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was the first night of the eightday Jewish Festival of Lights.

Throughout the week, groups around campus will hold events to celebrate Hanukkah.

Today at 7 p.m., trans activist Hannah Simpson will lead a menorah making and discussion at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life. Simpson has published several articles about the intersection of her experiences as a trans and Jewish woman.

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Yale, however, where discussions about the title “master” have arguably been more public and more sustained, the administration has yet to announce a decision. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and the 12 residential college masters continue to work on developing a recommendation for University President Peter Salovey about the

Erika Christakis, the associate master of Silliman College whose Halloween email to students sparked conversations about race and discrimination on campus, will no longer teach at Yale.

In an email to The Washington Post, Christakis said she cancelled her spring course “The Concept of the Problem Child” — which drew large crowds during shopping period when she also taught it this fall — in response to a campus climate not “conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems.”

A lecturer of psychology and early childhood development, Christakis drew ire from students last month for her Oct. 30 email to Silliman students criticizing the discouragement of culturally appropriative Halloween costumes. Her message bemoaned what she called an increasingly censorial and prohibitory climate at American universities. This semester, in addition to “The Concept of the Problem Child,” Christakis is also teaching “The Growing Child in Global Context.” She did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said that as a lecturer, Christakis is paid per course, so she can decide whether to teach each semester. Holloway said she made the decision “on

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Financial Aid. The Yale College Council invites all students to a town-hall discussion about financial aid at Yale.

The conversation will focus on recent policy changes that include a reduction in the Student Effort portion of financial aid. Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Student Financial Services Caesar Storlazzi will open the forum.

As finals approach, exploring Yale’s libraries in photos

Erika Christakis leaves teaching role

Spin the dreidel. Yesterday

celebration has begun in the city as well. Yesterday, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp hosted the lighting of a menorah tall enough that it requires a bucket truck to light it on the historic Green.

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The Yale Corporation must approve a change in the usage of the title “master.”

BY VICTOR WANG AND SHUYU SONG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While two of Yale’s peer institutions have already made decisions to remove the word “master” from their residential housing systems, Yale continues to deliberate, with the Council of Masters discussing the title at its regular meeting last Friday.

Prompted largely by recent student activism across the nation demanding racial justice on college campuses, Harvard and Princeton made swift decisions to officially abolish the title “master” over the past two weeks: Harvard’s announcement came less than two weeks after portraits of black professors at Harvard Law School were covered with black tape, and Princeton’s came two weeks earlier. At

A call to action. In a speech

delivered in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 said “the need for action is urgent” in the fight against ISIS — specifically noting the need for cybersecurity against the terrorist organization. The forum, organized by the Center for Middle East Policy, focused primarily on U.S.-Israel relations.

Best “Big” ever. The Yale Literary Magazine launched an online journal, “The Little” at yalelittle.com, to accommodate submissions that cannot fit in print issues.

The Lit’s website will accept submissions year-round.

Here at 202 York St., the News recently launched its own revamped website. We’re happy to take on The Little as our little.

Hartford attorney backs ULA

BY JIAHUI HU AND REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTERS A Hartford attorney has declared the arrest of Unidad Latina en Accion leader John Lugo, who was arrested on Nov. 20 while protesting wage theft, unconstitutional.

Mario Cerame, an attorney at Fazzano & Tomasiewicz in Hartford, penned a letter to Mayor Toni Harp on Dec. 2

decrying Lugo’s arrest as a First Amendment violation. Lugo and ULA members were protesting Goodfellas Restaurant at 702 State St. for alleged wage theft when officers arrived in response to restaurant patrons’ complaints that ULA’s protest was too loud. The New Haven Police Department then arrested Lugo for disorderly conduct and for refusing to cooperate with police requests

for Lugo to silence his bullhorn.

Cerame wrote in his letter that ULA has a constitutional right to protest peacefully on the sidewalk and that the group’s use of bullhorns and amplifiers did not violate state law, as the officer who made the arrest alleges. Cerame also said that restaurant patrons who complained to police about a noise disturbance did not have

Yale-NUS application draws ire

Phi Better Kappa. Sixty-two members of the Yale class of 2016 were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society this year, while only 48 Harvard seniors joined the ranks. Time for an update, U.S. News?

Student Wellness invites students to unwind at the annual “Stress Down Day” from 11 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Woolsey Hall tomorrow.

Student Wellness will provide hot cocoa, meditation sessions and free chair massages.

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Yale-NUS students have criticized the application-sharing option.

BY JON VICTOR AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS Three years after admitting its first class, Yale-NUS continues to receive applications from students who share their Yale College applications with the school rather than apply directly.

Currently, a student can apply to Yale-NUS in three different ways. A student can submit his or her appli-

cation through Yale-NUS’ own application portal, apply directly to Yale-NUS through its page on the Common Application or share his or her application to Yale College with both schools by simply checking a box on the Common App. Both Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis and Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the option to share applications benefits inter-

national students who might not get into Yale, because Yale-NUS meets all financial need regardless of nationality, unlike most American liberal arts colleges.

However, Yale-NUS students interviewed said the option often leads to students applying to the school without much thought, thereby inflating the application SEE APPLICATIONS PAGE 4

prosecutors proceed to charge Lugo or if the NHPD carries out similar arrests.

“If this kind of nonsense keeps happening then there is going to be a lawsuit,” Cerame said. “It’s going to happen if I have to do it through the ACLU or if I have to pay for it myself.”

Cerame said that in late 2010 and early 2011, it was commonSEE ULA PAGE 4

Cold case investigaton continues

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Finals & chill. Yale Health

1988 President-elect George H. W. Bush ’48 meets with Yale President Benno Schmidt and nine other university presidents to discuss his education policy. His proposals include increased funding for scientific research.

a constitutional right to eat in quiet.

“It totally blew over my head when I heard this,” Cerame said. “I was agape. These are genuinely good people and I’m just a Joe who cares a lot about them.”

Though the letter does not make any specific threats of litigation, Cerame said his message was intended to warn the city that he will file litigation if

Friday marked the 17th anniversary of the still-unsolved murder of former Yale senior Suzanne Jovin ’99. Today investigators at the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office are still working to retest evidence and solicit potential witness accounts.

Days before the anniversary of Jovin’s murder, police officers were dispatched to the area of Davenport Avenue and Elliot Street after they received reports that a man lay bloodied in the street. According to New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman, doctors who examined the victim — Connecticut resident Dennis White, 37 — said his injuries indicated he was likely struck and dragged by a vehicle. But investigators found no evidence at the scene to suggest that White was struck by a vehicle at that location. He was in critical condition as of Dec. 2, Hartman said. Due to a lack of evidence, he added, police investigating the case are having difficulty determining how to proceed with the investigation.

Sometimes investigators have few leads, as in White’s case. But sometimes they pursue their

leads for nearly two decades, as with the Jovin case.

“You can only investigate what you have to go on and what resources you can pour into it,” Hartman said. “And it’s unfortunate, but sometimes things don’t get solved. Sometimes a criminal will do a good enough job to clean up any evidence … Sometimes a municipal department might not have the ability to find minute evidence in every case. That’s the sad reality of it.”

Some cases have little physical evidence and witnesses fail to come forward. New Haven State’s Attorney Michael Dearington said that at a certain point, if a case is not moving forward, it may remain open without being an active investigation.

Although White’s case has not been declared cold, Jovin’s case is currently under investigation

by Connecticut’s Cold Case Unit.

The Cold Case Unit at the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office was established in 1998. According to Mike Sullivan, the chief inspector for the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice, the office currently has 30 to 40 cases in its inventory, including the Jovin case. Kevin Kane, the chief SEE COLD CASES PAGE 6

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We’re not done yet T

oday in a town hall, the Yale administration will reveal the final numbers for next year’s student effort expectations — marking the next chapter in a years-long struggle by students who have consistently demanded more equitable financial aid policies As of Monday morning, we don’t know much. We don’t know, for example, what President Salovey meant when he said there would be a “reduction” in student effort — other than that it will be somewhere below the current $3,350 termtime job expectation and $3,050 summer student income contribution. We don’t know exactly what new programs the financial aid office will announce to help low-income students more easily transition to Yale. And perhaps most importantly, we don’t know whether the administration will pledge to keep these numbers low going forward.

But we do know that the administration has finally acknowledged what lowincome students have known all along: that for an institution with as much wealth as Yale, the current financial expectations have unnecessarily created two diverging student experiences. One experience of Yale is for students well-off enough to pursue summer internships and term-time extracurriculars free from the burden of an added $6,400 expenditure, and the other is for those of us who have had to take out loans or take on a second or third job to stay afloat.

And we also know this: This time, student activism worked.

This isn’t the first time Yale has significantly expanded its financial aid resources. Former Yale President Richard Levin announced major changes to financial aid in both 2005 and 2008, cutting first the parental contribution and then the student contribution, respectively.

But unlike previous announcements about major financial aid overhauls, President Salovey’s email this year forged a new path by specifically acknowledging that the change was the result of student activism. Citing “a spring 2015 report by the Yale College Council” and deciding to include this announcement in his response to student movements on campus, Salovey reminded us that we have power when we speak in a unified and consistent voice.

But that acknowledgement of student activism’s power makes our next steps all the more critical. At the town hall and in the months to come, let’s ask smart questions: Will the University increase its overall financial aid budget? Otherwise, this is simply a shell game meant to create the illusion of more support. Will the University commit to keeping costs down in future years? Otherwise, the University will simply wait out

the current ge n e ra t i o n of students and gradually bring costs back up to the levels that currently stand.

TYLER The sad BLACKMON reality is that we’ve Back to played this game before.

Blackmon In 2008, the University decreased the total student effort expectation from $6,800 to $4,950 overnight — a key victory for low-income students.

But over the next seven years, administrators slowly inched up costs well above inflation rates to the current $6,400 level and quietly wiped out the possibility of using the International Summer Award toward the student income contribution. The University succeeded in doing this both because the changes each year were small enough to avoid outrage and because later generations of students had collectively forgotten the changes from only a few years before.

They simply waited us out.

Make no mistake: Today’s shift toward a more accessible Yale is a victory for low-income students. But we cannot rest on our laurels. Future generations of students can and must continue the fight until the administration presents us with a plan for full elimination of the student income contribution. We should even expand our fight to include a higher campus minimum wage and added programmatic support for low-income students. Yale has the power to enact such reforms. Students now need to sustain pressure to see them through.

I sincerely hope today’s announcement is just one step on a longer road toward more access and more support, but history urges suspicion. There will be a temptation — among students and administrators alike — to see even a precipitous drop in costs as the end of the journey. But we can always do more. As the University’s endowment grows, so too should its commitment to its students.

Come to the town hall today, which is being held at 7 p.m. in LC 102. But when you’re there, remember the context of today’s changes. Remember that it will take future generations of Yalies showing up and making their voice heard to continue holding this University and its financial aid administrators accountable.

And above all, remember that today’s announcement is not a finish line. It’s a mile-marker.

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Fighting publicides I

n the past two weeks, two horrific public shooting incidents have occurred; it is no wonder that America’s political eye has turned towards mass shootings. As the punditry engines roared to life, media organizations like The Washington Post, Vox, MSNBC and others broke out a new and terrifying statistic: By their count, 2015 had to date seen more mass shootings than days. Yet while this statistic does highlight gun violence in America, it also highlights the need for more specific terminology that clearly distinguishes mass shootings from other forms of gun violence.

To start with, it’s clear that the media organizations above were engaged in at least some level of duplicity. They produced alarmist headlines by using the broadest definitions of “mass shooting” available, namely “a shooting incident in which four (sometimes three) or more people are wounded or killed.”

This definition derives from the FBI’s technical standards for mass murder, but amounts to a bait-and-switch for the American public; when people hear “mass shooting,” they think of events like the tragic incidents at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora, Colorado. We don’t

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remember these events just because more than four people lost their lives.

