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“‘No way to prevent this,’

says only nation where this regularly happens,” The Onion said about the shootings in San Bernardino, California yesterday. In response to the tragedy, several 2016 presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, have reaffirmed their support for tighter gun control legislation. “I want people to feel safe,” Clinton said at a Nashua, New Hampshire event.

Four minutes to save the world. Youtube sensation and

former Duke’s Men member Sam Tsui’s ’11 latest video covers the entirety of “25,” Adele’s newest album which features the smash hit “Hello,” in four minutes. Tsui, who became famous by posting covers, medleys and mashups online, is currently working on his second album.

Old thing back. Connecticut

is getting older, according to the recently released census data from 2010–14. The median age in the state’s rural towns has increased by 20 percent. However, a few towns, including Mansfield — which houses UConn — and New Haven, keep the state’s median age slightly lower with significant young populations.

Yale’s next top model.

OkCupid ranked the Yale student body as the most attractive among top colleges.

It must be true because Y Fashion House is holding an open model casting call this weekend. All students are invited to audition in the Calhoun dance studio on Saturday and the Silliman dance studio on Sunday.

Sunday night in Paris. The

Davenport Pops Orchestra presents: Faux Pops — an evening of French music — at 8:30 p.m. in Battell Chapel on Sunday. Admission is free, and the event will also be livestreamed.

I like to Groove it, Groove it. Groove Dance Company

will perform their fall show featuring modern, jazz, hiphop and lyrical dance pieces at the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theater tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are $5 online and $6 at the door.

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1961 Charles McDew, a founder and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee visits Yale. McDew served as the second chairman of SNCC, from 1961 to 1963.

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Ignorance of discrimination procedures

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ethnic studies courses, or do enough to retain its faculty of color. Still, Pitti said he is hopeful that the initiative will address the concerns of students and faculty alike. And professors at prominent ethnic studies units at other universities said they were excited to hear about Salovey’s announcement, but noted that there are many nuances that shape how the center will contribute to the studies of ethnicity and race on Yale’s campus.

“The faculty have pushed for

During the tumultuous few weeks before Thanksgiving break, as many students came forward with personal stories of unequal treatment and racism on campus, student activists called for Yale to establish clear procedures for reporting and addressing complaints of racial discrimination. In response, University President Peter Salovey has promised that current, little-known formal procedures for addressing discrimination grievances will be re-examined and updated to promote a more equal and inclusive campus environment.

The most basic step, administrators say, is to broadcast the procedures’ existence in the first place.

“The work of creating robust and clear mechanisms for reporting, tracking and addressing actions that may violate the University’s clear nondiscrimination policies will be rolled out in two phases,” Salovey wrote in a Nov. 17 email to the Yale community. “In the first, which will take place immediately, we will work with students to communicate more clearly the available pathways and resources for reporting and/or resolution. Then, in the spring, we will review and adopt, with input from students, measures to strengthen mechanisms that address discrimination.”

The call for more clearly delineated procedures in instances of alleged misconduct is not

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Homeland away from home.

Claire Danes, who attended Yale for two years, spoke to Entertainment Tonight Canada about her hit show “Homeland” yesterday. “I’m very motivated to make it as excellent and complete a series as we can,” she said.

“Homeland” has received several accolades since its 2011 premiere, including the 2012 Emmy for Outstanding Series.

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The University will open a new center for the study of racial and ethnic issues, after years of proposals from faculty.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Weeks after University President Peter Salovey announced a plan to establish a center to support scholarship in race, ethnicity and social identity, questions remain about what exactly the center will do and how it will be structured.

In response to passionate student activism about racial issues at Yale and demands for greater prioritization of ethnic studies, Salovey announced in a Nov. 17 email to the Yale community that the Univer-

sity would create a center to aid the “intense study” of race and ethnicity, but the administration has yet to offer further details about the physical and conceptual plans for the center. The announcement comes after years of discussion among faculty members and after four proposals for just such a center were rejected, according to history and American Studies professor Stephen Pitti, former director of the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program. Meanwhile, the University has struggled to satisfy students who say Yale does not offer enough

New diversity dean to fill administrative gap

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The University is set to create another top-level administrative position devoted to diversifying Yale’s faculty.

Following weeks of student protests and demands for more faculty of color, University President Peter Salovey announced on Nov. 17 that he would invite a senior member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to take the new role of “deputy dean for diversity in the FAS and special

advisor to the provost and president.”

Although the position has yet to be filled, questions remain about how the new deputy dean’s responsibilities will differ from those of the deputy provost for faculty development and diversity, a role currently filled by Richard Bribiescas that was created last year at the recommendation of an external review on faculty diversity at Yale. The review, authored in Feb. 2014 by nine educators from across the country, iden-

State supports housing Syrian refugees

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After 130 lost their lives to terrorist attacks in Paris three weeks ago, 31 United States governors have said they will stop permitting people fleeing violence in Syria to take refuge in their states. But Connecticut has taken a different path.

Gov. Dannel Malloy and Sens.

Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy are urging the federal government to continue accepting Syrian refugees into the United States.

Connecticut’s entry into the national debate about Syrian refugees — which emerged after a fake Syrian passport was found on the body of a Paris attacker — was a grass-roots phenomenon.

After Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana refused to allow a Syrian family seeking asylum to settle in the state, Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, a refugee resettlement program run by the Episcopal Church, offered the

family a home in the Elm City.

Malloy, speaking at a press conference in City Hall on Nov. 18 — the day the family arrived — said he was proud to welcome the Syrian family, calling it the “right thing to do.” Blumenthal and Murphy also publicly declared their commitment to protecting refugees the next day.

“The notion that we can’t both protect Americans from terror and save those who have been the victims of terror suggests a smallness of America that violates the best traditions of this country,” Murphy said. “I believe in American exceptionalism, and America at its best is able to secure our borders and rescue others who have been the victims of horrific terrorist attacks.”

But on Nov. 20, the federal House of Representatives passed the “American SAFE Act of 2015” to restrict the entry of SEE REFUGEES PAGE 6

tified gaps in Yale’s efforts to diversify its faculty and cited that of the 23 members of the University President’s cabinet only one member, Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, was not white. Today that number is two.

Some professors interviewed said the new position is necessary because it is important for Yale to have figures in positions of power pushing for greater diversity at all levels of the University.

“There’s still something missing in FAS,” said Frances Rosenbluth, a political science professor who recently served as deputy provost for social sciences and faculty development and diversity. “The University is always evolving in its structures.

They are trying to figure out who does what and they decided there are missing pieces.”

While Bribiescas works closely with University Provost Benjamin Polak, the new deputy dean will report directly to FAS Dean Tamar Gendler, Polak

said. Together with Gendler, the deputy dean will be tasked with forming a new committee to advise the administration about faculty diversity and help create ways to make Yale more inclusive for faculty of color, women faculty and underrepresented minority faculty.

Polak added that since FAS faculty account for about onethird of the entire University faculty, diversity among that body is especially important.

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Alumni hopeful for future of football

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Although winless against Harvard, Reno has led Yale to a 14–6 mark over the past two seasons.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER For the first time, the Harvard-Yale football game was played under the lights at the Yale Bowl this past November. But despite the modern twist on the storied tradition, one pattern persisted.

Harvard emerged victorious for the ninth consecutive time, establishing the

longest-ever win streak in the history of The Game. The loss marked a somber low point for the Bulldogs, but it is one many believe Yale is on track to overcoming in the years ahead.

Yale head coach Tony Reno joined the team just before the 2012 season, when the Bulldogs were already mired in a stretch of five consecutive losses against the Crim-

son. To many in the Yale athletics community, Reno’s hiring brought hope for the future. Coming directly from Cambridge, Reno had previously served as an assistant under Harvard head coach Tim Murphy, who had notched 12 consecutive winning seasons at the time of Reno’s departure.

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Being mindful with language N

early every day at Yale, I walk past Sterling Memorial Library, where there is a swastika carved into the facade. It is part of the display of diverse intellectual traditions that graces the front of Sterling, so it does not offend me, even though I am Jewish and lost family members to the Holocaust.

I know, from context, that it is simply an ancient Sanskrit symbol.

Recent decisions by Princeton and Harvard to abolish the title “master” in their residential colleges will likely reinvigorate efforts to do so at Yale. To be clear, if Yale decides to follow suit, it would be fine with me — there is nothing sacrosanct about this title. But, the conversation ignores other more useful applications of political correctness, or to employ a more neutral term, linguistic mindfulness.

Although I cannot know how it feels for an African-American student to say this word, especially given the stark contrast in the past and present treatment of African-Americans in this country, the swastika example is the best approximation I can relate to. In both cases, they are unconnected to the actual symbols or words that are offensive.

(Others before me have already discussed the deep roots of “master” in academic settings, coming from the Latin “magister” for “teacher.”)

Rather, there is derogatory language that deserves greater attention in the effort to promote linguistic mindfulness. In the earlier part of the 20th century, it was okay to say, “I jewed him down to a cheaper price.” Hardly anyone today would use “jew” in such a way that reinforces ethnic stereotypes, yet many people continue to use “gyp” as a synonym for “swindle” or “cheat.”

According to Merriam-Webster, this is probably a reference to the term “Gypsy” and is therefore demeaning to the Roma people.

(Far more disrespectful, I might add, than having a graduate bar called GPSCY, which is simply an acronym for the Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale.)

Pernicious words don’t magically go away. At my high school, there was a campaign called “Spread the Word to End the Word,” which attempted to eradicate the use of “retarded” as an insult. It was remarkably successful. Happily, the words “gay” and “cripple” are also now uncommon insults, at least at a place like Yale, but this has been the result of concerted efforts.

On the other hand, some obviously denigrating words are still in widespread use. “Lame” is interchanged with “uncool” (in the same way “gay” had been misused) even though it dis-

parages the physically disabled.

“Crazy” and “insane” are common words whose use degrades the mentally ill. “Slaving over a hot stove” trivializes the plight of slaves.

Other words may require a greater awareness of etymology. Calling a joke “hysterical” or reporting “mass hysteria” denotes stereotypically effeminate impulses, as the root word is shared by “hysterectomy.” Explaining that a regulation “grandfathered in” previous companies, as I have heard several political science professors say, refers to grandfather clauses that disenfranchised AfricanAmerican voters. In the Jim Crow South, these laws exempted voters from literacy tests if their grandfathers could vote — an example of literal white privilege. Even insults connoting stupidity, such as “dumb,” “moron” and “idiot,” were all once words to describe the verbally or mentally disabled.

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t’s almost finals season — a time when students like me begin to wonder whether or not binge-watching three seasons of Scrubs on Netflix was the best use of Thanksgiving break.

More importantly, we ask ourselves a simple question: Have we learned anything this semester? For a good portion of us, the answer is no — at least if research is to be believed.

In 2011, researchers Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa found that 45 percent of college sophomores had exhibited no measurable improvement in critical thinking or writing skills since high school. So college isn’t doing a great job of making us smarter. What gives?

Not much has changed in college classrooms for hundreds of years; the way we teach today is largely the same as it was in the mid-18th century. Why are purported bastions of academic thought intentionally ignoring the fruits of decades of education research?

Take lectures, for example — a staple of university pedagogy.

An overwhelming body of literature suggests that lectures do almost nothing to inspire interest in a topic or promote thought. In fact, lectures foster an unhealthy social pres-

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save for the students we (not so) affectionately dub “section assholes.” Seminars are far more effective, but there simply aren’t enough to go around.

Contrast the rigor mortis of college with the rapid changes in primary education of late.

When was the last time any of us sat in a class that was more than a PowerPoint presentation or a few notes scribbled on a chalkboard? Many middle schools and high schools are being encouraged to incorporate interactive technology and different types of projects into their curricula — teaching tools that are more innovative than assigning yet another problem set or paper.

Why are the same researchers who advocate dynamic teaching methods for high schools subjecting their own college students to an archaic format?

A large reason for the lack of change in academia is that professors are normally not teachers. Tenure is doled out based on research prowess, not teaching skill. Most professors have never studied pedagogical theory or read about effective teaching practices. And there’s no real incentive for them to ever do so.

Universities don’t typically give out bonuses for being a great teacher. It troubles me that my

high school English teacher was probably better trained to teach students than the majority of college English professors are.

The good news is that it’s certainly possible to address these issues. We can have better run sections and more interactive lectures. Mandating some courses on learning theory for prospective professors isn’t too hard either. Far more pernicious is the structure of collegiate coursework itself. As I’ve written before, to retain information, students need to be tested frequently and build upon previous lessons. Evaluating student performance with only a midterm and a final is just not conducive to long-term retention of knowledge. Without a core set of classes that builds on itself, it’s easy to forget what you learned in the fall of freshman year.

I’m not quite sure how to solve these problems. Testing more frequently is probably a logistical nightmare, and I enjoy the freedom of selecting whatever classes I want. But perhaps we should start prioritizing research over tradition.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

I think the reason no one has called for many of these words to be consigned to the dustbin is because people don’t know where they come from. Perhaps such words have lost their pejorative status and we can use them freely in modern parlance. Still, I would be more enthusiastic about a campaign to stop using these words than the efforts to abolish the term “master,” though I reiterate that I don’t mind if it is changed.

This discussion is directly related to another important debate on campus. John C. Calhoun’s foremost legacy was the oppression of African-Americans; we should rename the college because his name has everything to do with slavery, and like the Confederate flag, his portrait belongs in a museum, not a dining hall. The word “master” in academic institutions has nothing to do with slavery. Let’s focus on other cases where linguistic mindfulness will make our campus and society more welcoming and tolerant places.

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Indeed, when given the option to do so, students overwhelmingly avoid the lecture hall; just ask any student in CS50, whose lectures are all streamed on YouTube.

Of course, academia is not completely oblivious to the shortcomings of the lecture format. Sections were developed to facilitate discussions that are impossible in a room of 200 people. Yet the section system, too, is broken, at least at Yale.

For courses that do not mandate section attendance, few if any students show up. For courses that do, the silence is deafening,

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orothy Parker once said, “I hate writing, I love having written.” Her words resonated immediately. Parker wrote poetry, short stories and perhaps my favorite literary format — satire. I regret not being more familiar with her work.

I like satire because it’s kind of like solving a riddle: You have to decipher what someone is saying to get at what they actually mean. If satire is good, it’s because the author’s intention is clear. Good satire is like an inside joke that anyone can join in on.

Before Thanksgiving break, Nicholas Christakis wrote a collegewide email to Silliman titled, “The Idea of Positive Intent.”

In it, he calls on the entire Silliman community to ascribe to the notion of “positive intent,” which he defines as “a conscious practice of assuming good faith, not bad, in the people with whom we interact or observe.”

While nice in theory, I think an environment of “positive intent” can actually be counterproductive. Positive intent makes for bad satire.

Let’s say someone publishes bad satire. (Sometimes I fear that

this person is me.) If a piece of humor writing falls flat, who is to blame? Is it the reader, who scratches her head in AUSTIN Or BRYNIARSKI confusion? is it the writer, who wasn’t Guns & egregious enough in his butter sarcasm or witty enough in his delivery? I think most people would agree with me in blaming the writer — bad satire is bad because whatever point he’s trying to get across just isn’t registering. Whatever a writer’s intention was, it becomes lost.

Back to Ms. Parker’s quote. I love having written. For me, the hardest part of writing is getting words on the page, but once they’re there, I’m set. Even if the writing isn’t great, I still have time to bend sentences and shift paragraphs into something that isn’t so terrible. In writing satire, I’ve often found it helpful to consider all the ways in which a

piece of writing could be misinterpreted, and then to revise in order to prevent potential misinterpretation. I seal holes in my writing before there are any leaks. That’s my favorite part of the writing process — it makes for funnier prose.

In a universe governed by “positive intent,” the labor I would put into rejiggering sentences and patching up prose would be for naught. I could write whatever I wanted, and if someone didn’t get it, it’d be the fault of the reader. “That wasn’t my intention,” I would say, all high and mighty, and all would be forgiven. Nothing would change.

Intention isn’t just central to satire, though. I employ the same strategy of revision in my academic papers (and, believe it or not, these columns, sometimes!) — bending sentences so that whatever argument I’m trying to make is well supported and clearly conveyed. Intellectually speaking, a culture of “positive intent” is not very rigorous. After all, we aren’t graded for what we intended to write. We’re graded for what we do write.

In a world where communi-

cation increasingly takes place online, we lose cues like body language when we’re posting Facebook statuses or sending emails. This virtual terrain is where intention is so important, and where it is so frequently lost in translation. The number of times I’ve followed up a text with “sry, sarcasm doesn’t translate well via phone” since my middle school days has led me to believe that I should stop using sarcasm in texts. The lingo of the web has introduced us to favorites like “JK,” which are now too often employed in real life, sanitizing anything we’ve said and later realized we shouldn’t have.

I laud Professor Christakis’ efforts to communicate more clearly with his college, and to bring the Silliman community closer together, but I fear a culture of “positive intent” will forgive unintentional transgressions too easily. Positive intent sounds nice, but a culture of thoughtfulness is better.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column runs on Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

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Students question STEM profs’ awareness

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER On Nov. 29, physics professor Douglas Stone released an open letter expressing support for Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis and Associate Master Erika Christakis. In the days that followed, students began to raise concerns that the professors who chose to sign onto the letter — three quarters of whom work in STEM fields — are out of touch with campus climate.

Stone’s letter defended Erika Christakis’ controversial Halloween email as a call for discussion based on “positive intent,” and argued that the Christakises were acting in the best interests of their students. But students who disagree with this message have raised concerns that the 63 professors who signed the letter do not understand conversations taking place on campus.

Many were especially concerned that the majority of those professors focus on STEM disciplines, arguing that faculty in those fields were especially unsympathetic to the plight of minority students on campus. Still, STEM professors interviewed largely expressed views similar to those reported by professors in other fields.

American Studies major Olivier van Donselaar ’17 wrote in a social media post that the signers of the open letter were out of touch with campus dialogue.

“The fact that the large majority of the faculty that signed this letter in support of the Christakises are in STEM just shows how farremoved from reality these people are,” van Donselaar wrote. “Maybe we should require faculty to take an ethnic studies class too?”

