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MONTAGUE EXPELLED FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT sports publicity announced in a press release that Montague would not return to the team.

Last Thursday, Montague’s father told the New Haven Register that his son had been expelled from the University for “ridiculous” reasons.

A formal complaint was filed against Montague with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct in November of 2015, several months after an incident of alleged miscon-

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Jack Montague, former captain of the Yale men’s basketball team, was expelled from the University for sexual misconduct, the News confirmed on Wednesday.

Montague’s status in the University was changed to withdrawn on his academic record on Feb. 10. Two weeks later, Yale

duct occurred. The decision to expel him was made on Feb. 10, 2016, and a week later the UWC chose not to hear Montague’s appeal of the decision, according to sources familiar with the facts of the case. It remains unclear if the November formal complaint was the only complaint brought before the UWC. The student who filed the November complaint declined to comment for this story. Montague also declined to comment.

When a member of the Yale community files a formal complaint of sexual misconduct, the UWC appoints an impartial factfinder to interview relevant parties and compile a report of the events in question. After the report is completed and presented to the UWC secretary, the UWC chair — currently ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Post — selects a five-member panel from the larger 30-member UWC body to

conduct a hearing. At the hearing, both the complainant and the respondent are permitted to make a 10-minute statement and are then interviewed by the panel. Additional witnesses may come before the panel at the panel’s discretion.

After the hearing, the panel votes via secret ballot on whether the respondent has violated University policy; if a majority of panel members believe such a violation has occurred, the panel

Chalk-in supports survivors of sexual violence

recommends a penalty. That recommendation is then presented to the relevant decision maker — Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, if the respondent is an undergraduate — who has the option to accept, reject or modify the panel’s conclusion or recommended sanctions. Both the complainant and respondent may appeal the final decision.

Although the UWC’s proceSEE BASKETBALL PAGE 6

College term bill to rise 3.9 percent

BY DAVID SHIMER AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS

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Hundreds gathered on the steps of Cross Campus to chalk messages of support for survivors of sexual violence.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS As temperatures rose to the mid-60s and students flocked outside to enjoy the sun, hundreds congregated in front of Sterling Memorial Library to show their support for survi-

vors of sexual violence on campus.

Two student groups, Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale and the Yale Black Women’s Coalition organized the “chalk-in” with funding help from the Yale Women’s Center. Approximately 450 students attended the event over

Schwarzman, colleges to shift campus center

the course of four hours, etching hundreds of colorful messages on the steps of Cross Campus, such as “We are not victims, we are survivors” and “We stand with you.” The event was intended to open a dialogue about the current sexual climate at Yale, rather than focus on recent cam-

pus events surrounding the Yale men’s basketball team, according to USAY co-director Helen Price ’18. After weeks of rumors and allegations surrounding former basketball captain Jack Montague, the News confirmed on Wednesday that he was expelled for sexual misconduct. But Price

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GESO rebrands itself Local 33

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS

BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS While the two new residential colleges and the Schwarzman Center were not conceived in tandem, taken together, they will make strides toward shifting the center of campus toward Science Hill and Hillhouse Avenue.

The two new residential colleges will open in the fall of 2017 and the Schwarzman Center will be completed in 2020, placing two major campus structures in Yale’s northern end. In the past, students and administrators have noted that Prospect Street and Hillhouse Avenue often feel detached from popular areas like Cross Campus and most of the residential colleges — a complaint these two projects have the potential to address. While administrators and students on the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee interviewed emphasized that there is no overarching strategy geographically linking the

emphasized that Wednesday’s chalk-in was not specifically in response to Montague’s expulsion, but instead to the sexual climate on campus.

“This is something that people have been dissatisfied with for a long time,” Price

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The group formerly known as GESO rebranded itself Local 33 at a convention Wednesday evening.

Carson’s two cents. Former candidate Ben Carson ’73 wrote a column in the Washington Post yesterday.

“So much more than the White House is at stake,” he said, referring to frontrunner Donald Trump’s chances at clinching the GOP nomination.

I’m in Miami, trick.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Sen. Bernie Sanders debated in Miami last night. One of the key issues of the debate, sponsored in part by Spanish language network Univision, was immigration.

Yale College’s term bill will rise 3.9 percent, with the cost of attendance increasing from $62,200 to $64,650, for the 2016–17 academic year. While the undergraduate financial aid budget will also grow to accommodate the increase, costs will once again rise for many students.

The Yale Corporation approved the term bill increase at its most recent meeting, which took place the weekend of Feb. 13. The overarching term bill includes tuition as well as room and board, which will be set at $49,480 and $15,170 and increase by $1,880 and $570, respectively. This year’s rise in the term bill is essentially the same as last year’s increase of 4 percent, the rate at which the term bill has been increasing for the past several years. While Yale has embarked on several costly ventures in recent months, such as a $50 million faculty diversity initiative, Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said these initiatives are “fairly unrelated” to the term bill’s increase, stemming instead from the rising costs of living and salaries of faculty and staff.

Over the past 20 years, the Yale College term bill has increased steadily. The cost of an undergraduate education was just $28,880 in 1996–97, as compared to $43,050 in 2006–07 and $64,650 for 2016– 17. Although the price of a Yale education continues to rise, O’Connor said the University’s main priority is affordability.

The quality of the University should be going up if the cost is.

In the heat of the crowded Omni Hotel ballroom last night, before a crowd of over 800 supporters, Yale’s unrecognized graduate student organization — formerly known as the Graduate Employees and Students Organization — was rechristened Local 33.

With the rebranding, the organization, which has clashed with Yale over its union status since 1990, has now further affiliated itself with the University’s two recognized blue collar unions, Local 34 and Local 35. The three groups have worked closely in the past and are all funded by the national labor union UNITE HERE, but only members of Local 34 and 35 have negotiated and signed contracts with Yale. The renaming of GESO as Local 33 is Yale graduate students’ most direct attempt to obtain union status since the organization failed its last attempted vote in 2003.

The name change comes as

“The objective is to try to keep the cost as low as possible but also to provide the proper education and research facilities that Yale needs to be a world class institution,” O’Connor said. “While the term bill went up, so did the amount of financial aid. That means that for most, Yale has become very affordable.”

Still, seven of seven students interviewed said they disapproved of the rising cost of a Yale education, with many citing an added burden on middle class families and the fact that the quality of a Yale education is remaining more or less the same while costs are increasing.

“The increases are bad because I don’t know how much the University is improving to raise it that much,” Nathalya Leite ’19 said. “The quality of the University should be

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Her(manos) Campus. The Kappa chapter of La Unidad Latina had a demonstration on Cross Campus — at the spot of the afternoon’s chalk-in — last night, reciting slam poetry and calling on its members to support sexual assault survivors.

Get 2 on College Street.

R&B singer Tinashe will perform in the Elm City tomorrow night. The hit artist will appear at College Street Music Hall at 7 p.m.

Friday. Tinashe will be one of four performers at Brown University’s Spring Weekend this year.

MINSUN CHA ’17

Conspiracy theory. Elon Musk, a Yale honorary degree recipient, denied rumors that several influential CEOs and politicians met at the American Enterprise Institute’s World Forum to plot against Trump. Musk tweeted that the meeting was not secret.

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Check the rearview O

ne of my friends from high school dated a really-not-nice guy.

Let’s call my friend Mary.

That’s how Mary describes that two-year period of her life: “I dated a really-not-nice guy.” And he was an objectively really-not-nice guy — he rarely tipped over 10 percent, he used to pull his dog by the leash to hurry up the walk and, as you’ve probably guessed, did some really-not-nice things to my friend.

Over break, Mary, myself and another friend (let’s call her Jill) ate lunch. And at the very same time, in the very same restaurant, so did the exboyfriend and his mother. This type of thing tends to happen in Manhattan, secretly one of the smallest towns in America. Mary warmly hugged his mother, smiled at him, laughed at a joke. He inquired about her major, she inquired about his dog and then she hugged his mother goodbye. And after they left, she sat back down and kept eating her hamburger.

“Are you okay?” Jill asked.

“Yeah,” Mary said. “Fine.”

“But he like, abused you,” said Jill. “For like, a year.”

Mary kept eating. “What’s past is past,” she said, a little wobbly. And then, “Pass the ketchup?” Conversation over.

As I later found out, this was the most difficult part of the whole encounter for Mary. Not seeing him, not actually talking to him — not even his ensuing texts (also really-not-nice).

It was Jill assigning the word “abuse” to Mary’s experience, a word pregnant with violence and trauma. For Mary, her ex is a not-nice guy who did some really-not-nice things. That’s what she says in her diary, to her friends, to herself. That’s her language for this. And that’s that.

Luckily, people like Mary have friends like Jill — who notice, remember and support.

The Jills of this campus chalked messages of earnest support on Wednesday, acted as allies by posting comments on Overheard at Yale debate threads and have pledged that they “stand with women” online.

These moments of active (and public!) solidarity are an important first step. Jills of this campus: Your energy and your demonstrations of love mean a lot to many, especially those who might be struggling alone.

But as we check-in, chalkout, cheer-up and otherwise try to support our friends, we need to remember — they do not all identify as "survivors" or “victims,” nor do they all call their experiences "abuse," or "rape."

Language is volatile, and lands in unexpected ways. For people who have had bad experiences, especially bad sexual experiences, hasty labels can be really damaging. While active solidarity involves pub-

lic support, active solidarity requires consideration of the words you use in support. Words AMELIA like “vicJANE tim,” “surNIERENBERG vivor” and “rape,” if not already used Close to by people home to describe their experience, can easily be their own form of control. We all need to listen closely, letting people show us the vocabulary they would want us to use. We cannot assume the words for them.

That’s the key to active solidarity, really. Listening. Not assuming you know.

This non-assumption must extend beyond the membrane of our vocabularies and into the interpersonal conversations we have about sexual assault. These discussions are essential — if you feel like you want to talk, or you feel like your friends might want to talk, do so. Tell them how you feel, what you might worry about, what you do not understand — whatever is on your mind. In these conversations, with these friends, the sentiments we may have chalked Wednesday will have the greatest impact. Standing with our friends and the survivors in our lives must also mean listening, talking, laughing — whatever verb that feels appropriate at the time.

Yet another caution: We also may not know how sexual assault affects friends, suitemates or peers in our dining halls or on our Facebook walls. They might love survivors. They might be survivors.

They might also love someone who committed someone else’s really-not-nice experience.

But no matter what, unless they choose to tell us, we cannot know the proximity of our friends to this issue.

To pull a metaphor from my ever-wise grandmother, we need to remember to “double-check the rearview mirror” in these conversations.

Maybe being a good ally is a little like parallel parking — we need to line-up, put on our blinkers and move slowly as we proceed. Sometimes we have to pull back — whether in our vocabulary, in our friendships or in our dining halls. Only then can we realign and drive ourselves forward again, however we think best. That’s a manual, lifelong process that we undertake together — and on our own.

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'SHADRACHSMITH' ON 'LEINBACH: PUTTING HEALTH FIRST'

The duty to be offended M

any have argued that Silliman Associate Master Erika Christakis should not have sent her famous email last semester because its content and the actions it seemed to downplay offended certain students. Few said she meant harm — most of the argument focused on the email’s effect. The syllogism of those calling for the Christakises’ removal was: Students in your college feel deeply offended, ergo you are failing. This argument found many and intelligent proponents. What accounts for its power?

