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FOR EVERY CHILD RALLY CALLS FOR BETTER SCHOOLS

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Lorimer, who pushed Yale online and abroad, to depart

Silent noise. On Wednesday, the Yale College Black Men’s Union launched “To My Unborn Son,” a photo campaign in response to the no-indictment decision in the Michael Brown case.

The page — which received national attention online — contains photos of numerous BMU members with handwritten messages to their future children about AfricanAmerican identity.

But first … #YALEFIE, a music video published yesterday for a class project in CPSC 183, “Law, Technology, & Culture” went live. Students involved aggregated selfies from around campus to teach viewers about something called “fair use.”

We’re still not quite sure what it is, but the video was neat.

See the world. OCS will be hosting an information session about research and internship opportunities abroad this afternoon at its Whitney Avenue office.

EnLightenment.

Representatives for the Richard U. Light Fellowship, one of the more popular study abroad opportunities, will be holding their own information session on Thursday, which will be “the LAST chance … to learn about the fellowship,” according to one (surprisingly emphatic) posting.

Koffee tea. Today at 4:30 p.m.,

Morse College will be hosting a Master’s Tea with Duncan Goodall ’95, who owns Koffee?

Though the feature beverage remains unclear, Goodall is set to tell his own life story, which took him from EP&E seminars to a consulting gig in Buenos Aires and back to New Haven (on Audubon, specifically).

“Hot” salsa. ¡Bailando!, a

showcase put on by Sabrosura, Yale’s Latin Dance Team, opens tonight in the Off Broadway Theater. Hyped as “the hottest show on campus,” ¡Bailando! is set to include merengue, bachata and salsa — show up to find out what these things look like in practice.

Science wins! The University announced a partnership with Organovo, a bioengineering company, with the goal of advancing efforts to use 3D printers to synthesize tissue into fully functional organs for transplant.

Like DS, but real. “An Iliad,”

a retelling of Homer’s epic, debuts at the Crescent Underground Theater tonight at 8 p.m., with renowned actor Tim Kane playing the role of the Poet.

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1957 Pledgemasters from each of Yale’s nine fraternities return safely to New Haven after participating in “kidnapping” initiations, despite Yale College Dean William C. DeVane’s warning that such antics “can easily get out of hand.”

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University Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Lorimer, long considered one of the most powerful figures at Yale, will leave her post in April.

Who has Salovey’s ear?

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS The departure of Linda Lorimer, Yale’s vice president for global and strategic initiatives and one of the most influential administrators at the University, signals a sea-change in the upper echelons of the Yale administration.

NEWS ANALYSIS When Lorimer leaves her post in April 2015, three of the closest advisors to former University president Richard Levin — Lorimer, who Levin called his “right hand,” General Counsel Dorothy Robinson and Assistant to the President and Advisor on Student Affairs Nina Glickson — who shaped Yale over the past three decades, will have departed. Left in question, then, is to whom Yale’s current president, Peter Salovey, will most frequently turn for advice.

All three administrators worked largely under Levin’s tenure and continued through the transition to Yale’s 23rd president.

Although former School of Management Dean and management and entrepreneurship professor Sharon Oster said she did not have inside information regarding Lorimer’s decision process, she said it is not uncommon for someone to stay in a role for a few additional years before moving on.

“When a new boss comes in, it is a time in which people think that maybe it is [their] time as well,” Oster said. “I think Linda probably thought about this when Rick was leaving and maybe thought she would help in the transition.”

Although administrators maintain the recent changes do not indicate a broader shift in the direction of University leadership, the power dynamic within the Salovey administration appears poised for change.

“The governance structure of the University provides mechanisms for the president to seek advice and wisdom from a broad group of faculty members and others,” Salovey said in an email.

“While from time to time seasoned and SEE ADVISORS PAGE 4

Gap in benefits cause for concern

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER The funds that Yale has reserved to cover future pensions and retiree health benefits are estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars short. “[It’s] one thing that keeps me awake at night,” Provost Benjamin Polak said.

In a budget update to faculty and staff last month, University President Peter Salovey and Polak defended the administration’s decision to maintain previous cost-cutting measures.

Among the reasons for the decision, the report noted, is the rising cost of health care and its impact on Yale’s health bene-

Lorimer looked in New Haven, abroad and online

fits as particular burdens for the University, which faces a “significant shortfall in [future pensions and retiree health] funds.”

Although the administration has affirmed its commitment to upholding all promises for pension and post-retirement benefits, some faculty remain unconvinced that cost-cutting is an appropriate response.

“People who work here deserve to know that we are being responsible in filling our assets to cover their retirement,” Polak said. “That is going to be a very big hit for the budget in the next few years, but it is something that as responsible manSEE PENSIONS PAGE 6

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER Linda Lorimer, a powerful administrator who shaped the University over the course of more than three decades, will step down in April 2015.

Widely considered the most influential of Yale’s vice presidents, Lorimer currently serves as vice president for global and strategic initiatives. But her current role is just the latest in a long string of positions at Yale that included serving as university secretary from 1993-2012. A graduate of Yale Law School, Lorimer took her first administrative post at Yale in 1978.

Particularly notable is Lorimer’s work on Yale’s relationship with New Haven and the internationalization of the University. Lorimer was a key player in the improved town-gown relationship in the 1990s, as well as in the creation of major international projects such as Yale-NUS. She also played a major role in Yale’s work in online education.

Her retirement was announced by University President Peter Salovey in an email to the Yale community

Wednesday morning.

Salovey’s letter stated that Lorimer will remain at Yale part-time through December 2016 as senior counselor to the president. According to Lorimer, her position will not be filled following her departure, with her responsibilities divided throughout the University.

“It is almost impossible to capture in a single message the breadth and depth of Linda’s contribution to the life of this institution,” Salovey wrote.

Former University President Richard Levin said none of Yale’s “civil servants” have had a greater impact on the University’s advancement than Lorimer, who was one of Levin’s closest advisors during his two decades in Woodbridge Hall. Levin said Lorimer’s ability to organize and inspire others, both on long-term projects and daily crises, was unparalleled. Lorimer served on the presidential search committee that selected Levin in the early 1990s.

In 1978, Lorimer took on her first administrative position as assistant general counsel. She eventually became SEE LORIMER PAGE 4

Students criticize fin. aid policies

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER At a Yale College Councilsponsored forum on financial aid last month, Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi admitted to having never heard of a dramatic expansion of financial aid at the University of Chicago, a move that many students have called on Yale to emulate.

But regardless of Storlazzi’s knowledge of UChicago’s No Barriers Initiative — which will replace loans in undergraduate financial aid packages with grants, completely financing the education of students who demonstrate the highest amount of need — the program has raised questions about whether Yale could, or should, take steps to

become more affordable.

In particular, students have focused in on the student-effort requirement of financial aid, which stands at $2,850 for freshmen, and $3,350 for sophomores, juniors and seniors. Seven students interviewed said the job requirement is a burden on their college experience and that they would like to see it lifted.

“The requirement gives students who have to work an ultimatum by forcing them to either work or take out a loan, both of which have negative educational and social implications,” Nickolas Brooks ’17 said.

Students at the YCC forum called for a version of the UChicago program to be implemented at Yale,

and many have noted that a comparison of the schools’ finances make Yale’s ability to do so abundantly clear.

UChicago has an endowment of $7.47 billion, in comparison to Yale’s endowment of $23.9 billion. Both schools have similar undergraduate populations.

UChicago sophomore Charissa Newkirk said that the program reinforces the notion that the UChicago administration is “looking out for what’s best for everyone, no matter what background.”

Ronald Ehrenberg, director of Cornell’s Higher Education Research Institute, said that while Yale is certainly capable of eliminating the student job requirement, it is unlikely SEE NO BARRIERS PAGE 6

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'CARTER TO SALOVEY: PUNISH RAPISTS'

Baring it all

GUEST COLUMNIST NAT H A N KO H R M A N

The other stories I

n the wake of our country’s recent sexual assault scandals, it is tempting to reduce violation to an archetype. The allegations from the various cases — harassment at Yale School of Medicine, gang rape at the University of Virginia, serial predation from Bill Cosby’s past — all share a sinister, but recognizable pattern.

Men with authority and social capital prey upon younger, less powerful women. If the women seek justice or support, the institutional powers that be let them down. Each story is shocking. Not one is unfamiliar.

But we must remember that sexual misdeeds do not always unfold as variations of the same story. The antagonists are not always men, and the victims are not always women.

Under public scrutiny, institutions can overreact when they adjudicate cases of sexual assault. Just because these cases don’t make national news doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Last weekend, Shia LaBeouf claimed a woman raped him during his performance art exhibition this February. Public reaction was at best anemic, at worst disdainful. Former CNN host Piers Morgan called LaBeouf’s confession “pathetic” and demeaning to “real rape victims.”

Morgan echoed a common and misguided notion — when a woman rapes a man it isn’t really rape. Couldn’t he have stopped her if he had wanted to? The question is fallacious.

Straight men do not always want to have impromptu sex with strangers. Physical force is not the only kind of coercion.

According to a 2010 study from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, nearly one in five women — compared to one in 71 men — have been raped at some point in their lives. But the fact still remains that millions of heterosexual men are survivors of sexual violence.

It’s not politically correct sophism. It’s reality. More than 22 percent of heterosexual men have experienced nonrape sexual violence, and you’d never know. Between disbelief and public emasculation, there is no cultural space for straight men to come forward. That’s nearly 22 million stories we will never hear.

Queer sexual violence still only flits in and out of public discourse: allusions to “that scene from The Kite Runner” or appallingly common jokes about prison rape. Statistics demand a deeper and more mature discussion. Accord-

ing to the NISVS, 46 percent of bisexual women have been raped. A staggering 47 percent of bisexual men and 40 percent of gay men are also victims of sexual violence. In 2005, the FORGE Report found that 66 percent of transgender people interviewed had been sexually assaulted, and 23 percent “had been the victim or witness to five or more incidences.”

Yet the epidemic violence playing out in queer bedrooms is consigned to the periphery of national discussions on both LGBTQ politics and sexual assault. Two reasons come to mind: Identity politics are complicated when queer people are both the victims and the perpetrators. Moreover, it’s hard to make Americans read an article about gay rape when most Americans don’t like thinking about gay sex at all.

