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Boston students recount shutdown

Race heats up with debate

Top scientist. Sterling Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Thomas Steitz has been awarded the 2013 Connecticut Medal of Science, the state’s top prize for technological achievement related to economic development.

Steitz won a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2009 and is best known for his research on ribosomal proteins.

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Another provost to president.

Princeton University announced that its provost, Christopher Eisgruber, will assume leadership of the school in the fall. The choice marks the end of the third Ivy League presidential search this year — as well as the third selection of a provost — following November appointments of Provost Peter Salovey and University of Michigan Provost Philip Hanlon to the presidencies of Yale and Dartmouth College, respectively.

Boola boola! The Yale women’s water polo team won the North Atlantic Division water polo championship on Sunday, beating out Boston University 11–8. Looks like Bulldogs are better swimmers than terriers.

Questionable. A five-year study performed on premature babies has been deemed unethical by the Public Citizen Health Research Group. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was led by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham along with 22 other medical centers across the nation, including the Yale School of Medicine.

In the study, 1,300 premature babies enrolled as subjects were randomly divided into two groups: The first received high levels of oxygen exposure, while the second received low levels of oxygen exposure.

Improvising. After Harvard

canceled its admissions weekend “Visitas” as law enforcement officers hunted for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the university decided to improvise instead. Over the weekend, Harvard used the Twitter hashtag #virtualvisitas to reach out to prospective students, and administrators are considering extending the date for accepted students to reply to their offers of admission.

ing funds of up to $125,000.

Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, who is the current CEO of the consulting group Fernandez Advisors and the former New Haven economic development administrator, has said he will not participate in the Democracy fund. And Matthew Nemerson, the president and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council and former pres-

Boston College freshman Evan Goldstein stayed up until 4 in the morning watching the news Thursday night. When he awoke four hours later, both his college and the city of Boston were effectively closed.

Beginning Thursday night, as the nation followed the manhunt for the suspects in last Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon, students at the 53 institutions of higher education in and around Boston experienced the news in real time. Largely confined to their dormitories or houses, students relied on communication from their respective universities, network news and social media to learn what was happening during the unprecedented shutdown of a major metropolitan area.

“The nature of the situation was that it was very fluid and characterized by uncertainty,” Goldstein said. “There were so many questions unanswered [on Friday] that it was difficult to know how to feel about the way things were unfolding.”

Shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick issued a “shelter-in-place” order to residents in towns throughout the Boston metropolitan area.

By that point, police were continuing a manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second sus-

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Campaign finance was a central issue in the New Haven mayoral debate in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Saturday.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER The stage in Linsly-Chittenden Hall was crowded Saturday afternoon when the five men vying to become New Haven’s next mayor squared off in the first public debate of the election season.

Among the officially announced candidates, one issue emerged as clearly dividing the rapidly crystalliz-

ing field — campaign finance. Over the last few weeks, the men have already made different choices about how to finance their campaigns, with Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Connecticut state Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield and plumber Sundiata Keitazulu having signed onto the Democracy Fund, the city’s public campaign finance system that limits individual donations to $370 in return for a $19,000 grant and match-

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Singaporean college to test a new curriculum

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he inaugural Yale-NUS Curriculum Committee issued a report earlier this month detailing its plans for the Singaporean college’s curriculum and situating Yale-NUS in global educational trends. University President Richard Levin called the statement a “seminal document” for the liberal arts, but can the report stand the test of time and the scrutiny of the Singaporean venture’s critics? ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA reports.

Remembering the past.

Architect Maya Lin ’81 ARC ’86, who designed the Women’s Table in front of Sterling Memorial Library, appeared on “60 Minutes” over the weekend to discuss historical memory. Lin serves as a jurist for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition as the country decides how to memorialize those killed on 9/11.

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1963 Funeral services for University President A. Whitney Griswold are held in Battell Chapel this afternoon.

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On top of founding a new liberal arts college, Yale-NUS administrators are calling for a reevaluation of the liberal arts in general.

After 10 months of deliberation, the Singaporean college’s inaugural Curriculum Committee released a 90-page report on April 4 detailing the final version of the curriculum to be implemented at the college Yale is establishing with the National University of Singapore. But the report’s content ventured far beyond details of the liberal arts college’s academic curriculum to address the nature of liberal arts education in Southeast Asia and

the United States more broadly.

University President Richard Levin called the curriculum report a “seminal document” for contemporary liberal arts education.

“It is a profoundly powerful document that articulates the case for liberal education in the 21st century better than any other document I’ve seen so far,” Levin said. “It not only outlines the curriculum, but also gives the rationale for many different aspects of that curriculum. The question now is, can we deliver, SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6

All College Storage partners with Yale

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER This May, students will have yet another summer storage option.

Starting this summer, Yale has partnered with All College Storage, a third-party college storage service that picks up students’ boxed belongings from their rooms, stores them during the summer and returns them in the fall. Although Yale College administrators endorsed All College Storage, students who work with the service said, the Yale College Council has separately partnered with Boomerang Storage, a similar company, said Rachel Tobin ’15, a YCC member.

Kevin Michalak ’15, Conner Lachenbruch ’15, Peter Ambiel ’15 and Yaser Mahmoud ’15 are All College Storage’s Yale representatives, publicizing the company’s offerings and responding to customer service requests. Michalak and Parker Holcomb, an Amherst graduate who created All College Storage, approached various Yale administrators earlier this year to establish the partnership, which they said addresses logistical difficulties surrounding summer storage.

All College Storage provides students with as many boxes as they would like, and is generally cheaper than the YCC’s partner organization, Boomerang Storage, which operates on a similar storage model.

Holcomb said Yale’s student liaisons can respond more directly to questions or concerns because they know the

“lifeblood of the school.”

“We run extremely efficiently,” Holcomb said. “I always say we’re student-run, professionally done.”

Holcomb said All College Storage did not have enough time to coordinate with the YCC, and Michalak said that they worked with John Meeske, dean of student organizations and physical resources, and Associated Student Agencies staff to create the Yale partnership. Still, Holcomb and Michalak both said they hope to partner with the YCC in future years, and Holcomb added that he has already discussed the possibility of working with the council next year.

We run extremely efficiently. I always say we’re student-run, professionally done.

PARKER HOLCOMB Founder, All College Storage In a Friday email to the News and to several YCC members, YCC President-elect Danny Avraham ’15 instructed other members of the council not to comment further on the council’s storage offerings.

Holcomb said his company differentiates itself from competitors through its userfriendly online platform, superior customer service and a SEE STORAGE PAGE 4

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Do not fall silent on sexual climate

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In October 2010, members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity chanted on Old Campus. University President Richard Levin and Yale College Dean Mary Miller responded with a strongly worded statement, and the Executive Committee sanctioned the fraternity with a five-year ban on campus activity.

In March 2011, a group of students and alumni filed a Title IX complaint against Yale. The University responded by developing the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate — whose report recommended increased administrator training in sexual misconduct issues and expanding the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center.

But still, students deal with sexual violence, harassment and its repercussions on this campus. Their stories, many of which involve individual experiences with Yale’s resources, do not receive media attention or national scrutiny.

We see a pattern: one of an administration that has been hesitant to prioritize issues of sexual climate until those issues pose a publicity problem. If we are to reform Yale’s sexual climate — specifically its response to sexual assault — we need to continue the conversation even when the spotlight turns away from our campus.

When he takes office in June, we hope Presidentelect Peter Salovey will choose to speak out on issues of sexual climate without provocation. We hope he will commit to becoming a leader among university presidents in standing for solutions to the problems of sexual assault response that face university campuses nationwide: a lack of student confidence in the processes that administrators have developed.

Salovey already has some

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of the tools necessary to begin this conversation.

In April 2011, as provost, he announced the formation of the University-wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct to streamline campus resources. Later that year, President Levin committed Yale’s administration to regularly appraising campus sexual climate after the advisory committee’s report. Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler was appointed to oversee Yale’s Title IX compliance.

But the Salovey administration must acknowledge that reforming Yale’s sexual climate cannot occur in disjointed and disparate steps. Waiting until disaster strikes to address issues of sexual culture undercuts the importance of these reforms on our own campus, creating the perception that they are not a priority. Salovey must replace reaction with a proactive strategy — acknowledging that we have not yet found the answer. He must incorporate an active student voice into our search for solutions.

Students are ready and waiting to speak.

We will know we have found success when we no longer hear stories — trickling around from friend group to friend group — about a system that many believe silences students, rather than reaches resolutions. We will know Yale is serving students when they have faith that their claims will be handled rapidly and responsibly. And our administrators must examine their dual role as advocates for students and representatives of the University, and take care not to undermine the trust students place in them.

We imagine this is not the situation Salovey is most eager to tackle as he begins his tenure. But he cannot allow silence to fall on our sexual climate at Yale.

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A constant conversation T

his is my 53rd — and last — column for the Yale Daily News.

When I first took to these pages, I never intended to make it a habit.

Three years ago, I wrote about the New Haven Promise program, then recently announced by University President Richard Levin, and the flaws inherent in Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s school reform.

I had written because I cared about the issues — I cared as a lifelong New Haven resident worried about his city and as a Yalie worried for his alma mater.

For the next 51 columns, I always tried to write about what I believed.

As Yale students, we possess a unique opportunity: For four years, we have the luxury to engage in a constant conversation. In my particular case, I chose the News as the home for that conversation. But classrooms, dining halls, Cross Campus — these are just some of the many other forums for our dialogue. It is our privilege to debate one another and to champion the causes we think are important.

At the core of this privilege lies an argument: that ideas matter — that the conversation at Yale can NATHANIEL have a ripple beyond ZELINSKY effect the academy’s walls. And it’s On Point an expensive proposition; society spends an awful lot to send us here.

