertaken with the garden. He added that the Land Trust has backed Field of Greens in additional projects, such as the new pollinator plants installed in the garden a few weeks ago.

Field of Greens had previously received a grant from KGI through the Sow It Forward Pro-

gram, in which gardeners could obtain grants after submitting an application, Rasheed said.

The goal of the new SeedMoney program, which replaced Sow It Forward this year, is to promote the sustainability of gardens like Field of Greens “by helping them help themselves,” Doiron said. Through the SeedMoney fundraiser, Field of Greens can build a database of donors for later reference as well.

According to the SeedMoney Web page, Field of Greens has $165 from six donors as of Wednesday evening.

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

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“Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.” ELON MUSK INVENTOR, INVESTOR AND ENGINEER

Tesla vies for showrooms in Connecticut

BY ALICE ZHAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Tesla Motors is pushing the state General Assembly to reintroduce a bill that would allow them to open showrooms in Connecticut after it failed to reach the state Senate for a final vote before the end of the 2015 legislative session.

The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill in May to permit Tesla Motors, a company that manufactures and distributes electric cars, to open

three showrooms in Connecticut. But despite House approval by a margin of 116–32, the bill, HB 6682, was never voted on in the General Assembly because last-minute budget issues had to take precedent, state Rep. Angel Arce, D-Hartford, said. Government Relations Manager for Tesla Motors Will Nicholas said Tesla hopes next year — specifically around early February, when the legislative session begins — will be the year the company makes history. If HB 6682 is signed into law, he said, it will be the first

time Connecticut law allows cars to circumvent automobile dealerships and be sold directly from the auto manufacturers.

“For 100 years, automobile sales have been from franchises associated with car companies and not through car companies themselves,” New Haven Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said. “Tesla is trying to break that down.”

Nemerson said Tesla, which always sells its cars from its own showroom, considers the direct

relationship between car manufacturers and consumers an integral part of its business model.

Currently, Connecticut has only allowed Tesla to open a service center in Milford. Connecticut residents who want to purchase a Tesla car must travel to neighboring states Massachusetts, New Jersey or New York to find a Tesla showroom.

Nicholas said Connecticut has an ideal market for Tesla because residents have shown a strong interest in electric cars and Connecticut has invested in promot-

ing electric vehicle technology.

Arce, who supported HB 6682 during the last legislative session, said Tesla’s proposal to enter the Connecticut market makes good business sense because the company already buys parts from three manufacturers in Connecticut.

“If it’s safe and it follows the rules and regulations of the state, I will support it,” he said.

But not everyone in Connecticut hopes to see the bill pass.

Licensed automobile dealers have voiced opposition to HB

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6682, noting that the bill could create an incentive for other car companies to sell directly to Connecticut consumers, undermining the automobile-dealership business.

Nemerson said automobile dealerships benefit customers by protecting them from faulty products. Since automobile dealerships could go out of business if they sold defective products, they have a strong incentive to band together and only sell the best products car manufacturers produce.

“Dealers are the customers for the companies, and customers are the customers for the dealers,” he said.

Nemerson said Tesla and Connecticut’s automobile dealerships are in conflict because Tesla’s business model disrupts a century-old understanding between car dealers and manufacturers that each provide a separate but complementary service. He said Tesla operates under a new framework that renders a middleman between manufacturer and consumer obsolete.

“It’s a clash of American capitalistic cultures,” he said.

Still, Nicholas said Tesla’s entry to the Connecticut market is unlikely to negatively impact licensed dealerships. He said there has been no evidence of job loss or dealership closure in the other states where Tesla operates.

In fact, he said, each new showroom that opens in Connecticut could create up to 25 new jobs and generate $7 million to $10 million for the state economy.

An earlier version of HB 6682 called for five new showrooms.

But the Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association and Tesla Motors agreed to reduce this number to three in the revised bill.

Nicholas said he hopes to negotiate the number of showrooms that should open in Connecticut with the General Assembly during the next legislative session. Jim Fleming, president of the Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association, did not respond to requests for comment.

Tesla Motors currently has showrooms in 22 other states as well as Washington, D.C. Contact ALICE ZHAO at alice.zhao@yale.edu .

Pho and Spice opens on Orange Street

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Orange Street has added a new pho restaurant with brick walls and an expansive dining area to an alreadybustling block of activity.

After pioneering five restaurants in the Boston area, Thailand native Sumon Suwan has opened up his first New Haven restaurant, Pho and Spice, at 76 Orange St. Sitting just a block away from Elm City Market, Pho and Spice officially started serving its authentic Vietnamese and Thai food on Nov. 5.

Though it has only been officially open for a short period of time, Suwan said that the restaurant has seen a steady stream of customers.

“We have a lot of students come in,” Suwan said. “Some students come three to four days a week, so we are very lucky to have regulars.”

Suwan said he started his first Vietnamese and Thai food restaurant — Pho and Rice — in Somerville, Massachusetts 13 years ago. He also opened another similar restaurant in Boston, this time called Pho and Spice, in 2011.

Each time he opens a new restaurant, he sells the one he has most recently opened, Suwan said. For example, he added, after he opened Pho and Spice in New Haven, he sold his Boston restaurant to his cousin.

Suwan said the restaurant tends to cater to big groups,

including families, residents and students. But, Suwan said, his restaurant does not target a particular demographic. He also noted that he does not see much competition from around the area because his restaurant serves the most authentic Thai and Vietnamese food in the area.

“I don’t think we have any [competition] because we are totally different,” Suwan said.

“We do more authentic Thai and Vietnamese food.”

Suwan said menu items range from pho to stir-fried noodles and bubble tea.

Students who have eaten at Pho and Spice praised the restaurant’s authentic flavors and architectural openness. But they said the restaurant’s location, which is nearly a mile away from Old Campus, may deter them from visiting.

“I ordered a classic Asian dish that they prepared very well,” Thomas Aviles ’16 said.

“The only worry I have is that students might not be compelled to walk down there from central campus when other Asian spots like Basil and Thai Taste are closer.”

Other students who had not yet visited expressed interest in visiting the Orange Street location.

“I like pho,” Lyndon Ji ’16 said. “So I’ll definitely visit.”

Pho and Spice is open for lunch and dinner all week.

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FROM THE FRONT Cultural Connections grows in popularity PRE-ORIENTATION FROM PAGE 1 over the years to meet the changing needs of Yale’s minority students.