Negative, natural rights are central to the Western political tradition. Conceived most famously by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, such rights are common to all people.

A few things worth noting about these rights as Hobbes, Locke and others understood them: First, they protect individuals from certain things. They are most precisely rights against, not rights to. (I am not here concerned with discussions of property rights). Second, they concern physical aspects of human beings.

Hobbes’ first right, for instance, is a right against being murdered.

Third, they protect against certain effects. A drunk driver who kills you has violated your right to life even if he intends no harm. Fourth, because they protect physical aspects of human beings, violations are pretty easy to detect. For instance, everyone knows when

you’ve murdered someone.

Last semester’s protestors did not exactly demand a right against offense. But COLE objecARONSON their tions to Christakis’ stateNecessary ments map and proper quite nicely onto features of the right against murder (or physical violence). They objected to the email’s effect on certain students, disregarding Christakis’ intentions. They therefore implied that no one should have to experience a certain kind of behavior from others: behavior that offends them.

And, of course, offense is intellectual, while violence is physical — but notice how many students claimed that Christakis’ email made them feel “unsafe.”

Unlike physical violence, however, offense is subjective. It’s usually easy to tell what is and isn’t physical violence. Accusations are easier to falsify. Offense has many definitions, but in deciding whether something is offensive (to a particular person), you’re pretty much limited to that person’s word. If person A says something, and person B does not claim offense or resentment, it would be very strange to say person A

offended person B. The argument against the Christakises gains its power from the fact that a person saying he’s offended is necessary and sufficient for him to be considered offended. We have no measure more objective than someone’s own claims.

Given past racism against people of color at Yale and elsewhere, it is easy to see how the claims of many students that they were “harmed” by the Christakises’ behavior purchased the Yale mind.

There was no socially acceptable way to tell them that they were wrong to feel that way.

Many people defended Ms. Christakis’ intentions, but they were answering a charge that hadn’t been leveled: that of hostility. Some people spoke about the impossibility of having a university if an offended person can demand another’s silence. After all, statistics can offend someone if he detests the conclusions they serve.

The slippery slope argument is fine, but what it's really getting at is the claim that hearing new arguments, especially unsettling ones, is necessary for education.

The protestors are wrong not because they’d rather Ms. Christakis not speak — they’re wrong because they’d rather students not hear what she has to say. They think, in other words, that crying foul is sometimes a proper reaction to arguments about the truth

of the matter.

Minds, like bodies, need nourishment to grow and improve. The best nourishment for a mind is a new argument. An argument, if it is really that, is true or not true — the person making or hearing it is not important. It does not say, “you're wrong because you’re a scoundrel.” To the degree that a statement is, say, a slur or a slander, it does not conform to the rules of argument. Of course, this is not true if you’re claiming that Donald Trump’s poor character would make him a poor president. But that claim rests on the notion that anyone’s poor character would make him a poor president. It does not follow that, because Donald Trump is a boor, he’s wrong about immigration.

These intellectual norms — and others — liberalize our minds and help us pursue knowledge. Hopefully we all came to Yale for those purposes. And hopefully these norms are strong everywhere. But if they are to be strong anywhere, they must be strong at a university.

The Christakises did Yalies a favor by exposing them to unsettling arguments, about the role of the master, about free speech, about what counts as offensive. Here’s hoping we all benefit from their expert teaching.

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

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humility”

Less worse I started taking myself seriously as a photographer in ninth grade. My high school photo teacher, Mrs. Cruz, said I had a “good eye,” so I spent the summer of 2010 carrying around my mother’s Canon film SLR from the ’90s. I got 10 rolls of film developed and was hooked — whenever I traveled or found myself bored with friends, I had the camera.

My freshman fall at Yale, I took an introductory black and white film course. I learned that photography took more than having a “good eye” –– it meant having something to say. Then my one of my best friends went missing, and there was little to say about the horror I experienced. So I took photos about how I felt.

At home over breaks, I shot photos of my high school friends, trying to capture the unfathomable nature of Christian’s death.

I thought my art would get me through the pain. Then it would be better, and I would no longer hurt.

I put down the camera for most of Yale. I made other things. I performed poetry, I wrote plays, I wrote essays, I made collages, I made drawings, I made paintings, I carefully curated Spotify playlists and then I started posting a lot on Instagram. I told myself that I am a writer first and a photographer second, when in reality

the medium is not as important as the impulse to say something.

O n We d n e s day afternoon, Thomas ADRIANA Roma came MIELE for a lecture at the School of Check Art. Roma is a photo legend. yourself He founded the Photography Department at Columbia University and taught at Yale decades ago. He showed us some work, told stories, lectured, told more stories and answered questions.

During my final semester, I am taking my first photo course since 2012. My work is inevitably tackling a tough subject: I’m only photographing survivors of sexual violence. My mom doesn’t know that, but I’m sure she’ll sigh when she hears about it. She isn’t an artist, and she has a hard time understanding my impulses to create work that is emotionally taxing. Last semester, she insisted that I write a “happy play,” so I wrote a play about the death of a friend and called it “The Happy Play.” In my defense, it was funny.

I do not think artists must be

depressed. I think good art is about resilience. Roma insisted that we call ourselves artists because we were hurt in some way, and art is how we compensate for that pain. He spent most of the lecture discussing his recent book called “In the Vale of Cashmere,” in which he photographed gay men cruising in a Brooklyn Park. He revealed that it came from a place of profound pain; the photos are a tribute to a friend who died from AIDs. He acknowledged the emotional weight of the subject, how much it drained him.

I asked him how he created work that was so heavily influenced by trauma and grief without being overwhelmed by it.

He said, “What makes you think I wasn’t overwhelmed?”

I laughed and said, “Then how did you do it anyway?”

He said, “I think you answered your own question. I did it anyway.”

Roma’s informal talk was an honest one, and he continued to explain that the subjects of his photo books (he’s published many) are often accidental, but they gain power from the pain he has endured. He believes artists tackle difficult subjects because we create meaning from those experiences.

I know many people who do not feel the impulse to create art.

But I think what Roma said can still resonate for them.

As my Yale career draws to a close, I am most impressed by the resilience of my classmates.

There’s no denying that people here do what seems like impossible, insurmountable tasks. They write 100-page theses, they run professional-level student publications, they perform cuttingedge research, they produce fullscale theatrical productions, they write heartbreaking poetry. If Yalies do anything right, we take our lives seriously.

In part, my freshman photo project aimed to put my pain behind me. It didn’t. I don’t think it’ll ever go away. Roma told us that the most painful things in life are always present, and that’s why we do something with them.

We try to cure diseases, we fight to eradicate racism, we protest hurtful behavior, we write.

As he mused following my question, Roma recounted the story about a friend who lost his son in an accident. His friend told him, “It gets less worse.”

We do hard work here. When we leave, it won’t be any less hard. But for artists and civilians alike, it will get less worse.

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”

PAUL SIMON AMERICAN MUSICIAN, SINGER-SONGWRITER AND ACTOR

OT TO-WENER MUELLER 1926 -2016

Former Philharmonia conductor dies at 89

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER The student assembly of the School of Medicine met with administrators on Monday to advocate for free health insurance for the families of medicalstudent parents, a benefit currently available only to student parents in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The new lobbying effort orchestrated by the Medical Student Council kicked off during a period of renewed debate over the challenges faced by student parents at the University’s 13 graduate and professional schools. Last month, the two student assemblies representing all graduate and professional school students, the Graduate and Professional School Student Senate and the Graduate Student Association, presented fresh data on the inaccessibility of day care at Yale to Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley as part of an ongoing campaign to secure child care subsidies for student parents at the University.

But the Monday meeting at the medical school, which has a longstanding reputation as a malecentric institution unsympathetic to the concerns of women and families, was organized independently of the broader campaign and focused on health insurance rather than child care.

The officers of the MSC, who did not respond to numerous requests for comment, met with Associate Dean for Curriculum Michael Schwartz, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy Angoff and Deputy Dean for Education Richard Belitsky to present data showing that the children of six of the 12 medical-student parents are on Medicaid and that four of those six parents also use the program themselves. The data was collected over the last two weeks through a short survey circulated among medical-student parents.

“The deans were very receptive,” said Ian McConnell MED ’17, the medical-student parent who distributed the survey.

“They were a bit surprised to see the extent to which med students have had to resort to Medicaid.”

McConnell, who does not belong to the MSC, declined to reveal the precise number of medical-student parents who are on Medicaid.

Schwartz said the presentation “provided important background and perspective” on the lives of medical-student parents and that administrators plan to further evaluate the issue over the coming months.

It’s a good-faith effort on the part of a university to furnish as much help to graduate students as is possible.

JON BUTLER Former Graduate School Dean “Both the student leadership and we are now in the process of looking into the issues presented to determine how best to address these issues,” he said.

The provision of free health insurance to medical-student families would bring the medical school in line with the graduate school, which offers the free health care benefit to student parents enrolled on the Yale Health plan. Under the current system, medical students in the joint M.D.-Ph.D. program, about 10 percent of the medical school population, are eligible for the free health insurance benefit. But medical-student parents who are not affiliated with the graduate school must take on more than $13,000 in annual costs in order to cover their families through Yale Health. None of the 12 medical-student parents surveyed are

currently on the University plan.

The University-wide push for health insurance benefits and child care subsidies has focused partly on securing comprehensive data detailing the financial struggles of student parents — information that many of the schools do not keep in their official records. The medical school, for example, does not collect data on the number of student parents enrolled.

McConnell said he reached out to friends and acquaintances in each class year in order to identify the dozen medical-student parents who filled out his survey. But the administrators running the M.D.-Ph.D. program do keep track of the number of student parents enrolled: Five M.D.Ph.D. students, about 7 percent of the overall M.D.-Ph.D. population, have children, and four of them are signed up for free health care through Yale Health.

Still, McConnell said, “there definitely does seem to be a lack of hard data around there.”

McConnell, whose family is on Medicaid, added that he sees improved health insurance options for medical-student parents as a first step toward broader gains, such as child care funding.

The majority of medical students interviewed said they are confident that the medical school will eventually match the health fellowship offered to graduate student families. But it remains unclear how long that process will take, given the budgetary priorities of the medical school and the relatively small number of medical-student parents.

It took the graduate school more than three years of research and negotiation before it began offering free health insurance to the families of student parents in 2005, according to former Graduate School Dean Jon Butler, who helped engineer the move toward free health insurance.

“It’s a good-faith effort on the part of a university to furnish as much help to graduate students as is possible,” Butler said.

“We attracted graduate students because of that.” Neither Princeton nor Harvard offers free health insurance to the families of graduate-student parents.

Wendy Xiao MED ’17 — who chairs the Facilities and Health Care committee of the GSA and has led the charge for child care subsidies for graduate-student parents — said the fledgling movement at the medical school will require significant planning and research.

According to three medical students interviewed, the medical school also has a culture of financial privilege and singleminded academic rigor that can make it an especially difficult place to work for young parents.

“There is a stigma against HUSKY in the medical school community,” said Abiola FemiAbodunde MED ’17, referring to a government-subsidized health insurance program run by the State of Connecticut.

One medical-student parent, who asked to remain anonymous to speak candidly about personal experiences, said the medical school community is unwelcoming to students from low-income backgrounds.

“I’ve had Yale faculty and residents, even fairly young residents, react with disapproval when they learned that I came from a poor family background,” the student said. “And I’ve had negative reactions from a few who I originally thought were progressive when I told them I was on Medicaid.”

