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CROSS CAMPUS

Enough alcohol to call it rape?

In Solidarity. On Saturday,

the University will host “In Solidarity: A Benefit Concert for Ebola Crisis Relief.” The event, which will feature performances from groups like Shades, the Alley Cats and the Yale Symphony Orchestra, will take place in Battell Chapel, and proceeds will be donated to combat the spread of the deadly virus.

Golden year. The Law School will be hosting “The Law of Medicare and Medicaid at 50” this weekend to commemorate the 1964 passing of the reform in federal healthcare. Attending the summit will be a series of policymakers and scholars who were also on-hand to construct the initiative all those years ago. Age-old question. Yesterday, the Yale Alumni Magazine’s website posted a “Throwback Thursday” item revisiting 1994, when David Leonhardt ’94 penned a piece to explore the increasing preference at Yale for off-campus housing. Leonhardt now serves as the managing editor for The New York Times’ Upshot section. Change the world. An article in the School of Management’s Master of Advanced Management that recapped a talk held by former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond. In it, Diamond alluded to the financial potential of funding growth in Africa, something that writer Tarek Cherif SOM ’15 said was an area of growing focus for the school. For changing the world.

Former president George H.W. Bush ’48 will receive the Robert Schuman Medal from the European Parliament next week, the Associated Press reported last night. A ceremony to present the award will be held in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s 1989 destruction.

Poynter appointee. YaleNews

announced Dana Goldstein, a Brown graduate and writer at The Marshall Project, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Goldstein will speak next Wednesday as part of a discussion at the Law School.

Dance, dance. Today, A Different Drum kicks off iDance, its fall semester show, and a series of performances by Yale’s top troupes. Promotions for shows by Groove and Rhythmic Blue next week have already begun making rounds online. HotBox. Tomorrow, Box 63 will

be hosting an open bar for all users of the Hotspot app that was launched locally this fall by a group of Yale students.

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BY NICOLE NG AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS On March 22, 2013, two Yale undergraduates had sexual intercourse. The female student was intoxicated. The male student was not. Thirteen months later, on April 22, 2014, the female student filed a formal complaint with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, alleging that the sex had not been consensual. Throughout September and October, the UWC hired a factfinder and held a hearing to determine whether the male student — the respondent — had violated the University’s sexual misconduct policies. In its final report dated Oct. 31, the UWC stated that the respondent had not violated University sexual misconduct policy. The panel recommended that the respondent and complainant have no direct or indirect contact for the remainder of their time at Yale. According to the timeline of UWC procedure, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway — the final decision maker in all cases where the complainant is an undergraduate — was supposed to announce his final decision by Tuesday. As of late Thursday evening, the complainant had not received the decision. Holloway declined to comment for this story on

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he University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct abides by strict rules of confidentiality that limit public discussion of proceedings to hypotheticals. Dozens of pages of documents from one case, heard this fall, shed light on how Yale handles cases of sexual misconduct.

Thursday afternoon. Over the course of the investigation, dozens of pages of documents were compiled that detail both parties’ version of the events. These documents, which the complainant provided to the News, include interviews, emails and text conversations. They also comprise the fact-finder’s report and the UWC’s final recommendation. The documents offer an inside look at UWC proceedings, which are normally confidential, and reveal what happens when a student files a formal complaint of sexual misconduct at Yale. They also highlight a process that has come under criticism as recently as this week for arbitrary decision-making and inconsistent procedures. The UWC dates to April 2011, when then-Provost Peter Salovey announced the body’s formation shortly after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced an investigation into Yale’s com-

Faculty approve CS50 for Yale BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Just under a month after announcing that Yale’s computer science department was considering importing Harvard’s most popular course, faculty voted to bring CS50 to Yale. Following what Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway described as a “long, healthy discussion,” faculty at Thursday’s monthly meeting voted overwhelmingly to approve CS50 as a class to be taught at Yale. Computer science department chair Joan Feigenbaum said that the next step for CS50 will be for Harvard to approve the sharing of CS50 with Yale. If the course earns approval, she noted, Yale will formally introduce the class in Fall 2015. Faculty members also

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approved a motion presented by Pamela Schirmeister, associate dean for academic affairs at the Graduate School, which proposed making an exception to the provisions regarding undergraduates in support of instruction. This exception, Feigenbaum explained, allows undergraduates to serve as learning assistants — a role she said is critical to the course. While computer science and mechanical engineering professor Brian Scassellati, who will teach the new course at Yale, said that generally, once courses have been approved by the Course of Study Committee, faculty vote to pass them. He expected that there might be more controversy in this case. The course will use underSEE CS50 PAGE 6

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pliance with Title IX, the federal gender equality law. The documents reviewed by the News paint a picture of a thorough process that, in this case, weighed an abundance of often ambiguous evidence, including messages perhaps fully understood only by the parties themselves. At certain points, however, the process did not abide by its own guidelines, the documents show. In her capacity as independent fact-finder for the case, supervisor at the Yale Child Study Center’s Trauma Section Miriam Berkman LAW ’82, who did not return request for comment, recorded the accounts of both the complainant and respondent, collected evidence and conducted interviews for a 43-page report. Among others, this document, dated Oct. 15, provides the basis for the narrative of this story. In an effort to protect the privacy of the students

April 22 Fact-finder Sept. 2* appointed

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Stern poised to retire BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER After nearly two decades of leadership, School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65 is reportedly planning to step down. Five faculty and administrative staff members at the School of Architecture said that Stern will retire from the school when his term as dean concludes in Spring 2016. Professor Michelle Addington added that he has also been a major influence on her own approach to architecture. “[Stern] took [the school] from a place where people were not paying attention to it many years ago — he has brought incredible international attention to the school,” Addington said. “He has given me the opportunity to rethink my

subject, and that doesn’t happen at too many places.” University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak could not be reached for comment.

[Stern] has given me the opportunity to rethink my subject, and that doesn’t happen many places. MICHELLE ADDINGTON Hines professor of Sustainable Architectural Design Prior to assuming the deanship, Stern had been an architecture professor at Yale and the director of the Historic Preservation program at Columbia Univer-

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sity’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has also authored several books, including “Modern Classicism” and “New Directions in American Architecture.” Addington highlighted the school’s advancements under Stern’s administration. She explained that the current number of tenured faculty at the school is the highest in its history, adding that the school also has more tenured female faculty members than any other architecture school in the country. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen ARC ’94, an associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture, said that before Stern assumed his position, the school was severely lacking in facilities and technological resources, SEE STERN PAGE 6

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ast Wednesday, Yale announced a $10 million donation from Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, a wealthy Chinese couple. The news, which made waves in China, was received with incredulity. On one popular Chinese social media platform, one Chinese student at Yale asked, “When will I have a concept of how much money $10 million really is?” Beyond the scale, Pan and Zhang’s gift is relevant to Chinese students because the fund is specifically earmarked for financial aid with the intention of funding the education of high-achieving, lowincome students from China. The $10 million gift is part of a larger initiative, the SOHO China Undergraduate Scholarship Fund, named for Pan and Zhang's real estate company. The Fund has already donated $15 million to Harvard for the same purpose and aims to donate $100 million to colleges across America to create opportunities for low-income Chinese applicants. On paper, the donation appears sound and even praiseworthy. While some skeptics believe Pan and Zhang are donating this money in order to boost their company’s reputation, I believe that the generosity of Pan and Zhang is genuine. But even so, it is hard for me to believe that the money couldn’t have been better spent elsewhere or in a way that is more beneficial for low-income Chinese students. For starters, Yale and Harvard both already offer needblind financial aid for international students. Even without Pan and Zhang’s gift, any Chinese student would have had their tuition fees covered if they needed the money. Pan and Zhang’s gift helps Yale by allowing the University to take out less money from the endowment for our annual financial aid needs. It’s freeing up $10 million in unrestricted funds for the University to use for other institutional priorities. That’s fine. It’s important for donors to give to Yale because every student on campus benefits from our incredible resources and opportunities. But for the Chinese applicants whom Pan and Zhang purportedly are trying to help, it doesn’t make a difference whether the money came from Yale’s endowment or from SOHO China’s Fund. Another concern I have is whether the money will actually go to “low-income” students from China. Most of the students at Yale from China that I’ve met don’t come from low-income families. A number come from some of Chi-

na’s wealthiest and best-connected families. The other half of us come from families like mine. We’re neither rich nor poor, but we come from China’s middle class and our parents earn their salaries in Chinese renminbi. We receive financial aid because we can’t pay full sticker price, but it would be unfair for us to receive funds that were earmarked and publicized as being for “low-income” students. It’s almost impossible for a Chinese student from a genuinely low-income family to get into Yale or Harvard. It is difficult to begin to explain the grave inequality in Chinese education. Chinese students from rural areas and low-income backgrounds cannot compete with students in urban areas who have better schools and teachers. Recently, there was a cutback in English education in most schools. This only exacerbates the divide between those who live in cosmopolitan cities such as Shanghai and Beijing and those who do not. I personally observed China’s education gap in two rural middle schools in Hebei Province, a stone’s throw from Beijing. During my short stay in the schools I witnessed the desperation beyond failing grades and broken dreams, that is the lack of social mobility. Last month, a girl from the second school I visited emailed me that half of the boys in her class had dropped out. Those children simply chose sweatshop wages over an education in which they found no hope. Rather than donate to Harvard or Yale, it would be better if Pan and Zhang gave their money to level the playing field at home. Money is not everything, but it can pay for the teachers and resources necessary for low-income students to even become competitive applicants for top U.S. colleges. Few people are in a better position to work with local governments to bridge China’s education gap than wealthy and influential people like Pan and Zhang. Although helping China’s low-income students is more complicated than it seems, there are better ways to do this than simply expecting students from struggling backgrounds to make it to the gates of elite American colleges first and rewarding them afterwards. Pan and Zhang’s $100 million might be better spent pushing for concrete changes in China, not bolstering the accounts of Ivy League universities. YIFU DONG is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at yifu.dong@yale.edu .

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ou may have seen meatfree tables popping up during Monday dinner in your college, or, if you’re in Calhoun, you might have friends that participate in the Vegan Vednesday table. Organized by the Yale Office of Sustainability, these informal tables are part of a wider Meatless Mondays movement which has been gaining popularity on college campuses throughout the world. The movement encourages students to opt for a meat-free meal one day a week for the sake of their health, the environment and animal welfare. Whether you’re a proud vegetarian or a chicken tenders lover, these tables give us all reason to pause to consider the broader implications of the choices we make at mealtimes. To start with the environmental side of the issue, it is quickly becoming common knowledge that eating meat is simply not sustainable. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says that animal agriculture is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” The same report says that

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gruesome living conditions on factory farms. And to be sure, there are many things terribly wrong with the way that animals are treated in the meat industry. However, the one that gets me the most is the way that pigs are treated. If you haven’t seen the videos of Esther the Wonder Pig bathing in her kiddie pool or playing with her owners Steve and Derek, then I strongly recommend following her on Facebook. Unfortunately, millions of pigs aren’t as lucky as Esther. The reality is that most pigs spend their lives in heartbreaking conditions on factory farms. Many pigs in the United States are kept in “gestation crates” — cages for mother pigs so small that the pig inside cannot stand or turn around for her entire life. It is common for pigs to begin to obsessively gnaw at the bars of their cage, or to show other signs of mental trauma. Basically, they go insane. Their life presents a stark contrast to Esther’s. And all this before they are slaughtered and turned into bacon and pork. It should be further emphasized that this does not represent the isolated cruelty of a few

disillusioned workers. This cruelty is standard industry practice, and we condone it every time we put pork on our plates. This situation sounds dire, and it is, but there is a positive upshot — each and every one of us has the opportunity three times a day to help improve this situation. By choosing to leave animal products off our plate at our next meal, we can substantially cut our carbon footprint, and we can help the billions (yes, billions) of animals currently kept on factory farms in the U.S. Reducing meat consumption can seem like a significant lifestyle change. I understand — I used to be a bacon lover myself. However, the impact that each of us can make is tremendous, and many find that the change is not nearly as difficult as it first seems. At the very least, it is worth taking the first step and trying it for one day. Show your college sustainability coordinators that they have your support and sit down with them at your college’s next Meatless Monday table. ROBERT YAMAN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at robert.yaman@yale.edu .

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didn’t expect to leave a lecture on writing with the advice to go home and watch television, but that’s what happened Monday night at a Q&A with Louise Glück. She spoke about her most recent book, “Faithful and Virtuous Night,” a work that deals with the long periods of unproductivity that punctuate the life of a writer — the times when writing is difficult, often impossible. While so much of her professional life was consumed by these sorts of periods, she felt it strange she’d never addressed them, never been able to address them, in her work. The book she read from and discussed with us was her way of finally doing so. I haven’t had this experience of all-consuming, paralyzing inability to produce work while at Yale. Our four years here are in some ways a march of productivity toward a diploma. Of course, that’s not to say there isn’t meaning in this productivity. As much as a due date or a deadline is a command to produce, it’s also the chance to learn and to make something to take pride in. But to experience true unproductivity — all

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the livestock sector is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector. In terms of lifestyle changes, reducing meat consumption is even more commendable than driving a Prius, or riding your bike to work. It is an unfortunate fact about the current discourse around climate change that industrial agriculture is often left on the sidelines, but research clearly shows that human carbon emissions are closely linked with human meat consumption. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading expert body on the issue, says: “In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity.” Pachauri recommends individuals first give up meat one day a week and then decrease their consumption from there. If environmental considerations weren’t enough, there is also the animal welfare side. We have all watched the videos portraying animals being beaten and tortured to death in the already

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its anxieties, its paralyzing self-doubts, its mysterious ways of turning off functions that often feel natural — one CAROLINE cannot be at Yale, where SYDNEY productivity is consistently Selfexpected. Absorbed Even breaks are spent in anticipation of the next to-do list, whether it’s beginning final papers over Thanksgiving, shopping for classes over winter break or adding line items to one’s resume over the summer. With the “fall back” time change, I’m reminded of how arbitrary schedules forcefully set the cycles of my days. For the first couple of mornings following the time change, I’d wake up “early” (really just the same time I would usually wake up), but now, by the end of this week, I’ve already returned to my “normal” waking hours.