While the program began as the Puerto Rican Orientation Program in the 1970s, it was renamed the Pre-Registration Orientation Program soon after before becoming Cultural Connections in 1999. According to its website, the program explores diverse student experiences at Yale, particularly highlighting those of students of color and issues relating to racial identity, although it began accepting students of all ethnicities in 2004. Incoming freshmen are assigned to two upperclassmen in small groups affectionately called “families,” and activities include panels on campus life presented by ethnic counselors, discussions with faculty members who specialize in nationality and race and introductions to Yale’s cultural centers.

Due to its popularity, the program was largely oversubscribed this year relative to past years, with many members of the class of 2019 who registered for the program being turned away or redirected to other pre-orientation programs. Cultural Connections counselor Dustin Nguyen ’18 said roughly 200 students applied but only about 130 could be accepted, adding that while last year families usually consisted of seven prefrosh, this year the size more than doubled.

Cultural Connections is not cut and dry.

JINCHEN ZOU ’18 Counselor, Cultural Connections “We honestly need more counselors, because this year we had to turn away more kids than ever before,” Nguyen said. “If we could increase our funding to be able to pay more counselors, we could accept more of the incoming freshmen.”

A larger pool of participants, he added, would also help the program better represent a diverse range of perspectives.

Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said Cultural Connections is constantly evolving and growing, adding that it is fair to say that recent campus conversations will shape how the program is approached. He added that the past month’s racial controversies are issues relevant to the entire Yale community and ones he hopes will be addressed in classrooms and student organizations as well as orientation programs.

“I would love to find ways to expand on some of the socio-economic [and] class discussions that happen within the program. I would also love to see

ways that we might further engage majority students in these necessary discussions of race, culture, curiosity and understanding,” Howard said.

“After all, we all bring some forms of our cultures and identities to Yale, and we should all begin to develop the language and tools to delve into this necessary and sometimes uncomfortable learning that is the college experience.”

Howard said enrollment in this fall’s Cultural Connections was the highest it has ever been, which he said speaks to the resonance of the program with new students and the commitment of the upperclassmen who staff the program.

Cultural Connections is the only pre-orientation program other than the Orientation for Yale College International Students that is free to students on financial aid, with the exception of travel costs. Both Yale’s Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips and Harvest provide a sliding scale of cost reductions to students on financial aid. Cultural Connections and OISS are also the cheapest programs, costing $200, with FOOT and Harvest costing a minimum of $430 and $420 respectively.

But former participants also highlighted less tangible benefits to the program, emphasizing the ways in which Cultural Connections is invaluable to minority students’ introductions to Yale.

“Cultural Connections is not cut and dry. It’s about the community that you make and the people, conversations and shared experiences,” Cultural Connections Counselor Jinchen Zou ’18 said. “The programmatic aspects of CC are important in that it supports the transition from high school to college, but there is also the community that comes with it and that is even more important than the structural part.”

Similarly, Cultural Connections counselor Abdul-Razak Zachariah ’17 cited the space students are given to share their experiences as one of the program’s largest benefits. There is a lot of respect in the room when students share their journeys to Yale, Zachariah said, and it is important that people do not immediately make assumptions about others. Cultural Connections allows students to be unapologetic about their identities, he said.

Salovey said a slew of options would be explored to improve existing programs focused on racial diversity, as well as develop new ones grounded in academic scholarship.

“We will be exploring various programs,” Salovey told the News. “In general I am more satisfied with ones that are research-based and focus on unconscious prejudices and intergroup relations.”

This year, Cultural Connections ran from Aug. 22 to Aug. 27.

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

“I thought that if acting didn’t work out, I’d have done law school or medical school.”

JESSE WILLIAMS AMERICAN ACTOR, MODEL AND ACTIVIST

Unique tuition options at elite law schools LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 rently, the average student loan debt at the law school, which is roughly $122,000, is lower than the nationwide average debt for both public and private law schools combined, Stone added.

Stone said debt is inherent in the way law schools are structured, and that even when provided with full rides toward tuition, students often need to borrow loans to cover their costs of living. But she added that this debt burden is less of a problem at Yale because of institutional scholarships and the school’s unique loan forgiveness program: the Career Options Assistance Program. Established in 1989, COAP funds all debts for law school graduates with annual incomes under $50,000, and a portion of the debts for alumni earning higher incomes. The higher the income, the more an alum is expected to contribute towards his or her student loans.

“We kind of pride ourselves on COAP,” Stone said. “It allows our graduates to follow their dreams … We don’t want loan repayment to drive their life.

We want their life to drive loan repayment.”

What makes COAP different from loan repayment assistance programs at other schools is that it is strictly income-based, Stone said, adding that programs at other schools only give assistance to students entering the public service and nonprofit sectors.

She added that unlike other law schools, Yale Law School recognizes that students face loan debts and provides counseling to cater to specific needs. For example, every graduate is offered a one-on-one consultation with the financial aid staff for suggestions on loan repayment, Stone said.

Law School spokesperson Janet Conroy said besides offering these individual sessions, the school also runs various workshops to boost financial literacy, covering topics ranging from retirement to insurance. It also has a popular financial aid blog that offers relevant tips, she added. The tips range from how to live on a budget to where to buy apartment furniture.

Conroy said the school’s small size enables it to invest in such close, individualized assistance that is impossible at larger schools.

Georgetown Law School Dean William Treanor LAW ’86 said his school pays for a student’s loan if the student works in the public interest sector.

Alumni earning below $75,000 annually receive the maximum benefit, and those benefits continue on a diminishing basis for incomes above $75,000, according to the school’s financial aid website.

Michelle Deakin, managing director of Media Relations & Public Information at Harvard Law School, said the school also has its own loan assistance program. Harvard’s Low Income Protection Plan relieves the burden of education loan repayment for law school graduates working full-time in govern-

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Yale Law School administrators say nationwide problems with affordability are less prominent at Yale. ment, nonprofit or academic jobs.

In addition to school-specific loan assistance, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program — a federal aid program — eliminates federal student loan debt for those working full-time in public service after one makes 120 monthly payments.

“A lot of people don’t enter law school because they think they will never be able to pay the debt, but the federal program, along with programs at different schools, makes it possible [for students] to enter public interest and not worry about their debts,” Treanor said.