McConnell said he does not believe there is a stigma against Medicaid at the School. He added, however, that he suspects many of his peers would be surprised to find out that a significant portion of medical-student parents use the program.

The medical school is the largest professional school at Yale.

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

COURTESY OF EUGENE COOK

Otto-Werner Mueller, who directed the Yale Philharmonic for 14 years, passed away last month.

University Orchestra Director David Hagy YSM ’92 said Mueller demanded that his students thoroughly know their music scores and conduct entirely from memory. His mind was stronger than many of his students’, and it was more vigorous than that of most young adults, Hagy said, adding that Mueller was “moderately conversational” in 20 languages and could often count for his students in their native languages.

Before arriving in New Haven, Mueller taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founded the Victoria

Conservatory of Music. Following his time at Yale, Mueller went on to teach at Juilliard and Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

“Mueller was here at Yale a while before I came, but I met him years later at Juilliard. In the field of music he was considered one of the great conducting teachers of the time,” Blocker said. “His students are first-rate conductors who conduct important orchestras throughout the world, and that is his legacy.”

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Developer duo looks to downtown housing

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER With permission from the city, developer duo Jacob and Josef Feldman might soon offer 64 new apartment units for residents looking to live downtown.

The Feldman brothers, who own the local real-estate firm MOD Equities, petitioned the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday evening for approval of variances and special exceptions for properties on 19 Elm St. and 418 State St. The developers aim to convert the former Harold’s Bridal Shop on Elm to a five-story, mixed-use building with 46 residential units. MOD Equities also plans to transform the historical John English building on State Street to a mixeduse complex with 18 apartment units.

Advisory reports from the City Plan Department recommended approval for both buildings. The BZA will vote on these issues April 12, after the City Plan Commission holds a hearing for both proposals next week.

“We are staying within many of the more restrictive residential provisions,” said Matthew Ranelli, the lawyer representing MOD Equities on the Elm proposal.

Alongside these two devel-

proximity to transportation and other amenities. The plan includes 40 parking spots for bicycles as well, Ranelli noted.

MOD Equities has also requested variances to permit two sidewall heights taller than allowed, and to omit the required 5-foot front yard from the project.

Jacob Feldman estimated that around 100 people will live in the building and called the location a “walker’s paradise,” given its proximity to Wooster Park and the town green. He said developers considered the historical architecture already extant on the same block when designing the exterior of the proposed building.

At 418 State St., the Feldman brothers intend to maintain the facade of the original building, which was constructed in the 1860s. The new development will feature 18 residential units on the third and fourth floors of the building, Greg Muccilli, another lawyer representing MOD Equities, reported at the meeting. Muccilli spoke in favor of a variance to minimize the required usable open space from 450 square feet to none. City Plan staff agreed, as the building predates current zoning and is comparable to other multiuse buildings in the area with limited or no useable open space. Developers also

opments, MOD Equities will also build a 115-unit, shortterm apartment complex at the corner of High and George Streets. Other examples in the recent wave of downtown revitalizations include the mixed Metro Star, a mixed-use development on Crown and George Streets and the Novella apartment building at Chapel and Howe Streets.

We are staying within many of the more restrictive residential provisions.

MATTHEW RANELLI Lawyer Representing MOD Equities The brothers aim to renovate the former formalwear rental space on Elm by building four new floors to accommodate the planned 46 units.

Ground floor space in the front of the building will serve a commercial purpose, while the back of the first floor will also be residential space.

MOD Equities is seeking a special exception to permit 19 parking spaces where 25 are required. Ranelli said the 19 parking spaces would be sufficient given the property’s

requested a special variance to provide no parking spaces where 13 are required.

Development at the English building is especially transitoriented given the property’s location near the State Street Station and bus stops, Muccilli said. Through its alternative transit considerations, the development is in line with the city’s 2025 Vision plan — a set of citywide housing, transportation and economic goals — Muccilli added.

Two neighbors flanking the 19 Elm St. property said at the meeting that they had only recently learned of the proposal and were generally in favor of it. Joseph Mirrione, principal at the law firm based on 27 Elm St., said he was concerned there may not be enough parking and said he hopes developers will “work through” the issue.

The developers also met with the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team last May. Ranelli said the proposals were “wellreceived” by the community management team.

A 2014 report from New York real estate research firm Reis stated that New Haven’s 2.1 percent vacancy rate was the lowest in the country.

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

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Medical student parents lobby for health care

Otto-Werner Mueller, former professor of conducting at the Yale School of Music and music director of the Yale Philharmonia from 1973 to 1987, died Feb. 25 of illness at his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was 89 years old.

Mueller was an important figure in the conducting world for decades. The New York Times has called his conducting “splendid” and “elegant,” and his former students include the current music director of the New York Philharmonic and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. During Mueller’s time at Yale, he was known for his contributions to the Yale Philharmonia, helping it emerge as one of the nation’s leading university orchestras.

Mueller, who was born in Germany, is survived by his wife and three sons.

Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker said the first performance he ever heard from the School of Music was when the Philharmonia performed on NPR under Mueller’s direction, giving him a lasting, positive impression both of Mueller and of the group.

“Perhaps Mr. Mueller’s greatest contribution was that he freely shared his gifts, knowledge and principles with everyone he met,” said his wife, Virginia Allen, who is also a renowned conductor and a former dean of the Juilliard School in New York. “He believed that if you were true to music and

committed yourself to it, then music would be true to you.”

At nearly 7 feet tall, Mueller exhibited an impressive musical and physical charisma, both on and off the stage. Juilliard composition professor Robert Beaser ’76, a former student of Mueller’s, said Mueller was an intimidating and demanding teacher. Mueller had more to offer than anybody but did not suffer fools gladly, Beaser said, as he was famous for being somebody who would not hesitate to throw someone off the podium.

“Mueller’s relationship with his students was that if you cared about the things he cared about, he was the most incredibly caring mentor you could ever find,” Beaser said. “If you didn’t, the highway was that way and he would even pay your tolls.”

Allen said Mueller considered score preparation the most important lesson for his students, often reminding them that an unprepared conductor is the highest insult to an orchestra. He wanted his students to learn how to independently organize and prepare the materials for a new piece, she said, so that they could eventually get ready for a rehearsal without a teacher beside them. She added that he shared a mutual respect with his students, often continuing to mentor them long after they graduated.

His former students said some of Mueller’s most important impartments to them were clarity and attention to detail in conducting. Wake Forest

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FROM THE FRONT

“Despite significant progress over the last few years, too many women and men on and off college campuses are still victims of sexual abuse.” JOE BIDEN VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Hundreds “chalk-in” to support sexual assault survivors CHALK-IN FROM PAGE 1 said. “Rape culture didn’t just suddenly emerge in the last month, and people have been negatively affected by Yale’s sexual climate for a long time. Hopefully, this is going to provide a framework for really addressing that and talking about it. Hopefully it will encourage organizations to enact tangible changes.”

On Feb. 26, the Yale men’s basketball team took the courts for a nationally televised game against Harvard wearing T-shirts bearing former captain Montague’s number and nickname on the back, and “Yale” written backwards and inverted on the front. In response, posters went up on campus accusing the team of “supporting a rapist.”

Instead of focusing on this incident, however, USAY and other groups are attempting to shift the dialogue away from the men’s basketball team and onto Yale’s overall sexual climate. “[The chalk-in was] sponsored by United Against Sexual Assault at Yale, but it was really an effort of women … who felt really strongly about recent events on campus and wanted to provide a space where survivors could be empowered,” said Celeste Dushime ’18, a cocoordinator of USAY’s campus ambassadors program. “It was a couple of people who came together … and wanted to do something for survivors to feel as if they have a space on campus.”

Students who participated in the chalk-in said they saw the event as a meaningful way of showing support for those affected by sexual violence. A number of administrators were also present at the event, including Calhoun College Dean April Ruiz ’05 and the Morse College Dean Joel Silverman. Dean of Student Affairs Camille Lizarríbar, who called the chalk-in “wonderful,” said she attended in order to support students and be present for them.

Price said members of the men’s basketball team reached out to the chalk-in’s organizers to discuss their attending the event, so she and president of the Yale Black Women’s Coalition Dara Huggins ’17 agreed to meet with the team’s seniors to discuss the events of the past month.

However, Price said the team canceled at the last minute for unknown reason.

“It was disappointing and hope-

fully we’ll be able to speak to them in the future and they’ll be open to those discussions, but in light of the [fact] that we didn’t get to discuss it with them, we felt it really wouldn’t be appropriate for them to turn up, especially since there hasn’t been any kind of public statement,” Price told the News Wednesday afternoon, hours before the team released a statement at 5 p.m. The statement contained an apology for any inadvertent hurt the team’s public support for Montague caused.

While most of the chalked messages focused on providing words of support and care for survivors of sexual violence, some spoke more directly on the recent controversies surrounding the men’s basketball team.

One message, for example, stated that “Women >> basketball.” Other messages targeted the broader community of male athletes, with statements such as “The only team I’m cheering for are survivors @ Yale — dismantle men’s athletic privilege” and “Imagine if Yale men cared as much about ending rape culture as they care about sports. Be an ally.”

“For a male athlete, it can be alienating,” said a male varsity athlete who did not wish to disclose his name or team due to the sensitivity of the circumstances.

“It feels divisive rather than constructive — people trying to unite against another group.”

Other athletes interviewed expressed similar views and said messages against the male athletic community served to further divide students on campus.

Price said Wednesday night that she had privately spoken to people who had posted similar sentiments online, noting that most were receptive to discussing the matter.

“This time is a learning experience for everyone on campus and I hope everyone will be open to that kind of reflection,” Price said.

USAY was founded in October 2015 as a student advocacy group that combats sexual misconduct on campus.

Ayla Besemer contributed reporting.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighteni@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Students said the chalk-in was a meaningful way to support survivors of sexual assault.

GESO renamed Local 33, continues call for unionization LOCAL 33 FROM PAGE 1 the direct result of a recent unanimous vote by UNITE HERE’s governing body to incorporate the Yale graduate student group into the rest of its membership as a chartered union. Locals 34 and 35 have been chartered members of UNITE HERE for over three decades. At Wednesday’s convention, GESO also revealed that it had collected union authorization card signatures — often a first step toward a secret ballot vote on unionization — from a majority of Yale’s nearly 3,000 Graduate School of Arts and Science students. The cards were counted and verified by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who was also present at the event.

However, neither GESO’s chartering as Local 33 nor its majority of authorization card signatures have any legal legitimacy, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s most recent ruling on graduate student status. Despite being recognized by the UNITE HERE national union, Local 33 is not recognized as a union by either national labor law or the Yale administration. The NLRB would likely not recognize Local 33, despite its collection of signatures, because graduate students are not officially recognized as employees and as such their signatures have no power to mandate a vote. And although Yale could recognize a union independently of the NLRB, administrators interviewed said they flatly reject any attempt at unionization that does not involve a secret ballot vote. Local 33 has refused to hold such a vote unless the University agrees to “no intimidation” terms, under which faculty and administrators would be barred from exerting their power or influence over graduate students prior to the vote.

“Claims that a ‘card count’ demonstrates ‘majority membership’, or making that a basis for immediate recognition, can’t and shouldn’t substitute for a closed secret ballot election,” Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler said, adding that collecting and counting membership cards is a tactic that graduate student union organizers have practiced for many years, both at

Yale and at peer schools.