The mass shooting as a concept is so terrifying because of what it represents: an outrageous, random attack against the public itself. The Newtown or Aurora shootings inspire fear precisely because they were not targeted; there was no underlying logic to them, and thus no way to predict and avoid them.

These incidents are the products of the seething hate of disaffected individuals, manifested as violence towards strangers, towards the public writ large. It doesn’t matter if you live in a good neighborhood, or avoid conflict, or aren’t part of a group ordinarily targeted by hate crimes. Each bullet fired in one of these attacks is fired at all of us, collectively. The mass shooting occupies a unique space in the American consciousness, and this explains why we hear and care more about mass shootings than about overall firearm homicides. If we cared about death as such, not about what killings represent, then mass shootings, whose casualties amount to only a small fraction of overall gun deaths, would not be important to us. And media wouldn’t put them in headlines.

I therefore propose a new term to represent this distinctive phenomenon: publicide. A publicide is an act of murder committed against the public itself. The Newtown shooting, for example, would be a “mass publicide,” and a “firearm publicide,” if one wanted to be specific. We already have some distinctions in our public vocabulary those killings that are especially atrocious because of what they represent.

Hate crimes describe attacks targeting members of a specific group. Terrorism describes violence in pursuit of political aims. These, too, can overlap: The Charleston Zion AME Church shooting earlier this year was both a hate crime and a terrorist act.

So what are the other mass shootings that don’t target the public in the same way, the other several hundred incidents in the media’s lists? Many are gang violence. Others are domestic violence or personal disputes. Others still stem from petty arguments or shouting matches with strangers, made more dangerous by the influence of drugs and alcohol, and by the guaranteed right of Americans to keep our species’ most effective instrument of death a mere arm’s length away at all times.

Non-publicide mass shootings, and singular firearm homicides (which represent the vast majority of gun deaths), still deserve our attention. In fact, based on the raw numbers, they arguably deserve more of it. But these distinctions are important to make because the phenomena are, in fact, distinct, and the kind of remedy that works on one will not work on another. For example, anti-gang social programs could easily reduce gang-related firearm deaths, but won’t stop a deranged drug addict from taking out his family in a murdersuicide, or a depressed teenager from seeking notoriety and vengeance at his high school.

Of course, publicides may be the hardest of all to eradicate, due to their unpredictable nature, and will never stop being the most terrifying. But the American public has been under assault for decades. Now, armed with a magazine of accurate definitions, statistical evidence, numerous potential remedies and political will, it’s time for the public to fight back. Together, we are targets. Together, we can end this.

BERNARD STANFORD is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at bernard.stanford@yale.edu .

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What should Yalies know?

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resident Salovey’s email listing changes aimed “toward a better Yale” was silent on Next Yale’s demand for an ethnic studies requirement. But the demand deserves a response, if only because it raises a good question: What should a Yale education be for, if it is for anything in particular?

Well, some kind of knowledge. What kind? Yale students are a diverse group. We come from many cultures and climes, and have numerous interests. It seems with all of this diversity, the only thing Yale can hope to do is to provide us with knowledge of what we share: our humanity.

A Yale education ought to provide, at the very least, humanistic knowledge.

What is humanistic knowledge? Or rather, what are the questions that all humans should ask?

Some will reply immediately that the search for the “human” questions is hopeless. Instead, all thought, and therefore all opinion about human questions, is nothing more than the product of circumstance. The Socratic inquiry into virtue and knowledge is just the quaint musing of an aristocratic, heterosexual male, who founded a discourse that has for centuries oppressed the non-

a r i s to c ra t i c portion of humanity.

If that is so, not only should we scotch the “great books,” we should COLE ignore most ARONSON of the ideas and perspecNecessary tives they and proper offer. More crucial are the questions of our own circumstances, and the question of ethnicity is surely one of them. An ethnic studies class is therefore as properly a part of a Yalie’s education today as classical philosophy was of the educations of Yalies past.

As others before me have shown, arguing that a thought or work is merely a “product of its time” — and therefore important only historically, not philosophically — is self-defeating. How is that thought itself not a product of its time? We would have to stand outside history — outside time and circumstance — to answer that question.

So all thought is a product of its time — an assertion that, “as a product of its time,” would deserve not a wit of attention,

except as an interesting historical artifact — or we stand outside history (a pretty arrogant assumption). Or, perhaps, we are starting from basically the same perspective as people of other cultures and times, and can therefore learn from other cultures and times about things that concern us.

And a fundamentally common perspective is required if we are to learn from one another. There cannot be dialogue unless others can understand our ideas as we understand and wish to convey them. Otherwise we are not really having a discussion: all are simply donning their critical lenses to see through what others say to grasp merely whatever circumstance caused them to say it.

Which brings us to ethnic studies. It seems that ethnicity is not inherently a part of the human experience, the way politics, friendship, and beauty are. We invented it as a category to divide human beings. It is not an issue for humans qua humans, but an issue for certain people depending on where they find themselves. Surely not all communities have dealt with questions of ethnicity, and surely many people even today go through their lives without it concerning them.

But the same is not true of the political questions raised by "The

Republic." We have yet to find the community without politics.

None of this is to say that ethnicity isn’t worth studying. Rather, ethnicity is just one of many matters our leaders will have to address. It properly belongs on the list of subjects in which one might specialize, but not on the list of matters which a humanistic education must by its very nature address.

Some will reply that an education that does not address an issue as urgent as ethnicity is inherently lacking. But we can only address ethnicity as, say, a political issue if we first know how to address political questions as such. That is, before we inquire into the peculiarities of ethnicity in America, we should ask the general questions about the proper role for politics and law in human life.

And our answers will help us address not only ethnicity but also other matters. Our problems are not so unique. It is in discovering their eternity, and their similarity with the problems of “other” times and places, that a liberal education begins.

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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Seventy-six inducted to Phi Beta Kappa

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Thirteen juniors, 62 seniors and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough ’55 were inducted into Yale’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society Saturday at a ceremony which also saw the establishment of the Joseph W. Gordon Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Arts and Sciences.

Election into the nation’s oldest academic honor society is based on the percentage of straight-A grades earned in college courses. At Yale, students may be inducted to the society in three rounds: in their junior fall, senior fall or at Commencement. The society’s rule also writes that no more than 10 percent of a graduating class may be elected.

At the ceremony, Associate Dean of Yale College and Dean of Academic Programs George Levesque, who serves as graduate secretary and treasurer for Yale’s chapter of PBK, told the latest inductees about the society’s storied past and the esteemed company they were about to join, which includes 17 U.S. presidents, 38 U.S. Supreme Court justices and 136 Nobel laureates.

“In accordance with the rules of this Chapter and in consequence of our high opinion of your intellectual character, supported by your outstanding academic record, you have been selected as worthy of becoming members of Phi Beta Kappa,” Levesque said in a speech. “Your names have been submitted to the scrutiny of the constitutional electors of this chapter, and have met with their approval.”

Following the undergraduate induction procedures, Levesque also announced the induction of McCullough as an honorary member of PBK. Although he was not elected into PBK as an undergraduate at Yale, McCullough has gone on to win numerous awards for his work as a historian and an author. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and is the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees.

In 2003, he was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Jefferson Lecturer, which is the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. And in 2006, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.

Each chapter has the authority to elect a very small number of people as honorary members, and the Yale chapter does so sparingly, Levesque said. The honorary induction is usually reserved for people whose colleges did not have a chapter of PBK, he added.

“For our recipient today, however, I think we just have

to admit that Yale made a mistake, which we’re now hoping to correct 60 years later, and I hope there are no hard feelings,” Levesque said when introducing McCullough.

Mc C u l l o u g h wa s a l s o announced as the first recipient of the Joseph W. Gordon Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Arts and Sciences, which has been established to honor long-serving Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon, who will retire in January.

During his four decades at Yale, Gordon has served as an English professor, as Yale’s first openly gay college master, as a member of the Executive Committee and even as a fry cook in Commons during a blizzard that shut down the University for two days in 2013.

Levesque said Gordon has exemplified the three distinguishing characteristics of PBK — friendship, morality and scholarship — throughout his career. He praised Gordon’s role in improving the academics and scholarship of Yale College.

“No one has logged more hours at Yale monitoring the curriculum, approving new courses, reviewing majors, improving teaching and learning, promoting the arts and supporting the libraries and galleries than Joe Gordon,” Levesque said. “Indeed, so much of what is good and right and beautiful about Yale College is because of Joe.” Mason Ji ’16, a senior inductee who was recently named a Rhodes Scholar, said that although he could not attend the actual ceremony, being inducted was a great moment as he felt like the work of the past three years has paid off. He said the inductees had participated in a meet and greet last month, where he was amazed by the array of amazing things people were doing.

“One of my friends I met at the event is an amazing drama writer, and I had never met anyone who wrote dramas before,” Ji said. “It is great that even in senior year, I can meet new and amazing peers.”

Derek Soled ’16, another senior inductee, said the induction ceremony was a humbling and inspiring experience.

“It was a real honor to be there and be inducted,” Soled said. “Being surrounded by individuals who have thrived in their own ways was extremely humbling and it was something really special.”

The Joseph W. Gordon Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Arts and Sciences will be given annually to a Yale College graduate in recognition of distinguished service and contributions, in academics or professional life, in the arts, letters or sciences.

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New Haven Climate Movement activists formed a drum circle on Cross Campus to raise awareness about climate change.

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER As “12 Days of Xmas: No More Fossil Fuels” — a 12-day series of events calling for action on climate change — draws to a close, members of the New Haven Climate Movement are calling the inaugural demonstrations a success.

Billy Fischer, a local drummer and musician, led 20 activists from NHCM, the coalition of environmental activists behind the 12 Days, in a drum circle Sunday outside Sterling Memorial Library. The drum circle marked the third event of the week. The 12 Days kicked off last Sunday, when more than 30 Elm City community members assembled on the New Haven Green for a vigil commemorating victims of climate injustice. Last Thursday, the NHCM led a Fair Haven March for Climate Justice, which sought to bring awareness to the negative impact climate change has on low-income neighborhoods in the Elm City and beyond.

“Let’s drum together to tell the global as well as the local

governments that we want climate justice now — we don’t want to wait another 30 years,” said Ceyda Durmaz, an NHCM organizer who also works with the New Haven/Léon Sister City Project, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable development in Nicaragua and Connecticut.

Durmaz said one of the New Haven Climate Movement’s chief goals in organizing the events is to spread local awareness. She said she and the other six members of the NHCM are calling on Mayor Toni Harp to update the Elm City’s Climate Change Action Plan and bring it to the forefront of New Haven politics.

The action plan has not been updated since 2004, Durmaz said.

The New Haven Climate Movement has seven active members and draws from social and climate justice organizations around the city, such as the New Haven/Léon Sister City Project, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

“We started this group to

bring together individuals who are concerned about climate change from different organizations around the city,” she said.

Diane Lentakis, an activist with Connecticut’s branch of 350.org — a nonprofit working to unite the world around solutions to climate change — said she thinks events such as the drum circle are important for galvanizing support and compelling climate change action at a local level.

Lentakis said she thinks the events have increased awareness and upped the consciousness of New Haven residents.

In total, nearly 100 community members have turned out to the events this week.

“It takes a lot of people to come out to actions like this, to write opinion editorials and letters to the editor and make their voices heard at the [state] capital,” Lentakis said. “We don’t have the money the Koch brothers have, but we have people power.”

Chris Schweitzer, an NHCM member and program director for the New Haven/Léon Sister City Project, said he was

pleased with the turnout at the week’s events given that this is a hectic time of year. He emphasized the importance of consistency in talking and engaging with people in order to gain support for the climate change movement.

The “12 Days of Xmas” events were organized in response to heightened security surrounding the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, which has prevented similar activism on the streets of Paris.

