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CROSS CAMPUS The Other Presidential Candidate. Hillary Clinton
LAW ’73 isn’t the only Yale alumna gunning for the presidency. Yesterday, Meryl Streep DRA ’75 was named president of the jury for the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival. “The responsibility is somewhat daunting,” Streep told The New York Times. “I have never been president of anything before.”
Sexy Can I? “This might be
the most sex-crazed college in America (and five presidents went there),” Esquire said of Yale in an article yesterday. The story referred to OkCupid’s feature that said Yale students ranked highest in the nation for sex drive. According to OkCupid, 57 percent of Yalies say their sex drive is higher than average.
STOMACHING IT FOOTBALL ADAPTS TO MEAL PLAN
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New Native American language courses offered at the NACC
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BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Twelve thousand five hundred sixty-four dollars: This is the average salary difference between male and female professors at Yale last year, according to newly released data on 531 Yale professors from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Yale’s gender gap in faculty salaries is over $400 smaller than the gap at the average fouryear private college. Additionally, Yale’s faculty salaries as a whole are ranked eighth highest, behind schools including Harvard, Stanford and Columbia. But the disparity between male and female professors — which the University has consistently tried
to address through hiring initiatives — is tied to the low number of women among Yale’s senior faculty, a figure Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler said has increased over time. “The statistics reported in the Chronicle reflect averages between men and women, but they do not control statistically for other relevant factors,” Gen-
Salmon Elis. Yesterday
Dole announced that it is recalling bagged spinach distributed in 13 states, including Connecticut. The spinach was recalled after salmonella bacteria were found in a sample. We’re not sure what brand of spinach Yale Dining uses, but the News recommends opting for romaine at the salad bar during lunch.
Say Cheese. The Yale Sustainable Food Program will host “Women of Cheese,” a talk with local cheese makers Laura Downey and Allison Hooper at 4:30 p.m. in Sudler Hall. If there are free samples, count us in. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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information filed with the U.S. Department of Education. Of the 531 Yale professors included in the data, roughly two-thirds were men. The salaries were those of professors among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the non-medical professional schools. The data included the SEE SALARIES PAGE 6
Food trucks removed from campus BY MICHELLE LIU AND JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTERS
Now Make That Harvard Student Hammer Time.
are a few days left to take advantage of Beer Week in New Haven. Local bars — including Cask Republic, Ordinary and Prime 16 — will support Connecticut breweries such as the famous Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford. Oh, and you must be 21 years or over to drink in the state of Connecticut.
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dler said in an email to the News. “One of the strongest determinants of salary is the number of years someone has been teaching since receiving his or her Ph.D. The longer you have been teaching, the higher your salary tends to be.” The Chronicle data, which reports salaries from the 2013– 14 academic year, culled salary
week, Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 visited Cambridge to participate in a conversation about foreign policy with Harvard professor Graham Allison. The event, which took place at Harvard Square’s famous Charles Hotel, was streamed live on the State Department’s website.
The Road Not Taken. There
YCC offers “reality check” workshops teaching real world skills
Faculty gender pay gap persists
Cheating On Us? Earlier this
Speaking of the Crimson, Harvard senior Garrett Lam recently broke a Guinness world record. According to The Boston Globe, Lam’s body shook and wobbled, but he managed to stand on an exercise ball for over five hours, setting a new record. Lam raised over $1,500 for charity through the feat.
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Caseus Cheese Truck, Portobello and Rubamba were ordered to cease food truck operations Wednesday.
DUSs advise outside of academics BY MONICA WANG AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS In the wake of campus sexual climate survey results released by the Association of American Universities last month, several Directors of Undergraduate Studies are considering the non-academic roles they can play to support students confronted with the alarming figures. Last Tuesday, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd and University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler deconstructed the survey findings during a routine DUS meeting, as part of a series of discussions they held with various campus groups about the results. Attending DUSs were given an explanation of how the survey was conducted and what the numbers represent. DUSs were also reminded of their role as mandatory reporters, as Title IX regulation requires “responsible employees” to report any incidents of sexual misconduct they hear about to Yale’s Title IX coordinator. Although most DUSs interviewed told the News that their primary role on campus is to support students academically, they also acknowledged the effect the sexual climate has on students’ overall well-being and said they hope to offer an additional layer of support for undergraduates navigating issues in their personal lives. “DUSs were contacted because they are sometimes undergraduates’ first point of contact,” Holloway said. “Students come in to talk about their classes and majors, but there might also be something else going on.” According to William Rankin, DUS for History of Science, Medicine and Public Health, around 30 to 40 of the over 120 DUSs attended the discussion. Immediately afterwards, Rankin sent out an email to the 65 declared majors in his department SEE DUS PAGE 6
Hungry customers in downtown New Haven watched their favorite lunch stops roll away on Wednesday after the city ordered several food trucks to shut down operations at their current locations. The city’s building department told at least three food trucks on campus that they could no longer park their trucks in their current locations. A representative from the building department handed the Portobello and Rubamba carts on York Street and the Caseus Cheese Truck on College Street copies of the New Haven food truck vendor ordinances, which regulate where and how food trucks can operate. The representative informed Portobello and Rubamba that they were being evicted from their location
on York Street for violating the vendor ordinances. A city representative also informed workers at Caseus that the College Street food truck broke an ordinance prohibiting trucks from selling on a residential street, Caseus co-owner Tom Sobocinski said. “We’ve been there for six years,” Sobocinski said. “We’ve never had a problem. I know that there are a lot more trucks in the past year than we have had previously. The only rule I was aware of was that you can’t park within 45 feet of a brickand-mortar establishment.” This is the first time in the Caseus food truck’s six-year run that it has been told not to sell on College Street, Sobocinski said. Sobocinski added that he does not know what exactly constituted a residential street SEE FOOD TRUCKS PAGE 6
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Low vacancy, high rent BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Kiana Marie Hernandez ’18 and her mother spent close to a year searching the Elm City for an apartment they could call home. It was not the decor or the locations that hindered the process. Rather, they found the majority of New Haven’s apartments too expensive for their family. For each apartment they tried, they found the unit’s price too high for the family’s budget or the living conditions unsuitable for Hernandez’s 10-year-old younger sister. Hernandez and her family are not alone in this challenge. Many low- and middle-income residents in the Elm
City are forced to enter a city housing market riddled with low vacancy rates and rising prices. New Haven boasted the lowest vacancy rate, 2.1 percent, in the entire country, according to a 2014 report from New York real estate research firm Reis. Additionally, in the upcoming year, 2,000 apartment units will go online at rates of over $2,000 per month, said Morris Cove Alderman Salvatore DeCola. Recently, over 200 families living in the deteriorated Church Street South housing complex were told that they must leave their homes in a year due to unsafe living conditions such as mold infestations and structural deficiencies. Though the residents were given financial support to seek alternative housing, disparities between the low
rent they currently pay for Church Street South units and the higher cost of suitable apartments on the housing market have pushed the families to ask for increased funding from Northland Investment Corporation — the owner of Church Street South. The families and their legal representatives have since forced Northland Investment Corporation and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to reconsider their payment plants to the complex’s residents. Edward Mattison LAW ’68, member of the mayor’s City Plan Committee, saw firsthand the impact of low vacancy rates while at a homeless shelter for families. The director of the SEE HOUSING PAGE 4
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The average renter in New Haven spends nearly 50 percent of their income on housing.