Finally, though colleges are notorious for inadequately punishing perpetrators of sexual violence, recent public furor puts pressure on them to be severe, rather than discerning. Regardless of whether or not you agree with UVa President Teresa Sullivan’s decision to suspend all fraternities and sororities, we can agree the move was calculated.

She seemed to act to protect the University’s public image, not its students. Her motivations were ambiguous, and this ambiguity is concerning.

On Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter insinuated that Yale should expel more perpetrators of sexual assault.

He is hardly the first to say it, and he won’t be the last. This kind of pressure worries me.

People deserve to be more than just expelled for rape, but semi-discerning severity does not prove an institution's dedication to mitigating sexual misconduct. We shouldn’t call on the University to expel more students, but to pursue adequate punishments, including, but not limited to, expulsion.

Conversations have their limits. Journalism requires a narrative and a readership.

Still, we need to be having more varied conversations about sexual assault. The injured are many, and not always who we think they are. They lurk on the periphery of our consciousness and the outskirts of our conversations. In our collective anger and nebulous guilt, we fixate only on the atrocities we’ve read about. But there are other stories. They are more complicated than black and white, more colorful than red.

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

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hose seeking a spectacle will always find one underneath the Saybrook flag at the end of the third quarter of the Yale-Harvard game. Responding to the rallying cry, “shoeessss!” the students remove their boots and derbies and wave them around in preparation for the Saybrook Strip.

This year, shoeless and counting down with the scoreboard, we watched Harvard intercept the ball and run it back 90 yards for a touchdown with less than a minute to go, widening their lead to 24–7. A few seconds later, I leaned over to a friend and said, “Let’s moon the hell out of ‘em and show exactly what we think of that last play.” And so, with a little bit of liquid courage and a lot of spirit, we did. Feet shivering on the cold concrete, we didn’t conceal our stripping among the huddled mass of Saybrook students or leave on our undergarments. We stood on the ledge and bared our butts to the other side, cameras flashing from all directions. We waved the Saybrook flag. People cheered.

One could call us a number of things, but “pioneers” is certainly not one of them. Rather, our actions were a nod to the origins of the Strip. According to an article in the News (“We like getting naked,” Dec. 11, 2002) the Saybrook Strip dates back to the 1970s when a single student mooned the opposing fans at The Game. After some friends joined this brazen individual

the following year, a tradition was born.

Howeve r, as the Strip progressed through the decades, SaybrookKYLE TRAMONTE tu hn ed me er dgarments Green on replaced people’s bare the Vine bums, and a tempered, yet fun, tradition continued.

I must admit that the laughs and pats on my back assuaged any fears that my parents had seen my antics on television.

I would be lying, however, if I didn’t relay that a number of surprised students commented, “But you’re a FroCo! Aren’t you supposed to set an example for your freshmen?” I would also be lying if I said that thought hadn’t crossed my mind as well.

I could use this space to write about the need for more school spirit or the importance of developing relationships in one’s own residential college. But I’d rather use this space to talk about a speed bump many experience in their journey as freshman counselors: a frequently hyperextended sense of professionalism that comes with the title. When managing relationships with 15 or so freshmen, a phrase repeated during training — “You all are representatives of

the Dean’s Office” — serves as a check on what we communicate to the most malleable students on campus.

When one thinks of a freshman counselor, perhaps one thinks of a student who exemplifies perfect conduct or academic success. In reality, the vast majority of us find ourselves in our positions precisely because we have failed and struggled in our personal and academic lives. But we have rebounded from those failures. I do not mean to glorify the freshman counselor but rather to point to a flaw in the system. Too often a nagging preoccupation with maintaining professionalism creates a “chilling effect” on the conduct of FroCos. The result is a muting of the personalities that were awarded the role in the first place.

Freshmen observe their counselors in restricted settings: the dining hall, their dorm and perhaps the lecture hall. They do not observe us in situations that prove testing or social venues that are just as critical to success in college as the classroom. They will not find us in the places where they are most likely to abuse alcohol or require bystander intervention. They will not find us in section when they didn’t do the reading.

They will generally only find us when they are in need of lifeconcerning attention, when they summon the courage to bring their problems to us or when their issues have progressed to

the point that they are physically noticeable.

To return to the comments made to me at the Game, the short answer is: Yes, the role of the freshman counselor is, in part, to serve as an example for freshmen. And as far as I am concerned, I set the best example I could. I stood alongside my best friends, celebrated my residential college’s tradition and stuck it to Harvard the only way I could as a spectator. Even more, I practiced what I preached: The first thing I told my freshmen was, “Don’t take yourself too seriously.” I pushed the boundary of what it means to be a FroCo, but also left my freshmen with a lesson on what it means to be a Saybrugian.

In all probability, a large number of Saybrook freshmen saw a whole lot of me that day. In the process, though, I hope they learned that my and many others’ conception of the freshman counselor’s role extends beyond schedule arrangement and roommate drama. Freshman counselors should challenge the conduct they think the Dean’s Office deems acceptable. Of course, there are limits. Sometimes though, a message is best sent not by hiding behind a cloak of professionalism but rather baring it all for everyone to see.

KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

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For an end to columns I

f you’ve been on Wikipedia at any point this week – and of course you have – then you’ll know. It’s asking for your money. That huge tab blares right in your face every so often as part of Wikipedia’s fundraising drives. Its pitch is brilliant for what it says (they need the money because they don’t sell ad space) just as much as for what it doesn’t say (your life would really be different without it).

The proliferation of Wikipedia, other “free access, free content” sites and now smartphones will continue to revolutionize the way people around the world access information. You can educate yourself in ways that would otherwise have been impossible – or at least required quite a bit more cost and effort. You won’t likely learn “how to think” from the Internet alone, but the democratization of knowledge remains a colossal change in the way we get our facts.

The effect isn’t limited to encyclopedias. It also applies to news. Newspapers, magazines, television stations and even “public intellectuals” essentially amassed thought monopolies until about two decades ago. The information and ideas that were in print or on television were what you consumed. Contrarians who felt something wasn’t quite right could seek out alternatives, but it took time and concerted effort — or a trip to the library, at least.

The bottom line is that organizations that had a lot of unquest i o n e d authority now have JOHN comAROUTIONIAN to pete for it – and they Johnny Come often can’t.

A few that Lately were big enough, like The New York Times, had the resources and the manpower to buy time to adjust in the last 10 years, and they might ride out the wave, but not without more cuts in newsroom staff (a new round of departures at the Times is happening this week). My prediction is that, in the next 10 years, the glitzy magazines so many Yalies will soon want to work for in their careers will start experiencing the same fate. The smaller ones won’t survive. The reason is simple: People don’t care to listen to (much less pay for) the perspectives that the people who work at the New Yorker publish just because they work at the New Yorker.

Some people would call this new impatience ignorance. But it’s just a result of bringing much more rigorous competition to journalism. Fancy publications still hire some of the best writers who will still produce some

of the best journalism, but the people who are just hanging on because of the organization’s institutional heft will be getting early retirement offers sooner or later. Reporters who write stories about Pope Francis’ “breakthrough announcement” that evolution is not contested by the Church need to get different beats or go back to school. Or just read a history book. Spoiler: It’s not news.

Columns, for their part, are on their way out — especially print columns where the author can’t link to other sites and sources.

Editorials these days are more about conversation that the reader can access and read. YDNstyle pieces without this feature, still retained by some major news organizations, will continue to be phased out, though they’ll definitely continue to thrive on college campuses — where amateurs like us will take full advantage and maybe learn something in the process. It’s definitely an opportunity that teaches the writer far more than it ever teaches or informs the readers, who have to be the subjects of naïve, poorly thought-out or sensationalist pieces.

We should embrace the end of columns and the end of news “authorities” in general. Every single person alive can deliver breaking news today, and though organizations that can hire trained, brilliant journalists can and absolutely must remain,

those people take up a fraction of those currently employed.

I’m hoping this eventually means CNN bites the dust too, since breaking news can now be reported by anyone with a smartphone and paid pundits’ commentary can’t be tolerated by anyone.

The new information and journalism world is full of risks.

There’s much more talent out there, and much more trash. The only safeguard against turning into a master conspiracy theorist online — or just a badly informed citizen — is education and civic engagement, which can involve the Internet but which ultimately requires person-to-person interaction.

Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m excited for the end of columns.

I’m excited for bad talent being weeded out and new voices that never had a chance to rise. Money, fame and all the rest are still disproportionately large obstacles to people with great ideas who don’t have the means. But the Internet has made it just a little easier.

But for all those who — for whatever inexplicable reason — have continued to read and comment on this stuff, it’s taught this amateurish columnist a ton. I’ll always be grateful.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College.

His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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New LCI director charts goals for Elm City

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER After weeks of evaluating candidates, Mayor Toni Harp announced her pick for the new director of New Haven’s housing code and neighborhood development agency: Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, an Elm City native whose career in urban planning has spanned Baltimore, New Orleans and her hometown.

Neal-Sanjurjo will lead the agency, called the Livable City Initiative, through a period of transition as its focus shifts from antiblight efforts to neighborhood development. At a press conference at City Hall Wednesday afternoon, Harp and New Haven’s Chief Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 praised Neal-Sanjurjo’s experience and ties to the community. Nemerson said NealSanjurjo, who currently works as a planning consultant at the quasi-

public Economic Development Corporation, can balance roles as a neighborhood organizer, policy expert and agency leader.

“I think [President Barack Obama] is one of those people who can do all of those roles, and Serena is another,” Nemerson said.

Neal-Sanjurjo will start work on Monday. She succeeds Erik Johnson, who took on the position in February 2010 and departed in mid-November to work at a nonprofit in Southern California.

Harp evaluated candidates for the position over the last several weeks and selected Neal-Sanjurjo this past weekend, Nemerson said.

Before Johnson’s departure, he, Nemerson and Harp discussed reorganizing and renaming the LCI. The agency was formed in the 1990s specifically to counter blight in the city, but that is no longer a major problem as New Haven’s economy has since

improved. Nemerson said NealSanjurjo would be responsible for choosing what course to set for the LCI. “I’ve had some consideration about some structural changes,” Neal-Sanjurjo said. “My goal is to have the LCI be a neighborhood development organization. Our structure in some ways inhibits that right now because we have a lot of code enforcement.”

Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce President Anthony Rescigno said the LCI is important not only for shaping quality of life in New Haven, but also for attracting businesses and new development.

