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GUEST COLUMNISTS
E L I Z A B E T H T E R RY A N D E M I LY F OX
Basking in
reflected glory
BY ELIZABETH TERRY AND EMILY FOX
THE CLASS OF 1994
A
t our 20th reunion in 2014,
newly appointed Yale Presi-
dent Peter Salovey accepted
our invitation to give a brief talk to
our class. Salovey was a beloved
figure when we were undergradu-
ates at Yale — a record number of
students enrolled in his class “Psy-
chology and Law,” forcing a venue
change to the enormous Battell
Chapel.
When President Salovey arrived
to speak to our class on the Friday
of reunion, it was with all the star
power of an NBA champion plus
British royalty plus Tom Hanks. He
walked into the room, and suddenly
it felt like all of us were back in col-
lege, acolytes thoroughly enrap-
tured by the cheerful wisdom of our
guru, as luminaries of bygone days
gazed down at us from their oil por-
traits on the walls of Sheffield-Ster-
ling-Strathcona Hall.
Salovey’s talk that day focused
on a research interest of his called
“Basking in Reflected Glory” or
“BIRG-ing” — the psychologi-
cal phenomenon that accounts for
why we feel great when “our” team
wins a championship or “our” can-
didate wins an election. We all like
to feel affiliated with prestige, with
power, with winners. But some-
times — especially for Yalies, espe-
cially at reunions — it’s hard not to
look left and right, clock the success
of your peers, and think: why them
and not me?
Instead, guru Salovey suggested,
a class reunion is the ideal time to
indulge in the positive effects of
“BIRG-ing.” He advised us to side-
step the impulse to compare and
contrast; instead, simply applaud
the success of your classmates, and
let them applaud you. Revel in your
collective success and any lingering
envy will melt away.
Both of us have reflected often on
that advice in the last five years. The
mid-forties are… an adventure. The
term “midlife crisis” may sound
trite and overused, but it’s real and
it’s a sucker punch — even though
everyone told us it was coming.
But we realized we’ve experi-
enced a newfound peace, too, that
comes from looking back over the
last four decades and realizing that
no one’s unscathed by now. Even
the most successful of our peers,
the ones with the highest profiles,
awards on the mantle, more money
in the bank than they could spend in
a lifetime — all of us have lost loved
ones, survived health crises or had
major career setbacks. Marriages
have imploded, our parents’ health
has deteriorated, the economy has
been a gut-churning rollercoaster,
never mind the state of our democ-
racy. Life is a great equalizer. No
one’s unscathed, but we’re all in this
together, so no one’s alone, either.
When we let ourselves BIRG a
little, we find so much to feel great
about. We find true delight in our
friends’ successes, big and small.
We take enormous pride in the bond
of friendship among our classmates
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— some of whom we’ve known
since the first day of college, some
of whom we are now just meet-
ing for the first time this weekend.
We feel lucky to be here, and now
more than ever, we feel lucky to be
together.
MARRIAGES HAVE
IMPLODED, OUR
PARENTS’ HEALTH
HAS DETERIORATED,
THE ECONOMY
HAS BEEN A
GUT-CHURNING
ROLLERCOASTER,
NEVER MIND THE
STATE OF OUR
DEMOCRACY.
Peter Salovey’s attendance
record finally fell last year to Laurie
Santos’ “Psychology and the Good
Life,” which met in Woolsey Hall —
even bigger than Battell. Her class
explores research into the behaviors
and practices that boost well-be-
ing. It’s heartening for us to see that
young, vibrant, idealistic under-
grads are interested in unlocking
the secrets to happiness and men-
tal health. It’s not just for grownups
anymore.
One of Santos’ assignments is
to keep a gratitude journal, which
experts say can be a very power-
ful happiness practice. We’re giv-
ing the Class of ‘94 that assign-
ment too: one of the souvenirs for
this 25th reunion is a small navy
blue bound book in which we hope
our classmates will note the things
in life that they feel grateful for, the
things that spark joy, that give them
that unique BIRG glow.
The two of us are thankful to have
had the chance to burnish our 25+-
year friendship through months
of Zoom video calls, random texts
and pizza emojis as we planned this
reunion. We’re thankful we had the
chance to go to college at Yale, and
to our families who made that pos-
sible. We’re thankful to the Alumni
Association staff that works tire-
lessly on these reunions. We’re
thankful the Yorkside menu hasn’t
really changed since we last had
a Greek salad there when we just
couldn’t face the dining hall. And
we’re truly thankful to every single
classmate who decided to take the
time and spend the energy to return
to New Haven this weekend. We’re
basking in reflected glory.
Elizabeth Terry ’94 and Emily Fox ’94
are co-chairs of their 25th reunion
committee. Terry is a writer and editor
based in Washington, D.C. Fox is a
TV producer and writer based in Los
Angeles.
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The YDN, then and now
BY MELINDA BECK
THE CLASS OF 1977
taking it over and giving the space
to the Art and Architecture build-
ing next door.
promising reporters and editors
had quit the News because they
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T
urn on a cable news show In 1978, future-minded student pus job (as required by their finan-
these days, read a top news- editors, guided by former pub- cial-aid package), keep up with
paper or listen to a political lisher Eric Nestler ’76, asked News their classes and devote 20 or 30
podcast. You’ll likely find a News alumni for help to pay for the build- hours each week to producing the
alum breaking an important story. ing repairs and set up a retirement News.
The current roster of top jour- fund for Frances Donahue, a fixture In 2016, after extensive debate,
nalists from Yale includes The at the paper for more than 50 years. the Foundation began offering sti-
Washington Post’s White House That effort inspired a group of pends of up to $3,000 a year to beat
Bureau Chief Philip Rucker ’06, its News alumni, led by Jim Ottoway reporters and editors on financial
Deputy Editorial Page Editor Ruth ’60, Jonathan Rose ’63 and Joseph aid to allow them to work fewer
Marcus ’80 and the host of its daily Lieberman ’64 LAW ‘67, to estab- hours and devote more time to the
news podcast Martine Powers ’11. lish the Oldest College Daily Foun- News. (Many other Ivy League
Michael Barbaro ‘02 hosts The New dation, a 501(c)(3) organization that papers have similar programs.)
York Times’ daily podcast, and
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could solicit tax-deductible con-
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The stipends have clearly helped
individual students. One recipient
columnist. Zeke Miller ’11 cov- they loved. wrote: “I am incredibly grateful for
ers the White House for the Asso- The student-run Yale Daily the stipend from the YDN Foun-
ciated Press. Michael Crowley ’94
is the White House and national
News Publishing Co. also filed for dation. I can’t emphasize enough
not-for-profit status. In the subse- how much stress it has taken off my
security editor for Politico. Isaac
Arnsdorf ’11 covers the Trump
quent years when the News made shoulders. This makes it possible
money, those profits were added to for those of us with a [student-in-
administration for ProPublica, the the foundation’s endowment to be come requirement] to participate at
award-winning investigative news available for future needs. In years the News with the same time com-
organization founded by Paul Stei- when the News didn’t make money, mitment and intensity as everyone
ger ’64, after he served as The Wall the Foundation has provided a else on the board.”
Street Journal’s Managing Editor safety net and a way to fund major In a recent survey of News staff-
for 16 years. capital improvements. (Since 2003, ers and alumni in the classes of 2013
At a time when serious, fact- the Foundation’s endowment has to 2021, 85 percent said it “very
based reporting is more essential been invested along with Yale Uni- important” for the Foundation to
than ever, the News continues to versity’s endowment, which has provide some financial assistance
train some of the best journalists in greatly enhanced its returns.) to Newsies on financial aid.
the world, just as it did in the days
of Briton Hadden and Henry Luce,
Over the years, funds from
the OCD Foundation (recently
Meanwhile, the econom-
ics of publishing have taken an
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Last month, the Society of Pro- Foundation) have helped the News Print advertising for all newspa-
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News the best all-around student lication, purchase state-of-the- precipitously in the internet age;
newspaper of 2018. The News also art software and other equipment web advertising hasn’t grown fast
won the national prize for best and pay for repairs. Even before enough to take its place. News-
breaking news reporting, and the he graduated, Paul Needham ’11, papers across the country have
Yale Daily News Magazine was a now the Foundation’s vice presi- folded or cut back on production.
finalist in the best student maga- dent for development, raised over Many college newspapers no lon-
zine category. $600,000 to fund an extensive ger publish every day; some no
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Older alums may remember a torial operation of the News to the them: a book coming out next
time when the News was so flush students. (We all remember that summer profiling current Yale stu-
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up the year’s profits, their share coverage, trying to cut costs, mak- sions essays to feed the insatiable
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tion. That was largely due to ciga- such a valuable experience — and tinue, the News will need to rely on
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and competed to win their brand Board members over the years have the Foundation mostly watch in awe
loyalty early on. In 1963, U.S. included numerous lawyers, pub- as student journalists put out the
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agreed to stop advertising in col- as well as working journalists. reports, blog posts, podcasts, a daily
lege newspapers — eliminating As part of its mission to support headline service and other offerings
about half of those papers’ national young journalists, the Foundation we never dreamed of in our day, fully
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much of the remaining reve- unpaid summer journalism intern- Come see for yourself. The News
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too, leaving college newspapers, a career. Since 1993, the Summer ing a reunion open house for News
including the News barely profit- Fellowship program has helped alumni and friends on Saturday,
able by the 1970s. some 300 Newsies take internships May 25th and Saturday June 1, from
The News also had another at over 100 media outlets, ranging 3:00 to 4:30pm.
issue: its historic building at 202 from the Financial Times of Lon-
York Street, built for the paper in don to the BBC in Kazakhstan and Melinda Beck ’77, a longtime Wall
1932 without an endowment to Vanity Fair. Street Journal editor and columnist,
maintain it, was in such bad shape In recent years, the Foundation is the chair of the Yale Daily News
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For many years, the students and alumni of rizing the biggest news events that happened
the Yale Daily News have discussed how our on campus this year.
newspaper can better engage with the Yale The articles from our archives are partic-
alumni community. I and my fellow editors ularly special. Our reporters went through
sincerely hope that this special issue of the old issues of the News dating back to 1950 to
News, written and edited specifically for this dust off some of our most interesting stories
year’s alumni reunions, will help do just that. that coincided with each reunion class’ time at
This “alumni reunion issue” is the first of Yale. They range from historically significant
its kind, and we eagerly anticipate any and to outright quirky.
all constructive criticism on what can be Please do have a meaningful reunion this
done better for next year. If you ever have any weekend. In the meantime, we at the News will
thoughts about the Oldest College Daily that be at 202 York Street, eagerly working to keep
you want to share with our editorial board, we all of our readers informed about the nuances
can always be reached at editor@yaledaily- and developments of the Yale-New Haven
news.com community. I hope it makes a difference to you.
The alumni reunion issue is split into three
parts. These comprise an opinion section Sincerely,
authored by Yale alums, a suite of “articles Britton O’Daly
from the archives” and a set of stories summa- Editor in Chief of the Yale Daily News
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GUEST COLUMNIST
Why reunions?
BY JAY MUSOFF
CLASS OF 1989
T
his Memorial Day weekend, I
return to New Haven for the
Class of 1989’s 30th reunion.
This will be my sixth class reunion.
And because my wife is a member of
the Class of 1988 and I have accom-
panied her to several reunions, I
can safely say that I have been to at
least ten Yale reunions. So, why do I
return to campus for these events?
Why reunions?
When I was a junior, more than
30 years ago, I distinctly remember
a group of alumni who had returned
to campus for their 10th reunion
knock on my suite door in Daven-
port and ask if they could see their
old room. And I distinctly remem-
ber thinking that these guys were
old and pathetic. Didn’t they have
anything better to do than wallow in
nostalgia?
Recently, a classmate told me
that he worked reunions while he
was an undergraduate and recalls
feeling something like pity towards
those “old folks” who were com-
ing back for their 30th reunion. As I
walk through campus, I try to imag-
ine what the current undergradu-
ates think of us; the class of 1989 is
to the class of 2019 what the class of
1959 was to my class.
Before this reunion, I was speak-
ing with one of my old roommates,
and he asked me who was I most
excited to see at our reunion. Of
course, we both agreed that we were
GUEST COLUMNIST
Reunion clerking through the centuries
BY WAYNE G. WILLIS
CLASS OF 1969
W
hen I graduated Yale in
1969, I stayed in New
Haven for a summer job,
waiting to go into Navy Officer
Candidate School (OCS) in the fall.
I signed up to be a reunion clerk —
it was very good money ($100/
day!) and a lot of fun.
OUR CLASSMATES,
WHO ARE ALL
MALE, RESPECTED
AND REVERED THE
REVEREND SIDNEY
LOVETT, YALE’S
CHAPLAIN, WHO
LITERALLY PUT
THE FEAR OF GOD
IN US — AND ALSO
INSPIRED US. WHILE
THE PRESIDENT
OF YALE, WHITNEY
GRISWOLD, WAS
A WONDERFUL
MAN AND GREATLY
ADMIRED, SID
LOVETT WAS THE
PERSON WHO
REALLY GOT OUR
MOTORS GOING,
OR STOPPED THE
WRONG ONES.
I was assigned to the Class of
1909, which was celebrating its
60th reunion in Jonathan Edwards
College. While I was bartending,
under the tent, an old man came
up to me and asked, “So, you’re a
student, just graduated, right?”
“Right,” I answered.
“Well, what’s on your mind?
What are you concerned about?
What’s the big challenge? Don’t
sugar coat it. I read about your
generation, and I want to hear it
straight.”
“OK,” I said. “Here you go:
First, this illegal, immoral war! It’s
JAY M U S O F F
excited to see our group of close
friends. But the person we both
agreed we were most excited to see
was not among our closest friends.
Rather, it was someone who we both
enjoyed bumping into in the dining
hall, someone who was funny, cre-
ative and interesting, but someone
who we no longer regularly see.
I will not mention him by name
for fear of embarrassing us all, but
this person is why I return to cam-
pus for reunions. Not him specifi-
cally (although I am excited to see
him), but whom he represents — all
of those interesting, creative, funny,
witty people I had the pleasure of
bumping into in the Davenport din-
ing hall. Never before and never
since my time at Yale have I had
the simple pleasure of walking into
someplace and be guaranteed to find
so many people with whom I could
easily share a meal and a good con-
versation. I marvel at the sheer ran-
domness and spontaneity of it all.
So, why do I return for reunions?
Of course I enjoy spending time
with my close and dear friends. But
part of it is to try to recapture — to
reignite — those random and spon-
taneous encounters with people I
bumped into in the dining hall so
many years ago. Reunions offer an
opportunity to recreate the magic of
the dining hall. Those funny, free-
wheeling, often provocative discus-
sions with a group of people we may
not have realized at the time we were
so fortunate to share a meal with.
A brief word on randomness
WA Y N E G . W I L L I S
killing lots of American boys and
maybe millions of Vietnamese.
We’ve been lied to, it’s unneces-
sary and it seems intractable.
“Worse, the American public is
fighting mad; people are at each
other’s throats. My father, who
served in World War II, does not
understand my antipathy towards
the war in Vietnam. The ‘silent
majority’ really hates liberals. The
generation gap is very wide. The
war, the riots, the violence, assas-
sinations, the polarized politics…
we feel that the country could
crack up at any time.”
He looked down, reflecting on
what I said. “You know, it’s very
interesting,” he said, shaking his
head slowly. “You see, when I
graduated from Yale in 1909, I,
too, served as a reunion clerk. We
were on Old Campus for reunions
back then — these residential col-
leges didn’t come until much later.
I, too, was assigned to one of the
old classes — not the 60th reunion
like you, but the 50th reunion of
the Class of 1859.”
He continued. “At one of the
wine events, I asked one of the
men from that class the same
questions I just asked you... what
concerned him when he gradu-
ated, what was on his mind. You
know what he said?”
“No.”
“He said, ‘We were worried
about the terrible plight of the
slaves. Many of us were studying
for the ministry, and most of us
were abolitionists. We didn’t know
what we were going to do, but we
knew we had to do something.
The country was coming unglued,
not just North and South, but city
and country. And we turned out to
be right, of course; the Civil War
started just two years after we
were graduated, and some in our
class were killed.’”
The old man from 1909 con-
tinued, “I’ll make note that there
was also an illegal war during his
time as a student — the Mexi-
can-American War.
“Isn’t it interesting that you are
talking to a man, who talked to a
man who was exactly your age,
only 110 years ago? And that dis-
tant man faced and feared exactly
the same challenges you face and
fear: racism, injustice, violence,
revolt and a country that was tear-
ing itself apart, brother against
brother in some cases.”
I was stunned. What he said
was true, but the Yale connection
made it all too real and very imme-
diate.
And so we come to 2019. I plan
to ask some of today’s reunion
clerks about what’s on their minds.
What are they concerned about?
What are the big challenges they
face? Are they concerned about
and spontaneity. In the dark ages
before social media, emails, texts
and mobile phones, the dining halls
encouraged these chance encoun-
ters. Without reliable or instanta-
neous communication, we did not
necessarily plan to meet anyone for
a meal; we often just showed up. Not
only do undergraduates today lack
any need to just show up in the din-
ing halls, but fewer of them are living
in the residential colleges and eating
in the dining halls in the first place.
According to the News, more
than 40 percent of all seniors and
nearly 25 percent of juniors are liv-
ing off campus. Whether this trend
is good or bad is beyond the purview
of this column, particularly because
each generation of Yalies gets to
write their own chapter. How-
ever, I cannot help but think that
they might be missing out on the
unexpected joy of these unplanned
encounters.
The randomness and sponta-
neity of the dining hall, filled with
funny and fascinating friends, may
never be fully duplicated. But we
can still find joy in the random con-
versations or spontaneous encoun-
ters among our classmates. For me,
this is the reason why I still come to
reunions.
Jay K. Musoff ’89 is a co-chair of his
30th reunion committee and co-chair
of Loeb & Loeb’s White Collar
Criminal Defense and Investigations
Group. He is a former Publisher of the
News.
black lives in America? Will they
worry that the country is increas-
ingly acrimonious and in danger of
tearing itself apart?
Alfred Korzybski, in Science
and Sanity, observed that humans
are unique in their use of language
and the cultural institutions sur-
rounding them. While plants are
“chemical binders” (photosynthe-
sis) and animals are “space bind-
ers” (moving around, defining
territory), humans are “time-bind-
ers,” passing on accumulated wis-
dom embedded in language and
history and transmitted through
institutions like Yale.
THAT’S WHAT
BINDS ME TO
TODAY’S REUNION
CLERKS, TO MY 1909
INTERLOCUTOR
AND ALL OF US TO
THE PRE-CIVIL-
WAR YALIE. THAT
ONLY LEAVES THE
QUESTION ABOUT
WHETHER GIVEN
THE LIGHT AND
TRUTH YALE HAS
IMPARTED ON US,
WE DO ANYTHING
TO ENSURE THE
NEXT REUNION
CLERK WON’T
HAVE THE SAME
STORY TO TELL.
That’s what binds me to today’s
reunion clerks, to my 1909 inter-
locutor and all of us to the pre-
Civil-War Yalie. That only leaves
the question about whether
given the light and truth Yale has
imparted on us, we do anything
to ensure the next reunion clerk
won’t have the same story to tell.
Wayne Willis is a member of
the class of 1969, and the Web-
master of Yale1969.org. Contact
him at
wayne@willisdomain.com .
GUEST COLUMNIST
LAUREN HOFFMAN
It’s on
us
BY LAUREN HOFFMAN
CLASS OF 2014
D
uring my first year at Yale,
in the fall of 2010, my
classmates — Delta Kappa
Epsilon (DKE) fraternity pledges
— chanted in front of the Yale
Women’s Center, “No means
yes! Yes means anal!” As a fresh-
man, I remember being very
jarred. But at the same time, I
naively accepted that college life
was just as popular culture por-
trayed it.
In the five years since I
have graduated from Yale, the
#MeToo movement has spread
across the country, but instances
of sexual harassment and assault
continue to plague Yale.
In April 2019, the News
reported that Professor Thomas
Pogge still teaches at Yale despite
allegations of sexual harass-
ment from a former student and
a letter condemning his actions
signed by more than one thou-
sand professors from around the
world. In February 2019, three
female undergraduate students
sued Yale and the fraternities on
campus in a federal class-action
lawsuit, arguing that the frater-
nity culture at Yale facilitates
sexual harassment and gender
inequality. And in March 2018,
the News reported that Yale
received a record number of 124
sexual misconduct complaints
between July 2017 and January
2018, a number likely result-
ing from more survivors bravely
coming forward and reporting
instances of sexual harassment
and assault.
I am an advocate for gen-
der justice and have spent
the past year working at the
National Women’s Law Center.
All of these instances of sexu-
all harassment and assault at
Yale have left me wondering –
what can Yale be doing better so
that it can be the model univer-
sity that it should be, and how
can Yale alumni be part of this
change?
Indeed, Yale has taken pos-
itive measures to address sex-
ual harassment and assault on
campus — especially as the law
has changed to protect stu-
dents. Title IX of the Education
Amendments of 1972 protects
all students from sex discrim-
ination, including sexual vio-
lence, and in 1977, in Alexander
v. Yale, the 2nd Circuit held that
sexual harassment is a form of
sex discrimination that violates
Title IX. Following a 2011 Title
IX Complaint and subsequent
investigation of the Office of
Civil Rights of the Department
of Education, Yale improved its
Title IX policies and created a
University-Wide Committee
on Sexual Misconduct (UWC)
to address sexual misconduct
claims. Yale began publishing its
records of sexual misconduct.
Following the 2010 DKE
pledge event I mentioned, then
Dean of Yale College Mary Miller
opened a 6-month-long inves-
tigation before prohibiting DKE
from engaging in on-campus
activities. In 2018, Yale started
requiring all students to com-
plete annual Title IX train-
ing and not just read emails or
booklets about the Universi-
ty’s sexual misconduct poli-
cies and resources. And follow-
ing Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos’s proposed harmful revi-
sions to Title IX regulations in
2019, Yale University President
Peter Salovey critiqued these
proposed revisions because they
would “discourage survivors
from coming forward to seek
help and redress.”
Clearly, these changes are
not enough. Yale still needs to
address and prevent ongoing
sexual harassment and assault
on campus. The best way Yale
can do so is by listening to cur-
rent students and recent grad-
uates and instituting policies
to formally and substantively
address their concerns.
Currently, Yale does not have
a ban on hiring faculty with
records of sexual misconduct,
and if a faculty member is found
to have engaged in sexual mis-
conduct, the Provost, not the
University-Wide Committee on
Sexual Misconduct (UWC), has
the final say on punishment. In a
recent piece in the News, current
students Valentina Connell ’20
and Miranda Coombe ’21 impor-
tantly suggest that Yale should
institute and enforce a ban on
hiring faculty with records of
sexual misconduct, that the
UWC should have the final say
when it comes to punishment
and that the chair of the UWC
should have no previous associ-
ation with Yale to ensure impar-
tiality.
Furthermore, as the recent
class-action lawsuit argues, the
fraternity culture at Yale facil-
itates sexual harassment and
gender inequality. Yale should
seriously consider these plain-
tiffs’ concerns and look to model
its campus social life off of
peer institutions. Harvard now
requires its fraternities, sorori-
ties and finals clubs — which are
not officially affiliated with the
University — to be gender-in-
clusive. According to university
policy, members of such sin-
gle-gender organizations are
unable to hold campus leader-
ship positions or be endorsed for
outside scholarships. A Harvard
task force found that finals clubs
fostered “a strong sense of sex-
ual entitlement.”
According to Mollie John-
son ’18, a survivor of sexual
assault at DKE, “Yale trails far
behind its fellow Ivies in pro-
tecting students. The adminis-
tration has essentially thrown
up its hands, claiming that it has
no legal standing to regulate fra-
ternities. This simply is not true,
and both Harvard and Princeton
have taken stands against Greek
life. Why hasn’t Yale?”
While students play a cen-
tral role in advocating for Yale to
improve its sexual misconduct
policies, we as alumni also have
an important role in this process.
In 2017, for instance, 145 alumni
signed an open letter urging Yale
to keep specific sexual miscon-
duct policies amidst Secretary
of Education Betsy DeVos’s pro-
posals to revise Title IX.
This is an issue that all alumni
should care about. We should
form an alumni committee
and have discussions with Yale
based on students’ concerns.
Yale should furthermore con-
sider having an alumni steering
committee of experts as part of
the UWC.
IT’S THUS ON US,
YALE ALUMS, TO
MAKE SURE THAT
YALE BECOMES THE
MODEL UNIVERSITY
THAT IT SHOULD
BE WHEN IT COMES
TO ADDRESSING
AND PREVENTING
SEXUAL
HARASSMENT AND
ASSAULT. LET’S
GET TO WORK.
Dr. Ann Olivarius ’77, LAW
’86, SOM ’86, Alexander v. Yale
plaintiff and founder of the law
firm McAllister Olivarius, thinks
that alumni have untapped
power and ability. According
to Olivarius, “Yale has all the
resources to be a leader in this
area, but in my experience, it
fights victims of sexual harass-
ment… rather than concede that
important professors or other
members of the Yale commu-
nity have done anything wrong.
It is time for alumni to add
their voices to those on campus
who are still trying to make the
promise of equal educational
opportunities for women a real-
ity.”
It’s thus on us, Yale alums, to
make sure that Yale becomes the
model university that it should
be when it comes to addressing
and preventing sexual harass-
ment and assault. Let’s get to
work.
Lauren Hoffman ’14 is co-chair
of her 5th reunion committee and is
currently a law student at Ameri-
can University Washington College
of Law.
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OPINION
A message from the class of 1954
BY RUSSELL REYNOLDS
CLASS OF 1954
A
s the Class of 1954 contem-
plates its 65th (and hopefully
not last) reunion this com-
ing weekend, a great many thoughts
and memories come to mind. First
of all, our classmates, who are all
male, respected and revered the
Reverend Sidney Lovett, Yale’s
Chaplain, who literally put the fear
of God in us — and also inspired us.
While the President of Yale, Whit-
ney Griswold, was a wonderful man
and greatly admired, Sid Lovett was
the person who really got our motors
going, or stopped the wrong ones.
We had a tightly knit class from
the beginning. Our first class secre-
tary, the late William K. (“Sandy”)
Muir, Jr., was an inspirational leader
and a great man, even though he
did it all from a wheelchair, having
contracted the dreaded Poliovirus
the summer after our graduation.
Sandy organized the class council,
and got people behind him. It has
been a very productive council ever
since then.
At one point, around 25 years out,
Dick Gilder ’54, Joel Smilow ’54,
Fred Frank ’54, a few others and I got
together and decided we hoped we
would be able to give a significant
gift to Yale for our 50th reunion. We
formed the 54/50 fund and invited
classmates five years later to make
contributions.
After the fund was formed,
around 60 classmates had contrib-
Wilson and the “Wiki test”
BY ARTHUR RUBIN
CLASS OF 1989
I
t has been 30 years since I wrote
my last column for the News
(March, 1989: “It is time to
legalize drugs in the City of New
Haven”). My 30th reunion pro-
vides an opportunity for this one-
time denizen of Formerly Known
as Calhoun College to comment on
the 2017 decision by Yale to rename
Calhoun as Grace Hopper college,
which has prompted everything
from sober reflection to heated rant-
ing.
While criticism of the Yale
administration for the somewhat
halting process to adopt the name
change was warranted, the report
that the Committee to Establish
Principles on Renaming (CEPR)
issued presented a model of the kind
of even-handed, thoughtful dis-
course so woefully lacking in today’s
political culture. It was a welcome
echo of the 1975 Woodward Report
that set the standard for the defense
of free speech on college campuses,
which seems to have increasingly
lost its influence today (including,
sadly, at Yale itself).
A recurring criticism of the deci-
sion to rename Calhoun is that it
uses a double standard: the sins of
Calhoun are allegedly no worse than
of other slaveholders whose names
figure prominently on campus,
including Elihu Yale himself. This
whitewash of history, it is claimed,
picks Calhoun as a convenient tar-
get to assuage liberal guilt, ignor-
ing complex historical realities and
overlooking Calhoun’s achieve-
ments as a statesman and political
theorist.
Is it reasonable to single out one
dead white man for our collective ire
when so many others whose names
adorn great institutions have their
own sins to bear? Or has the con-
servative backlash against politi-
GUEST COLUMNIST
RUSSELL REYNOLDS
uted approximately $600,000 to it.
The university offered to manage the
funds for us, but we were young and
optimistic, and maybe even a little
visionary, so we gave the funds to Joe
McNay ’54 in Boston, who managed
it with Dick Gilder and a few others,
and leveraged it to the hilt. The fund
grew dramatically. Ultimately, with
some prodding from Rick Levin, the
class was in a position to give Yale
around $70 million to fund the Class
of 1954 Science Center.
There was some serious nego-
tiating between our class and Yale.
At the time of our 50th reunion,
the fund was nearer to $110 million,
and our brilliant classmates, Gilder,
Smilow and company, arranged for
us to have the Class of 1954 Skybox
at the Yale Bowl, which we still have.
One of our classmates, Char-
lie Johnson ’54, who played football
and was recently encouraged to join
our 1954 Whiffenpoof group, which
still performs, made one of the larg-
est gifts in collegiate history, provid-
ing the initial funding for Yale’s two
new colleges. Irv Jensen ’54 and his
family provided the funds for the
dramatic entrance to the Yale Bowl,
and Joel Smilow ended up endowing
the Smilow Cancer Hospital as part
of the Yale New Haven Health Sys-
tem. During this period, Dick Gilder
and his daughter Ginny also funded
the beautiful Gilder boathouse for
the winning Yale crews. Also, at
President Levin’s request Fred Frank
helped establish and fund the Yale
School of Management in 1976, now
GUEST COLUMNIST
ARTHUR RUBIN
cal correctness become so all-con-
suming in today’s polarized culture
that it fails to distinguish between
left-wing snowflakism, and a rea-
soned examination of whether the
symbolism a name carries is consis-
tent with Yale’s values?
In evaluating the merits of
changing an institution’s name, I
suggest it is reasonable to adopt a
kind of “Wikipedia test” to see how
a historical figure’s defining quali-
ties are remembered in the first few
lines of his or her Wikipedia entry.
To illustrate, compare the entries
for John C. Calhoun and Woodrow
Wilson, another controversial fig-
ure whose embrace of racist theo-
ries and policies prompted demands
that his name be removed from a
school at Princeton.
For Wilson, Wikipedia highlights
his positive achievements — serving
as President of the United States,
Governor of New Jersey, sponsor
of progressive legislative policies,
and some lesser accomplishments
(President of Princeton). His rac-
ism and actions to remove African
Americans from the civil service
while President deserve condemna-
tion, but these are not what primar-
ily define him for posterity.
Calhoun, by contrast, is
described by Wikipedia as a states-
man who strongly defended slav-
ery and “Southern values.” He is
remembered first and foremost for
being not only an apologist for slav-
ery, but also an active defender of it
as a positive good.
No less a liberal icon than John F.
Kennedy called Calhoun “a master-
ful defender of the rights of a polit-
ical minority against the dangers of
an unchecked majority” when he
named him one of the five greatest
U.S. Senators. But even if you believe
in the importance of the political
rights of minorities (as I do), to the
extent that Calhoun’s defense of
such rights was primarily driven by
a globally ranked business school.
None of this would have been
possible without the spirit that
Yale drummed into us — namely, to
become leaders and to do the right
and honorable things for the right
reasons. Today, Yale is a vibrant,
thriving, much different place than
it was in 1954. So many changes have
taken place. Change creates not only
opportunity, but also controversy.
There are those in our class today
who feel that the university is too lib-
eral, and there are others who proba-
bly think it is not liberal enough.
The good news is that regard-
less of what we think, and con-
cerns we may have, Yale College is
stronger than ever, financially and
academically, as are its flourishing
world-leading law school, medical
school and divinity school. To have
been part of the great Class of 1954
has been a particular blessing for
all of us. I hope Yale will continue
to encourage people to do the right
things for the right reasons, and to
listen to the Chaplain, as well as the
professors and the coaches.
Our class is just one of many, but
we have been lucky to have some
very generous classmates.
Our class motto is “Be Positive,
Be Grateful, and Be of Service.” I am
very proud of our classmates, who
have exemplified our motto.
Russell Reynolds ’54 is the founder
and chairman of Russell Reynolds
Associates, an international executive
recruiting firm.
his desire to maintain slavery, hold-
ing up Calhoun as a statesman wor-
thy of commemoration is deeply
problematic.
This “Wikipedia test” falls short
of the CEPR’s charge that the Uni-
versity “study and make a scholarly
judgment on how the namesake’s
legacies should be understood” but
is a valid way to consider how con-
temporary society measures a fig-
ure’s essential historical relevance
against its values.
Too easily have conservative crit-
ics of Calhoun College’s renaming
hurled charges at Yale’s adminis-
tration of succumbing to political
correctness. While criticisms of the
tyranny of political correctness have
been all too valid in many other con-
texts (notably in Yale’s sorry han-
dling of l’affaire Christakis), the case
of Calhoun is fundamentally differ-
ent than that of Wilson and other
historical figures whose names
grace buildings at Yale.
The failure of conservative crit-
ics to make this distinction weak-
ens their argument both in this case
and in others where such charges are
on firmer ground. And the failure of
liberals to distinguish between the
likes of Calhoun and other dead
white male slaveholders whose rel-
evance to posterity is not defined by
slave ownership simply drives their
political opponents to adopt more
extreme positions in reaction, esca-
lating the cycle of polarization.
I will forever think of myself as
a “Hounie,” even if of the “f/k/a”
variety. But I can hold onto a sen-
timental identity formed 30 years
ago, and at the same time acknowl-
edge the validity of the decision that
it was time for the Calhoun name to
go.
Arthur Rubin ’89 works in Latin
American finance in New York City
and is the former Chairman of the Yale
College Republicans.
VALERIE NAVARRETE/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR
GUEST COLUMNIST
A N T H O N Y L AV E L Y
Designed for
Controversy
BY ANTHONY LAVELY
CLASS OF 1964
C
all me a cynic, but when
the News asked me to
write an opinion piece
about “any pressing matter that
relates to the Yale alumni com-
munity,” I assumed it was an
invitation to stir the pot from
the vantage point of 55 years out
of Yale. Looking back now with
many more life experiences, I
concede that attending an all-
male and mostly white Yale
College was a limiting factor
in developing my perspectives
— but we still had more than
enough controversies.
LOOKING BACK NOW
WITH MANY MORE
LIFE EXPERIENCES,
I CONCEDE THAT
ATTENDING AN
ALL-MALE AND
MOSTLY WHITE
YALE COLLEGE WAS
A LIMITING FACTOR
IN DEVELOPING
MY PERSPECTIVES
— BUT WE STILL
HAD MORE
THAN ENOUGH
CONTROVERSIES.
As Secretary of the Class of
1964, I regularly receive emails
with polarized and heated opin-
ions from classmates at all
points on the political and cul-
tural spectrum. I am not writ-
ing this as a spokesperson for
my classmates. Rather, I am
offering my personal observa-
tions that sharp differences of
opinion and controversies have
always been a feature of Yale.
Historically, it seems that
many campus controversies
have pit newer Yalies (espe-
cially current students) against
older alumni. So, I revisited my
1964 Class Book to recall what
issues agitated us in 1960-64.
There were plenty: civil rights,
diversity, the environment,
co-education and Vietnam, to
name a few. To be sure, we did
some stupid things, too, like
launching snowballs down on
New Haven’s “finest,” knock-
ing down the construction bar-
rier at the Beinecke to protest
extravagance and regularly vio-
lating parietals. (Note: I never
participated in these things; this
is not self-incrimination!)
Our more conservative elders
in the Class of 1909 — who
were just celebrating their 55th
reunion when we graduated —
mostly thought we were naïve
and foolhardy. For me, the les-
son here is that all generations
of college students challenge
and protest the status quo. And
what better place to assem-
ble talented and aspiring young
people at any time than a place
like Yale? Yale was designed for
controversy.
In recent years, the 1964
Class Council has met in per-
son with diverse groups of Yale
undergraduates to gain a bet-
ter understanding of 21st Cen-
tury student life. We have met
with students from the Afri-
can American Affinity Group,
the Muslim Student Associa-
tion, and some LGBTQ Affinity
Group members among the first
undergraduates at Benjamin
Franklin College, where we ded-
icated the “Class of 1964 Gate.”
These groups did not exist when
we were undergraduates. The
consensus reaction that I heard
from my classmates was, “These
kids are way smarter than we
were — and they love Yale just as
much as we did!” For their part,
many of the students candidly
admitted, “We’re stunned that
you [old] Yalies wanted to hear
about our experiences!” We’ve
also met with New Haven inner-
city kids (and their Yale stu-
dent-coaches) who are enrolled
in Squash Haven as well as Yale
interns in the Urban Resources
Initiative who work with New
Haven inner-city residents to
build community greening proj-
ects.
As members of the Class
of 1964 gather for their 55th
reunion this month (over 200
classmates out of about 780
who survive will attend), we will
be encouraging the widest pos-
sible range of viewpoints, in
what we’re calling “Conversa-
tions.” Topics will include: “Free
Speech on College Campuses,”
“How Can Red & Blue America
Learn to Talk with Each Other,”
“Stopping Climate Change is
Hopeless. Let’s do It!” “Wealth
Inequities” and “The Erosion of
Ethics in the 21st Century.” Cer-
tainly, tempers sometimes flare
(especially at the bar), but we try
to avoid ad hominem attacks.
Our reunion theme song
posted on our class website
is Clint Eastwood’s Don’t Let
the Old Man In. This appetite
for debating issues is not just
a reunion phenomenon. The
Class of 1964 has produced
more than 70 published authors
who have written over 200
books in aggregate (and numer-
ous articles in leading publica-
tions) on topics such as politics,
the environment, conflict and
war and health care. And there
are 20 regular bloggers among
us, who also address many con-
troversial issues.
It’s common these days to
cite the evils of social media
for feeding people only what
they want to hear (confirma-
tion bias). Certainly, that is
a systemic weakness, but for
people with open and inquir-
ing minds, social media can be
a wonderful platform for shar-
ing experiences and points of
view. I’m impressed by the way
Yale has adopted social media
for connecting alumni more fre-
quently than the bi-monthly
issue of Yale Alumni Magazine
could ever do. Beyond one’s own
Facebook, Twitter and Linke-
dIn pages, there are many pri-
vate Yale special interest groups
with pages that resonate with
interesting and — yes — contro-
versial posts. To me, it feels like
being back in a late-night Bran-
ford Common Room debate all
over again.
BEYOND ONE’S
OWN FACEBOOK,
TWITTER AND
LINKEDIN PAGES,
THERE ARE MANY
PRIVATE YALE
SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUPS WITH
PAGES THAT
RESONATE WITH
INTERESTING
AND — YES —
CONTROVERSIAL
POSTS. TO ME, IT
FEELS LIKE BEING
BACK IN A LATE-
NIGHT BRANFORD
COMMON ROOM
DEBATE ALL
OVER AGAIN.
So, call me an optimist. I
believe Yale is an ideal place to
wrestle with our differences
and also remember that, in the
words of our alma mater, “Time
and change shall naught avail /
To break the friendships formed
at Yale.”
Anthony M. (“Tony”) Lavely ’64 works
as a consultant to the restaurant
industry and private equity firms and is
a former member of the varsity football
team.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES

“I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its
debt.”  STEVE MNUCHIN, B.A. ’85 UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

THE CLASS OF 1954

Tap Day: After 80 Years, Abolition, But No Solution

BY EDWARD WHITTEMORE
MARCH 27, 1953
In the late 1870’s President
Noah Porter decided that the
selection of juniors in their
rooms by the secret societ-
ies was an outdated procedure.
“So we shall put an end to this
annual nocturnal election riot-
ings,” he said, and thus Tap Day
was born.
This 19th century progressive
originated a system which served
the small Yale campus well, and
although the societies fretted at
first, in a few years they rejoiced
at the unique, new-found insti-
tution.
In fact they were so happy
with Tap Day that it lasted over
80 years, continuing until, in the
opinion of many, it had outlived
the Yale for which it had been
adapted.
‘TOO SACROSANCT’
The history of the battles for
and against Tap Day is a turbu-
lent one. Once the societies were
considered to sacrosanct that
Tap Day was rarely discussed.
This was the case during the
1920’s, when students brought
parents to view the proceed-
ings on the Old Campus and the
New York papers carried detailed
accounts of the day: why one
person was not elected and
another was not.
Although the system came
under fire from a few agita-
tors during the 1930’s, noth-
ing was done. But the advent of
war and the veteran generation
which followed resulted in a new
approach.
‘LUDICROUS, NOT IMPRESSIVE’
The mature undergradu-
ate who came to New Haven a
decade ago was apt to be less
awed by the spectacle of the
society. The selection procedure
which had often been described
as the “most impressive and
most ludicrous” tradition at
Yale, seemed more ludicrous and
less impressive after two years in
the army.
As a result opposition was
united for the first time and
Tap Day was abolished. Instead
juniors were to receive their taps
in their rooms.
For several reasons the new
system proved to be a failure.
It was found that a race often
developed to the popular juniors
rooms, and that the whole pro-
cess took over two hours. Often
the complete results were not
generally known until the fol-
lowing morning.
In addition there was the
fact that juniors still could not
tell from which societies they
would receive bids. This defi-
ciency was fundamental for it
made it impossible for students
to know whether to turn down a
bid in hope that they favored one
would arrive.
BACK AGAIN IN 1948
Faced with these obstructions
the plan proved impractical and
Tap Day, for lack of a better pro-
gram, was reinstated in 1948.
The old problems were still in
the air, however, and the abo-
lition enthusiasts still sallied
forth each spring with cries of
“slave market” and “exhibition-
ism.”
Positive steps toward aboli-
tion were taken in 1951 and 1952.
Influential members of both the
junior and senior classes formed
anti-Tap Day groups and sent
letters to Dean DeVane asking for
a change, proposing new meth-
ods.
AND THE SUGGESTIONS
Many new suggestions were
offered by these and other indi-
viduals, a few by some of the
societies themselves. Some
thought that Tap Day should
be moved to the Payne Whit-
ney gym, thus eliminating “the
spectator sport which makes
Yale the annual laughing stock
of other universities.”
Perhaps, the most construc-
tive suggestion was that pre-
sented by a member of Berze-
lius in 1951. The plan called for a
central committee, composed of
members from all the societies,
which would give the juniors
bids in their rooms. Although
many considered the plan an
improvement, this system still
embodied many of the loop-
holes which had made the post-
war attempt unsuccessful.
IN 1951, AN ATTEMPT
Discussions were held, but the
societies refused to come to an
agreement. DeVane said defin-
itive plans would not have to be
made; they were not forthcom-
ing; and the class of 1952 went
once more to Branford Court in
May, 1951. However, members
of the class of 1952 had pledged
that they would attempt reform
from within the societies during
the next year and that, if positive
backing was offered by the 1953
class, abolition might be possi-
ble.
The class of 1953 as juniors
repeated the same process as its
predecessors: much was said and
little materialized.
As before, some promised to
work for abolition once they
were members. The cry was an
old one, but the announcement
yesterday proved it had been a
potent one. Although the soci-
eties have not yet approved
a substitute plan, the initial
round of a long battle has been
won.
Transcribed by Asha Prihar.