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mong law students, it’s apparently taboo to say you want to be a judge. Why this is, I don’t know; the nature of a taboo is that you don’t ask why it’s taboo. But it seems that the very desire to be a judge is at odds with a judge’s temperament: cool, disinterested, objective. If you want to be a judge, you shouldn’t be a judge. This dilemma isn’t limited to law schools. Like ambitious law students, we all have faith in our moral appraisals; we believe we can step outside our ideologies to make tough, objective judgments based solely on The Facts. Secretly, we all believe we would make pretty good judges. And we are all wrong. Recent work on moral psychology shows how far we are from the coldly rational observers prized by antiquity and the Enlightenment. Our moral and political minds are less like judges and more like lawyers: instead of weighing the possible answers to a moral problem, we lead with our conclusions and then marshal arguments to support them. Renowned social psychologist Jonathan Haidt ’85 has done much to demonstrate this aspect of our nature. By posing moral dilemmas — whether or not incest is wrong, for example — to experimental subjects while also monitoring their brainwaves, Haidt showed that our moral judgments occur far too quickly to be reasoned and deliberative. Instead, moral judgments are delivered via affective flashes: the instantaneous, emotional feeling that an act is wrong or right. By this account, making a moral judgment is more similar to tasting something than to solving a math problem — an analogy first made in David Hume’s “Treatise on Human Nature.” When asked why they thought a given act was right or wrong, though, Haidt’s subjects didn’t respond, “It just felt that way.” They defended their judgment with reasons — but again, those judgments occurred too quickly for such reasoning to have come first. Instead, as Haidt puts it, his subjects made their judgments first and then engaged in oftentortured “strategic reasoning” to justify them. Haidt’s findings explain why moral arguments are so frustrating: our moral perceptions don’t rest on arguments, but give rise to them. When faced with an ethical dilemma, we think like lawyers, starting with the answer and then working backwards to find the best arguments for it. Reflecting on my own moral judgments, I believe Haidt’s account is deeply plausible. And I believe that just such a process was at work in liberals’ collective response to Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP activist who identifies and presents herself as black
despite having been born to a white family. Many people I knew dismissed Dolezal as a hack but proudly supported Caitlyn Jenner. My own reaction was similar. And yet, it’s difficult to articulate the putative difference between being transgendered and being transracial: both race and gender, we are told, are social constructs that can either privilege or oppress. So it seems to me that our collective judgment of Dolezal resulted not from a principled objection, but a shared intuition that what she did was wrong. Now she’s a laughingstock and Caitlyn Jenner is a hero — but I’m not quite sure why. The dangers of intuitive moral judgment are compounded by another human tendency: We internalize information much more easily when we agree with it than when we don’t. This means that liberals and conservatives often move farther apart in their attitudes when exposed to the same facts — the implication being that, thanks to human selfdeception, the same evidence can be used to support opposite positions. Like lawyers, we only look for information that supports our own argument. None of this is particularly surprising. But combined with our intuitive moral judgments, our preference for comforting information can trap us in an ethical and political echo chamber of snap-second judgments and one-sided arguments. The upshot of all this? Outrage is easy. Our minds are Manichaean, starting with conclusions that feel deeply correct and then accumulating evidence until it seems that only a villain could disagree. But righteous conviction does not lead to clear moral thinking. Rather, as the philosopher Jacques Derrida suggested, a truly moral mind is an anxious one: doubtful of impulses and gut feelings, painfully aware of the possibility of error. And yet we can’t discard our impulses entirely. At the very least, intuitions can provide a valuable starting point in our moral thinking. And doesn’t the very notion of morality stem from the universal gut feeling, common to all people, that some things are right and others wrong? This is where Haidt’s analysis falters. He believes that, because moral perception is intuitive, moral reasoning is almost impossible. But our own experiences tell us this isn’t true. We’ve all had moments when we realized that one of our deeply held beliefs was not worth holding onto. The unsettling question is: What about all the others? DAVID WHIPPLE is a senior in Pierson College and a former Weekend editor. Contact him at david.whipple@yale.edu .
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A plea to vote D
emocracy is dead in America. That is, if democracy is truly rule, deliberation and judgment by the people and for the people, then the United States hardly fits this description. I say this not because of any failures of our government, not because of partisan gridlock in congress and not because of any perceived lack of freedom or ingrained prejudices our nation might still have. Rather, I say this for one reason only: we don’t vote. In the 2012 presidential election, over 90 million eligible voters didn’t cast a ballot. In the 2014 midterm elections, the national voter turnout was 36.3 percent, a 72-year low according to the New York Times. That means almost two thirds of Americans did not contribute to electing the Congress that we are now stuck with on Capitol Hill. People often criticize that our government has become too polarized, but why is this the case? Maybe it is because only the most passionate on the right or left are the ones actually going
to the polls. Maybe the mentality that “my one vote doesn’t matter anyway” has taken over the nation. Or maybe people just don’t care anymore. If big money decides elections anyway, as many now claim, then what’s the point? Has power by the people become a thing of the past? I sure hope not. While our political apathy may have made us question the true value of our right to vote, we must not forget the origins of this political responsibility. Originally, only white property-owning males were allowed to vote. Non-property owners, African-Americans and women fought and even risked their lives for centuries to obtain universal suffrage. We praise the United States for being a beacon of diversity, opportunity and expression. We sing the Star-Spangled Banner in unity to show our love for the freedom this country affords. Why is it then that the most critical song we hold — our vote — is no longer sung? As Yalies, we pride ourselves on our unique personalities and
passions. There are so many incredible things we have done and are capable of doing during our four years here, and yet, we too neglect to use to use our political voice. We too have lost the ability to sing. Voter turnout was only about 20 percent in the Ward 1 elections of 2013. The Ward 1 alder is our liaison to the city. Our representative has the potential to make substantive change in New Haven by coordinating the efforts of the student body. While the separation of the real world of New Haven, the city, and the artificial world of Yale, the bubble, is obvious to anyone, our opinions on how to bridge that divide are mixed. On one hand, there is the view that students from around the country don’t have the right to influence New Haven, a city whose history and problems can’t be fully understood by our temporary presence here; however, there is also the view that Yale students, with our drive and talent, should help improve the community that we call home. I think there are merits to both
answers. After all, Yalies are always busy with social activities, class commitments and our preparation for life after college. It’s unreasonable to suggest that every student should feel an inherent obligation to go into the city of New Haven to volunteer their time and effort in the hopes of improvement. However, I do feel that we have a moral duty to sing with our vote. And by that, I mean voting in the Ward 1 election. This is a simple, yet important way that Yalies can help to raise the level of public discourse in New Haven. It isn’t difficult to take five minutes to research Ugonna Eze ’16 and Sarah Eidelson ’12 and compare the two. With our vote, we’re deciding who will do the best job of coordinating student efforts at Yale in a way that can also improve this great city that we are a part of. That’s worth taking five minutes to think about. LELAND STANGE is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at leland.stange@yale.edu .
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A love letter to “Whatever” I
went on one date in high school. My gentleman-caller kept trying to play that game from the movie “500 Days of Summer,” where two people say the word “penis” progressively louder in a public place. I told my mother that I would never date again. Amidst Camp Yale free pizza, I changed my mind. At Yale, there are boys. There are smart boys who talk about cultural appropriation. There are boys who’ve written poetry about my hair. There are boys with beards and plaid shirts and voices that have, on occasion, made me want to sacrifice a goat to a higher being. In three years, I’ve heard many complaints about how Yalies date and hook-up. A lot of people claim that we’re incapable of relationships, but according to a news article from last year, about 40 percent of us are currently in a monogamous relationship. The remaining 60 percent must be grinding below neon lights and taking shots of tequila from another’s bare midriff. Right? Well, sometimes. Hooking up can be fun! In three years, I’ve never called anyone my boyfriend, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had real romances. There are people who fall in the nebulous space between DFMO (Dance Floor Make Out) and SO (Significant Other), and those
relationships mean something. When discussing these unofficial relationships, a friend came ADRIANA up with the term: a WhatMIELE ever. Yalies like Check to be good at things, so we yourself don’t like to fall short of textbook definitions. We want to bring home someone special for Thanksgiving, like that Sarah Jessica Parker romantic comedy. When we can’t commit to this ideal, we discredit these romantic entanglements as whatever happened that night. I think this sucks. My interactions have led me to believe that Ivy League students from all sorts of backgrounds, for whatever reason — because they’re hyper ambitious or hyper smart — are particularly challenged at being vulnerable. And therefore, we don’t like to confront our desires for closeness. One time, a boy told me that he couldn’t hang out with me anymore because he didn’t know if he could marry me. I had known him for less than a month. Another guy didn’t want to enter a relationship because he was too busy working on a play. We’ve all
heard ridiculous excuses, whatever feels like the cleanest cut way to make someone disappear. Many of us are just too busy doing other things. We are directing or managing or coding or writing or acting. We are somewhere else, kissing someone else or just plain scared. Sometimes a Whatever doesn’t click no matter how much our horoscope compatibility chart says they should. Sometimes the very nice person is too overwhelmed. Maybe they’re just a jerk. Maybe they don’t see what you see. We think we can just discard our Whatevers with smiles and niceties at the next off-campus party, but I think they deserve more than that. Marianne Williamson once said, “If the train doesn’t stop at your station, it is not your train.” And yet, there are things that are mine, or that were. There is a cap somewhere in my room from a bottle we shared years ago. The time I said I didn’t write much about you was a lie. I have entire folders. The night we just sat on a windowsill and took shots of vodka (when we still took shots of vodka), and then you watched me dance but texted someone else. Fall break with Annie Hall and the cookie dough. Whatever it was, it was all
something. Sexuality is a spectrum, as we’ve learned from the Women’s Center pamphlets and professor George Chauncey. But so are the other aspects of romance and love. Intimacy is a giant gradient of colors and textures, like collage paper in the Michael’s Art & Crafts scrapbooking aisle. Ex-Whatevers abound: at our dining hall tables because they’ve become dear friends, and on High Street where we avoid eye contact. Maybe you didn’t date or even make out once. But there are moments when an ex-Whatever appears, and I want more than a polite nod or a bizarre attempt to dance against me at a party. Whatevers aren’t always “Princess Bride” loves, but can’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard? “So what, it’s over” isn’t true when it doesn’t feel that way. I’m tempted to say: Yale men, get your act together. But that’s harsh. The most enjoyable, grittiest intimacies lie in a gray area, in the thrilling site of the iMessage typing ellipses. Maybe just say this: I don’t know what this is, but whatever. I like you and your face, so let’s spend a semester or seven figuring this out. ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .
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“Climate is always evolving, and natural disasters have always existed.” MARCO RUBIO JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM FLORIDA
City, state celebrate recidivism grants
CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14
A previous version of the article “Despite growth in endowment, spending steady” incorrectly stated that Yale’s operating expenses increased from $2.6 to $3.1 million in 2014. In fact, the operating expenses increased from $2.6 to $3.1 billion. A previous version of the article “Homicide count reaches 14” incorrectly stated the number of New Haven homicides in 2015. In fact, there have only been 13.
Activists demand climate action BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Environmental activists from across the city chanted for climate action in front of City Hall Wednesday afternoon, just weeks before diplomats will convene in Paris for potentially historic climate talks. The protest was organized by the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, New Haven Neighborhood Housing Services and the New Haven/León Sister City Project and featured speeches from representatives organizations including Fossil Free Yale and Save the Sound. Speakers highlighted issues from ocean acidification to climate justice. Roughly 40 people, including Yale students and local environmentalists, attended the event. Organizers of the protest said the event was meant to put pressure on all levels of government to craft a solution to fight global climate change. The protest was called in anticipation of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, due to begin in Paris on Nov. 30. “Climate change is a sneaky problem of our century, and we are responsible to stop it,” protest organizer Ceyda Durmaz said. “We cannot wait until it becomes profitable for governments and corporations to fight climate change — it will be too late.” Sarah Ganong, media coordinator for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Save the Sound, said the Paris talks — which she will attend — have two goals. The first is to provide financing for poor countries to organize efforts against climate change; the second is to agree on measures that limit global temperature increases by two degrees centigrade, she said. Durmaz, who works as an environmental community organizer with the New Haven/León Sister City Project, said action on climate change cannot be delayed. Climate change is an imminent crisis, she said, and governments must act sooner rather than later. Climate change is a key issue for New Haven residents, said Kathy Fay, manager of the Home Improvement and Energy Conservation Lab at Neighborhood Housing Services. She said reducing air pollution is particularly critical for New Haven. Partly as a result of air pollution, asthma rates for Elm City youth are approaching 25 percent, Fay said. Fay said New Haven’s geographic location presents it with
unique difficulties, explaining that the city lies in a part of the country where winds tend to come from the west, meaning that pollutants from coal plants in the Midwest blow over the Appalachian Mountains and into Connecticut. Chris Garaffa, an organizer for far-left activist group Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, said the problem of climate change tends to have undue impact on causes like police brutality and injustice in the judicial system, issues the group has protested against in the past. “I think when we’re looking at the issue of police brutality and the environment, environmental destruction tends to hurt poor black and brown communities the most,” he said. Garaffa pointed to the prolonged drought in California, which he said has had a disproportionate impact on the lowincome Hispanic communities of the Central Valley. He added that historically black, urban communities like Newark, New Jersey, which are close to industrial centers, often face severe pollution crises. Other organizers echoed that sentiment. Emma Phelps ’19, who spoke on behalf of Fossil Free Yale, said climate justice — which lies at the intersection of environmental action and social justice — is an “exciting concept” in environmental activism. The remarks extended to other issues as well. Ganong said ocean acidification is an important and often-overlooked issue in climate activism. Ocean acidification causes populations of fish and crustaceans to shrink, which endangers the livelihoods of fishing communities, she said. Ganong added the solution to ocean acidification remains unclear, making it all the more threatening in coming years. Garaffa said he was pleased with the turnout at the event. Chris Schweitzer, one of the protest’s organizers, said the environmental activist movement has slowly built a strong and broad network in the city. At the end of the protest, organizers handed out postcards for attendees to send to Gov. Dannel Malloy to urge him to move the state towards 100 percent clean energy. “We have a bounteous earth and lots of gifts,” Schweitzer said. “But we need to respect the boundaries.”
BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER After receiving $2.3 million worth of grants to curb recidivism in the state of Connecticut, local and state officials spoke about their plans going forward at a press conference Wednesday. Mayor Toni Harp welcomed Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Gov. Dannel Malloy to City Hall, highlighting the progress of Connecticut’s “Second Chance Society,” a grant that aims to cut Connecticut recidivism by half in five years. Harp also drew attention to the $1 million grant awarded to New Haven’s Project Fresh Start program this year — funding which also aims to cut the number of former criminals returning to prison. Connecticut’s six Second Chance Act grants make up 23 percent of the $53 million awarded to states and organizations across the country. New Haven received the largest Second Chance grant of any city that applied, despite being
the smallest city that applied for a grant. “These federal grants very closely align with our Second Chance Society initiatives to reduce crime, reduce recidivism and ends the school to prison pipeline,” Malloy said at the press conference. “These efforts are focused on breaking the cycle of crime. We cannot be a perpetually punitive society.” The six federal Department of Justice grants were awarded to two state departments, local organizations, a clinic and the city’s Project Fresh Start, which aims to cut recidivism by half in five years by partnering former prisoners returning to the community with up to three reintegration centers, depending on the individual’s needs. The State Department of Corrections received nearly $100,000 in Second Chance grant funding for their 12-month strategic plan to reduce recidivism by 10 percent in two years and 50 percent in five years. Additionally,
the state’s Office of Policy and Management and the University of New Haven’s Tow Youth Justice Institute were awarded $190,000 for their joint application for a project to improve outcomes for juveniles under community supervision. Emily Wang, School of Medicine professor and co-founder of Transitions Clinic Network, was awarded $258,113 to focus on the health care needs of those reentering the community from prison. Family ReEntry Inc., a nonprofit organization, received $420,000 to help young fathers transition back to family life. Families in Crisis Inc., another nonprofit, received $366,881 to expand services for children who have an incarcerated parent reentering the community. Other city and state organizations have been awarded funding to work towards reducing recidivism through grants not associated with the federal Department of Justice. During the press conference, Malloy, Blumenthal and President Pro Tempore of the
State Senate Martin Looney each stressed their pride in Connecticut for being a leader in criminal justice reform. After the conference, Blumenthal told the News that New Haven has been a leader in curbing recidivism by helping former criminals build new lives after prison, with the help of community networks, skills training and drug abuse treatment. “Reintegration of nonviolent offenders is a priority in New Haven because it unites families, it rebuilds trust and faith and restores men and women to becoming contributing, productive members of this community,” Harp said at the press conference. “We know now what reintegration requires in terms of providing opportunities, programs, training and counseling, as necessary.” Fifty-five organizations have partnered with New Haven’s Project Fresh Start. Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .
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Sen. Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Gov. Malloy joined Mayor Toni Harp Wednesday to announce the progress of “Second Chance Society.”
NACC hosts Choctaw languages classes
Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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New classes in Choctaw are being offered at the Native American Cultural Center every Sunday and Tuesday night. BY WILL REID CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Roughly 40 activists rallied for climate justice Wednesday afternoon.
At the High Street home of the Native American Cultural Center on Tuesday evening, professor Nicholas Charleston Skyped in to his biweekly Choctaw language class from his own home in Oklahoma, thanking his students for keeping the language alive. “Language is a critical component of our sovereignty,” Charleston said. “Without it, we’re dead.” As part of an initiative to promote the study of Native American languages, Yale began offering Choctaw language instruction this fall. The sessions, which are open to all students, are the product of a partnership between the Native American Language Project, the Center for Language Study and the Native American Cultural Center. Funding for the program was provided by a four-year grant from Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.