Adjuncts are devoted to teaching In “For fewer adjuncts” Nathan Steinberg observes, accurately, that universities, including Yale, have substantially increased the use of adjunct faculty, known at Yale as “non-ladder” faculty. And he is correct that adjunct faculty are typically paid very modest amounts, usually on a course-by-course basis and often employed without the benefits enjoyed by “ladder” faculty. But it’s wrong to say the use of adjunct faculty is harmful to student learning and wrong to imply that, because of their modest pay and non-tenure track status, they don’t spend time working with students outside the classroom, including in office hours and other meetings. Many of our adjunct faculty are outstanding teachers and have been recognized as such by their departments, by Yale College and by the students who have taken classes with them. And the great majority are exceptionally devoted to their teaching and spend a great deal of time outside the classroom advising students and providing feedback on their work. In recent years, for example, non-ladder faculty have advised half or more of all senior essays in political science. If Steinberg really believes there should be fewer adjuncts at Yale, he should be advocating a very substantial increase in the number of ladder faculty, especially in the departments that have the largest numbers of majors. But in doing so, he should recognize that replacing non-ladder faculty with ladder faculty won’t necessarily improve the quality of undergraduate education and will cause Yale to lose many outstanding and dedicated teachers. DAVID CAMERON NOV 3 The writer is a professor of political science.

In the same way, the academic calendar sets a schedule for productivity. At school, my routines of thought and intellectual growth are somehow set in syllabi. When we get excited about shopping, part of this excitement comes from the thrill of building up this scaffolding of productivity for ourselves, of knowing what we’re going to know. But because we’re also lining up an ongoing series of expectations, we’re blocking out the option of freezing up and doing nothing, preemptively erasing it with papers and midterms and exams. Glück acknowledged for a moment the difficulty, the small paradox even, of poetry classes that require a poem a week of their students, but she still teaches that way. We don’t often discuss the condition of intellectual breakdown, perhaps because it seems outside the realm of possibility. Unproductivity, a full stop in producing any sort of work whatsoever, is not within the set of feasible outcomes dictated by the academic calendar. We don’t go to college to stare at blank screens or empty pages. But we need this void in order to differ-

Republicans must take Connecticut back Republicans need not be disappointed in the outcome of this past election. After major defeats in all levels of government again, it is time for a new chapter of Republicanism in the State of Connecticut. A time to reflect on what we have learned and truly embrace the philosophical change for which we have been searching for the better part of a decade. Though Heather Somers and Tom Foley made a valiant effort, providing a solid foundation for our party going forward, we need to remind ourselves the purpose of government is to make the entire citizenry better off, not feed already bloated budgets and enrich public and private special interests. Connecticut has always been the cradle of innovation and a lower tax haven for entrepreneurs seeking refuge from our over-taxed neighboring states to the north, east and west. Unfortunately, under super-majority Democratic leadership we have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the Northeast, with high unemployment, low productivity, population losses and anemic economic growth. As Republicans, our party needs to stop complaining and start offering meaningful ideas and real leadership to grow our local economies. The Democrat’s model of centralized, obtrusive, one-size-fits-all government is clearly unsustainable. Other innovative states like Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, North Carolina and South Carolina under Republican leadership have already turned the corner and become blueprints for prosperity and success.

entiate between a compelled productivity and a productivity that springs from intense care, from a moment of knowing, of feeling a sense of direction. Fortunately, I’ve felt this drive in some of my work here, but not all of it. These productive moments aren’t jolts of lightening into an empty and stagnant space. Rather, they are blips against the background noise of demanded productivity. As much as she understands the academic patterns of students here, I think that Glück also wants her listeners and readers to have that jolting feeling. Which is why her concluding advice on writing was to watch TV, to do nothing, to wait, to be patient and expecting of that moment when one is summoned to work. So I went home and watched “Gilmore Girls.” But after that episode, I wrote this column, and after I edit this column, I’m writing a poem. This is the rhythm. The rhythm and my refusal to fight against it. CAROLINE SYDNEY is a junior in Silliman College. Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

Even newly installed Democrat Gov. Gina Raimondo from Rhode Island (trained in Connecticut at Yale Law School) understands the need to embrace conservative values, entitlement reform and fiscal responsibility for her state to survive. Our party’s recent pattern of nominating machine-endorsed candidates has been a colossal failure. Republicans must adopt a “best candidate for the job” mentality. We have to accept the reality that the best-financed candidate might not be the most electable candidate. Our future leaders and candidates should represent all demographics, be preferably home grown “Connecticut Yankees” and have ironclad resumes of reform, leadership and vision steeped in Connecticut values. My fellow Republicans, we have not lost this past election. Rather, we have finally turned the page and have received a welcomed and well-deserved wake up call. Failure has allowed us to throw away the old playbook and take a step in a new direction. We do not need rich candidates, nor old political workhorses. Our mission is to find candidates that resonate with today’s voters. As a party, we can supply the support and finances to put this new breed of modern Republican over the win line. We must be diligent and offer the leadership this great state demands of us. It’s time for new leadership to rally our existing Republican base and reach out to all those former Republicans we now call independents. It’s time to take Connecticut back! JOHN LUCARELLI NOV 6 The writer is a 1998 graduate of the school of management.

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’ve heard quite a bit about voting the past couple weeks. It’s your civic obligation. Make your voice heard. If you do not vote, you are apathetic and have no right to your opinions. If you do not take the time to educate yourself on the issues and cast an informed ballot, you will have committed an unparalleled sin against democracy. Oh, and by the way, Governor Malloy has a far superior record on jobs. This kind of rhetoric is more than disrespectful; it is fundamentally counterproductive to healthy political engagement. Our commonplace vilification of perceived indifference reveals a dangerous attitude toward voting that devalues the responsibility democracy ultimately entails. Equating a failure to vote with moral apathy is pure non sequitur. I personally disagree with the decision to not vote as a way to express disenchantment with current political norms. I think to not vote is to resign oneself to the hands of electoral caprice. But to say political abstinence disbars one from a right to hold opinions is absurd. I question the sanity of whoever believes our current system is anything close to a healthy paradigm of democ-

racy. It’s one thing to dispute the logic of abstention, another to contemptuously brand its proponents apathetic. For some, the act of not voting constitutes a kind of civic engagement unto itself, a refusal to make an unconscionable endorsement of a broken political environment. That is not my view. But those who subject this position to vitriolic invective are frighteningly optimistic about the challenges of making an informed decision. Even the most militant Facebook apologia usually recognizes the importance of coming to an educated conclusion — but what happens when you do your research and just can’t decide? Self-assured dogmatists may try to explain away this uncertainty by saying no two candidates are ever equal. But that misses the point. It is entirely possible for someone to weigh the facts and still feel unsure of their judgment, to the point he or she questions the wisdom of casting a vote. That is humility, not apathy. Perhaps this person could have come to a decision with more research. But if one has not yet come to decision, has a problem set due the next

day and is organizing an a cappella concert for charity, one may think it best to just let more qualified citizens head to the polls. I do not claim this is always the right decision, but it is certainly understandable. Far from signifying apathy, not voting in this case demonstrates principled restraint and suggests an appreciation of the ballot’s power. Never mind the presumption that everyone has unlimited time. Never mind that indifference between two candidates is not the same as civic apathy. Never mind that most people telling you to vote for whomever you like have already changed their profile picture to Malloy or Foley. There is a more fundamental issue here: democratic levity. We are so indoctrinated into the cult of democracy that we treat voting like a happy bipartisan celebration and then slander all who demur this glorious festival. But I have a different view. I think true civic responsibility is impossible without fear. Votes do matter. They change lives. When you vote, you affect millions of men, women and children. And that

should terrify you, the knowledge that if you choose wrong, you could be condemning a family to life on the street. The knowledge that, if you choose wrong, you could be responsible for a bank default or a school shooting. Bombastic advocates of voting become harmful when they grow blind to the gravitas of their own freedoms. I wonder if some of our "unpatriotic" peers feel frightened to take responsibility for the lives of millions. Maybe they feel unqualified to do so. Maybe they are. Fear is a dark but necessary ingredient for democracy to flourish. To indict all who stay home on Election Day is social coercion. It promotes an imprudent mode of political engagement antithetical to the core of representative governance. I sincerely hope all who did vote Tuesday were sweating when they finished. I hope they thought of the lives they bettered or, perhaps, destroyed. I hope. But I doubt it.

only acceptable response was to show empathy for one another and join in compassion and tolerance. But sometimes, we’re stifling ourselves and Yale by holding back. It’s on us to create an environment that welcomes intellectual risk. From our publications to our classrooms, we need to tell one another that it’s okay to move beyond groupthink and put forward our own innovative ideas, even if they’re flawed. We should make our words count rather than cheerlead commonplace sentiments that offer little to contend with and, subsequently, little to take away. Every time we snicker or post a snarky comment when one of our classmates takes a risk and writes something original or dares to put forward an untested idea on a radio show, we’re creating a school where it’s not okay to be wrong. In our classes, we learn how to think and write critically. But we’re not using these skills productively right now. If we can make a more welcoming Yale, one where we feel an obligation to put forward our own ideas for each other’s intellectual growth, then maybe we can find the convictions that propelled graduate students and others to unify in front of Woodbridge Hall. KELSI CAYWOOD is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at kelsi.caywood@yale.edu .

MITCHELL TAN is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact him at mitchell.tan@yale.edu .

AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

For intellectual audacity I

One of my friends was irritated by a News article last week that he believed misrepresented Yale-NUS. Although he held a strong view of the matter and debated it vigorously over lunch, he wasn’t willing to write an opinion column or find another substantial means to address the issue. For some Yalies, this fear stems from the concern of being Googled 15 years later when they are starting a political career. For others, it might be the fear of immediate ridicule or mockery on social media. But for most people, I suspect, their hesitation comes from the temptations of intellectual inertia. It’s just easier to go along with the majority opinion. No one will shoot you down in seminar and you won’t get any angry online comments on your News column. You may not make a name for yourself or evoke the rare praise from a demanding professor, but it’s the safe and well-trodden path that too many of us are on. While this inertia is safe, it compromises a crucial component of what a Yale education should be. We are a university of students from every background imaginable — nearly every country is represented and we have expert musicians and philosophers, athletes and actors. But too often we don’t actualize or make the most of that diversity. When we create a milieu that encour-

ages students to put forward their own radical thoughts, we’ll be empowering an entire community to create a beautifully vibrant mosaic of ideas. But if everyone is too comfortable and too willing to just toe the conventional line and recite the same hackneyed beliefs, then we’re giving up on what makes Yale unique. Furthermore, I would argue that we are doing a disservice to our peers when we’re not willing to challenge the prevailing norms. Yale forms each year’s class with the intent that each member will add something different. But when we’re no longer willing to put forward our most controversial or bold thoughts, we’re depriving one another of the chance of learning a new perspective and evaluating our own. Even though I disagreed with my friend’s critique of the News article, his boldness at the lunch table forced me to reevaluate my assumptions. When we are no longer willing to engage deeply with one another’s thoughts or share our strong convictions, we are permitting stagnation. In a sense, we have given up on each other when we abandon our individuality for the incontrovertible talking points. Let me be clear: I am not discouraging moderation. Washington could definitely use a dose of it. And there are times, such as when our campus was desecrated by swastikas, when the

MOST PEOPLE IN THE U.S. DON’T HAVE ALLYOU-CAN-EAT BUFFETS THREE MEALS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK The problem with the swipe is that it masks the extraordinary cost of the food we get in a dining hall. It makes having a great meal something convenient and normal. We take it for granted that every day, we can go to 13 different locations on campus and have this extraordinary diversity of foods at our fingertips. Will we leave Yale, having dined on fairly expensive food every day, expecting choice foods as part of our lifestyle? Are we being habituated into a cushy and comfortable lifestyle that most but not all of us will be able to afford and none of us need? Or more fundamentally, should eating so well be a central aspect of a Yale education? Does a Yale education entail living for four years in castles and eating food most Americans can’t afford? Should donors pay for financial aid that goes into subsidizing expensive meal plans so that students can enjoy buffet spreads every meal of their four years at Yale? Dining halls are great places but it seems hard for me to accept that the sumptuous, terribly expensive meals I have in them are anywhere near as important a part of my Yale education as my well-salaried professors, my well-resourced libraries and my well-funded academic and extra-curricular programs. If anything, I wonder if these great meals I’m having make me less able to appreciate what life is like for most people in this country. I wonder if I am less able to empathize with the hungry. I wonder if I am, as a result of my amazing dining hall experiences, less able to appreciate a simple, inexpensive meal with a friend after I graduate. I’m not saying that we should get rid of dining halls, or that the meal plan should be eliminated. All I’m saying is that we can be a lot more conscious of what we are actually enjoying, how much it costs and give some thought to how we could be happy with much less. I don’t see dining halls changing their operations or costs anytime soon. But at least, we can be conscious, critical and concerned consumers. Next time you step into a dining hall, all I ask is that you think about the luxuries at our disposal and whether we can do without them. I think we can.

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T K E L S I CAY WO O D

recently witnessed hundreds of Yale graduate students and community members gather around Woodbridge Hall, demanding that the University grant graduate students the right to unionize. It was a poignant moment and one that the Yale community needs to replicate more often. That night, my friends and I discussed the demonstration, comparing it to our undergraduate experiences. Over cold coffee, we considered whether the fervor we brought to New Haven was misplaced in a system where undergraduate energy is intensely channeled to academic, extracurricular and social spheres. Not everyone needs to fill a role as a public thought leader or activist. Likewise, attention given to academics, extracurricular and social commitments is not fruitless. But initiating more daring thought and action should not be isolated from these spheres; instead, it should become more ingrained within them. At dinner, my friends and I often trade complaints about how intellectually homogenous our class discussions can be. It’s not that Yalies don’t hold strong opinions, but that we’re too afraid to vocalize seemingly controversial stances in somewhat-public settings, whether it is in a campus-wide publication, our classes or even among strangers.

ust as the Yale Library calls itself the heart of the University, the dining hall is arguably the heart of life in our residential colleges. Besides spending most of our meals at a dining hall, many Yale undergraduates spend a lot of time talking about dining halls. From commendations, to comparisons, to complaints, we make nearly as much noise about the dining hall experience as when we’re trading gossip or stories over one of our three daily meals. Some of the best conversations we’ll have at Yale will be in the these dining halls. Lifelong friendships are forged within these twelve buildings (plus Commons). And I would even posit that some of the best food you’ll have is continually served in these halls. The company, the friendship and the food — all of this is yours with just a swipe. I know this is a controversial point. Just look at past opinion columns that have critiqued the dining halls in no uncertain terms. But is the swipe misleading? People have pointed out that the price of the meal plan means that we spend $30 every day for our dining halls. But it doesn’t feel like $30 when you’re just swiping thrice a day. Your wallet doesn’t empty nor does your bank account dwindle. For many, these meals are paid for at the start of the term along with tuition fees by parents, financial aid or a scholarship. But it is $30 worth of food a day. In other words, we’re spending $210 a week. According to Gallup, the average American spent $151 per week on food in 2012. Those who earn more than $75,000 a year spent about $180 a week on food. So, a Yale student on a meal plan spends more money on food than a typical high-wage earner. Why? Because most people living in the United States don’t have all-you-can-eat buffets three meals a day, seven days a week. A typical New Haven resident does not have a spread of three pizzas, pot roast, gnocchi, jasmine rice and vegan tofu coupled with a salad bar, desert, cereal, sodas and four types of milk for dinner. So my question is this: While dining halls are great, do we really need to eat so well?