However, Stone said the federal program is “very much in jeopardy” due to lack of funding. She added that there have been proposals to eliminate the program. President Barack Obama’s 2015 budget proposal to Congress proposed capping the program at $57,500 for all new borrowers, while Republicans continue to push for the full elimination of the program.

Because COAP is independent of the federal program, Yale law students need not worry about the potential elimination of the program, Stone added.

Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School Transparency, a nonprofit advocacy organization that generates reports aimed at making legal education and profession more transparent, said while Yale has the COAP, loan repayment assistance is rare among less elite schools. Therefore, students at those schools face higher debt burdens.

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In her book, Rhode notes that law school graduates face increasing competition in the legal job market, which results in difficulty for students trying to repay their debts. However, elite law schools are more likely to have their alumni find jobs after graduation, Rhode told the News.

McEntee said all law schools are “priced too high,” but the problem is different at elite law schools such as

Yale’s. Students at non-elite schools are taking on a lot of risk when entering law school because they may not pass the bar exam. Law students at Yale and other top law schools face this risk less often, he added.

“Reputation of the school is very helpful in a profession obsessed with prestige,” McEntee said.

In December 2012, McEntee published an article in the Huffington Post rebutting a November 2012 op-ed

by Lawrence Mitchell, then-dean of Case Western Reserve University’s law school. In Mitchell’s writing, he argued that practicing law pays off over the long term and that the graying of babyboom lawyers creates career opportunities for law school graduates.

McEntee, however, argued in his article that law students are still burdened by heavy debts and the crunch for lawyer jobs continues to worsen.

Treanor agreed that students’ job prospects in the profession have to do a great deal with the reputation of the school. Since the U.S. News and World Report started ranking law schools about 25 years ago, the top 14 schools have almost remained the same every year, Treanor added. Yale Law School was ranked first by U.S. News and World Report earlier this year.

Some external surveys and employment statistics discount graduates who go into academics and law teaching after graduation, which many at Yale Law do, Conroy said. Some surveys do not count fellowships as being employed, but many students take a clerkship upon graduation, which is why Yale Law School has been ranked top on those lists, Conroy added.

According to Yale Law School’s employment statistics for 2014, two of 230 graduates of the class of 2014 are seeking jobs but are unemployed. Three are not seeking employment and four deferred their job start date.

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

Alpern aims to close gender pay gap SALARIES FROM PAGE 1 pensated,” Alpern said. “Number one, they need to be fairly compensated and number two, they need to be confident that that’s the case.”

He said the old salary model showed a gender difference in compensation of about 3 percent when incentive payments in the clinical departments — additional payments that are not guaranteed to faculty and incentivize

clinical work — were not included and a difference of 5 percent when incentive payments were included.

While the purpose of the faculty salary review was to ensure the equity of compensation across the medical school, Alpern said it was easier to compare faculty salaries in the school’s basic science departments than in the clinical departments due to the smaller size of the basic science departments and the relative uniformity of job expectations for basic science faculty.

He added that faculty compensation within the clinical departments, which employ over 2,000 faculty, is more complex because of discrepancies in departmental approaches to rewarding faculty productivity. For example, some departments reward for collection income, while some reward for RVUs — a measure used in the Medicare reimbursement formula.

Alpern said rather than modifying the existing model, as it has done in previous years, the dean’s

office chose to individually examine the salaries of each clinical department’s faculty members.

“In the clinical departments, gender differences raise concerns,” he said. “We concluded that no schoolwide model would ever capture the diverse approaches to compensation used by clinical departments. The model cannot replace individual review of compensations in the clinical departments.”

The examination process came

GRAPH PERCENTAGE OF FACULTY WHO RECEIVED SALARY INCREASE BY GENDER

Percentage of women on the faculty whose compensation was adjusted 10.5%

Percentage of men on the faculty whose compensation was adjusted 4.4%

4.69%

2.1% 2.19%

Approximate average increase in salary: $15,000

Increase in compensation for women (including for promotion) Average increase in faculty compensation following review

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in three steps: a structural gender-based increase in salary, a merit-based increase in salary and an individual examination of each faculty member by a committee he or she serves on.

At the forum, he explained that the result was a 2.1 percent average increase in faculty salaries at the School.

“The net result when including increases for promotion was that compensation increased by 2.19 percent for men and 4.69 percent for women,” Alpern said. “What this doesn’t address is if someone needed a significant change in their compensation. That’s why we really needed a step three.”

He said that these meetings to analyze the salaries of individual faculty members involved all of the school’s 19 departments, and that each of the meetings included an investigation of how each individual department calculated the compensation of its academic staff. Alpern added that the review of each faculty member’s salary involved input from the head of their department who could comment on their progress.

Alpern also announced that the school will form an office of academic analytics whose director will serve as a compensation analyst.

A faculty member at the meeting raised the issue of transparency surrounding retention packages offered at the medical school.

She asked whether the review process had influenced the school’s approach to retention packages, noting that this was a “non-transparent” process that faculty mem-

bers do not fully understand.

In response, Alpern said the retention package issue was separate from compensation equity because faculty members offered retention packages often preferred anonymity.

“A lot of people who get retention packages don’t want them advertised and so it’s hard to be 100 percent transparent,” he said.

“We certainly can’t associate with names because people don’t want their names out there. If there are ways to be more transparent we’re happy to do that … but it’s not something that you can just put up on the website.”

Another faculty member asked Alpern whether the changes made were sufficient to fix the 3-percent gender discrepancy in faculty pay.

Alpern responded that “the model would be run again” in an effort to continue to improve the equity of faculty salaries. He added that although committees examining these issues paid attention to the career trajectories of faculty, they did not examine how trajectories had changed over time because they did not have the data necessary for doing so.

Collectively, the physicians at the School of Medicine have more than a million patient encounters a year and treat patients at eight affiliated hospitals, including YaleNew Haven Hospital, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital and the Smilow Cancer Hospital, according to the Yale School of Medicine website.

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

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“If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.” ANTHONY BOURDAIN AMERICAN CHEF AND AUTHOR

Harp launches reading commission

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday, Mayor Toni Harp and New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries announced the membership for the Blue Ribbon Commission on Reading — a 39-member task force charged with working to improve reading outcomes for New Haven Public School students.

