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Live from New York. Hillary
Clinton LAW ’73 and Donald Trump came away with big wins in the New York primary yesterday. On the Republican side, Trump took 60 percent of the vote, beating runner-up former Ohio Gov. John Kasich by 35 points. In the Democratic election, Clinton got 58 percent of the vote, defeating opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders by 16 points. The next primary election will be held in Connecticut on Tuesday.
Countdown. Ahead of next week’s election, several presidential candidates are campaigning across Connecticut. Sanders’ campaign has inquired about a Sunday evening rally on the New Haven Green. Clinton’s campaign will make a stop in Hartford on Thursday. Both Trump and Kasich have already visited the Constitution State but will return closer to Election Day. When you’re ready, Carne(get) it. Two Yale professors are
among 33 scholars who were named 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Sterling Professor of Economics William Nordhaus ’63 GRD ’73 will use the fellowship to fund research about the modeling of climate change, while Vesla Weaver, associate professor of political science and African American studies, will pursue a project examining the relationship between poor communities and the government. (Tsui)thearts. YouTube
sensation and former Duke’s Men member Sam Tsui ’11 came out as gay in a video blog post. In his video, Tsui also revealed his relationship with fellow YouTube musician Casey Breves. Shortly after the video was posted, Tsui and Breves shared photos from their recent wedding ceremony on Instagram.
I’m a celebrity, get me out of here. Take a break from
the stress of looming finals and play with some of Yale’s celebrity dogs on Cross Campus at 3 p.m. Sasha Pup and Handsome Dan will be there along with several other puppies. There will also be free cookies. The event will be hosted by Sigma Chi as part of the fraternity’s fundraising effort for the New Haven Animal Shelter.
Eat like a pig. Oink, a pop-up restaurant serving sustainable food, will make its next stop at Junzi Kitchen from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight. The chefs will be serving burgers, fries and fried chicken, among other items, for under $10. Oink’s last pop-up location was at Ordinary in February. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1992 The Black Student Alliance at Yale proposes that the University build a memorial to free speech and political activism in Beinecke Plaza. The memorial will replace an anti-apartheid wall that has stood in the plaza since 1988. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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Faculty discuss shortening tenure clock BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER
by the end of September, according to regional HUD spokeswoman Rhonda Siciliano. “Once residents go through the certification process, they will be issued a voucher,” Siciliano said. “That process has already begun. The housing authority is working directly with the residents to get the vouchers into the tenants’ hands as soon as possible.” Siciliano added that of the 273
Yale may soon bring its unusually long tenure review process — which some have said leads to serious attrition of junior faculty — in line with that of other schools. For the first time since the current Faculty of Arts and Sciences tenure system, known as FASTAP, was put into place in 2007, a faculty committee led by FAS Dean Tamar Gendler is examining the ways in which the system can be improved and modernized. In March, after 14 months of work, the committee released draft recommendations to the FAS ladder faculty proposing several key changes that would bring Yale’s tenure review system closer to almost every other research institution in the nation. FAS ladder faculty members held a town hall about the recommendations on March 31, and a revised copy of the proposals will be circulated to FAS ladder faculty next week. They will vote on a final set of recommendations in the fall. The recommendations propose three major changes, the most significant of which is to cut the tenure clock — the period before a professor must be evaluated for tenure — from nine years to eight. All the other Ivy League schools either have seven- or eight-year tenure clocks. In the past, some faculty members have expressed concerns about the adverse effect Yale’s unusually long tenure clock has on the University’s ability to recruit and retain talented
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Demolition began on Church Street South in March 2016. BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Roughly 210 of Church Street South’s 273 families will begin to receive their golden tickets out of the condemned complex — federally funded housing vouchers — in the upcoming weeks. City officials, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and Northland, the private developer that owns the complex, called two meetings last week with
First law Ph.D.s set to graduate BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Three students from the inaugural class of Yale Law School’s Ph.D. in Law program — the first of its kind in the nation — will graduate this semester, signaling much promise for a program that faced controversy at its outset. Amid national scrutiny, Yale Law School launched the nation’s first Ph.D. in Law degree program in 2012. Today, the institution is still the only top law school to offer a Ph.D. degree in law. The program chose five Ph.D. candidates out of 82 applicants for its inaugural class in fall 2013, and an additional five and three students for its subsequent two cohorts, respectively. Two students from the inaugural class deferred their graduation by one year. Of the three members graduating this semester — Maureen Brady LAW ’11 LAW ’16, Rebecca Crootof LAW ’11 LAW ’16 and Rory Van Loo LAW ’16 — two will begin tenure-track positions at law schools, and the third will serve as the executive director of a major law school research center — an appointment yet to be publicly announced. “The program aims to prepare students to make particularly important contributions in the field of legal study, and we are doing very well in that respect. We have produced strong students with excellent publication records,” said Gordon Silverstein, the Law School’s assistant dean for graduate programs. When the Law School first announced its three-year Ph.D. degree in 2012, legal scholars nationwide cast doubt on the relevance of the program. They questioned how the program, open only to those with a law degree, differs from the already existing dual degree that consists of a J.D. conSEE LAW SCHOOL PAGE 6
Church Street South residents to outline the process of voucher distribution. Of the 273 families to be relocated, 213 elected earlier this year to receive portable housing vouchers — federal funding to offset the cost of rent at any new home the residents can find. In the following weeks, the Housing Authority of New Haven will formally approve those 213 families to receive federal housing aid, with vouchers to be issued on May 18, 19 and 20. Families should all be moved out
YCC VP candidates prep for runoff BY RACHEL TREISMAN AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS The height of the Yale College Council elections has passed, but two candidates are still vying for the vicepresidential position. In a close general election Friday evening, vice-presidential candidates Christopher Bowman ’18 and Kevin Sullivan ’18 garnered 33.21 and 28.49 percent of the vote, respectively. Although Bowman led by about 5 percent, the YCC constitution states that candidates can only win with less than 40 percent of the vote if they have at least a 10 percent lead over the next closest candidate. Because Bowman was only ahead by 5 percent, the vice-presidential election has proceeded into a runoff that opened Tuesday at 9 a.m. and will close at 9 p.m. tonight. As the runoff draws to a close, some former candidates have rallied behind each of the remaining competitors.
“We’re just trying to get every vote because every vote is important. Last time [the general election] was pretty tight, so I assume the runoff will be pretty tight as well,” Bowman said. “We’re trying to mobilize as many communities as we can get on this runoff, especially since it is not as much on the radar.”
S i n ce t h e r u n o f f ’s announcement, both vicepresidential hopefuls have received endorsements from former candidates. Former YCC presidential candidate Josh Hochman ’18 said he has chosen to endorse Bowman, highlighting his past experience working with him on YCC projects such as the
sophomore seminars project. Bowman worked with Hochman, who is this year’s YCC academics director, to push for expanded seminar access for sophomores, who do not currently have seminars earmarked especially for them. Bowman’s platform has simSEE RUNOFF PAGE 6
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Christopher Bowman ’18 and Kevin Sullivan ’18 are competing in the YCC’s vice-presidential runoff.
UConn sexual assault rates below national avg. BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Rates of sexual violence at the University of Connecticut are lower than the most widely cited national average, according to the results of an independent survey released last week. The survey, conducted by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium in November of 2015, asked more than 6,000 randomly selected undergraduate and graduate students at UConn up to 47 questions about the school’s general sexual climate, experiences of unwanted sexual con-
tact, bystander behavior and assault reporting procedure. UConn has 31,624 students and 1,499 responded to the survey. 5.5 percent of respondents to questions about sexual assault reported that they had experienced a completed sexual assault, with 6.5 percent reporting that they had experienced an attempted sexual assault. Additionally, 2.6 percent of respondents said they suspected, but were not sure, that they were sexually assaulted. The National Institute of Justice’s most recent Campus Sexual Assault Survey — the source of the oft-cited “1-in-
5” figure — reported in 2007 that 19.8 percent of college women experience either an attempted or completed sexual assault while enrolled at college. Despite the markedly lower rates of assault, UConn administrators maintain that there is no cause for complacency. “While our UConn results depict fewer incidents here than the national figures that are often reported, we must continue to do all we can to eliminate every single sexual assault and to increase awareness of sexual violence on our campuses,” UConn President Susan Herbst
wrote to the campus on April 11. UConn’s report listed types of unwanted verbal and physical interactions — such as unwelcome sexual advances and groping — as examples of behaviors that constitute sexual assault. At UConn, 82 percent of respondents said they felt safe on campus and 57 percent said they believed fellow UConn students would intervene if they witnessed a sexual assault. The results, Herbst wrote, “provide an important view into our students’ expeSEE UCONN PAGE 6
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hat a time to be alive! So sang Drake, and after my four years at Yale, I have to agree. I was here to see Mathematics Professor Ronald Coifman educate a tenth of the student body about how networks are structured, to witness the rise and fall and rise again of Saybrook College and to eat lunch in a Commons with as many birds as an aviary. I was here for incredible times. Reflection and introspection can quickly become selfindulgent, but ingratitude is also problematic and often a sign of arrogance. I don’t like the pageantry and hoopla surrounding graduation and commencement — I think they have the net effect of psyching students out about leaving — but appreciate the importance of a fitting conclusion. This column concludes my tenure as a staff columnist for the News. I hope that I was able to provide our University leadership with some helpful suggestions on common sense issues such as saving Christmas and serving weekly chicken tenders. I was elated to see the New York Times endorse my proposal for beer at the Yale Bowl, albeit in more general terms. I was unsurprised to see students flee CS50 like rats off a sinking ship, after predicting that a Harvard class on a Yale projector was sure to be a misadventure. Indeed, through my columns and other extracurricular involvement, much of my time and effort here was focused on identifying and advocating for various improvements on campus. Our school is a troubled institution, and student voices are an integral component of making progress. However, we should also see the forest for the trees and recognize what an incredible blessing and privilege it is to learn here. I am most grateful for my friends, particularly those who taught me the keys to success. Those of us who have seen the DJ Khaled snapchat videos know what I’m talking about, and candidly, I think they provide more wisdom than any Yale course. I am not nearly as talented of a mentor as the man who is sometimes referred to as “hip hop’s Oprah,” nor my personal mentor Brandon Sherrod ’16, who introduced me to the DJ Khaled snapchats earlier this year. But I want to use my final column to share one key that made biggest difference to me. In Rocky III, after Rocky’s trainer Mick dies, Apollo Creed, a former Rocky opponent, takes the lead in training Rocky so that he can reclaim his title as the heavyweight champion of the world. Rocky’s effort is half-hearted, though; following years of vic-
tory, he has grown complacent and tired. He is no longer hungry enough to put in the needed MICHAEL work to “ride HERBERT t h r o u g h the jourA scoop of ney of more s u c c e s s ,” Herbert to invoke a classic DJ Khaled line. However, with Apollo’s help, Rocky ultimately rediscovers the eye of the tiger and once more becomes the heavyweight champion of the world. We each need to have our own eye of the tiger as well. Yale is a place with a lot of social pressure and consequently, many of us feel afraid to fail, or afraid to take risks, even for the sake of things we believe in. But former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, named by ESPN as the “Coach of the Century,” noted that the team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes. From my dabbling in psychology and cognitive science, I learned that while we are more likely to regret action in the shortterm, we regret inaction more in the long-term.