YALE DAILY NEWS

THE CLASS OF 1954

Shelved by Societies; No Substitute Plan Fixed Yet

BY JOSEOH H. HEAD
MARCH 26, 1953
There will be no Tap Day in
Branford court this May. As yet, no
substitute plan has been approved
by the societies.
The action culminates vari-
ous anti-Tap Day sentiments from
both within and without the soci-
eties which has grown up since the
election ceremony was returned
to Branford court after a war-time
lapse in May, 1948. During the war
elections were given in rooms.
Dean Harold B. Whiteman Jr., in
a statement to the News yesterday,
cited “general agreement among
the societies” that the Branford
ritual was “undesirable.”
The societies are now in the
process of selecting an alternate
method. Any new plan will prob-
ably have to be approved by Dean
DeVane, who returns to New haven
today after a week’s absence.
Whiteman would not speculate as
to when a new plan would be set
up.
DeVane had earlier informed the
societies that he was “unwilling”
to use Branford court for society
elections.
DEVANE SUBMITS TWO PLANS
Devane has submitted two
plans both of which have been
rejected by the societies.
The first, originally formu-
lated by Irving S. Olds, 1907,
called for an “inter-society
council.” Juniors would fill out
preference cards which would be
compared to the societies elec-
tion lists. The “inter-society
council” would meet and arrange
the society rosters, honoring the
junior’s preference in cases of
conflict.
The second DeVane proposal
called for election in the rooms
in “shifts.” First round elections
would be given to juniors desired
by more than one society.
Transcribed by Asha Prihar .

THE CLASS OF 1959

Liquor Dealers Ask Yale Aid

BY JONATHAN J. SEAGLE
FEBRUARY 11, 1958
Several New Haven liquor dealers sug-
gested yesterday that the University furnish
free identification cards to its students in
order to expedite the sale of alcoholic bever-
ages to legally qualified purchasers.
The dealers contacted by the NEWS
reported a noticeable decline in their busi-
ness since the recent change in the regula-
tions governing the establishment of the right
to purchase liquor in the state of Connecticut.
They believe that a part of this decline can
be attributed to the necessity to sell liquor
only to those students who can present matu-
rity cards authorized by the state liquor com-
mission or who are obviously over 21.
The proprietors pointed to the fact that
few students have acquired the state identifi-
cation cards. They feel that they have turned
away students who are eligible to purchase
liquor but who have not taken the trouble to
obtain the state permits. This reluctance is
traced to the existence of a one dollar charge
for the state cards.
Drivers’ licenses and draft cards are
only accepted as a proof of maturity after
“strict examination.”
DEALERS CAUTIOUS
The issuance of free University identifi-
cation cards would presumably alleviate the
stores’ problem by enabling all students who
are really over 21 to establish proof of their
age.
The dealers’ sense of caution was appar-
ently intensified by the November arrest of
Irwin Fried, proprietor of the College Liquor
store, and David Stahl, owner of the Chapel
Liquor store, for the illegal sale of liquor to
under-age Yale students. The College Liquor
store is still closed.
The state authorities disallowed the own-
ers’ contention that the student purchas-
ers had shown them drivers’ licenses which
indicated that they were over 21. The officers
stated that the state maturity cards were the
only acceptable form of proof.
The owners stressed that they have no
desire to sell alcoholic beverages to minors.
They agree with the aim of the state law in
this respect. “We don’t want to sell to young-
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sters.”
Leading Chapel Street liquor store displays sign reflecting disturbing conditions in present New
Transcribed by Alan Liu. Haven sales market.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Rules Increase, New Colleges Grow as Yale Changes During Summer
BY CHRISTOPHER CORY
SEPTEMBER 20, 1960
The University’s greeting to its
upperclassmen is something sterner
this year than it has been in the past.
Although a slew of new buildings were
begun or planned during the summer
to alleviate crowding in colleges and
libraries, security regulations under-
went new tightening in the wake of
riots and morals cases.
Every Yale student is now required
to carry an “identification card” at all
times. The new cards, which must be
shown in case of entanglement with
campus police, also serve as dining
hall and library cards. A similar pol-
icy has been in effect for several years
THE CLASS OF 1969
Brewster Offers
Coeducation Plan;
Students Protest
Housing Proposals
BY ERIC ROSENBERG AND
STEPHEN SCHLESSINGER
NOVEMBER 15, 1968
Kingman Brewster Jr.’s plan to
bring undergraduate women to Yale
next dall ran into strong opposition
last night when he asked Trumbull
students to vacate their college for 250
freshmen girls.
Coed Steering Committee Chair-
man Aviam Soifer, 1969, told the
Trumbull College dining hall audi-
ence fo 400 he found Brewster’s pro-
posal “unacceptable.” He said the
proposal was unfair to both fresh-
men and transfer women who wanted
integrated housing.
Many Trumbull students told
Brewster they resented what they
considered his ultimatum to either
accept his original proposal of vacat-
ing Trumbull or do without girls at
Yale next year.
Students from other residential
colleges and several women speak-
ers voiced their support of the dissi-
dent Trumbull students and indicated
general dissatisfaction with Brew-
ster’s proposal.
After asking Trumbull students
to come to a decision on his original
proposal, Brewster said that in spite
of strong misgivings, he would con-
sider a student proposal to house the
freshmen girls in Weight Hall in the
event of a Trumbull rejection of the
present plan.
The president also told his audi-
ence, “We will consider the optional
residence of women transfer stu-
dents in Yale residential colleges if it
can be done without overcrowding
existing facilities.”
Today Trumbull students will dis-
cuss the original proposal of vacating
their college for freshmen girls with
Master Ronald Dworkin, who said he
will be in his office all day. Dworkin
said he will convey the sense of Trum-
bull opinion to president Brewster.
The president said a final coed plan
must be adopted by early next week so
that recruitment of Yale girls or 1969-
70 can begin.
Brewster said the choice of Trum-
bull was influenced by its size and
location and also by the fact that
Trumbull Master Dworkin is taking a
two-year leave of absence to teach at
Oxford next year.
He said housing freshman girls in
an integrated setup or in Wright Hall
or one half of Berkeley College would
pose “a degree of ambiguity that is
not acceptable in recruiting the type
of women Yale deserves.”
Brewster added he would have
great difficulty explaining an uncer-
tain integrated residence arrange-
ment to “women applicants, their
at Harvard.
EXPANSION AGAIN
Countless earthworms under-
went relocation this summer as foun-
dations were dug for the two long-her-
alded new colleges. Latest in the string
of “projected completion dates:” Sep-
tember, 1962. Estimated final cost: 7.7
million dollars.
A further twist in the current orgy of
building expansion will be a rare book
library. Plans for the project were made
public in June. The gift of 11 members
of the Beinecke family, a family long
associated with Yale, the building will
rise on the corner of Wall and High
Streets, diagonally opposite the Ster-
ling Library. A tunnel will connect it
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parents, and their schools.”
Last night Associate Director of
Admissions John O. Wilson told the
News though, that “insofar as admis-
sions and recruitment is concerned,
the impact of coeducation is os over-
powering that the details of housing
would be lost on any potential female
applicants.
“I would anticipate no adverse
effect on recruitment in regard to the
use of Weight Hall instead of Trum-
bull College.”
The president said he thought
complete integration of 250 fresh-
man women into several residential
colleges would not be a “fair test” of
coeducation.
Under the plan the administration
would try to help groups of Trumbull
men maintain college unity by offer-
ing entire entryway to them in other
residential colleges.
Trumbull students would have the
option of affiliating with their new
residential college.
OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING
Ask where Yale would going to
house the women transfer students,
Brewster said “a preliminary survey
done with the help of the Treasurer’s
office indicates that with the proper
renovation of Yale owned off-cam-
pus buildings we can house 250 girls.”
But Brewster declined to specify
the locations of these housing units.
Earlier Soifer told a cheering crowd
that, “all along, one of our first guide-
lines was ‘no shoe-string boarding
house rooms for women.’”
Master Dworkin advised his stu-
dents to accept President Brewster’s
proposal although he said “neither I
nor the Yale College masters partici-
pated in the ultimate decision.”
TRUMBULL AS VANGUARD
He further said, “Trumbull’s role
has always been in the vanguard of
reform a Yale, Trumbull can have a
hand in actively designing the future of
coeducation if we accept this plan. We
could not play this part if we reject it.”
Both Soifer and SAB Chairman Ray
Nunn said student has never been
consulting in formulating coed plans.
“Perhaps the real difficulty was
that we never had anything definite
to shoot at. This was President Brew-
ster’s mistake, not outs,” said Nunn.
He continued, “We are not advocat-
ing irresponsibility. We want to par-
ticipate in responsible decisions.”
Brewster closed the four-hour
meeting by warning that he was “not
interested in the translation of the
whole thing into student power and
confrontation.”
Transcribed by Marisa Peryer.
“For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.”
ROW, J.D. ’09 AMERICAN JOURNALIST
THE CLASS OF 1964
with the ain library.
In face of demolition necessary
to make way for the proposed build-
ing, the Associated Student Agencies
fled to a new location in Hendrie Hall.
Tottering Ivy Magazine was forced to
move out, but members of the publi-
cation’s staff have announced plans to
carry on, from students’ rooms if need
be.”
Housing conditions for gradu-
ates underwent only mild summer
improvement. Apartments on York
Street were refurbished to make room
for 22 married graduate students.
However, apartment listings of the Yale
Housing Bureau fell sharply as land-
lords refused to subscribe to the Uni-
versity’s anti-discrimination pledge.
Charges Dropped Against Seale, Huggins
BY JEFFREY MAYER
MAY 26, 1971
Defendants, counsel, court-
room spectators and press listened
in hushed, expectant silence yes-
terday afternoon as Superior Court
Judge Harold Mulvey announced his
decision to dismiss charges against
Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins on
grounds that an impartial jury could
not be selected “without superhu-
man efforts.”
Judge Mulvey’s statement to the
court appears on page 3.
There was a brief pause as the
Judge concluded at 2:40 yesterday
afternoon, “The motion to dismiss is
granted in each case, and the prison
ers are discharged forthwith.”
RELIEF AND SURPRISE
Then, despite the judge’s ear-
lier warning against any outburst or
demonstration, the air broke with
tears and cries of relief and surprise
from spectators and press.
Mrs. Huggins, who sat enigmati-
cally throughout the judge’s decision
smiled broadly and embraced her
lawyer Catherine Roraback. Seale
was also quizzical during the final
moments of the six-month-long
trial and he gripped attorney Charles
Garry’s arm as Garry fought back
tears and wearily looked on.
The enthusiasm drowned out an
objection and exceptions to the dis-
missal by State’s Attorney Arnold
Markle. The motions were denied.
It was the climax of a trial that
appeared to be over Monday when
the jury, after siz days and 25 hours
of deliberations, sent a note to Judge
Mulvey saying further deliberations
were “in vain” and that it was impos-
sible to reach a verdict on either case.
‘ABSOLUTELY’
Mulvey excused the jury of seven
whites and five blacks Monday
afternoon and declared a mistrial
for the defendants. At that time he
asked to meet with attorneys yes-
terday at 2 to discuss further dispo-
sition of the case, and Markle told
reporters he would “absolutely” ask
for a retrial.
When the court reconvened
shortly after 2 the jury box was once
again empty and many spectators
who have been following the case
closely — including Huggins’ moth-
er-in-law and Chicago 8 defendants
Jerry Rubin and John Froines — were
not present.
It has been expected that the court
session would be preoccupied with
bond applications for the two defen-
dants pending the start of pre-trial
hearings.
EXUBERANCE
There was unrestrained exuber-
ance outside the first floor court-
room as word of the decision spread
quickly among those unable to get
seats in the spectator section and
those who have stood on the New
Haven Green daily awaiting the out-
come of the trial since jury delibera-
tions began last Wednesday.
Within minutes after charges
against her were dropped, Mrs.
Huggins walked alone from a rear
entrance of the courtroom, and, her
face revealing a mixture of emo-
tions, slowly approached the close to
200 cheering observers restrained by
uniformed state police and country
sheriffs.
There were tears and embraces as
she entered the crowd. Many of those
who greeted her were friends whom
she hadn’t spoken with in more than
two years of confinement.
Meanwhile, Seale, who still must
face a four-year contempt sentence
from CHicago Judge Julius Hoffman,
was handed over to a federal mar-
shal and taken into the adjoining jury
room.
NOAH PORTER GATE CLOSED AGAIN
After being open all summer, Noah
Porter gate swung shut again as the
first students reached New Haven.
Barbed fencing now menaces
attempts to retrace the traditional
route between the Old Campus and
Commons.
Use of the gate as a barrier was
continued as part of the security
campaign to achieve “better operat-
ing relations” between the Univer-
sity and the town of New Haven.
The University’s fund drive posed
itself for its major efforts. Propa-
ganda was prepared, centering
around a 21-page booklet written by
A. Whitney Griswold, president of
the University. A nationwide orga-
T H E C L A S S O F 1 974
‘KIND OF NUMB’
The Black Panther Party chair-
man and co-founder, whom Garry
described as “kind of numb” after the
decision to dismiss, awaited a deci-
sion on bail from the Seventh Circuit
Court in Chicago.
Soon after Huggins joined
those outside the courtroom, Miss
Roraback emerged exhausted from
the courtroom. Garry also walked
out and urged everyone in the three-
story, collonaded hall to go out and
demonstrate on the Green.
There was a brief scuffle as Garry
grabbed a man who had insisted the
lawyer explain what was happen-
ing to eale instead of telling everyone
to leave the courthouse, and threw
him against the wall. The lawyer was
restrained by a friend and the young
demonstrator ran into the crowd.
‘LOOK AT THE SUN’
As the spontaneous demonstra-
tion left the courthouse by a side exit,
there were cries of “the people won,
the people will always win,” mingled
with disbelief over the release of Hug-
gins and the dismissal of the cases.
The former defendant walked
ahead with New Haven Panther
Party spokesman, Big Man, who
escorted her to the cinder path on the
Green.
“Look a the sun,” Huggins said,
beaming. Roraback, catching up with
her client, asked, “Ericka, how does it
smell?” Laughing, Huggins replied,
“Who are you?”
As what she would do now, the
tall, 23-year-old women said simple,
“Live.”
Hundreds crowded around Hug-
gins and her lawyer and more arrived
on the Green as they heard the news.
Within minutes a copy of the New
Haven Register announcing the ver-
dict was circulated in the crowd. A
few of the jurors who had been dis-
missed Monday joined the festive
gathering.
Inside the courthouse, Markle told
reporters, “I have one comment, I did
my job and I was ready to do it again.”
Mulvey had begun his decision
for dismissal by saying, “A the out-
set, I should say that I know of no
more dedicated public servant than
the State’s Attorney for New Haven
County, Arnold Markle. He is a good
lawyer and discharges his duties at all
times in a manner that is a credit to
the state.”
Also questioned in the court-
house, Garry claimed that the dis-
missal of charges against his client
“proves that a black man cannot get
a fair trial in America.
“The judge himself dismissed the
case on the fact that a black man can-
not get a fair trial in the state,” Garry
said.
“The fact is that there’s an acquit-
tal after he’s been in prison for two
years and away from his loved ones —
probably it’s better late than never —
but it doesn’t answer the basic prob-
lem that he should never have been
here in the first place.”
Ericka Huggins was greeted by a joyous crows on the New Haven Green after
she was released.
RONAN FAR-
nization was readied to conduct the
solicitation.
The completed drive will pro-
vide Yale with the equivalent of
$69,500,000 in new capital.
Tanks of the chemistry depart-
ment were temporarily thinned by
the untimely deaths of John G. Kirk-
wood and Werner Bergmann, pro-
fessors of chemistry. To fill the gap,
Yale College dean William C. DeV-
ane announced what he termed two
“brilliant” new appointments.
As remors of a possible relaxation
in social restrictions seeped into cir-
culation, the academic year 1960-
1961 seemed well underway.
Transcribed by Marisa Peryer.
‘MAN WITH A HEART’
Garry said he felt Judge Mulvey to
be “human and a man with a heart”
and added that though “there were
many times when I disagreed vehe-
mently with his rulings, I find Judge
Mulvey to be on a much higher level
than the judiciary in the rest of the
United States, and I say that with-
out reservation.”
Garry also insisted on the signif-
icance of jury selection in the out-
come of this case, in which four
months were required to select from
more than 1,500 possible venire-
men the final jury of seven women
and five men.
“The guts of the trial or crimi-
nal case is going to be based on the
trier of the facts,” the San Francisco
lawyer said. “As carefully as we
picked this jury there were at least
two people who in my opinion were
overt racists.”
It was learned from sources
Monday night that the jury had first
voted acquittal for Seale but after
some consideration of the Hug-
gins case, one juror had changed
his mind and the vote thereafter
consistently stood a 11-1 in favor of
acquittal.
In the Huggins case sources
indicated all but two of the jurors
favored acquittal on all five counts
of the indictment.
Seale and Huggins were tried for
kidnapping, murder, and conspir-
acy to kidnap and murder in the
homicide of New York Black Pan-
ther Alex Rackley in May, 1969.
Huggins, in addition, was charged
with an infraction of the binding
statute.
“The two jurors who held out,”
Garry added, “were called fascists
in the deliberations. They said they
were proud to be what they were.
“And I’ve talked to enough jurors
to make that affidavit,” he said.
Following her release and
appearance on the Green, Huggins
was reported to have driven to the
homes of friends. Garry said that if
and when Seale is released on bond,
probably in the next day or so, he
will leave “the next morning” for
Oakland, the national headquarters
of the Black Panther Party.
A private party was held last
night with defense associates, a
small number of the jurors, and
Ericka Huggins in attendance.
As Garry crossed Elm Street from
the courthouse to the Green he was
assaulted by friends and admir-
ers who embraced and congratu-
lated him. The Rev. William Sloane
Coffin, driving past the Green on
his way to New York, go out of his
car and leaped the iron rail to shake
hands with Seale’s attorney.
“There’s a lot to rejoice about
here,” he said, as he returned to his
double-parked car.
Shortly afterward, Garry left the
now-diffusd crowd and walked lei-
surely to his Church Street office.
Transcribed by Marisa Peryer.
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“The tide of history only advances when peple make them-