Yale students have had access to language instruction in six Native American languages — including Navajo, Lakota and Salish — since 2010 through the Directed Independent Language Study program, a CLS initiative that allows students to apply for course instruction in languages not traditionally offered by the college. But unlike instruction offered through DILS, which caters to individual student requests, the new Choctaw class offered at the NACC is open to all students without an application. “The idea was to make available the kind of language and cultural instruction to students more broadly, not just through a DILS program,” CLS Director Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl said. The classes, which began in late September, are not offered for course credit and usually draw six to seven students per week, according to David Rico ‘16, who is taking the course. Most of the students interviewed who identify as Choc-
taw said they are motivated to learn the language so they can reconnect with their heritage. “I think learning your own language is one of the most empowering ways to connect to your culture and decolonize your mind,” Rico said. “Out of the hundreds of generations of my family that have lived on this continent, only two haven’t been able to speak Choctaw, and I’m one of them. English is like a break in the line, and I want to return to that.” The sessions were organized by Assistant Director of the CLS Angela Gleason, former interim NACC director Christopher Cutter, current NACC director and assistant dean of Yale College Kelly Fayard and history professor Ned Blackhawk, who secured funding for the initiative. In the future, they hope to expand the program to provide instruction in up to four Native American languages per year — a goal that is contingent upon whether the program can be
funded on a more permanent basis, Gleason said. Students and faculty interviewed said the program is representative of, though not necessarily linked to, a trend on campus toward increased celebration and study of Native American peoples and a greater awareness of how those peoples are underrepresented at Yale. The 2013 relocation of the NACC from a few rooms in the Asian American Cultural Center to its own building exemplifies this trend, they said. “I think that the University within the past few years has become a little more receptive to the cultural center communities,” said Tanner Allread ’16, a student in the Choctaw class. “[The University] has become a little more open to providing funding for certain programs, and this fits into that.” The language sessions are held from 7–8 p.m. on Sunday and Tuesday nights. Contact WILL REID at william.reid@yale.edu .
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“A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.” VLADIMIR PUTIN PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA
Low-income families struggle with Elm City housing HOUSING FROM PAGE 1 shelter told him every single family in the shelter possessed Section 8 housing vouchers — money given to qualifying families by the federal government to subsidize affordable housing, Mattison said. But none of them had been able to find open housing at or below the maximum threshold for Section 8 housing, he added. “It is said — and for all I know it is true — that the vacancy rates for low- and middle-income homes in New Haven are one of the lowest in the country,” Mattison said. “It doesn’t exactly feel like that. But it is certainly clear that we have a very low vacancy rate for low- and middle-income housing.” The HUD defines a four person low-income family in New Haven as one with an income of $20,000 or less per year. The maximum price of Section 8 housing — which is partially subsidized by the federal government — in New Haven is around $1,200 to $1,300 per month for a two-bedroom apartment, Mattison said. The accessibility of livable, affordable housing also proved a point of contention between candidates at Tuesday’s mayoral election. Mayoral hopeful Ron Howard attacked what he considered Toni Harp’s unsuitable response to Church Street South. “We ought to be ashamed of ourselves,” Howard said. “All the lives that are over there. Those are families with their children.”
AN INCREASINGLY EXPENSIVE MARKET
Approximately 2,000 new apartments will become available within the next year, but their rates of over $2,000 per unit are well above the means of most of the Elm City’s renting households. Data from Partnership for Strong Communities, a Connecticut-based research forum, found the median annual income for renting house-
holds to be $27,452, and the median rent for the city is currently $1,090 per month. The research also found that average renters in New Haven spend around 48 percent of their income on housing. Units at Church Street South are at or under the median rent reported by the Partnership for Strong Communities. The Church Street South apartments start at $838 for a one-bedroom and rise at least as high as $1,445 for a fourbedroom. Supported by a mother earning less than $30,000 per year, Hernandez’s family has a budget that runs just above the median annual income for renting households in the city. Apartments that cost more than $1,500 were “crazy” expensive for her family, Hernandez said. Just a few miles from Church Street South, several up-scale apartment complexes have opened within the last two years. The Winchester Lofts opened in Science Park in 2013 and units in College & Crown: A Centerpiece are now up for lease. The Novella, which runs its apartments from $1,400 for a studio to $3,200 for a twobedroom, opened its doors earlier this year. DeCola said he has heard some developers also hope to turn the Niagara Bank Trust, located at the intersection of Elm and College Streets, into an apartment complex.
BUILDINGS AND VACANCIES
Though the new buildings may help address the problem New Haven has with low vacancy rates, they only help a particular portion of the population. In September, Mayor Toni Harp celebrated the opening of Ashmun Flats in Science Park, developed by Juan Salas-Romer, whose rent ranges between $1,400 and $2,450 a month. In her address to the crowd, Harp applauded the lofts for helping address the city’s low vacancy rates.
Most of the people living downtown do not plan to stay permanently, DeCola said. “Downtown is becoming more of a transit type of living than a permanent type of living,” DeCola said. “Most of the people come down here for schools and jobs. They’re not going to have a vehicle so they’re going to live downtown.” Redha Qabazard SPH ’17, who lives in the Novella building at the corner of Chapel and Howe Streets, said he has noticed his building is especially popular among Yale graduate students and young professionals. Few, if any, families live in the building, he added. DeCola said he applauds downtown’s transformation from abandoned buildings to a vibrant center of commerce, adding that he hopes the amenities downtown will become accessible to all families in New Haven. Though Hernandez attended Career High School, which is less than a mile from the New Haven Green, almost none of her classmates could afford to live downtown, she said.
NEW HAVEN VISION 2025
The challenges facing Elm City families seeking affordable housing do not go unnoticed by City Hall. The Board of Alders regularly discusses and supports affordable housing initiatives in the city, DeCola said. The city’s proposed comprehensive plan for urban development, “New Haven Vision 2025,” would also give the Board of Alders and the Mayor’s Office a set of goals to streamline their efforts to relieve housing challenges that face New Haven families like Hernandez’s. According to the current draft of the plan, the city would seek to increase New Haven’s homeownership growth rate by three percent. Assistant Director of Comprehensive Planning Susmitha Attota said the city has helped low- and middle-income families find
affordable housing in the past by publicizing the housing programs the city already has. She added that a 2013 survey administered by the city found many residents were simply not aware of public housing programs. Several other potential solutions would involve both City Hall and private developers. Attota said the city could explore the possibility of providing monetary incentives to developers to accommodate affordable housing. She added that housing officials could also look into taxing private developers and putting those tax revenues into a fund for affordable housing developments. “[Housing directors] might conduct a study and think that one option is better than the other option,” Attota said. “There will be a range of options and the city staff will pick up those recommendations.” The cooperation of private developers would improve the accessibility of affordable housing, but DeCola said the Board of Alders often finds receiving a commitment from private developers difficult. Still, private developers could be a part of the solution — they spearhead many housing projects receiving public funding. Private developer Northland, for example, provided money to subsidize housing in Church Street South, though they did not maintain the complex to code standards. Scarcity of government funding also prevents City Hall from building more affordable housing, Mattison said, adding that low- and middle-income housing is often built with a federal subsidy. But the federal government has substantially reduced the amount of such subsidies granted over the last few years, he said. “In New Haven at least, it is not possible to build housing that a low-income person can afford unless there is some form of sub-
sidy,” Mattison said. “All across the country these subsidies are drying up.” Still, he noted that New Haven’s zoning plans provide hope that future affordable homes for lowand middle-income families will be built. He said he suspected very little of the city is zoned to accommodate only single-standing suburban homes that are generally not affordable for low-income housing. Attota added that she believes the success of the policy city housing officials select will depend upon how well the city oversees its plans. The market analysis would initially determine the best options for the area, whether it be all affordable units or mixedincome, Attota said. Still, though, the city would have more work to do, she said. “This is our vision and what we want to be. Once we start reaching that we will get to roadblocks. If we don’t have an idea of where we want to be it will be more distressing,” Attota said.
HOMES TODAY
Despite plans being brainstormed in the city, residents of Church Street South are still living with leaking ceilings and moldy water. In the 12 years that Hernandez has spent in Section 8 housing, her parents have often experienced difficulties getting lasting repairs. Hernandez’s family moved to three different apartments in The Fairways — an apartment complex located across the Quinnipiac River from Fair Haven — but experienced maintenance issues each time. Hernandez said her parents often asked the landlord to make a repair, only to see the same problem reemerge a few months later. “I think it would be nice if … apartments that are specifically for low-income people were to be held to a certain standard,” Hernandez said. “Sometimes they let the apartment slowly slip, like the Church Street South apartments, so that they are uninhabitable.” Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
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The maximum price for Section 8 housing ranges from $1,200 to $1,300 for a one-bedroom apartment.