Lentakis said that while she does not think the climate change talks currently going on in Paris will lead to substantial environmental progress, she thinks it is important to continue actions at a local level.

The New Haven Climate Movement will host an event Tuesday night at local bar Kelly’s On Crown, during which attendees will be able to learn low or no-cost ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as changing light bulbs and reducing car use.

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

Pop-up market supports small businesses

BY JAMES POST CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Ten local businesses showcased their products at a Saturday pop-up market to whet the appetites of shoppers in the weeks before the giving season.

The event, called Holiday Haven, was the result of a partnership between Onyeka Obiocha, president and co-founder of the Happiness Lab, the coffee shop on Chapel Street that hosted the event, vintageclothing store owner Melissa Gonzales and Project Storefronts, a city program that supports small businesses.

Featuring jewelry designers, artisans and food makers, the event aimed to give New Haven shoppers the opportunity to buy local products in a convenient and accessible setting.

“The purpose of this event is to give people an opportunity to shop at a holiday market that is hyper-local,” Gonzales, owner of the shop Vintanthromodern, said. “People are really into buying local, buying things that are handmade, things that aren’t made in China, and supporting small business.”

Gonzales said the pop-up shop is particularly helpful for salespeople because most small businesses nowadays, including eight of the 10 vendors at Holiday Haven, do not own brick-and-mortar spaces.

Events that allow entrepreneurs to debut their products to customers in person are particularly important, she added.

Gonzales spearheaded the first Holiday Haven in 2013, after she invited friends to vend alongside her when she acquired a brick-and-mortar shop at Trolley Square. The venture was a success, so Gonzales and her friends decided to hold a pop-up market to promote both their businesses and others’.

“A few small business owners, all women, came together,” said Kate Stephen, the owner

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The pop-up market gives local businesspeople a platform to engage with customers in person. of Kate Stephen Jewelry and an original Holiday Haven organizer. “We were friends, and just had seen each other through the circuit of vending. We just made it happen — a really grass-roots effort, a labor of love.”

Stephen, a four-year-veteran of the Connecticut vending circuit, said she attends over 50 pop-up markets each year. She said having a tightknit community of vendors is a necessary element for success as a small business. Stephen also emphasized the supportive role of brick-and-mortar boutiques that give space for artisans to sell their products.

Obiocha, who co-hosted Holiday Haven with Gonzales, said he feels he has a responsibility to support developing businesses now that A Happy Life, his coffee-making com-

pany, has achieved relative success.

“When you get in a certain spot, it’s almost your duty to help the next batch of artisans and entrepreneurs and designers,” Obiocha said. “People did it for me, and this is crucial to [rising] up.”

Project Storefronts Program Manager Elinor Slomba said New Haven is a city in progress, highlighting the city’s rich economic development at the small-business level. She said Project Storefronts supports this growth by offering grants and subsidies to New Haven small businesses. The program also assists entrepreneurs in negotiations with property owners of potential brick-and-mortar stores.

Gonzales said she is grateful for community events like Holiday Haven because they

draw attention to the hard work of the city’s entrepreneurs. “[This city] gets a bad rap sometimes,” Gonzales said.

“But there’s a thriving creative and small-business entrepreneur network happening in New Haven.”

Elaine To ’19 said Holiday Haven gave her the opportunity to learn more about New Haven, noting that students often feel disconnected from the city.

Project Storefronts is produced by the New Haven Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism and supported by the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven and New Haven’s Department of Economic Development.

Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Attorney supports Lugo

Lugo, who leads the ULA, was arrested while protesting wage theft.

ULA FROM PAGE 1 place for police officers to ask ULA protestors for ID cards when they responded to noise complaints about the group’s protests. Cerame noted that police would try to dissuade ULA members from protesting by telling them city employers could file Freedom of Information Act requests to discover their identities and blacklist them from employment.

Though the police may have had the best interests of ULA members in mind, Cerame said any attempt to collect their identities or dissuade protesting violates their constitutional right to protest. He added that though the police stopped collecting ULA protesters’ IDs after ULA brought the issue to the ACLU’s atten-

tion in 2011, he is concerned that police may have resumed this practice.

Karim Calle, a ULA organizer, said she is hopeful the charges against Lugo will be dropped. But she said Lugo’s exoneration will not be enough to assuage immigrants’ fears of being arrested while legally protesting.

“Because of Lugo’s arrest, we know that there are changes that need to be made within the NHPD in terms of what are the reasons for arresting someone if they are anonymously protesting,” Calle said.

She added that just before his arrest, Lugo and other protestors were not using profane language or acting in a way that would cause customers to think illegal activity was

occurring outside of Goodfellas.

Calle is one of two ULA members who will attend the next meeting of the Community and Police Relations Task Force, a committee the city formed in March to improve the relationship between police and New Haven community members. Harp proposed inviting the two ULA members at a meeting on Wednesday.

Lugo returns to court Jan. 5, his attorney, Diane Polan, said. She added that Lugo may learn at the court hearing what charges prosecutors will press, if any.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

HENRY KISSINGER FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE

Decision on “master” slowed MASTER FROM PAGE 1

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“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

use of the controversial title. The recommendation will ultimately be presented to the Yale Corporation for a final decision.

Although discussions around campus and within the Council of Masters have been ongoing since August, and the masters continue to discuss the title, Yale’s responsiveness on the issue is slowed, at least in part, by the fact that the abolishment of the title “master” would involve a change to the University bylaws and must be approved by the Corporation.

“The title ‘master’ is built into the bylaws of the University, not in an emphatic way, but in a more passing way,” Holloway said. “Because it is in the bylaws, a change in the title can only be decided by the Corporation. I have learned that for this to happen, there has to be a deliberative process that consists of several steps, one of which is a submission of a formal recommendation to the Corporation.”

The University bylaws do not directly require that the head of a residential college be called “master,” but instead treats “college master” as an accepted position without much focus on the actual title. For example, the bylaws state that “The affairs of each college shall be under the direction of a master, a dean and a body of fellows … The master shall serve as executive officer and with the aid of the fellows shall exercise supervision over the general welfare of the college.”

The Council of Masters has not yet reached a decision on a recommendation, but Holloway said the group will make one to Salovey by the end of winter break.

Harvard’s administration made the announcement that it would abolish the title “house master” from its undergraduate residential housing system on Dec. 1, after its 12 house masters unanimously agreed to change the title. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael

Smith approved the recommendation, which also received the support of Harvard President Drew Faust before it was announced to Harvard students.

At Princeton, the university’s official statement announcing the title change from “master of the residential college” to “head of college” on Nov. 18 stated that the masters of the school’s six residential colleges had made the decision.

Although the Yale administration is unlikely to announce a change in the official title of “master” in the immediate future as the Corporation does not convene again until February, Holloway said masters have always been able to determine their “inward-facing” titles. Citing his own experience as master of Calhoun College, Holloway said he was often referred to not as “Master Holloway” but as “Dr. J.” He said this has always been the practice: the heads of colleges hold the “outward-facing” official title of “master” but can choose how students address them in practice.

Religious studies professor and head of Pierson College Stephen Davis sparked campus discussion in August when he told members of the Pierson community to address him as “Dr. Davis” instead of “Master Davis,” citing the racial and gendered implications of the title. Yet he remained the chair of the “Council of Masters.” Holloway said that this is consistent with Davis’ request.

“Dr. Davis just doesn’t want to be called ‘master’ himself, but he understands that his position remains as master. He does not have an issue with that and what the institutional title is,” Holloway said.

Davis and four other college masters either declined to, or could not be reached for, comment.

All five students interviewed said that they support changing the title of “master,” although many declined to give their opinions on Yale’s relative sluggishness compared to its peer insti-

tutions. Rita Wang ’19 said she is frustrated by the University’s inaction, noting that she wanted Yale to be a leader in changing the title of “master,” but the administration seems very hesitant to act.

“It can be a personal choice for each college master [whether they prefer to change the name], but I think because Princeton and Harvard already decided to drop the title, that says a lot about what Yale should do,” she said.

Wang acknowledged that the administration might be hesitant to announce a plan unless it is comprehensive, because Yale has been receiving a lot of media attention due to recent campus events. Still, Wang said the title of “master” should be abolished immediately.

Jack Taperell ’18 said he was not surprised by Harvard’s and Princeton’s rapid decisions to change the title of “master.” He speculated that the temperature of the student movements on those campuses may have enabled the administration to move quickly, although he said he is not aware of the campus climate at other institutions. He said that so long as things keep moving and conversations keep happening to remind people of the issue at hand, Yale will eventually move to reach a decision as well.

Alexandra Torresquintero ’16 said she views the decisions at Harvard and Princeton as part of the nationwide movement at universities to improve the racial climate by becoming more progressive, accepting and welcoming of diverse viewpoints.

Wang said Yale has an obligation to continue promoting this movement.

“In order to continue seeing ourselves as a peer institution with Harvard and Princeton, [Yale] needs to take action,” she said.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu and SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

No plans to end Yale-NUS application sharing APPLICATIONS FROM PAGE 1 pool. According to a 2013 YaleNUS press release, the acceptance rate for its inaugural class was just under 4 percent. Still, the school’s yield rate — which measures how many students chose to matriculate — was 52 percent, comparable to the yield rates for competitive liberal arts colleges in the U.S. Of the four Yale-NUS students interviewed, two applied through Yale-NUS’ member screen on the Common App, one applied through Yale-NUS’ own application portal and one applied by sharing his Yale application with Yale-NUS. Students indicated that it was common for applicants to seriously research the school only after they had applied. “[The choice to share applications] may be perhaps too convenient, and thus sufficient thought is not put into whether that person really wants to come to YaleNUS,” said Walter Yeo YNUS ’17, who applied through Yale-NUS’ separate portal. “For example, I have some friends who only found out about Yale-NUS after they got in.”

Isabel Perucho YNUS ’18 said the option to share applications left her concerned about the inflation of applicants who “don’t really know what they are getting into” when agreeing to share their Yale application with Yale-NUS. Perucho said many students shared their applications “without much thought,” adding that one of her friends at Yale-NUS does not even remember answering “yes” to the sharing option but was still admitted.

Regina Marie Lee YNUS ’18 said some students she has spoken with knew nothing about Yale-NUS before sharing their application with the school, but did more research on the college later in the process.

Quinlan said while there was never any initial plan to remove the share option after a set period of time, questions on Yale’s application are evaluated on a yearly basis. He said Yale’s faculty committee on admissions and financial aid evaluated the question

two years ago and suggested the language be modified to better describe the similarities and differences between the two institutions.

Quinlan, who previously served as Yale-NUS’ inaugural dean of admissions, said the way the question is framed on the application portal removes any possibility of students applying there as an afterthought, because students have to read through a paragraph of information and actively click “yes.” Currently, the question provides students with a brief description of the college, including the similarities and differences between Yale and YaleNUS. “The option to share their applications with Yale-NUS is a benefit to Yale applicants, especially the thousands of international applicants who are not admitted to Yale College and whose options to find universities that offer financial aid to admitted international students are limited,” Lewis said. “At this point, there are no plans to remove or change the question in the coming years.”

Jim Sleeper ’69, a lecturer in political science and a vocal critic of Yale’s partnership in Singapore, criticized the administration’s decision to allow applicants to Yale College to easily share their applications with Yale-NUS. He said that despite the addition of a short paragraph describing the school, he believes the question is an attempt to artificially boost the number of applications to YaleNUS to make the college appear more competitive than it is.

“Nobody has ever given me a compelling reason why there should be a check box for YaleNUS on the application to Yale College,” Sleeper said. “YaleNUS is still in a very experimental stage. It is definitely not Yale in New Haven, and I think they are trying to create more of a synergy between the two than is warranted at this point.”