selves fully visible.” ANDERSON COOPER, B.A. ’89 AMERICAN JOURNALIST

THE CLASS OF 1979

Snowstorm Blitzes Campus

YALE DAILY NEWS

BY JEFFERSON MORLEY
FEBRUARY 8, 1978
The Chaplain’s office was open,
the Post Office was closed, and
classes were cancelled, so per-
haps Yale’s priorities, as celebrated
in song, were still intact, under-
neath 15 inches of snow, yester-
day. Otherwise little decorum was
observed. And today may be the
same.
University Secretary Henry
Chauncey announced last night
that, because Governor Ella Grasso
has prohibited any driving until
noon today, only essential Uni-
versity employees will be asked to
report for work and that the librar-
ies and gym will be closed. Classes
will meet if professors can reach
campus, Chauncey said. He insisted
that classes were not cancelled yes-
terday, nor would they ever be.
Perhaps bewildered by the glut of
free time, students took to walking
the largely deserted streets, wear-
ing their red or blue or yellow down
jackets, looking like sprinkles on
a vanilla cupcake. Cross-country
skiers and photographers appeared
in droves, most of the former say-
ing, a trifle ungratefully, that the
snow was good, “but not great.”
FLYING THROUGH THE AIR
Drift-diving was a popular pas-
time all over campus, and students
quickly developed more daring ver-
sions of that usual winter pastime.
An uninhibited group of Daven-
porters took to doing swan dives
into their college’s snow-filled
moat on York Street. Others favored
leaping from second story win-
dows. Trumbull sophomore John
Muir leapt from a third story win-
dow with less happy results
The slopes of the Divinity School
were crowded with trayers. Two
unruly mobs played tackle football
on the Old Campus, figure skat-
ers glided on Berkeley’s improvised
rink, a middle-aged man slogging
through deeps now in front of the
Co-op said he felt like he should be
looking for a Soviet satellite.
Appropriately enough, the Grove
Street cemetery was open and two
young women carefully built a
small snowman among the tomb-
stones which they insisted was not
intended to be ironic. “They,” one
said, pointing to the ground, “will
appreciate it. He’s kind of quiet and
peaceful.”
Free spirits of both sports pre-
vailed at the hastily scheduled Dav-
enport happy hour. One student
said happily, if a little uneuphoni-
cally, “After a hard day in the snow,
there’s nothing I like better than a
good Coke and rum.”
WHAT’S UP?
Professor and weather expert
of Geophysics Barry Saltzman
explained in a telephone interview
that the snowstorm had taken on
the characteristics of a hurricane,
explaining the thunder heard by
some on Monday night. The East
Coast is hit by such storms, he said,
because of the warm air created by
the Gulf Stream. This air rises to
an altitude of between 10,000 and
20,000 feet and cools, condens-
ing the water vapor in the clouds.
If it is warm the result is rain; if it
is cold, the result is snow. Had the
temperatures been several degrees
higher on Monday, Saltzman said,
Yale would have received 1.5 inches
of rain, not 15 inches of snow.
Saltzman admitted though that
for all his knowledge his “driveway
was completely socked in,” and that
he was “hoping” he could return to
the classroom today.
FORLORN FACULTY
Not surprisingly, the faculty
acted a bit more “weenie-like.” Act-
ing President Hanna Gray stayed
home all day, catching up she said,
on “the usual variety and profusion
of things” and looking out the win-
dow.
President-Designate A. Bartlett
Giamatti was snow-bound in New
York City. Robert Rescorla, Profes-
sor of Psychology, passed the day
feeding laboratory rats and pigeons.
Acting English Instructor Tom
Hyde said he “graded papers, and
spent a little more time than usual
in the dining hall because I felt fes-
tive.” Union leader Vincent Sira-
bella said he spent the morning “in
the realms of Morpheus.”
Football coach Carm Cozza was
in Florida as was Saybrook soph-
omore Rob Howell, who called his
roommates to say that he had heard
there was weather trouble in New
Haven and that therefore he was
going to extend his vacation until
next Sunday.
Transcribed by Alan Liu.

THE CLASS OF 1984

Giamatti forbids Bladderball because of student injuries

Claims rules insufficient for safety
BY DAVE LACKEY
NOVEMBER 9, 1982

Yale President A. Bartlett

giamatti abolished Bladderball
yesterday morning, in view of
the injuries to students which
occurred last Friday despite
“meticulous” observation of the
rules set by the Joint Council of
Social Chairmen (JCSC).
In a statement signed by Gia-
matti and Dean Howard Lamar,
Giamatti said, “it is the nature of
this event that no set of rules can
guarantee that such injuries will
not occur in the future, and we
have therefore decided” to abolish
the game.
Three students were hospital-
ized for injuries incurred in Fri-
day’s game, and all spent the night
at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.
One student was taken by ambu-
lance to University Health Services
and soon released.
JCSC Co-Chairman Jonathan
Hunter ’83 said that Giamat-
ti’s decision didn’t surprise him.
“It was just a matter of time. We
did everything we could to adhere
to the rules, but injuries still
occurred,” he said.
Giamatti agreed. “There were
very good rules. This is not an issue
SARAH MENDELSON
of anger, guilt, or blame, but of the
safety and well-being of human
beings. I really think we’ve tried said that he was “disappointed” getting hurt,” Giamatti said. “This to bring the University together. 1976, the Council of Masters
and so have the students.” by Giamatti’s decision. “I always isn’t an act of anger: this is an act “It’s a tradition in a school that is moved the game out to the fields
Associate Dean for Student have thought that there was a great of concern and safety,” he added. built around traditions.” near Yale Bowl. Very few players
Affairs David Henson said that he deal of restraint [by players] in the “This year’s game was the most “I don’t think it’s an event showed up to play the game. Past
felt that this year’s game was run midst of the game,” he said. violent I’ve seen in recent years,” whose historical roots justify the violence and apparent student
well, but that he could not “con- He said he understood Giamat- Yale Police Chief Louis Cappi- risk of life and limb,” Giamatti said. apathy caused Masters to abolish
ceive of any set of rules where an ti’s decision, though. “There’s ello said. “I’ve always tried to get Bladderball was conceived in Bladderball in 1978.
injury could be prevented.” He nothing else he could do as Presi- tighter controls placed on the the ‘50s as a competition between The JCSC led a drive to rein-
added that “marshals seemed more dent of the University to ensure the game,” he said. Yale’s four major media groups. state Bladderball, and the Mas-
diligent and visible than those of safety of the students,” Miles said. The Yale Police attended the Residential colleges first ters reconsidered their decision.
last year.” Giamatti said he went to game as a security back-up squad began playing Bladderball in Although the Masters considered
“The problem with Bladderball see Lamar yesterday morning. to the student marshals. 1971. The game was then run by the game “dangerous and unwise,”
is that the safety of students is dif- Together they decided that Blad- Hunter said that JCSC “won’t the Council of Masters. the JCSC was given control over
ficult to ensure, especially given derball posed a hazard to student fight” Giamatti’s decision. “It’s a In 1976, fifteen Saybrook stu- the game, according to Chairman
the large number of participants safety and that the University had shame that [Bladderball] has to go, dents were suspended after they of the Council of Masters, Berke-
and the spontaneous nature of the a responsibility to try to prevent but [Giamatti’s decision] is not a raided the Branford dining hall ley Master Robin Winks.
game,” Henson continued. potential injuries. bad thing,” Hunter said. He added prior to the game.
JCSC Co-chairman Mike Miles “I’m not blaming anyone for that he believed Bladderball tended Because of the vandalism of Transcribed by Carly Wanna.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Protestors build shanties at Beinecke Plaza
BY ANNE TOKER
APRIL 7, 1986
Pro-divestment protestors
erected two wood and aluminum
shanties on Beinecke Plaza Friday,
at 12:50 p.m. Although on Friday
Yale President A Bartlett Giamatti
and other administration officials
said the shanties would have to be
removed immediately, the Univer-
sity took no action to remove them
and the protestors have received
official permission for the shanties
to remain through the Yale Corpora-
tion meeting on April 12.
“We’re sick of waiting. We’re sick
of dumb meetings. This is our new
home base — we’ll be living here,”
Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA)
member Matthew Countryman ‘86
told the 100 people who remained at
Beinecke Plaza after a Friday noon-
time pro-divestment rally.
“If they didn’t get permission from
the secretary of the University, the
shanties will be removed,” Giamatti
said at 1:30 p.m. Friday when told
about the presence of the shanties.
“It is disappointing when people
don’t follow the rules — it’s too bad,”
Giamatti added.
Student organizers of the rally said
they had received permission to hold
a rally from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
but had no permission for any activi-
ties on Beinecke Plaza after that time.
“They had permissions for a rally
Inaugural Rites initiate President
BY HARA AMDEMARIAM AND
REBECCA HOWLAND
OCTOBER 24, 1993
On a day marked by medie-
val pomp, bluegrass and rock
music, ice cream and bright sun-
light, Yale inaugurated Richard
Levin GRD ’74 as its 22nd sec-
ond president Saturday. Almost
3,000 people, ranging from stu-
dents and U.S. senators to other
university presidents, gathered
in Woolsey Hall as Levin, former
Dean of the Graduate school, was
inducted into the office. After the
formal ceremony, people flocked
to an open-air reception on Cross
Campus, hosted by Levin and his
wife Jane.
“It was a wonderful day, dis-
tinguished by its music and its
brevity,” said Yale Corporation
member Jose Cabranes LAW ’65.
“That’s the nice thing about Yale
events — they all are.”
The President of Bluegrass: Richard Levin and his wife, Jain, join psychology professor Kelly Brownell and the Professors of Bluegrass at the Inauguration party on Old Campus Saturday Night.
— they said it would be over at 1:30
without any problem,” Maureen
Murphy, associate director of the
Office of Community and State Rela-
tions, said.
When Giamatti arrived at
Beinecke Plaza at 1:45 p.m., he asked
the students if they had received per-
mission for the shanties and told
them that the shanties “are going to
come down if you didn’t get permis-
sion.”
Giamatti asked Countryman to
“have a conversation” with him
about the shanties. Countryman
refused, maintaining that the shan-
ties were “educational structures”
and therefore did not violate Univer-
sity rules.
“They can’t claim immunity,”
Giamatti said. “There are regula-
tions about what structures” can be
erected on the campus, he added. “As
there are rules about rallies, there are
rules about structure — they have
been in place for years and they are
administered by the Secretary,” Gia-
matti said.
“The police will remove [the shan-
ties] if the physical plant won’t,” he
added.
Local 35 President Tom Gaudioso
said the University had asked four
grounds-people to remove the shan-
ties. “The University said to consider
it as trash,” Gaudioso said. “Once the
grounds-people realized what it was
and why it was here, they decided it
The ceremonies began with a
procession, rife with traditional
regalia. A procession of professors
and 108 visiting dignitaries from
other universities met and com-
bined with a separate procession
of Yale’s trustees and top officials
on the Cross Campus lawn.
Although participants’ cere-
monial robes hearkened back to
the medieval era, participants in
the procession laughed, took pic-
tures and talked amongst them-
selves as they marched across
cross Campus down Elm and
College Stress, and into Woolsey
Hall.
“Like Antigone, the University
stands for transcendent prin-
ciples, those which permit the
preservation of culture and the
advance of knowledge,” Levin
said, referring to the Greek trag-
edy he used as the basis for his
speech. “Our ability is to educate
and to lead, to shape the values of
“I think peple are frightened of saying what they think, and
I think that’s a bad thing for society.”  CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE,
M.A. ’08 NIGERIAN NOVELIST
THE CLASS OF 1989
would be disrespectful to be a part of
the removal,” Gaudioso added.
At 3:30 p.m., Wilkinson told the
students, “At some point you will be
asked to withdraw and remove the
shanties. You will be given a timeta-
ble — if you don’t respond it is prob-
able that you will be suspended from
the University until a committee from
the school will decide what the sen-
tence should be,” he said.
A committee composed of four
undergraduates, a law student, and a
member of Union Local 34 then met
with Giamatti and Wilkinson until
5:20 p.m.
The administrators told the com-
mittee that the shanties could remain
in place until noon the next day if the
students would send a delegation to
Wilkinson said,
Another meeting between student
protestors and Wilkinson was sched-
uled for noon the next day. Local 34
member Sheila Lloyd, who attended
the first Friday meeting said Wilkin-
son told the group that the admin-
istration would “physically remove
the shanties if [the students] did not
remove them before tomorrow [Sat-
urday] noon.”
Friday night the students built
two new shanties and erected tents.
Approximately 20 students stayed in
the shanties overnight, according to
Mike Morand ’87.
Morand said Yale police had told
the group not to build more shanties
THE CLASS OF 1994
the wider world so that they, too,
encourage the full realization of
human potential.”
The president’s 20-minute
speech touched on three themes:
the importance of science in the
curriculum, the need for Yale to
be more of an international uni-
versity, and the strengthening of
Yale-New Haven ties.
While he spoke at a deliber-
ate, slow pace in enunciating the
University’s broad mission and
philosophy, Levin, an econo-
mist specializing in technology,
seemed more at ease discussing
Yale’s role as a center for research
and development.
“As we enter the 21st century,
we must aspire to educate leaders
for the whole world,” Levin said.
“Today, the scientific capability
of American universities is the
envy of the world. We neglect its
support at our own peril.”
In contrast to previous inau-
but did not attempt to stop the con-
struction.
At a rally Saturday morning, Local
35 Business Manager John Wilhelm
said that although the issue had not
yet been discussed at an official union
membership meeting, “it is the opin-
ion of as many stewards as we have
been able to get in touch with that
they shouldn’t be involved in tearing
down” the shanties.
Farnam Professor of History David
Montgomery, who spoke at the rally,
said that he favored the presence
of the shanties. “University rules
shouldn’t prohibit the demonstration
of deeply felt opinions,” Montgomery
said. “There is a lot of faculty support
for the shanties — although I couldn’t
quantify it,” he added.
Calhoun Dean John Godfrey said
on Saturday that Associate Dean of
Yale College Martin Griffin had tele-
phoned Godfrey on Friday to ask if
he would be willing to identify stu-
dents present at the shanties from
photographs taken of them. Godfrey
said he had agreed, since “it is part of
our responsibilities if they [the stu-
dents] are in violation of the regula-
tions.”
A group of about 10 people held
a counter-protest during the rally
to oppose the “methods and aims”
of the pro-divestment protestors,
according to group member Brice
Peyre ’86. The group displayed a
paper-mache model of a sledgeham-
gurations, very little controversy
arose during the ceremony. At the
1986 inaugration of former Pres-
ident Benno Schmidt Jr. ’63 LAW
’66 students protested Yale’s
investments in South Africa and
mounted police had to escort
Schmidt to the ceremonies.
“This inauguration was so
calm. There were no pick-
ets. Nobody booed the presi-
dent,” said former Corporation
senior fellow Right Reverend
Paul Moore Jr. ’41. “Yale is los-
ing some of its spirit,” he said
tongue-in-cheek.
But this year’s ceremony was
not without protest. Two stu-
dents, representing the Movi-
miento Estudiantil Chicano de
Aztlan, carried signs protesting
Yale College’s decision to re-eval-
uate having a permanent coordi-
nator for Chicano students.
In addition, few members of
the Yale Glee Club refused to
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mer during their counter-rally.
A separate group, the Movement
Opposed to Violence and Extortion
(MOVE) formed Sunday evening to
oppose the tactics, although not nec-
essarily the aims, of the pro-divest-
ment protestors, according to MOVE
member Michael Ware ’88.
Student pro-divestment pro-
testors met with Wilkinson on Sat-
urday afternoon, and at 6:50 p.m.
Wilkinson gave the students a writ-
ten statement granting permission
for “the structures on Hewitt Quad-
rangle to remain there until after the
next meeting of the Yale Corpora-
tion on Saturday, April 12.” Wilkinson
said the statement was issued by the
offices of the president, the provost,
and the secretary.
“Students have indicated that they
would have the structures remain for
an indefinite period, but the Univer-
sity did not grant such permission,”
the statement read.
“We met and decided it would
make sense to let them stay through
the Corporation meeting. They are
attempting to educate the Yale Cor-
poration and the Yale Community,
and it is the Corporation which has
the fiduciary responsibility in this
matter,” Wilkinson said.
The shanties “will be removed
after the Corporation meeting which
ends on Saturday,” Wilkinson said.
Transcribed by Carly Wanna.
sing Levin’s chosen passage from
“Antigone” because the trans-
lation Levin chose used mascu-
line pronouns when referring to
humanity as a whole. The trans-
lation by Robert Fitzgerald and
Dudley Fitts is used by Yale’s
English 129 class.
Yale endeavored to include
students in the day’s celebra-
tion. Thirty students form each
residential college were given
invitations to the formal cere-
mony and were all invited to the
reception. At a University-spon-
sored party Saturday night, stu-
dents danced to rock band Max
Creek and Yale’s own Professors
of Bluegrass, sampled free food
from local restaurants and jostled
for free commemorative t-shirts.
Leesa Klepper and Charlotte Akor
contributed reporting of this article.
Transcribed by Sammy Westfall.
WHITNEY LAWSON
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Speaking out — the many faces of student activism at Yale
Sarah Donaldson ’00 participated in a spring knit-in for Students Against Sweatshops.
BY MACKENZIE BARIS
COMMENCEMENT ISSUE 1999
Discussions of campus activ-
ism in recent releases have usually
drawn accusations of Generation X
apathy and inevitable comparisons
to the anti-war demonstrations
that fragmented many campuses
during the late 1960s and early
’70s. While activism now may not
be as prominent, many argue that
it is still alive and kicking at cam-
puses all over the country.
While Yale hardly has a reputa-
tion as a hotbed of activist activ-
ity, the past four years have seen
students take strong action over
issues as close to home as finan-
cial aid reform and as far away as
the plight of farm workers in Cal-
ifornia.
The high-profile Local 43 and
the strikes of 1996-97 attracted
susch student support and helped
revitalize Yale’s student activ-
ist groups. Increased activ-
ity prompted Dwight Hall, Yale’s
center for community service, to
found the Social Justice Network,
an umbrella organization for Yale
groups working on social justice
issues. And this spring saw a burst
of activism nationwide in the form
of anti-sweatshop rallies and pro-
tests that the [New York Times]
called the biggest surge of under-
graduate activism in nearly two
decades.
“The thought and action on the
Yale campus has definitely grown.
We’re having a burst, an explo-
sion of social justice,” former
Dwight Hall executive Committee
Social Justice Coordination Nicole
Tuchinda ’99 said last year.
Yale activists work for a wide
range of causes, from corporate
responsibility to clean air.
Groups like the Student Labor
Action Coalition and Green Corps
Choice abounds on Super Tuesday
BY JACOB LEIBENLUFT
MARCH 2, 2004
Connecticut Democrats will
go to the polls today to help select
a presidential nominee, but with
Mass. Sen. John Kerry ’66 widely
expected to win the state, Super
Tuesday is not attracting much
notice here.
While Kerry and his main rival
for the Democratic nomination,
N.C. Sen. John Edwards, are devot-
ing their time and money to larger
states like New York and Califor-
nia, Connecticut’s primary — with
49 delegates at stake — has earned
little attention. But although state
and local Democrats said they har-
bor no illusions about their role in
the nomination process, they are
excited for an opportunity to help
choose a candidate who will chal-
lenge President George W. Bush ’68
in the November election.
“We’re a small state with a
smaller delegation than many of
the states that happen to hold their
primaries on the same day,” said
Leslie O’Brien, executive direc-
are activist to the core, with histo-
ries of highly visible public actions.
Other groups that do not define
themselves as strictly activist —
such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender Co-op, the Yale
Student environmental Coalition,
and the Women’s Center — have
agendas that include activism.
While students make them-
selves visible on campus, Yale’s
many activist groups often have
few members relative to the Uni-
versity’s total undergraduate pop-
ulation.
Activists struggle not only to
influence administrators but also
to gain the attention of other stu-
dents and create unity within the
activist community.
FORGING LINKS
Though campus groups have
had successes and are certainly
visible on campus, membership is
often smaller, Limited limiting the
scale of what groups can do. Many
hope that creating a more uni-
fied activist community will allow
stronger actions and more effec-
tive campaigns. The social justice
network, which is funded largely
through Dwight Hall, provides
resources and funds for its 20 or
so member groups and attempts
to bring together students working
on different projects.
SJN holds monthly meetings
where representatives from mem-
ber organizations share ideas and
information. Often the most use-
ful function of the meetings is to
allow groups to inform each other
of their activities and coordinate
schedules to avoid conflicting
events, SJN co-coordinator Jessica
Champagne ’01 said.
Several recent campaigns
have been successful in bring-
ing together groups that do not
usually work on the same issues.
tor of the Connecticut Democratic
State Central Committee. “But I
think that Democrats as a whole,
not just in our state, have been very
tuned into this primary and are very
anxious to defeat George Bush in
November.”
Some Yale voters will also have
an opportunity to cast their ballots
in a much more local race, as Ward
22, which includes Ezra Stiles,
Morse, Silliman and Timothy
Dwight colleges as well as Swing
Space, features a three-way race for
co-chair of the ward’s Democratic
Committee. Alyssa Rosenberg ’06
and Shaneane Ragin are running
as a slate in Ward 22, as are former
Alderwoman Mae Ola Riddick and
Douglas Bethea, while Cordelia
Thorpe is running alone.
But in most of New Haven and
many parts of the state, the only
race on the ballot will be the pres-
idential primary, in which recent
statewide polls show Kerry with
a commanding lead. In addition,
Kerry has also earned the endorse-
ment of many of the state’s most
prominent Democrats after Sen.
“Our power and stength as Americans lives in our hard work and
our belief in more.”  STACEY ABRAMS, J.D. ’99 AMERICAN POLITICIAN
THE CLASS OF 1999
Tenure reform has drawn sup-
port from a wide range of campus
groups, including cultural associ-
ations, the LGBT Co-op and the
Yale Hunger and Homelessness
Action Program, while the cam-
pus United Farm Workers chapter
enjoy strong support from Yale’s
Latino community.
Many groups also coordinate
with organizations outside of Yale.
A small group of Yale students
joined community activists to call
for justice after Molique Jones, a
21-year-old black New Haven res-
ident, was fatally shot by a white
East Haven police officer.
The students join communi-
ty-organized events and circu-
lated a petition on campus. SLAC
frequently supports local unions,
by joining rallies and picket lines,
as they did last spring for local 217
members protesting at the Omni
hotel and this fall for striking SNET
workers.
But the increasing importance
of social justice at Dwight Hall has
sparked controversy during the
past few years, and there is still a
rift between students involved in
direct service and those involved
in activism.
GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT
Faced with a somewhat com-
placent campus and limited man-
power, activist groups must work
hard to be heard.
T h e m e t h o d s a c t iv i s ts
employee are as diverse as the
causes they support. This fall,
for example, a large rally for fac-
ulty diversity on cross campus
attracted student attention while
a smaller group of students met
privately with Yale officials to dis-
cuss the issue.
This kind of action is character-
istic of the protesting strategies of
many gales many of yells activist
THE CLASS OF 2004
Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 ended
his campaign last month. U.S. Rep.
Rosa DeLauro, New Haven Mayor
John DeStefano Jr., Attorney Gen-
eral Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73
as well as the highest ranking Dem-
ocrats in the Connecticut Gen-
eral Assembly have all thrown their
weight behind Kerry.
Joe Courtney, the state coordi-
nator for the Edwards campaign,
said volunteers for Edwards were
hard at work for the North Carolina
senator, but he said he recognized
the odds were against Edwards in
Connecticut.
“I don’t think people can be
delusional here about sweeping
Connecticut,” said Courtney, a for-
mer state representative. “To some
degree, any delegate you get in a
state like this is like finding money
on a street corner.”
Still, Judy Reardon, a senior
adviser to the Kerry campaign
directing efforts in Connecticut,
said the Massachusetts senator
was not taking the state for granted,
even if Connecticut is not the focal
point of his campaign.
groups — staging nonviolent pub-
lic demonstrations to raise aware-
ness and draw students support
while establishing dialogue with
administrators.
During the fall of 1997, stu-
dents demanding greater faculty
diversity organize the number of
actions, including disrupting sev-
eral Association of Yale Alumni
events, and this year the Tenure
Action Committee held several
large rallies.
But this spring students used
to different tactics. The Student
Coalition for Diversity and the Yale
College Council co-sponsored a
panel discussion of faculty and
curricular diversity. The forum,
held at the African American cul-
tural center, drew around 100 stu-
dents.
RAISING AWARENESS
For some groups, activism
focuses on educating peers as
much as — or more than — on
influencing administrators. This
fall the Student Labor Action Coa-
lition, best known for its protests
and citizens during the Local 34
and 35 strikes, used flyers, table
tents and posters and an education
forum to educate undergraduates
about the Graduate Employees and
Students Organization.
The Yale UFW chapter held
events and put up posters around
campus for months last spring
and preparation for the UFW
March Through Manhattan.They
managed to draw nearly 100 Yale
students, including many stu-
dents not involved in any kind
of campus activism. Still, some
groups have chosen to employ
more dramatic attention — get-
ting action to capture student
interests.
Guerrilla theater uses street
drama to make political state-
“On Tuesday, there are 10 states
having elections, so that forces
campaigns to make tough decisions
on where to deploy resources,”
Reardon said, although she also
noted that Kerry is the only candi-
date with a campaign office in Con-
necticut.
While the candidates make
last-minute stops in more closely
watched states like Georgia, Ohio
and Maryland, the Kerry and
Edwards campaigns have only sent
surrogates to Connecticut. On
Sunday, Teresa Heinz Kerry ral-
lied supporters for her husband in
Stamford and Greenwich, while
Edwards’ daughter Cate visited
Norwalk.
In addition to Kerry and
Edwards, Ohio Rep. Dennis
Kucinich and the Rev. Al Sharpton
are actively campaigning for dele-
gates on Super Tuesday, although
neither has devoted significant
time or energy to Connecticut. For-
mer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean
’71, who spoke in New Haven last
week, is no longer campaigning
for president, but some of his sup-
TIMOTHY LOVELOCK
ments and educate other stu-
dents. Amnesty International
has used such methods to protest
human rights violations in Burma
and draw attention to the planned
execution of former Black Pan-
ther Mumia Abu-Jamal who was
accused of killing a police officer
nearly 20 years ago.
Green Corps has to use cos-
tumes and large props and its ral-
lies and protests, and the Yale Col-
lege Vegetarian Society recently
sponsored a veggie-burger eating
contest on cross campus to raise
awareness about the benefits of
vegetarianism.
The Student Coalition for
Diversity carried out a more con-
troversial auction last year for
National Affirmative Action Day,
which saw protest at campuses
across the nation.
As part of an event called
“White-out,” supporters of affir-
mative action wore white face
paint in an attempt to demon-
strate what yelled look like with-
out diversity. The action drew
criticism from some students who
found the tactic offensive.
Overwhelmingly, the latest
generation of student activists
have shown themselves willing to
engage in discussions whenever
possible.
Their demands are gener-
ally modest and specific and their
actions quieter and less confron-
tational than those associated with
the protests of the 1960s.
Administrators have often been
receptive, agreeing to open dia-
logue and rarely calling police in
to break up demonstrations. As
activist efforts slowly gain in num-
ber and strength on campuses,
time will tell whether slow and
steady will win the race.
Transcribed by Sammy Westfall.
porters said they were still trying to
send Dean delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention in July.
Quinnipiac University poll
director Douglas Schwartz said
that while Connecticut Democrats
have bucked national trends in the
past — voting for Calif. Gov. Jerry
Brown in 1992 when he faced off
against Bill Clinton LAW ’73 and
for Ted Kennedy in 1980 when he
ran against incumbent President
Jimmy Carter — Kerry’s position in
Connecticut seemed safe Tuesday.
“There’s no reason for me to
think that Connecticut is going to
be different from anywhere else,”
Schwartz said. “The trends are
all pointing to a big Kerry victory,
especially since Kerry is from a
neighboring state.”
In addition to the 49 delegates
who will be assigned on the basis of
the results tomorrow, Connecticut
will send 12 “superdelegates” to the
Democratic National Convention,
who will be permitted to vote freely
for the presidential nominee.
Transcribed by Serena Cho.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can
afford you.”  HAROLD BLOOM, PH.D. ’56 AMERICAN LITERARY CRITIC

