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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023 · VOL. CXLV, NO. 18 · yaledailynews.com · @yaledailynews
Ivies sued over athletic Scholarships Pusha T
to headline Spring Fling
BY ANIKA SETH STAFF REPORTER
Brown athletes sue Ivy League for lack of merit-based aid to student athletes The Ivy League’s collective practice of not offering athletic scholarships violates antitrust law, a recent lawsuit filed against all eight Ivies contends. The class-action suit was brought forth by Tamenang Choh and Grace Kirk — previous and current Brown University basketball players, respectively — on Tuesday. Under the “Ivy League Agreement,” all eight member schools agree to neither award athletic scholarships nor compensate educational expenses for the approximately 8,000 student athletes competing across the league. The Ivies do not offer merit scholarships of
BY KAYLA YUP STAFF REPORTER
The Ivy League’s collective practice of not offering athletic scholarships violates antitrust law, a recent lawsuit filed against all eight Ivies contends. /Vaibhav Sharma, Senior Photographer
Yale beats Brown to win conference
This year’s Spring Fling lineup features R&B artist Ravyn Lenae, French DJ Dombresky and rapper Pusha T. The Spring Fling music festival will take over Old Campus on Saturday, April 29. The day-long event will kick off with performances by the three student acts that win the upcoming Battle of the Bands on April 8. Ravyn Lenae will open the line-up, followed by Dombresky. Pusha T, this year’s headliner, will close the show. Students will each be allowed to bring one guest to the festival. “I personally was shocked when [Pusha T] said yes,” said Renée Theodore ’24, one of the four Spring Fling committee co-chairs. “Because he, in my mind, is such a legend. I’ve been listening to him since I was a kid with my parents… It’s a huge honor to have someone like that who is so storied in the world of rap and hip hop come play for Spring Fling.” The lineup selection process began in September. The Spring Fling committee, composed of 27 undergraduates, sent a survey to all Yale students to gather feedback on last year’s festival and note current trends of student preference in terms of genres and artists. This year, committee members built a website that compiled Yale students’ Spotify information. Called “Yale Wrappd,” SEE SPRING FLING PAGE 4
The Yale men’s basketball team won their third regular season championship in the last four seasons, putting themselves in position for another NCAA tournament appearance. /Yale Athletics BY BEN RAAB STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team will be the number one seed in next weekend’s Ivy League Tournament. The Bulldogs (20–7, 10–4 Ivy) took care of business on the road against Brown University (14–13, 7–7 Ivy) in their Ivy League regular-season finale. The Bears — and their sold-out crowd of 2,003 fans — were hop-
ing to gain their first ever bid to Ivy Madness, but the Elis showed no mercy, winning 84–75 and eliminating them from contention. For the Bulldogs, the win also secured the Ivy League crown and the number one seed in the conference tournament. “It was an unbelievable college environment,” head coach James Jones said about the crowd. “Our guys played really tough. It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to win on the road in a hostile environ-
ment, and it shows the character of the guys in our locker room.” Guard tandem Bez Mbeng ’25 and John Poulakidas ’25 led the way for the Bulldogs, with Mbeng scoring a career-high 27 points on 10–12 shooting from the field and Poulakidas adding 14 points of his own. Mbeng is just the latest Bulldog to record a new career high over the last SEE M BASKETBALL PAGE 5
Camp Yale to add two new programs BY SARAH COOK STAFF REPORTER This fall, first-year orientation program Camp Yale will now feature two new “mid-orientation” programs focused on individual reflection and entrepreneurship, in addition to the six existing offerings. Yale Reserved hopes to take incoming first years on a journey of self-reflection, while LAUNCH will center on entrepreneurship. These changes come after the University rebranded first-year orientation as “Camp Yale” and restructured the program to include an all-class orientation prior to the mid-orientation programs — previously known as pre-orientation programs. Last fall, first years chose between First-Year Outdoor Orientation Trips, BUILD, FOCUS, Harvest and Orientation for International Students for their mid-orientation program. “Since all incoming undergraduates participate in Camp Yale Programs, we wanted to SEE PREORIENTATION PAGE 4
CROSS CAMPUS
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1975.
The Yale Blood Drive announced that the college with the highest percentage of blood donors would host two Playboy bunnies for dinner on April 25. The winning college would also be served an APO sponsored steak dinner.
Two new orientation programs — LAUNCH and Yale Reserved, which respectively focus on entrepreneurship and individual reflection — will hold their inaugural sessions in the fall of 2023. /Tim Tai, Photography Editor
INSIDE THE NEWS YALE SEEKS NEW DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL AID PAGE 6 NEWS
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New Haveners rally for childcare BY BROOKLYN BRAUNER STAFF REPORTER Early childhood educators, parents and students gathered across from New Haven City Hall at 8 a.m. on Wednesday to advocate for reforms to the early childcare sector and demand appropriate funding towards the profession. Rally participants recognized and called for action regarding what they described as the “childcare crisis.” Their actions come as a response to Governor Ned Lamont’s Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Biennial Budget Report released in early February. Lamont allocated $14.2 million in 2024 and $53.3 million in 2025 through the state’s child care subsidy, Care 4 Kids. Advocates at the rally, using the slogan #MorningWithoutChildcare, said this was not enough. “Parents pay too much; educators make too little,” Executive Director of the Friends Center for Children and Co-Chair of the Childcare for Connecticut’s Future coalition Allyx Schiavone told the News in an interview. “Providers and programs can barely survive. Businesses cannot thrive, and children are stuck in the middle of that mess.” One of the lead organizations — alongside other groups such as All Our Kin and the New Haven Early Childhood Council — Child Care for Connecticut’s Future centers around the hope that everyone can find high quality, affordable care and that childcare providers are well compensated to ensure a stable, skilled workforce. SEE RALLY PAGE 5
TANDEN Senior advisor to President Biden Neera Tanden spoke on Tuesday about her life in politics. PAGE 6 NEWS SCROLL The Beinecke is displaying an almost 1300-year-old Japanese scroll. PAGE 7 NEWS