I LEARNED THAT WHILE WE ARE MORE LIKELY TO REGRET ACTION IN THE SHORTTERM, WE REGRET INACTION MORE IN THE LONG-TERM I have seen and been inspired by students at this school hungry to create a better community. I am inspired by those who worked tirelessly last year to secure improved mental health resources. I am inspired by the efforts of students this year to address the epidemic of sexual misconduct revealed by the 2015 Association of American Universities’ survey. We all need our own eye of the tiger to be our best selves and create our best Yale. To my peers and mentors who helped me cultivate one for myself, and who used their own to improve our school, I am sincerely grateful. MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .
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Bulldog Days. They were making a pitch to their prospective students. And they made a pretty good case, besides the lack of details and the hurried dismissal of Yale’s “social scene (whatever that means).”
THE CRIMSON’S EDITORIAL BOARD DOESN’T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A SOCIAL SCENE BECAUSE THE MOST EXCITING THING TO DO IN HARVARD SQUARE IS TO WATCH A PIGEON EATING A CIGARETTE BUTT OUTSIDE OF AU BON PAIN Perhaps the Crimson’s edi-
torial board doesn’t know what it means to have a social scene because the most exciting thing to do in Harvard Square is to watch a pigeon eating a cigarette butt outside of Au Bon Pain. Anyway, if you are the sort of prefrosh who was convinced by the smear, good riddance, my fine young friends! And if you’re on the fence, allow me to retort. Harvard, or rather a Harvard student, worries about reputation and only that. Harvard blindly attaches its name to any notable graduate — or, in Mark Zuckerberg’s case, dropout — just so that they can claim the number-one spot in some (not even all for God’s sake!) college rankings. Why does the Crimson editorial board dismiss our study of the humanities as “arts and crafts”? Do they really not like art? Do they think John Milton was a finger painter? Or maybe “arts and crafts” refers to a college where all the buildings don’t look exactly the same. I could list all the under-theradar Yale geniuses who have enabled Harvard students to binge Netflix instead of reading a book. And, in fact, I think I will: Meryl Streep DRA ’75, Ed Norton ’91, Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94, Robert Lopez ’97 — oh, you don’t know who Bobby Lopez is? He’s
one of only 12 people in history, not one of them from Harvard, to have won an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards); he co-created “Avenue Q” and the “Book of Mormon,” and he wrote songs for “Frozen.” Let’s throw in Cole Porter 1913 and Paul Newman DRA ’54 as well for a touch of class. Yale is ascendant: We’re erecting two new colleges; we have the Beinecke Manuscript Library and the Sterling Memorial Library, “a temple of learning and a cathedral of knowledge” in the words of John Gamble Rogers 1889. We have Pepe’s and Sally’s Apizza. Come on guys! And that’s all beside the point, because we don’t care about your articles: It’s all good fun. I’m only writing this because I love Harvard, and I hate to see its less interesting or talented undergrads undermine it while trying to make a name for themselves through shoddily constructed invectives that take themselves at once too seriously and not seriously enough. So if Harvard’s old man Kobe Bryant, Yale is Steph Curry. Or whatever. You think we’re playing basketball, but you can have the court. DANIEL FLESCH is a freshman in Pierson College. Contact him at daniel.flesch@yale.edu .
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ERO STARS.” “Do all you can to avoid this.” “A truly painful experience.” “It makes me hate America.” These may read like descriptions of the United States Congress, a Michael Bay film or the newest Nickelback track. They are actually several different Yelp reviews of the New Haven post office. For years now, the Yale student body has been subjected to sluggish, discourteous service at the hands of this institution — and nothing has been done to redress the situation. After a year of divisive campus issues, there is still one thing Yalies can all agree on: Our post office sucks.
STUDENTS SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO WASTE 30, LET ALONE 60 MINUTES OF THE DAY SIMPLY RETRIEVING A PACKAGE Every Yalie has their own war story from the post office. Like
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most freshmen, I acquired a P.O. box the first day I arrived on campus. During the first month of school, I received one book with a torn cover and another book one month late — and I never received the poster lost in the mail. In November, the post office finally realized they had assigned me someone else’s P.O. box, and then proceeded to blame me for their mistake. Little has changed since being assigned my own P.O. box: I can always count on receiving my packages late, and it takes several days to process packages before I can pick them up. The service is so poor that I never order anything off the Internet that I’ll need in under four days, even if I choose overnight shipping. Cameron Koffman ’19 has had enough. He recounted his story to me in an email: “After paying for overnight shipping a few different times and not getting my package until four days later, I was so fed up that I actually called the post office hotline and filed a formal complaint. I explained to the lady on the line that the processing at Yale Station is painfully bureaucratic and slow and that even when I do get my slip, I could wait an hour at the parcel window, as there is no guarantee that there will be anyone there. Seeing students open up
The lessons the University teaches I commend Finnegan Schick ’18 for his important, informative and balanced piece (“Is Yale becoming too corporate?” April 14) on the corporatization of the University and the tension between those focused on the “bottom line” and those who still believe the University should be focused on an educational mission. I have only a footnote to add to this analysis, and it concerns the way the corporatization is itself the prime subject of university education. First, if Yale is to continue to produce national leaders, students need to see in their University the kinds of accounting practices that make our country run. We are a nation that understands that great missions like the war in Iraq could never have taken place if Congress had not decided to declare the war expense outside the budget. And no war in Iraq, no ISIS. Where would we be? A University that speaks of reducing administrative costs by boasting the number of middle-class jobs it has eliminated while ignoring the number of hugely compensated administrators — and millions in bonuses to presidents and vice presidents — is educating its students in
the employees-only door and retrieve their package on their own is a regular occurrence at this point. My complaint made it to consumer affairs, but I’m not stopping until I’m on the phone with the postmaster general.” Let me be clear: I empathize with government workers. My father is a police officer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Both of these professions have faced charges of ineptitude and inefficiency. I understand such vices often attend bureaucracy, but that is still no excuse for this institution’s chronic underperformance. Service at the New Haven post office is listless and brusque. Whether due to lack of staff or lack of motivation, many services are simply not available during advertised hours. This is unacceptable. I propose that the post office hire Yale students. A Yale student is more than capable of manning the parcel window, and an extra set of hands or two during the busy afternoons could mitigate the long lines. Perhaps an innovative Yalie can even create a more efficient system. Regardless, students should never have to waste 30, let alone 60, minutes of the day simply retrieving a package. The additional workers would
expedite the post office’s operations and ensure that all services are actually available to students. Furthermore, employing Yale students would foster better relations between the student body and New Haven. The post office workers would surely be relieved to have the help, and Yalies would surely appreciate the extra income. In addition, working side by side with New Haveners will give students greater insight into the city they call home and improve towngown relations. This model has already been implemented in dining halls with success; let’s expand it to the post office. The median post office salary is $25 per hour, significantly higher than the amount paid by most student jobs. The promise of a wage north of $20 would attract many students, myself included, looking to earn more money throughout the school year. The people most motivated to reduce waiting times are in a position to do so. We have the opportunity to increase jobs, save students time and even help New Haven residents. Reform the New Haven post office: Hire student workers!
how to do corporate and political accounting. Second, to prepare students of all sexual orientations for lifepartnership in the 21st century, students need to see the benefits of “shared services.” Nothing is more inefficient than having the same person who could earn $1000 an hour in corporate administration or corporate law doing menial work like loading the dishwasher or going to see a child’s play. The future lies in shared domestic services, dividing what was once the “packaged” services of husband or wife into separate duties performed by people of separate skill levels and compensation levels. The centralization of departmental administration, taking away, for example, the lower-level skills from departmental business managers, helps students prepare for the domestic life of the future. Eliminating middleclass positions of college pantry workers and replacing them with lower-wage workers in a Winchester Avenue food factory pre-
pares all students for a world in which meal preparation will be done primarily outside the home. In the University, it’s called “centralization”; after graduation, it’s called “take out.” That our students know and appreciate the Yale model of “shared services” is represented well by their social and sexual lives. The “hookup buddy” is the Yale student’s personal participation in the corporatization model: It is much more efficient to have sex with one low-emotional-investment partner and save high-emotional-investment romance for another, another time. And if we truly are to heed the lessons of corporatization, we must prepare students for a world when sexual reproduction will be handled by the experts, those with the high SAT-score producing genes, and not left to the multi-tasking masses as it was in our parents’ inefficient times.
GRANT RICHARDSON is a freshman in Davenport College. Contact him at grant.richardson@yale.edu .
LESLIE BRISMAN The writer is the Karl Young Professor of English.
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Marrow drive expands to Old Campus BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER The nation’s largest Be The Match Foundation bone marrow drive, hosted for the past seven years by members of the Yale athletic community, has made strides toward becoming even larger. On Wednesday, dozens of student-athletes from the Yale football, field hockey and women’s hockey teams, alongside other administrators and studentathletes, will host the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Registry Drive, which honors the life of Mandi Schwartz ’11, a former women’s ice hockey player who lost her life after a 27-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia. This year, in addition to its usual location in Commons, the drive will also register potential donors on Old Campus. With an average of 765 new registrants — over half of Yale’s approximate class size — over the last three years, the Committee has decided to focus on engaging the freshmen, the majority of whom have not yet registered. “We really want to target the freshmen because we have approximately 1,400 freshmen,” said Larry Ciotti, a member of the Yale football coaching staff who started the drive and has since organized it each year. “We think that 98 percent of them haven’t been tested. If we got them all, that’s 1,400. Last year, we targeted freshmen and got 412 freshmen. We thought that [because] most of them live on Old Campus, bringing that site to them will be more effective. It’s a big undertaking.” Also for the first time in the drive’s history, Schwartz’s parents flew down from Saskatchewan, Canada, to show support for the event. They spoke to the Yale football team on Tuesday morning and the field hockey team later
that afternoon. Schwartz, originally a member of the class of 2010, competed for Yale for two seasons before her diagnosis in December of 2008. Her cancer went into remission in early 2010 but returned later that year, and although a handful of other matches were found from the early drives, there was no perfect match for Schwartz. She died in April 2011 at age 23. The drive was initially started in an effort to find matches for Schwartz, but it has since continued as a means to save the lives of more patients needing bone marrow transplants. “Back when Mandi was sick, it really added a sense of urgency to the drives,” Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Sam Rubin ’95 said. “It wasn’t an abstract concept, it was ‘We needed to find a match for Mandi’ … Unfortunately, we never could.” Rubin, who worked with the women’s ice hockey program before, during and after Schwartz’s battle, speaks to the football team about Schwartz’s legacy each year, according to football player Sebastian Little ’17, a member of the Marrow Drive Committee. A four-year volunteer with the drive, Little said he has been glad to see the drive evolve each year. Seven hundred and four people registered the first year, and 921 registered the following year — a record for the “Get in the Game. Save a Life.” campaign. But not only does the University register a large number of donors — the school has a sevenyear total of 5,299, according to Yale athletics’ tallies — it also has a high success rate. To date, 30 donors have successfully matched with a patient. The most recent donor was Jack Rushin ’17, a Yale football defensive end who took a few days off in October to undergo
the procedure. Though none of the volunteers or current Yale women’s hockey players knew Schwartz in person, every person interviewed touched on the importance of carrying on her legacy. In addition to the drive, the women’s hockey team hosts an annual White Out for Mandi game. “We all wear her number 17 on our helmets to remind us of her incredible work ethic, selflessness and courageous battle she fought for so long,” outgoing hockey captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 said. “It is hard not to be inspired after hearing Mandi’s story from our former teammates, coaches and people at Yale who knew her well. She embodied all of our core values as a program and we always try to play with the same love and passion Mandi brought onto the ice everyday.” Ciotti praised the efforts of the committee members, who are representatives from the three teams who help organize the event. On Wednesday, they will be joined by other members of their teams as well as a few men’s soccer players in convincing students on campus to register at the drive. “These people understand how to give back,” Ciotti said. “They sacrifice their time, and as Yale student-athletes their time is really constricted … They understand that they’re giving back for humanity. What is more simple a thing than being on a registry for a marrow drive? That’s the motivation.” The Mandi Schwartz Marrow Registry Drive will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Dwight Hall and Commons. Joining the registry requires participants, who must be between the ages of 18 and 44, to swab the insides of their cheek. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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BY SHUYU SONG STAFF REPORTER As Commencement approaches, seniors can take comfort in the fact that their Yale educations do not have to end with graduation. This year, Yale Alumni College — a program initiated by alumni volunteers and supported by the Association of Yale Alumni to provide courses for interested alumni, family and friends — has expanded the diversity of its curriculum, and is now offered in several more locations. Started in 2012 by current Program Chair Marv Berenblum ’56 along with other alumni, the program offers courses taught by Yale faculty or alumni who teach at other universities. Although the program began in New Haven and New York, it has now expanded to Princeton, New Jersey; Greenwich, Connecticut; Hartford, Connecticut; Rye, New York and Washington D.C. In addition, it now offers courses in the natural sciences as well as the humanities. Enrollment in the program this year reached 300. “It surprises me that champions of our program have sprung up across different locations. It is fantastic to see campuses in Princeton, Washington D.C. and other parts of the U.S., and we are delighted that alumni across the U.S. are serving the Yale community and the larger community in general,” Berenblum said. Courses in New Haven take place in the Rose Alumni House. In other cities, they take place in classrooms rented by alumni volunteers. Most courses are seminarstyle, meeting for 1.5 hours a week, six times a semester, and cost under $500. Each branch of the College is independently operated by alumni volunteers in the specific area. According to Andy Lipka ’78, the alumni volunteer who leads the program in Princeton, the responses from faculty and alumni have been overwhelmingly positive. Lipka said participants were thrilled about the opportunity to connect with other Yalies and to learn at a level that matches the quality of Yale courses again. Lipka added that the program has generated enormous alumni re-engagement.