Ultimately, Quinlan said, the option provides international students an opportunity to apply to a liberal arts college that offers

generous financial aid policies and a need-blind admissions process. He said nearly 5,000 international students apply to Yale each year, many of whom are dependent on financial aid. Still, the paragraph on the Common App makes no mention of YaleNUS’ financial aid policies.

Lewis added that Yale and Yale-NUS will rethink the application-sharing program if applicants to Yale find the option confusing or misleading. But, there is no evidence that this is the case, Lewis said. Quinlan added that his office has received very few, if any, inquiries about the question.

According to Yale-NUS’ admissions website, students sharing their applications with the school receive an email asking them to complete an additional question specific to Yale-NUS, but they are not required to do so.

However, Lewis said no applicant is admitted to Yale-NUS without an interview. Therefore, its applicants are clear about the distinctions between a Yale-NUS education and a Yale one.

Students also said the option to share their application is a good way for Yale-NUS to reach out to students who might not learn of the new liberal arts college otherwise.

Manas Punhani YNUS ’17 said that as a small and young college, Yale-NUS is able to reach out to a much larger audience because of the Common App’s sharing option, adding that the paragraph about Yale-NUS raises awareness about the college.

“I would imagine that students would just be intrigued by the option and at least Google the college if they choose not to apply,” said Punhani, who applied to Yale-NUS through the application-sharing option.

According to Yale-NUS’ admissions website, Yale-NUS does not give preference to one type of application over another.

Each type of application is given equal weight.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF SEOW YONGZHI

Yale-NUS meets all financial need regardless of nationality, unlike most American liberal arts colleges.

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“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”

LOUIS ARMSTRONG JAZZ TRUMPETER AND SINGER

Activists honored with Amistad Awards

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The ghost of soul music legend Sam Cooke filtered through the auditorium of Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School Sunday, as area singer Ariel Johnson sang his Civil Rights-era classic “A Change Is Gonna Come” to welcome roughly 200 New Haven residents for a celebration of social justice activism.

“I don’t know if Sam Cooke could have done that that well,” said event organizer Kit Salazar-Smith after Johnson left the stage. “And the thing is, the words are still affecting — they still have meaning.”

The gathering was the annual People’s World Amistad Awards Rally, held to recognize prominent members of the community for their work and accomplishments. This year’s three recipients ran the gamut of social justice activists: an immigrant-rights advocate, a newly elected alder and a longtime labor union organizer.

The ceremony, which featured musical performances from a variety of New Haven groups, began with a special recognition for Edie Fishman, a labor organizer and activist who has fought for change ever since she joined the Young Communist League in 1935 at age 14.

Fishman — who worked in the shipyards of Camden, New Jersey during the Second World War — has spent her life involved in social-justice activism. She said her first memories of activism are of marching for Social Security and labor rights during the Great Depression.

“I and other working people bombarded our legislators, bombarded the president, saying we need wage and labor laws,” Fishman said. “Because we stood united and made our voices heard, we won. We got Social Security and unemployment compensation, but it was only through struggle.”

Her daughter, Joelle Fishman, is also a well-known activist in the New Haven area who serves as a member of the Peace Commission and chair of the Connecticut Communist Party.

She said the struggle for equality started when the slave ship Amistad landed in New Haven in 1839, and has continued since.

Drawing a link between communist and anti-racist activism, Joelle Fishman said racism is “embedded” within capitalism and called on activists to fight for abortion rights, a $15 minimum wage and the right to unionize. She concluded her remarks with the activist slogan “Black Lives Matter,” which was met with applause.

“We’re sick and tired of the hatred, bigotry and fear being spewed to bust us apart, and we should never take our unity for granted,” Joelle Fishman said.

“Our continuing struggle for equality has been long and hard.”

Jill Marks, who recently defeated incumbent Beaver Hills Alder Claudette RobinsonThorpe, also received an award Sunday. Raised in The Hill, Marks comes from an activist family — her husband, Rev. Scott Marks, a prominent city union activist and co-founder of New Haven Rising, citywide advocacy group dedicated to

economic, social and racial justice, received the Amistad Award in 2004.

In her remarks to the audience, Jill Marks said the character of New Haven is changing, and not for the better. A dearth of jobs in New Haven’s needy neighborhoods, she said, is causing social havoc. She called on Yale to hire more New Haven residents and end the jobs crisis in New Haven.

“We are qualified and ready to go to work,” Marks said. “They need to do their part to solve their crisis by hiring us … There are 986 good jobs at [the Yale School of Medicine] that are in danger of being outsourced or made into Yale-New Haven Hospital jobs. We want Yale to put in writing that they will protect those good jobs.”

Ciro Gutierrez, an immigrantrights activist who was born and raised in Peru and participated in the movement for democracy after the county’s 1968 military coup, also received an award Sunday. He became a union steward in Peru until the government’s privatization of the public sector cost him his job.

He and his family then moved to the United States in 1994, and he has fought for working families as a union organizer in Hartford since 2006.

The third awardee was Cindy Harrity, a labor organizer who has worked around the United States to ensure that workers can exercise their right to unionize. Her most significant action came in New Hampshire, where she organized 600 workers at an AT&T call center, the biggest victory in the state in 15 years.

Harrity, who recently lost her ability to speak while battling thyroid cancer, had her husband,

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Nearly 200 New Haven residents gathered in Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School for the People’s World Amistad Awards Rally. fellow organizer John Harrity, deliver her remarks.

“I want fairness, I want truth, I want a country and community that’s based on justice,” John Harrity said on his wife’s behalf. “And I don’t give a damn whether that’s reasonable or

not, because it’s right, and it’s what we all deserve.”

Harrity called on attendees to “be unreasonable,” challenging social systems they find unjust and unequal. Those struggles, he said, include diverse causes ranging from the Black Lives

Matter movement to the fight for a $15 minimum wage.

Harrity’s speech ended with a quotation from the left-wing journalist and writer I. F. Stone.

“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because some-

body has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins,” Harrity said.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Jazz pioneer receives lifetime achievement award

BY MAYA CHANDRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale School of Music professor Willie Ruff ’53 MUS ’54 was presented with the C. Newton Schenck III Award for Lifetime Achievement award at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven Friday.

Arts Council Executive Director Cindy Clair said Ruff’s national prominence as a jazz figure, his lengthy teaching career and his work with the Duke Ellington Fellowship program — an initiative that brings worldrenowned jazz musicians to Yale and New Haven Public Schools — made him an excellent candidate for the award at the Arts Council’s annual Art Awards Luncheon this past weekend.

Ruff, who played the French horn and double bass along-

side pianist Dwight Mitchell for more than 50 years, accompanied Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie and other worldfamous jazz musicians throughout his roughly 60-year career.

But despite rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in jazz and being a leader in the genre, Ruff, who joined the Yale faculty in 1971, remains down-to-earth and high spirited. “[Teaching], well that’s what I do for fun anyways,” Ruff said with a laugh in an interview with the News. “I don’t know what I’ll do when I grow up.”

Ruff’s music career began in Alabama, where he was raised studying the drums under the guidance of an older boy in his neighborhood. When Ruff’s mentor was drafted for World War II, Ruff was left with the boy’s drum set and a thirst to join the war

effort. Ruff lied about his age to enlist in the armed forces, eventually becoming a sergeant at the Lockbourne Air Force Base, which is famous for housing the famed African-American military pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

Ruff hoped to play drums for the military band. But being young and inexperienced, he was passed over for the position.

“I got fired,” Ruff said. “I found out that I could stay in the band if I learned to play an instrument nobody else wanted to play, which was the French horn. So I did.”

Ruff said he chose to come to Yale after the war because he heard that his idol, acclaimed jazz musician Charlie Parker, once mentioned in passing that he would have liked to attend Yale. Ruff said his matriculation at Yale, an honor he shared with a fellow lieutenant from his air

base, was a victory for AfricanAmericans.

“We elevated the population of our race by 20 percent,” he said. “If you do the math, you will know how many of us were around [before].”

Ruff’s career took off shortly after. He said he and Mitchell were awarded the opportunity to play with many of the greatest jazz musicians of the day because he and Mitchell were the cheapest act to hire.

Ruff travelled with the Yale Russian Chorus to the Soviet Union in 1959, the height of the Cold War, and learned Mandarin in the 1980s so he could give talks during his jazz tour in China. Ruff has also influenced musicians in the Elm City. Jonny Allen YSM ’14 said he played for Ruff once before, and a compliment Ruff gave him has stayed

with him until today. Ruff said his “crowning good fortune” was the establishment of the Duke Ellington Fellowship in 1972. Ruff convinced then-University President Kingman Brewster, to honor the contributions of 40 AfricanAmerican musicians in a ceremony. Jazz artists Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Marian Anderson and many others came to Yale from across the country for this ceremony. The program, now in its 43rd year, continues to bring successful jazz artists to Yale and New Haven public schools.

Though Yale does not have a performance degree in jazz, Deputy Dean of the School of Music Melvin Chen said his faculty consider jazz a very important part of classical music and music in general.

“There is no doubt that it is the indigenous American music

… It is important that [students] get an education on jazz and its importance in American music,” Chen said.

Ruff said much has changed since he was a student at Yale.

Though jazz is still around, he said college students no longer know how to dance.

He also said racial dynamics have much improved since the 1950s.

“Nothing today compares to the paucity of minority students on campus when I first arrived,” he said. “Change is among us, it’s really a part of who we are, and the best part is yet to come.”

The Duke Ellington Fellowship program earned Ruff the Connecticut Governor’s Art Award in 2000.

Contact MAYA CHANDRA at maya.chandra@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it’s a popular thing to do as well.” REP. NANCY PELOSI HOUSE MINORITY LEADER

Erika Christakis cancels spring course CHRISTAKIS FROM PAGE 1 her own.”

“It makes the situation more straightforward from a [human resources] point of view,” Holloway added. “I don’t have much to add to her decision.”

In the spring, Christakis will instead spend time publicizing her new book “The Importance of Being Little,” set for release on Feb. 9. According to the Penguin Books website, Christakis is scheduled to visit five different bookstores across the country after the book’s release.

Erika Christakis’ husband Nicholas Christakis told the News that he will take a sabbatical this spring, cancelling his popular lecture “Health of the Public.”

Erika Christakis’ “Concept of the Problem Child” covered controversial issues in contemporary America. The syllabus for the course includes books on gender, race and teenage pregnancy.

Nearly all the reviews of Christakis’ classes are extremely positive.

“Professor Christakis is, hands down, my favorite professor that I’ve had while I’ve been here,” wrote one student on the course’s online evaluation.

“Erika is a joy, and a generous person and pedagogue,” wrote another.

Among the demands made

by Next Yale, a fledgling campus activist group that addresses issues of race on campus, was the removal of Nicholas and Erika Christakis from the positions of

master and associate master of Silliman College, respectively.

The demands, presented to University President Peter Salovey at his home at around midnight on Nov. 12, do not mention the Christakises’ roles as Yale educators.

On Nov. 17, Salovey and Holloway wrote that they “fully support” the Christakises’ mastership in a joint email to Silliman students.

Two open letters published last months by various professors — one supporting student concerns about racism and marginalization, and another standing in solidarity with the Christakises — gave voice to multiple sides of a heated debate over free speech, sensitivity and racism on Yale’s campus. The first letter was signed by several hundred faculty members, including the Christakises. The second, authored by physics professor Douglas Stone and signed by 69 faculty members, said those who have mounted a campaign against Erika Christakis have reduced the “educational variety” for all Yale undergraduates.

“As faculty colleagues we wish to express our strong support of the right of Erika and Nicholas Christakis to free speech and freedom of intellectual expression,” the letter stated.

In past years, hundreds of students shopped each of Erika Christakis’ classes, Stone said, adding that she planned to teach additional seminar sections this year to handle the demand. He

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Nicholas and Erika Christakis have announced that they will not teach undergraduates in the spring. added that attacks, not just on Christakis’ email, but on her character and integrity as well, have led to her decision not to teach.