“It’s critical that all of these agencies do a good job so the business community feels like, ‘Ok, the city’s under control, things are really going well,’” Rescigno said.

Neal-Sanjurjo grew up in Dixwell, later moving to the Beaver Hills neighborhood and attending Hillhouse High School. She pre-

viously worked for the city from 1989 to 1998, first at the Office of Business Development and later as the director of the Enterprise Community, where she oversaw projects in six neighborhoods and helped bring Shaw’s supermarket to the Whalley Avenue spot now occupied by Stop and Shop.

From there, she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she worked as director of community and economic development at the Empower Baltimore Management Corporation. Beginning in 2008, Neal-Sanjurjo headed the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, where she helped rebuild 500 homes and develop commercial property after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city.

“I like to think when folks go there and say they had a good time, they were looking at some of my work,” Neal-Sanjurjo said.

Since returning to New Haven to work at the Economic Development Corporation in August

2013, Neal-Sanjurjo worked closely with the LCI on the Hillto-Downtown plan, an effort to connect the Hill neighborhood to Union Station and the city’s downtown area. Since the 1950s, the Hill has been cut off from those areas by Route 34.

One experience in Baltimore may be particularly relevant for her new job in New Haven: She started the Baltimore Main Street program, a neighborhood revitalization approach that emphasizes community buy-in. Since March, New Haven has been working towards establishing Main Street programs on Grand, Whalley and Dixwell Avenues.

Sitting in the LCI director’s office for the first time since she learned she had won the position, Neal-Sanjurjo said she was excited about engaging New Haven’s neighborhoods, and that she views implementing the Main Street approach in New Haven as part of that larger effort.

“I’m focused on neighborhood development and building consensus,” Neal-Sanjurjo said.

“Without that consensus, your development doesn’t work.”

Neal-Sanjurjo added that one project she is looking forward to tackling is bringing new business to Dixwell Plaza, a shopping center across the street from the shuttered Q House.

The plaza is currently occupied mostly by convenience stores and a few small restaurants. Its largest storefront is empty.

Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, whose district includes Dixwell Plaza, said she was looking forward to working with NealSanjurjo.

“I have a good feeling about her because she knows the community,” Morrison said. “We’ll really come up with some good ideas to again bring Dixwell back.”

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

Segraves departing, but sciences will chug on

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER An avid backpacker, William Segraves plans to spend time in the wilderness after retiring as associate dean of science education for Yale College, effective this January.

Fourteen years after Segraves arrived at the Dean’s Office and 10 years after he assumed his current position, his colleagues voiced sadness at his coming departure, noting his legacy of initiatives and reforms in science education. But Segraves said he is sure that the transitions in science education at Yale over the next several months, including changes in leadership appointments and the establish-

ment of the Center for Teaching and Learning, will be “seamless” even after his departure.

“There isn’t much cellphone service in the wilderness,” Segraves said. “Even if [my colleagues] need me, they won’t be able to reach me. But they won’t need me — I gave them a test run this past summer.”

Segraves arrived at Yale in 1992 as a faculty member in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department. In 2004, he rose to his current position as associate dean, in which he oversees course development for science and quantitative reasoning classes, undergraduate research opportunities and tutoring programs in

science and quantitative reasoning.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon, who described Segraves as “funny, quick, very considerate,” said he was sad to be losing an important colleague and friend. But, he added, he is confident in the future of science at Yale because of the initiatives that Segraves is leaving behind.

One of those initiatives was developing science courses aimed at non-science majors. When he first arrived at Yale, Segraves said, there were some complaints that the Biology Department was not as well integrated into the rest of the science community. There-

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Associate Dean of Science Education William Segraves plans to depart in January.

fore, under his leadership, courses throughout the science department become more interdisciplinary, he said. For instance, Physics 170 — a course designed for students have little background in physics — integrates medical and biological sciences into its curriculum.

Fran Harris ’18, who is on the pre-med track, is taking “Mathematics for Biosciences.” She said it is unlike any course she took in high school.

“This class made me realize that organic, natural processes and structures also fit into a precise over-arching pattern,” Harris said. “Using math to analyze biology is more noticing a pattern that is already there, rather than creating a rigid, artificial pattern.”

Though he will be leaving the sciences at Yale more financially secure than when he arrived, Segraves said there were times during his career when receiving grants for undergraduate research proved particularly stressful. Over the past 15 years, there were at least three instances in which grant turnovers threatened to place programs like STARS — which provides research opportunities to students who are underrepresented in the sciences — in jeopardy. “[Segraves] energetically worked to expand the number and variety of research opportunities for undergraduates, resulting in the retention of more undergraduates in science and quantitative majors,” wrote former Yale College Dean Mary Miller in a June email to the Yale Community announcing Segraves’s retirement.

Cell Biology professor and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Carl Hashimoto will be taking on many of Segraves’s roles as assistant dean for science education in

January, an email sent to members of the Yale College Dean’s Office announced on Tuesday.

Hashimoto said he is excited for the new role but is experiencing “some trepidation” at the thought of filling Segraves’s shoes.

He added that he has been working closely with Segraves, who he has known for over 30 years, by sitting in on meetings with faculty in order to rise to the responsibilities seamlessly.

[Segraves] energetically worked to expand the … research opportunities for undergraduates.

MARY MILLER Former Dean, Yale College Hashimoto added that while he does not expect to make large changes to his new role, he wants to engage directly with students to find out their perspectives on science and QR courses, as well as help faculty discover ways to implement some of their innovative ideas for teaching.

Although Hashimoto will maintain his position as assistant dean of the graduate school, he said he has no problems “wearing multiple hats,” and his past experience with promoting science and research fellowships will be relevant and useful.

“I have the same interests and concerns in doing what is best for students, which translates very well,” Hashimoto said. “I think it’s a natural marriage of the two roles.”

Throughout his time as associate dean, Segraves also worked to make tutoring more available and

accessible to all students — the use of peer tutor programs has tripled throughout his deanship. But Segraves’s successor will no longer be responsible for overseeing the tutoring programs in the Center for Science and Quantitative Reasoning, Gordon said.

Instead, the center, which is currently located in the Dean’s Office, will be moving to the new Center for Teaching and Learning, said CTL Executive Director Jennifer Frederick. Announced in July, the CTL consolidates eight pre-existing programs for tutoring, writing, teaching and technology-enabled learning. In 2016, the eight programs will physically move to Sterling Memorial Library, and educators of the programs will be able to collaborate together.

Frederick said Segraves has been working diligently on the transition to the CTL since the announcement of his retirement.

In the CTL, the science and quantitative reasoning areas will maintain their separateness, but tutors will be encouraged to collaborate.

Frederick said that although they are still in the early phases of planning, her goal is to maximize student usage of tutors in the sciences by locating them in one “happening” place — unlike writing tutors, there is not a specific tutor for each subject in the sciences for every residential college.

With Segraves’s departure, Holloway said that the University’s “commitment [to science education] is unchanging.”

After Segraves departs, he hopes to become a student again, learning some physics and computer programming he never got to do when he was younger.

“I need to practice what I preach.”

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

Students, faculty discuss University sexual climate

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER A day after former President Jimmy Carter rebuked Yale on its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a small group of students and faculty members gathered to discuss the University’s sexual climate.

On Wednesday afternoon, members of the Yale Public Health Coalition invited the University community to speak with administrators and students involved in the promotion of a safe and healthy sexual climate on campus. The forum discussion celebrated the positive action already underway on campus, while inviting candid remarks about the work still left to be done. The small and intimate nature of the discussion, with five panelists and seven participants, helped to foster honest conversation, event organizer and YPHC member Cassidy Lapp ’15 added. During the forum, students and administrators referenced Carter’s remarks, the recent News’ article “Enough alcohol to call it rape?” and discussed methods to improve the existing climate.

Lapp said she hoped the forum would begin many more conversations on campus that promote positive discussions as opposed to “the negative ones” that she says have been the focus of campus discussion.

“I wanted to host this forum after reading about the sensationalization of Yale’s sexual climate in the news,” she said. “After seeing that this was a conversation happening on other campuses, I wanted to see how this conversation could be taken further.”

Sexual Literacy Forum facilitator and panelist Stephanie Rogers ’17, a staff reporter for the News, said she hoped the discussion would provide a raw and honest dialogue between groups advocating for a safe sexual climate.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd, a forum panelist, said the talk enabled discussion of broad themes in relation to sexual harassment. Too often discussions of sexual violence focus on the most extreme version of sexual violence, she said.

“What we see as individual, isolated things can often be part of something larger,” she said during the forum. “Therefore, we have to acknowledge there is something important in shifting from just responding to prevention as well.”

Praising the work of the Communication and Consent Educators and SeLF, Boyd and Carole Goldberg, director of the SHARE Center and another panelist, assured students during the event that there is a lot of work going on beneath the public eye, and that great strides had been taken to pro-

mote a healthier sexual climate on campus.

Over the past few years, more students have felt comfortable using the SHARE Center’s resources for anonymous and confidential discussions with its staff, Goldberg said.

Jez Marston ’15, codirector of SeLF and another panelist, said he hopes that SeLF — a program that consists of small groups of students discussing different levels of sex education, desire and individual boundaries — will help provide outlets for these discussions.

During the talk, Rogers said SeLF is piloting an initiative with several different fraternities to work with students who “may not be already generating positive discussions surrounding sexual climate and misconduct.” She said the early success of this initiative is largely due to its being driven by students.

Panelist Layla Khuri ’16, representing the Yale College Council, added that the “It’s On Us, Yale” campaign was an example of how student-driven initiatives can be most effective because they add a sense of “genuine compassion.”

“The fact that people are still talking about [the campaign] shows that it was effective,” she said during the talk.

The SHARE center was founded in 2006.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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A small group of students and faculty members gathered Wednesday for a discussion of the University’s sexual climate hosted by the Yale Public Health Coalition.

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“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.” GENE PERRET AMERICAN WRITER AND PRODUCER

Lorimer shaped Yale over three decades LORIMER FROM PAGE 1 the youngest associate provost in Yale’s history. From 1987 to 1993, Lorimer served as president of Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Virginia, at which point Levin recruited her to return to Yale and serve as secretary, and later vice president and secretary.

Lorimer’s years as secretary and vice president were largely shaped by her push to make Yale into a global institution with both an online presence and a strong partnership with New Haven.

