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Barking up the right tree.

During a stump speech in Reno, Nevada, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 cracked a joke about training a dog to bark every time a Republican candidate told a lie. The 2016 presidential hopeful even imitated a dog bark, getting laughs and cheers from the crowd. “I think we could cut through a lot of their claims,” she said.

Aging Meryl-y. At a panel at the Berlin Film Festival, where she is leading the international jury, Meryl Streep DRA ’75 said the biggest surprise of her career has been its longevity.

“I always felt that my career was over starting at 38 years of age,” Streep said. At 66, Streep is still starring in leading roles and has won three Academy Awards — one as recently as 2012 for her role as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.”

On the ballot. Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill announced the candidates that will appear on the ballot on April 26.

Both Democratic contenders, Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, and six Republicans — Donald Trump, Ben Carson ’73, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — will be on the ballot.

Trini Dem Fund. The New

Haven Democracy Fund, chaired by Jared Milfred ’16, hosts Democracy Night with Mayor Toni Harp at City Hall at 6:15 p.m. today. The event includes opportunities to share civic-minded ideas and to hear from community organizations about democracy-focused work happening in New Haven.

Bound in Beijing. Chinese

writer Yang Jisheng told The New York Times yesterday that his former employer — a news agency — has forbidden him from traveling to Harvard to accept an award for his book, “Tombstone,” about China’s Great Famine.

I Love College (Street).

College Street Music Hall has two concerts coming up.

Kurt Vile and the Violators will play at the venue tonight.

Tomorrow evening, the hall will host Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band with Elephant Revival.

Is it too late now to say sorry? The News apologizes

to the residents of Pierson and Jonathan Edwards Colleges for the fire alarm that went off in our building at around 12:30 a.m. this morning. We hope we didn’t wake you.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1991 Students call for more efficient escort services from University Security after Pierson sophomore Christian Prince ’93 was fatally shot on Hillhouse Avenue. Yale College Council President Kyu Rhee ’92 says he will push for better lighting on Park Street among other measures.

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Center for race and ethnicity announced

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administrations is very unusual, estimating that until two years ago there had been around three mastership changes every five years — significantly fewer than the current situation. Former long-serving masters interviewed said they do not necessarily see a trend of masters holding shorter terms, but said they believe the position has become more administrative and less intellectually-focused over the years.

After years of proposals and planning, the University has announced the establishment of a new interdisciplinary center focused on race and ethnicity.

The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration will support scholarship in ethnic studies; intersectional race, gender and sexuality research; and Native and diasporic communities. The center, which does not yet have an official location, will likely host the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, sponsor summer research fellowships for Yale undergraduate and graduate students, and organize public functions. According to history professor David Blight, who is a member of the center’s implementation committee, the center will have an annual budget of $600,000. The Provost’s Office did not respond to requests to confirm the figure.

In a Tuesday email to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak said the center furthers the University’s goal of becoming more inclusive. Salovey originally announced that the center would be established in November, as part of a wider response to student concerns about racism and discrimination on campus.

Its implementation committee includes faculty

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Holloway said the amount of turnover this year in residential college administrations is very unusual.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Following a slew of departures this year from the residential college masterships and deanships, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said his office is managing a “historic” turnover.

Since the start of fall 2015, two residential college masters and three deans have announced that they will step down from their positions. In addition to filling these vacancies,

the Yale College Dean’s Office must also make recommendations for the masters of the two new residential colleges, with the deanships to be decided later on. Holloway said six committees have been tasked with discussing and making recommendations for these positions.

These changes also mean that at the start of the next academic year, half of the College’s 12 masters will have held the position for one year or less. Holloway said the amount of turnover within residential college

GPSS details child care struggles

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER The leaders of two graduate student assemblies presented administrators with new data last week illustrating the financial struggles of graduate-student parents — the latest development in an ongoing campaign to secure child-care subsidies from the University.

Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and Elizabeth Salm GRD ’18, president of the Graduate Students Association, met with Graduate School of Arts and Science Dean Lynn Cooley last Thursday to advocate for financial support for graduate-student parents, who make up about 5 percent of the graduate and professional school population.

Currently, the University does not provide any form of childcare funding for graduate- or

professional-student parents, although it does offer free health care for students’ children. The data, compiled via a survey last semester, indicate that 20 percent of student parents in the Graduate School have taken on debt in order to pay for day care, at a median rate of $7,000 per year. On Tuesday, Cooley told the News that after months of discussions with the GSA she has made the child-care subsidy her “top fundraising priority,” and that the University must do more to support graduate-student parents.

“Providing greater childcare support is extremely important so that we can attract and retain the best students, especially women, in graduate school,” Cooley said.

The survey drew about 230 respondents, roughly two-thirds of the total number of student parents at Yale, although Mo said the data has not undergone thorough

analysis and could be subject to change. The Facilities and Healthcare committee of the GSA also plans to release a separate report on the challenges faced by graduate-student parents before the end of the semester.

The campaign is focused primarily on the expenses associated with child care.

Many graduate-student parents say the University, which does not currently collect data on the child-care spending of student parents, has an obligation to subsidize day-care costs. The seven Yale-affiliated but privately owned child-care centers on campus are among the most expensive in New Haven — the cheapest of the seven costs more than $1,300 per month — and offer only a limited number of spots.

The new GPSS data illustrates the substantial bur-

Extended PWG hours under review

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Six months into a one-year pilot program of extended hours at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, University administrators are in the process of deciding whether weekend and late-night gymgoers can continue exercising at the facility next fall.

Last August, Payne Whitney’s weekly hours increased from 92 to 106, with the gymnasium’s closing time extended for every day of the week. The decision came after a 2013 petition by the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate

and Professional Student Senate, who felt the previous hours did not properly accommodate graduate students with strict work commitments during the day. Associate Athletic Director of Payne Whitney Gymnasium Anthony Diaz said he has been compiling attendance records this year and passing them along to Yale administrators, who will decide whether demand will justify continuing the new schedule.

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NHPS proposes salary increases

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER New H a ve n Public Schools’ proposed 2017 budget calls for significant increases to teacher and paraprofessional salaries, amounting to a total of $3.7 million in raises.

NHPS Chief Financial Officer Victor De La Paz presented a preliminary budget estimate for fiscal year 2017 — totaling roughly $265 million — at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. De La Paz recommended an increase of $7.5 million from the city to cover a number of investments and initiatives, including alternative school redesign, more than half of which would fund pro-

posed salary raises. Mayor Toni Harp initially proposed a 35 percent raise to paraprofessionals’ salaries during a January radio interview with WNHH. Under the proposed budget, paraprofessionals would see a 40 percent increase in salary. The final budget will not be submitted for the Board of Alders’ approval until June 2016.

“You have people who we expect to be professional with our children not making enough to demand a marketlevel rent in our town — that is unacceptable to me,” Harp said at the meeting. “We ought to be ashamed.”

Harp noted that paraprofessionals — teachers’ aides who support instruction, work individually with

small groups of children and assist with special education — typically earn between $18,000 and $21,000 in NHPS. Under the new budget, the approximately 500 paraprofessionals currently employed by NHPS would receive a 40 percent raise, which would accompany enhanced responsibilities in classrooms.

NHPS’s Director of Human Resources and Labor Relations Donna Aiello said that in order to gain employment as a district paraprofessional, applicants must have 60 college credits, an associate’s degree or pass the ParaPro Assessment, a standardized test administered by national SEE NHPS PAGE 6

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Payne Whitney Gymnasium’s extended hours, which resulted from a petition by graduate students in 2013, may be continued next year.

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What’s love?

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hat’s love? In the days proceeding and succeeding Valentine’s Day, advertisements, books, movies and products mostly depicting heterosexual, white, monogamous couples bombard me. These images tell me that these relationships embody love — but do they?

Instead of lauding these picturesque relationships devoid of context, I think it’s time that we re-evaluate our interactions with our romantic or sexual partners, whether they’re monogamous, heterosexual or neither.

It’s clear that Yale’s sexual climate has room to improve; The University Semi-annual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct released on Monday contained 78 complaints of sexual misconduct including assault, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence and stalking.

In the article “One Woman’s Quest to Fix the Process of Reporting Sexual Assault” published last year in Pacific Standard magazine, Kate Wheeling writes that the number of sexual assaults has not risen since the 1980s. According to the article, the rate of rape and attempted rape among women has consistently remained between one in four and one in five. This raises the question: Despite more awareness and efforts to combat sexual assault, why are these numbers plateauing instead of going down?

IT’S TIME THAT WE REEVALUATE OUR INTERACTIONS WITH OUR ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL PARTNERS Many people decry “hookup culture” because they believe that it reinforces this cycle of sexual violence. However, the fact that some college students are willing to have noncommittal, consensual sex does not justify the prevalence of sexual assault. In the New York Magazine article, “Hooking Up Is Easy To Do: But pretty complicated,” Katie Van Syckle writes that, “To suggest that women may put themselves at risk by hooking up — by getting blackout drunk, by getting into bed with someone they do not know — is considered to be an offensive example of victim blaming.”