Stone said he encouraged Christakis to reconsider her decision to stop teaching after a “cooling off period.”

Although Stone said he welcomes criticism by students and faculty as part of a respectful dialogue, he said he thought the response to Christakis’ letter unfairly characterized her words as racist.

“It goes without saying that faculty using racial epithets or harassing speech … should not be tolerated or defended in any way,” Stone said. “I don’t think that is at issue in the current situation.”

Sarah Householder ’18, who is currently taking Christakis’ “The Growing Child in Global Context” seminar, said that the protests changed the energy in the classroom. Householder said Christakis became “hesitant” and “distracted” after she took a week off during the most intense

student protests.

Householder added that the class had engaging, serious discussions about issues of child development around the world.

Leah Meyer ’18, who said she wanted to take “Problem Child” before graduation, said Christakis’ announcement was disappointing.

Meyer questioned Christakis’ decision to stop teaching. If Christakis feels that open dialogue and debate is important, she questioned, why is she choos-

ing to remove herself from that dialogue?

“That, to me, is frustrating,” she said. “I’m not saying she made the wrong decision, I’m just saying that it’s unfortunate. Just because I think that she should remain on faculty and continue to teach does not mean that I condone all her actions.”

Erika Christakis is a lecturer at Yale’s Child Study Center.

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

Cold cases continue to stymie investigators COLD CASES FROM PAGE 1 state’s attorney, explained that his office has set up this cold case task force to work with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to pool resources and investigators.

Sullivan explained that the Cold Case Unit compiles police reports, witness and victim statements, and any information that accumulated over the course of the original investigation. The unit then re-interviews people relevant to the case and retests evidence. Sullivan said it is a comprehensive approach with a team of scientists, detectives and lawyers.

“We take a systematic approach,” Sullivan said. “We go through the case from scratch like it wasn’t investigated before.

We look at the case through fresh eyes.”

Sullivan said that as time passes, witnesses sometimes become more willing to open up and testify. He also explained that while other departments have new cases coming in every day, the Cold Case Unit has the luxury of being able to focus only on the selected cold cases.

Kane said though there has been no substantial progress on the Jovin case in the last year, he hopes that publicity might trigger a witness’s memory.

Jovin was found just before 10 p.m. on Dec. 4, 1998, on the corner of Edgehill and East Rock roads.

When a Yale-New Haven Hospital physician who had been walking in the area found Jovin, she was alive and bleeding on the sidewalk after being stabbed 17 times. She died at Yale-New Haven Hospital that night.

In the past year, investigators have not uncovered any new substantial information about the events leading up to Jovin’s murder, Kane said. But investigators are still pursuing leads that may answer questions that could reveal important insights to the case.

On the evening of the incident, Jovin turned in her penultimate draft of her senior thesis on Osama bin Laden, and worked at a pizza-making party at the Trinity Lutheran Church for the local chapter of Best Buddies, an international organization that brings together students and mentally disabled adults. After returning to her apartment that night, Jovin told a friend that she was going to retrieve her GRE study materials from an unnamed person who borrowed them. After she logged off her computer, she returned keys from a borrowed University vehicle to the Yale Police Communications Center at Phelps Gate. She then left Phelps Gate and turned left on College Street at around 9:25 p.m.

Thirty minutes later, a 911 call was placed by a passerby to report that a woman had been stabbed.

Kane said that given Jovin’s dress and the amount of time that passed, that it is very likely Jovin was driven to the area where she was found — nearly two miles away from campus.

“To this day, we don’t know why Suzanne walked out of Phelps Gate and turned left on College Street,” Kane said.

Kane said there are a number questions that the police are pursuing at this time.

According to a prepared release from the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office provided to the News, at the time of her murder, there were reports that a man and a woman were arguing outside of 750 Whitney Ave. Reportedly, a Caucasian man and a woman left the front entrance of the apartment complex at around 9:30 p.m. and walked between the arguing couple. Police still do not know who the couple leaving the apartment building was and are hoping that

their identification may lead to information about who was arguing at the complex. Police are trying to determine if the woman involved in the argument was Jovin.

Police received several reports about an argument in front of the complex. A taxi cab driver in the area also reported an argument between a man and a woman in its vicinity. Police believe that the cab driver’s passenger — who was described in the release as a black woman in her late 30s or early 40s wearing a white outfit similar to a health care worker’s — may have information that can corroborate the driver’s witness reports. Police hope that new witnesses coming forward might reveal whether or not Jovin was involved in the argument.

Additionally, a woman who drove by the resident physician who rendered aid to Jovin after she was found stopped and asked if the resident needed assistance. The resident declined assistance from the woman, who had two children

in her car. Identifying the woman as a witness who may have seen or heard something that she did not realize was important may provide crucial information to the investigation, Kane said.

“You can’t help but think that there might be someone out there with information,” Kane said.

There is not a huge body of physical evidence for the Jovin case, but Kane said this is not unusual. Sullivan explained that the vast majority of homicide cases do not have DNA evidence and that such cases are built on witness testimony. Sullivan said even if police find a fingerprint on a gun, that does not mean that the fingerprint belongs to the killer. Police and lawyers need eyewitness testimony to understand a case and corroborate other evidence.

Hartman said even if police have DNA from the blood of a perpetrator found at the crime scene, unless that person’s DNA has already been logged in one of the state’s databases, it does not serve as an immediate lead.

another crime, that evidence can link the person to the original crime.

Technology has changed the way that detectives investigate because of what some lawyers call the “CSI effect,” in which jurors trust DNA evidence over witness testimony. Sullivan said that people know that television shows, such as CSI, do not reflect the way real police work is done. Even so, he said, it give people unrealistic expectations about what evidence is credible.

“If DNA found at the scene is clearly the DNA of the person who committed the crime, I think jurors find that the most compelling evidence,” Dearington said. “I think everyone agrees now eyewitness testimony isn’t what it used to be.”

According to Sullivan, there have been around 1,100 unsolved homicides in Connecticut since 1980.

One such database is the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Hartman explained that before IAFIS launched in 1999, police had to take fingerprints and manually compare them to individual fingerprint cards. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s website, IAFIS is the largest criminal fingerprint database in the world and has an average response time of 27 minutes for electronic criminal fingerprints, with information submitted voluntarily by state, local and federal lawenforcement agencies.

“There are more and more cases that are cold that are being reinvestigated because of all of this new technology,” Hartman said.

“There are great strides now in retaining forensic evidence [and] in retesting forensic evidence as new technology evolves.”

Hartman explained that even if police cannot link forensic evidence discovered at a crime scene to a perpetrator right away, if that person is later picked up for

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

WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE? HOW THE TRAIL GOES COLD IN A POLICE INVESTIGATION Dennis White

Suzanne Jovin ’99 Date of incident: Dec. 4, 1998

Date of incident: Dec. 1, 2015

How did White’s body get there?

Where was White actually struck by the car?

missing potential witnesses

Did Who struck anybody White? witness the accident? missing forensic evidence

Who was the couple arguing outside of 750 Whitney?

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Who drove Jovin to the East Rock area?

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“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”

JESSE VENTURA FORMER GOVERNOR, WRESTLER AND ACTOR

New Haven bar hosts arm wrestling tournament

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS On Saturday afternoon inside Trinity Bar and Grill, television screens featuring college football and professional soccer games went largely unnoticed as visitors had all eyes focused on a different, lesser-known sport instead.

Thirty competitors — two women and 28 men — competed across four different weight classes in the World Armwrestling League Connecticut state championship, one of 50 inaugural state championships happening this season. The eight firstplace winners have advanced to the regional championship of the WAL, which will be held in Las Vegas next summer.

In addition to drawing a crowd at Trinity, WAL — now in its third year — reached over nine million viewers during ESPN’s coverage of its final championships last year. Despite WAL’s short history, participants spoke of its tight-knit community and the longer trend of arm wrestling as a professional sport in the United States.

“I got started in the lunchroom table in middle school just like every other kid,” event organizer and arm wrestler Mike Selearis said. “Some people think it is what people do when they are messing around with a couple drinks, but we have got international competitions with just three years in the making.”

Some competitors wore athletic shorts and muscle shirts, but others donned t-shirts and jeans. Footwear varied, from boots to tennis shoes. Though most sports involve a thorough warm-up routine before a contest, some competitors instead prepared for their matches with fries and beer from the bar.

Represented among the competitors were several students from Wilbur Cross High School, where Selearis teaches chemistry. These students were each sponsored by a local organization, including City Climb Rock Climbing Gym and CrossFit New Haven.

Wilbur Cross senior Gabe

Styles, who took home first place for right arm in the novice heavyweight weight class, said he began the sport after seeing Selearis arm wrestle. Selearis hosts arm-wrestling practices for Wilbur Cross students Thursday afternoons at the City Climb gym. Styles, who has attended these practices since his freshman year, said his workouts consist of weightlifting and actual arm wrestling.

Other competitors said training for these matches requires both hand and wrist training, but actual arm wrestling is required to practice the technique for the sport.

“It’s kind of like pitching [in baseball],” men’s competitor Chris Sciarappa, a Naugatuck resident, said. “Just because you bench 500 pounds doesn’t mean you can throw 100 miles an hour.”

Sciarappa said that social media has helped the arm-wrestling community cohere, and allows for individual members to find training partners.

Like any other sport, arm wrestling has its own sets of techniques and rules followed by competitors. During any match, a competitor is allowed two fouls before losing on the third foul.

Fouls can be called, for example, when athletes lift their arms from the elbow pad or do not have at least one foot in contact with the floor.

Competitors also must maintain hand contact throughout the match. If their hands separate completely at any point, a “split,” the referee calls for a strap, thus tying their hands together before restarting the match.

Most matches lasted only a handful of seconds, before referee Ron Klemba, a two-time world champion, declared a victor. Klemba himself advanced to the next round with a first-place win for both right and left arms in the 175-pound weight class.

Both of the two female competitors — Kelly Sciarappa and Deborah Selearis — had husbands who also competed.

Selearis won the sole women’s event, the left-handed open, with a victory over Sciarappa.

Sciarappa said her goals for the event were to enjoy herself, given the few women who arm wrestle on a professional level.

“It’s just been trying to build the sport for women for the last three years,” Sciarappa said. “So as long as I have fun and other women show up, it’s a win for me.”

Kelly Sciarappa, who began arm wrestling professionally two years ago after attending a tournament with her husband, said these events tend to be familyoriented, as competitors bring spouses and children to cheer them on.

A handful of sponsors, including Trinity and Crossfit New Haven, provided gift certificates for winners of certain rounds.

But the winners were not the only beneficiaries of the competition — the championship also pulled in an additional $1,500 in revenue for Trinity on Saturday afternoon, according to Deborah Selearis.

Trinity Bar and Grill is located at 157 Orange St. in New Haven.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” ALEXANDER POPE ENGLISH POET

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

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

Student groups plan coalition for “collective action”

Group delivering letter locked out of Low

BY MEG P. BERNHARD As college students across the country stage protests in response to racerelated incidents on their campuses, some cultural student groups at Harvard are planning to form a coalition “to present demands to the administration.”

According to an email sent last Sunday to “leaders of [people of color] organizations on campus,” a group of students planned to meet last Monday to gauge interest in formulating “a list of collective demands” and “executing the associated action together with other students of color.”

“As students of color across the nation rise up and demand to be heard, seen and safe on their own campuses, we agreed that we, as students of color, must take advantage of this window of opportunity to bring much-needed structural changes to our own campus,” said the email, signed by two students.

It remains unclear what happened at that meeting, or what specific requests students might make of administrators; several cultural group leaders did not respond to requests for comment.