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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” DALAI LAMA RELIGIOUS LEADER
YCC teaches real-life skills
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YCC hosted a session on mindfulness and meditation on Tuesday. BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER For the first time this semester, Yale undergraduates will receive a reality check. On Tuesday, the Yale College Council hosted a session on mindfulness and meditation, the first in an extended series of workshops covering a range of practical topics from car repairs to managing a personal budget. Coined “YCC Reality Check,” the initiative is intended to equip students with important skills they would not learn in an ordinary classroom setting. “This is the first year that the YCC is putting out workshops specifically geared towards life skills not conventionally taught in the college setting,” YCC Events Director Amour Alexandre ’17 said. “The inspiration from these workshops honestly came from talking with friends at Yale about things we wished we knew how to do and ‘life’ classes we wished Yale offered.” Held once per month throughout the year, workshops will focus on relevant, timely issues. While the topic of each session has not yet been finalized, Alexandre provided the example of a workshop on filing taxes done in early March, around tax season. She added that while the events committee has a number of preliminary ideas, student suggestions and input are welcome. All six students interviewed said they do not currently possess the kinds of skills the initiative is trying to teach. “When I came … here I lacked a number of everyday life skills that took me time to acquire on my own,” Wayne Baylor ’16 said. “Having the opportunity to learn in and participate in workshops for things that I’ll use after graduation is quite beneficial in my opinion.” The first two sessions were held on Tuesday and Wednesday in collabora-
tion with Yale Health’s Student Wellness Center and the student groups YMindful and the Yale Undergraduate Mindfulness Education Initiative. Alexandre said the initial classes focused on providing students with strategies to combat stress as well as maintain mindfulness, especially in light of ongoing campus conversations about mental health and well-being “Personally, I find most Yalies feel guilty taking time for themselves, whether it be to get an extra hour of sleep, to take a break from studying or to invest in a hobby,” Alexandre said. “We chose the Meditation and Mindfulness workshop as the first workshop in the series given the inherent importance stress management has on our campus.” Twelve students attended the first class on Meditation and Mindfulness, which was hosted by Student Wellness Health Educator Tracy George SPH ’15. YMindful and YUMEI held a similar workshop on Wednesday. In both sessions, participants began by defining mindfulness — paying attention on purpose, in the moment and nonjudgmentally — before learning stress management strategies and engaging in meditation and deep breathing exercises. “Stress often comes from worries in the past or worries about the future and mindfulness helps you focus on the present,” YMindful vice president Shannon Compton ’18 said. “It also helps you take a step back and recognize that you’re feeling stress, recognize why you’re feeling that way, and then after you recognize it you can begin to manage and address it.” During the second session, students were also tasked with defining stress and its sources. Erin Wang ’18, classrooms facilitator for YUMEI, said session leaders shaped example scenarios to pertain to the college experience, with events centered on internships, social events and grades. Other
portions of the workshop included a short activity in which students raised their hands every time they had a thought not about the present, as well as a body scan — a guided meditation focusing on different physical sensations across the body. Former president of YMindful and current president of YUMEI Aneesha Ahluwalia ’16 said the organization has recently been trying to increase its presence at Yale, with the Reality Check workshops being their first official on-campus event. The group’s mission is to promote mental wellbeing in all aspects of our community, she said. Still, Jae Hyung Kim ’18, who did not attend the session, said that while he acknowledges the potential usefulness of the skills the YCC is teaching — and while he admits he does not currently possess them — he does not think he would attend the workshops. “I agree that, in theory, these workshops sound very useful but in all honesty, I would not attend them,” he said. “We are all busy and right now, what is on our minds are the immediate things that matter: [problem] sets, exams, readings. We do not have time, at least before senior year, to consider honing these skills.” He noted that students are accustomed to looking for solutions online as problems arise, rather than proactively seeking out training. But Alexandre said the hectic nature of students’ schedules make workshops like the one on mindfulness all the more important. “We are all super busy, but it is important to take time for yourself and your own sanity,” Alexandre said. “We hoped that a workshop on stress reduction and management during midterms would emphasize its relevance.” Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
By 8 p.m. Wednesday night, not a single seat was empty in the Branford Common Room as students and faculty crowded around distinguished journalists and alumni writers Christopher Buckley ’75, Jane Mayer ’77, Mark Singer ’72 and John Tierney ’75. The panelists had gathered to commemorate the life and teachings of William Zinsser, Yale writing professor and former master of Branford College, perhaps best known for his book “On Writing Well.” Zinsser passed away in May. The panelists took turns reading excerpts of Zinsser’s work and speaking about what they had learned as his students in the 1970s. Among the memories mentioned were Zinsser’s rigorous insistence on simple writing, his sense of humor and his personal warmth as a mentor to his students. “Bill was focused on cutting words, being simple,” Tierney said of Zinsser. “He compared writing to building a house. He said, ‘Before you can do that, you’ve got to learn to saw the wood straight, you’ve got to be able to hammer a nail in.’” Tierney recalled his happiest moment at Yale — after talking with Zinsser one evening, Zinsser encouraged him to apply to his writing seminar freshman year. The panelists also spoke of Zinsser’s impressive sense of humor. Buckley recalled how Zinsser referred to humor as the “secret weapon of the non-fiction writer,” meaning that Zins-
ser approached humor as a way of articulating truths that otherwise would not be said. Zinsser’s emphasis on the importance of humor resonated with the audience as well. “When I find myself laughing when I’m reading, I just feel so intimate, so engaged with the writer,” Qianyi Qin ’17 said. “The writer just comes alive.” Mayer, who took a humor course with Zinsser, said Zinsser also taught her the art of investigative writing. Mayer said that what she had learned from Zinsser was, simply, not enough. Zinsser’s class was a “free-fire zone” in which students could express confidence in their voices, she said. Mayer said Zinsser emphasized an appreciation for language and storytelling that she has since tried to incorporate in her own writing. Mayer also recounted that Zinsser had brought legendary writers, like S.J. Perlman, for students to meet. Singer also spoke about Zinsser’s love of language, recounting his distaste for “clutter” and “bogus words” in writing. Singer said that Zinsser thought of writing not as a product, but as a journey through life. “[The talk] certainly taught me a lot about William Zinsser,” Daniel Judt ’17 said. “I think it was just fun to hear the stories.” Zinsser’s work teaching the art of writing ultimately evolved into the English 120 seminar. Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .
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Four distinguished alumni writers gathered Wednesday night in a panel tribute to their former teacher William Zinsser.
Buckley hosts anti-Semitism panel BY RACHEL TREISMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Over 100 people attended an anti-Semitism panel hosted by the Buckley program on Thursday.