To be sure, there are some feminist critiques of hookup culture; in the academic article “Sexism in Practice: Feminist Ethics Evaluating the Hookup Culture,” Conor Kelly writes that “hookup culture” is “troubling because the avoidance of relationships builds implicitly upon an autonomous understanding of the self and a devaluation of relationality.”

However, high rates of assault cannot be fully a t t r i b u te d to “hookup culture”; in fact, many ISIS DAVIS- college students aren’t MARKS even having consensual The dark sex. A poll of nearly 700 side college students taken

by New York Magazine found that 40 percent of the respondents were virgins. Moreover, in another study of over 33,000 people in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers found that “millennials were likely to have had an average of about eight partners, while Boomers [the generation following World War II] were more likely to have had 10 or 11.”

In order to begin to address the issue of sexual assault, we need to stop constantly asking about students’ sex lives and start reforming the institutional process for reporting instances of assault. Yale has taken some steps in the right direction by creating committees and education programs to address issues concerning these problems on campus. In 2011, the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct and the Communication and Consent Educators program were created. It is important to make information about the process for reporting assault readily available via websites and pamphlets.

Although Yale has resources available for survivors of sexual assault, there can be confusion over the degree of confidentiality that they will have.

According to the semiannual report, Title IX coordinators will not compromise a complainant’s confidentiality except in cases of acute threat.

In addition to ensuring that students have access to resources concerning sexual assault, we also need to ensure that administrators and law enforcement actively seek to support those who report assault. A 2007 study found that “survivors who sought out formal supporters — police officers, doctors and clergy members — found that they were more likely to respond negatively. And while research shows that positive responses to disclosures have little effect on victims’ outcomes, negative responses can have seriously detrimental impacts on recovery.” Creating dialogue, setting community expectations, improving access to resources and providing a support network to survivors of sexual assault may provide us with the tools that we need to create a loving — and safe — community for all Yalies.

That’s love.

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his has been a banner year for campus activism at Yale.

Between protests over racial injustice, free speech and the pitfalls of Greek life, Yale’s been pretty busy. But now that things have quieted down, has anyone been keeping track of the results of these demonstrations? The answer, of course, is a resounding no.

Consider the uproar over mental health last year. After the passing of Luchang Wang ’17, Yale was taken to task for its nasty habit of pressuring suicidal students to go back home instead of providing proper counseling. And layers upon layers of bureaucratic red tape obstructed the lucky few who did manage to access mental health services.

A large YCC panel and a series of emails from the Yale administration promised reform: Yale would hire more therapists, make scheduling appointments easier and even create a student advisory committee on the topic. And that was that. Since then, Yale’s hired the equivalent of two-anda-half full-time mental health professionals, a hotline has been set up and that committee was indeed created. Everybody’s satisfied. But wait a minute, what actually changed? I have no idea whether the original problem —

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that students experiencing mental health issues feared being forcibly sent home — was actually solved.

Yale has SHREYAS been equally TIRUMALA quiet about Greek life as of Rhyme and late. Only last semester, allereason gations about racism at a fraternity party set off a national media firestorm. The campus was up in arms merely months ago, but you’d be hard pressed to find any evidence of that today. An investigation concluded that no disciplinary action was necessary towards the fraternity, but that sort of misses the point.

We may have concluded that there was no wrongdoing at the party, but the larger issue was that the accusations were believable in the first place. Sure, there’s now a YCC Greek life task force, but again, what’s actually changed on campus? Despite all the outrage last semester, High Street is now busier than ever; what’s particularly strange is that every single fraternity on campus reported having more rushes than the pre-

vious year!

It seems that the easiest way to placate angry Yalies is to throw us a bone or two — perhaps increase funding to a few cultural houses or create a student committee — and wait out the storm. Every major protest on campus follows a remarkably similar pattern: something terrible happens, students get angry, the University issues a campuswide email apologizing and promising changes and then, about two weeks later, life moves on as if nothing happened. Sprinkle in an impassioned op-ed or two in the News and perhaps a march, and we’ve got ourselves the recipe for the quintessential Yale activist movement. I wouldn’t be surprised if Yale budgeted funding to deal with such protests each year.

The real tragedy, however, is that there are ton of issues at Yale that don’t even get the lip service of a committee or a genuine campus discussion. A survey by the Association of American Universities released this academic year noted that nearly a third of women on campus have been victims of sexual assault. That’s a striking figure. Nearly three-quarters of women at Yale also reported experiencing some type of harassment.

And to cap it off, on Tuesday, Yale reported that it had received 78

complaints of sexual misconduct last semester, an all-time high for the University. And yet, since informing the Yale community about the results of the AAU Survey in September, there’s been a deafening silence from Woodbridge Hall about sexual misconduct on campus. What are all those task forces doing now?

I’ve written previously about my distaste for “slacktivism,” but ineffective activism is arguably just as bad. The student body’s collective attention span is about as long as that of a goldfish, and we really don’t follow up on our demands. If we’re unwilling to hold Yale accountable for the issues that we protest about, what’s the point of holding 1,000-person rallies or hosting teach-ins? The myopic nature of these protests indicates one of two things: Either we Yalies aren't genuinely interested in the issues we are protesting about or we're simply lashing out without much thought about how to achieve results. I sincerely hope it's not the latter. Let's not forget that real change requires real commitment.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column usually runs on alternate Fridays.

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A chance at a dream

f the $65,000 annual price tag on our Yale education is any indicator of the soaring cost of tuition in the United States, it is fair to say that the prospect of an affordable college education is null to many Americans and even more so to marginalized communities. For undocumented students, exclusion from financial aid at public colleges and universities consigns their dreams for higher education and a better life to just that — a dream.

In this year’s legislative session, Connecticut lawmakers will be debating whether to ameliorate the economic position of undocumented students. A legislative measure has been proposed which, if passed, will equalize access to institutional financial aid for all students regardless of their immigration status. Connecticut DREAMers would finally have some of the financial support they need to bear the cost of higher education.

Considering that the present Connecticut legislature seems interested in improving educational equity, it would make sense for the state to offer undoc-

umented students financial aid.

Eighteen states currently offer in-state tuition rates for undocumented students; five states go further and allow them to receive state financial aid. With one of the worst achievement gaps when comparing white and nonwhite students, as well as lowincome and higher-income students, Connecticut should pass legislation that demonstrates its commitment to educational equity.

Ethics aside, the legislation in question is essentially an investment in Connecticut’s economy. It seeks to provide undocumented students with institutional aid. Distributed by public colleges to students as need- or merit-based grants, this form of financial aid is funded by tuition revenue, not taxpayer money.

The benefit of this particular revenue stream is that the expansion of institutional aid would pay for itself. Connecticut already requires state colleges to set aside 15 percent of tuition revenue for institutional aid to students. Thus, undocumented students who attend state universi-

ties already pay into this source of financial aid, even though they cannot qualify for it. The state’s failure to provide services to paying residents demonstrates why it is wrong to characterize undocumented students as mooching off government generosity.

Because financial aid provides an incentive to enroll in college, the expansion of financial aid would result in higher graduation rates. It is indisputable that a college education is beneficial to both graduates and society: By improving students’ employment prospects, a college education also increases state tax revenues. Faced with the implications of declining enrollment in Connecticut public colleges, policymakers would be wise to realize the fiscal benefits that the expansion of institutional aid would have. Five other states have already done so.

But, where do Yale and its students fit into the picture? As a private educational institution, Yale itself would not be affected by the proposed change. In fact, Yale already promises to meet 100 percent of undocumented

students’ demonstrated need.

This suggests at the very least that including undocumented students in financial aid packages does not cause financial aid infrastructure to crumble. Therefore, there is little reason to suspect that the expansion of institutional aid at the state level would put overall funding for financial aid at risk.

This Thursday, Yalies will have the opportunity to influence the Connecticut legislature. A coalition of activist groups on campus will direct a letter-signing campaign in order to collect signatures in support of the aid bill, which will then be presented to the legislature in Hartford. While this issue may not be immediately pertinent to the Yale community, it is to thousands of undocumented Connecticut students who dream of a better future. As residents of Connecticut, we have a responsibility to ensure that their dream becomes a reality. Sign the letter.

ROGER LOPEZ is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at roger.lopez@yale.edu .

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Activists demand climate plan updates

BY CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTER One month after 33 Elm City environmental organizations wrote a letter to Mayor Toni Harp complaining of New Haven’s lack of up-to-date climate change policy, Gov. Dannel Malloy is gearing up to release a report on the state’s progress in fighting climate change.

The letter — signed on Jan. 13 by New Haven and statewide organizations such as the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, the Yale Climate Action Network and the New Haven/León Sister City Project — called for the expeditious update of New Haven’s Climate Action Plan, which has not been amended since 2004. The Climate Action Plan is the municipal response to the 2001 Connecticut Global Warming Solutions Act, which requires an 80 percent reduction in Connecticut’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The letter articulates particular concern about New Haven’s lack of interim goals and greenhouse gas reduction targets to keep the city in line with the state’s climate change prevention goals. While city officials say New Haven is progressing toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions, climate change activists are calling for a finalized climate action plan with enumerated milestones by July 1.