“Undergraduates and graduate students have spent most of their lives in the classroom. But the alumni in the College have gone out to the real world and walked back in to engage with the faculty,” Lipka said. “It is an amazing reaction.” AYA Director for Strategic Initiatives Steve Blum ’74 added that the program fee was designed to make the program accessible to all alumni. He also pointed out that students, by volunteering and helping plan out social activities like outings, are also welcomed as part of the program. James Holquist GRD ’68, a senior scholar of comparative literature at Columbia University who has taught in the Alumni College since 2011, said he enjoys interacting and sharing knowledge with “grown-ups” in the alumni college. “This is one of the joys of teaching in the College, since as I grow older, I know less about the world inhabited by an annual turnover of undergraduates,” Holquist said. For Gary Schlesinger ’73, an alumnus who works as a psychoanalyst in New York and who is the parent of two current Yalies, the College gave him an opportunity to read the texts he wished he could have read in school. Schlesinger has taken five courses in the Alumni College, including one on Russian short stories. He said he enjoyed engaging in intellectual conversations with people across different age groups. He added that he enjoyed feeling like a student again. “In the other parts of my life, I feel like I’m doing a lot of helping and teaching. This is the only time when I feel like I get to have someone to give me knowledge. It is vitalizing to be a student again,” he said. “I feel very privileged to be able to study with experts like Professor Holquist.” Aside from the generally positive responses, faculty as well as alumni participants in the program have expressed some wishes for improvement. Although both the AYA and alumni volunteers were appreciative of the support that the Yale administration has offered, some Alumni College professors expressed concerns about resources.
Judith Malafronte, a professor in the School of Music, said it was at first challenging for her to set up her audio equipment, although she resolved the problem by using the piano in the classroom instead. Holquist listed a shortage of blackboards and large tables as examples of issues he encountered. “Marv Berenblum and his staff have done wonders with very limited resources, but they do it all on a shoestring. I think the University could do more to support their efforts,” Holquist said.
This is the only time when I feel like I get to have someone to give me knowledge. It is vitalizing to be a student again. GARY SCHLESINGER ’73 In addition, Schlesinger said he and many other alumni participants wished the classes could extend longer than six weeks, so that they could have more time to engage with the texts. In addition to the seminar-style teaching, the program has begun offering special lectures that are open to the public. Jessica Wright, AYA’s lead staff supporter of the program, listed the College’s partnership with the Osborn retirement community in Rye, New York last year as an example of the program’s efforts to broaden its reach. Berenblum said he wishes to see even more expansion in the future, as alumni both in and outside of the US have expressed interest. “This year we really know what we are doing, as opposed to developing the program as an experiment,” he said. “With the feedback from alumni and faculty members we now have the insight to further expand the program in terms of outings, venues, and locations.” Roughly 1,400 people have enrolled in the Alumni College since its 2012 inception. Contact SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .
Admissions sharpens outreach to low-income students BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER With a record-breaking number of applications to Yale College this year, Yale is attracting increasingly more students from underrepresented groups thanks to its targeted outreach, which has evolved over time: Beginning with the Yale Student Ambassador Program 10 years ago, these efforts now comprise targeted mailings and school visits, which are informed by recent research and data. When the ambassador program launched in 2005, Yale did not have comprehensive data on where high-achieving, lowincome students lived, according to Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07. Funded by a grant from a private donor, the program recruits current Yale students to travel to high schools that enroll a significant number of high-achieving, low-income students and give presentations about Yale. The Admissions Office’s goal was to convince students who, because of perceptions of Yale as a closed-off, predominately white institution, would not have applied to the University otherwise. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, then serving as director of outreach and recruitment, was one of the pioneers of the program, which has gone from infancy to one of Yale’s most reliable vehicles for outreach in the span of 10 years. The number of high
schools visited by ambassadors has gone up from a mere 230 in academic year 2005–06 to 722 in the last academic year. The number of Yale students logging visits has nearly tripled from 130 to 319 in the same period. But most important, applications from targeted schools have increased eight out of the last 10 years, with a 55 percent rise for the class of 2019. “It really makes a statement for someone who shares your same background to tell you that they were accepted,” said Jesus Caro ’16, a participant in the ambassador program. “High school students have this mental image of what they think a Yale student is, and they tell themselves there’s no way they can compare. So meeting a current student who really wasn’t all that different from you is very important.” Quinlan and Dunn have worked closely together growing this program since Quinlan became dean of admissions in 2013. Dunn said he came into his position wanting to do targeted outreach to this particular group, and one of his major tasks in this respect was to improve the data available to the Admissions Office. In this way, admissions would be able to communicate efficiently with the exact type of students it sought to recruit. While student information purchased from the College Board and the ACT provided Yale with information about which students were receiving high test
scores, it could not shed light on key additional factors like what their family backgrounds or socioeconomic statuses were. “We had these names in our system — students that based on one metric would be competitive applicants if they were to apply,” Dunn said. “What we didn’t have was good information about where [low-income] students lived.” During the 2012–13 academic year, Yale admissions officers received updated information on the number of students at each high school living in an area with a median household income under $60,000. The Admissions Office receives data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which had organized information about socioeconomic status by ZIP code. In this way, the Admissions Office was likely to figure out which students receiving high standardized test scores were likely to be low income. The following year, this data were further refined by the bureau to include income level by census tract, small areas designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics. “We went from just having hunchy judgments, to having really good data on which high schools are having good numbers of high-achieving, lowincome students,” Dunn said. Over the past four years, Yale has seen a 36 percent increase in the number of African-Americans applying, as well as an 18 percent increase in applica-
tions from members of an ethnic minority and a 12 percent increase from students who are the first in their family to attend college. By contrast, Yale’s total applications from the U.S. have risen 5 percent. Dunn said that while there is no set measure of socioeconomic diversity in a student body, one potential measure is the number of firstgeneration students enrolled. In several ways, 2013 was a critical year in college admissions: That spring, economists Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery published a paper that focused on “The Missing ‘One-Offs’” in college admissions — accomplished students who came from impoverished districts and attended underresourced high schools. The paper concluded that a significant number of these students existed and that the vast majority fail to apply to any selective college, in spite of the fact that they are typically admitted at higher rates and pay less in tuition than their wealthier counterparts. Because these students are typically not concentrated in a critical mass, the paper argued, admissions officers are unlikely to reach them. A separate paper by Hoxby and economist Sarah Turner showed that colleges could change these students’ applicant behavior through low-cost interventions that do not require students to be geographically concentrated, such as mailings to a student’s house. “We took this research and
very quickly moved on it,” Dunn said. Later that year, the Admissions Office rolled out what would be one of their primary modes of outreach to lowincome students — a postcard campaign now directed to around 25,000 students each year. The Admissions Office used the data that it had for the ambassadors program to send postcards to the homes of highachieving, low-income students during the summer months. These postcards are mailed to students across the country and include information on net cost, demographics of Yale and other information. “One of the reasons this is so important for us is because there are fewer and fewer economic levelers in society,” Quinlan said. “A college education and, in particular, a Yale education, can be a really powerful opportunity to cross socioeconomic boundaries and it’s important that all institutions of higher education diversify to help support the future of this country.” Yale’s peer schools have tried other approaches for low-cost interventions: In 2013, Harvard announced that it would be using social media, video and other Web-based communications to connect high school students to the university. The postcards were one of the products of a series of commitments Yale made to the White House that year as part of a pledge to increase college access
for all Americans. Part of these commitments were expanding the postcard campaigns from 16,000 cards per year as well as the ambassador program to reach more students, but Yale also committed to group travel to speak to as wide an audience as possible. In 2013, Yale admissions officers began traveling with representatives from Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia, which had been conducting joint sessions for several years. Yale has also done travel partnerships with Brown and MIT. Dunn said having a variety of schools presenting at the same time attracts students with a diverse range of interests and is effective at convincing students to apply to Yale who otherwise might not have wanted to. This claim is based on surveys administered to students and parents after the information sessions, through which the Admissions Office found that there were a higher portion of attendees from underrepresented groups. “Prospective students are really busy,” Dunn said. “If you’re not already leaning toward Yale, you’re probably not going to spend 90 minutes on a weeknight just learning about how awesome Yale is. We realized that traveling in a group can allow us to hit a more diverse group, and to move the needle with students who were not already sold on Yale.” Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
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“A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.” ANISH KAPOOR BRITISH-INDIAN SCULPTOR
Faculty debate FASTAP changes TENURE FROM PAGE 1 junior faculty, especially women and underrepresented minorities. They said junior faculty members often receive, and sometimes accept, attractive tenure offers from other universities before they come up for tenure review at Yale. The two other changes would shorten the amount of leave time professors receive to prepare for tenure review, and reduce the number of reviews involved in the overall process. Professors interviewed praised the proposed shortening of the tenure clock, but they noted that a true revision of the system could require a broader cultural shift in how the University judges the qualifications and standards for tenure. “It remains to be seen whether these changes will be effective. I would say that if the rules for tenure are changed, this change has to be accompanied by a change in the culture of the faculty,” Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Chair Margaret Homans said. “The faculty has to want this to work. We would have to think about giving tenure to professors more because they are promising, rather than because they are already established world leaders in their field.” When the current FASTAP system was first designed, the committee in charge of its creation suggested that the system be reviewed after a decade. Former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Jon Butler, who co-chaired the original FASTAP committee, said the current tenure system is itself a revision of a decades-long system. Before the 2007 revision, the tenure clock was 10 years long, and when junior faculty members came up for review, they were compared with outside candidates in a full search. “It was very bad for morale, and we felt like it was unhealthy,” Butler said. The new system not only trimmed a year off the clock and ended external comparison, but also gave junior faculty members up to four semesters of leave to prepare for their tenure review. Now, the FASTAP review committee is looking to shorten the clock even further. Changing the tenure clock from nine years to eight would mean that junior professors would likely undergo tenure review in their seventh year rather than their eighth. This shift
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would bring Yale closer to its peer institutions: Four out of eight Ivy League schools have seven-year tenure clocks, and the other three besides Yale have eight-year tenure clocks. This proposed revision would help Yale prevent promising junior faculty from being poached by other institutions. “Our clock’s current length seems to produce greater likelihood that our best faculty will be recruited before we are able to tenure them,” said Religious Studies Chair Kathryn Lofton, who serves on the FASTAP review committee. “Because our peer institutions have shorter clocks, they can promise tenure sooner than we are currently able to do so.” The draft report itself also notes that many FAS professors believe that the long tenure clock may be a liability in recruitment, in addition to retention. Butler said he “has no problems” with the proposal to further shorten the tenure clock. In
fact, he said, many members of the original FASTAP committee wanted to shorten the clock from 10 years to eight in 2007, but the committee ultimately felt that such a change would be too radical and abrupt. Still, some faculty members have raised questions about whether the standards for earning tenure would remain the same with the shorter time frame. If junior faculty members have to meet the same tenure standards — for example, publishing two books — in a shortened amount of time, getting tenure at Yale could actually become even more difficult, they argued. History, American Studies and African American Studies professor Glenda Gilmore said she does not believe the recommendations indicate that the standards for tenure would change. Lofton emphasized that Yale’s tenured faculty should “stand among the foremost leaders in the world.” She added that this is still feasible under the proposed new timeline.