The Blue Ribbon Commission is one of the initiatives Harp laid out in her 10-point education plan at an October Board of Education meeting, shortly after her appointment as BOE president. The all-volunteer commission — comprised of 39 Elm City teachers, professors, librarians, psychologists and other community members — will work with the BOE to identify and resolve issues in the current reading curriculum. The commission aims to improve literacy in all Elm City schools. According to 2015 Smarter Balanced Assessment results, a standardized test aligned with the Common Core curriculum, 71 percent of New Haven students in grades three through eight and grade 11 are not reading at grade level.

“In New Haven we’re zeroing in on reading because it’s the very foundation of learning

— there is no understating the importance of this: learning to read is the gateway to learning,” Harp said at the Tuesday press conference. “This Blue Ribbon Commission will help identify and respond to the gaps in curriculum, instruction and assessment within New Haven Public Schools and identify best practices to strengthen district-wide reading K-12.”

The commission will be divided into six subcommittees to improve literacy at all grade levels. The committees will focus on early childhood education, grade-level reading, special education, adult reading, English-as-a-second-language learners and involvement of parents and community. Next year, the commission will issue a comprehensive report outlining improvements that should be made to the city’s reading curriculum. But, Harries said, successful practices observed before the release of the official report may be implemented on a rolling basis.

Harp said the commission will look beyond the schools and reach out to families in the Greater New Haven community in order to foster a supportive learning environment for NHPS students.

“The commission will also

support family and community engagement with a goal of improving reading outcomes for students,” Harp added.

The co-chairs of the commission will be Wendy Samberg, director of instructional design at Gateway Community College, and Jerry Poole, former program director for Greater New Haven Opportunity Industrialization Center — a nonprofit that provides employment and training programs to low-income communities.

Westville Alder Richard Furlow, who currently sits on the Board of Alders’ Education Committee, will serve as the aldermanic representative on the commission. Furlow said he has done extensive work with students in Bridgeport, where 23.8 percent of students in grades three through eight and grade 11 are reading at grade level, according to 2015 SBAC scores. He said he was surprised to discover that Bridgeport high school students had difficulties reading basic literature.

“How can you get a job if you can’t read?” Furlow said.

The Blue Ribbon Commission will hold a preliminary meeting Monday evening at City Hall.

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

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Only 29 percent of New Haven students tested in the Smarter Balanced Assessment read at grade level.

Barracuda to celebrate first anniversary

BY DAVID WELLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

DENIZ SAIP/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Barracuda is an intimate bar and bistro on the corner of Park and Chapel.

After a year of swimming with the sharks in the New Haven restaurant scene, one fish has come away thriving.

Barracuda, a small bar and bistro on the corner of Park and Chapel streets, has been flourishing since the day owner Sonia Salazar opened the establishment in late November 2014. With its official anniversary celebration a week away, Barracuda has cemented itself as a Chapel West mainstay. But as Salazar looks back on her year in business, she takes the immediate success of her first business venture completely in stride.

“You never know [what will happen] when you open a restaurant,” Salazar said. “A restaurant is one of the most difficult businesses to maintain its consistency and its customers.”

Salazar immigrated to the United States from her native Colombia nearly 20 years ago with hopes of becoming a nurse.

But after securing a job at a Hyatt Hotels restaurant in Stamford while a student, Salazar said she quickly realized her passion lay in the restaurant world.

Salazar has since worked in kitchens across Connecticut, from Morton’s Steakhouse to the Union League Café. And before long, she said, the concept of owning her own establishment became too enticing for her to ignore. “[I wanted] just to have a fun restaurant where I could go out every night and play my Latin music and have a bunch of friends

hanging out with me at the bar,” Salazar said.

Salazar opened Barracuda on Nov. 28, 2014, in the building formerly occupied by AVRO Kitchen and Bar. Almost instantly, Barracuda found itself popular among students at the Yale School of Drama, which is nearby. Salazar said she attributes much of the bistro’s initial success to those early patrons.

In fact, Barracuda was so doing so well in its early days that Salazar faced the unexpected challenge of managing the restaurant’s ever-expanding customer base. At the restaurant’s 2014 New Year’s Eve party, the line to enter Barracuda — then scarcely a month old — wrapped well outside the door, Salazar told the New Haven Independent. Barracuda was operating with just one bartender in January and February.

“I opened at a very, very difficult time of the year,” Salazar said.

“People go away, people are busy during Christmas and Thanksgiving, so I was not expecting that for us. I was expecting just to be able to train people and train myself as a new owner. But, incredibly, it was the opposite.”

Barracuda is still a unique enterprise in the Elm City, just as it was in its early days. Its relatively compact size, three different happy hours and late closing time help bring new faces to the restaurant, patrons interviewed said.

“I’m excited [about finding Barracuda] because the only other late-night places are Mamoun’s and sometimes Louis’ Lunch,” Benjamin Hoffman MUS ’20, a first-time customer, said. “If

you’re going out on a weekday night, there’s no [other] place to get food and grab a drink.”

The menu and drinks have maintained their distinct combination of Latin American and traditional American flairs that the bistro has held from the start.

Salazar even has two staff members who have been with her since day one.

That continuity, coupled with Salazar’s work ethic and hospitality, has kept customers coming back, patrons interviewed said.

“I’ve been [coming to Barracuda] since the first week it opened,” local resident Angelica Papastavros said. “The food is tremendous and it’s stayed tremendous. The service is unbelievable … Everything [has stayed consistent, and] I’ve seen more people coming in, which makes me very, very happy.”

Salazar said some change is in the pipeline for Barracuda — but added that she is keeping her ideas secret for now.

Of more immediate focus for her is the bistro’s first anniversary party, which will be hosted on Dec. 10. Already, close to 300 people have RSVPed to the event on Facebook.

“A lot of people are coming,” Salazar said. “And then we’re going to have a Cuban [music] group, we’re gonna have free appetizers, it’s just gonna go crazy.”

Barracuda stays open until 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and is open until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

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

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“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” BILL NYE SCIENTIST

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

T H E C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N

Students find fault with diversity plan

Cornell Sober House to open

BY MATTHEW JARRELL “This isn’t to put you on the spot, but it’s to put you on the spot,” said Mae Verano, addressing a panel of five university administrators at an open forum dedicated to the university’s recently released action plan for diversity and inclusion hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students Tuesday.

Verano’s concerns were about the perceived “fragility” of administrators in dealing with the issues of promoting diversity, one of many criticisms levied by students who assert the plan is noninclusive and that it is insufficient to meet the challenges of ensuring a diverse community.