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FROM THE FRONT After UWC complaint, two students wait ing to cell phone screenshots in the female student’s texts, and refusal would be too emotionally decided to have a face-to-face exhausting. obtained by the fact-finder. involved, the News has chosen to The students continued to text conversation to resolve the situWhen she reread her texts that withhold the names of the com- as the female became increasingly ation. He told the fact-finder that morning, she said she did not plainant and the respondent, as intoxicated. At 9:45 p.m., she this conversation was the reason remember sending most of them. well as details about the location texted the male student explain- he went to her room — not neces- She could not recall exactly how much she had had to drink that of events. UWC Chair David Post ing the drinking game she was sarily to have sex. and University Title IX Coordi- playing, ending with, “I’m so “Nope,” he responded to the evening. She later estimated that nator and Deputy Provost Steph- hammered I can’t even…” Accord- female student’s previous text, she had at least one drink of vodka anie Spangler did not return ing to the complainant’s account “cause I’m gonna wear your and three beers. requests for comment. The News in the fact-finder’s report, the favorite outfit :) I’m on my way.” contacted the respondent by text conversation was “insignifiThe complainant then THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH: email to give him an opportunity cant chitchat” until the male stu- responded, “Goto [sic] my room SPRING 2013 to comment, but he did not reply. dent said in response, “Make sure I’ll be there soon.” While the complainant said The male student said he inter- she was upset with the events of The University responded to a to keep texting me though, you’re request by the News for comment clearly pretty trashed and I wanna preted her message as an invita- March 22, she did not initially tion. Yet, the female student said consider the encounter to be an with a written statement emailed make sure you’re okay :)” by University Spokesman Tom Since the two had previously the text did not indicate consent. instance of sexual misconduct. A hooked up while intoxicated, this Rather, she said she thought he few days later, however, the comConroy. “The University is eager to message set off an internal alarm, would persist until she acqui- plainant was surprised when her advance open community dis- according to the complainant’s esced. In a relationship she char- friends said the respondent’s course regarding its sexual mis- account included in the fact-find- acterized as “highly emotional actions constituted rape because conduct procedures. That said, er’s report. She said she felt the and volatile,” the male student her level of intoxication rendered we will not provide details of spe- conversation was headed down would often respond to a refusal her unable to give consent. cific cases, nor will we support the a familiar path — one repeated with “screaming, crying and other On March 28, 2013, the female the spring —that that she student sent male student efforts of others to/ŶĐĂƉĂĐŝƚĂƟŽŶ do so,” Conroy throughout histrionics that she found over- the Regarding – M s. S hedd a lleges w as i ntoxicated b eyond point of the being able an email warning him to never wrote. “We believe that members would end in a sexual encounter whelming.” she said. longer wanted. Anticipatin sexual activity with of our will hesitate to sshe to her account to pcommunity rovide consent. She aid no she does not h ave a high aAccording lcohol tolerance and tinhat engage the four to Įve drinks bring forward their complaints or ing that she would become more the fact-finder’s report, she was anyone as drunk as she had been she had hile playing games with hthe er complainant friends rendered er too intoxicated to consent to sex. Ms. Sthat hedd that evening because could to have the cogparticipate inw the process if they intoxicated, said toohintoxicated fear that their cases may be publi- she sent the messages to protect nitive or emotional ability to constitute sexual misconduct. further says she was “brown out” drunk nd remembers the evening enerally, ut demphasized, oes not remember however, that solutiongand simply bShe herself against the a possibility of find another cized and that confidential docushe was simply looking out for ments may be made public. ” that outcome. capitulated. certain speĐŝĮĐ aspects of the evening. Ms. Shedd texted Mr. Michaud to say that him “I’m so hammered I and did not plan to take any Eden Ohayon ’14, who also filed “Don’t let me try to seduce you a formal the UWC texted him, followed can’t complaint even …with .” and “None though, of my ” rshe oommates are here Iacan’t nd I’m too out hammered ake it to action. ldub figure quite to mdisciplinary last May, said Yale’s sexual mis- by a second text: “Because that is a Disturbed by the message, the [freshman ousing where Mr. Mpossibility. ichaud w Shedd aid sjust he remembers conduct policieshare superb on distinct ” as at the Ɵme].” male studentstumbling forwarded the email whereMtos. start, soslet’s paper. However, she said, if the However, the respondent said to his residential college dean, when does she not entered er suite, but she does nthose ot remember sex. Sfact: he remembers having he did not interpret texts startinŝƟaƟŶŐ University abide byhthese who advised him tosexual meet with the with objective in the same way. According to policies in reality, complainants female student to discuss the sitintercourse with Mr. Michaud, but does not remember having sex a second Ɵme. uation. Ms. SIn hedd’s friend have the right to publicize their his account in the fact-finder’s you raped me. an interview with the report, the messages came as a News, the complainant said the claims. Ashutosh Venkatramen observed that Ms. Shedd was drinking alcohol that evening while they played dean never contacted her after Ohayon added that the UWC surprise to him, in light of their didbeer not resolve agreement earlier in the month W to illiams, another THE COMPLAINANT forwarded email. pong aher nd tcomplaint hat she was not sober. M athew friend of Ms. Sreceiving hedd, the reported that according to its own timeline. A simply remain friends. The female student said she Ms. that Shedd was intoxicated, but e dtext, id nthe ot female recall stuher stumbling or falling down and did not met noƟce reluctantly withher the male process was supposed to take In herh next 60 days took four months, she dent alleged, she continued to When the female student student over lunch. According to speaking Ěŝīerently than uexpress sual. that A third friend of M Shedd’s towher ho suite, was athe lso male playing eer pong did not herbaccount in the fact-finder’s she did not want to s. returned said. student owas waiting for her. report, “Yale hide behind have sex.about Ms. Shedd’s behavior recall can’t any just specŝĮĐ observĂƟŽŶƐ r level of intoxŝĐĂƟon. she told him that the evethis confidentiality clause that “I mean … sex is awesome, and According to the male stu- ning of March 22 had been difthey make you enter into as a part I might try to get it from you. But dent’s written response, when ferent from their previous casual sexual interactions because female shouldn’t. I don’tfriends think,” tshe of filing a formal complaint,” OhaIn the supplemental fact ĮInder’s report, hat kthe new Ms. student Shedd entered well, bthe ut that were not with her he room, “little more than ‘Hello’ had ignored her decision in early yon said. wrote. to end sall After the was saidtbefore she grabbed [him], TMarch on the evening of 22 March, said M s. Smale hedd student has a very low olerance to alcohol. wo friends aid sexual a few conresponded that he was inter- kissed [him] and [they] began to tact. The male student, however, THE NIGHT IN QUESTION: drinks ver a short period ested, of Ɵme would make s. Shedd incapacitated. The one told friend that addressed the fact-finder that during adding that sex wouldMnot have sex.” He claimed they each MARCH 22,o2013 The night of the alleged assault, be a “big deal,” the female stu- undressed themselves. They had this meeting, the female student Ms. Swas hedd’s capacity to cshe onsent aid: “… Karin’s texts show that she and was expressed at least lthat ucid enough to she was not hurt, sex twice that night, he said, thedirectly female student drinking dent said did notsimmediately and playing games with friends respond forcseveral minutes. the morning. andn that had been express discomfort at Alexander’s oming over –This and once she more was inclearly drunk enough ot their to bencounter e able to in her suite when she received a was another attempt to avoid a Each time, the respondent said, consensual. The complainant said text message from sexual encounter, saidain thesaid the“… complainant enthusi- Kshe does not remember saying formulate a mthe ore wouldĂƌƟĐƵůate ‘No’.” This fshe riend lso alcohol was can “an inŇuence arin to m ake less-­‐than-­‐ be respondent. According to the fact-finder’s report. astic participant.” The male stu- anything to that effect. ideal cofhoices in her ithey nterĂĐƟŽŶƐ ith other eople said that though he knew accounts both students, Still, w according to p the fact-…” dent For the remainder of the had been involved in a brief yet finder, the male student inter- she had been drinking, he had no semester, the two had limited exclusive romantic relationship preted the female student’s texts idea how much alcohol she had contact. Michaud said he knew s. Shedd h”ad een drinking but hand e ddid id nnot ot know know how m he 2013, had the drunk. consumed she asM “ambivalence, not b an explicit theMr. previous fall. Onuch Mays27, male stuwas significantly impaired. He dent sent the female student At the time of the incident, they refusal of a sexual encounter. In r esponse t o M s. S hedd’s t ext “ I’m s o h ammered I c an’t e ven … ”, M r. M ichaud r esponded “ Make sure were not engaged in an ongoing Several minutes after receiving said that after their second sexual an unsolicited email, included the fact-finder’s romantic relationship. They had no yanswer, male student encounter night, comto keep texƟng m e though, ou’re the clearly ƉƌĞƩLJ sent trashed and I that wanna mthe ake sure yinou’re okay :)” Mreport, r. that detailed how he thought she had agreed to end all sexual contact a second text saying his room- plainant said she was sober. changed past year. A just days earlier, during springMs. mates werehnot his but According fact-findMichaud said he knew Shedd ad bpresent een dand rinking he did ntoot the know how much she over had the been break. By both students’ accounts, roommate’s bed was “looking er’s report, the female student few hours later, the female stuand he had did not think was incapacitated. e tshe old remembers the panel that more he knew s. Shedd angrily, very wwritell dentM responded thedrinking male student still strong rathershe comfy. ” The female student H said nothing feelings for the female student responded, “None of my room- than stumbling back to her room ing that he had sexually presand many of their previous encounters taken place when one or bsured oth and of manipulated them had her been mates aresexual here and I’m too ham- had and having sexual intercourse that werethat not reciprocated. during mered to make it to [your dorm]. once with the male student. The At 7:18 p.m.,M the male studentsaid he had seen Ms. Shedd in many instances where she h their relationship — views she drinking. r. M ichaud ad b een d rinking a nd next morning, she said, she woke would later express to Berkman texted the female student, and a Is this a bad idea…” feeling M terrible that sheshad conversation the fact-finding process. In a JuneO 3n written response was ƐƟůů censued. apable The of gmale iving consent. the night of 22 up March, r. Michaud aid Mduring s. Shedd “… seemed no student said he was alone in his to the formal complaint that he become so inebriated and had sex She described that in the two more inebriated than the instances when she of had iven cdespite onsent in wanting the past.” Msaid r. Michaud further said Ms. room working. At 8:57 p.m., had received notice fivegdays not to. She months since March 22, her emofemale student texted the male earlier, the male student said it she immediately blamed herself, tional reaction to the male stuShedd was able carry oseemed n a coherent conǀĞƌƐĂƟon y text message, did not show signs of being student that she wasto “tipsy” like the female student blying in bed silently crying with dent’s presence had only escaand had started playing drinkhad changed her mind about just her back turned to the male stulated, stating that thesex mere sight exceƉƟŽŶĂůůLJ drunk or stumbling when she entered her room, and she hugged him and ŝŶŝƟated ing games. By this point, she had being friends. However, the fact- dent. When he initiated sex that of him could make her want to cry moved to ůthe suite of some other finder Ăreported that he h sensed morning, the female student saidpanel or vomit. ĂŌĞƌ ŝƩůĞ more than a “hello” ŌĞƌ entering er room. Mr. M ichaud told the that he undressed students in her entryway, accord- “uncertainty” and “ambivalence” she did not resist because she felt In her email, the female stuUWC FROM PAGE 1

himself and Ms. Shedd undressed herself, and he told the fact ĮŶĚer that Ms. Shedd was “an ĞŶƚŚƵƐŝĂƐƟĐ ƉĂƌƟcipant” in all of the sexual ĂĐƟǀŝƟĞƐ that night. THE UWC PANEL’S DECISION

The panel Įnds by a preponderance of evidence that Ms. Shedd was not incapacitated as deĮned by Yale’s sexual misconduct policy. The panel does Įnd credible the statements made by Ms. Shedd, Mr. Venkatramen and Mr. Williams describing Ms. Shedd as drunk on the night of 22 March; however, the panel, ĚŝƐƟnguishing between intoxiĐĂƟon and incapaĐŝƚĂƟŽŶ͕ found considerable evidence for considered decisions by Ms. Shedd. Evidence for Ms. Shedd’s capacity to make considered decisions on 22 March include: 1) Ms. Shedd was engaged in a coherent and speciĮc text message exchange with Mr. 2 Michaud r ight u p u ŶƟl m eĞƟng h im; 2 ) M s. S hedd s aid her text messages to Mr. Michaud that night were a conscious strategy intended to prevent an unwanted sexual encounter; 3) Ms. Shedd arranged to meet Mr. Michaud in her suite; 4) She leŌ the party and walked up a ŇŝŐŚt of stairs and entered her suite unassisted; and 5) In her suite, she embraced Mr. Michaud and took Žī her own clothing. Ms. Shedd did all of these things before she and Mr. Michaud engaged in what she referred to as “a lot of sex.” Alcohol may have reduced Ms. Shedd’s inhibiƟons on the night of 22 March, but her ĂĐƟons, taken as a whole, do not indicate that she lacked the ability to make or act on considered decisions. Further, none of the witnesses presented by Ms. Shedd corroborated that Ms. Shedd was incapacitated that night. Conclusion: In light of the above ĮŶĚings of fact, the panel does not conclude, by a preponderance of evidence, that Mr. Michaud violated the Yale University policy on sexual misconduct by engaging in sexual ĂĐƟǀŝƚLJ with Mr. Shedd while she was incapacitated. RecommeŶĚĂƟon: The panel recommends that Mr. Michaud and Ms. Shedd conƟnue to have no direct or indirect contact with each other while either remains a student at Yale University. RespecƞƵůůLJ͗ Sarah Demers Katheryn LoŌon Aley Menon (secretary) David Post (chair) Jonathan Rajaseelan

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dent also directly accused the male student of sexual misconduct during the night in question for the first time. “I can’t figure out quite where to start, so let’s just start with objective fact: you raped me,” she wrote. “You are a rapist.”

