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GESO demands mental health resources

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 campaign is speaking out against Republican opponent Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.

Trump has recently called to bar Muslims from entering the country. In response, Clinton’s team has designed a new sticker that reads “Love trumps hate.”

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Yale Health’s services, compatibility between MH&C counselors and patients and the financial burden faced by graduate students on medical leave who must seek and pay for costlier health care packages. GESO’s petition comes amidst broader campus discussions about the limitations of current mental health services in place at Yale, particularly for students of color.

At the rally, many were visibly moved by Mao’s experiences, which organizers called unfair. But the story Mao and GESO tell about his dismissal does not fit into the framework

At a financial aid town hall in November 2014, when students asked Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi whether Yale would ask financial aid recipients to fulfill a “student effort” requirement if the University could afford not to, Storlazzi spoke of the “inherent value of partnership [with the University] and contributing towards their education” — something students achieve when working campus jobs.

But roughly one year later, at another town hall meeting Monday night, Storlazzi offered a different explanation.

At the meeting, Storlazzi and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced a $2 million increase in existing financial aid spending to reduce the student summer income contribution — summer earnings that students on financial aid are expected to put toward their tuition — for upperclassmen.

During a question and answer session afterward, Storlazzi stated that Yale would completely scrap the contribution were it not for University budget constraints. Students interviewed said administrators have changed their tune since last year, when they told students that there is inherent value in working a job to pay for college, but would not speak to whether they would eliminate the student effort given the opportunity. “[The student summer income contribution] is regressive,” said former Yale College Council

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Stay in the loop. Hyperloop

Stick it to the man.

Elm City residents eat up pie history talk at museum

Evolving explanations for “student effort”

Live your life. The Yale College Council is now accepting nominations for the Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award. Each year, this honor is awarded to a Yale alum for outstanding work in a particular field. The award, which George H. W. Bush ’48 received this year, is the only one of its kind in the Ivy League.

Technology — entrepreneur Elon Musk’s futuristic transportation company — will run early tests of its tube transit system, which transports passengers at speeds up to 750 miles per hour, in Las Vegas. Musk received a honorary degree at Yale’s commencement this past spring.

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The Graduate Employees and Students Organization staged a rally at the SOM calling for improved mental health resources.

BY MONICA WANG AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS On Tuesday, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization staged a rally in front of the School of Management’s Evans Hall advocating for better mental health resources on campus. In particular, students from across the University and GESO supporters came together behind Grant Mao, an international student from China who suffers from depression and was dismissed from the SOM’s MBA program at the end of the last academic year due to poor academic performance.

The rally came after yesterday’s

submission of two GESO petitions — one addressed to the SOM administration calling for Mao’s immediate reinstatement on the grounds of unfair dismissal, and another to University Provost Ben Polak, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Lynn Cooley and Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin summarizing issues with Yale’s mental health system and demanding comprehensive mental health care reform for graduate and professional students. In particular, the second petition addressed four main issues: long wait times at Yale Health’s Mental Health & Counseling, the cap of 12 MH&C sessions available to graduate students using

Chip in with a chocolate chipper. Camp Kesem, an

annual free summer camp for children whose lives have been affected by cancer, is holding a fundraiser at Insomnia Cookies from 11 a.m. today to 3 a.m. tomorrow. A portion of profits from cookie sales will benefit the summer camp.

Hips don’t lie. Sabrosura,

Yale’s Latin dance team, presents its fall showcase, “Me Encanta.” The group will perform a medley of bachata, tango, merengue, salsa, cumbia and other Latin styles at 9 p.m. tonight at 41 Broadway. There are also two shows on Friday night.

On the fifth night. The Slifka

Center invites all members of the Yale community to its annual Hanukkah Banquet and Latke Hamantaschen Debate tomorrow evening.

Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. and followed by a dessert reception.

Mistletoads. A holiday

tradition older than “SigEp Presents: Wrapp’d,” the Junior Class Council’s annual Christmas dance party, Mistletoads, begins at 10:30 p.m. tonight at Toad’s Place.

Thankfully, Mistletoads is likely easier to get into than Wrapp’d. Students can buy tickets at the door or prepurchase by paying the JCC on Venmo.

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1980 The Yale Law School receives a $1.3 million gift in memory of prominent lawyer Chauncey Clark, Law School class of 1908. Law School Dean Eugene Rostow announces that the funds will be used to bolster scholarships.

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After donation, CS Department seeks further support

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Nearly nine months after Yale’s Computer Science Department became a part of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and received $20 million in anonymous donations, faculty and students in the department — who said their daily lives have been impacted little by the changes — expressed the desire for a larger, ongoing departmental expansion.

The $20 million donation, given by two anonymous donors to SEAS, encouraged the University to incorporate the Com-

puter Science Department into SEAS so the money could be used for computer science initiatives, including a planned increase in department’s size by 30 percent. According to department chair Joan Feigenbaum, the money was used to create three new computer science faculty positions at the cost of $5 million each. The remaining $5 million will be used to contribute to start-up packages for the six new faculty members, including the three newly created positions, which Yale committed to filling in the upcoming years. Despite the growth in faculty, Feigenbaum and other members of the

$1 million Green grant moves forward

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Crucial renovations to the New Haven Green came one step closer to fruition Tuesday night, as a joint meeting of the City Services and Environmental Policy committees of the Board of Alders approved an application from the New Haven Parks Department for a $1 million state grant.

The grant, if it goes through, will pay for the installation of LED lights for all streetlights on the Green and a larger stage for entertainment in the space, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05 said. Parks Department Director Rebecca Bombero said the improvements aim to make the Green more functional as a public space, a safer place for residents and a center for more activity in the city. The outward appearance of the Green, Zinn said, will not see significant change from

the improvements. Prominent in the plans for the grant is the purchase of a new stage to house the musical events the Green hosts throughout the spring, summer and fall. The current stage, Bombero said, is too small to attract the “world-class” performers New Haven aims to draw.

“There’s a lot of activity that goes on on the Green,” Bombero said. “There are great, worldclass shows out there. And we have the potential as a city to attract better events.”

Bombero noted that much of the grass on the Lower Green — between Church and Temple streets — is often waterlogged and muddy, and the sidewalks surrounding the space are crumbling. The grant will also pay for improvements to remedy those problems, she said.

The city eventually plans to spend $400,000 on sidewalk SEE GREEN PAGE 6

Yale computer science program, including professors, graduate students and undergraduate students, interviewed recognized larger, underlying issues within the department and called for a more aggressive expansion moving forward.

“Is Yale on its way to having the kind of big and great Computer Science Department that it needs in order to maintain its status as one of the world’s preeminent universities?” Feigenbaum said. “Currently, the most optimistic answer that anyone could honestly give to that question is ‘maybe.’”

While the planned growth

from 20 to 26 computer science faculty members is a “great first step,” it is not enough to allow Yale to compete with peer institutions like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, Feigenbaum said.

Last week, Princeton announced the creation of 10 new computer science faculty positions, growing its department to 45 faculty members.

Harvard has taken similar steps: Last month, the university pledged to increase the size of its computer science faculty from 24 to 36 — a 50 percent increase made possible by a donation from alum and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In 2014,

Princeton was rated the eighthbest computer science department in the country by the U.S. News and World Report. Meanwhile, Harvard ranked 18th in the country, and Yale comes in at 20th along with five other peer institutions.

“Clearly we are not only a smaller department, but we are also growing at a smaller pace than our peer institutions,” said computer science professor Mahesh Balakrishnan, one of two professors hired last spring.

“So I think we need to step up our game. I am excited to be a part of SEE CS DEPT PAGE 6

Chi Psi house construction continues

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Despite numerous hurdles, members of Yale’s newest fraternity might soon set foot in their new house.

At a public hearing Tuesday evening, the zoning board of appeals unanimously approved further construction on 48 Dixwell Ave., the site Chi Psi President Taylor Rogers ’17 told the News in October would be the fraternity’s permanent location.

The building was set to be condemned by the city due to its poor condition before contractor Spencer Tracy sought to redevelop it, his lawyer Bernard Pellegrino said. New Haven Building Official James Turcio signed a work order to halt construction last month because an unapproved third floor and roof were being built. Pellegrino argued that this delay was unwarranted and attributed the stop work order to a miscommunication between city departments

and his client. He told the board his client had included the third floor and roof in the original plans and that the city had approved them.

“It was a misunderstanding, quite frankly, between the client, zoning officials and

building officials,” Pellegrino said.

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The zoning board of appeals approved further construction on 48 Dixwell Ave., Chi Psi’s new home.

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Why look to Argentina?

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rgentina — at one time among the most advanced countries on the American continent — might now be initiating a major comeback after decades of sustained decline. This is a country that has produced five Nobel Prize winners, and was the first Spanish-speaking country to have a truly modern mega-city like Buenos Aires and also the first to become involved in advanced technologies such as nuclear engineering, jet airplanes and genetic science. It has also produced cultural personalities such as Jorge Luis Borges, Luis Leloir, Cesar Milstein, Faustino Sarmiento, Lalo Schifrin, Daniel Barenboim, Julio Cortazar, Paloma Herrera and Pope Francis. Yet for many years, Argentina experienced severe economic stagnation.

The great midcentury economist Simon Kuznets said that there are four kinds of countries: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan — nobody knows why it grows — and Argentina — nobody knows why it doesn't.

IF THIS PREDICTION IS ACCURATE, IT SUGGESTS A NEWFOUND POLITICAL MATURITY HAS TAKEN HOLD OF ARGENTINA’S POPULATION. This stagnation, however, might have something to do with the fact that around the mid-20th century, Argentina endured an unstable series of alternate civilian and military regimes, which culminated in a major crisis at the start of the 21st century. For the past 12 years, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has aligned Argentina with the neopopulist axis in Latin America, together with Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. The result of her leadership can be summarized by some key facts. Argentina has now the third highest inflation rate in world, 30 percent a year after Venezuela (60 percent) and Sudan (36 percent). Its economy hasn’t grown for the last four years, the government has almost doubled its levels of public employment and

around 25 percent of the population is poor. The country has fostered a pernicious economic climate and exhausted its national savings.

But Argentina seems to have learned its lesson after such an extreme experience.

Kirchner’s reckless fiscal policies might end up creating new opportunities for both the country and the region.

Last month something extraordinary happened: The Republican Proposal, or PRO, a new center-right party led by Mauricio Macri, put together a coalition and managed to win national elections in Argentina, unseating Kirchner’s entrenched populist regime.

During his tenure as mayor of Buenos Aires, Macri spectacularly modernized the Argentinean capital, an achievement that gave him significant political capital in his campaign against Kirchner.