On occasion, it can seem our community falls short of the price tag. Sometimes, we are afraid of offending each other and so we self-censor. In my three years as a columnist, I learned that there were some topics I just couldn’t touch. And issues I did care about and wrote about landed me in hot water, even with my closest friends. We all know we can be more “successful” by staying within the boundaries.

At other times, we are just downright apathetic. A case in point: I have never engaged in a

protest at Yale. If I had to guess, most of my peers haven’t either.

Sure, some student groups attempt to “raise awareness” by passing out fliers. But when was the last time you participated in raucous rally for something you really cared about?

On the whole though, despite these occasional hiccups, Yale works. We buy into the proposition that what we study, what we write and what we say can impact our society. And — most crucially — we generally, in one way or another, end up standing for something.

As I prepare to leave Yale, I have been asking myself: What did I stand for? In these pages, I have defended all forms of free expression — from the boorish DKE chants of 2010 to Sex Week. I have advocated for intellectual diversity — the notion that all ideas, especially dissenting ones, contain value. I have consistently argued that our culture impacts our academics, and that we must critically re-evaluate both.

It is easier to take stances at Yale, in part because our com-

munity is one endless conversation. And it is also our responsibility, precisely because it is easier, to take these stances. As my peers and I graduate, we will enter a world where standing for our values becomes increasingly difficult.

After all, who talks politics at the workplace? So to those who will remain in the academy: Make use of your privilege and make your convictions known.

But our obligation to ideas and to our values does not simply end when we leave Yale. It may get harder to write an op-ed or speak out about our beliefs, but the issues are no less important. Our job is to take the Yale we love, that constant conversation, and transplant it into wherever we live — to be sources of “light and truth” in our future communities. I hope that I will, and I hope that you will.

To my editors, to my readers: Thank you.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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his spring break, I travelled to Claremont, Calif., to visit two of my best friends. Both were graduating seniors; one went to Pomona, the other attended Claremont McKenna College. I had an absolute blast — my friends took me to the Huntington Gardens in San Marino, the gorgeous beaches of Santa Monica and finally, to satisfy my inner tourist, Hollywood.

As I lay on the soft grasses of the Pomona Quad, bathing in the warm Californian sun, I thought of what life would be like if I had gone to school with my friends in Claremont.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not talking about transferring.

Although I certainly didn’t miss the New Haven winter (my original flight to California was canceled due to a blizzard — in midMarch!), I wouldn’t give up my Yale education for anything. I’ve forged too many precious friendships, spent too many unforgettable nights reading D.S. books and even more unforgettable nights not reading them when I should have. I’ve lived too happily and grown too much at Yale to ever consider getting my bachelor’s degree from a different school.

However, I would have appreciated the opportunity to exchange at the Claremont Colleges for a semester. Besides the beautiful weather and unbelievable fruit

selection in the dining halls, I wanted to study at Claremont because it offered academic opportunities that were simply XIUYI unavailable at ZHENG Yale.

For my conProperce n t ra t i o n in my major, gandist Ethics, Politics and Economics, I wanted to study contemporary Chinese society and politics. Unfortunately, Yale is surprisingly weak in this field.

I know of few experts on modern China in the Political Science and East Asian Studies departments.

Deborah Davis, a well-known sociologist who focuses on China, did not teach a class this past year, and apparently will be on leave next spring when I plan on writing my senior thesis.

On the other hand, Claremont McKenna College boasts Minxin Pei, one of the pre-eminent China scholars in American academia today. I had read many of his works before my trip to Claremont, and was fortunate enough to sit in on his “Chinese Politics” seminar.

After class, I had dinner with him along with my friends, both his former students, when I was again impressed by his charisma and

piercing intellect. I have no doubt that I would have gone a long way towards fulfilling my concentration had I spent a semester at CMC and studied under Pei. Although we like to think that Yale has everything that any Yalie could ever want, I’m sure I’m not the only one that would have benefitted from an opportunity to study at another domestic institution. Yet strangely, while Yale encourages its students to study abroad, for which it offers full financial support, it offers no established domestic exchange program.

When I went to the Registrar’s Office and my DUS to inquire about the possibility of setting up a domestic exchange program last fall, I was told that not only did I have to contact CMC on my own, I had to take a semester off from Yale, and there was no possibility of receiving financial aid. The lack of financial support in particular was an instant deal breaker. If Yale pays us for to go to Barcelona and London and Tokyo, why wouldn’t it help us spend a semester at MIT or RISD? One easy answer would be that Yale doesn’t want to pay its students to go to rival institutions. Yet it could easily solve that problem by imposing a limit on the number of credits one can transfer — if a full year is too much, a semester would be good enough.

There are obvious logistical concerns, too. Any agreement to send Yalies to another college would necessarily involve taking on students from that school. The prospect of accommodating hundreds of exchange students, all of whom will settle for no less than the bona fide Yale experience, certainly sounds daunting enough.

However, domestic exchange programs are not unrealistic.

The National Student Exchange coordinates exchange programs between close to 200 schools in the U.S. and Canada, mostly large universities. Dartmouth, another Ivy, offers exchange programs at Stanford, Spelman and Morehouse, as well as to 11 other liberal arts colleges through the TwelveCollege Exchange Program.

Our Yale educations will not be compromised by a semester or a year at another American university. Rather, by creating domestic exchange programs, Yale will go further in encouraging its students to pursue diverse experiences and academic excellence.

Although it’s already too late for me to study at CMC, I hope Yalies will be able to exchange at Claremont in the future, and not just for the weather.

XIUYI ZHENG is a junior in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at xiuyi.zheng@yale.edu.

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Lecturer may file employment suit

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Natasa Mateljevic GRD ’07, a physics lecturer and former graduate student who filed a lawsuit against the University for failing to provide adequate security and sexual misconduct resources, is considering suing Yale for wrongful termination as well.

While Mateljevic was working toward her doctorate in chemistry at the Graduate School between 2002 and 2004, she was repeatedly raped and assaulted by her former boyfriend Rafael Crespo Jr., who was convicted in 2006 of assault in the third degree and two counts of sexual assault in the first degree.

Mateljevic filed a complaint in March claiming that the University did not provide her with adequate security services and did not effectively educate her on possible crime reporting mechanisms. Mateljevic previously filed an anonymous civil suit of negligence against the University in 2006, which was dismissed in March 2012 because the “plaintiff did not follow the procedure,” according to the motion of dismissal. Now, Mateljevic’s lawyer said he and Mateljevic are currently deciding whether to file a wrongfultermination suit against the University alleging that Yale dismissed Mateljevic from her employment or reduced her salary or range of responsibilities due to her filing the original 2006 lawsuit.

University spokesman Tom Conroy said her claims are baseless, adding that Mateljevic remains a lecturer in the Physics Department.

Michael Luzzi ’85, Mateljevic’s attorney, declined to state explicitly whether the University has officially terminated Mateljevic, but said she has received income from the University this spring.

Mateljevic is still listed in the Yale directory as a physics lecturer, though she does not teach any classes and has been removed from the Physics Department website.

“Our position is that Yale dealt extremely unfairly and unequally with respect to my client’s employment,” Luzzi said.

Mateljevic has been an

instructor in the Physics Department since June 2008 and independently taught her first full course, “University Physics” or Physics 180, in fall 2012.

Mateljevic’s two former teaching assistants and four former students said students were frustrated with her lack of teaching experience, heavy reliance on PowerPoints and ineffective communication.

On Oct. 1, Mateljevic arrived 20 minutes late for the course’s first midterm and had not prepared enough exam copies for all students, said former student Vanessa Yuan ’15, who dropped the course shortly after and contacted the DUS. Former teaching assistant Xin Li GRD ’17 said students performed poorly, averaging in the 60-percent range.

Following the first midterm, students and TAs said Physics Department Chair Meg Urry sat in on the course regularly, as often as once a week, and sometimes took part in teaching. The TAs also began attending the class regularly, Johnathan Yao ’15 said, and the environment felt “tense.”

Mateljevic’s course was an experimental offering that combined aspects of lectures and seminars for the first time, and both students and teaching assistants said the new course structure may have contributed to the negative reviews Mateljevic received.

Luzzi said a number of current and former Yale employees have offered to testify on the plaintiff’s behalf because they believe she is right in her case, but declined to disclose employees’ names.

In both her original 2006 suit and her recent March lawsuit, Mateljevic alleged she notified University members, such as peers and faculty, that Crespo posed a danger to her in stalking, harassing and assaulting her, but that the University did not respond in an appropriate, timely manner. Luzzi said Mateljevic decided to file a suit in March without using a pseudonym because she was finally ready to come forward publicly.

Mateljevic’s most recent negligent security lawsuit was filed on March 14.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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Amount that will be spent in the upcoming fiscal year by the state of Connecticut Amount that will be spent in the 2014–’15 fiscal year Spending cut to acute-care hospitals

Increased funding to state universities

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The Connecticut Legislature’s newly unveiled budget proposal matches the spending levels put forward by Gov. Dannel Malloy in February.

BY MONICA DISARE AND MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTERS After passing historic gun-control legislation just over two weeks ago, the Connecticut Legislature turned its attention to the state budget on Friday, unveiling its biennial budget proposal.

The proposal matches the spending level sought by Gov. Dannel Malloy, but diverges from the governor’s suggestions on many of the details.