But sent at the tail end of a semester that featured a string of high-profile racially charged incidents, at Harvard and other universities, the message made clear that students hoped to meet at least partly in response to recent events.

In particular, the coordinating email referenced waves of activism at Princeton, Yale, Occidental College and Brandeis, where students have staged sit-ins and marched to demand an end to racism and increase support for students of color there.

The email also referenced a recent incident at Harvard Law School, where black professors’ portraits were covered in black tape last month in what

police are investigating as a hate crime.

In the email’s body, meeting organizers noted that members of Renegade, a stuHARVARD dent publication that focuses on issues of diversity and identity among students of color, held a “solidarity meeting” on the same day as the Harvard Law School incident.

That meeting became an “action planning session,” at least in part because of the incident, according to the email.

Harvard Law School administrators, including Dean Martha Minow, have responded to the vandalism incident by hosting community meetings to discuss racism at the school, which Minow herself recently deemed a “serious problem.”

Also last month, students from the Concilio Latino, an undergraduate cultural group, presented a list of demands to Harvard President Drew Faust. They asked that Harvard designate one floor of the Smith Campus Center, which will soon undergo renovation, as a space for students of color; allocate more funds to cultural and ethnic student groups; and double the number of proctors and tutors who come from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Among their requests was that Harvard rename Harvard College’s “house master” position, a title that some students criticize as associated with slavery. On Tuesday, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said the masters of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate houses “unanimously” agreed to change their title, though they have not yet decided on a replacement term. Both Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael Smith have signaled their approval for the change.

BY CATIE EDMONDSON A delegation of graduate students and elected officials attempting to deliver a letter in support of graduate student unionization at Columbia to University President Lee Bollinger was locked out of Low Library on Friday.

The Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers, a group of graduate teaching and research assistants, have been pushing to gain recognition as a union for one year now, and have taken their petition to unionize to the National Labor Review Board for review.

Following a rally on Low Steps attended by nearly 200 people, including Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, New York State Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, New York City Council member Mark Levine and a delegation of half a dozen graduate students tried to enter Low to deliver a letter signed by elected officials including Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Sens. Kristen Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer.

The letter urges the administration to “refrain from any further legal or other actions that would delay graduate employees’ right to choose collective bargaining.”

But when the group reached the main doors of Low, they found themselves locked out.

The group then attempted to gain entry to the building through a side door, and was met by Vice President of Public Safety Jim McShane and a member of Bollinger’s staff.

Maida Rosenstein, the president of UAW Local 2110, asked McShane if the group could enter Low and deliver the letter to Bollinger’s office.

“We would like to deliver it to the office especially since the assemblywoman is here from Albany,” Rosenstein said. “I hope you’ll communicate to the president that it’s a little dismaying to be locked out and have no one even come to the door to find

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out who we are.

We’re a peaceful delegation.”

In response, McShane told Rosenstein that he would ensure that the letter was delivered to

Bollinger.

“We’re here, we found out who you are, we’re happy to take whatever you have,” McShane said. “We’ll be sure he gets it.”

The university did not respond to requests for comments on the situation.

Glick, the chair of the New York Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education, told Spectator that she

was shocked by the university’s response.

“The president and his staff are so either disrespectful or afraid that they could not allow a delegation into the building, that they had people come out in order to receive a letter that has been signed by 160 elected representatives from the mayor of the city of New York to our New York senators,” Glick said. “And now we see a large security contingent arriving because they are so intimidated by their own graduate assistants simply looking for a fair contract.”

“What, these guys were called in because of us?” Levine said as two public safety officers filed into Low. “Yes!” Glick said. “Talk about paranoia and stupidity.”

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Lindsey Dayton, an organizer for Graduate Workers of Columbia, holds a copy of the letter.

T H E D A I L Y P E N N S Y L VA N I A N

Fraternity open rush delayed

BY LILY ZANDI This year, male freshmen will have to wait a little bit longer for the free food and date nights of fraternity open rush.

After some back and forth, the Interfraternity Council complied with the Panhellenic Council’s requests to push back the official start date of IFC recruitment.

The change was made to avoid overlap between fraternity open rush and sorority recruitment to prevent issues that have arisen in the past as a result of the timing. In past years, Fraternity Open Rush began as soon as freshmen returned to campus after winter break. Fraternity Open Rush will now begin Jan. 15, which is the Friday after freshmen return to campus.

The Panhellenic Council urged the IFC to push back their rush dates in an attempt to prevent sorority members from interacting with female Potential New Members — students eligible to participate in recruitment — at a fraternity rush event in the presence of alcohol. For this reason, fraternities are not allowed to host any registered date nights between Jan. 17–21. Another new mandate from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life is that fraternities are prohibited from holding any events with Panhellenic members until 24 hours after they receive their bids.

One reason for the push-

back was to reduce the social interaction between male and f e m a l e PNMs. PENN D u r ing sorority rush, women briefly stand outside of the houses before the parties begin. In past years, IFC Vice President of Recruitment Dustin Klein said, the male PNMs who are walking around between fraternity houses during the open rush process often expressed their opinions to the female PNMs about the sorority whose house they were about to enter. “[Fraternity PNMs] have given their own personal input and that has swayed women’s opinion on the sorority,” Klein said.

But pushing back the date of fraternity rush comes with its own consequences. The original schedule, which was published in late October, delayed fraternity rush six days instead of three.

IFC open rush was going to start on Jan. 19. After the IFC received backlash and complaints from fraternity members, the delay was reduced to only three days.

Fraternities were mainly worried that this delay would create a six-day window where on-campus organizations would start to dirty rush PNMs. If one fraternity began the rush process before the

official start date, the others will be feel pressured to do so in order to compete for PNMs. “The chapters that do not have the capabilities of keeping up with them will lose a lot of PNMs, and we thought that would be very unfair to them,” Klein said.

On-campus organizations would also be motivated to begin rush before the official start date to compete with unrecognized organizations that do not have to abide by the mandates of the OFSL. If the delay was upheld, unaffiliated organizations could potentially conduct rush and assign bids even before the official rush process began.

Fraternities were also concerned that, as a result of this delay, rush would begin inconveniently late and interfere with their plans. Organizations usually begin to plan for rush by renting out venues at the end of May. Unlike past years, IFC rush now overlaps with Martin Luther King Day. All fraternities are prohibited from holding any events on the holiday.

“All of our recruitment chairs met and we were told by IFC that Martin Luther King Day was offlimits because of racial tensions,” one fraternity recruitment chair, who wished to remain anonymous because he feared backlash from IFC and OFSL, said. “Not sure what the background behind that is but that’s what we were told.”

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To avoid overlap between fraternity open rush and sorority recruitment, fraternity open rush now begins Jan. 15.

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IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL BUSHNELL PRESENTATION TONIGHT The Ivy League Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year will be named tonight in New York City. Harvard QB Scott Hosch and Penn WR Justin Watson are up for the offensive honor, and Dartmouth LB Will McNamara and Penn LB Tyler Drake are finalists on defense.

“If we actually made a free throw … and turned the ball over at our average, we could have had 90 points.”

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Yale drops two in front of home crowd MEN’S HOCKEY

AALIYAH IBRAHIM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

A shot at the pipe from forward Ted Hart ’19 marked perhaps Yale’s best chance at scoring in a 3–0 loss to No. 2/3 Quinnipiac.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This past weekend was circled on the calendar of the No. 10 Yale men’s hockey team as a highlight of the Bulldogs’ earlyseason slate. But after two disappointing losses and an injury to its All-American goaltender, Yale moves forward with just one game before winter break to get itself back on track.

In front of a sellout crowd Friday at Ingalls Rink, Yale (5–4–2, 3–3–2 ECAC Hockey) fell 3–0 in a highly-anticipated matchup with No. 2/3 Quinnipiac (15– 0–2, 6–0–2), dropping the Elis to 0–2–1 against top-10 teams.

The next night, with Yale facing a Princeton team (4–8–0, 3–5–0) that came to New Haven having not defeated the Elis in 11 straight tries, starting goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 was hit by a shot in pregame warm-ups, leaving net-

minder Patrick Spano ’17 to take the net in a 4–2 loss. “[Friday] night was an emotional one,” forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 said. “We came in [Saturday] and we thought it was going to be a little bit easier than [the night before], but at the end of the day we can’t play hockey that way. We have to respect our opponent every night no matter who we play.”

Quinnipiac arrived at Yale on Friday looking to extend its then-

Elis surge past Catamounts

15 game unbeaten start, the longest for a Division I team since 1995. The Bobcats’ first-ranked defensive unit shut down the Bulldog offense for most of the first period, limiting the Elis to just four shots on goal. After a power-play opportunity just 12 seconds into the game and several early chances, Yale could not manage a shot against Quinnipiac goaltender Michael Garteig for a span that listed nearly 15 minutes.

Nevertheless, it did not take

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER

In their final home game of the calendar year, the Yale men’s basketball team went out with a bang, overcoming a back-and-forth first half against Vermont to blow out the Catamounts by 18 points.

The Yale women’s hockey team returns to New Haven after winning both games on the road this weekend, behind a blowout victory and an overtime thriller.

The Bulldogs (5–3, 0–0 Ivy), who are now 3–0 at home, defeated the Catamounts (4–5, 0–0 America East) by a final score of 72–54, as forward Justin Sears ’16 and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 scored 17 points apiece.

“It was an excellent effort by the team, especially in the second half,” Sears said. “It was also a great game for Jack to get back on track. As a team, we are really starting to come together.”

One key to the team’s cohesion was Sears’ return to the starting lineup after not starting the past two games due to a sinus infection, although the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year showed some signs of rustiness early on, turning the ball over three times in the first half as he attempted to regain his timing and explosiveness in one-on-one situations.

Despite a relatively quiet six-

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Yale’s average scoring margin at home dropped to 26.3 points per game after Yale’s 72–54 dismantling of Vermont. point first half, Sears added 11 in the second as well as 10 total rebounds en route to his first double-double of the season.

Matching Sears’ production was a fellow senior returning to his typical form. After being held scoreless and going without a three-pointer in last Wednesday’s victory over Bryant, Montague found his range once more against Vermont, a team that has made seven consecutive postseason appearances and is the only Division I program in New England to have an active streak of seven straight 20-win seasons.

A year to the day removed from making a game-winning triple in Yale’s victory over

the then-defending national champions the University of Connecticut Huskies, Montague made his presence felt early in Saturday’s contest.

The Brentville, Tennessee native knocked down his first three-pointer less than halfway through the first period, as part of a seven-point first half.

Montague’s backcourt mate, point guard Makai Mason ’18, paced the Bulldogs with 12 points at the half. The sophomore also capped off the tight period with his first assist of the day as time expired. After connecting on a jump shot to put Yale ahead 32–31 with 42 SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

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shots on goal during the second — the Bobcat defense continued to stymie the home team’s attack.

The Elis entered the game averaging 11.2 shots per period but were held to just 12 in the first and second frames combined.

The Bobcats doubled their lead right at the outset of the third period, when Quinnipiac forward Landon Smith grabbed the puck SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

Bulldogs sweep weekend

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much time for Quinnipiac’s seventh-ranked offense to convert on its own opportunities at the beginning of the second period.

At just 1:31 into the frame, Quinnipiac forward Tim Clifton took a pass near the left side of the crease from Bobcat forward Soren Jonzzon and slipped the puck past Lyon’s glove.

Although the Bulldogs managed to keep Quinnipiac off the scoreboard for the remainder of the period — Yale allowed just six

Exactly one year ago, the Bulldogs (4–7–1, 3–2–1 ECAC Hockey) scored a combined seven goals against ECAC foes Rensselaer (5–9–2, 3–4–1) and Union (0–12–4, 0–6–2), resulting in two victories. This season, the Elis traveled to upstate New

York to play the Engineers and the Dutchwomen, and behind six goals in the two contests, Yale once again earned a pair of conference victories. Yale defeated RPI in a 4–1 rout before besting Union 2–1 thanks to an overtime goal from forward Phoebe Staenz ’17.