Henry “Sam” Chauncey ’57, a former University administrator who at one point served as secretary, said the early 1990s challenged Lorimer to take an “old Yale” and make it “new” by capitalizing on opportunities for globalization, technological advances and a growing endowment.

“Linda’s greatest strength was to understand good things about the past that could be kept while changing things at Yale to make it possible for Yale to be part of the future,” Chauncey said. “She modernized [Yale] and saw to it that the trustees and the president dealt with the right problems and didn’t get bogged down in unimportant issues.”

Lorimer returned to Yale just as Levin, newly inaugurated, sought to turn a page in Yale’s relationship with New Haven, which had reached a low point in 1991, when Christian Prince ’93 was murdered on Hillhouse Avenue.

Lorimer said she saw the state of the city in the early 1990s as a discouraging factor both for students and faculty, ultimately prompting her foundation of the Office of New Haven and State Affairs and the New Haven Homebuyer Program. In 2011, the program surpassed 1,000 Yale employees who had bought homes in New Haven through University support. The program is open to any permanent

University employee working 20 hours or more per week and gives an annual income benefit to those who buy a home in New Haven’s target areas.

Former Mayor John Destefano, Jr., who took office only one month after Levin’s inauguration, said Lorimer was crucial in ensuring mutually beneficial relationship between Yale and the city.

“She had the trust and confidence of [Levin], which made her able to engage in the city in a different way, in a positive way and in a constructive way” Destefano said, adding that Lorimer’s personal handling of University tragedies, such as the deaths of students, showed that she never let her responsibilities overwhelm her supportive nature.

But Lorimer’s influence also extended well beyond New Haven.

She was one of the primary architects of Yale’s push to become a global university.

A report released by Levin and Lorimer in December 2005 stated that the internationalization of Yale over the subsequent three years would focus on three overarching goals: “preparing students for leadership and service in an increasingly interdependent world,” “attracting the most talented students and scholars to Yale from around the world,” and “positioning Yale as a global university of consequence.”

In 2011, Levin and then-Provost Salovey announced the launch of a new liberal arts college, Yale-NUS, through a partnership with the National University of Singapore.

Even before its opening in 2013, however, the campus became a source of controversy. Faculty and students on Yale’s campus quickly criticized Yale’s expansion to a country with restrictions on freedom of expression, arguing that it went against the basic tenants of the liberal arts. Faculty excoriated the fact that the project was never

put to a vote by faculty and that Yale never made public, or even available to faculty, its agreement with NUS. The criticism of Yale-NUS also extended to the project’s relation to Lorimer’s husband, Charles Ellis, a former member of the Yale Corporation who previously served as an adviser to the Investment Committee of the Board of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.

Criticism reached a peak in April 2012, when Levin released a statement denying conflicts of interest in the Corporation’s approval of the Singapore project.

“In sum, two of the three individuals with connections to Singapore were not serving as Yale trustees between January 2009 and February 2011, when the issue was under discussion,” the statement read. “The third, who was a trustee when the matter was under discussion, recused himself from voting.”

Ellis was among the two individuals not serving as trustees during conversations between the presidents of Yale and NUS. Regardless of criticism, YaleNUS is now up and running. And Yale’s international efforts are continuing. This fall, the University opened the Yale Center Beijing, which aims to provide a space for Yale affiliates in Beijing to conduct research and hold conferences.

Lorimer also led the push for online education at Yale, such as the Open Yale Courses — a website that provides lectures from select Yale College courses to the public free of charge. Her establishment of the Office of Digital Dissemination and Online Education in 2007 would prove to be just one more example of her insistence that Yale could amplify the impact of its teaching beyond the campus gates, said Lucas Swineford, the office’s executive director.

Still, the University has moved into the online medium more cautiously than many of its peers, such as Harvard and MIT, which founded the non-profit online initiative EdX. Lorimer was also one of Yale’s top earners. In 2012, Lorimer earned approximately $1 million in supplemental retirement benefits, which came on top of base compensation of $521,594, a figure that sparked criticism amongst many faculty and staff.

But to many of Lorimer’s colleagues interviewed, her legacy is one of unmatched dedication to Yale.

Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said Lorimer’s

accomplishments were too great to number, but that her care for her staff was lesser known by the Yale community. Highsmith said from delivering meals to Old Campus during a hurricane or planning Yale’s tercentennial extravaganza, Lorimer fostered a kind of deep loyalty within Woodbridge Hall.

Yale School of Management Professor Sharon Oster, who served as a dean of the SOM, said Lorimer had carved out major areas of the University, particularly in regards to globalization, and made them “very much her own.”

Brandon Levin ’14, who worked closely with Lorimer during his year as Yale College Council president, said Lorimer’s investment in

students was remarkable given the magnitude of her job.

Following Salovey’s email, Lorimer sent her own message to longtime friends and colleagues noting her excitement to continue focusing on online education and special projects, albeit with a bit of free time. Reflecting on her many roles — which included being the only woman to be elected to the Yale Corporation and to serve as an Officer of the University — Lorimer said her favorite title was one given to her by former University President A. Bartlett Giamatti: “utility infielder.”

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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University Vice President Linda Lorimer took her first administrative post at Yale in 1978.

Retirement shows shifting admin ADVISORS FROM PAGE 1 sage individuals leave our ranks, a place like Yale generates new leaders and thinkers quite naturally through these structure.”

Following Levin’s retirement in 2013, many expected Lorimer to follow the leader who she had worked alongside for 20 years.

The two tackled issues ranging from the creation of Yale-NUS to the expansion of online education.

Still, the question of who will emerge as Salovey’s “right hand” — if anyone — remains unanswered.

An obvious candidate is University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews. Goff-Crews appears to be in an analogous position to Lorimer, who served as university secretary from 1993-2012, and the two have held many of the same responsibilities.

Since her appointment in August 2012, Goff-Crews has taken an active role in student life, meeting regularly with the Yale College Council, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and Graduate Student Assembly, while also seeking to improve off-campus housing. As part of her responsibilities, Goff-Crews supports the Yale Corporation, the highest governing body at the University, and the University Council, which serves as an advisory body to Salovey. In a January 2014 email to the News, Salovey noted that Goff-Crews is excel-

lent at approaching challenges involving students across all the University’s schools and departments. Among a host of other issues, Salovey and Goff-Crews have collaborated on undergraduate alcohol policies.

These are long-serving administrators who … will now be enjoying a muchdeserved new chapter in their lives.

SHAUNA KING Vice President, Finance and Business Operations Regardless of who Salovey turns to for advice, Lorimer’s formal role as a vice president for global and strategic initiatives will likely go unfilled after she leaves. Lorimer said Salovey has no intention to appoint a successor to the position when she departs in April 2015.

However, Margaret Marshall LAW ’76, previous Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts and now current Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, said Lorimer trained a number of people over her career who could easily carry out the responsibilities she held.

In addition, Lorimer said that many of the departments, programs and services she has overseen — which range from Office

of International Affairs to Office of Emergency Management — will be overseen by other divisions.

While Salovey’s cabinet may look different in April with the absence of three long-time, high-ranking administrators, University officials insisted these changes did not indicate a broader shift within the Yale leadership.

Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King said she did not believe Lorimer, Robinson and Glickson’s departures imply any change in administrative direction.

“These are long-serving administrators who have supported several presidents including the one we are lucky to have as president now and will now be enjoying a muchdeserved new chapter in their lives,” King said in an email.

Oster voiced a similar sentiment, and said she did not believe Lorimer’s departure indicated Yale was turning the page on the Levin years. She added it is natural for individuals to explore new paths or opportunities after years of service.

Lorimer will continue working until December 2016 as senior counselor to the president.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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“Our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”

DAVID EDWARD GOLDBERG AMERICAN AUTHOR AND COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Thousands rally for education reform

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Mud, cold and persistent rain could not stop about 6,000 children, parents and teachers from gathering on the New Haven Green yesterday in a rally calling for improved urban public schools around Connecticut.

The #ForEveryChild rally, organized by a coalition of educational groups, consisted mostly of charter school students from Connecticut. Students and parents, dressed in neon-yellow shirts emblazoned with the “For Every Child” slogan, stood and listened to a succession of speakers, including parents, school principals, activists and students.

Calling on government leaders to take steps to eliminate inequalities in the state’s public school system, speakers condemned the fact that 40,000 students currently attend “failing schools.”

“That’s not a statistic, that’s a crisis,” said Jack Bryant, vice president of the Connecticut NAACP. Speakers emphasized that the inequalities in Connecticut’s public schools are interconnected with other major socioeconomic problems in cities across the state.

Benjamin Cruse, the principal of Hartford’s Achievement First Summit Middle School, referenced the deaths of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice as examples of frustrations mounting throughout the country.

Later in the rally, Bryant led the crowd in the “Hands up, don’t shoot” chant that has become an emblem of recent protests.

“It tears my heart that over 40,000 students don’t have the support system they need,” said Ebony Pitts, a junior at New Haven’s Amistad High School, at the event. “Without support systems, those kids are taking to the streets and committing violent and illegal activities, and that’s not what we want.”

Cruse praised state and municipal leaders, adding that

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Some 6,000 children, parents and teachers gathered on the New Haven Green Wednesday as part of the #ForEveryChild rally, which called on leaders to eliminate inequality in schools.

Gov. Dannel Malloy has always supported creating great schools.

In 2012, Malloy signed an education reform bill that increased state spending on education by $100 million and created programs to improve the quality of some struggling school districts in the state.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch said that Malloy has successfully increased funds for public schools, but should devote more resources toward a long-term goal of fixing the entire system.

Speakers at the event also underscored the importance of rectifying the inequalities present in Connecticut’s educational system, where affluent suburbs in Fairfield County and around Hartford have per-student budgets far greater than school systems in urban areas. Jesus Reyes, a senior at New Haven’s Common Ground High School, said that the failure to address disparities in access to quality education amounted to “letting inequalities reign supreme.”

“We want you to have the same chances as the kids from Greenwich, Conn., the same chances as the kids from West Hartford, Conn., the same chances as the kids from all the suburbs in Connecticut,” Cruse said to the crowd.

The thousands of students, parents and administrators who attended the rally were bused in, coming from as far as the Bronx.

The Coalition for Every Child, a broad group of educational activist organizations, paid for most of

the buses, which filled the streets surrounding the Green.

Charter schools were wellrepresented at the rally, which are a strong presence in the Elm City with institutions like the Amistad School and Common Ground High School.