Why is it important to pay attention to this change? As the second largest economy in the South America and a member of the G-20, Argentina has shown with its recent elections that it is tired of populism at the expense of democracy and prosperity. Argentina might now be facing a significant resurgence and also inspire a continental shift away from misguided and myopic populism, serving as a model for other Latin-American nations. Yale students in particular should care about this possibility. Many of you will pursue careers in international relations that will require an understanding of South America’s complex economic and political dynamics.

Given Argentina’s new path, the South American continent will likely prove an increasing source of economic development and business opportunities as well.

If this prediction is accurate, it suggests a newfound political maturity has taken hold of Argentina’s population. Now, after 30 years of sociopolitical and economic gridlock, Argentina is voting for a plan that will open the country's economy, restore competitive markets and streamline governance. In contrast to the growing geopolitical crisis in the Middle East, Africa and now continental Europe, South America may be on the cusp of a cosmopolitan renaissance.

Pay attention to this promising change. Let’s build a new paradigm for the whole American continent.

PABLO BERECIARTUA is a 2015 Yale World Fellow. Contact him at pablo.bereciartua@yale.edu.

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Fear in the time of Ebola

n a time of renewed public fear over terrorism, the Ebola outbreak may seem like a distant memory to many Americans. However, the panic in recent weeks that is driving some politicians to reject refugees mirrors the hysteria that led some states to implement groundless Ebola quarantines that violated fundamental civil liberties. We need to end the cycle of fear-based political grandstanding and instead turn to policymaking based on evidence and resolve.

The 2013–15 Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed health systems in West Africa. There was a clear need for international support and many American health professionals stepped up to volunteer their services. However, as the outbreak reached its peak in fall 2014, there were calls to close U.S. borders and quarantine every person traveling from West Africa.

Governors in 22 states across the U.S. put policies in place to quarantine health workers returning from Ebola-affected countries.

Two members of the Yale community were quarantined in their homes.

Over the past 10 months we worked with our classmates and faculty at the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership as well as colleagues at the American Civil Liberties Union to determine what happened and whether there was a scientific basis for quarantine. We also considered the constitutionality of the quarantines as they were carried out. What we found,

published in a report titled “Fear, Politics and Ebola” on Dec. 3, was a shocking disregard for science and the constitutional rights of individuals returning to the U.S. from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa.

It is not easy to become infected with Ebola. To catch the disease requires unprotected close contact with a symptomatic patient or unsafe handling of medical waste from a symptomatic patient. Transmission is most likely to occur later in the course of infection when the patient’s blood and other bodily fluids have high concentrations of the virus.

Ebola did not pose a serious public health risk in the U.S. Nearly four decades of encounters with Ebola in Africa show, and experts agree, that transmission does not occur before symptoms appear. In countries with functioning public health systems, such as the U.S., epidemiologists can (and did) identify anyone returning from Ebola-affected countries and monitor them for the duration of the 21-day incubation period. If symptoms do appear, properly trained and equipped health professionals can safely provide treatment. Epidemiologists can identify and follow up with the new patient’s contacts. The task is difficult but manageable in a country such as the U.S. with considerable public health resources.

Quarantine is not an effective tool to deal with a disease like Ebola. Quarantine is the iso-

lation of someone who may have been exposed to an infectious disease and may be infectious but does not manifest symptoms. It may seem like common sense to impose quarantines “just in case.”

But the fact is that Ebola is not transmitted until after symptoms appear, and evidence shows that quarantines ended up doing far more harm than good.

Families returning from West Africa were confined to their homes without access to food.

Children were separated from their parents. International relief organizations found it harder to recruit desperately needed volunteers and wasted valuable time and resources supporting their staff and volunteers who were needlessly in quarantine. Children whose families happened to be from West Africa were bullied in schools. Tax dollars were wasted administering and enforcing needless quarantine orders.

Mass hysteria over Ebola was validated by public policy.

These policies violated individuals’ constitutional liberties. Under the U.S. Constitution, states may only use quarantines when less restrictive options are not available. However, effective and less restrictive options were available, including actively monitoring patients without restricting their movements. Only one of the 22 states that imposed quarantines allowed for a hearing in front of a neutral decision-maker, a constitutional check meant to protect the rights

of the individual. Many states that imposed quarantines did not provide for the basic needs of quarantined individuals, such as providing access to food and child care.

Health professionals returning from Ebola-endemic countries deserved our gratitude. Instead they were met with fear and subjected to neglect.

The U.S. state-based Ebola quarantines were unnecessary and counterproductive. The threat Ebola posed to the U.S. population was vastly overstated and the response was overblown.

Tragically, these misinformed policy decisions precluded American health professionals from traveling to West Africa during the height of the outbreak, when hundreds of new cases were arising each day.

The stakes are high even though the Ebola crisis is waning. With another humanitarian crisis at our doorstep we again risk succumbing to fear instead of compassion.

We need to be steadfast precisely at times like this. Let’s learn from the Ebola crisis and reject the specious narrative that forsaking rights will increase security.

DAVID GONZALEZ is a Fox International Fellow with Yale University and El Colegio de México and a 2015 graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Contact him at david.j.x.gonzalez@yale.edu.

EMMA ROTH is a second-year student at the Yale Law School.

Contact her at emma.roth@yale.edu.

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uestion: whether the frustration students of color feel is legitimate?

Objection 1: Isis, you’re writing this article stylized in the same way as “Summa Theologica,” a work by the theologian Thomas Aquinas. Aren’t you dismantling the master’s house with the master’s tools?

Objection 2: Most claims about racism made on campus recently are based on unfounded, anecdotal evidence.

Objection 3: Yale students are privileged and should not complain.

On the contrary, some argue that Yale can be tolerant of racial issues, although the current movement employs tactics that falls outside of respectable discourse.

I answer: Racism that students of color experience, both inside and outside of Yale, is institutionalized. When I provide examples of racism on campus, the goal isn’t to vilify every white person that I see. Writing off the grievances students of color experience only re-entrenches the idea that they should be treated as substandard. Systemic discrimination permeates every facet of our lives.

According to an NAACP fact sheet, 1 in 6 black men have been incarcerated since 2001; currently there are more black men in prison than there were slaves in 1850. Psychological studies have shown how unconscious racial bias harms people of color

in employment, academics and medicine. Devah Pager, a professor of sociology at Harvard, conducted a study which found that white men with criminal backgrounds were just as likely as black men without records to be hired. Racism is alive and well in America; it is false to say that we have rid ourselves of discrimination in a country that was founded on the backs of slaves.

In his book “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce,” Slavoj Zizek writes about how U.S. free trade policies are used to monopolize agricultural industries worldwide, which mostly affect countries that are primarily inhabited by people of color. Black women experience the highest rates of domestic violence in the U.S. Although people make the claim that “ethnic studies” will deflect attention away from other forms of oppression, such as sexism and classism, the reality is that race is inextricable from these issues. bell hooks, a leading scholar in postmodern studies and black feminism, wrote that “‘cultural studies’ has made writing about nonwhite culture more acceptable, particularly in the humanities.” In other words, cultural studies are essential for integrating issues of race into more mainstream disciplines; every society has eventually had to deal with prejudice. The word “xenophobia” has a Greek etymology for a reason.

Reply to Objection 1: Though I promote an ethnic studies

requirement, this does not mean all aspects of classical literature need to be rejected. While I appreciate Aristotle’s practical approach to philosophy, I cannot agree with his views on women or natural slaves. We can adopt some parts of moral theories that we admire, even if we don’t agree with the entirety of said theories. I’m not advancing the content of Aquinas’ argument simply because I adopt its form. Rather, in adopting this model for argumentation, I disprove the claim that classical studies have more merit than ethnic studies.

Reply to Objection 2: Oppressive structures do not merely dissipate simply because we enter Phelps Gate. Being a Yale student didn’t stop Charles Blow’s son from being detained by police on campus last year. According to a 2014 News article, only 13.4 percent of tenured faculty are nonwhite and many barriers continue to exist for faculty of color. Recent sexual assault survey results revealed that undergraduate females of “American Indian,” “Black/African-American,” and “Native Hawaiian” descent all experienced higher rates of sexual assault than their white counterparts. I could go on with empirical examples of where racism exists, but narratives of students of color are just as important as statistics. The perspectives of students are just as valuable, whether they employ Socratic dialogue or are spoken word. Narratives can often give

a more personalized experience of racism that can help us understand oppression more than any statistic can. Praxis needs an amalgamation of embodied experience, theory and empirical evidence.

Reply to Objection 3: To those that call all Yale students “privileged,” I am extremely lucky and grateful to go to Yale because of its resources and phenomenal faculty. However, this does not mean that Yale is a perfect institution. Making the assumption that all Yale students are equally privileged is extremely essentialist and untrue. According to a recent News survey, 51 percent of the incoming freshman class had an annual combined household income of over $125,000. Questions of income and race cannot be separated when so many students of color live in households with average incomes significantly lower than those of white households. A study by the Pew Research Center found that white households had 13 times more wealth than black households and 10 times more wealth than Hispanic households. It isn’t helpful to call us all “privileged” when things like financial aid policies and campus culture affect students of color differently.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at isis.davis-marks@yale.edu.

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A therapy-dog program started at Yale Law School has spread nationwide.

The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School brought in its first therapy dog, Monty, in spring 2011, allowing students to “check out” Monty and play with him. One of the first university libraries to introduce a therapy-dog program, the law library attracted national attention and was featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio following the program’s introduction. Four years into the program, the law library has inspired schools around the world, from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia to Harvard Medical School, to follow suit.

“We have come to realize that [the dog-therapy program] is something that is very important, in terms of students’ mental health and happiness,” said Julian Aiken, the law librarian who started the program and owns Monty. “For a lot of students it’s their first time away from home and they do miss their home comfort — families, pets. More and more schools are recognizing that [the program] is a small step towards helping with that … We want students to know we appreciate them as people, not just as students.”

Aiken said his goal is to make the law library “a third place” for students, a space they can turn to when not at home and or in the classroom. Students who have checked out time with Monty play with him in a designated room at the Law School.

Aiken added that Yale’s program has evolved since its first implementation, including adjusting Monty’s working hours and developing a retirement plan for the dog. Monty, who is now 16, retired in mid-2014, and the new dog Pippa is still undergoing training, Aiken said. Because of Monty’s retirement, students can no longer sign up for dog visits, but the school does bring in outside dogs for drop-in sessions on occasion. The check-out process will be resume once Pippa finishes training and starts work, Aiken said.

The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at the Yale School of Medicine also welcomed a furry face named Finn last year, after Aiken pointed Finn’s owner to the medical library. The library now hosts two therapy dogs, both named Finn.