ONE YEAR LATER: COMPLAINT FILED

On April 17, 2014, the complainant visited campus for the first time since taking the 2013– 14 school year off. Once she realized that she would see the male student around campus when she returned full-time in the fall, she visited the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response Education center she told the News. Over the course of the next few days, the female student met with a SHARE counselor and Pamela Schirmeister, the Title IX coordinator for Yale College at the time. She decided to file a formal complaint. On April 22, the complainant met for the first time with thenUWC Chair Michael Della Rocca and UWC secretary Aley Menon. She recalled that Della Rocca and Menon were encouraging about the prospects of a potential complaint. Neither Della Rocca nor Menon returned the News’ request for comment. During that initial conversation, the female student said Della Rocca and Menon asked if she wanted to begin work on the case over the summer or wait until both students returned to campus in the fall. She elected to wait. She said Della Rocca and Menon then helped her write a brief one-paragraph formal complaint in which she alleged that she and the respondent had had sex in March 2013 while she was intoxicated and he was sober but aware of her intoxication. After leaving the meeting, the complainant said, she wanted to revise her complaint to add that the encounter had not been a consensual act. She emailed Della Rocca and Menon with her revised draft, asking for their opinions. She received no response, she said. However, the update was included in the final version of the complaint sent to the respondent. On May 1, the complainant emailed Della Rocca, Menon and Schirmeister asking for an update. Again, she said she received no response.

RESPONDENT NOTIFIED: SUMMER 2014

On May 28, the UWC sent an email to the male student notifying him that the female student had filed a formal complaint. The notification letter contained the complainant’s allegations, a copy of Yale’s sexual misconduct policy and information about UWC procedures. On June 3, the respondent sent a written response to the UWC. In his response, which is included in the documents provided to the News, he denied that he had manipulated the situation for his own benefit and was “given no reason to believe that [she] felt in any way used or hurt by this encounter.” “To call this incident nonconsensual … is an oversimplification of the circumstances, and ultimately untrue,” he said in his response. “I had no reason or opportunity to suspect that [the complainant] was as drunk as she later claimed to have been … There were no signals at any stage during this encounter that would suggest consent had been withdrawn or retracted.”

RETURN TO CAMPUS: FALL 2014

In the days leading up to the complainant’s return to campus,

she emailed Della Rocca, Menon and Schirmeister to ask about interim measures before any formal hearing, she said. She was directed to Angela Gleason, the new Yale College Title IX coordinator. In a meeting on Aug. 28, Gleason said that she would send to the complainant the respondent’s class schedule so she could avoid running into him. According to UWC procedures, the Title IX coordinator is responsible for interim measures that “protect and support the complainant. University officials are expected to cooperate in implementing those recommendations.” After the initial meeting with Gleason, the complainant received no further information about the respondent’s schedule. A follow-up email sent by her SHARE advisor to Gleason a week later also went unanswered, the complainant said. The only information she received, the complainant added, was notification of two events the respondent would be attending in her residential college. UWC procedures mandate that an independent fact-finder be assigned to the case no later than seven days after the UWC chair receives the formal complaint. Though the chair received the complaint on April 22, it was unclear when the UWC decided to start counting those seven days — particularly since the complainant chose to wait until after the summer to move forward. Still, it was not until Sept. 16 that the female student received an email from Miriam Berkman, the assigned fact-finder. The delay was due to issues with fact-finder availability, according to a Sept. 2 email from the SHARE advisor. UWC procedures call for an “impartial fact-finder from outside the University.” On the Yale School of Medicine’s website, Berkman is described as a supervisor in the Child Study Center’s Trauma Section and a former faculty member. The University would not comment for this story beyond the emailed statement. “We regret very much the delay and will move forward as swiftly as possible,” Menon wrote in an email to the complainant on Sept. 3. The complainant said she found delays and breaks in communication unacceptable and frustrating. “I felt like a petulant toddler throwing a fit in the corner,” the complainant said. “I don’t feel like people who come forward should have to take the extra painful step of getting people to pay attention to them.”

THE INVESTIGATION

From Sept. 22 to Oct. 15, Berkman conducted four separate interviews, two with the complainant and two with the respondent, to compile their accounts of their relationship and the events of March 22. She also interviewed three individuals who had been playing drinking games with the female student that night. In addition to the interviews, Berkman reviewed five documents, which she included in her final report: text messages from the night of the incident, two email correspondences between the students, the complainant’s written rebuttal to the respondent’s initial statement, and additional information the complainant supplied to provide more context about their relationship. According to UWC procedures, the secretary must receive the fact-finder’s final report within 21 days after the fact-finder’s appointment. Berkman’s final

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FROM THE FRONT report was dated Oct. 15, 23 days was notified that her hearing was mitted to the panel members, who after her first meeting with the set for Oct. 21. then decided which questions to female student and 29 days after UWC procedure mandates that ask. She said four out of her six she first reached out to the com- the hearing take place no sooner questions were ultimately choplainant to notify her that she had than five days after both par- sen. One of her chosen questions ties receive the final fact-finder asked why the respondent did not been appointed. Berkman’s report states that report. At the time of the com- try to initiate a discussion when the complainant said that the plainant’s notification, she had she returned to her room that history of her relationship with not yet received the fact-finder evening if he thought the texts the respondent, combined with report. The complainant agreed were uncertain and ambivalent. her level of alcohol intoxica- to hold the hearing on the planned During the hearing, the comtion, rendered her unable to give date, despite not knowing if she plainant said she also explained the unambiguous consent man- would receive the fact-finder’s the content of her text messages dated by University policy. She report in time. She later told the to the panel members. Given the requested that the UWC panel News she worried that any post- nuance of text conversations expel the respondent. ponement would result in further and potential generational gaps in communication, she said, the The respondent, however, delays with the process. claimed that he had “reasonably The report was submitted two panel’s interpretation of text inferred consent” based on the days later, on Oct. 15, and was messages may have been a “concomplainant’s texts and actions emailed to the complainant the siderable problem” during the that night. In the report, he spec- next day by UWC Project Coor- hearing. ulated that she had filed her com- dinator Lani Danilowitz, who did “I felt really stupid having to explain the colloquial difference plaint vindictively in response to not return request for comment. his behavior in spring 2013. On the morning of Oct. 21, between a winky and smiley face “This case concerns a single the complainant and her SHARE to a bunch of Yale professors, but episode of sexual contact that advisor arrived at the Green- it’s a really significant difference occurred in the context of a highly berg Conference Center at 391 in our world,” she told the News. emotional deterioration and dis- Prospect St. The hearing ran for The complainant added that solution of the parties’ ongoing approximately three and a half the panel members spent nearly relationship,” Berkman wrote in hours, the complainant told the an hour and a half gathering the report. “While the history of News. information about the context the parties’ relationship is releThe complainant and her of the two students’ relationvant to understanding the context adviser were assigned to a room ship. They also asked how much of this one incident, there is no in the basement. The respon- she had had to drink — inquirneed for the panel to resolve the dent and his adviser were placed ing specifically about which text many differences between [the on the second floor, and the panel messages she recalled and did not students] regarding the course of sat in a room on the first floor, the recall sending that evening. the UWC employs in weighing their relationship.” complainant said. UWC proceFollowing the hearing, accord- complaints of sexual misconduct, Berkman added that the panel dures state that unless both par- ing to UWC procedures, the panel as mandated by Title IX. It is a should be primarily concerned ties request otherwise, the com- reaches its decision regarding any lower standard of proof than clear with determining whether the plainant and respondent will not violations of University policy by and convincing evidence. complainant was capable of giv- appear jointly before the panel secret ballot in a majority vote. The panel recommended that ing positive, unambiguous and during the hearing. Panel members cannot abstain the complainant and respondent voluntary consent given her have “no direct or indirect confrom a vote. level of alcohol intoxication, and It is undisputed that she tact with each other while either whether the respondent knew or THE FINAL REPORT: remains a student at Yale University.” should have known how impaired was highly intoxicated that OCT. 31 she was. On Oct. 31, 2014, the panel Upon receiving the report, the finished its three-page report. female student immediately burst While Berkman acknowledged night. The more complex The report was compiled within into tears, she told the News. that the complainant claimed 10 days of the final hearing sesto have been seriously incapac- and central question for “I left the panel thinking I had sion, in accordance with UWC slam dunked it,” she said. “I was itated, she also wrote that the standard procedure. The docu- floored.” complainant “was not so intox- this committee is whether ment outlines which events the icated that she was unaware of The complainant told the News panel accepted as fact, as well as that she took issue with multiple what was happening around her this level of intoxication its conclusion and recommenda- aspects of the panel’s report. and she was able to engage in a texting conversation in which she caused [her] to ‘lack the tions. First, she said she does not [later] said that she consciously Under the heading “Regarding agree with the panel’s decision to employed several strategies to ability to make or act on Incapacitation,” the report noted take as fact — and proof of conthe complainant’s statements sidered decision — the responresist [the respondent].” regarding her level of intoxica- dent’s account that she undressed When the complainant considered decisions to tion and the supplemental wit- herself. received the report on Oct. 16, nesses’ accounts of her alcohol she was concerned the report engage in sexual activity.’ “I don’t remember going up the was biased against her, she told tolerance and capacity to consent. stairs. I could’ve been crawling for the News. Therefore, on the same According to the final report, the all I know,” she said. “I think it’s respondent said during the hear- ridiculous that when I say I can’t day, she submitted four suppleMIRIAM BERKMAN mentary statements to Berkman, Independent Fact-Finder ing that the complainant “seemed remember and he says this is what each from close friends who had no more inebriated than instances happened, his word automatically not been present on the night of when she had given consent in the counts as a preponderance of evithe incident but could, according dence.” The complainant told the News past.” to her, testify to her low alcohol that a speaker system in her room Although the report acknowltolerance. allowed her to hear the proceed- edged that the complainant had All four said that the number of ings occurring upstairs in the been intoxicated, it found that In the end, the message drinks she consumed that night panel’s room; she said that the she had not been incapacitated as was likely enough to incapacitate respondent had a similar arrange- defined by Yale’s sexual miscon- I got was, “If you’d had or severely impair her judgment. ment. The speaker system was duct policy and thus did not lack “The details of the amount disconnected only when panel the ability to make or act on con- one more shot of vodka, it consumed by [the complainant] members were conversing among sidered decisions. that evening … are significantly themselves, the complainant As evidence, the panel cited the would’ve been rape. Sorry. beyond her point of incapaci- added. complainant’s statement that her tation, as I understand it,” one UWC procedures state that the text messages to the respondent Drink more next time.” friend wrote. hearing is “intended primarily to had been part of a “conscious Berkman added in the supple- allow the panel to interview the strategy intended to prevent an mental report, however, that for parties with respect to the fact- unwanted sexual encounter.” It THE COMPLAINANT also cited the respondent’s claim thetrust. I was very concerned that I had hurt her in ways that she might not have wanted to most part, the new statements finder’s report.” did not illuminate the complainThe female student said she that the complainant entered her admit over email. A few later, I met with her to see if where she she was truly She okay, and if the panel’s wasdays brought up to the first floor ant’s capacity to consent. suite unassisted, allegalso criticized “It is undisputed that she was for a 10-minute opening state- edly embraced him and took off decision to focus exclusively on there was anything I could do to make things better. She assured me that she was fine, her level of incapacitation that highly intoxicated that night,” ment and then returned to the her own clothing. Berkman wrote. “The more com- basement during the respon“In light of the above findings night and ignore the context of that she did not feel that the situation was in any way serious, and she agreed that it was plex and central question for this dent’s statement. Afterward, the of fact, the panel does not con- her and her respondent’s previcommittee is whether this level of panel asked the complainant and clude, by a preponderance of evi- ous relationship. She said that hard to reasonably view the incident as anything besides consensual. intoxication caused [her] to ‘lack respondent any clarifying ques- dence, that [the respondent] vio- while during the hearing the panel the ability to make or act on con- tions related to the fact-finder’s lated the Yale University policy on spent an hour and a half asking From that point on, our relationship went downhill. I admit that there were times sidered decisions to engage in report, she said. sexual misconduct by engaging about deeply personal contextual when I was unnecessarily rude and disagreeable with her because I thought that she was sexual activity.’” While the panel interviewed in sexual activity with [the com- details, it included none of those the respondent, the complain- plainant] while she was incapaci- details in its final report. making bad decisions about her academic career and becoming a more negative person ant and her advisor wrote down tated,” the report said. THE HEARING: The panel, which is charged any questions they had for him, OCT. 21 A preponderance of the evi- with relaying to the decision overall. After the term was over, I sent her a message in which I told her how I felt about On Oct. 13, the female student she said. The questions were sub- dence is the legal burden of proof maker only the facts from the

THE FACT-FINDER’S REPORT

how she had changed since we had first met. Her reaction was very negative. Only at this point did she accuse me of acting without her consent on the night in question. I promised THE RESPONDENT’S STATEMENT to never contact her again, and I have kept that promise. Since this incident, I have been honest with myself about what happened that night, why it was inappropriate, and how I need to conduct myself in sexual situations in the future. I understand how imperative it is to be extremely discerning in my actions, sexual or otherwise, whenever alcohol is involved in any way, as it can blur the lines of what is rational action. I sincerely regret even responding to Karin’s sexual advances that night. To call this incident non-­consensual, however, is an oversimplification of the circumstances, and ultimately untrue. I had no reason or opportunity to suspect that Karin was as drunk as she later claimed to have been. At no point during the evening in question was there any coercion involved, violent or otherwise. There were no signals at any stage during this encounter that would suggest consent had been withdrawn or retracted. Going forward, I am committed to resolving this issue in a way that allows for Karin and myself to continue our time at Yale College feeling comfortable and safe. I would like to thank the UWC in advance for its due diligence on this matter. Alexander Michaud June 3, 2014 ! ! ! !

fact-finder’s report that it deems relevant, noted only that the complainant and respondent’s “exclusive and intimate relationship” had changed to a “casual sexual relationship” and that they had a “series of emotionally intense conversations about their relationship” over the spring break in mid-March. It did not write that both students told the fact-finder they had agreed to end sexual contact after the break. “Since the panel refused to acknowledge that fact, they could then ignore my claims … that the instance that occurred after spring break was markedly different from all those that preceded it,” the complainant wrote in a written response to the panel report, which she submitted to Holloway via email. UWC members declined to comment or did not return request for comment on what factors are taken into consideration when writing their final report. The panel’s report also cites the complainant’s text to the respondent to go to her room as further proof of considered actions. But the complainant noted, both in the fact-finder’s report and in her interview with the News, that the text came after the respondent had already texted her saying he was “on [his] way” to her room. This text was not included in the panel’s report. The complainant said that because the male student had already said he was on his way, what the panel saw as consent was, in fact, not voluntary. She added that in the factfinder’s report, the respondent acknowledged that her texts had expressed “uncertainty” and “ambivalence.” Upon reaching her room, she added, he made no effort to clarify that ambiguity — a fact which the respondent corroborated when he said there was no discussion before the sexual intercourse occurred. Therefore, she said, her actions did not meet Yale’s definition of consent as “positive, unambiguous and voluntary.” “Ultimately, what they clinched me on was that amidst being really drunk, I had an inter-

nal, primal alarm go off that this was a pattern [that would lead to sexual activity I didn’t want],” she told the News. “They failed to take into account that you can be incapacitated and still send texts like that.” “In the end, the message I got was, ‘If you’d had one more shot of vodka, it would’ve been rape,’” she said. “‘Sorry. Drink more next time.’”