“With the push coming from the state to revamp its climate change efforts, we thought it would be a good opportunity to circle back to the city and make sure their goals are in line with the state goals,” Shannon Laun, climate and energy attorney at the CT Fund for the Environment, said.

Malloy reinvigorated state efforts against climate change in April 2015 by establishing the Governor’s Council on Climate Change.

He charged the council with determining what strategies the state should use to meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction target. Laun, who frequents council meetings, said working to develop a concrete state plan was the impetus for approaching New Haven about its need for new environmental policy.

It is important for the city’s climate action plan to reflect the significant technological, scientific and policy developments of the past 11 years, Laun said. She added that the failure to update the policy hinders the state’s ability to reach

its 2050 emissions reduction target, which largely depends on cities like New Haven implementing mitigation and adaptation strategies. Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions also yields benefits for Elm City residents, including creating “green” jobs, reducing air pollution, improving active transportation and reducing energy costs for New Haven families, she said.

According to City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer, the city is working to shrink New Haven’s carbon footprint through a reduction in energy consumption in city buildings and along city streets, by installing bioswales — filters that remove silt and pollution from storm-drain runoff — and expanding access to compressed natural-gas–refueling sites and electric-car–recharging stations.

“Mayor Harp and members of her administration have been working all along to address concerns shared with other environmental stewards,” Grotheer said.

Despite the letter’s plea for an updated Climate Action Plan by July 1, city officials did not specify an intent to update its plan.

However, Laun said she felt the response from the city was positive in nature.

Laun noted that she hopes New Haven will eventually adopt a stakeholder process in amending its climate change policy, ensuring that all people affected by the new policy could have a say in it.

The stakeholder process could include procedures such as public meetings to hear residents’ feedback. Yale students have already taken an interest in pushing for an updated plan for the Elm City, she said.

“I think that sustainability is really important to Yale students because they understand the immediate impacts as well as the long-term effects which will result from inaction,” said Kamya Jagadish ’16, team leader of the residential college coordinators for the Sustainability Service Corps. “Yale students listen and learn when someone wants to tell them more about the effects of their energy use and how they can improve their daily habits.”

The initial report of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change is expected to be released by the end of February.

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

Yale looks to expand veteran enrollment

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS Jack Beecher MPH ’84 became Yale’s first Veteran Liaison just two weeks ago, but he is already taking steps to help expand Yale’s undergraduate veteran population.

Beecher, who was appointed in February by University Provost Benjamin Polak to serve as the University’s inaugural veteran coordinator, will meet in the coming weeks with Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan to find out whether veteran status can be made another distinguishing factor for admission to Yale, in addition to traditional factors like athleticism or musicality.

This initiative would be part of a larger push on Beecher’s part to foster a vibrant community of veterans across the whole University, including within the College. Applying to elite schools like Yale is competitive, but Beecher said veterans are up for the task.

“They won’t be your typical 19 year olds,” Beecher said.

“The women and men who complete a tour, most of them have some or no college experience, but they come out with a sense of maturity and purpose which is different than what the typical high schooler has.”

Patricia Wei, associate director of undergraduate admissions, said most veterans currently apply to Yale through the Eli Whitney Students Program, a program for college applicants who have had their educations interrupted for five or more years.

There are typically 20 to 30 Eli Whitney students per year among 5,200 total undergraduates, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ website.

This year, six veterans are enrolled in Yale College through the Eli Whitney Students Program, Wei said. Since 2012, seven Eli Whitney student veterans have graduated from Yale College, and one veteran withdrew before graduating, according to Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Yale College Risa Sodi, who directs the program. Although the majority of those students served in the U.S. military, one served in the Australian Army before coming to Yale.

Beecher said he hopes to utilize a number of veteran recruitment programs, including the Eli Whitney Students Program, in order to bring more veterans to Yale. Yale has a number of other outreach efforts in place to recruit veterans as well. For example, University administrators assist with the nationwide WarriorScholar Project, which provides free academic “bootcamps” for enlisted veterans, as well as the nonprofit organization Service to School’s

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Yale is considering ways to increase the size of the veteran population at the University.

VetLink program, which helps connect high-achieving veterans and active-duty service members to admissions officers. Admissions Office staff also periodically visit military bases for recruitment purposes, according to Margit Dahl ’75, director of undergraduate admissions.

Wei said her office shares Beecher’s hopes of expanding the number of veterans enrolled at Yale College.

“We embarked on our partnership with Service to School’s VetLink program [last summer] so as to improve the pipeline of veterans to Yale,” she said. “However, we do not have a quota or a specific number in mind. The number of veterans admitted will depend on the strength of their applications.”

Sodi said that from her experience in the Admissions Office, Yale looks favorably on veteran applicants.

“These are very motivated, highly driven, high-performing people,” Sodi said.

The credentials required of non-traditional applicants differ from those of typical applicants. Wei said Eli Whitney students submit a resume rather than a list of extracurricular activities, as would be expected from high school students. Veterans are often decorated with medals and have been promoted through the ranks, Sodi added, which can be an added attribute in their favor.

But Wick Sloane SOM ’84, a columnist for Inside Higher Ed who has written about the veteran population at toptier schools, characterized the application process of veterans to Yale as an uphill climb.

“Veterans I know who have inquired at Yale report either

no reply at all or an unfriendly reply,” Sloane said, adding that Yale College recruits other demographics more than it recruits veterans. “If Yale put the same effort into recruiting football players as undergraduate veterans, there would be no football team.”

Applying to Yale may be especially challenging for student veterans who did not perform well in high school, who must compete with high schoolers with perfect SAT scores and numerous Advanced Placement exams on their transcripts, Sloane said.

But the veterans who do come to Yale are nonetheless well-equipped for Yale’s academic rigor, as most already have a good sense of what they want to study, Sodi said. At Yale College, veterans tend to take courses in history, political science, economics and Global Affairs, she said, adding that she does not have the exact breakdown of veteran majors. Sodi said she thinks veterans are a benefit to the broader undergraduate population and bring firsthand experience that other students lack.

“They have really clear goals for being here at Yale,” Sodi said. “They’ve had boots-onthe-ground experience, now they want to study the theory and history of the conflict they were in.”

Elizabeth Verardo GRD ’16 completed two tours in Afghanistan and now studies in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale. Verardo said many of her classmates have some service experience, from the Peace Corps to the military to the public sector.

In class, Verardo said, her military experiences often reveal interesting tensions

between theory and practice in war. In Grand Strategy, for instance, Verardo found that she sometimes disagreed with certain theories about combat that she encountered in the reading.

Veterans may not be the “ p ra c t i c a l ly- p e r fe c t - i n every-way” applicants that Yale and its peers prefer, Sloane said, but their military service gives them motivation, awareness and focus that will allow them to succeed at Yale.

Yale is not alone in its efforts to expand the undergraduate veteran population. Earlier this month, Princeton University announced plans to expand and diversify its undergraduate student body by accepting a greater number of transfer students — a plan that was discontinued in 1990 but which is expected to begin again in 2018 — including U.S. military veterans.

Beecher said Yale is also looking to schools closer to the Elm City that have thriving veteran programs. Quinnipiac University has a very active military program, Beecher said. Southern Connecticut State University and the University of New Haven have similar, though less welldeveloped programs, he added.

“The focus right now is on information gathering,” Beecher said.

Yale is only just beginning to keep track of its undergraduate veteran population, Sodi said.

Before around 2011, the University did not keep very accurate records of which students had military experience and which did not, she said.

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

New satellite launched to explore black holes and galaxies

BY NATALINA LOPEZ STAFF REPORTER

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Astronomy professor Meg Urry was one of the eight American scientists chosen to first review data collected from the mission.

The new satellite ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory is set to have launched early Wednesday morning as part of a mission to understand emissions caused by fast-moving matter such as black holes and galaxy clusters.

Physics and astronomy professor Paolo Coppi and physics professor Meg Urry were two of the eight American scientists chosen to join the Science Working Group, the team first able to review all of the data collected from the mission. This project, led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will orbit the equator and collect data for three years with equipment including high resolution x-rays and a calorimeter, which measures the shape of the atomic iron emission profile. The satellite was approved for a “mission start” in 2009, when NASA first issued the call for the creation of the SWG. As of press time, the mission was set to launch at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday, but Coppi said it was possible for a number of problems to delay the mission.

The Yale astronomers noted that while similar mission satellite studies have occurred, the ASTRO-H is unique because it improves upon the resolution and sensitivity of the X-rays produced by the satellite.

“We have many good reasons why we need ASTRO-H,” principal investigator Tadayuki Takahashi said. “But my hope is that we can find something new that nobody expects.”

