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Buy U a Flang. Rapper T-Pain is scheduled to perform at Yale with rapper BIG RyAT on April 24 — the Tuesday of Reading Week, the date Spring Fling is typically held — according to a concert listing on BIG RyAT’s website. T-Pain’s website does not list any information about a performance at Yale. Yale College Council Events Director Katie Donley ’13 declined to comment on whether T-Pain will be playing Spring Fling.
DISTRICT COURT JUDGE GRANTS PROTESTERS TWO-WEEK REPRIEVE BY JAMES LU AND DIANA LI STAFF REPORTERS While Yalies flocked out of New Haven for spring break, members of Occupy New Haven were determined to stay put on the Green. Last Wednesday, 15 minutes after a 12 p.m. deadline City Hall set for residents of the protest’s encampment to vacate the upper portion of the New Haven Green, federal Judge Janet Hall gave the protesters a two-week reprieve, ruling that they could remain until at least midnight March 28. A full hearing in the protesters’ suit to prevent the city from evicting them will take place that day before U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz. Cooperation between City Hall and the Occupy protesters, which has been remarkably strong throughout the majority of the protesters’ five-month presence on the Green, began to deteriorate last month when
A silver jubilee. U.S. News
and World Report released its annual rankings of the nation’s best graduate schools on March 13. Yale Law School landed at the number one spot, marking 25 years of topping the law school rankings. The School of Management landed at number 10 in the business school rankings, while the School of Medicine ranked seventh for research.
Getting social. The Yale College Council debuted a new system for introducing freshmen to other freshmen Sunday night. “Freshman Lunch” allows interested students to sign up to grab a meal with a random student — Yale Lunch, but for freshmen. The frosh who meets the most people on the service by April 20 will get a $200 gift card to Miya’s. Homecoming. Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 will be on campus next spring to star as Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater. The play, which runs from March 15, 2013 to April 13, 2013, will be directed by James Bundy, dean of the School of Drama and the Rep’s artistic director, The New York Times reported Thursday. Occupy The Times. An article
published in The New York Times’ Dealbook section last week examined the trend of Ivy League students rejecting Wall Street’s aggressive recruiting techniques in the wake of heightened critical attention on the big firms. The article focuses on Cory Finley ’11, who applied to work at Bridgewater Associates but decided to become a playwright instead.
Under fire. Garry Trudeau’s ’70 GRD ’73 “Doonesbury” comics sparked a nationwide controversy last week over a series of strips tackling an abortion law in Texas. The strips focus on a woman’s attempt to have an abortion in Texas in the wake of a new law requiring all women seeking abortions to undergo a pretermination ultrasound. Going pro. Jaden Schwartz —
the brother of former women’s hockey player Mandi Schwartz ’11 — signed a three-year, entry-level contact with the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues on Monday. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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AS BREAK ENDS, SPRING WEATHER ARRIVES Temperatures climbed into the high 60s Sunday afternoon, greeting Yalies as they returned to campus from spring recess. Students reunited with friends as they flooded Cross Campus and Old Campus, taking advantage of the warm weather.
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Faculty seek greater role at Grad School BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER A group of professors has petitioned for a greater voice in decision-making at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in a proposal submitted to administrators during spring break.
The proposal, which was sent to University President Richard Levin and Provost Peter Salovey on March 6 with signatures from 15 professors, calls for a faculty advisory committee to counsel the Graduate School dean and his staff on a regular basis about potential policies and initia-
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Classmates honor life of Foucher LAW ’14 BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER Nina Foucher LAW ’14, described by friends and family as gentle and thoughtful, died March 5 in New Haven in an apparent suicide. She was 25. Foucher attended the University of Chicago on a full academic scholarship before coming to Yale Law School. As an undergraduate majoring in Fundamentals, a selfstudy program at UChicago, she was a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa and studied in Africa and Europe. Her friends and family said they will remember her for her genuine interest in those around her and the caliber of her academic work. “Nina’s gentle spirit and radiant smile always brought me joy,” said Sonia Mittal LAW ’13, who was friends with Foucher. “She’s someone who thought deeply about her role as a future lawyer, and as a member of the Univer-
tives. Administrators have not yet met to discuss the proposal, but Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard said he welcomed its suggestions, and Salovey said he looks forward to discussing ways to “ensure robust faculty input” into Graduate School policies. Pollard said in a Sunday
email that he formed an informal advisory committee two years ago, which includes three to four faculty members from each of the school’s three divisions: humanities, sciences and social sciences. The idea for the committee emerged when the search committee for a new dean, which Pollard chaired,
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Term bill, financial aid budget to increase BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER The total cost of attending Yale and the University’s financial aid budget will both jump by roughly 5 percent in the 2012-’13 academic year, according to figures released last Tuesday. Tuition will rise from $40,500 to $42,300 in the coming year, while room and board
will cost $7,150 and $5,850, respectively — an increase in total cost of 4.9 percent to $55,300. At the same time, Yale’s undergraduate financial aid budget has increased to $120 million — 4.6 percent more than the $114.7 million the University allotted to undergraduate financial aid in 2011-’12, Deputy Provost Lloyd Suttle said. Dean of SEE TUITION PAGE 4
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he faculty debate about Yale-NUS has focused on Singapore government policy towards homosexuality and free political expression, which everyone knows is not the same as in the United States. Objection to our presence abroad brings to the fore just how exceptional American policies are and just how exceptional the debate about liberal values is within an institution of higher learning like Yale. Most European countries are tolerant in the realms of sexuality and human rights. But university education throughout Europe is supported solely by the state, and you can bet your last euro that it serves nationalist aims. No place measures up to North America when it comes to fostering programs like women’s, gender, & sexuality studies or the LGBT Cooperative — along with other identitydefined disciplines — as an integral part of college life. So, I ask: Just what does anyone think the government of Singapore was thinking when it invited Yale to establish within its borders a liberal arts college with policies and practices which it knows to be different from its own? On one account, it looks like the invitation for Yale to enter Singapore is itself a sign of governmental openness — or some significant part of governmental openness — to change. As students of politics know, these things are never simple or one-sided and sometimes come more easily from without than from within. It is only with the support of Yale on the ground that the proponents for the change that all of us would like to see might be encouraged and prevail. Since there is virtually no country that can match the standard we set for the rest of the world when it comes to academic freedom and human rights, it is a nonstarter to demand that a government change its policy to match our own before Yale commits to working with it. Not to make that commitment at this point is a sign of complicity with the most conservative elements of the Singapore regime, a betrayal of the NUS faculty who have expressed the will to be more like their North American colleagues and a defeat for progress via educational means. But I like Yale-NUS for other reasons. The Yale experiment offers the chance to build a university without the hobbling disciplinary limits of our conventional departments. I love my department, as I love all 17 of the departments and programs within the Division of the Humanities. But the storage of knowledge in silos that were
established for the most part in the late 19th or early 20th century is an impediment to the generation of new ideas among faculty colleagues and intellectual excitement among undergraduates. The proof is that the humanities major, which offers broad courses and allows students to work significantly in more than one discipline at a time, is one of the fastest-growing majors on Yale’s campus. On this score, Yale-NUS will be way ahead of Yale-US, though the government of Singapore has some catching up to do on other fronts. As a nexus between India, China and the West, Singapore’s location favors an important conceptual realignment of the humanities that will be a long time coming to the home campus in New Haven — that is, a synthesis of the ways that ideas and creative works of East and West intersect historically as well as conceptually with each other. Emphasis on what is common to the textual, visual and musical cultures of the world lies at the root core of the new curriculum, which will likely someday have an effect on the courses in our own Blue Book. I look to Yale-NUS if not to solve then at least to prime the pump of recovery in the job market for humanities Ph.D.s. Not only will there be jobs in Singapore for those in an incredibly tight job market, but those who teach at Yale-NUS will be broadly trained and better adapted to teach in the globalized university of the future. Should they want to return to the U.S., they will enjoy a distinct advantage in their ability to offer the kind of big-issue, personally meaningful, culturally comprehensive courses that undergraduates clearly want and that are beyond the ken of many Ph.D.s trained in our traditional single-discipline departments. For these and other reasons, Yale should take the lead and give it a go. The potential upside is great, the risk, low. This is not a perfect world, but Yale’s engagement in Singapore is a way of making it better. And if there is an unforeseen disaster, we can, having done the right thing from the start, always pull out. In the meantime, YaleNUS offers an exciting means of rethinking the humanities and a way for the power of liberal studies to venture beyond the walls of ivy.
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resources and resist eviction. And they took him up on the offer. T h e n Occupy New Haven’s lawfiled NATHANIEL yers an injuncZELINSKY tion against a potential evicOn Point tion in federal court. Fifteen minutes after DeStefano’s supposed Wednesday deadline, a judge granted the Occupiers a two-week stay until their case can be heard, thereby ensuring the continued life of the tent city. The open secret: Even if the court had ruled in the city’s favor, DeStefano would have done nothing. I saw few police on the Green that Wednesday at noon. The deadline was a bluff and Occupiers called it. The mayor was caught flatfooted, saved only by the court’s stay. City Hall now lacks all credibility. The mayor needs to learn a simple fact of governance. Some problems can only be solved decisively. Occupy New Haven has become a
lifestyle for the so-called protestors, a lifestyle they will not willingly abandon at City Hall’s tepid request. DeStefano’s constituents don’t like his milquetoast act. I talked to onlookers Wednesday who described themselves as liberal. Many supported Occupy’s message against income inequality and nontransparent elections. But, consistently, they want our public space back. Occupiers should not be allowed to monopolize the Green indefinitely. The official cluelessness runs beyond the mayor. Also on Wednesday at the Green, I spoke with Doug Hausladen ’04, alderman from Ward 7, which abuts Occupy New Haven. He said he “didn’t know” if the Occupiers should be allowed to live on the Green, but he “sure liked having them here.” Hausladen refused to speculate on whether Occupy hurts or helps local stores in New Haven, despite representing a district of small businesses. And he had similarly ambiguous thoughts about the encampment’s safety at night. For the record, last Tuesday, a registered sex offender was charged with raping a woman in an
Occupy New Haven tent. Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 was not on the Green Wednesday, but I reached her by email. She doesn’t think Occupy is a public safety risk either. When asked if Occupy should be allowed to remain, she merely noted that the mayor has not consulted her and her constituents have not been in touch. Ward 1 includes the Green and the tents. Apparently, Eidelson can’t hold an opinion until she takes every student’s temperature. Where is the candidate the News endorsed for being principled and genuine? The city’s government needs to face the facts: The Occupiers are a nuisance and a public safety hazard. Their numbers and resolve will only grow with passing weeks and continued feeble behavior from City Hall. Meanwhile, ordinary New Haveners have had enough. When the court rules for eviction — as it should — the mayor must act. NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Davenport College . His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .
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n Feb. 29, Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke both a “slut” and a “prostitute” for arguing that Georgetown students’ contraception should be covered by student health insurance. As a woman, I was offended. Women’s activist groups across the country were infuriated, as they should have been. President Obama offered a personal apology to Fluke, drawing upon a hope that his daughters can someday vocally support their own causes, without fear of vicious, personal attacks from the media. And he’s right: They shouldn’t be afraid. But neither should Laura Ingraham, called a “right-wing slut” by MSNBC commentator Ed Schultz. Or S.E. Cupp, who Keith Olbermann, a frequent guest of the White House, said should have been aborted. Or Deneen Borelli, who’s been attacked on air as a “washed-up Oreo” for being a black conservative. After tallying off her attacks from the liberal media, Borelli remarked, “I didn’t get a call from President Obama.” Most disheartening is to hear liberal women engaging in these same attacks against conservative women. It was feminist Gloria
Steinem who called Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator,” and Naomi Wolf who denounced the late Jeane Kirkpatrick as being “uninflected by the experiences of the female body.” It’s a shame that feminists neglect to include all women under their umbrella of advocacy. Sadly, “slut” is among the nicer things conservative women have been called throughout the years. The Democratic Party, infamous for championing its support of all women, seems to only adopt this stance when it suits them, or when the woman in question carries opinions that align with its platform. It’s not hard to see the glaring double standard of liberals when it comes to women. But there’s no sense in fueling a competition about which side has proven more victimized. While slut-shaming and name-calling are unacceptable for those in the public sphere, to keep it at the forefront of national dialogue three weeks after the fact, post-apology, is ridiculous. Were there an actual war on women in the United States, we would do well to cease centering it on the remarks of one historically offensive radio host or others like him. Put simply, it’s not
helping our cause. If you believe abortion’s immorality to be irrelevant, if you think contraception is a medical necessity for all women and only if you believe there’s no room for rightminded, intelligent discourse on these issues, then yes, Republicans are waging a war on women. March 8 was International Women’s Day. On what was supposed to be a celebration of the brilliance, beauty and achievement of the female sex, we were complaining about our entitlement to insurance coverage for contraception. We let our newly anointed spokesperson Sandra Fluke tell the world that there is a malicious war on women in the United States of America. In Saudi Arabia, women are forbidden to drive or use public facilities when men are present. If their bodies are not completely covered, they face verbal and physical harassment from the religious police. Jordanian women live in fear of honor killings from their husbands. In Egypt today, women wonder if they will see their hardfought rights removed when the new constitution is drafted by an Islamist-majority parliament. On International Women’s Day,
these people were victims of the real war on women. Any misogynistic filth pervading our national dialogue is indeed inexcusable, and it should rightly be exposed and its perpetrators reproached. But the comments of people like Limbaugh and Olbermann should not take on the formal title of a War on Women. In giving them that name, we only fuel the perception that Americans remain ignorant of their standing relative to today’s global landscape. Ann Romney recently said, “Women care about jobs. Women care about the economy. They care about their children, and they care about the debt.” I hope she’s right. In light of the excessive attention surrounding rhetoric and contraception, I have to wonder where women’s priorities will lie in this next election. If we are bound by the narrow set of women’s interests as defined by the Democratic Party, a shift in those priorities is long overdue. Across the globe, there are countless battles for women’s rights to be fought; it’s time we chose them more wisely. ELAINA PLOTT is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact her at elaina.plott@yale.edu .
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ew Haven set a deadline of noon last Wednesday for Occupy to leave the Green. In case you haven’t noticed, the tents are still up. And they will remain for another week and a half, by court order. Almost every mayor in America — including self-proclaimed liberals — knew what do to with Occupy encampments: Avoid more violent confrontation by sending the police in at night. Give the Occupiers no advance warning. Throw everything out, evict the squatters and be done with the mess. But not Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Instead, for the past month, the mayor played a game of political footsie. First he asked the Occupiers to move to a park. They refused. Then he set an approximate deadline of mid-March for them to go. They refused. Then he set a definitive deadline, noon on the 14th. And guess what? They still refused. The predictable result of DeStefano’s bungling: The Occupiers — otherwise small in number — bused in supporters from out of town. The mayor gave them the opportunity to marshal their
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ast spring, the Committee on Hazing and Initiation held seven meetings to address issues of wrongful initiation practices “across a wide range of undergraduate organizations.” On April 21, 2011, the Committee released its final report, which included a list of nine recommendations as part of a long-term plan to ensure that all initiation practices at Yale are positive and safe. And yet, almost one year later, the only policy change which has arisen from these recommendations is one that specifically targets Greek organizations. This new policy, which prohibits freshmen from rushing during their first semester, was announced by Deans Miller and Gentry just before spring break. Since sororities conduct rush exclusively in the spring, only fraternities will really be affected. I’m sure that the administration has the best intentions in establishing this new policy, and I appreciate its attempts to reach out to fraternities and sororities. However, this discriminatory policy is based on stereotypes of Greek culture, not facts. Sigma Chi has a strict no-hazing policy, a commitment our chapter takes very seriously. Other fraternities on Yale’s campus have similar policies. Overall, the administration’s
final decision has hardly shown a desire to address the problem of hazing in its entirety. First and foremost, the policy does nothing to address the problems that the Committee was formed to investigate: hazing and negative initiation practices. Although the changes will invariably inhibit the ability of fraternities to recruit, they will have absolutely no influence upon the practices that occur within the organizations themselves. In fact, when placed side-by-side with the rest of the Committee’s recommendations, the recommendation to have all fraternities and sororities adjust the timing of their pledge program seems out of place. Second, this policy change does not reflect the full scope of the problem of hazing. As the Committee report indicated, no data yet exists for the presence of hazing and negative initiation practices specifically at Yale. But if national data is any indication, hazing is by no means a problem confined within the walls of Greek houses. In fact, according to preliminary results of a 2008 study, students belonging to a varsity sport are just as likely to experience hazing as students belonging to a fraternity. Many students surveyed experienced hazing in
a wide variety of organizations, ranging from academic clubs and honor societies to cultural and religious organizations. While the Committee also made recommendations to address hazing via advisory and student leadership programs, this restrictive policy does not address the hazing that could occur in other organizations, opting instead to scapegoat fraternities. Third, the policy was developed with virtually no input from the Greek organizations as Yale. The Committee itself consisted of 15 members, of which only three were students. In the process of formulating their recommendations, the Committee did not seem to consider the diversity of fraternity pledge programs, for some fraternities rely much more heavily upon fall rush and pledge than others. As a result, the policy places an inequitable burden upon fraternities in maintaining their numbers. Even in the announcement of the policy, fraternities were not consulted. The only discussion of the policy occurred one hour before it was announced, when several leaders from Yale’s Greek organizations met with Deans Gentry and Meeske. Although they offered us the opportunity to help decide the terms of the pol-
icy’s implementation, they also presented our decision as a choice between “getting on board the bus or getting run over by it.” Is this how the administration wants to relate to Greek organizations? By passing such a restrictive policy without the input of Greek leadership, the administration could risk driving some fraternities to conduct their recruitment underground, directly counteracting the original goals of the Committee to ensure the safety and positivity of initiation practices. Yale’s fraternities would like to cooperate with the administration in order to create the best possible undergraduate experience for everyone. But in order for there to be a spirit of cooperation, we need to be included in decisions that pertain to us. The administration should re-examine this new policy, which singles out all fraternities based on unsubstantiated claims about Yale’s Greek culture in general, and enact policies that fall in line with the Committee’s goal of examining initiation problems “across a wide range of undergraduate organizations.” BEN VANGELDER is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College and the president of Sigma Chi. Contact him at eduard.vangelder@yale.edu .
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PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTS MONDAY, MARCH 19 12:00 P.M. “Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Protestantism in 19th-Century Germany: A Comparison.” This Religion and Politics Colloquium with Olaf Blaschke of University of Trier is sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund. Open to the general public. Lunch will be provided. Rosenkranz Hall (115 Prospect St.), Room 202.
Police arrest 40 at St. Patrick’s BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER A record number of revelers flocked downtown last Sunday for New Haven’s 170th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and police cracked down on public drinking along the route. New Haven Police Department officers arrested 40 people during the day’s festivities for offenses including minor assaults, fighting, vandalism, public drinking and disorderly behavior, department spokesman David Hartman said. Those numbers, which Hartman said were comparable to past parades, came after repeated warnings from police and city officials that open container laws would be enforced and unruly behavior would not be tolerated. “The crowd along the parade was generally well-behaved, as expected, but those in the downtown bar areas were generally not well-behaved,” he said. “We were pleased that in the wake of increased enforcement of laws prohibiting the public consumption of alcohol, there was a very noticeable increase in the number of younger children who lined the parade route with their families.” The policing of the event did not deter parade-goers from turning out in high numbers to enjoy the occasion. While Hartman said the parade “absolutely did not” draw the 300,000 people expected by Grand Marshal Kevin Smith, it was the most well-attended parade he has seen. “A sensible estimate of those revelers in the heart of the downtown entertainment district would be more than 20,000 but fewer than 35,000 at any one time,” Hartman said. The weather may have helped boost the parade’s atten-
dance. Revelers enjoyed sunny 51-degree weather as they wound from the intersection of Derby Avenue and Chapel Street to the New Haven Green. With the increased crowds came a slight increase in the number of people arrested. In 2010, 26 people were arrested during the festivities, while “about three dozen” were arrested at last year’s parade, according to then-NHPD spokesman Joe Avery. At this year’s parade, 11 people were arrested for breach of the peace, eight for interfering with police officers, five for disorderly conduct, four for assault and 12 for other offenses, Hartman said. Those arrests came after police and city officials held a press conference at Whitney Avenue bar Anna Liffey’s on March 8, stressing that the NHPD would be vigorously enforcing public drinking laws at the parade and issuing a $99 fine to offenders. The police have stepped up enforcement of the state’s open container laws in the past two years, Hartman said, adding that the measures helped make the event more family-friendly. Among the Elm City officials marching in the parade were Mayor John DeStefano Jr., NHPD Chief Dean Esserman and New Haven Fire Department Chief Michael Grant. State politicians also appeared in the line-up: U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 marched alongside U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, a candidate to replace Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 after he retires at the end of his term this year. The parade was slated to feature 3,600 marchers in 126 units, according to Smith. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
City sees first murder of 2012 BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER After almost three months without a homicide, the Elm City registered its first murder of the year Saturday morning. The New Haven Police Department launched its first homicide investigation of 2012 after officers found a deceased “black male, suspected to be in his late teens to early 20s” in a silver Range Rover near the intersection of County and Munson streets in the Dixwell neighborhood, according to department spokesman David Hartman. The man had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene by NHPD officers and the New Haven Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services, who had been dispatched at 9:36 a.m. after a report from the location. Hartman said the NHPD received no reports of gunshots in the area overnight, and the city’s ShotSpotter system, which detects gunshots based on acoustic triangulation, did not pick up any gun activity in the area. “[ShotSpotter] is a very human system,” Hartman told the New Haven Register. “Just like we have auditory human error, the system hears things like a human being does. If gunfire is inside a building or vehicle, it is not expected that the system would pick it up.” Hartman said detectives have not yet determined whether the
gunfire occured inside or outside the vehicle, but they believe the homicide occurred some time after 3 a.m. Saturday. The victim has been taken to the Chief Medical Examiner’s office, where an autopsy will be performed. The results of the autopsy will be reported on Monday, Hartman said. While the identity of the victim has not been confirmed, detectives are “confident he was not randomly targeted, but was rather the intended victim,” Hartman added. The NHPD’s Major Crimes Unit, led by Lt. Julie Johnson, is in the early stages of its investigation into the homicide, collecting forensic evidence and conducting interviews in the area. By this time last year, the city had already recorded seven homicides, en route to a 20-yearhigh 34 murders. While Hartman stressed that crime statistics rarely give an insightful look into the city’s crime situation and can fluctuate rapidly, violent crime is down 19.2 percent compared to the same time last year. Assaults are down 28.6 percent and robberies are down 10.7 percent. Prior to Sunday’s homicide, the most recent murder occurred Dec. 24 when 19-year-old Antonio Holloway was shot outside 335 Norton St. The last time New Haven saw several months without a homicide was between April and August 2009. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
St. Patrick’s Day in New Haven According to the website of the Greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the first St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New Haven was held in 1842. After marching to a Catholic church for Mass, participants sang songs about Ireland and St. Patrick together. The New Haven parade is the sixth-longest-running parade in the United States, although it was held very infrequently between 1885 and 1955.
