Archive: Mon Nov 2011

  1. M. SOCCER | Elis finish winning season

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    The Bulldogs pulled off their first winning season in six years Saturday.

    Although Yale’s game against Princeton this weekend was not for the Ivy championship, the team managed to put the breaks on a losing streak. The Bulldogs beat Princeton 2-1 on the road Saturday and finished the season over 0.500 in wins for the first time since 2005. Captain Chris Dennen ’12 said the win was important for the team to maintain a winning record. Had Yale fallen to the Tigers, the Bulldogs would have finished with a losing 7–8 record.

    “We’ve had a successful season … It was something we wanted for ourselves,” Dennen said. “We deserved a winning record.”

    This year marks the first winning season for Dennen. During his freshman year, the team went 7-7 overall and 3-3 in Ivy League play. In 2009 and 2010, however, the Elis won a combined three Ivy League games. In both years the team dropped its season finale to Princeton. This year, the Elis entered the game on a two-game losing streak, after both Columbia and Brown kept them out of the score column.

    After the first half at Princeton, the Bulldogs trailed by one. But at halftime Dennen said the team’s confidence remained high.

    “We said if we score a goal, we’re going to win this game … We’ve got 45 minutes to make this right,” Dennen said. “Everyone was focused and came out with good determination.”

    Foward Peter Jacobson ’14 would score off of two long balls from outside defender Milan Tica ’13, to put the Bulldogs up 2–1. The shots marked Jacobson’s sixth and seventh goals of the season and tied him for fourth in the Ivy League in goals.

    Tica played an instrumental role in the Yale attack as opposing defenses clamped down in Ivy League play, although his efforts weren’t reflected in the stat line until his two assists to Jacobson.

    The Tigers pressured Yale’s defense in the second half by putting six shots on goal. Goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 made six saves, but credited his defense with preventing some of the Tigers’ best players from taking full advantage of their shots. Thalman ended the season with 92 saves, the most of any Ivy League men’s soccer goalkeeper by a margin of 20. Thalman said the team didn’t want to end the season with three losses in a row.

    Instead Yale ended with eight victories, four in Ivy League play, a record good enough to put the team within only two points of co-Ivy champions Dartmouth and Brown, who tied 0–0 in double overtime Saturday. Until last week’s overtime loss to Brown, the Bulldogs were in direct competition for the Title, a dramatic improvement over last season when the team appeared out of contention, as it only won one Ivy game.

    Head coach Brian Tompkins said the seniors’ leadership was at the heart of the team’s improved play.

    “The senior class has a persistence and belief that has rubbed-off on everybody in the squad,” Tompkins said.

    Dennen said his class strived to create a strong “culture of winning.”

    Thalman and Tica added that the seniors’ work ethic had led to an increase in confidence for the team.

    “Our seniors this year set a high standard … all of the guys returning will definitely remember that when we start training during the off season,” Tica said.

    Thalman said the team would miss the efforts of its seven seniors, who contributed for almost half of the team’s goals and assists for the year.

    “We need to keep our work rate up … [and] maintain the confidence we have right now,” Thalman said. “It was good to get a winning season, but we’re never satisfied until we achieve our ultimate goal of winning the Ivy League and going deep into the NCAA tournament.”

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  2. Brain scans measure racial bias

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    Researchers at Yale Law School have discovered that brain scans may better predict jurors’ racial bias than previously established methods of testing.

    In a new study published in the journal Social Neuroscience last week, Yale researchers studied the correlation between compensation in employment discrimination cases and brain activity during tests for racial bias. The study concluded that functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans may better predict verdict size than the traditional tests. The results may be significant to the developing field of neurolaw in providing a way to ensure an unbiased jury — a Constitutional requirement — but outside psychologists said the study’s significance is limited by its small sample size.

    “This is a novel result, obtained with novel methods,” Tony Greenwald ’59, professor of psychology at University of Washington, wrote in an email to the News. He added that the researchers established a new method to analyze the fMRI results which looked at the entire brain instead of just specific “regions of interest.”

    Researchers asked study participants to match images of black and white faces with positive, negative, and neutral adjectives, according to varying sets of rules. For example, they might be told to match all “black faces and positive adjectives” as quickly as possible.