Renaming GESO Local 33 does not change Yale’s view on graduate student unionization or the status of Yale’s graduate students, University Spokesman Tom Conroy said. Yale recently reaffirmed its stance on the issue by signing on to an amicus brief filed with the NLRB which states that recognizing graduate students as employees would undermine academic freedom.

Union leaders and local officials did not mince words on Wednesday night.

“Yale, if you want to go back to warfare, we’ll go back to warfare,” said UNITE HERE President Donald Taylor, referring to the strikes that led to the formation of Local 34 and 35 several decades ago.

“This is never going to stop until we have our day, until we get our contract.” He added that he sent a letter to University President Peter Salovey two weeks ago to state the organization’s support of graduate student unionization.

Locals 34 and 35, undergraduate group Students United Now, Local 217 — another Connecticut union — and many elected officials attended the convention in a show of solidarity. The leaders of these organizations spoke about the need to support each other. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and New Haven Probate Judge Jack Keyes made appearances, with DeLauro noting that there is “no reason a great university and a strong union cannot stand side by side.”

Local 35 President Bob Proto said Yale has underestimated Local 35’s commitment to GESO. Proto did not respond to questions about whether Local 35 would go on strike to pressure Yale to recognize Local 33, though Locals 34 and 35 are slated to begin their four-year contract negotiations with Yale next week. But he warned at Wednesday’s convention that Local 35 is capable of bringing the campus “back to the dark ages” by going on strike. Previous strikes by Local 35 have led to the shutdown of dining halls and other facilities.

“I hope the University doesn’t underestimate our commitment to graduate teachers and researchers,” Proto told the News.

Despite the well-attended demonstration, the administra-

tion has remained steadfast in its position that graduate students do not have the power to unionize, based on current legal precedents.

“While students always are free to associate with any organization, or to participate in a rally for causes they believe in, [the founding convention] has no legal bearing on the status of graduate student unionization,” Gendler said.

LOCAL 33: BY THE ISSUES

The issues at stake for the graduate students of Local 33 include mental health care, sexism in the sciences and graduate student teaching stipends. Local 33 has previously argued for a union by highlighting these problems, which they say would be better addressed by a union, as students would then have increased leverage and legal bargaining power.

Graduate teaching stipends in particular have recently risen to the forefront of the organization’s platform. In a March 9 opinion piece in the New Haven Register, history graduate student and Local 33 supporter Abbey Agresta GRD ’16 wrote that she will earn less money teaching as a seventhyear graduate student than would

a sixth- or fifth- year doing the same work, due to Yale’s recently revised stipend structure. Agresta also criticized a $540 semesterly registration fee for all upper year graduate students who wish to teach.

“Teachers like me are being starved out of the institution where I have taught over the last several years,” Agresta wrote.

In December 2014 the University extended teaching stipends to sixth-year graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, but it has not done so for students in their seventh year.

Ph.D. students at Yale currently receive a full tuition fellowship of $38,700 on top of a minimum stipend of $29,000, until their seventh year.

With a union, graduate students would be able to negotiate their pay. In response to recent petitions and queries for greater stipend support for graduate students, Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley sent an email to graduate students on Tuesday reminding students of their current financial support. Her message also emphasized that the University addresses the needs of graduate

students through the Graduate Student Assembly, a representative body for students in GSAS. “We will continue to consult with you and the GSA as we work hard to provide the most competitive financial aid package possible for our students,” Cooley wrote.

Cooley said the $540 Continuous Registration fee covers the access to facilities and services like the gym that graduate student teachers receive. Cooley also noted that the fee is heavily subsidized by the University, and the real cost per student is $2,000 more.

“I know the [fee] represents a hardship for humanities and social sciences students in year seven and beyond, but to put Yale’s [fee] in context, none of our peer institutions pays the equivalent fee for students beyond year six,” Cooley wrote.

Local 33 Co-Chair Robin Canavan GRD ’18 said graduate students want to be paid equally for equal work, and she said she opposes the discrepancy between stipendiary pay for sixth- and seventh-year graduate student teachers. A union, she said, would allow graduate students to negoti-

ate how much they are paid during any year of teaching and research at Yale.

But the University has pushed back against this line of logic, reverting to the fundamental argument that graduate students are students and not employees.

Gendler reiterated the University’s position and added that students in the graduate program are at the University in a program with a fixed length, whereas employees of the University are long-term members of the community.

Although the future of graduate students’ employee status uncertain, and Yale remains opposed to graduate student unionization, GESO leaders said they are not waiting on the NLRB or the University.

“We are not waiting for the University to recognize us as the union that we are,” Greenberg said. “We’re ready.”

Yale’s first union, the Federation of University Employees Local No. 35, was founded in 1941.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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Hundreds demonstrated in favor of a graduate student union Wednesday.

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“Research is creating new knowledge.”

NEIL ARMSTRONG AMERICAN ASTRONAUT

City heiress distributes $1 million

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Heiress Wendy Hamilton — a New Haven resident, former nurse at YaleNew Haven Hospital and Elm City activist — is donating her recent, roughly $1 million inheritance to various causes in the Elm City.

After receiving her late grandmother’s inheritance last year, Hamilton has given $20,000 to the charter New Light High School in Wooster Square and $100,000 to Sunrise Cafe — a volunteer-run program that provides free breakfast to New Haven’s low-income population. In a March interview with the New Haven Independent, Hamilton disclosed that she plans to donate most of her remaining inheritance to the city’s poor. Hamilton, who worked at YNHH from 1984 to 2009, has a track record of activism in the Elm City that includes staging a protest at University President Peter Salovey’s 2013 inauguration for Yale to contribute more money to the city.

“She is seeing it as trying to set an example for people who have the resources and how to use it for the community’s best interest,” said John Bradley ’81, the executive director of Liberty Community Services, which operates Sunrise Cafe. “That is why she is in public about these gifts — to spur other people to donate to the community.”

Bradley added that Hamilton has contributed to the success of the Sunrise Cafe since it opened last March. Hamilton purchased several chairs, as well as table decor for the cafe when it opened.

During that time, she also volunteered in the kitchen, Bradley said. He added that before Sunrise Cafe’s opening, Hamilton and Bradley had discussed homeless activism — an issue important to the recent heiress for the past several years, which she spent creating activist groups and speaking out at city hall meetings, Bradley said.

During Sunrise Cafe’s second round of soliciting funds after its pilot year, Hamilton shocked Bradley with a $100,000 donation — which would cover the entirety of 2016 operating costs, he said.

The cafe was established through private donations and will continue to solicit them throughout the year, Bradley added. But he said no contribution has ever matched Hamilton’s in size.

“There is a lot of generosity in the community,” he said. “But there has been no gift to really match this for an organization our size. People are generous about homeless issues, but they are balancing that with other interests they might have. Wendy’s primary interest is homeless advocacy and poverty.”

While $100,000 of Hamilton’s inheritance purchased oatmeal, smoothies and fruit for the city’s poor, $20,000 has helped students at New Light High

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School in her Wooster Square neighborhood for the past several months. Principal of New Light High School Larry Conaway said Hamilton’s donation, though covering a fraction of the school’s yearly operating costs, has helped the school revamp its website, support extracurricular activities and purchase new equipment for the computer lab.

Conaway added that, like Bradley’s relationship with Hamilton, he had known her before she received the inheritance. Hamilton has asked Conaway about volunteer and donation opportunities since the school’s Wooster Square opening in 2014. The school, which was previously located in Dixwell, is a charter school that serves at-risk youth. Before she received her inheritance, Hamilton often donated books to New Light High School’s library.

She is seeing it as trying to set an example for people who have the resources and how to use them for the community’s best interest.

JOHN BRADLEY ’81 Liberty Community Services Executive Director Several weeks ago, Hamilton added to her original $20,000 donation and gave the high school another sum of money, the total of which Conaway declined to disclose. He added that Hamilton has thoroughly proven her dedication to causes in the Elm City through time and monetary donations. Though her views may be controversial, her intention to be fair is sincere, he said.

“She speaks up when she sees things that are wrong.” Conaway said. “She doesn’t agree with the establishment sometimes. I work for the establishment, so I don’t agree with every with everything that she does. But she is a fair individual who sometimes speaks truth over power.”

As several hundred thousand dollars of Hamilton’s inheritance await donation, New Haven activists hope to catch her attention. President of the New Haven Scholarship Fund Jeffrey Alpert said he seeks to establish contact with the heiress and believes that his foundation’s aim of providing children with an education complements Hamilton’s goal of alleviating poverty in the Elm City.

The Wooster Square neighborhood takes its name from American Revolutionary War hero David Wooster.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF JINGJING XIAO

YURA recently expanded from its five-member founding team to a 22-member board.

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Undergraduate Research Association, founded last year, is working to bring student researchers out of their labs and into conversation with one another.

Co-presidents Nishant Jain ’18, Jingjing Xiao ’18 and Suryabrata Dutta ’18 said they understand that undergraduate research at Yale is highly independent, but they wanted to build a community around research in which students could navigate Yale’s resources, share original work and learn from their peers. While undergraduate research groups have existed at other universities for some time — in 2007, for example, undergraduates at Harvard founded the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association — YURA fills a gap on Yale’s campus. YURA, which recently grew from its five-member founding team to a 22-member board, has organized conference delegations, fellowship information sessions and social events for students who stay in New Haven over the summer to work with professors.

“I’m usually skeptical when students want to start a new organization on campus, given that we already have so many,” said Associate Dean of Yale College and Dean of Academic Programs George Levesque, YURA’s principal advisor. “But in this case, I was persuaded that the founders were seeking to provide something that was missing. There are relatively few student organizations that promote conversation about student research ideas

and projects, and even fewer that try to bring students together from different disciplines.”

The organization aims to unites student researchers in all disciplines. Jain pointed out the difficulties students interested in humanities and social sciences face because student research in those fields is not as common on campus.

Xiao, who recently changed her major from one in the sciences to one in the humanities, said her experience highlights how students involved in YURA choose to pursue interdisciplinary research.

“As of two weeks ago, I decided to change from pursuing hard science to pursuing English, partly because YURA’s interactions with the Yale Digital Humanities Lab have demonstrated how my hard-science background can support my passion for storytelling,” Xiao said. “For example, the systematic study of digital storytelling media helped me conceptualize the multimedia short story on which I’m currently working.”

Despite only being a year old, YURA has already made an impact on hundreds of students, the co-presidents said. Last semester, the organization put together Yale’s first undergraduate research symposium, which connected students to their peers’ work.

Unlike most symposiums, which focus on a specific field and often invite other universities to attend, September’s Yale Undergraduate Research Symposium was open to any discipline. Roughly 50 students presented their work to an audience of 400.

“One thing that especially struck us last year was that many Yale students do not even know about all of the incredible work that their peers are doing,” Jain said. “At the end of their summer research experiences, most students who do work on campus simply write up a short report without really getting the opportunity to share their research with the Yale community.”

Currently, the organization is working on developing a database of Yale labs willing to work with undergraduate students, and also on creating a national coalition of student-run research associations, Dutta said. Similar organizations at other Ivy League universities, as well as universities in Canada, are also spearheading this effort.

A few of the newest board members said they became interested in leading YURA after presenting at the research symposium.