Multiple speakers concurred on the effectiveness of charter schools in advancing the education of disadvantaged children.

They also stressed that charter schools should be more readily accessible as an option for stu-

dents and parents within the public school system.

According to a report released by the Connecticut Voices for Children, an educational advocacy group based in New Haven, in April, 97 percent of the Elm City’s charter school population are students of color.

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

Demand for police accountability amplified

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Following the no-indictment decision in the Eric Garner case, New Haven residents and Yale students will rally on the corner of Church and Chapel Streets to protest police brutality on Friday afternoon.

Chris Garaffa, an organizer for the national justice coalition

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), estimates that at least 300 people will gather to protest a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo — an New York Police Department officer who killed Garner, a New York resident, with an illegal choke hold. In the aftermath of the decision, the nationwide discussion on police brutality shifted from Ferguson,

Missouri, to New York. Garaffa said that the activism surrounding 18-year-old Michael Brown’s death has led him to expect strong support to pour into Friday’s rally.

“Ferguson is everywhere,” Black Student Alliance at Yale Social Justice Chair Alexandra Barlowe ’17 said. “Ferguson is New Haven and Ferguson is New York, even though it might look

different in different places.”

According to Garaffa, widespread public anger over the grand jury’s Nov. 24 decision to not indict Darren Wilson has changed the nature of activism in New Haven. In the days following the jury’s decision, the Elm City has seen a number of movements and organizations forming to protest police brutality, structural racism and “The Surge,”

In the wake of two no-indictments for both Michael Brown and Eric Garner, New Haven residents have demanded accountability on the part of police.

a New Haven Police Department tactic where officers use an unannounced show of force in areas where they have received large numbers of complaints, he added.

In the days since the Brown decision, activists have already staged several protests leading up to Friday’s rally. On Nov. 25, over 100 protesters assembled in front of City Hall. Nearly one

week later, the Hands Up, Walk Out event organized by the BSAY drew over 200 students, faculty and city activists.

“I think people are really picking up on the fact that the system is treating black and brown lives as disposable and as not worth anything,” Garaffa said. “If we’ve seen anything out of the couple weeks here in New Haven, it’s anger — and the anger is resulting in people wanting to organize.”

Barlowe said that, though Yale student organizations are forming closer bonds with local activists after Brown’s death, ultimately, the people who live outside of Yale’s walls have a better understanding of residents’ issues with New Haven policing.

On the same day as Hands Up, Walk Out, Karléh Wilson ’16 organized a march that led members of the BSAY protest to the steps of City Hall. As Yalies passed by, New Haven residents joined the marchers, elevating their numbers to roughly 400.

“A problem that we have at Yale is that we don’t ever know what’s going on in New Haven,” Wilson said. “I wanted to bridge that gap.”

The events in Missouri have led protesters throughout Connecticut to identify specific problems within their neighborhoods, said ACLU Communications Director Jeanne Leblanc. She added that Ferguson has also broadened the dialogue about policing issues to a wider audience, with some proposing body cameras as a means of ensuring police accountability.

Garaffa said that groups like the Malik Jones Foundation, People Against Police Brutality and My Brother’s Keeper are collaborating on specific changes in New Haven like the introduction of a more powerful civilian review board.

“I think that people are looking for new ways to change the system,” Wilson said. “However, it’s going to be a lot more creative than it has been before, because people are eager for change.”

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Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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“Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn’t a guaranteed pension.”

MICHAEL MOORE AMERICAN FILMMAKER

“No Barriers” sparks financial aid discussions NO BARRIERS FROM PAGE 1 that the University will do so.

“Of course Yale could afford to do this if they wanted to,” Ehrenberg said. “But the question is, why should they want to do it?”

He added that unless Yale administrators believe removing this requirement will attract more applicants — particularly ones from low-income brackets — they most likely will not make changes to the University’s financial aid policy, since it is already more generous than policies at other elite institutions.

However, Harvard graduate and political activist Ron Unz said that schools such as Yale and Harvard should consider eliminating tuition altogether if they wish to recruit more diverse applicants. Although tuition is essentially already waived for lower class and middle class applicants, Unz said, many people do not realize this, and continue to think that Ivy League schools are out of their price range.

“If the Ivies simply eliminated tuition, which they easily could do, it would be a trivial financial loss that would dramatically encourage a much larger number of students to apply from a wide variety of different backgrounds,” he said.

Storlazzi said that changes to financial aid are not solely decided on by him, but in conjunction with relevant administrators, and are reviewed in light of all University priorities. He added that the financial aid office is currently considering the ideas that were brought up at last month’s financial aid town hall. The policy on student contribution is an item his office will be focusing on, he added.

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Yale students advocate for adoption of a financial aid expansion program that models the “No Barriers Initiative” at the University of Chicago.

Storlazzi said he plans to speak to UChicago’s aid director to find out more about the No Barriers program and the details of their financial aid packages.

He added that Yale’s financial aid policy is already “no loan” and “debt free,” which is how the No Barriers initiative is described on the UChicago website.

However, the website specifies that in addition to replacing

student loans, No Barriers guarantees a paid summer internship or research opportunity to students who demonstrate the highest amount of need, and does not require students to work a term-time job.

While Brooks and other students said these components of No Barriers absolutely need to be implemented by the University, others defended the student contribution, noting that

they enjoyed their jobs on campus.

“I’m glad that I have jobs on campus, and I don’t think I would have been motivated to get them unless the student contribution existed,” said Emma Goldrick ’17, who works in the Peabody Museum and the Silliman Dining Hall. “However, the amount of money I’m making from my jobs won’t altogether be enough to pay off the

student contribution. So I think [the contribution] has value in existing, but the amount of work needed to actually pay the full amount is very high while still being a student.”

Jessica Labbe, deputy director for finance administration at the Yale University Art Gallery, said student employees are essential to the YUAG, which employs approximately 150 students in a given year. She said that regard-

less of potential policy changes, or of whether or not the students they employ are on financial aid, the gallery is committed to maintaining the current level of student employment.

According to the Yale Factsheet, 54 percent of Yale undergraduates received financial aid last year .

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

Pensions may come up short PENSIONS FROM PAGE 1 agers and responsible citizens we have to do.”

Polak said that the combination of rising health care costs, low interest rates and longer life expectancies have strained the University’s obligations to meet its employees’ pension and retiree health benefits. He said it is difficult to accurately measure the “considerable hole” between the amount Yale has allocated to those obligations and the figure necessary to meet them in the future, but estimated it was at least a half billion dollars and at most $1.2 billion.

Although Polak said the University does not intend to address that shortfall all at once, he estimated that Yale will have to put aside an additional $10 million each year towards these benefits in addition to the money already being paid. This number may rise over time, he added.

“Because people are living longer, the amount of money we have to put aside to cover people in their retirement and cover their retiree health becomes more and more,” Polak said.

“Over the next few years we know that we to put fairly large amounts of money aside into our

retiree health funds and pension fund to make sure that we are recognizing those future liabilities.”

Still, Polak said it is difficult to provide an exact number since the gap is very sensitive to the discount rates — the interest rate used in discounted cash flow analysis — that the University uses to determine the present value of future cash flows.

Depending on the University’s expectations, the yearly payments could fluctuate from $5 million a year to $30 million a year, Polak said.

However, some faculty remain skeptical about Yale’s decision to use budget cuts as a means to address these shortages. “[Yale] shouldn’t be claiming any concern about pension funds when their history was in the other direction,” dramaturgy and dramatic criticism professor Gordon Rogoff ’52 said. “To then use that as a device to keep austerity in various programs including our salaries … it is legalistic hocus pocus as far as I am concerned.”

Molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Joel Rosenbaum urged Polak to provide more accounting information to faculty. He added that it

was “ludicrous” to make a statement regarding pensions and retirement health benefits without numbers to back it up.

Polak responded that the reason he did not include the estimated figures in the budget update was due to limited space.

He said the numbers would require a long explanation of discounting rates and how they affect the calculation.

Still, Assyriology professor Benjamin Foster GRD ’75 commended the University’s commitment to maintaining its pension obligations.

“Pensions, good health care and retirement conditions are essential compensation benefits of academic life,” Foster said.

“Therefore it is very good news that the University is holding the line on its commitments in these areas.”

Local 34 President Laurie Kennington also praised Yale’s long-term commitment to its employees to “retire in dignity.”

“Not only are the University’s finances extremely sound, but the plans have been responsibly funded over many years,” she said.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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Downtown Crossing breaks ground

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City and state officials gathered on Wednesday at the vacant Route 34 West Project to announce to official ground-breaking on a new 30,000 square-foot building.

BY NOAH KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yesterday, city and state officials joined community leaders in launching a long-awaited construction venture.

Gov. Dannel Malloy, Mayor Toni Harp and other community leaders gathered at the vacant Route 34 West Project to announce the official groundbreaking on a new 30,000 squarefoot building, which will serve as the administrative base of Continuum of Care, Inc. and its affiliate, Continuum Home Health, Inc. The project has been both praised and criticized by resi-

dents of the neighborhood, who fear that development will complicate access to the neighboring Hill Regional Career High School.

The development will encompass a five-and-a-half-acre block bound by North Frontage Road, Legion Avenue, Orchard Street and Dwight Street. It will incorporate over 80,000 square feet of neighborhood retail and medical office space over the next several years, according to Continuum’s recent press release. Continuum is a non-profit organization that provides residential, crisis and medical home care services to the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled and the autistic. It

currently services roughly 1,500 people every year, having seen a 700 percent increase in number of people served over the last decade. Patti Walker, Continuum’s president and CEO, said the organization has been planning the project for the last three years.

The state will provide Continuum with $7.5 million to construct its new facility. At the groundbreaking ceremony, Malloy praised Continuum and emphasized the organization’s importance to New Haven.

“I applaud the organization, the city of New Haven and Centerplan Development Company for coming together to fill this

Rally Bus is now rolling

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Residents in cities and suburbs throughout the country could soon find an easier way to make it to a sporting event or music concert.