Humanities Divisional Director and FASTAP review sub-committee chair Amy Hungerford suggested that rather than lowering the standards for tenure, the tenure review committees may instead be more predictive and forward-looking in their assessments of candidates. “If you think of a scholar’s trajectory as a line on a graph, we would simply be looking at that line at an earlier point on its path. The general shape should still be apparent in the seventh year,” she said. She added that in most cases, the one-year difference would not significantly affect the tenure evaluation decisions. In cases where the one year would make a difference, Hungerford said, there may be an “acceptable institutional risk” to not promoting the candidate to tenure, as the University could always try to recruit scholars back later. Giving tenure to faculty members who have shown inadequate promise in their seventh year, she said, would
pose a much bigger risk that could negatively affect departments for decades. The draft report suggests two other main changes that hinge upon the proposed shortened clock. The first is to shorten the pretenure leave time from four terms to three terms, in proportion to the overall shortening of the process. An earlier draft of the report, which was circulated among faculty in March, stated that “faculty may be granted a fourth term of leave before tenure if they are awarded a prestigious outside fellowship.” However, this recommendation generated significant criticism from faculty members, and it has since been removed from the most recent draft recommendations. Art History professor and former Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News that “prestigious outside fellowships” are often residential and thus less accessible to women, as well as men with young families. “It would be extremely difficult
for women to take on that competition and to uproot their family, or be away from their family, and take on a residential fellowship,” Miller said. “I gather that other individuals have also raised the same concern.” Gendler said the recommendation was removed in light of faculty feedback. Junior faculty members would now uniformly have three terms of leave. The last major change the report recommends is the elimination of a third review throughout the tenure process. Currently, faculty members undergo an internal review in their third year, a promotion review to associate professor on term in their fifth or sixth year and finally a tenure review generally in their eighth year. The new timeline would involve only two reviews: a reappointment review before the fourth year and a tenure review in the seventh year. Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .
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Church Street South is a 50-year-old housing project that holds 300 apartment units.
families to be relocated, the vast majority — 193 families — still live in Church Street South, while 57 reside in temporary apartments and 23 are in hotels. Officials announced in December that residents could elect to receive vouchers or wait for Northland and HUD to identify affordable housing units that will receive the federal subsidies currently given to Church Street South. Just 44 families have chosen not to receive vouchers. HUD and Northland are spearheading efforts to relocate Church Street South residents, Siciliano said. Northland, which began receiving roughly $3 million a year in federal housing subsidies for Church Street South in 2008, will transfer all of that money to various housing developments around the Elm City. Siciliano said this process has begun, but said there is “a learning curve.” She added that in late March, HUD identified two apartment complexes in New Haven that demonstrated a willingness to accept a federal subsidy to provide affordable housing for Church Street South residents. Because HUD is in negotiations, Siciliano said she cannot release the names or quantity of units offered at those complexes. Once the city, HUD and Northland relocate all families still living at Church Street South, bulldozers will enter the complex and finish the demolition that began in March 2016. Though Northland has not announced its plans for the complex, the company purchased Church Street South in 2008 with the original inten-
tion of building a mixed-income complex. The Board of Alders halted these plans in 2012 when Northland said it could not profitably build as high a proportion of affordable housing units as the alders sought. As a result, Northland did not build new complexes, instead resolving to keep up Church Street South. Now Northland will begin developments with an empty parcel of land and will not necessarily be required to build affordable housing units. Church Street South’s current location — across the street from Union Station and near downtown New Haven — is an optimal location for commercial developments and market-rate housing, said Jonathan Hopkins, a New Haven resident who wrote his master’s thesis in architecture on Church Street South. Yale urban studies professor Chloe Taft GRD ’14 said the city’s plans to grow new commerce in the downtown area and any future redevelopment of Church Street South are all part of an effort to attract young professionals. Taft added that despite these expected future economic gains, New Haven should remember its less fortunate population. “The question remains as to how New Haven residents beyond the downtown core who face high poverty levels and a severe shortage of affordable housing are going to benefit,” Taft said. Church Street South was designed by former dean of the Yale School of Architecture Charles Moore. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
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“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” VINCENT VAN GOGH DUTCH POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
Panel highlights increased mental health awareness BY PADDY GAVIN AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS On a warm Tuesday evening, five undergraduates openly shared their struggles with mental illness — from depression to bipolar disorder and eating disorders — to an audience of roughly 100 students gathered in Sudler Hall. The five students spoke on the panel “Faces of Mental Illness,” an event organized by the mental health advocacy group Mind Matters for the second time since the inaugural panel took place two years ago. Organizers said this year’s panel attracted a larger audience than the previous ones, likely due to the growing awareness of mental health issues as well as recent campus discussions that have highlighted the need for better mental health resources. The event placed emphasis on destigmatizing mental illnesses and putting faces to mental health struggles to humanize such challenges. Both panelists and organizers said they hope attendees left the event feeling empowered to share their own stories and cope with difficulties in their personal lives. “When you’re in the midst of mental illness, it’s very much like
you’re in a persistent yarn ball: You don’t know what strings to pull to get out, and it feels like you’re stuck in that yarn ball forever,” Katelyn Kang ’16, a panelist who shared her experiences with depression, told the News after the event. “But the reality is that it passes, it always passes. The worst point always passes. Just seeing us here unashamed of sharing our stories and all [of us being] successful in our own ways — I hope that’s an inspiration to other people not to be discouraged and ashamed of [their mental illness].” Mind Matters co-presidents Eli Feldman ’16 and Audrey Luo ’17 opened “Faces of Mental Illness” with a remark on the positive reception of the event. Two years ago, the panel attracted barely 40 people, Feldman said. The crowded room on Tuesday night speaks to how far the community has come in terms of mental health awareness, he added at the beginning of the event. Then, the five panelists — Kang, Alex Borsa ’16, Clement Dupuy ’18, Jackee Schess ’18 and one student who asked to remain anonymous — each took a turn at sharing their personal experiences. Borsa, a communication and consent educator on campus
Alums market legal marijuana BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday, Steve Berke ’03, Kevin Park ’00, Adam Mutchler ’02 and Gabe Goldstein ’02 will launch Bang Holdings, a digital media company providing content and an influencer-based marketing network to the legal marijuana industry. Berke, the company’s chief executive officer and founder, said Bang fills the void created by the restrictive policies of platforms such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, which do not allow cannabis companies to advertise on their sites. He said Bang aims at targeting producers seeking to become the Coca-Cola or Marlboro of the marijuana industry in states in which recreational cannabis is legal. Berke said Bang will not target Connecticut for the time being, due to the state’s relatively strict marijuana policies. While medical marijuana was legalized by the state in 2011, it is still illegal to sell marijuana for recreational purposes. “Our multi-channel, multiplatform advertising network directly engages around 500,000 marijuana enthusiasts on a daily basis, while Bang’s social influencer network expands our company’s potential reach to 11 million more customers,” Berke said in a statement to the News. “We are growing at an accelerated pace, and our expertise in the cannabis industry is second to none.” A tennis player at Yale, Berke said he looked down upon recreational marijuana users during college. After a post-graduation injury left him unable to play tennis professionally, however, Berke was offered the opportunity to appear on a reality television show, The Rebel Billionaire — an entrepreneurial competition featuring Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson — while he was in rehabilitation for his injury. While Berke did not win the competition, Berke said Branson introduced him to cannabis, which offered Berke pain relief and eliminated his negative perception of marijuana. Despite Connecticut’s policy against recreational marijuana use, some members of the Connecticut General Assembly are pushing for the legalization and regulation of recreational marijuana in the state, which they argue will eliminate the black market sale of marijuana and simultaneously stimulate the state’s economy. In February 2016, Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, and nine cosignees introduced House
Bill 5236, which would have allowed all adults in the state to purchase marijuana for recreation legally. But the bill failed in early March when it failed to garner sufficient legislative support for a public hearing this year. Rep. James Albis, D-East Haven, was one of the bill’s signatories. He said despite the bill’s failure to move to a public hearing, the issue has a tremendous amount of public support. Albis said the legalization of recreational marijuana in Connecticut would make the state a more competitive market because it would increase tourism and migration to the state. A number of neighboring states, such as Vermont and Massachusetts, are seriously considering cannabis legalization, Albis said. “We’ve been so far behind on a lot of economic issues,” Albis said. “This is an area where we could actually get ahead of our neighboring states and gain a competitive edge.” Albis added that the bill proposed tax revenue from marijuana sales in Connecticut fund substance abuse services, which would help combat the growing opioid epidemic plaguing the state. Connecticut’s medical marijuana industry is currently growing, following the January approval of three new dispensaries in New Haven county by the state’s Department of Consumer Protection. DCP Director of Communications Lora Anderson said the three new dispensaries should be operating by the summer of 2016. She said 9,897 medical marijuana patients live across the state, with 2,657 of these patients residing in New Haven county. Anderson said the DCP does not support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. But, she said, medical dispensaries improve the lives of state residents with one of 17 qualifying medical conditions — including cancer, sickle cell disease and epilepsy. Anderson added that the DCP is working to expand the medical industry so that children with such conditions can access medical marijuana. “Right now we prefer that marijuana stay being used for medical purposes, but we are happy that the program is growing and that the stigma of medical marijuana patients is improving,” Anderson said. Two of the new medical dispensaries are opening in Milford — a 10-minute drive from downtown New Haven. Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .
who was diagnosed with depression during the winter break of his sophomore year, spoke of the challenges he faced in first identifying and then managing his condition. Borsa said that he began to see a therapist at Yale’s Mental Health and Counseling during his freshman year and that this proved helpful to him before he was diagnosed. He added that after his diagnosis he began to stop seeing medication as a “failure” but instead as “saving [himself].” He also described his decision to go off medication at the beginning of this academic year as a “scary ride.” Dupuy, who has bipolar disorder, said that during his freshman year, his moods varied between feeling very low and self-critical to experiencing periods of intense euphoria. He began to use marijuana to calm himself during periods of high energy and LSD to boost himself at points when he felt particularly low. Schess, who is also treasurer for Mind Matters, told the audience that she suffers from both juvenile idiopathic arthritis and depression. She spoke about the difficulties associated with the intersection of physical and mental conditions. For example, she
said her arthritis precluded her from coping mechanisms which involved physical activity, including playing the guitar. One of the panelists, who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of her experience, spoke about her struggle with an eating disorder, which led her to withdraw from Yale for two academic years. The student said that because she was afraid of gaining weight during her freshman year and felt she would exercise less in college, she decided to eat less at Yale. She added that as a result, she lost 40 pounds by the end of her first semester and was hospitalized during winter break. The panelist decided to return to Yale the following semester and again for her sophomore year, when her disorder degenerated until she was forced to take time off. Returning to Yale after spending two years away was difficult, she said, since her original classmates had already graduated. Still, the panelist said her participation in new extracurricular activities this year has resulted in a very positive experience. Kang, who also experiences depression, said her boyfriend provided support during her time
at Yale, describing his encouragement that she receive treatment as “insistent but not overbearing.” She added that after she began taking medication for her depression she found herself with a much improved “baseline” level of happiness than before. During the question-andanswer session that followed the panel discussion, Feldman and Luo asked panelists to share helpful tips that guided them through their recovery process or in their interactions with peers. Feldman told the News afterwards that one part of the event was about destigmatization, while another part focused on giving the audience tangible steps they could take in their own lives. Kang said that the key to her recovery was her practice of mentally congratulating herself for taking small steps, such as getting herself out of bed each morning. Nine attendees interviewed said they thought it was important to hear about their peers’ experiences with mental health challenges and said they took away important lessons from the panelists. Michael Berry ’17, the incoming communications coordinator for Mind Matters, said it is critical to destigmatize and raise aware-
ness of mental illnesses on campus. It is not always obvious when someone suffers from them, he said. Dae Hee Ahn, MUS ’15 said she has friends who are struggling with mental health challenges, and she is not always sure how she can help. “I learned a lot about patience and believing today,” she said. “It’s important to not give up and just be there as a friend.” The number and diversity of attendees reflected a positive shift in the Yale community regarding mental health awareness, Feldman said. “I do think that Yale is at a very different place with regard to mental health than it was two years ago. For the most part, [the change] is for the better,” Feldman said. “People are no longer as uncomfortable just discussing the topic compared to my freshman and sophomore years.” In response to calls for mental health reform, Yale Mental Health & Counseling increased its clinical staff by 2.5 full-time equivalent employees last fall. Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu
Higgins appears before alders BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER At a workshop Tuesday night, the Board of Alders’ Public Safety Committee welcomed a guest familiar to all Yale students: Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins. Higgins came to City Hall as part of a discussion of public safety issues that also included testimony from interim New Haven Fire Chief Ralph Black. Despite its University affiliation, the Yale Police Department is a fully accredited police department in its own right, Higgins said. And as a New Haven police department, the YPD follows the tenets of the “community policing” philosophy that governs New Haven’s law enforcement strategy, Higgins added. Higgins was invited to the aldermanic Public Safety Committee meeting because the board was interested in being updated on the YPD’s work. “We’re a police department in the city of New Haven and community policing is the way policing is done in this city,” Higgins said. “We’ve done that since 1894, so you see Yale Police officers not only in their cars, but on bikes and walking beats.” The YPD operates in only a few of the city’s neighborhoods — parts of Dixwell and East Rock, as well as all of Downtown — but it operates in other respects like a full member of the city’s law enforcement community. Higgins said he usually attends weekly data-sharing CompStat meetings with the New Haven Police Department and sends an emissary whenever he cannot
make the meeting. Still, the YPD operates under slightly different rules from the NHPD. One of the main differences, Higgins said, is that the Clery Act requires the YPD to notify the Yale community of crimes that occur on campus, whereas the NHPD faces no such requirement. Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, a Yale employee in the Union-Management Partnership department and former chair of the Public Safety Committee, emphasized the breadth of Higgins’ role, which requires him to oversee all of Yale’s security services. “The chief is being modest,” Wingate said. “He’s the public safety of Yale University. You’ve got to understand that. He’s not just the chief of police — he’s the public safety of the University.” The YPD, Higgins said, is budgeted for 87 officers, but the department is currently down a few officers and working to hire more. Combined, sworn and civilian staff total 120 positions, not including Yale Security. Committee Chair and Quinnipiac Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes noted that the YPD often acquires cutting-edge technology, like Segways and dashcams, before the NHPD is issued the devices. Higgins said that has a lot to do with the expectations of the University, as well as a desire to use new technology to increase the quality of community policing in Downtown and elsewhere. Antunes also raised a concern with Higgins that reflects a sentiment shared by many New
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Higgins spoke before the Board of Alders at City Hall Tuesday, as part of a public safety committee meeting. Haveners — that Yale students often seem blissfully unaware of their surroundings and engage in risky behavior on the city’s streets. “It seems to us on the outside that students at Yale have no idea about walking out in front of cars, about riding their bicycles on the sidewalk,” Antunes said. “Some people say that’s just part of college life, but it seems to go a little bit further.” Higgins said distracted driving is an enormous issue, and not just on university campuses. Arguing that the modern age is a “digitally distracted” era, he noted that he sits on the Yale Traffic Safety Committee, founded in 2011 after a medical student was struck and killed by a car on the campus of the Yale School of Medicine. And the YPD, he said, conducts forums with students throughout the year to discuss public safety. Alders were largely positive
about Higgins’ performance and the quality of the YPD. Hill Alder David Reyes said he had heard “great things” about the YPD and wondered how Higgins kept his officers happy, given the high level they operate at each day. Ultimately, Higgins said, maintaining a high-quality police department is about synchronization, ensuring that all officers have the same goals and principles in mind. “The success of any police department is, especially in these times, truly dependent on the behavior of the men and women on the front line,” Higgins said. “So us leaders, we have to be like orchestra conductors, knowing that everyone is going to be playing different instruments. We need to make sure they’re on the same sheet of music.” Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.” SAMUEL DANIEL ENGLISH POET AND HISTORIAN
Law School to graduate first three Ph.D.s in law LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 ferred by a law school and Ph.D. conferred by a graduate school of arts and sciences, or from other teaching fellowships granted by law schools. Yale Law School administrators argue that the school’s three-year doctoral program would cement the law’s status as a field of its own — as opposed to one studied from other angles such as psychology and other social sciences — and prepare budding law professors for an increasingly competitive job market. Two of the three graduating candidates declined to comment for this story, and one did not respond to a request for an interview. The positions secured by this year’s graduates, combined with articles they have published during their Ph.D. candidacy, suggest that the program has been a success. “[For some teaching fellowships], students are required to teach legal writing, which is something [they] will never teach again for the rest of [their] life,” Silverstein said. He added that compared to existing teaching fellowships at law schools nationwide, Yale Law School’s Ph.D. in Law degree program is much more rigorous, combining coursework, workshops and teaching requirements. The program is meant to be an addition to existing teaching and writing fellowships, not a substitute, Silverstein said. After the Law School introduced the program, some legal scholars raised concerns that other law schools would follow suit, eventually making a doctoral degree in law a prerequisite for future professorships. Although the inaugural class of the Law School’s Ph.D. candidates has
secured prestigious positions, Silverstein said the scale of program is too small to influence the job market just yet. Silverstein said “a couple” of schools have looked into establishing a similar Ph.D. in Law program, though he does not expect these programs to come to fruition for a few years. Such a program is an expensive enterprise, he said, and a number of schools are watching carefully how Yale is doing before entering the relatively new territory. Silverstein said what boosts students’ chances of landing jobs in legal academia is not a Ph.D. alone, but rather the writing portfolio they would accumulate during the three-year program. All three of the graduating Ph.D. candidates have published articles in major law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Amanda Shanor ’03 LAW ’09 LAW ’17, a second-year Ph.D. in law candidate, said that in the face of an increasingly competitive job market, it is not realistic to try and obtain a tenured faculty position — even at middle-range law schools — with only a J.D. degree and clerkships. One has to earn at least a Ph.D. in another discipline and be able to present a body of writing to stand out in the market, she said. Current Ph.D. candidates interviewed agreed that the program helped them study through a specific legal angle. Traditional views hold that law is a field studied from a combination of other disciplines and not a separate field in itself. Shanor said that through Yale’s program, she has been able to work alongside prominent figures in legal scholarship and examine legal
institutions and pressing questions facing the American legal academy today. Shelley Welton LAW ’17, another second-year Ph.D. candidate, said while a J.D. degree program taught her the tools to practice law, the Ph.D. program trained her to think like a legal academic. Welton highlighted the writing workshops in the Ph.D. program as particularly useful, adding that the scholarly engagement during those workshops was much more intense than the feedback she received for her J.D. writings. Welton added that legal scholars are still grappling with the question of whether law is a discipline in itself. While the program has taught her methods and processes related to legal analysis — providing a common language among aspiring legal scholars — there is not a common set of methodology for everyone, as different subfields in law demand different approaches, she said. Law School students interviewed said they are aware of existing dual degree programs including a J.D. and a Ph.D. in another discipline, but said a Ph.D. in law is a better fit for aspiring legal scholars. Kate Klonick LAW ’18, a first-year student in the program, said the Ph.D. in Law program was the best way to combine her background in legal education and her passion for psychology. Since Ph.D. training in psychology academia often takes seven years, a J.D. and Ph.D. in psychology dual degree would keep her in school for a long time. All Ph.D. in law candidates receive a full-tuition fellowship and living stipend. Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .
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Three students from Yale Law School’s inaugural class of Ph.D.s will graduate this semester.