    In the Implicit Association test (IAT), which has been used since the 1990s to reveal subconscious biases, researchers measure the reaction speed with which participants match the faces and adjectives such as “good” or “bad”, with a longer reaction time signifying a bias against associating the two terms. For example, a subject biased against blacks might take longer to match a black face with a positive adjective.

    The fMRI measured the neural activity of participants while taking the test, tracking changes in blood flow across brain regions. Researchers then correlated these results with the money subjects awarded victims of employment discrimination in theoretical cases.

    The study found that the variation in fMRI brain imaging results had a higher correlation with the verdict sizes than the IAT test result variation did.

    “Our study demonstrates that fMRI measures might have more predictive value than commonly used behavioral measures such as the implicit association test.” Marvin Chun, professor of psychology and co-author of the study, said in an email to the News.

    The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on racial grounds and provides discrimination victims a judicial means of redress through the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, which can file lawsuits on behalf of employees. The monetary compensation is often determined by a jury, and the verdict size may be influenced by the conscious and subconscious biases of the jurors, said Harrison Korn ’11 LAW ’14, a co-author of the study. Korn is a former associate managing editor for presentation at the News.

    “We are not suggesting that people go out and start scanning jurors, but it does raise the issue that unconscious bias is a problem and we should be looking for ways to counteract it,” Korn said.

    He added that the high cost of fMRIs — almost $1,000 per participant in this study ­— and the perception of neural scans as invasive make it impractical to scan each potential juror in the jury selection process.

    The study emphasizes, however, that the American legal system must provide unbiased juries in order to ensure due process of law. In an email to the News, Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, Owen Jones LAW ’91 said that the while the results of the study will not revolutionize juror selection, they may help researchers to develop better understandings of human bias. For example, in a 2007 New York Times article, Jones suggested that lawyers could use brain scans of potential jurors to exclude those who were unlikely to be sympathetic to their argument.

    “Anything that helps us to understand the mechanisms of racial bias might help us to develop better systems for identifying it, combatting it, and minimizing its effects,” Jones wrote in the email.

    Brian Nosek GRD ’02, associate professor of psychology at University of Virginia, said he questioned the “predictive validity” of fMRI studies due to their limited sample sizes, which are often a result of the high cost of brain imaging. After eliminating six subjects because of technical difficulties, the Yale study was comprised of 19 white, non-Hispanic subjects between 18 and 26 years of age.

    Other scientists were similarly wary of extrapolating from the results before they were confirmed by larger studies.

    “It’s a result that needs corroboration by further research before one should venture any confident interpretations.” Greenwald wrote.

    In fiscal year 2010, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received almost 100,000 reports of employment discrimination.

  3. Campaign tactics led to win, ire

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    For some students, the end of the Ward 1 aldermanic election last Tuesday could not have come soon enough.

    Between flyers, door-hangers and canvassing, the campaigns of Alderwoman-elect Sarah Eidelson ’12 and former opponent Vinay Nayak ’14 brought out a record 973 number of voters in the ward on Election Day. But the elections also caused frustration for the 15 of 25 students interviewed by the News and many commenters on the News’ message boards criticized the turnout tactics of each campaign as overly aggressive.

    Still, the record turnout reached Tuesday may not have been achieved without such efforts. Both candidates claimed that their campaigns visited every room in Yale at least once.

    Mac Herring ’12, Eidelson’s campaign manager, said Eidelson won the election by a substantial vote margin — the final tally was 566 to 407 — because of the work of the campaign volunteers, who spent all of election day walking from door to door to convince supporters to vote, sometimes accompanying them to the polls if necessary.

    Aurora Edington ’15, who voted for Eidelson, said that this tactic earned the candidate her vote.

    “The representative for Sarah who came to my door seemed very devoted to it and endorsed her topics well,” Edington said.

    Austin Carder ’15, who said he voted for Nayak, said he did so because of the candidate’s campaign efforts. Carder met with the candidate three separate times, which he said was the only reason he supported Nayak, since he “[felt] like they could both do good jobs.”

    While the high number of ballots cast in Ward 1 was regarded by both candidates as a indication of ward residents’ eagerness to take part in city politics, the comparatively low interest students registered in the mayoral race appeared to contradict that analysis.