THE CLASS OF 2009

Apache heirs sue Skull and Bones over remains

BY NORA CAPLAN-BRICKER
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
The descendants of the Apache
Geronimo, a warrior chieftain
whose remains are rumored to be
held inside Yale’s oldest secret
society, filed a lawsuit Tuesday
demanding the return of their
ancestor’s skull.
Twenty members of the leg-
endary warrior’s family are suing
senior federal government offi-
cials, the University and the soci-
ety Skull and Bones in the U.S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia to seek the return of
Geronimo’s remains as well as
punitive damages.
“I believe strongly from
my heart that his spirit was
never released,” Geronimo’s
great-grandson Harlyn Geron-
imo said in the press conference
on Tuesday. “Presently, he’s still
imprisoned. The only way to put
this into closure is to relieve the
remains and his spirit so that he
can be taken back to his homeland,
on the Gila Mountains, at the head
of the Gila River.”
One hundred years ago Tuesday,
Geronimo died of pneumonia at
Fort Sill, Okla., but the suit alleges
that members of Skull and Bones
exhumed his remains in 1918 or
1919 and transported them to the
society’s High Street tomb in New
Haven. The group that is rumored
to have stolen Geronimo’s skull,
bones and other items from his
grave site is said to have included
Prescott Bush, father of former
President George H. W. Bush ’48
and grandfather to former Presi-
dent George W. Bush ’68.
“To assure that all existing
remains of Geronimo and funerary
objects are recovered by Geroni-
mo’s lineal descendants, the Order
of Skull and Bones and Yale Uni-
versity must account for any such
articles that are or have been in
their possession, or on their prop-
erty,” the formal complaint states.
“And persons with knowledge
must provide any facts known to
them concerning the claims.”
Reached by phone Tuesday eve-
ning, four individuals — named
in the society’s 2007 tax filings as
directors of Skull and Bones’s cor-
porate parent, the Russell Trust
Association — said they had no
knowledge of the lawsuit. Repeated
knocks on the front door of the
society’s tomb were not answered
Tuesday evening.
University spokeswoman Gila
Reinstein said Tuesday after-
noon she had “no knowledge” of
the complaint filed by Geronimo’s
descendants, adding that she could
not comment on ongoing lawsuits.
Even if Skull and Bones does have
Geronimo’s remains, she said, the
society is a separate entity from
Yale and is not affiliated with the
University.
Because Geronimo’s initial
place of burial was a U.S. military
base, the suit’s 20 plaintiffs —
all lineal descendants of Geron-
imo — named President Barack
Obama, Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates and Secretary of the
Army Pete Geren as defendants in
the suit.
Rumors that Bonesmen stole
Geronimo’s remains have never
been authoritatively confirmed or
debunked. Experts remain split
on whether the grave robbery
ever took place. In an interview,
Towana Spivey, director of the Fort
Sill National Historic Landmark
and Museum, said he has never
believed the story.
Some of the details of Bush’s
story were also inconsistent with
Geronimo’s tomb, Spivey said.
For example, Bush described a
stone vault with an iron door,
Spivey said, but Geronimo’s grave
would have been marked by a sim-
ple wooden headstone at the time
when the robbery allegedly took
place.
But Alexandra Robbins ’98,
author of the 2002 Bones exposé,
“Secrets of the Tomb,” is not so
quick to discount the idea that
Geronimo’s skull may have spent
most of the last century at Yale.
“Of all of the pilfered items
rumored to be in the Bones tomb,
Geronimo’s skull is the most plau-
sible,” Robbins said in an e-mail
to the News. “The society’s doc-
umented description of the
grave-robbing is in standard Skull
and Bones lingo, and Bonesmen
I spoke to told me that there is a
skull in the building that they call
Geronimo.”
If they win the suit, plaintiffs
hope to re-inter Geronimo in a site
close to his birthplace, in the Gila
Wilderness of southwestern New
Mexico.
Geronimo’s descendants are
legally entitled to ownership of
his remains and any funerary
objects buried with him under
the provisions of the 1990 Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act, the complaint
argues.
Transcribed by Asha Prihar.

THE CLASS OF 2014

BY ALISON GRISWOLD AND
ASHTON WACKYM
APRIL 11, 2013
PITTSBURGH — Quinnipiac
beat Yale all season. Except when it
mattered the most.
The Bulldogs stunned the Bob-
cats, the CONSOL Energy Cen-
ter and the college hockey world
on Saturday as they rode a wave
of upsets to its completion: the
national championship.
Sticks and helmets flew, goal-
tender Jeff Malcolm ’13 disap-
peared into a sea of players and the
Yale coaching staff swarmed head
coach Keith Allain ’80 as the team
sealed a 4–0 victory over Quinnip-
iac to claim its first NCAA Division
I title in program history.
It was Yale’s first Frozen Four
appearance since 1952, and made
the nation’s oldest college hockey
team the 19th program to join the
list of DI national champions.
Malcolm stopped all 36 shots
he faced, captain Andrew Miller
’13 scored one and earned a
record-breaking 114th career
assist, and Jesse Root ’14 put away
the game with an empty-netter at
Underdog victory
13:02 in the third period.
“This is a goal of ours and a
dream,” said Malcolm, who cele-
brated his 24th birthday on Satur-
day. “I’ve been tearing up earlier,
but I mean it’s just an unbelievable
feeling to share with the coaches
and the team.”
The Elis broke through nearly 40
minutes of deadlock to take a 1–0
lead with just three-and-a-half
seconds remaining in the second
period. Defenseman Gus Young
’14 snagged a loose puck inside
the blue line and shot it low on
net while Clinton Bourbonais ’14
screened Hobey Baker runner-up
Eric Hartzell, then deflected the
shot through his legs.
That set the stage for the
momentum to take a definitive
turn in the third.
Left-winger Charles Orzetti
’16 started what would become
a third-period scoring spree at
3:35, picking up his own rebound
and niftily sliding it past Hartzell
to put Yale up 2–0. Nine minutes
later, right-winger Miller added
to the tally for his second goal of
the Frozen Four. The Yale captain
picked up the puck in the middle
of the ice, broke away, and fired a
low shot through Hartzell’s five-
hole.
Down 3–0, the Bobcats made
a risky decision with nearly seven
minutes remaining and decided
to pull Hartzell in a 4-on-4 situ-
ation to give themselves a 5-on-4
advantage in hopes of breaking
open the scoreboard.
But the plan backfired when
Root won the faceoff and Miller
shot out of the zone with the puck.
He made a bounce pass off the
boards to Root, who swooped in
and scored on the empty net to seal
the deal for the Bulldogs, 4–0.
“One of the things that I felt
coming into the game tonight
that gave us an edge is [Quinnip-
iac] hadn’t seen our A-game in
the previous three games,” Allain
said. “They saw the result of it, but
I don’t think they knew what we
had become as a hockey team. And
I thought we could surprise them a
little bit with that.”
Quinnipiac, which topped the
national polls for most of the sea-
son, had beaten Yale in each of the
teams’ previous three meetings. In
their first matchup on Feb. 2, the
Bobcats erased Yale’s early 2–0
lead with six unanswered goals.
Yale fell to Quinnipiac again on
Feb. 22 and in the ECAC consola-
tion game on March 23, both times
by a margin of three goals.
Yale has been surprising teams
since this NCAA Tournament
began. The Elis slipped into the
bracket after Notre Dame’s defeat
of Michigan gave them the last
available slot. Yale successively
took down No. 1-seeded Minne-
sota and No. 2 North Dakota in the
West Regional before knocking out
UMass-Lowell in overtime during
the Frozen Four semifinal. By the
time they were finished, the Elis
had defeated the top three teams in
the national rankings.
“If we look down the road and
say we’re going to have to beat
three number ones and a No. 2
seed, the task might have seemed
daunting,” Allain said. “But we
went into Grand Rapids and
focused on Minnesota, took care
of that job. We focused on North
Dakota. When you chip away at
it one at a time, obviously, it took
a great deal of effort, but it’s not
impossible, for sure.”
As silver confetti rained down at
the conclusion of the champion-
ship game, Miller was named the
third star of the game, Bourbonais
was named the second, and Mal-
colm was named the first.
“Everyone played their hardest
and competed their hardest,” said
Miller, who was named the most
outstanding player of the tourna-
ment. “To bring a national cham-
pionship back to Yale is unbeliev-
able.”
Yale has scheduled a celebration
for the hockey team at Ingalls Rick
at 5:00 p.m. today.
This article was updated to
reflect the version published in print
on April 15.
Correction: April 16
A previous version of this arti-
cle stated that the men’s hockey
team was the first Yale sport to win
a NCAA team title since the men’s
swimming team took one in 1953. In
fact, the Yale women’s fencing pro-
gram won NCAA team champion-
ships in 1984 and 1985.
Transcribed by Serena Cho.

THE CLASS OF 2014

Miller announces DKE suspension

BY JORDI GASSO
MAY 17, 2011
UPDATED 10:04 p.m. In an
email to students and faculty Tues-
day afternoon, Yale College Dean
Mary Miller informed the Univer-
sity community about the Executive
Committee’s actions concerning the
controversial Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon pledge incident Oct. 13. After
a full proceeding, Miller said, the
Committee found that the Yale DKE
chapter had violated the Under-
graduate Regulations by threaten-
ing and intimidating others that
night, when pledges were instructed
to chanted phrases such as “No
means yes, yes means anal” on Old
Campus. The Committee also found
several DKE brothers had breached
the same regulations, resulting in
individual penalties.
“Although it is unusual to send
a memorandum regarding a par-
ticular Executive Committee deci-
sion to the Yale community, a wide
range of community members
have been affected by this inci-
dent,” Miller said in the email. “As
a result, I have decided to share the
Committee’s decisions regarding
this case.”
Although Miller revealed that
the Committee issued individual
sanctions to fraternity members,
federal and University privacy
policies prevented her from com-
municating further details about
these disciplinary actions, she
said. But Miller did disclose that
the Committee imposed penalties
on the Yale DKE chapter — despite
its status as an unregistered stu-
dent organization — that prevent
it from recruiting new members or
holding any events on campus for
five years. The sanctions also limit
the group’s ability to communi-
cate with the student body and use
the Yale name in connection with
DKE.
In a separate e-mail to the News,
Miller decline to further comment
on the matter.
The Committee has formally
asked that the fraternity’s national
organization suspend the chap-
ter for five years. After the Old
Campus incident, DKE’s national
organization promptly directed
the Yale chapter to stop all pledge
activities, including the initiation
of new members. But the ban was
lifted in early November, less than
one month after it was imposed.
If, after five years, the frater-
nity has adhered to these measures
and registers as an undergraduate
organization, the Committee sug-
gests that the Yale College Dean’s
Office lift the penalties.
Although the national organi-
zation has yet to receive a formal
request for suspension from the
University, Executive Director of
DKE International Douglas Lan-
pher said the measures detailed in
Miller’s e-mail to the Yale commu-
nity were “excessive” and that the
fraternity’s headquarters would
want to appeal the decision if pos-
sible.
“I think we’ve addressed the sit-
uation internally,” Lanpher said.
“We believe that corrective action
has already been taken, but we
would still like to be good partners
[with the University].”
Miller’s decision to reveal
the disciplinary measures taken
against DKE surprised Lanpher,
he said, after Yale officials had
assured him that the matter would
remain confidential. Lanpher said
that Yale’s call for suspension was
“ironic” given the fact that the
University does not officially rec- of sexual misconduct, she said, whether the Title IX investigation
ognize Greek organizations. Still, adding that she was pleased to had influenced Miller’s disclosure
he added, the national organi- see Yale officials adopt this new of the ExComm decision.
zation expects to work with Yale approach.
administrators to find an “appro- She declined to speculate on Transcribed by Serena Cho.
priate solution.”
Jordan Forney ’11, then-pres-
ident of the Yale DKE chapter,
declined to comment on the new
sanctions.
The DKE incident sparked a
year-long debate on campus about
Yale’s sexual climate and the Uni-
versity’s response to instances
of sexual misconduct. Deeming
the fraternity’s antics as the “last
straw” in a long chain of public
incidents, a group of 16 students
and alumni filed a complaint with
the Department of Education’s
Office for Civil Rights, claiming
that Yale violated Title IX regu-
lations — a federal law that pro-
hibits gender discrimination in
schools that receive federal fund-
ing — by allowing a hostile sexual
environment to persist on cam-
pus. On Mar. 31, the complainants
announced that the OCR had offi-
cially opened an investigation into
the University’s policies on sexual
harassment.
While it remains unclear what
Yale’s new restrictions will mean
for DKE since it is an unregistered
organization, complainant Alex-
andra Brodsky ’12 said, Miller’s
e-mail showed that the adminis-
tration could be more transparent
about its disciplinary proceedings.
“If the suspension does create a
serious disturbance to the fraterni-
ty’s activities, then a message will
be sent that sexual harassment will
not be tolerated on this campus,”
she said.
The decision also marked a
departure from the administra-
tion’s usual response to incidents LUCAS HOLTER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
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THIS YEAR’S NEWS

“I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the
investigations I read or see on television.”  BOB WOODWARD, B.A. ’65 AMERI-
CAN JOURNALIST

Yale implicated in nationwide admissions scandal

COURTESY OF SAM RUBIN ’95

Meredith resigned from his position as women’s soccer coach last November.