Biomedical engineering major Bianca Li ’17 said STEM professors are generally further dissociated from campus due to the time constraints of their research and because of what she described as an “old boys” atmosphere that insulates them from campus debates.

“I have a suspicion that, unless they are involved with residential college life, STEM faculty members are just as far out of the bubble as people who are not at Yale at all,” Li said. “When professors were present, I didn’t even feel comfortable reaching out to my friends about how they were being impacted by the Christakis email except very briefly before a class with a STEM professor who is a woman of color.”

Some students suggested that STEM faculty are in general less likely to be aware of debates on campus due to the nature of professors’ respective fields. Astrophysics major Kareem El-Badry ’16 said that, while many nonSTEM fields directly or indirectly engage with the questions underlying the debates on campus, STEM professors tend to have less direct experience studying the issues.

“People in non-STEM fields have likely just been exposed to more discussions about race than people in STEM fields,” El-Badry said. Still, he said he believes there are large differences between professors’ awareness levels, even within departments.

El-Badry added that when a previous open letter expressing solidarity with students of color was distributed on campus, the astronomy department chair sent an email to the department about

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race issues on campus, after which almost all astronomy faculty signed the letter. The chair also contacted the department faculty suggesting professors be sensitive to student needs given widespread campus sentiments.

STEM professors interviewed disagreed with the idea that faculty in their disciplines are out of touch with recent movements on campus.

Computer science professor Brian Scassellati, who signed the letter, said the distributional makeup of the letter’s signees has a far simpler explanation: The author of the letter simply sent it to friends and colleagues who were naturally within his field and similar departments. Computer science professor Joan Feigenbaum agreed, suggesting that any distributional irregularities were probably just the result of who knew whom.

Many professors who signed the letter suggested that it took a nuanced stance on the issues involved and added context about the roles the Christakises have played in activism on a national level. Psychology professor Tyrone Cannon said he signed the letter because he thinks that contentious issues should be treated with civil, mutually respectful discourse and he believes that the Christakises did just that in their communications with students on campus.

STEM faculty members are just as far out of the bubble as people who are not at Yale at all.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Due to recent concerns about the racial climate on campus, communication between University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway has been more constant than ever, though at some points it has been challenging.

At first, the racial controversies fell primarily under the jurisdiction of the Yale College Dean’s Office, while Salovey remained unaware of an allegedly “white girls only” admission policy at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity party for five days. However, larger concerns about the party and an email from Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis criticizing oversensitivity to cultural appropriation later necessitated the involvement of the Woodbridge Hall, particularly during a Cross Campus gathering when students expressed wide-ranging concerns about campus climate to Holloway for two hours. Starting with a four-hour meeting in the Corporation Room that included Salovey and Holloway and 50 students from groups such as the Black Student Alliance at Yale, the two have worked together continually. While collaborating on joint messages to the Yale community, Holloway said they faced the challenge of addressing the concerns of all constituencies of the University, not just those of the undergraduate population. Salovey said the most important lesson in communication he has learned is the value of faceto-face meetings between himself, Holloway and various University groups. Going forward, however, he said he

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“Clearly, racism continues to exist in our society, and many people are understandably and justifiably affected in deeply emotional ways by the various expressions of it,” Cannon said. “We clearly need to do more as a society — at large as well as at Yale — to confront racist attitudes and work toward a greater sense of inclusiveness …

People like the Christakises, who give so much of themselves to help create a vibrant intellectual community at Yale, are part of the solution, not the problem.”

This afternoon, several professors from STEM departments including MCDB, MB&B and physics will host a luncheon for students to talk with faculty about racial debates and concerns on campus, according to Joyce Guo ’17, one of the event’s organizers.

Guo said the professors, who asked not to be named, hope to express a renewed commitment to attentiveness and support for students of color at the luncheon. The event will be held in the Silliman Fellows’ Lounge, and will happen again next Friday. Li said she hoped dialogues such as today’s luncheon would serve to better incorporate STEM faculty into the discussions on campus and make it easier to include STEM faculty perspectives in the dialogue.

The November open letter expressing solidarity with students of color was authored by five FAS senators and signed by 500 professors.

Members of Unidad Latina en Accion — a New Havenbased immigrant-rights organization — met with Mayor Toni Harp and New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman Wednesday to call on the city to protect ULA members’ rights to protest and take action against alleged wage theft at the Italian restaurant Goodfellas.

Fifteen ULA members and supporters, former Goodfellas employees and Yale Law School students presented Harp and Esserman with a plan to address wage theft and police violation of civil liberties. The meeting was scheduled in response to last Wednesday’s sit-in at City Hall, where ULA members decried the Nov. 20 arrest of organizer John Lugo at a protest against Goodfellas. NHPD arrested Lugo for disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer after protesting with a megaphone. He made his first court appearance last Friday and was given a continuance. Lugo will appear in court next month, according to ULA organizer Megan Fountain ’07.

“It was a very good beginning, but this is just the beginning,” Fountain said. “Esserman and Harp said they want to meet with us again, so we have to keep moving forward.”

ULA called for the mayor’s office to uphold the organization’s first amendment right to protest, advocate for ULA on a state level and encourage Elm City community members to only patronize businesses with fair labor practices.

Fountain said ULA also asked Harp to immediately revoke Goodfellas’ outdoor seating license, which the restaurant needs to maintain public seating on the sidewalk. She added that other cities, like Chicago, have revoked businesses’ outdoor seating licenses in response to wage theft complaints.

“We want the police to adopt a procedure to investigate wage theft and enforce

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Communication from Salovey and Holloway has increased in the wake of recent campus controversies. would like to be made aware of major incidents on campus more quickly in the future.

“It’s always going to be best if either one of us learns of a significant event, we share it as quickly as possible with each other,” Salovey said. “I will make it clear that it’s best to put me in the loop immediately, even if there is ambiguity. [The SAE incident] would be the kind of thing in the future I would like to hear about.”

Still, Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews said she learned of the SAE incident toward the end of Halloween weekend and subsequently touched base with the YCDO to determine how Woodbridge Hall could offer support.

But since Woodbridge Hall became involved, Holloway said he and Salovey have spent more time together than they had throughout the entire rest of his tenure as dean.

On Nov. 5, Salovey and Holloway wrote their first of several joint emails addressing concerns of racism and discrimination on campus. Holloway said when crafting joint emails from the YCDO and Woodbridge, it is crucial to consider who will be reading the message. Joint emails must therefore address the concerns of all constituencies of the University.

Before Salovey announced policies in response to student concerns, he and Holloway collaborated at length, he said.

“During the weekend of [Nov.] 14th, as we were thinking about what kinds of initiatives to announce, he and I spent a lot of time together,” Salovey said.

Salovey said that in working with Holloway over the part month, the two administrators grew to appreciate the importance of face-to-face interactions as compared to memorandums and emails.

Salovey added that having previously served as dean of Yale College, he appreciates the value of having worked closely with Holloway throughout the past month.

“I have strong feelings about the importance of the relationship between the dean and the president,” Salovey said. “The dean has observations rooted in daily experiences with students, residential college masters and deans, while the president sometimes has the long view and knowledge about and particular ties to leaders on other campuses. I think the combination of those two perspectives — global and local — can lead to better understandings by both the president and the dean when they work closely together.”

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

Harp presents plan to ULA

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the law,” Fountain said. “The NHPD have the authority to do it, it is larceny, and there’s a series of criminal statutes.

So the NHPD have the authority and responsibility to take action on wage theft.”

Harp proposed three steps in response to ULA’s complaints. She said her staff will review wage theft allegations against Goodfellas as well as complaints that the NHPD allegedly violated ULA members’ right to protest. Harp added that she will encourage the Connecticut Department of Labor to follow up on pending wage theft allegations around the city.

She also proposed that two ULA members join her Community and Police Relations Task Force, a committee the city formed in March to improve the relationship between police and New Haven community members. Two ULA members, Karim Calle and Joseph Foran, will attend the task force’s next meeting.

Harp described her meeting with ULA as “cordial” and “respectful” in an email to the News.

Calle said that although she is pleased with Harp’s proposals, the city still has work to do.

She said she was hopeful that Harp and Esserman will coop-

erate with ULA after looking through their letter of recommendations.

“We hope that they’re able to see us from the victims’ point of view, but also from the community’s point of view,” Calle said. “It’s important to understand how these community members grieve through the process of wage theft to understand changes that need to be made within our community.”

Five Goodfellas employees filed a federal lawsuit against the restaurant on May 1.

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

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Two weeks after ULA organizer John Lugo’s arrest, ULA members met with Mayor Toni Harp.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” JOHN ROBERTS CURRENT CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES

Students unaware of discrimination procedures PROCEDURES FROM PAGE 1 exclusive to issues of race: many students have also expressed dissatisfaction with, or confusion about, the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct or the Executive Committee, which hears violations of the Yale College Undergraduate Regulations. But while most students interviewed expressed at least basic familiarity with the UWC and ExComm, 14 out of 15 students had never heard of existing University procedures that have the power to address complaints of racial discrimination. Nor were they aware that, in cases of student violations of

the College’s nondiscrimination policies, ExComm can also take disciplinary action.

Currently, Yale students can pursue three formal procedures to address issues of discrimination on campus: the Dean’s Procedure for Student Complaints, the Provost’s Procedure for Student Complaints and the President’s Procedure for Addressing Students’ Complaints of Racial or Ethnic Harassment.

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Students are largely unaware of existing procedures for hearing complaints of racial discrimination on campus.

through this process. The Provost’s Procedure, on the other hand, is generally used to take action against a faculty member or administrator not affiliated with the complainant’s school — in the case of a Yale undergraduate, one of Yale’s 13 graduate and professional schools. Both the Dean’s and Provost’s Procedures govern cases of general grievances that include, but are not limited to, violations of the University’s nondiscrimination policies. The President’s Procedure is the only one that exclusively hears complaints of harassment based on racial or ethnic origin, and students may utilize it for a complaint against any member of the Yale community, including a fellow student. According to the website of the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, which assists in the University’s various grievance procedures and ensures compliance with University policies and state and federal laws regarding equal opportunity, students may only use the President’s Procedure if have not gone through any other grievance processes.

In each of these procedures, the student must submit a written complaint. A committee then reviews the facts of the case and writes a report summarizing its findings. The report is then submitted to the relevant administrator, who has the power to accept, modify or reject the committee’s recommendations.

University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, who is leading the process of reviewing these procedures, said the President’s Procedure has seldom been utilized in the past,

Ethnic center plan remains unclear CENTER FROM PAGE 1 these issues for a long time, and we are hopeful that the administration will follow through with the encouragement and promises it has made for the last six years,” Pitti said.

Pitti said the conversations about a possible center began in 2009, when a group of eight faculty members — including himself — met to discuss ways to improve both the campus climate for faculty of color and the academic experiences of students in ethnic studies and related fields. He said the center they envisioned would support the ER&M program and departments like African American Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies. It would be a “rich intellectual site” on campus that would support faculty and student research, but hopefully would also lead to hiring and retention of a more diverse faculty body, he added.

But at the time, the administration did not approve the plans. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who took part in the initial efforts, said the four proposals since 2011 simply did not gain enough traction in the community.

Pitti and Holloway declined to comment on the current state of planning for the newly announced center. Several other professors in ER&M and African American Studies also declined to comment, stating that it is too early to know what the center will look like.

Salovey’s email did not provide many details, such as what the center will be called or how it will interact with existing academic programs. Instead, he wrote that it would be “a prominent university center supporting the exciting scholarship represented by [studies of race, ethnicity and other aspects of social identity].” He told the News that the center will be administratively overseen by the Provost’s Office but will be planned by a faculty committee, whose members have yet to be appointed.

Professors at the University of California, Berkeley’s department of ethnic studies and Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity — two of the leading ethnic studies programs in the country — said Yale’s center will be defined by its programming

and its structure.

“It matters how you name the center at Yale,” said Gary Okihiro, the founding director of Columbia’s ethnic studies center. “Is it a teaching place for undergraduates, or is it designed to bring together faculty to discuss issues about ethnic studies for research?”

Salovey wrote that the center would support the study of “social identity,” but Lok Siu, a professor in Berkeley’s department of ethnic studies, said ethnic studies examines power and not identity.

“The critique of ethnic studies is that it studies identity and is therefore anti-intellectual. But ethnic studies is about examining power,” Siu said. “At the heart of ethnic studies is a social-justice platform that examines the processes of marginalization. We are looking at power and social inequality.”

At the heart of ethnic studies is a social justice platform that examines the processes of marginalization.

LOK SIU Ethnic Studies Professor, UC Berkeley Okihiro, who will teach at Yale the next academic year as a visiting professor, said it is important to clarify whether the center will promote “ethnic studies” — a term Salovey did not use in his email — and if so, what the University’s definition of the term is.

When the issue of ethnic studies first arose at San Francisco State University in 1968, Okihiro said, it was the product of student activists calling for “Third World Studies,” which aimed to study the connections between people of color in the U.S. and people in the third world. The field focused on power structures and relations domestically and internationally. This definition, Okihiro said, is very different from the study of ethnic diversity in the United States, which some have mistakenly understood as the purpose of ethnic studies.

He said that through his experience at Columbia, he has learned that it is easier for uni-

versity administrators to accept the study of “identity” than of “power and hierarchal structures.” Okihiro said when he proposed creating majors in Latino Studies and Asian American Studies, Columbia immediately approved. However, when he proposed a center for ethnic studies as a study of social power and inequality, it took three years for the initiative to be approved. Administrators and many faculty members were unhappy with his vision of ethnic studies, he said.

“The widespread understanding of ethnic studies is about ‘identity’ and about young people wanting to find and understand themselves,” Okihiro said. “That’s pretty harmless as opposed to young people trying to liberate themselves.”

Other professors interviewed said that another major challenge Yale’s center will face is in attracting and retaining faculty members without departmental status or the ability to independently hire. Pitti said that in the early faculty proposals, the center did not have the ability to hire or retain faculty members.

On this issue, the models at Berkeley and Columbia offer contrary examples. At Berkeley, the department of ethnic studies has the ability to hire faculty, control the tenure process and shape its students’ curriculum, UC Berkeley ethnic studies professor Keith Feldman said. At Columbia, however, the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity does not have autonomy over faculty hiring and granting tenure, according to Columbia history professor Karl Jacoby GRD ’97. He added that the Center has to partner with departments to jointly hire faculty members, a system he said is extremely challenging for young faculty members who are seeking tenure. Columbia does not have a separate ethnic studies department.

Jacoby added that a center for ethnic studies at Yale should be the first step toward an independent department, rather than an end goal.

“In an ideal world, a center is building toward something that would become a department with the ability to hire and retain faculty,” he said. “The question is, can it grow into something larger?”

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

although the Dean’s and Provost’s Procedures have heard a few cases each year. She said the administration’s first goal is to clarify these existing procedures and make sure that students know where to find the appropriate resources in cases of discrimination.

“I believe that the simple answer … as to why students are unfamiliar or unaware of Yale’s existing procedures is ‘branding’ and location,” Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard wrote in an email to the News. “Most students typically don’t spend a great deal of time perusing the Yale College or Human Resources websites to find policies and procedure that apply to them — so part of the issue is visibility, and part of the issue is awareness.”

Goff-Crews added that the process of reviewing, examining and changing existing procedures for discrimination will mostly take place in the spring semester. Calling the review “timely,” she said the administration had not considered examining and revising the existing procedures before student activists’ call for administrative changes.

At this point, she said, it is too early to know the format of the review or possible changes that could be made. She said one potential solution would be to create a online portal for students that summarizes all the available resources. Her office introduced the “Student Wellness at Yale” website at the beginning of this semester to help students better navigate the existing tools that promote student wellness and mental health on campus, and a similar

website could be organized for reporting and addressing discrimination, Goff-Crews said.

She emphasized the importance of including student input, adding that any changes should reflect and respond to student demands.

Of 15 students interviewed, only Jun Yan Chua ’18 said he had heard of one of the three procedures for bringing charges of discrimination: the Dean’s Procedure.

Though students interviewed are generally not aware of the existing formal procedures, many said they would seek support and advice from their freshman counselors, residential college deans and masters and cultural center directors if they experienced any form of discrimination on campus. In fact, the first part of the guidelines for all three formal procedures encourages the complainant to seek informal resolution before pursuing the formal process, which could mean conversing directly with the individual whose actions have been found objectionable, informing a member on the President’s Committee on Racial and Ethnic Harassment or seeking assistance from any of Yale’s administrators and faculty members.

“In many instances where I have experienced discomfort and racism on campus, I have reached out to the dean of my cultural center,” said Native American Cultural Center Peer Liaison Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16. “For the students of color, we reach out to our masters and deans — if we feel comfortable sharing that information with them — but for the most part we seek solace and

help from each other.”

A freshman counselor who asked to remain anonymous because of his employment as a representative of Yale College said he would direct his freshmen to their residential college master or dean if they came to him having experienced discrimination. As a freshman counselor, he said, he has not heard of the formal procedures for adjudicating complaints of racial discrimination, though he is well-versed in the available resources for cases of sexual misconduct. Freshman counselors and peer liaisons are required to report any incident of sexual misconduct to University authorities, but there is no similar stipulation regarding discrimination.

In light of students’ general unfamiliarity with the three existing procedures, Howard emphasized the importance of making the processes as straightforward and convenient as possible.

“I would hope that any review of our process would consider how we might better highlight the existence of these systems and unpack the range of complaints that may be heard by these Dean’s advisory committees,” Howard said. “One huge step we might consider is how we might leverage existing technologies used by universities around the country to make reporting easier electronically, allowing students to include media [such as photos and videos] as part of the complaint, as opposed to the formal written procedures currently outlined.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

Diversity dean position added DIVERSITY FROM PAGE 1 “Rick Bribiescas and I look forward to working with the person once they are appointed,” Polak said. He did not specify when the new position will be filled or which senior faculty members are being considered for the position.

While faculty and administrators interviewed highlighted the unique challenges the new deputy dean will face, they also said the University seems to be throwing more support behind the issue of diversity than it has in past years.

“This person will have wind in their sails to get things done,” Rosenbluth said.

The funding for the new deputy deanship has not yet been discussed, Polak said. He added that he expects to discuss how the position will be funded with Gendler during the annual FAS budget meeting later this academic year.