Labor extends local power BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER Labor unions have deepened their influence on the city’s politics yet again, this time through positions in New Haven’s Democratic Party. Union-backed candidates won six of the seven contested races for seats on the Democratic Town Committee last Tuesday, continuing a trend of organized labor’s growing local political clout in the city that began with last fall’s aldermanic elections. At the first meeting of the committee Wednesday night, members handed Ward 3 Alderwoman Jackie James an easy victory in her bid to chair the committee, which consists of two ward committee co-chairs from each of the city’s 30 wards, effectively placing her at the helm of the city’s political machine. James, who won re-election as alderwoman in the fall with the help of Yale’s politically active labor unions, UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35, beat out Wooster Square activist Chris Randall and former alderwoman Esther Armmand by a commanding margin, receiving 48 votes to Randall’s five and Armmand’s four. James also serves as president pro tempore of the Board of Aldermen. In New Haven — which in a recent count had 45,555 registered Democrats, 2,456 regis-
tered Republicans and 15,946 unaffiliated voters — the Democratic Town Committee, a unit of the national Democratic Party, is the city’s most powerful political organization. In even-numbered years, the committee’s chair is responsible for working with federal and statewide campaigns to manage voter turnout and run the “ground game” for the party in New Haven during elections, former Ward 1 Co-Chair Amalia Skilton ’13 said. When the focus returns to city politics during odd-numbered years, Skilton said the chair becomes New Haven’s “kingmaker,” convincing people to run in local elections and keeping tabs on political developments citywide. The committee also elects delegates for state primary elections. Last week’s ward committee co-chair elections resulted in a Democratic Town Committee in which more than half of its 60 members are newcomers to the organization. This includes Ward 1’s Ben Crosby ’13 and Nia Holston ’14, who ran unopposed, and Ward 22’s Josef Goodman ’14 and Jayuan Carter, a lab assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, who defeated Gina Phillips and former aldermanic candidate Cordelia Thorpe. The two co-chairs from each ward form a ward committee, composed of residents of the ward, that serves primarily to endorse aldermanic candidates. Co-chairs
are also responsible for political organizing at the ward level: keeping voter files up to date, registering residents to vote and planning for aldermanic primaries.
I trusted a lot of the people that were telling me to vote for these people; I trusted their judgment. JOSEF GOODMAN ’14 Co-chair, Ward 22 Democratic Committee Goodman, who volunteered for the campaigns of Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison and Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 in the fall, said Morrison, one of a slate of labor-backed aldermen who won their first terms last fall, approached him about running for co-chair in January. She told him that the way Phillips and Thorpe had run the Ward 22 Committee was “kind of a sham,” complaining that they have done little to engage the student population within the ward, which includes four of Yale’s residential colleges, and have largely given committee seats to friends and family. James is not the only laborbacked official in the Democratic Town Committee’s new leader-
ship. Gwen Mills, a Yale union organizer who ran last fall’s successful labor-backed aldermanic challenges, was elected treasurer in an unopposed election. At the meeting Wednesday, Goodman said candidates did not give speeches, adding it “wasn’t the most informed of processes.” While he said there were complaints of a power grab by James, the vast majority of ward cochairs voted for James’s recommended slate of candidates. “I trusted a lot of the people that were telling me to vote for these people; I trusted their judgment,” Goodman said. James and the other newly elected officials pledged to revitalize the Democratic Party in New Haven by bringing new faces and young people into politics. They also pledged that the Democratic Town Committee, which has typically thrown its support behind Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s reelection campaigns, will maintain independence from City Hall and the city’s old political establishment. Also elected were vice chairs Carmen Reyes and former Ward 8 Alderman Vinnie Mauro, assistant treasurer Josh Vega, secretary Rose DeMatteo and assistant secretary Lateefah Williams. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .
Changes to faculty accounting suggested BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER A report released two weeks ago by University Provost Peter Salovey makes a series of proposals to improve the process of allocating faculty positions to departments and making appointments. In the report, a committee chaired by economics professor William Nordhaus emphasizes the importance of increasing departmental control over the search and hiring processes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, expresses concern over the rising ratio of tenured to non-tenured faculty, and discusses the need for a periodic reallocation of faculty resources that accounts for emerging academic fields. The report also proposes a new faculty accounting system that would streamline how Yale budgets and tracks the number of positions in departments. Faculty positions are currently counted and budgeted to departments in units of junior-faculty equivalents, or JFEs. Under this system, tenured faculty count as two JFEs while non-tenured faculty equal one JFE, reflecting a roughly 2-to-1 salary ratio between senior and junior faculty. JFEs are the remnants of an old tenure system the University used until 2007, but Salovey said the units have become less relevant since Yale introduced its current tenure-track model. While the old system awarded tenure to professors partly based on the availability of faculty slots in their departments, professors now earn tenure based on their qualifications. The report proposes implementing a full-time equivalent, or FTE, system that would not weight senior faculty more heavily than junior faculty. The report states that, under the current tenure-track system, the longterm cost of a junior appointment is not considerably different than that of a senior position because “a junior appointment carries the explicit commitment of the resources required for tenure.” Nordhaus said in an email to the News that the report discusses “many important issues and makes several recommendations about faculty budgeting and governance.” He declined to comment on how the recommendations will improve the processes of authorizing faculty searches and appointing new professors, saying the report speaks for itself. Salovey said a discussion of general faculty accounting is necessary in light of how the approval process for faculty searches has changed in recent years.
“Professor Nordhaus and his committee have written a thought-provoking and constructive report that makes substantial recommendations concerning how we account for the resources supporting faculty slots as well as how faculty searches in the FAS are authorized and conducted,” Salovey said in a Sunday email. During the mid-2000s, the number of faculty and authorized searches increased alongside dramatic growth in the endowment. But with the onset of the recession in 2008, the size of the FAS ladder faculty was held at roughly 700 and the number of faculty searches requested far exceeded those that could be approved. According to the report, individual departments have had less influence over faculty appointment decisions since the recession hit because the FAS Steering Committee — a group that includes Salovey, Yale College Dean Mary Miller, Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard and the deputy provosts — has been forced to ration searches. At the same time, departments have more existing positions than the budget has allowed them to fill, creating what the report terms a slot overhang. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has 77 vacancies that have not resulted from routine turnover, the report estimates. As of fall 2011, 699 of 855 authorized positions in the faculty were filled.
[The report] gives... a very well-reasoned and sensible set of steps for managing faculty resources in the future. EDWARD KAMENS Chair, East Asian Languages and Literature Department In order to reduce this slot overhang and take stress off departments that have had searches placed on hold, the committee suggests a number of potential strategies, such as budgeting for more faculty members or encouraging a “higher voluntary vacancy rate” by allowing departments to fill openings with temporary hires. The committee recommends that any decrease in the number of authorized positions should take place through an Academic Review, which would create a committee of administrators and faculty to “consider the need for reallocation across departments and divisions to ensure
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Economics professor William Nordhaus chaired a committee that proposed several changes in the way Yale allocates faculty resources. the healthy evolution of the core mission of the FAS.” The Nordhaus committee suggests that Yale hold an Academic Review once a decade, helping evaluate department sizes and shift resources toward emerging academic fields. The report also expresses concern over the rising ratio of tenured to non-tenured faculty at the University, a trend that has been exacerbated by several factors in recent years. For example, the committee said the financial crisis has likely prevented some tenured professors from retiring, thus increasing the ratio. The new tenure-track model introduced in 2007 includes mandatory tenure review for junior faculty, and an FTE system could contribute to the increasing ratio as well because it would cost roughly the same for a department to hire a senior or junior faculty member. The committee recommends establishing tenure ratio guidelines for departments, which would require those above the guidelines to prioritize searches for junior faculty. Edward Kamens, chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department, said in a Thursday email that he had been concerned about how some recommendations in early drafts of the report, such as the tenure ratio guidelines, would affect small departments. But he said the final version has addressed his concerns. The report emphasizes using particular caution in managing faculty appointments for small departments, in which each change can have a substan-
tial impact. “I admire [the report’s] clarity and its thorough coverage of several interrelated complex problems,” Kamens said. “It gives the Faculty of Arts and Sciences a very well-reasoned and sensible set of steps for managing faculty resources in the future, in a manner that I think is wholly appropriate to Yale.” Three other department chairs also praised the proposals in the report. Fifteen department chairs did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Salovey requested a review of the faculty budget and accounting system in May 2011. The Nordhaus committee developed its recommendations through consultation with Yale faculty and administrators, as well as administrators at Yale’s peer universities. The committee presented its findings at a Yale College faculty meeting in December and discussed the recommendations with department chairs in February. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will discuss the report at a special meeting scheduled for April 2, Salovey said. “I look forward to a searching discussion and review by the faculty in early April, followed by a speedy implementation of those recommendations that are accepted by the administration,” Nordhaus said. Salovey released the report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2. Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .
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“These are the same old folks who have been protesting since the Vietnam War … They really don’t curry much favor in my book.” RICK SANTORUM FORMER U.S. SENATOR, PENNSYLVANIA
Occupy avoids showdown with city OCCUPY FROM PAGE 1 city officials held two talks with protesters about the future of the demonstration against economic inequality. City officials argued that the Green is intended to be a space for all to enjoy and that the protest’s permanent presence is infringing on the public’s ability to do so, while protesters argued that their tents represent protected “speech acts in and of themselves.” Tensions began to escalate on March 12, when City Hall officials distributed fliers to Occupy protesters notifying them that March 14 would be the last day that tents, structures and other materials would be permitted on the Green. “The City has been respectful of the movement’s message, but it is now time for Occupy New Haven to remove their structures and personal items from Green,” the notice read. That same afternoon, the protesters held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, announcing their intention to defy the city’s request. Ben Aubin, one of the protest’s leaders, read a statement on behalf of the group that said the city has refused to answer any of Occupy’s demands and has proved itself unwilling to cooperate with the “occupation.”
TIMELINE OCCUPYING THE GREEN MARCH 12 City Hall issues a notice to Occupy New Haven residents, informing them tents, structures and other materials will not be permitted on the New Haven Green past noon on March 14. MARCH 12 Occupiers hold a press-conference outside City Hall shortly afterwards stating their intention to defy the city’s request. MARCH 13 Attorney Norm Pattis, on behalf of the occupiers, files a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court to prevent the city from enforcing an order to remove the tents. He also filed a motion to remove the title to the Green from its five current ownerproprietors. MARCH 14 In U.S. District Court, federal judge Janet Hall rules that the encampment can remain until at least midnight March 28, delivering her ruling just 15 minutes after the noon deadline for occupiers to vacate the Green.
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On the brink of an expected showdown with the city after a deadline for their removal from the Green, Occupy New Haven protesters won a court victory that bought them two more weeks. Aubin also suggested the city only wanted Occupy to leave in anticipation of Yale’s Commencement activities. “We’re coming in on Yale territory,” he said. “We’re outoccupying them.” But Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said the University has played no role in the city’s decision to demand that protesters leave the Green, and has not expressed any concerns to the city about the ongoing encampment. Faced with immiment eviction from the Green, the protesters, represented by attorney Norm Pattis, filed a last-minute lawsuit in U.S. District Court Tuesday seeking a restraining order and injunction to prevent the city from enforcing its order to remove the tents. Pattis also filed a motion to remove the title to the Green from its five current proprietors, who are all descendants of New Haven’s colonial settlers. “The plaintiffs contend that the Green is a public trust, analogous to riparian lands, and therefore the public enjoys equitable title to the Green,” the protest-
ers’ complaint reads. “It has for time immemorial been used as a location for public meetings of all kinds.”