“When we played as a team and moved the puck quickly, we confused the other teams,” forward Eden Murray ’18 said.

“We’ve been working really hard in practice at it, and it’s starting to show in games so it’s exciting to see results.”

The game against RPI on Friday marked only the second time

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Forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 scored the game-winner just 16 seconds into the overtime period against Union.

this season that the Elis have scored more than three goals in a contest — the last time came in a 4–3 win versus in-state rival, No. 4 Quinnipiac, on Halloween.

In that offensive outburst, the majority of the Bulldog goals against the Bobcat goalie came in the third period. However, in Friday’s 4–1 victory over the Engineers, the Elis overwhelmed their opponents by pouring in all four of its goals in the first period of play.

“In both games, we utilized our defensemen really well, which created chaos for the other team and led to some of our goals, and some really good scoring chances,” said defenseman Mallory Souliotis ’18, who scored the third Yale goal. “We have been working hard on involving the defense more in the offensive zone, and this weekend we saw all that come together. Also, the forwards outworked the other team’s defense and generated a lot of scoring opportunities.”

Forward Jordan Chancellor ’19 initially got the Elis on the board five minutes into the game. Less than three minutes later, the Ramsey, Minnesota native tallied her second score of the game, and third of the season.

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“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” TIM NOTKE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH

Simpson ’18 notches career high to lead Yale W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 During the final 10 minutes of the game, Yale thwarted any hope of a Wagner comeback.

Along with Simpson’s doubledigit period, which consisted of a pair of back-to-back threepoint shots and five sunken free throws, the team was able to dominate the boards by outrebounding Wagner 12–5.

“In the first half, we were letting them penetrate, but we got

our defense back in the second half,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said.

With Sarju and her teamleading 16.7 points per game missing from the contest due to the injury she suffered in Yale’s Dec. 3 65–61 loss to Army, four Yale starters scored in double figures. Sarju said she is planning on returning for the Elis’ game on Wednesday against St. John’s.

After Simpson’s career-best scoring effort, Berkowitz and

Werner each added season highs, with 16 and 13 points, respectively. Wyckoff also contributed 12 points as well as 11 rebounds, matching a career high, to collectively carry the Bulldogs.

“We shared the ball really well tonight by working the highlow and moving the ball around the rim,” Werner said. “We had a lot of inside-out touches that led us to find good shots in our offense.”

In addition to creating open

offensive opportunities, Yale reduced its season turnover rate of 18 per game by committing 15.

More significantly, the Bulldogs forced 22 turnovers and translated those free passes into 36 points.

Meanwhile, the Bulldogs were also proficient in getting to the free-throw line, taking 27 attempts from the charity stripe.

However, Yale only converted 13 of those. However, Yale made up for the poor foul shooting by

day at St. John’s, who has only one loss on the season, to No. 24 UCLA. “Our takeaways were that we still need to put some work on our defense, as far as staying down in a stance and getting better help rotations,” Wyckoff said.

Tipoff against the Red Storm is set for 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

shooting 48.4 percent from the line, 9 percentage points above average. On the other end of the court, Wager shot 43.9 percent from the field, as only Nwajei could consistently contribute for the Seahawks. The junior guard racked up 32 points, more than half of the team’s total.

With the return of Sarju, who is currently the third-top scorer in the Ivy League, the Bulldogs are looking to build upon their offensive execution on Wednes-

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Elis win despite injuries SQUASH FROM PAGE B4 without the play of key contributors Liam McClintock ’17 and captain Sam Fenwick ’16, who were out with foot and groin injuries, respectively.

Kah Wah Cheong ’17 conceded a 3–0 defeat at the No. 1 position, and Yohan Pandole ’19 also fell 3–0 at the No. 8 spot. For Pandole, as well as fellow freshman Jay Losty ’19, the match against the Diplomats was the first of their collegiate careers. Playing at No. 9, Losty achieved a 3–1 win.

“It was an amazing experience and though I didn’t win, the team was really happy with the overall performance,” Pandole said. “F&M are a solid team, and this was definitely a great way to set us up for the long season ahead.

If we carry on like this, I don’t see why we can’t win the Ivy and maybe even the national title come February.”

Playing at No. 5, Max Martin ’18 played in the only match of the day to go to five games. His opponent was forced to forfeit with an injury when the score was 3–1, giving Martin the victory.

The women, too, were able to succeed despite the loss of a key contributor. No. 1 Jenny Scherl ’17 did not play due to injury, and freshman Celine Yeap ’19 filled in at the top spot for her first collegiate match. Yeap edged out her opponent 3–1, and Emily Sherwood ’19 also claimed her first-ever win as a Bulldog with a 3–0 decision.

Other than Yeap’s win at the top of the ladder, all of Yale’s victories came in

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quick 3–0 contests. Georgia Blatchford ’16 suffered the lone Eli loss at the No. 3 spot.

The Diplomats’ last win against the Bulldogs came in 1988, giving Yale the secondlongest current win streak by an opponent over Franklin & Marshall at 21 consecutive contests.

“This weekend wasn’t our strongest performance, but F&M put up a great fight,” Shiyuan Mao ’17 said. “It was our opening game of the season and we hope to continue going uphill from there.”

Yale will next face off against Ivy League foe Brown. The women open play in Providence, Rhode Island at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and the men play soon after at 6 p.m.

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Yale has emerged victorious in all three dual and tri-meets thus far this season.

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The Eli women are 62–1 in individual matches against Franklin & Marshall in the past seven years.

Yale finished first in a number of tight races in the Rutgershosted meet, which Hogan said demonstrates the team’s growth this season.

“The Nike Cup was a great opportunity to race some really fast people, and those experiences show up in close races,” Hogan said. “We had a lot of guys win races that came down to the wire, and that’s something you can only learn to do in meets.”

The Terriers snapped a streak of four consecutive Yale wins.

Though BU took home first place in the 200-yard butterfly, the Bulldogs’ second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place swims netted a significant sum of consolation points. On a day in which UConn only emerged victorious in the 1-meter and

3-meter dives, BU claimed additional victories in the 200- and 400-yard individual medley events, the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard breaststroke.

When the sprinting events commenced, the Elis again found victory, winning the 50-yard freestyle with Oscar Miao ’17 and Victor Zhang ’16 earning first and third, respectively. Zhang later claimed the 100-yard freestyle with Miao coming right behind in second.

In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the Elis’ A squad outtouched UConn by a third of a second, with Boston’s B team coming in third. Scott Bole ’19, who was a member of the winning relay team, also took home a first-place result in the 100-yard butterfly on his way to four victories on the day. The freshman was a part of two other winning

relay squads.

Bole, Miao, Adrian Lin ’19 and Jonathan Rutter ’18 ended the meet on a high note alongside the B squad of Hogan, Victor Zhang, Brian Clark ’16 and Josh Ginsborg ’16, when the Bulldogs swept the top two spots in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

“We had a fun time with the relays,” Kao said. “The coaches tried out some new lineups to see how they worked out. It was exciting to end the meet with the [400-yard] free relay with a senior relay facing off with an underclassmen relay, with the underclassmen winning.”

The Elis will return to action Friday in a home meet against Southern Connecticut State University.

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“Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”

ROCKY BALBOA BOXER PLAYED BY SYLVESTER STALLONE

Lyon ’17 misses 4–2 loss to Princeton MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 near the Yale bench and rifled a blast into the top left corner.

Yale responded with a threatening possession that lasted several minutes early in the third period, highlighted by a shot from forward Ted Hart ’19 that beat Garteig but hit the left pipe.

Defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 had the best Eli chance for the remainder of the game after slicing through two Bobcat defenders, but his shot was saved by Garteig, who was ultimately able to finish the shutout. Another 3–0 win for Quinnipiac over Brown the next night brought Garteig’s shutout count to six, which leads the conference.

“He’s a quality goaltender,” Yale head coach Keith Allain ’80 said of Garteig. “I thought we were slow to shoot on a couple of occasions, we put a couple right in his belly, but he did a nice job, for sure.”

With under two minutes to play, Bobcat defenseman Devon Toews, assisted by Jonzzon, sealed victory for his team with his third goal of the season.

Four man-advantage opportunities in the game yielded no scoring for the Bulldogs, whose power-play unit ranks 12th in the nation with a 23.4 percent success rate.

“I thought it was a pretty even game,” Allain said. “They were able to capitalize on their scoring opportunities, and we weren’t.”

On Saturday, Yale returned to Ingalls hoping to bounce back with a win over Princeton in its final ECAC contest before winter break. The Elis had already faced the Tigers once this season, opening their 2015–16 campaign with a 3–1 victory against Princeton in the Capital City Classic at the end of October.

But the circumstances of this game quickly changed before it even started, with Lyon getting

injured. Spano had not seen ice time since Nov. 29, 2014, when he started against RIT in a game that resulted in a shutout victory for the Bulldogs.

“I’ve got nothing but respect for that kid,” Allain said of Spano.

“He prepares everyday, he works his tail off. To be thrown into that situation is very, very difficult, and I think he handled it really well [on Saturday].”

Playing his first minutes in over a year, Spano faced his toughest challenge of the game in the first period. Although the Bulldogs bested the Tigers in shots in every period and served up some noteworthy attempts of their own, it was Princeton who was presented with the best scoring opportunities.

The Tigers entered the first power play of the game nearly 13 minutes into the contest, yet they only took one shot during the two-minute stretch. Twentyone seconds after the penalty clock ran out, a Princeton forward intercepted a pass from Spano behind the net, giving forward Garrett Skrbich a free shot in front of the net to put the Tigers on the scoreboard.

“My defenseman told me to leave [the puck], and I tried to pass to him,” Spano said. “It was my mistake. They got possession [and] they got the puck in front.”

Just 10 seconds later, the Tigers would once again be celebrating.

An unorganized line change by the Bulldogs immediately after the goal handed Princeton another chance to get ahead.

According to Allain, it was mistakes like these that that prevented the Elis from winning despite outshooting Princeton 39–31 in the contest.

“We had momentum,” Allain said. “I thought we had them right where we wanted them and then we didn’t put the puck in the zone when we should have. We

had a sloppy line change and they scored. You make your own bed.”

The second period kept the score at 2–0 in favor of the Tigers, although each team had several chances during two power plays per side in the frame.

Yale fought through more than three consecutive minutes of Princeton power play at the start of the third period, including 37 seconds of a 5-on-3 Princeton advantage. The Bulldogs held the Tigers scoreless on four power plays, finishing with the best pen-

alty-kill rate in the conference at a 93.5 percent.

Nearly halfway through the third period, defenseman Anthony Walsh ’19 knocked down a Princeton clear attempt with his glove to set up a shot that would find its way over the shoulder of Princeton goaltender Colton Phinney and into the back of the net. The goal was the first of the weekend for Yale after a total of 109 minutes of hockey, and also the first of Walsh’s collegiate career.

Less than two minutes later, forward John Hayden ’17 would tie up the game on a power play with 8:40 on the clock.

But the Eli momentum did not last for long. A shot from Tiger forward Ryan Siiro with four minutes remaining would once again give the Princeton the lead, which they extended to 4–2 with an empty-net goal 18 seconds before the end of regulation. The defeat extended Yale’s losing streak to three games.

“We’ve got a lot of things to

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Home dominance continues final frame, and a defensive adjustment on Ward — double-teaming the prolific scorer on screens as well as sending different Bulldog defenders at him — amounted to a lowstress victory for Yale.

In fact, Ward’s lone basket in the second period came off an insignificant lay-up with less than a minute remaining.

“When he came in the game [in the second half], we trapped him, tried to get the ball out of his hands, because he was a difficult guard for us in the first half,” head coach James Jones said. “He made some really difficult shots.