The extreme high-energy resolution and sensitivity Astro-H provides at energies of 6 kiloelectronvolts — energy equivalent to a supernova blast wave or the event horizon of black holes — is “truly special,” Coppi said. Urry noted that an orbiting telescope is necessary to study the particles in those clusters that emit X-rays with wavelengths 1,000 to 100,000 times shorter than visible light.

To achieve this, Urry said, the ASTRO-H is equipped with an X-ray calorimeter, which allows for highspectra resolution 100 times more sensitive than others. The instrument uses a multi-stage cooling system and efficient X-ray mirror that permits a large collection area, she added.

“In many ways, ASTRO-H is the most complex space-science satellite project ever handled by JAXA, and a lot of new ways of doing things are being implemented,” Coppi said.

“The Japanese have made an effort to make sure this is truly an international collaboration, actively seeking input from many outside experts.”

The ASTRO-H mission’s launch, originally scheduled for Feb. 12,

was delayed due to weather. Coppi said this delay was the least of their impediments, adding that ASTROH endured many redesigns and model launches further postponing its launch. The basic ideas for the launch originated almost 30 years ago, but the team needed more time and improvements in technology to decrease the amount of noise on the X-ray images, he added.

He explained that the collaboration process between the Japanese and U.S. scientists was also difficult at times because of lack of communication. Urry noted that while the U.S. usually works well with Japan, and the collaboration for this project has overall gone well, their styles of work differ.

“It turns out that Japanese engineers are quite meticulous in their design and like to make tightly sealed boxes to hold their instruments,” Coppi said. “U.S. space engineers are typically less careful and in fact make sure that the box is very leaky, so that the waste gasses get sent out into space.”

ASTRO-H will be launched into low-Earth orbit from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, by a JAXA H-IIA rocket.

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

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“I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.”

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University announces ethnic study center CENTER FROM PAGE 1 from ER&M, African American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and met for the first time roughly two weeks ago with Polak. The committee also includes Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery. There are no students on the committee.

“What’s exciting about this center is that it draws on so many strengths of our faculty across the disciplines, and in doing so provides new opportunities for collaboration between and among them. For students, this means wider access to courses that examine key aspects of who we are through a variety of lenses and from a range of academic perspectives,” Salovey told the News. “It’s important for Yale to lead on scholarship about race and ethnicity just as we lead the effort to foster a culture of inclusion on university campuses and in society more broadly. This center will be a highly effective way to solidify that leadership.”

Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti, former ER&M director, will serve as the center’s inaugural director and chair of its implementation committee.

Pitti said over the course of this semester, the implementation committee will be discussing the center’s first steps and reaching out to members of the Yale community for input. But the center has yet to find a physical space, he said.

“We are looking to establish a permanent home for the center on campus in the next few years,” Pitti said. “There is strong support for finding a new space on central campus that will be home

to this center, and I am confident that the University will identify and make such a space available in the coming semesters.”

Polak said the center will help promote research on campus and attract new faculty members.

Blight said he has been told the center will be located at an office space behind Toad’s Place, though that may be subject to change. He also said the building, which currently houses the Yale College Writing Center, has a “sizable” amount of space, perhaps enough to fit a seminar room.

Blight added that while some functions of the center are set — such as funds provided for student research in related fields and the hosting of public functions — significant planning is still required, as it is unclear whether the center will be used by students or how its $600,000 budget will be allocated. Blight said the Yale Center on Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, which he directs, has an annual budget of $400,000.

“It is yet to be determined how any of [the budget] is to be used toward undergraduate education, graduate education, how much of it could go into recruiting new faculty. I don’t think any of those decisions have been made yet,” he said. “I guess I would say this — any center like this has to evolve.”

Native American Studies specialist Ned Blackhawk, who is serving on the implementation committee, said the center is one of the few initiatives that highlights the importance of indigeneity through intersectional and transnational anal-

ysis. He praised the University’s commitment to the center’s establishment.

Blight said while he is not sure why a student was not included on the implementation committee, he hypothesized that the provost — who asked him to serve on the group — likely wanted to recruit academics for the center.

“What Yale does best in the world is create knowledge and education, which is why the scholarly focus exists,” Blight said. “I also hope the center reaches out to the community and the world, and is not just about us.”

While a center for ethnic studies has been in the works for quite some time, the University has not always been fully committed to the idea.

In an interview with the News last semester, Pitti said conversations about a possible center began in 2009 amongst a group of eight faculty members, including himself. The center they envisioned then would have supported the ER&M program and departments such as African American Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies.

However, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who took part in the initial efforts, told the News in December that four proposals made since 2011 simply did not gain enough traction in the community.

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“If you exclude these two years, there has been an average of one or two masters stepping down per year. In my eight years as master [of Calhoun College], there was a period of incredible stability, and the most was two masters stepping down within a year,” Holloway said. “This is certainly a historic moment.”

Before the start of the next academic year, the University will name the new masters of Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards Colleges, as well as the deans of Ezra Stiles, Pierson and Trumbull. Holloway said five search committees, made up of students and residential college fellows, have been tasked with choosing a replacement for each position.

The YCDO’s steering committee for the new colleges will be in charge of making recommendations for both masterships.

Holloway attributed the large recent turnover of residential college administrators to a policy of term limits established by former Univer-

sity President Richard Levin.

This three-term-limit policy means that masters usually serve two five-year terms, and a third only under “exceptional circumstances,” Holloway said. While Holloway said the masters who have recently departed or are expected to depart did not make their decisions because of the term limit, he believes the policy has made masters approach the position somewhat differently.

“Even though these masters are not leaving because of the term limit, it has been planted in their heads that this is a job for seven to 10 years,” he said.

Marvin Chun, who became master of Berkeley in 2007 and announced his decision to step down in October, said the term limits are reasonable to ensure that new leaders can bring fresh ideas to the community.

But he said the limits did not play a role in his departure.

Chun said he felt welcome to stay in the position but wanted to spend more time with his family.

Judith Krauss, who served as master of Silliman College for 15 years and also worked as

Chair of the Council of Masters from 2003 to 2009, said the average length of service for masters was around six to seven years during her time as chair.

Psychology professor Frank Keil, who served as master of Morse from 2001–2012, said he does not think the term limit significantly changes how most masters think about the job. The term limit also allows more faculty members to take on the position, he added.

However, several former masters noted that the position has been evolving into a more hands-on, administrative role that is taxing to faculty members. Krauss said the role has changed from being a largely honorific arms-length post, where the master was a revered scholar whose intellectual interests might help “define” the college. Masters are still revered scholars, but are also expected to have a significant role in shaping the culture and tending the community in partnership with the dean. Krauss added that this work takes an enormous amount of energy and focus,

and said the term limit makes sense given the rigor of the job.

Steven Smith, a political science professor who served as master of Branford from 1996–2011, said that the position has changed a lot since he was master but that it should retain a sense of intellectual purpose. He added that he was concerned about whether there will be people who want to do the job after the controversies involving Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis and Associate Master Erika Christakis last fall.

“The main thing is that the positions be filled as much as possible by people in [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] who bring to the job a sense of the intellectual culture of Yale and that it not become simply a post for therapists and professional administrators,” Smith said. “If this happens, the mission of the collegiate system will become unrecognizable.”

Head of Pierson College Stephen Davis currently chairs the Council of Masters.

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

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Relay for Life kicks off season

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Volunteers at Yale kicked off their Relay for Life preparations at Dwight Hall Tuesday night with music, cookies and Olympic-themed decorations.

The kickoff event was held to register participants and generate excitement for the upcoming walkathon in April, which will raise money for cancer research through the American Cancer Society.

For its 11th year in a row, the walkathon will take place in the Lanman Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium on April 15 from 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. The fundraiser is organized by Yale volunteers in conjunction with a representative from the American Cancer Society. According to Thomas Tolton ’16, event co-chair, donations from last year’s relay brought total donations from the past decade up to the $1 million mark. He said approximately 500 participants raised $3,600 from the fundraiser last year , and organizers hope to raise closer to $4,000 at Yale this year. At the kickoff event, organizers expressed their excitement and their plans for the relay.

“Relay for Life aims to bring community members together in solidarity and to empower us with hope and courage,” said Braden Miller ’16, an event organizer who has been involved with the relay for three years. “The whole process of getting everyone together strengthens the bond between members of the Yale community and reminds them that we’re all in this together.”

Donations for Relay for Life come from registration fees as well as fundrais-

ers coordinated by the individuals and teams who sign up for the walkathon. In addition to contributing to research through the American Cancer Society, proceeds also go toward funding cancer research at Yale.

According to Relay for Life community manager Ericka Ganley, Yale researchers have received roughly $7.9 million in grant money from the American Cancer Society. She added that Yale is the American Cancer Society’s highest funded research site in the state.

Relay for Life aims to bring community members together in solidarity and to empower us with hope and courage.

BRADEN MILLER ’16 Event Organizer Volunteers emphasized the success of last year’s event and said they hope to raise more support and awareness this year.