The tents are going to leave because graduation is coming and they want their yard back. “HILLBILLY FROM KENTUCKY” Member, Occupy New Haven Victor Bolden, the city’s top lawyer, said the lawsuit essentially attempts to convert the Green to private property for use by the Occupy protest. “The consequences of allowing them to succeed would be to deny everyone in the New Haven community and elsewhere the enjoyment of publicly available land now and for the foreseeable future,” he said. Hall agreed with the protesters’ argument that removing the
encampment would violate their First Amendment rights, adding that its presence for another two weeks would not excessively burden the city, given that it has continued for five months. Occupy New Haven will, however, be required to pay the city $1,000 for the portable toilets it has supplied the encampment, Hall said. Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, whose district includes the lower Green adjacent to the Occupy site, said Hall rendered a “pretty good judgement” that differentiated between what is temporary and what is permanent, while also ensuring services are paid for. Hausladen, who attended the city’s meeting with the protesters before the encampment was established Oct. 15, said the protest was initially discussed as a “temporary thing.” In the long run, he said he would like to see the protesters shift to something with an educational capacity, potentially with the help of one of the churches on the Green. “I think it would be great if they could figure out a way in
Financial aid to rise with term bill TUITION FROM PAGE 1 Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said in an email Friday that the University expects a greater number of students to qualify for financial aid based on the term bill changes. “Families should pay only what they can afford, depending on their income,” he said. “Overall, the net cost of attending Yale for families receiving financial aid has gone down substantially over the past 10-year and five-year periods.” The University has also tweaked the self-help contribution expected of students receiving financial aid. The contribution has decreased by $300 for freshmen, who now will be asked to pay $2,700 toward their education in 2012-’13. But selfhelp for upperclassmen will rise by $200 to $3,200 in the coming academic year. Suttle said in a Sunday email that the University’s financial aid policies are designed to ensure that a Yale College education remains affordable to all admitted students. He added that the University expects to expand financial aid more rapidly than it increases tuition costs over the next few years, unless overall growth in Yale
students’ family incomes outpaces tuition increases. Suttle also said Yale’s term bill increases are “in line” with those at comparable colleges and universities. “After considering financial aid, the net cost of a Yale College education is lower than many other institutions, including both public and private schools,” Suttle said. Despite the jump in the price tag of a Yale education, five experts interviewed said they expect the projected increase in the University’s financial aid budget to offset the spike in tuition and other fees, so that most Yale students will not see increases in their semester bills. Jon Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and a former admissions officer at Stanford University, said Yale’s 2012-’13 term bill increase is “not out of line” with those the University has made in past years or with changes at its peer institutions. “Any individual family may find these increases a greater burden than in the past, but overall as an issue for the entire college applicant pool, it is not that important,” Reider said. “For lots of reasons, most peo-
ple think Yale’s cost is worth it. I see no reason why that will not continue indefinitely.” Andrew McNeill, senior associate director of college counseling at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn., said Yale’s strong endowment and donor network make it one of few schools that can afford to practice needblind admissions policies and meet the full demonstrated need of students.
[Yale doesn’t] want to be a ‘barbell school’ — that is, a school with lots of rich and poor at either end. JON REIDER Director of college counseling, San Francisco University High School Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.org — websites focused on college financial aid — said some students might prefer Harvard and Princeton because they have lower “sticker prices” than Yale, at $52,652 and $53,780, respectively. But he said Yale is still less expensive on a “net price basis”
than most other nonprofit colleges and universities, as well as some public institutions. Yale also enrolls more low-income students than other Ivy League schools do, Kantrowitz said, noting that the federally funded Pell Grant is awarded to more students at Yale than at Harvard or Princeton. Reider also said the gap in cost between “expensive” private schools such as Yale and state universities has diminished over the past few years as state universities have shrunk financial aid budgets nationwide. “Yale is trying very hard, and, it seems, succeeding, at not squeezing the middle class too hard,” Reider said. “They don’t want to be a ‘barbell school’ — that is, a school with lots of rich and poor at either end, with not so many in the middle.” In the 2010-’11 academic year, 57 percent of undergraduates received need-based financial aid from Yale.
which to provide an educational type of social change,” he said. “That would allow the Green to be a Green instead of a brown, and we can have it returned to the public. Interviewed on the Green Sunday afternoon, several Occupy protesters said they intended to remain at the site. One protester, who identified himself as “Hillbilly from Kentucky,” said he would not leave until “the final moment.” He estimated that 80 percent of Occupy New Haven protesters have no intention of moving, though he expressed pessmism about the encampment’s ultimate fate. “The tents are going to leave because graduation is coming and they want the yard back so Yalies can parade around like they do,” he said. “Their moms and dads have money, and the Yalies are going to win.” Throughout the entire saga, the New Haven Police Department has been monitoring the site but has had no involvement with the city’s negotiations with the
protesters, department spokesman David Hartman said. Hartman said the NHPD has “gotten along great” with the protesters. “We’ve never had anyone occupy the Green before,” he said. “It’s not a group acting in civil disobedience. We’ve had plenty of protests there, but this is a different animal — this is a movement with a cause, and it’s not a strike.” In a separate incident March 13, NHPD officers were called to the Occupy New Haven encampment after an inebriated woman claimed to have been raped the night before. Hartman said an investigation concluded that the woman had been raped sometime late Monday or early Tuesday, and officers arrested England Gamble, a registered sex offender, who has been charged with first-degree sexual assault. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu and DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
Our staffers don’t look like this anymore.
Gavan Gideon contributed reporting. Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS NATHALIE CELY SUAREZ Suarez earned an undergraduate degree in economics in Ecuador before earning a master’s in public administration and a diploma in public and social policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Ecuador ambassador visits city BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Ecuadorian ambassador to the United States Nathalie Cely Suarez made her first official visit to the New Haven area on Friday to meet with local leaders, including New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. Cely’s trip, planned to discuss potential business connections between Ecuador and New Haven, came in the wake of strained relations between the East Haven Police Department — and subsequently, Maturo himself — and the local Latino population. The visit aimed to foster partnerships between institutions in Ecuador and New Haven, including Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. In her meeting with DeStefano and New Haven’s Ecuadorian consul Raul Erazo Velarde, Suarez showed DeStefano a video about Ecuador’s biodiversity and encouraged him to visit by giving him a tourism planner, according to the New Haven Register. They also discussed DeStefano’s opposition to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Secure Communities program, which checks fingerprints of suspected criminals against ICE databases in an effort to deport criminals living in the country illegally, though DeStefano said the issue pertains to the U.S. government, not foreign ones. Suarez and Velarde then attended a luncheon at a tapas restaurant owned by Ecuadorian-Americans in East Haven, where they hoped to highlight Ecuador’s culture. Maturo, whose January comment that he “might have tacos” for dinner to support East Haven’s Latino community prompted a media frenzy and an onslaught of local critics calling for his resignation, also attended the lunch.
Play to question ‘Yale values’ BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER
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East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, who came under fire for an offensive remark about Latinos, met with the Ecuadorian ambassador Friday. Prior to her meeting at City Hall, Suarez stopped by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies for a brief meeting with its staff members and officials from the Ecuadorian consulate in New Haven, said Angela Kuhne, the school’s director of admissions and financial aid. During the private meeting, Kuhne added, Suarez encouraged transfers and potential partnerships between Ecuador and the University in the form of faculty and graduate and undergraduate student exchanges between Yale and Ecuadorian schools. “Yale is very interested in diversifying its student body, so there’s mutual interest in that regard,” said Lisa Bassani, program coordinator for the Tropical Resources Institute, the environment school’s research center that funds students’ research on the conservation and management of tropical environments and natural resources. Meeting attendees talked about a potential role for Yale in Ecuador’s “large-scale” effort
to forgo oil development in Yasuni National Park in exchange for $3.6 billion in payment over 13 to 15 years from the international community, Bassani added. Kuhne said the Ecuadorian government’s conservation plan to prevent the extraction of the area’s extensive oil deposits is an ambitious one, and that the government hopes to enlist the environment school’s help in drafting academic case studies and aims to encourage research in areas such as biodiversity conservation. Friday’s meeting was only a preliminary conversation, Bassani said, and added that the environment school will continue to follow up with the ambassador in the coming months to discuss the proposed initiatives, which may include a fall conference on the issues raised by the Yasuni protection efforts. Suarez was appointed ambassador in January. Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .
After four years as a student at Yale, poet and self-described activist Kenneth Reveiz ’12 said he wants to use a new play to express his view that Yale inducts undergraduates into a hegemonic system and rewards limited styles of creative expression. “People [at Yale] want antiquity, neoclassicism, pastoral fetishism, which are so entwined with a class and race that I am not that it’s just not possible that I can buy into them,” Reveiz said. “OSAMA PLAY,” which Reveiz wrote last year and said he hoped to stage before graduating, goes up this Saturday and Sunday at the Jonathan Edwards College Theater. Constructing the play in a non-narrative form that features scenes with characters including Osama bin Laden, bin Laden’s wife and a tomato, Reveiz said he specifically selected a cast of actors from relatively under-represented groups, such as queer people and people of color. The show is more “noticeably political” than other plays produced at Yale, which may be political in nature but remain aligned with dominant power structures, Reveiz said. “I think [other] Yale theater [productions], even the Control Group, reproduces the hegemony of which Yale is a part, whether they like it or not, whether they think so or not,” he added. “This is about leaving Yale having articulated what I thought was wrong about it.” Gabriel DeLeon ’13, the director of the play, said that observing New Haven politics and exploring his identity as a queer person have given him an increased awareness of overarching social forces, in turn enabling him to better grasp the issues “OSAMA PLAY” spotlights. “I wouldn’t have understood the point of this production until my junior year,” he added. Reveiz said that in order to articulate his own dissatisfaction with systems of power and consumption in the world as it stands, he chose to create a “humanized” version of Osama bin Laden as his lead character. A key issue in the script is socioeconomic class, he added, which Reveiz said is both a determinant of one’s place in society and an issue that Yalies in particular shy away from discussing. DeLeon said the prevailing Yale lifestyle promotes a high level of consumerism and an ignorance of other class experiences. “We’re playing down the amount of terrorism Osama has done in history, and comparing
it to our interactions with other people, which embody everyday terrorism,” Nicholas Leingang ’13, who portrays Osama, said. Leingang added that “OSAMA PLAY” is unique compared to other productions he has acted in because it is being put up by a group of people who are themselves members of marginalized groups. “Queer people, people of color and freshmen were particularly encouraged to audition,” Reveiz said, adding that in a Yale theater scene that does not regularly feature these groups, the play can help them gain a space in the cultural discourse on campus. DeLeon, for instance, was selected to direct the play because he and Reveiz are “on the same page aesthetically, ideologically and even politically.” DeLeon said that casting involved finding both the best actors to convey Reveiz’s message and selecting individuals already aligned with a “radical energy.” The show’s producer, Wilfredo Ramos Jr. ’15, said “OSAMA PLAY” changes the circumstances of the character Leingang described as “the ultimate villain” to convey a challenge to capitalism. Using a character “grounded in myth,” DeLeon said, may be scandalous, but it also extends human treatment to the slain terrorist. The play explores Osama’s legacy in the American public, Leingang said, causing audiences to question the idea of straight white males controlling the world. Reveiz said that “OSAMA PLAY” aims to inspire a recognition of what individuals can do differently to actively create a society they want to be part of. DeLeon said that audience confrontation, a deconstructivist palette and casting actors that look very different from the characters they are meant to portray help convey the playwright’s message. In the course of the show, everyone in the theater becomes aware of their place in society, DeLeon said. Ramos said that the style of the production reminds him of the current craze for “devised theater” in his native Chicago, a style that prioritizes free-form improvisation and interaction with the audience. “OSAMA PLAY” is Reveiz’s first play to be staged at Yale. Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .
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Fundamentals: Issues and Texts The Fundamentals program at the University of Chicago allows students to develop their own program of study with the guidance of a faculty adviser. They seek to explore the “fundamental questions of human existence,” in part through studying classic texts.
Pollard welcomes Grad School proposal GRAD. SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 14 months of his term as dean, leading up to his publication of an August 2011 report on graduate education at Yale. He said the advice from the informal advisory committee “has been quite valuable” but that “now is a good time” to renew its membership. He said he would gladly meet with the professors who submitted the proposal for a new advisory committee, adding that he wished they had sought his opinion on the matter, as the proposal was not sent to him. Katie Trumpener, director of graduate studies for comparative
G R A D UAT E SCHOOL G OVERNANCE PROPOSAL FUNCTION ONE
Provide a forum to review ideas from the Dean of the graduate school and subsidiary deans about changes in rules and procedures before such ideas are implemented.
literature and one of the professors proposing the new committee, said members of the proposed group would be elected by the faculty rather than selected by the dean. “There is a vast difference between administrators handpicking faculty to stand in for some diffuse ‘faculty opinion’ and the faculty as a whole getting to have a sustained and regular voice in policy making and in running the university,” Trumpener said in a Sunday email.
There is a vast difference between administrators hand-picking faculty to stand in for some diffuse “faculty opinion” and the faculty as a whole getting to have a sustained and regular voice in policy making. KATIE TRUMPENER Director of graduate studies, Department of Comparative Literature
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According to the proposal, the new committee could provide feedback on proposed changes to rules or procedures and on any reports on the Graduate School before they are published. When Pollard issued nine recommendations for improving mentoring and a list of best practices in graduate programs in his August report, some humanities and social sciences professors claimed that the report applied to science disciplines more than their own fields. Pollard, who served as the chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department before becoming dean, said he has held more than 40 meetings with
Provide a forum for faculty input into any reports that the graduate school might undertake, and when undertaken, provide a venue for those reports’ pre-publication review. FUNCTION THREE
Allow faculty to raise with the Dean issues that arise while serving as a DGS and to consider how the graduate school can better facilitate DGS oversight of their programs.
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University President Richard Levin received a proposal calling for a faculty committee to counsel Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard, at right. chairs and directors of graduate studies from individual departments about ways to strengthen their programs after the report was published. He added that he meets with directors of graduate studies as a group “about twice” per semester. Most of the 15 faculty members who drafted the proposal are former or current department chairs or directors of graduate studies, Trumpener said. She added that the professors come from “a wide range of
departments,” with most from the humanities but with some from the sciences and social sciences as well. These professors comprise a subgroup of the larger faculty working group that has raised concerns this semester about shared services and Yale’s planned liberal arts college in Singapore. In each of these instances, faculty members have criticized what they see as a centralization of decision-making power within the University and a failure to
appropriately consult faculty. David Post, director of graduate studies for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, said he had not seen the proposal but feels there are already opportunities for faculty to provide input on decisionmaking, citing the meetings Pollard has held with directors of graduate studies to discuss new initiatives. Several other professors contacted said they had not heard about the proposal or did not
wish to comment on it. Because administrators were traveling during the break, they did not meet to discuss the proposal. Salovey said in a Sunday email that he has spoken to “a few faculty members” about the proposal and he will discuss it with Levin and Pollard when they all return to campus. Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .
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people don’t feel comfortable [doing].” Foucher cared deeply about issues surrounding the legal profession, including accessibility to legal services, her classmates said. Shayak Sarkar LAW ’13 said Foucher called attention to what she viewed as a disconnect at Yale Law School “between our noble aspirations to change the world and some of the institutional shortcomings.” Early last February, Foucher emailed the Law School students’ mailing list solicit-
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BY PHILIP ELLIOTT AND BEN FOX ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico’s Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana. The victory in the U.S. territory was so convincing that Romney, the GOP front-runner, won all 20 delegates to the national convention at stake because he got more than 50 percent of the vote. That padded his comfortable lead over Santorum in the race to amass 1,144 delegates to clinch the nomination. Nevertheless, the GOP nomination fight is unlikely to end anytime soon, with Santo-
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WASHINGTON — Here’s a thought that can’t comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices. His most sweeping domestic achievement could be struck down if they stand together with Justice Clarence Thomas, another GOP appointee who is the likeliest vote against. But the good news for Obama is that he probably needs only one of the four to side with him to win approval of the law’s crucial centerpiece, the requirement that almost everyone in this country has insurance or pays a penalty. Lawyers with opposing views of the issue uniformly agree that the four Democraticappointed justices, including Obama’s two picks, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, will have no trouble concluding that Congress did not overstep its authority in adopting the insurance requirement that is aimed at sharply reducing the now 50 million people without insurance. On the other side, Thomas has made clear in several cases that he does not take an expansive view of Congress’ powers. Both the Obama administration and the health care law’s challengers believe they can attract the other four Republicans to their side. The group includes Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, the two appointees of President George W. Bush who have swung the court to the right in a number of areas; con-
servative stalwart Antonin Scalia; and the less doctrinaire Anthony Kennedy. There is no consensus in the legal and academic worlds which way the court will go or even how each of those four justices will vote. The court has set aside six hours over three days, beginning March 26, to hear arguments. But a legal challenge, once seen as improbable at best, now has everyone’s attention, partly because the justices find it weighty enough to devote six hours over three days to hearing the case. That’s the most time for any issue in more than 45 years. “Arguments that once seemed outlandish don’t seem quite so outlandish anymore,” said University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley, a health law expert who says the law should be upheld. The fight over the law has played out in starkly partisan terms. It passed Congress without a Republican vote. All the GOP presidential candidates have called for its repeal. Some supporters of the law worry about the high court’s decision because a similar partisan split, with a few important exceptions, has emerged in the lower courts. “I think as a constitutional matter, this should be an easy case,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal scholar and dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine. “But every judge appointed by a Republican president, with two exceptions, has voted to strike the law down. And every judge appointed by a Democratic president, with one exception, has voted to uphold the law.
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55 Harvard students detained in Israel BY DAVID SONG STAFF WRITER Israeli border security personnel placed 55 Harvard students in police custody Tuesday during a trip to al-Walaja, a Palestinian town in the West Bank, which was organized by students at the Harvard Kennedy School. Shireen Al-Araj, the students’ guide and a coordinator of alWalaja’s local Popular Committee Against the Wall, was arrested by police and released after the incident, according to a trip participant, an organizer, and a photographer who witnessed the arrest. No charges were levied against anyone involved in the Harvard trip. The students’ bus was boarded by armed Israeli military personnel and the riders were told that the road they were traveling on
was a military zone, according to one of the trip’s organizers The organizer, a PalesHARVARD tinian teaching fellow at Harvard, is not traveling on the trip and asked to remain anonymous to avoid trouble with authorities when he returns home to Palestine. Associate Dean of the College John “Jay” L. Ellison wrote in a statement that the students were detained because “some of the participants in the program took pictures of areas they weren’t supposed to photograph (military installations, etc.).” The organizer said that the IDs of the Palestinians on the bus, including the bus driver and a
Harvard tour organizer, were confiscated by the police. The trip through Israel and Palestine, organized annually by the Palestine Caucus at the Kennedy School, is led by Kennedy School students. About 30 Kennedy School students and several Harvard undergraduates are on the trip, according to Kennedy School Dean of Students Chris Fortunato. “Harvard has been in touch with the U.S. State Department in regards to this matter to express its concern for the students’ safety,” Fortunato said in a statement. The Palestinian organizer complained about the Israeli security officers’ behavior during the incident. “There was very little communication from the security officials, and [the students] didn’t
know where they were going,” he said. “The students and organizers were peaceful and cooperative—they didn’t break any laws, but they were treated in this way.”
For me, it’s a sign that the Israeli authorities are trying to prevent people from… knowing what is happening [in al-Walaja]. ANNE PAQ French photographer An English website of the Palestinian News Network reported about an hour after the incident that the 55 students had been
arrested. In fact, the students were redirected to a nearby Israeli checkpoint with at least two armored vehicles escorting them but were not charged. However, rumors circulated online that trip participants were under arrest. Upon learning about those rumors, one participant told The Crimson by text message, “This isn’t true. Our tour guide got arrested and our bus was redirected after it was boarded by Israeli soldiers.” Al-Araj, whose organization protests the security wall that the Israeli government is constructing in the West Bank, has led visits to al-Walaja to show international travelers the wall’s impact on Palestinians in the past, without incident. “I think this is the first time that Shireen and the group were taken by the Israeli army,” said
Anne Paq, a friend of Al-Araj and a French photographer living in Palestine who published photographs of the incident on Activestills.org. “[Al-Araj] is very active in trying to raise awareness of al-Walaja village, so I’m not surprised that they are trying to put pressure on her, to intimidate her—to prevent internationals from coming to the village.” “They said that she would be fined 5000 shekels [about $1325.52] if she does it again—but we are not sure what they mean by ‘do it again,’” Paq said, adding that she did not think Al-Araj did anything illegal to warrant interrogation. “For me, it’s a sign that the Israeli authorities are trying to prevent people from coming, from knowing what is happening [in al-Walaja].” Israeli authorities could not be reached for comment.
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Penn leads Ivies in gender-neutral BY MANOLA GONZALEZ STAFF WRITER
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Negotiations are ongoing on the renewal of the contract for United Auto Workers Local 2110, the union that represents Columbia employees. BY CASEY TOLAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER Columbia employees congregated on Broadway this afternoon to protest proposed health benefits and pension cutbacks. Negotiations are ongoing on the renewal of the contract for United Auto Workers Local 2110, the union that represents University employees throughout the city. The University has proposed cuts in healthcare benefits and pensions, according to union members. About 600 or 700 union members and supporters demonstrated at the Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College gates and then marched to Broadway and 120th Street, where they they made speeches and rallied against the Columbia administration. “I think this we’re going to send them a strong message … that we’re dismayed at their proposals especially in light of the wealth of this institution,” Local 2110 president Maida Rosenstein told Spectator. “It makes no sense whatsoever.” Organizers will go back to the negotiating table tomorrow. “The ball’s in their court,” Rosenstein said. “We have agreed to meet tomorrow and the week after that, and if there is not an agreement or substantial progress, then I think we will be taking further action.” “Strike action is on the table,” Rosenstein added. “It’s not where we want to go, but you
k n o w, our members are ve r y, ve r y serious about a fair contract.” AccordCOLUMBIA ing to Local 2110 vice president Booker Washington, Barnard employees went on a six-month strike in 1995, when the administration wanted to create a two-tier system of paying pensions, and they were successful in stopping the plan. “We want to protect what we have won over the years,” Washington said. “I worked here for 38 years, worked for almost 10 years before the union was recognized, and let me tell you, it makes a real difference.” A University statement said, “We respect our employees and value the relationships with all of our unions. We have more bargaining sessions scheduled with 2110 UAW and are continuing to engage in negotiations. We expect that these discussions will result in a fair and reasonable new contract.” Many employees said the University had its priorities wrong. “They’re putting a lot of money in … the Manhattanville project, and that’s money that should be used for workers,” Ulysses Grant, who works in Print Services and has been at Columbia for 21 years, said. Grant said the rally could be influential in contract negotiations.
“I think Columbia wasn’t expecting this,” Grant said. “I think this is really going to turn the tables, especially if we keep hitting Columbia with the fact that we’re united.” “Teachers College is slapping us in the face,” said Michelle Hill, who works in the TC Department of Curriculum and Teaching. “Not only do they want to cut our health benefits, a basic human right, they want to cut our pensions. We don’t make a lot of money, we stay because we love our jobs, we love the college… and our pensions let us retire with dignity.”