He said he “does not anticipate a problem” finding sufficient funding for the position, which would include salary. In November, Salovey and Polak announced a $50 million faculty diversity initiative, which allocates $25 million to the Provost’s Office to help pay the salaries of underrepresented faculty who are hired at the professional schools or the FAS. The $50 million initiative also allocates funding to address the problem of faculty retention by establishing programs to guide faculty through the tenure process. According to Salovey’s email, the new deputy dean will help facilitate support and mentorship of untenured faculty.

Still, it remains to be seen which responsibilities the new position will have — specifically, whether the role will be advisory in nature or if the new dean will also have executive power. Rosenbluth said she hopes the new position will be “plenipotentiary,” with the full power to take action and make changes independent from other administrators. Still, the new deputy dean should have “the ear of the president and the provost,” she added.

Rosenbluth suggested that Yale may be coming into step with schools like the University of California, Berkeley,

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21/23 of the President’s Cabinet are white.

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which have high-level positions devoted exclusively to faculty diversification. The deputy dean and deputy provost positions created at Yale in the last two years may be similar to the role of vice chancellor for equity and inclusion at UC Berkeley, she said. This vice chancellor oversees an operation with over 150 fulltime staff members and an annual budget of $20 million devoted to resolving systemic inequities in academia.

Physics and astronomy professor Priyamvada Natarajan, who from 2011–13 chaired the Women’s Faculty Forum, said she is glad the University is expanding the number of top-level administrators devoted to issues of diversity.

Natarajan said in the past, the deputy provost for social sciences and faculty development and diversity was the sole administrator concerned with faculty diversity and was burdened with too much responsibility.

But, Natarajan said creating administrative positions is not the only way to solve the faculty diversity crisis at Yale. Yale should pursue other methods of promoting diversity, she said, though she did not offer specific alternatives.

The creation of a new position comes at a time of extensive administrative restructuring. In February 2014, Salovey announced the first major change to the administrative structure in half a cen-

tury by creating the position of dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, which is tasked with faculty appointments, promotions and the FAS budget.

The same year, Yale faculty approved the formation of an FAS Senate, a body of 22 FAS faculty.

Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, a staff reporter for the News and the former president of the Association of Native Americans at Yale, said that a diverse administration without a diverse senior faculty gives students even less access to the few professors they can relate to, even while it makes the administration more aware of issues of race and diversity.

“In my experience, faculty of color are hugely overburdened,” he said, adding that the new deputy deanship should be filled by a professor of color. Administrators like Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Timothy Dwight Master Mary Lui and Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti are already leading the charge, but these administrators are stretched thin and must mentor many students of color while also teaching and fulfilling the roles of an administrator, he said.

The Diversity Summit reported that 74.4 percent of the FAS faculty in 2013 was white.

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“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER GERMAN LUTHERAN PASTOR AND THEOLOGIAN

Juvenile correctional facilities reform

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Following concerns about conditions at two youth prisons in Connecticut, the state General Assembly’s Committee on Children met Thursday to discuss improvements.

In July, Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate released a report addressing complaints about unacceptable conditions at Connecticut Juvenile Training School and the neighboring Pueblo unit, juvenile correctional facilities for boys and girls, respectively. The Committee on Children first met in August to address the Department of Children and Families’ action plan to address concerns about staff training and the use of restraints, among other issues, and met again Thursday to gauge progress. The DCF announced a plan in response to the report in August. Representatives from both the OCA and the DCF asserted at the meeting that much progress has been

made since the plan was first implemented, but acknowledged that effective change at the facilities needs to be ongoing.

“To sustain a marked drop in the use of emergency interventions takes time,” OCA Child Advocate Sarah Eagan said.

“It is going to take the intensive ongoing training, supervision and monitoring to make a meaningful reduction in the use of physical interventions across the youth that are there.”

CJTS Superintendent William Rosenbeck said the plan for DCF has six core strategies: committing DCF leadership toward organizational change, using post-crisis data to inform crisis-response practices, workforce development and training for employees, reducing use of restraints and seclusion, actively engaging youth in their treatment and improving administration and staff debriefing techniques.

These changes follow the OCA’s 18-month investigation

into conduct at DCF facilities.

According the OCA’s report, the primary purpose of CJTS and Pueblo is to improve public safety through the rehabilitation of delinquent youth entrusted into their care.

“OCA’s monthslong review of facility video tapes, incident reports and treatment records revealed urgent safety problems for youth,” the report said.

“Findings include inadequate suicide prevention, lack of appropriate support and training for staff, inadequate and harmful crisis management and an opaque system that, despite significant public funding, reports scant information regarding quality, public safety outcomes and oversight.”

The meeting Thursday focused on the improvements being made through the DCF because the infractions that the OCA investigated had already been so heavily discussed, Senate Chair of the Committee on Children Dante Bartolomeo said.

Office of the Child Advocate raised concerns: Lack of suicide prevention protocols and concerns regarding suicidal youth

In the past few months, the DCF has focused on not only implementing the plan, but also addressing its unintended consequences. Both Bartolomeo and state Rep. Melissa Ziobron said that following the plan’s implementation, CJTS and Pueblo staff members raised concerns about feeling disempowered.

“A number of staff people have contacted me and shared with me that they feel like [with] the extreme scrutiny that’s being placed on staff … they’re losing control over some of these buildings, particularly at CJTS, because the kids know that they can make one little complaint and then the staff has their hands tied, and there’s a lot of frustration,” Ziobron said.

Concerns about disempowering employees were voiced after a question about phasing out mechanical restrains.

Mechanical restraints, as well as face-down restraints and suicide prevention, were brought into the spotlight after the

OCA report cited evidence that mechanical restraints — which are to be used only to prevent injury to detainees and staff — were instead being used to manage behavior.

Rosenbeck said the DCF is working with staff to ensure that staff members are empowered. He added that the DCF aims to increase understanding about how to navigate the plan so that staff can continue to do their jobs, but also respect the youths with whom they work.

The committee also discussed how to adapt to decreasing numbers of youths at the detention units. Due to Connecticut’s budget deficit, Ziobron questioned whether the existence of the detentions units is even a necessary expense.

As of Thursday, 68 boys populated CJTS — which was built to hold 145 youths — and one girl resided at Pueblo, which usually houses 10. Joette Katz, the commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, stressed that though the population in

the detention centers is low, the centers are still crucial.

Katz said that if the facilities closed, too much pressure would be put on other parts of the juvenile-justice system. She compared closing the detention centers to closing hospitals. She said if hospitals were to close, other facilities like clinics and doctor’s offices would be overrun. “[Placement in the detention centers] should be for the most extreme situation, for the children who need the most supervision and the most therapeutic interventions,” Katz said. “But if you don’t have that, you put way too much pressure on the rest of the system, including that you see that these children end up in an adult system, which is really the last place that you’d want to see them.”

The Pueblo unit was established in March 2014, and CJTS opened in August 2001.

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Department of Children and Families responded: Six core strategies to reduce seclusions and restraints Leadership Toward Organizational Change: Elimination of prone restraints, commitment to implementing the action plan to shift the work and support change

Inappropriate and unlawful restraints

Using Data to Inform Practice: Implementation of the post-event administrative review and enhancing data collection and analysis

Lack of access to adequate treatment for youth with significant mental health disorders

Workforce Development: Trauma-informed training following the National Child Traumatic Stress Network procedures

Prolonged use of closed-door seclusion, in lieu of treatment, for children with disabilities

Use of Restraint- and Seclusion-Reduction Tools: Implementation of comfort rooms in each residential unit

Abuse or neglect of youth by certain staff members, and a culture that tolerates harassment and derogatory treatment, particularly for boys

Consumer Roles in In-Patient Settings: Actively engaging youth in their treatment through personal safety plans Debriefing Techniques: Post-event administrative review for staff and youth debriefings LISA QIAN/PRODUCTION & DESIGN ASSISTANT

Touring exhibit turns hate into art

BY SARA TABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over 4,000 pieces of white supremacist literature were leaked to the Montana Human Rights Network from a hate group defector in 2003. The Network did not destroy the books.

Instead, they transformed them into an art exhibit that will be in New Haven until Dec. 18.

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate is on display during weekdays at the Seton Art Gallery at the University of New Haven.

The exhibit, which uses instruments of hate to draw attention to the egregious violence that has stemmed from racism across the world, was brought to New Haven after Laura Marsh ART ’09 heard about it from featured local artist Scott Schuldt.

Marsh, who serves as director of the Seton Gallery, said the exhibit could not be more timely for Yale students, given the passionate discourse on race relations currently occurring on campus.

“Art opens up a channel of communication,” Marsh said.

“These are difficult topics and when expressed creatively, there are more ways to share stories, commiserate, bond and connect.”

The 39 artists featured in the exhibition were given copies of novels and asked to use them to represent a moment in history to which they wished to respond, Marsh said. While some artists merely drew inspiration from the books, others physically incorporated them into their pieces.

Marsh said one of her favorite pieces is “The Cooling Table,” a display that consists of a seemingly innocuous white kitchen table with red, white and blue sugar cookies sitting on a baking tray. The cookies spell out the word, “hate,” six times, as “The White Man’s Bible,” — an origi-

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The exhibit incorporates hate speech and symbols to produce art that critiques racism. nal copy of a hate novel — peeks out of the drawer underneath. A spatula is placed next to the baking tray.

“For me, what this piece really represents is the idea that hate begins at home. We all grow up in various ways and different cultures but hate is often so deepseated it can look like love,” Marsh said.

Schuldt applied to submit a piece to the exhibit after learning about it online. He sewed a beaded tapestry to commemo-

rate the death of Laura Nelson, who was abducted by white mobs and hung from a bridge alongside her 15-year-old son in 1911. The town photographer took a photo that was later used in postcards.

Schuldt said that though he researched many lynching images, he chose Nelson’s because her body still looked human. Most lynching victims were too badly burned and beaten to be recognizable human, he said.

Nelson said the hatred that

spurred such attacks is still present today.

“This show opened in 2008, and I remember feeling that things were getting better, things were coming out into the open,” he said. “Now what’s happened is, our one political party of stupidity, their number one candidate right now openly shows hatred towards other people.

This was supposed to be getting better.”

Students interviewed at the exhibition expressed strong

emotional reactions to the art.

Rachel Lodi, a sophomore at the University of New Haven, said she was shocked and offended at first when she saw symbols of hate, including swastikas, featured so prominently in the art pieces. But, she said after thinking carefully about the exhibit and discussing it with friends, she realized the use of the images was intentionally subversive and meant to be a tool to critique racism.

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junior Jenny Francois said she was particularly taken aback by the broad range of hatred the exhibit exposed.

“I think being in here kind of makes you cringe,” Francois said.

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, hate can come from anywhere.”

The exhibit first opened at the Holter Museum in Helena, Montana. Its next stop is New York.

Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

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“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.”

ARIEL DORFMAN ARGENTINE-CHILEAN NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT

CT welcomes Syrian refugees amid hostile climate REFUGEES FROM PAGE 1 Syrian refugees into the United States. The act, which seeks to ensure potential terrorists cannot manipulate the American immigration system, would require top federal officials to approve the entry of each individual asylum seeker. Of Connecticut’s five-member House delegation, only Reps. Jim Himes and Joe Courtney cast ballots in favor of the act.

Both Himes and Courtney, in statements released by their offices in November, said their votes did not come from a desire to limit the number of refugees in the country. Instead, they said, they seek to ensure all Syrian refugees coming to the United States have been properly vetted.

“The bill simply requires that our national security leaders certify that the thorough and extensive processes that are already in place to ensure the safety of our country are being followed,” Himes said. “After conversations with our national security leaders, I do not believe it will significantly increase the burden on these agencies, delay the 18–24 month wait time for refugees or impair our ability to help those fleeing the war-torn region.”

Courtney said his vote was influenced by the “legitimate concerns” of his constituents in eastern Connecticut, adding that he sees no contradiction between his vote for the bill and his commitment to protecting people fleeing violence.

Courtney and Himes have found some allies on the state

level. Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven, sent a letter to the state’s federal delegation seeking assurance that allowing refugees into the state would not threaten the safety of residents.

“Until we can confirm the security and vetting process for refugees and guarantee that the people coming to Connecticut do not wish to cause harm to our residents, we should not grant entry,” the letter read.

But these sentiments stand in stark opposition to Malloy’s.

Malloy said the approval process for refugees entering the country is already “exhaustive” during the Nov. 18 press conference, adding that he doubts the need for a more robust vetting process.

He said that though the attackers in Paris were citizens of France and Belgium, no political leader has advocated for a ban on European immigrants. Instead, he said, political leaders have unjustly targeted Syrians.

Malloy said he was unsurprised by many political leaders’ reactions to the Paris attacks.

But he said he hoped Connecticut would work to provide an alternative perspective.

“In moments of trial and tribulation, some people will lead in the wrong direction,” he said.

“Hopefully, some people will lead in the right direction, and that’s what we’re trying to do in Connecticut.”

MAP STATES REFUSING SYRIAN REFUGEES States whose governors have refused to accept refugees States still accepting refugees

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Football looks to future of The Game FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 “What Murphy has built at Harvard is very impressive and there’s no question he has done a brilliant job, but I also say that it took him a while,” Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “Reno in four years has two winning records and they are back-to-back. So hope springs eternal as Yale looks at Coach Reno.”

But as Reno’s former boss demonstrated in Cambridge, the kind of success Yale supporters are hoping for can sometimes take years to achieve.

Murphy began his tenure at the helm of Harvard’s football team in 1994, and although the coach has now led the Crimson to 15 consecutive winning seasons, that record took time to build. In his first seven seasons directing the team, Harvard had only one winning season — a 9–1 mark in 1997.

In Reno’s first four years at Yale, meanwhile, the coach has seen two consecutive winning seasons with records of 8–2 and 6–4 in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, respectively.

“[The losing streak to Harvard] has been discouraging, but I am optimistic with the direction Reno has been going,” said current presidential candidate George Pataki ’67, whose son Ted Pataki ’05 played wide receiver for the Bulldogs. “Harvard was getting better players, but Reno has taken a huge step towards closing that gap.

But Reno has only been here for three years and has not had four full recruiting classes.”

Those “better players” have translated into Harvard’s dominance on the field. Reno pointed out Murphy’s dominance has come against teams other than just Yale — over the last four years, Harvard has amassed a 36–4 overall record in addition to three consecutive Ivy League championships.

However, alumni interviewed agreed that improvements to the program will not come solely from a change in coaching staff. They noted that continued administrative support is crucial in ensuring increased suc-

cess of Yale athletics.

A former administrator in Harvard’s admissions office, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, pointed to Murphy’s strong lines of communication with the admissions office as a critical aspect for the Crimson’s success on the field.

“The cooperation in the way the admissions business and coaching intersect is an important part of what makes the Harvard football program,” the former administrator said.

“Murphy has a very good relationship with the admissions folks, [he] talks a lot with them, he understands what the rules of the game are. [He understands] that he doesn’t control admissions, and he works hard to be faithful to the admissions operation. The recruiting gets done, and it has been pretty effective.”

For some alumni, such progress in the relationship between Yale athletics and University administrators appeared imminent just before Reno’s first season with the Bulldogs. On

Aug. 30, 2012, former President Richard Levin announced that he would resign at the end of the 2012–13 academic year. Levin was criticized during his term by supporters of the athletics community due to his policy changes to lower the percentage of athletics recruits at Yale.

I think [Levin] was a very fine president and I think that he did all that he could to make Yale a better place.

TOM BECKETT Director of Athletics Though the number of recruitment slots does not directly impact Ivy League football — each program receives 30 spots per season — those same supporters were optimistic that President Peter Salovey would bring about a renewed support

for Yale athletics. However, it is unclear whether Salovey has reversed Levin’s policies since his administration has not publicly disclosed recruitment numbers, though athletes have noted that Yale’s new President has been a more present figure at athletics events during his term.

Former Yale swimmer David Hershey ’62, who has worked closely with the University through his role on the board of the Yale Swimming and Diving Association, said that in his experience, Salovey has been friendlier and more open with the alumni athletic community than Levin was.

“I think [Levin] was a very fine president and I think that he did all that he could to make Yale a better place,” Beckett said of Levin’s approach to Yale and the athletic department in general. “Yet I do think there are some folks that feel that he was not allowing the athletics program to develop to its full extent.

Whether that’s a fair assessment

or not, time will tell.”

The former Harvard administrator noted that athletics is just one stakeholder of many, partially reliant on the decisions of broader administrative policies.

As far as the athletic department’s role in turning around the trajectory of the HarvardYale rivalry, Beckett said he is committed to providing Reno and his staff with the infrastructure needed to produce successful results similar to those Yale has had in the past.

“Harvard is committed as part of the overall branding of the university to athletic excellence, and Yale has to commit to that same degree,” Pataki said.

“If Coach Reno continues to be given the support he needs, I’m hopeful this will turn around and we will see Yale embark on a winning streak.”

Yale football maintains a 65–59–8 advantage all-time versus Harvard.

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

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With a perception of increased administrative support, in addition to the progress made by head coach Tony Reno, alumni are optimistic that Yale can reverse its fortunes against Harvard.

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“Changing the game is a mindset.”

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New gambling game divides bar owners

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Keno — a high-speed gambling game — was legalized in Connecticut restaurants this June. But some New Haven restaurant owners remain reluctant to offer the game to customers.

The Connecticut state legislature legalized keno in a June bill, with the expectation that the game would generate more than $40 million in tax revenue over the next two fiscal years.

The state estimated last summer that 600 more bars and restaurants will begin offering keno when the Connecticut Lottery Corporation formally rolls the game out in April. But local restaurant owners interviewed did not have plans to offer the game in the near future. Spokespeople at six of seven local bars and restaurants said they are hesitant to embrace the game, noting that it could significantly worsen their patrons’ experience.

“I don’t think people come to gamble at a restaurant,” said Pitaziki Mediterranean Grill manager Gasser Vadawi. “That’s more for corner stores.”

Aiden Stewart, who manages Geronimo Bar and Grill on Crown Street, said he has no plans to start offering the game to customers. He said Geronimo’s would rather focus on creating a peaceful ambience in the southwestern-themed restaurant.