“We really gained momentum,” Ganley said. “The event last year was really wonderful and set the foundation for building back up for this year.”

Organizers also discussed the importance of reaching out to the community and dispelling misconceptions about the walkathon, such as the idea that it is a pro-life event or competitive race.

The event is a 12-hourlong walkathon during which participating individuals can

walk around the track at Payne Whitney for as long as they want, said Relay for Life event co-chair Lina Najem ’18. She added that money raised goes not only to crucial cancer research, but also to lesser known services for patients such as treatment and various forms of emotional support, including partners to accompany patients to chemotherapy treatments, care houses and support groups.

“Almost everyone, I’m sure, in one capacity or another, knows someone who has cancer or is affected by cancer,” Tolton said. “ That’s why I’m still a part of it — it’s something I did in high school and is still something I’m really thankful to be involved in.”

Students registering for the event, such as Ariel Hernandez-Leyva ’16, said they were excited to participate and contribute to an important cause.

Former event co-chair Danielle Currin ’16 added that a particularly moving part of the night is the Luminaria ceremony, which involves decorating paper bags in honor or in memory of loved ones who have battled cancer. Candles placed inside the bags are lit as the gym lights are turned off. The ceremony also includes speeches and a silent lap, Currin said.

Although the relay is an emotional experience for many, it can also be a celebration of life, she added.

“It’s a party, for the most part,” Currin said. “It’s a celebration of all that we’ve accomplished so far and how much more there’s still left to do.”

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

Former UN ambassador talks leadership

BY SHUYU SONG STAFF REPORTER Despite the light rain, around 40 students gathered in Davies Auditorium Tuesday night for a talk by former UN Ambassador Andrew Young at which Young spoke about the keys to leadership based on his experience as a diplomat and politician.

During the talk, Young addressed understandings and challenges of leadership since the civil rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the decades leading up to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Quoting King frequently, Young said that world leaders should develop a vision for the future that can bridge gaps between otherwise divided groups of people. In addition to his ambassadorship, Young served as one of King’s closest aides during the civil rights movement, a congressman from Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta.

“You can’t decide to be a leader. You have to be trusted and selected by people. They push you into it, but once you are in that position, you have to have some vision to get out of it,” Young said. He highlighted the example of King, who went to Montgomery, Alabama, to deliver a speech and not to seek leadership, though he inspired Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists to participate in the wider movement.

Young also endorsed King’s method of civil disobedience and nonviolence. He said King believed that people should find ways to live like brothers and sisters. According to Young, the main challenge of leadership is developing a vision everyone can take part in. He summarized this vision in one word: survival.

Young noted that technology has changed the meaning of leadership since the civil rights movement.

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Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young spoke Tuesday night.

“The world is so complex that it not only requires new kinds of leadership but a new kind of sensitivity,” Young said. However, he also said that though the world has undergone significant change, the way in which people approach contemporary problems has not lost its importance.

During the talk, Kevin Staton, who attended Howard University with Young’s son, asked Young about his opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement. Young said that there is a significant difference between the civil rights movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement in that the civil rights movement took 20 years of preparation and came after landmark legal decisions regarding segregation and discrimination in the U.S., such as Brown v. Board of Education. He emphasized the importance of moving beyond frustration to reach a consensus.

University President Peter

Salovey, who attended the talk, praised Young as a gifted mayor and an insightful ambassador to the United Nations.

“I enjoyed his comments about leadership and about the past and present of the civil rights movement, which were uplifting, but his comments about how to get together to do things in the municipal leadership are practical and exemplary for us here in New Haven,” Salovey said.

Audience members interviewed found Young’s advice on leadership inspiring, but some found his gentle attitude toward those who disagree surprising.

Lelina Chang ’18 said that she was amazed to see such a successful person have such humility.

Young graduated from Howard University in 1951 at the age of 19.

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“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” LAUNCELOT FROM SHAKESPEARE’S “THE MERCHANT OF VENICE”

Grad students struggle with child-care costs CHILD CARE FROM PAGE 1 den child-care costs impose on graduate-student parents. The median annual spending on child care for student parents in the graduate school is $10,000 — about 20 percent of the median income for families in that group.

According to the GPSS survey, student parents in the professional schools spend even more on child care and tend to take on larger quantities of debt, but those additional costs are partly offset by their higher future earning potential.

The University does provide graduate-student parents with some services designed to ease the financial strain of raising children. It offers health insurance at no additional cost to the children of student parents enrolled on the Yale Health plan, as well as paid relief from academic work for eight weeks following a birth or adoption. Jeremy Jacox MED ’15 GRD ’15, a Graduate Student Life Fellow who specializes in assisting graduate-student families on campus and who is a student parent himself, said those offerings set Yale apart from many of its peer institutions.

But alongside Harvard and Dartmouth, Yale is one of just three Ivy League schools that does not provide child-care subsidies to graduate and professional students. If the University continues to neglect the childcare needs of graduate student parents, it risks stymying the

progress of women in academia, Jacox said. At other peer institutions, child-care subsidies are often distributed on a needbased scale.

“Yale would be a beacon of progressive thinking on this issue by launching a development program to raise funds for a child-care facility on the main campus and an endowment to substantially reduce the cost of infant and toddler care on campus,” said biology professor Paula Kavathas, who serves as chair of the Women Faculty Forum, a gender equity group.

This is not the first time University administrators have taken up the issue of child-care support for graduate student parents. In 2005, then-University Provost Andrew Hamilton announced plans for an on-campus day-care center for the children of faculty and graduate and professional students, but the initiative fell through due to complications in zoning laws.

In 2006, the last time the GPSS gathered data on the financial burden of child care, 9 percent of graduate-student parents surveyed indicated that they had taken out loans in order to pay for day care, spending an average of $900 per month. 10 percent of respondents said they had considered leaving the University because it did not adequately support graduate students with children.

In recent years, the controversy over child-care support has grown even more fraught,

as graduate students weigh the personal benefits of starting a family against the difficulties of navigating an increasingly competitive academic job market.

Anna Jurkevics GRD ’15, who has two children, said that when she announced her first pregnancy, she was greeted with “shock” from peers and advisors.

“Yale is a childless world,” she said. “I’ve had to fight to remind people to take me seriously.”

Jurkevics could not afford any of the on-campus day-care centers affiliated with the University, and she eventually enrolled her now two-year-old daughter in the Sunshine Preschool in Hamden, Connecticut, which costs $1,160 per month, nearly $200 less than the cheapest Yale-affiliated daycare. Nevertheless, for nearly two years, she and her husband could not afford a car and had to take turns biking their child to school, wrapping her in wool blankets on wintry mornings.

But the Thursday meeting appears to signal a new approach to these issues from administrators who some graduate-student parents say have previously ignored calls for child-care subsidies.

Last spring, Cooley held a “Dine with the Dean” luncheon to discuss the concerns of graduate-student parents, but only four student parents were able to attend, and the rest of the slots were filled by students in the economics department.

“We just got cut off,” said

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NHPS FROM PAGE 1 nonprofit Educational Testing Services. But many paraprofessionals have bachelor’s or associate’s degrees, and some have more advanced degrees, Aiello added.

Harp said paraprofessionals with advanced degrees are essentially working for “slave wages.” De La Paz noted these paraprofessionals are generally charged with the most “fragile and delicate students” in the district — including those with special needs.

But BOE member Darnell Goldson questioned the rationale behind raising salaries for paraprofessionals amid large numbers of districtwide teacher vacancies.

Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 noted that there were 40 unfilled teaching positions throughout 48 NHPS schools as of Jan. 20.

“Our job is to make sure our kids are being educated,” Goldson said. “So how does increasing [paraprofessional] salaries by 40 percent

improve educational outcomes in the system?”

NHPS Director of Student Services Typhanie Jackson said that increasing paraprofessionals’ pay would allow the district to attract highquality applicants who could then be channeled into a teacher pipeline, providing the district with more wellqualified teachers.

Jackson added that NHPS is currently preparing a number of paraprofessionals to become special education teachers. 170 of NHPS’ 500 paraprofessionals work in special education, Aiello said.

“We oftentimes look towards our paraprofessionals as being those folks who are in line for teaching positions,” Jackson said. “There’s an opportunity from my vantage point to attract highquality people who we can groom to put into teacher vacancies.”

De La Paz also proposed increases to substitute teachers’ salaries, which would amount to $765,887 in raises for the year. In total, the pro-

posed teacher and paraprofessional increases would lead to the district paying over $105 million toward school professionals’ salaries, which currently amount to around $102 million, De La Paz said.

Amid these proposed increases and a requested $2.2 million to redesign the four alternative schools in the district — which are available to at-risk students with severe behavioral or psychiatric disorders — De La Paz also said his office is working toward a 7 percent internal reduction in spending across all centraloffice services. He said these cuts would not come at the expense of individual NHPS schools.

“We have cost increases that are coming down the line across the district, but our intent is to absorb the increases by reductions to the central office,” De La Paz said.