The therapy-dog program at the medical school is less formal compared to the one at the Law School, said Melanie Norton, head of access and delivery services at the medical library. She added

that rather than students checking out the dogs and signing up for play sessions, the dogs sit in front of the circulation desk for students to come and pet. One dog comes in on Fridays from noon to 2 p.m., and the other on Sunday nights.

“The therapy-dog program is not a trend but is here to stay,” Norton said, adding that the dogs have been well-received among students, who frequently line up waiting to pet the dogs.

Norton added that there is a high suicide rate among health care professionals and that dogs are brought in to ease the stress levels of medical students.

At an annual meeting of the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries in October, Norton and fellow librarian Melissa Funaro gave a presentation on how medical libraries can offer students various stress-relief programs, primarily through therapy-dog programs. During their presentation, they noted that close to 10 percent of fourth-year medical students and interns reported having suicidal thoughts, and that two new doctors committed suicide in New York City last summer.

The Dorraine Zief Law Library at the University of San Francisco School of Law also followed Yale’s example. Co-director of the library Amy Wright said after hearing about Yale’s therapy-dog program, her library began partnering with the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to bring in therapy dogs for law students during final exams. Wright added that the library does not require students to make appointments to visit the dog.

Femi Cadmus, associate dean for library services at the Cornell Law Library, said her colleagues asked her to start a similar therapy-pet program at the library.

Cadmus previously helped bring Monty to Yale with Aiken.

Cornell’s law library has a therapy llama in addition to dogs.

Therapy-pet sessions are hosted before exams, Cadmus said.

Law students said they greatly enjoy the dog therapy program. Nancy Tang LAW ’18, who attended a drop-in session at Yale’s law library, said the therapy-dog program is a creative idea and that students enjoy interacting with dogs.

Janny Leung LAW ’16 said having a therapy dog to help students relieve stress is better than mental-health therapy, because stress relief is preventive rather than reactive.

On Dec. 14, Pippa will be at Bass Library from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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funding has consistently lagged behind salary and benefit-package increases that are mandatory at UConn. UConn reported that its funding gap is set to reach $6.7 million by the end of fiscal year 2016.

UConn peer institution the University of Maine intends to capitalize on UConn’s forecasted tuition increase by offering Connecticut residents a chance to attend the University of Maine next fall for the same price as UConn’s in-state tuition, the Hartford Courant reported.

UCo n n a d m i n i s t ra to rs described the tuition hike as an unfortunate but unavoidable situation. Reitz said it is with regret that UConn dips into the pockets of students and their families to fill the budget hole. But she said there are few other options that would leave academic quality intact.

“Some students say they oppose any tuition increases, but also oppose any spending cuts that will affect them or academics,” Jordan said. “The reality is that the university can’t accomplish both those things simultaneously.”

UConn expects roughly 80 percent of its student body to hail from Connecticut next fall.

fault in the state’s support of UConn. But she said universities suffer when their budgets are “trimmed” after being issued.

She attributed UConn’s $40 million loss over the past five years to such cuts.

Conboy said many students are perplexed about how new construction on campus is being funded when there is a budget deficit.

“Students don’t realize these buildings are being built out of grant money [and not their tuition],” she said.

But Conboy said the increasing financial burden UConn students are facing is the more pressing concern.

Conboy, who works at the university’s gym, said higher parking fees and other miscellaneous living costs add up for students as they progress through college.

She added that as tuition exceeds the loans students can take out to cover such expenses, they must pay more out of pocket.

“It’s becoming harder to cover those immediate costs,” she said. “With loans and financial aid not covering tuition, when you raise [tuition] by 31 percent, then tuition also comes out of pocket.”

According to financial statistics provided at the two town hall meetings between students and UConn administrators, state

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The University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees will vote on Dec. 16. to help bridge the university’s $40.2 million budget deficit with a four-year tuition hike.

On Dec. 1, UConn announced a proposal to gradually increase tuition by an average of 7 percent each year starting next fall — bringing the total increase to roughly 30 percent by 2019 — in response to higher operating costs and state funding that is not keeping up with inflation. Mandatory administrative fees and the typical housing and meal plans will not become more expensive under the proposal, which only affects tuition, UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said. But despite UConn’s efforts to counter the blow of the tuition hike with transparency, current and prospective students’ concerns run deeper. Questions have emerged about seemingly stagnant student employment opportunities, financial barriers to out-of-state students and the unclear funding source for UConn’s new building work. “[Students] appreciate the transparency of the plan,” UConn Undergraduate Student Government President Rachel Conboy said. “But I think they are concerned about how the state is going to help out, how the legislature is going to respond to tuition increases and what this means for other parts of campus.”

UConn reports that, in the first year, the proposed tuitionincrease scheme will help bridge the current budget deficit by $12.8 million. If UConn’s Board of Trustees votes in favor of the proposal, tuition for in-state students will increase by $700 next fall and will rise incrementally each year, ending with a $950 increase in the 2019–20 academic year. But the increase in out-of-state tuition will not be as gradual — that increase will start at $950 next fall and will culminate with such students paying $1,250 more.

Scott Jordan, who serves as UConn’s executive vice president for administration and chief financial officer, said the remaining $27.4 million of the budget deficit will be resolved though cost-cutting. Jordan said the university will likely reduce its workforce through layoffs and making fewer new hires. He added that some non-faculty positions will be eliminated as well as some academic programs.

Reitz said UConn is increasing tuition in order to avoid compromising the quality of hiring and teaching. She added that UConn, which saw its last four-year tuition-increase program approved in December 2011, always adjusts finan-

cial aid upward when tuition is increased.

UConn freshman Carly Zaleski said she supports the tuition increase, but understands why her friends’ parents are upset with having to pay more. She said the higher tuition will ultimately benefit students by offering them more classes, a better education and an improved college experience because UConn will no longer be suffering from a budget deficit.

UConn’s application pool has grown over the years, but this growth may stall as the college’s tuition increases. Emily Rogers, a senior at Westport’s Staples High School who is applying to UConn this year, said many students choose UConn because of its low in-state tuition. Rogers said she fears this trend may not continue if UConn’s tuition keeps increasing.

Reitz acknowledged that the greater increases in out-of-state tuition could make it harder for UConn to attract students from outside the state.

“We need [out-of-state students] both for geographic diversity and because we don’t have as many graduating high school seniors in Connecticut,” she said, noting that the drawbacks of UConn’s tuition increase are multifaceted.

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OCS introduces more support for arts

BY JAY LEE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Months after expanding its part-time arts career advising position to a full-time position, the Office of Career Strategy is continuing to expand opportunities for students in the arts.

Over the last two years, OCS has taken steps to provide additional support for students who wish to pursue careers in the arts. According to Jeanine Dames, OCS director and assistant dean of Yale College, having an arts-specific career support system on campus is critical, as a career search in arts-related opportunities is very different from looking for opportunities in other industries.

“When I was an undergraduate film studies major, the career strategy office was not thought of as a viable resource for the arts professions,” said Derek Webster ’99, the associate director for the arts at OCS, who has filled the fulltime position since May. “It’s my hope that through our continued work with the student organizations, faculty and individual students, we’ll be able to spread the word that the resource is available and the engagement is worthwhile.”

The office is working on developing initiatives such as alumni sourcing for job-shadowing, arts-apprenticeship and industry trip opportunities, as well as art-specific internship fairs and specific workshops for auditioning and screenwriting. The internship fair, for example, would involve “students that have had positive, or at least informative, experiences with past summer opportunities to share details and advice with a broader arts community, many of whom will be looking for some traction in their own search,” Webster said.

Since starting last spring, Webster has already connected many students with internships and post-graduate job opportunities. He said that the initial focus for improving the arts career experience at OCS has been three-fold: to keep students aware of arts-related professional engagements already happening on campus, to work more directly with the students to determine missing career resources and to collaborate with student and facultyled groups to fill those gaps.

Dames said students searching for arts-related career opportunities look for different experiences than students

looking for more traditional internships with private companies or nonprofit organizations. For example, she said, a student interested in dance or musical performance would not be looking for an eight- to 10-week internship experience over the summer.

It’s my hope that … we’ll be able to spread the word that the resource is available and the engagement worthwhile.

DEREK WEBSTER ’99 Associate Director for the Arts, Office of Career Strategy “More typically, that student may be looking for performing opportunities, both shortterm and longer-term, as well as continued lessons and practice opportunities over the summer,” Dames said. “Painters, sculptors and other artists may be seeking short-term opportunities to shadow a professional artist and learn from their experiences.”

Dames added that Webster, a

Yale College graduate with professional experience in the Hollywood entertainment industry, is a valuable asset to the OCS team for his relationships with potential employers and arts faculty members, as well as his ability to connect with students who are in the same boat he was in 16 years ago.

Emily Bosisio ’16, who is pursuing a career in entertainment and production, said the new OCS initiative has helped her significantly. Not only did Webster assist her in finding an internship at Capital Records, one of the world’s most successful record labels, but he also advised her closely as she produced “LUX: Ideas Through Light,” an artistic showcase at the Beinecke Library last April.

“I’m really excited that [Webster] has joined the OCS team,” she said. “He is willing to go the extra mile to help students interested in the arts.”

OCS is co-hosting a panel titled “Artist & the Industry” with the Yale Drama Coalition this Saturday, an event in which students will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear advice from alumni and arts professionals.

Contact JAY LEE at jay.lee@yale.edu.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” CARL ROGERS AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

Admins offer varied explanations for “student effort” FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 1 President and staff columnist for the News Michael Herbert ’16. “Its premise is that students should have ‘skin in the game’ for their education, and that ensuring they do is achieved by getting them to pay for Yale by working.”

The idea of “skin in the game” — the notion that in order to fully appreciate their Yale education, low-income students must work to help pay for it — is one that alumni, administrators and members of the Yale Corporation have repeatedly espoused to defend Yale’s maintenance of a student effort expectation, according to YCC President Joe English ’17, who has been a strong proponent of financial aid reform and who helped run Monday’s meeting. At last year’s town hall, though Storlazzi did not specifically defend the idea of students needing “skin in the game,” he did note the value of students connecting to the University through campus employment.

“When students have a job on campus, it helps them connect to the University through administrative offices,” Storlazzi said at

last year’s meeting. “It helps with scheduling and helps them have spending money each week.”

In a Tuesday email to the News, Quinlan reiterated the idea that Yale’s financial aid program strives to create a partnership between students, their families and the University, though he did not comment on whether he believes the administration has changed its outlook on the student effort.