We want to protect what we have won over the years. BOOKER WASHINGTON Vice president, Columbia employees union Members from other unions around the city also came to the protest. Vincent Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, which represents 300 local unions and 1.3 million workers, said his organization would support Local 2110. “Institutions of higher learning should always be doing the right thing,” Alvarez said. “Attacks on healthcare, attacks on wages, attacks on pensions, is not doing the right thing.” “We will be with you as long
as it takes to get a fair contract,” he told the crowd. Democratic District Leader Marc Landis, who is running for an Upper West Side City Council seat, marched alongside employees. “Workers are entitled to a fair contract. A fair contract in a civilized society includes health care, and the proposed cutbacks in health care that the University has put on the table are not acceptable by human standards,” said Landis, whose grandfather, a labor organizer, was once arrested for union activity. “Hopefully they will understand that this is not the right thing to do and put a contract on the table that’s an acceptable contract.” “By standing up, not just standing up for members of UAW, we’re standing up for all workers,” he added. Chants of “What do we want? A contract! When do we want it? Now!” and “No contract? No peace! No contract? No peace!” echoed down Broadway during the rally. Employees made noise with bongos, whistles, and tambourines, and there was also a band, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, that specializes in rallies, marches, and demonstrations play. Dale Nelson, who works in Health Services at Columbia, said the University would have to listen to the workers. “They have no choice,” he said. “Hear all this noise? They’ll listen.”
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College sophomore Rachel Glade finds living with boys fun and practical, especially when it comes to taking out the trash and catching pests. Glade, who lives in a genderneutral suite in DuBois College House, is glad she made the decision to do so, adding that the dynamic between the boys and girls “makes it more fun.” Glade is not alone. Increasing numbers of students each year are opting to live in gender-neutral suites in the college houses. The idea began in 2003, and the University officially began to offer the option to upperclassmen in the 2005-2006 academic year. It was the first of any Ivy League school to do so. Last summer, the University also established itself as the first Ivy League school to offer gender-neutral housing to incoming freshman. The Class of 2016 is the first class to be able to apply for this type of living arrangement. The number of Penn students adopting this option has been steadily increasing since its inception. Housing Services projects around 281 students will live gender neutral in the coming academic year. This number excludes incoming freshmen and transfers, who have not yet applied for housing. The first year it was implemented in 2005, 84 students were assigned to co-ed rooms. This academic year, there are 195 students, up from 125 the year before. Gender-neutral housing has no preset number of available rooms. All buildings and rooms offer the option. Wharton sophomore Matt Gould, who lives with Glade, agrees that the living arrangement has worked out well. “It’s a pretty good balance,” he said. “When it’s just guys it gets kind of bro-y.” Other students have just applied for gender-neutral housing during this month’s housing application process. College freshman Hector Kilgoe is happy he has the opportunity to do so. “I’m just glad that it’s an option that if you have female friends and you’re a male and you want to live with them, you aren’t restricted,” he said. Similarly, College freshman Melanie White is planning to live with a male friend next year. She added, “Living off campus is complicated, on campus was more convenient.” College sophomore Mauricio Novelo said he considers the gender-neutral option “fantastic.” “It’s great that Penn can offer [gender-neutral] housing. When you apply, you say you don’t want your gender to be
a component of the application, so then you don’t have to worry about gender ideas PENN w h e n applying for housing,” Novelo said. Penn has received national attention for being a pioneer in gender-neutral housing. “We got calls from so many student newspapers,” Director of Media Relations Ronald Ozio said. “[Other] schools call us when they’re debating the issue.”
We got calls from so many student newspapers. [Other schools call us when they’re debating the issue. RONALD OZIO Director of media relations, University of Pennsylvania College junior and Lambda Alliance Vice Chair of Political Affairs Jacob Tolan applauded Penn’s efforts in working on progressive issues such as this. “Gender-neutral housing is very beneficial toward LGBT students,” he said. “I think it’s really positive in terms of thinking about gender critically in the United States. We aren’t dividing ourselves along these arbitrary lines anymore,” he added. Establishing gender-neutral housing was “never a big controversial issue here,” Ozio said. However, the same cannot be said for peer schools. Other Ivies are still developing their gender-neutral options. Yale University’s College Council — the student council body — is currently pushing to further develop the University’s gender-neutral housing. The option has been available for seniors since 20102011, and the YCC also recently led an imitative which expanded the option to juniors. Sophomores and freshmen are not currently offered the option. A survey undertaken by the YCC showed that 92.7 percent of students were supportive or indifferent of gender-neutral housing and that 67.1 percent would consider living in a gender-neutral suite, according to The Yale Daily News. Cornell University abolished their gender-neutral housing option on March 8 due to low demand, after a three-year pilot program involving 100 gender neutral suites, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.
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SAILING YALE IN FIRST AT NAVY The No. 2 Bulldogs cruised to a first place finish at the Truxton Umsted Regatta at the U.S. Naval Academy by a 28-point margin despite light winds over the weekend. Captain Cam Cullman ’13 led the singlehanded Lasers, and Joseph Morris ’12 the FJs .
MADNESS Ohio St. 73 Gonzaga 66
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ALEXANDRA FORRESTER ’13 SIXTH-PLACE AT NCAA FINALS Closing out the Women’s Swimming Diving team’s season on Friday, Alex Forrester ’13 placed sixth in the 100-yard butterfly at the NCAA finals in Auburn, Ala. Seeded No. 16, Forrester broke her personal record by almost four-tenths of a second, clocking in at 51. 93.
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The men’s basketball team’s first trip to the postseason in a decade was a short one. Despite a 13-point lead at halftime, the Bulldogs fell to Fairfield University 68–56 in the first round of the Collegeinsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday.
M. BASKETBALL PRINCETON 64, YALE 57 PENN 68, YALE 47 FAIRFIELD 68, YALE 56 The Elis went into the CIT riding a two-game losing streak. A week and a half earlier, the Bulldogs were unable to undo an early 15 point deficit and fell 64–57 at Princeton (20-11, 10-4 Ivy) on Friday, March 2. The next evening Yale could not withstand an offensive barrage from Penn (20-12, 11-3 Ivy) and Ivy League Player of the Year guard Zack Rosen on the way to a 68–47 defeat that left Yale in fourth place in the Ancient Eight. On Wednesday, eight Elis scored in the first half as Yale used a balanced attack to build a 39–26 advantage going into the break, but the Stags (20-14, 12-6 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) raced out of intermission on a 24–3 run to build a 50–42 lead. “I just thought we played harder [than Yale],” Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson said. “With all due respect to Yale… I thought they were outworking us in the first half, [but] clearly we dug deeper.” The Stags’ second half spurt began at the defensive end. Fairfield ground the Bulldogs’ attack to a halt, preventing Yale from registering a single assist after the break. Fairfield had seven second half steals. Stag guard Colin Nickerson SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B2
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All but one of the Elis’ dropped matches this season are to top-15 teams. BY JOSEPH ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTER After taking down Stony Brook and Boston University two weeks ago, the No. 21 Yale women’s tennis team (10–3, 0–0 Ivy) traveled to Miami this weekend and kept rolling against Florida International University (4–12, 0–0 Sun Belt) before the No. 12 Miami (Florida) Hurricanes (10–1, 3–0 ACC) brought the Bulldogs’ threematch winning streak to a halt.
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Although the Elis intended to play No. 20 Mississippi in Miami on March 15, that match was cancelled due to incessant rain. The cancellation deprived the Bulldogs of the opportunity to test themselves against the team one spot above them in the national rankings. Additionally, the Reb-
els boast the nation’s No. 12 player, Kristi Boxx. The rain also affected Friday’s match against FIU. Due to bad conditions throughout the morning, the doubles point was foregone to expedite the match once the courts became playable. Had the teams tied at three through their six singles matches, they would have played the doubles point. As it was, the Bulldogs emerged 4–2 winners. At Nos. 1, 3, and 4, the Bulldogs cruised to a 3–0 advantage, with Elizabeth Epstein ’13, Blair Seideman ’14 and Vicky Brook ’12, respectively, stroking their ways to straight-set wins. (Seideman is a staff photographer for the News.) Annie Sullivan ’14 closed out the Yale victory with a straight-set success of her own at No. 5. SEE W. TENNIS PAGE B2
THE MARGIN BY WHICH YALE MEN’S LACROSSE LOST TO NO. 3 CORNELL ON SATURDAY. One week earlier, Cornell had lost to No. 1 .University of Virginia in overtime by the same margin. The week before, Yale lost to No. 15 Lehigh, 11–7, and was stunned 13–12 by Sacred Heart.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS DEREK FISHER The Lakers guard, who played in 537 consecutive games and won five championships with the team, has been traded to the Houston Rockets. Fisher, 37, was selected by the Lakers as the 24th pick of the ’96 draft and played with the team for 13 of the last 16 seasons.
Men’s basketball takes fourth in Ivy League M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 led the string of larcenies, registering four in the second half on his way to a five-steal, 22-point performance. “They were able to turn us over and turn it into points,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “That was the biggest problem we had in the second half.” Jones added that playing much of the game without a true point guard hurt Yale. Starter Mike Grace ’13 was sidelined with an injury aggravated in the Princeton game, and Isaiah Salafia ’14 left the team earlier in the year for personal reasons. The only remaining true point guard on the roster, Javier Duren ’15, had played only 89 minutes all season prior to Wednesday’s contest. The Bulldogs did not go softly into the good night, however: Forward and captain Reggie Willhite’s ’12 hit a layup with 1:06 remaining, cutting the deficit to 61–56. The Stags gave life to Yale by missing seven straight free throws down the stretch before draining its final five attempts from the line to seal the game. In addition to being the last game of Yale’s 2011-’12 season, the loss was also the final game for the Class of 2012. “[My classmates] all had really good careers here,” center Greg Mangano ’12 said. “There’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it’s a tough way to go out.” Mangano added that, as captain, Willhite was the leader of the team. Willhite was named Ivy
League Defensive Player of the Year and had two steals on Wednesday to increase his Yale single season record to 65. Willhite contributed ten points, and Mangano led the Elis with 17 points and eight rebounds. The duo, which ranked first and second on the Bulldogs in scoring for the season, scored only ten points in the final half of their careers with the blue and white. “[The seniors] did a great job leading us all year,” Jones said. “I thanked them for their efforts. It’s kind of difficult at this point to reflect on everything because it comes to a crashing halt: especially when we felt so good coming into the second half.” Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
PRINCETON 64, YALE 57 PRINCE
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64
YALE
28
29
57
PENN 68, YALE 47 PENN
30
38
68
YALE
22
25
47
FAIRFIELD 68, YALE 56 FAIRFIELD
26
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YALE
39
17
56
GRAHAM HARBOE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The men’s basketball team had an early lead against Fairfield, but the Stags went on a 24-3 run in the second half and eventually took the win.
Miami snaps doubles winning streak
Quakers prove too hot for Elis BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Elis could not overcome the Ivy League defending champion when they fell to No. 9 Penn (4–1, 2–0 Ivy), 12–6, on Saturday.