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Jurkevics, who attended the lunch. “The rest of the lunch was about the econ students, how it was drafty in their building.”

At the lunch, Jurkevics added, she got the impression that Cooley did not understand the challenges of balancing child care with doctoral work, speculating that administrators from older generations are disconnected from the needs of modern graduate students.

“It sounded like it had never come across her desk that here are parents who are graduate students,” Jurkevics said. “It didn’t seem to be that she initially believed that it really was a problem.”

Cooley told the News that she

“can only imagine that the student misunderstood something I said,” adding that she has been working with the GSA to formulate a subsidy plan since she was appointed dean in 2014.

Jacox said he attributes the lack of child-care subsidies at the University partly to the fact that no campus organization is dedicated specifically to lobbying administrators on behalf of graduate student parents.

“There isn’t very much parental representation on some of those committees, and maybe that’s why some of those issues haven’t come up historically, until more recently,” said Jacox, referring to the efforts of the GSA and GPSS.

But the push for child-care subsidies has gained momentum in recent months. On top of the GSA and GPSS initiatives, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, the unofficial graduate student union, included child-care support in a list of demands it delivered to University administrators last May. “Within the community, we all know that there is a population of parents,” Mo said. “We’re aware that it’s a struggle. And we’re trying now to be a voice for this group.”

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Extended PWG hours may continue lar, and the weeknight hours have been pretty popular,” Diaz said.

“We are reviewing the numbers pretty much right now to take a look at what is going to happen.”

Under the pilot program, Payne Whitney’s closing time was pushed back from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The gym did not change its opening times, which are 6 a.m. on weekdays and 9:30 a.m. on weekends.

Chair of the Graduate Student Assembly Elizabeth Salm GRD ’18 said that in discussions with graduate students, GSA has seen an enthusiastic response to the extended hours and a general call for their continuation.

“People are loving it,” GSA vice-chair Katie Oltman GRD ’19 said. “I particularly like not getting kicked out at 9 p.m.”

Payne Whitney administrators have been procuring data on gym attendance through two methods, Diaz said. Employees have tracked the number of people checking in at the front desk,

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but because a person could enter Payne Whitney hours before closing time and stay until after 10 p.m., employees have also counted the number of people in the building during the extended hours.

Diaz said although he could not comment on the timeline for the decision, he expects it to be announced “fairly soon” because the numbers are already under revision. He could not publicize the specific attendance data but added that “the numbers tell the tale” about the fair amount of success the pilot program has had.

Interviews with 25 gymgoers after 10 p.m. on Monday night indicated significant support for the new hours. At least 30 people, not including varsity athletes leaving practice, were using Payne Whitney facilities between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Monday night, and seven of those interviewed said they use the extended hours at least three to four times a week.

The vast majority of those found leaving the gym late Monday night were graduate students, who Oltman said have

been the biggest advocates for the extended hours because their daily schedules often do not permit them to use the gym during the day. Undergraduates also have 24-hour access to residential college gymnasiums, while graduate students do not have an equivalent exercising option on campus.

“I work from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and this way I can come to the gym after and not have to get up at an obnoxiously early hour,” said Aarushi Gupta GRD ’21, who was exercising Monday night.

Although the issue of gym hours was primarily brought to athletic administrators by graduate students, undergraduates interviewed also expressed support for the new hours, highlighting that they felt less pressure to go to the gym early.

In addition to the issue of gym hours, Salm said the GSA is pushing for additional library hours, particularly during the weekends and the summer, when graduate students are more likely to use on-campus libraries than undergraduates.

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

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6:00 PM Tenth Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her students. Three undergraduate writers will join professor Anne Fadiman to read from essays about pianos, guitars and tattoos.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 9:30 AM Bringing Its Treasures to Light: Three Centuries of Yale Library Cataloging and Classification. Judith Schiff, chief research archivist in Manuscripts & Archives, and Stephen Young, catalog librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, discuss the history of classification practices at Yale from the 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. Young will be on hand to answer questions about current classification and cataloging practices. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room.

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SPORTS

“These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”

KOBE BRYANT RETIRING NBA SUPERSTAR

Sears starring in senior campaign M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 which Yale shared the league title for the first time since 2002, the 6-foot-8 forward led the Elis with 14.3 points per game to go along with 7.5 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per contest. Sears’ efforts won him the distinction of Ivy League Player of Year, making him the first Yale player since 1988 to win the award.

This year, undefeated in league play through eight games and currently sitting in first place, the Bulldogs are again relying on Sears’ eye-catching numbers. Through 22 games, the senior ranks fourth in the league in scoring at 16.5 points per game, second in blocked shots with 1.7 per game and first in offensive rebounds with 3.6 per game.

“He has shown his dominance on both ends of the court,” point guard Makai Mason ’18 said of his teammate. “He is nearly impossible to guard because he is so long and he elevates so well on his jump shot. He is an animal on the backboards.”

Just as Yale, currently riding a 12-game winning streak, has dealt with a target on its back after being chosen as the preseason Ivy League favorite, Sears has also received increased attention in his senior campaign.

With rival teams focused in on Sears’ well-proven ability to score and rebound — opposing defenses have consistently thrown double- and occasionally triple-teams at the forward — Sears has diversified his game by involving his teammates more.

No category better illustrates this than his assists numbers. Sears’ average assists have increased each year, beginning with 0.9 assists per game as a freshman and now topping out at 2.9 dimes per game, nearly double the 1.5 he averaged last season.

“Justin draws a lot of attention in the low post and because of that he’s played a huge part in getting other guys easy baskets,” forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 said. “I’ve certainly been a beneficiary of a few Justin Sears assists. I also think that his passing ability is one of the most underrated parts of his game.”

Sherrod may know better than anyone how much space Sears can create for his teammates due to the attention he draws from the opposition.

During Sherrod’s recent NCAA record-setting stretch of 30 consecutive made field goals, Sears was on the floor for 19 of those baskets.

Jones noted that the biggest development in Sears’ game has been his increased incorporation of his teammates without sacrificing his scoring or his aggressiveness on the glass.

Jones, now in his 17th year at the helm of the Yale program, is still pursuing the same elusive goal as Sears. Jones is the longest-tenured active Division I coach to have never gone to the NCAA Tournament.

Though Sears acknowledged that he and the coach often clashed during his freshman and sophomore years because of Sears’ stubbornness, the forward credited Jones for his part in the strides he has made from year to year.

Their relationship, Sears said, is one he will value for the remainder of his life.

“Justin is a quirky kid and a different kid. He is not like everyone else,” Jones said.

“Reaching Justin was a little different than reaching some of the other guys on the team, but he has always wanted to be the best that he could be. He certainly has always paid attention to myself and the rest of the coaching staff in ways to help him try to become better, which helps our relationship on and off

STEPPING UP SEARS’ AVERAGES THROUGH THE YEARS

2013–14 16.9 points

2014–15 14.3 points

2012–13 9.5 points

2015–16* 2.9 assists 2014–15 1.5 assists

2013–14 1.4 assists

2012–13 0.9 assists

*Through 22 games MAYA SWEEDLER/PRODUCTION AND DESIGN STAFF

the court. We are both just really trying to help each other.”

Thus far, the partnership has thrived. Yale needs just one more win to tie the programbest 13-game winning streak set by the 1906–07 Bulldogs.

The opportunity to match that mark will come against a

team close to Sears, at least in terms of distance. On Friday night, the Bulldogs face Princeton, a team that sits in second place in the Ivy League, and is located fewer than 30 miles from Sears’ hometown.

“Everyone and their mother from Plainfield are coming, so

I’ve been getting a ton of calls and texts about tickets,” Sears said.

While Sears noted that finishing up his career as a Bulldog is a “bittersweet” experience, a victory against Princeton could play a large role in extending that career to previously unex-

Simpson talks record, season W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 defense transitions into offense.

If you are successful in getting rebounds and steals, it transfers to offense, and there is a higher chance of being successful in the game. It is nice to lead the league in steals, but like I said, at the end of the day it is about how that shifts into our offense and the results of the game.

year as a sophomore you are at 10.8. Can you comment on that uptick in your offensive contribution?

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I just think my teammates and I, we are all working for the same goal, and we are way more effective in our offense this year. The scoring has been spread out across the board.

The past couple games I have been scoring more than I usually do, but any day that can also be Whitney [Wyckoff ’16] or Nyasha [Sarju ’16]. Anyone can step up and score the most points.

I don’t think individual points are that important in reference to the overall game; I can go and not score but still be successful on defense and help out in other ways. But yes, I am happy I can help my team out in more ways than one, both with steals and points.

the losses to Dartmouth QAfter and Harvard, the team is

now on a six-game losing streak.

What do you think will be the key to improving the team’s performance in the second half of the Ivy season?

I think we need to focus on insisting on defense. We can’t be intimidated by other teams, and we need to focus on our style of basketball rather than responding to other teams’ and how they run their game. We need to get better at playing each game and focusing on ourselves for those 40 minutes.

have been the team’s QWhat biggest struggles so far this

plored territory: March Madness.