The Democratic-controlled Appropriations Committee passed a budget in a vote along party lines that would spend $21.5 billion in the next fiscal year and $22.4 billion in 2014–’15, roughly equivalent to the numbers Malloy put forward in his February budget proposal. The committee maintained Malloy’s controversial plan to reduce spending in Connecticut’s 29 acute-care hospitals by $550 million. But they reversed the governor’s proposal to shed responsibility for paying employees of the state university system, awarding the university system a $14.7 million budget increase over the next two years.

“From my perspective of having been on the Appropriations Committee for years, this was one of the most difficult budgets that I’ve had to anticipate,” said Sen. Toni Harp, D-New Haven, the cochairman of the Appropriations Committee. “We’ve had a lot of tough choices that we’ve had to make.”

The committee, which was given a maximum spending limit from the governor, decided making significant cuts to hospital spending was the best option to meet the target, Harp said. Nonetheless, she said the committee recognizes the importance of keeping hospitals open.

“Yale-New Haven is one of the biggest employers in the state, and I wouldn’t want to do anything to force them to have to lay off their lower-paid staff, so I’m a little bit concerned,” Harp said.

Having been on the Appropriations Committee for years, this was one of the most difficult budgets that I’ve had to anticipate.

TONI HARP Co-chairman, Appropriations Committee While Connecticut Democrats bemoaned the cuts, Republicans said the budget should have cut more. Republicans expressed concern about the increase in the deficit that the budget will produce and the nearly $1 billion that the budget proposes to borrow to cover the government’s operating costs.

“This budget is the byproduct of the failed policies of Gov. Malloy, specifically the deal struck with state unions.

It is very clear the Democrats have chosen the public sector and government class over helping the private sector grow jobs,” House Republican Leader Larry Cafero said in a statement. “There was no effort to reduce government — they simply spend, tax and borrow more.”

Republican Sen. Rob Kane was similarly disappointed with the budget. He said the committee’s proposal exceeds the governor’s budget by $49 million and called for the need to “right this fiscal track we’re on.” He added that there are many places the government could cut spending, for example, in early childhood education programs.

Ben Barnes, the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management secretary, released a statement supporting most of the proposed budget. Barnes said that while the Legislature and the state administration agree on much of the budget, there are significant issues in education reform and economic development that need to be resolved.

The Legislature will now enter into negotiations with the Malloy administration to reach an agreement.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu. Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

YaleWomen conference unites alumnae

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 told a ballroom packed with around 425 women about her grueling work ethic, the importance of not being limited by personal circumstance and even her occasional feelings of inadequacy despite her successes.

Attendees of the YaleWomen Conference titled “Vision, Values, Voice: Women Changing a Changing World” spent Friday and Saturday attending panels made up of Yale alumnae, faculty and World Fellows, designed to bring female Yale graduates together.

After convening in Washington, D.C., on Friday night, the attendees woke up on Saturday morning for a conversation between keynote speaker Sotomayor and Margaret Warner ’71, a senior correspondent for the “PBS NewsHour.”

“It really resonated with the women in the audience, which is fascinating,” said panelist Joanne Lipman ’83, a journalist.

“You’re in a room of hundreds of incredibly accomplished women, and they’re all nodding along with the Supreme Court justice about these feelings of insecurity she had.”

Attendees and panelists interviewed said this sense of shared experience, along with a shared motivation to act on women’s issues, continued during a series of panels for the rest of the afternoon.

Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, spoke during the Saturday lunch about defining success not only by money and power but also by a third metric based upon well-being, she told the News in a Sunday email.

This measure of success includes the ability to “unplug” and find joy in life, she added, and it is up to women to lead the charge to adopt this mindset in the workplace. Her speech followed a talk by President-elect Peter Salovey — one of a handful of men at the conference — who called Huffington’s thoughts “brilliantly funny and quite compelling” in a Sunday email.

“Beyond bringing women together to

reconnect with each other, we wanted to shine a bright light on what women, especially Yale women, are doing to change the world,” said Amy Bevilacqua SOM ’97, secretary and rising vice chair of YaleWomen who helped organize the event. “Our hope was that we would encourage women to ignite a light in their own communities, whatever that means for any individual.”

We wanted to shine a bright light on what women, especially Yale women, are doing to change the world.

AMY BEVILACQUA SOM ’97 Secretary, YaleWomen The conference gained national attention in early February when a few Yale alumnae said they disapproved of the conference’s PepsiCo sponsorship in a Feb. 6 New York Times article. But Bevilacqua called PepsiCo a “terrific partner” for providing substantial monetary support but not becoming involved in the programming whatsoever. She declined to comment on how much money the company donated.

PepsiCo Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi SOM ’80 serves as a fellow of the Yale Corporation and did not attend the conference this weekend.

Since the stir in early February, the YaleWomen organization has not received further criticism, Bevilacqua added.

Kathy Edersheim ’87, who sits on an advisory board called the University Council that communicates with senior Yale administrators, moderated a panel about building a civil society. She said that running the conference out of Yale in particular cultivated a sense of strength among the women for having the University behind their discussions and future efforts.

“People left energized, happy and asking what’s next in terms of how to volun-

teer,” said Eve Rice ’73, the president of the University Council and a member of YaleWomen.

YaleWomen, founded in 2010, cohosted the event with the Yale World Fellows and the Association of Yale Alumni.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

SCHEDULE EXCERP TS FROM CONFERENCE “A CONVERSATION WITH JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR”

Keynote: Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 Interviewer: Margaret Warner ’71 “TODAY’S GIRLS, TOMORROW’S WOMEN”

Panelists: Orzala Ashraf Nemat, World Fellow Anna Maria Chávez ’90 Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86 Ann V. Klotz ’82 Moderator: Scyatta Wallace ’96 “WOMEN ON CAMPUS: WHY GENDER STILL MATTERS”

Panelists: Inderpal Grewal Jo Handelsman Priyamvada Natarajan Patricia Russo Moderator: Susan Lennon SOM ’85 LUNCH SPEAKER

Introduction: Eve Hart Rice ’73 Speaker: Arianna Huffington “COURTING JUSTICE: WHAT DOES EQUAL MEAN?”

Panelists: Margaret H. Marshall LAW ’76 Judith Resnik Deborah L. Rhode ’74 LAW ’77 Moderator: Ellen Gibson McGinnis ’82

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Of 11 students interviewed Sunday, only two said they would use a summer storage company like All College Storage this year.

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Evan Linck ’15 said he will have to use a storage company rather than resorting to residential college space this year because he has too many belongings. Still, he said he will not use All College Storage because the prices are too expensive.

Mitchell Jones ’16 said he is using a storage unit this summer instead of All College Storage. While Jones said the company has a good business model, he added that “the prices are def-

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initely a rip-off.”

“It’s great if you have no other way of getting to and from a storage unit,” Jones said.

Founded in 2008, All College Storage now operates at 16 universities and six boarding schools, and also offers shipping services through FedEx Ground.

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ident of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce who entered the race last Wednesday, said he would only opt into public financing if all candidates do so.

In defending their decisions, Fernandez and Nemerson said their leadership capacities override fundraising decisions, downplaying public concern over their abstention from the Fund.

“It really doesn’t matter how we collect money,” Nemerson said to audible disapproval from the crowd. The lecture hall was filled to near capacity, with an audience of over 120 that included Yale students as well as a sprinkling of city residents.

Elicker and Holder-Winfield had strongly worded responses, with Elicker insisting on money’s corrupting power in politics and Holder-Winfield underscoring the democratizing effect of public money, which he said ensures someone with only $10 “gets to have some say in an election.”

In answer to Nemerson’s claim that money does not influence city elections as it does federal elections, Elicker pointed to the example of what he described as cronyism in hiring practices and contract agreements under the 20-year tenure of Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Fernandez’s response was to highlight his experience as the economic development administrator under DeStefano, which he said gave him hands-on experience rooting out corruption.

“I do want to say I support [the Democracy Fund] because it does allow for a lot more people to run,” Fernandez said, acknowledging flack he has received for eschewing public money. “But I’m not using taxpayers’ dollars to pay for my campaign. I’m able to raise funds without doing so.”

Meanwhile, Nemerson attempted to assuage concerns about the power of large private donors by explaining his decision to hire an independent “finance ombudsman” — former Beaver Hills Alderman Edwin Van Selden — tasked with overseeing the campaign’s finances to ensure transparency. Nemerson also promised to publicize donor lists on his campaign website every 48 hours.

Elicker dismissed those measures as piecemeal and already mandated by election law.

Keitazulu made an emotional appeal for the Democracy Fund, saying his campaign is “strapped” and depends on public financing.

A sixth likely candidate for mayor, Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina, attended the debate but did not participate because he is still in the “exploratory phase” of his campaign. Carolina, who has already announced he would use the Democracy Fund should he run, said after the debate that he will decide about a candidacy by the end of the month.

The candidates were asked a total of seven other questions and rose from their seats at the beginning and end of the debate to deliver twominute opening and closing statements. Topics ranged from economic development and job growth to education reform, both of which have emerged as core campaign issues. The candidates were light on specifics in responding to a question from the Black Student Alliance at Yale about the difficulty of financing

city programs given the number of tax-exempt properties in New Haven. While all candidates emphasized growing the tax base by attracting more residents to the Elm City, Elicker mentioned the idea of “participatory budgeting” that would give greater financial control to individual neighborhoods, and Nemerson said the state needs to fully fund PILOT, a system in which the state compensates local municipalities for lost tax revenue. Keitazulu reiterated his campaign’s central promise: job growth.

In response to a question on immigration reform, Holder-Winfield, who is black, emphasized his own racial background in explaining his commitment to the issue.

While Elicker used the question as an opportunity to speak Spanish, Fernandez noted that he is a board member at Junta for Progressive Action and has led rallies for immigrant rights.