Tikkaway Grill owner Gopi Nair said he is concerned that keno, which requires players to wager money on a random number drawing, would distract customers from the culinary offer-

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Keno is a high-speed gambling game that will be rolled out in Connecticut in April. ings at his restaurant if it were available at the eatery.

Matthew Butler, who owns Box 63 American Bar & Grill, said he is ambivalent about keno but does not think it is something his customer base — typically families — will demand.

“We have families that come in from around the United States, and I don’t necessarily know if that’s the right depiction of what American bars and restaurants look like,” he said.

The state will be rolling out the new lottery game, often dubbed

the “crack cocaine of gambling,” with financial incentives for restaurants that offer it, NBC News Connecticut reported.

After restaurant staff members undergo mandatory training to legally administer keno, restaurants will receive a 5 percent commission on sales of the game.

A far cry from 600, only 70 restaurant owners statewide had applied to administer keno as of April, according to NBC News Connecticut. Connecticut Lottery CEO Anne Noble declined to

comment on the roll-out of keno.

Still, at Christy’s Irish Pub on Orange Street, manager Alyson Grattan said she plans to start offering the game, which she anticipates will bring in at least $8,000 a year in revenue, sometime in the coming months.

Though Christy’s does not currently offer any other gambling games, Grattan said she has no concerns about training her employees to administer keno.

“Any bartender can figure it out,” she said. “If you know how to balance a till, you know how to

balance a keno till.”

This is not the first time keno has been legalized in Connecticut. The legislature approved keno in 2013 as part of a lastminute attempt to plug a gap in the state budget. But the game was sliced from the budget — and made illegal — a year later, after Gov. Dannel Malloy publicly disavowed the game’s legalization amid criticism from anti-gambling advocates.

But under renewed pressure to balance the state’s two-year $40 billion budget, the legisla-

ture voted again to legalize keno following a series of public hearings last summer. Government officials struck a revenue-sharing agreement with the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes in October, paving the way for the state to provide keno outside tribe-owned casinos.

Keno is legal in several states, including New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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

Law students write to Congress in support of refugees

BY RACHEL TREISMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Nov. 23, members of Yale Law School’s chapter of the American Constitution Society — which aims to foster discussion on American legal issues — sent a letter to all Democratic members of Congress, urging them to withdraw their support for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015.

The bill, HR 4038, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Nov. 19 and has yet to be voted on in the Senate, would impose additional FBI background checks that would make it significantly more difficult for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to resettle in America. “[Law] students within ACS were outraged and disappointed with so many of our Democratic members of Congress who chose to vote for a discriminatory and poorly conceived bill, making it more difficult for refugee families to resettle in the United States,” said Conchita Cruz LAW ’16, ACS co-president. “HR 4038 flies in the face of our values as progressives and as Americans.”

The letter urges the Democratic representatives who voted for the bill to publicly change their position and advises Democratic senators to carefully consider the consequences of the bill before voting on it. The letter stated that as progressives and future lawyers, the students wanted to ensure that politicians understand the consequences

of the legislation and the message it sends to the world.

According to Cruz, the ACS board takes public positions on issues of importance to its members. Members of ACS were especially motivated to voice their concerns to Congress on this issue because many volunteer with the International Refugee Assistance Project and work with Syrian and Iraqi refugee clients.

“We know how the current system works, that refugees are already screened and go through significant scrutiny,” Cruz said. “More importantly, we know that more red tape and bureaucracy for Syrian and Iraqi refugees could be the difference between life and death.”

The letter explains how additional background checks for Syrian and Iraqi refugees are redundant and unnecessary measures that can delay refugee resettlement by years.

It also argues that voting for the bill sends a message to the rest of the world that the United States discriminates against refugees and goes against the values of a country that was founded by individuals fleeing persecution and violence.

According to the letter, the bill is especially distressing because it harkens back to the discriminatory policies that excluded Jewish refugees in the 1930s, and also betrays Iraqi refugees who worked with the U.S. military and were promised safety during the most recent Iraq war.

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many of us see our own family narratives when we look at Syrian refugees,” said Betsy Fisher, deputy policy director of the International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center. “Some of us recall past refugee crises and either cringe with regret as we think about times the U.S. failed to do all that it could to help those facing death, or with pride when we think about the lives we were able to save.”

While the letter does not suggest any alternatives to HR 4038, Cruz said that there will most likely be other legislation considered before Congress in the upcoming weeks. She expressed her hope that politicians will act in a way that does not discriminate against refugees.

Fisher said there are many other ways Congress could handle the ongoing refugee crisis, such as recognizing that Syrian refugees are already sufficiently vetted during the immigration process, providing further funding to improve the U.S. resettlement system and supporting refugees domestically and overseas.

“Iraqis and Syrians seeking resettlement are among the world’s most vulnerable people — they are women fleeing from gender-based violence, survivors of torture and religious minorities fleeing genocide,” Fisher said. “They simply don’t have years to wait.”

The national ACS was founded in 2001.

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .

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“I call architecture frozen music.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE GERMAN WRITER AND STATESMAN

Finding its place: new exhibit spotlights architecture at Yale

BY ANDREW KOENIG SENIOR REPORTER Building a school is also about building a culture.

This is the argument of “Pedagogy and Place: Celebrating 100 Years of Architecture at Yale,” which opened yesterday at the Yale School of Architecture. The exhibition highlights the many transformations undergone by the School since its founding in 1916, as well as the excitement and controversy surrounding the 1963 construction of Paul Rudolph’s Art and

Architecture building. In addition, it traces the development of Yale’s pluralist approach to the teaching of architecture, as well as the internal debates that raged over what should constitute the school’s curriculum.

“The characteristic of the school going back to 1916 [was] to have many voices,” said Robert Stern, dean of the School of Architecture, during yesterday’s press tour.

The exhibit, curated by Stern and Jimmy Stamp ARC ’11, consists of two parts. Several partitions are arranged around a

central space, on which various pieces of student work hang, including drawings, floor plans and watercolors. These works trace different periods of the school’s history, from its beginnings to the present. Nearby glass cases display documentary material from the periods in question, including student manifestos, broadsheets and interviews.

Reception of Rudolph Hall — the School of Architecture building — has been mixed, curators said, a theme that the exhibition explores. In addi-

tion to attacks by traditionalist and anti-modernist critics, the building also suffered a fire in 1969 and was not fully renovated for a number of years, causing space constraints that were eventually relieved by construction of the Loria Center for the History of Art in 2008.

A keynote address given by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner on the occasion of the building’s dedication was famously critical of the neoBrutalist structure, Stern said.

“Rudolph, who was a redhead and had a tendency to get red in

the face, turned vividly red,” he noted.

In another section of the gallery, displays situate the school’s building and program within a national and international context. Informative placards showcase the architecture of peer institutions — the École des Beaux-Arts, the Bauhaus and the schools of architecture at MIT and the Illinois Institute of Technology — and how their buildings relate to their respective pedagogical approaches.

The show’s curators said they chose a salon-style installation

to ensure they would be able to include material from all periods of the school’s history.

“I think if we had done it any other way, we wouldn’t have been able to include as much material,” said Alfie Koetter ARC ’11, who helped organize the exhibition.

“Pedagogy and Place” will remain on view until the end of the academic year, when Stern will step down and be succeeded

by Deborah Berke.

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SPORTS

“To bring a national championship back to Yale is unbelievable.”

ANDREW MILLER ’13 YALE MEN’S HOCKEY CAPTAIN AFTER BEATING QUINNIPIAC IN NATIONAL CHAMPISHIP

Bobcats, Tigers in town M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 peting to be the best team in the conference, the best team in Connecticut, so there’s definitely some bad blood there. But it’s going to be really good hockey and we’ll be ready to go.”

The next night, Princeton will arrive in New Haven following a Friday contest with Brown.

Saturday will mark Yale’s first rematch against any opponent during the current season, as the Bulldogs faced the Tigers in each team’s season opener as part of the Capital City Classic in Trenton, New Jersey.

In that game, both Princeton and Yale scored in the first 90 seconds before the teams held each other scoreless for the next 55 minutes of play. Although the Elis did break through late in the third period and would end up winning 3–1, their difficulties in overcoming the Tigers — projected to finish at the bottom of ECAC Hockey in both the coaches’ and media preseason polls — did not go unnoticed by the team. “[Princeton has] a little bit more depth in their lineup than they’ve had the last two years,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said.

“So that makes them more dangerous. And then their goaltender [Colton Phinney] is the key to that team. It’s another good goalie … So you’re going to have to work to score against them, and while you’re working to score, you better be playing good defense, because if you let down, they could score on you.”

The Bulldogs’ immediate

Yale seeks two wins

YALE-QUINNIPIAC PAST SEVEN MATCHUPS National Championship

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Nov. 9, 2013

T, 3–3

Feb. 14, 2014

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March 14, 2014

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March 15, 2014

L, 5–3

ECAC Tournament

Jan. 31, 2015

T, 2–2

Feb. 20, 2015

T, 2–2

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Defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 has recorded four assists for the Bulldogs thus far.

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focus, however, is on the first challenge of the weekend against their foes from nine miles north.

In their two games last season, Yale and Quinnipiac not only tied 2–2 both times, but had identical shot totals in each contest.

This has taken the rivalry to new heights — not that it needed more fuel for its fire.

“I’m not sure what the student ticket sale is at right now, but I

know I have a lot of friends asking for tickets, so that’s definitely a lot of motivation for us,” forward Carson Cooper ’16 said. “Every night at the Whale is pretty special, but Qpac will be intense.”

Puck drop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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

Vermont travels south

“We know we have a tough schedule and that especially in the beginning of the season, we are going to struggle a little more than we’d like to, but I think that winning this weekend would be a big morale booster,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said.

“We’re still pretty confident in ourselves and our potential, so we’re excited going into this weekend. But it’s always nice to get the W and to be reaffirmed.”

The first game of the weekend, while not against a top10 team, will likely be a competitive matchup. RPI is currently ranked seventh in the ECAC standings, but, like

Yale’s win over Quinnipiac a month ago, the Engineers have shown their competitiveness with a high-profile victory of their own. Despite eight losses thus far, RPI bested No. 5/6 Clarkson 2–1 on Nov. 7..

The Bulldogs have emerged victorious three times in the past four competitions against the Engineers and skated to a tie in the fourth.

Those last four games have also been marked by contention between Yale and RPI: In their past four games against each other, the two teams have seen a combined 104 minutes in the penalty box.

“I think we get more penalties in those games because we’re both physical teams and

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 here. They are always a tough and physical team that takes us to the wire, literally.”

Perhaps the closest contest in the 26-game history of these two schools came last season when forward Matt Townsend ’15, with five seconds left in the game, inched the Bulldogs ahead 57–56 with a jumper from the top of the key that gave Yale its first win in Burlington, Vermont since 1986.

As for this season, late-game heroics have been less of a storyline, as only one Yale game has been decided by single digits. Each of the team’s three losses have occurred on the road — the Bulldogs were defeated

by SMU, Duke and Albany during a 10-day road trip over Thanksgiving break. On the other hand, with the rout of Bryant and a 99–77 defeat of Sacred Heart on Nov. 16, the Elis have an average margin of victory of 30.5 points at home this season.

Forward Justin Sears ’16 did not play in Sunday’s 88–54 loss to Albany, and he missed his second consecutive start due to illness on Wednesday, though the Plainfield, New Jersey native did manage 21 minutes against Bryant, notching nine points and seven rebounds in the victory.

“I think for me the big thing this year is not scoring but getting everyone else involved on the floor offensively,” said Sears, who also dished out three assists. “[Mason] and I draw a lot of attention on the floor and it makes our lives easier when guys like [Montague], [forward Brandon Sherrod ’16], [Victor], et cetera get easy baskets off cuts, dump-offs and spotup shots.”

In Sears’ place, Downey started

against Bryant and took advantage of the increased minutes, leading the team with 14 points during the first period before finishing with a season-high 16. The Bulldogs will need Downey to provide quality minutes on Saturday as well, with or without Sears at 100 percent, against a deep bench for the Catamounts. Heading Vermont’s bench production has been guard Cam Ward, who is averaging 7.6 points per game, and the bench as a whole has added 18.1 points per game, as compared to 14.3 points per game for Yale’s reserves.

The bench has been an area of weakness for the Elis this season, as head coach James Jones continues to attempt to find the right mix of players to provide a lift. While he agreed that last night’s performance

by Downey may be a breakout performance for the 6-foot-9 forward, he is only averaging 5.4 points per game in 2015–16 and just 3.4 points a contest when coming off the bench, secondmost behind guard Khaliq Ghani’s ’16 3.7 points per game.

“You hope that he is able to come in and give you a punch,” Jones said of Downey following Wednesday’s performance. “One thing that this team is in dire need of is to have good bench play with guys coming off the bench and contributing. We have been trying to work through some guys over the course of season thus far, and we have eight more opportunities [before the Ivy League season begins] to find guys that can help us, and we certainly think that [Downey] can be one of those guys.”

Fellow reserves Ghani, guard Anthony Dallier ’17, forward Eric Anderson ’18 and forward Blake Reynolds ’19 have also vied for increased playing time.

The matchup against Vermont will also be crucial for Montague and Sherrod, both of whom are looking to get back on track after poor shooting performances against Bryant. Sherrod was 0–4 from the field with only two points from the free-throw line, while Montague was held scoreless, including an 0–6 clip from behind the arc. It was the first time all season that the captain failed to knock down at least one three-pointer in a game.

“For me, I just have to keep shooting,” Montague said. “It is as simple as that. I can’t let these past two games get to my head, and I will continue to stay confident in my shooting.”

The senior guard had connected on 50 percent of his shots from long range entering Wednesday’s contest, and has made 20 of 46 threes on the season, the most on the team and third-most in the Ivy League.

On the defensive end, Yale will have to contend with a multi-faceted Vermont attack. Four Catamounts are averaging more than 10 points per game, led by guard Trae Bell-Haynes, who is averaging 13.6 points per contest. The Ontario native has scored 15 points or more in five of the team’s eight games, highlighted by a seasonhigh 28 points against Niagara University on Nov. 21 in an 85–67 victory.

The Catamounts are looking to knock off their second consecutive Ivy League opponent in this weekend’s action after defeating Dartmouth 86–60 on Wednesday.

Saturday’s matinee tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. as Yale goes for its fifth time in seven home games against Vermont.

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

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

Bulldogs to host Wagner W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

Captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 is shooting 43.5 percent from three-point range, the exact same as his rate last year.

sometimes things get out of hand,” Haddad said.

On Saturday, the Elis appear to have the clear advantage. Union will be looking to win its first game of the season, while Yale will look to best the Dutchwomen for the third time in a row.

Union comes into the game posing little threat on offense, ranking last in the nation with just 0.86 goals per game.

Defensively, the Dutchwomen have fared slightly better, ranking 25th of 37 teams with 2.93 goals allowed per game.

The puck will drop at 3 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday this weekend.

offensively, the Bulldogs led at the end of the first quarter with a score of 16–9.

Sarju, who is fourth in the Ivy League with 16.9 points per game, tallied six of those early points to help put the Elis ahead early on.

Yale continued its aggressive offense into the second quarter with another 16 points, especially capitalizing on fouls with six points from the free-throw line.

The Bulldogs ended the half with an ample 10-point lead.

Though Yale’s offense did not let up in the third quarter, adding another 13 points, the Elis could not match the renewed vigor with which the Black Knights returned to the court after halftime. Army scored 24 points in the frame — more points than it had in the entire first half — to take a onepoint lead heading into the final 10 minutes of play.

“We came out sluggish, and Army was fired up after a rough first half,” Munzer said.

In the first six minutes of the fourth quarter, both teams were neck-andneck, but the Black Knights rattled off a 10-point run to give themselves a 61–53 lead with 2:09 remaining in the game.

Despite the efforts of the Bulldogs — including four sunken free-throw shots in the last two minutes — they were not able to overcome this deficit.

Players noted frustration after the tight loss, which came against an Army squad that has lost just one game — to No. 14 Duke — and was named last year’s Patriot League champion.

“It was a tough loss for us because West

Point has a similar style of play to some of the best teams in the Ivy League,” guard Clara Mokri ’18 said. “So we definitely took this loss the hardest of any other we’ve had so far.”

The Knights lead the all-time series with Yale 18–11. In their latest matchup in 2013, Army won with a 68–56 score in 2013.

Although their offense could not match Army’s in the second half, the Bulldogs still led their opponents in field-goal percentage with a 37.5 percent clip, while the Black Knights shot 30.9 percent. However, Army made up for this difference on free throws, draining 81.3 percent of shots from the charity stripe to Yale’s 60 percent rate.

“This [was] a huge game for us,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “Army is a really good team who we have had trouble [with] in the past, but we felt prepared to get the win tonight.”

In addition to Sarju’s 23 points, guards Whitney Wyckoff ’16 and Tamar Simpson ’18 paced the Elis with 13 and nine points, respectively.

Wyckoff also led the team on the glass, with eight of the team’s 35 rebounds, and added three of Yale’s seven assists.

The Bulldogs will look to redeem themselves on Sunday in a game against Wagner (1–4, 0–0 Northeast), who are coming off their first win and will look to continue this streak in New Haven.

The contest, the third of the six games that Yale will play on its home court before winter break, tips off at 2 p.m.

Contact MADELEINE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .

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While Yale looks to rebound from a loss, Wagner has momentum after its first win of the season.

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

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

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

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

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 10:00 AM A Relentless Eye: Polish Documentary Film 1956– 2015. Screenings of films by Jerzy Bossak & Jarosław Brzozowicz, Marta Dzido, Dariusz Jabłonski, Kazimierz Karabasz, Bartek Konopka, Marcel Łozinski, Pawel Lozinski, Hanna Polak, Roman Polanski, and Wojciech Wiszniewski. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 5:30 PM Service of Lessons and Carols. Celebrate the Advent and Christmas seasons with the annual service of Lessons and Carols featuring the choirs of the University Church in Yale and the Episcopal Church in Yale. Adapting the traditional Cambridge service, the service includes scripture readings telling the Christmas story, anthems by the choirs and lots of carols for everyone to sing, concluding with candles and “Silent Night.” An offering will be received to support the Chapel on the Green and the Connecticut Food Bank. Battell Chapel (400 College St.).