Yale has not advanced to the NCAA Tournament since 1962.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Be a real fan BRONDSON FROM PAGE 12

year you scored 8.9 QLast points per game, and this

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2015–16* 16.5 points

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Simpson has six games remaining in the season to augment her current steal total of 80. season?

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I think that [it is] how we bounce back from defensive losses. We don’t get in the right place for help. Also, how we respond to adversity in general — we just have to focus on having a short-term memory

and marking it up for the next play and not focusing on our losses for too long. have both the coachQHow ing staff and your captain, Whitney Wyckoff, been helping keep the team’s morale up

despite the losses?

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I think they do a great job at keeping our spirits up. We touch base a lot, I just had lunch with my head coach today, and they are making sure everyone is in a good place. They remind us that we are a great team and

that just because of a couple of losses we can’t begin doubting ourselves or the future. We can do it, and we are a great team, but we just have to overcome these adversities right now.

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

onals on Feb. 27 and 28 — could see even more records fall, and this is all before the spring season gets underway next month.

And of course, the women’s swimming and diving team just swept through the conference, swimming laps around its competition all season en route to a perfect Ivy record. The Elis’ regular season culminated in a victory at HYP, the first time in almost two decades.

There are so many teams that don’t get the attention they deserve. Every Yale student-athlete pours hours into his or her sport every single day and still manages to get those papers and p-sets done. Yet it’s so easy for us to focus on the high-profile sports at the expense of everything else.

I’m not saying to boycott sports like basketball or hockey. The upcoming hoops game against Princeton figures to go a long way in determining the Ancient Eight title, and there’s nothing like the atmosphere at Ingalls Rink, with 3,500 screaming fans in perhaps the most beautiful rink in the country. It’s truly a sight to behold.

But wouldn’t it be something if we filled Coxe Cage with the same enthusiasm? What if Yale Field, which has played host to American legends like Babe Ruth and George H. W. Bush ’48, was standing room only? Or if the CullmanHeyman Tennis Center could echo with cheers and chants?

We’re lucky enough to be surrounded by a plethora of talented peers who just so happen to also represent the Blue and White on the fields. It’s high time we go out and support them.

GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College and former Sports Editor for the News. Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE YUAG celebrates Dada centennial

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER This year, Dada will celebrate its 100th birthday with an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery.

“Everything is Dada” aims to explore Dadaism’s continued relevance for contemporary audiences, drawing on the gallery’s permanent holdings to bring together pieces by some of Dada’s most notable figures. The show is accompanied by a program of events that includes a Dada-themed ball, an “un-symposium” and a series of gallery talks, all geared toward providing visitors with an unconventional and interactive Dada experience in line with the values that inspired the movement’s initial practitioners. Frauke Josenhans, the exhibition’s curator, stressed the show’s focus on making important Dadaist works from the YUAG’s collection of early–20th-century art accessible to the public.

“This is really a time for us to celebrate Dada with works from our collection, [as] we’re one of the very few institutions in the United States with such a rich collection of Dada works,” Josenhans explained. “I wanted to engage the audience with Dada and think about how Dada can translate to our contemporary world, how its spirit can be brought to our society.”

The exhibition is organized into thematic modules rather than by a geographic or chronological progression, Josenhans said. Sections dedicated to Dadaist circles in New York City and Zürich — which

include multimedia works by Marcel Duchamp and Louis Michel Eilshemius, lithographs

by George Grosz and rayographs

by Man Ray — coexist with various “interactive” elements, like a spinning platform that allows visitors to experience a set of prints in mock animation, a listening station with recordings of Dada poetry and a screening room featuring snippets from Dada movies. A “playfully” decorated corridor, with a design Josenhans said evokes themes of “sense and nonsense,” was created in collaboration with graduate students in the School of Art’s graphic design program.

The choice to allow such diverse media to coexist in a single exhibition is true to the Dada aesthetic, Josenhans said. “[The artists] believed that everything is art and that everyone can be an artist,” she explained. “They took whatever they found, everyday objects, and transformed them into art.”

Molleen Theodore, the gallery’s assistant curator of programs, added that the show’s interactive component pays tribute to Dada’s origins in performance art. One section of the exhibition is shrouded in red velvet curtains, which conceal abstract watercolor sketches by Beatrice Wood and offer a nod to the cabaret in which the artistic movement was born, Theodore noted.

Given Dada’s origins, Theodore said, curators thought it was important that performance be represented in the exhibition.

“The visual arts are important, but [Dada] began as a per-

formative response to what was going on in the world,” she explained. “It seemed absolutely critical that the performance aspect of this exhibition was robust and was evidence of the absurdity of the movement during its time.”

Christopher Sleboda, the

YUAG’s director of graphic design, said he thinks some of the works on display — despite having been produced a century ago — feel as if they “could have been created two weeks ago.”

Sleboda emphasized, in particular, the opportunity the show presents for gallery visi-

tors to engage closely with such works, and to consider their relation to a contemporary moment.

“This show is a great opportunity for the community to see some of these works, to consider the various themes that Dada artists engaged with and

grapple with how Dada continues to impact art and culture a hundred years after the movement’s birth,” he said.

“Everything is Dada” will remain on view through July 3.

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

OTIS BAKER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER, CATALINA SEQUEIRA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER (BOTTOM CENTER)

A new exhibition draws on the YUAG’s permanent collection to consider Dada’s contemporary relevance.

Exhibit mixes work and play

BY ALEX MARTINIOUK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

AALIYAH IBRAHIM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Blurring the lines between workspace and gallery, the Grove hosts pieces by a local artist duo.

A new multimedia exhibition at the Grove, a collaborative workspace in downtown New Haven, melds art, work and play.

Opening Wednesday, “Love.

Life. Art” features works by painter Tracie Cheng and sculptor Eóin Burke ART ’09, a pair of local artists. The show explores concepts such as the role of “play” in artistic practice, the various ways in which art objects can evoke feeling and the ability of art to shape the constructed — and the work — environment. According to curator Elinor Slomba, “Love.

Life. Art” attempts to inject painting and sculpture into the daily experience of those who utilize the Grove as a collective work venue.

“We want to create a sense of curiosity, possibility and connecting ideas from the business world to visual forms,” Slomba said. “Many important things that people are exploring in the

business world — artists are already there.”

“Rest,” a figurative, clay epoxy sculpture by Burke, and “Wash Over Me,” one of Cheng’s panel paintings in acrylics and oils, are two of roughly a dozen pieces on display in the show. The pair, situated at the top of the Grove’s main staircase, welcomes visitors into the space and signals the interaction between “workspace” and “gallery” that Slomba said she hoped the exhibition would establish.

Another work by Cheng, “In the Light,” depicts undulating, wavelike forms in marine colors. Noting that the painting was one of her favorites in the exhibition, Slomba highlighted the particular relevance of its subject matter for contemporary viewers.

“Waves and wavelike structures are relevant to us, from social networks to outer space,” Slomba explained.

This relevance, she stressed, constituted an important facet of her curatorial vision, which

focused largely on selecting pieces to complement the Grove’s workspace and establish a dialogue between the objects and the site — as well as between the art and the Grove’s community of workers.

In line with Slomba’s vision, the works featured in the show focus on the ways in which the particular “layers” of a space combine and interact, as well as the conversations that can happen between works of art, the artists said “We’re working with a theme of layering — a discovery of everything that’s around and beneath, and how that supports what is visibly seen,” Cheng noted. “Though our art may seem drastically different, mine abstract and his figural, both are imbued with natural forms that distinctly interact with each other.”

The Grove houses the state of Connecticut’s oldest functioning elevator.

Contact ALEX MARTINIOUK at oleksa.martiniouk@yale.edu .

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“Art is all a matter of personality.”

MARCEL DUCHAMP FRENCH DADAIST PAINTER AND SCULPTOR

Event explores intersection of art and athletics

BY TÉA BEER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A group of students and professors at Yale are trying to redefine the panel discussion — and consider the intersection of art and athletics.

“Game Recognize Game,” a new event at the School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery, will assemble athletes and artists of color to discuss issues surrounding the politics of representation. Addressing practices that span disciplines, such as “performative resistance” and political activism, the event focuses on the modes various practitioners employ in their engagement with dominant social or cultural norms. The event, organized by Tomashi Jackson ART ’16, will be hosted on Sunday, Feb. 28 in tandem with the “Black Pulp!” exhibi-

tion at the 32 Edgewood Gallery, and has received support from the School of Art as well as a host of other organizations on campus, including La Casa Cultural, the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Intercultural Affairs Council of Yale College and the Department of African American Studies. Speakers will include Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party’s former minister of culture, and John Wesley Carlos, a bronze-medal Olympic track and field athlete who participated in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. “‘Game Recognize Game’ brings together accomplished artists and athletes of color for generative interdisciplinary discussion around visual representation, politics, technique, strategy, (non) performance and mastery in professional sports and artistic practices,” Jack-

son said. “We are interested in artists and athletes of color whose work has evoked humanist interpretation while challenging established boundaries of their professional realms of sports and art.”