On Thursday afternoon, students, New Haven residents and a copious amount of cupcakes and coffee filled the chapel at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale for “Antisemitism in the 21st Century,” a panel organized by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program. Over 100 people attended the event, which was moderated by Slifka’s Executive Director and Senior Jewish Chaplain, Rabbi Leah Cohen and featured speakers Charles Small, director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, and Ruth Wisse, Harvard professor of Yiddish literature and comparative literature. “Anti-Semitism is not about the Jews, it’s not the problem of the Jews,” Wisse said. “It’s the problem of anti-Semites and of the societies in which they are permitted to function.” Small and Wisse discussed the causes, consequences and implications of modern antiSemitism. Wisse spoke mainly about the cultural issues facing the Jewish population today, emphasizing the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Small took a more political stance, criticizing the way in which President Barack Obama’s administra-
tion addresses anti-Semitism and the State of Israel. After discussing recent anti-Semitic attacks in Europe — such as an attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris in January — Small concluded that current outbursts of anti-Semitism are just as violent and threatening as they have been in the past. Zachary Young ’17, president of the Buckley Program, explained that the organization was created in order to promote intellectual diversity through conversations and events such as this one. “We thought it would be very cool to do an event on anti-Semitism because it’s often a subject that gets relegated to history,” Young said. “I think it’s interesting that people our age are interested in civil rights and promoting rights of minorities such as through movements like Black Lives Matter or those to counteract Islamophobia and homophobia at Yale, but there isn’t much of a grassroots movement to combat antiSemitism.” Josh Altman ’17, speakers director of the Buckley Program, said discussions about anti-Semitism are especially important given current events in Europe and around the world. Attendees cited several different reasons for attending the event, which was adver-
tised mainly through the Buckley Program and social media. “I’m curious about the changing demographic in Europe and how Judaism might be affected by that,” said Rob Henderson ’18, an Eli Whitney Scholar who lived in Germany for three years prior to starting Yale. Other students interviewed said they think anti-Semitism does not get enough attention around campus, which Aryssa Damron ’18 said made the event all the more unique. Damron said she rarely sees panels on anti-Semitism offered by other groups at Yale. The panel was followed by a question-and-answer session, during which attendees asked how Small and Wisse would go about discussing anti-Semitism with audiences less familiar with the topic, for example. “I wish we had another four hours, because it easily could have gone on much longer,” Cohen said. “I was really grateful that so many people came out. We had the room set up for 80 but ended up having over 100 people here today, which tells me that anti-Semitism in the 21st century is a topic that people are interested in hearing about.” The Buckley Program was founded in 2010. Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT FOOD TRUCKS FROM PAGE 1 to the city’s building department. He said he had always assumed College Street did not fall under the category because buildings on both sides housed offices, classroom space and dormitories. Victor Lopez, the Rubamba employee running the food truck Wednesday on York Street, said that he had just begun selling arepas around 11 a.m. when an official from the New Haven Building Department approached the cart and informed Lopez that he needed to shut down operations within an hour. Rubamba owner Ernesto Garcia said that without the truck, which has served students and Elm City residents for nearly four years, Rubamba lost $1,000 in profits for the day. He said he approached the city about the truck’s future after receiving the notice that he cannot sell in a residential area. Garcia said he has tentative plans to move onto Broadway, but is mainly concerned about retaining his employees. He added that while he is currently seeking alternative locations for the truck, he intends to serve customers at his usual location Thursday. Garcia added that the city informed him that people in the neighborhood filed complaints about customers obstructing pedestrian traffic. “I’ve never had any complaints personally about my truck,” Sobocinski said. “We’re quiet and we’re small and we fit between two meters.” The New Haven Building Department directed the News to James Turcio, explaining that he is the official in charge of enforcing vendor ordinances in New Haven. Turcio was named city building official last March, according to the New Haven Register. Turcio could not be reached for comment Wednesday. The removal of food trucks is unrelated to Yale University Properties, which leases and manages the block of retail space on Broadway adjacent to Rubamba and Portobello, said Michael Morand, deputy chief communications officer of Yale’s Office of Public Affairs & Communications. Ethan Young ’18 said that the decision to remove the food trucks, unless done for health or safety reasons, only limits afford-
able dining options for students, faculty and nearby workers. “We have this constant obsession with restaurant culture,” Young said. “Food is exceptional at nice restaurants, [but] there are not many small inexpensive options for students between classes. … Who else is going to walk by and need a to-go lunch?” Greg Martell, the owner of Chief Brody’s Banh Mi — which also parks in front of Cross Campus on Thursdays and Fridays — said he would tentatively plan on returning to his usual location tomorrow because the city building department has not yet presented him with any papers. Martell added they still intend to hold a joint charity event with Caseus for local nonprofit Columbus House that the two trucks had planned for Thursday afternoon, even if they must choose a new location for their trucks. Employees for other downtown food vendors, such as Crepes Choupette located on Wall Street and Ricky D’s Rib Shack on Chapel Street, said that they were unaware of the building department’s actions yesterday. Graduate students interviewed emphasized both the convenient location of the Rubamba and Portobello trucks and their popularity among students who attend class in nearby buildings. Shuosong Chen GRD ’21 said that he relied on the food trucks during weekends, which is when the dining hall at the Hall of Graduate Studies is closed. For Rebecca Gilbert FES ’15, buying food at these trucks as a professional school student is preferable to eating at HGS or the Yale Law School. She said that although other cities may use zoning as a way to prevent trucks from stealing business from nearby brick-and-mortar stores, she did not consider these “fast food” trucks to be competitors of Blue State Coffee and Yorkside Pizza — establishments across the street from Rubamba and Portobello. Employees of both Blue State Coffee and Yorkside Pizza said they did not notice the removal of the trucks from their streets. Rubamba opened its brickand-mortar location on High Street in 2012. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
Data reveals gender pay gap YALE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SALARIES MEN AND WOMEN 2013-2014
SALARIES FROM PAGE 1 salaries of associate and assistant professors and lecturers, who all earned less than fulltime professors on nine- or 12-month contracts. FAS Dean of Academic Affairs John Dovidio, who runs the FAS faculty salary process, said the Chronicle data reveals an “illusory difference” between male and female faculty, one that will abate as more women are promoted to senior faculty positions. “Women and men are becoming more similar in their years in the profession over time,” he said. Still, women may face disadvantages on their paths to full professorship. While the number of women on Yale’s faculty has risen in recent years — from 17 percent of tenured faculty University-wide in 2002 to 21 percent in 2007, partially due to an administrative initiative to hire women in fields that were predominantly male — Yale, along with many of its peer institutions, struggles to retain tenure-track women. The 2015 Harvard FAS dean’s report on faculty trends found that tenure-track women faculty at Harvard left in consistently high rates. The most striking reason many of these women left the school, the report said, was that “the culture of the department was not conducive to their productivity and was a significant factor in their decision to leave.” Departmental climate can mean many different things, said Allison Tait, a former postdoctoral associate in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Climate can be influenced by how the faculty treats child rearing, the degree to which colleagues respect certain kinds of research and who is nominated for academic awards and prizes, Tait said. While collecting data for a 2012 report by the Yale Women Faculty Forum, an organization dedicated to discussing gender issues, Tait found that some female professors at Yale left their departments even after they received tenure, a sign she said suggests that some departments may not feel welcoming to women. “Numbers will help with retention, but numbers will not solve retention,” Tait said, calling for greater salary transparency and for the University to take a closer look at whether
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faculty are being rewarded for their productivity or for other reasons. But WFF Chairwoman and School of Medicine professor Paula Kavathas said building a “critical mass” of female faculty through hiring initiatives in departments with higher pay and underrepresentation of women will help close salary gaps. She acknowledged that there are challenges to increasing the number of women in some departments, especially as female faculty at Yale often have competitive offers at other schools. “We have outstanding women faculty, and they will get other job offers,” Kavathas said. “People don’t necessarily leave because they’re unhappy, they leave because they see another opportunity.” While Gendler and Dovidio said the apparent gender gap among professors is caused by having fewer women in senior faculty positions, and that it disappears if one controls for discipline or teaching seniority, this logic may not explain why assistant professors, at a more
entry-level teaching position, also see a gender gap of $5,787, according to the Chronicle data. Tait, who co-authored the 2012 WFF report, said gender inequity can be more easily observed among assistant professors, among whom there are fewer distinctions in seniority. Studies show that men do more bargaining than women after an initial salary offer, Tait said, noting that women, for a variety of reasons including a greater aversion to risk, may be less likely than men to leverage competing offers at other schools to raise their salaries. Some may not know that such practices are commonplace in academia, she added. These initial pay differences have long-term implications, Tait said, and may result in larger pay gaps after several years of teaching. Medical school professor Shirley McCarthy said female professors should ask more questions about their salaries and suggested that administrators take courses about unconscious bias. But Gendler said the system
of making salary decisions at Yale is one based on merit. The accomplishments of an individual faculty member — his or her research, teaching and service — play an important role in determining that faculty member’s salary. Gendler also pointed out that salaries differ on a departmental basis. For example, regardless of gender, professors in economics typically earn more than professors in classics, Gendler said. Gendler, as the dean of FAS, can ultimately determine FAS faculty salaries, which she does on the basis of recommendations from department chairs and members of the FAS Steering Committee, which includes the deans of Yale College and the Graduate School, she said. “We remain vigilant … of potential disparities based on gender and other job-irrelevant factors,” Gendler said. “We will continue to monitor for disparities annually.” The Yale Women Faculty Forum was established in 2001. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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DUS FROM PAGE 1 to discuss the survey results, inviting students to see him as a source of support. “The results are really upsetting — infuriating, even,” Rankin told the News. “To think that all the effort that we as faculty put into teaching and mentoring might be overshadowed for many students by this kind of violence — it’s terrifying. And it makes me want to let students know that the faculty care about this and that we want the norms and expectations on campus to change, and that we want to be part of the conversation and part of the solution.” While Rankin acknowledged that most faculty members are removed from student life outside of academics, he said that initiating conversations with students and sharing faculty responses to the survey have been very important to him in supporting students in his department. The line between the academic and nonacademic dimensions of Yale is blurry, Rankin said, and there is space for faculty to extend their impact. Communicating by email and making themselves available to concerned students are the very least that directors in any department could do, Rankin added. HSHM students interviewed said they appreciated Rankin’s gesture, but they differed in their opinions about the extent to which directors can offer nonacademic support. Sukriti Mohan ’17 said she was very happy to receive the email from Rankin, adding that he has done a great job of making him-
self available. However, she said, the DUS would probably not be the first resource students reach out to for personal matters. “I’ve never thought of the DUS as a role outside of the academic context,” she said. “Maybe I would talk to the DUS about career goals.” Felix Cancre ’17 also said he viewed Rankin’s email in a positive light, adding that he hopes to see more directors make an effort to advise students beyond academic issues and foster a supportive culture within the major. Rankin acknowledged that the conversation about sexual misconduct should be happening on multiple levels among administrators, students and faculty. Any role DUSs can play should not be unique, he said. DUSs pointed out that besides acting as a general point of contact for undergraduates, they could take a more active role should they learn about a case of sexual misconduct from their students. Julia Stephens, the DUS for South Asian Studies, said all DUSs encounter an interface of academic, personal and social issues when advising undergraduates. In cases of sexual misconduct, Stephens added, DUSs could help students navigate the “complex bureaucracy” and find the appropriate resources, thus reducing the stress involved in these processes. The calm and rational perspective that DUSs bring to students during emotionally tense moments could be a relief, she said. DUSs are also a point of faculty continuity throughout students’ undergraduate careers, as they often interact with the same
students over several years, Boyd noted. Other faculty leaders were also spurred to reach out to their department’s undergraduates. Elizabeth Carroll, director of the Education Studies program, said one of her main takeaways from the AAU survey was that a large number of students did not report cases of sexual misconduct. She said the University must take action to decrease the number of incidents, but also create a climate where students know that there are adults they can talk to — a climate department leaders can help foster. “Some resources are more directly related to students’ personal life, like college deans and frocos, but I want to make sure that my students know I am here to support them as well,” Carroll said. She added that she has contacted students in Education Studies as well as those in her seminar. Faculty interviewed also said the size of the departments do not necessarily correlate with the advisory role DUSs can play. Carroll said that while it makes sense mathematically that students form more personal relationships with faculty members in small departments, faculty in all departments can easily reach out to students and show their openness as a resource. According to the AAU survey, only 27.4 percent of women at Yale who experienced penetration by force reported their experiences to an authority. Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .
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BY CAROLINE SIMON In the coming months, Penn’s faculty will step into a larger role in the campus-wide effort to address mental health issues among students. At a Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting on Sept. 30, faculty from all four undergraduate schools voted to pilot the Faculty Wellness Ambassador program for one year. The program was approved by the Senate Executive Committee in the spring, and stemmed from the recommendations of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Wellness. The program will select “faculty wellness ambassadors” from among the four undergraduate schools, who will be responsible for serving as resources for fellow professors who believe that their students are struggling with mental illness. The ambassadors, who have not yet been chosen, will receive I-CARE training from Counseling and Psychological Services, which teaches people to recognize signs of mental distress, according to CAPS Director Bill Alexander. The program will not substitute for professional assistance — distressed students will be directed towards CAPS or another resource. But engineering professor Paulo Arratia, who helped to develop the program, explained that faculty occupy an influential role in students’ lives and can encourage them to seek the treatment they need. “Imagine you have a student in
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BY ANDREW BRAZER Sworn Department of Public Safety officers will have access to rifles in the event of emergency situations on campus, DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky announced at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday. “The national best practices for responding to an active shooter have evolved,” Ominsky said. “It is now a law enforcement best practice to get an armed officer to the scene as quickly as possible to save lives.”
H e explained t h a t the first a r m e d o f f i cer who PRINCETON arrives can interrupt a shooter. “Response time matters,” Ominsky said. ”Even a few minutes can make a difference to save a life.” Sworn DPS officers are trained in the New Jersey police academy for 26 weeks, the same institution as law enforcement officials serving in the Princeton
Police Department. They also possess most of the same credentials as local police officers, including the power to arrest. “Although we have a safe campus, and it is difficult to imagine a situation occurring at Princeton like an active shooter, we still need to plan, to prepare and to train our staff,” Ominsky said. The decision was reached in order to better ensure the safety of the university community, according to university spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Officers will not always be armed, but will be ready to arm
themselves under the threat of an active shooter, Mbugua said. Under current policy, an active shooter or a person brandishing a firearm on campus would require an armed response from the local Princeton Police Department. The DPS, in turn, is unarmed and provides a support function. “DPS will not have access to rifles for any other purpose than to respond to an active shooter or someone brandishing a firearm,” Ominsky clarified. “Our priority is ensuring the safety of our students, our faculty and our staff.”
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Panel talks faculty diversity BY JESSICA SPITZ The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion hosted a panel Tuesday where faculty members from Columbia and other institutions discussed the issue of diversity in higher education across several academic fields. The panel was part of a week of programming focused on the climate of inclusion in fields — including business, the sciences and engineering — in which diversity is particularly difficult to achieve. The rest of the week’s programming was headlined by a residency by the
Sphinx O rga n i zation, a musical organization dedicated to COLUMBIA diversity in the arts, which will be teaching music humanities courses and working with children in Harlem. “These discussions will allow the community to start to talk about diversity,” said Dennis Mitchell, the vice provost for faculty diversity and inclusion. “We also want to make sure that members of our community are
comfortable discussing these issues at a scholarly level. We’re having scholarly discussions followed by a social discussion. We want a dialogue between students and faculty.” Panelists emphasized the underrepresentation of women and minorities in business, sciences, engineering, music and health science, and the potential benefits of more inclusivity in these environments. “We assume that people who look like us think like us, and we assume people who look different from us think differently from us and have different information and perspec-
tives than we do, and it triggers us to think harder when we’re in diverse environments,” said professor Katherine Phillips, senior vice dean and Paul Calello, professor of leadership and ethics at the business school. Phillips also noted that diversity “doesn’t feel good to us all the time” because it takes a significant amount of effort to really make progress in this area. Several panelists also mentioned logistical obstacles to achieving more inclusivity, such as the challenges that come with hiring a diverse faculty.
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“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” ANN WIGMORE “HOLISTIC HEALTH” PRACTITIONER
Discipline in the dining hall FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 one another accountable. The plan is customizable based on whether the players want to gain, lose or maintain weight. Many freshmen enter Yale relatively underdeveloped physically, said Oluokun, who missed last weekend’s game against Dartmouth with a shoulder injury. While they tend to hit their pre-established weight goals by sophomore year, their muscular builds are often not where they need to be. In these situations, players are able to adjust their specific health plans to gain muscle mass. “I wasn’t necessarily giving up [types of food], just cutting back,” Oluokun, who began working with a nutritionist in the offseason, said. “Within a week, I saw my weight go down five pounds. That’s just from eating less junk, more of the healthier stuff. I was surprised and got a little worried but the numbers in the weight room didn’t go down.”
Oluokun, a self-described fan of cheeseburgers, began cutting down on habits such as soda at breakfast in favor of healthier options. The defensive back experimented with different types of salads and ultimately found one — complete with grapes, carrots, apple chunks and Worcester sauce — that he likes. The changes in eating habits have not gone unnoticed. Reno joked that while Oluokun used to eat like Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch — famous for consuming Skittles on the sidelines of games — the junior has changed his diet for the better. Oluokun said that as a result of the decrease in body fat, both his top speed and lateral quickness have improved. Oluokun is hardly the only Eli who modified his nutrition plans. Running back Candler Rich ’17, who has been sidelined the past two weekends, and defensive back Spencer Rymiszewski
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’17 also packed on 15 pounds of muscle in the offseason, according to Reno. The changes made by the three juniors, in the footsteps of Randall and Varga, indicate a shift in team culture toward more conscious eating habits. “I think as a whole, the guys have become much more aware of what they’re putting in their bodies,” Reno said. “How I can tell is guys have gained weight and can hold weight, and have gained strength and can hold strength and speed. That’s all a byproduct of nutrition as it is training, but the two have to go hand-in-hand together.” Calling nutrition a building block for the team’s improvement, Randall said he believed that following the meal plan signalled which players were “all-in.” “I am a firm believer that it contributed to the success we had last season,” Randall said. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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Oluokun, left, and Rymiszewski, right, are two of the new diet plan’s recent adopters.
in practice this week,” Katz said. “If we continue to do that, we will get the outcome we want.” Katz and the Bulldogs’ defensive unit look strong heading into the weekend after a challenging pair of games this past Saturday and Sunday. The junior netminder earned a spot on the weekly Ivy League Honor Roll after allowing a single goal to Cornell on Saturday and then saving 20 of 22 shots on net against then-No. 6 Albany a day later. However, against a Dartmouth team that ranks fourth in the Ivy League with 2.71 goals per game — more than three times Yale’s average of 0.69 — captain and defender Noelle Villa ’16 stressed that another strong defensive performance will be key on Saturday. “We focus on our fundamental and individual defense every practice, but we also maintain a good sense of how those fundamentals fit in the big picture across the field,” Villa said. “Moving as a unit is crucial, and that takes solid game sense and high communication.”
Villa also noted that such cohesion would help the Bulldogs have more success on the offensive side of the ball.
[Dartmouth] is a well-coached team, they’re scrappy and they work hard. EMILIE KATZ ’17 Field hockey goalkeeper Yale will need to protect the ball, Villa said, and be more efficient with its attack in order to emerge from the bottom of the Ivy standings. “We’re on the right track and have been working hard to build the counterattack,” Villa said. “Now we just need to capitalize on our opportunities in the circle.” Yale will play Dartmouth at noon on Saturday. Contact DREW SEMLER at andrew.semler@yale.edu .