    Although 973 votes were cast for Ward 1 alderman, only 738 Ward 1 voters cast ballots in the mayoral race, in which challenger Jeffrey Kerekes lost to 18-year incumbent John DeStefano Jr. by a margin of 1,655 votes. Of 20 students interviewed at the polls Tuesday, 10 were unsure of who they would vote for in the mayoral race.

    Since only 48 votes were cast in Ward 1 during the mayoral race’s September primary, neither Kerekes nor DeStefano spent much time campaigning on Yale’s campus due to low expectations for turnout. But the record turnout for the Ward 1 election gave the ward a larger-than-expected role in deciding the mayoral race — when results were tallied Tuesday night, some onlookers said Ward 1 could swing the race.

    DeStefano secured his re-election with 55 percent of the vote, the narrowest margin he’s seen since 1993. Eidelson defeated Nayak with 58 percent of the vote.

    Ward 1 contains Old Campus and all of Yale’s residential colleges except Silliman, Timothy Dwight, Morse and Stiles.

  4. Levin’s trip shows “greater name recognition”

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    University President Richard Levin’s annual weeklong trip to India, from which he returned Friday night, was marked by small meetings with government education officials, CEOs of major Indian companies, major media outlets and even former President George W. Bush ’68.

    Levin has taken a trip to India every fall since 2008, with the stated purpose of fostering connections between the country and the University. While Levin has delivered speeches in front of large audiences and given more than 20 interviews on a single trip in the past, this year he spoke with smaller audiences that consisted of high-ranking officials and prominent media members — a shift that two University officials on the trip said evidenced Yale’s success in building its reputation in India.

    “There is much greater name recognition,” professor K. “Shivi” Sivaramakrishnan, director of the Yale India Initiative, wrote to the News in a Sunday night email from New Delhi. “We are able to go straight into smaller but more high-powered meetings with government, business leaders, and leaders in higher education and civil society to talk about the work is Yale is doing and explore new partnerships and programs.”

    Levin has travelled to India for a week every year since 2008, when he announced the Yale India Initiative — a $75 million program to increase the study of India at Yale and the name recognition of Yale in India. During past trips, Levin has spoken at the World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit and worked with Indian officials on a partnership designed to train the nation’s higher education administrators.

    The small meetings Levin held throughout the week built on the work Levin had done in previous trips to India.

    Levin has spoken to large audiences for the past two years at a higher education summit held by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), which helps fund India’s public and private educational institutes and includes some participants in Yale’s administration training program. This year, Levin said he opted to meet with FICCI’s board of directors — a far smaller group but made up of higher ranking officials — for what he said was a change of pace.

    George Joseph, Yale’s assistant secretary for international affairs, said Levin’s choice to speak to the FICCI board shows that he has gained respect among the upper echelons of Indian officials.

    “I think that’s a reflection that his profile here has gotten much greater, so we have access to people that we would not have had access to earlier,” Joseph said in a phone interview from New Delhi. “The kinds of people that want to interact with him are at a much higher level.”

    Earlier in the week, Levin also met with Bush after realizing that the two were staying in the same hotel in Mumbai. Though Levin declined to comment on the majority of his conversation with the former president, he said the two discussed Barbara Pierce Bush’s ’04 program for global health interns in Africa, which held its training program at Yale during summer 2011.

    Along with meeting famous organizations and officials, Levin was thrust into the national media spotlight during his week in India. He participated in two 30-minute segments with India’s CNBC television stations in Mumbai and New Delhi, and Joseph said one of those segments has played during prime time throughout the week. Four prominent Indian newspapers — The Times of India, the Hindustan Times, the Business Standard and the Indian Business Times — also interviewed Levin over the course of the week. During his interview with CNBC in Mumbai, Levin discussed the current economic downturn, but he declined to comment on his potential appointment to lead the National Economic Council, which received media attention in December 2010 and January 2011.

    In between meetings, Levin said he worked on recruiting an unnamed person to the Yale faculty.

    Though Levin left India on Friday, eight Yale faculty members have remained in the country to attend other conferences and meetings. Joseph said several Yale faculty, including Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Dean Peter Crane and School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern, plan to attend the Nov. 22 India Urban Conference, which addresses urban development in the densely populated country.

    Levin spent the first half of his trip in Mumbai, meeting primarily with small groups of Yale alumni, parents and donors, and the second half in the nation’s capital of New Delhi.