Still, Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News, said the administration told students last year that getting rid of the student summer income contribution was not a budget problem — a direct contradiction of Storlazzi’s remarks on Monday. Blackmon helped author a January YCC report that argued that the student effort expectation creates divergent Yale experiences for wealthy students and those from more needy backgrounds. The report called for the complete elimination of the student effort requirement.

Eleven months after the report’s publication, and after extensive student activism, the summer student income contribution for upperclassmen has now been reduced by $1,350 to $1,700 for

students with the “highest need” — about 300 students in total — while the nearly 2,500 other students on financial aid will receive a $450 reduction in the student effort, bringing it down to $2,600.

The student employment expectation will remain unchanged, because data shows that students are easily meeting their term-time contributions by working under five hours per week on average, Quinlan said.

Quinlan said the magnitude of the change “made financial sense” for Yale. And Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway told the News that “for some budget issues such as financial aid, there is a level of detail that needs to be kept quite private.”

But perhaps due to this privacy, there appears to be a disconnect between administrators and students, who feel that Yale could be spending more money on financial aid and should be more transparent about changes to financial aid policy. Students interviewed indicated that there is a widespread perception among undergraduates that Yale has enough resources to completely eliminate the student effort expectation if it so desires.

At the Monday meeting, one student pressed the administrators on the size of the endowment, stating that Yale could be doing more to help its low-income students. Another student, Yamile Lozano ’17, said afterward that the perception that Yale has plenty of money to spend comes from Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment. Lozano said although Yale has the lowest net cost of attendance nationally, such statistics are irrelevant because the student income contribution creates inequality between students.

University Provost Ben Polak, who was heavily involved with the policy changes and presented the final proposals to University President Peter Salovey earlier this year, did not comment on the feasibility of eliminating the student summer income contribution. Polak said only that a group of administrators meets regularly throughout the summer and early fall each year to analyze financial aid policy and make recommendations to the president. Monday’s changes were a result of those meetings, as well as the YCC report on financial aid last spring, Polak added.

Holloway also did not address

questions about whether Yale can eliminate the student summer income contribution. But he said that after conversations with administrators about making Yale entirely tuition-free, it has become clear that if Yale became free for everybody, “Yale as we know it could not exist.”

Still, Herbert said Yale administrators should hold a town hall or information session explaining to students the motivation behind the University’s endowment practices and resource allocation. Such a town hall meeting is imperative as Yale’s institutional practices become increasingly controversial, he added.

Monday’s town hall introduced the financial aid policy changes, but Quinlan and Storlazzi did not explain the rationale for the particular changes beyond stating that they were what the University could afford.

Peter Huang ’18, who attended the Monday town hall, said he was disappointed by the lack of definitive answers from Quinlan and Storlazzi. He said he would have appreciated a more explicit plan for working toward eliminating the student summer

income contribution.

“I understand that [eliminating the student summer income contribution] is not an initiative that can be implemented immediately,” Huang said. “But I would have enjoyed hearing about some steps to take toward that, and all we were able to hear was that they did not have the final say about that.”

However, English remained hopeful that further changes could be achieved. After the meeting on Monday, he told the News he has already scheduled further meetings with administrators to discuss financial aid, noting that these policy changes are longterm and may take several years to achieve.

“Especially when you’re dealing with money at Yale, the process is long-term,” he said. “The whole YCC [is] very dedicated to making sure none of these issues are falling through the cracks.”

The University’s current budget for financial aid is $122 million.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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Students gathered outside the SOM on Tuesday to rally for increased mental health resources.

of standard procedures for mental health support and dismissal as is described by SOM administrators.

“My experience is a combination of discrimination against my ethnicity and against my disability,” Mao told the News.

His grievances against the SOM mainly involved the lack of mental health resources offered to him by the administration during his struggle, and what he called an unfair review process of his academic performance and mental health.

In particular, Mao believed that his background as a Chinese international student played a significant role in the administration’s decision to dismiss him.

Others who experienced mental health struggles received warnings from and had meetings with administrators, who provided them with tutoring services and mental health counseling sessions — both of which were not offered to him, he said. Instead, Mao said the administration assumed that he had a strong quantitative background because he was Chinese and should not be performing so poorly in his classes because he was from China.

SOM administrators said both University policy and federal law preclude the school from divulging confidential information about particular student without the student’s permission. Mao declined to give the school permission to discuss his case as of Tuesday night.

After Mao arrived from Shanghai last fall as a first-year SOM student, a series of unfortunate circumstances eventually led to his depression diagnosis, according to his petition for reinstatement, which was written both in Chinese and English. His fiancee broke up with him last October and his mother suffered from a heart attack this January, Mao wrote on the petition. As an international student, Mao explained that the language barrier and cultural shock he experienced also contributed to the worsening of his mental health. Mao said he was simply overwhelmed.

“After reading about Yale’s punitive stance toward others suffering from mental health, I

did not believe I could seek treatment without being stigmatized and punished,” Mao wrote in his petition. But eventually, Mao’s depression became so severe that he was hospitalized for six days the same month he learned of his dismissal.

Mao said he was dismissed from the SOM because he did not meet the school’s minimum academic standards. In general, Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program Anjani Jain said students in the MBA program take 33 credits through the Core Curriculum during their first year. He added that there are two ways in which students can not meet the basic requirements: when more than 15 credit units within the Core Curriculum are below “proficient” or when they accumulate more than four units of “fail” grades. Mao told the News that he had 15.5 credit units below “proficient” and two “fail” grades, explaining that he had missed the minimum standards by just a half-credit.

In April, when the administration dismissed Mao from the SOM, he was told that his mental health coverage as a student would be terminated immediately and that he had 15 days to pack his belongings and leave the country before the expiration of his student visa. With the help of his friends, Mao said he was able to secure a student visa from a nearby language school and later from the University of New Haven. Currently, Mao has one more month before the termination of his student visa from UNH. After learning of the administration’s decision in April, Mao said he appealed his dismissal on May 21, submitting both his medical records of depression and evidence of his professors’ grading errors. According to Mao’s written statement in Chinese, he found obvious errors in the grading of three of his courses. Reassessing his work in any of the three classes could have prevented his dismissal, but his professors refused to regrade his work given his dismissal. This fact was not mentioned in the English version of the petition. Mao also said SOM did not offer sufficient mental health resources to him while he was struggling, though

he did not provide specifics.

According to Jain, at the midway point of a student’s first fall semester, the SOM’s Academic Standards Committee invites up to 10 percent of students who are accumulating below-proficient grades at a rate that could impair their academic standing to formal counseling sessions. During the sessions, the committee asks students whether they are facing difficulties — including extenuating circumstances such as familyand health-related issues — and offers advice, tutoring, counseling assistance and language training as needed, Jain added.

Jain said at the end of each half-semester grading period, more counseling sessions are scheduled if the student continues to accumulate non-proficient grades at a high rate. If students continue to face these extenuating circumstances, the committee suggests that the student consider alternatives such as taking a leave of absence, though the final decision is left to the student.

When it is requested for health reasons, a leave of absence is almost always granted, Jain said.

Still, Mao said although he was performing poorly during his first fall semester, he was never contacted for a meeting with the Academic Standards Committee and only heard about the meetings from other SOM students who met with the committee.

Though Mao was struggling academically at the time, it is possible that he did not fall within the bottom 10 percent of the class by the end of the fall semester. Mao said he could not remember how many classes he had failed by the end of his fall semester.

In January, Mao scheduled a meeting with SOM Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Student Life Sherilyn Scully to discuss his grades and mental health. Mao said during his meetings with Scully and several that followed, he was never offered information about mental health resources nor a leave of absence, although he openly talked about his mental health struggles.

Scully, who also serves as an ex officio member of the Academic Standards Committee, said that at meetings with students accumulating below-proficient grades, those showing signs

of stress-related or mental health issues are always encouraged by the committee to seek professional help from Yale Health. The committee also offers a leave of absence and explains the flexible terms of leaves of absence.

Moreover, the school incorporates mental health resources into its orientation program for new students, Scully said. During mandatory sessions at orientation, representatives from Yale Health give a presentation on the health resources available for students, including mental health resources.

The Academic Standards Committee has “absolutely never” conveyed a direct or implied message that there would be negative or punitive reactions to a student seeking mental health resource assistance, Scully said.

Mao also cited his ethnicity as a reason for his unfair treatment by the administration. Jain said he is “appalled” by the accusation and called it “unthinkable.”

“This has never occurred, and will never occur in any student situation,” Jain said.

After an unsuccessful attempt to gain readmission over the summer, Mao said he contacted GESO to seek supporters for his cause.

GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said GESO has demonstrated four times in the last 18 months for a union contract.

Citing Mao’s case as well as testimony from several other students, Greenberg said GESO will fight for better mental health regardless of whether the group has a contract. In particular, Greenberg commended Mao for stepping up and sharing his story to advance a worthy cause.

“The thing that continues to strike me [about Mao’s case] is that he could have fallen through the cracks,” Greenberg told the News. “But he stayed here and fought for [the cause] not just for himself...There’s a lot of work that we all came here to do, and we want to have the adequate resources so that we could be healthy while we’re doing it.”

The SOM first began to offer the MBA degree in 1999.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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“The heath effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.” EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON U.S. REPRESENTATIVE

F&ES conducts urban climate conference in Beijing

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Just a little over a month after the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies helped host an urban climate challenge conference in Beijing, the city recorded a dangerous level of smog that reached more than 23 times the World Health Organization’s recommended limit for human exposure to fine particulate matter that can enter the bloodstream via the lungs.

F&ES community members gathered in late October with environmental experts, government lobbyists and nonprofit leaders at the Yale Center Beijing to discuss urban climate issues, which plague the city. On Monday, Beijing issued a “red alert” for the country’s current state of air pollution. This is the highest-issued level of the emergency air-pollution response system, according to The New York Times. The event was cosponsored by F&ES, the Yale and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Center on Atmospheric Environment and Tsinghua University’s Center for Earth System Science and School of Environment.

The faculty and students from these institutions convened to raise questions about the environmental impact of China’s rapid industrial expansion. Scientists at the two-day event aimed to help Chinese environmentalists and politicians remedy the climate problems.

“The workshop was an opportunity for scientists and practitioners to brainstorm … and to identify low-hanging fruits for climate mitigation,” said Xuhui Lee, professor of meteorology at F&ES. Lee led the conference alongside F&ES Associate Dean of Research Karen Seto, who

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This fall, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies helped host a climate conference in Beijing. could not be reached for comment.

The workshop was not the first sustainability-related event held at the Yale Center Beijing. In June, a workshop entitled “Ecological Civilization” organized in collaboration with F&ES, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Communication University of China united government, environmental and religious leaders in discussion. A conversation about the environmental risk of Chinese transnational corporations was held in July, in conjunction with F&ES

and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Lee said heat stress — a phenomenon in which the body is unable to cool itself down, which can result in heat cramps, heat exhaustion or even heatstroke — in China’s cities, already a worsening problem, can be aggravated by global warming.