BY KELLY WEI
STAFF REPORTER
In a Boston courtroom on March
29, former Yale women’s soccer
coach Rudy Meredith stood before
a judge and pled guilty to wire fraud
and conspiracy charges in relation
to his role in what federal prosecu-
tors have called the largest college
admissions scandal ever prosecuted
by the Department of Justice.
The scheme, dubbed “Varsity
Blues” by investigators, involved
over 50 individuals, including
prominent figures such as “Full
House” actress Laurie Loughlin,
and their children who attended
elite colleges across the nation.
According to court documents,
Meredith “accepted bribes in
exchange for designating appli-
cants to Yale as recruits for the Yale
women’s soccer team, and thereby
facilitating their admission to the
university.” His actions led to the
admission of one student, whose
admission was rescinded in March.
Yale believes that Meredith was
the only University staff member
involved with the scheme, accord-
ing to a March 12 communitywide
email sent by University Presi-
dent Peter Salovey in relation to the
scandal.
In an interview with the News,
Director of Athletics Vicky Chun
said that “the Department of Jus-
tice made clear that Yale has been
the victim of a crime. The Univer-
sity has fully cooperated with the
investigation and will continue
moving forward.”
The ringleader of the scandal and
owner of a California-based for-
profit admissions company William
“Rick” Singer, received $25 million
in bribes and kickbacks for helping
more than 750 students gain admis-
sion into elite colleges nationwide.
The Department of Justice claims
that Meredith began working with
Singer in April 2015. According to
court documents, Singer agreed
to help “Yale Applicant 1” gain
admission to Yale in exchange for
$400,000. Allegedly, Singer col-
laborated with former women’s
soccer coach for the University of
Southern California Laura Janke to
create a falsified athletic profile that
would be included in the applicant’s
Yale application.
“[C]ould you please create a soc-
cer profiles asap for this girl who
will be a midfielder and attending
Yale so she has to be very good,” a
Nov. 10, 2017 email that Singer sent
Janke stated, according to court
documents. “Needs to play Acad-
emy and no high school soccer…
awards and honors — more info to
come — need a soccer pic probably
Asian girl.”
According to court filings, Singer
forwarded the profile to Meredith
who knew “at the time, [the appli-
cant] did not play competitive soc-
cer.”
On March 24, University spokes-
person Tom Conroy told the News
that the student’s admission had
been rescinded.
Meredith had also attempted
to receive an additional $450,000
for facilitating the admission of
“Yale Applicant 2” into the Uni-
versity. After a meeting with the
parent in a Boston hotel in April of
2018 — which the FBI wiretapped
— Meredith actively began to work
as a cooperating witness for four
months. During this time, Mer-
edith made several tapped phone
calls to Singer on behalf of the FBI,
which led to its discovery that the
Yale-related bribery was part of a
much larger national scheme.
In addition to Varsity Blues, two
former soccer players alleged that
Meredith pressed players to edit
and write portions of his gradu-
ate school papers while he pursued
a master’s degree at Ohio Univer-
sity. One player said that the team
members had brought their con-
cerns to the Department of Athlet-
ics as well as University President
Peter Salovey. After an investiga-
tion led by former Athletics Direc-
tor Tom Beckett, the University
took no action against Meredith
despite various complaints. Beckett
retired from his position in 2018 and
was replaced by Vicky Chun.
Since news broke of the admis-
sions scandal, Chun has aimed to
implement new policies to “ensure
that student-athletes receive an
excellent education at Yale and to
enhance the quality of [Yale’s] ath-
letic programs.” In addition, Chun
will work alongside Dean of Under-
graduate Admissions and Financial
Aid Jeremiah Quinlan to imple-
ment “more robust training for
all coaches to ensure they under-
stand” Yale’s recruitment policies.
Other schools implicated in the
scandal include the University of
Southern California, Wake Forest
and Stanford.
Contact KELLY WEI at
kelly.wei@yale.edu .

Yale admits 2,178 to class of 2023

BY PHOEBE LIU
STAFF REPORTER
Yale College offered 2,178 stu-
dents admission into the class of
2023, which represents 5.91 per-
cent of a record 36,843 appli-
cants from both the early action
and regular decision pools.
Keeping with recent trends,
the number of applicants
increased by 4.3 percent this
cycle, and the pool represented a
greater number of students who
identify with a minority group
or who will be first-generation
college students than in years
past. With this admissions cycle,
Yale’s acceptance rate dipped
below 6 percent, for the first time
in recent memory. And, about
a third of the class of 2023 was
accepted from the early action
pool, the early action cycle with
the highest number of applica-
tions since 2013.
“All of our admissions offi-
cers continue to be impressed
with and humbled by the num-
ber of highly qualified appli-
cants in our pool,” said Dean of
Undergraduate Admissions and
Financial Aid Jeremiah Quin-
lan. “We’re thrilled that the
expansion of Yale College has
allowed us to offer admission
to more high-achieving stu-
dents from such a variety of
backgrounds.”
The class of 2023 represents
the third expanded class to be
offered admission into Yale, fol-
lowing the opening of two new
residential colleges colleges in
2017, named after Pauli Murray
LAW ’65 and Benjamin Franklin.
The additional space has allowed
class sizes to expand by about
15 percent, or 200 students per
class.
Quinlan said that the admis- other necessary items. events designed to showcase Yale May 1.
sions committee was again able Admitted students were to admitted students.
to select a larger class “without invited to Bulldog Days and Bull- The final decision date for Contact PHOEBE LIU at
any significant changes to the dog Saturday in April — two commitment to Yale College was phoebe.liu@yale.edu .
holistic process.”
In their press release on the
admission of the new class, Yale
reiterated its commitment to
financial aid.
“My colleagues and I look for-
ward to working with the admit-
ted students to the class of 2023
to ensure that cost of attendance
is not a barrier for any admitted
student when considering Yale,”
said Director of Undergradu-
ate Financial Aid Scott Wal-
lace-Juedes.
Mark Dunn, director of out-
reach and communications for
the admissions office, said that
outreach efforts from the admis-
sions office, the QuestBridge
National College Match program
— a program that “matches”
high-achieving and low-income
students to one of its partner col-
leges with no parental contribu-
tion or student loans —and other
factors contributed to a 110-per-
cent jump of applicants from stu-
dents “living in lower-income
census tracts.”
The admissions office focuses
on making the Yale admissions
process as transparent as possible
through both their online pres-
ence and mail outreach, espe-
cially in lower-income areas,
Dunn said.
Additionally, according to
Quinlan, “recent enhancements”
to undergraduate financial pol-
icies to increase the accessibil-
ity of Yale to students with the
greatest financial need include
free hospitalization insurance
coverage and a $200 “startup
grant” intended to subsidize the
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THIS YEAR’S NEWS
ER&M obtains hiring power following campuswide activism
BY AYUMI SUDO
STAFF REPORTER
Following over a month of stu-
dent and faculty activism, the Uni-
versity committed to increasing its
support for the program of Ethnic-
ity, Race and Migration on May 2,
after 13 of the program’s senior fac-
ulty members withdrew their labor
from the program on March 29.
The faculty members cited
administrative disinterest in
ER&M — including the Universi-
ty’s failure to recognize academic
work in the field and ER&M’s lack
of hiring ability — as reasons for
their withdrawal. The move left
the program without any tenured
faculty member or professional
leadership. But after the Univer-
sity announced that it would grant
ER&M hiring power for five faculty
positions weeks later, the profes-
sors returned to the program.
“On behalf of my colleagues, I
thank the Yale administration for
affirming ER&M’s importance as
a program that requires resources
and standing on par with other
academic units,” ER&M chair Ali-
cia Schmidt Camacho wrote in
a May 2 statement on the pro-
gram’s website. “I take great joy in
imagining the future of the Eth-
nicity, Race, and Migration Pro-
gram at Yale and our new capac-
ity to partner with institutions and
colleagues beyond this Univer-
sity. I am grateful that our faculty
remains committed to teaching
and mentoring students interested
in what has become one of our uni-
versity’s most dynamic and fastest
growing undergraduate majors.”
A press release announcing the
March 29 withdrawals said that fac-
ulty members had met with Univer-
sity administrators dozens of times
since 2002 to discuss ER&M’s sta-
tus. In the meetings, according to the
press release, the faculty members
stressed to the University officials
that they should not be expected
to “volunteer their labor to sup-
port” the program. They also argued
that University administrators had
not kept their repeated promises to
Strife over student effort continues
BY MACRINA WANG
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
With protests, pamphlets and
petitions, the campus group
Students Unite Now has long
demanded the elimination of the
student effort section of a Yale
financial aid package — colloqui-
ally known as the “student income
contribution” — arguing that it
causes socioeconomic disparities
in students’ college experiences.
Still, many University offi-
cials — including University Pres-
ident Peter Salovey, Yale College
Dean Marvin Chun and Direc-
tor of Undergraduate Admissions
and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quin-
lan — have continued to defend
the structure of Yale’s financial
aid packages, contending that stu-
dents should contribute to the cost
of their education and that getting
rid of the contribution would not
be an easy fix.
Student effort is the amount of
money students on financial aid
are expected to pay beyond their
parents’ expected financial contri-
bution. As defined by Yale’s Finan-
cial Aid website, it is the aggre-
gate of the “student share” and
“student campus employment
option.” The share is the Univer-
sity’s estimate of wages that stu-
dents could earn over the summer,
Students Unite Now has been protesting the student effort since 2012.
change ER&M’s status and funding,
nor had they given newly recruited
faculty members a primary appoint-
ment within the program.
“For two decades we have been
assigned to an irregular and pre-
carious status within the Universi-
ty’s administrative structure, and in
recent years we have seen Yale lead-
ers turn away from the promises
they have made to our program and
the students we serve,” Camacho
said in the March 29 press release.
“… The administration has main-
tained a system that fails to recog-
nize our work and prevents us from
participating in the tenure and pro-
motion process.”
The faculty members who with-
drew from the program in March
stated in the press release that they
remained committed to support-
ing their current junior and senior
majors. But they could not guaran-
tee that sophomore and first years
would be able to major in ER&M.
The March 29 press release stated
that the professors “cannot respon-
sibly meet our growing obliga-
tions to students or our respective
research fields under the current
structure.”
The professors’ action drew sup-
port from outside of the University.
By April 9, more than 500 schol-
ars from various fields — many of
which focused on ethnic studies —
had signed a letter calling for Uni-
versity President Peter Salovey,
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sci-
ence Tamar Gendler and Dean of
the Humanities Amy Hungerford to
“do everything possible to restore
and institutionalize the program.”
Meanwhile, other petitions cir-
culated online. One was signed
by more than 1,500 Yale students,
alumni and community supporters
as of April 8.
Brown University chair of
American studies Matthew Gut-
erl, who signed the nationwide
petition with 500 signatures, said
Yale’s ER&M program has “out-
sized significance” nationally.
“The faculty who work in
it — including those who have
resigned — are globally import-
which is currently set at $1,600 for
first years and at $2,600 for upper-
classmen with standard levels of
need, while the “student campus
employment option” is the Uni-
versity’s estimate of wages stu-
dents could earn through work-
study, which is set at $2,850 for
first years and $3,350 for upper-
level students who do not belong to
“high-need” families. Most of the
money earned for student effort
is not paid directly to the Univer-
sity, but instead applied toward
unbilled costs like textbooks and
personal expenses.
“I think the administration
hears what we’re doing loud and
clear, and I think it’s on them to
decide what to do,” said Julia Salse-
da-Angeles ’19, a SUN organizer.
“Students have demonstrated over
and over again over the past six
years, that this is a really harmful
and unfair policy.”
SUN has protested the student
effort since 2012. Members of the
group have characterized it as an
“unnecessary burden” that fur-
ther separates students along the
lines of race, class, ability and doc-
umentation status, according to
SUN member Carlos Rodriguez
Cortez ’21.
During the 2018-2019 academic
year, the group hosted a February
town hall, which attracted around
“Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize
and debate openly.”  HILLARY CLINTON, J.D. ’73 FORMER FIRST LADY OF THE
UNITED STATES
Students and faculty members were quick to organize following the professors’ withdrawals from the ER&M program.
ant to ethnic studies, with ster-
ling reputations as teachers and
writers producing reorient-
ing works of scholarship,” Gut-
erl wrote in an email to the News.
“To watch the program die slowly,
killed off by a thousand cuts or
by negligence, would have been
extremely painful — for students
at Yale and for all of us in the
field. Their mass resignation was
a wake-up call, with stakes that
are just simply bigger than Yale.”
Many Yalies also supported the
faculty members’ decision to with-
draw from the ER&M program.
Three days after the announce-
ment, the Coalition for Ethnic
Studies at Yale — a student group
200 attendees and allowed stu-
dents to share the difficulties they
have encountered with the “student
income contribution.” SUN then
set up a weekend-long encamp-
ment outside of University Presi-
dent Peter Salovey’s office in SSS in
April and released a report that same
month on student experiences with
student effort, all after having staged
multiple rallies throughout the year
around campus. National media
outlets like Newsweek have publi-
cized the group’s campaign.
During this year’s Bulldog Days,
which took place from April 15 to
17, 24 students were arrested while
participating in sit-ins opposing
the contribution. Five students were
arrested in front of Sheffield-Ster-
ling-Strathcona Hall, while 19 oth-
ers were arrested in front of Phelps
Gate for obstructing traffic.
“We’re fighting for the class of
2023,” said Salseda-Angeles. “I’m
a senior, I’m about to graduate, so
I’ve paid my SIC for four years. I
want the class of 2023 to have a dif-
ferent experience than I had.”
While Yale has lowered the
amount that students must con-
tribute to their education over the
past few years, administrators have
long defended keeping the student
effort, emphasizing that eliminat-
ing it entirely would not be a sim-
ple financial process.
calling for Yale to make the ER&M
program a formal department —
created a pop-up library with their
works on Cross Campus to express
solidarity with the professors. The
exhibit included two bookshelves
with the works of the 13 profes-
sors who withdrew from the ER&M
program last Friday as well as those
written by some of the 41 scholars
who have departed from the pro-
gram since its inception in 1997.
On May 2, the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences Faculty Resource
Committee — which allocates fac-
ulty “slots,” a commitment to a
department or program allowing
it search and hiring power — voted
to grant the program five slots. Fol-
Quinlan told the News in Feb-
ruary that getting rid of stu-
dent effort is not as easy as “sim-
ply pulling more money out of the
endowment.” He explained that
the endowment supports a little
more than half of the yearly under-
graduate financial aid budget.
“The endowment is not a bank
account; it is made up of hun-
dreds of smaller funds, many with
unbreakable indentures that pre-
vent it from covering the full cost
of a Yale education for all stu-
dents,” Quinlan said.
SUN’s activities have drawn
administrative attention. During
the group’s weekend-long
encampment in April, Dean of Stu-
dent Affairs Camille Lizarríbar told
protestors in SSS that they would
be cited for trespassing if they
did not exit the building by mid-
night. Chun and Quinlan engaged
in conversation with protestors
at the encampment, with Quin-
lan describing their discussion as
“brief, but … productive.” Salovey,
Quinlan and former Dean of Yale
College Jonathan Holloway also
met with SUN leaders in May 2017.
Quinlan told the News that he
was not able to attend SUN’s late
February town hall but “extended
an invitation to meet with sev-
eral small groups of students” who
expressed concerns about Yale’s
CARLY WANNA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
lowing the vote, the 13 professors
returned to the program.
“We are deeply grateful to mem-
bers of the Yale community and the
thousands of educators and others
worldwide who have supported
the Ethnicity, Race, and Migra-
tion Program,” Camacho stated in
a May 2 press release. “We received
remarkable affirmations of the
importance of our collective work
and have formed new relationships
in the process.”
According to the March 29 press
release, 87 students have declared
ER&M as their major.
Contact AYUMI SUDO at
ayumi.sudo@yale.edu .
financial aid policies. He added
that small group meetings have
in the past been a “more produc-
tive venue” for discussing per-
sonal experiences and the details
of Yale’s policies and emphasized
that students with personal finan-
cial concerns should speak with a
financial aid counselor to discuss
their individual situations and find
solutions.
Salovey said in the fall of 2017
that eliminating student effort was
not a priority in what was then the
University’s next major fundrais-
ing push. He said that the admin-
istration would “never articulate
a goal that would be around such
a specific area of financial aid pol-
icy.” Rather, he said fundraising
goals should be stated in a way that
“motivates the greatest number
of people to give” and that there
should be “flexibility in the imple-
mentation of campus policy.”
SUN has received endorsements
from several Yale student organi-
zations including MEChA, Asian
American Studies Task Force, Yale
Hillel Student Board, Trans@Yale,
the LGBTQ Co-op, Fossil Free Yale,
Broad Recognition, Yale Under-
graduate Prison Project and the
Yale Women’s Center.
Contact MACRINA WANG at
macrina.wang@yale.edu .
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Hundreds protest shooting of unarmed citizens by Yale, Hamden Police
Community activism continued in the days following the officer-involved shooting.
BY ALAYNA LEE
STAFF REPORTER
In the early hours of April 16,
22-year-old Stephanie Washing-
ton and 21-year-old Paul Wither-
spoon were shot numerous times
while in their car at New Haven’s
Newhallville neighborhood by two
police officers — Devin Eaton and
Terrance Pollock of the Hamden
Police Department and Yale Police
Department, respectively. Wither-
spoon was not injured, and Wash-
ington was shot in the torso. Both
victims were unarmed. The State
Attorney’s Office and the Con-
necticut State Police opened an
investigation into the officer-in-
volved shooting immediately after
the incident.
In the days that followed the
shooting, hundreds of New Haven
and Hamden residents, as well as
Yalies, gathered to protest the offi-
cer-involved shooting and demand
justice for Washington and With-
erspoon. Protests took place on
consecutive days for over a week,
often lasting a few hours in loca-
tions across New Haven and Ham-
den — including the Hamden
Police Department and Yale Pres-
ident Peter Salovey’s house.
One major protest occurred on
Yale’s campus two days after the
officer-involved shooting. Hun-
dreds of Yale students and com-
munity activists gathered outside
Woodbridge Hall at approximately
5:30 p.m. on April 18 to protest
the incident. The protestors made
demands for city, law enforcement
and Yale officials, with the main
Elm City gears up for mayoral race
BY VIOLA LEE
STAFF REPORTER
With the general election taking
place in six months, the 2019 may-
oral race in the Elm City is expected
to be one of the most competitive
races in recent history.
Incumbent Toni Harp, the 50th
mayor of New Haven, announced
in February that she is seeking
Harp’s bid for re-election has been met with filings by four other candidates so far.
demands including the release of
the officers’ body camera footage,
the immediate firing of both offi-
cers and reparations to both vic-
tims. Growing to over 500 pro-
testors, the group moved to the
middle of Broadway and York
Street, where they sat in a circle,
chanted, sang and told stories for a
few hours — all while closing down
several streets surrounding the
Broadway-York intersection. The
group marched through Down-
town New Haven, shutting down
major thoroughfare streets around
the city until midnight.
“When you kill our young people
this is what you get,” New Haven
Rising’s Rev. Scott Marks said at
a rally on April 26. “These are our
children. Enough is enough. … [We
need to] make sure we lift up Steph-
anie and Paul, that we lift up jobs
for New Haven residents, that we
lift up calling for a better quality for
life. It’s time for change.”
Less than 17 hours after the sev-
en-hour, 500-person protest on
April 18, hundreds reconvened in
Hamden to march down Dixwell
Avenue — a major road conjoin-
ing New Haven and Hamden — to
the Hamden Police Department. At
least 400 people joined the march,
chanting, “No justice. No peace.
No racist police,” and, “What do
we want? Justice. When do we
want it? Now.”
In a communitywide state-
ment on April 17, University Pres-
ident Peter Salovey stated that
Yale will cooperate fully with the
state investigations and said that
the Yale administration had been
re-election for her fourth con-
secutive two-year term. She will
be running against four contend-
ers: Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10
— executive director of the New
Haven Land Trust and a top con-
tender in the 2013 mayoral race —
affordable housing advocate Urn
Pendragon, Elm City philanthro-
pist and former Yale-New Haven
Hospital nurse Wendy Hamilton
ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
“A ship in a port is safe, but that’s nto what ships are built
for.”  GRACE HOPPER, M.MATH ’30, PH.D. ’34 AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST
in contact with New Haven Mayor
Toni Harp, as well as both the Yale
and Hamden Police Departments.
“We will also engage with our
fellow members of the greater New
Haven community. Our relief that
the young woman who was shot
did not suffer life-threatening
injuries must not signal closure,
but rather an opening: now is the
time for all of us — city residents,
their elected leaders, community
organizers, and the Yale commu-
nity — to come together,” Salovey
said in the statement.
According to University spokes-
person Tom Conroy on April 18,
Pollock had been placed on admin-
istrative leave following the inci-
dent. The Hamden police offi-
cer has also been placed on leave
pending the outcome of the inves-
tigation conducted by the State
Attorney’s Office, according to
acting Hamden Police Chief John
Cappiello.
The officer-involved shoot-
ing and subsequent protests drew
national attention, bringing for-
ward issues of police brutality that
New Haven community members
had long been fighting against. In
January — after decades of activ-
ism — New Haven established a
citywide Civilian Review Board to
hold the NHPD accountable.
Eight days after the incident,
Connecticut State Police released
Hamden police body cam-
era footage and all relevant dis-
patch audio from the shooting at
a April 24 press conference in New
Haven. However, the release only
included the body camera foot-
and labor and community health
care advocate Seth Poole. Poole is
the only unaffiliated candidate —
the other four candidates are Dem-
ocrats.
“[Party] endorsement or not —
in our cities that are Democratic
— you can get away with not hav-
ing the party endorsement,” Gage
Frank, Elicker’s campaign manager
told the News. “I really do feel that
age from Eaton, the Hamden offi-
cer, because the Yale Police offi-
cer’s camera was turned off during
the incident. Commissioner of
the State Department of Emer-
gency Services and Public Protec-
tion John Rovella said at the press
conference that the inactivation of
both cameras is “inconsistent with
policy and procedures.”
At the conference, Rovella
added that usually footage is only
released after an investigation
is terminated. He added that he
“[has] no intention of charging the
officers” before the results of the
full investigation are concluded.
On April 23, in a campus-wide
email from Yale University Vice
President for Human Resources
and Administration Janet Lindner
stated that Pollock will “remain on
leave throughout the state’s inves-
tigation.” Lindner’s email also
announced that the University will
begin its own investigation follow-
ing the release of footage.
The Yale Black Men’s Union
and Yale Black Women’s Coalition
issued a statement saying that they
stand in solidarity with the vic-
tims, their families and the hun-
dreds of protests demanding jus-
tice, as well as “the millions who
continue to be at risk of police
mistreatment and injustice.” A
group of Black undergraduate stu-
dents formed the Black Students
for Disarmament at Yale organi-
zation in the week following the
shooting, uniting to demand that
the Yale administration disarm
the Yale Police Department and
restrict the Yale Police Depart-
people are ready for change.”
This year, Harp’s campaign
faces challenges unseen in the 2015
and 2017 mayoral races, in both
of which the incumbent won by a
landslide. Harp’s opponents this
year have highlighted problems
with the city’s finances, particu-
larly calling attention to budget
deficits and the lack of affordable
housing and public school funding.
Several members of the Demo-
cratic Town Committee have also
expressed dissatisfaction with
City Hall’s failure to report expen-
ditures as required, criticizing the
lack of fiscal transparency in cov-
ering pension payments and defi-
cits. Ward 1 Alder Hacibey Catal-
basoglu ’19 emphasized that the
money spent by City Hall belongs
to taxpayers, who have a right to
know where their money is being
spent.
“I’m sick of the greed and the
graft,” said Hamilton, whose cam-
paign highlights a general discon-
tent with the fiscal health of the
city.
Elicker has made fiscal respon-
sibility a priority of his candidacy.
On April 21, he wrote an op-ed in
the New Haven Register stating his
three-point financial plan: being
honest about the budget, rooting
out mismanagement and asking
partners to pay their “fair share.”
“We need a mayor who isn’t
afraid to stand up and ask others to
pay their fair share, starting with
developing better relationships
with Yale, Hartford and neigh-
boring towns — all of whom ben-
efit greatly from their proximity to
New Haven jobs, services and cul-
ture,” Elicker wrote in the op-ed.
Pendragon told the New Haven
Independent that the Elm City
DANIEL ZHAO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
ment’s patrol area.
In a letter addressed to Salovey,
Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins
and senior members of the Yale
administration, Black Students for
Disarmament at Yale stated that
the power exercised by the YPD
is “incongruent with the needs of
Yale students and new Haveners.”
“Yale must knowledge its com-
plicity in the violence its private
police force commits against new
Haveners,” the letter read. “As stu-
dents of this university, we refuse
to have the injustices of the YPD
committed in our name”
On April 22, the Hamden Legis-
lative Council originally scheduled
a regular budget meeting, but after
the shooting, more than 200 com-
munity activists and Hamden res-
idents used the forum as an oppor-
tunity to share grievances with
Hamden officials.
“I know you guys are in a bad
spot, but I honestly feel — and my
family feels — that you are going to
do the right thing,” Rodney Wil-
liams, Witherspoon’s uncle said,
addressing a panel of city offi-
cials at a Hamden council meet-
ing on April 23. “These people
behind me, until they start seeing
something moving in the direction
that it needs to move, you guys are
going to be paying a lot of overtime
for marches.”
Established in 1894, the Yale
Police Department is the nation’s
oldest university police depart-
ment.
Contact ALAYNA LEE at
alayna.lee@yale.edu .
needs to appeal directly to the
governor for more state aid, which
can be made more convincing by
arguing that the city is “falling
apart.”
Amidst Harp’s controversial
financial decisions, Elicker’s cam-
paign further called into atten-
tion the incumbent’s campaign
practices by filing a complaint on
March 4 alleging 13 major viola-
tions of campaign finance law. In
response to Elicker’s complaint,
the State Elections Enforcement
Commission, which oversees all
of Connecticut’s campaign and
elections, opened a formal inves-
tigation into Harp’s 2017 mayoral
campaign. The investigation is
ongoing.
In April, Elicker told the News
that the success of his campaign’s
fundraising efforts — having raised
more than four times the amount
Harp’s campaign has — is a strong
“indication that people in New
Haven are interested in change.”
In the first quarter of 2019, Elick-
er’s team raised $117,694, in addi-
tion to the $48,000 expected from
the city’s public financing sys-
tem, while Harp’s raised $26,042.
Elicker stated that it is unusual for
an incumbent mayor’s reelection
campaign to not raise a compara-
ble amount.
Hamilton and Pendragon are
currently self-funding their cam-
paigns. According to the New
Haven Independent, Poole, who
filed his papers to run for mayor on
May 1, is looking to begin raising
money for his campaign soon.
The primary election will take
place on Sept. 10.
Contact VIOLA LEE at
kyounga.lee@yale.edu .
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THIS YEAR’S NEWS “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of
empathy.”  MERYL STREEP, M.F.A. ’75 AMERICAN ACTRESS