THE DECISION

Yale adjudicates complaints of sexual misconduct based on a three-step process. First, an independent fact-finder compiles information and submits a report to a panel for an eventual hearing. Second, the complainant and respondent participate in the hearing. Using information from the hearing and the fact-finder’s report, the panel determines whether the respondent has violated University policy. If the panel finds the respondent culpable, it again votes by secret ballot to recommend a punishment. The panel’s conclusions are put into a report and sent to both parties and the relevant decision maker no later than 10 days after the final hearing session. In this case, the panel’s report was sent to Holloway on Oct. 31, exactly 10 days after the hearing. Finally, the decision maker reviews the panel’s report, as well as the initial complaint, initial written response and any addendums to the panel’s report either the complainant or respondent chooses to submit. After reviewing the report, the decision maker may ask for clarification from the panel, and then either “accept, reject or modify the panel’s conclusions or recommendations, in whole or in part.” He has the final decision. According to UWC procedure, Holloway is required to render his final decision in cases regarding undergraduate students within 14 days of the final hearing. Sixteen days have now passed since the hearing. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.” JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.

Faculty approve undergradute “learning assistants” CS50 FROM PAGE 1 graduate “learning assistants” to serve as tutors, graders and also discussion section leaders. Undergraduates currently serve as peer tutors and graders in the computer science department but have never been allowed to serve both roles at once until now, Feigenbaum explained. But in an important distinction from graduate student teaching assistants, Feigenbaum noted, undergraduate learning assistants will not be responsible for such tasks during reading week or exam period. She also noted that as the course evolves, she expects that other differences will emerge. Computer science professor Holly Rushmeier, who has used peer tutors in her introductory courses for years, said that such students are “extraordinarily effective.” Scassellati added that he thinks undergraduate learning assistants will play a crucial role in the course. Scassellati said he expected that having undergraduates perform such a role will be the most controversial aspect of the course. But Holloway noted that while this practice has not existed at Yale in the past, it is standard at many peer institutions. Holloway said that at one point during the meeting, several faculty debated the merits of undergraduate learning assistants, adding that some professors from more subjective fields expressed concerns about whether grading would be fair if handled by these undergraduates. However, he noted that issues of subjectivity in grading would not arise in CS50. Rushmeier said that some faculty members asked whether the use of undergraduate learn-

ing assistants could affect other departments’ courses, but explained that the provision only applies to CS50. “The new course is a unique model for teaching computer science and is not in any way going to be forced on any other discipline,” Rushmeier said. Assistant professor of computer science Ruzica Piskac said she believes that introducing CS50 will draw attention to Yale’s computer science department as a whole, which could attract more prospective majors, doctoral students and professors. Computer science professor Richard Yang explained that he supports the addition of CS50 to the department because it will further promote a collaborative working environment among undergraduates in computer science. “It appears that students learn better in a more social environment in intro CS classes such as [“Introduction to Programming”],” he said. Several students interviewed were also excited that CS50 will be moving forward. Computer science major Rachel Protacio ’15 said she thinks that CS50 is a wonderful effort and that any way that Yale can add to its repertoire of engaging introductory computer science courses is a step in the right direction. She noted that if she were not graduating this spring, she would have loved to be an undergraduate learning assistant for the course. Aileen Huang ’17, another computer science major, said she thinks that a class on programming will be very appealing both to majors and non-majors. Yale’s CS department often receives criticism for being too theoretical and focusing too much on

“the literature” of computer science, she explained, noting that implementing a course like CS50 could be a favorable response to what some see as the department’s shortcomings on this end. However, not all students interviewed were thrilled about the course’s arrival. Computer science major Alex Reinking ’16, who teaches for HackYale, explained that he is “strongly opposed” to having CS50 taught at Yale due to the course’s content. “CS50 manages to water down both [existing Yale course CPSC 223], while at the same time introducing students to the worst aspects of web programming, a topic that has no place in a self-respecting computer science department,” he said. Reinking said he thinks that while programming is a useful skill for many students, it is not academically rigorous, adding that programming classes more difficult than CS50 are available at many community colleges. He added that he does not believe Yale’s computer science department needs more programming classes and that CS50 should not count towards the major. Rasmus King GRD ’17, a computer science graduate student, said he believes that Yale’s computer science department should focus on its overall lack of resources rather than on adding individual classes like CS50. “[CS50] may well be a good course, but what Yale really needs to do is invest more seriously in growing the department itself,” King said. “It can’t solve the problem just by having a big CS50 intro course imported from someone else.” Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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Students have had diverse reactions to the announcement of a Harvard-Yale joint version of CS50.

Stern “revived” Architecture School

Faculty, students respond to high admin salaries BY JED FINLEY AND FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS

ROBERT STERN

Robert A.M. Stern is rumored to be stepping down from his position as dean of the School of Architecture. STERN FROM PAGE 1 noting that the school no longer suffers from such deficiencies. She added that Stern also instituted periodical faculty meetings and a faculty promotion process, neither of which existed before he became dean. Kurt Forster, director of doctoral studies at the School of Architecture, noted that Stern was a major influence in the development of the school’s Ph.D. program. He explained that the program did not exist before Stern asked him to design one. Forster said he thinks of Stern’s decision to create a Ph.D. program as an “extremely brave and far-sighted thing to do,” given the fact that the school had flourished without such a program. Special Assistant to the President and Master of Jonathan Edwards College Penelope Laurans highlighted Stern’s personality and his influence on the Yale Community. “Dean Stern has brought the spectrum of the architectural world to Yale and vivified the school, making it a top choice among architectural aspirants,” Laurans said. “In particular he loves Yale and has

devoted himself to the School of Architecture, reviving it and lavishing on it all his well-known talent and energy.” School of Architecture students interviewed said that Stern’s presence has profoundly impacted their experience at the school. Preeti Talwar ARC ’16 said that Stern’s energy and involvement in the school’s academic and social spheres played a huge role in encouraging her to attend Yale. “I feel fortunate to be among the last class at the School of Architecture that will experience his enthusiasm, immense experience and passion for both the profession and its pedagogy,” Talwar said. Alicia Pozniak ARC ’16 said that she is greatly inspired by Stern’s commitment to education and to educating architects about the actual built and concrete reality of architecture in the world today. Pozniak added that Stern’s vision has made the School of Architecture stand for a belief in a “more positive and longlasting” architecture for society. Abdulgader Samier Naseer ARC ’16, who has both worked and studied under Stern, said that he has had a very pleasant experience with

Stern. Naseer recalled that as an intern at Stern’s New York City firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, he was treated by Stern as more of an equal than a subordinate. Naseer, who is currently enrolled in Stern’s “Pedagogy and Place” class, said he thinks that Stern also takes a personable approach in his teaching. “[Stern] never preaches to us,” Naseer said. “He wants us to engage and challenge him, instead of just listen to what he has to say.” Administrative staff members interviewed said they were not aware of any ongoing search process for a successor to Stern. Constantin Geanakoplos ’15 said he does not currently have any specific individual that he would like to replace Stern as the school’s dean, but noted that he respected Stern most for his open-minded approach to architectural thought and hopes that the environment that Stern created with this mentality will be preserved by his successor. Stern was awarded the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame in 2011. Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

At $864,319, the average pay package given by the University to 10 of Yale’s top administrators has sparked conversation on campus. The salaries of these administrators, including the University president, vice presidents and provost, were made public through Yale’s Form 990, which is filed with the Internal Revenue Service annually as part of the University’s tax exempt status. Linda Lorimer, the vice president for global and strategic initiatives, and Dorothy Robinson, the University’s general counsel, took home $1,748,767 and $1,666,175 in 2012, respectively — figures higher than the average as both administrators received supplemental retirement packages. While these were the salaries that attracted the most attention, several students and faculty interviewed expressed criticism on the size of supplemental compensation packages for multiple high-level administrators. Four out of nine faculty interviewed said that while they praise Lorimer and Robinson for their hard work, the average pay for administrators suggests a shift toward corporatization at Yale. “The problem is not whether, in the abstract, [Lorimer] deserves such a handout, but rather its discrepancy with academic salaries. And that signals the increasing shift at Yale and most other universities toward corporate models of management,” theater studies professor Murray Briggs said. According to an Association of American University Presses report on Yale and institutions comparable to it, the average salary for a Yale professor in 2013-14 was $192,200, which is 7.8 percent lower than Harvard’s for the same year. The average salary for a Yale associate professor is $118,300, while for an assistant professor it is $95,900. Sociology professor Ronald Eyerman said he thinks the pay packages had dangerous implications for the future of education. “I’m embarrassed to think of education as an ‘industry’ and a university as a ‘corporation’,” said sociology professor Ronald Eyerman. But Branford College Master Elizabeth Bradley said a majority of the faculty feel that administrators deserve high pay packages. The contributions of both Lorimer and Robinson to Yale over their almost three decades of service warrant the monetary gifts given to both women, she added. Penelope Laurans, a special assistant to the University president, said Lorimer and Robinson devoted them-

selves “heart and soul, round the clock,” to the toughest leadership assignments. Yale is not the only University to provide its administrators with high salaries. Further, School of Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said he was amazed at how administrators at other elite schools have used their positions to acquire wealth. Computer science professor David Gelernter said he understands why Yale needs to pay “absurd” salaries to retain the talent necessary to run the University. Gelernter added that in an ideal world faculty would be paid more, but that most of them are passionate about what they do and loyal to the institution regardless. “Yale has been good to me, from the very start. I’m grateful and I love this place. I wish they paid a living wage — but you can’t have everything,” Gelernter said. School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary said Yale does not offer supplemental compensation to its administrators on an annual basis. Instead, additional compensation is given as an incentivizing tool for the most talented administrators to stay at Yale, he added, and as supplemental retirement benefits — as was the case with Lorimer and Robinson. “Usually, if you separate it out, their compensation is not oversized, they’re not getting this on an annualized basis — this was a lump sum,” Sonnenfeld said. Cleary added salary levels were determined after careful analyses of comparable salaries at other institutions. Four out of eight students interviewed said they are displeased with how Yale currently allocates funds, but also were not overtly critical of the pay packages given to Lorimer and Robinson. Wendell Adjety ’18 said Yale should relocate some of its funds toward professors and away from administrators. He added that he would like to see professors in the humanities and social sciences paid more competitively. Lina Xing ’17 also said she thinks the discrepancies between administration and faculty salaries and pay packages at Yale should not be so large. But Xing added it makes sense for administrators with greater responsibility to receive a higher pay. The pay packages of 22 Yale faculty and administrators were listed in Yale’s Form 990, which was filed with the Internal Revenue Service in 2012. Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at chistopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN AUTHOR

2014 post-grad paths revealed

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Roughly three-fourths of the class of 2014 now lives in New York, Connecticut, California, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Dames said that, though most people expect a large amount of Yalies to be living in New York, they are often surprised to hear that Connecticut is the second most common place for recent Yale graduates to live. Those that do live in Connecticut, however, tend to live in New Haven, either working or studying at Yale offices and schools. The more alumni in one city, the more they tended to socialize with each other, the data showed. Sixty-nine percent of News survey respondents living in New Haven also said that they interact with other Yalies several times a week. Half of the respondents living in New York City said the same. Graduates in less common

areas said that being separated from their college friends slightly dampens an otherwise-enjoyable experience in different cities. “I love San Antonio,” Ryder Bilings ’14 said. “It’s a really vibrant city with a lot of character and things to do. The biggest downside is there aren’t a lot of Yalies down here. Most of my college friends went to work in New York or those other places, and I miss having them around.” Bilings, a business analyst for Labatt Food Services in the company’s San Antonio office, added that his Texas roots helped facilitate the move. Unlike most of his classmates, he said, he actively sought to return to his hometown for post-graduate work, even if doing so meant separating himself from his college friends in New York City. Several grads who responded to the News’ survey from unconventional areas echoed the sentiment that separation from their classmates has been difficult, at times. “I work and live abroad, and being far from family and close friends is difficult and lowers my level of satisfaction,” one person said anonymously. But isolation from Yalies does not necessarily preclude these alumni from embracing their current environments. Molly Gibbons ’14, who works at Analysis Group in Denver, named cultural outlets and the proximity of the Rocky Mountains as central elements of Denver’s appeal that distinguish it from larger cities. “Having the benefits of a full city life — great museums, brilliant shows, delightful neighborhoods, extraordinary restaurants — and a 30 minute commute to the mountains is unbeatable,” Gibbons said. “The excitement and pride with which locals describe the city is inspired.” Other clusters of Yalies live in unexpected pockets around the globe. For example, Sophie Nethercut ’14 now works for the Sitka Conservation Society in Sitka, Alaska, where at least 15 Yalies live among the roughly 9,000 residents, she said. Outside the United States, 2014 graduates mainly live in China and the United Kingdom. In total, 162 of the OCS survey’s respondents said that they now live abroad. According to the OCS data, the most popular industries for these areas were similar to those seen domestically. Of the 13 alumni living in China, seven are working in education, while 11 of the 39 in the United Kingdom work in either education or finance. There also exist, however, alumni with careers in entertainment, communications and policy or attending graduate school in both areas. This trend, Dames said, falls in line with the broader picture that many students do enter the same, expected fields, while others still filter elsewhere — more consistently than people might realize. “It’s amazing how diffused this [data] is,” Dames said. “When you look at other schools, there’s 25 or 30 percent of the population going to one area, and that just doesn’t happen at Yale.”