“Heat stress is a problem urban residents face now largely because of the urban heat island phenomenon,” he said. “The problem will only get worse as urbanization continues.”

Lee explained that more than

Talk delves “under the crust”

BY MAYA CHANDRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Tuesday night presentation at the New Haven Museum showed residents that since its arrival over four centuries ago with the country’s early English settlers, pie has evolved into the traditional and ubiquitous American dessert that graces tables around the country today.

Robert Cox, head of special collections at University of Massachusetts Amherst, gave a presentation on the findings of his book, “New England Pie: History Under the Crust,” to an audience of around 20 Elm City residents. In his book, Cox traces pie’s journey from America’s earliest days to the present. The event was organized by Amy Durbin, director of education and the visitor experience at the New Haven Museum, who said the subject matter of Cox’s book and its connection with the holiday season prompted her to invite him to speak. His presentation recounted some of the most interesting and often humorous pie-related tales from American history, ranging from the debate over the pie-status of the Whoopie pie to invention of the infamous mock apple pie with filling made from crackers.

These anecdotes not only elicited laughter from the audience, but also supported Cox’s main argument: food is crucial to culture, and pie is a key food in the New England culinary tradition.

“A classic New England pie

makes use of something you have around in a simple way — the pie heightens the purity of what’s in it,” Cox said.

Cox began his presentation by asking the audience what they think counts as a “distinctly New England” pie. Answers ranged from squash to mince to seafood. But to fully answer that question, Cox said, it was necessary to delve into the history of pie in New England.

Pie in its earliest American iterations was simple and utilitarian, Cox said. In the 1600s, pie crust did not in any way resemble today’s “flaky and buttery goodness.” Instead, it was a simple mixture of water and flour — a dense, fairly flavorless concoction. This crust formed a “pastry wall,” Cox said, which made it both transportable and impermeable to insects and children alike. This crust was at the height of popularity during the peak of Puritanism in America, when austerity and the rejection of bodily pleasures defined New England culture. It would be 200 years before the pie crust would be reinvented as a treat instead of a functional storage unit.

The 19th century ushered in a new era of pie-making and the shedding of many of America’s puritanical constraints. Experimentation with traditional recipes led to the popularization of pie and the invention of several “mock pies,” which Cox defined as a dessert generally accepted as pie but without the crust and filling necessary to make it a pie.

Cox, a self-proclaimed “pie purist” proceeded to attack the idea of mock pies. He said one such mock pie from the mid-19th century, the Washington pie — layers of sponge cake and jam — was actually a cake that people named a pie. The controversy over whether or not the Washington pie was indeed a pie so great that the Boston Globe published a poem on its creation in 1889, deeming it a “messy, mucilaginous Pestiferous compound.”

The crowd enjoyed the presentation. After the talk, some attendees said the pie’s trajectory through New England history was compelling.

“It was something that offered me a little bit of information on the history of pie in New England, which was exciting,” New Haven resident Lucy Gellman said.

Gellman said she was particularly interested in learning about savory pies. She said savory pies are her favorite kind — making her the only attendee out of five interviewed who did not prefer pumpkin. Monica Bunton, another attendee, said her biggest takeaway was that pie, something that she originally found simple, has really intricate and fascinating connections to social and political movements.

The first pies were filled with meat and called “coffins.”

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

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Robert Cox spoke to an audience at the New Haven Museum about the history of pies in New England.

85 percent of global carbon emissions occur in cities, a statistic that is only “a bit lower in China.”

Zhen Xu, an administrator at Yale-NUIST, named discussions on greenhouse gas reduction and urban climate improvement as other key developments in the conference.

David Youtz, the executive director of the Yale-China Association and a participant on the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations where he worked on a joint U.S.-China energy initiative, emphasized

the timeliness of this conference leading up to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, which ends this week.

“These two countries are the largest carbon emitters and energy consumers, so their decisions and courage will determine, to a large extent, how well we do on addressing climate change,” Youtz said.

Zhen said the conference enhanced communication between the universities, but that greater organizational involvement from Chinese institutions during preparation

stages would have led to a better event.

Lee mentioned a difficulty of executing the program — getting people to show up. He explained that it is not customary for the Chinese to plan ahead more than a week or two in advance, meaning few people attend.

“Had they been able to join us, the event might have had a higher impact,” Lee said.

The Yale Center Beijing is located in the Chaoyang District.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Construction on Chi Psi house progresses CHI PSI FROM PAGE 1 tinued construction delays — including a do-over of the house’s foundation for better stability — forced members to relocate to a temporary location two miles away on Winchester Avenue in Newhallville. Before he signed the lease for the Dixwell House, Rogers included a clause requiring the landlord to provide “suitable and comparable” housing if the building is not finished by the start of the 2015–16 academic year. Rogers declined to comment for this article. Tracy is listed as both the tenant and the contractor in the construction permits for the Dixwell house.

Pellegrino said the house will be split into four apartment units, which will be leased to four individuals. He declined to specify who those individuals will be.

T h e Dixwell property is located in a BB Zone, where fraternities are not permitted to reside, according to city zoning ordinances.

City plan officials said zoning rules on fraternities limit them to property owned by their university, the New Haven Register reported.

Norman Scipio, who is listed as the owner of the Dixwell property, could not be reached for comment.

Randi Rodriguez, the executive director of the nonprofit ’r Kids Family Center located across the street from 48 Dixwell Ave., contested at the Tuesday hearing that Tracy misled her to believe the house was being redeveloped because it has historic value.

Rodriguez said she is concerned by the prospect of a fraternity being in the neighborhood. She said the only time ’r Kids Family Center has been damaged was the result of fraternity inebriation and underage drinking.

Her windows were smashed and property toward the back of the center was destroyed.

“Eight fraternity guys are trouble when our children are walking across the street,” Rodriguez said at the hearing.

Chi Psi house residents on Winchester Avenue told the News in October the brothers were engaging positively

with their neighbors and the broader Newhallville community. As construction on the Dixwell property continues, the fraternity has been without a permanent home for more than a year.

Former Chi Psi member Baker Duncan ’48 purchased a house on Lake Place for the fraternity last February. The fraternity held social events in the property while it was being renovated. After neighbors complained to the city, Chi Psi withdrew its application to have the property zoned under city regulations as a fraternity house. Duncan later sold the house, forcing Chi Psi to seek other housing options, none of which were suitable until the fraternity stumbled upon the Dixwell property.

Braden Currey ’17, who currently lives in the Newhallville house, said Tracy was transparent about the roadblocks in the renovation process for the Dixwell house. Currey added that the Chi Psi national organization’s in-house property management team is also helping the members navigate the housing process.

Currey said the construction delays do not bother him, given that it was just “a series of very unfortunate events that have caused the delays.”

“I think [Tracy is] doing everything in his power to get [the house] done as fast as possible,” Currey said. “[He is] not making revenue while we’re not living in it.”

Buck, a golden retriever the fraternity adopted this year, is looking forward to the additional space and new garage he can play in when Chi Psi relocates to 48 Dixwell Ave., Currey said.

Other public hearings held Tuesday included a discussion on the young men’s homeless shelter accompanying the city’s new “The Escape” center for teens and the height of two minarets being constructed for a mosque in Quinnipiac Meadows. Both cases were unanimously approved by the board.

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

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According to Pellegrino, the Chi Psi house will be split into four apartment units.

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

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CS Department seeks growth to compete CS DEPT FROM PAGE 1 this, but I really hope we keep this momentum going.”

Balakrishnan, who came to Yale after six years of research in tech companies such as Microsoft, where he last worked, said he has enjoyed transitioning to Yale, an academic setting with top-tier faculty.

The second addition to the computer science faculty, professor Mariana Raykova, is currently abroad in Europe and will start at Yale in January. Raykova, who specializes in cryptography, said in a statement to the News that she is excited to bring her area of work to interested students.

As for the other four faculty positions still to be filled, the department received several applications this year and expects to interview “great” candidates next semester, Feigenbaum said.

In 2014, Yale made an offer to one candidate who, according to Feigenbaum is still in the process of choosing among offers from several great universities.

After his first five months at Yale, Balakrishnan recognized that certain factors within the department might be keeping it from attracting more faculty and being one of the top computer science programs in the nation.

Faculty look at three main elements when considering offers from multiple institutions, Balakrishnan said: the quality of current faculty, availability of resources and breadth of the department. Currently, Yale offers only the first of those three, he said. Balakrishnan said prospective hires might view the lack of faculty in each individual department as a deficit in potential collaborators. For example, in fall 2014, computer science professor Richard Yang, who teaches two highly regarded networking courses at Yale, CPSC 433/533 and CPSC 434/534, was on leave.

Since he was the only faculty member who specialized in networking, no networking courses were taught that semester.

“The building we are in right now, for example, we are bursting at the seams,” Balakrishnan said.

“That is the kind of thing that may give prospective hires some pause.”

Yale’s Computer Science Department is currently housed in Arthur K. Watson Hall, which was last renovated in 1986. Feigenbaum said the building has little available office space for new hires, “absolutely no available lab space” and “completely inadequate classrooms.”

Most of the Watson classrooms, according to computer science major William Bailey ’16, hold an average of 50 students. But many of his electives have had upwards of 150 students enrolled, leading the classrooms to be housed in other buildings such as the Yale School of Architecture.

Computer science professor Daniel Abadi expressed similar views, adding that a large share of the top 20 computer science programs in the nation have seen the construction of new facilities in the last decade.

“Every university in the country with a top 20 [computer science] program has state-of-theart computer science spaces for

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CS faculty members said more aggressive growth is required to compete with peer institutions. collaboration with open floor plans, labs and machine rooms,” Balakrishnan said. “The only thing stopping that from happening here is the lack of space.”

In March, University President Peter Salovey said, during the announcement of the incorporation of the Computer Science Department into SEAS, that Yale would “immediately” begin work on an underground teaching concourse that physically links the department to the SEAS buildings. In late September, SEAS Deputy Dean Vincent Wilczynski told the News that “the project [was] being planned by facilities with no real details at [that] point,” but added that additional information would be available next semester.

In addition to more space, many in computer science called for an expansion of the department’s graduate program as well.

Although undergraduate enrollment in computer science has surged in recent years — it is now the seventh-most popular major at Yale, according to last year’s data from the Office of Institutional Research website — graduate enrollment has not seen a similar trend. This imbalance has led to a “drastic” shortage of teaching fellows within the department, Feigenbaum said.