YCC VP candidates spar in runoff RUNOFF FROM PAGE 1 ilarities to his own, Hochman said, such as emphasizing outreach to undergraduate groups not on YCC through a liaison. In the other camp, former YCC presidential candidate Sarah Armstrong ’18 — who received the biggest share of the votes in the presidential election after YCC president-elect Peter Huang ’18 — has formally endorsed Sullivan on the vice-presidential ticket. Former vice-presidential competitor Luis Patiño ’18 said he is supporting Sullivan as well. Patiño said that while he originally did not plan to endorse a candidate in the runoff, he realized his platform lined up with other candidates’ in many ways and it would still be possible to achieve some of the reforms
he had pushed for in his own campaign. “As a former vice-presidential candidate who just went through the stress of running a schoolwide campaign, I know what it’s like to be in the midst of this for a week, and for Kevin a week and a half now,” Patiño said. “Kevin has conducted himself very well and been classy and respectful throughout the whole process, which is very important to consider when electing a classwide representative.” Patiño said he chose to endorse Sullivan because of Sullivan’s platform, the way he has conducted himself on YCC and his proposals for “empowering the student voice” in a way that is both practical and ambitious. Patiño added that he supports Sullivan’s willingness to take
on big issues such as faculty diversity, LGBTQ resources and the student income contribution. Other former candidates have chosen to remain publicly impartial. Both Huang and former presidential candidate Diksha Brahmbhatt ’18 said they will not be endorsing either competitor. While most of the eight students interviewed said they did not know much about the election, some said they had already voted. Dhikshitha Balaji ’18 said she voted for the same candidate in both the original and the runoff elections, adding that she hopes to see a vice president who is more communicative with the student body. Students such as Patiño and Jason Hu ’19 said they were surprised that there was
a runoff for the vice presidency and not for the position of president, a race that included five candidates this year. The last time there was a runoff election for the presidential position was in 2014, when former YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 defeated Leah Motzkin ’16 by 104 votes. There were initially four candidates running for president that year. “With five people running [for president], it would be a lot more natural to have a runoff,” said Hu, who voted in both vice-presidential elections. “Each candidate has to get such a large percentage of the vote.” Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
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Sullivan, left, and Bowman continue to compete for the YCC VP role.
UConn leads on sexual assault UCONN FROM PAGE 1 riences with and perceptions about sexual violence at UConn.” In some ways, UConn’s report stands in contrast to its New Haven neighbor. After participating in a 27-school survey administered by the Association of American Universities, Yale released the results of its own climate survey on sexual misconduct in January. In contrast to the 12.0 percent of UConn students who reported experiencing an attempted or completed sexual assault, 16.1 percent of all Yale respondents reported the same. More than 55 percent of respondents also reported experiencing at least one incident of sexual harassment since arriving at Yale. Still, UConn Title IX Coordinator Elizabeth Conklin cautioned against comparing results from different surveys. She pointed out that the HEDS survey was not open to all students; rather, the survey was provided to a randomly selected group, of which 25 percent responded. Yale’s survey, in comparison, was open to any student enrolled at the University and saw a 51.8 percent response rate. “We’re still analyzing and reviewing results, but we certainly realized that reported rates are lower than national averages,” Conklin told the News. “I felt like the results on ballots were representative with my experience of the cases I’ve seen in my time at UConn.” Expressing confidence with the overall survey results, Conklin said HEDS will release the cumulative results of its survey in the fall of 2016. This survey follows a tumultuous few years for UConn, the subject of a high-profile class action lawsuit in 2014. The university settled a $1.28 million lawsuit, in which well-known civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred fought for five women who claimed the university had not handled their claims of sexual assault and harassment appropriately.
Four of the plaintiffs also filed Title IX compliance suits with the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, but suspended the complaints once the settlement was reached. Any educational institution — public or private — that receives federal funding is required to comply with Title IX, a 1972 law that prohibits discrimination in colleges and universities on the basis of sex. Therefore, although UConn is a public university and six times the size of Yale, the two schools abide by the same standards laid out by the Office of Civil Rights. UConn’s 2014 settlement also included a series of changes to university policy: the UConn police department formed a special victims unit comprised of officers trained in responding to sexual violence. Additionally, the university created the role of assistant dean of students for Victim Support Services and revised a training program intended to teach managementlevel employees how to deal with cases of sexual misconduct. Since then, UConn has implemented a new university policy against discrimination, harassment and related interpersonal violence. “[T]he policy more clearly identifies employee reporting obligations and the offices responsible for administering these issues on and off campus for both students and employees,” the policy’s frequently asked questions on the school’s Title IX website reads. “In particular, the new policy requires responsible employees to report to the university cases of stalking and intimate partner violence involving students, in addition to longer-standing sexual assault reporting requirements.” UConn’s new policy went into effect on Jan. 1, 2016. Caityln Wherry contributed reporting. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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AROUND THE IVIES
“On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.” KOFI ANNAN GHANAIAN DIPLOMAT
C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R
Suspension may be “most relevant” punishment for sit-in BY CAUVERI SURESH AND LARSON HOLT Rules Administrator Suzanne Goldberg has said she anticipates that suspension will be the most relevant sanction for the University Judicial Board to consider if the seven students occupying Low Library are found responsible for violating the Rules of University Conduct, according to emails sent to Columbia Divest for Climate Justice members. The email comes after a meeting with protesters inside Low Library on Friday evening, during which Goldberg said that she could not tell the protesters what sanctions the University Judicial Board would recommend for violations of the rules — only the UJB has jurisdiction over sanctioning once the rules administrator has filed charges. In an email on Sunday, Goldberg said that she expects to recommend that the occupiers be found responsible for numerous serious violations, adding that several of the sanctions the UJB may impose would be “too mild”
in light of the extent of the “extensive warnings” t h e p ro testers have COLUMBIA received. “ T h e sanction of suspension is what I anticipate assessing to be most relevant for the University Judicial Board to consider should it find you responsible for the serious violations at issue,” the email said. CDCJ members sitting in at Low said that they had expected that suspension would be a potential sanction ever since the first warning Goldberg sent them on Friday. “The only words she explicitly said as far as examples of outcomes for us were suspension and expulsion,” Cristian Padilla said. “She never even referred to the lighter punishments.” The occupiers expressed concern that Goldberg’s email suggested she would play a role in recommending sanctions for
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students found in violation of the rules. “Her role in how she’s outlined it to us so many times is not concerned with our actual sanctioning. Her job as the rules administrator, as she’s made abundantly clear, is to do an investigation,” Lucas Zeppetello said. “I don’t know anything about her making recommendations about what our sanctioning should be — that’s not something she’s elaborated on before.” In her email, Goldberg noted that she expects to “recommend that the appropriate sanctions in this circumstance be correspondingly serious.” The rules administrator’s role in recommending sanctions is not explicitly addressed in the rules. The rules do, however, state that the rules administrator may recommend to the UJB whether the respondent is responsible for violating the rules. Ultimately, the protesters have indicated that they will continue their demonstration
despite Goldberg’s latest email. “I wasn’t that stressed out about it,” Colin Muller said of the email. “We knew coming into it that [suspension] was a possibility.” Muller added that Columbia College Student Council’s statement condemning suspension or expulsion as a potential punishment for the activists has also helped to assuage any fears. CCSC released a statement on Sunday evening condemning suspension or expulsion as a potential punishment for CDCJ’s activists. CDCJ organizer Daniela Lapidous attended CCSC’s general body meeting on Sunday to ask the council to issue a statement of support similar to the statements issued by over a dozen student groups on campus. The statement acknowledges that punishment may be necessary, but suggests that suspensions and expulsions would be excessive. “The University’s Rules of Conduct allow for a range of potential sanctions — including
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“It seems like she’s taking a really aggressive stance,” Muller said. “It’s a bummer that it’s from her that we’re getting most of the communication, rather than from President Bollinger … She also seems to be piling up as much punishment as she can against us to punish us for something that we care about and that other students care about.” Goldberg clarified in the email sent on Sunday that President Bollinger will not meet with an organization whose members are in active violation of University rules. Previous information the occupiers had received stated only that Bollinger would not meet with students who themselves were in violation of the rules. When asked if this changes their expectations of whether Bollinger will meet CDCJ members outside Low on Monday, Padilla said that the group’s expectations have always been tempered. “Hopefully we’ll meet him,” Padilla said. “If not, well, he’ll have to see us eventually.”
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expulsion — due to any infraction deemed ‘serious,’ including occupation of a University building after closing hours,” the statement said. “While we fully expect sanctions to be applied to a certain extent, we, the Columbia College Student Council, are concerned with the possibility of suspension or expulsion facing the students of Columbia Divest for Climate Justice who continue to nonviolently occupy Low Library.” The statement also clarified that CCSC was not officially supporting fossil fuel divestment, though 73.7 percent of respondents voted in favor of divestment in CCSC’s firstever ballot initiative in 2013. The resolution, which 36 percent of Columbia College students voted on, was placed on the ballot by members of Barnard Columbia Divest, the predecessor to CDCJ. While Goldberg’s statement has not shifted the protesters’ strategy or goals, occupiers expressed disappointment in the email.
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SPORTS
“I have decided to retire young. Thanks for the cheese. Catch ya’s later.” CONOR MCGREGOR UFC WORLD CHAMPION WHO ANNOUNCED HIS APPARENT RETIREMENT VIA TWITTER ON TUESDAY
For seniors, Ivy or bust
Twins take on two sports W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12
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goals, in addition to three assists. Her sister, Katie Smith, also started every game for the field hockey team and has tacked on a pair of goals on the lacrosse field this spring. The News spoke with Lily Smith to talk about the experience she and her twin sister have had being Yale’s newest two-sport athletes.
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Joining lacrosse was something that we both wanted to do, so we contacted coach LaGrow together, met with her and the other coaches, discussed logistics and picked up where we left off senior year, side by side.
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you two recruited for School has not changed much QWere lacrosse as well as field hockey? Asince we picked up playing How did you decide to just play field hockey originally?
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both sports. Between being in season [in lacrosse] and off season for field hockey, the time commitment to playing lacrosse instead of participating in field hockey spring training is a bit larger. But it doesn’t feel that way — being in competition year round is so much fun and the seasons fly by! Like playing field hockey in the fall, it’s a balancing act between athletics and academics in the spring now too. You just have to make sure you set enough time aside for both, as well as make time for other activities, while finding random times to eat or sleep some in between.
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We actually approached coach LaGrow about joining the lacrosse team. We contacted her at the beginning of the semester, fall 2015, and set up a time to meet with her and talk about it. She said she would be open to us joining the team, but in the meantime wanted us to focus on field hockey while we were in season — and I believe she said something similar to [Tarrant]. Neither of us had played since spring of our senior year in high school, so we had a lot of catching up to do as well.
