NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 65 · yaledailynews.com
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and welcome to the first day of shopping. As you hurry from class to class today, take solace in the fact that this year, Yale students will enjoy the shortest January in over a decade. There will only be nine days of classes this month. However, spring break will also come one week later, on March 11.
In memoriam. As part of Yale’s
commemorations of the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks LAW ’90 will deliver a keynote address at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow evening. Brooks will speak from the same Battell pulpit that King did in 1962.
Student power. And as part of its commemorations of King’s legacy, Connecticut’s MLK Holiday Commission honors residents with the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday award. This year, the Black Student Alliance at Yale received the award. Mr. Worldwide. The Yale
Debate Team took its talents to the World Universities Debating Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece over winter break. Evan Lynyak ’17 was voted the top-ranked female debater, elevating the Yale team to a fourth place international rank. The Harvard team won the championship overall.
Money on my mind. Jodie Foster ’85 is the director of “Money Monster” a new film about the volatile stock market set to release in May. The film stars George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell in lead roles. Foster, who is an award-winning actress, made her directorial debut in 1991 with “Little Man Tate.” THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1984 The Yale Athletic Department concludes its fundraising campaign to build a new track and practice football field complex at the Yale Bowl, raising approximately $1.5 million in the process. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER
New year, News you. Here at 202 York St., we welcome 61 new staff members from across the country and around the world. Our newest staffers hail from Las Vegas to New York City, from Ireland to Turkey. Spring recruitment for the Yale Daily News will begin next week. What a time to be a Newsie.
With the Iowa caucus just weeks away, presidential campaigns are in full swing. Although it is expected to be less contested than the GOP race, the Democratic race is tightening with Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Sen. Bernie Sanders neck-and-neck in the Iowa polls. On the Republican side, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz are in a similar dead heat.
GE leaves longtime Fairfield home for new Boston location
Yale, Under Armour sign apparel deal
On to 2016. Happy new year,
Race to the White House.
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declined to provide further comment to the News. The announcement comes on the heels of SOM Dean Edward Snyder’s reappointment to a second fiveyear term. Following the donation, Snyder — who was recently named “Dean of the Year” by the business school news website Poets and Quants — has been named the inaugural Indra K. Nooyi dean. Snyder said in the news release that having the deanship named after Nooyi reflects the SOM’s model of “purposeful and bro-
Yale athletics and major sports apparel company Under Armour announced a multiyear deal last week to make the brand Yale’s official athletics outfitter. Effective July 1, the partnership spans across all of Yale’s varsity teams and marks the first all-sports deal for the Bulldogs. The deal will also be a first for Under Armour: although the brand’s 32 other Division I all-sports partnerships include major programs such as Maryland, Notre Dame and Wisconsin, Yale is the company’s first foray into the Ivy League. Multiple outlets, including the New Haven Register, Bloomberg and Oiselle, one of Yale’s current apparel partners, reported that the deal is 10 years long and valued between $16 million and $16.5 million, but Patrick O’Neill, associate athletics director marketing and licensing, said those numbers cannot be publicly disclosed at the moment. “I can’t go into detail about what [Under Armour] actually gave us, but I will say it was extremely generous,” O’Neill said. “A lot of thought was put into it, and I speak for the department in saying that we’re extremely excited to partner with them.” O’Neill said that the department received interest from Under Armour’s competitors, but the offer from Under Armour was the “best bid for the most part.” He also declined to disclose the names of the competing brands. Under Armour will be the exclusive provider of apparel, footwear, uniforms and equipment for Yale athletes, coaches and staff beginning in
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Indra Nooyi SOM ’80, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, Inc. became the SOM’s most generous alumni donor. BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Management announced last week a donation from Indra Nooyi SOM ’80, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc. The gift makes Nooyi the most generous alumni donor in the school’s history. The gift is being used to endow the deanship of the SOM, making the school the first Ivy League business school whose deanship is named for a woman. Combined with her past gifts to name the Nooyi Classroom and the Isaacson Classroom — named for pro-
fessor Larry Isaacson, who taught in the school from 1976 to 1981 — at the SOM’s new campus, the donation makes Nooyi the most generous graduate of the SOM in terms of lifetime giving to the school. The size of this most recent gift has not been disclosed. “My gift to this wonderful institution pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave me — the fundamental understanding that leadership requires an expansive worldview and a deep appreciation of the many points of intersection between business and society,” Nooyi said in a press release. Nooyi
University creates communications VP position BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER University President Peter Salovey announced earlier this month that Eileen O’Connor would serve as the inaugural vice president for communications, ending a search that began last summer. In conjunction with her general responsibilities, she will be tasked with forming a more strategic and efficient operation at a time of heightened campus tension. Before coming to Yale, O’Connor worked in public affairs, law and journalism. She most recently served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Cen-
tral Asia and senior adviser to the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Salovey told the News he found O’Connor an impressive candidate because of her varied professional experiences and the value she places on service, as demonstrated by her work in Afghanistan. He added that while he was proud of the way University communications staff handled racial events of the past semester, he expects the creation of O’Connor’s position to result in a more well-organized and effective operation. “If she had been here last SEE VP PAGE 6
COURTESY OF MICHAEL MARSLAND/YALE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Salovey announced that Eileen O’Connor would serve as Yale’s inaugural vice president for communications.
Yale SigEp settles tailgate lawsuit BY MONICA WANG AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS The national Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, its local Yale chapter and more than 80 of its former members have settled lawsuits over a fatal collision at the 2011 Harvard-Yale tailgate that left one dead and two others injured, more than three years after the first suit was filed. Brendan Ross ’13, a member of the fraternity, was driving a U-Haul truck toward the tailgate in November 2011 when he lost control of the vehicle, striking and killing 30-year-old Nancy Barry of Salem, Massachusetts. Sarah Short SOM ’13
and Harvard employee Elizabeth Dernbach were also injured in the accident. Short’s and Barry’s estates filed suits against the national Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Yale University, U-Haul, Ross as well as other defendants in April 2012. In December of the following year, both parties also filed identical but separate suits that individually named all the students who were members of the fraternity’s Yale chapter at the time of the crash, whether or not they were present at the tailgate. The suits were later consolidated into one case, and a settlement was reached this past November, SEE SIGEP PAGE 4
Harp, ULA oppose immigrant raids BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday, undocumented immigrants and immigrants’ rights activists released a video filmed primarily in New Haven to respond to a series of nationwide deportation raids targeting undocumented immigrants. The raids, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were denounced by New Haven immigrants’ rights organizations — including Unidad Latina en Accion — and Mayor Toni Harp soon after ICE announced its intent to begin raids in early January. Wednesday’s video, which features footage from
Fair Haven — a New Haven neighborhood with a large Central and South American immigrant population — is one of many activist efforts to persuade the government to halt deportations. Kica Matos, the director of immigrant rights and racial justice at the Center for Community Change, a national immigrant advocacy group that works with groups like ULA, compiled the video with media consultant Frank Chi, a New Haven resident who emigrated from China at age seven. Matos and Chi released the video through Reform Immigration for America, an online organization that advocates for comprehensive and humane
immigration reform. “It is our intention to escalate our actions until the deportations stop, so we expect to be engaging in edgier actions in the coming weeks, including civil disobedience,” Matos said in an email to the News. John Lugo, a ULA organizer, helped Matos and Chi compile footage sourced by ULA members and friends living primarily in Fair Haven. The video features scenes of immigrants in New Haven at various businesses, schools and other locations around the Elm City. While the video was initially intended to respond to “the xenophobia and racSEE ULA PAGE 6