Aside from the exchange over public campaign financing, the tone of the debate was amiable, with candidates often reiterating one another’s ideas and lauding progress under DeStefano, particularly on downtown growth and immigration.

I support [the Democracy Fund] because it does allow for a lot more people to run. But I’m not using taxpayers’ dollars to pay for my campaign.

HENRY FERNANDEZ LAW ’94 Mayoral candidate, New Haven Notably, the candidates were not asked about crime, though most have highlighted safety measures — with a focus on community policing — as central to their campaigns. After the debate, both Holder-Winfield and Fernandez said they were “struck” crime did not come up. Nemerson de-emphasized crime, saying it was a “symptom” of larger issues of joblessness and economic stagnancy.

Though policy distinctions have yet to crystallize, Fernandez said the differences among the candidates come down to experience.

He and Holder-Winfield emphasized their involvement in the city as community activists but also their broader political experience.

Elicker has been adamant that his extensive neighborhood involvement best qualifies him for mayor, remarking on the “dirt under [his] fingernails” in his closing remarks.

Audience members interviewed were reticent to declare a winner. Gladys DeYoung, who works as a social worker in Beaver Hill, said she thought Holder-Winfield and Fernandez performed best. Carlton Mosley ’15 also said Fernandez was strong, and added he was leaning toward Fernandez after meeting him at a Yale Black Men’s Union event this spring. Several other students declined to comment.

The Democratic primary will be held on Sept. 10.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, now both in their 80s, have been making films together since 1954. The two take turns directing alternate scenes. Their most recent film, “Cesare Deve Morire,” is their 22nd collaboration.

Murphy throws support to Islas

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER New Haven resident Josemaria Islas received a major show of support from Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy one week before he is required to report to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Hartford, where he may be detained for deportation.

In a letter addressed to ICE Director John Morton, Murphy requested that ICE grant Islas a stay of removal, which would allow the Mexican native to remain in the country for the time being.

Murphy cited pending federal immigration reform, which could significantly change Islas’ legal status in the United States, as a reason not to deport him.

Drawing on the same arguments that other advocates for Islas have vocalized over the past several months, Murphy also pointed to Islas’ family, his involvement in the New Haven community and his acquittal in the robbery with which he was originally charged when first arrested last July.

“Given that Congress is actively drafting immigration reform legislation from which Mr. Islas may benefit and that Mr. Islas has no criminal history in the US, has close family members living with him, and has a solid employment history, I respectfully ask that Mr. Islas’ request for discretion in his stay of removal be considered under the full extent of the law,” Murphy said in the letter.

Hamden police arrested Islas on July 2, 2012, after someone claimed that a man resembling Islas had attempted to steal a bicycle. Despite a lack of evidence, Islas was held in custody in Massachusetts for four months. His charge of attempted armed robbery was eventually changed to breaching the peace, a misdemeanor, of which he was acquitted. Islas was released from ICE custody in late November on $4,000 bail but still faces deportation. Islas has previously been caught and released by border patrol several times in attempting to enter the United States.

ICE has requested that Islas report to its Hartford office for an interview next Monday, according to Megan Fountain ’07, organizer of immigrant advocacy group Unidad Latina en Acción. It is unclear, though, whether Islas will be deported, granted a stay of removal or have his case closed. Islas’ lawyer, Danielle Briand ’01, emphasized the importance of the outcome of ICE’s decision on Monday.

“If they proceed in deporting him, there’s nothing we can do,” Briand said.

Over the next week, Islas, his family and his advocates plan to mobilize a network of friends and supporters, possibly through a phone campaign to Morton’s office, according to Lugo.

In writing his letter, Murphy became the first member of Connecticut’s congressional delegation to take an active and public stance directly on Islas’ behalf. Though Connecticut Sen. Rich-

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Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has asked immigration officials to permit undocumented immigrant Josemaria Islas to remain in the United States. ard Blumenthal LAW ’73 has repeatedly expressed his support for ending ICE’s Secure Communities program, through which Islas’ detainment was continued after his acquittal, he has not written a letter to ICE supporting Islas’ continued residency in the United States. In addition, immigration activists left U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s office disappointed earlier this month after the congresswoman refused to take significant action to prevent Islas’ deportation.

[Murphy] understood that an injustice was done to Josemaria and his family.

JOHN LUGO Member, Unidad Latina en Acción “Finally Sen. Murphy is getting the courage to send his letter,” said John Lugo, a member of Unidad Latina en Acción. “He understood that an injustice was done to Josemaria and his family.”

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might encourage other lawmakers and community members alike to take action to prevent Islas’ removal.

Murphy’s support comes after advocates for Islas spent months lobbying the senator’s office. In late February, Islas supporters, including Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and members of Unidad Latina en Acción, came together to release 12 letters on his behalf.

Unlike Murphy’s letter, the February letters sought prosecutorial discretion from ICE Public Advocate Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, which would drop Islas’ case entirely. According to Fountain, Lorenzen-Strait’s primary responsibility is dealing with complaints, whereas Morton’s responsibilities cover all of ICE’s operations.

“Sen. Murphy sent his letter to John Morton because he is the highest office [in ICE],” Fountain said. “So he has the ultimate decision-making power.”

Islas has a brother, sister, brother-inlaw and several nieces and nephews in New Haven. Four of them are currently undocumented.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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On Friday, a full house of film enthusiasts gathered to watch “Cesare Deve Morire (Cesar Must Die)” (2010), the most recent work by renowned Italian filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

This weekend marked the eighth year of Yale’s Italian Film Festival, an annual event open to both Yale students and the greater New Haven community.

The festival, which took place in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, featured five films produced in Italy in the past two years. Millicent Marcus, the director of graduate studies for the Italian Department, said the event seeks to make contemporary Italian films available to American audiences who would not otherwise have access to them, by both new talents such as Ferzan Ozpetek and veteran filmmakers like Nanni Moretti.

“There is an idea that the Italian film industry is dying, and that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Marcus, who led a committee of graduate students in selecting this year’s films and teaches a class on contemporary Italian cinema. “We are trying to create a culture of receptivity in which people can learn about these films and talk about them.”

Marcus said the festival serves to connect the New Haven Italian community with the University, adding that Yale professors and students can learn from the greater community’s perspectives on recent Italian cinema productions.

One of the most original films at the festival was the docudrama “Cesare Deve Morire.”

The film features a cast comprised largely of criminals incarcerated in the high-security prison of Rebibbia near Rome.

Portraying themselves in the film, the actors stage Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in their own dialect and introduce the heft of their life experience into the famous history.

After the screening of “Cesare Deve Morire,” Kyle Skinner ’11 GRD ’17 led a discussion, in which members of the audience explored the relation between art and imprisonment, fiction and reality. The film is tied to the Italian tradition of neorealism, a practice born out of World War II, in which films featured nonprofessional actors.

“When the number of pris-

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ons have doubled, what roles do committers of crime play?”

Skinner asked the audience to spark the debate.

Audience member Talia Leon ’13 said she feels that Hollywood dictates the selection of movies available in the United States.

“The movies we see usually have happy endings,” Leon said.

“It’s nice to see films that are more realist and yet enjoyable.”

During the Q&A, other members of the audience questioned that same realism. One audience member said she thought the issues of criminality and prison life in “Cesare Deve Morire” and of gay culture in Thursday’s “Magnifica Presenza (Magnificent Presence)” (2012) were highly stylized and portrayed too lightly.

There is an idea that the Italian film industry is dying, and that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

MILLICENT MARCUS Director of graduate studies, Italian Department Teresa Notaro, who attended the event for the fourth consecutive year, said she thought the themes of politics and religion explored by Saturday’s “Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope)” (2011) are extremely relevant today. Moretti’s film, in which a newly selected pope runs away from the Vatican, became the focus of heavy media attention after Pope Benedict XVI relinquished his post in February.

All 10 audience members interviewed said they enjoyed “Habemus Papam” and hoped to return for following years of the festival.

Natalia Quintavalle, the Italian consul general in New York, visited campus on Friday and introduced “Cesar Must Die.” “I cannot imagine a better place than Yale to present the Italy of the future,” Quintavalle said.

The joint conference “A Controversial Identity: Cinema in Contemporary Italy,” which took place on April 19 and 20, brought Italian academics together to add a scholarly dimension to the festival.

Contact VIRGIL BLANC at virgil.blanc@yale.edu .

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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ARISTOTLE GREEK PHILOSOPHER AND POLYMATH

With fall opening, Yale-NUS unveils curriculum YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 and I am very optimistic that we can.”

Curriculum Committee Chair Bryan Garsten and Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn, two of six authors of the statement, told the News the report aims to explain how the creation of Yale-NUS fits within larger trends in liberal arts education taking place in Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. The report highlights the increasing demand for the liberal arts model in Asia and traces established Asian universities’ growing interest in the arts and humanities — areas they have traditionally overlooked in favor of the fields of science and law.

Higher education experts familiar with the new college were cautious when evaluating the report, expressing enthusiasm for the University’s effort to test the liberal arts model in a new environment yet concerned that the project may face “procedural difficulties.” Most critics of Yale-NUS said the report fails to recognize the social and political realities of Singaporean life that render the college’s entire liberal arts curriculum unfeasible, leaving most of their questions about Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore unanswered.

But Yale-NUS administrators emphasized that the report’s goal was not to respond to criticism of the new college but rather to elaborate on the historical and cultural

forces behind the college’s establishment.

RE-EXAMINING THE LIBERAL ARTS MODEL

Yale-NUS Curriculum Committee members said the report’s target audience consists of their colleagues in higher education — as opposed to prospective YaleNUS students and parents — and that they hope those embarking on similar projects will find the report’s chronology of successful and unsuccessful liberal arts ventures in Asia useful.