  5. Alumni found nonprofit for veterans

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    Students showed their support for the military with dancing and drinking Saturday night at Box 63 for a volunteer recruiting event for a new alumni-led nonprofit focused on aiding veterans.

    Operation Opportunity, founded by Jesse Reising ’11 and Nick Rugoff ’11 last spring, provides mentorship in college admissions and assimilation into college life for children of fallen soldiers and to veterans returning to school after service. Outreach director Kallie Parchman, said over 50 students attended the event Saturday, which marked the organization’s first recruiting efforts, and requested more information on Operation Opportunity’s volunteer college counselor positions.

    Reising finished the first half of Marine Corps Candidate School in 2009, but an injury in the 2010 Yale-Harvard game medically disqualified him from military service. Though he could no longer pursue his dream of joining the Marines, he still works for the United States government as a “contractor” in Afghanistan. He said the goal of the nonprofit is to show gratitude and support soldiers who protect American freedoms.

    “Operation Opportunity is my effort to repay the debt I owe to those now serving in my place,” Reising said in an email to the News.

    While many excellent scholarship and tutoring opportunities exist for veterans and military families, few organizations provide support across the entire college application process, Rugoff said. Operation Opportunity provides a comprehensive range of support from tutoring to consultation on college applications and assistance with adjustment to college life, he explained. The nonprofit has two components: the Gold-Stars Project, which aids children of fallen service members, and the Warrior-Scholars Project, which aids returning veterans.

    “The college landscape is foreign territory to most veterans who joined the military immediately after high school, and children of fallen service members suffer a mentor gap as a result of losing a parent,” Reising said.

    Though the Saturday event marked the nonprofit’s first recruiting efforts of the organization, the organization plans to attract and train mentors from across the U.S., said Zachary Fuhrer ’11, executive director of IvyCorps, the mentorship component of Operation Opportunity. He hopes to pair mentors and students that have common interests or backgrounds in order to form a “big brother, big sister” relationship, he said. Fuhrer is a former arts and living editor for the News.

    Before Saturday night’s launch event, the organization had received about a dozen applications from potential mentors, said Fuhrer, though he has not yet determined how many mentors the group will accept.

    Fuhrer said students who are selected to volunteer as mentors will attend training sessions about college admissions and motivation techniques. Through the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Fuhrer said, mentors will also learn methods of comforting students who show signs of grief after losing a loved one.

    Operation Opportunity uses online tutoring services so that military families living in rural areas or near military bases without access to local tutoring organizations can still participate in the program, Rugoff said. Students will also be connected with mentors electronically through TutorTrove, a company started by Eli Luberoff ’09, which will allow video-chatting and a virtual white-board.

    The first class in the Gold Star Scholars Project will begin in January with 20 to 25 students, and the Warrior-Scholar Project is set to launch in the summer of 2012 with a week-long program for veterans transitioning back into academic life.

  6. FOOTBALL | Yale wins with high-flying offense

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    On third and eight from his own 41-yard line, quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 dropped back and looked to wideout Jackson Liguori ’14 across the middle.

    The ball bounced off Liguori’s hands and seemed destined to hit the ground.

    But fellow receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 was not about to let that happen. The sophomore broke off from his route and snatched the ball out of the air before sprinting 59 yards downfield through a stunned Princeton secondary to put the Bulldogs ahead 10–7 with 1:17 left in the opening quarter.

    “I was in the right place at the right time,” Sandquist said. “I was running a seam route up the middle and was just trying to help out with a block for Jackson. Then the ball came out of the sky and into my hands.”

    Despite the absence of top receiver Chris Smith ’13, Witt picked apart the Tigers’ secondary, finishing with 26 completions on 33 attempts with 379 yards and three touchdowns, and led the Bulldogs (5–4, 4–2 Ivy) to a 33–24 victory over Princeton (1–8, 1–5). After Saturday’s game, Witt became Yale’s all-time leader in passing yardage with 5,709, surpassing Alwin Cowan ’04.

    The Elis effortlessly drove 45 yards to the Princeton 16 during their opening drive. But on third and one, Tigers’ defensive tackle Mike Catapano took down Alex Thomas ’12 for a one-yard loss, forcing the Bulldogs to settle for a field goal.