“I think the greatest accomplishment that this organization has had so far is helping undergraduates and faculty at Yale realize just how powerful and impactful the undergraduate research experience is at Yale,” Dutta said. “We do not feel this impact until we come together and see the significance and breadth of this work at our conference, or hear about how an idea from neuroscience sparks influential work in economics.”

Approximately 95 percent of STEM students at Yale pursue some form of research during their undergraduate years.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

April Ruiz ’05 appointed new FSY dean

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER

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Calhoun College Dean April Ruiz ’05 will become dean of Freshman Scholars at Yale next year.

Calhoun College Dean April Ruiz ’05 will take on yet another leadership role this summer as dean of Freshman Scholars at Yale, a summer program held each year for incoming freshman from underresourced high schools.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions selects dozens of incoming freshmen each year to come to campus in July for FSY, where over the course of a month students enroll in Yale College courses, such as English 114, and attend workshops designed to acquaint them with campus resources. Ruiz’s appointment comes in the midst of the program’s expansion: Next year, FSY will grow by 12 places to accommodate a total of 60 students due to high demand. Ruiz succeeds Dean of Student Affairs Camille Lizárribar, who was named to her current position on Dec. 14, prompting a search for a new FSY dean beginning in February.

“We chose Dean Ruiz for the true sincerity of her interest in the FSY program, and her strong background of experiences at Yale and beyond that have prepared her to guide and support students,” said Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, who led the search committee.

Howard also said that Ruiz’s experience as a first-generation student at Yale will bring added understanding to the position, as many students participating in the program are the first in their families to attend college. FSY started in 2013.

Ruiz said she was honored to continue the work of previous FSY deans in helping students acclimate to Yale.

“When I arrived as a freshman at Yale in 2001 … I felt that I didn’t have many people in my life who could relate to my experience or understand some of the questions or concerns I had,” Ruiz said.

“It would have been wonderful to have been part of a community of students and mentors like the one FSY now creates, and

I feel lucky to contribute to this program for current and future Yalies.”

Howard added that the dean of FSY has traditionally been a sitting residential college dean, as they are already well-versed in the academic and social challenges faced by first-year students. Lizárribar was serving as dean of Ezra Stiles College when she was named the head of FSY. Besides being a residential college dean, Ruiz has also served as a freshman and sophomore advisor within Morse College, an assistant director and fellowships adviser at the Center for International and Professional Experience and a mentor to students in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, who is involved with the selection process for participants in the program, said he looked forward to working with Ruiz, calling her a “great choice” for students and for FSY in general.

“As FSY expands and continues to serve a larger cohort of Yale students, the program needed a dynamic, creative and highly personable dean at its heart,” he said. “[Ruiz] fit those requirements and much more.”

Likewise, students in Calhoun expressed support for Ruiz in her new role.

Sarika Pandrangi ’17, president of the Calhoun College Council, said Ruiz has been helpful and approachable as dean.

Jake Wolf-Sorokin ’16, a Calhoun master’s aide, agreed with Pandrangi that Ruiz was a good choice for dean of FSY. “Dean Ruiz has done an excellent job as dean of Calhoun and I am excited to hear of her appointment as dean of FSY,” WolfSorokin said.

Ruiz is also a lecturer in the Departments of Psychology and Cognitive Science.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”

BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Basketball captain expelled for sexual misconduct BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 dures are all available online, their actual implementation remains largely opaque, as all formal proceedings are kept entirely confidential.

Blake Thomson ’16, a childhood friend of Montague who said he knows the facts of the complaint and subsequent case, wrote in a statement to the News that he believes the UWC’s policies have multiple “flaws and controversies.”

“Those that were close to the situation are frustrated with our school, because we witnessed how the UWC policies go against established law and strip an accused student of due process and any form of proper defense one might receive in a real court,” Thomson said.

He added that the UWC, as well as existing Title IX policy, is “failing both complainants and respondents, females and males.”

The University has refrained from commenting on Montague and his status, as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prohibits educational institutions from sharing a student’s private educational records without the student’s prior written consent. Since disciplinary actions are included in educational records, University administrators have said they are not permitted to dis-

close any information.

Holloway declined to confirm Montague’s expulsion for reasons of sexual misconduct Wednesday night and would not comment further.

New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said there is currently no complaint filed against Montague in his department. Montague’s name also does not appear in any criminal or civil investigations, Hartman said. Yale Police Department Lieutenant Von Narcisse said the YPD is not involved in a criminal investigation into Montague either.

Despite the lack of information coming from the University regarding Montague’s departure from Yale, his father has publicly acknowledged the expulsion and said a statement from the family is forthcoming.

“We have strict orders from our lawyers,” Jim Montague told the New Haven Register last week.

“Soon enough, I’d love to tell the other side of the story. It’s ridiculous, why he’s expelled. It’s probably going to set some sort of precedent. We’re trying to do things the gentleman’s way, so we’re keeping things close-knit. But you guys will get a story.”

Despite earning the program’s first NCAA Tournament berth since 1962, the Yale men’s basketball team has recently come

under fire from the student body for its public displays of support for Montague, which began at a Feb. 26 game against Harvard.

That night, the team took the court wearing customized warm-up T-shirts emblazoned with Montague’s nickname and jersey number on the back. The front bore the word “Yale,” spelled backwards and inverted.

The shirts have since caused controversy, with multiple waves of anonymous posters appearing on campus featuring photos of the team wearing the T-shirts.

The posters called on the players to “Stop supporting a rapist.”

On Wednesday afternoon, the team released its first statement regarding the T-shirts. The statement, sent by Associate Director of Yale Sports Publicity Tim Bennett, contained an apology for any hurt the team’s public support had caused.

The team reaffirmed its commitment to a “healthy, safe and respectful campus climate” for all students.

“Our recent actions to show our support for one of our former teammates were not intended to suggest otherwise, but we understand that to many students they did,” the statement read. “As student representatives of Yale, we hope to use our positions on and off the court in a way that can make everyone proud.”

The team added that its members look forward to “learning and growing” from the incidents of the past weeks.

The statement came just two hours after United Against Sexual Assault at Yale and the Yale Black Women’s Coalition hosted a “chalk-in” on Cross Campus to show support for Yale’s survivors of sexual violence. The Yale Women’s Center helped sponsor the event.

USAY Co-director Helen Price ’18 told the News on Tuesday that the chalk-in was organized in response to current controversies surrounding the basketball team.

But she emphasized that the event was meant to broaden the conversation, moving away from the specific incident with the team to a larger discussion about Yale’s overall sexual climate.

Following the basketball team’s statement, USAY released its own response, which acknowledged the team’s apology as a “step in the right direction” but called on the team to take “active and consistent steps to promote the healthy, safe and respectful campus climate mentioned in their statement.”

Title IX was signed into law in 1972.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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TERM BILL FROM PAGE 1 going up if the cost is.”

Minsun Cha ’17 said because she is not on financial aid, her costs are going up without any benefit from improved aid offerings. She added that the University should make more transparent where the extra money is going, as the increasing cost of Yale is outpacing the national rate of inflation. Likewise, Kevin Kim ’18 said that without knowing where the additional funds will be spent, it seems like the administration is raising the term bill simply because it can.

University President Peter Salovey said in determining the term bill increase, the Provost’s Office works with Vice President for Finance Stephen Murphy ’87 to gather data on the “actual cost” of an undergraduate education and then formulates a proposal. The proposal is vetted first by the finance committee of the Yale Corporation followed by a vote of the entire body, which can adjust,

approve or delay it, he said.

Salovey also emphasized that increases in the full cost of a Yale College education are met by improved financial aid offerings.

“It’s important to remember that increases in the term bill are accompanied by proportional increases in financial aid so that any changes in the term bill do not increase the financial burden of the families of students receiving financial aid from Yale,” Salovey said. “We generally have the goal of keeping increases as modest as we can. They reflect real increases in the expenses associated with teaching, housing and feeding students.”

In December, the University announced that it would direct an additional $2 million next year toward financial aid spending to reduce the student effort, a yearly sum that students on financial aid must contribute to their education. The student summer income contribution — the portion of the amount expected to be earned from a summer job — is set to

drop next year from $3,050 to $1,700 for students with the highest need, and $2,600 for all other students.

The term-time student employment expectation remains at its current value of $3,350 for upperclassmen.

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said the increased financial aid budget will come from a combination of “restricted endowment funds, current gifts and general University funds.”

O’Connor said tuition is actually not a large part of the University’s overall budget, which also draws on funds from the endowment and outside contributions. In 2015, funds collected from tuition represented around 16 percent of the University’s total income, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research.

This year’s financial aid budget is $122 million.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

Schwarzman Center, new colleges to move campus north SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 new colleges and the Schwarzman Center, they recognized that the two projects will likely have a joint impact and noted that the center is in fact at Yale’s geographic center.

Steven Schwarzman ’69, who in May donated $150 million for the center’s construction, said

the new colleges did not influence his decision to fund the student center, but he expects the two projects to direct the gravitational center of campus more toward Science Hill.

“I didn’t use the new colleges as an internal motivator to do the Schwarzman Center, but it’s a very good confluence of events and it will create more

flow through Memorial Hall,” he said. “[The center] is sort of right in the center of the two parts of the campus, and I think the location is really ideal. It also serves the purpose of providing a place to have people from all over Yale get together, so in that sense the fact that you have the new colleges, you have the people on Science Hill — it all works out

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Steven Schwarzman ’69 donated $150 million for the center in May.

with almost a perfect confluence of events.”

University President Peter Salovey said campus has many important “nerve centers” and that the Schwarzman Center will be one for all students, though it is hard for him to say where the perceived center of campus is today or in the future. Still, he said the two projects will likely shift the campus’s psychological center.

“The Schwarzman Center and the two new colleges move the psychological center of our campus closer to its actual geographic center, about the corner of Prospect and Grove, and it will reduce the ‘psychological’ distance to the buildings on Science Hill,” he said.

Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews said after the center’s opening, hundreds of students in the nearby new colleges will likely eat there frequently.

But she emphasized that there is no way of knowing whether the center of campus will shift as a result of the two projects and that such a change is not the administration’s intention.

“I’m willing to let things happen organically, and we will adjust, but there is no deliberate intentional effort to shift things to a different area of campus,” she said. “These are two independent projects conceived of at different points, with no grand strategic vision to change the campus center. The Schwarzman Center was not designed to resolve issues around the resi-

dential colleges. It is a separate project about the entire campus community.”

Other administrators and students interviewed said once it opens in 2020, the Schwarzman Center will effectively shift the center of campus further north.

“I think the opening of the Schwarzman Center will shift the center of campus towards the center itself, allowing the two new residential colleges to feel closer to the campus community,” said Ree Ree Li ’16, an undergraduate representative on the center’s advisory committee.

“I think that with this shift, the campus will now have a centralized spot that all students within the University can be a part of.”

Despite their physical proximity, Li added that the relationship between the Schwarzman Center and the two new colleges would not differ from the link between center and the existing 12 colleges.

Gregory Sterling — dean of the Divinity School and another member of the advisory committee — said the center has the potential to connect professional school students who feel detached from areas of campus closer to downtown, citing his own school as an example.

“From where I sit up on this hill, the fulcrum will move north a little,” he said. “I would say it will broaden the center so that the center extends further to the north than it has. From where I sit that is a good change.”

Yale College Council President Joe English ’17 said the

Schwarzman Center will provide a convenient place for all students to congregate, regardless of their college or school affiliation.