The forum stoked heated discussion between students and the five panelists: Provost Richard Locke; Dean of the College Maud Mandel; Vice President for Academic Development, Diversity and Inclusion Liza Cariaga-Lo; Interim Assistant Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Mary Grace Almandrez; and Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin.

Locke opened by touting the plan’s mission to “establish a set of concrete, achievable actions to promote diversity and inclusion and confront issues of racism, power, privilege and inequity … on campus.” The plan includes four categories for targeted intervention — the campus community, investing in people, academic leadership and accountability.

The plan calls upon academic departments to take the lead in implementing changes, and the responsibility for enacting diversity promotion falls largely to them, Locke said. “Every department has to own this.”

Attending students identified a variety of areas they feel deserve more attention.

Candice Ellis brought up issues of “fear and insecurity” about the plan and its recom-

mended changes voiced by community members who do not belong to a minority BROWN group. She cited the presence of a “White Student Union” on campus that perpetrates a “harmful ideology.”

Almandrez stressed the need to identify regressive voices by naming problems of structural oppression for what they are and in turn recognize the “good work” done in response.

“We have to change the conversation,” she said. “People are at different places in their comfort. The challenge is not to cater to the lowest common denominator.”

A key component of addressing the “vulnerability of white students” is including all students in departmental conversations about increasing faculty diversity, Cariaga-Lo said. “We need you to be seen as empowered agents in those departments,” she told the audience.

In response to a question about whether staff in all areas — including facilities management and Dining Services — would be given an opportunity to provide feedback on the plan, Locke said all staff are “encouraged” to raise concerns.

A few students immediately responded with criticism. “Let’s tell the truth here,” said Kobe Pereira.

Only those staff members with Brown email addresses were made aware of that opportunity, said Justice Gaines.

“We do have to recognize that people in facilities and dining don’t have easy access,” Cariaga-Lo said. “We have been in conversations with Human Resources to address this very issue. This is work that we pledge to do.”

Verano called on Locke to

alter his statement in light of Pereira’s comments regarding the alleged untruth of administrators’ statements. “The proper response would have been ‘thank you for telling me that,’” she said, meeting wide applause.

“Thank you, that was good feedback,” Locke responded.

The plan’s actions to reform the university’s existing mentoring programs were a target of critique.

Alexandra Sepolen voiced concerns about the way mentoring programs were presented in the plan as “increasing quantity over quality.”

Belinda Zhou mentioned that Meiklejohn Peer Advisors were not acknowledged in the plan and that training for Meiklejohn advisors is insufficient to address issues of diversity. “I definitely didn’t feel supported by the leadership in terms of training for navigating difficult conversations,” she said.

“We have a tremendous amount of work to do” to improve the Meiklejohn program, Mandel responded.

I n te r n a t i o n a l s t u d e n ts, including Divya Mehta and Camila Ruiz Segovia, expressed surprise that the plan did not address this group of students.

“There is a perception that all international students are white, rich kids,” Segovia said.

“We’re merged into the category of people of color,” Mehta said. But, she added, “Brown isn’t need-blind for international students.”

Administrators acknowledged the disproportionate role of the Brown Center for Students of Color and independent student activists in educating the community about diversity.

The common mode of communication “should not be the oppressed educating the oppressor,” Almandrez said.

“We want to ensure that individuals who are doing independent work will be justly compensated,” Cariaga-Lo added.

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

ACSRI targets climate change deniers

BY BANI SAPRA Following its rejection of Columbia Divest for Climate Justice’s fossil fuel divestment proposal, the Advisory Committee for Socially Responsible Investing will refocus its attention on its own divestment proposal that seeks to target publicly traded companies that dispute the science behind climate change.

By the end of the academic year, the committee will identify a list of companies it believes engages in climate change “denialism,” and recommend that the university divest from them, according to ACSRI Chairman Jeffrey Gordon.

ACSRI had begun drafting the proposal, called “Stand Up For Science,” before CDCJ submitted its proposal to the committee, but paused efforts to weigh the group’s proposal.

“The ‘Stand Up For Science’ approach focuses on what the committee thought was a critical unique factor in the climate change debate which is the denial of climate change science by key political actors,” Gordon told the Spectator. “The notion was that targeted divestment, that called attention to this climate change science denial, would exert leverage at the most relevant point.”

In its response to CDCJ’s proposal, ACSRI said that steps advocated by the proposal — which called for full divestment from the top 200 publicly traded coal, oil and gas companies by 2020 — would be largely symbolic.

The committee establishes a series of tests that a divestment proposal must meet in order for ACSRI to recommend it. One of those tests is that divestment is more effective than other alternatives—a test CDCJ’s proposal failed.

“A principal basis for the committee’s decision not to support the CDCJ petition is

that it calls for broadb a s e d divestment without regard to whether COLUMBIA s u c h divestment would affect the future behavior of any particular firm,” the response said. “The strategy draws no distinctions based on the conduct of the firms in question, even where differences in conduct materially affect the firm’s carbon burden.”

In determining which companies to target in “Stand Up For Science,” ACSRI will examine “a company’s role in stirring up popular confusion about the scientific conclusions” and “a company’s investment in high carbon-content resource exploration and development.”

“The next steps are to engage with some of the experts and see if we can come up with some specific firms and make a recommendation in that regard,” Gordon said. “We’re looking most to try to find firms that we think fall into the category that have meaningfully denied the climate change science by word or deed not beginning with the firms that happen to be in the portfolio at any moment.”

CDCJ has criticized the committee’s approach as an empty gesture.

“If ACSRI wishes to ‘stand up for science,’ however, they should stand up for the scientific consensus that 80 percent of the proven reserves these companies plan to exploit must be left underground,” the group said in a statement.

According to Gordon, this approach was taken to avoid contradicting the university’s own fossil fuel policies.

“Part of the university’s effort to reduce its own fossil fuel footprint is to switch many of its heating units from oil to natural gas,” Gordon said. “It seemed to

us inconsistent with the general use the university makes of fossil fuels … to endorse a broadbased approach on the grounds that there’s some deep moral objections.”

The committee’s response stated that climate change denial was the main obstacle against compelling the government to address the problem of climate change.

“The denial of human agency in climate change is a first-order problem in the climate change debate,” the report said. “It’s the denial of the science that keeps us frozen on the tracks rather than engaged in the concerted actions necessary to jump away.”