W. LACROSSE PENN 12, YALE 6
GRAHAM HARBOE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The No. 21 women’s tennis team will next take on Quinnipiac on March 28 at home. The Bobcats are not nationally ranked. W. TENNIS FROM PAGE B1 Saturday brought the Elis’ most difficult test this season. The No. 12 Miami Hurricanes were in top form, having routed No. 10 Baylor on March 15. The Bulldogs could not avert their storm. “I was really impressed with Miami,” head coach Danielle McNamara said. “They were the best team we’ve played this year.” Yale players said that the Hurricanes emerged victorious by playing the big points well and coming out on top of the close matches. Although Yale possesses higherranked doubles partnerships, the Hurricanes began the match by ending Yale’s 11-match doubles winning streak. Yet several of the singles matches were tight. Sullivan continued her fine form with a win at No. 6, Seideman took a set off her opponent at No. 4 and at No. 5, Brook fell narrowly, 7–6, 6–3. The team said it took a lot of positives from its loss, particularly in advance of upcoming conference play. “Even though we lost to Miami 6–1, if we come out with that much energy, drive, and intensity, considering that we definitely had the strongest schedule this
year among the Ivies, we’ll be in a really good position,” captain Steph Kent ’12 said. Due to a debilitating virus, Kent was precluded from playing in Yale’s victory over FIU and was admittedly struggling for energy against Miami. Considering Kent’s standout performances this season when healthy — she was 11–1 going into the match — the entire team felt the effect of her illness. Now near the conclusion of its nonconference schedule, the Bulldogs stand 10–3 and have jumped significantly in the national rankings. Two of the team’s three losses came against top-ranked teams, No. 18 Michigan and No. 12 Miami, and the team notched victories over the likes of No. 19 Notre Dame. “Other than our loss to Syracuse, we only lost to top-15 teams, and we had our upset over Notre Dame, which is top-20,” Seideman said. “Our good performance in the last few months will give us the confidence we need for the Ivy League.” The Bulldogs take the court next on March 28 with a home match against Quinnipiac at 5 p.m. Contact JOSEPH ROSENBERG at joseph.rosenberg@yale.edu .
Attempts at a comeback, including a hat trick in the second half by midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15, were not enough to save Yale (2–3, 0–2 Ivy) from defeat. “Penn was a strong and dynamic team, and the loss was very tough,” defender Kallie Parchman ’14 said in an email to the News. Although students were still returning from spring recess, roughly 200 supporters showed up at Reese Stadium on the sunny St. Patrick’s Day afternoon to witness the clash of the two Ivy foes. The Elis had control of the game early in the first half. The match kicked off with attacker Sabine van der Linden’s ’14 successful draw, followed by Parchman’s saving the ground ball in its zone and rallying to the opposite zone. For the first eight minutes, the Bulldogs dominated the ball possession without allowing a single blind spot. “We got off two quality shots in our first possession, but neither found the back of the net. But working the offense and getting those shots off was a major step forward for our team,” head coach Anne Phillips said. However, the tide began to turn when the Quakers’ Meredith Cain scored the game’s first goal after a turnover. Avallone said she knew that the match against Penn was going to be difficult. “I think we are a stronger team and
capable of beating any team in the country, but at this point because we are young and developing it is a process of figuring out how to execute the game,” she said. Effective set plays seemed to be largely missing in the Bulldogs’ strategic arsenal until Avallone ignited a flicker of hope for the team in the 18th minute of play by scoring a goal shortly after her first goal was waved off. With more saves and turnovers, the first half ended 5–2 in Penn’s favor. Midfielder Reilly Foote ’15 added a goal two minutes before the end of the half. Although the Bulldogs demonstrated quick ball movement on the field, Penn — which, like Yale, is dominated by underclassman players — showed no signs of falling behind. The Bulldogs struggled to clear the ball resulting in extra possessions for the Quakers. Defender Adrienne Tarver ’14 said Penn was very poised and made smart decisions. About three minutes into the second half, Avallone penetrated the Quaker man-to-man defense and reeled off a goal to narrow the score to 5–3. Although her bold move provided a renewed thrust for the Elis to flip the match over to their favor, the Ivy defending champions promptly responded by pouring seven goals, including four consecutive ones within 10 minutes, into the Bulldogs’ net. Despite the last-minute goal set off by midfielder Christina Doherty’s ’15 assist from a turnover, Avallone’s spectacular effort was not nearly enough to turn the game around. “We played hard for 60 minutes, which was one of our goals for the game, but unfortunately we had too many turnovers and gave Penn too many chances,” Parchman said. Phillips said as the players focus on clearing the ball more effectively, they also need to attack out of their offensive schemes. She added that the players need to generate more shots and
scoring opportunities offensively. Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 and Caroline Crow ’12 each contributed one goal in the second half, bringing the Eli goal total to four for the half. But Penn ultimately came out six goals ahead after a fierce one-hour skirmish. “We have played two top-10 nationally ranked teams,” Phillips said. “I think our young team has adjusted well to the speed of the game at the highest level, but we are still struggling to execute under pressure.” She added that playing with poise under pressure is a skill that players develop through experience, and she actually sees improvement in this area. “We need to be more effective offensively and defensively under pressure,” she said. With now two losses in the Ivy League, the upcoming match against Harvard this weekend is even more important for the Elis’ standing in the Ancient Eight. Avallone said that for the future the team needs to focus more on one-onones, helping each other out in transition, and have all players be a threat on attack at all times. “The biggest challenge going into Harvard will be mentally moving past the last couple of games and starting fresh against a new team,” Tarver said. However, before facing the Crimson in New Haven, the Bulldogs have to travel to Boston this Wednesday to face Boston University to make up a game that was rescheduled from late February. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
PENN 12, YALE 6 PENN
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The women’s lacrosse team took a total of 16 shots on goal to Penn’s 25 in Saturday’s game. The Bulldogs had a total of 16 turnovers, while the Quakers had 11.
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Luke Donald is golf’s No. 1, again Winning the Transitions Championship, Luke Donald made the very apropos move to the top of the world’s golf rankings for the second time in ten months. Last May Donald earned the status by winning a playoff against Lee Westwood; this time Donald beat out Ernie Els,Jim Furyk, Robert Garrigus and Bae Sang-Moon in a fourman playoff. Donald usurps Rory McIlroy, who was No. 1 for two weeks.
Bulldogs fall in ECAC quarterfinals
S C O R E S & S TA N D I N G S
MEN’S HOCKEY IVY
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L
T
%
W L
T
%
1
Cornell
7
1
2
.800
18
8
7
.652
2
Yale
6
4
0
.600
16
16
3
.500
3
Harvard
3
3
4
.500
13
10
11
.544
4
Dartmouth
3
4
3
.450
13
16
4
.455
5
Princeton
2
5
3
.350
9
16
7
.391
6
Brown
2
6
2
.300
9
18
5
.359
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SUNDAY, MAR. 11 Harvard 8, Yale 2
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL IVY
ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 scores an empty-net goal to seal a Yale win in the first of its three-game ECAC Tournament series with Princeton. BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER Postseason play is over for the men’s hockey team this season after a shocking 8–2 loss to rival Harvard in Game 3 of the ECAC quarterfinals on March 11.
M. HOCKEY YALE 2, PRINCETON 1 HARVARD 2, YALE 1 The Bulldogs (16–16–3, 10–10–2 ECAC) fell to Harvard (13–10–11, 8–5–9) in three games and squandered their only chance at a spot in the NCAA tournament. Because the team’s regular-season record did not warrant an at-large bid, failing to capture the ECAC title kept the Elis from their only other route to reach the NCAAs. The quarterfinal matchup against Harvard was a true battle of endurance, and the Elis were not able to keep pace with the Cantabs throughout the second half of the three-game matchup. Harvard came in well-rested with a first-round bye in the tournament, whereas Yale was coming off a weekend of three games against Princeton. Still, Yale battled it out into overtime for the first two games. The Elis took the first game 2–1 and lost the second by one goal in double overtime. But by Game 3, Yale had run out of steam, and Harvard handed the team a devastating 8–2 loss to end the series. “We were so physically and emotionally invested in [Game 2] that coming to the rink the next night, I think we were just physically and mentally worn,” forward Kenny Agostino ’14 said. “We just looked like we ran out of gas that last game.”
SEASON ENDS AT HARVARD
Agostino was the hero of the opening victory with a goal about four minutes into the extra period. The New Jersey native has had a knack for clutch goals this season. Earlier in the year, Agostino gave Yale a 5–4 win over Dartmouth
by scoring with only 34 seconds remaining. He then scored in the Bulldogs’ next contest against St. Lawrence with 35 seconds remaining to tie the game at three. Agostino said a combination of luck and strong play from his teammates has led to his success late in games this season. “I’ve been fortunate to get a couple of those goals, and a lot of it is being in the right place at the right time and getting some fortunate bounces,” he said. “Also, without Jesse Root [’14] driving the net, that overtime goal [against Harvard] wouldn’t have happened, so I have to give credit to my teammates.” In Game 2, the two sides went to overtime for the second straight night. But there would be no hero for the Elis this time as Harvard defenseman Dan Ford scored halfway through the second overtime period to give the Crimson a 4–3 victory. Yale had picked up an early lead in Game 2 and was in a great position to record a 2–0 sweep and advance to the semifinals. Colin Dueck ’13 and Chad Ziegler ’12 both recorded first-period goals and put Yale ahead 2–0 after 20 minutes of play. But after holding Harvard’s No. 1 nationally ranked power play scoreless in four attempts during the first period, the Elis’ penalty kill unraveled in the second to hand the lead over to the Crimson. The Cantabs scored on three straight power plays over the course of about 25 minutes and, with about nine minutes left on the clock, took a 3–2 lead. Forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 said he noticed a different power play approach from Harvard in Game 2. “After the first game they probably adjusted and I think on the power play they were trying to take more shots from the point,” he said. “We played a more defensive and conservative style and instead of trying to pass around and make the perfect play they just put the puck on net more and it worked.” Although they were down 3–2, the Elis were not done fighting. For the second straight night, Yale
got a late, dramatic goal, but this time it was from Laganiere. The Elis had pulled goalie Nick Maricic ’13 from the net and, with 27 seconds left, the move paid off. Laganiere put in a rebound off a Clinton Bourbonais ’14 shot as he fell to the ice in the slot. The Bulldogs seemed to pick up steam in the two overtime periods and outshot the Cantabs 20–14. But Ford found the back of the net by corralling a rebound that nobody else could locate and firing the game-winner from the left circle.
“We just looked like we ran out of gas that last game.” KENNY AGOSTINO ’14 “I don’t think anyone in the building knew where it was,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said in a press release after the game. “The puck got shot into a pile and it took half a second for it to come clear. It went right to the one guy who was facing the goal.” But in the third and final game of the series, Yale was completely outskated. After grabbing a 1–0 lead early in the first period, the Elis fell apart and allowed six straight Harvard goals. Star forward Alex Killorn led the charge with two goals and two assists in that stretch. Laganiere found the net for the Bulldogs on a thirdperiod power play, but by then the game and the series were far out of reach, as Harvard ran away with an 8–2 win.
ROAD TO THE QUARTERFINALS
The Bulldogs reached the quarterfinal matchup with Harvard by registering a 2–1 series win over Princeton (9–16–7, 6–12–4) in the opening round of the tournament the weekend before. The Blue and White outscored the Tigers 15–10 at Ingalls Rink, a statistic that belies the hard-fought nature of the series. In Game 1, the Elis defended a 3–2 lead for the entire third period and barely fought off the Tigers to record a 4–2 win, with an Antoine
Laganiere ’13 empty-netter finishing off the Tigers with a minute remaining. The second game was another battle but went Princeton’s way as the Bulldogs fell just short in a 5–4 overtime loss. That game was marked by a wild third period — the Elis were down by two, but pulled back to tie the score twice with the help of three powerplay goals and one shorthanded goal. The second comeback saw Yale, down 3–1 with eight minutes remaining, tally three goals to Princeton’s one to head into overtime with the game tied 4–4. Andrew Miller ’13 scored the game-tying goal on the power play with about two minutes remaining. But the comeback effort exhausted the Elis as Andrew Calof scored for Princeton just 33 seconds into the first overtime period to send the series to Game 3. After the disappointing end to Game 2, Yale stormed back in the deciding final game and recorded a 7–3 beatdown. Anthony Day ’15 scored twice, and Laganiere recorded a hat trick to lead the Bulldogs. Agostino said Yale was confident heading into the series against Harvard following the win. “We definitely felt good after Princeton,” Agostino said. “Whenever you can get that first series out of the way, you obviously feel good going forward.” In the ECAC semifinals, Harvard went on to upset Cornell with a 6–1 victory, while Union cruised past Colgate 6–2. In the championship game, Union won its first-ever ECAC postseason championship with a thirdperiod comeback to record a 3–1 win against the Crimson. Both Union (24–7–7) and Cornell will represent the ECAC in the NCAA tournament after Cornell received an at-large bid on Sunday for its 18–8–7 record. In the opening round, Cornell will face off against No. 2 seeded Michigan while Union faces Michigan State.