Students and administrators interviewed also emphasized the special impact the center will have on Yale’s graduate and professional school students, who Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard said do not currently have much of a “home” on central campus.

Ideally, English said, the center will cultivate stronger ties between the undergraduate, graduate and professional student bodies.

Together, Howard emphasized, the residential colleges and the Schwarzman Center will be able to strike a balance between intimacy and cohesion of a large university campus.

“I am sure that Schwarzman will be a hive of activity — not just the pass through for which many students currently [view] the building,” Howard said.

“Students going to class or to their residences will hopefully sense the energy of the place and its people, engage with it, while still enjoying the intimacy that has been a hallmark of Yale from its beginning.”

A report from the advisory committee on potential uses of the center’s space was released Feb. 11.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.” DAN GABLE FORMER AMERICAN OLYMPIC WRESTLER

Police Athletic League nonprofit status reaps success

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Police Athletic League’s conversion to nonprofit status last year is already bearing fruit.

In 2014, NHPD Sgt. Albert McFadden spearheaded an effort to expand PAL, a group within the New Haven Police Department that provides enriching programming to the community to establish a bond between local residents and the police force. The organization became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in February 2015. As a nonprofit, PAL receives greater funding from local businesses and can apply for state and federal grants to support its programming. With these added funds, PAL has been able to grow the size of its summer camp and introduce new baseball, basketball and wrestling teams, all coached by NHPD officers.

“Up until two years ago, the Police Athletic League just did programs for kids in the city sparingly,” said McFadden, the executive director of PAL. “We wanted to do more. We wanted to run programs year-round. So how did we do that? What we did was we started researching and we found out that most police athletic leagues went nonprofit.”

PAL’s wrestling team, formed late last year, has achieved substantial success during its inaugural season. Comprised of 11 male and four female wrestlers, the team

emerged from the recent growth of the PAL. Coached by officers of the NHPD, the coed team of children, aged eight to 13, meets twice a week and competes on Sundays.

The team has collected 22 gold, silver and bronze medals over the past five months. Although their season has come to an end, the team will send three wrestlers, one girl and two boys, to Connecticut’s statewide wrestling tournament.

“The New Haven Police Department is very proud of our wrestlers and the success of their first season,” PAL treasurer and NHPD Sgt. Elisa Tuozzoli said. “New Haven PAL looks forward to growing its wrestling program and the continued success of our wrestlers in the years to come.”

Latrice Hampton, a 2009 graduate of local Wilbur Cross High School, said PAL and the programs they offer contributed positively to her high school experience. A former athlete herself, Hampton said PAL helped her “understand the importance of athletics in establishing pride.”

New Haven’s PAL has primarily offered a one-month youth summer camp called Camp New Haven for more than 25 years. Each year, the camp provides free spots to 30 or 40 students, McFadden said.

But four years ago, after approval from NHPD Chief Dean Esserman, the camp was able to expand and accept more young residents. Since then, the camp has grown even more.

“We wanted more children exposed to police officers, getting to know police officers, feeling very comfortable around police officers,” McFadden said. “So we decided to expand the camp …

We went to 100. And from 100 the next year it went to 150. Last year we reached 250. This year our goal is 300 kids.”

The camp, which runs for eight hours a day from Monday to Friday during the summer months, offers children more than just athletic opportunities. Campers are also taught art skills and about nutrition from NHPD officers. This past year, children participated in several one-hour reading periods.

McFadden said the goal is to keep the children engaged over the hot summer months.

PAL receives a significant level of support from local businesses, from city government and from the University. For the past several years, volunteers from Yale-New Haven Hospital have spent two days per summer with the children, instructing them in health and showing them a mock operating room.

“We could not do it without the many partners we have,” McFadden said. “We calculated that it costs on average $375 a kid to participate in this camp. But these kids don’t pay a dime.”

Tuozzoli, who was one of three of the wrestling team’s coaches, noted that community members also lend assistance to PAL. In a

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PAL’s wrestling team will send three wrestlers to Connecticut’s statewide wrestling tournament. written statement, she acknowledged the contributions the wrestlers’ relatives and guardians made to her team, noting that these were the individuals who transported the wrestlers to tournaments and practices.

McFadden also recognized the wealth of athletic talent within the

NHPD. PAL allows officers who excelled at a sport in high school or college to bring their experience to New Haven residents.

“What we do is we encourage those officers to come and teach the children those sports,” McFadden said.

New Haven children have

responded enthusiastically to the summer camp. The spots for the camp fill up in roughly two weeks, McFadden said.

PAL will launch its first baseball league this spring.

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

Yale fellow creates temperature device

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Gordon McCambridge ’15 developed a device to address public health concerns in developing countries.

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In first world countries, keeping temperature sensitive materials like vaccines at a fixed temperature is rarely a problem. But in countries like Tanzania and Zimbabwe, having a reliable and constant power source is a luxury that not everyone can afford. To provide a solution for this problem, Gordon McCambridge ’15, who received the Gordon Grand Fellowship — a post-baccalaureate award which supports up to a year of travel, research or work abroad — to fund his project, developed an affordable data collecting device known as the NODE which can monitor temperatures as well as track other quantitative data changes.

McCambridge said he conceived his idea of developing the NODE — which can also collect other quantitative data such as tracking the water level in a tank or checking the weather in an irrigated field — while on a backpacking trip across Africa. He traveled from Tanzania to South Africa the summer after his junior year, where he met with nongovernmental organizations and other corporations in southern Africa. He said he noticed a common problem: many of these corporations did not have the necessary technology in order to track environmental conditions such as water levels, climate conditions and temperature. And when storing vaccines, stable temperature is essential, he said.

“If we think about going to the hospital and pulling the vaccine vial out of the refrigerator, you don’t think about the fact that that vial had to stay between two and eight degrees Celsius at one time,” McCambridge said. “But say you’re in Zimbabwe or Bolivia where they don’t have stable power grids or refrigerated cars.

In this case, vaccine temperature becomes a challenge.”

During his senior year,

McCambridge took MENG 491, “Appropriate Technology for the Developing World,” and developed a low-cost device that could monitor vaccine temperatures. He called it the NODE. But McCambridge said he saw more potential in his project.

According to Vincent Wilczynski, deputy dean at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, the NODE is a device that records temperature, pressure and humidity conditions at a certain location and uploads this information on a cellular device to the internet. The first prototype of the NODE was McCambridge’s senior design project, and during the summer after his senior year, McCambridge won a CEID fellowship in order to refine the model, Wilczynski said.

Mc C a m b r i d ge ’s d ev i c e improves upon past models of data collecting devices used in developing countries because it transfers the data to a database rather than just leaving the information on the device, he said.

“The status quo for the developing world is to take your installation and leave it out in the field without any idea of what’s going on with it,” McCambridge said.

“And this is a data challenge that affects many fields [including solar, agricultural and public health],” McCambridge said.

By combining the technology of a little computer with the basics of a cell phone, McCambridge developed the NODE as a solution to these quantitative data collecting challenges.

This past summer, McCambridge worked with another Yalie, Tayo Ajayi ’15, who helped him develop the housing for the NODE’s circuit board. Ajayi joined the project with no background in engineering, but with the resources provided by the CEID, he was able to teach himself numerous computer aided design modeling softwares such as Solidworks, Ajayi said.

According to Wilczynski, Ajayi and McCambridge’s combined efforts in developing the NODE represent the overarching mission of the CEID and the Engineering Department at Yale. The CEID is a “resource of Yale and gets its strength from the diversity of Yale,” Wilczynski said.

While McCambridge had an interest in global affairs and Ajayi entered the project with a background in applied mathematics, they were still able to work together, capitalizing on their strengths, to engineer a solution to a relevant global health problem, Wilczynski said.

“It’s a perfect example for the value of intellectual diversity and the opportunity to support independent thinking and creativity,” Wilczynski said.

McCambidge has already installed the first version of the NODE in a village in Zimbabwe and went to Shenzhen in order to develop the latest model of the NODE with the help of a Yalefounded incubator known as Higgs Hub. McCambridge said he hopes to turn the NODE into a business, providing a wide array of organizations with new transparency and access to data in order to enhance their goals. He added that he envisions himself providing the NODE to companies and NGOs posing the question: “Now what can you do with it?”

Wilczynski lauds the device as flexible and applicable to a wide array of global problems.

“It’s a solution that invites more problems to solve,” Wilczynski said.

According to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, more than 30 million children are unimmunized due to lack of information or misinformation, unavailability of vaccines or poorly provided and inaccessible health services.

Contact CLAIRE ONG at clairevictoria.ong@yale.edu .

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“I’m really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the real old-money families, the concept of old money.”

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tial alcohol abuse and s e x u a l assault, and “vestige[s] of gender inequity” on campus.

HARVARD Though the report says Harvard’s sexual assault problem is not “solely or even principally a byproduct of the activities and influence of final clubs,” it states that combatting sexual assault at Harvard “must include” proposals to address the clubs.

The report lists “address[ing] the distinctive problems presented by the final clubs and other unrecognized single-sex social organizations,” as one of six “Key Recommendations” for action.

“In our view, the very structure of the [final] clubs — men in positions of power engaging with women on unequal and too often on very sexual terms — speaks tellingly to the work ahead of us if we are to create an environment where all students, of all genders, can thrive,” the report states.

“The qualitative and quantitative information before us is deeply troubling and requires a strong response from Harvard,” the report adds.

Last fall, Harvard University’s Fox Club undergraduate leaders, fearing looming administrative sanctions if they remained all-male, admitted women to the club. In a letter defending their decision to the Fox’s skeptical graduate board, undergraduate officers wrote that failure to go coed would open the Fox to criticism in a forthcoming report outlining Harvard’s plans to address “sexual assault and gender equity on campus.”

Worse, Fox and Harvard’s A.D. Club leaders independently argued, Harvard College administrators could consider prohibiting undergraduate membership in the clubs.

The undergraduates’ suspicions, it seems, were wellfounded. In a scathing report released Tuesday, Harvard’s Task Force on Sexual Assault Prevention blasts historically male final clubs for “deeply misogynistic attitudes,” and calls on the College to formulate “a plan to address the problems presented by final clubs,” in what is one of the strongest Harvard-sponsored condemnations of the clubs to date.

The 20 pages of the universitywide report include more than three pages of “Further Obser- The very structure of the vations on Final Clubs” devoted exclusively to qualitative and [final] clubs … speaks quantitative analysis of the clubs’ role on campus. In subsidiary tellingly to the work ahead research, the task force’s Outreach and Communications sub- of us. committee freely criticizes the clubs and offers recommendations for Harvard College adminREPORT RELEASED BY HARVARD istrators in blunt terms.

UNIVERSITY TASK FORCE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION “Either don’t allow simultaneous membership in final clubs and [Harvard] College enrollment; or allow clubs to transition to allThis unprecedented condemgender inclusion with equal gen- nation of sexual assault statisder membership and leadership,” tics, membership practices and the group recommended to the alleged aura of exclusivity associentire task force. ated with Harvard’s all-male final The final report sharply con- clubs is the latest in a series of demns the clubs, emphasizing escalating calls from administraone data point in particular: 47 tors for the centuries-old instipercent. This is the percentage of tutions to change their ways. This female Harvard College seniors time, though, the report calls for “participating in the final clubs” more than just rhetoric. The task — including women who attend force asks university President male final club events and seniors Drew Faust to mandate a targeted who are members of female final plan from the college to combat clubs — who reported “experi- issues related to final clubs. encing nonconsensual sexual “The clear and powerful call contact since entering college,” for the university to address representing the highest fig- issues presented by final clubs ure among any student groups relates not only to sexual assault included in data from a univer- but also to the implications of sity-wide sexual climate survey gender discrimination, gender assumptions, privilege and conducted last spring.