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Though Yale has not defeated Quinnipiac since winning the National Championship in 2013, the two teams tied twice last season.

BY DAVID WELLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A season ago, the closest geographic rivalry in ECAC men’s hockey got closer. Two games saw Yale and Quinnipiac score four goals apiece and collect 56 shots, as well as pick up two ties.

On Friday night, the teams will renew acquaintances when they face off in their first meeting of the new season.

The No. 10 Bulldogs (5–2–2, 3–1–2 ECAC Hockey) will hit their home ice against the undefeated No. 2/3 Bobcats (13–0–2, 4–0–2) for their first conference game in two weeks. In what will be their third top-10 matchup already, the Elis have a chance to bounce back from last week-

end’s loss at No. 1 Providence and grab their first major win of the 2015–16 slate. On Saturday, Yale will then host Princeton (2–8–0, 1–5–0) to close out its pre-New Year’s conference schedule.

“I think [the balance of Yale and Quinnipiac] starts from the top — great coaching, great teams, and then whenever we come to play each other, we just hold a battle,” forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 said. “It’s hightempo, high-paced and that’s the game you want to play.”

Fresh off a home-and-home nonconference sweep of Massachusetts last weekend, the Bobcats make the short trip south from Hamden looking every bit worthy of their prominent rank-

ing. Quinnipiac’s 13 wins lead the country, and after winning the ECAC Hockey regular season title a year ago, the Bobcats rank in the top 10 nationally in scoring offense, scoring defense and power-play efficiency.

Quinnipiac junior forward Sam Anas, a 2014–15 secondteam All-American, has led his team in scoring each of his first two seasons and is currently pacing all ECAC Hockey players with nine goals and 18 points in 2015–16. Goaltender Michael Garteig, honored with a thirdteam All-ECAC selection a year ago, ranks in the top five nationwide in goals against average and save percentage.

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Bulldogs welcome Vermont

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, the Yale men’s basketball team will seek to maintain its unblemished home record on Saturday, when the Bulldogs host a balanced Vermont team in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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The Elis (4–3, 0–0 Ivy) snapped a three-game losing streak Wednesday night with a sound 79–40 victory over Bryant. Forward Sam Downey ’17 and guard Nick Victor ’16 got Yale off to a quick start, while point guard Makai Mason ’18 scored 13 points in the second half to put the game well out of Bryant’s reach. But to extend its modest 2–0 home start, Yale will have

to deal with a Vermont (4–4, 0–0 America East) squad that has toppled the Bulldogs in five of the past seven seasons.

“It is great to start the season out strong at home,” captain and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 said. “Vermont is a team that has caused problems for us in the past few seasons that I have been SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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Tournament final has also looked relatively vulnerable in recent ECAC Hockey games. In their last two conference contests, both in Hamden, Quinnipiac needed a third-period goal to tie Clarkson, which is winless in ECAC Hockey play, before failing to light the lamp in a goalless draw against No. 13 St. Lawrence.

And the Bulldogs — who have not defeated the Bobcats since that national championship — recognize the opportunity in front of them.

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Guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 has shot 41.1 percent from three-point range in the last seven games.

BY MADELEINE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Coming off a sweeping win against Manhattan earlier this week, the Yale women’s basketball team fell 65–61 to Army on Thursday, ending Yale’s undefeated record at home in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Bulldogs (5–4, 0–0 Ivy) seemed poised to win their sixth game after ending the first half with a commanding 32–22 lead.

A 15-point second half from guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 — part of a 23-point performance overall from the senior — was not enough for Yale as the Black Knights (5–1, 0–0 Patriot) roared back with 43 points in the third and fourth quarters.

“We had an incredible start to the game,” guard Lena Munzer ’17 said. “The energy was there and the defense was amazing. We really needed that energy to carry over into the second half.”

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BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a slow start to the 2015–16 season that has included just two wins in 10 games, the Yale women’s hockey team will look to get back on track this weekend with away contests at Rensselaer and Union.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (2–7–1, 1–3–1 ECAC Hockey) have a recent history of success in the two opposing rinks, having come away from this road weekend with two wins in each of the past two seasons. With RPI (4–8–2, 4–3–1) and Union (0–10– 4, 0–4–2) both in the bottom half of the ECAC standings along with Yale, the weekend will be a competitive one for the Elis.

“I think this weekend is a great chance for us to come away with four points in league games,” captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 said. “[Goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17] has been playing great, and if we play strong defensively in front of her, use our speed offensively and execute our systems well, we’ll come out on top this weekend.”

This weekend’s games are especially important because they mark a return to ECAC play for Yale after nearly a month of non-league competitions. Last weekend the team fell to Quinnipiac in the final of the Nutmeg Classic, and two weekends ago lost a pair of games to No. 3 Minnesota, an out-of-league opponent.

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Evenly matched with RPI and heavily favored over Union, the Elis are hoping for four points before their first conference weekend in nearly a month.

In the ECAC, the top eight teams at the end of the season secure a bid into the conference tournament.

With Yale currently sitting in 10th out of 12 in the standings, a pair of wins would likely push the Bulldogs into that range.

“Everyone is really excited to be back competing in the ECAC and to get back on the road again for the regular season.” Mandl said. “Since our last conference game, we’ve played some tough teams, including Minnesota, giving us the opportunity to push ourselves to get bet-

ter. I know for a fact that each game we’ve all improved individually and as a team both on and off of the ice.”

In addition to the return to conference play, the weekend’s contests provide perhaps two of the best chances Yale has had this season to add to the win column.

In their first 10 games, the Elis have faced off nine times against teams which were ranked in the nation’s top 10 at some point this season.

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THE AVERAGE MARGIN OF VICTORY THAT THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS POSTED IN ITS TWO HOME GAMES THIS SEASON. After home wins of 99–77 over Sacred Heart and 79–40 over Bryant, the Bulldogs host Vermont on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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UNCHARTED TERRITORIES // BY CAROLINE TISDALE

It’s late October, colder and darker than usual. I’m holding my grandmother’s arm as we walk across the bleachers facing Shorewood High School’s soccer field. Also unusual.

There was a beautiful sunset a couple hours earlier, and now there’s an ethereal dusk falling over the suburbs of Milwaukee in deep hues of indigo, aquamarine and cobalt.

Garish white lights leaning above the field keep darkness at bay and the vicinity — and every one of my pores — crisply illuminated. We are there to watch my cousin, a sophomore in high school, play a game of soccer. I hear it’s important. It’s the playoffs, my grandmother tells me, as I situate her on a metal bleacher in the front row, seat cushion in place.

She’s wrapped in a fleece blanket, so when I look over at her throughout the night I feel as though I’m talking to a pink-capped plaid cylinder.

We get there 50 minutes before my cousin’s parents show up. His mom, my grandmother tells me, tends to get very involved in the games. Don’t worry when she yells at Jared — she just gets excited and tries to be supportive. There are speakers at the top of the bleachers spewing “Yeah!” by Usher as my grandmother speaks.

When they tell us to “get down low and hit the quan,” she turns to me and says, “Don’t you love this music,” a smile pulling across her pursed lips. High-school kids walk in groups or pairs in front of us, eyes searching through rows above for their pockets of friends. A smooth, low voice runs over the speakers, announcing the names of the teams and the players on each. The voice

from the speakers asks us to all rise, and we do, and the national anthem starts playing. For a moment, I forget on which side of my chest the heart is located and I look around to make sure I’m doing everything correctly. My grandmother softly warbles verses off her tongue.

This is all new to me. My high school had no playing fields by our campus; we had brick apartment buildings and privileged neighborhoods nestled in North London.

The white lights above the field here remind me of field hockey practices after school in West London, where the air would always smell somewhat wheat-y from the brewery nearby, like Goldfish crackers. Our fields didn’t have any bleachers, and our sidelines were usually empty.

Behind the field tonight, darkness quickly conquers quaint suburban neighborhood. To the left, a yellow Wells Fargo bank sign glows quietly, reflecting light onto the sidewalk and the leaves beginning to form piles on the ground. To the right, grey brick masses make up Shorewood High School. On the exterior walls of the high school, murals that emanate cheerfully academic smiles in the daytime instead send grimaces across the field. Rising above still, dark homes behind the field, cell towers pulse red up into the sky, standing watch like sturdy guardians almost concealed by the night. It feels to me like this patch of field and bleachers is the only populated area in a deserted world, maybe because I’m feeling spooky as one does in late October, or maybe because I’m feeling out of place and I don’t want to

be the only island in alien seas.

Jared’s mother is sitting on the bleachers next to me. She’s been pretty vocal throughout the game so far, grunting and calling out, “Jared, look up before you pass” and “Get wide, guys!” Higher up behind me and to my left, the high school students scream like savages. GUYS SOMEONE TAKE A PHOTO OF THIS SO I CAN POST IT ON THE INTERNET. HEY NUMBER SEVEN YOUR LEFT SOCK IS DOWN, HA HA. I hear voices behind me shouting for Paddy! Paddy! with an Irish lilt and finally I think I’ve found a fellow foreigner in this strange gathering.

But I’m not really like him. I open my mouth to the same American vowels as every other person around. Still, the Irish man behind me seems to have found a place within this culture, while I’m not sure how to situate myself.

I wrap my legs in a red and grey Shorewood High School Greyhounds (#1 FAN) blanket. The voice over the speakers announces scores and substitutions and sideline balls. I realize his gravelly tone and ill-suited nonchalance would be more at home announcing jazz quartet members over the radio. There it is. There’s my fellow misfit, the radio presenter that got stuck in a booth overlooking a high-school suburban soccer game on a late October night. I settle into the warmth of the blanket and the solace of my kinship with that disembodied voice whispering across the field.

Contact CAROLINE TISDALE at caroline.tisdale@yale.edu .

// CAROLINE TISDALE

Sincerely, Donald Trump // GHOSTWRITTEN BY AGNES ENKHTAMIR

Dear Donald, There are actual males in my classes. This is a completely novel situation for me. I went to an all-girls high school. I do not know how to act around all of these boys. They are beautiful creatures in their natural habitat and I want them to love me. I witnessed my first pure bro moment on Nov. 19 at 11:34 a.m. It was magical.

Boy #1 was on Facebook and pulled up a picture of a girl, and Boy #2’s eyes rolled back into his head and he shoutwhispered, “I would totally bang that piece of butt.” Objectification is truly beautiful. It was an honor to have witnessed that raw, honest moment.

Specifically, there is a boy in my chemistry class. His hair is thick and beautiful and arranges itself in ruffles more perfect than any chip. I CAN’T CONCENTRATE IN CLASS BECAUSE THE ONLY ORGANIC COMPOUND I AM INTERESTED IN IS THE ONE IN HIS PANTS. Please advise. How do I get him to want my piece of butt?

Sincerely, Thermodynamically Thirsty Dear Thermodynamically Thirsty, This has never been a problem for me. I am really handsome. Women

are just attracted to my golden locks.

I can’t explain it. I can’t quantify it.

I brought in the best people to try to analyze my condition to try to replicate it and, they — they couldn’t do it. All of the women on “The Apprentice” flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.* I just love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me.* Because of the fact that — like I said earlier — I am really handsome and get things done, I do not know what you want me to say.

Be more successful, like me. Sometimes, when I am sleeping with one of the top women in the world, I say to myself, thinking of myself as a boy from Queens, “Can you believe what I am getting?”* You probably can’t make that happen. But that is what happened to me, because I am handsome and own golden locks.

Sincerely, Donald

I try, sometimes 6 or 7 times a day, but I just cannot. I have to hold all of my poo until the weekend, when I can drive home to Hartford. I have not pooed for 5 days. The smell of my farts is comparable to getting up close and personal to the compost bins outside of Pierson. And now when I do make it home, the waste feels like it is tearing me apart. Sometimes, I feel like I can hear my once delicate starfish ripping like a poor piece of paper.

I just do not want to be here. I want to be in high school where I used to get As on midterms and not Ds and did not fear loosening sphincters.

Sincerely, Constantly Constipated in Connecticut Dear Constantly Constipated, I am really being honest with you.

*** Dear Donald, I just don’t like it here at Yale.

I miss my friends, my family, my dog, my toilet.

My main problem is that I literally cannot poo at school.

My poo does not smell. My poo is smart and efficient. My poo — and I’m being honest with you here — really comes out in ice-cream-esque swirls.

Add a couple of eyes and a mouth and my poo looks exactly like the poo emoji. It is honestly handsome. I am handsome. And smart. I am smarter than you.

The real issue with this question is your grades. The grades reflect IQ, and they say that you do not have a high IQ. You know I have the highest IQ. You are probably jealous of my IQ. Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.* Ha ha.

Let me tell you, I am, like a real smart guy.* I’m just intelligent. Some people would say that I’m very, very intelligent.* I hire the best people, and the best people tell me I’m smart. I am very smart. You are not. My poop is also better than yours! Ha. Ha. Sincerely, Donald *** Dear Donald, I feel like I haven’t made a ton of friends at Yale

yet. Do you have any tips on becoming more popular and/or penetrating cliques?

Sincerely, Lonely in Linsly-Chittenden Dear Lonely, You are right to ask me this for I am very popular. Tweet that 100 members of the clique whose favor you are trying to win will endorse you,** and that they are coming to a get-together at your dorm. Do not worry about them discovering your lie. I’m sure it will be okay.

Alternatively, build a giant wall around the group of people.** It’s okay if you are not as rich as me and cannot afford to build the wall. They will pay for it. Once you build the wall, everything will fall into place.

I am very wise and worth billions of dollars. You’re welcome.

Sincerely, Mr. Trump * actual things said by Mr. Trump on separate occasions ** modified from actual things said

by Mr. Trump Contact AGNES ENKHTAMIR at dulguun.enkhtamir@yale.edu .

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A COMMUNITY AT HOME AND ABROAD // BY IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY

n Nov. 2 3 , t h e U. S. Department of State released a worldwide travel alert for all U.S. c i t i z e n s.

The warning followed the deaths of 194 people in just 24 hours on Nov. 12–13 — the result of confirmed Islamic State attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad. Many found the attacks stunning not only for their death tolls, but for their complete lack of regional specificity. Taking into account the death tolls of an Oct. 10 attack in Ankara, Turkey, and the Oct. 31 bombing of a Russian airliner, Islamic State (ISIS) attacks had successfully targeted North Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe and Eastern Europe in just over a month.

The worldwide travel alert confirmed what many already felt — that nowhere is completely safe.

Within governments across the world, repercussions have reverberated. The attacks have impacted U.S. presidential candidates’ platforms, attitudes towards the global Syrian refugee crisis and a renewed global commitment to combat terrorism. John Negroponte ’60, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute and a former U.S. representative to the United Nations, spoke about the macro-level policy changes that he believes may be coming: tighter border controls, a tougher approach on refugees, greater attention to the causes of “homegrown terrorism” and greater debate surrounding U.S. intervention in Syria.

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s c a l e force governments to respond on the policy level, they also deeply affect the lives of average citizens. An ocean may separate Yale from these acts of terrorism, but the attacks’ ripple effects have undoubtedly reached students.

The Yale community quickly took to social media to react with both outrage at the violence and sympathy for the victims of the attacks. Facebook added a temporary photo filter to demonstrate solidarity: a transparent French flag that could be superimposed onto a profile picture.

A vigil for victims of worldwide attacks took place at the Women’s Table on Nov. 16, where dozens of artificial candles lit up Cross Campus.

As an institution with a significant global presence, where 10 percent of undergraduates are international students and 68 percent of the class of 2015 studied or interned abroad, the effects of events that occurred thousands of miles away felt personal.

INITIAL SHOCK Yale students studying abroad often live with host families tasked with providing housing, meals and a warm environment in a foreign place. Following the attacks in Paris, many students who studied abroad during their time at Yale thought immediately of their host families. Devyani Aggarwal ’18, who spent last summer studying and living with a family in Paris, said she immediately texted her host mother to make sure she was

safe after she learned about the attacks. Elisabeth Rankin ’18, who also studied in Paris last summer, recalled feeling “utter shock” when she heard about the tragedy.

Selena Anjur-Dietrich ’17 is currently studying abroad in Paris and happened to be visiting friends in Barcelona on Nov. 13. The day after the attacks, she encountered a gathering of almost 100 French people holding a moment of silence and singing the French national anthem under Barcelona’s Arc de Triomf. Seeking “some kind of solidarity,” she said the scene made her yearn “to go back home” — home to Paris.

Since her return, she said the city has felt more reflective.

“The atmosphere is quieter, though from what I can tell this is more due to a drop in tourists than anything else,” she said. “[Yet] it’s [also] one of discourse — any visit to pay respects at the memorials around the city will end up in sincere discussions about what terrorism is, what Paris is, what these events do and don’t mean.”

Within 72 hours of the attacks, Yalies on campus staged a “Vigil for Solidarity” to honor victims in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad and Ankara. The vigil was jointly organized with La Société Française, the Arab Student Association, Yale Friends of Turkey, the Office of International Students & Scholars and the Chaplain’s Office.

Cordélia de Brosses ’16, the president of La Société Fran-

çaise and a Paris resident, spoke about the vigil and its significance to her.

“We wanted to show people who were affected by these attacks and who felt sad, upset or lost that they were not alone,” de Brosses said. “The idea of this vigil really followed the slogan ‘United, we shall overcome.’ In that solidarity movement, we also wanted to reaffirm the values we hold and which were targeted by these shootings.”

These public displays of solidarity go beyond in-themoment pain alleviation. University President Peter Salovey — a psychologist who specializes in emotional intelligence — said that collective mourning can serve an important psychological function in facilitating the process of grief and healing.

Jason Lyall, a political science professor and the director for the Jackson Institute’s Political Violence FieldLab, mentioned the danger of “overreaction” to tragedies of this nature, including “pushing politicians to adopt sweeping surveillance powers that curb democratic freedoms.”

At the same time, he emphasized how solidarity events raise public awareness about global happenings, and the benefits of greater public attention.

Indeed, several students interviewed said they first heard about the lesser-publicized bombings in Ankara and Baghdad through campus solidarity events such as the vigil or

the “wall of care,” a temporary memorial covered with signs and messages to those affected by the attacks, which student groups set up behind the Women’s Table at the vigil and that remained up for two weeks following the attack.