However, Steve Cohen, the executive director of the Earth Institute, told the Spectator in October that the problem doesn’t lie in the denial of climate science, but in the prioritization of it in the government’s agenda.

“The science of climate change is not contested by scientists and increasingly accepted by the average person … Even the majority of Republicans accept climate science and think something needs to be done about climate change,” Cohen said. “If they want to make symbolic stands against fossil fuel companies, that has a certain value but that’s not as important as what needs to be done to save the planet, which is to know more and to develop the technologies to ensure that we can survive.”

Yet Gordon said ACSRI’s research into companies engaging in climate change denialism would still be important in validating the committee’s position.

“We have to do the research to isolate the firms that specifically have engaged in the behavior that we’re concerned about,” Gordon said. “We want to be able to defend our position to the community and the trustees and the broader community that will pay attention to this.”

BY JAMIL RAHMAN Cornell’s Sober House club, which is comprised of members of Sober@Cornell, alumni, staff and faculty, plans to open a sober house for interested students by the fall of 2016.

G.P. Zurenda, a member of the main development committee, says the house is meant to be a safe place for those who have struggled with alcohol and drug abuse.

“The concept of the house is to provide an attractive space for Cornell students who have had problems with drugs and/or alcohol,” Zurenda said. “These students are self-identified as having a problem and need a supportive environment, which this house will address.”

William Sonnenstuhl, a professor of organizational behavior and an advisor to Sober@Cornell, said the plan for the house has only recently attracted the attention of the Cornell community.

“This idea has been kicking around for a while,” he said. “I actually wrote a proposal with Gannett [Health Services] a few years ago for the university to develop a sober house, but it didn’t get much traction — there were many problems on how to start this.”

According to Zurenda, when he and his wife bought the property on North Campus where the center will be located, the vision for Sober House began to take shape.

Zurenda said his interest in creating the center stems from his professional experience as a therapist and his eagerness to assist those in

need.

“I am a therapist in t o w n and I work a lot with CORNELL a l c o hol and drug issues, so I have a personal interest in helping people,” he said.

Sonnenstuhl added that the Cornell community’s support has been instrumental in establishing the house.

“Students in the Sober@ Cornell group have been leading the charge on a lot of this,” he said. “We’ve also got other students, faculty and administrators who are supportive of the idea, which is helping the process move ahead.”

Zurenda said he was pleasantly surprised that the project received so much support from Cornell’s Greek life system.

The concept… is to provide an attractive space for [those] who have had problems with drugs and/or alcohol.

G. P. ZURENDA Development Committee Member “The Cornell Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils have provided a lot in supporting several sober initiatives,” he said. “It’s very positive to see those who are often regarded as ‘big partiers’ to be so supportive.”

The details of the proposal are still taking shape, according to Zurenda, who said the house’s affiliation with Cornell is still to be determined.

“Right now we are in the conversation with people at Cornell about what the nature of the relationship will be, whether it’s going to be an endorsed co-op, or possibly be more of a Cornell managed house where students would be living there and going through the bursar’s office,” he said. “There are pros and cons to both, but we are still early in the conversation.

The proposed building contains 10 bedrooms and would house students in all stages of recovery. Zurenda said he believes the house’s location on North Campus will make it a safe space for any incoming freshmen seeking a drug- and alcohol-free environment.

“One of the best parts of the location is that it allows incoming freshmen in recovery to live in a sober environment and still participate in the North Campus experience, which provides a much better environment for these new students,” he said.

Zurenda said he does not believe Cornell students struggle with substance abuse more than students on other college campuses, but stressed that the issue is still one which requires attention and assistance.

“While there are a good number of students on campus, I wouldn’t say there are hundreds by any means,” he said. “Cornell’s problem isn’t larger than anyone else’s, but rather it transcends all schools across the country.”

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“If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.”

TERRELL OWENS FORMER NFL WIDE RECEIVER

Bulldogs seek rise from No. 10 MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 Hockey) has taken care of business against inferior opponents and battled highly ranked foes down to the wire. With 2.78 goals scored and 1.67 allowed per game, the Bulldogs are 25th and fifth, respectively, while only a season removed from placing 38th and first in those categories in 2014–15.

“I think our offense is doing its job,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “I think they’re chipping in, helping us have the limited success we’ve had so far as a team. We scored three goals on Saturday night against a team [Providence] that gives up 1.8 a game, so, yeah, I’m pleased with our offense, but like other parts of our game, I want it to get better.”

Despite just two losses in the Bulldogs’ campaign thus far, Allain expressed frustration at the team’s 4–3 loss to No. 1 Providence, which he said was a missed opportunity against a top team.

The Elis scored three unanswered goals to take a 3–2 lead over the defending national champions entering the third period, but they surrendered two goals early in the third and were unable to hold on for a marquee victory.

“We know we can be better [than we were against Providence],” forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said. “It’s a little disappointing because we had such a good opportunity to beat one of the best teams in the country and the national champion. We didn’t play our best game.”

Yale’s only other loss, to Rensselaer two weeks earlier, was another contest in which the Bulldogs struggled to close out a road game.

Yale overcame 1–0 and 2–1 deficits to close out the third period tied at 2-all. In the overtime period, however, Yale gave up a game-winning score and, despite outshooting the

Engineers 43–19, was unable to secure any points in the conference race.

While the Bulldogs expressed frustration with these close losses, Yale’s extensive early-season experience with one-goal games should benefit the team in more intense postseason situations, forward Carson Cooper ’16 said.

“Coming down to playoffs, it’s unlikely you’re going to blow a team out,” Cooper said. “Being able to learn how to manage these games now early on in the season is going to translate to success later on in the season.”

On Friday, Yale may continue its recent trend of playing tight games when undefeated No. 3/2 Quinnipiac, an ECAC Hockey rival, pays a visit to Ingalls Rink. Both of last year’s matchups between these two teams ended in 2–2 ties.

Allain noted that looking forward, the remainder of the ECAC Hockey season will not get any easier for the Bulldogs due to increased competitiveness in the conference. “[The conference] is better this year than it’s ever been,” Allain said. “This is my 10th year [as head coach], and the ECAC is remarkably different … than it was when I walked in the door. Every year, the level gets a little bit tougher.”