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extensive comments on final clubs, said she worried about alcohol abuse and sexual assault on final club properties. In tandem with increasingly bold public pronouncements from administrators, including Harvard’s Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William Fitzsimmons, administrators suggested in private meetings with undergraduate and graduate final club leaders that the clubs go coed.

Amid the increased scrutiny, the Spee Club invited women to “punch,” or apply for membership, in early September. About a month later, Fox undergraduates added a preselected group of women to their ranks, and wrote in a letter to Fox graduates that administrators had “forced [their] hand.”

“If the Fox Club does not become a coed club, it will be categorized with all the other clubs when Harvard releases qualitative sexual assault information,” Harvard undergraduate officers wrote to graduates in October.

Racked by internal divisions after the undergraduates’ unilateral move, the Fox has not yet granted full membership to their female affiliates, who now hold only “provisional” status pending a special graduate vote.

At least one other club — the A.D. — firmly opposed membership changes in the wake of administrative pressure, and received legal advice on measures the group could take should Harvard mandate the group go coed.

While Khurana has remained tight-lipped on his involvement in the Spee and the Fox’s decisions to go coed, Fox Club correspondence obtained by The Harvard Crimson suggests that undergraduates believed administrators had imposed a November deadline for the club to admit women.

Khurana’s policy toward final clubs marks a sharp departure from previous policies that date back to 1984, when the clubs disaffiliated with Harvard after rejecting an ultimatum to go coed. Since then, the clubs have been left alone for the most part, though Harvard College administrators did engage with them in a limited capacity.

“UNSAFE CULTURE”

The task force’s report leaves no doubt that final clubs are now an administrative priority.

The Outreach and Communications subcommittee’s report says that final clubs “perpetuate gender inequity and an unhealthy social climate, including sexual harassment and assault, making this status quo unacceptable.”

Criticizing male final club practices ranging from the selection process to parties, the final report is wide-ranging in its condemnation of the all-male organizations. Off-campus and out of administrative reach, the clubs “present special opportunities for underage and dangerous drinking,” according to the report.

Club-hosted parties have “reinforced a sense of sexual entitlement,” according to the report.

The report cites student accounts of “parties at which the only

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A report by the Harvard University Task Force on Sexual Assault Prevention blasts historically male final clubs. nonmembers in attendance were women selected mainly by virtue of their physical appearance,” as well as party themes that portray women as “sexual objects.”

“Students pointed to competitive games between members where a man will “win” a particular woman or compete for the most sexual triumphs,” the report says. The report states that some students worried about their safety when leaving parties.

Freshmen women and women from other schools are particularly susceptible to the clubs’ “unsafe culture,” according to students referenced in the report.

Beyond the topic of sexual assault, the report criticizes the clubs for perpetuating what it calls social “exclusivity.”

“Freshmen men resent being denied entry to desirable social spaces and losing an opportunity to connect with female peers,” the report reads. “Excluded women feel the same resentment, while women who are included as guests are exposed to a culture often inimical to Harvard’s mission and over which women have little control.”

Other single-gender social clubs, though, including frater-

nities, sororities and female final clubs, do not escape the report’s scrutiny. “[We] recommend that any review of social spaces and final clubs include the role of fraternities, sororities and other unrecognized single-gender social organizations at the college,” reads the report, noting that around 40 percent of female seniors participating in Greek life at Harvard reported sexual assault, compared to 31 percent of female seniors in general.

Still, the report focuses most of its rhetoric on final clubs. “[The] problem goes beyond the number of sexual assaults that are completed or that originate in a club’s physical spaces, as significant as that is,” the report reads. “Our outreach interviews indicate that final clubs have a disproportionate influence on campus culture.”

Even newly coed groups, such as the Spee and the Fox, however, may not be exempt from potential Harvard College oversight. While the report acknowledges that “the situation is fluid, with some clubs going coed and others considering it,” it recommends periodic college-conducted surveys

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to evaluate “the effectiveness of any changes undertaken by the clubs or by the college as related to the clubs.”

While the final report does not explicitly suggest prohibiting Harvard students from joining a single-sex organization, it does compel Harvard College to produce a plan to “address the distinctive problems presented by final clubs.”

The report gives Khurana wide latitude to determine the scope and implementation of such plans.

“We … recognize that the university and the college are in the best position to determine the specific actions to address the problems presented by the final clubs,” reads the report. “[We] want to express our strong support for those actions that result in the elimination of discriminatory membership practices.”

“If those conversations fail to make progress, or if the transition by the clubs to open and nondiscriminatory membership practices fails to address the issues we have identified in this report, we believe the university should not rule out any alternative approaches,” it adds.

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SPORTS Season in full swing SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 such batters on Yale’s roster, three are freshman, including outfielders Shelby Kennedy ’19 and Carlin Hagmaier ’19, and pitcher Jerpbak.

Kennedy poses a challenge to pitchers from home plate and on the base paths, as she posted a 0.646 on-base percentage and scored 50 runs in her senior year at Cienega High School in Vail, Arizona.

The introduction of Kennedy may help resolve Yale’s problem with runners in scoring position last year. Yale had a better on-base percentage than Ivy League rival Princeton in 2015 but trailed in the runs category by 47. The inability to convert baserunners into runs will be an issue for Yale if it cannot reverse last year’s trend.

“I think we had many missed opportunities last year.” captain and outfielder Allie Souza ’16 said. “We had great talent but ultimately left too many runners on base to win those close games.”

So far, the newest members of the team have fit in well, according to Souza. Goodwin echoed these words, adding that “no team is tougher than this group.”

The Bulldogs’ work in nonconference play will prepare them for the 20-game Ivy League season, which begins April 1 against Columbia.

“My favorite time of the year is when Ivies get started,” Goodwin said. “Our league is so competitive and every game is a grind — this team will be relentless in their pursuit of the team goals.”

Before the Elis take on Ancient Eight opponents, they will face other competition both locally and out West. The first home game of the 2016 season will take place against Wagner on March 26.

Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .

“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.” LIONEL MESSI ARGENTINE SOCCER PLAYER

Decades later, Vancisin still supporting COACH FROM PAGE 12

A

He was a great player. He was one of the better ones that I have had up there. John Lee ’56 was an All-American and I think that Kaminsky was outstanding. I don’t want to belittle any of the other players. They were all great kids, but those two outstanding players that I had at Yale — Lee and Kaminsky — are kind of in a class by themselves.

The rest of the kids might not have had as much talent, but they were a very, very important part of anything that we accomplished.

do you remember QWhat most about your NCAA Tournament game in 1962?

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We should have won. We lost in overtime, and we had a young man on the freethrow line with about five seconds to go with a one-and-

one. Had he made it, we would have beaten them. He missed the shot and we went into overtime. I don’t want the young man to feel that he let us down or anything like that.

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Did you think it would take this long for another team to win the Ivy League championship outright?

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Yale’s [recruiting] policies are different, like a lot of the Ivy League schools’ policies. I think it was pretty rough on getting outstanding players. There are so many excellent sports at Yale too, including hockey and football.

James [Jones] can be proud of their showing against those teams. What they have already accomplished is tremendous. team matched QIfupyourwith1962today’s team, could you put a prediction on the game?

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No, I couldn’t put a prediction on that game. The game has changed so much from that time. That would be silly for me to try to make a comparison.

there anything else you QIswould like to add?

general, what advice I want to wish James all QInwould you give to a team Athe luck in the world. I going to the tournament?

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They have accomplished quite a bit, and they have beaten some good teams outside of the Ivy League. I think

would like to see them go do very well in the tournament. I will be pulling for them!

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

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Former Yale head coach Joe Vancisin guided Yale to its most recent NCAA Tournament berth, back in 1962.

All-Ivy selections all around for Yale M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 year starter Javier Duren ’15.

After averaging less than seven points and 20 minutes per game as a freshman, Mason seemed unlikely to ascend to a First Team level. “[Mason] has a great sense of toughness and demeanor about the way he plays,” Jones said. “He has great confidence, and he just does an excellent job knowing when to be a guy who is going to distribute and when to be guy who is going to score on his own.”

Mason played at a consistently high level throughout the season, ranking fifth in the conference in scoring at 15.8

points per game and tied for third with 3.7 assists per contest. However, it was his heroics in clutch moments such as his game-tying jumper against Dartmouth with 5.4 seconds left and his gamehigh 22 points against Columbia to clinch a trip to the NCAA Tournament that perhaps stood out most.

After a season in which the Bulldog trio earned nine Ivy League Player of the Week awards during the 18-week campaign, the group became the first set of three Elis to earn First Team honors in the same season.

Victor rounded out the series of postseason awards.

The versatile guard returned from an injury-plagued junior season to earn Honorable Mention recognition after helping the Elis on both ends of the court. “[Victor is] Mr. Intangible,” Sears said. “We missed him the most last year. A lot of people didn’t realize that, if we had him, we definitely would’ve made it to the tournament last year.”

V i c to r ave ra ge d 7.3 rebounds per game from the guard position, helping the Elis who ranked second nationally in rebounding margin per game, while also finishing second in the league in three-point shooting at

47.0 percent.

After averaging seven points per game, perhaps Victor’s most important contributions came on defense, where he averaged 1.3 blocks and 0.7 steals per game while often manning up against the opposing team’s best guard.

“Nick Victor has been absolutely amazing,” Jones said on Monday. “He has been the glue that’s held a lot of what we do together. He does more dirty work than anybody else. He gets tough rebounds, guards the best player on the other team and he blocks shots, so he does a little bit of everything for us. He has also been a great distributor of the

ball to make his teammates better.”

Victor and Sears, who averaged a team-high 1.8 blocks per game, were beat out for Defensive Player of the Year

by Harvard’s Agunwa Okolie.

Dartmouth’s Evan Boudreaux, who averaged 20.2 points per game in conference play, was selected as the league’s Rookie of the Year while Lo and Princeton forward Henry Caruso rounded out the First Team.

Maya Sweedler contributed reporting.

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

IVY SOFTBALL PREVIEW PENN

DARTMOUTH 2015:

25–18 16–4 Ivy (1st in North Division)

The Ivy League champion in both 2014 and 2015, Dartmouth looks to three-peat this spring. After finishing with an 0.800 winning percentage in conference play last season, the Big Green will hope to maintain dominance and avenge its early dismissal from the Women’s College World Series. With the graduated pitcher Kristen Rumley, who set school records in many categories, returning as an assistant coach, senior Morgan McCalmon will lead the pitching staff. Dartmouth will see one more season from star shortstop Katie McEachern, who was Ivy League Player of the Year last season. Her batting average of 0.447 ranked 17th nationally.

PRINCETON 2015:

18–24 10–9 Ivy (2nd in South Division)

2015:

16–28 7–13 Ivy (4th in South Division)

22–20 13–7 Ivy (1st in South Division)

The Penn softball team has been a steadfast presence atop Ivy League South Division with at least 13 wins in each of the last four seasons. The team will witness the return of many key players from last year, including the Ivy League Rookies of the Year from both 2015 and 2014: infielder Jurie Joyner, who led the conference with 33 RBI last season, and outfielder Leah Allen, who won the honor two years ago and was no less impressive in her sophomore outing. The Quakers hope to see junior Alexis Sargent take on a larger role as pitcher following the graduation of Alexis Borden, who set six career records at the school.