Computer science majors said they often face difficult classroom experiences due to the department’s small number of teaching fellows. One undergraduate, who wished to remain anonymous since he will still be involved with the program for another year, said that for some of the department’s larger core classes, there would often be 50 students waiting to consult with four teaching fellows at office hours — a ratio even larger for all elective classes, he said.

“Even if you were there for a few hours, you would realistically only get help for a few minutes, and if you had a follow-up question it was likely nobody would ever get back to you,” the student said.

Other students expressed similar frustrations with the limited support system. Bailey said in one of his courses, over 150 students compete for the attention of two

teaching fellows.

Former computer science teaching fellow Harry Liu GRD ’14 pointed out that due to the small number of Ph.D. students in the department, many teaching fellows are master’s students, unlike at other top computer science departments where there is a wealth of teaching fellows.

Yale computer science professors often use automated programs to grade students’ code, former computer science teaching fellow Dan Leyzberg GRD ’14 said.

Leyzberg now teaches at Princeton, where he said there is a larger focus on giving students personalized feedback to help students understand why their code is failing.

“What you need is not to just be told what part of your code is failing,” Leyzberg said. “You need to know why, why is this failing. You need a human giving you feedback.”

To make up for the lack of graduate teaching fellows, the department has also introduced opportunities for undergraduates to help out as peer tutors and undergraduate graders, Abadi said. However, he added that this approach does not provide tutors or graders with a full view of the student, since they only participate in a particular part of the teaching experience.

Computer science professor James Aspnes said the shortage of teaching fellows stems from the fact that Yale does not give full funding or tuition relief to Ph.D. students, except for those on University fellowships.

“There is little incentive for Ph.D. students to [teach] past their required two semesters and no mechanism to grow the population of potential [teaching fellows] in response to increased course enrollments,” Aspnes said.

Students in the computer science track all expressed a desire for more application-based classes.

The computer science program at Yale is characterized by its focus on understanding the basics and fundamentals of computer science rather than on applicable skills, computer science major Arthur Erlendsson ’17 said.

“Learning about things you regularly encounter or might actually use tends to be more engaging than trying to wrap your head around obscure mathematical concepts that you know you will never use again,” the student who asked to remain anonymous said.

He added that many of his classes were not engaging enough because they were too focused on theories rather than on practical skills. Despite many elective courses having a final project that requires students to develop some form of application, there are no classes designed to teach students that process, he said.

“Students here want to be cutting-edge and know what’s happening at places like Facebook and Google,” Balakrishnan said.

“So what I have been doing this semester is just telling them how things are and how things work at these places. There is a lot of pent-up demand in the student population to be at the cutting edge in technology.”

Bailey said despite this classical and highly theoretical approach — which in his opinion makes Yale’s department unique — his courses prepared him well for getting internships and a full-time job for next year.

Still, other students expressed frustration at the department’s approach.

Moving forward, Feigenbaum said efforts are currently underway to secure funding for additional growth and empowerment of the department. But she did not have specific information on the magnitude of the envisioned growth, or an expected timeline.

She added that she is hopeful that “generous, super-rich” Yale alumni will contribute to the growth of the program, as was the case at Harvard.

“Presumably, [the alumni] understand the world well enough to know that Yale’s status as an elite university won’t last if it has a pinched Computer Science Department,” Feigenbaum said.

“I hope that one or more of those alumni will step up soon.”

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

$1 million grant to improve Green approved GREEN FROM PAGE 1 repair. Zinn added that the uneven topography of the Green makes addressing waterlogging difficult.

Zinn said the improvements funded by the grant will make the space safer for residents. The LED streetlights, he said, will provide better lighting in the area, and the new stage will draw more activity to the area. Subsurface renovations, such as underground electrical repairs, may also make the Green safer, Zinn said.

“There’s a lot that you can do subsurface … where you can make the Lower Green in particular a much more flexible space,” he said. “The safest, most attractive Green is an active Green, and we really want to see three full seasons of programming here.”

Zinn said representatives from the Parks and Engineering departments have spoken with members of the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team in preparation

for making the improvements.

He added that the city will match half, or $500,000, of the grant, bringing the total amount of funding up to $1.5 million. But the Parks Department hopes for more — a study completed five years ago found the space needs anywhere between $11 million and $15 million in improvements, Bombero said.

After East Rock Alder Anna Festa asked whether the grant will bring any revenue into the city, Bombero said that matching the grant might serve as an investment that will allow the city to leverage other state grants from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development in the future. Bombero added that there is a possibility that renting the new stage will become a revenue source for the Elm City. The city currently rents out the stage to local organizations like Jazz Haven, which use the structure for music festivals.

Alders on the committee

expressed favorable responses to the grant proposal.

“I think [the grant is] a positive,” said Tyisha Walker, board president and West River alder.

“It’s going to be improvements to the infrastructure of the Green — that’s important.”

The Board of Alders is not the only authority that must approve the grant. The Proprietors of the New Haven Green, the private body that has owned the space since 1641, has the final say over whether the improvements will take place. But Bombero said she expects no problems with the group, adding that the Parks Department is in close communication with the Proprietors about all proposed changes and has an agreement with the group. Zinn said the city plans to start work on the new LED lights over the winter.

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

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Money from the $1 million state grant will go towards improvements to the New Haven Green.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“There’s a lot of activism that doesn’t deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.” TALIB KWELI AMERICAN HIP HOP ARTIST

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

C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

Penn eliminates “Faculty Master” title

New activist coalition rallies for university action

BY CAROLINE SIMON Penn has announced that it will stop using the title “faculty master” for its college house leaders, a term some see as evocative of slavery. The position will now be called “faculty director.”

The change comes after weeks of student protests on college campuses nationwide over racial discrimination. Harvard University and Princeton University have already chosen to eliminate the “faculty master” title, and Yale University has said it will make a decision by the summer.

In an announcement sent to college house faculty last Wednesday, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dennis DeTurck explained the change.

“The faculty and staff of [College Houses and Academic Services] have been mindful of ongoing developments on campuses across the country. These include concerns about the historical connotations of the title of ‘faculty master,’” DeTurck’s email read. “This small but important step will be taken immediately, and over the next few weeks all references in college house literature and on CHAS websites will be amended to reflect it.”

DeTurck said in a separate email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the impetus for the change

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began on Nov. 19 foll o w i n g racial controversy at other college campuses, and PENN that there was “strong, unanimous support among the faculty directors” for the change. The issue was then brought to Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein, who conferred with Provost Vincent Price and Penn President Amy Gutmann.

We wanted the title to reflect clearly the role of the faculty directors in the houses.

DENNIS DETURCK Dean, Penn College of Arts and Sciences “We wanted the title to reflect clearly the role of the faculty directors in the houses, while being sensitive to the concerns noted in the announcement,” DeTurck said.

DeTurck also noted that two out of the 11 faculty directors are African-American.

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BY TEO ARMUS “The people, united, will never be defeated.”

This chant — led by Alexis Yeboah-Kodie and repeated by a crowd of about 120 students at a rally on Monday afternoon — was the principal message expressed by the Barnard Columbia Solidarity Network, a new coalition of activist groups that has come together to protest the ways its members say the university puts “profit over people.”

The coalition includes Barnard Divest, Columbia Divest for Climate Justice, the International Socialist Organization, Lucha, No Red Tape, StudentWorker Solidarity and Mobilized African Diaspora, which was participating in its first public rally.

During the rally, BCSN organizers said that interlocking systems of oppression connect the issues they are looking to tackle — including sexual violence, labor inequality and climate change — through their six core demands. In particular, activists underscored the importance of racial justice and securing the well-being of black people on campus and in the surrounding neighborhood.

Mobilized African Diaspora began a speak-out at the rally by calling on the university to hire more faculty of color and allocate more space and funding for centers and institutes that explore marginalized identities.

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“MAD is a collection of concerned black students who underCOLUMBIA s t a n d that we are complicit in the oppression that this university facilitates against all black people,” MAD organizer Courtney Okeke said during the rally. “We understand and we believe we will not be the marker of diversity for this racist campus. We understand and believe that our bodies are valuable.”

As MAD organizers presented three of BCSN’s six core demands — including the hiring of more faculty of color and the addition of “Introduction to African-American Studies” and “Introduction to Ethnic Studies” as required courses in the Core Curriculum — they emphasized that fighting for black students will benefit all black people as well as all students.

BCSN also called on Columbia to prepare a public report “detailing the complexities of black student life,” establish a pantry on campus to combat food insecurity, and asked the University to admit and retain more black students, especially those who are low-income and from local areas.

Last fall, Columbia launched a scholarship program that provides need-based grants for up

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to 40 undergraduate students each year who grew up or went to school in Harlem, Washington Heights or the South Bronx.

Activists also emphasized the University’s relationship with the surrounding neighborhood, calling on Columbia to invest in jobs and housing for local residents affected by the Manhattanville expansion.

“We are not a group of black students who organize just for black students, because all black people are connected,” Okeke said during the rally. “In that, all black people are affected by every single one of these campaigns and the issues they are campaigning against.”

For its portion of the speakout, Lucha deferred to Taylonn Murphy, an anti-violence activist from West Harlem, who is campaigning for the creation of a crisis-management center that would provide GED training, online college classes and other services to local youth.

“Columbia not letting that money trickle down into the community and the people that really need those services is actually strangling the community,” Murphy said. “Diversity is one thing when people are living at a certain level where everybody can succeed, but gentrification is actually pushing out people that have been here for years.”

At the rally, Columbia Divest for Climate Justice reiterated its demand that the University divest from the top 200 pub-

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licly traded fossil fuel companies, saying that climate change disproportionately affects communities of color.

“Climate change and the exploitation of the earth cannot be dissociated from the exploitation that occurs in our society,” CDCJ organizer Iliana Salazar-Dodge said. “The only reason the fossil fuel industry can thrive is because of its reliance on the belief that some lands and some lives are worth sacrificing.”

After the group’s proposal was rejected by the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing last month, CDCJ collected over 200 pledges from students to engage in civil disobedience, which had originally been planned for this week to mark the COP 21 talks in Paris.

“We were ready to escalate and engage in civil disobedience this semester,” Salazar-Dodge said. “Instead, we decided to postpone our action and unite with our fellow activists on campus to build even more power.”

Members of Student-Worker Solidarity called on Columbia to raise pay for all work-study and casual employment jobs to $15 an hour, while No Red Tape demanded the creation of a 24-hour rape crisis center. Both groups have been campaigning for their respective causes since September, with No Red Tape explicitly taking on an increased focus on intersectionality.

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SPORTS

“Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.”