The rankings align with Allain’s observation. In last season’s yearend national polls, not a single ECAC Hockey team finished in the top 10. This year, however, Quinnipiac, Harvard and Yale all own top10 rankings, and St. Lawrence and Cornell are just behind with No. 13 and No. 15 rankings, respectively.

The puck will drop for Yale’s game against Quinnipiac at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The Bulldogs will then play Princeton on Saturday at 7 p.m.

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

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Forward Joe Snively ’19, who has scored four goals this season, is part of a team whose only two losses this season have been by one goal.

Yale ends three-game skid with win

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Guard Nick Victor ’16 attacked the rim on multiple occasions Wednesday night, registering 10 of his 14 points on layups or dunks.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 self into the scoring column. Sears finished the first half with just four points, though he did lead the team with five rebounds and assisted on three buckets.

“The biggest thing is that he has not practiced in a couple days so he was not real sharp,” Jones said of his forward, who was averaging 16.6 points per game entering the contest. “He has not played since the Duke game. It has been a week, which is a long time. He got some shots up yesterday but he has not practiced.”

Making his second career start in Sears’ forward position, Downey was a perfect 5–5 from the field in the first half and led all scorers with 14 points by halftime.

Many of Downey’s attempts came right at the basket, as the 6’9” forward capitalized on playing against a depleted Bryant frontline.

“I had a lot of wide open layups because our guards are great shooters and they draw a lot of attention so there were a lot of openings down low,” Downey said.

Victor and Downey took control of Yale’s offense right from the start, combining for the first 14 Eli points in the game. Victor made momentumchanging plays at both ends of the court, highlighted by an impressive sequence less than five minutes into the game. Initiated by a chase-down block of a Hunter Ware layup attempt on a fast break, Victor sprinted back to collect an offensive rebound and finish at the rim.

“I like to pride myself on effort,” Victor said. “One of the blocks was after I airballed a shot, so I kind of thought it was my fault and I needed to get back. I

like to be the guy that people can rely on and I like to be on the help side.”

The Dallas native later knocked down a triple from the corner with 3:39 left in the half to increase the Yale lead to 29–22. The basket was Yale’s only three-pointer in the first half, as both Bulldog teams had trouble scoring from long distance in the opening period.

Bryant made only three of 14 threepoint attempts, while Yale made just one of 10.

Captain and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16, who had made at least one three-pointer in every game this season and entered Wednesday night shooting 50 percent from deep, finished the game 0–6 from three-point range. He was held scoreless in the contest, marking the second consecutive game in which Montague has shot cold from the floor. Against Albany on Sunday, he was 1–5 from the field with three points.

And despite a first half in which Yale’s top four leading scorers of the season — point guard Makai Mason ’18, forward Brandon Sherrod ’16, Sears and Montague — combined for just eight points on 2–14 shooting, the Elis still carried a comfortable 36–24 lead into the locker room.

In the second half, lockdown defense and a strong 10-point effort from Mason, including a four-point play to open Yale’s scoring in the period, put the game out of reach.

Mason finished the contest with a game-high 17 points, including a 4–5 shooting clip in the second half.

Mason was only six points away from outscoring the entire Bryant team in the second half by himself. Bryant made five of 22 shot attempts for a 22.7 shooting percentage from the field in

the final 20 minutes. Dan Garvin, an All-Northeast Conference secondteam selection a year ago, paced Bryant with nine points in the game, while three others contributed seven points each on a night in which the visiting Bulldogs were troubled by the stingy Yale defense. Bryant also committed 13 turnovers compared to Yale’s seven.

“We had great defensive rotations. I thought we had great second and third efforts to stop their scorers,” Jones said.

“Tonight, our guys were sharper and they came out after getting beaten by Albany in a bad way, and I thought that our guys responded.”

Yale responded despite having its reigning Ivy League Player of the Year at less than full strength. Sears ended up finishing the night with nine points.

With a lead that swelled to as many as 40 points late in the second half, Jones elected to get his freshmen some valuable minutes on the court. Forward Blake Reynolds ’19, who has been the go-to freshman in Jones’ arsenal thus far this season, scored four points to go along with four rebounds, while guard Alex Copeland ’19 drove into the lane and finished a layup to score the first points of his Yale career.

With the Ivy League portion of Yale’s schedule still eight games away, Bryant has now suffered lopsided defeats at the hands of two Ancient Eight schools.

Bryant fell to Harvard 80–45 in a Nov. 25 rout.

The Elis will be back in front of the Yale faithful once again on Saturday when they take on Vermont. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. at John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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

return to the lineup, as well as the fact that 11 of the team’s top 12 players from last season will be returning, bodes well for the Bulldogs.

“This year, the team is going into the season healthy and fit to compete,” Cheong said. “Having the morale boost from winning the Ivy Scrimmages in November also put us in a very good spot to compete … The key to winning against F&M is to trust in our preseason training and execute our game plan on court.”

Head coach Dave Talbott said that Cheong and Leman will be key contributors this year, as their return brings back a quality of play that was missing from the top of the ladder last season.

The men’s team also welcomes newcomers Jay Losty ’19, Jonathan Kovac ’19 and Yohan Pandole ’19, who give the team depth that it did not see last year, Talbott said.

“The Yale men want to come out and make a statement after winning the preseason Ivy League Tournament,”

Talbott said. “Yale wants to test its depth and see how the middle and bottom perform.”

On the women’s side, Talbott said he thought his team has improved more this fall than any other team in recent memory. Blatchford noted that her team’s third-place showing at the Ivy Scrimmages, which may have been unexpected after the team graduated three starters last year, was an indication of this improvement.

The returning players’ increased competitiveness, as well as the addition of Caroline East ’19, Emily Sherwood ’19, Celine Yeap ’19 and Wesleyan transfer Ashley Suan ’18, will be crucial as the team attempts to compensate for the graduations of Shihui Mao ’15, Issey Norman-Ross ’15 and Anna Harrison ’15.

“We will surprise some teams this season,” Talbott said.

The men and women begin play at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Franklin & Marshall.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

IRENE JIANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Members of the women’s team noted signficant improvement in their play over the offseason.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 2:00 PM Lessons from a Female Founder & CEO: Erika Trautman of Rapt Media. Erika Trautman, the founder and CEO of Rapt Media, is giving a talk at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute that will explore how to find success as a female entrepreneur and how Trautman has built her interactive video company, which incorporates storytelling and data integration. The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A. The talk is free but attendees must register in advance. Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (254 Elm St.), Third Floor.