CORNELL

Princeton was the lone Ivy team to finish with an overall record below 0.500 yet still have a winning record in conference play. After going 10–9 against league foes, the Tigers return seven of its top 10 hitters as well as a player at each position with at least 12 games of 2015 experience. Though the Tigers stand at 3–6 thus far this season, the pitching staff is not to blame: Through nine contests, the team has a collective 2.45 ERA. The offense, however, is averaging less than four runs per game and has scored two runs or less in six of the team’s nine games.

COLUMBIA

2015:

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Although Columbia returns the entirety of its pitching staff as well as four of its top five hitters from the 2015 season, the Lions are still relatively young. With only one senior and four juniors on the roster, Columbia is hoping it can take the next step and move out of the basement of the South Division, where it finished last year. Yale, the cellar dweller of the North Division last year, opens its Ivy League season with a doubleheader against the Lions on April 1 in New York. The matchup should be an indicator of which last-place team, Yale or Columbia, has done the most to improve its program in the offseason.

2015:

17–24 8–12 Ivy (3rd in South Division)

With a pair of first team All-Ivy infielders returning in sophomore Megan Murray and senior Emily Weinberg, Cornell figured to rely on offense a year after leading the Ivy League in runs scored. Thus far, however, its 0–5 start has seen the team score just 24 runs, while allowing 47. Murray has hit 0.389 and driven in four runs, though Weinberg is currently sporting a 0.263 average through 19 at-bats. Pitching has been the more significant issue. A year after owning the highest staff ERA in the league at 5.08, the Big Red pitchers currently possess an 11.65 ERA, and no individual pitcher has an ERA lower than 8.10.

YALE 2015:

11–23 5–14 Ivy (4th in North Division)

2015:

23–21 13–7 Ivy (2nd in North Division)

After relying on a senior-heavy team for its 2015 campaign, Harvard is now one of the younger teams in the Ivy League, with 13 freshmen and sophomores on a roster of 23. The Crimson hopes to at least match its 23–21 record from last season despite losing four of its five All-Ivy athletes.

Outfielder Maddy Kaplan returns to the team after a first-team All-Ivy freshman performance, with sights on besting her 2015 batting average of 0.344. Captain and pitcher Morgan Groom will return to the circle looking to improve on her earned run average of 3.20 last year. The squad’s eight rookies include three new pitchers, two fulltime infielders, an outfielder and a catcher.

BROWN Inside Lacrosse

2015:

13–21 7–13 Ivy (3rd in North Division)

Off to a 7–3 start, the Bears appear to be a team on the rise. Two years removed from a 4–34 campaign, worst in the Ivy League, Brown finished with a respectable 7–13 Ivy record last season which included a sweep of South Division champion Penn.

All four of Brown’s All-Ivy selections from 2015 return this season, and the duo of shortstop Janet Leung and right fielder Yeram Park are currently leading the way. Each has a team-high 10 RBI while batting 0.382 and 0.370, respectively. Sophomore Katie Oronoa is currently leading the pitching staff with a 3–1 record and a 2.82 ERA.

2015 Ivy League Standings After finishing off last season with a conferenceworst overall record of 11–23, Yale looks to redeem itself in the spring with an infusion of young talent and the steady arms of veterans. Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 is poised to once-again lead the team’s staff after topping the Yale statistical charts in ERA, strikeouts, wins, innings and complete games.

Meanwhile, infielder Lauren Delgadillo ’16, who was named to the All-Ivy First Team two years ago but missed much of 2015 with an injury, will return in full force to bolster the offense. With numerous returning players and nowhere to go but up, look for a rebound from the Elis in 2016.

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North Division Dartmouth* 16–4 Harvard 13–7 Brown 7–13 Yale 5–14 South Division Penn 13–7 Princeton 10–9 Cornell 8–12 Columbia 7–13

*2015 Ivy League Champion

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Elis look for better results in 2016

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In recent history, the Yale softball team has been consistent in its Ivy League performance, winning either just four or five conference games for the past four seasons.

Heading into the 2016 season, the Elis have a blank slate in front of them in their quest to grow as a program.

With a 5–14 Ivy League record last year, the Bulldogs actually improved in conference play from the previous season, in which they went 4–16 Ivy, despite slipping from third place in their division to last behind Brown. Though Yale (1–4, 0–0 Ivy) is now without star catcher and former Ivy League Player of the Year Sarah Onorato ’15, who graduated last year, the team holds hope for an upward trend this season. Talent spanning all class years, including former first-team All-Ivy infielder Lauren Delgadillo ’16, who is returning to the team after she was injured for much of last season, looks to bolster the team’s performance in 2016.

“We had some huge wins for our program last year, so I want to build off those wins and tack on a bunch more,” head coach Jen Goodwin said. “We have gotten better every year, so the sky is the limit this year.”

The potential of the team emanates from all of its parts. At the plate, Delgadillo will attempt to match her sophomore year performance, in which she batted 0.412 in Ivy play and tallied 19 RBI and three home runs on the season as a whole. Camille Weisen-

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The Bulldogs secured their first victory of the season on Sunday with a 5–0 shutout of Morgan State. bach ’17, who led the team in batting average (0.315), hits (29) and RBI (18) as an outfielder last season, will transition to catcher for 2016 in the place of Onorato.

Weisenbach is one part of an Eli battery that shows strong promise early on in the season. Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 returns

after tossing a team-high 101.1 innings last year and finishing with an earned run average of just 3.18 and striking out 6.4 batters per game.

Goodwin also noted that all players had an unprecedented chance to improve this preseason, as new batting cages in Payne

Whitney Gymnasium allowed batters to take more swings in workouts. She said that the team has already shown improvement in its first five games of the season.

“Our ‘quality at-bats,’ a statistic we track so we stay focused on the process rather than the outcome, increased dramatically

compared to our first weekend out last year, and we really battled at the plate,” Goodwin said.

A freshmen class that includes both notable pitchers and position players will also help boost the team’s talent stock. Terra Jerpbak ’19 will add depth to the pitching staff as the only left-handed

Bulldogs rack up Ivy awards

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER While the list of accomplishments for the Yale men’s basketball team will not be finalized until the Bulldogs finish their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1962, the team has already received five individual postseason honors.

MEN’S BASKETBALL On Wednesday, forward Justin Sears ’16 was named Ivy League Player of the Year for the second consecutive season while head coach James Jones also repeated,

earning Coach of the Year honors. In addition to Sears, forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 and point guard Makai Mason ’18 were also named All-Ivy First Team members, while guard Nick Victor ’16 earned honorable mention recognition.

“I think [this is the best team I’ve ever coached],” Jones said on Tuesday. “We have more better players than I have ever had before and I consider this team second to none.”

Sears, Sherrod, Mason and Victor are all starters on a Bulldog squad that nearly completed a perfect Ivy League season. The Elis finished 13–1 in the 14-game

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 became the first player in Yale history to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors twice.

tournament and secured Yale’s first outright league championship since 1962. Furthermore, the team went a perfect 13–0 at home, a feat never before accomplished at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, which opened in 1932.

After being named Player of the Year last season, Sears entered 2015–16 with grand expectations, which the senior met and surpassed. After averaging 14.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game last year, he upped those numbers to 15.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game this season.

Sears, who was the first Bulldog to win Player of the Year since 1988, is now the only player in Yale history to win the award twice.

In addition, Sears was one of only two players, joining Columbia’s Maodo Lo, to be unanimously named to the First Team.

Sears has now earned First Team honors for the third consecutive season, and is the first Eli since longtime NBA player Chris Dudley ’87 to earn the distinction three times. “[Sears has] just been awesome, obviously on the court, but his presence off the court has been just as important,” forward Sam Downey ’17 said. “He’s been a great leader keeping us focused and determined. He’s one of, if not the best players to come through [Yale] and his legacy will be felt for years to come.”

Sears’ season was highlighted by a 31-point performance against Penn on Feb. 20, and the Plainfield, New Jersey native scored in double figures in 21 of 26 games while registering five double-

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doubles. He finished the season as the fifth-leading rebounder and tied with Mason as the fifth-leading scorer in the conference.

Sears and Sherrod have controlled the paint throughout the season, especially during Ancient Eight play. Sherrod was tied with Mason as the team’s leading scorer during the conference schedule with 15.8 points per game, while Sears averaged 15.3 points on 51.7 percent shooting.

“Brandon was unbelievable. He made my life so much easier this year,” Sears said. “He had so many rebounds that I didn’t have to work as hard. I’m a finesse player, he’s a power player, so we compliment each other very well. He also lives above me in the same apartment [building]. He’s a joy to be around.”

After taking a year off to travel with the world-renowned Whiffenpoofs, Sherrod returned better than ever in his senior campaign. After averaging 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game as a junior, he started all 28 games this year for the Bulldogs and posted 12.5 points and 7.1 rebounds per game.

In the process, Sherrod set an NCAA record by making 30 consecutive field goals. The 6-foot-6 forward wound up finishing second in the league in conference play with a 64.4 percent shooting clip from the floor.

Just as expectations for Sherrod were tempered after his year away from the team, questions surrounded Mason as he assumed the starting point guard role left open by the graduation of threeSEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

hurler on the team after leading California’s Ponderosa High School in a playoff run during both her junior and senior years.

The class of 2019 also happens to be disproportionately lefthanded at the plate. Of the four SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 10

Last Yale coach to Dance reflects

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER Until the Yale men’s basketball team takes the floor next week for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the days since Yale’s last March Madness appearance will continue to rack up. That team, the 1962 Elis, was led by head coach Joe Vancisin, who guided the program to two of its three trips to the tournament.

When Vancisin left New Haven after 19 seasons at the helm, no other coach in school history had more wins. That record stood until March of 2014, when current head coach James Jones surpassed Vancisin’s 206 victories at Yale with a victory over Holy Cross.

The News spoke with the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Famer about his historic Bulldog teams and the significance of this year’s Yale squad. you been keepQHave ing up with this year’s basketball team?

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As much as I can. We are in Florida, and the Florida people are partial towards the University of Florida and Florida State.

The Ivy League is way down the list on report-

ing things, but I do talk to people up north and they fill me in. you had any conQHave versations with Coach Jones about what it means to go to the NCAA Tournament?

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No. I congratulated him after he won the championship this weekend. I managed to get ahold of him. He was a difficult person to get ahold of, but I did congratulate him. He is pretty excited and pretty busy now getting ready for his first tournament game. I went to a couple of those, you know.

special a memQHow ory is your trip to the NCAA Tournament in 1962?

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I’m still in touch with most of those guys — Rick Kaminsky ’64, Dave Schumaker ’64, Denny Lynch ’64, Hank Bryant ’64, Billy Polinski ’62.

I have been in touch with most of those kids.

special QHow Kaminsky for team?

was your

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THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY SPOTS, OUT OF FIVE ALLOTTED FOR THE LEAGUE, THAT MEMBERS OF THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM EARNED IN THE 2015–16 SEASON. Forward Justin Sears ’16, forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 and point guard Makai Mason ’18 were all given the recognition.