When we took that part of [Vermont’s] offense away, it enabled us to go on some runs.

We did a good job guarding the rest of their starters.”

Meanwhile, Yale’s offense clicked in the second half behind its captain. Montague scored 10 of Yale’s first 14 points, including a sequence in which the guard connected on back-to-back threes to extend Yale’s lead to 44–33 with 15:31 remaining.

“I hit a couple midrange jumpers to get me into a rhythm,” Montague said. “The [second three] was just a heat check.”

Lifted by Montague, who is now shooting 44.2 percent from long distance, the Yale advantage swelled to as much

as 21 points in the second half.

Although the Bulldogs finished the game shooting 54 percent from the field, as compared to 30.5 percent from Vermont — which was playing without the team’s thirdleading scorer, Ernie Duncan — Yale did turn the ball over 20 times, an area both Jones and Sears said could be improved.

The Elis are now averaging 13.5 turnovers per game.

Three of Sears’ four turnovers on the day were the result of traveling violations.

In the second half, Vermont head coach John Becker was assessed a technical foul for arguing for another such call.

Despite the turnover woes, Jones took what he called “not a glass half-full approach but a glass overflowing” outlook on the win.

“My thought is that if we actually made a free throw, because we were 12 for 22, and if we turned the ball over at our average, we could have had 90 points,” Jones said. “So, that’s the bright side of it. We turned it over and won by 18. If we’re sitting here with an 18-point loss, that would be a little more concerning.”

Mason was the only Bulldog other than Sears and Montague to reach double-digits. The point guard scored 16 points, maintaining his teamleading average of 16.8 points per game.

Guard Nick Victor ’16 contributed yet again on the defensive end of the floor. In addition to helping shut down Ward in the second half, Victor snatched 10 rebounds to tie Sears for the team high.

Though Yale’s bench production has been lacking consistency this season, Yale’s reserves added 11 points in a game when its starters put the game out of hand.

After defeating Bryant last Wednesday and now Vermont, Yale heads into a challenging stretch within the next week, kicking off on Wednesday against Illinois. The Elis will also travel to sunny Los Angeles for a game against Pac-12 foe Southern California on Sunday.

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Defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 assisted on Yale’s first goal in Saturday’s victory over Union.

during a stretch of four-on-four to beat Engineer goalie Lovisa Selander.

“Coach [ Joakim Flygh] wanted us to focus on carrying the momentum throughout the entire game instead of just for a period here and there,” Murray said. “I think our game against RPI was very good in the first, but we lost some momentum throughout the second and parts of the third.”

The Elis’ scoring did come to a halt after the first period. After a scoreless second period on both sides, Yale came within moments of its first shutout of the season.

However, with less than 45 seconds remaining on the clock, RPI was able to sneak the puck past goalkeeper Hanna Mandl ’17, who made 22 saves prior.

Nevertheless, the goal highlighted a meek offensive performance for RPI, as the Engineers only managed to take barely more than half as many shots as the Bulldogs. Yale outshot its counterparts 43–23.

“Our defensive-zone play is something we work really hard at in practice every week, and our hard work is paying off,” defenseman Kate Martini ’16 said. “We communicated very well this weekend and played our system effectively.”

Coming off that dominating performance, Yale came back the next day to face off against Union. Yale had to contend with one of the top netminders in the country, as the Dutchwomen’s

rookie goalkeeper, Melissa Black, ranks seventh in the nation with a 0.944 save percentage.

Without much room for error against the talented goalkeeper, Yale quickly found itself in a hole.

A shot from defenseman Kara Drexler ’18 initiated a sequence that led to a Union goal. The Dutchwomen’s Kathryn Tomaselli blocked the attempt and proceeded to find Jacyn Reeves, who beat Mandl just 45 seconds into play.

Despite Union’s early lead, the Elis actually outshot the Dutchwomen 21–3 in the first period, with Black saving each attempt.

In the second period, Yale’s barrage of attempts continued.

Between the 18:03 and 19:53 marks of the period, the Bulldogs attempted five consecutive shots.

It was only after a sixth attempt, this one from captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16, that the Bulldogs finally broke through.

“During the second period we had a few shifts in a row where they could not get it out of their defensive zone,” Souliotis said. “These few shifts took the momentum and eventually led to our goal to tie the game.”

After Ferrara’s goal, both teams failed to score again during regulation. The competition quickly became a battle of goalkeepers, as by the end of the third period, Black had saved 44 out of 45 shots faced while Mandl had defended 22 of 23.

After a level 60 minutes of action, the Bulldogs wasted no time in scoring the game-winner. Chancellor won the faceoff,

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu and DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 took a shot in warmups that kept him from playing Saturday, and it is unknown whether he will play against Boston University.

Four points for Yale

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look at,” DiChiara said. “We’ve got one more game going into the break, and it’s a big one next week.

We’ll be ready to go.”

That game, played on Friday at home, will be against No. 11/12 Boston University, which defeated Yale 3–2 in overtime in the first round of last season’s NCAA Tournament.

which resulted in Souliotis dishing the puck to Staenz, who attempted the first shot of overtime. Black made a save only for the former Olympian to pick up the rebound, circle around the net and score a back-handed goal to lift the Elis to victory.

“We still need to work on pushing the pace and playing a full 60 minutes,” Souliotis said.

“We need to play to our systems the entire game because that’s when we play best. For the most part, it’s the small details that will put this team in a really good position for the rest of the year.”

The 2–1 thriller spoke to the parity in the ECAC, something Martini commented on following the weekend sweep.

All 12 conference teams have a combined total of three loses or ties in conference play. In three of the past four seasons, the champion had no more than four total losses or ties during ECAC play.

In addition, after Quinnipiac’s 16 first-place points, nine teams are within five points of each other, including Yale. The Elis are now tied for eighth with RPI, in a position Souliotis believes the team can improve upon.

“This team has a lot of potential,” Souliotis said. “And we are really excited to close out the first half of the season and get back after it in January.”

Yale returns to action on Sunday with its final nonconference test of the season, a 2 p.m. meeting against New Hampshire.

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seconds left in the half, Mason drove the ball in transition following a turnover from Dre Wills and found Brandon Sherrod ’16, who slammed home a one-handed jam with five seconds left on the clock.

While Yale used a multipronged attack to build on its modest edge at halftime, Vermont relied on a spark off the bench to stay afloat. Led by left-handed guard Cam Ward, the Catamounts were able to remain close despite getting just 13 points from their starters. The Bulldogs had no answer for the smooth-shooting Ward, who scored 16 points on 5–7 shooting from the field, including two three-pointers.

He also added four points from the charity stripe.

The competitive first half was reminiscent of last year’s contest in Burlington, Vermont, when forward Matt Townsend ’15 hit a last-second jump shot to propel the Bulldogs to a 57–56 victory.

However, unlike last year, when a four-point Yale lead at halftime was indicative of the tight ending to come, this year’s close halftime margin was broken wide open in the second half. The Bulldogs carried the momentum of Mason’s playmaking to close the first period into the

Guard Nick Victor ’16 grabbed 10 rebounds and added four assists.

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“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”

BILLIE JEAN KING FORMER PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER

Balanced attack lifts Yale WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Guard Tamara Simpson ’18, left, scored 13 of Yale’s 22 fourth-quarter points to help the Bulldogs break away from Wagner.

BY MADELEINE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s basketball team dominated on Sunday with a 78–60 win over Wagner, scoring its second-most points in a game this season despite the absence of its leading scorer.

With guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 out with a sprained ankle, the

Elis (6–4, 0–0 Ivy) showed no ill effects in a dynamic 27-point first quarter against the Seahawks (1–5, 0–0 Northeast). Yale built a 10-point lead in the quarter that stayed steady into the fourth, when guard Tamara Simpson ’18 scored 13 of her career-high 22 points to carry the Bulldogs to victory.

“The goal from the start was to

focus on ourselves and play ‘Bulldog Basketball,’ which involves defensive intensity creating our offense, running and scoring in transition and playing great transition defense,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said. “We did that mostly in the first and last quarters.”

Yale hit five of its first six shots from the floor and all five Yale

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starters scored within the first five minutes of the first quarter. Forward Katie Werner ’17 led the Bulldogs with eight points in the period, while Simpson had three of her five steals on the day en route to building the Bulldog advantage.

In the second quarter, the pace of play slowed as the teams each put up 13 points entering the half-

time break. While Yale saw four players score at least seven points in the first 20 minutes, Wagner guard Jasmine Nwajei scored 17 of her team’s 30 first-half points.

Following the intermission, Yale and Wagner once again had an even quarter of play, with each team scoring 16 points. While Nwajei continued her scoring outburst, with eight in the

period off a variety of one-onone moves and difficult jump shots, Yale forward Jen Berkowitz ’18 dominated down low to score nine points. Yale was outrebounded 12–7 in the quarter, but the Bulldogs made up for it in turnovers, committing just two to the Seahawks’ six.

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Bulldogs best in show

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s swimming and diving team came out as the top dog against the University of Connecticut Huskies and the Boston University Terriers.

MEN’S SWIM & DIVE The Bulldogs dominated the tri-meet on Saturday, defeating the Terriers 246–107 and the Huskies 257–96.

“I think the team gave an excellent performance yesterday considering how tired and sore we were from training,” swimmer Derek Kao ’18 said. “Our attitude was in the right place and we were able to swim well to a sure victory.”

The Elis opened on the diving

boards with the 1-meter event.

UConn took the event but Yale was able to score with secondand fourth-place finishes from James McNelis ’16 and Wayne Zhang ’18.

The Bulldogs replicated their performance in the 3-meter diving with another set of secondand fourth- place finishes, but McNelis and Zhang swapped places.

“Coming out of the long meet at UNC, we learned about how to stay mentally focused,” Zhang, a staff reporter for the News, said.

“The meet was an all-day affair, much like Ivies will be, so it was good practice.”

Captain Brian Hogan ’16 began a noteworthy day with the 200yard freestyle, securing victory for the Bulldogs. He followed it up with a commanding win in the

1,000-yard freestyle, finishing 11 seconds faster than the secondplace swimmer. He rounded off his wins in a tight race in the 200yard backstroke, an event he normally does not compete in, where he bested teammate Kevin Stang ’16 by 0.14 seconds.

“We were ahead and had the flexibility to swim some races we sometimes can’t, which is how I got the opportunity to swim the [200-yard] backstroke,” Hogan said.

Yale swimmers kept the momentum going in some of the 100-yard events. Kao took the breaststroke and Shawn Nee ’18 found victory in a very close backstroke event in which just 0.89 seconds separated Nee and the fourth-place finisher.

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Zac Leman ’16 earned a 3–0 win in his first official match since a season-ending injury last year.

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the official opener of their 2015–16 regular seasons, the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams took home a pair of dominant wins against weaker Franklin & Marshall squads.

SQUASH The No. 6 men’s team (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) dropped the No. 9 Diplomats (3–4) by a score of 7–2, while the No. 4 women (1–0, 0–0) dominated Frank-

lin & Marshall (2–4) with an 8–1 decision. The Bulldogs nearly replicated their scores from last season, when the men and women trounced the Diplomats 8–1 and 9–0, respectively.

“It was nice to get on the road with the team and compete again,” men’s player Pierson Broadwater ’18 said.

“Even though we were down two members of the top nine, it was a good confidence booster to be able to pull out a convincing win nonetheless.

They are a solid team, and it is a great way to start the com-

petitive season.”

Having just narrowly beaten Princeton 5–4, the Diplomat men were looking to pull off an upset. Though Franklin & Marshall ultimately failed to do so, the team elevated its play for a match that was much closer than the 7–2 score indicated, according to Yale head coach Dave Talbott.

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Yale cruised to comfortable victories over Boston University and the University of Connecticut on Saturday.