5:30 PM Guided by Students: An Evening of Tours. A cadre of undergraduate Gallery Guides offers an evening of thematic tours through the permanent-collection galleries. Take a closer look at works by Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi, Andy Warhol and more.

Meet the gallery guides, experience the museum’s collection from a new angle and enjoy refreshments. All are welcome. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 1:30 PM Conversation: Homes of the American Presidents.

Celebrated historian David McCullough ’55 and artist and author Adam Van Doren discuss their recent collaboration on the book “The House Tells the Story: Homes of the American Presidents.”

Join them on a tour of presidential homes across the United States, including those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and George H. W. Bush, among others. Van Doren’s paintings and illustrated letters from these homes are included in a slide presentation. The talk will be followed by a book signing. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

7:30 PM New Duke. New Duke is an eight-piece jazz ensemble that brings the music of Duke Ellington alive in a contemporary way. New Duke combines the power of Ellington’s music with the grooves of jazz, hip-hop and rock. Musical mashups include Duke with Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams and Cream. New Duke performs their own music steeped in blues, jazz and funk, including an original tribute to Nelson Mandela. Tickets start at $20, students $10. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

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YALE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CADETS IN TOWN At home for the second time this week, Yale takes on Army tonight at 7 p.m.

Though Tyler Varga ’15 is not around to score any game-winners, as he did in last year’s Yale-Army football game, the Elis do have guard Nyasha Sarju ’16, who averages 16.3 points per game.

“We will surprise some teams this season.”

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Elis stay perfect at home

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER On a night when forward Justin Sears ’16 was limited due to illness and the Bulldogs went cold from behind the arc, the Yale men’s basketball team turned to a pair of unexpected contributors – guard Nick Victor ’16 and forward Sam Downey ’17 – for a lopsided victory over Bryant that kept Yale perfect at home this season.

In the battle of Bulldogs, Yale (4–3, 0–0 Ivy) defeated Bryant (2–6, 0–0 NEC) by a final score of 79–40, the Elis’ largest margin of victory since a 102–47 win over Daniel Webster on Jan. 10 of last season. Victor scored a seasonhigh 14 points to go along with eight rebounds, while Downey tallied 16 points, also a season high, and hauled in seven boards. “[Victor and Downey] were terrific,” head coach James Jones said. “I have been urging [Downey] to be stronger and take the ball up to the rim to take advantage of his size and strength. I thought he got to the point where he did that tonight. I also cannot stress how important [Victor’s] energy, movement and actions are. It is special when you have somebody [like Victor] who can change the whole momentum of the game.”

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Nine games in, Yale shows competitiveness

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER A month ago, the Yale men’s hockey team entered its 2015–16 season with some of the highest expectations in recent program history. After a season in which the Bulldogs boasted the highest-performing defense in the nation and kept up with thenNo. 3 Boston University through overtime in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, it seemed possible, though not certain, that another stellar defensive season could combine with an improved

offense to elevate the team from last year’s No. 13 pairwise ranking.

MEN’S HOCKEY And after nine games, it could be argued that the Elis’ work thus far has matched those expectations exactly.

Currently sitting at No. 11 in the computer-calculated pairwise rankings but No. 10 in the two most prominent national polls, Yale (5–2–2, 3–1–2 ECAC SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

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Forward Sam Downey ’17 poured in 16 points in his second start of the season, including 14 in the first half. a three-game losing streak, which included impressive performances against SMU and Duke but also a disappointing 88–54 loss at Albany on Sunday.

Although Sears did not start for the second game in a row, the forward played 21 minutes in the game. He did not make his presence felt in his typical fashion in the early going,

remaining scoreless midway through the first half, when he knocked down a jump shot near the free throw line to put himSEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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Yale currently holds a No. 10 ranking after a 5–2–2 start, but the Elis are hoping for more wins over top teams as the season goes on.

Squash opens season against Franklin & Marshall

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Building on the momentum gained from a pair of top-three finishes at this year’s Ivy Scrimmages — including the Eli men’s narrow win over Harvard — the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams are set to officially start their 2015–16 regular seasons this Saturday with matches at Franklin & Marshall.

SQUASH The No. 5 women (0–0) finished third at the Scrimmages, while the No. 6 men (0–0) finished first after a 5–4 comefrom-behind victory over the Crimson in the tournament’s final round. Both Eli teams are favored to win over the Diplomats, whose women (2–2) and men (3–2) are ranked No. 16 and No. 10 in the nation, respectively.

“We are really excited to build off the success of Ivy Scrimmages,” men’s player T.J. Dembinski ’17 said. “Franklin & Marshall is traditionally a strong program, so this match is very important for us in order to get the year started on the right note.”

This is the second consecutive season the Bulldogs will open by playing Franklin & Marshall.

Last year, the Bulldogs made easy work of the Diplomats with an 8–1 win for the men and a clean 9–0 sweep for the women.

Moreover, earlier this season the Franklin & Marshall men fell 7–2 to Columbia, a team Yale beat 5–4 at the Ivy Scrimmage.

With the Eli women having beaten Franklin & Marshall 9–0 in all three seasons Yale’s seniors have been a part of, wom-

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Neither of Yale’s squash teams has played an official regular season match, but the Bulldogs are confident heading into their opener against Franklin & Marshall. en’s player Georgia Blatchford ’16 expressed confidence heading into her team’s first regular season match.

“Getting to start our season against Franklin & Marshall is a good way to get going in official

competition without Ivy League implications,” Blatchford said.

“Playing on the road always presents some challenges, but we have historically been successful against the Diplomats and are excited to return to Lancaster,

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Pennsylvania, this weekend.”

The matches against the Diplomats begin an arduous threemonth journey that includes 15 matches and ends with a national championship and an invitational individual tournament.

Last year the women finished No. 5 in the nation after posting records of 11–5 overall and 4–3 in the Ivy League, while the men placed No. 6 and went 11–6, 5–2 Ivy. The men’s season was par-

ticularly impressive because the team lost key contributors Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and Zac Leman ’16 to season-ending injuries before their first match. Their SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL MATCHES THAT THE YALE WOMEN’S SQUASH TEAM HAS LOST TO FRANKLIN & MARSHALL IN THE PAST SIX YEARS. The Bulldogs, who take on Franklin & Marshall on Saturday, are 54–0 in individual matches against the Diplomats since 2009.