Consulting

Fields said that New Haven’s failure to provide SPDs was not the product of a mistake in the system. Rather, it was a deliberate act, he said. “I believe there was a conscious decision on the part of a previous labor relations director not to give out the document,” Fields said. “And the way I know is that he told me.” Ward 5 Alder and Board President Jorge Perez brought the dispute to an end by declaring that the city would correct past mistakes and agree to provide the firefighters with static SPDs under the new contract. The motion the Board approved last night reflected Perez’s promise the week before. “The union agrees not to challenge former SPDs [under the new contract],” Paolillo said. “The city agrees to work with the union on current SPDs.” New Haven has ten fire stations across the city.

Most Common Employers

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ALPHONSE PAOLILLO, JR. Ward 18 Alder

Taking 16.6 percent of the class, financial services was once again the most popular industry for Yale graduates, one year after 14.8 percent entered the field. Goldman Sachs hired the most members of the class of 2014 with 23. McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group were the other companies that took on the most 2014 grads besides the University, which hired 51 of them. The education, consulting, research and technology sectors yielded similar, but slightly lower numbers from the class, creating a hierarchy that mirrored patterns seen in 2013. As for the actual work that the graduates now carry out, the OCS data delved into job “function,” for which research, finance, consulting and teaching topped the list across the different industries. Those working in consulting appeared to be the most pleased,

Finance

Settling the exam weights for both the lieutenant and captain’s exams — that’s positive for the department.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Financial services

After years of administrative turmoil at the New Haven Fire Department, the Board of Alders unanimously approved a contract extension through June 2018. Although the union ratified the contract last month, the full Board of Alders waited until their meeting last night to deliberate on the proposal. The approved contract is marked by consensus on the weighting of the oral and written portions of promotion exams — a dispute that had blocked hiring at the department for six years — as well as on a new health insurance plan for the fire union. The oral section of the exam will be weighted at 65 percent on the exams, whereas previously it was weighted at 40 percent. The solution to the longrunning dispute over the test weighting will allow for increased hiring at the fire department, said Ward 18 Alder Alphonse Paolillo, Jr. “Settling the exam weights for both the lieutenant and captain’s exams — that’s positive for the department,” said Paolillo. “And that’s positive for the city, since the department has not hired in quite a long time.” Paolillo added that about 15 cadets had graduated from the academy earlier in the day. City officials said they hope that once the pace of hiring picks up at the department, overtime costs will begin to go down. At a projected $8.5 million this year, overtime costs are running far ahead of the $3.9 million budgeted. The fire department plans on graduating 86 cadets from its academy in the near future. The Finance Committee of the Board of Alders had discussed the contract at their meeting on Oct. 30. At that meeting, those in attendance said there was an evident sense that the contract represented a new era for the fire department and its relations with the city. Negotiations over the health insurance plan for the fire union proved contentious, especially over the issue of summary plan descriptions — legal documents that describe coverage obligations under the health insur-

ance plans, said Joseph Fields, an attorney for the fire union at the Finance Committee meeting last week. Under the previous contracts, New Haven had not provided SPDs to firefighters. Additionally, the city had struck out some clauses from health insurance plans. Fields said that this sort of action was unprecedented. “Lack of forthrightness has occurred in New Haven with regard to the collective bargaining here,” Fields said. “What’s being done here isn’t correct — it needs to be fixed.” Marcus Paca, the labor relations director, confirmed that the city does not currently provide firefighters with SPDs.

choose a listed industry, but still said they consider their work to be unorthodox. Among these were careers in professional sports, social work and veterinary research that had elements of finance, consulting and education. Former economics major Max Napolitano ’14 now works for the Miami Dolphins in a job that spans many departments — including sponsorship, ticket sales and marketing — with the general goal of generating higher revenue for the National Football League franchise. “I started in June and have been enjoying every minute of it,” Napolitano said, adding that he had always wanted to work in sports. “I wake up every morning excited for the day and motivated to make a difference.” Rachel Kubi ’14 said that she strayed from the typical job search by exploring forums beyond the UCS Symplicity site, which most of her friends used to find their work. In her position as a Parent Educator at the Tulane Parenting Education Program Family Resource Center, she mixes case management with social work and teaching, she said. Perhaps the most unique case is that of Jen Kramer ’14, who is now a professional magician. The former theater studies major moved to Las Vegas, where she performs regularly at the Wyndham Grand Desert Resort. “I’ve loved magic since I was a kid,” Kramer said. “When I was a freshman at Yale, I founded the Yale Magic Society and continued to perform as much as I could. I then reached out to [professional magician] Nathan Burton about interning for him in Las Vegas over the summer. Fortunately, it worked out really well, and I learned a lot from the experience about all the details that go into making a Vegas magic show happen.” But the largest contingent of students electing not to pursue careers in finance, education, consulting or research decided to continue their studies in graduate or professional school. 187 respondents have moved on to master’s, JD, MD and MBA programs, mainly at universities like Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Stanford.

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While a large portion of the class did take conventional jobs after graduation, numerous members ignored these industries in favor of different fields, with some not even falling into any of the 20 industries named in the OCS survey. Thirty-eight selected the “Other” option, reporting industries like culinary arts and industrial supply. One such respondent, Johanna Flato ’14, now works for a travel-planning startup in Cincinnati called Roadtrippers. She said she found the opportunity through Venture for America, which helps recent graduates find employment at startups in emerging cities. One benefit, Flato added, has been her ability to balance work with art projects that she has kept up on the side after majoring in arts and humanities. Flato’s classmate Erica Reetz ’14 said her field, industrial supply, is unconventional among Yale graduates, which appealed to her on a certain level. “I think it’s a great idea to show Yalies they have far more options than finance and consulting,” Reetz said. “I was interested in consulting, but when I found this opportunity it was a much better match for me.” Seventy-seven percent of those not fitting into any conventional category indicated that they were highly satisfied with their jobs. This was one of the higher satisfaction rates reported by the class of 2014 in the News’ survey. Other outliers managed to

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Last spring, the Office of Career Strategy released a survey to the class of 2014, asking the students to indicate their plans for the fall after graduation. As of last week, 1,225 of the 1,298 students have responded, yielding data that describe what 94.4 percent of the class is doing and where they are located, among other metrics. Captured by the preliminary data — updates to finalize its findings are expected later this month — are the companies, industries, schools and locations favored most and least by Yale’s newest alumni. “The interest of Yale students after graduation is extremely broad,” OCS Director Jeanine Dames said. “There is no one area that attracts Yale students as a critical mass.” According to the OCS numbers, 73.3 percent of the class currently holds a full-time, parttime or short-term position, while others are conducting independent research, traveling, volunteering or performing military service or care work. Job choice, the survey revealed, was not necessarily dictated by field of study: 38 percent of the respondents said that their careers are unrelated to the majors they completed at Yale. The graduates did, however, gravitate towards jobs with larger employers. Slightly more than half reported a position at companies with more than 500 employees, up from roughly 44 percent of the class of 2013. Other factors that stood out include the time of year in which the students received a formal offer — 61.8 percent of the class secured positions in the spring or later — and the industry and geographic location of the job. Though official salary figures have not been released for 2014, a sample of 262 alumni surveyed by the News revealed 25 percent to be earning less than $20,000 this year. Meanwhile, 6 percent are already making more than $100,000. Though the class spread out over a variety of fields, there were still a select few that drew the most graduates — the select few that most have come to expect in recent years.

according to results from the News’ survey, with 79 percent indicating that they were “highly satisfied” or “satisfied” with their jobs. Financial services and education, meanwhile, were at least satisfactory for 56 percent and 57 percent of their employees, respectively. Diana Orozco ’16, who interned at the investment bank during the summer after freshman year, said she thinks Yalies are drawn to Goldman Sachs because of its intellectually stimulating environment. “[Working at Goldman Sachs] is high-reward and relatively lowrisk,” Orozco said. Orozco added that she could see herself working at Goldman Sachs after graduation. Tech, another marquee industry in Ivy League circles, has also developed a large recruiting presence on campus. Maren Hopkins ’14, a Microsoft employee, said that the majority of Yalies who end up at Microsoft work in software development. There are others, however, who work on hardware like Hopkins, who earned a mechanical engineering degree at Yale. The Seattle-based company’s recruiters, she added, prioritize Yale because of its strong computer science program. “I think Microsoft is working hard to recruit on campus because Yale has a strong computer science program, so more students hear about the jobs and get a chance to interview,” she said. Additionally, nine alumni from the class of 2014 are working in various locations around the country for Teach for America.

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“We’re running the most dangerous experiment … to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere … can handle before … an environmental catastrophe.” ELON MUSK CANADIAN INVENTOR

Task force opens floor on carbon tax BY LIONEL JIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The newly convened Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force held its first forum yesterday evening to engage students and faculty on the prospect of implementing a carbon tax at Yale. The task force was held by University President Peter Salovey as part of a series of alternative initiatives aimed at tackling Yale’s greenhouse gas emissions, after the University released its decision not to divest from fossil fuel companies in August. The forum at Luce Hall drew roughly 50 students and faculty, and featured a lively discussion about the feasibility of an internal carbon tax, its

potential effectiveness in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its broader implications for the Yale community. “We want to provide incentives for different units to reduce their carbon footprint,” Jennifer Milikowsky FES ’15, one of three student members on the task force, said. As of this year, Yale is only one-third of the way towards achieving the 43 percent carbon reduction target former University President Richard Levin set for 2020 in 2005, fellow student task force member Sophie Janaskie ’15 said. Panelists agreed that a carbon charge in itself would be ineffective to reduce the University’s

carbon emissions. “Does anyone in the University who flips the switch see the bill? The answer is a very small fraction,” said economics professor William Nordhaus, who chairs the task force. Task force members all said it is important to make energy prices visible to students and faculty, and to encourage them to take responsibility for their behavior. While the means to achieve this end are still undefined, members were quick to address concerns about how a carbon tax would impact students. Milikowsky said there are no plans for students to pay their own heating and electricity bill. Instead, one possibility may be

to impose the tax on schools and colleges. Nordhaus said this could spur these institutions to “nudge” students and faculty to reduce their carbon footprint. The task force highlighted the challenges that complicate their mission. These include addressing difficult questions such as how administrative units should be defined, what sources of emission should be covered and how charges should be set to ensure the tax is not economically burdensome. “If we can make it work here at Yale, it would be a huge statement,” Robin Canavan GRD ’18, the third student member on the task force. She added that while some

universities are interested in implementing a carbon tax, none have done it to date, giving Yale the potential to lead the way. Nordhaus said there are several practical advantages to implement a carbon tax. Companies are increasingly preparing for a world where carbon comes with a hefty price tag, he said, and Yale would do well to do likewise. He added that this is especially true because Yale is also a big power generator — 60 percent of Yale’s electricity is generated by the University. Students from Fossil Free Yale present at the forum said they were supportive of the University’s efforts, but stressed that much work remains to be done.

“While it’s a great sounding initiative, it is not yet a concrete plan,” said Patrick Reed ’16, one of the founders of FFY. Maya Jenkins ’18 added the carbon tax could not be a replacement for divestment. Still, Phoebe Chatfield ’18 said FFY members felt encouraged when, during the forum, task force members said the carbon tax would be just one of many initiatives the University would pursue to reduce carbon emissions. The task force expects to present its report early next year, with a potential carbon tax being piloted as early as next August. Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

Harp pledges Ebola aid BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three weeks after New Haven experienced a taste of the fear and uncertainty surrounding Ebola, Mayor Toni Harp announced a fundraising initiative to aid the fight against the virus in Sierra Leone. The initiative, announced yesterday during a press conference at City Hall, is coordinated by the city in conjunction with a coalition of community organizations. The project seeks to send four vans and medical supplies to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone and a sister city of New Haven. Organizers have set a goal of raising $100,000 by the end of January, said Althea Norcott, chair of the Freetown Sister City Committee. Along with the four vans, which will be fitted with thicker tires and re-purposed as ambulances, the supplies will include drugs, medical equipment and anti-infection garments. An array of local and international dignitaries attended the Thursday press conference, where the president of Southern Connecticut State University stood alongside leaders from the city’s churches and community organizations, as well as Ibrahim Kato, a representative from the Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington, D.C. Harp said that New Haven has a duty to help Sierra Leone — and not just because of New Haven’s relationship with Freetown as a sister city. “We have an obligation to help upstream,” she said, adding that the best way to stop Ebola in the United States is by stopping Ebola in West Africa. After Harp’s remarks, Kato detailed the history of Ebola in Sierra Leone and the response the government there has taken. He said that New Haven’s help could not come at a better time, and that with help from the international community, Sierra Leone can recover from the outbreak and realize its full potential as a nation. The speakers at the press conference emphasized the strength of the community in New Haven. Mary Papazian, president of SCSU, and David Ives, the director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac

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University, pledged the full support of both of their institutions to the fundraiser. “This fits right into the heart of our mission,” Papazian said. “We will certainly be there during the crisis, and we will be there after the crisis.” Alfred Marder, the director of Amistad Committee — one of the biggest non-profit organizations involved in the fundraiser — echoed that sentiment. After announcing the first donation to the initiative, $1,000 from the Amistad Committee, he praised the ability of the New Haven

community to unite around a cause. Marder added that New Haven’s initiative is the first of its kind in the United States. No other city has yet coordinated a fundraising effort between the municipal government and community organizations, he said. “It is so good now to recognize what a warm-hearted community we have,” he said. “This community is conscious of our responsibilities to others.” The American ambassador to Sierra Leone had requested the

supplies, said Roslyn Hamilton SPH ’81, vice president of the Amistad Committee. “We got a call from the Ambassador, and he said, ‘here’s a list of the things we’re going to need,’” Hamilton said. She noted that the Amistad Committee already sent a shipment of supplies to Freetown in early September. Yale is also playing its part in its own fundraising efforts to support West Africa. The Yale African Students’ Association, the Yale School of Art and the Yale School of Medicine

held a dance and raffle last night to raise money to fight Ebola. Marder said that he is reaching out to Yale organizations to involve them in the city’s initiative. The links between New Haven and Freetown run deep, emanating from the Amistad incident in 1839, in which interned Sierra Leoneans en route to the slave markets in Cuba mutinied against their captains. The Sierra Leoneans seized the ship and sailed it to New Haven, where they stayed until the Supreme Court granted them

freedom in 1841. New Haven and Freetown, in recognition of their shared history, became sister cities in 1997. In 1992, the entire cabinet of the Sierra Leonean government came to New Haven to attend the dedication of a statue of Sengbe Pieh, the leader of the Amistad mutiny and an outspoken defendant in the Supreme Court case. Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Pedestrian accident raises traffic concerns BY JIAHUI HU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A fatal motor vehicle-pedestrian accident last Thursday has sparked discussion over pedestrian safety in New Haven. Last Thursday, an 81-year-old woman was killed crossing the intersection of Olive and Greene Streets in the Wooster Square neighborhood. The New Haven Independent reported on the incident, and commenters on the eventual article debated whether a lack of proper traffic safety regulations in the Wooster Square neighborhood influenced the accident. Commenters argued that there are inappropriate street designs, a lack of pedestrian protection initiatives and inadequate police enforcement in New Haven. Aaron Goode ’04, a member of the Wooster Square Com-

munity Management Team, said that while the investigation into the driver’s role is significant, he hopes the accident will also provoke discussion about pedestrian safety. “Watching the reaction in the news and social media to this terrible tragedy that happened on Olive Street, there’s been a lot of focus on whether or not the driver who struck her was texting while driving,” said Goode. “That’s certainly a very legitimate thing that should be investigated, but I think that ignores the larger issue of our environment about the nature of our streets and whether they’re designed to accommodate vulnerable users.” One of the most pressing concerns is that police officers could do more to enforce traffic violations, according to those interviewed. Rob Rocke MUS ’96,

a board member of Elm City Cycling, said he regularly sees drivers disobeying the rules of the road. If they were regularly penalized for talking on their cell phones or ignoring red lights, they would have a greater incentive to follow traffic laws, he said.