And, according to global affairs professor Robert Trager, emotional solidarity amongst citizens can also serve as a political tool on a more macro level.

“I think that if potential terrorists believe they will have a large effect on societies, they will be more likely to carry out attacks,” Trager said. “So continuing on as normal after an attack and demonstrating resilience and solidarity can have a strategic benefit, though the emotional processes of grieving and coping are the most important aspects of such practices.”

“OUR PEOPLE” Three weeks out, for many students whose home countries were targeted, the pain of the attacks is still palpable.

Mevlut Ikiz ’17, a global affairs major from Turkey, said he is still reeling from news of an attack that received far less mainstream U.S. coverage than the Paris attack: ISIS’s bombing of an Ankara railway station on Oct. 16, which killed 102 people.

“Hearing about [the] attacks was completely paralyzing,”

he said.

“Once you pass the sorrow that you feel for all that is lost, you are just filled with anger — anger because you cannot understand why people committed this horror.”

Still, Ikiz said he holds out hope for the reconciliatory possibilities of solidarity events like the vigil. “Through these events, we remind ourselves that Islam does not condone violence, violence is not the answer, [the] appropriate response is not to create more Islamophobia.”

Abrar Omeish ’18, who is studying abroad in Jordan, described the differences in discourse about the attacks in the U.S. and Jordan, the latter of which is a Muslim-majority country. She said her classroom discussions in Jordan following the attacks have been free of guilt by association, which she called “a liberating difference” from her experiences in the U.S. “It was so obvious to them that the acts of the insignificantly few do not reflect those of the overwhelming majority,” she said, adding that she worries that the attacks will fuel a new wave of Islamophobia and “that over one and a half billion people in the world will be incriminated for the acts of people they never knew or heard of.”

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trouble. “And I did not want that,” she said, laughing. “Because I did not want to get beaten, or licked, as we called it. But I miss that.

A lot of life went on outside and I have a lot of great memories of how beautiful it all was.”

S h e a l s o danced.

From the beginning, she l o v e d dancing and music, and it followed her wh e reve r she went.

She scribbled out lyrics during card games, sang all around the house, and even, at the age of eight, danced at the opening of the new local police station and made the front page of the paper. “There’s a song for everything. And it makes me happy,” she says.

Along with her love of music, PhillipChristie found a love of cooking at a young age.

“We always had to cook when I was young. We learned from my mom, and then when I started to cook in school, I fell in love with it, I don’t know why. I even remember baking my first cake, the outside was burnt and the inside was filled with oil.” For a girl whose mother chased her around their giant front yard, belt in hand, yelling at her to finish her dinner, a love for food seems unlikely. Nevertheless, her adoration for cooking persisted.

In 1984, life changed for Phillip-Christie and her family when they came to America. They moved into their grandmother’s one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment — all eight of them. Eventually her grandmother bought a house in East Flatbush, another neighborhood in the borough; Phillip-Christie spent the next 21 years in Brooklyn. “It was not a good 21 years, though.” She went to high school and hated it. She was older and, as she remembers, smarter than most of her classmates, but thanks to complications with chicken pox and constant flipflopping between honors and regular classes, she was forced to stay an extra six months before her graduation. “By then I was 19, so I said ‘screw you’ and I left, I just walked out of high school. I wasn’t going to do another six months and graduate at 20.”

She eventually got her GED, but soon became “sidetracked” and began having children. She had twins, two boys, first. “I had a hard life then, and I wasn’t working. And then I got pregnant with my daughter. I just thought something’s gotta give, so I went back to school.” She earned a certificate in certified nursing and started working in a nursing home. Then, with three young children, she left her boyfriend. “He was such a playboy and I didn’t know it. And I thought, ‘No, I’m just not gonna deal with this,’ so I let him go.” Meanwhile, upon arriving at the nursing home, she found the nurses in the midst of a fight over unionization; “This is how I met my other ex, he was fighting for the union too.” The nursing unit let her go because of the union conflicts, but the union found her another job, one that happened to involve her lifelong love, food. “And suddenly I realized I was back doing something I love,” she said.

She then had three children with her new boyfriend, but “he also led a double life. After that I didn’t want to do that anymore, I wanted to do things for myself.” At that time she was working in food service at a local hospital. “I thought that I didn’t want to be an employee for the rest of my life, I want to do more.” So she spoke to the registered dietitian and asked how she could become a manager. Soon she landed her first manager’s job at the Wartburg Home in Mount Vernon, New York, a three-hour commute from her home in Brooklyn. For

FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD // BY DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I t go e s without saying that Yale dining halls are special places. From mahogany tables sprinkled with potted plants, to grandiose chandeliers, to the uniquely delicious food, the splendor of Yale dining halls is evident. But like any great achievement, our dining halls would not exist without the herculean effort that occurs out of sight.

The dining hall staff at Davenport certainly embrace a kind of amicable chaos. Nevertheless, three times a day, without fail, they serve a wonderful meal. At the center of it all, towering above most of the staff and many of the students, stands Shaffrona Phillip-Christie. She is the manager, and without her, the whole place would fold. Her constant smile and her perpetual ebullience come from a life that has presented many less-than-happy moments.

Tucked into the tail end of the Lesser Antilles, several miles off the coast of Venezuela, sits the small island nation of Trinidad. On Jan. 17, 1970, on that slab of Caribbean paradise, Shaffrona Phillip was born.

“I was always the good girl,” Phillip-Christie (now known by her colleagues as Shaff) began. “My mom was very strict. And in the Caribbean, you’re allowed to beat your children; there’s no abuse, of course, but you’re allowed to discipline them. But I never wanted to get into trouble because I never wanted my mom to beat me.” She broke out in laughter.

At times childhood became difficult for her. She grew up poor and with an often absent father. “He was never really there,” she recounts. “And I have not many memories that I enjoy of him. One time he did take us to the movies, Fearless Kid and Lady Tiger, and then one time he walked me to school and gave me some money, and that’s about all the good memories I have of him.” Mostly she remembers her father as abusive, especially to her mother.

The oldest girl in a family without a father, she worked hard around the house. “Saturday was the cleaning and ironing day.” The family got up early and went to the market, then ironed all their school clothes, washed all the sheets and seasoned all the meats. “It was a lot of work, and it was tough, but it helped groom me to who I am today.” Every day she walked to her local school, an Anglican institution where students prayed four times a day.

“Other than that, though, [childhood] was fun,” she recalled with a smile. “It was ridin’ bikes, playing cricket in the front yard — we even would climb up the back of my grandfather’s house and pick cherries out of the neighbor’s tree.”

She also had five siblings. Two of them were older brothers, one of whom was a troublemaker, an inevitability in any family with boys. He specialized in terrorizing Phillip-Christie and getting her into

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two years, she took a bus to the subway, the subway to Metro-North and then a cab to work, five days a week. She then decided she wanted to go back to school again. She had a job and a live-in babysitter for her six children, and saw, somewhere amidst her jammed schedule, the opportunity to go to college.

She applied and was accepted to Monroe College, whose New Rochelle campus was an easy commute from Mount Vernon.

“I was a single parent of six,” she said. “I would get up at 5 in the morning to be at work at 8. I would then leave work at 4, and then leave school at about 10. And I would travel back home and I would get back home at midnight. Then get up and do it all again.”

Eventually, she landed a job at detox facility in the city, a one-hour commute from home. She then increased her course load, taking seven classes four days a week after work. She got home at 11 p.m., and woke up at 6 a.m.

Meanwhile, her six children stayed at home with a babysitter. “I believe in being honest with your children,” she said, and she sticks by her sayings. When she began to attend school again, she sat her children down and told them, “I’m not going to spend very much time with you for three years.” She sacrificed those years to get her bachelor’s degree. “And I told them, I’m doing this so I can get something better for you, and something better for me.”

Honesty paid off, despite the hardships her family often faced. A single mom, she often could not afford many things for her kids, and Brooklyn often proved a dangerous environment for them. When her children refused to listen, she disciplined; when they wouldn’t share a bed, she reminded them of how fortunate they were; when they disrespected her, she locked them out. At 16, she mandated that every child work. “Nothing is handed to you, you have to earn it all. And it worked.”

Phillip-Christie is now a grandmother; her two oldest sons, the twins, are local policemen, while her two youngest boys will graduate high school in the next two years. She also has a husband of eight years, Vincent, a custodian at the School of Management. With the exception of one stressful week, she claims they have not fought once. She still wakes up every morning at 5 a.m., gets her kids up for school, and arrives at Davenport to “hit the ground running.” She fills in for sick employees, makes sure her cooks have everything they need and watches over her students when they arrive.

“I love food. I love feeding people.” And she will never deny anyone that. If someone doesn’t have a meal swipe, she offers her own. It may come from her underprivileged childhood, or come from that innate generosity. For her, the fun is in the doing, in taking care of people. “To me, when I put out what I put out there, and I see the smiles and the appreciation, I’m on top of the world, I don’t even care if they know that I did it, nobody does. What makes me get up and come here every day is you guys. When I know that my students are happy, I can go home singing.”

Just as in her childhood in Trinidad, in everything she does, Phillip-Christie dances. Without instruments, lyrics or melodious voices, she fills the room with music. She not only helps prepare and present delicious food, but also creates the ideal environment for enjoying the dining hall’s many creations.

She imbues her ebullient spirit in everything she does and everyone she meets. Without knowing her story, one would pass off her brilliance as mere happenstance, instead of the natural, well-thought and hard-earned response to a litany of challenges. But her smile never fades, and one can’t help but feeling full of it in her dining hall.

So the next time you take a meal in Davenport, if you see the tall, impeccably dressed woman with a faint accent and a big grin, throw her a smile — it will mean the world.

Contact DAVID MCCULLOUGH at david.mccullough@yale.edu .

TO ME, WHEN I PUT OUT WHAT I PUT OUT THERE, AND I SEE THE SMILES AND THE APPRECIATION, I’M ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

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VISIONS OF SUGAR PLUMS // BY JILLIAN KRAVATZ

// KEVIN BENDESKY

“Mommy … Mommy,” Nick said, tapping his mother’s shoulder.

“What?” she whispered back to him.

On stage, over a dozen children from the School of American Ballet frolicked about a party scene, clad in petticoats, satin ribbons, copper buttons and starched collars. A large Christmas tree twinkled with lights and the trumpets sounded a joyful ditty. A little girl named Clara had just received a shiny new Nutcracker and her impish younger brother Fritz was already plotting to steal it with his posse of friends.

“Mommy,” Nick tapped her again. He pointed to the children onstage. “I want to be up there.”

Nicholas Smith ’16 — now one of three artistic directors for the Yale Ballet Company — was only two years old when he first saw a production of Balanchine’s The Nutcracker by the New York City Ballet. He still remembers how magical it was, how he started listening to the music nonstop and flitted around his bedroom for months pretending to be the Prince.

The Nutcracker is a holiday crowd-pleaser, especially in

America, where Tchaikovsky’s 1892 score infiltrates radios, malls, holiday Hallmark movies and gas stations across the country. Audiences still delight in the tale of a little girl named Clara who, through the magic of her godfather Herr Drosselmeier, is gifted a nutcracker doll who comes to life in her dreams as a prince and sweeps her off to the Sugarplum Fairy’s snowy kingdom, the Land of Sweets.

Yet there is something everwonderful and strange about The Nutcracker that particularly strikes a chord with many young dancers. Nick’s young fascination with The Nutcracker is one that nearly every aspiring ballet dancer has felt. Maybe it’s the charming and dramatic melodies, the extravagant costumes, the graceful pas de chas of the marzipan reed pipes or the toy soldiers that come to life with grand leaps and pirouettes.

Eliza Quander ’16, another member of the Yale Ballet Company, remembers watching the older girls lace up their pointe shoes before going onstage for the “Waltz of the Snowflakes,” thinking about the day that she too would wear a glittering white tutu and borré across the stage.

And Lance Chantiles-Wertz ’19 aspired to partner the brilliant Sugar Plum Fairy as her Cavalier.

This week, members of the Yale Ballet Company will be able to live out their childhood dreams as they dance selections from The Nutcracker in their fall show, which opened last night at the Off-Broadway Theater.

“As kids, we never got to do the big roles in the ballet, and now we have the chance to do the roles we’ve always dreamed about,” Smith said.

Much of the choreography of the Yale Ballet Company’s Nutcracker excerpt comes from George Balanchine’s version, now the most popular Nutcracker choreography in the United States. When Balanchine premiered the ballet in 1954, it was a dream come true for him as well. He created it as the first full-length work presented by the New York City Ballet, and much of its choreography was inspired by Balanchine’s own youth, when he danced roles such as the Prince and Mouse King in productions by the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg.

The Yale Ballet Company’s excerpt also draws on iterations

of The Nutcracker’s original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in December of 1892.

“It’s part of the art form to dance to traditional, previously choreographed things,” Smith said.

Laura Fridman ’16, who choreographed the Marzipan number, said that she referenced a number of recorded versions available online and synthesized various canonical versions into a piece that is appropriate for the size and technical skill of the Yale Ballet Company.

Yale Ballet Company’s excerpts deliver a lovely rendition of the steps that have delighted audiences for years.

The costumes are colorful and simple, and the music is intimate and lively with a full orchestra comprised of musicians from student groups, including the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Saybrook College Orchestra and the Davenport Pops Orchestra, under the musical direction of Patrida Rangchaikul ’17.

A highlight of the show is the “Waltz of the Snowflakes,” restaged by Madeline Skrocki ’17. The dancers move in and

out of beautiful formations on the stage — each one unique like a snowflake — as they perform intricate footwork and challenging extensions. The other group piece that steals the show is the “Waltz of the Flowers,” with its cheerful mood, graceful turns and crescendoing melodies. The final pas de deux of the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier danced by Valy Menendez ’18 and Chantiles-Wertz is the most dramatic, graceful and technically beautiful number in the show.

As merely an excerpt of the full Nutcracker ballet, the Yale Ballet Company’s performance lacks a bit in its storytelling. We do not get any of the delightful opening party scene, and the excerpt does not include Clara or her Prince, two of the most recognizable figures of the ballet.

Instead, the ballet opens in the magical Land of Sweets without an introduction.

Smith explained that the ballet company chose to perform only selections from The Nutcracker so that the second half of the performance could choreographed by students. This gives the audience a chance not merely to watch the dancers of

gle between female models and male artists. In her work, she asserts her own control by challenging the dominating attitude of the male model and painting him with a realistically delicate humanity. The male bodies she portrays are highlighted in white to maintain their purity; she simultaneously creates contrast by darkening other features of the body, such as the face and groin.

Julia Coash, professor of studio art and art history at Albertus Magnus College, chooses to reveal herself through an emphasis on her own brush strokes, drawing attention to their languid curves and sharp edges. This use of the technique “pentimento,”

incorporating marks from lower levels in paint, in her collection “Rum Jungle,” reveals her individual artistic process and helps create her world of abstract animations of nature and light.

Moments spent in Shen Dawei’s landscape series, which features views from the peaks of mountains and the undeveloped countryside, are stories of travel and history presented through the tangible harmony of traditional Chinese water paintings. He wishes to “celebrate the beauty of and grandeur of nature only lightly touched by human hands,” in connection with his own tranquil lifestyle.

Joan Cho makes use of water-

YBC perform a holiday classic, but also to perform their own dream-like creations that are not related to The Nutcracker.

“Our show in the spring will be a full-length ballet and won’t give members of the company the opportunity to choreograph original pieces,” Smith said, adding that it is always great to see what members of the company come up with in the fall show. The second act has great rang — from classical pieces like the “Russian Dance from Swan Lake” choreographed by Olga Gorelkina to more contemporary numbers like “Underwater” by Fridman and a piece choreographed and performed by Quander that is set to the poem “And Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou.

Jane Smyth ’16 said that the two distinct acts of the show touch on both tradition and invention.

“We get to think about ballet’s legacy,” she said. “What is ballet in America if not Balanchine’s Nutcracker? Yet in our show, we get to consider the new possibilities of ballet, too.”

Contact JILLIAN KRAVATZ at jillian.kravatz@yale.edu .

Walking down the silk road // BY CAITLYN WHERRY

Meeting a new person is not often as life-changing an experience as it is depicted in the movie “(500) Days of Summer,” when the main character, Tom, meets the woman he will fall in love with, Summer. But, on a rare occasion, it is: you hold eye contact for a moment too long.

You both smile. You swear there is some sort of spark and, for a moment, it seems your life has become a rom-com cliche. Yes, in fact, you are sure that you have found your Summer, and, like the befuddled Tom, can’t seem to shake the connection you have with this new acquaintance.

Walking into the Silk Road Art Gallery, I had no idea that I

would experience five of these strange meetings. When I sat down to discuss the aptly titled exhibit, “New Acquaintances,” with gallery owner Liwen Ma, she explained that the exhibition is intended to embody art historian Ernst Gombrich’s idea that “There is no such thing as art. There are only artists.” The goal of “New Acquaintances” is to showcase the five featured artists’ various cultural and stylistic backgrounds through their work. And this is exactly the effect this exhibition has, forging an emotional connection between the artists and the individual observer through the human experiences captured in

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each painting.

New Haven resident David Chorney introduces his art in a particularly self-actualized way.

He used a dropped paint methodology to splatter faces on canvas from above and then shaded them with charcoal; each face seems to reflecting an authenticity that comes with the inability to make corrections. This style seems to introduce an air of haunted innocence as each face stands in solitude, with all of its original splattered pattern standing out against the white canvas.

Luyi Xu ART ’15 presents a unique series of pieces called the “Study of Men,” which challenges the sexual power strug-

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color, channeling her experiences in nature to realistically depict the ocean. She perfectly captures the delicate ebb and flow of the water through swelling ink tones and bright whites and golds.

New Acquaintances represents a connected community that the Silk Road Gallery hopes to foster in New Haven, and offers a variety of pieces that challenge our relationship with nature, culture and our own selves. So here’s to a future filled with the excitement of new acquaintances, some of which you may meet within the walls of the Silk Road Art Gallery.

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

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FABLE or FABLE? // BY WEEKEND

“Vegan Gardein Chicken SOUNDS awful, but then you eat it and it's spectacular. People who dub it bad fable are knee-jerk reactionists.”