“Some people question whether we are imposing this model, when in fact [Singaporeans] came looking for this,” Garsten said. “There is an enormous conversation going on in Asia about what parts of liberal arts education they might appropriate.”

Authors of the report said that since Yale-NUS professors are building the new college’s courses from scratch, the committee had the freedom to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of existing approaches to developing a curriculum. The report examines several challenges the committee faced in the process — such as how to teach different canons in a way that simultaneously allows for comparison and preserves their integrities — while also revealing the committee’s decisions. Unlike larger, more well-established universities, Yale-NUS can create new traditions rather than adhere to entrenched and often unproduc-

tive ones, the report said.

David Skelly, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at Yale and a consulting professor at Yale-NUS, said the report will likely prompt faculty in New Haven to analyze which features of the Yale curriculum have been preserved over the years because of a structural resistance to change and which features have been preserved because they truly benefit the University.

“Beyond whatever this document means for the college, it is a very important statement for what the liberal arts mean today,” Skelly said. “What makes it unusual is the very conscious effort to reimagine where the liberal arts are today by showing what they would look like if we had a clean sheet.”

The report says periodic reviews informed by faculty and student feedback are an “intrinsic element” of the college’s curriculum, a statement Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said highlights the college’s commitment to reflect frequently on the merits of new pedagogy and question educational models.

Ijechi Nazira, a Singaporean student who will matriculate at Yale-NUS this fall, said the report guarantees that the Yale-NUS community “never fall[s] into the trap of being too comfortable,” a disadvantage from which she said many older institutions suffer.

W. Robert Connor, former president and current senior adviser of the Teagle Foundation — an orga-

nization that supports undergraduate student learning in the arts and sciences — said he thinks the report is particularly relevant as liberal arts institutions have recently come under pressure to “cheapen and speed up” the process of earning a college degree, particularly in technical fields.

WEIGHING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT

Most critics interviewed said they are disappointed that the report does not clarify the relationship between the college and its surrounding environment.

Yale French lector Ruth Koizim said she is frustrated by the continual lack of transparency concerning the protection of students’ and professors’ freedom of expression on and off campus.

“Maybe I am assuming worse than it actually is,” Koizim said.

“The only way to find out is to have more information.”

Michael Montesano ’83, a former Southeast Asian studies professor at the National University of Singapore, said the report fails to set the new college in the context of the restrictive policies of the Singaporean government and does not demonstrate an adequate understanding of the college’s social environment. “[The report’s] invocation of Singapore, without unpacking the term in the least, is more than slightly ridiculous,” Montesano said. “[Its] treatment of Singapore is … utterly institutional — it dem-

onstrates no understanding of the social context in which the new college is to operate.”

On April 9, Singapore’s High Court upheld Section 377A of the Singaporean penal code, which was first passed in 1938 and makes male homosexual conduct illegal in the country. Yale French and African American studies professor Christopher Miller, an outspoken critic of the Singaporean venture, said the rhetoric of the curriculum report is “meaningless” in a context in which homosexuality remains illegal, adding that the report hypocritically quotes a gay liberal scholar to rationalize a curriculum set in an environment that criminalizes homosexual behavior. Political science lecturer Jim Sleeper said the report is the result of isolated discussions divorced from Singapore’s political and economic realities.

The report briefly affirms its commitment to freedom of expression and states that “instructors and students must judge for themselves the best manner in which to express their thoughts in various settings.”

Garsten said he thinks this statement was “so clear and strong” that report authors did not feel the need to elaborate on it.

Koizim also said she thinks that the timing of the report’s release is wrong and the document might have been more useful had the college released it earlier.

“It’s a lovely publicity piece that

will sell really well, but it’s justifying something that is already a done deal,” Koizim said. “It would have been really dandy to have this kind of explicit information about the rationalization of the project way back, but there is this time lag.

When the information is needed, we don’t get it — I feel like a review of a class was given to me after I took the final.”

Bailyn said the authors did not attempt to anticipate critics’ responses when they assembled the document and did not intend it to be a comprehensive overview of the college. Despite having detailed a plan for the liberal arts college in the report, Bailyn and Garsten said members of the Yale-NUS community are aware that unexpected issues might arise once the college opens, so the college’s administrators chose not to focus on specific, hypothetical situations.

With four months left before the opening of the college, critics will soon see whether their concerns about the college will be realized.

“Having to close the college would be embarrassing for Singapore and embarrassing for Yale,” Garsten said. “I don’t think it will happen, but any new venture like this faces some uncertainties.”

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

Harvard cancels ‘Visitas’ weekend amid Boston manhunt BOSTON FROM PAGE 1 pect in the marathon bombing, that began after the fatal shooting of MIT police officer Sean Collier at 11:30 p.m. Thursday night and developed into a gun fight in the early hours of the morning. As public transportation was closed, universities across the city had already canceled classes and instructed faculty and staff to stay home. Northeastern University, for instance, issued an alert at 6:37 a.m. canceling all classes and university activities.

Friday’s tumultuous events proved a major disruption for students in Cambridge as well. Harvard administrators canceled

all university activities, including “Visitas,” the school’s visiting weekend for admitted students.

After receiving several university emails throughout Friday morning, some of which instructed students who had not yet begun traveling to Cambridge to remain at home, prospective students learned of the weekend’s cancellation in the early afternoon.

As a result, Harvard has offered several online resources to prospective students, including posting more videos of dorm rooms on the class of 2017 Facebook group, offering to connect students with faculty virtually and providing accommodation for students who plan to visit on coming weekends.

“Everyone was pretty understanding of the extraordinary circumstances,” said Samuel Green, who plans to enroll at Harvard in the fall. “Everyone was intelligent enough to realize that it was a onetime fluke event.”

Goldstein described a general sense of confusion, beginning Thursday night and lasting until Tsarnaev’s capture early Friday evening. Throughout the day, he said, students watched major news networks in his dormitory’s common room and checked social networks constantly.

Like other universities in the area, Boston College, located about three miles from Watertown, the site of Friday morning’s gunfight

and Tsarnaev’s eventual capture, increased the presence of campus security throughout the day.

According to Goldstein, students were escorted by the Boston College Police Department to the dining hall one dormitory at a time.

Not far away, in Arlington, another Boston suburb, Yale student David Ottenheimer ’14, home for the weekend to visit family, was also confined inside, although Patrick’s order did not technically extend to his town.

“The environment was very odd. We were all around the TV watching and waiting,” Ottenheimer said.

Ottenheimer, who went to high school in Cambridge, Mass.,

and has friends who went to high school with Tsarnaev, 19, described a sense of “disbelief” as the city grinded to a halt.

Only once news broke that Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a boat in Watertown, had been apprehended did residents feel any sense of relief. At Boston College, Goldstein said, students crowded into his dormitory’s common room as the story of Tsarnaev’s capture unfolded.

“Everybody sensed that this was going to be a huge moment not only in the case but also in our college memories,” Goldstein said.

“It was one of those ‘I remember where I was when’ moments.”

As Boston and the surround-

ing towns began returning to normal on Saturday, many residents, including Ottenheimer, made their way to Copley Square, the site of last Monday’s bombings that killed four and injured over 180. Flowers, cards, flags and finishing medals from the Boston Marathon and other races formed a memorial, while therapy dogs stood nearby, waiting for anyone who needed them. Men and women walked up to police officers to thank them.

“Everyone was just relieved,” Ottenheimer said.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

ON CAMPUS MONDAY, APRIL 22 1:00 PM “Eco-Industrial Parks Through the Eyes of a Real Estate Developer: Building ReVenture Park in North Carolina” This year’s IEM Lecture will be given by Tom McKittrick, who manages all aspects of Forsite Development’s operations and is the lead developer of ReVenture Park in North Carolina.

This year, the IEM Lecture Series explores industrial ecology as a source of competitive advantage, focusing on concepts such as loop-closing, byproduct exchange and sustainable supply chain management. Sponsored by the Yale Forestry & Environmental Studies Center for Industrial Ecology. Free and open to the general public. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Auditorium.

8:00 PM “How To Fight Local Election Campaigns” Join the Yale College Republicans for a panel featuring former U.S. congressional and New Haven mayoral candidate Richter Elser ‘81, state Rep. Gail Lavielle GRD ’81 and former Ward 1 campaign manager Zak Newman ’13. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 114.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 6:30 PM “Life After Yale”: An Alumni Panel Participants include Gustavo Gordillo ’10 ART ’13, Dushko Petrovich ’97, Matthew Pillsbury ’95 and Hannah Whitaker ’02. Moderated by Lisa Kereszi ART ’00. Pizza will be provided at 6:30 p.m., and the panel will begin at 7 p.m. Yale School of Art Green Hall (1156 Chapel St.), Room B03.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 4:00 PM “Linda Sue Park: The 39 Clues” Linda Sue Park is the winner of the Newbery Medal and the author of “Trust No One,” the most recent addition to “The 39 Clues” series of young adult fiction. “Trust No One” brings its protagonists to Yale University’s Beinecke Library to view the Voynich Manuscript and delve into its intriguing history. Drafts from Park’s manuscript will be on exhibition alongside the Voynich Manuscript in the current exhibition, “By Hand.” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.), Mezzanine.

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Suspects planned more attacks

BY ALLEN G. BREED AND STEVE PEOPLES ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks.

The surviving suspect remained hospitalized and unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat.

After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early Friday, authorities found many unexploded homemade bombs at the scene, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition.

Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the stockpile was “as dangerous as it gets in urban policing.”

“We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals. That’s my belief at this point.” Davis told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

On “Fox News Sunday,” he said authorities cannot be positive there are not more explosives somewhere that have not been found. But the people of Boston are safe, he insisted.