With the help of a recent $100,000 grant from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, Rally Bus, a “social mobility network” that charters buses to large events, has taken off this fall. In the past year, Rally Bus closed on the YEI innovation fund, which comes jointly from the University, Connecticut Innovations and the First Niagra Bank. For Rally Bus, this means $100,000 to “scale-up some of their staff and build up their marketing presence,” according to Jim Boyle, co-founder and managing director of the YEI. Siheun Song DIV ’15 and Numaan Akram came up with the idea two years ago, when they were searching for a group of people to travel with to a comedy festival in Washington, D.C. The company’s first trip sent 96 buses from 20 states, and the two have since garnered the attention of over 500,000 customers in 50 cities across the U.S. According to Song, the company aims to streamline group buses to popular events by sending them directly to riders’

hometowns. The average ticket price is $50, and the minimum number of people required to send a bus to a given event is 40.

“Rally Bus, unlike every other team we’ve worked with, was already up and running and making revenue when they came to us,” said Jim Boyle, cofounder and managing director of the YEI.

Numaan is a real technologist, he builds all the code himself. They have a very scalable idea.

JIM BOYLE Co-founder and managing director, the Yale Entrepreneurial Society Song said she initiated the partnership between Rally Bus and the YEI because she and Akram needed assistance assembling investor documents to start fundraising capital.

Since then, the partnership has expanded to include Rally Bus’s participation in their Summer Venture Creation Program last summer.

Song said the company is able to work with 40,000 buses and 4,000 bus companies because the industry has not been rolled into a larger conglomerate.

This past July, Rally Bus won the Yale-NYU Summer Accelerator Pitchoff in New York City, where start-ups pitched their ideas to Google’s New York City office.

“Numaan is a real technologist, he builds all the code himself,” said Boyle. “They have a very scaleable idea.”

Aaron Gertler ’15, a current employee of Rally Bus, caught wind of the project last summer when he had an internship at the YEI. Since that time, he has been writing content for the website.

Gertler said that although not many Yalies take buses to events, he thinks that the company is capable of “responding to flexible consumer demand.”

“Their idea could easily catch fire,” he added.

The company has not yet gained widespread popularity in New Haven, Song said, but this remains a goal.

Song said that, although the app available for iPhone and Android is still in its alpha stages, the company intends to get the app in the hands of the drivers of the buses. She added that, although Rally Bus is still gaining popularity, the company is still based in her apartment on campus, and she hopes to one day open an office in Brooklyn.

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critical need,” he said.

Harp also commended Continuum for working on behalf of those who are unable to provide for themselves. She said that the lot’s development would physically connect the Dwight and Hill neighborhoods, which are located along the Route 34 corridor. Harp noted that the project is anticipated to create over 250 construction jobs and over 550 permanent full-time jobs upon completion.

According to Walker, the building’s main function will be to geographically centralize Continuum’s administration, which is currently split between four offices across New Haven.

“This will allow us to act with greater synergy,” Walker said.

During the ceremony, Harp addressed residents’ concerns that construction would make it more difficult for students, parents and teachers to travel to and from Career High. She said that the city’s commitment to the community will not cease over the course of the construction, but did not specify what actions the city will take on this front.

Ward 2 Alder Frank Douglass told the News that residents living in the Hill portion of the development wanted a street that cut through the project’s center to allow easy access to and from the

high school. Douglass said that he personally supports Continuum and their new project, noting that he believes much of the discontent with the project will dissipate if the developers slightly alter the construction plans to make the development more pedestrian friendly.

“I’ve been living here all my life, for 61 years, and I’ve seen that lot go unoccupied for about 50 years,” he said. “Let’s give credit for the city for developing what has been left unattended for so long.”

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

Yale-NUS ratifies student constitution

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER On Nov. 21, Yale-NUS students ratified their first constitution. But implementation of the document in earnest will not begin until the start of next semester, when students will elect their first student government.

The seven-article constitution, which was ratified by affirmative votes from 76.7 percent of the Yale-NUS student body, outlines procedures for putting together a representative system of student government, led by an elected body. The elected body will include representatives from each class and residential college, in addition to four “represtentatives-at-large” who do not have any particular affiliation. The constitution grants the elected body power to formally recognize student organizations and manage the budgets for college-wide events. It also details the elected body’s responsibilities, such as procedures for updating students.

“It will be helpful to have an organizing body to define who we are,” Anne Caroline Franklin YNUS ’17 said.

The writing of the document was led by the Elected Student Committee, a group formed at the end of last year. The ESC organized four open forums during which students put forward proposals for the document that were then voted on by the entire sudent body, said Franklin, who is a member of the ESC. Yale-NUS professor Bernard Bate said the new constitution was entirely student produced, from its drafting to its ratification, and that faculty had no involvement.

Students also consulted constitutions from Yale, the National University of Singapore and various liberal arts colleges for inspiration, Franklin said.

But Hrishi Olickel YNUS ’18, who cowrote a proposal on the structure of the student government with Jacob Schneidewind YNUS ‘18 that was partially integrated into the constitution, said looking to these other documents was sometimes unhelpful because they were intended for colleges with much larger student bodies.

Franklin said Yale-NUS attempted to form a student government during its first academic year, which began in 2013, but the

process was postponed because students did not express a strong desire to create a student government. This lack of enthusiasm was due to the school’s small size — only 150 students were enrolled. The small size enabled administrators to give attention to individual concerns voiced by students, leaving no need for a collective mouthpiece, Franklin said.

However, as Yale-NUS added its second class this year and will continue to grow, Franklin said the need for a student government has become much more apparent.

Yale-NUS Dean’s Fellow Daniel Gordon said he also thinks the administration will need a more centralized way of gathering student input as the Yale-NUS student body continues to grow.

“From the Dean of Students Office perspective, it can be hard to gauge what the overall feeling of the student body is when you have five people come in and tell you five things,” Gordon said. “It can be hard to get a mood for the entire student body and that was a large way we were getting student feedback before, so having a student constitution will help us understand how the student body feels about various issues as opposed to having to guess.”

But Franklin said even though 88 percent of the Yale-NUS student body voted on the constitution, there is still some uncertainty among students about whether instating a student government is necessary. She noted, however, that this uncertainty is more prominent among freshmen who are still new to the college. Sophomores, Franklin said, see more of a need for student government after having more experience with the school’s bureaucracy.

Schneidewind said he is hopeful the document will refine student interaction with the administration, which he described as currently “fuzzy.”

But Olickel emphasized that even though he is optimistic about the final document, he thinks it might require further adjusting.

The document, he said, was intentionally left vague enough for future student governments to adjust policies based on student input.

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Students petition Barnard board of trustees

BY ANNIE BRYAN A group of Barnard students is asking for student signatures to push the college’s board of trustees to formally implement a transgender admissions policy.

Students for a Trans-Inclusive Barnard posted the “statement of support” on Nov. 21, which has received 282 signatures as of Monday night. The document represents the first direct call to action to change Barnard’s admissions policy by students who feel that Barnard’s lack of a written policy is unwelcoming to trans individuals. “[W]ithout a written policy on the admission of trans women, Barnard’s gates are in effect closed to a group of young women who could benefit most from what Barnard has to offer,” the statement said. “We urge Barnard’s Board of Trustees to move swiftly to welcome all women to its college on a hilltop.”

Dean of Barnard College Avis Hinkson said in an email to spectator that the administration will examine the issues raised in the document more closely.

“This is an important issue that requires thoughtful consideration, and we are taking the time to fully explore what a policy change would mean for Barnard,” Hinkson said. “We are committed to developing a policy that truly reflects Barnard’s mission and core values, and equally committed to a process that allows our entire community to be represented, respected, and heard.”

Trans-Inclusive Barnard board members Dylan Kapit and Caleb LoSchiavo, said that

they hope a d ive rse ra n ge of students and student organizations COLUMBIA will sign the document to show their support for a formal admissions policy.

LoSchiavo clarified that the document is a “statement of support” rather than a standard petition because the college lacks a policy to change.

“A petition is usually against something that happened, and there’s no policy in place right now,” LoSchiavo said.

“We aren’t petitioning against any action that’s been taken, because nothing has happened.”

After talking about the admissions policy with the Barnard administration, students involved were unsure about administrative thoughts.

“The administration is being as hidden about the whole thing as they possibly can,” Kapit said.

“They know what we want and they don’t like it.”

However, Lauren MalotraGaudet, president of Q and supporter of the statement of support, was optimistic about the administration’s receptiveness to student demands.

“The fact that they meet with us and listen to us and talk to us about this issue is really important,” Malotra-Gaudet said. “I can’t tell if we are gaining traction with administration or trustees for positive support in accepting trans women, but I know that they’re thinking about it.”

Students interviewed about the circulation of the statement of support this week expressed

views that encouraged Barnard to admit trans women.

“It’s ridiculous that these applicants aren’t being fully accepted as women even though that is what they identify as.

Gender is more fluid today and Barnard should accept these students how they want to be seen,” Rachel Mulholland, said.

“It won’t inhibit my education, but instead will create a platform for future dialogue about the rights of transgender individuals in this country,” Yasmina Ibrahim, said.

LoSchiavo said that the statement is directed toward the board of trustees because they hope convincing the board to support the policy will influence the administration to make this change to Barnard’s policy decisions.

“We want them to see that there’s a really strong base for Barnard students and alumni who are in support of Barnard adopting a trans-inclusive policy,” LoSchiavo said.

Although the most vocal students have expressed enthusiastic support for the acceptance of trans women to campus, many of them also acknowledge how others may feel uncomfortable with a women’s college admitting trans women.

Candela Guo, said that though she would be comfortable having a trans woman roommate, not all students would be comfortable living with trans individuals.

“Even if there’s someone going to roommate with me, I’m accepting of that,” Guo said.

“I’m sure there are people who are not entirely comfortable with living with someone who is a transgender student here.”

Emy Metzger, said that she

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Dylan Kapit is helping lead the push for a trans inclusive admissions policy at Barnard as a member of Students for a Trans-Inclusive Barnard. thought accepting trans women could prove challenging when matching roommates.

“It’s hard to make a rule that everybody should be okay with having a roommate who identifies as a woman, but is biologically male,” Metzger said. “People have different values, and people have different comfort levels.”

Jenna Bergmann, also said she understood that some people may not be entirely comfortable with admitting trans students

to Barnard, but she expressed the importance of diversity on campus.

“I am a part of an orthodox Jewish community at home, and I know that community would be upset … I understand that certain personal beliefs may not entirely agree with this shift,” Bergmann said. “But then again, part of being a Barnard student is embracing diversity, and there’s no reason why transgender students should have less of a place on this campus than any

other group.”

Ana Shindell, said that though she thinks trans women should be accepted, creating a policy that allows Barnard to continue, as a women’s college could be difficult.