Fable: adjective; synonyms: unreal, fantastical, nutso Some things are so fantastical they seem to transcend reality (for better or worse) … matching with your TF on Tinder, anything sung by Adele, wenzels, that night you threw up in Alpha Delta. We at Weekend call anything so wildly wonderful or terrible it’s almost unbelievable “fable.”

“They never even label it fake chicken, I’m pissed.”

“CS50 needs to fuck outta here.”

This week, via highly scientific methods (asking “Is this fable in the really good way or the really bad way?”) — our strong suit — Weekend surveyed 183 students about some of the most disputed topics on campus.

Yale Dining’s Vegan Gardein Chicken: 25.82% fable (good) 74.18% fable (bad)

Behold, the most official representation of campus opinion to date.

(GOOD) (BAD) Bass Library: 48.63% fable (good) 51.37% fable (bad)

“Sasha Pup is a scourge on this Earth.”

“Harkness bells during auditions for new carillonneurs = my own personal hell.”

“Ok but honestly Sasha Pup is the worst.”

“The tobacco-free campus is an ABOMINATION.” Sasha Pup: 80.87% fable (good) 19.13% fable (bad) Tobacco-free campus: 65.19% fable (good) 34.81% fable (bad)

“Harkness is good fable if it's Disney, bad fable if it's everything else.”

Harkness Bells: 63.69% fable (good) 36.61% fable (bad)

“I will smoke where I please and I will die where I please.”

Toad’s: 42.31% fable (good) 57.69% fable (bad)

Schwarzman Center: 26.11% fable (good) 73.89% fable (bad)

“I fucking love the Schwarzman Center.”

CS50: 17.49% fable (good) 82.51% bad (bad)

“I don’t really feel passionate about Bass, but I support the institution of libraries.”

“What does it say about me that I hate everything except Bass Library?”

Yale Shuttle: 60.66% fable (good) 39.34% fable (bad)

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MOURNING

5,000 MILES AWAY: DOES YALE’S SOLIDARITY SERVE A PURPOSE? // BY IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY

MOURNING FROM PAGE B3 Indeed, many students expressed concern about the demonization of Muslims and Islam as a whole in the aftermath of the attacks, and have asked why we place a higher value on certain attacks than on others.

Jordan Lee ’17 studied in Israel and Morocco during the past two summers. He said he was disappointed in what he felt was an unequal response to the attacks in Paris versus the other attacks around the world.

“The fact that national monuments displayed the tri-color and my Facebook feed was filled with ‘#prayforparis,’ whereas there was no comparable reaction to the attacks in Beirut, implies that the French lives mean more than Lebanese lives,” Lee said.

Lee also felt this disparity from the White House’s response.

He pointed to a statement from President Obama that referred to the Paris attack specifically as an assault on “our people.” Lee said this type of language implies that the French are “like us,” whereas other victims (who received no special mention from the White House) are not.

Others noted that attacks that take place in regions typically perceived as violent carry less weight because the regular violence can desensitize citizens as well as international observers.

Reem Hussein ’17 calls Beirut home. She said she believes that Lebanese citizens are afflicted by this indifference. She first learned about the pair of suicide bombings in the Lebanese capital — which killed 43 people — from a Lebanese friend at Yale, who texted her to check if her family

was safe.

“I was having a conversation with my suitemate at that time, and did not want to react in a dramatic fashion, so I quietly looked up Lebanon on Google, found that the bombings were far from where my family lives, called my mom to make sure everyone was fine, and they were, and continued the conversation with my suitemate,” Hussein recalled. “I would say that between getting the text and looking up the location of the attack, I was worried, but I didn’t dwell on it too much after that. At this point in Lebanon, unless you directly lose something or someone in an attack, you don’t get shaken anymore. It’s so common that it’s no longer shocking.”

A GLOBAL YALE The question of how we react to violence in different parts of the world has its roots in multiple elements. As Omeish earlier noted, there is the potential for conflating victims and attackers in the Middle East. It may also be a matter of which regions are more interwoven with our own lives and educations.

Ten out of 31 total Yale Summer Session programs abroad are in France, and offer classes ranging from French language to architecture to history to travel writing, with the non-language-related courses requiring no knowledge of French. For comparison, there are two Yale courses offered each in Spain — both of which focus on language — and Morocco.

William McGrew ’18 spent a year in Morocco on a State Department scholarship program to learn Arabic. He described his

study abroad experience as an important chance to promote cross-cultural acceptance, which he called a necessity for expanding students’ global understanding and empathy. He said he now advocates for a more measured approach to U.S. interactions with the Middle East.

“Abandoning the Arab world is exactly what the extremists want, because they know that if we meet each other, we will choose cooperation over conflict,” McGrew said.

Still, it is not hard to imagine attacks discouraging students and their parents from paying hefty sums to send their children into potential danger.

Kelly McLaughlin, director of study abroad and deputy director of the Center for International and Professional Experience, said he feels fairly confident in international programs’ abilities to retain students, even after violent incidents. While he admitted that violent incidences that occur right as students are deciding whether or not to study abroad could immediately affect enrollment adversely, McLaughlin was quick to add that overall enrollment has stayed fairly constant in the long-run.

He said he believes that experiencing even the harsher realities of life in another country — while never putting a student’s safety at risk — is one of the greatest benefits of the study-abroad experience.

“Conflict and cooperation are some of the most relevant and global issues of our time, and experiencing them firsthand with healthy doses of critical reflection is almost certainly the best way to improve one’s ability to under-

stand and navigate a complex world,” McLaughlin said.

And, at home, the question remains — how might international terror incidents affect institutions of higher education?

Will they renew students’ commitments to academic exchange, in order to further cross-cultural compassion? Or might students from regions that weren’t attacked become more closed off to the rest of the world, viewing outsiders as threats?

Katherine Fang ’17, a global affairs major and on-campus activist with the Women’s Center, believes the recent attacks will serve as platforms for xenophobic rhetoric.

The role of higher education in shaping future leaders and policies should not be undermined.

Nelson Graves ’77 currently lives in Paris. A former managing editor at Reuters and founder of News-Decoder, an online news platform targeted towards young people, he also helped run the Johns Hopkins in Italy study abroad program from 2010 to 2014.

“Universities play a critical role. In the long term, they educate tomorrow’s leaders. In the short term, they provide a space for reflection and civil debate,” Graves said. “It’s absolutely critical that universities provide an intellectual framework for considering the issues.”

He added that rather than simply being prepared to deal with major world events, college students can and should begin to take concrete actions now through voting and pushing for refugee acceptance.

School of Management professor and Director of the Jack-

son Institute James Levinsohn believes that universities truly do have a large role to play. He said that Yale’s role as a research and teaching institution grants students the opportunity to better understand the world around them, and added that violence only highlights the need for learning about other cultures.

Edward Wittenstein ’04 LAW ’12, the director of international relations and leadership programs for Yale’s Office of International Affairs, said he sees potential for a galvanization of students’ interest in global affairs and politics. He called 9/11 — which occurred during his sophomore year at Yale — the impetus for taking more international relations courses and eventually working at the State Department.

He said he has noticed a similar change happening in his students today.

“I do think there are a lot of Yale students who have become more interested in the topic of the crisis in Iraq and Syria, and an outpouring of students who want to help however they can in international affairs,” he said.

500 Nohemi Gonzalez was the only American killed in the attacks.

She was a Cal State Long Beach senior who had taken the semester abroad in Paris to study design.

She had been part of a team that took second place in global competition with their project: a biodegradable snack pack that could be turned into plant fertilizer. She wrote her college admission essay on what it meant to her to identify as Mexican-American and the importance of her mother in her

life. She was shot outside La Belle Equipe bistro. It was her first time abroad.

In all, over 500 people have died internationally as a result of terrorist attacks over the last two months. It’s a staggering number.

Tributes to victims have proliferated since the attacks, memorializing a victim’s name, biography, hometown, friends, hobbies and activity at the time of death. They read much like Gonzalez’s: short and tragic.

Still, Yale’s global influence, if it has any, remains unclear for many students.

“I do not believe that Yale’s status as an ‘international institution’ obligates it to respond to certain crises around the world — I think this view exaggerates how important Yale is in the global community,” Lee said.

While the tangible global impact of Yale students’ reactions to worldwide tragedies is negligible, the students I spoke with agreed that, across the university, there is a remarkable lack of cynicism — and that alone is heartening.

De Brosses recalled the myriad ways students have expressed solidarity — through attending the vigil, sending messages to friends and acquaintances and contributing to the “wall of care,” to name a few.

“I think showing respect to those who have been killed by terrorists by standing in solidarity with those who have died is important,” Salovey said. “It can make us feel empowered, as a group, in times when it is easy to feel helpless.”

Contact IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY at ian.garcia-kennedy@yale.edu .

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ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND HOOKUPS // BY SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN

Flashing lights, gyrating hips and inebriated Yalies fill Toad’s on Wednesday nights. The music pulsates to the beat of unfulfilled desire. The darkness cloaks desperate expressions, but it can’t cloak the smell of sweat that clings to the air. In this environment, hips and lips meet not necessarily with purpose but out of need for release. In this environment, I’ve made some decisions I regret and others I laugh about in retrospect. The same seems true for many Yalies, or, at least, for those who partake in the Woads tradition.

Yale’s romantic climate tends notoriously toward trivial short-lived encounters under the disco lights of Toad’s (to the lyrics of “Living on a Prayer”) or under the influence of any number of substances at a frat house. “Romantic” texts consist of blunt booty calls at 2 a.m. or timid messages with unexpressed emotions hiding between the lines. All this lack of commitment and sexual frustration falls under the normalcies of hookup culture.

It’s this hookup culture that so many Yalies complain about yet continue to participate in. In my two years here, I haven’t gone a week without hearing someone comment with annoyance about the predominant hookup lifestyle.

So why does it exist? *** For freshmen, the first few weeks on campus serve as an introduction to hooking up — and it can be a shock.

Many come in without prior romantic experience due to a variety of factors — lack of access to a suitable dating pool or authoritarian parents, for instance. College removes many of those barriers.

“You have freedom; you have choice.

It’s the first time you can do whatever you ‘want,’ which I think just becomes trying whatever you didn’t do in high school,” Madeline Adolf ’18 explained. “If you didn’t hook up a lot in high school, you want to play the field. If you were in a long-term relationship in high school, you want to play the field.”

And for those first few months of freshman year, hooking up can be exciting. With so many new, intelligent, attractive people around, perhaps it’s difficult not to want to

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experiment, especially for those who have little experience with physical intimacy. On the other hand, the immediate prevalence of hooking up among the incoming class could easily be attributed to the self-perpetuating nature of such behavior.

At least, that’s how Lelina Chang ’18 sees it. “It’s a snowball effect,” she said, “because if you assume the culture is already here, [you] feel pressured to [participate].” If such a culture weren’t so accepted as a fact of romantic life at Yale, then students might realize that more people are open to dating, she added.

Additionally, this pressure can manifest as a sort of competition. “How often we’re getting laid, and by whom, becomes yet another metric by which we judge ourselves relative to the amazing people around us,” Adolf commented.

Of course, not all students choose to participate in hookup culture. Nicole Cai ’18 described how she experienced culture shock when she witnessed the prevalence of hookups at Yale. In her native France, romantic relationships were classified either as dating or nothing. For her, hooking up was a truly foreign concept. *** While some feel pressured to partake and others choose to avoid the superficial physical intimacies so endemic to Yale’s culture, still others are active and willing participants. Contrary to Caitlin Flanagan’s claims in her 2010 article in The Atlantic entitled “Love, Actually,” several women I talked to seem to willingly participate in and benefit from hookup culture, rather than simply enduring a socalled “cultural insurrection.”

“Engaging with the hookup culture can be productive if it’s approached from a mindset of empowerment, not from the mindset of submission,” said Brandon Marks ’18. Although he now has a girlfriend, having ultimately found the hookup culture “utterly unfulfilling,” Marks was open to the idea that sexual liberty can contribute to personal growth. At the same time, he stressed the importance of actively setting personal boundaries rather than letting the hookup culture or other people determine them.

Adolf, too, seems to approach hookups from a mindset of empowerment. Yale’s extremely liberal environment allows many people to embrace their sexuality for the first time as they rightfully should, she asserted. Adolf explained that she views hookup culture as an avenue by which to better understand ourselves; through hookups, we can figure out what we want and like.

Linda Oh ’17 expressed a similar sentiment. “At first, it was an exploration of my sexuality but now it has developed into something fun that I enjoy doing with people I am attracted to,” she said.

According to these students, hooking up need not entail a drunken one-night stand with a stranger you’ve just met at a party. Rather, it can be a conscious choice to be intimate with people you enjoy, without the need for commitment.

There’s that word — commitment.

For many Yalies, hooking up arises from an aversion to romantic commitment; it can often seem easier than having a serious partner. And without commitment, any need for emotional investment evaporates. Interactions become a purely physical means to satiate desire, rather than a vehicle by

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which to deepen intimacy. Or, at least, that’s how Donna Freitas portrays hookup culture in her March 2013 article in the Washington Post: as a checkbox on a list of tasks from laundry to homework. While this might seem ideal for busy students, the reality may not be so simple.

Oh commented on some of the challenges that accompany hookup culture. “Especially with people you know well, you can confuse physical intimacy with real, honest, soul-baring intimacy,” she said. “There’s a difference between interacting physically with someone and sharing bits and pieces of my true self with someone.”

Then there comes the issue of defining hookups within the context of a generally noncommittal culture. “Hookup culture means that your options aren’t black-and-white, single or relationship,” Adolf pointed out. She described romance at Yale as a spectrum with endless possibilities to choose from, which only adds to the complexity of interpersonal relationships.

An aversion to commitment may be understandable given the lifestyles many Yalies lead. Every person I interviewed for this piece cited lack of time as a primary reason for participating in hookup culture rather than pursuing a relationship.

“Yalies are extremely busy, and our sexual desire is often more difficult to leave unrequited than our equally present — but readily postponable — yearning for romance and steady companionship,” said Max Goldberg ’17. He added that relationships don’t align well with the incentive structure that he believes many students share; he described Yalies as academically ambitious, measuring their success in terms of power, money, status or acclaim rather than love. *** Perhaps surprisingly, hookups can serve as a means by which to attain a relationship, rather than as an alternative to having one. Many of the people I spoke with conveyed that they eventually hope to find something long-term through hooking up.

Members of our own generation seem to eschew the traditional expectation of physical intimacy following a relationship’s initiation in favor of the reverse. As Eliot Levmore ’18 puts it, many people at Yale try “benefits-before-friends” rather than the traditional “friends-before-benefits”.

For him, hookup culture provides a different approach to searching for people with whom you experience both emotional and physical attraction. Levmore suggested that apps like Tinder allow people to find those who are sexually interested in them, to whom they are also attracted, before becoming personally involved.

However, such a transition from hooking up to dating isn’t necessarily easy. “There’s this big disconnect between hookup culture and dating culture, where transitioning from one to the other is pretty hard especially in the sex-first model,” Levmore said. “I don’t know if it’s emotional immaturity. I think it’s emotional guardedness, with people correctly afraid to be so emotional with someone they know they’re not going to marry.”

This emotional guardedness that Levmore mentions might also result from a fear of rejection, which permeates Yale’s milieu. As Chang explained, “Even though this is separate from academics and accomplishments, [fear of rejection] is a part of Yale

students. The feeling of rejection might be new or unfamiliar, and they kind of stave off from it.”

These difficulties are not exclusive to heterosexual relationships at Yale. Goldberg noted that LGBTQ students at Yale who do wish to date may find it difficult to do so.

A queer woman who asked to remain anonymous said that the scarcity of openly gay women made her and other queer women more willing to hook up.

But dating isn’t unattainable. While it’s relatively uncommon freshmen year, relationships — or at least the desire for them — becomes more commonplace in succeeding years.

“The older I got, the better I felt about [dating]. As a freshman I was naïve and everything was so new, even though I had a lot of freedom in high school, Yale was a completely new environment,” said Lucia Baca-Spezzacatena ’17, who is currently dating Marks. “I felt a lot more vulnerable to falling into things I didn’t like or want to do.”

She added, however, that people are more inclined to ask for what they want as they get older, having had more time to think about what they want in their dating and sex lives. *** Perhaps it’s this straightforwardness that we should all strive toward, whether under the multicolored lights of Toad’s or in the sheets of a stranger’s bed. We can content ourselves with familiarity with what we want in place of familiarity with a sexual partner.

Some Yalies choose not to partake in hookup culture at all, while others do.

And many in the latter category have found ways to pursue intimacies according to their own desires and levels of comfort. Moreover, whether a hookup serves as a means to a relationship or as a goal in and of itself is a choice. Hookup culture’s existence may be inevitable, but how we navigate it is in our control.

So, that 2 a.m. booty call? It’s your call.

Contact SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN at sofia.braunstein@yale.edu .

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WEEKEND COLUMNS

THE ANTIHEROINE // BY MADELINE KAPLAN

If you follow trends in popular culture, you’ll know that superheroes are currently poised to take over the world. Marvel’s four-phase super-plan of movie releases has unleashed “The Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy,” among other smash hits. Batman and Superman are about to duke it out in a crossover movie. To the uninitiated (or uninterested), Netflix’s new Marvel adaptation, “Jessica Jones,” might seem like more of the same. Luckily for anyone with access to a Netflix password, this isn’t the case. You don’t need to know anything about Jessica Jones to enjoy the show, or even anything about comic books. The only barrier to entry is a strong stomach (but more on that in a bit).

Krysten Ritter is Jessica, a private investigator with super strength who’s haunted by a dark past. (If that sounds like a film noir pitch, it is — the series is chock full of shadowy hallways and flickering street lamps.) Jessica is smart, sullen and — all due respect to Iron Man — tougher than any of her super-powered Marvel contemporaries. Ritter cut her teeth as the Quirky Best Friend in romantic comedies (“27 Dresses” and “Confessions of a Shopaholic”), and later as Jesse’s girlfriend Jane on “Breaking Bad.” I’m hesitant to reveal too much about the plot of the show, since “Jessica Jones” has a real knack for shocking twists and devastating cliffhangers. The supervillain tormenting Jessica, and much of New York City, is a

man called Kilgrave (David Tennant). He’s British and smarmy and vile and complex, and so unbelievably twisted it’ll make your head spin. He can control minds, compelling those around him to do anything he wants, no matter how mundane or horrific. In his obsessive quest to torture Jessica, Kilgrave wreaks all kinds of collateral damage; he can force anyone to commit murder or suicide, which he does with hideous flair. The violence might seem gratuitous if it weren’t so meticulous and terrifying (three words: hand in blender).