The suspects in the twin bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 180 are two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia — 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan. Their motive remained unclear.

The older brother was killed during a getaway attempt. The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was still in serious condition Sunday after his capture Friday from a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard.

Authorities would not comment on whether he had been questioned.

Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tsarnaev’s throat wound raised questions about when he will

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The motive of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects — Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 — remains unclear. be able to talk again, if ever.

The wound “doesn’t mean he can’t communicate, but right now I think he’s in a condition where we can’t get any information from him at all,” Coats told ABC’s “This Week.”

It was not clear whether Tsarnaev was shot by police or inflicted the wound himself.

We have reason to believe … that [Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev] were going to attack other individuals.

ED DAVIS Commissioner, Boston Police Department In the final standoff with police, shots were fired from the boat, but investigators have not determined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the militants operating in the volatile part of Russia. His father said he slept much of the time.

The younger Tsarnaev could be charged any day. The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.

Across the rattled streets of Boston, churches opened their doors to remember the dead and ease the grief of the living.

At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in South Boston, photographs of the three people killed in the attack and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer slain Thursday were displayed on the altar, each face illuminated by a glowing white pillar candle.

BAGA, Nigeria — Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s far northeast, officials said Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians.

The fighting in Baga began Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday, when government officials finally felt safe enough to see the destruction, homes, businesses and vehicles were burned throughout the area.

The assault marks a significant escalation in the long-running insurgency Nigeria faces in its predominantly Muslim north, with extremists mounting a coordinated assault on soldiers using military-grade weaponry.

Authorities had found and buried at least 185 bodies as of Sunday afternoon, said Lawan Kole, a local government official in Baga. He spoke haltingly to Borno state Gov. Kashim Shettima in the Kanuri language of Nigeria’s northeast, surrounded by still-frightened villagers.

Brig. Gen. Austin Edokpaye, also on the visit, did not dispute the casualty figures. Edokpaye said the extremists used heavy machine guns and rocketpropelled grenades in the assault, which began after soldiers surrounded a mosque they believed housed members of the radical Islamic extremist network Boko Haram.

Edokpaye said extremists used civilians as human shields during the fighting — implying that soldiers opened fire in neighborhoods where they knew civilians lived.

“When we reinforced and returned to the scene, the terrorists came out with heavy firepower, including [rocket-

propelled grenades], which usually has a conflagration effect,” the general said.

Sunday afternoon, the burned bodies of cattle and goats still filled the streets.

Bullet holes marred burned buildings.

“Everyone has been in the bush since Friday night; we started returning back to town because the governor came to town today,” grocer Bashir Isa said. “To get food to eat in the town now is a problem because even the markets are burnt. We are still picking corpses of women and children in the bush and creeks.”

We are still picking corpses of women and children in the bush and creeks.

BASHIR ISA Grocer in Baga The Islamic insurgency in Nigeria grew out of a 2009 riot led by Boko Haram members in Maiduguri that ended in a military and police crackdown that killed some 700 people. The group’s leader died in police custody in an apparent execution. From 2010 on, Islamic extremists have engaged in hitand-run shootings and suicide bombings, attacks that have killed at least 1,548 people before Friday’s attack, according to an AP count.

Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sacrilege” in the Hausa language of Nigeria’s north, has said it wants its imprisoned members freed and Nigeria to adopt strict Shariah law across the multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people. While the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has started a committee to look at the idea of offering an amnesty deal to extremist fighters, Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed the idea out of hand in messages.

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taff photographer BLAIR SEIDEMAN visited the Yale Farm on Friday afternoon to enjoy the bounty of spring. At 1 p.m., the Farm was a hive of activity. Some volunteers were busy planting, while others were watering and weeding.

At 5 p.m., the volunteers washed the dirt from their hands and headed to the the pavilion where Farm interns were pulling pizzas from the wood-fired oven. On the pizzas, a celebration of spring: tart tomato sauce tempered by silky mozzarella, bitter greens enlivened by a kiss of salt. The perfect way to end the day.

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FOOTBALL HOLDS SPRING GAME BLUE-WHITE MATCHUP ENDS IN OT Serving as the culmination to three weeks of spring practice, the football team took the field Saturday for the annual Blue-White Game. After four 10-minute quarters ended scoreless, Eric Williams ’16 hit Sebastian Little ’16 for a game-winning 30-yard touchdown.

“It was a really strong race at all levels.”

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Bulldogs clinch 4th straight Blackwell Cup HEAVYWEIGHT CREW

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER

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After a successful sweep of Dartmouth at home on April 13, the heavyweight crew maintained its winning momentum in Philadelphia on Saturday, besting Columbia and Penn in the varsity eight and Penn in the varsity four. This marks the fourth straight year that the Bulldogs have won the Blackwell Cup — the prize for the annual Yale-ColumbiaPenn matchup.

“It was a really strong race at all levels,” team captain Jon Morgan ’13 said. “The varsity boat had a particularly strong second 1,000 meters.”

Yale’s varsity eight clocked in with a time of 5:23.4 over the 2000-meter course, winning over Columbia by 6.2 seconds and Penn by 7.7 seconds. The varsity four beat Penn by a whopping 11.4 seconds with a time of 6:06.2, and Columbia did not enter a boat in that category. While the varsity eight race determines the winner of the Blackwell Cup, Yale fell to Columbia in the second varsity eight by one second and to Penn in the third varsity eight/ freshman eight by 0.7 seconds. The times for Yale’s boats in these races were 5:30.4 and 5:34.4, respectively.

Head coach Stephen Gladstone said that the third varsity squad had a steering issue during the race, but still managed to keep Penn’s margin of victory very small.

Last weekend, the Bulldogs retained the Olympic Axe as they won four of four races against Dartmouth at the Gilder Boathouse.

On March 29, though, Yale fell to Brown at

The men’s heavyweight crew bested Columbia and Penn in the varsity eight with a time of 5:23.4 and won the Blackwell Cup on Saturday in Philadelphia.

Terps’ last-second goal dooms Elis

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER In a game marred by controversial refereeing decisions, No. 4 Maryland scored with 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter to squeak by the No. 12 men’s lacrosse team. The Bulldogs (8–4, 3–2 Ivy) led 7–6 with 12 minutes left in the game after a goal by Brandon Mangan ’14. But they were unable to prevent the Terrapins (9–2, 2–1 ACC) from responding and conceded two goals in the final five minutes, including the heartbreaking man-down goal with 13 seconds on the clock.

MEN’S LACROSSE Although Maryland’s game-winning goal was preceded by a con-

troversial holding penalty against attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 with 25 seconds remaining, the penalty was completely overshadowed by the sequence of events after the Maryland goal. Dylan Levings ’14 won the ensuing faceoff with 10 seconds remaining, and midfielder Harry Kucharczyk ’15 fired a shot that appeared to deflect off Maryland goaltender Niko Amato’s foot and then bounce off the frame on the inside of the goal, but the officials did not award a goal and time expired. Instant replay was unavailable, and so officials were unable to verify whether or not the ball had crossed the goal line.

“It’s really disappointing to lose in that way, and even though we played really well, a loss is a loss so we were not happy,” Kucharczyk said. “We know that we can play with the best

of them, but now it’s crunch time and we have to play our best for the remainder of the season.”

A win over the No. 4 team in the country would have provided a major boost to the Bulldogs’ tournament resume, but it is now very likely that Yale will have to win the Ivy League tournament and earn the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Yale currently sits tied for second place in the Ivy League and has clinched a spot among the top four teams that advance to the Ivy tournament.

The pair of disputed refereeing decisions overshadowed an impressive performance from the Bulldogs.

Facing a Maryland team that has advanced all the way to the NCAA SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

FREDERICK FRANK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Two officiating decisions at the end of the Elis’ contest against Maryland helped the Terrapins escape with a one-goal victory.

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Cornell paints Reese Red

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Four straight Cornell goals to open Saturday’s game condemned the women’s lacrosse team to a 13–7 defeat on a night that marked the end of the Bulldogs’ hopes for a place in the Ivy League tournament.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Despite a much stronger second half, Yale’s (7–6, 1–5 Ivy) Ivy League struggles continued against the highpowered Cornell offense, ranked second in the Ivy League. The No. 20 Big Red (8–5, 4–3 Ivy) showed no mercy at Reese Stadium, scoring four goals in the first 15 minutes and later adding two more to take a 6–1 lead into halftime.

“Cornell came out really strong on both the offensive and defensive ends,” goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 said.

“We found ourselves in a hole early, so we spent most of the game trying to catch up. They were very patient and effective, and this made our job a lot harder.”

Yale boasted 19 shots to Cornell’s 10 in the first half, yet the Elis only managed one goal, an unassisted tally by midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15. Much of this can be attributed to Cornell goalkeeper Carly Gniewek, who had eight saves in the first half.

The Bulldogs left halftime knowing they needed to step up their play in order to have a chance to make the Ivy League tournament.

With 48 seconds gone in the second period, attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 scored Yale’s second goal to give the Elis some momentum. Avallone added her second, and attacker Jen DeVito ’14 scored to bring the game to 7–4.

But this was the closest that the Bulldogs could come. Cornell top scorer Lindsay Toppe added one of her four

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The No. 20 Cornell Big Red showed no mercy by opening up with four straight goals in the opening 15 minutes. goals to ensure the Elis would never come closer than four goals down. The Big Red went on to score five of the next eight goals to close the game out.

“I think we put in a really good effort yesterday. Unfortunately we had a bit of an off-day in terms of shooting, and the outcome was obviously not the one that we wanted,” DeVito said.