“It’s actually a really complicated subject because if you accept anybody who identifies as a woman, I think that’s good, but at the same time it’s really broad,” Shindell said. “It could be anybody, and in that case how is it still a women’s college.”

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Faculty hear revised assault policy

Students and administrators discuss mental health policy

BY DEV PATEL AND STEVEN WATROS Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences heard recommendations for FAS’s revised sexual harassment policy and procedures as well as a proposal for a new Ph.D. program in “Population Health Sciences” at the body’s final meeting of the semester on Tuesday.

History professor Alison F. Johnson, who chaired the committee that produced the proposed changes to the interim measures, called attention in particular to a change from the current policy that, if the recommendations are approved, would put faculty and staff cases of sexual misconduct under the jurisdiction of the Office for Sexual and Gender-Based Dispute Resolution, the same new body that oversees investigations of student misconduct cases.

In the earlier version of the policy, the Office for Faculty Affairs, an internal FAS body, conducted the investigations.

After Tuesday’s meeting, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith called the change “great,” saying, “it’s perfect that we have one mechanism to gather facts.”

Earlier this fall, University Title IX Officer Mia Karvonides and Smith both said that faculty and staff procedures had not

been moved under ODR because the office had to prioritize student cases.

In addiHARVARD tion to the transfer of investigatory authority to the ODR, Johnson called a number of her committee’s other changes “striking,” including the absolute prohibition of relationships between faculty members and undergraduates. Cases of quid pro quo sexual assault — when sexual acts are requested in exchange for some benefit — within extracurricular student organizations would be subject to the FAS policy, as would cases of sexual assault against individuals outside of the Harvard community.

Johnson said her committee spent about 40 hours throughout the semester collecting community feedback before making its changes. There was no discussion of the policy following Johnson’s presentation. She said that she has yet to send final recommendations to Smith.

Tuesday’s meeting also featured a presentation on a potential new Ph.D. program in population health sciences, a vote on which is expected at the next Faculty meeting, scheduled for

February.

The new degree would unite five doctorates of science programs within the School of Public Health in the departments of Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Global Health and Population, Nutrition, and Social and Behavioral Sciences into a single, Ph.D.-awarding program.

Several professors spoke at Tuesday’s meeting, stressing the value of the interdisciplinary nature of the proposed degree.

The Faculty also unanimously approved a change to legislation regarding student expulsions, establishing a requirement of a two-thirds vote of the members of the Faculty Council who are present at a given meeting as the threshold for dismissal or expulsion. The line “who are present” was absent from the previous language.

Smith also told Faculty that he had convened a “leadership group” to oversee the “detailed design” planning of the new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences building in Allston, moving forward from the conceptual stage. SEAS professors Robert D. Howe and David C. Parkes will spearhead the planning.

The meeting also included Faculty approval of preliminary courses for the 2015 Harvard Summer School.

BY JESSICA LI Rachel Bronheim, Alexandra Marino and Zhan Okuda-Lim, members of the Undergraduate Student Government’s Mental Health Initiative Board met with Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler Wednesday afternoon to explore the possibility of publishing the official policies for mental health withdrawals and readmissions in the Undergraduate Announcement.

The Undergraduate Announcement is a document that outlines the academic regulations, programs of study and course offerings of the University.

Okuda-Lim said Fowler explained during the meeting that the Undergraduate Announcement was established as a succinct and concise compilation of regulations rather than a detailed set of procedures.

Fowler suggested that the Mental Health Initiative Board work with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students to revise the current FAQs on mental health withdrawals and readmissions, which were published by ODUS this past May, to be recognized as the University’s official protocol.

The protocol would be characterized by specificity about current policies and would be made available to the public.

Okuda-Lim further noted that a meeting is planned with Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin to analyze the feasibility of this proposal.

Fowler could not be reached for comment.

The conference came after 95.5 percent of voters approved of a referendum question that appeared on the recent USG elections ballot that called for greater transparency in mental health withdrawal and readmission policies.

Referendum question 1 was drafted by

Okuda-Lim. While concerns surfaced about the absence of demand for change, Okuda-Lim wrote in a Facebook post that releasing the official polPRINCETON icies, which are currently not publicly accessible, is an indispensable stepping-stone for potential remediation.

“It’s difficult to push for a policy change when the policies are not even public,” Okuda-Lim added.

According to Okuda-Lim, the few paragraphs published in the Undergraduate Announcement relevant to this issue are ambiguous. No specific explanations of withdrawal or readmission procedures are delineated, except for one paragraph on involuntary withdrawals.

The Mental Health Initiatives Board invited Olin and director of Counseling and Psychological Services Calvin Chin to a studentadministrator conversation on Nov. 24, prior to the conference. In response to student concerns, the Board, in collaboration with ODUS, will embed more details in the “Frequently Asked Questions” regarding student rights to patient confidentiality.

The growing worry about the University’s mental health-related policies drew the attention of Bloomberg Businessweek, which said in an article published Dec. 1 that “[Princeton] students fear that talking to mental health counselors will get them tossed out of school.”

Okuda-Lim noted that the Board is planning on collaborating with the Princeton Perspective Project for a January workshop on mental health.

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“Unless you have bad times, you can’t appreciate the good times.” JOE TORRE FOUR-TIME WORLD SERIESWINNING MANAGER

Bulldogs volley with Wildcats VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 ing 15 kills and 19 digs against Arizona State.

“Madi Kingdon is a fabulous player and she’s surrounded by great other players,” Appleman said.

However, outside hitter and captain Mollie Rogers’s ’15 10 double-doubles and 4.30 kill per set average will pose a major threat to the Wildcats’ defense.

Meanwhile, setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 has Arizona setter Penina Snuka beat with 10.95 to 10.84 assists per set this season.

Liberos Maddie Rudnick ’15 and Ronni Lewis are roughly equal matches for each other, averaging 4.14 and 4.16 digs per set, respectively.

Rogers believes that Arizona’s biggest weakness is that they are not familiar with the Bulldogs’ style of play.

“They haven’t seen us play all season, and although they have film on us, none of our games [is] broadcast on TV or anything,” Rogers said. “They haven’t had an ability to follow us for the season.”

The Bulldogs flew into Tucson on Tuesday and have spent Wednesday and Thursday morning practicing at the match site. Traveling cross-country to play poses difficulties for the team academically since they will not be able to hear the last lectures of the semester before finals. Additionally, advanc-

ing further in the tournament bracket would entail even more traveling — to Seattle for the regional playoffs, and, ultimately, Oklahoma City for the championship match.

The Elis, however, are prepared for the challenges that traveling brings, according to Appleman.

“We knew before Thanksgiving we were going to be going somewhere. I think they’re just excited to be going and excited to be representing Yale. We’re very honored,” Appleman said.

In the past two years, the Bulldogs have played in the NCAA preliminary round at Penn State. As such, they are looking forward to making it out to Arizona, according to Johnson. Last year, the Bulldogs fell 3–1 to Utah in the first round. In 2012, Yale put up a tough fight against Bowling Green University in the first round, but lost 3–2.

Nevertheless, Johnson said that the team is excited to get out of the northeast, get some sunshine and play a great Pac-12 team this year.

The last time the Elis traveled cross-country for the NCAA tournament was in 2011, when they flew out to play No. 1 seed USC. The Bulldogs will take on the Wildcats at 8:30 p.m. tonight.

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In last year’s NCAA first round, the Bulldogs fell to Utah 3–1.

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Last season, the women’s squash program swept Franklin & Marshall 9–0.

respectively.

Last weekend the men’s squad also lost a close 5–4 contest to Columbia — the same margin Yale defeated the Lions by at their Ivy scrimmage. As such, this match should be a test of the Eli’s talent and depth.

A year ago, the Bulldogs beat Franklin & Marshall 6–3 and later 7–2 at the National Championship.

“Playing well and winning gives us momentum and the goal Saturday is continuing that,” Edward Columbia ’18 said.

The weakness of the program so far, however, is the bout of injuries plaguing the Bulldogs.

In the finals of the Ivy Scrimmage, Kah Wah Cheong ’17 ruptured his Achilles tendon hitting the match-winning shot.

Cheong had surgery four days later and is expected to miss the rest of the season.

Last week the team learned that Zac Leman ’16 will require surgery for a bulged disc. Leman, too, will likely miss the remainder of the season.

Leman and Cheong were both top four players.

According to Columbia, some of the athletes are motivated by the injuries to concentrate on their training and improve their performance.

The injuries will test the Bulldogs’ youth, with five of the top 10 players being freshmen.

“The men’s team is now going to have to step up and figure out a way to win the Ivy League without two very key guys.” head coach David Talbot said in an email.

The Bulldogs will kick off the 2014–15 season at the Brady Squash Center on Dec. 6.

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Bulldogs beat Bryant BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 the upperclassmen showed down the stretch as the Bulldogs were able to seal the win.

“Down the stretch, we were able to stay composed and poised and pull out the win, and a lot of that is due to our veteran leadership,” guard Javier Duren ’15 said. “I think it will continue to be an advantage for us every night.”

The victory avenges a tight loss to Bryant (1–4, 0–0 NEC) a year ago, a game in which Yale’s opponent swung the momentum with a run to open the second half, leaving a bitter taste.

Last night, however, it was Yale who took control after intermission. “[We had] a sense of urgency,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “We still remember last year when we played them, we were up by four points. They went on a 15–4 last year to close the game, so we didn’t a repeat of that.”

Buoyed by a five-point advantage at the half, Sears and forward Matt Townsend ’15 combined to score Yale’s first 11 points in the second period, including a 9–0 run that stretched the lead to double figures for the first time in the game.

A three-pointer by captain and forward Greg Kelley ’15 with 11:19 to play in the game extended Yale’s edge to a game-high 17 points.

“The beginning of the second half has been very important in many games this year because we settle down, learn from mistakes in the first half and, lastly, come out with a lot of energy,” guard Jack Mon-

tague ’16 said. “The coaches motivate us to either push out a lead or come back strong, and all of the guys have responded well. It also seems like the team has gotten out in transition a lot in the early period of the second half as well, which is very important in ball games.”

A young, but talented Bryant squad showed fight following Kelley’s triple, rattling off eight straight points to cut the lead to single digits. Five of those points were attributed to guard Dyami Starks, who followed up an impressive 22-point performance in last year’s meeting with 23 points at home.