Leonoff wins first NWHL game HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 early on about mid-year last year, I became aware that this was in the works. I knew that it would be a good opportunity for me and there would definitely be spots to be taken so I jumped on it. did your time on the Yale QHow women’s ice hockey team help prepare you for the transition to the NWHL?
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Yale hockey was an amazing experience for me, not only as a hockey player but also as a person, so transitioning I feel very lucky to have been part of a program that genuinely got me ready to play hockey in many respects. I definitely feel that Yale prepared me really well.
a few days after the QJust NWHL’s first-ever game, how do you envision the future of the league?
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With the attendance that we are getting [a sell-out crowd in the first game] and if the NWHL can keep selling tickets, I can definitely see players earning more money, and the league expanding, signing more players and adding more teams, hopefully in Canada and in the [western United States]. As of right now, we are hoping that we have enough ticket sales to support the four teams that we have now.
it like to play alongQWhat’s side a former assistant coach of yours, Jessica Koizumi?
does the level of compeIt is great and it’s a lot of QHow tition in the NWHL compare Afun. I got to play with her on to that of the Ivy League?
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The Ivy League is very strong always, but I guess the thing about the NWHL is that it kept the best players from many Ivy League teams and other Division I teams and merged the players into just four teams, along with many of the American Olympians. It’s a very fast league and it’s definitely a little more challenging than Ivy League play.
SHARING THE ICE AT THE NEXT LEVEL ELIS PLAYING FOR THE CONNECTICUT WHALE
another team this summer. She was an amazing hockey player and an amazing coach. It is a real privilege to have her on our team.
Tara Tomimoto ’14 Former Yale captain Did not play in opener
Jaimie Leonoff ’15 Former Yale goaltender 35 saves, 1 goal allowed First win in NWHL history
Jessica Koizumi Yale assistant coach 2 shots, 1 goal First goal in NWHL history
are your goals for your QWhat time in the NWHL?
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It’s the first year, so it would be nice to set all the records.
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“For me, it’s amazing to be making history in women’s ice hockey.”
IVY LEAGUE FIELD HOCKEY HONOR ROLL The Eli goalkeeper was named to this week’s Ivy League Honor Roll after a pair of courageous performances this past weekend. Facing 29 shots on net, Katz allowed just three total goals in Yale losses to Cornell and No. 6 Albany.
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Leonoff ’15 talks pro hockey BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER Numerous past and current members of the Yale women’s ice hockey team played a major role in the formation of the National Women’s Hockey League, which kicked off its inaugural season last Sunday. Four Elis took part in the first-ever NWHL game between the Connecticut Whale and New York Riveters, and two players set historic landmarks: Yale assistant coach and current Whale captain Jessica Koizumi scored the first-ever NWHL goal, and former Eli goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 was credited with the first win, a decisive 4–1 rout, in league history. Leonoff, a three-year Yale starter who ranked second in Yale history in career saves and save percentage, recorded 35 saves and allowed just one goal in her season debut. Leonoff’s former cap-
tain, defender Tara Tomimoto ’14, also joins Koizumi and Leonoff on the Whale roster, while forward Bray Ketchum ’11 played against the trio for the Riveters. The NWHL is the first professional women’s hockey league to pay its players. Four teams comprise the NWHL, all located in the Northeast: the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale and New York Riveters. The Whale, which plays its home games at Chelsea Piers in Stamford, Connecticut, is competing for the Isobel Cup, awarded to the eventual league champion. Connecticut’s 18-game season will run from September to February. Before the Whale’s next game against the Beauts this upcoming Sunday, the News caught up with Leonoff to discuss the Montreal native’s time in professional hockey and her goals for the season.
has the experiQHow ence been thus far in the NWHL, and what was it like to be part of the league’s historic beginning?
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It has been amazing. We filled out our home opener, and playing for that many fans was really a change of pace. It’s really great. The pace is really fast, so it’s a step up and a good challenge … It is a huge honor to be part of this league and a part of the Connecticut Whale organization. I was very fortunate to have been chosen. For me, it’s amazing to be making history in women’s ice hockey.
led you to join the QWhat NWHL after graduating this past May?
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Probably the money. It’s the first ever league that is paying the players so that’s what makes it so unique. Also, SEE HOCKEY PAGE 8
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Several members of the Yale football team have adopted personalized forms of a new player-created diet plan. BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER In late October of last year, The New York Times published a profile of running back Tyler Varga ’15, who was then five games and 709 yards into a record-breaking senior season. Thanks in part to the article — which detailed Varga’s extreme workout habits and unconventional diet — the Tupperware of rice that Varga brought to classes became part of the lore surrounding the current NFL tailback. However, Varga was not the only member of the Yale football team to change his eating regimen with the hope of improving his play. Teammate and captain Deon Randall ’15, Yale’s all-time leader in career receptions, also adjusted his diet following his freshman year to gain a competitive advantage.
Though Randall and Varga have both graduated, their impact still resonates in the Yale football nutrition programs. “Guys have changed how they’ve eaten in the dining halls,” head coach Tony Reno said. “They’re much more in tune with how much protein, how many carbohydrates they’re putting in their bodies. It’s a direct relation to what [Varga] and [Randall] did. They really put that whole plan together. We’ve obviously enhanced it in the last year, as we continually do.” Crediting strength and conditioning coaches Emil Johnson and Mike Harris, Randall said the revamped nutrition program was a collaborative effort. The plan is flexible enough that the Bulldogs, who per Reno’s team rules are required to live on campus for three years, can follow it in Yale’s dining halls. With mandatory team breakfasts and daily
hydration minimums, the program includes when to eat, how often to eat, what to eat, alternative options and even allows for a “cheat day” a week, according to Randall. “The dining halls and the administration at Yale, during my time as captain, played an integral role [in] helping us carry out this nutrition plan,” Randall wrote in an email to the News. “I’m sure it wasn’t always easy to feed 104 guys. They were always the most helpful and thoughtful when we asked for alternative options to carry out our nutrition plan.” In addition to support from the dining halls and the coaching staff, the players have one another. The team eats together several times a week whether team-mandated or not, defensive back Foye Oluokun ’17 explained, and members hold SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8
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Leonoff, who made history as a goalie at Yale, is one of four Elis currently suiting up in the NWHL.
Yale and Dartmouth each seek first Ivy win BY DREW SEMLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A full 282 minutes of game time have passed since the Yale field hockey team last found the back of the net. The Bulldogs, outscored by opponents 26–2 since their last win over Bryant on Sept. 18, remain mired in a seven-game losing streak despite strong defensive performances in a pair of losses this past weekend.
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Yale will look to improve its offensive play while holding Dartmouth’s strong attack at bay.
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After failing to score in its last four matchups, Yale (2–9, 0–3 Ivy) will need to show improvement offensively when it hosts Dartmouth (4–7, 0–3) on Saturday. With that in mind, leading Eli scorer Carol Middough ’18 likes what she has seen this week
in practice. “We’ve been working on offense in practice a lot,” Middough said. “Things are finally starting to click for us on the offensive line, so we’re excited to come out on Saturday and showcase all the work we’ve put in recently.” Dartmouth, like Yale, visits New Haven without a conference win and hopes to enter the win column this weekend. Unlike Yale, however, the Big Green has shown numerous signs of offensive firepower throughout the year, boasting an 8–1 thrashing of Sacred Heart, a team that Yale beat just 2–1 in its season opener, and a 5–2 rout of Providence earlier in the season. Dartmouth’s offense is spearheaded by a trio of dangerous attackers: seniors Rebecca Hu and Eliza Becker, and star fresh-
man Julia Donald. In her first 11 collegiate games, Donald has generated 19 points for the Big Green, good for a tie with Hu for most on the team. “[Dartmouth] is a wellcoached team, they’re scrappy and they work hard,” goalkeeper Emilie Katz ’17 said. “They have a strong attack and they’ve won a few games by big margins.” Donald and Hu have buried nine and eight goals, respectively, while Becker is Dartmouth’s field general. She has notched 10 assists for Dartmouth. But against an offense-heavy Big Green squad, Yale’s overall approach to the upcoming contest remains unchanged. “We will stick to our game plan and continue to work hard SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 8
THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THE CONNECTICUT WHALE WITH TIES TO THE YALE WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM. Defenseman Tara Tomimoto ’14, goalie Jaimie Leonoff ’15 and sixth-year Yale assistant coach Jessica Koizumi are all playing for the Whale, a team in the newly founded NWHL.