Jessica’s vendetta against Kilgrave requires her to perform some astonishing feats of badassery, as well as some equally difficult emotional footwork. She confronts many demons as she attempts to find Kilgrave and bring him to justice. “Jessica Jones” is about detective work and superpowers, of course, but it’s also about self-loathing, sexual violence and PTSD. Moments of levity (usually a sarcastic aside) are rarely all that light. Jessica’s sometimesromance with fellow superhero Luke Cage (Mike Colter) adds another dimension to the proceedings, though this, too, is full of complication.

And while the 13-episode first season can sometimes feel a bit myopic — there are rarely any non-Kilgrave subplots — ”Jessica Jones” proves an unrelentingly addictive ride. For years now, cable networks have been making critically acclaimed prestige dramas about male antiheroes. Jessica has all the

human depth of a Walter White or a Don Draper, plus the added burden of maneuvering her superhuman side. She negotiates the thin line between empathy and selfpreservation and maintains an unbelievable resolve in the face of Kilgrave’s sexual and psychological manipulation. “Jessica Jones” is equal parts suspense thriller and feminist text.

Fall semester finals are often

the bleakest time of year.

The weather turns unpleasant. A fog of anxiety menaces overhead. It gets dark at, like, 3 p.m. Embrace the feeling of despair that burns at the back of your throat. “Jessica Jones” will indulge your wallowing — but only for a moment, before it gets

u p , dusts itself off and returns to the furious business at hand.

Contact MADELINE KAPLAN at madeline.kaplan@yale.edu .

Single Male Seeking Sexy Melodies // BY JORDAN COLEY

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2015 HANDEL: MESSIAH AUDIENCE SING-ALONG

As I prepare to go abroad in January, the impending end of the term has forced Yale and me into a tender embrace. We’ve had five wonderful semesters together, but as is the case in almost all college romances, the couple must eventually split, so one of them can go to Prague.

It’s tough knowing that you’re in the twilight phase of a relationship with someone, especially when that someone is the worldrenowned, private research university you’ve been attending for the last two and a half years.

Often, music is the only medicine in moments like these, and of late, “Voice to Voice Lip to Lip” — the funky, “retro” instrumental jam by Russian producer Phil Gerus — has been my remedy of choice.

The entirety of “Opposites Left Together,” the 2014 EP on which the song appears, reads as a slowed-down, sampleheavy tribute to late ’80s, early ’90s R&B. Filled with drum machine claps, saxophones, dramatic inhales and plenty of falsetto, “OLT” feels, at times, like Gerus stumbled upon a couple of my dad’s Gerald Levert CDs and got a little carried away.

But it works! In fact, it’s completely and utterly not terrible! The main appeal of “OLT” for millennial ears such as mine is that it is as much a replication of aesthetics as it is a work of music. Through smart-sampling and heavy vocal lathering, Gerus is able to conjure up

the velvet-smooth swagger of the R&B of a bygone era, in a way that feels appealingly before my time, while actually being quite new. It’s as if he edited the entire project with a “New Jack Swing” Instagram filter. It’s ’94 Keith Sweat without the ’94 and the Keith Sweat. It’s false nostalgia.

It’s sonic Buzzfeed. And I love it.

“Voice to Voice Lip to Lip,” the first track on the EP and the song I’ve had on heavy rotation these last couple of weeks, is a wonderful collage of female vocal samples, teasing synthesizer and an irresistible bass line.

The song begins with a pulsing, slow-tempo drum kick. Next, the voices of an angelic chorus rise in an “oooooo.” And, by the time the song’s sensuous hook, “ohhh help me feel gooddd,” kicks in, you’re already lost. It’s dancey. It’s seductive. It sounds like a Janet Jackson mood board.

As I sit and write this, it’s taking every ounce of strength in my body not to indulge in the close-eyed two-step that this song demands, though I’m sure the guy sitting next to me editing his thesis probably wouldn’t mind. In a 2013 interview with the music blog, “Truants,” Gerus told Jess Melia that he was constantly searching for “sexy melodies.” With “Voice to Voice Lip to Lip,” he has definitely found them. And they have definitely found me.

Contact JORDAN COLEY at jordan.coley@yale.edu .

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Singing along to the beat of your inner drum.

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PEERLESS IS FEARLESS // BY TERESA CHEN 4.0 average? Check.

16 APs? Check.

10 different extracurriculars? Check.

Trip to Africa to help the poor and hungry? Check.

But what if even all this isn’t enough to get into The College? This is the premise of “peerless,” written by Jiehae Park and directed by Margot Bordelon DRA ’13. The play follows a pair of Asian-American identical-twin sisters, M and L, who attend an average Midwestern high school and strive to get into The College (which looks a little too much like Harvard…).

M and L are willing to do anything and everything in order to achieve their goals — for example, because M is better at math, she will take L’s math exams for her. And L has strategically stayed back a year to ensure minimal competition. However, when this plan fails — M is deferred early action — the sisters’ limits are tested: How desperate are they to get into The College? Are they actually willing to do anything to get in? (*SPOILER: the answer is yes. **DOUBLE SPOILER: It involves life and death.) “peerless,” as Park says, “is a comedy, until it’s not.”

In a nutshell, “peerless” is deceptively simple. The beginning scenes resemble a Disney Channel-esque high school setting, from the “P-E-ER-L-E-S-S” cheerleader chant that

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opens the show, to the stereotypical high school characters: the jocks, the nerds and the pot-smoking goths; to the F-bomb used in pretty much every other sentence. “peerless” differentiates itself, however, in the cast and their superb acting abilities. With just five actors, “peerless” does an impressive job of cultivating a sense of American high-school culture. Tiffany Villarin stands out as M, the overly chatty, high-pitched, extroverted sister. Villarin, despite her small stature, commanded the stage with her dynamic energy, and even in some of the most intense moments of the play still managed to elicit comedic relief and laughter from the audience.

But this comfortable high-school setting suddenly shatters after the

annual “Hoop-Coming” dance. As M and L launch Plan B to get into The College, “peerless” becomes an experimental play that pushes to the extreme the emotions felt by students going through the college application process.

Despair, rage and stress quickly escalate from dirty gossip — “He only got in because he’s 1/16 Native American!”

— to fuel murder plots involving poison and arson. By intensifying the plot to such an absurd level, Park has created a play that fearlessly confronts today’s cutthroat college application process. “peerless” also touches on underlying issues such as race, particularly the experience of Asian-Americans. In one scene, M and L dare DB — a classmate who is coincidentally the one student who got into The College early admis-

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sion — to tell them apart. M says, “Are you sure you can tell us apart? We’re Asian, so it’s like, double hard for white people to tell us apart.”

Other scenes include the slur “Dirty Chink!” and a greeting of “Ni hao!” from M’s statistics teacher, even though M isn’t Chinese. These moments are intentionally blunt and command huge shock value despite the comedic scenes in which they’re placed — and they work. “peerless” lays all of these racist stereotypes out on the table and makes a bold and empowering statement about Asian-American identity. Plus, when was the last time you’ve seen a play in which the two main leads are AsianAmerican female actors?! (Hint: Never.)

One thing to note, however, is that “peerless” is heavily a plot-driven play,

“Boris Yeltsin,” now showing at the Yale Cabaret in its English-language world premiere, rewrites the story of Orestes. Its playwright, Mickaël de Oliveira, had a vision of the postcolonial generation as well as an extensive obsession with pop culture. The result is this production, a titillating concoction of rampant sex and vibrant discord.

In de Oliveira’s reimagining, the narrative structure of the original Oresteia — the great trilogy by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus — is digested, compacted and distributed in discrete pieces of virulent experience. In other words, de Oliveira splices the original narrative structure into its basic elements, and within the skeleton of the story he embeds a shocking bombardment of postcolonial issues.

I felt a sincere — and profound — sense of confusion as I watched the play, and it persisted after I left the theater. In part V of the performance, the term “confusions and complexes” was written on the wall, and the phrase resonated with how I received this play. I don’t wish, however, to conflate confusion with poor quality.

The impact was by no means a trivial or grotesque gimmick; rather, it had presence.

Instead of the original masterpiece from Aeschylus, we received a no-lesspowerful barrage of glaring emotional statements about the contemporary postcolonial generation, about the issues that haunt our past.

Ahead, I want to describe the moments that most stuck out to me as essential. Ahead are symbols of capitalist oppression, of the fetishization of the exotic and of the rampant

and in a matter of 90 minutes, the plot escalates quickly — perhaps too quickly — with many unexpected twists and turns. There may be moments when you will wonder what the hell is happening, and there may be moments when you feel as if you’ve missed something.

(Maybe this isn’t surprising, considering Park was inspired by Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” a complex work in and of itself.)

Word of advice: Don’t bother trying to explain the plot to your friends, because it will definitely be more than a mouthful. But maybe this is for the better — it will encourage them to go see for themselves.

Contact TERESA CHEN at teresa.chen@yale.edu .

sexual offenses around us.

Ahead is a man of this generation slaying and abandoning the past and running with the ominous — but illustrious — future. Ahead is a thread of substance that existed as one fiber of many, in the beat of the play. *** It began with us in the heart of the building; it began with darkness and opened to the cue of brass tapping.

“This isn’t about politics,” the man says. “This is about what makes us happy,” the man says.

“Close your fucking eyes,” the man says to an audience member.

A woman appears on the sofa. The man and the woman banter; they’re married; they argue. The man mentions vacation. He begs to peek at her cunt, as he says. They can trade, he says. He continues the sexual onslaught, and she remains resilient, tempered, apathetic. She mentions their son.

She mentions him throughout. She mentions the father’s “shoulds.” You should call him. Failure is mentioned. We failed, he says. We failed, she questions. The man mentions vacation, rocks and water and greenery.

The woman walks over to the edge of the lit stage.

Orestes answers to his two white parents. His manner is effeminate. He dances in his words around his father’s violently abrasive language.

His parents inquire as to how he makes money. He went to med school, they mention; they think he prostitutes himself.

“I sell my body,” he admits.

“I sell my body.”

In these interactions there are echoes of small chuckles.

Orestes complains that he wishes to never work. “You promised me freedom from the gravity of the world,” he says. He argues with his father. “I’m the creator of utopias,” he shouts on his sofa pedestal. “I’m the creator of utopias.”

“Do you ever listen to your bullshit?” says the father.

“Write that down,” the father says. He shames Orestes. “‘We live in different worlds,’” he mocks. “Write that down too.”

The context fades, but I hear the word “detachment.”

They continue to guzzle the vodka, as they have been throughout.

The mother says there is a surprise birthday party for father. She tells him he has to act surprised, but that they both stink. They must take a bath in preparation. The man is in the bath. “We’re dirty; we belong here,” he says.

The trapped woman walks away yet again from the box.

She writes on the wall, “Confusions and Complexes.” She returns to the maw of darkness. *** These moments constituted the single beat I heard from the heart of the play — they were what echoed on the steps as I left the theater’s heart of darkness. I imagine that my fellow audience members pouring out of the ventricles beside me came away with very different reflections of their own — we all wondering what hell the ghosts of our pasts impose on our experience.

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Contact LOGAN ZELK at logan.zelk@yale.edu .

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ELLIS LUDWING-LEONE ’11 ON EATING YOUR MUSICAL VEGETABLES // BY CAITLYN WHERRY

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llis Ludwig-Leone ’11 is the mastermind behind San Fermin, a four-year-old, eight-person band that has been lauded by Rolling Stone, Billboard

and the New York Times. It is indie rock taken to the next level—it plays the soundtrack of the discontented youth, and its sound embodies both the emotional depth of a ballad and the power of an orchestra. Ludwig-Leone graduated from Yale with a degree in classical composition before moving to Canada and turning his sights to indie rock. In the midst of touring and preparing for San Fermin’s Dec. 3 show in Hamden, he chatted with Weekend about songwriting, inspiration and the road.

reminiscent of Justin Vernon’s jaunt in Wisconsin.

Is that really how it was?

A: It’s basically an indie rock band with a brass station and strings with a big sound. The record is more sort of composed, and the live show has a whole different type of energy.

A: Well, right when I graduated, I applied to an artist residency in Alberta and I got in. And that was so important for me. I didn’t know where my own music would go. I was there for two months and I got really lonely and depressed. I was in this cabin in these mountains, with this really beautiful landscape, and when I came back I had written almost all of the first album.

So tell me a bit about your time at Yale and how it influenced the creation of San Fermin.

A: The idea for this band was born at Yale. I had a series of bands while I was an undergrad, but I also had a classical ensemble. The critical moment for me was when I put on a concert at Calhoun Cabaret. I had my band come up, and I’d made some of these over-the-top arrangements — had flute and strings and all this shit — and it didn’t really work, but I saw that it could. In a way, [San Fermin] had its start in Calhoun Cabaret, I suppose.

A: In a situation like that, where there is no one to distract you … your emotions expand to take up all that extra space. It’s like saying something big but being unsure of what you’re saying. It helps me to get away from people when I write, because that emotional space opens up a lot.

Q: I have seen your band described often as Baroque Pop. Was that your stylistic goal? Or how you would describe your style?

Q: Do you think that the uncertainty of what you were saying in the first album led to a more solid statement in your more recent album, “Jackrabbit”?

A: Basically my thought about all that is that I just wanted to write music that is an honest representation of me as a person and me as a musician. So however it gets written about — they’ve called it indie rock, baroque pop, whatever — it’s not so much about how it is categorized. For me, it’s about finding a musical language that is well-rounded and honest. I grew up listening to Paul Simon and Radiohead and studied classical composition. I trusted that all those things would mix themselves in my subconscious and that I could write what I want and have it come out okay.

A: I think the second album feels very transitional to me. In the first album, everything the guy says [concerns] very grandiose ideas about life, and everything the girl says is like, “Dude, stop being so melodramatic.” That girl [then] became a little actual person I was travelling around with. I think [the voices in the song both] became more like real people, but more scattered.

So Allen [Tate, San Fermin’s lead male vocalist] will go from hopeful to creepy to sad. Which is kind of how I feel about my life; I have been on the road for half of the past two years. It changes everything — how you see home and relationships. Trying to [reconcile] all this, while not straying too far from how I want the band to sound … it was more of a mixed up effort.

Q: Would you say there were any major influences during that time that pushed you to compose in this genre?

A: Right before I went to college, Sufjan Steven’s “Illinois” record [was released]. It was really one of the first times that I heard folk rock [or] indie rock on that grand, orchestral level.

Then, being at Yale, taking Music 211 and some upper-level theory classes that got down to how you put music together. I was eating a ton of musical vegetables. … As a junior [at Yale], I started working for Nico Muhly. I worked for him on a project-by-project basis. Sometimes it was a music score, sometimes it was a ballet … Any time he was working on anything big enough, I was working on it. I think it really made me agile; I could jump from style to style.

Q: Can you tell me about your time in Canada? I’ve heard it described as a pretty Thoreau-esque venture,

Q: Would you say that this loneliness came to characterize your first album?

Q: What has it been like transitioning from being an individual composer to fronting an eight-piece band?

A: In starting a band what you’re really doing is — not to get sentimental about it — it’s starting a family of musicians.

You go on tour with them for months at a time, and it’s been a really cool transition for me. I feel like they all sort of get it now, it’s a rewarding process to see musicians get it. … We had a rehearsal earlier today, and it’s cool to see and hear your music played at such a level.

I can get kind of lazy, I can write things out in shorthand, and they just kind of know what I’m going for.

Q: Do you have a set direction for the band’s future? A new album coming up or more touring?

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A: Right now, I’m talking to Allen a little bit. He’s working on new songs that I am producing. We are about to go on this new tour that is taking us through New Haven next week.

I am intentionally taking time to not write. I think I know what I want to say in this next record, but I want to give it more time to grow. We just came off a solid year of touring and we are going to have another solid eight or nine months of it now. So there’s no looking back.

Q: I’d like to know some of your all-time favorites. What’s your favorite memory from tour?

A: The tour we did with alt-J was definitely very memorable. The last day of the tour was in Seattle — I had just gotten sick and I was throwing up all day. I remember getting on stage in Seattle in front of eight or nine thousand people and thinking, “Oh my god, you’d better keep it together or you’re going to be barfing in front of these people.” Haha, not really a favorite memory … but a memory. [We and alt-J] felt like a really great musical pair.

Q: Favorite venue?

A: Probably the best, Austin City Music Hall. [We were] one of the last shows there before they tore it down.

Soundsystem. Oh, and I remember “Party in the USA” was on all the time, at every party.

Q: That still hasn’t stopped.

A: Hey man, could be worse, could be worse.

Q: Favorite part about playing live?

A: [We have] a song called “Parasites.”

It jumps along all over the place, but it jams really hard, and it ends with this really grand thing, and we usually get a really cool response from the crowd.

Q: Favorite songs from the album?

A: [I don’t really have favorites.] Maybe “Emily,” from the second album.

Q: Do you have any advice for students interested in pursuing music?

A: Just treat it like the most important thing. If you want to do this as your job and as your life, then treat it that way.

There’s a tendency for people who want to do the arts to do what’s gotta be done, and then do the arts. But I would do the opposite. I would play some music and then go do my homework. Treat it like it’s really what you want to be doing.

Q: First album you ever bought?

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A: Embarrassingly, I think it might be “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by Eiffel 65. I think I was in Paris with my family, and I was probably eight or nine. Not a cool one to start on, but it’s a classic.

Q: All-time favorite record?

A: Hmm … that a tough one. Right now, maybe “Graceland” by Paul Simon. It’s one of those records you can always go back to and take something else out of.

Q: What would you describe as the soundtrack to your time at Yale?

A: Probably “High Violet”

by The National.

But also, my friend ran this party called Modern Love, and there was a lot of LCD

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THE CRITICAL MOMENT FOR ME WAS WHEN I PUT ON A CONCERT AT CALHOUN CABARET.

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Q: How would you describe your band to someone who hasn’t listened to your music?