Greek life in review: DKE report, Engender lawsuit

BY YUKA SAJI
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Over the past year, campus frater-
nities have come into the spotlight as
allegations of sexual assault contin-
ued to arise and a prominent lawsuit
threatened Greek life at Yale.
In the midst of a contentious
campus dialogue surrounding
Greek life, the results of a long-
awaited review of allegations that
the Yale chapter of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity fosters a hostile
sexual environment were released
in January.
Led by Yale Senior Deputy Title
IX Coordinator Jason Killheffer, the
review was conducted in response
to multiple sexual assault allegations
against DKE members reported by
the News and Business Insider. The
review drew upon interviews with
representatives from approximately
15 student groups on campus and
with approximately 200 students
in order to identify general trends in
student perceptions of DKE culture
and in the role of Greek letter organi-
zations in social life at Yale.
“I condemn the culture described
in these accounts; it runs counter to
our community’s values of making
everyone feel welcome, respected
and safe,” Yale College Dean Mar-
vin Chun wrote in a Jan. 14 email
to the Yale community sharing the
review’s findings. “I also offer some
plain advice about events like these:
don’t go to them.”
DKE’s fraught history includes a
controversial 2010 event in which
pledges chanted “no means yes,
yes means anal” outside the Wom-
en’s Center, after which the Univer-
sity imposed a five-year ban on the
fraternity. In early 2018, the News
and Business Insider reported sex-
ual assault allegations against two
former members of the fraternity,
including its former president, who
was suspended in March 2017 for
“penetration without consent.”
Thirty Communication and Con-
sent Educators, first-year counsel-
ors and sorority members also told
the News that DKE’s sexual mis-
conduct issues extend beyond just a
few “bad apples” and reflect a wider
institutional problem.
DKE is also known for its asso-
ciation with former member and
incumbent Supreme Court Jus-
tice Brett Kavanaugh ’87 LAW
’90, against whom allegations of
sexual misconduct were raised in
the midst of his Supreme Court
confirmation hearing last year by
classmates from his time at Yale.
Although the January report did
not address specific accounts of mis-
conduct at DKE, including the sexual
misconduct allegations, participants
in the review cited the “debauchery”
of DKE events and “a contempt by
DKE members for generally accept-
able standards of conduct.”
Despite condemning DKE’s cul-
ture, Chun added in a subsequent
email that the University will not
punish the fraternity. He stated
that Yale lacks the legal standing to
impose disciplinary sanctions on
independent organizations like DKE,
and that former disciplinary action
on off-campus groups achieved lit-
tle to change their behavior. McNeil, Walker and Singer nity to hide behind them and say Beside DKE and SigEp, the other
However, Chun’s claim has been highlighted the fact that the law- ‘Oh, we don’t do that. We don’t have fraternities on campus include
contested by legal experts such as suit is not just aimed at “bad” fra- seven rape accusations,’” said Singer. Sigma Nu, Leo, Chi Psi, Sigma Chi,
David Easlick, former executive ternities like DKE, whose members “But that doesn’t mean that those Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Delta Phi
director of DKE and current lawyer have faced sexual misconduct alle- spaces don’t perpetuate the same and Zeta Psi.
and consultant on fraternity-related gations in the past. toxic masculinity, the same male
cases, who asserted that Yale has the “Just focusing on those bad fra- privilege, even if they have different Contact YUKA SAJI at
“absolute” right to discipline frater- ternities allows every other frater- ways of doing so.” yuka.saji@yale.edu .
nities.
In response to the report,
DKE President Hugh Perkins ’20
told the News that the frater-
nity remains “committed to the
path of improvement” started by
an internal working group last
year. In a DKE-conducted review
released in February 2018, the
working group recommended
reforms to foster a safer environ-
ment at the chapter, such as intro-
ducing sober monitors, co-ed
TIPS-certified bouncers, house
renovations to prevent crowd-
ing and the termination of alcohol
service at 1 a.m.
“We appreciate the candid
assessment given by Dean Chun,
hope that the reforms we have
implemented have addressed many
of the root causes of these issues
and will continue to improve,” Per-
kins said in his statement.
Still, DKE and other campus fra-
ternities faced other threats this
school year, as the group — along
with every other campus fraternity
— faced a federal class action lawsuit
filed this February.
Three Yale students — Anna
McNeil ’20, Ry Walker ’20 and Ellie
Singer ’21 — filed the suit which
alleges alleges sex-based dis-
crimination in fraternities at Yale
for their denial of membership to
female and non-binary students.
McNeil, Walker and Singer serve
as the co-directors of Engender, a
student group on campus known
to advocate gender integration of
Greek life. The suit was also filed
against the University itself.
Engender has previously worked
to promote gender inclusion in fra-
ternities by meeting with Yale
administrators, protesting an
annual DKE-organized Spring Fling
party known “Tang,” and organiz-
ing female and non-binary stu-
dents to participate symbolically in
the fraternity rush process. Sigma
Phi Epsilon, colloquially known as
SigEp, ultimately allowed Engen-
der members to “rush” the organi-
zation and was the only one of nine
all-male fraternities at Yale to do so.
Despite allowing these students into
the fraternity rush process, SigEp
ultimately denied the Engender rush
participants membership to the fra-
ternity, citing national chapter regu-
lations.
According to Will McGrew ’18, a
former SigEp member and founding
member of Engender, making frater-
nities coeducational will help resolve
the issue of their sexual climate. In
an “all-male space” like a frater-
nity, McGrew said, “it’s really hard
to have a zero tolerance policy [for
sexual assault].” In contrast, he said
a mixed-gender space could lead to
positive change. McGrew observed
that improvements in SigEp’s sexual
culture tended to originate in women
LUCAS HOLTER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
who were dating or friends with the
fraternity’s members. Several members of the campus group Engender have filed a lawsuit against Yale’s fraternities.

Bass Library renovation plans stir controversy

BY SAMUEL TURNER
STAFF REPORTER
Following pushback from the Yale
community on original renovation
plans, the Anne T. and Robert M.
Bass Library will undergo a modified
set of renovations this summer. The
remodeled library — set to reopen
before the start of the fall semester
— will retain 61,000 out of its cur-
Bass library will reopen this fall after undergoing a modified set of renovations
this summer.
rent 150,000 print volumes while
expanding its study space.
Since its construction in 2007,
Bass has been a go-to spot for
undergraduates hurrying to com-
plete readings, papers and problem
sets. In part, the planned renovation
aims to accommodate the 800-per-
son expansion to the student body
from 2017 to 2021, allowed by the
addition of Pauli Murray and Benja-
LUCAS HOLTER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
min Franklin Colleges.
During the 2017-18 academic
year, the library commissioned
anthropologist and library culture
expert Nancy Fried Foster to investi-
gate how students and faculty inter-
act with the library. Her report found
that students often come to Bass
for intensive, individual study, so
the summer renovations will focus
on adding more individual study
spaces, rather than tables or rooms.
University Librarian Susan Gibbons
said that both the expansion of class
sizes and declining circulation of
print volumes justified the proposal,
which would have reduced the col-
lection in Bass to just 40,000 books
and required closing the library for
the entirety of the fall 2019 semester.
“Through expanded study space,
a renewed collection and the move
of two librarians to more visible,
upper-level offices, we will make
Bass a more effective gateway to
all the resource of Yale University
Library,” Gibbons said in an email to
the Yale community.
But the proposed plan and its
timeline garnered negative reactions
from students and faculty members,
prompting modifications to the
plans’ earliest iterations.
Both News Staff Columnist
Leland Stange ’19 and English Pro-
fessor Leslie Brisman, who chairs
the Yale College Library Research
Skills Committee, wrote opin-
ion pieces for the News in opposi-
tion to the renovation plan. Addi-
tionally, Stange created a Facebook
event called “Browse Bass: Save
Our Library!” and urged students to
check out Bass books to raise circu-
lation numbers. Nearly 1,000 stu-
dents signed up on social media to
participate in this “browse in.”
“You are removing what I and my
students value so highly — to go look
among books on reserve,” Brisman
said when Gibbons first released the
plans. “If we put them behind the
desks, they can’t look and choose
among them. You’re replacing that
intellectual opportunity with seat-
ing.”
Stange framed the renovation as
an infringement on student aca-
demics that would make it harder
to browse research materials and for
the time being, would limit study
spaces.
“My main concern about the
direction of the project is it is miss-
ing the fundamental nature of what
it is to be a student,” Stange said at
the initial presentation of the ren-
ovation plans. “The unique expe-
rience of browsing books in Bass
— seeing a collection that does not
just span a few of the primary works
but also secondary works, and those
that are deemed helpful for a certain
project.”
In response to the criticism, Gib-
bons announced changes to the
renovation plan in early February.
According to a Feb. 7 email from
Gibbons to the student body, the
library will retain more of its current
furniture than previously planned,
allowing for the construction period
— which was originally slated to last
through the end of the fall semes-
ter — to be shortened. Gibbons also
noted in the email that Bass will have
a “soft opening” on Aug. 28 for stu-
dents, but library staffing, services,
collections and furnishings “will
still be in flux” until Bass’s official
re-opening on Oct. 1.
Further, the library will retain
61,000 of its 150,000 volumes,
rather than the earlier planned
40,000. The renovations will
focus on making Bass a “gate-
way” to the full Yale library collec-
tion by renewing the Bass collec-
tion so that it emphasizes new titles,
books assigned by professors and
books that have been checked out by
undergraduates in the last five years,
according to a March 6 email from
Gibbons to the Yale community.
“As you know, the reason for this
project is to make sure our grow-
ing undergraduate population will
continue to find ample, good study
space in Bass,” Gibbons told the
News. “Although the increased
study space is smaller now, I
believe it will still make a signifi-
cant difference for students.”
Thain Cafe, which offers food
and drinks to students directly
outside of Bass Library, will
remain untouched by the reno-
vations.
Bass was formerly known as
Cross Campus Library.
Contact SAMUEL TURNER at
samuel.turner@yale.edu .
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“We all have a gift; we all have a passion — it’s just about
finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family
and community.”  ANGELA BASSETT, B.A. ’80, M.F.A. ’83 AMERICAN ACTRESS

Kahlil Greene ’21 elected YCC President

BY ALAYNA LEE
STAFF REPORTER
Kahlil Greene ’21 has become
the first black president of
the Yale College Council after
earning 1,100 votes, or 89.72
percent of the total votes, in
April’s uncontested election.
Greene — who served as the
YCC Finance Director last year
— and newly-elected YCC
Vice President Grace Kang ’21
campaigned on a “4x4 Pol-
icy Plan” that focused on four
points: facilitating meaningful
interactions between Yale and
New Haven; fostering a safer,
healthier and more equita-
ble campus culture; enhancing
the quality of the University’s
academics and facilities; and
improving the YCC’s capacity
to cater to student demands.
Greene and Kang plan on pro-
posing specific plans for each of
these points.
“I have a plan for what I want
to get done between now and
the end of my term, but the
most fun aspect of the YCC
is that I can’t know the exact
goals this organization will end
up accomplishing over the next
12 months,” Greene said. “As
the first black president, it is
important for me to symbolize
the progress that this university
has made over the years and the
journey we still have ahead of
us. Yale should continue work-
ing to become a more diverse
and representative place. I’m
grateful for the role that I will
have in making that happen!”
Kang, who ran on a ticket
with Greene, also ran unop-
posed. In the only contested
race this year, Steven Orien-
tale ’21 won the election for
YCC Events Director against
Chloe Adda ’22. In 2018, five
candidates ran for the YCC
presidency, three ran for vice
president and one for events
director.
Greene recognized that, as an
uncontested candidate, he may
have to work harder to prove
that he deserves his place. He
encouraged the Yale commu-
nity to hold him accountable
like they would for any other
candidate.
“Even though I don’t have
contestants, I am determined
to keep improving,” he said. “I
believe I am qualified, and I am
determined to prove to every-
one my capabilities as the YCC
president.”
Greene said that his prior-
ity for the upcoming year is
fostering a safer, healthier and
more equitable campus culture.
Although the YCC has histori-
cally been silent on major cam-
pus events such as the case of
racial profiling after a white
student called the police on a
black student napping in the
Hall of Graduate Studies com-
mon room, Greene said that the
YCC should be more “respon-
sive” to campus issues and
more engaged with the cam-
pus community. He added that
the YCC should aim to sponsor
student groups and their vari-
ous activities, which includes
providing support for student
activists on campus
While Greene noted during
the YCC candidates’ debate on
April 10 that although he can-
not promise to solve issues like
eliminating the student effort
— the amount of money that
Yale expects students to con-
tribute from term-time and
summer employment that is
colloquially known as the stu-
dent income contribution —
and divestment, he said he
believes that they are “worth
our time” and that he “[prom-
ises] to make incremental
reforms.”
“This year’s YCC knows how
to get things done, but it hasn’t
been the voice of the undergrad-
uate community,” Greene told
the News earlier in April. “What
the students are thinking and
doing is the final frontier that we
need to hone in on.”
As finance director, Greene
instituted new accountabil-
ity mechanisms after last year’s
Patagonia scandal in which the
YCC used funds intended for
student activities to purchase
Patagonia sweaters for all 13
members of its events commit-
tee. The new policies include
mandatory briefings for each
YCC member on the best finan-
cial practices, new pre-purchase
and post-purchase forms and
strict oversight by the finance
and events directors.
In an effort to increase trans-
parency, the YCC will also pub-
lish their monthly expendi-
tures on their website. Greene
added that he has also intro-
duced new pre-purchase and
post-purchase forms to stream-
line reimbursements. Accord-
ing to a document distributed
to each member of the YCC,
Greene wrote that each pur-
chase must be approved by the
finance director, a member of
the six-member business team
or the events director.
“I think that this adminis-
tration is doing a great job at
reflecting on previous years
and seeing what we can do to
improve on those past actions,”
former YCC Finance Direc-
tor and Student Organizations
Director Addison Jakubowicz ’20
said. “The new finance direc-
tor has been going to every YCC
Committee meeting to list out
financial best practices … but I
really do think that it has greatly
helped for transparency even
just within YCC.”
Last year, Greene was also
involved in developing student
programming related to New
Haven. He co-founded the New
Haven Interns Program and con-
tributed to the creation of the
New Havens Explorers Program.
Both programs aim to connect
Yalies to the Elm City with sti-
pends provided by the YCC.
This past year, Greene has
secured various corporate spon-
sors for YCC initiatives. Greene
helped secure corporate spon-
sors FLEX and Maxim Hygiene
for the distribution of free men-
strual products to the residential
colleges, which he said “legiti-
mized [the YCC’s] cause.” Under
Greene’s leadership, the YCC also
formed partnerships with Lyft,
Red Bull and Vengo Labs, the brand
behind the “wellness-to-go”
vending machine that will be
placed in Bass Cafe this fall.
“In a very large sense, our
business team, under Kahlil’s
leadership, is very different than
it was in previous years,” outgo-
ing YCC President Saloni Rao
’20 said. “They’ve been branch-
ing out to seek out national and
local partnerships with organi-
zations in order to provide more
services to Yale students.”
The YCC was established in
1972.
COURTESY OF KAHLIL GREENE
Contact ALAYNA LEE at Kahlil Greene ’21 will be the first black YCC president alongside newly-elected YCC
alayna.lee@yale.edu . Vice President Grace Kang ’21.