    However, the Tigers responded immediately on the following drive, powering through the Blue and White defense on the ground.

    With five minutes left in the opening quarter, freshman tailback Chuck Dibilio took a direct snap and ran toward the left sideline before cutting back inside untouched for a 19-yard touchdown run, putting the Tigers up 7–3.

    Princeton had a chance to widen its lead when Deon Randall ’14 fumbled the ensuing kickoff, allowing Elijah Mitchell to recover the ball at Yale’s 31-yard line.

    But the Tigers could not generate any momentum, turning over the ball after a failed fourth-down conversion. The defensive stop set up Sanquist’s touchdown receptions.

    Facing the worst defense in the Ivy League, Witt continued the Elis’ aerial assault in the second quarter. After an 18-yard strike to fullback Keith Coty ’14, Witt looked downfield for Randall, who baited the cornerback into going inside before cutting back to the sideline. With plenty of space around him in the end zone, Randall leaped into the air to grab the underthrown pass for a 28-yard touchdown reception.

    “I was on our corners and our secondary during the game to let loose and make plays,” Princeton head coach Bob Surace said. “They’re playing too cautious, too not-to-lose.”

    However, the Elis struggled to contain Dibilio and the Tigers’ ground game on the following drive, allowing Princeton to move to the Bulldogs’ 23-yard line. But on third down and five, defensive end EJ Conway sacked Wornham for a seven-yard loss, forcing the Tigers to settle for three points and giving Yale a 17–10 leading at halftime.

    Starting off the second half, both teams’ offenses proved too much for the other to handle, with Yale striking through the air and Princeton grinding it out on the ground.

    On his first drive of the third quarter, Witt dropped back and found an open Liguori for a 32-yard pickup. Taking Smith’s role, the sophomore receiver finished the game with ten receptions for 123 yards.

    “We feel like we’ve got great depth at [receivers],” head coach Tom Williams said. “The best thing for Jackson was, because we knew Chris was going to be out, he had all week to prepare as a starter.”

    Four plays later, Witt rolled out of the pocket and connected with an unguarded Randall in the corner of the end zone to put the Bulldogs ahead 24–10. Randall caught six passes for 77 yards and two scores.

    The Tigers did not give up easily on the ensuing drive, running the ball five consecutive times to drive into Yale’s red zone. Dibilio picked up his second touchdown of the game with 8:31 left in the third on a four-yard run.

    The Bulldogs responded immediately with a scoring drive of their own. After missing two games with a knee injury, Thomas broke off a 62-yard touchdown scamper down the right side, running into the end zone untouched and giving Yale a 30–17 lead.

    “We were so happy that [Thomas] was able to play today,” Witt said. “He’s been battling to get back on the field. It was almost as if he limped all the way to the end zone.”

    But Princeton’s run game overwhelmed the Yale front seven on its next possession, scoring its third touchdown of the game when Diblio rushed six yards into the Blue and White end zone.

    Dibilio had 178 rushing yards on 31 carries and became the first true freshman in Ivy League history to rush for over 1,000 yards. By comparison, the Elis finished the game with 122 rushing yards on 39 attempts.

    “It is becoming like a broken record,” Surace said. “We outrush a team and we have the ability to stop the run but, like I told the team, it is like life: You have to make plays. We had plenty of opportunities … but you have to be on the good side of those things to win football games.”

    Up by just six points with 9:30 left in the game, Witt generated a clock-chewing drive, highlighted by a 21-yard dart to fullback Keith Coty ’14 on fourth and two that brought the Bulldogs to the Princeton 15. Four plays later, Philippe Panico ’13 booted a 27-yard field goal that put the game out of reach for the Tigers.

    Wornham and the Princeton receivers struggled against a tough Yale secondary, which allowed just nine completions on 26 attempts for a measly 49 yards.

    However, the victory was bittersweet for the Bulldogs. Thanks to a Dartmouth upset of Brown, Harvard’s 37–20 over Penn was enough to guarantee the Crimson sole possession of the Ivy League title.

    The Elis will come home next weekend for the 128th edition of The Game to try to spoil the Crimson’s undefeated league play.

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  7. M. HOCKEY | Elis sweep road trip

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    It was a tale of two different hockey teams.