Starks had little support, however, as just one other Bryant player, guard Zach Chionuma, managed to register double digits. Chionuma’s 11 points were anything but efficient, as it required 13 field goal attempts for the junior, including a paltry 2–8 from three-point range.

Yale, on the other hand, demonstrated near perfect balance offensively. Four of Yale’s five starters cracked double figures, with Townsend and Montague each racking up 11 points to supplement 15 points apiece by Sears and Duren.

“We all believe each and every player can make plays on this team, therefore it leads to balanced scoring,” Montague said.

“This even scoring also comes from a balanced attack of a great inside-out game.

The guards feed off the posts and viceversa.”

Despite being Yale’s sole starter to fail to crack 10-point plateau, guard Armani Cotton ’15 was a presence as he snatched a game-high eight rebounds.

While Yale would like to improve upon its free-throw shooting (16-26), the Elis were happy with their performance on the glass as a bunch, outrebounding Bryant by 10.

“We’re a really good rebounding team,” head coach James Jones said. “We did a much better job in the second half. It’s kind of what we hang our hat on, defending and rebounding, and we really did a nice job today.”

Perhaps the most significant statistic for Yale was one Jones has preached for years as being crucial to the team’s success: assist-to-turnover ratio.

Against Bryant, Yale compiled 15 assists to just 10 turnovers, momentarily halting a disturbing trend as of late. Yale entered action last night having turned over the ball more times than they assisted on baskets in four of the last five games. In fact, Yale’s 10 turnovers matches a season low that dates back to the season opener on Nov. 14 at Quinnipiac.

The victory was an important catalyst for a road trip that will only get harder. Yale is back in action tomorrow evening when they take on defending national champion, the University of Connecticut (3–2, 0–0 AAC).

The Bulldogs fell to the Huskies 80–62 last year in Hartford. This year’s meeting will take place at UConn’s campus in Storrs, Connecticut, with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Reno revamps Yale RENO FROM PAGE 14 been that — guys who have been in their place for a long period of time and have really been able to establish a winning tradition,” Reno said. “I hope that 25 years down the road, that Yale will still have me.”

Reno initially signed with Yale in January 2012, less than a month after the resignation of former head coach Tom Williams amid controversy over his history as a Rhodes Scholar candidate and practice squad player for the San Francisco 49ers. Reno had previously been a defensive backs and special teams coach at Harvard for three years, but he was on Yale’s coaching staff for six years before his time in Cambridge.

With 15 wins and 15 losses to his name as head coach, the 34th Yale head coach remains one of just two multi-season Yale coaches without a winning record. But the upward trend of his 2–8, 5–5 and 8–2 records is clear, and both Reno and senior leader offensive lineman Will Chism ’15 said that this progress was because of increasing levels of talent.

This past season was the first in which the majority of Yale players were recruited under Reno. Of the 2014 squad, only the senior class and half of the junior class remain out of players recruited before Reno came on, according to captain and defensive back Cole Champion ’16, who will serve as next year’s captain. Reno did, however, finish the recruiting process for running back Tyler Varga ’15, who is now a finalist for Ivy League offensive player of the year and a potential NFL prospect.

“In the interviewing process, he painted this picture of what would happen as he developed the program, and how much time it would take, and all the things he wanted to try and accomplish,” Beckett said. “He’s right in step with everything that he presented to the Yale search committee. I can’t tell you how impressive that is.”

Multiple players said that the main change Reno instituted upon taking the head coaching job was a mentality shift. Coined phrases like “stick with the process,” “overcome adversity” and “one day at a time” have become central to Reno’s statements in press conferences and in the locker room.

Linebacker Will Vaughan ’15 said in a press conference earlier this season that this attitude helped the Elis overcome early deficits to Lehigh, Army and Brown this season.

“When [Reno] showed up here,

he said that things are going to go a certain way, that we’re going to deal with process before outcome,” Champion said. “We take everything one day at a time for everything — one rep at a time, one workout at a time. We really try to make everything small picture. If you focus on big picture, you miss a lot of the details that make a difference in the end.”

Champion added that when Reno moved from Harvard to the head job in New Haven, it was Reno’s coaching techniques and player interactions that sparked Champion’s desire to play for Yale.

Reno’s recruiting abilities have given Yale many high-profile players such as Varga, quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16, a 2013 transfer from Clemson, and defensive end Victor Egu ’17, who had verbally committed to the University of California, Berkeley and held offers from Oregon and Notre Dame before committing to Yale.

“Push the envelope,” Reno said about his recruiting philosophy.

“Go for the best kids that are out there and don’t be satisfied with guys who are good players — go get the great ones. The other piece is recruiting guys who are football players — guys who wake up in the morning thinking about football and go to bed at night thinking about football.”

This year, Reno’s results were seen not only on the Eli squad, but on that of its rival. As the southeast region recruiter for Harvard, Reno recruited Harvard’s 2014 captain Norman Hayes as well as defensive end Zach Hodges, who won the 2013 Ivy defensive player of the year award and is a finalist for the same honor this season.

But Reno also took talent from Harvard. Reno hired Joe Conlin as his offensive line coach shortly after leaving Cambridge, and Conlin was promoted to offensive coordinator this season. Chism said that Conlin’s contributions to the offense are a central reason for Yale’s success this season.

“Joe Conlin is the real deal, and Yale is very fortunate to have him on staff,” Chism said. “He’s learned from the best in this industry — [Philadelphia Eagles head coach] Chip Kelly in particular. He’s coached on both sides of the ball … He’s a crafty offensive coordinator with a serious eye for talent. He knows talent when he sees it.”

Reno also convinced running backs coach Larry Ciotti to come back from retirement, after Ciotti had served on Yale’s coaching staff from 1991 to 2007.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 5:30 PM Literature & Spirituality Series: The Givenness of Things. Acclaimed author Marilynne Robinson will be giving the Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature in honor of the former faculty member at Yale Divinity School.

Presented by the Institute of Sacred Music in collaboration with the Yale Divinity Student Book Supply. Open to the Public. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (409 Prospect St.).

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“[Reno is] right in step with everything that he presented to the Yale search committee. I can’t tell you how impressive that is.”

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Yale, Arizona duel in the desert VOLLEYBALL

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This is Yale’s fourth-straight NCAA appearance and sixth overall, the most of any Ivy.

Strong finish propels Elis over Bryant

BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS The Yale men’s basketball team certainly had some weak moments in the closing stretch of last night’s matchup against Bryant, but the Elis ultimately proved too prepared for the Bulldogs from Rhode Island.

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BY ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After defeating Harvard before Thanksgiving break to secure the tournament bid, the Yale volleyball team (18–7, 12–2 Ivy) will play in the NCAA tournament for the fourth consecutive year, taking on the No. 11 Arizona Wildcats.

Arizona is hosting the first two rounds of the tournament for the first time since 2002, and Brigham Young University and Seton Hall will also play at the McKale Center tonight. The two winners of the first round will face off tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.

The Wildcats (23–9, 12–8 Pac-12) finished third in the topranked Pacific-12 conference this season. Ten of the 12 teams in their conference are headed to the NCAA tournament, including powerhouses like Stanford, Washington and the University of Southern California.

“The Pac-12 is one of the top conferences in the country, so they play at a very, very high level,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “But I think we’ve really grown as a team this year, and I think we can give them a run for their money.”

Head coach Erin Appleman noted that the Wildcats have five seniors on their roster, most of whom have played in the NCAA tournament for the past three years.

Captain and outside hitter Madi Kingdon is ranked fourth in the nation, averaging 5.21 kills per set. She just rounded out the regular season with her eighth consecutive double-double, notchSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

Reno: The turnaround titan

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Reno has taken the football program from 2–8 to 5–5 to 8–2 over his three years.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Two years after posting a disappoting 2–8 record, the Yale football team’s historic 2014 season highlighted the program’s rebuilding under head coach Tony Reno.

FOOTBALL This year the Elis boasted an 8–2 record, with the spread offense that Reno introduced to the team in 2012 progressing to unforeseen levels of production, breaking Yale single-season records in passing, rushing

and receiving.

But after Yale fell to Harvard for the eighth straight time on a touchdown pass in the final seconds, it is clear that the Bulldogs still have room to grow. And although Reno and Director of Athletics Tom Beckett declined to comment on contract discussions, both said that they hope to see Reno continue to see that growth happen for a long time.

“You look back, and look at the great coaches in Ivy League history — [Yale’s] Carm Cozza, [Penn’s] Al Bagnoli and now [Harvard’s] Tim Murphy has SEE RENO PAGE 10

Squash looks to overcome F&M, injuries

closing 80 seconds that could have put the game well out of reach, Yale outlasted Bryant by a final tally of 67–60 on Bryant’s home court.

Perhaps the late misses from the line can be attributed to tired legs, as the Elis (7–2, 0–0 Ivy) are off to their best start since the 2011–12 campaign despite being tied with four other schools in all of Division I for the most games played thus far. Regardless, the leadership from SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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The men’s squash team is undefeated in Ivy scrimmages, defeating Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard.

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The men’s and women’s squash teams will officially kick off the 2014– 15 season this Saturday by hosting Franklin & Marshall.

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The men’s basketball team went on a nine-point run to start the second half and give them the edge over Bryant.

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The Diplomat men are currently ranked seventh in the nation and the women are ranked 17th. The Yale men’s and women’s teams are both ranked fourth in the nation.

The F&M women have a 4–2 record that features massive wins against weaker teams, such as Haverford and Dickinson, and losses against highly ranked Princeton and Columbia.

The women also recently dropped a 7–2 match to Columbia, the same team that Yale swept 9–0 at the Ivy Scrimmage. Last year, the Yale women went undefeated against Franklin & Marshall, winning all nine matches.

“We want to start off the season strong,” said Selena Maity ’18. “We want to put in hard work and use [this

match] to give us energy for future matches.”

The coaches said they view this as an opportunity to see the progress the team has made since practices began earlier in the year.

The Diplomat men boast a 4–2 record, with wins coming from weaker Haverford, Bowdoin, Dickinson and Drexel teams. They have, however, dropped closer 6–3 and 5–4 matches to tough Ivy League competitors Princeton and Columbia, SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF STRAIGHT GAMES THE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM WOULD HAVE WON HAD IT NOT LOST TO HARVARD ON NOV. 1. A seven-game winning streak was broken by the Crimson, but after the loss, the Bulldogs have won six straight.