Students push for MENA cultural center

BY MACKENZIE HAWKINS
STAFF REPORTER
Although Yale currently has
four cultural centers — the
Afro-American Cultural Cen-
ter, La Casa Cultural, the Asian
American Cultural Center and
the Native American Cultural
Center — many students from
Middle Eastern and North Afri-
can backgrounds do not feel
that these centers adequately
represent them. These stu-
dents have begun advocating
for a fifth cultural house to fill
this gap.
While several of the other
centers exist as the result of
student protests, organizers
from the Middle Eastern and
North African Cultural House
Club decided to approach the
Yale College Council and the
Un ive rs i ty a d m i n i s t ra t i o n
directly, according to MENA
Cultural House Club President
Yasmin Alamdeen ’21. Shady
Qubaty ’20, former president of
the Arab Students Association
and a student with Yemeni her-
itage, reached out to the YCC
at the end of the Spring 2018
semester to ask for its support
on the initiative. The MENA
Cultural House Club became
an official student organiza-
tion at the beginning of the
spring semester. Since then, a
coalition of students has been
working to gain recognition of
MENA as an independent cul-
tural center.
“Students shouldn’t be
divided by geography because
culture isn’t just based on
geography,” Qubaty told the
News. Currently, students from
the MENA region are assigned
either to the Af-Am House or
the AACC, depending on the
country with which they iden-
tify. “We need a MENA house
on campus to cultivate a com-
munity of MENA citizens or
students who are actively striv-
ing towards creating an apolit-
ASHA PRIHAR/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
ical haven for students to cel-
The Middle Eastern and North African Cutural House Club held its first event as ebrate and for us to appreciate
an official student organization in the Berkeley Common Room this March. our countries together.”
Since it formally registered
as a student organization in
January, the MENA Club has
met in Room 110 on 305 Crown
St., where students host events
similar to the programming
offered by the University’s four
official cultural centers.
In early March, the group
hosted a launch event in the
Berkeley College common
room, where they collected
emails for the MENA Club pan-
elist and garnered over 50 sig-
natures on a poster in support
of the initiative. Attendees
could taste cuisine from the
region and do traditional arts
and crafts such as henna and
calligraphy. The event also fea-
tured other cultural organi-
zations related to the MENA
region, such as Students for
Yemen, the Yale Muslim Stu-
dent Association and the Yale
Refugee Project.
“We tried to encapsulate
[Middle Eastern culture] in all
of its beauty, and I think we did
a pretty good job,” MENA Club
Treasurer Demir Coker ’22 said
at the event. “This is a very
large community, and we would
like to keep the issue salient.”
Like the other cultural centers,
the club plans to establish a peer
liaison program in Fall 2019.
Still, this has not come with-
out challenges. At a discus-
sion event in April hosted by
the AASA and MENA Club, the
event’s co-coordinator Qusay
Omran ’21 explained that when
he requested data from Yale
related to the number of stu-
dents who identify as Middle
Eastern, he was given the num-
ber of international students
from the region but not for all
students with ethnic ties to it.
Yale uses U.S. Census Bureau
guidelines on University appli-
cations, which classifies stu-
dents from Middle Eastern
backgrounds as “white.”
“A lot of Middle-Eastern
and North African people don’t
feel white,” Alamdeen told the
News. “I think now is the time,
especially in today’s climate, to
sort of realize that there is more
nuance to culture than just
what the nationally accepted
categories are.”
Some students have “fall[en]
through the cracks” that these
categories create, said Kayley
Estoesta ’21, a head coordinator
for the Asian American Cultural
Center, at the MENA Club’s
April event with the AASA.
Omran said that he was excited
about Yale’s cultural centers
before he arrived on campus but
then felt “left out” of cultural
life at Yale because there is not a
house where he can find a com-
munity that shares his identity.
As Omran and others look to
build that community, they will
need to demonstrate student
interest and “full functional-
ity” as a traditional cultural
house to receive administrative
support, according to Sammy
Landino ’21, the 2018-19 YCC
task force director and a staff
columnist for the News. Sev-
enty-six percent of the 2100
respondents to YCC’s Fall 2018
Survey said they felt “strongly
positive” or “positive” about
the potential establishment of a
MENA cultural house.
“So often this region gets
associated with political tur-
moil, violence, sectarian con-
flict, all those things,” Malak
Nasr ’19, a member of the ASA
who has been helping the MENA
club in an advisory capacity,
said at the March launch event.
“A cultural house is fundamen-
tally supposed to be something
that celebrates cultural diver-
sity, something that is poli-
tics-free, and this is the kind
of launch event where we show
and invite people to come cele-
brate our culture with us.”
The Afro-American Cul-
tural Center was established in
1969, La Casa Cultural in 1977,
the Asian American Cultural
Center in 1981 and the Native
American Cultural Center in
1993.
Contact AYUMI SUDO at
ayumi.sudo@yale.edu .
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TODAY’S NEWS
JE First-Year Wins Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards
Sophie Ascheim ’22 served as executive producer for the Oscar-winning documentary.
BY MICHELLE LI
STAFF REPORTER
Every year, a number of Yalies
are celebrated for their works on
the silver screen at the Academy
Awards. This year, current JE first-
year Sophie Ascheim ‘22 claimed
her own Oscar title.
This past February, “Period. End
of Sentence.” received the Oscar
for Best Documentary Short at the
91st Academy Awards, for which
Ascheim served as executive pro-
ducer. The 26-minute Netflix doc-
umentary about menstrual equity
in India features a group of women
in rural India fighting for men-
strual equity and accessibility.
Across the word, at least 500
million women and teenage girls
lack access to menstrual health
facilities, according to a report
from the World Health Orga-
nization and UNICEF. In India
alone, 80 percent of women face
Yale professors win prestigious prizes
BY MEERA SHOAIB
STAFF REPORTER
Throughout the 2018-19 school
year, University professors won a
variety of prestigious prizes that
celebrated their research and
writing.
While many faculty members
were honored over the past year,
several Yale professors received
international recognition. Wil-
liam Nordhaus ’63, Aaron Jay
Kernis MUS ’83 and Gregg Gon-
salves ’11 SPH ’17 won a Nobel
Prize, a Grammy Award and
Students congratulated professor William Nordhaus ’63 on his nobel prize in the middle of his class, when he found out.
restrictions around menstruation,
according to data from nonprof-
its and organizations including the
United Nations.
“Menstruation is a big taboo
in India,” explained Ascheim.
She said that women lack access
to menstrual products because
of their “ridiculous prices” and
because they are sold by men in
convenience stores. Twenty per-
cent of Indian girls drop out of
school due to hardships caused by
their periods, and 88 percent use
homemade alternatives to sani-
tary pads including rags, fabric and
sand.
The documentary shows that by
using locally sourced and biode-
gradable materials, the women are
able to make sanitary pads using
a special machine. Since the first
machine’s arrival to India, the team
installed two more machines in
neighboring Indian villages due to
the documentary’s increased atten-
a MacArthur “Genius Grant,”
respectively. David Blight and
Jackie Sibblies Drury ’03 each won
Pulitzer Prizes this year.
Sterling Professor of econom-
ics Nordhaus was co-awarded
the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences in December
for his work addressing the inter-
section between economics and
climate change. The Royal Swed-
ish Academy of Sciences high-
lighted Nordhaus’ development of
an “integrated assessment model”
— an interdisciplinary model that
inspects the impact of climate
“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: Decide what you want.”  BEN STEIN M.F.A. ’75 AMERICAN WRITER
tion since its Oscar nomination.
The documentary was grown
out of a group of Los Angeles high
school students from Oakwood
School who wanted to improve
the quality of menstrual health in
rural India. Alongside their English
teacher Melissa Berton, the group of
high schoolers created a Kickstarter
campaign to fund their documen-
tary film.
The group raised $45,000
through the campaign, which
funded the film, a one-year supply
of menstrual products and the bio-
degradable sanitary pad machine
which would produce menstrual
products for the entire rural Indian
village.
Growing up in Los Angeles,
Ascheim said that many of her
classmates have parents in the
entertainment industry, and expe-
rienced what she described as an
“incredibly privileged” upbring-
ing. The group of high schoolers
policy interventions.
“It’s a wonderful day. It’s so
nice,” Nordhaus told the News the
day the award was announced.
“It’s good for economics. People
have written to me and said that
in these dark times, it’s a bright
spot.”
Nordhaus, who worked on
the Council of Economic Advi-
sors under President Jimmy Car-
ter, came to Yale in 1967 and has
worked at the University since. He
was named chair of the Presiden-
tial Carbon Change Task Force in
2014, a body which is part of Yale’s
YALE NEWS
were unaware of the menstrual
inequity issue in rural India until
they attended a meeting for the
U.N. Commission for Status and
Women.
In her efforts to discover a viable
solution to the issue of menstrual
inaccessibility, Ascheim and her
former classmate Charlotte Silver-
man cofounded The Pad Project, a
nonprofit that strives to put an end
to “period poverty and menstrual
inequity.”
Ascheim admitted that The Pad
Project cannot serve as a “one-
size-fits all solution,” but said
that the team has received many
requests for their pad machine
since the Oscar nomination.
Silverman, who is also an exec-
utive producer for the documen-
tary, said that she hopes that
“people who see the film and see
the momentum of this movement
feel a connection and inspiration
from stories that are shown in the
pledge to eliminate its carbon foot-
print by 2050. His efforts culmi-
nated in the Yale Carbon Charge
Project, the world’s first internal
universitywide carbon market.
Kernis, a School of Music fac-
ulty composer, won a Grammy for
best contemporary classical com-
position in February for his piece
“Violin Concerto.” The work —
conducted by Ludovic Morlot —
is comprised of three movements
features violinist James Ehnes and
the Seattle Symphony.
“The primary inspiration came
from the astonishing violin soloist
I wrote the concerto for — James
Ehnes,” Kernis said. “James is an
especially inspiring performer
because he is such a superb musi-
cian: The music comes first, with-
out extraneous flash and glitter.”
Gonsalves, a professor with a
joint appointment between the
School of Public Health and the
Law School, received the MacAr-
thur Fellowship Award in 2018
alongside four Yale alumni — Vijay
Gupta MUS ’07, Titus Kaphar
ART ’06, Becca Heller LAW ’10
and Okwui Okpokwasili ’96. The
Fellowship describes itself as an
“investment in a person’s origi-
nality, insight, and potential,” and
awards a $625,000 prize to 20 to 30
U.S.-based individuals in any field.
Gonsalves’ work focuses on
epidemic prevention and he has
dedicated much of his career to
disease prevention. Gonsalves
also aims to advise policymak-
ers on the best ways to improve
healthcare. His research and
advocacy brought him to South
Africa, where he worked with the
AIDS & Rights Alliance for South-
ern Africa. After returning to Yale
and enrolling in the Eli Whit-
ney Students Program, Gonsalves
founded a partnership between
the Law School and the School
of Public Health that addresses
issues of health, human rights and
social justice combined.
“The MacArthur award is kind
of like a Nobel for creativity in
making a true impact in one’s dis-
cipline,” Dean of the School of
Public Health Sten Vermund told
the News. “Gonsalves and his
activist and academic colleagues
have literally changed policies
around the world, accelerating
drug development and access to
care for persons living with HIV/
COURTESY OF SOPHIE ASCHEIM
film.” She hopes that “people feel
inspired by this quiet revolution
depicted in the film.”
The Brown University first-year
added that she hopes the film will
“inspire more people to see pad
machines as a tool for empow-
erment and making real change”
while allowing the “global network
of activists to come together and
create things we first envisioned.”
Achiem said that by getting to
the Oscars, “Period. End of Sen-
tence.” had “done its job for us.
We had already won because peo-
ple were talking about it. That’s the
reason we were doing this.”
To close her acceptance speech
at the Oscars, Ascheim’s English
teacher and producer Berton
summed up the film with the
words: “A period should end a sen-
tence, not a girl’s education.”
Contact MICHELLE LI at
michelle.li.mml59@yale.edu .
AIDS. We are immensely proud
to have his leadership in the Yale
School of Public Health and our
Global Health Justice Initiative
with the Yale School of Law.”
This year, Pulitzer Prizes were
awarded to Yale professors Blight
and Drury for their outstanding
writings in the fields of history
and drama, respectively.
Blight received the Pulit-
zer Prize for his book “Freder-
ick Douglass: Prophet of Free-
dom.” The biography chronicles
the life of Frederick Douglass,
an escaped slave who fought for
civil rights and told his story
across the nation. Blight drew
on a private collection belonging
to Walter O. Evans — a Georgia
collector — as well as Douglass’
recently uncovered newspa-
pers when researching his book.
Unlike many previous biogra-
phies on Douglass, his includes
details from Douglass’ later life
like the impact of the Klu Klux
Klan on abolitionist efforts.
“It warrants a Pulitzer because
it’s a brilliant account of one of
the seminal figures in American
history,” said Director of Under-
graduate Studies for the Depart-
ment of History, Edward Ruge-
mer. “David is a master craftsmen
of history. He’s a great writer and
a keen analyst of the American
experience.”
Drury, a lecturer in playwrit-
ing at the School of Drama, was
named winner of the 2019 Pulit-
zer Prize for Drama. Drury’s play
“Fairview,”which premiered at
New York’s Soho Repertory The-
atre in 2018, encourages the audi-
ence to probe at their inherent
prejudices and explores race and
privilege in America. She also won
the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize for English-language female
playwrights.
Other faculty who won major
awards include Yale College Dean
Marvin Chun, who received the
Ho-Am Prize for Science, and
School of Medicine psychia-
try professor Rosemary Balsam,
who became the first American
woman to receive the Sigour-
ney Award — an award honoring
research that advances psycho-
analytic thought.
Contact MEERA SHOAIB at
meera.shoaib@yale.edu .
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“Good manners will open doors that the best education can-
not.”  CLARENCE THOMAS, J.D. ’74 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES

Peabody Museum prepares for renovations

BY MATT KRISTOFFERSON
STAFF REPORTER
The Peabody Museum of
Natural History’s public gal-
leries are slated to close in
mid-2020 for renovations
and are not anticipated to
reopen until the fall of 2023.
Funded by a $160 mil-
lion donation by Edward P.
Bass ’67 — the largest dona-
tion made to a U.S. natural
history museum, and one of
the largest given to Yale —
the renovation project will
increase the museum’s exhi-
bition space by 50 percent
and expand its classrooms,
research and storage facili-
ties. As construction com-
mences next year, many of
the museum’s daily activities
will continue. Specifically,
research, undergraduate
education and community
enrichment programs will
not be affected by the reno-
vations.
According to Peabody
Director David Skelly, the
new additions will help bol-
ster student engagement
with the museum’s collec-
tions.
“What we are trying to do
with the renovation is place
these collections … and the
expertise that is represented
by the museum’s staff, the
curators, in the hands of Yale
faculty and students from all
across the University,” Skelly
said.
The University hired the
co m pa n i e s Ce n te rb ro o k
Architects and Planners
and Reich+Petch to coordi-
nate with the museum on the
project. Yale will also meet
regularly with government
agencies to ensure that the
project meets Connecticut
building codes and is both on
schedule and within budget.
Only 0.0004 percent of
the museum’s vast collec-
tions are currently on dis-
play, according to Skelly. The
increased gallery space will
allow for more of the collec-
tions to be available to the
public and will also feature
student-curated exhibitions.
“In recent decades, what
we discovered is that what we
— from materials, from spec-
imens — has just exploded,”
Skelly said. “So, the collec-
tions in the museum have
become this irreplaceable
resource that can be put
toward uses that the folks
who collected these objects
may never have possibly
imagined.”
As the Peabody begins the
renovations, the museum’s
on-site collections — includ-
ing the Great Hall’s Pterano-
don and Triceratops skulls —
will be moved to alternative
locations. While the dino-
saur skulls will be put on dis-
play in Science Hill’s new
Yale Science Building when it
opens this fall, the remainder
of the on-site collections will
be transported to the collec-
tion study center on West
Campus.
In addition to the extra
gallery space, the museum is
slated to add five additional
classrooms to its facilities.
The new teaching spaces will
be designed to help profes-
sors incorporate artifacts
into their lectures in a sim-
ilar way that current classes
utilize classrooms found in
the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library and the
Yale Center for British Art.
In addition to an expanded
interior, the Peabody will
also increase its park-
ing capacity. The muse-
um’s Project Director Carol
DeNatale said that con-
struction workers will add
three more parking spots for
buses along Sachem Street
and 54 new bike racks.
“The Peabody renova-
tion is long overdue, and
the enthusiasm toward all
aspects of the project is con-
tagious,” DeNatale wrote in
an email to the News. “We
want to preserve the char-
acter of the Peabody and
pay tribute to the building
through a variety of pres-
ervation and design tech-
niques.”
According to the Peabody’s
website, over 150,000 people
visit the museum each year.
Contact
MATT KRISTOFFERSON at JAMES LARSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

can understand from objects matthew.kristofferson@yale.edu . Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History was founded in 1866.

New Tsai CITY building set to open next spring

BY AYUMI SUDO
STAFF REPORTER
Construction for a new Tsai
Center for Innovative Thinking
at Yale building has commenced
and is slated for completion in the
spring of 2020.
Since its creation in the fall of
2017, Tsai CITY has grown into a
campus hub for entrepreneurship
in its temporary building on Elm
Street. Its new 12,500-square-foot
home behind the Yale Center for
Engineering Innovation & Design
will feature a steel and glass exte-
rior and open studio configura-
tion, according to University Plan-
ner Kari Nordstrom ARCH ’80.
The new building will house nine
meeting rooms of various sizes as
well as administrative offices and
areas for facilitating social events.
Upon the project’s completion,
the University will seek a Leader-
ship in Energy and Environmental
Design gold certification, which is
awarded to sustainable construc-
tion projects and buildings.
“We want to create an ecosys-
tem for students to develop and
pursue their ideas, be it a social
movement, a rock band, a docu-
mentary series or a nonprofit orga-
nization,” said Tsai CITY Asso-
ciate Director Onyeka Obiocha.
“With the construction of a new
building, we are creating a physi-
cal space that will be as dynamic as
the students coming in. The space
will emphasize collaboration and
interaction, helping students [to]
learn from each other and realize
their ideas.”
According to Tsai CITY’s Man-
aging Director Kassie Tucker, the
new location will make its pro-
grams closer to “all of [its] collab-
orators around campus.” She said
that the building’s proximity to the
CEID, the Center for Business and
the Environment, the School of
Management and the University’s
engineering buildings will encour-
age interactions among many of
the center’s principal beneficiaries
and strengthen the center’s inter-
disciplinary role on campus.
JAMES LARSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The creation of Tsai CITY was
Tsai CITY is currently located on Elm Street. announced in May 2017 after the
University received a major dona-
tion from Joseph Tsai ’86 LAW ’90.
Tsai’s gift was allocated toward an
endowed fund that covers all oper-
ating costs for the center and will
support the construction project,
Obiocha said.
During the 2018-19 academic
year, while still at its temporary
home, the center reported that it
worked with over 1,300 Yale stu-
dents, hosted more than 30 work-
shops and provided over $100,000
in funding to students.
“We’re feeling good about the
statistics,” Tucker said. “Yale has
a very vibrant and ever-growing
culture around innovation. We will
continue to seek opportunities to
improve at every corner to offer
what students want and need.”
Nya Holder ’17 SPH ’18, an inno-
vation fellow at Tsai CITY said that
the center helps students in three
main ways: providing mentor-
ship, funding student innovation
and offering various workshops
and initiatives. She said that these
resources are open to “anyone
who is looking to realize an idea
that they have” including writing
books, launching a student club or
building up their personal brand.
Emma Funk, the social innova-
tion fellow for Tsai CITY, said that
it has a “huge focus on collabora-
tion,” which has led to the coor-
dination of programs with the
Center for Business and the Envi-
ronment and InnovateHealth Yale.
She added that many of the stu-
dent groups at Tsai CITY consist of
a mix of students of various back-
grounds, education levels and dis-
ciplines.
“Students don’t always know
everything that is available here,
especially the resources at grad-
uate schools,” Funk said. “So, we
have focused on connecting all
the available expertise across Yale
to make it more accessible to stu-
dents and to foster interdisciplin-
ary innovation.”
Tsai CITY’s benefactor Joseph
Tsai is the co-founder of the online
commerce company Alibaba.
Contact AYUMI SUDO at
ayumi.sudo@yale.edu .
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