You don’t want a tragedy to have to happen in order for there to be improvements. ABIGAIL ROTH Alder, Ward 7 The design of the streets in Wooster Square could also play a major role in pedestrian safety. Anstress Farwell GRD ’78, president of the advocacy organization

New Haven Urban Design League, said Wooster Square is particularly dangerous because many commuters are able to speed through the wide State and Grove Streets intersection, a central part of daily commute, located just four blocks away from where the accident happened. The intersection immediately narrows and enters dense residential areas with many pedestrians, where speeding could easily jeopardize pedestrian safety. “The intersection creates an anti-urban feeling,” Farwell said. “It doesn’t signal to the driver immediately that they’re going through a truly dense urban neighborhood.” Connecticut lawmakers recently tried to pass a bill in the state legislature for the third time that would have allowed cities to add cameras to capture the license

plates of cars that run red lights. However, the bill faced heavy opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union, which felt that it could be an infringement on privacy. But the state passed the Vulnerable Users Bill this year, which places a $1,000 fine on drivers who, acting with improper care and caution, injure or kill vulnerable users such as cyclists and pedestrians. Beyond state legislation, there are other widely accepted methods of increasing pedestrian safety that can be implemented in New Haven, including reducing traffic speeds, adding speed bumps and even better educating pedestrians and drivers, said Ward 7 Alder Abigail Roth ’90 LAW ’94. Although there are currently no official plans to change traffic laws and the street design,

pedestrian safety in New Haven could soon enter the forefront of City Hall’s agenda, as the construction of two new apartment complexes in Wooster Square will increase pedestrian density. Furthermore, the city will soon extend the Farmington Canal trail down Olive Street, which will add even more pedestrians and cyclists. Roth said that although she would like to see improvements in pedestrian safety, she hopes that changes may occur without more tragic accidents such as the one last Thursday. “You don’t want a tragedy to have to happen in order for there to be improvement,” she said. “People can just think and just improve.” Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.” ANGELINA JOLIE AMERICAN ACTRESS

Snapchat CEO talks innovation, growth BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said part of the reason his company is so successful is because he spends nearly half of his time searching for the right employees. About 400 students gathered to hear Spiegel speak Thursday afternoon in an event sponsored by the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. Spiegel, who is only 24 years old and is estimated to be worth $1.5 billion, discussed the origins and development of Snapchat and his personal journey as a founder-turned-CEO. He talked about how he came up with the idea for the company, and why he thinks Snapchat is unique and will not just be a passing phenomenon. Spiegel said Snapchat is special in part because of the quality and dedication of its staff. “I spend half my time finding the smartest, most driven people in the world so that we can continue to build great products,” he said. “The biggest threat to Snapchat is not retaining really terrific people.” Because Snapchat started in Los Angeles, Spiegel said, its original employees often had to leave part of their lives behind to join the company. This selfselecting group believed in Snapchat, he said, which ultimately benefitted the company. Spiegel said he is naturally concerned about Snapchat turning into a temporary fad, but he does not believe that will happen because of the company’s commitment to innovation. “We really do believe that innovation is at the core of con-

sumer technology,” he said. “And if you are not able to innovate you are by nature a fad.” The Snapchat team strives to think about human emotions and what it means to share a moment with a friend when working to improve Snapchat, Spiegel said. The company already has an estimated worth of $10 billion, and Spiegel said that ideas to improve the application are in development. During a question-andanswer portion, students asked about the addition of groups, which would enable users to send photos to a specific set of people, as a possible innovation. Spiegel said there are two downsides to that sort of function: the possibility of hurting feelings through exclusion and the fact that friendships are constantly shifting, potentially making users hesitant to send a photo to a group containing a former friend. “If we do a groups product, we’ll try to make that reflective of the fact that friendships change,” he said. Spiegel said he tends to admire those closest to him. But he also looks to Edwin Land, the creator of Polaroid, and Mark Zuckerberg for inspiration. Zuckerberg, he said, is an inspiration for him because he was the one who demonstrated that it is possible to build a massive business around social media. The idea for Snapchat, Spiegel said, emerged when he was at Stanford University. Together with his fraternity brother Bobby Murphy, who is also a Snapchat co-founder, he tried several startup ideas during their fresh-

man year. They looked toward photography almost by coincidence, he said. “One of my buddies wanted to be able to send disappearing pictures,” Spiegel said. “It seemed like you could have fun doing that, so we built a very simple app.” The breakthrough for Snapchat, he added, was a simple alteration — the detection of screen shots. This innovation, he said, formed the foundation on which Snapchat has since built. Audience members interviewed said the talk was important for budding entrepreneurs on campus. School of Management Director of Entrepreneurial Programs Kyle Jensen said students should be inspired by Spiegel to think big. “You can build a startup as a college student and be the next Facebook or Snapchat,” Jensen said. “It’s imminently feasible, and Evan demonstrates that.” Rachel McFadden, the SOM associate director of entrepreneurial programs, said bringing speakers like Spiegel to campus helps to create an entrepreneurial environment at a historically non-entrepreneurial school like Yale. Sandy Jin ’16 said that since Snapchat is the fastest growing messaging app in the world, this talk as an opportunity to learn more about entrepreneurship. Before founding Snapchat, Spiegel and Murphy started futurefreshman.com — a guide to the college application process. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Orchestra to accompany ballet dancers BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER For the first time in its history, the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company will perform with a live orchestra. The YUBC will host its fall show tonight and tomorrow night at the Off Broadway Theater. The show, titled “Once Upon a Dream: Classical and Contemporary Extracts,” will incorporate studentchoreographed original dances as well as traditional pieces from the Tchaikovsky ballet “The Sleeping Beauty.” YUBC president Nicholas Smith ’16, a coproducer for the show who will also dance the role of the “Bluebird,” said the live orchestra will strongly enhance the performance as a whole. “Ballet as an art form is so intimately connected to music,” he said. “With a recording, there’s something just a tad artificial.” A 35-person orchestra — composed of members from student groups such as Yale Symphony Orchestra, Davenport Pops Orchestra and Berkeley College Orchestra — will accompany a 13-ballerina cast. Theresa Oei ’15, one of the show’s directors, said she contacted Rachel Perfecto ’15, the YSO assistant director, to ask her to help assemble a live orchestral ensemble for the show. Perfecto, who is now the YUBC show’s Orchestral Director, recruited 35 musicians from various groups on campus. Perfecto, Smith and Oei all said that they were excited by the large number of students who were interested in performing in the accompanying orchestra, which is nearly twice the size of the cast of dancers. “It all came together smoothly,” Perfecto said. “I think [that’s] because few

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undergraduate musicians at Yale have ever had the opportunity to accompany a ballet.” Before the open dress rehearsal on Thursday night, the orchestra and the dancers had only rehearsed together twice. Despite the limited time together, dancers and orchestral members interviewed said that the rehearsals had gone smoothly. Smith noted that in addition to being accompanied by a live orchestra, this weekend’s show will differ from past fall shows in other ways. Normally, he explained, the company will perform a traditional ballet and save their original choreography for the spring show, but the group will dedicate the first half of this year’s show to several dances from “The Sleeping Beauty” and the second half on original choreography. In combining classical and original dances for this show, Smith said, the YUBC aims to “expose people to the classical, but also bring something new to dancers and the audience … to push them to be more artistic.” The Off Broadway Theater, where the show is taking place, seats 117 people. There is no orchestra pit, so the orchestra will be positioned on one side of the dance floor. Smith noted that in a break from the traditional ballet performance styles, the orchestra and the dancers will be sharing the stage. “That’s what ballet companies around the country are doing,” he said. “It goes to show … it’s amazing how collaborative dance is.” Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” was first performed in 1890. Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

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One week after being released from quarantine, Ryan Boyko GRD ’18 received a welcoming hug from Associate Dean of the School of Art Samuel Messer — signaling the community’s embrace of Boyko’s Ebola relief efforts. Boyko, who was quarantined for three weeks after helping model the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, served as a guest speaker at last night’s Dance for Life — Ebola Relief Night. Organized by the Yale School of Art, the Yale African Students’ Association and the Yale School of Medicine, the event was a dance benefit and art show that raised over $2,600 for Ebola relief efforts. Although the dance was free, people who donated at least $25 donation could receive door prizes contributed by students, alumni and faculty of the Yale School of Art. Event organizer Messer said to the attendees that he orchestrated the event primarily because he was embarrassed by the United States’ response to the crisis. The nation’s response, he said, stigmatizes the virus. “I made the event free because I think it’s about raising the awareness” Messer said. “If we are one interconnected community in the world, then we need to understand that these people and people everywhere are the same as us. We need to look outward. It’s about one community and taking care of each other.” Messer said he was inspired by a New York Times article that described America’s lack of aid and donations to the effected areas. He added that he was excited to have

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Boyko as a speaker because he has firsthand knowledge of the state of West Africa and can teach students the most important lessons of providing aid. During his presentation, Boyko showed pictures of on-the-ground efforts he witnessed during his recent trip to Liberia. He said the public needs to be aware of the two problems the Ebola crisis presents: lack of aid and stigmatization of the disease.

We need to look outward. It’s about one community and taking care of each other. SAMUEL MESSER Associate dean, School of Art In Liberia, Boyko built an android app to help local leaders better understand the spread of the virus. But Boyko said he wanted the public to be aware that there are many local heroes in Liberia, including “block captains” who surveyed citizens in order to locate hotspots of the virus. These leaders entered homes not knowing whether they were exposing themselves to the virus. He added that the efforts to aid Liberia do not end when the disease is extinguished. “After this epidemic ends, the underlying problems [in some of the African infrastructure] will still be there,” Boyko said. “Give what you can to stop the systemic problems at the base of this.” Initially, Messer wanted Boyko to Skype in to the benefit from his quarantine. But when Messer heard

Boyko’s quarantine would be over, Messer urged him to deliver his speech live. Boyko said after the event that he received no backlash from the public and everyone was generally accepting of his message, though he thought the event was under-publicized. All donations from the benefit went directly to Doctors Without Borders and Partners in Health, nonprofit organizations committed to helping relieve the virus in marginalized areas. Messer said he was very conscious about how much money actually goes to the relief efforts when deciding on which aid organizations to choose. Partners in Health gives 92 percent of funds directly to the areas in need, and Doctors without Borders gives 89 percent, he added. “We feel helpless because none of us can give the medical help that is needed most because we are not doctors, but events like this give us avenues to help in little ways that we are sure in the end will help in some capacity,” YASA political chair Victor Gitau ’17 said. Andrew Cheruiyot ’15, also a member of YASA and the DJ at the event, said he thinks there were not many attendees at the start of the event because it started too early for undergraduates, who usually go out around 10 p.m. However, he said the “chill” environment is a better place for people to talk about Ebola awareness and relief efforts than a seminar or talk that reaches a less diverse audience. The event ran from 8 p.m. to midnight at 1156 Chapel St. Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 12:00 PM Renaissance Colloquium: A Workshop with Daniel Shore. Daniel Shore will run a workshop about using advanced corpus search tools to study the history of linguistic forms. Using Milton’s style markers, he will demonstrate the benefits of these tools as they apply to all periods and languages. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm 319. 3:30 PM Exhibition Tour, Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection. Drawn from a major collection given to the gallery by Allan Chasanoff, B.A.’61, Odd Volumes showcases a selection of experimental and innovative works of book art from the 1960s to the present. This student-curated exhibition considers the transformation of books into sculptural objects from multiple perspectives: the history of book art, the relationship between form and content and the interaction between the viewer and the work. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 8:30 AM International Conference: Visualizing Slavery and British Culture in the Eighteenth Century. The second day of a two-day international conference coinciding with the British Art Center’s exhibition “Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain.” Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.). 9:45 AM Wordsworth’s Poetry: 1964-2014. A symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Geoffrey Hartman’s “Wordsworth’s Poetry: 1787-1814.” Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 7:00 PM Films at the Whitney. Cat Ballou (USA, 1965) 97 min. 16mm. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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SPORTS

“Everybody’s got their poison, and mine is sugar.” DERRICK ROSE PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER

How to beat the Bears KEYS FROM PAGE 14 quarterback Seth Rosenbauer, showed that despite the graduation of league-leading rusher John Spooney — who doubled as a sprinter, winning the Ivy League 100-meter dash three straight years — defenses still cannot rule out the Bears on the ground. Taking snaps both as tailback and as wildcat quarterback last week against Penn, Rosenbauer rushed 30 times for 206 yards, the most yards an Ivy League player has accumulated on the ground all season.

DEFEATING BROWN WILL COME DOWN TO A STRONG PASSING GAME, FINDING PAY DIRT IN THE RED ZONE AND STAYING VIGILANT ON DEFENSE. With a new aspect of their offense discovered, Brown is likely to come after Yale with all weapons on display. In order to keep the Bears’ offense from being explosive, Yale cannot let Brown beat the Bulldogs at their own game — overpowering defenses with a multi-faceted offense. Like the Elis’ performance at Columbia, when they picked off four passes while holding the Lions to just 53 rushing yards, Yale will need to protect all parts of the field.