    Facing off against two challenging opponents in Union and RPI on the road, the men’s hockey team proved that it could win with a shutdown defense as well as an explosive offense. The Bulldogs finished their road trip with a pair of victories that launched them into a three-way tie atop the ECAC with Cornell and St. Lawrence.

    YALE WINS DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE

    Against a speedy RPI squad, the Elis struggled to find their rhythm offensively.

    But a suffocating defense gave the Bulldogs (4–1–1, 3–1 ECAC) a 2–0 victory over the Engineers, (2–9, 1–3). RPI generated six power play opportunities but came up empty-handed each time against the stout Elis’ penalty-killing unit, which has allowed just one power play goal so far this year.

    The Blue and White offense drew first blood less than two minutes into the game.

    Left-winger Josh Balch ’12 stole the puck away from defenseman Pat Koudys in the neutral zone and sped down the left side toward netminder Bryce Merriam. Balch faked a shot to Merriam’s left before slipping the puck behind the outstretched goalie for his first goal of the year.

    But defensive plays dominated the rest of the game as neither team could create good scoring opportunities.

    “I think we’re doing a good job just keeping it simple, getting back on pucks and moving them up to the wingers quickly,” Yale goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13 said about the defense.

    After skating to a stalemate in the opening frame, the Engineers were determined to equalize the score in the second period, outshooting the Bulldogs 13–8. However, netminder Malcolm proved too tough for RPI to overcome, blocking every shot he faced. Malcolm finished the game with 27 saves and posted his second career shutout.

    “Malcolm has been stellar since the beginning of the year,” forward Charles Brockett ’12 said. “When you have a guy back there that everyone has confidence in it definitely helps everyone to build confidence.”

    The Elis’ blueliners stunned RPI’s offensive momentum all game long with relentless back-checking and disruption of the Engineers’ passing lanes. Despite drawing three penalties in the middle frame, the Bulldogs kept the Engineers scoreless through two periods.

    With less than two minutes left in the game, the Blue and White struck the final blow.

    Halfway through Yale’s third power play of the night, forward Kenny Agostino ’14 slipped the puck to a waiting Clint Bourbonais ’14 in front of the net. The sophomore center buried the shot into the back of the net for his second goal of the year.

    “Me, Kenny and Antoine were cycling the puck,” Bourbonais said. “We made some good plays and we ended up with a 2–0 advantage in front of the net. Kenny gave me a great pass and I just put it in the back of net.”

    VICTORY OVER UNION

    After a defensive struggle against RPI, the Bulldogs unleashed a high octane offense against Union on Saturday.

    Part of this was due to the return of Dan Otto ’12. Forced to sit out his first three seasons at Yale due to a string of injuries and failed surgeries, the senior right-winger scored two goals in his sixth collegiate game to lead the Bulldogs (4–1–1, 3–1 ECAC) to a 4–0 win over No. 9 Union (5–3–3, 2–2).

    “A lot of people would’ve given up and focused on school, but he was determined to get back in the lineup and play hockey, if only for this last year,” Brockett said. “To see him not only get in the lineup and play but to be able to come in and contribute, it’s a great feeling. As a teammate and close friend, you love to see something like that.”

    The Elis scored all four of their goals in the first 23 minutes of the game and held off a relentless Dutchmen offensive onslaught for the next two periods. Malcolm made a career-high 45 saves for the Bulldogs and notched his third straight shutout.

    “I’m just having fun making the sa“When you have one of the best power plays in the nation on the other team and you’re able to hold them to no power play goals, it’s a good feeling,” Brockett said. “The penalty kill has been working really well for us, and we’re all working as a unit back there starting with Malcolm.”

    The Bulldogs’ special team units have now killed 26 penalties on 27 attempts, best among all Division I schools.

    With 10 minutes left in the game, Union enjoyed a two-man advantage as O’Neill and Colin Dueck ’12 were sent to the penalty box for slashing and kneeing, respectively. But the Dutchmen struggled to move the puck in the offensive zone and came up empty.

    Union outshot Yale by a staggering 38–10 margin in the final two periods but could not get the puck past an impenetrable Malcolm, who now leads the nation with a .960 save percentage.

    The Bulldogs will come back to Ingalls Rink on Nov. 19 to take on the UConn Huskies.