YALE POWER PLAYS
GAME 1
GAME 2
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2 3
POWER PLAYS
2 9
W L
%
W L
%
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Princeton
14
0
1.000
24
5
.828
2
Harvard
10
4
.714
18
12
.600
3
Yale
8
6
.571
16
12
.571
4
Brown
7
7
.500
16
12
.571
5
Penn
6
8
.429
13
15
.464
5
Cornell
6
8
.429
12
16
.429
7
Dartmouth
4
10
.286
6
22
.214
8
Columbia
1
13
.071
3
25
.107
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SATURDAY, MAR. 3 Penn 61, Yale 58
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POWER PLAY GOALS
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SCHOOL
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L
%
W
L
%
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12
2
.857
26
5
.839
2
Penn
11
3
.786
20
12
.625
3
Princeton
10
4
.714
20
11
.645
4
Yale
9
5
.643
19
10
.655
5
Cornell
7
7
.500
12
16
.429
6
Columbia
4
10
.286
15
15
.500
7
Brown
2
12
.143
8
23
.258
8
Dartmouth
1
13
.071
5
25
.167
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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 14 Fairfield 68, Yale 56
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4
4
1
2
5
2
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W
L
%
Cornell
1
0
1.000
4
1
.800
Princeton
1
0
1.000
4
2
.667
Harvard
1
0
1.000
3
3
.500
Dartmouth
0
0
.000
2
2
.500
Brown
0
1
.000
2
3
.400
Yale
0
1
.000
2
3
.400
Penn
0
1
.000
1
4
.200
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NEXT WEEK
SATURDAY, MAR. 24 Princeton at Yale, 12:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, MAR. 17 Cornell 8, Yale 7
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TOTAL GOALS
1 4 8
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L
%
W L
%
1
Harvard
7
0
1.000
17
0
1.000
2
Yale
6
1
.857
17
2
.895
3
Penn
5
2
.714
10
4
.714
4
Princeton
4
3
.571
11
5
.688
5
Cornell
3
4
.429
12
8
.600
6
Dartmouth
2
5
.286
6
8
.429
7
Brown
1
6
.143
12
8
.600
8
Columbia
0
7
.000
7
11
.389
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GAME 3
OVERALL
WOMEN’S SQUASH
HARVARD
POWER PLAY TOTAL GOALS GOALS
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Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .
POWER PLAYS YALE/HARVARD
OVERALL
SUNDAY, MAR. 4 Individual Championship at Amherst
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“I don’t need to be a hero trying to make some scoop layup... If I see a guy open, I’m going to hit him.” DRAYMOND GREEN, MICHIGAN STATE FORWARD AFTER DEFEATING ST. LOUIS, 65-61.
No. 4 Cornell edges out Yale BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After two difficult losses to Holy Cross and Lehigh last week, the men’s lacrosse team (2–3, 0–1 Ivy) fell just short in a valiant effort against No. 4 Cornell on Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y.
M. LACROSSE CORNELL 8, YALE 7 Attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 evened the scoring at 7–7 with just under six minutes remaining in the game, but Cornell’s AllAmerican midfielder Roy Lang dodged and pinned his shot in the top right corner only 30 seconds later to put the Big Red (4–1, 1–0 Ivy) back on top. Despite several scoring opportunities, the Bulldogs could not answer and fell, 8–7, to the defending Ivy League champions. “After a tough week, we had a good week of practice, and it showed out there on the field,” captain Michael Pratt ’12 said. “We played well, but we just came up one goal short.” The Bulldog defense held the high-powered Big Red offense to its lowest scoring output of the season. Cornell’s vaunted attacking unit, which was averaging over eight goals per game going into the weekend, managed only two in the first half against the Elis. Big Red junior Connor English scored both of these goals. Defensive coordinator Ryan Polley said the key to the Elis’ defensive success was the combination of outstanding individual efforts and solid team play. “Peter Johnson ’13 was matched up against a talented freshman and held him scoreless,” Polley said. “He shook him up a little and took him out of his game. Michael McCormack ’13 also had a tough matchup and kept his man scoreless. As a team we did a nice job of playing together and containing what [Cornell] wanted to do offensively.” The Bulldogs also dominated
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The Elis’ defense was the key to their strong showing and narrow 8–7 loss against Cornell on Saturday. at the faceoff, winning 11 of 17 draws against a Cornell unit that is ranked third in the nation. Cole Yeager ’13 won five of his eight faceoffs, and Dylan Levings ’14, who is ranked ninth in the country in winning percentage, added six more of his own. The Elis got a strong performance out of goalkeeper Jack Meyer ’14, who faced a tough challenge against the nation’s topscoring offense in his second collegiate start. Meyer saved six of Cornell’s 14 shots on goal and anchored Yale’s stingy defense. After the Big Red outscored the Bulldogs 3–1 in the second quarter, Meyer made three big saves in the third period to stop Cornell’s momentum and keep Yale in the game. “We forced them to shoot from the outside, and Jack Meyer made key saves for us [on Saturday],”
Polley said. On the offensive side of the ball, the Bulldogs got two goals apiece from their three attackmen — Matt Gibson ’12, Brandon Mangan ’14 and Oberbeck. Midfielder Matt Miller ’12 opened the scoring for Yale three minutes into the first quarter on a pass from Greg Mahony ’12. Later in the period, with Cornell leading 2–1, the trio of Bulldog attackmen notched three goals in three minutes, and Yale went into the first break up 4–2. A three-minute nonreleasable illegal stick penalty gave the Big Red a major extra-man opportunity to start the second period, but Meyer made two of his six saves during that span and the Elis kept Cornell off the scoreboard. Later, in the third period, the Bulldogs had to kill another nonreleasable penalty after long-stick midfielder
Jimmy Craft ‘14 was flagged for an illegal body check. Yale was a man down on defense for two minutes this time but once again held the Big Red man-up team scoreless. Overall, Cornell was held to a single extra-man goal during seven minutes of Yale penalties. Polley said the Bulldogs’ effective man-down play was a feature of the defense’s strong showing on Saturday. Shortly after Yale’s illegal stick penalty expired, English capitalized on the exhausted Bulldog defense for his second tally of the game. Less than a minute later, the Big Red scored its only extraman goal of the game to equalize at 4–4. The teams battled back and forth for the rest of the way, but neither was able to pull away. When the Elis took a 5–4 lead, Cornell answered to knot the score
at five going into the half. Twice during the second half, the Big Red took the lead only to have the Bulldogs respond with a goal of their own. Lang’s goal put Cornell up 8–7, and Yale won the faceoff. After a patient offensive possession, Oberbeck’s shot bounced off the post and away from goal. The Elis got another chance to tie the game in the final minute, but Gibson’s shot missed wide, and the clock ran out before the Bulldog’s could get another shot. Cornell played its third consecutive game without star attackman Rob Pannell, the reigning national player of the year. But the Big Red were still able to force overtime against No. 1 Virginia in last Saturday’s game before losing by one. Cornell lost to the nation’s best team by the same narrow margin, 8–7, by which Yale fell to Cornell.
The Bulldogs go on to play Princeton on Saturday at noon at Reese Stadium. Pratt said the matchup will be a close contest. “Princeton’s a tough team, all the team’s in this league are tough,” Pratt said. “We just have to learn from our mistakes and keep playing with the same effort and intensity that we had this week and I think we’ll be fine.” The No. 14 Tigers opened their season Saturday with an 11–4 win over Penn. Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .
CORNELL 8, YALE 7 CORNELL
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3
1
2
8
YALE
4
1
1
1
7
Baseball leads off season BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Baseball is a game of inches, a fact that has dominated the beginning of Yale’s season.
BASEBALL STONY BROOK 3, YALE 1 Six of the Bulldogs’ first 15 games have been decided by a one-run margin, with Yale (4–10–1, 0–0 Ivy) dropping four of those contests. “We’ve certainly been in all of those games,” second baseman David Toups ’15 said. “We’ve been playing hard. It just hasn’t gone our way. If we keep playing that way, things will turn around.” In Saturday’s home-opening doubleheader, the Elis split with Stony Brook University (11–6, 0–0 American East), losing 2–1 in 11 innings before shutting out the Seawolves 1–0 in seven innings. In the first game of the doubleheader, the game was even closer than the score. Pitcher Pat Ludwig ’12 threw eight and twothirds scoreless innings, but Yale could not score, so the game went into extra innings, in which Stony Brook pushed a run across in the top of the 10th. Outfielder Charlie Neil ’12 knotted the score at one apiece with a line drive just past the outstretched glove of diving Stony Brook second baseman Max Tissenbaum. The Elis almost won the game on a flyout by Chris Piwinski ’13, but third baseman Green Campbell ’15 was called out at the plate attempting to score the winning run. The Seawolves then got the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th when infielder Cole Peragine’s single barely escaped through the hole on the secondbase side. Southpaw Rob Cerfolio ’14
pitched a gem of his own, tossing five scoreless innings in the second game. Yale was outhit 10 to one by Stony Brook, but Toups came through with a two-out single in the bottom of the sixth to give Yale the 1–0 advantage. Eric Shultz ’12 shut the Seawolves down in the final two frames to earn his first win of the season. Although most of Yale’s games have been close, the season got off to a rocky start when the Bulldogs visited Virginia Tech (15–6, 2–4 ACC) March 3-4. The Hokies won by 10 or more runs in three of the four games, although the first game in the March 4 doubleheader saw the two teams tied heading into the bottom of the ninth before Tech centerfielder Andrew Rash hit a walk-off home run to beat the Elis 6–5.
We’ve been playing hard. It just hasn’t gone our way. If we keep playing that way, things will turn around. DAVID TOUPS ’15 Second baseman, baseball “You schedule those games with big time teams like that to see that you cannot make a mistake,” pitcher and first baseman Kevin Fortunato ’14 said. “At that level if you make a mistake, it’s going to be a hit. They’re going to take advantage of it. [Virginia Tech] had a lot more games under their belts, but still it’s a very disappointing outcome.” The Bulldogs then traveled south to Florida, where they found more success. Yale notched its first victory of the season 3–2 against Georgetown in the RussMatt Invitational
STONY BROOK 2, YALE 1
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The Bulldogs got their season well under way over the spring recess, playing a total of 15 games for a 4-10-1 record. Ivy League play starts with Columbia on March 31. in Winter Haven, Fla. on March 7. The Bulldogs also beat Bowling Green University and Lafayette University on the Florida trip and the efforts of individual Elis gained recognition. Fortunato was named Ivy League Player of the Week and Toups was honored as Freshman
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of the Week on March 13. Fortunato hit .450 for the week with three doubles and the team’s lone homer of the year in addition to two saves as the closer. Toups hit .474 with three runs scored and two more batted in. Toups was not the only freshman who has played a major role
on the Bulldogs thus far. Pitchers Eric Hsieh ’15 and Ben Joseph ’15 have made starts for the Elis, and Green Campbell ’15 has seen time at third base as well as on the mound. “[The freshmen] are going to get a shot to play right away,” captain and catcher Ryan Brenner
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’12 said. “All of them are going to have to contribute.” The Elis will take the field next at the University of Connecticut at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
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