JAHANGIR KHAN FORMER PROFESSIONAL SQUASH PLAYER

Yale sweeps Ivy opponent

Not Like Mike

SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 The Bulldogs hope to ride on the energy from their first Ivy wins heading into winter break, Jonathan Kovac ’19 said. While this was Yale’s first Ivy match of the 2015–16 seasons, it was also the last of the 2015 calendar year. Starting this Friday, the men and women’s teams begin a break and resume practice on Jan. 2.

Yale will have no grace period after the break, as it hosts Ivy foes Columbia and Cornell the weekend before classes resume. These matches will be among the most important of the season — the Columbia men and women rank No. 5 and No. 8, respectively, while Cornell’s men and women rank No. 12

CUGNON FROM PAGE 12 dits couldn’t help but attribute some of the Los Angeles “super team’s” demise to Bryant’s abrasiveness. No NBA superstar would want to be in Howard’s position — going from being beloved and revered in their own city to being told that they’re trash by a washed-up former champ. Howard is soft as a player and poor as a leader, but quite frankly nobody wants to play with Kobe. Say what you will about Jordan being one of the biggest jerks to ever set foot on NBA hardwood, but at least he could recruit teammates — NBA legends Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, as well as other key role players, stayed with Jordan right up until his last season with the Bulls.

The worst thing about late-career Kobe isn’t that I have to listen to arenas full of drunk NBA fans applaud him after the Lakers lose by 35 on every road trip. It’s the fact that potentially talented young players like Julius Randle and D’Angelo Russell are losing valuable touches to a guy shooting 30 percent from the field. It’s ridiculous, and the Lakers should be ashamed of themselves for letting it happen.

In his last season, Bryant is making a mockery of his highly successful NBA career while somehow ensuring that Russell and his young counterparts get exactly zero meaningful, crunch-time opportunities.

As sad as it might make those of us who grew up watching Bryant tear defenders apart, the league has moved on from him. There simply isn’t a place for a bitter, crotchety superstar in an era of “Big Three” lineups and team basketball. Players like LeBron James and Steph Curry have become faces of the league not just for their talent as individual players, but also because they’re tremendous teammates and individuals.

With guys like James in the league, nobody wants to root for a last-place squad trotting out a 37-year-old shooting guard who settled out of a rape lawsuit a decade ago. Bryant doesn’t fit the new NBA — which is built more on team basketball and camaraderie among players — and honestly, that’s a good thing.

Bryant may retire as lonely as he was when he played the game. At the cost of building relationships, keeping teammates happy and perhaps maintaining the greatest Lakers roster of the modern era, his threechampionship winning lineup with Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe has modeled himself after the greatest player ever.

And though he might not admit it, the Black Mamba knows he’s fallen short.

and No. 7, respectively.

“I am really looking forward to training over break,” Dembinski said. “For us our season is dependent on how much the team trains over break. We come right back and play Columbia, which is one of our biggest matches.

It’s imperative that everyone takes the break seriously and takes advantage of it.”

Shiyuan Mao ’17 noted that the team practice over break is an integral way for the Bulldogs to keep up their fitness and maintain momentum.

Yale’s men and women resume play on Jan. 9 against Columbia.

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With a win in three games by a combined score of 33–11, Pierson Broadwater ’18 had the most dominant victory for the men.

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

Ferrara captains a rising ship Q&A FROM PAGE 12 caused or who inspired the QWhat turnaround?

A

When you’re losing it’s easy to get down, but everyone on the team came together and instead of getting frustrated about the outcomes we’ve been having, we took it as motivation to finish this half of the season off on a winning note.

Q

Do you believe, even after the slow start, that you can continue the trend of your Yale career — each season improving on the previous one?

A

Yes, I think we are completely capable of improving our [15– 15–1, 12–10–0 ECAC Hockey] record from last year. We still have a lot of hockey to play after break, but we are 3–2–1 in our league right now, and if we keep it up and build off of each game, we will put ourselves in a very good spot going into playoffs.

level of difficulty of your schedule had on your team?

A

We played some very tough opponents already this year, but I look at it as a positive. We got to compete against the top teams in the country and got the confidence we need to realize that we belong in that group. We want to be playing our best hockey by the end of the season, and I know that if we keep working hard and improving, we will have success against these same teams when it matters more down the road.

year, you were named capQThis tain. What has it been like to serve as the leader of your team?

A

It was an honor to be elected captain by my teammates this year, and I try to lead by example every day at the rink. It is awesome to have such a great senior class working hard together to do whatever we can to help the team succeed.

first eight games were all You were All-Academic each of QYour against teams that spent time, at Qyour first three seasons. How diffisome point this season, ranked in the nation’s top 10. What effect has the

MARC CUGNON is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

cult has it been to keep up your grades with the rigors of your 30-plus games

and countless practices each year?

A

Being a student-athlete is definitely not easy, especially at a place like Yale. I’ve learned how to manage my time more efficiently, especially during the season, and have had to give up a lot, but being able to go to such a great university and play the sport you love is a privilege and I wouldn’t trade anything for this experience.

you are tied with forQCurrently ward Phoebe Staenz ’17 for the team lead in goals. How would you categorize your individual play this season thus far?

A

I definitely don’t see myself as a goal scorer since I usually opt for the pass, and my teammates love giving me a hard time about not shooting the puck, but I have been trying to work on that more this year. We have so many talented forwards and playing with them is a lot of fun. I am excited to keep working hard and get better each week with my teammates.

’17 was thrust into the starting role this season, playing against some — as was mentioned before — of the nation’s top teams. How do you think she has performed thus far?

A

Hanna has done a great job coming in as our starter this year. You can see her confidence build each game she starts, and I am excited to see her get better and better. She has kept us in a lot of games so far this year and will help us reach our goal of competing in the [NCAA] Tournament.

as a senior, this will be QObviously, your last year skating as a Bull-

dog. Are you ready to hang up your skates?

A

I don’t think anyone is ever really ready for that. I’ve been playing hockey my whole life, and being a part of this team has been an amazing experience. I know it will be hard, but whether we win or lose our last game of the season this year, I want to have no regrets and leave everything out there on the ice.

spending two years as one of QAfter the backup goalies, Hanna Mandl

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

TRAVELING ALL OVER MEN’S BASKETBALL GAMES IN FIRST MONTH

MIDWEEK UPDATE

TRAVELING ALL OVER MEN’S BASKETBALL GAMES IN FIRST MONTH Albany 11/29/15

Fairfield at CLSU 11/13/15

Yale (Home 3 games)

Illinois 12/09/15

Lehigh 11/19/15

Duke 11/25/15 USC 12/13/15

SMU 11/22/15

ECAC HOCKEY STANDINGS

Women’s:

Men’s:

Schools

Points Conf. Conf Points

All

Schools

Points Conf.

Points

Schools

All

Points Conf. Conf Points

Points Conf. Conf Points

All

Schools

All

St. Lawrence

8

4–4–0

9–9–1

Yale

7

3–2–1

4–7–1

Rensselaer

7

3–4–1

5–9–2

Dartmouth

6

3–5–0

3–6–1

1

Quinnipiac

16

7–1–2

13–1–3

8–1–2

Princeton

6

3–5–0

4–8–0

2

Harvard

11

5–3–1

8–4–1

4–1–3

6–1–3

Brown

6

2–5–2

2–6–3

Princeton

11

5–4–1

9–4–1

11

4–1–3

8–6–3

Union

5

2–5–1

5–6–4

4

Dartmouth

10

4–3–2

4–7–2

10

Cornell

6

2–3–2

6–6–2

St. Lawrence

9

4–2–1

9–4–2

Colgate

5

2–6–1

5–11–1

5

Colgate

8

2–1–4

10–3–5

11

Brown

2

1–5–0

3–9–0

Yale

8

3–3–2

5–4–2

Clarkson

2

0–5–2

7–6–2

Clarkson

8

3–3–2

15–3–2

Union

2

0–6–2

0–12–4

1

Quinnipiac

14

6–0–2

15–0–2

2

Cornell

13

6–1–1

3

Harvard

11

Rensselaer 5 6

*All 12 teams make conference tournament

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12

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 2:00 PM Preservica: a new digital preservation system for Yale University Library. The preservation department at Yale University Library is in the process of implementing Preservica as the Library’s new digital preservation system. Preservica is going to provide a significant step-up in capability for the library, enabling it to preserve its digital content in a secure and trustworthy system. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall.

4:30 PM Department Lecture Series: “Environmentalism and Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene.” Ursula Heise is a professor of English at UCLA and a faculty member of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature, environmental culture in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan, literature and science, globalization theory and media theory. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 211.

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Birka’s academic specialization is in ethnic, integration and migration issues and the focus of her fellowship has been on outmigration. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

4:00 PM Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 4 in C major.

Introduced by Michael Friedmann, Yale Department of Music and Yale School of Music. Performed by the Argus Quartet: Jason Issokson and Clara Kim, violins; Diana Wade, viola; Joann Whang, cello. Followed by a discussion with the speaker and musicians.

Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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ARTS & CULTURE

DPops concert hits high note

BY MOLLIE RITTERBAND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Davenport Pops Orchestra looked across the pond for inspiration for its “Faux Pops” concert, held Sunday in Battell Chapel.

The event — which featured music from operas and popular movies — was organized around a loosely Parisian theme, riffing

on the idea of a “romantic date in France,” according to concert organizers. Michael Wang ’17, the orchestra’s conductor, said he hoped this theme could serve as a gesture of solidarity with France and the French people in light of November’s terrorist attacks in the country’s capital.

“This music and theme in particular became relevant to the tragic events in Paris at the

time of its performance,” Wang said. “We hoped that, while not dedicated specifically to France, the concert would be an artistic picture of gladder times and a fitting tribute in solidarity with the French people.”

In tune with its theme, the program featured selections from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” — including famous pieces like “Habanera” and “Tore-

ador” — alongside compositions from “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Ratatouille,” “An American in Paris” and “Les Misérables.” As with all of the Davenport Pops’ concerts, Wang said, the show’s musical selections were arranged by students.

Maggie Moor ’18, who plays bassoon in the ensemble, said she was pleased with the concert’s strong turnout, which

filled Battell Chapel with over a hundred audience members.

“I love DPops because we are able to engage the audience with songs they love, and play music like Carmen and Ratatouille in the same concert,” Moor said.

The performance, Wang noted, attempted to connect with audience members by featuring popular, recognizable songs, including selections from

famous operas, musicals and films.

Peri Shamlian ’17, who attended the event, said that she enjoyed the performance, adding that she “couldn’t have imagined spending an hour any other way.”

The Davenport Pops Orchestra was established in spring 2005.

Contact MOLLIE RITTERBAND at mollie.ritterband@yale.edu .