“Even though we are out of the tournament, I’m proud of this season and I don’t think there have been any games when we didn’t give 110 percent.”

In a theme consistent with the rest of the team’s season, the Bulldogs SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

THE TEAM WON THE CENTURY INTERCOLLEGIATE WITH A TWO-DAY TOTAL OF 600, THREE STROKES BETTER THAN SECOND-PLACE RHODE ISLAND. Sam Bernstein ’14 and Joe Willis ’16 had the top individual performances for Yale.

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Senate asks Obama to posthumously pardon boxer

By voice vote on Wednesday, the Senate called on President Barack Obama to pardon boxing champion Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in 1908. In 1913, however, Johnson was sentenced to one year in prison for “crossing a state line with a white woman.” Lawmakers, most notably John McCain, have previously called for his pardon before this most recent effort.

Late goal defeats Elis

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Despite fighting their way back into the game, the Bulldogs ultimately fell to No. 4 Maryland when the Terps scored with 13 seconds left.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 championship game the last two seasons, the Bulldogs held an edge over the Terps in ground balls, shots, faceoffs and turnovers.

After coming from behind to win their last five games, the Bulldogs would again be forced to fight their way back into the game. At the beginning of the second quarter, Yale was assessed a three-minute nonreleasable penalty for an illegal stick after an official check during the first intermission. Maryland, ranked second in the ACC in man-up scoring, capitalized on this opportunity as attackman Owen Blye scored twice within the opening minute of the second period to complete his firsthalf hat trick. However, Levings’ faceoff win would allow the Bulldogs to kill off the rest of the penalty and avert further damage. Colin Flaherty ’15 continued a string of impressive performances this season, scoring one of his two goals of the game to bring Yale within two. Maryland and Yale would then trade scores to give the Terps a 5–3 lead heading into halftime.

Two Maryland penalties with five seconds remaining in the first half gave the Elis a two-man advantage that carried into the third quarter. Yale took advantage of the penalties, scoring two goals to tie the game at 5–5 within the opening two minutes. With a man advantage, Mangan added his 29th goal of the season 12 seconds in and midfielder Ryan McCarthy ’14 scored his second goal in as many games a minute later to shift the momentum in the Bulldogs’ favor.

Maryland and Yale would again trade scores to leave the score at 6–6 with under

10 minutes left to play in the third quarter. In the remaining 10 minutes, the Bulldogs fired 12 shots towards Maryland goalkeeper Niko Amato and Conrad Oberbeck ’15 nearly put the Elis ahead with a shot that ricocheted off the post. However, Amato stood tall, making five saves in that stretch to keep the game level.

Yale thought it had taken its first lead after John-William McGovern’s ’16 shot beat Amato with four minutes to go in the period, but the officials canceled the goal after a crease violation by another Yale player.

The entire team realized how good we can be and more importantly that we can beat any team in the nation.

COLIN FLAHERTY ’15 Midfielder, men’s lacrosse The Elis took the lead after goaltender Eric Natale ’15 made a save, one of his nine on the day, and hit captain Michael McCormack ’13 on a fast break up the field.

McCormack fed the ball to Mangan, who ripped a shot past Amato to give Yale its first lead of the game.

But the Bulldogs were not able to break through again as Amato, who had a careerhigh 24 saves, and the Maryland defense stood strong, holding Yale scoreless while the Maryland offense took over with two goals, including the late man-up winner,

to best the Bulldogs at their own game and come from behind to end Yale’s winning streak at five.

“Although we lost, the entire team realized how good we can be and more importantly that we can beat any team in the nation,” Flaherty said. “Amato played a great game against us. He’s one of the best in the country, so I don’t think we are too worried about our shooting. It just goes to show how well our defense played to keep us in the game.”

The many controversial refereeing decisions, including Kucharczyk’s nongoal at the end of the game, inspired an article on InsideLacrosse.com arguing for the introduction of instant-replay technology in college lacrosse. And Yale’s debated goal was not the only controversial incident that has happened in a nontelevised game this season. On April 3, during a matchup between Army and Bucknell, an Army player’s shot appeared to cross the goal line before the ball bounced out to give Army a 8–7 lead late in the game.

However, the referees saw differently and play continued, allowing Bucknell to score on its next possession and come away with the 8–7 victory. While the Bulldogs were disheartened by the denial of a last-second goal that would have sent the game into overtime, their strong performance against a top five team bodes well for their hopes in the Ivy League tournament.

The Bulldogs will look to secure the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament with a win against Harvard this Saturday at Reese Stadium.

run of its own in the bottom half of the frame and the game went to extra innings. The wheels came off for Yale in the 10th, however, as Dartmouth scored four runs — three unearned — to win the game 7–3.

The Elis desperately needed a win to keep their post-season hopes alive to start Sunday’s double-header, and left-handed pitcher David Hickey ’14 delivered.

“He pitched an unbelievable game in our third game this weekend,” infielder Jake Hunter ’14 said in a message to the News. “He threw a shutout — the second he has thrown in conference play — and it was the only game we won.”

Toups added that Hickey was able to mix up his pitches to keep hitters “off balance and guessing.” The southpaw tossed seven scoreless frames, scattering four hits and striking out two. Hickey got better as the game went on, retiring the last 13 batters he faced.

It looked as if Dartmouth would jump out to an early lead when the Big Green loaded the bases with no outs off Hickey in the top of the first, but the junior induced a double-play ball back to the mound to help Yale escape the threat unscathed.

Hickey’s gem kept Yale alive in the Ivy League, but Dartmouth would eliminate the Elis with a 5–0 victory in the second half of Sunday’s twin bill.

Hunter did all he could at the plate to stave off elimination,

getting a hit in all four of his trips to the plate. He hit a torrid .692 (9–13) on the weekend.

“Jake Hunter had a huge weekend and set the table for the rest of the lineup all weekend,” third baseman Brent Lawson ’16 said. “I have never seen anyone hit the ball that hard for six consecutive hits. It was crazy.”

[Hickey] pitched an unbelievable game in our third game this weekend.

JAKE HUNTER ’14 Infielder, baseball Lawson had a solid series at the plate as well, driving in four runs on five hits.

The Big Green pitchers, however, were able to subdue the rest of the Eli lineup, holding the Bulldogs to six runs in four games. They allowed just seven walks in 33 innings over the four games.

“They challenged us with fastballs away early, and then were very good at changing speeds,” Lawson said of the Dartmouth pitchers. “They did not walk many guys and forced us to put the ball in play.”

Yale will play its final home games of the year when it hosts a doubleheader with Brown on Friday. First pitch is schedule for 1 p.m.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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Elis fail to overcome first-half deficit

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Dartmouth pitchers held the Bulldogs to six runs in four games, allowing just seven walks in 33 innings.

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Despite strong play in the second half, the Bulldogs struggled against the high-powered offense of Cornell and fell 13–7.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 played much better in the second half but could not overcome a strong start by their opponents. But Yale did much better in fouls and turnovers, committing fewer than Cornell in two categories in which the Elis usually struggle. While the loss handed Cornell the final playoff spot, this season has been the Bulldogs’ best since the program’s 11-win season in 2008. The team has shown considerable improvement in almost all catego-

ries this year, especially offensively.

“Despite our standing for the Ivy League tournament, everyone is still focused on winning our last two games.

This is the most talented team I’ve played on while being at Yale, so to mentally check out now just because of the tournament standings would be a waste of our talent and of all the hard work we’ve put into the season,” captain Devon Rhodes ’13 said.

Yale will look for its eighth win this season next Saturday at 4 p.m. against

Boston University at Reese Stadium.

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Allison Rue ’13, Kelsey Lin ’14, Shannon McDonnell ’16 and Emily Cable ’15 won its heat with a time of 3:57.75, although it finished eighth overall in the event.

The women’s team continued its success in the 400m heat with Dakota McCoy’s ’13 victory in the third heat of the 400m hurdles. Finishing in a time of 1:03.99, McCoy just nabbed first in front of West Virginia’s Arielle Gaither, who covered the distance in 1:04.13.

McCoy, however, placed 11th overall in the event, while her teammate Jenna Poggi ’13 placed eighth, finishing fifth in the first heat with a time of 1:02.96.

Like the women’s squad, the men’s team managed no topfive finishes amidst the talent-laden field. Still, the Bulldogs found success in certain events over the two days. Just as McCoy and Poggi excelled in the women’s 400m hurdles, William Rowe ’15 did the same for the men’s team. Rowe won the third heat of the event with a time of 54.24, just outhustling Rider’s Dave Brown for

first. But Rowe finished 10th overall, with the title going to Kutztown’s Kori Meshaw.

Perhaps the Elis’ most notable performance on the day came from Shirvell in the Elite section of the 1500m. Shirvell placed sixth in the event with a time of 3:47.63, while Villanova’s Jordan Williamsz won the event. Both Williamsz and his teammate, Sam McEntee, broke the meet’s previous record of 3:45.00 with times of 3:44.43 and 3:44.53, respectively, making Shirvell’s effort all the more impressive.

“I know I was very much surprised by my performance,” Shirvell said. “I set a [personal record], so that was great… I think we’re pretty well trained right now.”

The Elis will continue their busy schedule this weekend at the Penn Relays, which begin this Thursday and continue until Saturday.

The team will also host the Yale Springtime Invitational at the Dewitt Cuyler Athletic Complex on Sunday.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

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“The shirt we wear today doesn’t say ‘Red Sox,’ it says ‘Boston.’ ... And no one is going to dictate our freedom.” DAVID ORTIZ BOSTON RED SOX DESIGNATED HITTER, DURING PREGAME CEREMONIES AT FENWAY PARK ON SATURDAY

Blackwell Cup retained HWT CREW FROM PAGE B1 Providence in the varsity race.