During the event, Douglas and Carlos will participate in a panel discussion on “Form and Strategy” mediated by Karleh Wilson ’16, a member of the track and field team, and William Cordova ART ’04, a practicing artist who splits his time between Lima, Peru, Miami and New York City. The project also includes a publication — designed by Martin Bek ART ’16 and Laura Foxgrover ART ’16, graduate students in the School of Art’s graphic design program — which will include written selections by Ashley James GRD ’17, Nicholas Forster GRD ’18, Beatrix Archer ’19, Eshe Sher-

ley ’16 and Elizabeth Spenst ’18, and works by artists Harry Dodge, William Villalongo and Jackson herself.

The conversation will be livestreamed from 32 Edgewood to the auditorium of the Yale University Art Gallery. After the discussion, the panelists and mediators will join the audience at the YUAG for a question and answer session, which will prioritize the questions of New Haven youth engaged in either art or athletic activities who have been invited to the event.

“Game Recognize Game” was initially conceived as a response to the refusal of American football player Marshawn Lynch to engage with the sports media, a choice Jackson calls “performative resistance.” Jackson linked this “resistance” to the practices of performance artists like Yoko Ono and Marina Abramovic,

and saw a potential connection between the worlds of art and athletics. As her final project for the course “Black Atlantic Visual Arts since 1980,” Jackson outlined and further developed the concept which would eventually become “Game Recognize Game.”

Students and professors planning to attend the event were impressed by the amount of collaboration and planning that went into its successful realization.

Spenst said she was “amazed” by the creativity of the event organizers, and expressed excitement about the panel of guest speakers.

“I never thought I would have seen Emory Douglas and John Wesley Carlos in conversation, but Tomashi and other people made it happen,” Spenst noted.

Michael Queenland, a pro-

fessor of sculpture at the School of Art, highlighted the collaboration between various professional schools, institutions and organizations at Yale to see the project to fruition.

“The collaboration came from a lot of different conversations about what was happening in the news around domestic injustice and recognizing the need to broaden the conversation around resistance and creativity,” Queenland explained.

“Because there hasn’t been much written about this history, I think this collaborative effort is necessary and maybe opens up other opportunities to not only have a multi-generational conversation, but to new ways of sharing ideas and ways of thinking.”

Contact TÉA BEER at tea.beer@yale.edu .

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“Game Recognizes Game” brings together artists and athletes of color to discuss issues surrounding the politics of representation and strategies of resistance.

Choreographer talks dance, science and art

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER On Monday, the Whitney Humanities Center hosted choreographer Yvonne Rainer for a lecture on dance, science and the humanities.

Focusing on the relationship between science and art, “Innovation in Dance: Back and Forth with Yvonne Rainer” was the latest installment of the Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities. The talk was held in conjunction with a seminar

entitled, “The Physics of Dance,” which is taught by Emily Coates ’06 GRD ’11, Yale’s director of dance studies, and Sarah Demers, an associate professor of physics at Yale. Like Rainer’s lecture, the seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of physics and dance, seeking to understand how two seemingly disparate fields can actually influence one another. In line with the course’s emphasis on the importance of understanding the scientific concepts that underlie movements in dance, Rainer’s

lecture discussed the relationship between the scientific method and dance as a “form of research.”

“Young dancers do some sort of research, learning what their bodies can do,” Rainer said. “I was not an inherently talented dancer, so I knew I had to make something that had not been seen before.”

The lecture opened with a projection of dances recorded in the 1960s by Rainer and other colleagues, in which “the bodies themselves become objects,” Rainer said. She then demon-

strated combinations and series of simple gestures, such as leaning forward or putting her fingers in her mouth — the type of movements that form the basis of her innovative and unconventional choreographic style.

Coates said Rainer’s approach brought about tremendous change in the dance world.

“Her work offers one of the finest examples of research methods in dance in the 20th century,” Coates said. “In a move similar to Einstein’s in physics, Rainer redirected the field of dance.”

Mary Chandler Gwin ’18, who attended Rainer’s lecture and is enrolled in “The Physics of Dance,” said she was most intrigued by the choreographer’s discussions of the differences between art and science. Rainer suggested that the two areas diverge especially in science’s perpetual search for “proof,” a goal that art — with its “much more nebulous standard of success” — does not share.

“The conversation that stuck with me the most from last night is the value [and] perception of

value in regards to art and science,” Gwin noted. “Yvonne Rainer discussed how in science you can prove — or, as Dr. Demers likes to say, ‘disprove’ — certain phenomena and have ‘successes,’ like the [discovery of] gravitational waves. In art there is hardly any objective success … Each audience member perceives the work differently and therefore a variety of values are assigned to the work.”

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For the ‘other’ sports

season, the Bulldogs came within mere seconds of an outright league championship, but they fell devastatingly short in a pair of losses to Dartmouth and Harvard.

During that campaign, in

Right now, Yale athletics is blessed with elite teams in its highest profile sports.

Take a look at men’s basketball, where the Bulldogs earned three votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll after running their school-record Ivy start to 8–0. On the ice, the men’s hockey team is now ranked No. 8 in the country and has won five consecutive games, in addition to having the best defendergoaltender combination in the country with Rob O’Gara ’16 and Alex Lyon ’17.

And football head coach Tony Reno has established something of an Ivy League recruiting dynasty to assist a program that’s on an upward trend.

But it’s too easy to focus on these clubs and lose sight of the other 32 varsity teams at this school.

I know this from serving as sports editor of this very newspaper. I know this as a columnist. And I know this as an avid Yale sports fan (now that I’m not a reporter or editor, I can openly admit that!).

We should celebrate all Yale sports, not just the ones that receive national attention.

Ever been to a squash match? If not, you’re in for a treat — the Brady Squash Center plays host to two top-five teams, including the No. 2 men’s team that just clinched the Ivy League championship with a rousing victory over Harvard.

There are 89 athletes on the men’s and women’s track and field teams right now, and five of them set school records just in the past three weeks. The next big competition — the Ivy League Heptag-

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Sears was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the 14th time in his career after last weekend’s action.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Yale men’s basketball forward Justin Sears ’16 has accomplished many feats during his four years in New Haven, including reach-

ing the 1,000-point scoring mark, receiving the Ivy League Player of the Week award a record 14 times, being named the 2014–15 Ivy League Player of the Year and earning a share of the Ivy League championship with his teammates a season ago.

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Nevertheless, the Plainfield, New Jersey native’s impressive resume is still missing one notable achievement: a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

“I don’t even think about last year. I just see this as a new year, and this is my shot,”

Sears said. “I have one more chance to play hard in each of these games. When I step out there, I remember that this is my senior year, we have one goal that we are capable of making happen, and it adds a sense of urgency.”

On multiple occasions last

Simpson ’18 steals show in record-breaking year

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER In last Friday’s women’s basketball game between Yale and Dartmouth, a 68–63 Eli loss came alongside a silver lining from an underclassman who has quickly emerged as a statistical leader for the Bulldogs in her collegiate career. Guard Tamara Simpson ’18 broke the Yale record for steals in a season against the Big Green.

Currently boasting a total of 80 takeaways, the sophomore still has six games remaining in the season to improve upon her historic mark. The News spoke with Simpson, who is also Yale’s second leading scorer with 10.8 points per game, about her groundbreaking record and her outlook for the remainder of the Ivy League season.

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How did you feel in the game against Dartmouth, setting Yale’s single-season steals record but ultimately

falling in the contest as a team?

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It was definitely a bittersweet feeling. Going into the weekend, I suspected I had the opportunity to break the record, but I was focusing on doing whatever I could to make our team win the game.

We were coming off a disappointing weekend where we lost to both Cornell and Columbia, and this was our opportunity to bounce back and upset Harvard and beat Dartmouth. I forgot about the record in that moment, I was just playing basketball. I found out at halftime, actually, and I was happy, but I knew there was still half of the game to play, and I knew I had to focus to come out successful. But it was definitely nice to put the record down, and it was something I had been working toward.

does it feel to have a QHow record such as this one?

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It feels awesome to have a record. It still hasn’t

set in, the gravity of it and the extent of what it means, especially since we are still midseason. It feels good that I can help my teammates and at the same time be recognized in such a way. My coaching staff, my team and my friends outside of basketball have been really proud of me, and I have gotten a lot of congratulations. Actually, on Facebook my brother originally shared an article, and my friends started to share it as well, so I got a bunch of text messages and Facebook messages congratulating me. It has been a really loving time. are leading the league QYou in steals as well, with 3.2

steals per game and 80 total.

To what do you attribute that performance?

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In just her sophomore season, Simpson has already made history at Yale with her steal total this season.

THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL FORWARD JUSTIN SEARS ’16 HAS WON IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK IN HIS CAREER. The 2014–15 Ivy League Player of the Year is the record holder in this regard, as no other Ivy player has ever earned the honor more than 11 times.