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The Davenport Pops Orchestra’s concert featured a program of Paris-themed musical selections.

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“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

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Visiting journalist discusses modern media challenges

BY AYLA BESEMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Modern mainstream media faces a challenge in the public sphere, said Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Dean Starkman at a Jonathan Edwards Master’s Tea Monday.

Starkman, the Los Angeles Times’ Wall Street correspondent, spoke to an intimate group about the challenges facing modern journalism. His 2014 book, “The Watchdog that Didn’t

Bark,” is a critique of mainstream media’s approach to the 2008 financial crisis. In his talk, organized by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Starkman addressed the origins of mainstream journalism before discussing modern problems it faces, including the rise of online media and the increasing prevalence of opinions over factual information. “[Starkman] brings together the standards that journalism always tries to uphold, and he contrasts that with the profit

motive that sometimes drives journalism towards sensationalism,” said political science lecturer Jim Sleeper ’69, who introduced Starkman. “He’s trying to explore that tension between journalism as a civic craft and journalism as a business.”

Starkman began by framing media in the context of the public sphere. He defined “the public sphere” in the terms of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who suggests that it is an area in social life where individuals could

come together for free discourse on social issues. This notion, which Starkman labeled “highly idealized,” emerged as a result of early capitalism in the 17th and 18th centuries and remains relevant today, he said.

Investigative journalism grew out of social movements in the 1960s, Starkman said. During this time, mass media produced what Starkman called an “ambitious” set of stories that contributed to political and social change. In spite of such triumphs, however,

Starkman pointed out substantial critiques about the failings of media. In spite of these concerns, Starkman emphasized the crucial role journalism still plays in the public sphere.

“My argument is that it is a serious mistake to dismiss contributions of the mainstream media,” he said. “One irrefutable, valid claim or dispute one can make — that I don’t have an answer for, frankly — is that institutional media does better with narrower, smaller stories than

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In a Monday Master’s Tea, visiting journalist Dean Starkman discussed his discipline’s role in the “public sphere.”

they do with the big ones.”

Starkman concluded the talk by focusing on the modern dilemmas of media, noting that despite the apparent overabundance of information in the digital world, substantial reduction of reporters and operating margins has cut the capacity for fact-gathering by nearly a third.

In light of the collapse of traditional, investigative journalism, Starkman said, opinion emerged to fill the void, renewing historic journalistic tensions about the nature of fact versus opinion, the latter of which, Starkman noted, is more economical to produce.

He added that he thinks it would be difficult for Buzzfeed-style startups to replace journalists trained to gather facts.

“Starkman’s points about the shrinkage of the newspaper industry were disheartening,” said Cameron Hill ’19, who attended the talk. “I question whether Buzzfeed and HuffPost will ever be able to fill its place.”

Scott Remer ’16, another attendee, said that he was interested to hear Starkman discuss his thoughts on both the transition to digital media as well as the effects of the modern, political landscape on mainstream journalism.

Bob Bloch, a New Haven resident who also attended the talk, emphasized the importance of the media in facilitating a productive dialogue between the public and members of Congress.

“The field of journalism is actually surprisingly dynamic in the sense that the frames of the field change,” Starkman said.

“It’s not a static thing, there is no one thing that’s called institutional media, it’s something that’s changed dramatically over time.”

The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism continues with a talk on Dec. 9 by Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek.

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

YUAG hosts National Museum founder

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale University Art Gallery hosted Lonnie G. Bunch III Tuesday afternoon for a lecture on the establishment of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Bunch, the funding director of the museum,discussed some of the challenges surrounding its creation, including issues related to defining programmatic goals, contending with public expectations and designing and constructing its building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In addition to offering insight into a number of strategies used to navigate such challenges, Bunch highlighted the museum’s major vision: to create “a place to help us remember.” The museum’s proposal, which was passed in 2003, signaled a growing realization of the importance of the Civil Rights movement, Bunch noted. Slated to open in the fall of 2016, the institution’s creation marks the first time a national museum has been constructed “from the ground up,” without initial money, a commissioned architect or a sizeable staff, he added.

“The struggle to make Americans not just remember what they want, but what they need, has been 100 years long,” Bunch said. “The goal of the museum is to make America better, to point us toward what we should learn.”

To build the museum’s collection, Bunch explained that he and his team undertook an “antiques roadshow” of sorts, searching for families or individuals with artifacts they hoped the museum would preserve. Through the collection, the team has compiled 40,000 objects, including Nat Turner’s Bible and a box containing original manuscripts of Harriet Tubman’s hymns.

In his lecture, Bunch highlighted challenges including securing congressional money and support, selecting a design for the building and curating the museum’s collection in a way that would engage visitors.

“I think the thing that worried me the most was managing public expectations,” said

Bunch. “We have to help America wrestle with its past — to make it candid and clear, but also understandable.”

The director added that other major questions related to the building’s physical appearance. An international competition was held that attracted a number of submissions, including the winning project, proposed by a pair of “starchitects,” David Adjaye and Philip Freelon.

Their design, Bunch said, makes the “dark presence” of slavery and racism in American history a physical reality, executed in bronze-painted aluminum.

It will stand in stark contrast to the Mall’s white marble buildings, and designs on its surface will pay homage to a pattern that figured prominently in enslaved craft tradition.

We have to help America wrestle with its past — to make it candid and clear, but also understandable.

LONNIE G. BUNCH III Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who attended the lecture, said he appreciates that the museum’s approach focuses on creating “room for discussion,” providing the American public with a forum in which they will be able to consider important issues about race and historical memory.

“It lines up with our aspirations of what we’re trying to do on campus,” Holloway said.

Bunch’s lecture was cosponsored by the Yale University Franke Program in Science and the Humanities; the YaleSmithsonian Partnership for Research and Public Engagement; the Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition; the Yale University Art Gallery; and the Public Humanities at Yale.

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

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Tuesday afternoon, the YUAG welcomed Lonnie G. Bunch III for a lecture.

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“We took [our slow start] as motivation to finish this half of the season off on a winning note.”

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Yale serves up two wins SQUASH

Good riddance to Kobe

Playing a Brown squad that had come off wins against Bates and Stanford, the Bulldogs earned 3–0 wins in all matches between the No. 1 and 8 positions.

“It was really good to open our Ivy League schedule with a 9–0 win,” T.J. Dembinski ’17 said. “Brown was surprisingly deep and everyone had to perform well to win their match.

The team is really pleased with our performance and start to the season.”

I am so glad that Kobe Bryant is retiring from the NBA. For the past 20 seasons, sports fans have been treated to the basketball equivalent of an Elvis impersonator. On the floor, in his game and through the relationships he’s formed with teammates, Kobe has been the budget-brand version of Michael Jordan.

Good enough, but not quite Mike.

With Kobe’s retirement, we’ll see the basketball death of the last great imitator of the former Chicago Bull. From the onefooted contested fadeaways to the insufferable arrogance, Kobe didn’t go a game without reminding us of His Airness — until the last few seasons. While Jordan didn’t exactly retire at the right time, forcing basketball fans to endure a far-too-long stint with my Washington Wizards, Kobe has recently become the equivalent of an NBA geriatric, clanking away shots at a clip that would make most YMCA pickup ballers blush. Fans of the once-great shooting guard will point to five championships, numerous scoring titles and an infamous 81-point romp against the Toronto Raptors as part of their memories of the Lakers great, but these past triumphs do little to assuage the damage Bryant has done to the organization over the past three years.

Kobe being Kobe has resulted in one of the worst contracts in the NBA, with Bryant slated to finish a two-year, $48.5 million deal this season — at 37 years old. While this contract is bad enough by itself, Bryant has managed to somehow push free agents away from Los Angeles with astonishing ease and damage the development of the Lakers’ most exciting young players.

When the Lakers’ Dwight Howard experiment ended after just one year, NBA pun-

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Jenny Scherl ’17 returned to the top of the ladder in the Yale squash Ivy opener, winning her match 3–2 in a team sweep for the Bulldogs.

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s and women’s squash teams made it look easy on Tuesday night when they secured a pair of victories over Brown, maintaining their perfect records heading into the new year. But for the Bulldogs, two perfects records were not enough — Yale also earned two perfect wins.

Both the No. 4 women (2–0, 1–0 Ivy) and the No. 6 men (2–0, 1–0)

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swept the Bears 9–0, cruising to victory in their Ivy League season opener. The men defeated No. 16 Brown (2–1, 0–1) despite missing key contributors Liam McClintock ’17, captain Sam Fenwick ’16 and Thomas Kingshott ’18, while for the women, the match saw the return from injury of Jenny Scherl ’17, who won her match 3–2 at the top of the ladder.

“It’s a great feeling going into break having defeated Brown 9–0,” women’s player Jocelyn Lehman ’18 said. “It gives us more motivation to

keep training hard during break and come back in the New Year a stronger team who will have a run at the Ivy title. It was our first Ivy match, and it was nice to win so decisively.”

Other than Scherl’s match and a 3–1 win for captain Annie Ballaine ’16 at No. 3, all of the Eli women’s matches were decided in just three games against Brown (1–2, 0–1).

For the men, the match told a similar story despite the absences of Kingshott, McClintock and Fenwick, the latter two of whom were injured.

Captain Ferrara ’16 talks season, achievements

BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In each season that captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 has skated for the Yale women’s hockey team, the team has improved, as the four-year key contributor has helped push the program to new heights. She has played in 103 out of a possible 104 games since she received her uniform, and is currently tied for the team lead with five goals this season. Ferrara has also led the Elis in assists in both her sophomore and junior seasons. And, prior to the start of her senior season, she was chosen by her teammates to captain the team for the 2015–16 season. The News caught up with Ferrara to discuss the current season, being a student-athlete and her career here at Yale.

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you arrived, Yale only won one game.

But every year since your arrival, the team has improved — the team finished with five wins your freshman year, then nine when you were a

sophomore and 15 last season. What has it been like to be a major contributor in the rebuilding of a program?

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year, the team started off QThis slow, winning only one of its first

eight regular-season games. But since then, you have won three out of the last four. Do you believe that your team has turned its season around?

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I think we had trouble getting the outcomes we wanted from the games at the beginning of the season, but we were still playing well and we were in almost every one of those games. We had a very tough schedule to start off the year, but we have definitely picked it up recently and it is nice to get some more wins, especially in league play, before going into winter break.

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Ferrara has been a constant for the Bulldogs since coming to Yale, playing in 103 of a possible 104 games.

THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL MATCHES THAT THE YALE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SQUASH TEAMS LOST AGAINST BROWN ON TUESDAY NIGHT. In a pair of clean sweeps, the Bulldogs won 15 of those 18 individual matches by a score of 3–0.