“The start of [Saturday’s varsity] race was pretty chaotic thanks to a strong current and lots of debris in the river, but we did eventually manage to establish ourselves in the second quarter of the race and

executed effectively from then on,” coxswain Oliver Fletcher ’14 said. “We failed to really hit our most powerful and effective rhythm against Dartmouth last weekend, so to put it together much more cohesively this week with pretty extreme conditions means we definitely came away happier.”

Next weekend, the Bulldogs will race Cornell and Princeton on their home course at the Gilder Boathouse in competition for the Carnegie Cup. It will be the last spring cup race before the Eastern Sprints on May 19. A strong performance next weekend will benefit the Bulldogs when the Eastern Sprints seed-

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0.636

5

Harvard

2

3

0.400

6

7

0.462

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

6

Brown

1

4

0.200

6

6

0.500

Dartmouth

1

4

0.200

3

9

0.250

WOMEN’S LACROSSE IVY

LEAGUE

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Penn

7

0

1.000

9

4

0.692

2

Princeton

6

1

0.857

9

5

0.643

3

Dartmouth

4

2

0.667

8

4

0.571

4

Cornell

4

3

0.571

8

5

0.615

5

Brown

2

4

0.333

9

5

0.643

6

Harvard

1

4

0.200

2

10

0.167

7

Yale

1

5

0.167

7

6

0.538

8

Columbia

0

6

0.000

2

11

0.154

BASEBALL IVY SCHOOL

LEAGUE

W

L

%

W

L

%

Lou Gehrig Division 1

Columbia

12

4

0.750

20

17

0.541

2

Cornell

9

7

0.562

21

14

0.600

Princeton

9

7

0.562

12

25

0.324

Penn

7

9

0.438

22

17

0.564

4

Red Rolfe Division

DIONIS JAHJAGA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Bulldogs will race Cornell and Princeton on their home course at the Gilder Boathouse in competition for the Carnegie Cup next weekend.

Men’s tennis falls to Crimson MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 impressive play in singles. Yale swept the first four singles spots, with all but one match won in two sets — at No. 3 Hoffman pulled off the win with a three-set victory. Jason Brown ’16 and Zach Dean ’13 lost at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions, respectively.

“I am very proud of our season so far,” Powers said. “We lost a few heartbreakers, but overall we have played well, fought hard, and we haven’t left a match feeling that we didn’t leave it all on the court.”

Against the archrival Crimson on Sunday, who has not lost a match in the last 11 competitions this season, the Bulldogs struggled to maintain any kind of momentum. On a brisk, sunny day at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, Yale fell in doubles in a change of pace from the previous day’s match. The No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams were unable to hold off the charging Crimson and lost 8–5. The No. 3 match ended midway, 6–3.

As the momentum swung in favor of the team from Cambridge, the Elis fell one by one in singles play at the No. 2, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 spots. The two wins for Yale came at No. 1 and No. 3 from seasoned veterans Huang and Hoffman, respectively. Both players came back from going down in the first set to win in three. Dean said the team never has to worry about these two seniors going out and performing.

“We just didn’t get off to a great start,” Dean said. “Everyone lost the first set, and you can’t do that against a top25 team and expect to win.

Although the results aren’t what we wanted, we’ve definitely shown improvement from the last few years that I’ve been on the team.”

The last match of the season for the Bulldogs will be at home next Saturday against the neighboring Brown Bears at 2 p.m.

Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .

1

Dartmouth

11

5

0.688

26

7

0.788

2

Harvard

7

9

0.438

10

26

0.278

3

Yale

6

10

0.375

9

25

0.265

4

Brown

3

13

0.188

5

28

0.152

SOFTBALL IVY SCHOOL

LEAGUE

W

L

%

W

L

%

North Division 1

Dartmouth

12

4

0.750

22

17

0.564

2

Harvard

11

5

0.688

21

18

0.538

3

Yale

3

13

0.188

8

32

0.200

4

Brown

2

14

0.125

8

25

0.242

South Divison 1

Penn

13

3

0.812

24

16

0.600

2

Princeton

9

7

0.562

24

18

0.571

3

Columbia

7

9

0.438

21

21

0.500

Cornell

7

9

0.438

17

23

0.425

MEN’S TENNIS IVY

LEAGUE

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Harvard

5

0

1.000

17

4

0.810

2

Princeton

5

2

0.714

16

6

0.727

Columbia

5

2

0.714

15

7

0.682

4

Yale

3

3

0.500

17

6

0.739

5

Cornell

3

4

0.429

14

8

0.636

6

Brown

2

3

0.400

13

9

0.591

7

Dartmouth

1

5

0.167

9

13

0.409

8

Penn

1

6

0.143

9

11

0.450

WOMEN’S TENNIS IVY

BRIANNE BOWEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Marc Powers ’13 took down the Big Green’s Chris Kipouras 6–3, 6–0 at No. 2 last Friday.

LEAGUE

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Columbia

6

1

0.857

12

5

0.706

2

Yale

5

1

0.833

16

3

0.842

3

Harvard

3

2

0.600

11

6

0.647

4

Princeton

4

3

0.571

12

7

0.632

5

Cornell

3

4

0.429

14

4

0.778

6

Penn

2

5

0.286

10

8

0.556

7

Brown

1

4

0.200

7

11

0.389

8

Dartmouth

1

5

0.167

8

9

0.471

PAGE B4

YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

SPORTS

“Nothing worse than watching your bothers [sic] struggle and u can’t do crap about it #realtalk.” KOBE BRYANT LIVETWEETING THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS’ SUNDAY LOSS TO THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS

Elis eliminated from Ivy contention

KATHRYN CRANDALL/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Several players said last week that Yale’s natural grass field could give the Bulldogs an advantage over a Dartmouth team that plays its home games on artificial turf.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Going into the weekend with a chance to take the lead in the Red Rolfe Division, the Bulldogs dropped three out of four games to Dartmouth to fall officially out of contention for the Ivy League

championship.

BASEBALL The weekend series gave Dartmouth (26–7, 11–5 Ivy) a fivegame lead over the Bulldogs in the Red Rolfe Division with just four games left in conference play.

Elis manage PRs at third meet

The Big Green needs one win next weekend against Harvard to clinch the division and earn a spot in Ivy League Championship Series against the winner of the Lou Gehrig division.

Although several players said last week that Yale’s natural grass field could give the Bulldogs

(9–25, 6–10 Ivy) an advantage over a Dartmouth team that plays its home games on artificial turf, the Elis committed six errors on the weekend, while the Big Green made just three defensive miscues over the four-game series.

“I think on the plays that we made errors on, the game just got

sped up a little bit,” second baseman David Toups ’15 said.

Three Yale errors led to four unearned runs in the first game on Saturday as Dartmouth won 9–1 in seven innings. Senior right-hander Rob Sulser struck out five in his complete game effort to earn the win for Dart-

mouth.

The Big Green scored a run in the second, third and ninth innings of the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, but each time Yale responded with a SEE BASEBALL PAGE B2

Another split for men’s tennis

BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER With Ivy League standings on the line, the No. 56 men’s tennis team split yet another weekend against two Ancient Eight rivals.

MEN’S TENNIS In the final road trip of the year, the Bulldogs (17–6, 3–3 Ivy) rolled through the top four singles positions to clinch the win against the Dartmouth Big Green (9–12, 1–4 Ivy), 5–2. On Sunday,

the roles were reversed when Yale competed against its bitter rival, the No. 22 Harvard Crimson (17–4, 5–0 Ivy). The Elis lost the doubles point and were not able to recover in singles, ending the day with a 5–2 loss. Yale will maintain its No. 4 ranking in the Ivy League after the results from its second-to-last weekend of play.

“I thought the team played really well against Dartmouth. It was a great road win in tough conditions,” team captain Daniel Hoffman ’13 said. “We are all disappointed we lost to Harvard. We have to give them credit though as they are very good and have had a fantastic year.”

Yale jumped ahead early by capturing the doubles point at No. 2 and No. 3 on Friday against Dartmouth. Hoffman and longtime doubles partner Marc Powers ’13 fell at No. 1, 8–4 to Dartmouth’s Brandon DeBot and Xander Centenari.

John Huang ’13 and Patrick Chase ’14 dominated at No. 2 with an 8–6 win as the underclassmen pairing of Martin Svenning ’16 and Matt Saiontz ’15 mirrored the victory at the No. 3 position.

After gaining the upper hand by putting the first tally up on the board, the Bulldogs went on to seal the deal with SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE B3

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Neither the men’s nor women’s teams managed a top-five finish at the Larry Ellis Invitational, but both teams had individual heat winners.

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER The Bulldog athletes that stepped on the track at the Larry Ellis Invitational in Princeton this weekend were tired. The meet was the men’s and women’s track and field teams’ third competition of the previous six days, preceded by an intense dual meet with Harvard last Saturday and this year’s edition of the historic Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meet in Boston on Tuesday.

But despite the draining schedule, the Elis put together a number of impressive results

at the invitational. Competing against a field that James Shirvell ’14 estimated included 2,000 athletes, a number of Bulldogs recorded personal bests at the unscored meet on Friday and Saturday.

TRACK AND FIELD “I think we were actually a bit surprised by how well we did at this past meet,” Shirvell.

Although the Bulldog women had no top-five finishes overall, several athletes placed well in their heats. The 4x400 team of SEE TRACK PAGE B2

BRIANNE BOWEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

John Huang ’13, above, and Patrick Chase ’14 dominated at No. 2 with an 8–6 win against Dartmouth last Friday.