CONVERT IN THE RED ZONE

Before Yale’s 25–7 victory last week, it would have been easy to forget about the Ivy League’s second-leading scorer, kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15. As the Elis consistently scored via touchdown rather than field goals, Cazzetta was used

mostly for kicking extra points, only being brought out for multiple field goal attempts twice in Yale’s 5–1 start to the season. Last week in New York, however, Cazzetta entered the spotlight when Yale failed to score touchdowns in the red zone seven times and Cazzetta was needed for six field goal attempts. His four field goals were enough to assure victory over the Ivy League’s perennial doormat, but Yale will need to improve in the red zone if it hopes to win against Brown, which has the second-best defense in the Ancient Eight.

AIR IT OUT

Perhaps the reason Yale had little success near the goal line last week was a weakened passing game. Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 had his quietest day yet, completing just 21 of 42 passes for 267 yards. That inefficiency, in turn, made running plays predictable in the red zone, despite their success at the beginning and in the middle of drives. It turns out that passing also seems to be the key against Brown’s tight defense. The only team that has passed for more than 300 yards against the Bears this season was Princeton, also the only team that has scored more than 25 points on Brown. In order to continue the offensive success of its first six games, then, Yale will almost certainly need a return to its outstanding passing attack. Roberts has recently gone heavily to wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15, who has been an exceedingly strong target this season. If more pass catchers can match that production, Yale has a chance to best Brown’s defense in a way that no other team has done thus far. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

Yale takes on Brown FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 14 teams have improved. Behind new starting quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16, Yale has emerged as an offensive power in the Football Championship Subdivision, while Brown has taken a different path, improving its defense to second-best in the Ancient Eight in both total yards allowed and points allowed. On the other side of the ball, however, the Bears are just above the three worst teams in the Ivy League — Penn, Cornell and Columbia — with 20.4 points per game, less than half of the Elis’ figure of 42.6. But Brown’s offensive attack has steadily improved. After putting up just a field goal in a 17–3 season opening loss to Georgetown, the Bears peaked two weeks ago with a 42–16 win over winless Cornell, a similar result to Yale’s 51–13 victory. “Offensively, they’ve got weapons everywhere,” Reno said. And last week, the Bears found another offensive weapon, perhaps unexpectedly, in backup quarterback Seth Rosenbauer. The 6’3”, 240-pound Rosenbauer emerged as a serious rushing threat in Brown’s 21–13 victory over Penn, both out of the wildcat formation and in the tailback spot. Rosenbauer finished with 206 rushing yards, narrowly topping the 202 yards that Yale running back Candler Rich ’17 had on the same afternoon at Columbia. Reno said he expects to see both Rosenbauer and Brown quarterback Marcus Fuller in action tomorrow. Yale will head into the contest looking to improve on its most disappointing win of the season last week at Columbia. The Bulldogs’ 25 points in the game were both the fewest points Yale has put up all season and the fewest points that the Lions have allowed in 2014. While Rich’s 202-yard performance was stellar, Roberts finished just 21–42 with zero touchdowns in windy conditions, and the Elis failed to reach the end zone on seven of their nine red zone chances. The defense’s performance, by contrast, was the best Yale has seen this year, with just seven points allowed to Columbia’s offense, which has been the worst in the conference for nearly two years.

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Running back Tyler Varga ’15 has topped 100 rushing yards in six of his seven games this season. “That’s what good teams can do,” safety Cole Champion ’16 said. “When the offense is not having the day that it wants to have, the defense can step up a little bit and vice versa.” The Elis held the Lions to 53 rushing yards, forcing quarterback Trevor McDonagh to turn to the air and throw four interceptions, even without injured cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 on the field. Rymiszewski’s backup, Jason Alessi ’18, was golden in his first starting opportunity, leading the team with nine tackles and two of the four interceptions. “Nothing really bothers [Alessi],” Champion said. “He really learned what it’s like to watch film and prepare for a game … so I wasn’t very surprised with his performance on Saturday.” As the team enters its final stretch of

Large freshman class for squash SQUASH FROM PAGE 14 and could “play a crucial role in the success of the team this year,” Roberts wrote in an email. Roberts will be the only senior in the young team’s top 12. The Elis’ main strength will be depth. While the team lacks superstar talent, Talbott believes they will win matches by “[out-grinding] their opponents with depth.” Unlike many top-heavy opponents, the Yale team will be composed of many three-, four- or five-spot players. As the roster currently stands, the number nine player will be competitive with the number three player. While the team certainly has tremendous potential, Talbott pointed out that inexperience may be their Achilles’ heel. He stressed that many of the younger players on both the men’s and women’s teams must make the transition from junior squash

to collegiate squash. The women’s squash team is also hoping to continue their success from last season. Yale wrapped up the season with a record of 17 and four and finished third at the national championships. Last spring the team graduated four seniors, including key players Millie Tomlinson ’14 and Kimberley Hay ’14, who finished the season nationally ranked three and 11, respectively. “We lost four key seniors last year so we’re in a rebuilding year. That being said, we still have a lot of great returning players and three strong freshmen who will make a huge impact in our lineup,” captain Anna Harrison ’15 wrote in an email. This fall the team welcomed freshmen Jen Davis ’18, Selena Maity ’18 and Jocelyn Lehman ’18. Davis and Maity finished their junior careers nationally ranked 18 and 24, respectively. “[The] three freshmen are going to play important spots,

and they’re all experienced junior players that have participated in both national and international competitions,” said head coach David Talbott. Between the two teams, the Bulldogs welcomed 10 freshmen — about a third of the two teams. The freshman will also look up to senior veterans Shihui Mao ’15 and Issey NormanRoss ’15, as well as returning players Annie Ballaine ’16, Georgia Blatchford ’16 and Amanda Roberts ’16. Talbott hopes the women can once again finish in the top four nationally. In order to attain such an ambitious goal, the teams took a unique approach to training this fall. “We changed our game plan to spend less time on the court and more time on strength and fitness,” said Talbott. With the aid of strength and conditioning coach Mike Harris, who designed a squash-specific training program, the men’s and women’s

teams should be well prepared for the coming season. “Overall, this is probably the hardest working team we’ve had in the past few years,” Talbott said. This season will feature arguably the strongest level of competition in collegiate squash history, according to associate head coach Pam Saunders. Key matches include perennial rivals Trinity, Rochester and St. Lawrence, as well as all Ivy League competitors. St. Lawrence, Rochester, Penn and Princeton will all be hosted by Yale. Both teams will unofficially begin their seasons this Saturday with the Ivy League Scrimmage, hosted at the Brady Squash center in Payne Whitney Gym. The men will open against Dartmouth at 12:30 p.m., while the women will also play Columbia at 12:30 p.m. Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

the season, the remaining three games will be important not just for Yale’s title chances, but also for the Eli seniors, who will end their Yale football careers after the game at Harvard on Nov. 22. Kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15, however, said that the focus remains on tomorrow’s game, as Reno stresses each week. “[The season is] going to end at some point, and maybe when that ends, we’ll sit down as a senior class, all my best friends, and we’ll feel that,” Cazzetta said. “But right now, we’re in the process, we’re in it for Brown this week. We’re focused just like it’s week one.” Yale and Brown will kick off in Providence at 12:30 p.m. The contest will be broadcast on FOX Sports College Atlantic.

Elis aim to stay unbeaten

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Trent Ruffolo ’15 racked up 13 points while playing in all 33 of the Bulldogs’ contests last season. M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14

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The women’s squash team went 8–1 at home, falling in a close 5–4 match to Trinity. Prior to that loss, they won eight straight matches 9–0.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

challenge of the weekend for Yale. The Saints sit at 4–3–1 and have proved their offensive prowess, scoring 30 goals in eight games while conceding only 19. Yale has a strong record against St. Lawrence in recent years, boasting a 5–0–1 mark against the Saints. However, given the recent offensive form of St. Lawrence, Yale will have to maintain its current defensive strength while simultaneously increasing offensive output. Finally, the Saints are coming off of a 4–0 win over Clarkson, which Yale will face Friday night. “I think one thing that we’re focusing on is production. If you look at the Princeton and UConn games, we had a ton of opportunity to score goals, and we ended up having a successful weekend, but I think we could produce a lot more,” John Hayden ’17 said. “We have a mindset where we really want to bear down and put more pucks in the net.”

Though the Saints clearly have offensive mettle, their statistics this season have been inflated by a single blowout 10–2 win over Niagara University. Discounting their outlier win over the Purple Eagles brings St. Lawrence’s statistics down from the clouds: seven games, 20 goals for and 17 goals against. Yale has given up just three goals in their first two NCAA matches. Thus, the Saints will be hard pressed to win by eight against a more defensively capable Eli squad. Nevertheless, Yale will face a toss up game against St. Lawrence in which they will be slight favorites and should face a stiff challenge in both of their games this weekend. “Those are just two really good teams … They have good wins so far this year, so we can’t take them lightly,” Hayden said. Yale’s next match comes against at Dartmouth on Friday, Nov. 14. Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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Pressure-packed Ivy game ahead FOOTBALL

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The end of the 2014 Ivy League football season is rapidly approaching, and three strong opponents remain for the Bulldogs. A loss to any of them would virtually end Yale’s chances at an Ivy League title. That challenge begins tomorrow at Brown (4–3, 2–2 Ivy), the fifth-place team in the Ivy League that should pose a strong test for the Eli offense. Yale (6–1, 3–1) will look to overpower a Bear defense that has allowed just 18.9 points per game to its opponents, including only 22 points to the undefeated, No. 17 Harvard Crimson. “Defensively, the Brown defense has always been a physical group that puts a lot of guys in the box and makes you throw the ball,” head coach Tony Reno said. “They’re not going to let you run it.” Brown sits one spot below Yale in the Ancient Eight standings at 0.500 in conference play. But the Bears have not yet lost to any teams that the Bulldogs have beaten, as Brown’s only two Ivy losses, Harvard and Princeton, still remain on Yale’s schedule as its last two contests of the season. Both of those conference defeats were close, with the Harvard-Brown game featuring the narrowest margin of victory the Crimson has had all season. The Bears had a chance to tie the score with two minutes left, but an interception on the second play of their final drive gave Harvard a 22–14 win. Yale and Brown were also nearly even last year when a last-minute, 32-yard touchdown rush by wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 was the difference in a 24–17 Eli victory. Much has changed since then, as both SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 12

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale football team will square off against Brown tomorrow with a chance to move closer to a share of the Ivy League championship. The Bulldogs enter as favorites over the Bears, but a strong defense and steadily improving offense in Providence poses a threat to a Yale team that had its weakest offensive game of the season last week. If the Elis can protect against both the rush and pass, convert in the red zone and succeed through the air, they can take home a win and remain in control of their destiny.

PROTECT ALL PARTS OF THE FIELD

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In a strong but close finish in the Liberty Invitational, the Elis (1–0–1, 0–0 ECAC) dispatched of both the UConn Huskies and Princeton Tigers. Yale looks to continue its hot start to the season in a two-match home opening slate.

MEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs are set to take on Clarkson and St. Lawrence, last year’s sixth and eighth place finishers in the ECAC respectively. The Bulldogs have the momentum headed into the weekend, given their successful to the season and past history against their two opponents. “I think [the Liberty Invitational Championship] just gave us a building block going forward. The first weekend of the year we played a pretty good team game, and to come out on top gives us some confidence going forward,” Mike Doherty ’17 said. “We’re feeling pretty good about our depth.”

A week ago, the scouting report for Brown’s offense would have been straightforward: Defend the pass. Brown quarterback Marcus Fuller has enjoyed success in the pocket in his senior season, spreading the ball around to many receivers for 255.1 passing yards per game, third-best in the Ancient Eight. Through six weeks, the pass had accounted for 75.6 percent of all Brown offensive yards. That included a 454-yard performance from Fuller in Brown’s 27–16 loss at Princeton, in which the Bears attempted 71 passing plays. Then, an unexpected weapon, backup

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 completed just 50 percent of his passes last week, a season-low.

Bulldogs face ECAC foes at home BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER

Keys to the game

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Squash aims high for 2014–15

Sitting at 2–4–2 and riding a onegame losing streak, the Clarkson Golden Knights will be looking to bounce back against a Yale squad that has had a difficult time scoring in recent matches. However, the Elis handled Clarkson neatly in their one 2013–14 matchup, winning 6–3. Given Alex Lyon’s ’17 current form in goal, the Bulldogs are wellequipped for a shut-down defensive game against a hungry Clarkson squad. Furthermore, Yale is on a two-game winning streak and just coming off of a strong tournament win — a victory which head coach Keith Allain said has given his team confidence. Ultimately, if Yale can contain the Golden Knights’ quick breaks and continue playing their brand of defense, then Clarkson may provide an opportunity for Yale’s first home win of the year. “Clarkson is a really strong team … They’re dangerous in transition, and they’ve got forwards that can beat you one-on-one,” Allain said. St. Lawrence may provide the stiffest SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 12

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The Men’s squash team went 16–3 last season, dropping two matches to Trinity and one to the Crimson. BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After successful finishes at last year’s national championships, both the men’s and women’s squash teams have set their sights even higher.

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In Yale’s first two games, the Bulldogs have gone 1-for-9 on the power play, for a .111 conversion rate.

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This year’s men’s team is looking to build on the young core that won them success in 2013–14. Despite an impressive record of 16–3 and a thirdplace finish at the national championships, head coach David Talbott is aiming for even more this year. Last spring the team graduated only two

seniors, and five of the top six players were freshman or sophomores. As such, expectations are high. “Knowing the competition, we have an opportunity to win the Ivy League and compete for a national championship,” Talbott said. The trio of sophomores T.J. Dembinski ’17, Liam McClimtock ’17 and Kah Wah Cheong ’17 hope to continue the success they achieved last year. Dembinski and McClimtock both went undefeated, while Cheong lost just a single match. The three finished last season nationally ranked at 32, 34 and 38, respectively. Sam Fenwick ’16 and Zach Leman ’16 will be key contributors this year

as well. Fenwick and Leman finished the 2013–14 season ranked 30 and 31, respectively. The men will also benefit from the addition of seven freshmen. “Six of our freshmen were nationally ranked in juniors and five of them will be or are capable of playing in the top ten this season,” said Talbott. “This is one of the strongest recruiting classes we’ve had in the past couple years.” The freshman will look up to captain Joey Roberts ’15 for leadership. The freshmen have “been committed to working hard from day one” SEE SQUASH PAGE 12

NATIONAL RANKING HELD BY SAM FENWICK ’16 IN THE 2014 SEASON. Fenwick will be a top contributor to the men’s squash program this season. Zach Leman ’16 finished just behind him with a ranking of 31.