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Captain Chris Moates ’16 has been limited by injury to 5.1 innings this season, but has still thrown 133.0 frames during his career. BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 Adams, despite having missed 10 games earlier this season due to a hamstring injury, has the second-highest batting average on the team at 0.308, frequently hitting from the leadoff or second spot in the lineup. Lawson ranks just behind Adams with a 0.293 average. He has nine RBI this season, and both of his home runs have come against Ivy League opponents, including a walkoff blast to lift the Elis to victory over Cornell on April 10. Joining Adams and Lawson in the lineup, O’Neill has started all but one game for the Bulldogs this season while providing a steady glove at shortstop. Although he is hitting just 0.178 overall, O’Neill is batting 0.275 in Ivy play and has upped his slugging percentage 166 points during conference play, highlighted by a two-run homer last Saturday against Harvard. The trio of position players has been regular presences in head coach John Stuper’s lineup throughout their careers. Entering the season, Adams had made 84 starts, followed by 65 and 64 started games for O’Neill and Lawson, respectively, over the course of Yale’s 117 games the past three years. Meanwhile, the two seniors
who played the most significant roles on that 2014 baseball squad, Lanham and Moates, have adjusted their roles this season. Both were All-Ivy recipients in 2014, with Lanham receiving Second Team honors and Moates earning an honorable mention. In fact, the duo combined to pitch nearly seven innings of that sudden-death game versus the Big Green two seasons ago. During that spring, Lanham compiled an exceptional 7–2 record and Moates tossed 38.1 innings to the tune of a team-best 2.11 ERA. “Playoff baseball is always fun, and it was nice to make it to the division championship after having a stretch of consecutive bad years,” Moates said. “But this year we won’t be satisfied with anything less than the Ivy League championship.” This year, however, shoulder problems for Moates and a decision to rest Lanham’s arm at points throughout the season have affected their respective impact. Lanham has made just four starts, and owns a 9.00 ERA though he delivered a valuable performance out of the pen in a 9–8 win over Cornell, when he tossed 5.2 effective innings to help the Elis overcome an early 4–0 deficit. That contest also represented Moates’ most recent appearance on the mound, as Lan-
ham took over for the senior captain after just 1.1 innings pitched. Moates has thrown only 5.1 innings this season, 11th-most on the team, as he continues to recover from a torn labrum suffered last season, though he has still been able to offer value at the plate. Although the Smithville, Georgia native had not had a plate appearance in either of the past two seasons, Moates has stepped up for 30 at bats this spring, delivering eight hits and four RBI. “Right now I am continuing on with my rehab and trying to make it back on the mound as soon as possible,” Moates said. “But [I am] contributing as much as I can with the bat in the meantime.” Perhaps more critical than the statistics for Lanham and Moates has been the value they have provided as senior leaders, who have had experience thriving in the Ivy League. This has been a critical component to Yale’s success, especially on a team that has seen contributions throughout the lineup and pitching rotation from each of the younger classes. “The younger talent has done an outstanding job for the team this year,” O’Neill said. “They have been instrumental in our success this season, and the seniors definitely
recognize that.” Moates noted that one way the class of 2016’s experience has mattered is after weekends such as this past one, in which Yale dropped three out of four games to Harvard. He shared that the seniors must “show that it is not the end of the world” and that the team “stick with the process just like we would have if we had swept.” After facing Wesleyan on Wednesday, the Bulldogs will return to league play over the weekend with a critical pair of doubleheaders at secondplace Dartmouth. The season will then wrap up with two more doubleheaders, with one away at Brown before hosting the Bears for the final two games of the season. With a divisional crown on the line, the five Bulldogs are intent on extending their respective collegiate careers as a unit. “We’re a really tight group … We have done everything together,” Adams said. “We are all best buddies, and we give each other a hard time and joke around but we all love each other like a family.” Over the past four seasons, Yale has compiled a 34–38 conference record. Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .
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I think at first she was a little skeptical or confused why we would want to join another team, but she let us anyway, because she knew it was something that we really wanted to do. Coach Stuper, and the rest of the field hockey team and staff, have all become really supportive of our decision to play lacrosse. They all came out to Reese [Stadium] to see us play, made posters and were screaming in the stands. It really meant a lot.
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Midfielder Lily Smith ’18, who has started seven games for the Bulldogs, has scored 10 goals — third-most on the team.
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Yale’s intramurals have seen decreased attendance this spring.
ski, the current site is “plagued” by continuous technical difficulties, “preventing it from being kept current, functional and accessible.” Both initiatives are expected to be completed by the start of the upcoming fall season. Other new policies will look to improve student attendance and retention rate in the IM program. For example, the department has for the first time developed IM brochure, which will be available next fall as handouts at events like Freshman Orientation to attract the new class of students, Migdalski said. Additionally, the start date for IMs has been moved up to the first week of classes for the upcoming school year, which Jenkinson said was an attempt to get students “excited and interested” in IMs before they committed to other extracurricular options at Yale. The administration has also focused on improving the enforcement of rules and safety procedures during IM matches by beginning to develop a new Ad Hoc Rules Committee made up of IM secretaries, instituting required instructional clinics for supervisors and referees and purchasing staff-specific T-shirts for better identifica-
tion of referees and supervisors at games. Game-specific changes have also been made this year. After the introduction of Spikeball at the start of the spring season, the IM secretaries decided at their most recent meeting last Friday that all games will now be played in campus courtyards rather than at the IM fields. Additionally, Broomball will replace Ice Hockey as an IM winter sport starting next semester, primarily due to the disparity in skill level of ice skating for students. “We have had a busy year developing and implementing exciting projects in Yale intramurals as we bring the program to a new and higher level,” Migdalski said. “We believe these changes will draw even more energy, enthusiasm and excitement to the games next fall.” More energy might in fact be necessary. According to Migdalski, forfeits have been higher and participation numbers lower than normal this spring. He attributed this to poor weather, which caused 32 games to be canceled during the first weeks of the spring IM season, according to Jenkinson. Undergraduate representatives have also noticed this change. IM secretary for Davenport College Julianne Kennedy ’17 said the col-
lege has forfeited more games than usual this season. At the other end of the spectrum, Kai Takahashi ’16, an IM secretary for Berkeley College — which was leading in the race for the Tyng Cup at the end of the winter season — said Berkeley has had most of its games forfeited by opponents. He explained that for most of its spring games, either the Berkeley teams travel to IM fields and the opposing team does not show up, or the other college emails in advance to say it will not be fielding a team. “The spring season has been tricky, because attendance is rather poor so a lot of the games are forfeits, which disincentives attendance further,” said Laurel Cohen ’16, who is also an IM secretary for Berkeley. “Attendance in the winter and fall was much stronger. In general the spring is hard to recruit for because the season is so busy and people get used to not having to take the bus to the fields in winter, but this year is worse than I remember.” Last year, Timothy Dwight College took home the Tyng Cup, which is awarded to the residential college with the most IM points at the end of the school year. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .
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ARTS & CULTURE YCBA prepares for May reopening
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BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER After 16 months of renovations, the Yale Center for British art is set to reopen on May 11, newly restored in accordance with the vision of its architect, Louis Kahn. The 2015-16 renovation marks the third phase of the Center’s “Building Conservation Project,” initiated in 2002 by Director Amy Meyers. Earlier phases focused on the repair of the YCBA’s exterior courtyard and Lecture Hall lobby, as well as the restoration of
interior curatorial and reference spaces, such as the Rare Books & Manuscripts Department. The latest phase, which is nearing completion, has emphasized a re-imagining of the Center’s galleries and public spaces, as well as important updates to the building’s infrastructure. Working with Knight Architecture LLC in New Haven and Peter Inskip + Peter Jenkins Architects LTD in London, the conservation project restored the building while remaining true to Kahn’s original design. “This building is one of the great buildings of the twentiethcentury,” Meyers said. “[It is] our largest and our most complicated object, and we treat it in that way. It is conserved as one would conserve a great art object.” In 1966 — the year Paul Mellon ’29 announced the
donation of his extensive collection of British art to Yale — Jules Prown, the YCBA’s founding director, along with Mellon and the University, chose Kahn to design a structure specifically to house Mellon’s gift. Meyers emphasized the “intimacy” of Kahn’s design for the Center, which she said resembles the domestic spaces and great halls of a British country house. The director also highlighted Kahn’s attention to the conservation demands of particular works in the collection, noting that the architect designed the building with windowless areas reserved for paper works, which may fade if extensively exposed to natural light, while other, more brightly illuminated spaces house less sensitive works. “The building literally breathes with the elements,”
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Following an extensive “Building Conservation Project,” the YCBA will reopen in May.
Meyers said. “It’s organic. It responds in the way that we do, as organic beings, to what is happening outside.” According to YCBA Deputy Director Constance Clement, who oversaw much of the renovation, the conservation plan addressed moments of “architectural drift,” as well as necessary infrastructural changes, such as upgrades of air handling units, electrical elements and the building’s sprinkler and security systems. Additionally, various aspects of the building’s decorative program were restored “in the spirit of Kahn,” including repairs to the galleries’ concrete and travertine stone, and replacement of their synthetic carpet, installed in 1988, with the wool version specified by Kahn’s original design. Architects also upgraded the Center’s educational spaces, refurbishing the lecture hall and adding a seminar room, which will be used as a research and teaching space. Of particular importance, Clement and Meyers said, was the restoration of the “Long Gallery,” which Kahn originally imagined as a densely hung study space that would run nearly the entire length of the fourth floor, but which had long been broken up by temporary walls. As the building itself underwent renovations, the Center’s displays and collections were updated, too. Upon reopening, the YCBA will exhibit a much vaster portion of its collections
— the largest number of works on display in recent years — while highlighting British artwork and culture in a global context. “This is not just a view of England or Britain. The collection is much broader than that and it speaks to a lot of issues that have to do with empire, and then a postimperial Britain,” Scott Wilcox, the Center’s deputy director for collections, said. “We have tried to bring that out.” Though the team used the renovation as a moment to rethink the collection’s display, Wilcox explained that much of the new hang follows the same narrative of previous installations. One novelty of the reinstallation, Wilcox said, was the opening up of gallery spaces. Moveable dividers have been arranged nearer to the galleries’ outer walls, “framing” the spaces and providing views of the paintings from both a distance and up close. This shift, as well as the newly restored Long Gallery, marks a return to Kahn’s original ideas, Wilcox explained. Beyond the newly hung collections and refurbished interiors, the building itself remains in dialogue with its surroundings, including the neighboring Yale University Art Gallery — Kahn’s first commission at Yale — and the School of Architecture. “There is an architectural conversation that is going on for Kahn, first with the buildings that his building would connect with, and the past,” Meyers said.
“Then, with what happened on the street since he finished that building many years later, in conversation with [the Architecture] building too. It’s an amazing complex.” Pamela Franks, the YUAG’s deputy director for Exhibitions, Programming and Education said the YCBA’s absence on campus has been felt during its closure, though added that its collaborations with the Gallery throughout the renovation period allowed for expanded interaction between the two institutions. “To have the two [Kahn] buildings right across from each other is such a defining feature of Yale architecturally, culturally and art historically,” Franks said. “It is such an important component of the museums on Yale’s campus. Of course, buildings periodically need to be renovated and we took a look at this period collectively. The two collections took full advantage of the closure period to think about what we could do during this [time].” Upon reopening, the YCBA will host two special exhibitions, including a series of photographs capturing Old London curated by members of the Center’s Student Guide program, as well as a community event on May 14 with activities highlighting the Building Conservation Project. Kahn received the YCBA commission in 1969. Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .
Artspace celebrates 30th anniversary BY TERESA CHEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Next weekend, the local gallery Artspace will travel through time, celebrating its 30th anniversary with a “Back to the Future”themed gala. The nonprofit organization, dedicated to fostering artistic activities in the New Haven community, was founded in 1986. According to Helen Kauder, Artspace’s executive director, the center grew out of the efforts of a cultural task force, assembled by then-Mayor Ben DeLieto after budgetary constraints had forced the last-minute shelving of a city plan to create a community gallery for local artists. Over the course of its 30-year existence, Kauder said, the organization has served more than 6,000 artists. “When Artspace was first created, it was very much for artists, and by artists. It was a hub — a place where artists living and working in the region could meet each other, share ideas and network with professionals in the art world,” Kauder explained. Today, Artspace remains a reference point for local creatives, she
noted, adding, however, that since its founding, the organization’s mission has grown to place greater emphasis on the broader public in addition to practicing artists. In its three decades of existence, Artspace has expanded to become more community oriented, and now seeks to use art to supplement conversations taking place in the Elm City as well as further afield, Kauder said. Along these lines, she highlighted an upcoming collaboration between Artspace and the Yale School of Public Health, focused on nutrition in New Haven. The project encourages residents to discuss health issues in their communities, and participating neighborhoods will be joined by a live illustrator who will synthesize ideas discussed during the events into a graphic visualization. “In that way Artspace is now a catalyst,” Kauder said. “Art catalyzes people’s thinking. It catalyzes artistic activities. It shows people that art can happen outside gallery walls.” Zoe Dobuler ’17, an intern at Artspace, emphasized the organization’s inclusiveness, adding that she thinks it is this quality in particular that sets Artspace apart
from other art institutions in New Haven. “In terms of engaging local artists, and engaging New Haven as a community, Artspace is better equipped to do that than [the Yale University Art Gallery] or the Center for British Art,” Dobuler
noted. “It does a good job engaging different segments of the population. For example, it has done an exhibition about gender identity, by queer artists. It has also done an exhibition with people who don’t speak English as a first language. I t ’ s
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Artspace celebrates 30 years as a community art center this spring.
amazing at making the art world a very inclusive space.” Kauder added that Artspace has established itself as a “cultural landmark” in New Haven, alongside institutions like the Shubert and Long Wharf theaters. In a statement describing Artspace’s role within the New Haven community, Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art, emphasized the organization’s importance as a local arts institution. “Even the most adventurous of institutions with a mandate to preserve history has a limited capacity to promptly identify, exhibit and make curatorial sense of artistic current events and creative breaking news,” Storr said. “Artspace is this city’s oldest and yet still most agile example of such a venue, a place where anyone and everyone is welcome to see for themselves that things are being made in their midst.” The organization’s 30th year has provided a moment for reflection, Kauder said, adding that recently, Artspace curators and staff have been combing through the center’s archives and studying how artists have explored particular questions from different perspectives in some
of Artspace’s “seminal” shows. For example, Kauder compared last fall’s “Hello World” exhibit, which featured work by queer artists, to the 2003 show “Boy’s Life,” focused on the issue of masculinity. Both exhibits, she said, considered gender and sexuality, though the artists may have taken diverse approaches to the theme. In order to ensure future financial security, Kauder added, Artspace has also taken the 30-year milestone as a chance to intensify fundraising efforts. The organization has begun working toward a $2 million endowment, and has raised $400,000 to date. Audrey Storm ’18, one of Artspace’s student interns, said she is certain the institution is “here to stay.” “New Haven isn’t really known for its art scene, but I get the impression that the people of New Haven want to keep it alive,” Storm noted. “The people that I meet at Artspace all seem so dedicated and so committed to the institution — it will definitely be here for another 30 years.” Contact TERESA CHEN at teresa.chen@yale.edu .
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“April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” T.S. ELIOT “THE WASTE LAND”
YaleDancers mix genres in Spring Show
BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER At this year’s Spring Show, student company YaleDancers will bring together a variety of disciplines. Held at the Educational Center for the Arts Theater on 55 Audubon St., the show will incorporate numerous genres of dance alongside elements drawn from other performing arts, including “aerial circus.” Building on the dancers’ exposure to a diverse array of styles and performative media, the group’s performances seek to synthesize various choreographies and elements of production. Eight performances will take place
between Thursday and Saturday. “There will be a huge range of genres performed in this show, hip-hop to ballet to aerial circus and everything in between,” Gracie White ’16, YaleDancers’ special events coordinator, said. “I think that a few of the pieces blur the lines between genres very successfully.” White explained that the group’s members take a “company class” twice a week in a variety of styles, emphasizing the importance of this regular exposure to different genres of dance and its influence on the choreography of numbers that will be performed this weekend. According to
White, the show’s final piece will include the whole company and incorporate several genres of dance. Kaylyn Williams ’17, YaleDancers’ co-president, added that the company strives to let dancers use the biannual shows as an opportunity to experiment with their creativity. “Our shows are predominantly student-choreographed, with the exception of one or two pieces that are set on us by guest choreographers,” Williams said. Elizabeth Dach ’17, the group’s other co-president, explained YaleDancers’ selection of an off-campus performance venue was motivated by the ECA Theater’s dimensions, as well as
its staff’s expertise. In particular, Dach said Seth Harris, the theater’s technical director, is able to “work wonders” on the show’s production side. “It’s a beautiful space that is large enough to accommodate our company, and the high ceilings allow some of our dancers to perform aerial circus numbers,” Dach said. “There really isn’t a performance space on Yale’s campus that would allow us to put up the same caliber show.” For YaleDancers’ graduating seniors, White said, the final performance will mark a bittersweet end to their time with the company. For students planning to attend, such as Katerina Toffoloni
’19 and Romy Vassilev ’19, the show presents an exciting opportunity to experience the dancers’ hard work. “I’m really excited about seeing YaleDancers since it is the oldest dance group on campus,” Toffoloni noted. “I can’t wait to see dancers, especially some who have trained and performed professionally, perform a variety of dance styles on stage. I love watching dance because you can go through so many emotions within a single minute.” Vassilev said the occasion would mark her first YaleDancers show, though she has attended performances by other student groups in the past, including three this semester.
“I am particularly excited to see the YaleDancers show because I have never been to one of their performances before, but have always heard amazing things about [the group],” Vassilev said. “I love watching dance shows in general … so I think it will also be very interesting to see how their style and vibe differs from other dance groups on campus. And even though I don’t have any close friends in YaleDancers, I really enjoy going to events like these and just supporting all Yalies and their incredible talents.” YaleDancers holds company auditions every fall. Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .
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YaleDancers incorporated a diversity of styles into the choreography of the annual Spring Show.
Exhibit showcases School of Art alums
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An exhibition at the School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery highlights alumni work.
BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER Through June 5, the School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery will host an exhibition of work by alumni of both its undergraduate and graduate programs. Entitled, “Hey You! Who Me?” the show brings together works by more than 30 artists, including pieces by famed cartoonist Garry Trudeau ’70 ART ’73, sculptor Donald Gummer ART ’73 and photographer An-My Lê ART ’93. Samuel Messer ART ’82, associate dean of the School of Art,
noted that the show is among the institution’s first exhibits to focus exclusively on alumni work. Messer said the exhibit — curated by outgoing Dean of the School of Art Robert Storr in his last curatorial effort as head of the school — sheds light on the ongoing artistic dialogue taking place between graduates of the School of Art. “I think what is important is that Dean Storr created a situation from which students can take away many things, including the fact that work in the arts … does not develop overnight,” Messer explained. “It is also a
thoughtful exhibition in that it shows the lineage and history at the School [of Art] and how former students have visual conversations through their art, even if they have never met each other in real life.” Rosa Chung ’18, an undergraduate art major, said the exhibition is both an amazing opportunity to see work by her predecessors at the School of Art and a chance to reflect on the progress of artists from universities and graduate school to “real life.” Alexis Inguaggiato ’17, another undergraduate art major, echoed Chung’s senti-
ment, emphasizing the importance of current students see ing postgraduate works. “I think that this is a good opportunity for both undergraduate and graduate students to see work done by artists who were once also Yale students,” Chung said. “It’s really amazing to think that they were in our same positions however many years ago. It’s nice to believe that we’re all working on the universal problems we face as painters, sculptors, photographers. I personally find it inspiring as I think about my future … as a painter.” Other students highlighted
the importance of the 32 Edgewood Gallery as a space that provides the sorts of opportunities that permit art students to view works they might not encounter in other exhibition spaces on campus. Steven Roets ’17, an undergraduate art major, said the space, which is open for special exhibitions and events, often offers access to the work of artists associated with the school. “The School of Art galleries in Green Hall and 32 Edgewood Ave. provide a year-round medium for exhibiting the works of students, faculty and special guests in the
four graduate departments of the school and the undergraduate program,” Roets said. “I think the gallery adds depth to the School of Art because, whereas the other galleries [in Green Hall, etc.] are used for student shows and the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art often will have special exhibitions at least partially drawn from their collections, this gallery provides space for showcasing other work that may otherwise not get shown at the University.” Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .
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Class of 2016 eyes divisional title BASEBALL
BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER As sophomores two years ago, four of the five seniors on the 2016 Yale baseball team saw action against Dartmouth in a one-game playoff at Biondi Park to decide the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division winner. The Elis lost that game 11–4, but the experience of that winor-go-home contest has stuck with the seniors and is paying dividends in their final campaign, as the Bulldogs again find themselves on the hunt for their first divisional championship since 1995 and a chance to claim their first Ivy League title since 1994. With a 7–5 Ivy League record, Yale currently sits in first place in the division — one game ahead of Dartmouth — with just two weekends left to play. “It’s been a lot of fun for us to be all together and be playing well for the most part,” right fielder Nate Adams ’16 said of his senior season. “We are in a position where we’re competitive at this point in the season. It has definitely been successful up to this point but we really have our eyes on the prize.” Adams, right-handed pitcher Chris Lanham ’16, left fielder Brent Lawson ’16, righty Chris Moates ’16 and shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16 have all played a part in the team’s success this spring. SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8
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Right fielder Nate Adams ’16, shown hitting a triple against Harvard last weekend, is batting 0.308 this season, second-best on the Elis, and 0.250 for his career.
Two-sport athletes bolster Bulldogs BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER Fans of the Yale field hockey, women’s hockey and women’s lacrosse teams may have done double takes this spring after noticing three players on the lacrosse field who had competed for different Eli teams earlier in the year.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE Under new Yale women’s lacrosse head coach Erica LaGrow, who has shown herself to be open to two-sport athletes on her roster, three Bulldogs who played lacrosse in high school — Katie Smith ’18, Lily Smith ’18 and
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Gretchen Tarrant ’17 — have joined the team in addition to commitments to their original Yale varsity teams. The Smith twins, who started as midfielders for the Yale field hockey team this season, are now also midfielders for the women’s lacrosse team. Tarrant, who has played three seasons as a Yale women’s hockey forward, has joined LaGrow’s squad as a defender. After starting all 17 games and recording a goal in field hockey last fall, Lily Smith emerged as an instant contributor in lacrosse during her first season. The sophomore is currently the Bulldogs’ third-leading goal-scorer with 10 SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 8
COURTESY OF TOM MIGDALSKI
A wide array of IM initiatives will be enacted this upcoming school year, with one goal being increased interest and attendance. BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER After seeing substantially lower participation numbers in intramural sports this spring, IM organizers have made efforts to increase interest and attendance in the program.
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Midfielder Katie Smith ’18, who is also on the Yale field hockey team, has played in six lacrosse games and scored two goals this season.
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The IM administration began work on several initiatives at the start of the 2015–
16 school year. While some, such as the addition of Spikeball, have already been implemented, many will not be introduced until next fall. These include the launching of a new Yale IM website, the release of an inaugural Yale Intramurals Handbook and the creation of an ad hoc rules committee to govern and update rules for IM sports and the program as a whole. “We had very positive improvements this year with
many changes intending to bring Yale IMs up to the next level,” Director of Club Sports, Outdoor Education Center and Intramurals Tom Migdalski said. Some initiatives, such as the handbook, are intended to improve the program’s structural organization. According to Migdalski, the first-ever Yale Intramurals Handbook will detail “all things Yale IMs,” ranging from the program’s history to
its current rules, including all operating and safety procedures, concussion policy and past Tyng Cup winners. The new website will feature a revamped design that is easier to use and maintain than the previous website, head IM secretary Adam Jenkinson ’18 said. He added that he hopes the new website will help clarify terms of rules and regulations. According to MigdalSEE INTRAMURALS PAGE 8
THE NUMBER OF LIVES SAVED OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS BECAUSE OF BONE MARROW DONORS WHO REGISTERED AT YALE’S MANDI SCHWARTZ MARROW REGISTRY DRIVE. The eighth iteration of the drive will be held today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Commons and on Old Campus.